₦airaland Forum

eastgates1:
This is not true please provide the link of the article as there was never a time in our history that the north financed the economy of nigeria.

GOTVee:
Even though I'm a born again Christian from the south, I think we southerners are been insensitive with our decision to collect VAT directly to our respective states. The north on record once financed the economy of Nigeria with agriculture and other resources before the discovery of oil in the south. Is this the best way to pay back the north for all their sacrifices for our dear nation? How can we expect a northern region ravaged by banditry and terrorism to generate huge VAT like our peaceful South? Why can't we be our brothers keeper for the sake of the survival of our dear country? It amazes me that a southern region dominated by we Christians fails to follow the bible comandment of loving our neighbors as ourselves. Its unfortunate that we are letting greed becloud our sense of jugdement on this matter. I would advice the federal government to use Veto power to over rule any court judgment on state collection of VAT. Any state that insist on collecting VAT should have their governor removed through state of emergency. Nonsense

Pierocash:
Ndi oshi. Check the Constitution well,you will discover that we don't even need any new Constitution. You will be shocked to discover that the states have all Constitutional backup for resource control and restructuring many are championing without them even knowing that these laws are there

Once this VAT is finally laid to rest in favour of the state,a new Nigeria is born. No more banditry,no more terrorism because he who plays the pipe ,dictates the tune.


This will break the power of the FG over states

Useless leeches

AlabiJ:
You igbos are pathetic. You never accept responsibility for your shortcomings and failures. Always blaming external factors. If it's not lack of seaports, it'll be marginalization, or other crap. There are states that don't have Onitsha and Aba-type markets in Nigeria that are doing better than your states in both IGR and VAT generation and collection. Yet you people still try to claim the sweat of the states that are proactive in their internal revenue generation efforts. Una dey ment.

The seaports excuse has long been proven over and over to be a blatant lie. There are functional seaports in Rivers State that you people can use but you choose not to use them, yet you blame others for your economic underperformance.

Look inwards and ask yourself whether your governors are the ones eating/stealing your IGR and VAT taxes and failing to declare them transparently, or whether your traders just don't like paying taxes, instead of always looking to blame outsiders for your own underperformance. Y'all make me sick.

EndBuhariNow:
he wanted yellowbar nation and he starved 2 million children to death because of promises his fulani masters made to him.. continue

ajl:


See this kind people. We are talking about VAT, and now people like you with narrow mindset is talking about Igbo businesses being responsible for large portion of VAT in Lagos. They can as well move the businesses to their state if they have a need to show off that.

proeast:
The more you try to make sense, the more your limited IQ keeps making a mess of you. You keep talking bla bla bla without any iota of sense, Ogun state today has a high IGR which is hundred percent due to its proximity to Lagos, otherwise it wouldn't have been any different from your other states.

Since you have formula for high IGR, why is Ekiti still dragging last with Northern states? Ebonyi State that was created same time with Ekiti has left it in the dust already yet you're making noise.

Ndi Ara!!!

Foreigna2:
Not just seaports, you need enabling infrastructure. That is how you lot were shouting for international airport in the East. They gave you, why are you still running to Lagos?
There is a port in Onne, use it.

Grupo:
Lol. You are naive.

Without one Nigeria, most of the companies that are in Lagos boosting Lagos IGR will not be there.

IOCs will not have their headquarters in Lagos. Their headquarters will be in Biafra.

Most multinationals will not have their headquarters in Lagos.

Most importantly, Lagos seaport wouldn't have been the only one in the country.

YorubarLord:
I wonder what you have to say about oyo and ogun state, even ondo is higher than Enugu . With all these dumb bragging your region is still the poorest in the region. Building mansions in village with fvcked up roads to stroke your weak egos don't generate IGR. No reasonable person would want to go invest in your region seeing how you people go about destroying people's business cos they refuse to follow you IPOB order. I can't wait for Nigeria to be divided so you can carry your businesses back to biafuro. Yoruba land needs to breath.

BusinessDream:
Na, it is not lies. Let's take oil company HQ for instance that left South South because of insecurity and went to Lagos. If they relocate back to South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lago IGR? Now if another Seaport, the size of Lagos port is created in South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lagos IGR?

A lot of people are in Lagos because of the number of companies there and Lagos is the major booster of South West IGR. If any of those big companies move out, IGR will drop. All Nigerian banks have their HQ in Lagos, nowhere else. All Oil Companies have their HQ in Lagos.

My point is a lot of opportunities are concentrated in Lagos and not evenly distributed...

joyandfaith:
I keep wondering myself .
We missed opportunity of correcting mistake of 1960 in 1967.

LegendHero:
Lol see me see wahala. This should be another round of Aki and Popo comedy.

You can’t give what you don’t have Shinedu. Your states are poor and that’s a fact!! Soon Kano IGR will be more than the whole SE states and as usual you will all come online to still chestbeat and call them leeches.

Only God know why the blue chip abi na red chip companies are not making your states IGR bigger if your Ojuku statistics kept them at 50%.

Accept that your zone is a dead zone. Stay at home on Monday is now on course and soon war ravaged Borno IGR will be bigger than the tiny landlocked IPOB infested region where the sun don’t shine.

Poiu11:
oil companies make more money in lagos than in the niger delta. Shell own petrol station and make money. So shell is located in lagos

DonroxyII:
Stop wasting your time .... Big Igbo men don't like doing business in the east...... it is more of culture not because of lack of opportunities...

They are the ones that knows what is pursuing them from home ..... it doesn't have anything to do with Biafra .....

Average Igbo man don't stay Home no matter the seaport you build .....

OfoIgbo:
And the funny thing is that about half of the Lagos IGR is being provided by SEners, and about 70% of Rivers state IGR is being provided by SEners also.

Proper economic planning and the installation of seaports at Oseakwa in Anambra and Obuaku in Abia, will quadruple the IGR of the SE states.

Adding Igbo areas in the SS stretching from Obigbo, to Opobo and Ubani, to Ogwashiuku to the SE will further help the Igbo economy.

Igbos will automatically be bestowed with the title of states with the largest IGRs

joyandfaith:
I think yoruba nation will favour us more. We are going to make more money by taxing foreigners who are doing businesses or owning properties.
I wish Awo had fought for independence of yoruba nation. I wish he had supported Biafra course.

bash8936:
All south east combined are dragging riches with Ogun state.lol no wonder they all want to die here and are more interested in Yoruba matters more than the bereaved.

Yankiss:
It is very very odd that with a retired general as president Nigeria is the haven of insecurity. OBJ was not this weak. Buhari is clearly compromised and until his exit no respite from these attacks. He came to liberate Fulanis and Jihadists in Nigeria including cows. Dazzol.

Sirjamo:
Benin republic buy some of their electricity from us, a PDP thug like Igboho will not know

proeast:
The earlier Southerners break away, the better for them. The North will never recover again, I mean THEY WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE NORMAL LIFE AGAIN. There is currently hundreds of thousands of bandits currently operating in the North and millions hoping to join them.

There is an organized syndicate that is responsible for the limitless flow of AK47 rifles proliferating across that region, particularly between Libya, Mali, Niger, Chad and Northern Nigeria. Put all these together and add the massive illiteracy and poverty in that godforsaken region, then you will realize that the situation will only continue to deteriorate.

Once the North becomes saturated and awash with the hobbesian state, the competition will become unbearable for them and they will naturally start moving South for better prospects. Even Lagos won't be safe and no one would dare use our highways anymore. No one will dare go outside the cities anymore. Then gradually again, they will start infiltrating our cities. I don't need to be a CIA agent to decipher this, no because any careful observer can easily deduct it. Winter is coming o ye Southerners!

Lastly, don't think that when Buhari leaves aso rock that all these will stop, no it wouldn't because the "cancer" has metastated. The only way we can save ourselves down South is to severe our links with the North. They chose this path and must go it alone.

GeneralKoko:
The topic is self explanatory. If you could change one thing about Nigeria what would you change?

Mine: The mindset of the people. Nigeria is a disaster today because of the backward mindset of its people ( leaders included).

What would you change

enemyofprogress:
Only a bastard will listen to them. Trust the north at your own peril. Awon oloribu somebody!

tochieee:
Another sell out before 2023. Its glaring that the southwest will fall for their cheap bargains at the expense 9f their children's future

Sunnybay7:
Association of thieves and rouges, so they just realised that there is a place called south west, the same south west they shut down it's borders, the same south west the clamp down on it's youth during endsars, the same south west they want to turn into grazing route. This dolts are just unbelievable.

Deadlytruth:
It wasn't after the war that Igbos started moving to other regions in large numbers. Please recall that most prominent Igbo actors of those days like Azikiwe, Ojukwu, Okpara, etc were born and brought up in the North.... meaning that their parents moved to the North to settle before independence. A person like Azikiwe specifically was born in Zungeru in 1904 meaning that his parents moved to settle in the North far before the dawn of 1900 thus before amalgamation.

gidgiddy:
Just two question. How is it that Ironsi abolished the Regions if the 4 Regions he met when he came to office were still existing the day he left office?

2) How is it that Gowon met the 4 Regions as Ironsi, but when Gowon was leaving office, he left 12 states?

Deadlytruth:
You mean Azikiwe the father of one-Nigerianism, the chief saboteur of secession clause motions, and originator of the doctrine that the unity of Nigeria is perpetual and non-negotiable; the Aguiyi Ironsi who promulgated the Unification Decree that imposed unitary system on the country thus creating an omnipotent center in the name of seeking national unity and cohesion; and the Ojukwu who supported Ironsi to promulgate the infamous Anti-secession Decree after getting Isaac Adaka Boro sentenced to death for seeking Nigeria's break up; were all Niger Deltans? What exactly do you Igbos gain from this your perpetual attempt to accuse others of your own very sins which put Nigeria in this sorry state? If your brother, Aguiyi Ironsi, didn't tamper with the Independence Constitution, do you think there would have been the need for PIB today let alone the controversy surrounding the issue of 3% going to the oil bearing communities?

Well, you can look up YouTube through the link below to see your foremost Igbo leader confess to being the architect of one-Nigerianism philosophy that killed Nigeria beyond salvage. Happy viewing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YwA9iFW0Es

buckeyemedia:
You must be speaking from a reflection of your personal life? This is how you want your children to end up, it seems your parents forgot to teach about the ills of the Nigerian Civil War? That say a Fool that doesn’t know his history, is bound to repeat it.