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Yet some scums seat somwhere;conduct invisible random research and tell you a large percentage of Nigeria live on less than #150 daily. MayGODpunishthem#

PapaBrowne: Ok. So our average monthly spend(ARPU) on phone time is 1011 Naira. And the number of phones is 102 Million. Nice info. Luv it.

The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month.

Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot.

I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot.

Les: I miss Nitel of the good old days. If only 9ja'll bring back networks like nitel where one pays only at month ends at minimal cost, this would have been an advantage to us, afterall that's how other countries operate- USA, etc!

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Yet some scums seat somwhere;conduct invisible random research and tell you a large percentage of Nigeria live on less than #150 daily. MayGODpunishthem#

PapaBrowne: Ok. So our average monthly spend(ARPU) on phone time is 1011 Naira. And the number of phones is 102 Million. Nice info. Luv it.

The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month.

Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot.

I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot.

crackhouse: They would have given us the percentage of people that spent more. For instance 17% spent 340billion, 10% spent 60billion etc

PapaBrowne: Ok. So our average monthly spend(ARPU) on phone time is 1011 Naira. And the number of phones is 102 Million. Nice info. Luv it.

The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month.

Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot.

I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot.

manny4life:

Chill, the research is based upon an average, you know what an average is , right? Total sum of ALL variable divided by number of variables. The research is just an index of what an average Nigerian lives on, not necessarily what an individual Nigerian lives by...hope you understand the difference.

Rich Dad: @the Bold part, what more can i say? It's not really that we are poor but misplaced priorities.

obadiah777: let me tell you a story about someone i know. lived in england for 20 years. swore on his life that he will never ever step foot on nigerian soil again because he just didnt have a great time growing up as a teen in nigeria before he left for london ( where he was born ). so for 20 years he never step foot in nigeria. then by some mere coincidence he was invited to nigeria by a family member that he liked so much. this was 2009. when he set foot on naija soil. after 2 weeks in nigeria he decided that he hates britain and he is never going back again. he took a trip to britain, sold all his stuff and relocated to nigeria. he cant stop singing the praise of nigeria everytime i talk to him. he hates britain now. when he goes there he says after a few hours he wants to return back to naija. funny story ? LOL but true

manny4life:

Bros your calculation is VERY Faulty, and the reason why is that, YOU CANNOT compare apple to oranges. The world bank figures is estimated at 70% of the population NOT 100% while 102million phones NOT subscribers. I can begin to tell you why your calculation are JUST WRONG...

Sealeddeal: ....you think its lie.u may nt have travelled around nigeria.up to 40percent of nigerians doesnt feed well on daily basis.

dmainboss:

Please the research is a fraud. It was actually carried out by a combination of government, NGOs and UN. The problem is that the 3 groups I just listed have an interest and the favourable report for all of them is the one they released

manny4life:

How is a fraud exactly? That they exaggerated figures or made up figures, or what exactly? I fail to see how it's fraud, PLEASE enlighten me

dmainboss:

How is his calculation wrong? Are you saying okada people and bus drivers are not in the 70%(report actually says 80%)? Then who constitutes the 80%? Even vulcanizers and many market women make above 2k per day.

dmainboss:

Please please bros, don't bring this argument. For you info, the poor or middle class spend more time on the phone than the rich. Most rich men I know don't stay long on the phone. Especially the enlightened ones. The highest selling recharge cards are the 100 and 200 denominations. Even if you assume that the rich call a lot, how much time can a single individual spend on calls in a day? And their calls are even cheaper because most of them are on some kind of call booster plans. The bitter truth is, Nigerians are not as poor as all those reports say. Some of us have been saying it for long. We just suffer basic amenities and harsh living environments but we aint really so poor.

manny4life:

Look, that's why I said his calculation is wrong.

First, there's a difference between revenue and income although both are earnings. What the world bank said is, "lives on $2pd" which is net income, NOT revenues.

Secondly, like I stated, he claimed "102million phones", which I said is "VAGUE", because 102million phones doesn't state the true/actual number of subscribers. Hypothetically speaking if one subscriber has 2phones, technically, that's 51million true subscribers and you can evaluate the subscribers base upon the WBG figures.

Thirdly, he said "The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month." How can you equate 70% of true population (lives), against number of phones, rather than subscribers? Secondly, if it's on subscribers level, that's still @ 63.75%, if we recalculate and adjust the 63.75 to 70% (about 6.25% points) to other variables, we can see his calculation is way off course.

Fourthly, he claimed "Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot." How come does he use the word "AVERAGE", then again, say "the poor", isn't the average supposedly "Wealthy" + "Rich" + "Average" + "Poor" + "Beyond Poor and Homeless"/by all these variables? If he wants to go by "POOR" index, like someone suggested, that's a totally different calculation altogether. A different survey should suggest different income levels as against cell card purchase.

Fifth, he said "I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot." I can't stress this enough, this is their revenues, NOT income. Don't these folks have fixed/variable + overhead expenses? Come on now, this isn't the true state of things, if we have to calculate things, LET'S BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES.

crackhouse: is that what u think?

dmainboss:

Maybe you don't live in naija or maybe you live in gra and don't move around. So I will repeat what he said to you. An okada man goes home with an average of 4k at the end of everyday. All expenses paid. A danfo driver goes hone with over 10k everyday after all expenses paid. That is their profit for the day. If you don't believe it, go to the streets yourself and find out. Don't just read stories from newspapers and UN.

manny4life:

So you're trying to convice me that an okada man makes about N72,000 monthly after all expenses removed? Yet we talk about unemployment, WOW. Well I guess fuel subsidy shouldn't be a problem after all because going by the usual 70/30 ratio, they're are making about N95,000 monthly... NICE

ocman: This is just a clear proof that Nigeria is a talkative country. We talk too much and do less. much words, less action. That is why we are this way. Millions of words and No action. Billions of words in campaign manifestos and lofty promises, yet nothing...we brag on how to tackle boko haram yet nothing to show. Obama said just few words about osama bin laden, the rest was action

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