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What kind of rubbish story is this?It stinks like Slaughter market in Port Harcourt after a rain.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

cry me a river

tonyashburton:
What kind of rubbish story is this?It stinks like Slaughter market in Port Harcourt after a rain.

cry me a river

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

You dont talk like a sensible woman. You open ur mouth anyhow cho cho cho like a village woman.

garfield1:


How

We had autonomy, the regions were viable, they had financial autonomy, every region kept 50% of it's proceeds and sent the rest to the centre to be shared amongst all so effectively every region controlled more than 50% of the revenue from that region, so regions were incentivised to develop their region and resources, there was no robbing Peter to pay Paul..

How did we tamper? For political reasons we created unviable states and centralised government (no incentive to generate revenue if you will get revenue from other states) States are limited in the effrts they can do to generate revenue. Vat is a good example. Also it is difficult for states to attract big businesses because all corporate tax goes to the centre so states focus of income tax which is mainly from poor people. A state is not going to give a company 100,000 ha of land that will employ mechanised farming, boost yeild and agric sector but only a few employess to tax only for the corporation tax on the huge profits to go to the centre. I can go on and on, the thing is most of the good things in Nigeria were as a result of what the British left behind or the brief period when we practiced regional government.... Education health, economy, etc etc. our glory years were a result of that era. it's been down hill since 1966/7 even if some of the decay took time to manifest.

[Sorry mr.quote author=Tissaia post=106000469]Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals. [/quote]

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

U no dey tire?

Wike cannot win the federal government on VAT oo, who born na, base on self e dey show himself ba,,,, wait and see Tank and malami is waiting for him

perambulator:


We had autonomy, the regions were viable, they had financial autonomy, every region kept 50% of it's proceeds and sent the rest to the centre to be shared amongst all so effectively every region controlled more than 50% of the revenue from that region, so regions were incentivised to develop their region and resources, there was no robbing Peter to pay Paul..

How did we tamper? For political reasons we created unviable states and centralised government (no incentive to generate revenue if you will get revenue from other states) States are limited in the effrts they can do to generate revenue. Vat is a good example. Also it is difficult for states to attract big businesses because all corporate tax goes to the centre so states focus of income tax which is mainly from poor people. A state is not going to give a company 100,000 ha of land that will employ mechanised farming, boost yeild and agric sector but only a few employess to tax only for the corporation tax on the huge profits to go to the centre. I can go on and on, the thing is most of the good things in Nigeria were as a result of what the British left behind or the brief period when we practiced regional government.... Education health, economy, etc etc. our glory years were a result of that era. it's been down hill since 1966/7 even if some of the decay took time to manifest.

True but we have outgrown regionalism.we cannot go back to that era,there is nothing wrong with this current structure but the corruption and mentality of tge average officeholder.why is it that ebonyi governor is doing well and bayelsa gov is doing poorly?

garfield1:


How much is abia,enugu,ekiti,osun contributing

VAT: What states generated, received in past 8 months

Lagos generated N429. 203 billion; Rivers, N90. 293 billion, while Oyo came third with N64. 646 billion.

However, in the allocation of VAT revenue, Kano came second, displacing Rivers and Oyo from the top places on the table, after Lagos.

Lagos received the sum of N139. 587 billion; Kano which generated N24 . 492 billion received the second highest allocation of N 47. 082 billion, while Rivers was in the third position as it got N 46. 270 billion.

Zamfara stood out as a peculiar state with the least generation of VAT revenue. It was the only state that recorded less than a billion in the eight-month period of review.

The state generated only N598. 133 million, an average of about N75 million per month.

However, it received the sum of N35. 716 billion (about N4.5 billion monthly), placing it at the forth position on the allocation table.

Kaduna which recorded a VAT revenue of N18. 262 billion, came after Zamfara with an allocation of N32. 726 billion, while Kastina which generated N3. 738 billion in the period under review got N31. 539 billion.

An analysis based on the six geo-political zones showed that South West had the highest allocation of N256. 737 billion, particularly because of the huge allocation to Lagos state.

North West had the second highest allocation of N219. 813 billion.

The oil producing region of South-South N 162. 598 billion.

North East and North Central received N129. 801 billion and N129. 154 billion respectively; while the South East kept the rear with N 109.629 billion allocation.

Source: Vanguard Newspapers

AuntRose:

Why not wait for him to get arrested first before you explode, the man knows there's an injustice in the land and he is working very hard to correct all the anomalies. I don't like him but I like his type of courage

Ignore that Guy

Some party preached true federalism during campaign another party is helping them implement it. Wishing Gov Wike all the best …. May be Ondo go open eye build seaport, Osun go industrialize dey use Ondo Seaport ,Kano moribund industries would come to life

Abujason:


VAT: What states generated, received in past 8 months

Lagos generated N429. 203 billion; Rivers, N90. 293 billion, while Oyo came third with N64. 646 billion.

However, in the allocation of VAT revenue, Kano came second, displacing Rivers and Oyo from the top places on the table, after Lagos.

Lagos received the sum of N139. 587 billion; Kano which generated N24 . 492 billion received the second highest allocation of N 47. 082 billion, while Rivers was in the third position as it got N 46. 270 billion.

Zamfara stood out as a peculiar state with the least generation of VAT revenue. It was the only state that recorded less than a billion in the eight-month period of review.

The state generated only N598. 133 million, an average of about N75 million per month.

However, it received the sum of N35. 716 billion (about N4.5 billion monthly), placing it at the forth position on the allocation table.

Kaduna which recorded a VAT revenue of N18. 262 billion, came after Zamfara with an allocation of N32. 726 billion, while Kastina which generated N3. 738 billion in the period under review got N31. 539 billion.

An analysis based on the six geo-political zones showed that South West had the highest allocation of N256. 737 billion, particularly because of the huge allocation to Lagos state.

North West had the second highest allocation of N219. 813 billion.

The oil producing region of South-South N 162. 598 billion.

North East and North Central received N129. 801 billion and N129. 154 billion respectively; while the South East kept the rear with N 109.629 billion allocation.

Source: Vanguard Newspapers

A table showing what each state generated between January –August 2021 and the allocation to each of them3

No. STATE VAT GENERATED VAT ALLOCATION
1 Abia 2.290b 20.020b
2 Adamawa 3.689b 22.260b
3 Akwa Ibom 8.39b 27.749b
4 Anambra 5.938b 25.001b
5 Bauchi 5.309b 25.613b
6 Bayelsa 12.536b 17.659b
7 Benue 1.268b 24.527b
8 Borno 3.442b 25.896b
9 Cross River 2.347b 20.478b
10 Delta 13.964b 27.854b
11 Ebonyi 7.894b 18.768b
12 Edo 8.284b 22.588b
13 Ekiti 6.635b 19.756b
14 Enugu 5.485b 20.729b
15 Gombe 4.028b 17.650b
16 Imo 1.941b 25.111b
17 Jigawa 3.375b 26.369b
18 Kaduna 18.262b 32.726b
19 Kano 24.492b 47.082b
20 Kastina 3.738b 31.539b
21 Kebbi 1.284b 22.162b
22 Kogi 3.286b 22.282b
23 Kwara 3.471b 18.998b
24 Lagos 429.203 b 139.587b
25 Nassarawa 2.495b 16.872b
26 Niger 3.723b 25.042b
27 Ogun 11.823b 25.141b
28 Ondo 4.554b 22.107b
29 Osun 1.995b 24.766b
30 Oyo 64.646b 45.136b
31 Plateau 5.208b 21.433b
32 Rivers 90.293b 46.270b
33 Sokoto 4.978b 24.219b
34 Taraba 1.756b 18.469b
35 Yobe 9.445b 20.525b
36 Zamfara 598.133m 35.716bn
37 FCT 235.794bn NOT ELIGIBLE

https://www.google.com/url?
q=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/vat-what-states-generated-received-in-past-8-months/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjUwJfkpYnzAhUtEWMBHd27Aq8QFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw1rB-FcA17VKXJHdJlOpNqt

garfield1:



True but we have outgrown regionalism.we cannot go back to that era,there is nothing wrong with this current structure but the corruption and mentality of tge average officeholder.why is it that ebonyi governor is doing well and bayelsa gov is doing poorly?

The current structure is by definition unworkable today more than ever before because there is too much distrust/division/ amongst the people. When you design a system of governance, it must take into the spirit. pysche/patriotism of the people. This is not a system that works for a people who do not trust each other, are nationalistic or patriotic. We need a system where what the other man does In Aba or Zaria not affect me in Ekiti, We need a system where a governor in a state with huge resources knows that if he doesnt develop his own resources, he cannot count on the revenue from a progressive Governor developing his own state/regional resources. We need a system where If I educate my people, I can develop my state or region and not be held back by immigration from other regions who fail to develop theirs because whatever they do they will see money for themselves. We need a system where if i produce beer in Lagos, you cannot break my bottles of beer In Katsina and then collect corporation tax and VAT from my beer sales in lagos. I wish I had the time to elaborate but I am at work now maybe later.

Futhermore, it is a system designed to impoverish and that it is what it has been doing since inception. It effectively discourages taxes at the lower state and local Gov levels (which is the main source of revenue for any government) and puts the burden of revenue on a Centralised inefficient federal God father government.

garfield1:



A table showing what each state generated between January –August 2021 and the allocation to each of them3

No. STATE VAT GENERATED VAT ALLOCATION
1 Abia 2.290b 20.020b
2 Adamawa 3.689b 22.260b
3 Akwa Ibom 8.39b 27.749b
4 Anambra 5.938b 25.001b
5 Bauchi 5.309b 25.613b
6 Bayelsa 12.536b 17.659b
7 Benue 1.268b 24.527b
8 Borno 3.442b 25.896b
9 Cross River 2.347b 20.478b
10 Delta 13.964b 27.854b
11 Ebonyi 7.894b 18.768b
12 Edo 8.284b 22.588b
13 Ekiti 6.635b 19.756b
14 Enugu 5.485b 20.729b
15 Gombe 4.028b 17.650b
16 Imo 1.941b 25.111b
17 Jigawa 3.375b 26.369b
18 Kaduna 18.262b 32.726b
19 Kano 24.492b 47.082b
20 Kastina 3.738b 31.539b
21 Kebbi 1.284b 22.162b
22 Kogi 3.286b 22.282b
23 Kwara 3.471b 18.998b
24 Lagos 429.203 b 139.587b
25 Nassarawa 2.495b 16.872b
26 Niger 3.723b 25.042b
27 Ogun 11.823b 25.141b
28 Ondo 4.554b 22.107b
29 Osun 1.995b 24.766b
30 Oyo 64.646b 45.136b
31 Plateau 5.208b 21.433b
32 Rivers 90.293b 46.270b
33 Sokoto 4.978b 24.219b
34 Taraba 1.756b 18.469b
35 Yobe 9.445b 20.525b
36 Zamfara 598.133m 35.716bn
37 FCT 235.794bn NOT ELIGIBLE

https://www.google.com/url?
q=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/vat-what-states-generated-received-in-past-8-months/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjUwJfkpYnzAhUtEWMBHd27Aq8QFnoECAgQAg&usg=AOvVaw1rB-FcA17VKXJHdJlOpNqt

Thanks for the above. You see the thieving going on in this country.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

Wike remains the best governor of all time. He is bold and straight forward.

[s]

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.[/s]

Parasitism and leeching by you lazy Northers is over. Is either you work harder to make it or you as an Amalgiri to beg for alms. No more spoon feeding. Parasites. Una never see anything. When a Southern take over from you foolanis, the final nail to the coffin will reset una brains.

michlins:
If wike gets his way,we will end up with five states in Nigeria.

Name the five state you ard talking about

garfield1:


.why is it that ebonyi governor is doing well and bayelsa gov is doing poorly?

Please define "doing well", because as far as I am concerned there is no Governor doing well in Nigeria. Doing well is relative only in relation to the low expectation we have been conditioned to expect over the years. In Nigeria we regard road construction for example as doing well, Roads that in a good eenvironment should have been contructed 20,30,40 years ago. Look at Lekki express way, shabby excuse of a road, byt the time it is constructed, the growth in population has overwhelmed the road. If lagos was truly in control of it's resources, it would have had enough money to have finished the coastal road and probably 4th mainland bridge by now. Our structure is such that even with the best brains, team and vision a governor under the current struxture cannot do well by 21st century standards!!!

We are a $500b economy, our mates are UAE, Argentina, South Africa, Iran. Our economy is 20% bigger than countries like ireland, Norway,Israel, Phillipes, Singapore. i can understand if we lag behind them in certain areas like health, education etc because of our population it costs more to educate 200m than 2m or 20m but certain things you only build 1 whether your population is 2million or 200m, e.g ports, roads, airports The reason our infrastructure cannot compare to these countries is the nature of our fiscal autonomy/lack thereof. We cannot under the current guise generate the taxes to build the infrastructure/social amenities/services we need as a people.

Lagos-Ibadan has been awarded and re-awrded since 1999...a road of a mere 131Km. When they finally finish it they will say Buhari is "doing well"..probably relative to what has become our standards but bear in mind the original road was constructed in 2 years under Muritala/OBJ and we have about 32,000km of federal roads most of which are in a bad state....when will we ever have good roads?

Abujason:


VAT: What states generated, received in past 8 months

Lagos generated N429. 203 billion; Rivers, N90. 293 billion, while Oyo came third with N64. 646 billion.

However, in the allocation of VAT revenue, Kano came second, displacing Rivers and Oyo from the top places on the table, after Lagos.

Lagos received the sum of N139. 587 billion; Kano which generated N24 . 492 billion received the second highest allocation of N 47. 082 billion, while Rivers was in the third position as it got N 46. 270 billion.

Zamfara stood out as a peculiar state with the least generation of VAT revenue. It was the only state that recorded less than a billion in the eight-month period of review.

The state generated only N598. 133 million, an average of about N75 million per month.

However, it received the sum of N35. 716 billion (about N4.5 billion monthly), placing it at the forth position on the allocation table.

Kaduna which recorded a VAT revenue of N18. 262 billion, came after Zamfara with an allocation of N32. 726 billion, while Kastina which generated N3. 738 billion in the period under review got N31. 539 billion.

An analysis based on the six geo-political zones showed that South West had the highest allocation of N256. 737 billion, particularly because of the huge allocation to Lagos state.

North West had the second highest allocation of N219. 813 billion.

The oil producing region of South-South N 162. 598 billion.

North East and North Central received N129. 801 billion and N129. 154 billion respectively; while the South East kept the rear with N 109.629 billion allocation.

Source: Vanguard Newspapers

32billion!!!! That gov is a thief..... Even some states in the south are theives.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

You are so shameless

Even if the money comes he won't pay minimum wage and improve the welfare of Rivers workers

Dabronze:
Name the five state you ard talking about

Lagos will merge with the whole SW, the whole SE will merge,NW and NC will merge with Abuja, Kano will merge, Rivers and others will merge

See as you dey disgrace urself, family and friends because of matter wen you no go even benefit from....Ooooooooo sorry na una get Nigeria,na una dey reap were una non sow.keep on talking and increase the VOLUME one Nigeria evangelist.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

Why don't you approach a matter on its merit? Do you have to curse? Whether you like it or not, federalism ahs come to stay. Bit by bit. One day at a time. Ona eye go clear.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

See this one, the monkey you posted makes better sense than you. Hear yourself! At least the monkey is drinking and smoking and having a happy moment and you're crying for a governor that is fighting for the right of his people! I won't say that animal are better than some people! You were created by image of God but next time don't jump into a thread or news to explode your wisdom or ignorance. Thanks

Tissaia:
[s]Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.[/s]

Trash

ogubolokento:
Even if the money comes he won't pay minimum wage and improve the welfare of Rivers workers

This issue is not about Wike. After all, his tenure remains less than 2 years.
The issue is about state governments working hard to ensure businesses thrive in order to drive more revenue. When this matter is settled in favour of the states, a state like Borno that is reportedly lazy in VAT collection will have no choice but to step up their game.

michlins:
If wike gets his way,we will end up with five states in Nigeria.

I don't care, walahi... as long as it will force others to work

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

Gandollar too would be arrested after his tenure.

Tissaia:
Old fool. The attention seeking drunkard trying to distract his case with EFCC. When EFCC arrest him after his tenure, he will shout witch-hunt. Lagos, Kaduna and Kano contributing more than them, but you will not here them rambling like monkeys. Shege IPOB terrorists brother. Tired of sharing same port with lowlife criminals.

You are angry because you and your northern brothers source of livelihood is about to end. What do we expect from parasites? Not to resist? Hell no, parasites must fight to feed from hard workers.
Northerners are parasites, you know it, your father knows it, your great grand father knows it.
So, shit the Bleep up and let real states to stop others from eating free food.
Slowly, true federalism is coming, then we will see how you parasitic northerners will survive.

akdjr:
I know Wike can't win the case but I would want all Southern Governor to file a case about the VAT collection banning any Northern state from sharing from the VAT generated from sales of beer. You can be destroying beer because your religion forbid it and yet you share from the proceed of sales of beer.

He will win. It can't be allowed to remain. I am sure that he can't be doing all these without plan B.