₦airaland Forum

LagosOrigin:
Very good

We are defecting with him to any party of his choice

Obi mean well for Nigeria unlike the clueless president in Abuja today who has failed in his responsibility as president .

Trump is disgracing tinubu by bombing Nigeria because tinubu commands zero respect and attracts terrorists and agberos .

Funny 🤣.....ADC is not LP. No one owned LP. Pat Utomi and others repackage LP and handed over to Obi to use anyhow he wants. Atiku founded and funded ADC so Obi cannot be allowed the leverage that he enjoyed in LP.

BTW does Obi have any choice? LP is scattered, PDP has been buried. Obi cannot organize any party. He wants spv. The only one near this is ADC. Obi and obedients must know that ADC is not LP.

AqualinaXYZ:
while Tinubu is in France refueling his depleted scrotum




May this government favor me and my family

Tinubu will be everywhere at the same time. That village has no local government chairman, no governor. They don't receive allocation and don't collect revenue. All monies and powers in Nigeria are controlled by the president.

grandstar:
What most critics of the new tax laws don't understand is they and the country suffers with low tax revenues.

Tax revenues are barely 10% of GDP. Overdependence on oil revenues has led to this problems.

It's because tax collection is low affects the exchange rate of the Naira. Huge borrowing affects the value of the currency.

In addition, low tax revenues is one reason why many are poorly paid. If tax revenues were like 20% of GDP, doctors would be better paid

There's just so much you can squeeze out from crude oil revenues. The economy can not grow greater than it's crude oil revenues.

There's was a time I was in over 200 WhatsApp groups. Now, I was using a 16GB phone. Obviously, it couldn't cope.

The phone kept crashing and deleted lots of ,WhatsApp messages to get back to the 16GB. It was always resetting.

It is the same with Nigerias crude. The economy can't grow bigger than the crude oil revenues. It would continue to reset anytime it passes the crude oil capacity.

There needs to be change.

The ignorant will murder you for all that you wrote here. I understand fully what you said. We have operated buying and selling economy for too long. Productive economy must come with proper taxation. The arrival of crude oil killed taxation in Nigeria. Apart from taxes imbedded in cost of goods and PAYE, Nigerians pay little or no tax. All high end Nigerians including those that tell us that a new Nigeria is possible pay little or no tax. Who has ever gone to jail in this country for not paying tax?

TOPCRUISE:
They will never blame the state of the road. They should shut up. Is that why there where no paramedics and ambulance.
If there are paramedics and available ambulances we won't have jump to the conclusion that his friend died.

State of which road? Do you truly know the corridor that the accident happened? Everything is not to demarket Nigeria. Joshua is from the UK. He can't try that speed on a British road

brain54:
I remember the line from Biggie's song...


I think fela hit it right when he said Nigerians are suffering and smiling.


The crazy thing about our situation is that Nigerians have been held in shakles by our leaders for soooooooo long that they have become used to poverty.


Many Nigerians have accepted poverty and gotten used to it that even bringing them out of it is even another task. It's like the story of Mr tortoise that fell into a hole of excrement and stayed there for days and became so comfortable that when help finally came he refused to come out claiming the place was comfortable.


Just a few decades back it might not have been all that rosy but Nigerians still lived a decent life. Now there isn't even a middle class anymore. Majority of people are living in poverty and the weird thing is they don't even know it.

Suffering and smiling. It's a pity for a country that has soooooooo much potential!

No big deal. I bought two. I have used one to fry eggs and had a wonderful breakfast with a cup of coffee. The remaining omelet I used it in the evening to eat rice.

Tntsi:
This one seems to be sniffing something.
You better save the little cash you have gathered in this your deputy speaker post that is confusing you.
Or better still run again as a honorable member.

Abians cannot afford to go back to the gutters of useless goverance after the rare privilege they had to be delivered

Oti dey chop money like kilode. Talk to insiders. The difference is: the past governors got say 100million, chop #80million and used 20million to work. Oti got 1 billion (courtesy of PBAT reforms) chopped 800million and used 200million to work.

feedthenation:
---How much tax did he paid on this deal?---

10% capital gains tax. Not on the value of the transaction but the gain made.

grandstar:
I suspect he ensured the sale was done this year to escape the 30% capital gains tax he would have to pay next year.

I think it is presently 10%.

That 30% is simply too high.

I suspect so. People make noise about tax. Tax is tax. Just always consider tax implications in your investment decision.

LagosOrigin:
APC claimed that the won the 2023 presidential election and it's still them that has never slept with two eyes closed because of Peter Obi.

Peter Obi must be really dealing with them walahi

Obi is not dealing with anybody. In 2023 Tinubu's focus was on Buhari's cabinet members that hated him. This includes emefiele. He also focused on Atiku. He never expected the effect of endsars and youth frustration. Obi used these to spring surprise. This has made Obi to think too much of himself. Right now PBAT's focus includes Obi. Obi will never spring such surprise as in 2023 irrespective of any party that he joins. Bookmark 🔖 this.

miracle002:
Carry go Obi. It will be an insult for someone with so much experience like you to end up as Vice President. Atiku better support Obi. Remember Obi said he will be rule Nigeria only for a single term. You will then take over from him in 2031. This is simple mathematics

Obi is partyless as at now. Which party does he belong to? He seems to forget that the element of surprise that took place in 2023 will not happen again. Anambra governorship election should be a lesson to him.

AMINDA:
Lol. In charge of what? Northern or Southern votes? The Atiku/Obi ticket in 2019 pulled 11m votes against a Buhari with cult-like followings. Tinubu is not Buhari and he has no organic followers anywhere. Not in the North and certainly not in the South. Unlike Buhari whose popularity singlehandedly made others governors, Tinubu is banking on riding on the popularity of governors. It won't be enough. The governors may deliver themselves but still fail to deliver Tinubu. We saw it happen in several APC states in 2023.

Political calculator. Reality is different. You have so much time.

Newsmills:
When you expose yourself to abuses,people will definitely capture the opportunity too to pour in the encomiums of abuse,so examine yourself,unexamined live is not worth living,abuse is a chicken stuff so accept it in good faith.

Is Dangote not abused and called names? Don't charlatans abuse Adeboye?

kingbee90:
Thank God he has owned up that tinubu is the most abused politician in the world 🌍.

What wike said is an "open secret".

Tinubu said that the day he decided to participate in politics he had known that his middle name is abuse. That's why he cares less why you abuse him. He sets his goals and carry them on and allow you to abuse. Great leaders are like this. They don't allow abuse to distract them. Wike is an understudy of PBAT politics.

Ofunaofu:
He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

Fayose served as governor of Ekiti State for eight years but has failed to publicly account for the funds he received on behalf of the people and how they were used. Despite this, he now makes unfounded allegations against Makinde, accusing him of receiving a N50 billion intervention fund.

If Fayose insists that Tinubu gave Makinde N50 billion, and he is denying it, then Tinubu owes Nigerians an explanation: whether such money was given, how it was transferred, which account received it, or whether it was moved through bullion vans and whether the funds came from his personal resources or from the nation’s common wealth.

Diversion and always diverting. You love to bring Tinubu's name in. Did Tinubu accuse Makinde? Fayose accused Makinde. Makinde countered and challenged him to show proof. Fayose has shown proof. Is it not up to Makinde to counter or take fayose to court? Why are you standing as Makinde's attorney? Why are you shifting the onus of proof on someone that is not part this fight?

When Makinde made a revelation concerning Wike you hailed it. Did you call Tinubu to come and confirm if what Makinde said is true?

AMINDA:
A request for disbursement is not tantamount to money being released, although I expect Tinubu's camp to lap it up. Wale Edun already told us the budget was largely unfunded with a lot of revenue shortfalls. If core capital projects from 2024 are still being carried over into 2026 with trillions owed to local contractors, are we to believe that the Tinubu government was magnanimous enough to release a 50 billion naira largesse to Seyi Makinde simply because it was requested for?

Are you Makinde's spokesman?

Ofunaofu:
Fayose should use this opportunity to show documentary evidence of all the allocations he received as governor of Ekiti State and how he spent them. Only then can he be taken seriously over his infantile claims that Makinde received a N50 billion intervention fund from Tinubu.

Here we go again. An major issue has come, proofs are in the public domain. Let's see it to the end. In our style there will be distractions. Fayose has this proof, if you have any again against him bring it up.

We are too fund of why must you catch this thief after all there are many thieves. You can't catch all thieves at the same time.

wirinet:
Then what of governance? Should governance not also be a social contract. Are you aware that most parts of the North do not experience any government presence at all? No schools, no water, so social amenities.

They should hold their leaders accountable. They have been leading all this while but nothing to show. Because of the level of illiteracy very few corner the resources meant for many.

trutharena:
Wishing Kanu and all the inmates a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Kanu can't be celebrating Christmas. That's contradictory. He said that he practices Judaism. You don't even know the faith that your lord and personal saviour practices.

CodeTemplarr:
A very daft interview from thuggar. He is fo.olishly trying to lay the blame back on America and NATO allies by blaming their last intervention in the sahel as the trigger that has caused insecurity here. No wonder the usual nairaland APC bots are waxing lyrical for the daft thing
Was it Libya that caused army to be supporting the terrorists to kidnap Christian farmers?
Or Libya caused them not round up the terrorists. Libya also caused the govt to sentence peope acting on self defence to death. Libya helped the lynching of Deborah. Libya helped herders attack farmers. This is a daft interview.

What you wrote here is very daft too. I will not educate you on the effects of balkanization of Gadarfi's government that resulted in heavy ammunition being in the wrong hands particularly Muslims and terrorists.

brain54:
I have my doubts...


Why is Yusuf tuggar the minister of foreign affairs acting as intermediary between the US government and tinubu.


This kind of "joint operation" ought to have been a direct communication between president tinubu and the American president/military with the active collaboration and awareness of the Nigerian army.

Not the foreign affairs ministry or minister.

There is a comma somewhere in all of these!

You can add or minus the comma. Presidents or countries can choose their favoured channel of communication or protocol. When you become president choose yours.

yang:
He has failed

Betrayed the North

A big thief

And also incompetent

How long can the north accept this betrayal

Should the government invite foreigners to kill villagers with air strikes

What happened to having community and state police to secure each village

This government got all their votes from North

And now have betrayed the North

Propaganda and blackmailing. You are asking that Gumi should be arrested and terror sponsors should be arrested. Once this government goes this way, you will come here to write the same thing. Blackmailers everywhere.

Dvdpity:
For the first time in the history of Nigeria, Nigeria and Nigerians were bombed by a foreign country, this has shown that Nigerian government lead by tinubu and this APC theives has no business governing Nigeria. For a foreign country to bombard Nigeria, shows that Nigerian military under APC is incompetent, useless, corrupted and deceased. Nigeria is now in the league of Syria and co that foreign country will be bombing at will.

The multidimensional terrorism that is ravaging the entire Sahel region has never happened. They have been chased from the middle east all heading towards Nigeria. It's gorilla warfare. It's not country versus country war.

When Trump announced his decision to smoke the hell our christian killers you and the opposition rejoiced. Your expectation was that they will evade Nigeria, sack the government, install your darling as president and take over military operations of Nigeria. Through dialogue and diplomacy it ended in collaboration. You are not happy. You and the opposition are condemning it. The same people shouting Trump come ooo, Trump come ooo are now condemning the air strike. What a hateful opposition.

snowball11:
And why should Nigerians pay tax in the first place when they can see their so called leaders blatantly stealing their common resources and traveling abroad with their families enjoying themselves at the expense of the suffering masses?

When I said Nigerians are the people that you mentioned excluded from the word? All Nigerian middle to upper class pay little or no income tax. This includes even those of them that are in opposition.

sundayezege4:
Nigerians should be ready for the biggest and disastrous protest in Africa come first January. Because we can't watch tinubu destroy the work of our past leaders.

Tax reforms to you means destruction of the work of our past leaders? Really? Back in the first Republic that everyone claims that they did very well there were taxes. Tax disappeared immediately we discovered oil. Governance became straight jack. Sell oil and money will be everywhere. Now oil contribution to our GDP is very low. Tax has to fill the gap. Experts agree that Nigeria's tax to GDP ratio is one of the lowest in the world. Which means that Nigerians are low tax payers.

For example people sell properties and securities regularly but very few know about CGT. People swim in massive inherited wealth but we don't hear of CTT. The good thing about tax is that the revenue generated is reflective of the level of activity in the economy. High economic activity high tax revenue.

What is needed from January 2026 is tax planning. While tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is legal. In planning your economic activity always consider the tax effect.

We used to hear how people go to jail because they evaded tax in the so called sane clime. Have we heard such in Nigeria? We are moving in that direction. PBAT is building a modern economy and not the old fashioned Nigerian economy of buying and selling.

Kukutente23:
If the tax laws are so good as they are been peddled, why is there so much apprehension and confusion about them

Nigerians don't like paying tax. Again it's part of human nature. Very few like to part with anything. Generally people don't like taxation. That's why tax masters are hated. Remember the publicans in the Bible.

tito44:
It's funny how this man becomes the most hated human in Nigeria. Carrying bad energy and bad name for tinubu's govt.

Maybe they should start with telling us what they expended all the revenue Nigeria generated for the past years. Quick to throw out numbers when it suits them.

As soon as oil was discovered Nigerians forgot about tax. It was easy life all the way. I remembered when I was a little child in the 60s in East Central state my father even in the village were paying tax. The tax collectors used to block the road to collect tax. The villagers were paying bicycle rate.

RollinTNDA:
Nigerian christianity is Demonic

I have never seen white people shake and behave like snake under anointing.

How many white dominated churches have you attended their service? Ask those that have ever attended Kenneth Hagan camp meeting.

fastseo:
This is the very firdt time am going to church in my life and i received such gifts.

Our Nigerian Christian community don't practicalise love
By January they will call for first fruit... That's all ur salaries.
Remember this December they called for thanksgiving where members will bring or empty their purse.
Then we talk about tithe and offering
And unending seed sowing.

So i was excited to share to show love still exists in Christian communities.

You said that this was the first time you attended church in your life. How did you know what is practiced in Nigerian churches?

immortalcrown:
I guess they do more giving than asking for tithes.

The whites are natural free givers. That's why they have lots of foundations. There are people that quietly fund the church heavily.

Stop condemning Nigerian churches from far. Attend some of big Nigerian churches as first timer and you would be amazed at the gift that you will receive.

I know a church in Abuja that shares trailer load of rice every quarter. We usually have super Sunday every quarter and there are always lots of items given out.

Judolisco:
If na true... Then tinubu has done what others couldn't do... Kudos to him

Tinubu has always been a game changer. He has his vision and does his thing in spite of opposition noise. He prefers to tackle problems from the roots rather than scratch the surface just to look good.

DMerciful:
Makinde has not been linked to any criminality or corruption

Has he held public office before becoming a governor? Wait until he finishes his tenure and then come around to prove what you wrote.

You have still not defended your statement of: Makinde is a man of solid reputation.