₦airaland Forum

AsomughaChuks02:
The rate of northern migration to the South is worrisome. They have destroyed their own region with intolerance, nepotism, Islamic extremism and illiteracy and want to do same in the south. They have brought their herdsmen to come and be eating up our farm produce, what kind of wickedness is in these people?

shadeyinka:
That is not how our government work. The tax will be swallowed up by some people and that's the end.

Our state Governments don't usually account for how IGRs are spent.

Yoruba1stson:
They are foolish for defying the anti beef campaign, shame on them

shadeyinka:
Your Government provide nothing yet want to tax cows!?

Charmingrascal:
Nothing but the truth.



When I was a little boy I used to go Fulani settlements with my Dad sometimes we boarded canoes to take us across big rivers just to get to them.
My Dad is an health worker and the Fulanis preferred his services so they were always calling him when there were sick people. (He did house service, my papa like money. Lol) and the Fulanis had money too, legitimate money made from selling their cows, grains and birds/chickens. Those dayd Fulani were nice people, I would always get maishan (very sweet butter/oil like stuff) and many other things, they were so nice and lovely people.
As a young boy I always said I would marry a Fulani lady because they were so beautiful, friendly and nice people.


I am talking about 14 to 15 years ago.

What went wrong? F*ck!


Modified: I think those killer Fulanis that started terrorising Nigerians are not Nigerian and Buhari's failure to decisively deal with them led to the escalation of their killings and that also encouraged some Nigerian Fulanis to join them.
Fulani groups that are suppose to condemn the killers were also being biased in their judgement, instead of fishing out the foreigners that are killing people among them, they decided to allow tribal sentiment overshadow their sense of reasoning.

If Miyetti Allah had chastised them instead of covering up for them things would not have escalated to this extent, also I will blame Buhari for not taking decisive action.


[b]It is not too late [/b]Miyetti Allah should tell Nigerians among them not to join those foreigners in perpetrating crime, they should urge them to fish out the killers among them and the government should not be biased in handling this Fulani issue, Buhari or whoever is in charge of the affairs of the Nation should be decisive in dealing with these Intruders.

As part of a renewed effort to create ways of revenue generation, the Katsina State government has concluded plans to re-introduce the community and cattle tax system.

Governor Aminu Bello Masari disclosed this when he received Barrister Umar Adamu, the chairman of Tax Appeal Tribunal of the Northwest zone and other members on a courtesy visit at the Government House Katsina on Thursday.

Masari said the state government had constituted a committee that visited all the 34 LGAs, held town hall meetings to sensitize the people and their respective views on the matter.

According to him, during the committee’s assignment, many people attributed that part of the current insecurity challenges could be as a result of improper data or record on ownership of cattle either by the people or the herders.

He also revealed that his administration is coming up with a reform to improve the activities of the state Board of Internal Revenue and other relevant agencies to ensure their viability for the benefit of the people and the state.

The governor noted that the existence of the tax appeal tribunal is quite important for both tax administrators and payers to creating awareness on the issue of taxation for economic growth.

He, therefore, stressed the need for adequate sensitization of the people on the activities of the tribunal to enable it to achieve the desired objective.


“The current revenue allocation formula from the federation account may not continue forever, hence the need for states to devise measures and alternative sources to stand on their feet,” he concluded.

In his remark, Barrister Adamu the chairman of Tax Appeal Tribunal of the Northwest zone commended the state government for its foresight and assured that proper sensitization exercise would be carried out for the benefit of the citizens and stakeholders to enable them to reap the benefits of the tribunal.

Nylonbag:
Nonsense those experts should enter the bush and start farming,I think we should make an industrialized southern region rather than trying to go into farming that we are not good at

Apart from Nigeria, other major tropical developing countries that produce cassava include Brazil, Thailand, Indonesia and Zaire. Nigeria's over 60,000 metric tons are almost totally processed and consumed locally.

360degreess:
.Talk is cheap..But seriously North strong 4 this country ooo.imagine south west without beef,kpomo,food stuffs..if the north has agriculture,south south has oil,what does the west have?. . .

HacheNoire:
Hello! I am not a Northerner and only using common reasoning to address issues. States government do lease lands to farmers at very subsidized rate in Nigeria. And if you research on how advanced countries go about ranching/farming, then it will be a more interesting debate. With the ration of one cattle to grazing land, its close to impossible for ranchers to buy the land. Do you think those 1000 acres ranch/ farms you hear about in the USA are owned by ranchers/farmers? If you do, you are very wrong.

Update yourself and get back. If the Nigerian government funds agriculture the way advanced countries do, likes of you will still make it look like tribalism cos Northerners are more into it.

Land can be provision with moderate taxes on users. that should not be a debate like we doing. Confine them and monitor them. Even more opportunities will be opened by this gesture.

Nigeria`s problem is[b] ethno-religious differences, and not ranching. The moment citizens put that aside, development starts. No nation as grown divided.[/b]

sapientia:
I wonder why states won't invest in Ranching.

Oh.. I forgot.

They will run it down .

Iegendhero:
Thank you Benue.

However, I don’t think the Yorubas should take offense with what the Northerners chose to do with their farm produce. I am also happy that you guys have stopped bringing food down south. Please keep the tempo.

Yorubas don’t need any retaliation of any sort, that’s a lazy way of thinking. No need of blockading any petrol tankers or etc from getting to the North, that’s a lazy approach.

Sensible thinking Yorubas should now start investing in farming. It’s not necessarily we all waste time with conventional farming, there are other farming methods that can be employed with bigger yield and more control mechanism that can aid the supply of both foods and proteins.

Most of the basic source of food is grown in the SW. we have cassava, poultry, fishes, yams, and etc that can feed the population for the time being until we can match the tomatoes, beans, and other grains from the North side.

Even if it gets worse, we can import all these stuffs and I’m sure there will be little the customs controlled by the FG can do at the Western borders. Trust me when civil disobedience happens, the FG will be helpless, but that is the last resort honestly.

Kaduna1stson:
Who will give access to import anything? Look, we have Baru dry port in the north and it's now going to be used to import everything.

DO THE MATHS
Behind the hype, is Dangote’s refinery a game changer?
Posted on Friday, 10 January 2020 16:07, updated on Tuesday, 14 January 2020 12:02

Is the refinery a cure-all?
To understand why Dangote’s Refinery may not deliver the hoped for structural changes, we must first run through the basic figures that tell the story of Nigeria’s trade balance and its internal petroleum consumption:

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the country’s daily petrol consumption comes to 51 million litres.
Using the standard measure of 47% petroleum motor spirit (PMS) per 159-litre barrel of crude oil according to the U.S. Department of Energy,

This means that Dangote’s Refinery must process about 471,500bpd to satisfy Nigeria’s internal demand.
What happens to export earnings?

The problem is that if the feedstock for Dangote’s refinery comes from local oil production, as the chief of the state oil company has promised, then it will eat into Nigeria’s export cargoes and revenues.

Nigeria’s 2019 crude oil production averaged 2,037 million barrels a day (b/d)

The 2019 average international crude oil price was $64 per barrel.
If the refinery satisfies Nigeria’s internal demand, it would save over $8.7bn. That’s how much the country spent on fuel imports in 2017.

That sounds great, but what about the opportunity cost? By allocating over 470,000 b/d of locally-produced crude oil to the refinery, the state oil company is losing about $11bn of forex earnings a year. That’s almost a quarter of the country’s current forex earnings. Nigeria would be losing $11bn to save $8.7bn.


https://www.theafricareport.com/21854/behind-the-hype-is-dangotes-refinery-a-game-changer/

authority2006:
When we said that many of you are dumb, you felt being insulted. When you blow up pipelines, you're not just hurting northerners but hurting yourselves too. Dumb people.
They attracted amnesty because they were hurting government's revenue. Chai, money wasted on some people's education!



How are you going to achieve that exactly? We import refined crude oil into the country and southerners are not responsible solely responsible for that. Dumb people making noise on social media while Abokis are carrying out their threats in real life and real time.

ChybuzzDD:
That's how you guys in the south usually start: with utmost degree of gullibility.
But with time, when the damage is already done, e go begin clear for una eye, just like those who vigorously campaigned and voted for Buhari.

authority2006:
Thanks man. How do you block what you don't control if we may ask all these dumb people on social media including nairalanders? Act and stop making noise on social media. In two to four weeks, high prices of food will reset many brains

thebosstrevor1:
FFK Always talking nonsense.

The south does not own oil, the federal government owns the oil unlike the food, hardworking Northern farmers are the owner under a cooperative system, the cooperative can decide to transport their produce somewhere else and it wont affect their pocket.

There are lot of buyers of farm produce from northern Cameroon, senegal, mali, niger and chad. The revenue they make from these markets alone is more than the revenue from the southern market in Nigeria

jaxxy:
Hmmm, what I see here are very smart bandits who are tired of poverty and joblessness is the North. They now want a better life for themselves and families. Banditry only became an option because they where poor and jobless and had no other alternative.

Give these Fulani jobs, housing, education and opportunities and they will do better or are Atiku and el rufai not Fulani? They are tired of poverty.

They are quite different from bokoharam and I think government should listen them and act. Engage them meaningfully and banditry will end or atleast reduce to a minimum. They just a by product of neglect and poverty characteristic with the clueless Apc government.

davidadenrele:
This is the dumbest and the lamest excuse of the year 2021, what does the SW want to benefit in causing problems, shedding blood and tears at the North, North and its leaders are their own problems, while the South and East where creating policy for both human and infrastructural development that will give their people jobs, creation of wealth, foreign investors the North and its leaders were subjecting its people to slavery, anti development policy, poverty whats is Alimanjiri?? how come we have so much beggars from the North?? how come there's always insurrection and insurgency in the North what else does the North want from Nigeria?? Most of Nigeria leaders uptil to date are Northern's yet the North is always quick to point fingers and accused the South West and South East of its problems after all the North has always lay claim to the fact they have the legitimacy of owing to power to Presidency as far as Nigeria is concerned.

OROSUNBOLB:
Stop being stupid,boy ! I guess BBC is also part of this Lagos - Ibadan express news,right ? Your diseases infested and poverty stricken north is nothing but land of primitive savages,terrorists and illiterates !

Aljazeera has just confirmed that news fool !

Mikecold:
What are you doing to this urgent attention?


By now Tinubu house should be occupied by yorubas till he feels the pains they feel.


By now Tinubu should have come out to defend his people as buhari is doing.


Let everyone defend his region since a jihad as already begun



Mind you I am not Igbo, i don't hate Tinubu, but as the leader of yorubas who brought in this government he can't seat and allow Fulani keep displacing yorubas to cotonu

the government hereby acknowledges and approves the right of the Muslim schoolgirl to wear the hijab, and directs the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development to come up with a uniform hijab for all public/ grant-aided schools, which will be the accepted mode of head covering in schools. Any willing schoolgirl with the approved (uniform) hijab shall have the right to wear same in public/grant-aided schools.

Jashub:
If that's your own interpretation of kidnapping...then yes. Let them enjoy the experience

Jorge91:
Obj still can’t give account of $16b he embezzled for power project, how many millions is being used for this project.

Jerryherd:
I wonder why Obasanjo removed toll gates in the first place