₦airaland Forum

adonainana:
First time I will support a protest

Someone used pen and paper to write against you

Why don’t you use that same pen and paper to defend yourself and all the allegations

Instead, you go around criminal detaining him

How many corrupt politicians have been detained in such manner before

How is democracy going to thrive if you don’t have freedom of speech

There is no smoke without fire, it’s possible Afe Babalola was an extremely corrupt lawyer who received kickbacks and contracts illegally through govt influence

His university costs billions almost the same on par with universities built with fraudulent pastors who milk thier congregation for money such as bishop oyedepo and the rest

If he had nothing to hide he won’t be running helter scatter because of a book

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How can a book trigger someone so much

Are you kidding?? Books are perserved for hundreds of years after the lifetime of their author... Would you allow a book containing defamatory material about you to soil your legacy without answer?

Stop pretending to be dumb.

symbianDON:
It was very glaring that it was a lie. It's almost practically impossible to stash away N700 Billion in cash at home. That's like 7 Million bundles of 100 notes apiece of N1000 per bundle. That's excluding the $ and drugs claimed o!

You can imagine the sorry state of this cou try when there are people who digest suggest gibberish happily. Nearly 1 billion dollars in cash?? Even Elon Musk would have a hard time sourcing such quantities of US dollars in physical cash.

LandMann:
Useless stupid government of propaganda.

Why did you start a shiny new coastal road project of over 15 trillion naira when existing federal roads in Nigeria are unmotorable?

Of course, doing such will afford you the opportunity to inflate the project cost and take the extra from the contractor through the backdoor just like Ganduje the national chairman of APC did in Kano.

Shame on Tinubu and his government of nepotism and corruption

I get your point but on the other hand, the coastal road is a legacy project that will take many years. It needed to be started early. Meanwhile nothing stops a thief from stealing on existing projects. It's so easy as the current inflation has provided the perfect excuse to revise existing contracts.

iwaeda:
Tell me sir.

I just did.

iwaeda:
Truth is coming home. Everyone knows, this refinery is not refining ANYTHING .How come no other products.

Where did you hear that no other products are being produced? They have consistently mentioned at least 4 other products including diesel and kerosene among others.

MadamVanessa:




It's clear that the current state of Nollywood is underwhelming. The storylines have become predictable and lack depth, making it easy to guess the ending before the movie even starts.

I want to emphasize that my criticism is not directed at any particular tribe, but rather at the industry as a whole. However, I do think that the influx of southwest influence in Nollywood lately has contributed to its decline in global reputation. The industry had gained international recognition and respect when it was all Igbos affairs, but it seems to have lost its way in recent years.

what a mumu

Frigga13:
We made all that are President and if you dar we unmake you

Obasanjo knelt and beg
Tinubu bowed and worshipped

What else and I those government.. we call the shot

Like this .. after consultation.. Tinubu will go the way of Jonathan


Now kid tag along

But every single Northerner that smelled aso rock was put there by a Southerner - a Yoruba to be precise. So isn't it you who should be worried? Wasn't that the same way you miscreants were ranting before the elections that Wike's political career is dead for betraying Atiku? "the north will teach him" you said.

You still can't learn. The only power the north ever had was the threat of military coups, which is now obsolete for reasons I know you can't even fathom.

You have a dull mind and consequently, you are doomed to be a befuddled bystander as the inevitable train of the future sweeps your archaic type into oblivion.

Safe travels thereto, friend.

Frigga13:
The fear of Arewa

Even still instilling the fear, for those that have forgotten

But funny thing is Arewa already know Yoruba people to their blood and DNA…

Giving them the name “ YORUBA “

Still corrupted it to “ BEYIREBE “

WhaT else ?

Una don already abuse and curse everyone against una god Tinubu… BAYO .. has cursed out Atiku.. even when he profound alternate solution to Tinubu economic. Mess

Bala Mohammed was not left out

ACF still collect ..

El Rufai… fired down

Even “NORTH” don collect tire ..

Is late already.. Tinubu reviewing this and that is all cowardice… like Zulum said .. we know as a President you can have your way with the bill… BUT”

No Soul will trust the Yoruba man call Tinubu with power again…
Second term that he has nothing to lose .. na that one we go give am..

It’s so dangerous for Arewa . Beyirebe played their card so early

Obasanjo taught us well and Tinubu confirmed it .

Yoruba .. hmmm

Arewa that couldn't smell Aso Rock but for this same Tinubu. Rest. The political power of the north died in 1999 but some of you have yet to realize it.

RealityKings1:
Danmmm maybe it's really true it's hard to break through by just doing legal things and believing in God.

The world around you is full of examples of people who have broken through doing it the legit way. Don't deceive yourself.

Macphenson:
In the same spirit, can we also agree that he who generates the resources should have the lion share? Dont worry, I pray Tinubu succeeds with this bill, trust me its gonna be very interesting

Is there any debate there? Of course those whose lands are ravaged to exploit resources should receive the lions share.

Macphenson:
One of the most controversial issues in this Tax Reform Bill is that 60% of VAT to be shared by states will be given to the state it was collected from, It seems by this it will only favour mostly Lagos and Rivers State to the detriment of the Northern states who are collecting more VAT based on population.

Here is my concern, Lagos state was deliberately made the commercial headquaters of the Nation to the detriment of other states the more reason it collects more taxes.

Practically, All the cars entering the country pays their tax to only Lagos state. Even the cars to be used in Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta and Cross River states. Now this is not fair to these states as they have their own seaports but cars are not entering them, the taxes they are supposed to get as a state goes to Lagos state.

Also, Telecom companies pay their VAT in Lagos because their headquaters are located in Lagos, If this new bill is passed, that is no longer fair to all other states where the Telcom companies operate. Telcom companies should now start paying VAT to each state they operate as you can no longer rob Peter to pay Paul.

Oil companies have their headquaters located in Lagos while they operate in different states especially in the Niger Delta. This will no longer be fair if the bill is passed becaused those states where the oil companies operate will start demanding that the oil companies pay thier VAT in those states they operate.

The truth is this bill if passed, is seriously going to open litany of issues which I dont think at the moment the bill captured or resolved it.

Another worrisome dimension, this may prompt the oil producing states to start demanding for 60% of the oil revenues from their respective states, once this happens, chaos will reign supreme in the country.

Which litany of issues? There is one core and very simple issue: he who generates the VAT should enjoy the lions share of it. It applies in the same way across all the industries you mentioned. Let telcos pay their VAT where it is earned. And so on for every other business.

Up until now the majority of taxes generated in Lagos have been shared across the Federation, so how do you justify an argument that Lagos was deliberately set up to be the commercial hub in order to attract these taxes - - when the State has never collected its fair share of what it generates??

And who would have been responsible for that anyway?? Who is this person or persons that sought to grant Lagos such an advantage? lord Lugard? Ahmadu Bello? Nnamdi Azikiwe? Gowon? Lol.

SMH.

Bendeco02:
Don't talk like that.

All Ikwerre don't have same ancestral belief.

Some say they are Igbo while some says otherwise.

For wike matter, even his Ikwerre brothers detest him. Both Ijaw, Ikwerre, Ogoni and other minority tribes in Rivers dislike wike due to his selfish behaviour.

Rivers don't play tribal politics. We all saw how Ikwerre youths came out in large number and take over Ikwerre Local government from wike's thugs.

The only people that accepted wike as their hero are yoruba people.

And residents of the FCT pls. Thanks

Fake topic. A 29 year old still talking about not wanting to leave his friends?

No one can be that much of a mumu

Chosimba:
Looking at the comments here, it's easy to see how un-enlightened most Nigerian youths are.

This is actually a fantastic idea. The organisation is most likely over staffed and has a lot of redundancy. For them to identify such a large number of staff to remove, they are looking to streamline efficiency and reduce expenditure.

You may see N50 billion as a lot of money but trust me it costs a lot more to keep non functional staff on payroll bearing in mind that these same staff will still be paid the same N50 billion (or even more) when they eventually retire

Why did you bother? if anyone can't reason this out by themselves then your intervention will still make no sense to them. I'm any case it's not like their rantings here can change anything. Just let them have their fun

If two friends cannot collaborate to run as a team what is the value of their friendship?

People from the diaspora should not come back home because the economy is bad. But you are shipping your fancy toys bank home. To do what with in the terrible economy?

ottersberger:
She has not needed Tinubu or Nigeria's support to get this far. In fact, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala left the World Bank to serve Nigeria during the Obasanjo and Jonathan administrations. She gave to Nigeria as evidenced by our total debt cancellation and other positive economic gains.

It is not your useless support but her excellence in her duties that has brought her to where she is today. Mrs Okonjo-Iweala will be well advised to steer clear of all things Tinubu and his incompetent, nepotistic and corruption-ridden misrule.

So you don't know that the director general position is a political one that requires support from one's home government and your country's allies??

Cmanforall:
But he later succumbed

He was overcome by other votes. He never succumbed.

Cmanforall:
Why won't he?

Moreover, Trump is yet to be sworn in.
And NOI may also be an American citizen, so why won't Americans support her

Trump was the main opponent to her first term.

Wonderful

Edygrin:
Why not just build a refinery in every state of the Federation?

The old ones we have are like national monuments, with the government struggling to maintain them while others aren't even functioning anymore yet let's build another one In Gombe so that we can embezzle most of the money.

You do understand that this refinery is a private enterprise right?

omowolewa:
After finishing the old stock the truth will come out

Fact and Truth would be separated soon

As simple as that. We wait

RealityGod:
So in whole civil service there are no tax experts?

What is wrong with the head of the Tax Reform Committee, who is driving tax reform going to the National Assembly to explain the reforms he is driving?

Who else could be in a better position to do so??

EmperorCaesar:
She got paid for it na, or na for free she do am?

There are better ways to heap praises on one after an excellent music collaboration but this one up here, na human worship

If you con feature Beyonce, you for come out con tell us say na she give you air wey you don dey breathe since then

Its her song moro.n.

Iykopee:
In Nigeria, if you blend C5 with naphtha it's called refining hence the refinery is producing petroleum products.

Okay even if you wont allow yourself to understand what they have explained, is it the title "refinery" that concerns you or the supply of petrol in the country? As long as the said 200 trucks are loading actual petrol at the stated prices, who cares whether it was refined 100% or blended with crack cocaine?

Lol. Funny people.

roscoman:
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That is the problem you guys keep on making all the time . You are not God, so is only God knows what would happen or determine the faith of everyone of us including you. Weather Peter Obi becomes Nigeria President or not he had achieved what you have not achieve in your own life.

So mind whatever you say to people because God is not like we human being.

Finally, what of if is this same Peter Obi that God has destined to takes you out of abject poverty would you say he should not become President?. Whereas your drug baron brother there now, is not even thinking about you how to better your life.

Be careful with what you said to others just because of tomorrow.

So it is God who makes presidents?

LordBiden:
not my president

Peter obi we know.

No problems with that. Hope you have invited him to inspect the guard of honor in your house? Please do so, so he won't feel left out. He is a president too after all!

ednut1:
Any evidence this happened And is he the only one they are nacking?

If it did it wouldn't be just one random fellow talking about it. It would be bigger news with evidence from people who know the persons involved.

Obviously this guy is just an attention seeker and what knowing us Africans, silly sex talk excites our people so much.

This useless topic has made front page twice and now I'm realizing that apart from seeking economic opportunities, getting away from such a mass of dumb people is a good reason to japa!

TimiofAbuja:
something is telling the guy will do well, but he should calm down first no be all this initial gragra

Yes, I think he is a man of the people and his heart is in the right place.

ebukal67x:
Not a single person in this thread is paying attention to the fact that the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms is a consultant. A consultant to the Federal Government, mind you. And he is there to explain the Tax Reform Bill to the Senate.

Whats your point?

southsouthking:
If i can't get the keys back, I'll be locked up in jail for mur*der and slitting of throat.

Try and read good books and if possible travel to different countries so that you will reason less like an animal over time.

FactBoyz:
Women and their shenanigans

Did you read or you rushed to comment for attention?