₦airaland Forum

I like Bongus Ikwue.

He is one of those old musician who still keep their high up the ladder.

Good one for both of them.

Nice Collabo !

CABO VERDE !

That portuguese speaking Island off the shores of Senegal is a great tourist delight.

mikeapollo:
I don't agree that the FG alone should collect VAT, but we have to be fair to other states who did not enjoy the kind of investments that FG made in states like Lagos and Rivers. The status of Lagos as a commercial city is due mainly to investments by FG when Lagos was the federal capital....the roads, sea ports, airport, headquarters of industries/companies, embassies, etc. So LASG alone cannot pretend to be the brain behind the commercial activity and transactions that generate VAT in the state. They already have PAYE tax to themselves.
VAT should be shared between states and FG.

WHO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HELP?

The sectional federal government that is playing the NORTHERN SCRIPT ?

Each states should work for its own money instead of FEEDING BOTTLE share this and share that !

if it is CHEWING STICK you can make in Katsina state to run government. Please go ahead and sell your chewing stick.

That is what federalism is all about?

eldoradoxx:
People often make reference to multi billion naira VAT from alcoholic drinks as though it is the the only product that attracts VAT. The items that attract VAT is uncountable.
All the soft drinks, juice just name, all the goods inside supermarkets and shopping malls u see all attract VAT. When you recharge your phone, u pay VAT. What about when you pay ur TV subscription, electricity recharge or bills, all banking transactions etc. The goods and services that attract VAT is inexhaustible.
That is why I keep wondering why the North feels that it is cheated whenever issue of VAT is mentioned. Actually VAT is paid on consumption of goods and services within a state as a source of revenue for the State to use to provide services like road, electricity etc for you the consumer. But due to our feeding bottle federalism where States converge at Abuja every month to share money from oil, States have forgotten that their secret goldmine is VAT and they have to do everything possible to collect it. Now Wike has woken a sleeping nation. I commend him. This is the quality of brain Nigeria needs to grow honestly.

Very well said. KUDOS !

phemmie06:
There is no pain to feel, He who does not work deserve not to eat.
They want VAT yet they destroy the goods of some companies (breweries) that pay VAT.
That is reaping from where they don't sow.
They want VAT yet there herders kill and destroy properties of those who pay VAT, that is devilish and demonic. Masari can do better by crying more, na im wàhálà be that

TRUE TALK !

You hit the nail on the head !

No time for feeling pain just walk the development and see the result.

POOR STATES IN NIGERIA BOTH FROM THE SOUTH AND IN THE NORTH SHOULD PUT ON THEIR THINKING CAP.

They should THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX and come out with measures to improve on their internally generated revenue.

The UAE and Saudi Arabia is practising islam but that does not restrict them from not developing their IGR.

There are a lot of northern states with vast land for agriculture all they need to do is to bring peace and security to their land and develop their economy.

GOOD MORNING.

It is now their DAY BREAK !

They just waking up to the reality of its gains to the economy.

DELTA STATE GOVERNMENT START CREATING INDUSTRIES THAT WILL ENCOURAGE MORE VAT.

BREWERIE INDUSTRY
CARS, TRUCK AND KEKE ASSEMBLY PLANT
Manufacturing of beverages and cosmetics

STATE GOVERNORS SHOULD WAKE UP AND DEVELOP THE ECONOMY OF THEIR STATES.

KUDOS TO GOVERNOR NYESOM WIKE for positioning Rivers state to fight this injustice by the Federal government.

LET EACH STATES IN NIGERIA BE COLLECTING THEIR OWN VAT

States waiting to consume from vat generated in Lagos state is not a fair way to go about it.

Let Lagos state use its vat to develop its own infrastructure for its people.

If you encourage banditry in your states and it jeopardise your economic progress you face the consequences.

DEM DON SEE MONY CHOP BELLYFUL.

Why will they not dance GALALA !

SE.X is making people think crazy !

BABANGIDA BOYS !

Create jobs in the Niger delta region or South South.

BRING INDUSTRIES AND JOBS FOR THE YOUTH IN DELTA STATE.

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN WARRI AND ENVIRON?

We do not need all this SHENANIGANS?

SELF EMPLOYMENT
SELF EMPLOYMENT

Is the federal and state government seeing what self employment can cause especially this time of security challenges?

Few days back, a pos operator was also killed in Sapele, Delta state.

He was shot dead and the robber made away with his N2 million NGN.

Federal government and state government should continue a vision of INDUSTRIALIZATION that will help to reduce crimes in the society.

Create more jobs for graduate and school leavers so that guys out there are not tempted to go and do business that will put their life at risks.

Aboki... dey eat snake ?

Allow the evictee pursue their dreamed choice !

Nollywood is too sectional towards a particular tribe in Nigeria.

It should be open to all section of Nigeria.

•Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Oyo vulnerable to APC take over

•Party still weak in most Northern, Middlebelt states, unlikely to make appreciable gains

There is a high possibility that the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) might pick its presidential candidate for the 2023 general election from the North, as stakeholders are set to zone the chairmanship position of the party to the South in a matter of weeks.

This, however, appears contrary to the survey by the THISDAY Economic Intelligence Group (EIG), which gleaned from the field that the decision could cost PDP the elections in practically all the southern states, the presidency and governorship inclusive.

Findings also revealed that the PDP might not make any appreciable gains in the north and Middlebelt states either, as the All Progressives Congress (APC), is still likely to sweep the north even with a Southern candidate.

One key reality of the current state of play is that the PDP is still vulnerable in many northern states, including the ones it currently controls and the ones it doesn’t. The party might, however, lose states like Taraba, Benue and unable to win back Plateau, if it decided to zone presidency to the north.

At centre of the war of attrition over the chairmanship of the party lies the desperate permutations of where the party zones its presidential ticket to. The Southerners, who want Secondus out, want him out to pave the way for a replacement from the north, while the northern group led by Atiku and co, wants him to either stay or be replaced by another southerner to solidify their push for the presidential ticket to be zoned to the north.

In the south, the particularly vulnerable key states that the PDP is likely to lose are Delta, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Oyo, if the ruling APC played smart by zoning its presidential ticket to the South. Such a move, findings showed, could give the APC a sweeping momentum in the countdown to the 2023 elections that would see it maintaining its hold on power.

According to the THISDAY EIG survey, “If the PDP zones the Presidency to the North, they are likely to lose all their current Southern states, essentially, because of the mood in the South that Nigeria’s Presidency should rotate between the North and the South.

“Most Southerners believe that, for equity, balance, cohesion, security and stability of the union, the next president should come from the Southern part of Nigeria, after Buhari would have completed eight years in 2023. To propose otherwise is almost an anathema among the political class and even among the average southerner.

“It is that mood of the southern people that was reflected, when 17 southern governors met and asked that the president should go to the South. Right now, Southern leaders are so united that they don’t want to be divided on the issue and don’t mind where in the south the president comes from – whether from the South-east, South-south or South-west.

“They are of the view that it is in the collective interest of the entire south to produce the next president. They believe all southern people should be entitled to run and whoever gets the ticket from the region would be accepted.

“This is actually the undercurrent in the crisis over Uche Secondus’ chairmanship in PDP, which has pitted Governor Nyesom Wike against Secondus, with many southern governors silently supporting Wike’s position, believing that if Secondus retains the chairmanship of the party after the convention, the Presidency would automatically go to the North, which they don’t want. Wike’s attempt to force Secondus out is supported by most of the southern PDP governors, albeit quietly.”

The survey further gathered that, “Many of them (governors) are looking to people like Makarfi as a possible chairman of the party after Secondus.

However, to counter them, the northern group with presidential bid led by a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; for President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal; and his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Muhammed, supported tacitly by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former Kano State governor, want the South to produce the next PDP chairman, even after Secondus, so that the presidency could be in the North.”

To achieve this, the northern group has engaged individuals, like the Chairman of Daar Communications, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, and others, who are also seeking to be vice president, from the South, to start speaking in support of the northern PDP members’ agenda.

From the analysis of the survey, if the trajectory of the country was reviewed from 1960, the North has produced more presidents, and in the 1999 Constitution, there is an agreement that for the survival of the country, power must rotate between North and South.

It was based on these undercurrents, that the THISDAY EIG carried out a survey, as it has always done since 1999, where it noticed that in each of the PDP states in the South, PDP was likely to lose the governorship with a northern presidency, given the overwhelming move in the South for a president from the region.

That momentum, from all indications, might therefore lead to the loss of states likes Cross River (the governor has already defected), Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Abia, Enugu and Oyo.

Currently, there would not be an election in Edo next year. However, Obaseki, although a PDP governor, the survey showed, is a firm believer in the southern presidency.

The southern governors believe that for the survival of the PDP post-2023, power has to move down South.

According to the survey, the factors in each of the critical southern states, with seeming PDP influence, painted scenarios peculiar to them.

In Cross River, for instance, even though the governor has defected to the ruling APC, the state is predominantly PDP. But the governor, Professor Ben Ayade, the survey showed, would get momentum and defeat Liyel Imoke and Donald Duke – two former governors combined – if PDP chose a northern president and APC settled for a southern presidential candidate. This, the survey added, could make the governor take the state deeper into APC.

The Akwa Ibom situation is not quite different, according to the survey. While the governor, Udom Emmanuel, is by every measure considered to be doing well, a northern presidential candidate as the PDP standard bearer, would be a hard sell for him and could lose the state to other forces, such as the current APC National Secretary, Senator James Akpanudoedehe, and the Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who would use federal incumbency to sweep PDP away.

Rivers, a crucial PDP state, might easily slip the way of former Governor Chibuike Amaechi, who is currently the Minister of Transportation, and effectively dislodging Governor Nyesom Wike, should the party embrace a northern presidential candidate. The state is already 50-50 for both leading parties and the APC has federal might to its advantage.

Bayelsa State is even more vulnerable, because despite the misgivings about the APC governorship candidate, David Lyon, who won by a majority of the public votes in the last election, the party still won. But the PDP only came in through the court. However, with the current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, and huge federal forces and privileges, APC would just replay the card it played the last time, if the APC put forward a southern candidate and PDP went North.

From Delta’s axis, there’s no debating the fact that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa is popular, especially, based on his performance record. But in the face of a southern candidate for APC and a northern candidate for PDP, his popularity would not save his party.

The party would most likely be swept out by the combined forces of the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, and the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, as well as others in the APC. With federal support, they would dislodge the PDP in Delta and sweep Okowa away, should the PDP present a northern president.

This scenario also applies to Oyo, being PDP’s only state in the South-west, where Governor Seyi Makinde, is surrounded by counterparts from the ruling party. In fact, survey showed he is hugely disadvantaged.

The survey, nonetheless, from the permutations that came out during PDP’s 92nd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting some weeks ago, there were indications that the party might actually zone its presidential ticket to the North and the office of the national chairman to the South.

As a result of this, the governors of the party from the North, believed to have presidential interest, have begun to jostle to ensure the emergence of a national chairman that would be disposed to their aspiration.

A former military governor of Lagos State and later civilian governor of Osun State, Col. Olagunsoye Oyinlola, for instance, is said to be the favourite of many of the bigwigs, should the incumbent, Secondus, decide not to re-contest in the October 30th and 31th national convention in Abuja.

Secondus, in a statement, had stated that his tenure as the national chairman would end on December 9 2021, because he was elected on December 9, 2017, and sworn in same day.

Regardless, the embattled national chairman had recently debunked rumours that he had resigned from his position.

A statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ike Abonyi, dismissed the report as untrue, but he contended that he was merely obeying an interim court order at the time.

He added that as a law-abiding citizen, who had been an adherent of the rule of law as a basis for democracy, he had to stay away as a form of respect for the courts.

The offices of the national chairman of the PDP and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) are guaranteed four-year term.

Officially, PDP is expected to submit the approved zoning of offices of the members of the NWC to the coming NEC meeting on September 9 2021, other stakeholders have been plotting to see that the NWC members elected were pliable to their aspiration.

In this regard, some stakeholders were believed to be working to ensure that the national chairmanship of the party was micro-zoned to the South-west, but a few others insisted that zoning it to the South-west might prove difficult, as it could amount to abridging the constitutional rights of Secondus to seek a constitutional re-election.

On his part, Dokpsei too has since debunked reports that he was in the chairmanship race. A statement from him claimed he wanted to keep his integrity and not soil or dent it.

Unfortunately, nobody from the South-east has indicated interest in the presidential run, not even a former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, who was Atiku’s running mate in the 2019 presidential election.

However, from the North, the list has continued to increase. There are several posters at the party secretariat in Abuja announcing the aspirations of Tambuwal, Atiku, Mohammed, Kwankwaso, and a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido.

Ahead of the zoning for both the presidential ticket and office of the national chairman, the chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP, Senator Waliid Jubrin, and Dokpesi have said the main opposition party stood a better chance in 2023 with a northern candidate.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/09/06/why-pdp-may-lose-all-southern-states-if-it-zones-presidency-to-north/

NIGERIANS ARE TIRED OF APC AND PDP.

Let a new political party take over the federal government come 2023.

The Apc and Pdp have all failed.

They want to "INDIGENIZE" by force with their plan to grab by fiat the land and water of the people of Southern Nigeria which is not possible because of the LAND USE ACT.

The land use act clearly put the authority over land on the governor of the concerned states.

If the southern indigenous people sell their land to fulani they will now do BY FORCE INDIGENIZATION using all possible strategies by SWELLING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY with their own northern people.

GOVERNORS FROM THE SOUTH MUST STAND THEIR GROUND AND SIGN INTO LAW THE ANTI OPEN GRAZING RESOLUTION THAT THEY AGREED TO AT ASABA.

There should be no further delay by states in the south south region such as Edo state, Delta state, Cross River state, and Akwa Ibom states.

Other states in the south west and south east that have not yet signed the legislation should do so without further delay.

FULANIZATION IS REAL.

THE NORTH IS DESPERATE TO GRAB SOUTHERN NIGERIA LAND AND WATER BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS.

Late Chief Awolowo and Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who were our post Independence leaders did not see all this development during their time.

Is this the way the taliban government want to govern Afghanistan.

SHAME ON THEM.

Their people should rise up against them.

Why did he not concentrate on his NYSC Programmes and finishes the youth service successfully before plunging into bigger dreams that should be LEGIT?

Now his youth service programme is now in jeopardy with the risk of being sent to prison for the hard drug offence.

WHO THE DEVIL WANT TO DESTROY HE MUST FIRST OF ALL MAKE MAD !

There are a lot of decent opportunities he can plan ahead to tap into like Agriculture.

Drug especially hard drugs has destroy the fabrics of the Nigerian society and the NDLEA and other security agencies are fighting hard to reduce the menace.

In the past we use to hear of trafficker pushing heroine, cocaine, metaphetamine etc.

Nowadays, drug pushing have stepped it further they now infused the hard drugs into confectionaries like chocolates, sweet, biscuits, cakes, etc with a view to conceal their illicit trade and then sell it in higher institutions.

Youths in higher institution now buy these candies either with the knowledge of it or without the knowledge of it and then take it and the resultant effect is a youth that can not reason mentally.

Their ability to learn in the tertiary school is affected. Secondary school students are also involved.

TRAMADOL is now one of the drugs that is gaining popularity.

I learnt fulani herdsmen, bandits, kidnappers, boko haram terrorist take TRAMADOL which energizes them to kill people without respect for the sacred human life.

Africa do not need military rule.

Democracy is the benchmark for governance.

All well meaning people in West Africa should condemn this coup and the bunch of power drunk soldiers.

THIS IS HORRIFYING !

I PITY THAT BUFALLO

Waste of meat for killer lions who want to survive despite being useless to humanity.

AFGHANISTAN - the WAHALA COUNTRY !

LordErrk:
Shaky hands isn't a result of old age. It's a result of Parkinson's disease or other diseases that causes ataxia

NA WA OH !

That PARKINSON DISEASE was the disease that killed MUHAMMED ALLI the american boxer.

THOSE TRADING FOR TINUBU AND CALLING FOR TINUBU TO CONTEST 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO RULE NIGERIA ESPECIALLY SOUTH WEST PEOPLE ( YORUBAS ) are day dreaming.

BUHARI WILL BE THE LAST PERSON TO FIELD TINUBU FOR THE PRESIDENCY AND TINUBU KNOWS IT.

The guys are using this trip to carry money outside the country.

Even if it is of a much lower amount.

They should learn the bitter lesson that ex-governor James Ibori had when he laundered public funds to the United Kingdom to buy properties and choice cars and aircraft for himself at the detriment of suffering Delta people whom are unemployed.

GBAJABIAMILA SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.

GOVERNOR WIKE with GRA GRA !

He no dey take nonsense.

He is the Mr BULDOZER !

SOUTHERN GOVERNORS SHOULD SIT UP AND MAKE SURE THAT THE ANTI-OPEN GRAZING RESOLUTIONS THAT THEY AGREED TO IN THEIR ASABA, DELTA STATE MEETING HIS PASSED INTO LAW BY THEIR RESPECTIVE STATE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY AND QUICKLY ASSENTED TO BY THE GOVERNORS WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY.

Fulani herdsmen are determined to take southern people 's land and water for their own economic interest while at the sametimes killing the indigenous people who are predominantly farmers and also raping their women.

President Muhammadu Buhari who happen to be a fulani man and a herders himself is on the quest for actualizing fulani control over land and water that the Land use act has legislated up that all land in the state is under the control of the governor of the state.

Igbo ! at it again.

Them no dey tire !

They either suffer or die to get the money or their body no go rest.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DEEPSEA PORT AND A NORMAL PORT LIKE THE APAPA PORT, WARRI PORT, CALABAR PORT AND RIVERS PORT?

This slogan "deepsea port " has been ringing the news and the english dictionary for quite sometime now.

We have heard of LEKKI DEEP SEA PORT, AKWA IBOM DEEP SEA PORT, CALABAR DEEPSEA PORT, WARRI DEEP SEA PORT etc

The funny thing is that state that have the natural or normal sea port are itchying to have a deepsea port when they have not leveraging the economic benefit of their traditional ports in their state.

kingsways:
This world na turn by turn


It is the turn of Igbos to produce the president

Umahi deserves to be president on the strength of his solid achievements in Ebonyi, a state with one of the smallest federal allocations

International Airport, Olympic size stadium, flyovers everywhere, teaching hospital, King David University, roads and projects everywhere

Fulani are against the Igbos.