₦airaland Forum

FreeStuffsNG:
You want subsidy on Gas too, shebi? Same you city dwellers enjoying subsidy on petrol and electricity while those folks living in the villages continue to pick the bills as funds meant for their roads and cottage clinics and industries is being used to fund subsidy lifestyles for us in the cities and towns.
Sir, if you are truly in the gas business, you should know what gas is doing now even globally since the hurricane ida occurred in the US and locked 90% of the supply from that axis affected by ida.

You guys should please learn more about your industry, it's not the job of Buhari to ask you to READ or to subsidise gas for you at a time even industries in Europe are reducing production because of high gas and oil prices.

Take a break from nairaland and get real perspective of factors affecting your industry and understand it very well enough to be regarded an expert there . It's no brainer that except things change, gas and crude oil price may even increase more and Oman is already predicting that it will reach $200 per barrel because of bad weather and return of most industrial productions after covid-19. Brent was on $75.10 the last time I checked this morning. It has nothing to do with PMB, your usual scapegoat for everything.

Typical demon logic. They try to pitch urban dwellers against city dwellers now.
Where are the roads now that prices have jumped? Where is the improvement in power now tarrifs have jumped. Anything that passes through the LDV led FG must experience massive leakage, why ?

Useless entity. Anything to tickle the ears of the lanky demon vessel(LDV) in aso rock.

ednut1:
Buhari has no choice than to borrow. If obj or gej was president it would be same. So baba gtfoh

oil prices were lower under OBJ yet he repaid a humongous loan and kept indices far better. Buhari is the problem. He is borrowing to do project just out of selfishness and not with the aim of boosting productivity or growth of the economy.

NGpatriot:
Ode agbaya, the projects the money are financing are some of the ones you useless man refused to touch even though you had the money and decided to do the typical PDP looting and sharing.

what stupid projects ?
The lanky demon vessel is borrowing to pay salaries. That's wicked politics. If the workers are not productive enough to cover their salary, lay them off instead of borrowing for the next leader to come and pay. How much is FG revenue if it may ask?

BKayy:
Then, they count from kobo and getting up to a thousand naira then was no joke.
I know people that built decent houses with 6 thousand naira. The houses are still standing.
Dont be confused with the numbers but the quality. It's just like Ghana Cedis, removing or adding few zeros doesn't change the value.

The equivalent of 4000 naira in 1982 to now is 1.4m
Those thinking that it is the same with the 4k they have in their pockets right now should keep that in mind.

This is why it isn't good to store up treasure on earth without engaging them.in a productive cycle. Imagine a local farmer who buries his cash or someone just saving for bank's meagre interest rate.

TheRareGem1:
Education need to put place priority especially for our young ones and it is free and responsibility of state government to ensure this, this will reduce the number of out of school children in the country m

All the ones being educated for free, what are they producing? You think oil will flow forever. It is still flowing and we already knee deep in embarrassing debts as a nation. What happens when its flow halts? Same oil money is being used to fight those who say "no to education" and yet you are talking about educating every one as if it is by force or by fire to have sense. No emphasis on balancing output and input in this nation. We just pump more oil for money and expects a leaky system to balance up itself.

Seun:
AbokiFX and the likelihood of hyper-inflation since the govt is printing and borrowing money aggressively and trying to hide the true exchange rate.

When are you going to regulate signatures that are insultive like the one this your post replied was carrying? too carries one very insulting one that calls anyone replying him with contrary opinion a swine.

These people think suppressing information that reveal pressing issues can help bury them. That's a chess-like approach to a practical issue.
This is the endproduct of sacrificing crops for cows. The endproduct of using food security to press for a counter productive northern amnesty for Fulanis. We thank God locust haven't done their predicted damaged.

DNA sequencing?

So the idiot knows about demand and supply but didn't see anything wrong in food blockade by his parasitic people.

Aufbauh:
Jealous about who particularly?? Naay...., We are all in different field of endeavour and I've never wished to be a full-time pastor talk more of owning a Church.
All I'm saying is that the right thing should be done, for a labourer is worthy of his wages.

Welfare to widows, orphans etc should be a social responsibility of the church. Even individuals and secular organizations engage in same.

stop quoting scriptures carelessly. Is the labourer worthy of agreed wages or some phantom industry standard wage. As long as the labourer was aware of wages before agreeing to labour under the ministry and he isn't owed.

Aufbauh:
Op, the parameter that you should have used for your analysis to be fair is to tell us how much Living Faith Church is making annually.

For example an organization can not be earning up to hundreds of billion annually and has a paltry wage bill of just 10B. That's not equity! Even secular States still shell out 70-80% of their earning to recurrent expenditure.

some years back, a pastor of winners was kidnapped while on philanthropy mission in borno. The commission pays lecturers, secondary school teachers, older pastors. There are welfare to widows and orphans o. Stop asking jealousy questions please.

Ovamboland:
That is the essence of taxation to redistribute wealth and reduce inequality.
A person due to pay $100m annual tax won't use all that to send his children to school. But $100m might be enough to finance quality education for 1m poor kids.

Once the bigman pockets his tax, you might automatically have 1m kids added to the out of school numbers and have a ready Army to join kidnap gangs, militants and Boko Haram.

Tax is to help govt run and deliver key infrastructures that enable society improve.

nairalandankrah:
Only the total Islamisation of Nigeria will stop this madness

has it stopped Afghanistan madness?

Seun:
How does he cash out? He runs ads. That's all.

emefiele is just looking to present the world, and most importantly, Buhari, an excuse.

Take energy drink and pray my self into heaven.

Newboss:
There are lots of foreign exchange market research firms in Nigeria. They simply go to the street, get data, analyse the data, and publish. It's even part of journalism.

Newspapers also maintain steady record of parallel market exchange rates. You can check and see for yourself. There is also Naijabdcs website. This CBN governor is too incompetent. He wants to hide his incompetence from the world.

Market research is not hard. You can even set up a website that conducts market research on price of anything you can think of.

If not that parallel market rates was well published, CBN would not have raised exchange rate from 381 to 412. The real value of Naira has fallen past 500 Naira to a dollar.

CBN should solve the problems instead of looking for how to mask the problems.

demand and supply problem needs practical solutions.

PlanToSucceed:
What I noticed when I observed public waste bin in less than one hour.

Witnessing the unfortunate situation today reminds of palliatives looting from various warehouses during #EndSARS last year and Lai Mohammed and Femi Adeshina later came out to say even though Nigerians were seen scampering for food items does not mean any Nigerians are eating from the waste bin. Today, I have a proof for them and their APC government.

So I left house this morning to meet someone who had promised to link me up with someone who can help my unemployed status. Having reached the place early enough, I called to notify but I was told to hang on there and I found a place and sat down.

Looking around, I noticed a public waste bin and in no time, condemned iron pickers with their truck entered the place and ransacked everywhere in search for iron and other condemned household items. While they were still there, some kids presumably homeless joined them in search for rotten food. I could see them picking things from the bin and directly into their mouths and until no other to pick again before they left. Just as though the bin has regained its freedom from the attack of the street urchins, immediately, I saw an elderly woman ransacking the same bin in search for woods presumably to be used as firewood (a kg of cooking gas now is N600 and Kerosene N450). While she was still trying to pick her interest, a man with wheelbarrow pushed into the place with a heap of cartons/paper materials. He parked and ransacked the same bin for cartons and any paper material thing. He greeted the elderly woman and they both had conversation which I really didn't know what they discussed before they finally left together.

As all these were happening, I had no choice than to still wait for "my helper". Before I knew, another set of women came to visit the same bin. These ones, their interest was on plastic bottles and nylon/waterproof materials. They picked as much was available before they left.

Not long from then, a new visitor to the bin was another child in search for rotten food not knowing early birds have already taken all that were available. I felt so bad and disturbing seeing what was going on there so I was eager to leave the place. Just then, the person called me that I should be going back to my house that the appointment can no longer hold today.

As I made move to pass the bin, the underage greeted me and added "Oga abeg help me with N50 make I take buy something chop". I felt pity for him. This boy is too young for this. Ideally, he should be under the care of his parents. Anyways, even though I was left with only my transport fare, I couldn't pass and I gave him N200.

Wow!!! Honestly I left the place very disappointed and broken down physically and mentally.

Disappointed due to the cancelled appointment and mental breakdown due to the gory site of where some Nigerians now resort to sourcing for means livelihood. Indeed, IMO, this country is a terrible place. It's structured to favour very few and that is why we are still the way we are today and until normalcy and sanity is forcefully returned by eliminating those who have spoilt and reduced the country to this mockery stage, I see no changes where some Nigerians would not have to sleep with empty stomach and start a new day by picking things from waste bins while others spend public funds sleeping in world best hotels in and outside the country.

As I'm typing this, I can't tell how many other persons have continued to visit the same waste bin afterwards and other waste bins in search for source of survival. Rather, this has forced me to ask myself, is this the dream of the founding fathers of Nigeria? Unemployment? Poverty? Frustration? Sourcing livelihood from thrash bins?

I rest my case!!!

Photo source: Google

After that farmers will go for the rest, burn it, and use to enrich their farmland.

Queenttoast01:
What did their sitting achieved?

they help formalize the denials of the govt and also bring an end to potential justice for victims.

Indefinitely A K A Until it dies off.

Wow. Alhaji chinedu and Alhaja Ngozi.

The victims are not complaining that much.

What about northern borders.

Kobojunkie:
Aren't you projecting here?

Not at all.

Kobojunkie:
After removal of what curse?

whatever curse that's making you argue foolishly all over Nairaland.

After removal of curse, there is renewal of the mind via the word of God.

Tax is for funding government expenditures.
On another hand, government is a system of order for a nation, state, or another political unit. A government is responsible for creating and enforcing the rules of a society, defense, foreign affairs, the economy, and public services.

Let me try and explain government further before making my points. Imagine if the road from Lagos to Port Harcourt was under two different government of, let's say two provincial authorities. A Lagos government and a Port Harcourt government. There will be chaos when each govt attempt toll their own portion of the road differently. But with a central governnent, both sides can pay taxes to and allow a single set of rule to govern the use of the road. That is one key illustration of what government does. They help manage what different groups of people share in common.

Now going back to Osinbajo's request for Pentecostal tax from preachers. What preachers earn is primarily donated or willing contributed by followers who have been taxed by the govt. Any attempt at taxing preachers again on same monies will be double taxation. It will mean the govt is saying contribution of money into a pool before spending it is a form of earning. That isn't true and therefore Osinbajo was wrong.

TheRareGem1:
Persons who succeed in their endeavours owe the society three forms of taxes.

The VP explained that the first is income taxes (personal income tax), and corporation tax for company owners.

The second, he noted, is a social tax or philanthropy, which is the obligation of the wealthy to give back to society.

“The third tax is a civic tax; the obligation of the successful to write their stories, to share the histories of the phenomena they have become.


This is spot on

You are not making sense. Tax is what is used to fund public things people share in common.

MrbonZ:
I just want to know if I am the only one to notice it, some female bosses are usually overtly arrogant, abusive and overbearing and most times they bring their family problems to work and can't deal with the stress that comes with working.

This is not a misogynistic post just an observation from me. Do you guys also experience this.

that's why they are the weaker gender. The inability to manage personal emotional issues.

Divide n conquer tactics.

Suspicion.