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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by lucky4west: 3:10pm On Feb 26, 2021
chai see when life beta for naija...cant believe this happened about the time i was born...kai 100 can scarcely buy water now....wahala be like prices in Nigeria always increasing.....chai who do us like dis
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by semyman: 3:11pm On Feb 26, 2021
My monthly upkeep then was NGN300 as a student from which i still had savings
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by doxijaw: 3:11pm On Feb 26, 2021
Triple the current price's for year 2030.

The same mistakes your ancestors made is exactly the same mistakes the current gen is making.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by profmallor: 3:12pm On Feb 26, 2021
N100 back then was not a small amount of money, only that there was hope for a better tomorrow unlike now under Buharis second coming

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by lanocfoods: 3:13pm On Feb 26, 2021
Give a 10yr old kid 100 naira today, they will look at you with disdain and call you stingy
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by EMIOMOADEOYE: 3:13pm On Feb 26, 2021
migeoart:
Nigeria my great country

And the stupid man there now was the same stupid man there then.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by HabaHaba: 3:13pm On Feb 26, 2021
obyrich:
#100 cannot purchase even the least item on that list now.
Except 1 egg
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by OyinO: 3:15pm On Feb 26, 2021
Nigeria is just a word. Not a geographical entity. A collapsed con3. So why compare life of the 80s to a collapsed Nigeria?
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by aryzgreat: 3:15pm On Feb 26, 2021
With 100k, u no fit buy all those things in today's Nigeria.

Buhari Na disaster !

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by blamingthedevil: 3:15pm On Feb 26, 2021
kode12:
See accountability. All the money spent is properly accounted for. The internet age has eroded a lot of the virtues of old. Now all we wanna do is show off and live large, while being one pay cheque away from homelessness.
Accountability
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by olajizz01(m): 3:15pm On Feb 26, 2021
solarview:
It is well with our dear country Nigeria.
I don't think 10K can even buy those stuff now in Lagos.
Haha,10k as how,don't you know one Congo of rice and bean now,may be you can collect small change from 20k now a day.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by ogub(m): 3:15pm On Feb 26, 2021
Sometimes I wished i experienced more of the 80's and 90's what we are seeing now is heart breaking.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by EMIOMOADEOYE: 3:16pm On Feb 26, 2021
Themarkethere:
Even the handwriting speak of the joy wey dey Nigeria then.

100naira with value worth of purchase that is almost going into extinction today, bought foodstuff, provisions and provided for mama's pocket money yet there was almost 6naira to rollover.

How does a child and mother experience so wide a gap in life sight that it feels like it happened two centuries before the child was born?

Lalasticlala, dominique please move this FP worthy thread.

Which kind Joy.

There was no Joy in Nigeria in 1984 oooo.

There was no Joy. Everybody was complaining.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by Lewisalexander(m): 3:16pm On Feb 26, 2021
The north is the problem of this country

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by EMIOMOADEOYE: 3:17pm On Feb 26, 2021
aryzgreat:
With 100k, u no fit buy all those things in today's Nigeria.

Buhari Na disaster !

Haba....100k

E never bad reach like that.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by JOSH54: 3:18pm On Feb 26, 2021
KunleAkingbadeh:
Buhari was the President then, and he is still the President now.
DAT IS WHEN THINGS BEGAN TO SPOIL WHEN BUHARI WAS HEAD OF STATE N D SAME THING HAS REPEATED AGAIN. BUHARI IS A RULER N NOT A LEADER

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by frowland(m): 3:18pm On Feb 26, 2021
migeoart:
Nigeria my great country

What was the per capita income, average minimum wage etc etc? It will help give us a balanced comparison.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by alfredilly: 3:19pm On Feb 26, 2021
I have said it that with the current inflation rate in Nigeria, a time will come when you will enter food canteen and ask them to sell you, 1 million naira plate of rice, 2 million naira meet and 5 hundred thousand naira dodo

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by mofedamijo(m): 3:20pm On Feb 26, 2021
In as much as inflation has hit Nigeria so bad. This is applicable to so many developed countries in the world.

From an economist point of view, how much was the salary then? Maybe N700, how much is salary today?? My point is, salary structure also changed. I mean, no graduate earns N700 as monthly salary today. Same way the price of flight ticket from the U.S back then to Africa used to be $150-$288, today, its around $1,000-1400. Inflation has been hitting the world and not just Nigeria, yes, Nigeria might have it rough than others and might have it better than some other nations.

To effectively calculate it and determine how bad it is, economist will try to convert that money to how much it is worth in todays market. And compare the percentage in inflation. You could rent an apartment for $120 in Newyork in the 60s, $120 wont even pay your agreement fee today in Newyork.

So before you bash Nigeria, know that this is a global phenomenon.

And for the record, N100 was a lot of money back then. That is some families monthly salary back then.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by Nobody: 3:20pm On Feb 26, 2021
KunleAkingbadeh:
Buhari was the President then, and he is still the President now.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by Mightyhaiz: 3:20pm On Feb 26, 2021
lol
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by RillJ(m): 3:21pm On Feb 26, 2021
Wealthy family ooooooo
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by Nobody: 3:21pm On Feb 26, 2021
NIGERIA THE ONLY ENTITY IN THE WORLD THAT YESTERDAY IS BETTER THAN TODAY

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by okoroemeka(m): 3:21pm On Feb 26, 2021
1984 is even far,I ate one plate of food with 2 meat in onitsha for #2 naira in 1991,but when I finished school in 1993 it was #8 naira for a plate
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by atiku4President(m): 3:21pm On Feb 26, 2021
I can relate with bread at N2.10k. By this time, it was even going out of reach of common man. And this was cos of the disastrous economic policies of General Buhari who was then head of state. Before he came to power, same bread was sold for N0.50k. By the time he was leaving office in 1985, same bread was going for around N4.50k
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 3:23pm On Feb 26, 2021
People were also earning in hundreds of naira and Kobo then...that the prices of things were much lower at a former time doesn't necessarily mean things are more expensive today.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by ofiko123(m): 3:24pm On Feb 26, 2021
Hmmm... the good old days..
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by Ikillbrokehoes(m): 3:24pm On Feb 26, 2021
Wahala for who still dey Nigeria
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by JustCruise(m): 3:27pm On Feb 26, 2021
Now 100 naira can only buy two(2) gala without ordinary pure water.
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by justlikedat: 3:27pm On Feb 26, 2021
That N100 was not easy to get in 1984 o. My WAEC exam fees then was N40.

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Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by ariefadenco: 3:28pm On Feb 26, 2021
Their was a country
Re: My Mom’s Market List 1984: See How Far Nigeria Has Gone (Photo) by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 3:28pm On Feb 26, 2021
lexy2014:


See what 100naira can buy in Nigeria now compared to other currencies
Nigeria's own can buy you more than what South Korea's won would do,does that mean Nigeria's economy is better than South Korea.

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