₦airaland Forum

budaatum:
7Up was 10 kobo in 1974. We drank it on special occasions only because ma said the sugar was no good, though I'm certain it was because she could not afford it on her about ₦150 salary a month, and her saving for cement. I had a friend though who'd guzzle like 4, a bottle in one gulp just to show he could. He's invested in diabetics now, I'm told.

DeloitteNG:
This 7UP bottle cap says ₦25.

There was a time in Nigeria when ₦25 could buy a bottle of soft drink.

Today, that same bottle costs hundreds of naira.

Inflation in one picture.

Think about it:

₦25 soft drinks
₦5 sweets
₦10 biscuits
₦100 felt like real money

Now ₦1,000 disappears in minutes.

This isn’t just nostalgia it’s a reminder of how drastically the value of money has changed in Nigeria.

If you remember those days, drop a comment with something that used to be cheap but is expensive today.

Lovelink1991:
For every relationship to work perfectly well, both parties must not keep secret, must share the past experiences to each other so that true love can last.

A young man just call off his wedding on the wedding day after discovering the past secret of his wife-to-be.

The scene was so dramatic even as the wife-to-be was keep on crawling and begging with her wedding gown


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHwH1MfrH7Q?si=bNAkU4orB_VlkwLT

Dpsychologist:
There is a funny cycle many people ignore until it stops benefiting them.

When many women were in their early twenties, a lot of them did not want men their age. They called their male age mates “small boys.” They preferred older men who were more established, more confident, and financially stable.

At that time, nobody called it a problem.

A 22 year old woman dating a 35 year old man was often seen as normal. Sometimes it was even encouraged. Friends would say she was “smart” for choosing maturity and stability.

Fast forward ten or fifteen years.

Those same men who were once the “small boys” are now in their mid thirties. They have careers, experience, and more confidence. Now many of them choose women in their twenties.

Suddenly the conversation changes.

Now people say it is unfair.
Now people say it is manipulation.
Now people say men should date their age mates.

But here is the uncomfortable truth.

Adults are free to choose the partners they want.

If a 24 year old woman chooses a 35 year old man, that is her decision. If a 35 year old man chooses a 25 year old woman, that is also his decision. Both are adults making choices.

What often fuels the argument is not morality. It is timing.

When people benefit from a system, they rarely complain about it. When the same system no longer favors them, they suddenly see the problem.

Now about the idea of the “perfect age gap.”

There is no universal formula.

Some couples are the same age and thrive.
Some couples have a ten year gap and thrive.
Some couples fail regardless of the age difference.

What actually sustains relationships is not the number between birthdays.

It is maturity.
Shared values.
Respect.
And the ability to build a life together.

Age can influence compatibility, but it does not automatically determine success or failure.

At the end of the day, attraction and partnership are personal choices.

Everyone wants the best partner they believe they can get.

The real lesson is simple.

Be honest about your preferences, and allow others the same freedom.

richiemcgold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG1VNSCsP5Q

DaddyJapan:
What are you on about?

1 litre of petrol was priced between 9 kobo and 15 Kobo in 1977.
With inflation, 9 kobo is worth 19.43 Naira today.

Cost of a 2024 Peugeot 508 approx 13.8 Million Naira.

In 1977, today's 13.8 Million Naira was ₦6,392.07 - the equivalent of three years' wages for the average worker at the time.

Source: Deepseek Ai.

agentarcher:
Those same country complain as well. UK nurses have gone on strikes multiple times cause of wages, teacher union have gone on strike multiple times. Nigerians greatly suffer from inferior complex. From the day we are born we have been told western countries are heaven and Africa is hell fire. Our education system and religious system are aimed at programming us to japa. The same Nigeria we say is bad is where foreigners come and make it and go. Most poor Nigerians are from the North. In the south there is no money but hotels are booked on the weekends, clubs are booming, prostitution is a booming industry. Major importation of goods is entering the country, you find a lot of Nigerians on the Internet being able to afford data. Most modern Nigerians are just frustrated cause they sold a lie that going to school and getting a certificate was going to make life easy for them. Even in the same abroad they run to they end with depression, mass loneliness, doing third class citizens jobs. When they get to a certain advanced age, thanks to social media they come online to rant about how they feel they have not accomplished anything or how their spouse left them due to difficulties faced. I work IT in an international community, just like we rant about our society, they rant. The difference is they don't see going to another nation as the fix, they try to educate themselves on why their society changes and how they adapt or change it back. In Japan what did the men do when wages couldn't support a family? They gave up on getting married and having children. There was a report that was out that Caucasian men in western countries have reduced the numbers or children they have or just don't have one. Resulting increase demand of migrants to fill up work force. The number of people on social support keeps on increasing, is that a good sign? Social experts have predicted a global collapse is coming soon. USA has already rolled out lab grown and synthetic foods to try and keep up with the food demands of the low income class. It's even on tik tok, people in USA have been posting about how the standards of food have slowly degraded. You have your phone and the Internet. Research global inflation and it's impact.

nairalanda1:
Okay where to start....and note that I am not defending APC.

1.Your average car today has more components than the average car did in 1977. Hence today's cars would cost you far more than they did in 1977.

A ford car would cost 3000-4000 dollars in 1977 in the USA...today, it would range between 28000-90000 dollars in the same USA.(Ford makes exxceedingly good cars by the way, then and now).

2. Most Nigerians won't have been able to afford that car. Either your working place gave you a car loan (which had to be paid back..this was not free money) or you borrowed money from a bank . Very few people would have gone to a bank to drop money for a car.

As for saving, yes, it was possible, but hard. Harder when you were looking after a family.

3. Nigeria was benefitting from an oil boom then...and back then, the government was begining the bad habits that led us to where we are today...like subsidsing dollars, roundtripping and so forth. And overimporting. (Note that we were wasting forex importing all the components of the car to assemble here in nigeria. Innoson today at least manufactures a significant amount of components for his cars here in Nigeria).

4. Even then, most people were poor and broke back then. Again, only a tiny minority would have been able to buy a new car. Not everybody. Unless you graduated from university and had a job either for government or for very lucrative private sector companies, forget about buying new car.

5. We were making cars in Nigeria then, ..scratch that, assembling them....but most of the components were imported from abroad. SO long as we had high oil prices, Nigeria could manage to do it, but once the oil price crashed in 1982..problems started. By 1990, some 13 years after, a similar brand new car would have cost you anywhere between 400000-1million naira tops. And even when we were assembling cars here, people were importing tokunbo from oversease. (They used to call them belgium car).

6. Nigeria's problem is that we are a resource dependent economy. And that is why APC and all your past governments are a disgrace, and until we vote in a government that is ready to take us off resource dependency, car go cost 100 million naira in ten years, and we would be calling tinubu time the good old days.

7. Even if Nigeria had been run by good leaders who would have made us make the cars at home, inflation happens whether your government is good or bad. NO car would be costing N1000 today even then.

bentenny:
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With due respect,you wasted your time with this epistles just to defend Tinubu but ended up justifying my stance!
You went memory lane to blame past presidents and parties for not fixing or building a single refinery and yet you forgot presidents are elected to fix a problem not to complain about the inaction of the predecessors!
So wny did Buhari under apc not fix or even build a single refinery yet saudi arabia built two refineries during that regime?
why did Tinubu who was part of Buhari administration not attempt to even start building a refinery when it was obvious that we needed one knowing that a private own refinery like dangote is only in business?
All i see here are as usual excuses for the incompetence of your paymaster! Simple!


Has the so called influence yielded dividends to Nigeria in terms of cheaper PMS or LPG?
Do you now purchase cheaper PMS now in lagos state?
Let Tinubu also use his so called influence to build refineries as the minister of petroleum.
Influence must be cascaded to the masses not rotated around his friends!

RandDigital:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFrQ_Y4qT_w?si=CHqwNeJ8ORDuWVdV

nairalanda1:
1. And basically, they are suffering a lot of pain right now under tinubu subsidy removal. You know the above argument you are making essentially also confirms that tinubu is suffering nigerians right now, and GEJ was right to keep subsides.

2. Even then, let's be honest, removing subsidy in 2012 ...even 1993. YES...fuel prices would have gone up....but by now we would have had more refineries online , and more jobs, and more saved money.

GEJ keeping subsidy was the main reason why we got into so much debt, and buhari retaining it...worsened the matter. By August 2022, debt servicing was eating most of our revneue, and we were borrowing to the max. All that could have been avoided or reduced if subsidy went in 2012...




Because who is going to invest in new refineries when subsidy is in place.?

Dangote got away with it, because if the refinery he built failed with a subsidy in place, investors and banks will take over his other businesses and pay themselves their money.

Otherwise, it makes no sense to build a refinery so long as subsides are in place. The plan for the greenfield refineries came around 2009/10. Subsidy removal would have made it even possible. BUt you guys said no.





Yeah, so. That's what a governor is supposed to do. Doesn't make tinubu a good leader, any mpre than GEJ who helped get the initial loans for dangote, or Buhari who also leaned on CBN to add more loans to dangote for the refinery.

A broken clock is right two times a day.



And keeping the subsidy worsend the debt we have. And made us lose four good refineries, because there was no money for TAM. Remember subsidy has been around since 1973. TO cut costs, government statrted skimping on TAM and expansions and upgrade costs. Result of oil money not being enough to fund everything here. See...the issue goes way back. THAT IS WHY SUBSIDY SHOULD HAVE GONE IN 1993...but then most people said no. The first TAM skipped was in 1994.

Plus, aren't Nigerians suffering (lol). Even then, subsidy should have gone...the problem was most nigerians forced it to remain for too long...and that includes their leaders. And the debt has worsened the suffering.




You are contradiciting yourself. You say buhari refused to remove subsidy because he did not want nigerians to suffer, you also said THAT If gej had removed subsides, Nigerians would have suffered, now you are here telling me that they all did it for elections?

Plus keeping subsides since 1993, when they should have gone, is a big part of why we don't have functional NNPC refineries...as stated earlier.

Originalsly:
God bless Donald Trump .... a man who never read the Bible ... the only US President who has not put his hand on the Bible to swear in ... the US President that has teamed up with the Satanist ....

Netanyahu.. ígod bless him indeed.

nairalanda1:
1. Saudi produces nearly ten times more oil than Nigeria and has 40 million people, that's why they can build refineries easily. They have the revenue to do so...because they are not carrying 200 million people for their country (and before you say they have good leaders..the corruption there no be small)

Nigeria? Even if we get good government wey go share oil money like how, 230 million people sharing 1.6 million bpd revenue means nothing for new refinery.

We are not saudi. Unless you want to deprive every nigerian of citizenship, except for 8 million of us.

2. Buhari used our crude to borrow money...so that he could pay subsidies for you people. There is a reason why some of us where shouting in 2012 that GEJ wanted to remove subsidy for a good reason, you people told us to shut up. Tor...Nigerians want subsidy, and Buhari did what could only be done with low oil prices for most of his regime...borrow. (He was also too proud to admit he was wrong in 2012). By 2022, debt service was eating 90% of oil revenue. The same oil revenue wey we suppose use pay for subsidy.

nairalanda1:
Because we are an OPEC member and have to sell oil, even internally, at OPEC Prices

And because we bororwed a lot of money, including to pay for subsidy in times past, the debt is such that bringing back subsidies is going to crash our economy in a few months.

UAE produces 2.4 million bpd and has 15 million people, Saudi produces 10 million bpd and has 40 million people. They can build refineries, afford subsides, and suchlike. Nigeria at 230 million people, with 1.6 million bpd cannot.

Unless Nigeria was an industrialized naiton with good tax uptake.





Because we are an OPEC member, and because we have to sell oil by OPEC Prices...also PIA...that law that Buhari signed, essentially states the same thing.

Selling below OPEC prices would put many oil drillers out of money.



Tor in 2012, we should have removed subsidy, and by now maybe we won't have had to take the loans we took until 2023 to pay for keeping fuel cheap then.

bentenny:
This is all on the apc led federal government.

Buhari had 8 solid years to build at least 2 refineries that would have been serving nigerians but they were all waiting for dangote!

Tinubu used billions of dollars to repair two refineries which turned out to be a scam and a channel for embezzlement!

Interestingly,Saudi arabia during the regime of Buhari,built two new refineries!
In 2026,we have no business importing or depending on the monopoly of dangote refineries!

Unfortunately,its not dangote's fault as most of the crude oil he gets are imported!

Maxymilliano:
https://punchng.com/breaking-again-dangote-refinery-hikes-petrol-price-to-n1175/

Hmalic:
May God help us in this country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV3mueIUOrs?si=i-_VyGULhAWIOX66

AnonPoet:
UBA Business Series Set to Spotlight Africa’s New Generation of Female Leaders During Women’s Month




https://msmeafricaonline.com/uba-to-empower-women-with-special-gen-w-the-evolved-woman-business-series/

GameGod:
2 indeed. There's heavy censorship in Israel

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— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) March 7, 2026

Newsgeek24:
Investigators with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have reportedly traced several high-value properties in Egypt allegedly linked to former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

Sources within the anti-graft agency disclosed that the properties, believed to be worth billions of naira, were allegedly acquired between 2021 and 2023.

According to investigators familiar with the inquiry, the assets are located in upscale districts of New Cairo, a fast-growing suburb of Cairo known for luxury estates and gated residential communities.

The properties under scrutiny are said to be located in some of the area’s most exclusive residential estates, including Arabella Estate, Banafsek Estate, Oriana Estate and Cairo Festival City.

Investigators revealed that villas in estates such as Cairo Festival City and Arabella reportedly sell for between 50 million and 200 million Egyptian pounds, equivalent to about ₦5.3 billion, while luxury apartments can cost around 26 million Egyptian pounds, roughly ₦700 million.

One of the properties being investigated is a villa reportedly located at House No. 113 in Arabella Estate in the Fifth Settlement district of New Cairo.

Another villa allegedly linked to the former governor is said to be located at House No. 18 in Banafsek Estate in the First Settlement area, while another property in Oriana II Estate near the American University in Cairo is also being examined.

Investigators are also looking into several apartments within the high-end Cairo Festival City development, including Units 514, 515, 516 and 517.

Two additional apartments in Oriana Estate, reportedly numbered 4000 and 4100, are also part of the ongoing investigation.

An official involved in the probe said the commission is currently analysing intelligence reports and tracing ownership structures linked to the properties.

“We are analysing intelligence reports and attempting to trace the ownership structure of the properties. The process involves verifying property registries and financial trails,” the source said.

Officials noted that the investigation involves diplomatic and legal procedures because the assets are located outside Nigeria.

Efforts to obtain comments from El-Rufai’s family were unsuccessful at the time of filing this report, while the ICPC has yet to issue an official statement on the matter.
https://verynigerian.com/icpc-traces-alleged-multi-billion-naira-properties-linked-to-el-rufai-in-egypt/

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— /\/\|)ee🦁 (@Mr_Md33_) March 7, 2026

Newsgeek24:
See previous thread

https://www.nairaland.com/8631004/daylight-robbery-minna-victim-fights

A tense robbery attempt in Minna, Niger State, took a shocking turn when a bank customer reportedly snatched a gun from one of the armed robbers and shot him.


The moment was captured on video and is now circulating widely online.

VIDEO: Moment bank customer snatched gun, shot armed robber in Minna

Credit: AIT
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Follow for more breaking news video pic.twitter.com/iQDWISivlY

— Very Nigerian (@theverynigerian) March 7, 2026

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L9WzTkbGWo?si=WWHppITNx-OH4fbb



Previous thread https://www.nairaland.com/8631370/moment-bank-customer-snatched-gun

Segunbabba:
https://thesun.ng/2027-election-will-be-nigerians-vs-bad-leadership-obi/

Rapmoney:
Angry youths in Edo State descended on the Women's Day decorations made by the Edo State Government, yesterday 8 March, 2026 in Benin City. It seems the youths in Edo hold a strong resentment for Monday Okpebholo and anything concerning APC.

See the video here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_nb04TxMY4

Source: WarriParrot

Kaliningrad:
Russia Gifts Madagascar 2 Helicopters, 6 Military Trucks & Food Items.


🔗 Viory

naptu2:
Nigeria bought a lot of military equipment when I was a kid. This was especially so in the period between 1975 and 1985 (when most of the orders were made).

The military governments of that era made it seem as if Nigeria was under threat of imminent attack. Therefore they took steps to protect our national assets. I knew all these facilities that the military governments were trying to protect and I knew which unit was responsible for protecting what.

For example, the Kainji Dam was Nigeria's biggest powet plant at the time (it was later surpassed by the Egbin Power Plant). The Federal Military Government built an air force base at Kainji (with its own runway), it built an army base and it deployed air defence systems to protect the dam. Air defence systems were also deployed to protect the international airports in Lagos and Kano.

I became interested in these things when someone that was in the navy told me that the Nigerian Navy's sea to air missiles were kept at a particular location in Apapa. This was in the early 1980s.

In fact, back then, critics of the Federal Military Government accused the government of spending more on weapons than on education and healthcare.

Nigeria suffered an economic crisis that began in 1982. Military spending reduced after that. Things became worse after the June 12, 1993 elections were annulled. Many countries subsequently imposed sanctions on the Nigerian Military. The supply of military equipment dried up (apart from the 1988 Vickers Main Battle Tank contract).


In more recent times Chinese and European companies have been competiting for contracts to upgrade Nigeria's air defence systems. The Federal Government wants to replace those air defence systems of my childhood and the Chinese and European companies are presenting a range of medium and long range missiles and radar systems. (I have previously created threads about Nigerian officials inspecting these systems in Europe and China).

The military is also working on a total military radar coverage of Nigeria (MTRACON) and these new systems will be used to achieve the objective.

This thread will contain photos and videos of the air defence systems from my childhood and of the new air defence systems that the Nigerian military is considering.