Chidolalar:

Is dat 1500 dollars too big to afford or small for d apartment u are staying
And what makes u say or feel food is cheap over there in USA

henrimoto:
...Is he coming back to the country with an empty hand. ? I guess he must have raised some good amount of capital to start up with .

Kylekent59:
You bought fuel #165 and you earned 30k in 2017

You still bought fuel #200 and you still earned 30k in 2020

You now buy fuel #550 and you are still earning 30k in 2023 till date...

Nigeria is hell...

Very unfair.

Even I that earn #970k a month am complaining, talk more of someone earning #30k

FOJEM:
Na lie! Nobody dey suffer for Nigeria!!!!
No create panic abeg!!!
If I enter filling station, na 200 Naira per litre Dem they sell to me. I dey pay 150 Naira for spaghetti, 100 Naira for Peak milk, my children dey pay 5K as school fees, I dey buy cement for 1,500 Naira.
I dey enjoy 24 hours of electricity at 25 Naira per unit, my siblings whey just finish NYSC, Dem don get better jobs.
My own business self dey boom.
Wetin come remain?

JeffreyJunior:
You are even going too far.

A relative reached out to me the other day for help via WhatsApp saying his family was starving. I called him later on and he was at a bar drinking. I said haa, uncle you still see money to dey drink beer and he responded saying "I'm drinking to forget the too many problems in this country".

I was furious at that point. I respectfully told him, do you know if you had saved money you spent on two bottles of beer, that's dinner money right there.

The thing is that Nigerians hate to make adjustments. Small thing, they start begging for help when all they need is just little adjustment and everything will be fine.

What they don't realize is that their family members abroad work round the clock and deny themselves some good things of life just to make extra and send back home whereas they the recipients don't want to deny themselves anything.

They do owambe all the time and still expect you that don't have the liberty to do an owambe to sponsor their own owambe. No be juju be that?

Sukkyy2010:
please I also have in mind to do the same as you did but I don't know how to get in touch with widows, please is there anyway one can get widows in any geographical area or do they have organization?, How did you got contact with them?. I'll be very glad if you share me some clues or ways I can get contact with them. Thanks in anticipation.

Chidolalar:

Is dat 1500 dollars too big to afford or small for d apartment u are staying
And what makes u say or feel food is cheap over there in USA

FreeStuffsNG:

If what you have described above is suffering then you can never cope in Lagos from 1985 to 1998 niyen.

You are indeed the privileged generation who can buy phones, data and still come on Nairaland to while away time and even insult, cyberbully anyone who types a contrary opinion when you should be on a site carrying ponpon and embracing real VIRTUE of hardwork!

In your generation, someone who is suffering is someone who will rather beg for food and trek rather than give off social media. Nonsense and ingredient! You guys will be alright o las las because the era of lazy youth is gone! Asiwaju will not even call you lazy, he will force you to think , work and create solution to real social problems in exchange for money.

Mummyimbecile:
its too big 4 d apartment, a house built 1925. Everyone who isn't economical with the truth knows that food is cheap here.

I said its cheap here because I see it is

THUNDER4real:
Food is the cheapest thing one can afford in the US, car payments and mortgage are the main Koko.

Nice2023:
If you are living abroad and have some families here in Nigeria,pls don't hesitate to reach out to your brothers,sisters,uncles and aunties here in Nigeria.

The situation on ground is so bad that u see people groaning and talking to themselves,well kitted men and women turned cunny beggars just to meet up with daily activities.

Most families that I know have dump their cars especially here in Abuja. When u move around the city,u will see the situation on ground.

The subsidy removal has affected everything including the way of life of many people here in Nigeria. In my office today,many guys now come to office few times in a week just to cushion the effects of the subsidy removal.

Now that the electricity tariff is about to go up...I wonder how people would cope going forward.

And for those who feel everything is normal,just wait it will soon go round,no one would be spared.

teepain:



Funny enough, if you know what abroad people, UK especially, are going through right now

JeffreyJunior:
You are even going too far.

A relative reached out to me the other day for help via WhatsApp saying his family was starving. I called him later on and he was at a bar drinking. I said haa, uncle you still see money to dey drink beer and he responded saying "I'm drinking to forget the too many problems in this country".

I was furious at that point. I respectfully told him, do you know if you had saved money you spent on two bottles of beer, that's dinner money right there.

The thing is that Nigerians hate to make adjustments. Small thing, they start begging for help when all they need is just little adjustment and everything will be fine.

What they don't realize is that their family members abroad work round the clock and deny themselves some good things of life just to make extra and send back home whereas they the recipients don't want to deny themselves anything.

They do owambe all the time and still expect you that don't have the liberty to do an owambe to sponsor their own owambe. No be juju be that?

nairalanda1:
Nigeria's problem is simple.

Before I go there, this article that OP has written, was said 40, 30, even 10 years ago. Nigerians have always been suffering badly and people are always complaining about how bad it is. Infact, it has never been good.

Nigeria's problem is simple.

We rely on oil revenue

Our oil revenue is not enough to pay for 14 million people, talkless of 220 million people.

We use oil revenue for everything, including things we should be using real live tax revenue.

We rely on the sale of raw materials whose prices we do not set.

We are not a manufacturing exporter...or an exporter of manufactured goods and services, whose prices we can set.



Either we fix the above, or in twenty years time, people would be saying tinubu's government was the good old days when people enjoyed.

Chidolalar:

Have u been in d US to know these?
Ok so like how much is d lowest cost of a plate food over there in US?
I guess paying rents and bills is d major problem that drains whatever money someone is making over there?

Chidolalar:

U earn 970k a month? Are u just catching cruise or serious

Kylekent59:
You bought fuel #165 and you earned 30k in 2017

You still bought fuel #200 and you still earned 30k in 2020

You now buy fuel #550 and you are still earning 30k in 2023 till date...

Nigeria is hell...

Very unfair.

Even I that earn #970k a month am complaining, talk more of someone earning #30k

bluefilm:
I don't believe this.

How can people be suffering when they now have agbado and cassava to eat from morning till nite?

omoadeleye:




What do you mean that it will go round?

So you are part of the people that always pray for the predicament you're suffering for you to feel relax ba?

Gerrard59:
OP,

Nothing new. Things are hard everywhere, but the difference is how the extent people go to trim costs. Many Nigerians are still thinking of hosting parties, expensive burial ceremonies, weddings, birthday bashes, buying expensive phones etc. To cap it, having plenty of children yanfu-yanfu. To be honest, I do not think Nigerians, especially in Southern Nigeria, are suffering o. Instagram and Facebook pictures tell a different story.

isArray:
Yes, but the government has failed to provide stable electricity and good transport system/network so how will this person survive? Without a generator at least, let's forget car

staga:


Another typical Nigerian just regurgitating government propaganda.

Where are the figures to back up what you are saying? Some of you just repeat garbage you hear on TV without sitting down to reason and ask questions.

Kukutenla:

Are you never tired of telling lies

Nice2023:
If you are living abroad and have some families here in Nigeria,pls don't hesitate to reach out to your brothers,sisters,uncles and aunties here in Nigeria.

The situation on ground is so bad that u see people groaning and talking to themselves,well kitted men and women turned cunny beggars just to meet up with daily activities.

Most families that I know have dump their cars especially here in Abuja. When u move around the city,u will see the situation on ground.

The subsidy removal has affected everything including the way of life of many people here in Nigeria. In my office today,many guys now come to office few times in a week just to cushion the effects of the subsidy removal.

Now that the electricity tariff is about to go up...I wonder how people would cope going forward.

And for those who feel everything is normal,just wait it will soon go round,no one would be spared.

paymentvoucher:
You have contributed nothing.

talented321:
Work according to the condition of the country and you will be fine.

henrimoto:
...Is he coming back to the country with an empty hand. ? I guess he must have raised some good amount of capital to start up with .

DeeBaDan:



Are you in UK currently ?