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[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

So these people will pay VAT on goods, pay informal taxes, pay for permits and levies then you’ll now still tax their revenue?

BAT is the re-incarnation of Pharaoh Rameses II. He’s so disconnected from reality.

My goodness!

[JP Attueyi @jpattueyi]

Let me get this straight.
The government says it wants to “widen the tax net.”
So the solution is to impose a 1% presumptive tax on TOTAL revenue of people in the informal sector:
• traders
• welders
• mechanics
• tailors
• shop owners
Not profit.
Revenue.

Think about what that means.
If a trader sells ₦5m worth of goods in a year but only makes ₦400k profit, government is not taxing the ₦400k.
They are taxing the ₦5m turnover.

Meanwhile:
• That trader already paid VAT when buying goods
• Pays VAT again when selling to customers
• Pays market levies to local authorities
• Pays multiple permits and “tickets”
• Pays inflation tax from currency devaluation
And now government wants another cut of gross sales.

The question I keep asking without a reply is:

Where exactly are these taxes going?

Because Nigerians still don’t have:
• reliable electricity
• running water
• functioning public hospitals
• decent government schools
• emergency ambulances
• security

Instead we keep hearing about:
• $9 million lobbying contracts abroad
• political convoys longer than train lines
• election transparency still being negotiated

Now the mechanic fixing your car…
the woman selling food in the market…
the tailor sewing school uniforms…
they are the problem?

Remember when Taiwo told you that the poor won't be affected that it's the rich that will pay it?

Guess who is about to be squeezed? Petty traders and artisans to “widen the net.”
Meanwhile Taiwo has been rewarded a job well done.
But you will come here and use your 3k allowance to abuse me.

When governments run out of ideas,
they start taxing the survival economy.
And once a country begins taxing survival, anger is only a matter of time.

Nigeria is getting dangerously close to that point.

[Opeyemi Babalola @BOTAD01]

Before we left Nigeria, my wife worked with one of the new generation banks on the Island. She leaves home as early as 5:30am and comes back sometime, 10pm.

Some days, I will go to Marina to pick her or some days I will pick her up at either Ojota or Berger.

One evening, I went to pick her up at Ojota, the traffic was so terrible that day and she had to stand in the BRT all the way from Marina to Ojota. She was exhausted!

Immediately she entered the car, she adjusted the front seat, rested her back, and started crying, without saying a word! When we got to Agidingbi, there was another horrible traffic, she looked outside the window, shook her head and said "This is not life" Then she started crying again. We got home around 1am that day.

Today, she works in a hybrid environment with better conditions of service and of course, better remuneration.

The stress Nigerians pass through just to make a living is unnecessary, avoidable, and uncalled for if only we had sensible people in government.

I pity this guy because he won't be able to sustain this lifestyle for 5 consecutive years, he will break down mentally, financially, emotionally, and psychologically.

[Lola Okunrin @lollypeezle]

A lot of you are just fortunate to have made it. You don’t have a good heart at all.

You enjoyed 13k school fees during your time but today, you want the government to increase school fees because education costs a lot. Why didn’t education cost much when your parents were paying for yours. Terrible life you are living.

“I pay 2 million for my son per session”. There are people paying 49 million per session for their children too. To them, you are also poor. Imagine, if they bench mark education to 49 million Naira per session, you also can’t afford it.

Animals are running amongst us. Terrible animals.

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

The APC led government has secretly planned how to steal your money colludng with these unscrupulous influencers to deceive you that they won’t touch your money.

Your eyes go peel.

[The Benin Blogger @TheBeninBlogger]

"I did not find Bwala's interview funny. There was nothing to laugh about. Nigeria has failed. It is disheartening to find that Bwala is actually a senior lawyer." - Lady says

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

I went to school when Goodluck Jonathan was President. That was during Nigeria's economic boom. Yet, I saw people struggle to pay N12k for school fees. I saw people come to school with N2k, N5k as pocket money. Some came with foodstuff and "remember the home you came from."

Flight to Benin was between N12k to N18k. I usually went to school, filling the biggest travelling box with provision, and it cost me N30k to do that. My pocket money was between N25 to N30k and it was sufficient. I was feeding my friends in hostel and was named most generous person in the hostel. I went to a to secondary school with children of the rich, so I already knew the other reality of life. What I was seeing in UNIBEN was a far cry. To do everything I listed above today, you need over 500k because this government has plunged us into darkness.

Now, in 2026, when our lives should have significantly improved from the progress made by the GEJ government, we went from the clueless Buhari to killer of hope Tinubu. Exchange rate is over the roof. Flight is exorbitant. Feeding is a luxury. School fees is out of the reach of two income household. People are dying daily because they cant afford health care. The government is taxing people to death. Yet, we have clowns defending the cost of living in a country that minimum wage is N70k.

Meanwhile, the money released for health care of 200m people was N36 million naira. NNPC stole N210 Trillion but it is the masses that should be taxed to raise money and the masses that should have to endure economic hardship and pay exorbitant fee to get the available poor quality education. Today, people are paying above 100k to 500k for public education. Nonsense!

I am very convinced you people defending this are mad and with all due disrespect, you're very mad.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

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[Hon Nuhu Sada @NuhuSada0]

💔 Reports say bandits may have attacked Makarfi, Kaduna near Zaria tonight. People are screaming & running for their lives. Our hearts go out to the community may they stay safe.

[Reedor Ways @richone090]

Occupy All Government House🏠

Na only Alex Otti of Abia I dey reason differently, the rest na pursue pursue..

Occupy Aso Rock.

Location: if them no dey office you know their houses, chase them all out evicted...

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Abia State — Umuahia: Government House, Umuahia (often listed as Government House, Aba Road or Umudike Road area).

Adamawa State — Yola: Government House, Yola (State Secretariat complex).

Akwa Ibom State — Uyo: Government House, Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo (or along Abak Road).

Anambra State — Awka: Government House, Awka (Along Enugu-Onitsha Expressway).

Bauchi State — Bauchi: Government House, Bauchi (State Secretariat).

Bayelsa State — Yenagoa: Government House, Yenagoa (along Isaac Boro Expressway or Opolo-Elebele Road).

Benue State — Makurdi: Government House, Makurdi (Dan Anyebe Otukpo Road or North Bank area).

Borno State — Maiduguri: Government House, Maiduguri (along Baga Road or State Secretariat).

Cross River State — Calabar: Government House, Calabar (Tinapa or Marian Road area).

Delta State — Asaba: Government House, Asaba (along Okpanam Road or DBS Road).

Ebonyi State — Abakaliki: Government House, Abakaliki (Nna Street or along Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway).

Edo State — Benin City: Government House, Benin City (Dennis Osadebe Avenue or Ezoti Street).

Ekiti State — Ado-Ekiti: Government House, Ado-Ekiti (State Secretariat, Ajilosun).

Enugu State — Enugu: Government House, Enugu (Independence Layout or Abakpa Nike area).

Gombe State — Gombe: Government House, Gombe (State Secretariat).

Imo State — Owerri: Government House, Owerri (Along Port Harcourt Road or Douglas Road).

Jigawa State — Dutse: Government House, Dutse (State Secretariat).

Kaduna State — Kaduna: Government House, Kaduna (Independence Way or State Secretariat).

Kano State — Kano: Government House, Kano (State Secretariat, Audu Bako Secretariat).

Katsina State — Katsina: Government House, Katsina (State Secretariat).

Kebbi State — Birnin Kebbi: Government House, Birnin Kebbi (State Secretariat).

Kogi State — Lokoja: Government House, Lokoja (State Secretariat complex).

Kwara State — Ilorin: Governor's Office, Ilorin (Ahmadu Bello Way or State Secretariat).

Lagos State — Ikeja: Governor's Office / Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja (State Secretariat complex, Alausa).

Nasarawa State — Lafia: Government House, Shendam Road, Lafia.

Niger State — Minna: Government House, Yakubu Lame Road, Minna (or State Secretariat).

Ogun State — Abeokuta: Government House, Abeokuta (Oke-Mosan or State Secretariat).

Ondo State — Akure: Government House, Akure (State Secretariat, Alagbaka Estate).

Osun State — Osogbo: Government House, Osogbo (State Secretariat, Abere).

Oyo State — Ibadan: Government House, Agodi, Ibadan (State Secretariat, Agodi).

Plateau State — Jos: Government House, Jos (State Secretariat, Little Rayfield).

Rivers State — Port Harcourt: Government House, Port Harcourt (Azikiwe Road or Old GRA).

Sokoto State — Sokoto: Government House, Sokoto (State Secretariat).

Taraba State — Jalingo: Government House, Jalingo (State Secretariat).

Yobe State — Damaturu: Government House, Damaturu (State Secretariat).

Zamfara State — Gusau: Government House, Gusau (State Secretariat

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[Emma ik Umeh (Tcee )🇳🇬 @emmaikumeh]

Angry Akwa-Ibom youths destroy APC banner after First Lady's visit to Akwa-Ibom

[Trending Explained @TrendingEx]

Story: An innocent Ikorodu teacher to be sentenced to life imprisonment over accusations of stripping a 3yo kid, carressing her chest and defiling her with Biro. After police discarded original statement.

A parent claimed her 3yo came home and refused her from washing her Private. When they checked, she said a classmate (Toluwani) inserted a Pencil in her. The mother reported to the teacher and headmaster.

The teacher, Mrs. Rukayat who was a mother of 1 and 3-months pregnant at the time, explained it wasn’t possible in the classroom. Because female and male students were far separated, and even if she missed it, her assistant or Nanny wouldn’t. And there was no male teacher in the school.

The 3yo is Aduke. The next day her father took her to Ikorodu General Hospital where they confirmed there was a small hole in her vajina. That day, the father tried to arrest the Toluwani, but according to police, he was a much younger frail kid. So they told the father that Toluwani wasn’t capable of such with Aduke who’s older and bigger than him..

Instead, they arrested the headmaster and teacher. Forced them to write a statement admitting they participated in the crime. They refused, until the owner of the school secured their bail.

Later, the class teacher, headmaster were charged for negligence of duty, the teacher Ms. Rukayat had a miscarriage in detention after torture and starvation.

After the police investigated and confirmed what the teachers said, seeing they couldn’t arrest Toluwani. The father insisted the case went to court.

Then he changed Aduke’s testimony and said, Aduke has now said, it wasn’t Toluwani, but the owner of the school that stripped and defiled her. The owner of the school had no office there neither is he ever there. After police confirmed these facts, they released him.

Then the father said again that Aduke said it’s no longer the owner, but the school bus driver that stripped and defiled her in the bus when she was the last person there. Police investigated and confirmed, there was never a time Aduke was alone in the bus with the driver or the last to be dropped.

As the matter finally got to magistrate court Ikeja. The court asked the father to provide Aduke’s torn uniform and stained pant which he claims they saw. He couldn’t. So he stopped appearing in court.

All of these was from October 20th 2021 to early 2022. Then suddenly, an NGO did a “forensic interview” and GBV reported that, Aduke has finally recalled what happened.

That it was her 3 months pregnant teacher that stripped her, carresed her chest and repeatedly penetrated her with a Biro. Then they immediately discharged everyone else and put the whole case on Mrs. Rukayat.

Declaring her guilty to face penalty of life imprisonment or atleast 20yrs jail, without evidence or investigation. Rukayat was pregnant again, but was on the verge of losing it, so her doctor advised her to stay away from court’s temporarily.

The case went cold until March 2025, when she was abducted by the police, over claims that her lawyer told them that she ran away from the court case. They kept her and her 9months old baby in Kirikiri for 4 days, before she was bailed.

Since then, she has been shuttling courts. Toluwani, The School, The Headmaster, The School Bus Driver, The Assistant Teacher, all discharged. While Mrs. Rukayat, is going away for life over a ₦20k salary job.

Rukayat says the only thing that can save her is another forensic GBV report. But she will still do atleast 5-10yrs jail. The next hearing is March 12. She is calling on the Lagos State Government to intervene.

Happened at Imota, Ikorodu.

Follow @TrendingEx for dailies..

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

In my opinion, there were 2 main failures (failures I was also guilty of).

1. We did not properly define the end point of our resistance action. What did we want exactly? Because once Buhari put out that official announcement that he had disbanded SARS, he'd already won. All further action after that was immediately labelled as "youthful, energetic confusionists" or "opposition-backed insurrectionists trying to bring down the government after the government already gave them what they asked for," and those labels stuck.

In my opinion, defining our entire movement as simply "End SARS" and nothing more was in hindsight, a dumb move. We all knew the many things we were angry about, and police brutality was merely one of them. We had just come out of a disastrous foreign-imposed lockdown where 60% of people with a formal job in Nigeria had just become unemployed, and youth unemployment briefly touched 70%.

We had just seen politicians hoarding palliatives and soldiers shooting people dead for going out to buy bread during the lockdown. We had seen FIRS come on Twitter begging corporates to pay tax early because the federation account was empty, and it was clear that Nigeria was being run like a mismanaged neighbourhood provisions store. We all knew deep down the many things we were actually angry about, but we allowed our entire scope of anger to be collapsed and framed into a single, easily managed entity called "End SARS."

If we had properly defined our movement as a total rebellion against everything that the Nigerian state stood for, the violent response would have come a lot sooner, and instead of scaring us indoors, it would have had the effect that Bouazizi setting himself on fire in Tunisia did in 2011. It would have become completely unmanageable, and the Buhari government would have collapsed. At that point, we would have had a military takeover, and given the events in the Sahel over the subsequent 3 years, Nigeria might be part of the AES right now and Africa would be having a completely different conversation.

2. After it kicked off, we allowed "strong voices" to gain too much power - and I was one of those strong voices. Celebrities, social media influencers, pop culture cool cats, journalists, "activists"™️ - too many people had too much say in what everybody should or should not do. I didn't want to be the guy responsible for inciting people to risk their lives, so at a point I was here tweeting that people should "protest peacefully" even though "peaceful protest" was the very last thing anyone should have been doing.

Musicians were showing up and turning rally venues into concerts. Social media clout artists introduced "fundraising" and then all of a sudden, "fundraising" and everyone associated with it became the epicentre of the movement. Civil Society Activists™️ came in and elbowed their way to the microphone. All of a sudden some people started designing posters with "5 Demands" and doing Zoom meetings with powerful businessmen.

The sum total of allowing all this parasitic infiltration and analysis-paralysis was that certain people who were not involved with the sequence of events that kicked off on September 30, and had no ideological investment in it were able to "call off" a protest they did not convene and leave everyone who remained outside to become roadkill.

If Nigeria is to ever have a successful people's revolution, a critical mass of informed people at its core must clearly define, understand, and agree on what exactly we are fighting for and how. There must be a clear understanding that it is a PEOPLE-LED revolution, not to be quenched, misdirected or infiltrated by professional self-promoters, political performance artists and agents of state.

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[Big Sman.🍥 @MR__Sulaiman1]

We have nothing to say to Seyi Tinubu and his father in northern Nigeria. May God let his father live long and healthy for giving us 500,000 mats that will be enough for us to pray for our people after bandits k!ll them. The only thing left now is the burial shroud and the funeral bier. Again, we need more burial grounds because of the way bandits are killing us every day. Please don’t forget to share this in Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Plateau, and Kaduna state.

— A man from northern Nigeria. 🗣️

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

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