₦airaland Forum

highchief1:
for me otedola is a failure.when u r chasing money in life make sure you are chasing other things too.

I think he is a good parent

I might not like his cronyism

But he got it right when it comes to parenting

princepee:
this girls don grow o.
But why Mikel no wan marry their mother naw?
Abi him dey fear marriage?
This Mikel dey use Igbo sense!
And the guy blood strong die .
Biko Mikel even if you no wan marry abeg give her another Belle two girls are not enough.
You need Male children you still bi Igbo Man ooo

What kind of moronic talk is this

NigeriaIsGreat:
igbos and hate na 5&6

No wonder everybody no like una

This one is stupid

nokia1000:
I am fully regretting marrying my wife. She is always right and doesn't take corrections.
She doesn't have sex drive. Prefer sleeping alone that she doesn't want someone body to touch her.
She is not serious in anything that can generate money.
I have made a lifetime mistake. Sometimes I feel like committing suicide to get free from regretting. I am seeing myself going down slowly.

Damn....
So sorry to hear this

This Definitely feels like being in prison

Shutupthere:
Your success anywhere in the world is dependent on your grit and growth mindset mentality. I put it to you that earning 700k in the Nigerian space (with insecurity, poor health care and shi..tty infrastructure) and going all out to hustle to the top in the UK . The UK would still be a better choice except you don’t know your onion

Facts

agbari1:
Factually, Obi lacks the structure to win this presidential election. He Both Atiku and Obi fish in the same voters pond. They both belonged to PDP. Obi's vote will affect the votes of Atiku negatively. Under the strong structures of PDP and APC, labour party may not win any state for governor. I doubt whether the party will get any senatorial win. The aloofness of 5 PDP governors is an advantage to Tinubu APC and a negation to PDP Atiku.

Na lie oOoOO
With Buhari no longer on the ballot
The enthusiasm to vote in the APC is not there in the north.

That's a fact that Agbadorians will soon realise next year

Moh247:
Good one, you don dey wail already

I am. Loving your tears


Ipobs were created in Nigeria never to rule but to be opposition always complaining

This one is very Stoopid

zionstaar75:
I laugh when I see this kind of posts,by next February when a fresh 8 years marginalisation starts for u guys as u have isolated yourself in this country, I hope your brain will reset properly.

Stupid talk
Who has "isolated themselves"

In the real world we have many many many Igbo people going about their daily lives being productive and building wealth for themselves and their descendants behind them

While foo.ls like you only derive self esteem from "having someone of your ethnic group" (who btw don't give a fvck about your existence) in the corridors of power.

Regardless of what happens in the political space; the hustle continues.

aktolly54:
wetin legit hard working man like you dey find for club in the first place? Hmm....lol

Good question

riverbird:
Those people are highly insecure so they always look for who to use in satisfying Thier insecurities and I like the way people ignore them when they start playing Thier tribalism card, no one takes them serious.

Dullards
That's what they all are

Nobody is calling out his ethnic group now ooo
But of it is an Igbo person now
Everywhere go full

KanuSE:
Who are the poor Nigerians , is it the people that don't even know how to vote for credible people but criminals.

The poor Nigerians are the architect of their own problems.

Your second paragraph is very true

MALIGNANTGuest:
Those who said you can't give what you don't have did not lie. NIGERIANS have always proven them to be correct

True

It's good for all of you
Una think say una wise

Pwettylinda:
Nigerians are the most stupid people I have seen on earth.

Nigerians are so so so stupid

How do we get to be educated yet install foolish leaders and keep crying

Nigerian Refineries that doesn't produce any thing keep gulping huge sum of cash

People are going to work everyday in the refineries and taking salaries monthly for doing nothing

That's the most level of stupidity

It's black people in general

We have a brain

But we just cannot use it to think critically
Only tribalism and religiousity

tivta:
Shameless girl. Instead of her to make her own money like davido, she is busy collecting gifts from her dad like a spoilt brat.
The prayer of every parent is for their children to be more successful than them, i guess that can never happen with the otedola family...

What sort of rubbish are you saying ?

First
She is a girl; and you know what they say about Daddy's girls

Two she has tried a new path independent of her parents route... She has made a name as DJ CUPPY more than Florence Otedola


Three she is living the life most wretched and frustrated Nigerians cam only DREAM of hence the lot of hate and vile directed towards her

jedisco:
You write from experience and with facts...
Relativity is important. Dangote saying he's broke and an average Nigerian saying same do not mean thesame thing.
Most of the things the western media would be agog about and folks overseas would complain about are things we'd not even bother with in Nigeria... e.g inflation of 10%, forcing out a PM because he went for a party during lockdown, 'heatwave' of 35 C. e.t.c.

Lastly, when folks say Nigeria is the best place for someone with money to 'enjoy', ask them what enjoyment means and you'd be surprised.

To them it means being lawless; being above the law and being above most poverty stricken people around them that they will now exploit

Rubbish

IbeOkehie:
This is seriously funny. Please there's data about economic conditions in Nigeria, this isn't like 25 years ago. Let's quote some of them offhand -

* Only about 0.5% of Nigerian workers earn over ₦200K per month, about 95% of bank accounts contain less than ₦500K. Only 7% of Lagosians have running water in their homes...imagine the rest of the country. Life expectancy in Nigeria is about 60 years for men. That last one has been hitting home for me recently because I personally know 5 relatively healthy acquittances who left the USA & UK to live in Nigeria in the last 4 years and died from one emergency health issue or another. One just happened in Lagos LAST WEEK, the man had a heart attack and was stuck in traffic for 6 hours and died inside the car taking him to the hospital. This is someone that many of his friends had repeatedly advised him to come back to the USA. It just makes concrete the reality that choosing between Nigeria & the UK can be a matter of life and death.

I used to be a hospital lab technician. There's something called platelet concentrate that is sometimes used for babies born with some sort of haemoatology problem. When I moved back to Nigeria in 2011, I was at the FMC Hospital in Owerri when a child was born. The doctor on duty determined that the baby needed platelet concentrate. It was not available ANYWHERE. And the baby died. This is a product we used to throw away like water at my USA workplace because it has an 8 hour shelf life. The standing procedure is to have it available at all times just in case of a neonatal crisis. But in Nigeria it was NOWHERE to be found. The doctor cried and I cried too. It's not that babies don't die in the USA or UK, it's that they don't die cheaply. By the way, the son of a serving Federal Minister also died of the same thing some years ago, he had a crisis and needed a blood product that wasn't available in Nigeria. He died in an air ambulance on the way to the UK. Unfortunately I can't put their grief out here in public, but it's a lesson on how precarious life has become that someone so highly placed can't even save themselves. So much for living the good life in Nigeria.

Simply put, your chances of staying alive are higher in the West, period.



Yes there are people earning millions of dollars in Nigeria, I know a few field engineers in the oil & gas industry or top bankers or people working remotely for big IT companies. Yes, they are there but the more important point is that the numbers of such people in Nigeria are so few as to be negligible. They're a statistically insignificant number and their situation is getting more precarious with each passing year.

I know TWO highly placed families in Nigeria where both parents and ADULT CHILDREN and spouses and grandchildren have moved from Nigeria into the town where I live. These are people who live in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Maitama, who work at major oil & gas companies, banks and are in politics. They pulled up EVERYTHING and abandoned Nigeria. I don't live in a major city so imagine the number that are migrating to London, New York or Houston. The last push for one of them was being REPEATEDLY robbed in Abuja after fleeing the same problem in Lagos years before. The woman told me this personally.

These are people who know what is going on in Nigeria and they're leaving! It's not always about MONEY, it's also about quality of life and peace of mind. The elites of Nigeria - the perm secs, federal directors, academic elites, business moguls, top politicians - are a disgrace to the Black Race. I like the way things are going now, many of them are being forced to flee the results of their own idiocy, now in the West they have to rub shoulders with their victims on an equal basis. And everything I see tells me it's going to get worse.



What is the deception? It's telling that ORDINARY LOWER MIDDLE CLASS life depicted on Facebook is viewed as exaggerated luxury by Nigerians. I know many Nigerians who have been working low wage jobs for over 25 years and they all own homes in good neighborhoods and MULTIPLE cars and their kids are university graduates working good jobs. Most if not all of them have scrimped and saved to build homes in Nigeria too.
However much they spend in UK it's still enough to send plenty of money to their relatives in Nigeria.

This very topic is what brought me to Nairaland. I was SHOCKED to read people mocking the standard of living in the Anglo countries. I came to the USA with zero money, my plane ticket was bought with borrowed money. I started life working illegally in a restaurant. I know for a fact that even back then, working in that restaurant, I was better off than 99% of people in Nigeria. Summary - if I can live a good life in the West, most people can achieve it too.

I'm in the Nigerian community, I hear of people moving to UK all the time, I see people coming into my community every week, every month both illegally and legally, married with children and single, rich and poor. Even when they're starting from scratch, within a year or two they have fully paid off used car they couldn't dream of having in Nigeria, they live in apartments - maybe with a single roommate - with running water, flush toilet and 24 hour electricity. Breathing fresh air with no dust and generator fumes. They can walk the street with confidence, no police checkpoints, they can drive for hours on the highway with no fear of being waylaid by armed robbers or kidnapped. Those are things that are not guaranteed even in Lekki Phase Zero or VGC.

A Professor, a scion of one of the most prominent families in my ancestral village, was kidnapped right in front of his house in Nigeria. The kidnappers collected their 40million and still killed him.

Good thing too Nigerians going to the West now are learning to do manual work like landscaping, computer wiring/network setups, auto mechanics and mobile car wash, cooking food and selling from their homes, sewing clothes & shoe repair, so having papers is not even as much a problem as before. Honestly I wish I had such skills when I arrived here, life would have been a lot easier. There's a woman who sells Nigerian food that we patronize often, we buy like one week worth of food at a time. When you go to pick up at her home you can see they're VERY BUSY. There's one or two more people that have opened walk up - carry out restaurants. They cater parties too. A Nigerian mobile car washer cleaned my car last week, he came to the office and did it. Who needs Green Card to do that?

Nigeria today is not a good place to live for the VAST MAJORITY and it must be a terrible burden to even be rich in the midst of such misery. Hopefully it will get better but all this fakery about life in Nigeria must stop. Y'all know you're not real.

I enjoyed every single bit of what you wrote here

You are very right

Toks2008:
A poor man who works deligently is better than a rich man whose dad made wealth in a shrewd way and passed it down.

Know this and know Peace... Stop the baseless comparisons.

Being a shrewd businessman is mot bad
So what are you saying

1Sharon:
If they have that much money they may aswell start a business in Nigeria instead of hustling and being out of place in a foreign land.

Start a what ?
In this climate ?

TWoods:
Lol shove it dude… the question isn’t how long it took you to make N500k per month, but how many Nigerians will EVER make even half that amount. You’re the exception, not the rule… and that is the point. You keep comparing yourself to what amounts to the rule in other countries and think you have a point.

You also keep mewling about building a house, as if that’s all it takes to live a high standard of living… that’s just idiocy to be honest. No need going into more details there. The majority of Europeans never build their own homes, none of them will swap lives with you, your house and cheap internet any day….

Most Nigerians will NEVER make N500k at any point in their lives
That's the truth actually

Any unknown gunman deserve this fate