₦airaland Forum

Mrfixitt:
Tinubu should get ready for mad man Wike. He will fight dirty

Can he fight dirtier than an incumbent President? How will he do it when the president has the Attorney General, DSS, EFCC, Police, Army, Navy, Air Force, NSCDC, Boys Scouts, NYSC, even IPOB at his disposal?

casualobserver:
what manner of keeper is this?

Making the same error twice in 10 minutes and blaming the defenders both times when it was clear he gave them the shout and simply wasn't prepared to receive it. Both times the defenders were well placed to make simple headers. So annoying.

esnbrutality:
Hypocrisy and the same people say they want they own country so that you won't be bothered and you cry UNITY UNITY like kilode?

I will strongly advice you to always avoid taking anything strong like kai kai or ogogoro first thing in the morning. It will help a lot.

Zionmdde:
Yes I have seen yorubas freely speak their language in those places without any harassment. Infact like hausas you can hardly find to yorubas speaking English to themselves. It is commendable though but others should be allowed to speak theirs freely too

Lies. I was there.

The average Igbo person is friendly enough to a reasonable degree. But you cannot deny that once language and tribe enters the picture there is a certain degree of segregation.

Once you don't speak Igbo, the average person becomes so interested in knowing exactly where you come from so that they can know where to place you. This is true even among the different groups of Igbos, within themselves. So how much more, outsiders?

I particularly witnessed an Igala woman weep bitterly over the gang up against her by her Igbo neighbours, even though one of the neighbours was herself married to a northerner!

Tribalism is human nature. Stop the hypocrisy.

Zionmdde:
Sadly he is very correct
It is something very visible to the blind
Once worked in a place you can speak yoruba or hausa without issues. But once they hear Igbo you can cut the hatred with knife. You will start hearing omo ibo here no be onitsha na

It's now left for the igbos to make sure that our lands are peaceful, safe for investment and free of all criminal elements. Ipob is not good for our land, sit at home is not good for investment, wipe them all away

My only prayer is that these widespread hatred can lead to a clear resolution to build a resilient igbo land that every Igbo would not want to leave

Have you ever wondered what it's like to speak yoruba or igala in Igboland? I have seen how Igbos treat outsiders first hand. Stop the hypocrisy!

Day169:
How you go run go country that appears traditionally "racist" towards blacks and expect not to be flagged?
.. cardinal mistake, I'd say.
Anyways it's one less criminal on the run.

My thought exactly - you know you are a black criminal and the only place you could think of to run to is Argentina? What a dolt.

All to sound politically correct. One of the main issues that commenters miss, either deliberately or accidentally, is the fact that not all the violence is driven by the same root causes. Boko haram is largely a religious-political ideology that persecutes all non-adherents. But masking this issue under boko haram is misleading because boko haram doesn't operate in Southern Kaduna or Benue, where the issue is largely ethnic and religious rather than simply political.

I just can't understand what would make these Church leaders so quick to defend the ineptitude of the people who should be protecting their people. Misplaced sense of allegiance?

ImpartialGuy:
Actually, there's nothing special about IGR. It means that a state is taxing their people higher than others. I don't know why you are comparing Enugu to other regions. Are you celebrating Enugu State govenor for taxing his people more?

Poor understanding of governance and economics would lead you to say such a thing. The ability of any government to create effective governance structures is tied to its ability to mobilise funds. There are only three wayss to mobilise funds:

a. Through exploitation of natural resources
b. Through taxes
c. Through beggy beggy

In Nigeria, state governments do not control natural resources. This is the exclusive preserve of the federal government, which may or may not permit the states to excploit their own resources. However, thanks to the federal structure, all States recieve some portion of income from mineral exploitation through federal allocations. Is this enough to fulfil the development agenda? Obviously not.

So clever States set about augmenting FAAC receipts by other means such as taxation. Provided taxes are not excessive, this is simply good governance.

So what does IGR show? One, that a particular state is not simply sitting downa nd waiting for federal allocation. Two, the economic performance of the state is reflected in it's ability to generate income, given that the more business activity that goes on in a state, the greater its abilty to collect taxes will be.

I don't expect to see you repeat such poor takes in the future.

Hedonisco:
All this talk is irritating and meaningless. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Nobody is dragging Ogun or Osun or Ekiti. There has to be a reason.

With the trillions of Naira that have poured into Lagos due to the 'accident' of it being the Nigerian capital for over 60 years, with the attendant unfair advantages that has accrued to it as a result, it would be annoying to keep mouthing this rubbish talk. It is what it is.


Tomorrow now, the Ggagyi people or whatever they are called would raise shoulder to start forming ownership of Abuja/FCT and entitlement, and one emergent big belle tribal god will be shalaye-ing that he laid the 'blueprint' that 'developed' Abuja and that other Nigerians in Abuja should go back to their villages. We need to clear some things.

Did the Gbagyi people ask anyone to seize their ancestral land and make it FCT or whatever? The audacity of stealing someone's land and turning around to claim bragging rights on top of it. Funnily, if one follows your argument, then only the regions which have actively contributed to the national cake should be the ones laying claim to the FCT in the name of massive investment. But curiously, what we find is that those whose regions have contributed little or nothing to the federal purse are the ones laying claim to the fruits of federal investment the most. The irony is truly regrettable.

Cromagnon:
where are you from
which state
what's your governor ?
you think when your governor becomes your new president that he will change anything abi you think angels will become your new politicians

Of course, the governor will not change. What will change is local pressure. The removal of the national cake and the concentration of power in the hands of the governor will force his own people to demand results. Abuja, as the seat of power, is an abstract concept to most, but when the person responsible for our suffering is a son of the soil, the reaction is bound to be more urgent and more deliberate.

1. Balkanise the country on day one. Everyone who wants to go will be helped to leave immediately.

2. From there, the remaining partners will be organised into true federal entities in every way and tasked with self-governance while the centre will be tasked with the critical functions of overarching economic policy, external security, oversight of internal security in a state-policing model, elections, and critical infrastructure like ports and interstate highways.

3. As one brilliant fellow said up there, legalize marijuana!

muyico:
All profits goes to Dangote, making him more richer everyday

Who should it go to, you? Some of you should be sequestered from society for the ways you reason.

AMINDA:
Everything is always about himself. Main character syndrome. It was a burial but he seized the opportunity to campaign instead of eulogising the deceased. No one accused you of being a religious extremist. They simply said you exploited religion via muslim-muslim ticket to win an election. Same way the APC Lagos bloc are now exploiting ethnicity to attempt to win the Southwest. Both are polarising but you don't care, so long as you benefit from it.

Why do you people lie and rewrite history so much? Of course the general complaint was that the Muslim-Muslim ticket was a cover for islamization. In fact, the Christian candidate described the election as a religious war.

Who are you fooling?

Alphanancy:
Abeg na only Yoruba and Igbo dey promote this country in all sectors. Where are the binis that founded everybody?
The day Yorubas and Igbos will unite, hmmn Africa will produce a world giant. But will they ever unite?

Talking in the nonsense my dear.

https://www.nairaland.com/7813600/nigerian-family-imafidon-family-uks

esnbrutality:
Teslim...

Them don start again...

I thought Wike is your hearthrob ?

Awon sophisticated people

I've never seen such a lack of exposure as you have displayed. Must everyone in a particular class think alike? Even if in your own small way of thinking, everyone who belongs to a particular tribe must bear the same views, who then told you that everyone who bears Teslim must be from a certain tribe?

Nauseating.

Is this coherent?

According to this Dangote staff member, engineers earn about N400,000 monthly, including overtime. After taxes and deductions, take-home pay can fall below N200,000.

“We are even taxed on allowances like birthdays or overtime. Out of N500,000, you could be taxed as much as N164,000,” he said.

If a person earning 500k is taxed up to 164k, then how can a person earning 400k be taxed over 200k? The math is not mathing.

masterfactor:
What Peter OBI does is what we call high service. He only knows how to extract the bad side of any news. This is a man that hardly talks about things happening in the South East where he hails from.

Eye service please. There is nothing like high service.

SultanOfPuna:
As a Man if splitting bills will weaken your authority
Then you clearly don't have No Authority

Your fore fathers didn't have millions of naira in bank account.
Yet they were able to command respect and authority.

This is an illogical statement. The point is not about having millions - it is about splitting bills. Totally parrallel lines of conversation that meet at no logical point.

In case you still don't get it: A man with 100 naira may insist on paying on the bills, while one with millions may split the bills. It's about attitude not wealth.

And the forefathers definitely were not splitting bills with their wives.

AfonjaPriest:
I have said it and will continue to say it.
The United Nations headquarters should be relocated to a neutral country.
It has lost its relevance being in America.
America does not respect the rule of international laws.
It supports genocide.
It supports terrorism.
It supports warmongering.
The world should not fold its arms and watch United Nations fall to ruin, because it can no longer meet its obligations to member nations.
Especially now that we have an awkward bull in the White House.

Childish talk. For decades, the world has left it to the US to fund the UN. So the UN wil be hq'd in the US or wherever the US wants it to be. Rant all you want.

Pathokpo:
My brother the thing just tire me. These days people (especially girls) beg not because they need the money for anything in particular but they just want you to give them your hard earned money.
I don't blame them that much sha, the prevalence of these small small yahoo boys has made them believe that any young guy that is nicely dressed must be a yahoo boy with free money to throw around.
The most annoying thing is that name PABLO they call when begging.

What??

As funny as it sounds that should be feedback on the way you appear.

Softmirror:
It's successful being done in 'saner climes' nah so?!

I don't understand this point... Do we share the same cultural and legal context?

Softmirror:
It could be that she became scared after being petitioned.

Does it take a genius to know that any genuine attempt to do what she said would surely result in an arrest? Unless you presume she is totally stupid, it was always an obvious publicity stunt. Not the first, not the last.

HisaacPlus:
Damage control.
You actually meant it!
The whole thing has boomeranged as the intended 'trending' has gone awry

You are talking about her. That was always the goal. Nothing else. Her followers probably also increased by hundreds of not thousands.

Gullible people.

Nigerians are funny for ever taking her seriously.

Stop giving irrelevant people attention for irrelevant things. But then we all know how sex fascinates the masses. So shameful.

teepain:
Well I guess it is the thrill that comes from the opportunity of advising someone whose shoes they are not qualified to lace. That is the power of the internet. For their mind, some of them will be like "me self been advise Anthony Joshua sometimes back".

Never ceases to amaze!

temitope27:
Baba step up your game, you are failing too much this days

The audacity of failures to criticize people who have succeeded never ceases to amaze. Logically compare yourself with this guy na... How dare you talk?

nairalanda1:
Simple...she had him when she was very young, gave him up for adoption, and now they found each other...ironically via dating.

It happens, and made the more difficult by the fact that adoption records are not easy to get ahold of.

Don't be simple. The probability of this happening is staggeringly low, especially considering how rare it is for men to pursue women that much older than them (it happens but it's the least common dating dynamic) and when you have her own relatives saying she knew, then you need to be smarter than this.

Smartcitizen:
Go to Florida and see things for yourself that's where the petition is. He has been eating with your EFCC and people who are eating somebody's food are not expected to talk.

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Ehen na, you sef go to Pandora and see things for yourself. Abi?

Smartcitizen:
We are still waiting for you and the fools called EFCC to do the needful and stop all these propaganda.


How can you allow a criminal without even writing ordinary petition against him.

If you check very well, we're saying the same thing


But you may also feel free to share the petition you wrote against Wike.

Funnily so did Peter Obi, who this hypocrite follows. Not a pim from him about that, so I am sure Obi and his Obident's too will be happy to make excuses for Wike too, as long as he says what Obi said then:

"I didn't know"

Lol!

Jennyclay:
Apart from Davido, No artist have ever admitted they had a good beginning

All of them were so poor at the beginning

That's not exactly true. There are musicians who never claim to have come from humble backgrounds. It's just that they are not loud about their wealth the way those who were poor are loud about their suffering and the reason is obvious.

If you were rich before, you won't see being rich now as something to shout about. But if you were poor, it will look so amazing and of course you would like to talk about it.

saintopus:
Why they see it as punishment is because they believe paying tax is giving someone money without proper accounting. They believe someone will loot the money

No, it's not just that. The average Nigerian is not community-minded. The thought process is that we have oil, so why should I pay tax? The average Nigerian would rather use their own money to build a nice house and buy a nice car even if the road to that house is completely dilapidated.

You will go to certain communities and observe nice houses all around, but terrible roads. Something a few people in that neighborhood could put their hands together and fix.