₦airaland Forum

Tinubu and reforms.

sreamsense:
Did Lagosians come to your village to drag you to pay heavy tax? If you were even getting enough in your village, will there be need to come to land of prosperity with a poly bag? Without coming to Lagos, how many will make it in your village where ekpa closes businesses and kill people on weekly basis as he likes? Can they get money they use to build mansions in your village where they come with gladness every year to celebrate Christmas? Always thank your host for giving you enable environment to thrive instead of being crippled economically by ekpa in your village

They cannot reason sensibly.

Nomercie:
Who ask non lagosians to come to Lagos in the first place?

Igbos are a different breed of anomalous thinking.

Everything must always be about them. Imagine how this topic suddenly became about Igbos?

Who has asked Nnewi LGA, or Njikoka LGA, or Aba North and South LGAs not to build the same if the wealth resides in the SouthEast?

A very ungrateful set of humans will come to Lagos to make wealth and still be angry that they are taxed for the wealth they could not make in Nnewi or Aba.

atiku4President:
This is what heavy taxes being imposed on non-Lagosians in Lagos, especially the business-minded and hard working Easterners, is giving Lagos. Look at the big structures being erected with people's sweat.

And tomorrow they'll come and say non-Lagosians should go? Not possible! non-Lagosians will seat and work in that building and become the Local government Chairman.

Did the business minded Easterners come to Lagos with money made in Anambra or Ebonyi?

Did they not come to Lagos to make money so that they can build mansion in their villages and collect high chief titles?

Learn to pay your tax with gratitude for the wealth you have made in that place.

It is not by force to come to Lagos or make money in Shomolu, if you do not want to pay taxes like everyone else.

Lagos is not Anambra.

God1blessBiafra:
Which natural death did the idiot called Awolowo die?


A criminal that took one bottle of rat poison called otapiapia.


Talking about old age him and Ojukwu who first die.

If only Ojukwu lived to be as old and fit as the great sage.

Like I said, it is allowed for Igbos to tell themselves lies to feel better over the crushing defeat of Biafra that they blame on Awolowo.

God1blessBiafra:
If id!iots didn't bring war to East will there be need to defend his father land?

Did Ojukwu as regional Governor and Ironsi as federal military ruler not squash the NigerDelta Republic of Isaac Adaka-Boro in 1966?

So why should the rules suddenly change 1year later with another secession like that of the NigerDelta republic?

God1blessBiafra:
What of awolowo that took his own life with rat poison.

Awolowo died naturally at an old age.

He did not die a vegetable like Ojukwu.

But I understand that those who adduce their civil war losses to the great sage, need to find something delusional to make them sleep better.

ABANGWABOI:
She should be jailed and if the simp husband comes out to say it is a skit he should be jailed too or better still Killed ...

Exactly!

Good!

I like this kind of "skit" where the Nigerian government is also involved.

Since they claim it is a skit, let it continue as a full season telenovela with the final episode being where she is convicted and admitted into the prison.

A significant factor is the influence of multinational oil companies and foreign governments, who benefit immensely from Nigeria’s reliance on imported refined petroleum products.

This is the bane of Nigeria's local refining and steady electric power supply problem.

An international cartel has marked Nigeria as a perpetual consumer of imported petroleum products, and it is the same reason our electricity generation has remained stagnant at 4000MW since the 2006, so we continue to consume the imported petroleum products to power our homes, offices, and industries.

Nigeria need to break free from this international conspiracy that is enabled by local unpatriotic collaborators that are both politicians and career civil servants.

Anyone who has fought gallantly for his country is entitled to all that is due to them.

How come Obasanjo who also fought for Nigeria, was President and did not settle such pending matters for these war veterans?

My MOM is Igbo and my DAD is Yoruba. To those of you calling me out to question which tribe that I belong.

See Igbo man attempting to do damage control after inadvertently revealing his is an Igbo, and even affirming "we have forgiven them but we will never forget" .

Very shameless fellow.

AntiChristian:
So Lagosprince is from the yeast?

What a moniker!

The werey could not help but confess on a matter that still traumatizes his entire family.

maduxs:
Is been Igbo a crime?

Lying that you are Yoruba that defeated your tribe in a war is both a shame and a PTSD symptom of that defeat.

LagosPrince:
The veterans that killed innocent children and pregnant women in the civil war . May their needs never be met .

I read that some of this old fools still live in their family houses built sometimes around 1920's and 1930's . I thought after killing children and pregnant women in the civil war, they've automatically made it in life hmm

Na God go punish all of una and the people that enlisted you fools in that war

My mom lost her elder brother in that war. He was coming from school on that day and they forced him to join the south east soldiers to defend the Igbo land from the invasion of this old idiots begging for pension and that was the end of him, he never came back from the war.. so I was told.

About 2 million Igbo children lost their lives in the hands of this old fools .

We've forgiven them, but we will never forget.

This one has finally confessed that he is Igbo.

His people not only surrendered unconditionally, but he even went further to embrace the identity of those who forced them to surrender.


Who then is he blaming that a child was forced to fight for Biafra who attempted a secession from Nigeria that was defeated the same way Ojukwu and Ironsi defeated the NigerDelta republic of Isaac Adaka-Boro?

Anyway, God really punished Ojukwu who died less healthy than those asking for their rightful pension.

Even Obasanjo that finalised the defeat of Biafra and Ojukwu, is still fit and playing squash at over 80yrs old.

Even Nigeria has also forgiven your people, but Nigeria has not forgotten too.

Tit for Tat.

He wants to save his abusive wife.

ivolt:
Sagay shouldn't reason like an illiterate.
The senator's salaries is indeed about 1 million Naira by law as stated by RMAFC.
The extra they get about 20m currently comes from allowance.

OBJ clarified that the senators set their own allowances not RMAFC.

I don't know why a professor will actually reason like a beer parlour political analyst.

If people would not believe RMAFC and would twist the further clarification that the Senator gave, then the mob should just be left to their ignorance so they can continue cooking up figures in their head to feed their anger.

I am still surprised at the utter lack of comprehension of Nigerians.

What exactly did Senator Sumaila Kawu say that RMAFC did not already disclose considering the actual salary versus the allowances which is not a salary?

But in his BBC Hausa interview, Kawu said, “The amount of salary received per month is less than N1 million. If there are cuts, it comes back to about N600,000. In the senate, each senator is given N21 million every month as the cost of running his office.”

The Senator practically corroborated what RMAFC said, but we just want to insist that the National Assembly is like a salary windfall for whoever find themselves there.

The salary of a Senator is totally different from the allowances that is used to run the office of a Senator.

Constituted Authority!

Has he said anything different from what RMFAC has already clarified?

ChiefOloye:
So Igbos do bambiallah, afterall

Very sad that billionaires beg.

Since Peter Obi grew poverty in Anambra while keeping public funds in his own bank to generate profit for his shares, things have fallen apart and no longer at ease.

Geographic Tongue.

InifinteXR:
That's literally not true (a quick google search would tell you that there are at least 14 countries that doesn't collect income tax from citizens and immigrants alike)
Any country rich in natural resources shouldn't need a significant amount of tax from people if the resources are well managed, Also more tax means less purchasing power for the people irrespective of whatever infrastructure the tax is used to procure.

You are right if the small country is able to generate income from natural resources that provide for all government spending.

Nigerian natural resources income that includes oil, is not even able to provide for 10% of spending that the government need to develop the country beyond our current 3rd world status.

CodeTemplar:
if tolled roads can generate plus no stupid loan was usd to fund them. That's different from using loan to build a dormant rail line to Katsona then taxing dead people and renewed hope survivors to repay the capital loan. It is wrong.

Transportation is a factor of commerce, and commerce will continue to grow economies.

CodeTemplar:
running economy is different from building rail that dont generate enough.

CodeTemplar:
How much is Buhari rail generating?

How much do the roads all over the country generate for the government?

Yet they are still built with money because the transportation of commuters and goods is a necessity of itself.

It cannot be escaped.

Protest or no protest, government must always raise funds to run the country.

I will only advise every government to focus on more taxing for the fat cats who cannot even stage a protest in the midst of the luxury they already enjoy. But not too much taxation that prevents their creation of jobs for the ever angry mob.

To run campaign as a populist supported by the youth, is not the same reality with taking hard decisions as a leader for the greater good.

lacasera14:
Actually poor men don't become senators. It's mostly for the rich. And for the rich to crave such a venture, you know it's not one million naira plus stuff. The rich don't go for lower checks, they only go higher. While some like Kalu may go for the influence and popularity that it gives, some others to for the money. Now you have to wonder why Kalu who became a billionaire in his 20s ran for Senate and what he intends to do with that peanut. There's something there.

You and I agree that for already rich men to go there, there is something there.

That something is influence, more popularity, and more power.

Many Governors go there to wait until another opportunity at executive power beckons, either as a principal officer in the National assembly, or as a minister, or head of a government agency or diplomatic embassy, or the Presidency of the country.

That place is only a place to wait until another executive role is avaliable.

That is why many would gladly leave the National Assembly to take up a ministerial portfolio that is an executive position.

Majority of them do not need any money from the Senate.

I have once argued that a sincere and poor Nigerian who finds himself at the Senate or HOR, will find that the salary and allowances to be earned, is not enough to cater for the needs it has been allocated for, vis a vis the expectation from Nigerians that their Senator must always have money to give his extended family and his constituency members.

I have always asserted that there is nothing outrageous about the salary of a Nigerian legislator. While allowances are for the purpose they were allowed.

lacasera14:
This looks false. If this is their true allowance how come they can afford lavish lifestyles? An average Senator has a duplex and several luxury cars even when he was poor before becoming a Senate member.

How many poor men have become Senators?

Is Orji Kalu's lifestyle dependent on Senator Salary or that of the late Ifeanyi Ubah, or Gbenga Daniel?

Many of you believe the miseducation and reject the actual education because of your anarchy mindset.

Peter Obi has always been a curse and a bad omen according to Igbos who experienced his rule in Anambra.

An Excellency with a very mediocre and charlatan mindset.

Sapasenator:
Most of them may not even know it was a Russian flag.

If education is expensive, try ignorance.

Now they will pay dearly for their ignorance.

In Olamide's voice,

Governor Ambode ko f'osi.