Karleb:


I'm his son, he retired some 6 years ago and he was never a top earner. That's the truth.

On that, that's Nigeria for you o. Some years ago, na big man you be for that your monthly income.

You can imagine how people earning 50k are surviving with mouths to feed. Chai!!🤐😳

IbeOkehie:


A lot of that money....not all, but a lot of it...comes from relatives abroad. It's not too hard to figure out.

politicoNG:


https://twitter.com/stats_feed/status/1652650114228559872?s=19

politicoNG:


https://twitter.com/stats_feed/status/1652650114228559872?s=19

emmaodet:


It is not relatives abroad.
No one will be sending you money monthly for your upkeep. No one.

I am close to these people and I know it is not relatives.
Do you actually think it is interesting sending money to people on monthly basis?
Many people are making money in Nigeria, you better don't be deceived with the harshness of the economy.
How they do it, I don't know.

blowjohn:


Wlcm

Goalnaldo:
sorry to disturb boss, have you sent it?

emmaodet:


It is not relatives abroad.
No one will be sending you money monthly for your upkeep. No one.

I am close to these people and I know it is not relatives.
Do you actually think it is interesting sending money to people on monthly basis?
Many people are making money in Nigeria, you better don't be deceived with the harshness of the economy.
How they do it, I don't know.

Cmjarg:

Am a level 7 step 8 of Lagos State government staff I earn 121k monthly and federal government salary is high than state

des4ella:
I need to leave diz federal job and look for Lagos state government job ooh

Cmjarg:

I have a level 8 staff of federal government who earn 174k

emmaodet:
I think this is common to 3rd world countries.

Salaries are low but people living above income.
I guess corruption is normalized here.
My of my friends in church earning 400k drive brand new cars, I mean brand new jeeps and I earn far far far above them so I wonder where they get this money from.
Even their doings - buying properties, donations in church, you start wondering if you people are in the same country.
EFCC needs to start investigating income earned to life style proportion and over 50% of Nigerian working class would be hauled off to jail.

LordAdam16:


The bolded is so true.

People dey cash out for this country. Nothing extravagant. Just enough to keep them going and achieve modest goals. A used car. Buy a land. Once you can pay your bills and rent a flat, start planning/saving up to start a building project.

That said, it could also probably be confirmation bias. If you don't personally know a lot of actual broke people--living on loans (credit), kids go to essentially free public school, they live in face-me-I-slap-you where they owe rent that's around 200% of minimum wage, only buy second-hand (Okrika); you'd just go to a Mall or Cinema parking lot and think Nigeria is a robust middle income country.

In any case, we have a fledging middle class. Our population makes it seem like all classes have huge numbers. From the money bags building empty luxury estates to the trench dwellers not knowing where the next meal is coming from.

-Lord

datola:
Average salary means it can be higher or lower.

Average salary in Canada is less than $3,000 and you have to pay rent of over $1 000 plus other bills and feeding.

What will now remain

Japa geng over to you.

emmaodet:


You are right.
It may be fake life but then, I think it is corruption.
A sizeable percentage of Nigerian working class are seeing unofficial money at work.
Call it corruption, call it under-the-table money or whatever. One thing is for sure, the average Nigerian family is living above their official take home money.
When I was working in Nigeria, I do see behind-the-scene money of between 50% to 500% of my monthly salary per month depending on our activities and it is applicable in many sectors of the country be it police, immigration, teachers, etc.
My mum who was a headmistress always come home with atleast 5k per day weekdays aside her salary and I know she has been doing this even when she was a teacher

MatrixReloaded:
145$ for Nigeria na lie o. Do the exchange rate e don pass 30k o for civil workers.

If your govt don pay nsyc staff's reach 145$ den tell me if nysc no be higher level for person wey graduate put for him kontri.

seguno2:


Please why EFCC and not the tax authorities

LordAdam16:


Yea. The stats do not accurately reflect the actual take-home of Nigeria's working class.

And I agree that it is corruption.

A lot of practices that in the West will earn an ethics complaint at best or a multi-year felony are conveniently ignored in Nigeria. Interestingly, no one has a problem with it. Including the so-called religious leaders and their "may my helper locate me" pew.

On some level, the Nigerian populace deserve no sympathy. It's a Wild West, Mad Max situation. The sh*t they pull and are willing to pull if given the opportunity is eye-opening. It is especially hilarious when they expect to earn multiples of their income tax-free through morally grey schemes, but blow a gasket when contractors refuse to work on projects they've received payment for or some creative mfker says a snake swallowed millions.

It's like "F*ck you, I've got mine", now you go adhere to the same laws and ethical guidelines I flouted. Oh, I'm just a commoner and one of the "poor masses", so my corruption doesn't count. Now, those big baddies that use the exact same schemes I've leveraged to siphon billions. They deserve the death penalty. Unless they're from my village, state, or region and are demonstrably generous with their loot. In which case, their corruption is justified.

Now, why don't I get unemployment benefits/childcare credits/dividends (like Alaskans), universal healthcare, free education to tertiary level for my wards, and a bazillion other "dividends of democracy"?

-Lord

LordAdam16:

Yea. The stats do not accurately reflect the actual take-home of Nigeria's working class.

And I agree that it is corruption.

A lot of practices that in the West will earn an ethics complaint at best or a multi-year felony are conveniently ignored in Nigeria. Interestingly, no one has a problem with it. Including the so-called religious leaders and their "may my helper locate me" pew.

On some level, the Nigerian populace deserve no sympathy. It's a Wild West, Mad Max situation. The sh*t they pull and are willing to pull if given the opportunity is eye-opening. It is especially hilarious when they expect to earn multiples of their income tax-free through morally grey schemes, but blow a gasket when contractors refuse to work on projects they've received payment for or some creative mfker says a snake swallowed millions.

It's like "F*ck you, I've got mine", now you go adhere to the same laws and ethical guidelines I flouted. Oh, I'm just a commoner and one of the "poor masses", so my corruption doesn't count. Now, those big baddies that use the exact same schemes I've leveraged to siphon billions. They deserve the death penalty. Unless they're from my village, state, or region and are demonstrably generous with their loot. In which case, their corruption is justified.

Now, why don't I get unemployment benefits/childcare credits/dividends (like Alaskans), universal healthcare, free education to tertiary level for my wards, and a bazillion other "dividends of democracy"?

-Lord

Kaa4:
I wish people understand the report. There are Nigerians in this country who earn more than NGN2,500,000 per month as well as those that earn NGN15,000. per month. Average is a composite figure. I think the report is credible. You can now do your math to know where to relocate to!

emmaodet:


It is not relatives abroad.
No one will be sending you money monthly for your upkeep. No one.

I am close to these people and I know it is not relatives.
Do you actually think it is interesting sending money to people on monthly basis?
Many people are making money in Nigeria, you better don't be deceived with the harshness of the economy.
How they do it, I don't know.

LagBlogger:


Don't mind the clown. Any opportunity to show that Nigerians abroad are the ones supporting Nigerians at home he will quickly jump to start spewing rubbish.

The remittances from abroad is less than 4% of GDP so how does this make sense?

To answer you, a lot of people do undercover runs in naija. Some are legit, others are not but don't underrate many people who have jobs, their job is a front to access contracts and side hustles that brings them cool cash on the side.

They won't share their secret because they don't want to lose their privilege.

But not all are legit.

emmaodet:


Don't mind that idiot "Abroad Supremacists" attitude.
They feel all Nigerians at home are suffering and the ones abroad are the one feeding everyone at home. Without them, people at home will die.
Any small thing, they will quickly point out abroad people $25b remittance as if that is what is floating the economy here.
Many remittances are even from fraud(yahoo), drugs money that needs to be cleaned back into our economy. There is even a sizeable percentage of Nigerians working from Nigeria earning dollars like the IT guys working remotely likewise many people working outside the country but mandatorily must send money home.
I work outside Nigeria, likewise hundreds of Nigerians working in Qatar, Saudi etc offshore, guys working on LNG tankers and many more industries that earn in dollars and being paid into our Dom account.
Unlike the abroad guys that may likely not send money home in months probably saving, or servicing loans abroad or trying to pay for school fees, we working outside have no choice than to send our money home on monthly basis because our family is here, Nigeria is our final destination after few months of work so our own remittance is even constant. Whether we like it or not, we have to send it home.
If 1000 Nigerians are working outside and been paid $5000 each monthly, that is $5m monthly quietly without noise and 600m dollars yearly and this will be added to abroad remittance plus fraud/yahoo money plus drug cleaner money and so more yet abroad guys won't let us rest with remittances.

Britishcoins:

Life is risky everywhere... They can sack you anyday any time...
Self employment must be expanded atleast every 2 years... If you are doing any business and not expanding u are not yet serious