₦airaland Forum

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So they would deploy untrained enumerators and supervisors?

Godwin4444:
let’s see how it is done in your state


Or are u ashamed to tell us where u are from?

If UK govt did not ask me where I came from before assessing me for tax refunds, why should I answer you?

I was born and raised in Lagos, I pay related dues to the property I have there linked to my name and I can't connect how state of origin is a prerequisite to ask about taxation in Lagos where I pay tax.

PulaPower:
Then access Alausa online!

Regarding UK, so what have you asked about the UK tax? I heard they do pay road tax, viewing TV tax, bla bla bla..

Did you ask what you’re intending to ask here in Lagos?

I contacted HMRC and I am actually on the path of getting tax refunds for tax I paid to the UK govt while working as an international student even though I have switched to skilled worker visa and I don't mind the council tax, road tax, TV license etc because services are being rendered and moreover I am on a free UK medical care tied to my skilled worker visa till 2028 and I comfortably pay those taxes.

Godwin4444:
I get

Which state are u from bro?

How is it relevant to the discourse?

PulaPower:
Then go to Alausa!

I don't go to HMRC Coventry office which covers where I am here in the UK, I access them online. Anyone paying taxes in Lagos, don't need to go to Alausa though I know your mind is still stuck in the 1980s ways of doing things.

Godwin4444:
which state are u from?

Anyone paying tax in Lagos state in one way or the other, irrespective of his/her state of origin, has the right the ask questions regarding taxation in Lagos State.

Shagari was from the North-West region.
Abacha was from the North-West region.
Yar'dua was from the North-West region.
Buhari is from the North-West region.

What edge do they have today, over other Nigerians in terms of human capital development.

Voters apathy expected.

Lithiumite:
What I meant was,even if he were to run now

OK.

Lithiumite:
He will defeat obaseki this time, obaseki has really messed up

Obaseki is presently doing his second term.

Visibility Peter Obi got, was unprecedented.

Majesty7:
Do you guys just don't like to reason or what? How many times do you want me to refute those claims?

Which reason?

MrAgbako:
If they are to arrest obi or datti there must be a reason for it. If they breaks any law then they will definitely be arrest and nothing will happen. Nobody is above the law. The question is have they broken any law? Obi should try himself and see if he will be arrested or not

If MC Oluomo was not arrested, why should Obi and Datti be arrested as everyone is "joking"?

If you ask of the name of Tinubu's father.........eerie silence.

Allardyce:
Did you hurt someone in the past that you can recall?

Let's start from there

Every one of us has hurt someone in the past.

It is none of your business, restrict your viewing to TVC.

swaggerjack:
The wealth is from his mother that he claims.

Then who is his father, in the Tinubu's family tree?

Draslo:
Some of these laws need to be sent into oblivion. What of a mother to an only child who is the husband? So she won't have the opportunity to nurse her only grandchildren because tradition says it must be the wife's mother? It's a shitty law if you ask me.

Among the igbos, the mother of the woman comes first then the husband's mother comes as that is how the husband's maternal grandmother came before that of his paternal. Those abroad tend to juggle it between the 2 mothers.

Draslo:
Lol na vacation your mama dey come do. Let her come but also bring the woman from your husband's side. If she wants to watch AM Igbo all day and stretch her legs on the sofa, then so be it. This is her only excuse to live with you again.

The woman from her husband's side will not show up to offer help while OP's mother is still there....it is an unwritten law. OP's mother reminds one of this Bible verse "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter"

Gbogbowa:
we are the achitech of our own problem over 133m in poverty yet less than 30million came out to vote is that not funny? If just 15million Nigeria hit the street and demand for justice no one can stop us but the youth has been cage with Ethnicity and Religion

We are dealing with learned helplessness.....come next elections, voters apathy, ethnicity and bigotry would make the electorate still prefer those who would tighten their handcuffs!

Hermeknorr:
Goodday wonderful people, is it adviceable for husband and wife to apply for visa together where the wife is the one with COS? In a case where the husband,s document is not complete can he pick a date say like a week or 2 after his wife or he has to wait till her visa is out. Then lastly what are the documents needed to take along for biometrics

Let the wife apply first and come over to be sure what is on ground, then the husband can apply.

I said this based on experience as I did my biometrics on Thursday 30th March in Birmingham and got my skilled work visa on the 31st of March and expires April 2nd 2028 and got my BRP delivered last Thursday as I switched from student to Tier 2. I have met several African couples some even with their children who all came together to the UK through the healthcare visa and over 90% are having it very rough because most of the firms who sponsored them have little or no shifts for them and still bringing in more people, spouses who are the dependents are not easily getting the jobs to support the family because to even get factory jobs is no longer easy because many international students who graduated and now on post study work visa have taken over working full time in factories, warehouses and care homes, reason many international students who came to the UK from this January are struggling to get jobs for their weekly 20hrs.

My colleagues who were sponsored from South Africa, all came alone and their spouses and children joined after 3-4 months as they were able to save, look for accommodation for their family with less pressure and can financially take care of the home while their spouse look for work.

Freetech:
Is Agbakoba not part of the problem?

What did he do to bring changes when he was NBA president.

One of the tool used by politicians is stirring up our emotions - this is the real bondage.

This same tool Agbakoba is using here.

What emotions is he stirring?

133 million Nigerians live in dire poverty going by Federal Government's own statistics, over 20 million school age children are presently out of school (a huge security risk as they are a huge recruitment pool for criminal activities), 99.5% of bank accounts in Nigeria has below N500k in it etc.......is that not bondage?

ipobcannibals:
In a normal/sane country, bitter obi and his brainless followers would have been shot and euthanized. Those animals a.k.a Ipob bingos are disgusting.

God bless president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu
God bless Nigeria
Blessed are those who bless Nigeria.

Cursed are those who curse Nigeria and may the land of Nigeria swallow them up, like it’s swallowing bitter obi and his Ipob supporter-Amen!

Las, las you would be murdered by some low-life riff-raffs all because they want to steal the only N1,000 you have on you and Nairaland frontpage would read "Man stab to death because of N1,000".

KolaShangOne:
That would be crazy!

Even 10,000 -15,000 GBP for a COS is crazy.

I know many Nigerian postgraduate students here in the UK who switched to skilled worker visa, paying between 7,000 -10,000 GBP, though some have monthly instalment payment plan.

Flier:
The bill is a very good thing and it supposed to be 10 year or 15 years, not 5 years.Brain drain is destroying Nigeria everyday there is no doctor in our hospitals anymore so this bill is super necessary before our death rate is out of the roof
Not all of us can afford to go abroad for treatment and if you know that your sole aim is to work abroad after you finish your study then you should go abroad to study not to use our system and facility to study and run abroad immediately you finished study
At the same time the government need to increase doctors salary and provide conductive working environment in order to encourage them to stay and encourage those abroad to come back
Brain drain isn’t a joke it destroy nations and that is why Indian,Russia and China always reject free visa from USA for their professional
5 years is too small must be 10 or 15 before we are all dead.
If you people don’t know,brain drain is an hybrid war
It destroy nations

Why not increase it to 25 years!

Do even Buhari and Tinubu believe in Nigeria's healthcare system?

NOETHNICITY:
It’s more of an ibo thing sorry to say

I guess you came to this conclusion, after visiting every bus park in every State in Nigeria?

Last Friday evening, I was to travel back to my base here in the UK which was about one hour bus ride with a National Express bus. There was a 2 hours delay because I later got to know that there way an accident that affected traffic. I call their customer care and was releasing my frustration on their staff, I finally boarded the bus and the next day (yesterday) I called their customer care again to "rant" over how they messed my Friday evening and I was told that based on the call I made on Friday, there is a note that I should be refunded the money for that ticket and given a free ticket for the same route (which I frequent) as compensation for the inconveniences, so I got my refund yesterday and a free ticket I will be using on Tuesday.