₦airaland Forum

princekevo:
As long as the government makes appropriate use of the taxes.I think every businesses or individuals are expected to pay their taxes.But as long as the tax is moderate for the tax payers.We can't only depend on our natural resource for every little budget.Neither shall we expect them to get the job done with their own private money.
But i guess in Nigeria case this issue is very difficult handle.Cause the question remains,will or are government making efffective use of the tax payers money?Do the tax payers gets in return their benefits from the government which are,good roads,Good educational system,good water supply,good and affordable medical health care,employment opportunities,etc.All these are the basic benefits that encourages the citizen to be faithful with taxes. Until you an answer to this question before u can judge is Gov. Fashola is right or wrong.

Excellent! You hit the nail on the head. I guess paying taxes can be a bitter pill to swallow especially when it seems precious little is done with the monies collected. But there's still a trickle down effect to the masses from taxes paid. If no taxes are paid at all, then there will be far less money to spend on our development.

Not paying taxes means the citizen has already given up on Nigeria. We do this in the hope that one day a good crop of leaders can harness these huge sums the citizenry contribute and make Nigeria a better place. Until then, we should do our part.

Complaining without paying taxes is just like refusing to vote yet complaining about our leaders.

FBS:
very funny what some people post.

Pay tax before complaning.

Ok I, pay tax. Can I now complain?

Yes! You can now complain. If you don't pay taxes, the government owes you nothing.
Why do you think the American public are very conscious of how their monies are spent? When you pay taxes then you become a stakeholder. No taxes = parasitism.

[quote author=sun_temi link=topic=198270.msg3116636#msg3116636 date=1227261280]Educative and informative indeed. Trash, Birds of same feather.[/quote]Usually the 'Politics' section attracts measured, intelligent discourse. Once in a while however, retards like yourself get in the door.

damola1:
Plus, you all think it's just about the traders.

The gravity of how many people it affected won't be known, and the revenue lost, which I strongly believe will run into over a Billion, in just the last 48hours, cannot really be ascertained.

Revenue lost to who? if these traders don't remit their taxes to the state and federal government, what loss does the Government incur?

damola1:
You know if I want to tackle this issue further, I strongly believe Fashola is tout or never really went to school.

I rather believe anyone who 'strongly believes' that a serving state governor (who won a viciously contested election) did not go to school must be lacking in the logic department.

damola1:
1. Inform the Traders of the need to pay taxes, special information, not radio jingle, flyer, and one on one, at least all the bankers and microfinance bank go from one store to another with their marketers.

2. He should put in place an accountability system to checkmate how much is being made, and help separate profit from cost of production.

3. Advise on need to collect tax, and state how is calculated.

4. Then after which he'll inform them of the need to collect or they face the law.

Chikenaa!

Why does the state government have to grovel before people discharge their civic duty? Do we really need to go house-to-house, shop-to-shop, cap in hand an appeal to people to pay taxes before they do so?

There is always bound to be harsh criticism from selfish quarters for progressive schemes. Minor irritation at not being able to purchase a printer or a computer should not automatically transmit to unneeded blame on the government for doing the right thing. Tax evasion is the norm in this country and it's time the kid gloves came off and a strong message is sent out.

The kid glove treatment people like damola advocate is what has crippled the fight against piracy in Alaba or fake drugs in onitsha. Every time the police raid those places you see crowds there condemning them for 'depriving people of lost revenue'.

Anyone here who claims not to have heard jingles on the radio and television about paying taxes for the past couple of years has to be a liar.
It's a crying shame that some people do not pay taxes. That in itself is a form of treason and usually tax offences are treated with extreme seriousness. How does the government get money if you do not pay taxes?

Computer Village has a leadership and a union. Closing the whole village is a strong means of drumming the tax issue into their heads.
It's a pity Nigerians are so greedy that they want amenities without doing their part. Pay your tax before you have a right to complain. Simple.

sniperwolf:
One thing that you should know is that all these newly released games on PC consume lots of memory. There is no guarantee that it will work but, there is no harm in trial. Better still if you can get a 16MB. I've used 16 on WE9 and it was slow

You've used a 16MB card on a 3 year old game and it was 'slow', yet you see nothing wrong in recommending it to another user?!

Lots of strange people on Nairaland.

engrhamid:
I've said i won't post in this thread again. I believe those who can reason including tolu knows what stan and i r doing here. I wish all the people talking non sense have access to chat with me on messenger to know what i'm up to but that can never be possible because i'm busy with my studies. Bye

Come off it, man. There's a clear case of someone's money being stolen. Now it's true toluxa is firmly in the Dark Side himself, but still a scam is a scam.

Money was paid, goods were never delivered, money was never returned. No explanations, nothing. There are things that cannot be defended.
I do not know who you are or what you represent, but as someone said before, it's never a good idea to defend the indefensible.

toluxa1:
My main objective of opening this thread was so that people can learn from my mistake. I know Nairalanders very well, and if I was not readyto be abused in a lot of ways, I wont open the thread.

Below is lance's picture.

You said you had others. Now get a bigger photo and run with it. May not be a bad idea to approach the police and see if you can't plaster his face in the papers  
That said, i think you do deserve the abuse. But there should be a limit. Now let's see how we can help get your money back in your pocket or (preferrably) his balls in your hands  

Gamine:
@Poster

Bio-Oil is very good

There is nothing like natural medication

Just check the net and ask around.

It may not go completely, but the marks will be faint.


What you should be worried about is Cellulite

Haba!! As you skinny reach, you get stretch marks?!

chaircover:
But I still don't get it . . . if he really loves his girlfriend as he claims, then why would he be irritated (his words) by a simple physical imperfection; one which is very common amongst ladies and I now gather men too can suffer from the same thing.

We are not talking some terrible physical deformity or disease here. No one is perfect and we all have something about us that if we had a choice will like to change. . . . of all the things that can go wrong in ones life, I think having stretchmarks isnt even worth mentioning and thats why I assumed it must have been a kid who wrote that.

Perhaps since he loves his babe so much, maybe he doesn't know it's common to many women?

I consider myself to be pretty well-read, yet i thought stretch marks was an anomaly in women who hadn't given birth until y'all opened my eyes

Other people have stolen the words from my mouth. Excellent write up.

However,

Orikinla:
The majority of these so-called educated elites are also the leading intellectual illiterates and intellectual hypocrites posing and posturing with false airs and graces, because most of them cannot tell the difference between Chris Abani and Helon Habila or even tell us what makes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie different from Sefi Atta in contemporary Nigerian literature. Do not waste your time asking them why nobody won the last Nigeria LNG Prize for Science, because they will disappoint you. Yet, they can tell you the names of all the players in the first team of Arsenal Football Club or Manchester United Football Club of England. They can also tell you the full details of bizarre pornographic scenarios of the last Big Brother Africa on cable TV and their fellow intellectual illiterates aping American Pop Idols on Sound City and Channel O and corrupting the ignorant and naïve Nigerian teenage boys and girls with their psychedelic and pornographic songs and musical videos.

This section is completely unneccessary. You might as well opine that Enrico Fermi or Werner von Braun could only be considered intelligent by yourself if they could launch into a lengthy discourse of Tolstoy' works, or write narratives on Lord Byron's poems.
People choose their own diversion and hobbies. Some of the truly intelligent NIgerians i've met do some of their best reasoning while listening to rap music

All in all, nice piece. Please consider publication in a national newspaper!

@Muza
lol. You're taking the lazy man's approach here. There's a thread called 'IPhone Killer Apps'. There's also yet another 'Iphone vs N95' thread opened recently. If you could be arsed to read these, you'd find the answers you seek.

It's clear you love HTC and WinMo devices. But windows mobile is getting seriously dated here and no amount of coverup will change that. And yes, i ditched my Htc TYtN for my iPhone. The ease of use and strong all round features tore apart the competition.

It's a pity all the people you've been 'confronting' cannot show you just what you are missing, but i cannot spare any time to discuss with your ilk. Get your lazy arse off the floor and go read through all the iphone threads.

chaircover:
don't mind the yeye boy, it is their type that end up with women their mums age and with coke & Fanta complexion on tribal marks!

stretchmarks ko shrinkmarks ni

But seriously, why do we have silly knee-jerk reactions like these?
The poster says he loves his girlfriend. He just feels somewhat turned off when he sees the stretch marks. it doesn't make him a cad or a loser, and it sure as hell doesn't mean he's calling out all women here. By asking for some sort of cream it's also clear he's willing to help clear this perceived problem.

Instead he gets immature comments like

chaircover:
HERE WE GO . . . ANOTHER KID PLAYING ON DADS LAPTOP!!

_HISS

malikalhaj:
guy you to like quarrel, did muza insult u? them no fit talk of Iphone make u throw way face

Would you rather i spend my time begging for 'free browsing tips' like many of you do here?

Muza:

Texas dnt let me start with u.
We are discussing I phone here,
If you can't defend these allegations just keep quiet,

But i didn't insult you! If it's reasonable to compare the best selling phone in the US, and the No 2 Smartphone marketshare in the US (second only to Nokia) to a rock, then it's reasonable to compare you to a rock too.


Speaking of rocks, you musta crawled out of under one recently for you to claim that a 1.83 Ghz core 1 CPU and a geforce go 7600 GPU are cutting edge specs.

This toluxa fellow seems to bask in his cowardice! Someone duped you of 100k and you're here wondering aloud about the propriety of posting his emails and his photos.

The damage has been done. A bigger crook than yourself has not only unmanned you, but has made you a debtor to your friends. If you do not have the guts to carry out a no-holds-barred campaign to regain your money, then remain silent.

If you have his real name and details, set about destroying him. Simple as that.

Muza can't send MMS and cannot record video. Ergo, Muza is marginally better than a rock!

I'm sorry but i do not buy the solar flare excuse. If it was really a solar flare that caused the malfunction, they would have said so since. Also it's convenient that Rufai failed to shed more light on the 'six other satellites that failed that day'.

What is this talk about loans when we claim the satellite was insured?

DeepZone:
Why is this misplaced priority or are you guys no more interested in technology breakthrough you've been complaining about?. Iran dey hungry but they are building nuclear technology by force. You don't want terrorists or even a tiny country like sao Tome to invade us one day because we are saving money for roads, education and agriculture.

Iran is not 'hungry'. They have decent roads et al.
Technology breakthrough, yes, but not reckless spending with 'technology breakthrough' as an excuse.
I'm somewhat amused you people think this represents great breakthrough. The satellite was built by China, Launched by china, monitored mainly from China.

mecussey:
Please, who knows; I want to buy a VGA for my PC games. Would 8MB Nvidea support Pro evolution soccer?

I could do the easy answer and tell you NO.
But i need to ask, why be such a cheapskate?!

Negro, buy at least a 128MB card and have done with it. Even then you'll struggle with new games including PES 2009

What the hell has this got to do with Politics?!

Are we so desperate for any sign of progress that we whip ourselves into a frenzy over nothing?
First off, you cannot launch rockets in a metropolitan environment in secret. The noise, the shockwaves, the plumes of flame and smoke are all visible telltales.

Homeless palestinians have been launching Qassam II rockets for years now. germany launched the v1 and V2 rockets during world war 2, over 60 years ago and we're here imagining we're catching up.
hell, even when i was in primary school and dreamt of being an astronaut one day, i had books showing how to build a solid and liquid fuel rocket. Plans for homemade rockets are available online and we're clapping ourselves on the back. A whole country still behind homeless palestinians!!

This so-called space agency should be made to show what they have achieved so far to deserve the name and the funds allocated to them. Unserious people! When other countries parade their technological advances we are here appealing to the conspiracy theorists and talking about secret launches.

Why is the poster complaining? By letting us know he has tried to use illegally obtained credit cards to purchase goods online, he's told us he himself is a crook.

All i see here is a smarter crook defrauding a budding crook. That's all.

And this is someone who claims that a 1.83Ghz Core Duo CPU and an ancient 2006 era Geforce Go 7600 is cutting edge.
Sorry, man. You can keep your HTC devices and their resistive touchscreens. i've been there, done that.
When you can actually afford an iphone an develop the brainpower needed to exploit all the latent possibilities you'll understand why the iPhone is so popular.
Until then, keep trolling.


PS: Since when did lack of user-swappable memory cards in a device with a 16GB Solid State drive become a bad thing?!

ateke2:
I learnt for the military guys dying in active service is 15 million naira compensation.
I think it's worth it.

Don't be silly. No one promised that sort of money

diggler:
Here our Soldiers are fighting to keep the Oil flowing so that the pot bellied petes in Abuja can pad their offshore accounts.

Considering the fact that oil accounts for over 90% of our country's revenue, keeping the oil flowing also keeps Joe the Plumber and Osahon the Bricklayer in business. Not only the 'pot bellied petes'

pc guru:
Not from net.actual shots from n95 or omap capable phones(n93,n93i,n95(8gb),n82,e90).

And all those are early to mid 2007 era phones. New Nokia phones do not have the GPU, not even the N96. And those screenshots are taken from a benchmark for the PowerVR GPU chip, so it serves for the iPhone too.

pc guru:
Yeah.omap 2420 is the chip and powerVr is the gfx card.you are right.but N82 has a gfx card.i just played Global race on my cousin's iphone and to my disappointment.it was good.except for the control.post some iphone games pix here.

Global race is pretty low on the graphics scale compared to what the iPhone can do. Some actual game screenshots below





Fastlane Street Racing

https://fastlanestreetracing.com/images/screenshots/screenshot00.jpg
https://fastlanestreetracing.com/images/screenshots/screenshot04.jpg
https://fastlanestreetracing.com/images/screenshots/screenshot05.jpg



Xplane 9
https://fingergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-026.png
https://fingergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-024.png
https://fingergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-025.png
https://fingergaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/picture-023.png


Armado
https://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/armado.jpg


real Football 2009
https://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/soccer.png

https://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/realsoccer.png


Asphalt 4
https://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/asphalt.jpg
https://img.slidetoplay.com/20080902/asphalt_4_02.jpg
https://img.slidetoplay.com/20080902/asphalt_4_19.jpg

Need For Speed

https://img.slidetoplay.com/20081113/NFSU_04.jpg
https://img.slidetoplay.com/20081008/NFSU_01.jpg
https://img.slidetoplay.com/20081113/NFSU_06.jpg
https://img.slidetoplay.com/20081008/NFSU_03.jpg

Super Monkey Ball

[img]http://www.iphonemag.ch/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/super_monkey_ball.jpg[/img]


Rolando
https://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/rolando_screen_world_3.png

hannydarl:
I just hate it when people that don't know anything about how people abroad do research work to understand a disease and find its cure go about raising fund for their work just open their mouths and talk they don't know that its not proper to just develope a drug and start testing it on humans because the path to finding cure for a disease involves a lot of trail and error before one achieves result and its not what you test on human untill you are sure and even then you have to recruit willing HIV patients to run trial with the permission of the govt.Its only in nigeria that people like texazz, expect researchers to use their hiv positive towns men as live guinea pigs who ever heard of such

The people overseas that request funds for their research solicit funds after showing with reasonable certainty that they expect a positive end result. They usually post technical papers in reputable medical journals and they usually have a reputation in the medical community.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether Abalaka published any paper in any reputable medical journal, or if he even went into any detail of his work. And before you conspiracy theorists go there, he could have applied for a patent before releasing some details.
Without doing that, the medical community is a likely to take notice of him as they would take notice of me if i claimed i had the cure for HIV.

hannydarl:
they don't know that its not proper to just develope a drug and start testing it on humans because the path to finding cure for a disease involves a lot of trail and error before one achieves result and its not what you test on human untill you are sure and even then you have to recruit willing HIV patients to run trial with the permission of the govt.

And this is where you fail the stupidity test. Abalaka came out claiming to have already cured some HIV positive patients. And you know this. So why the sudden reluctance to continue his cures when the public eyes had focused on him?
Like it or not, this is Nigeria. Trado-medical doctors have historically never needed government permission before treating patients. HIV infected patients are not likely to be picky, anyhow.
So Abalaka himself has established the fact that he HAD run human trials without the permission of the Government.


What people like you and basking4me are effectively saying is that a Nigerian discovered the greatest medical breakthrough in the last decade and has sat on it for almost three years simply because 'he was not sponsored by government'.

Run that through your mind over and over and see if that makes any sense.

HINT: It doesn't.

Now for some sobering news for you;
The N95 was one of the last Nokia phones to come with a GPU. The N96, N85, N81, N82 etc rely on software to render the Ngage games. As a result, most Ngage games will not be optimized to use the GPU, so expect iPhone games to emerge as graphically superior titles.

@pc guru
Only shows how much you don't know. The omap2420 is a processor with the PowerVR GFX card embedded in it. Any demo you bring up will be a demo of the GPU and not of the specific phone, so i expect them to perform alike.
In CPU benchmarks the iPhone outmuscles the N95. And on the OpenGL ES benchmarks, the N95 gets slightly higher scores simply because it has a much smaller screen (and resolution) to render polygons to. Both are running the same GPU.
Dual Core CPU is just a red herring. The N95 can only bring 332 Mhz to bear on its tasks.

pc guru:
no keypad oh.i guess on screen pad will be made or accelerometer,

Have you actually tried to play an Ngage game on the N95?! Controls suck with the hardware keypad. Nokia only solved the clumsy control issue with phones like the N81 and N96

pc guru:
.iphone is good.i get but phone of the future please.Appstore overshadows ngage,okay maybe.but will iphone fit in the gaming market.no way.except they make a joystick(Ipad).

You haven't been following the news, have you? over 10 million downloads of games from the Apple Appstore. Wall Street Journal and Forbes have written articles calling the iPhone the new kid on the gaming block. Apple is targeting the Nintendo DS and the PSP with their new gaming oriented strategy. For you to claim that the iphone is making no headway in the gaming market shows you are far behind the curve.


Think outside the box. There are games that do not need joysticks to play. Try Asphalt 4 on the iPhone and see if you can go back to the Ngage version. try Spore, star wars etc. The touchscreen adds an extra layer of control that the Ngage store cannot match.

yemivictor:
I remember praying for a cure for both HIV/AIDS & cancer as we crossed into the year 2008!
I'm still hoping these prayers of mine get answered positively!!

You should have prayed for World Peace while you were at it

Phemzy:
That is a great news, i believe that someday it will be HIV/AID will surely leave us and we will all be happy with each other

Translated: so we can have indiscriminate sex!

First off, i must express my EXTREME dissapointment with all these boneheads talking about Abalaka. Did the Wright brothers receive Government help before they flew their plane? Did Galileo receive government help?

The man says he made his cure from low cost herbs and stuff. There are thousands of Nigerians living with HIV/Aids in Bonny and Benue state, do you think if he had set up shop there with his so called 'cure' he wouldnt have been rolling in dough and been world famous?
He challenged the Government to send proven cases of HIV to him. Does he not know where he could get thousands to experiment on?

The truth is Abalaka never had the cure. It defies logic that someone would hold the holy grail of medicine and be complaining of lack of Government support. Some people just thrive on the attention, like those guys in the US that claimed they had found a corpse of Bigfoot. Shame some people here on Nairaland are easily misled.

pc guru:
Graphic better than ps2 and u think n95,is not capable.for ur info. Imagination technology has the fastest opengles chip omap.guess the device that carries it.N95. Oh u didnt knw.if u want to see graphics.download nokiaE3 Vid.iphone is fancy.appstore is good.but n95 is by far functional than iphone.naija apple fan boiz.please gui is not a function.its only WOW.

Sorry to burst your bubble, little man, but the N95 and the iPhone both have the same Imagination Tech PoverVR MBX Graphics card. Add to that the fact that at 627 Mhz the iphone CPU is way faster than the N95's CPU and you have a superior gaming device.
The Appstore has now all but destroyed the N-gage store.

I have an N95 and an iPhone now. And believe me, the N95 is the less preferred device IMHO.

I'm curious, though. Don't you ever try anything apart from Symbian, or you're still drinking the Nokia Kool-aid?