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GloriousGbola:
well, it is ALWAYS CHEAPER to buy from obodo oyibo or china

when you do the comparison add amazon shipping etc, there is still a very high margin

The customs duty on luxury vehicles is 70% of the vehicles cost. Let's not talk about bribes ghat will still follow

Theflint1:
The existence of billionaires is proof that people can make stupendous amounts of money in very short periods, and there's no industry that doesn't have persons that have done such.

All this one wey u dey talk na cap. Nobody will make enough money to be able to buy 400 million cybertruck from buying and selling wigs and hairs in Lagos.

GloriousGbola:
We did a charger install for a guy who bought a Benz ev. That car is 190m

The guy is an oil and gas ceo

Then we have some other dudes who are high level managers who bought Chinese evs in the range of 70m

You have an idea of their actual income.

Then again the cybertruck may not be new. Some People are actually trying to get rid of their trucks so it may not be at the market price.

Baba, the cheapest cybertruck listed on Jìjì is N350m. And that's the cheapest he will get here in Lagos

Tinubu his successor and Tinubu's handlers claimed Buhari ruined Nigeria's economy.

So, is Garba Shehu saying his former boss ruined Nigeria's economy and still ended up broke after leaving office?

raumdeuter:
How many ladies who make legit income in Nigeria can afford wigs of over 5m or even 1m. When they will still have like 10 wigs for rotation
Sometimes we look at the very few on SM and assume everyone dey hammer like that. For 1 VivkyJames wey dey hammer on top tailor parole, like another 100 wanabee VickyJames are roasting.

For one OS charging 1m per night, there are 1000 who are begging to see 10k per night

Abi no be the same Naija wey we dey hear everyday say people dey suffer ni

For you to spend 350m on a cybertruck means 1m profit in 350 places

Make we no let IG capping and bragging sell us zobo

Unless na my egbon diggz dey finance them

I guess she has achieved what she set out to when she put out the video. At least the whole social media is talking about her and her brand.

Mission accomplished.

https://www.nairaland.com/8464339/gazette-accuses-wike-allocating-1740

I thought Wike is a lawyer and his wife a judge. If people's gazette is making this story up like Lere Olayinka keeps insisting, why is he not suing them?

I mean Lere Olayinka's rebuttals are not convincing , yet the civil servants supplying People's gazette info keep insisting Wike's hand is deep in the cookie jar

Emaprince:
E fit be the car dealers plan all along. And she will be paid for the stunt.

It may be a joint effort.

raumdeuter:
During that endsars period, I was on the phone with someone in Naija when his estate was attacked, he had to drop off quickly. Next day he told me some peoples properties were looted and they started planning how to pay some group of area boys to help them secure their estate

Even in the US where people say police are useless and want to defund the police, 2 days of police absence everyone will start shouting for police to come back, When gangs enter your business and start carrying anything they want with no police to call,

Imagine you wey wan go work in the morning spent the night doing vigilante work by 6am you begin go office which work are you going to do after a sleepless night

It was that period I knew that the fear of criminals probably getting caught by security agencies is the only reason criminals have not overrun many communities. The moment that fear is taken out , u will be surprised at how criminals will operate with full impunity even in broad daylight.

Even those of us that didn't join dem bros to do vigilante overnight, we support them with ogogoro other form of moral support for standing in the gap for the police.

Amigoss:
Some import by bits direct from vietnam

Buy in dollars and sell in naira for that matter ooooo

Dem no rate us at all.

The fact that she was even mentioning thr name of the car dealer that sold the cybertruck to her in the video now makes me want to agree with Izzou that everything was a set-up to promote her hair brand and even the car dealer's brand too

TemporaryHansel:
Afa BluRayDick, e be like say the move now na to enter this hair business o. Just two, maybe three months ago, one babe bought a 50m Benz — all from "selling hair."

If I start this business and don’t make the kind of profit these babes are making, Chief Olowunl will refund me.

Sha ni collect loan start the business before Bank's loan recovery team go seize Ur house when u are unable to breakeven and pay back their loan 😂

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Plot Twist:

She may not even own the Cyber truck.

Everything might just be PR to trend, either to get clients for her hair, or her other "hair"

Since when content creation start, I'll rather believe Satan, than most of the nonsense on SM.[/color]

That's another possibility Sha. Nothing people no dey do for clout these days.

Olowunl01:
Whilst not disputing that some ladies are supporting their lifestyle with other means, some of these young ladies are making huge legit money, moreso their expenses are lower compared to their male counterpart hence they can afford to splurge once in awhile.
Also the margins on wigs is crazy, also the market is huge... They are also selling to the Naija in diaspora, example my daughter spent almost 3M on wigs in a store in Lagos during a recent visit, according to her & her friends it was a very good deal, and I consider her financially savvy, however it still didn't make sense to me but na their money.

Baba, those ladies have expenses too.

For example the vendor ur daughter patronized will be located in a cosmopolitan part of Lagos where she will be paying rent to the tune of millions. She will buy diesel almost every day to power her store/shop, she will have staff she pays salaries too and they also pay influencers millions for advert to maintain visibility.

It's not like they make those millions and don't spend out of it at all. Anybody who can pack over N350m to buy a Cybertruck in this Nigeria will definitely have more than double of that stored somewhere as savings. I don't think that's the case with these ladies in question.

Emaprince:
E no pass our politicians and yahoo boys

But this kind spending is most likely from.a politician. Thiefing of billions of Naira to spend most of them on girls that post themselves on social media. Smh

To be fair to her o, I really don't know what her husband does because it appears she's married with 3 kids. So I rule out the possibility of she being OS.

Maybe her husband financed the purchase of the Cybertruck , maybe not; one thing I'm very sure of is that selling wigs and women hairs in Lekki phase 1 would not make her afford that Cybertruck.

liveLongNprospa:
the most important question is why are you doing an interview with someone because they bought a tesla.. Like why?

They call it content creation. If they don't give u, how will u take it?

She said she's the first Nigerian woman to buy and own a Tesla Cybertruck in Nigeria

TemporaryHansel:
Is spa business actually very lucrative or there's another part of it? Because the lifestyle these babes doing spa are living isn't corresponding with the official prices they charge.

Did u see the Hair vendor that trended recently for taking delivery of her Tesla Cybertruck? She was even interviewed by Egungun of Lagos.

They asked her how she was able to afford the cybertruck; she claimed it was from proceeds of her wigs and hair business. Person use hair and wigs business buy car that the cheapest model is N350m in Nigeria

swiz123:
I don’t want to think a couple of hundreds mean 200k because there’s no way the Nigerian police I know will charge so little.

The last time I arrested a credit defaulter, I bought fuel for vehicle and food for the policemen that followed me. That’s after other extortions. So as a tax payer, I have resolved to using my fist to tackle such cases in the future.

So ask your friend again, I am sure he paid nothing short of 500k after the whole operation.

Until the person wey u Wan use Ur fist tackle him case fall down and die, na then u go learn say behind counter no be hotel. 😂

swiz123:
Finish the story na….. Tell us how your friend funded that police operation. No be naija we dey

The money naija police will even charge you to track a stolen phone is sometimes more than the value of the phone.

Be serious.

Yes, he funded the operation. Paying a couple of hundred thousand naira to recover a car worth millions is not a wrong move if u ask me.

I'm not saying it is right for the police to be charging citizens to do their jobs, but we will be lying to ourselves we don't agree the security agencies are underfunded.

afrodoc:
You know the answer to this question you are asking nah.

He wants someone to tell him what he already knows.

Emaprince:
I get your point and even Raumdeuters point as well.

My point is not exactly in support of tax evasion, just criticizing the way it is being managed...and looted by the cr1m1nals parading as leaders. For the record, I pay my taxes and heavily too. But is these taxes used judiciously?

Most people here understands this but they will evade it...cos they support the cr1m1nals I'm talking about.

I also pay my taxes too and that's why I don't take serious ediiiots who try to gaslight me for criticizing government officials for mismanaging public funds.

I will criticize government for wasting money on white elephant projects, I will criticize government for spending billions on renovating their luxurious government houses. That was why I criticized Sanwoolu when the news broke out that Lagos State government under his watch budgeted over 3 billion naira for perfume and air diffusers about 2 years ago.

Anybody who lives and pay his taxes where such anomalies happen has a right to voice out his displeasure. I don't pay attention to political lackeys and slaves online who thinks the politicians should be worshipped for misappropriating public funds.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Abeg abeg, we don't need that kind of prayer now.

There are over 40 Checkpoints from Ijebuode to Benin, yet almost every week, kidnappings and robberies happen back to back.

The only problem with crimes in Nigeria is that they cannot be solved. That's my issue with our Police.

Nobody should mount any checkpoint along Gbagada abeg. We like am like that [/color]

I'm not saying road blocks should be mounted on Gbagada road or any other road o, I am only pointing it out that at times that road block we destest could've made the difference(if it is used well by the security agencies).

I am one person who normally detest police stop and search on normal state roads and trunk C roads. One day I was complaining and a friend of mine said the police actually make arrests via thos roadblocks which are grossly under reported. He said he has been at a police station when they brought in suspected robbers who were arrested inside Keke Napep with Locally made pistol found in their possession after random stop and search. One of the police officers now said that is actually not the first, second or third arrest of that manner they are making since the year started.

I know Naija police dey hustle for themselves with that their road blocks o, but dem dey also take criminals out of circulation too.

Amigoss:
Lmao,that was a dead rubber match,both team had qualified

Most of the highlights I've seen were not impressive and didn't give the vibe of real competitive Matches.

You know the kind of vibe u will get in a standard UCL match, it was missing.

Ihebu4chelsea:
Lol why not send make out time and see one match before saying it's not giving pre season vibes, The competition is getting really interesting now.

I watched highlight of Juve vs Man city and it was a joke.

Amigoss:
Have you seen the prize money and papa Perez promised Madrid players 1million euros bonus if they win it....Nothing pre season about it,Na the country wey dey host am Dey GBA...

Baba the club world cup is a competition played school teachers, barbers, construction workers and part time footballers from new Zealand.

If Perez decides to gift his already rich players more money to motivate them just to boost his own ego, good for him and the team.

If any top European team catch those Saudi club for real competitive match, dem go flog wetin no good commit their body.

afrodoc2:
One of the greatest accelerants of total societal collapse is the inability of a government to collect tax and the consequent breakdown of public services.

If everybody should follow the principles of these our wise tax evaders here, what is happening right now in the country will seem like child's play.

As bad as the country is, and as bad as our leaders are, if you decide not to pay tax then you are contributing your own small quota to the destruction of the country.

I guess most people are angry with the current state of things , but they are failing to see how it could've been worse.

I watched a video recently on Youtube in which one lady was interviewed by Lucky Udu to share her "one chance" experience. The Lady narrated how she boarded a vehicle on a Monday morning to work on the Island ; unfortunately for her the vehicle turned out to be "one chance". She was driven all over Gbagada, Anthony, Ikeja etc in the early hours of the morning while the criminals were hitting her legs with hammer to force her give her banking app password and ATM pins at gun point.

At the end of the day, the lady was badly injured and lost her savings to the criminals. One thing she said that caught my attention was that she was pissed there was no police checkpoint on the roads while she was being driven around Lagos and being attacked by the criminals. She felt if there had been checkpoints mounted maybe around Gbagada or Ikeja axis, they would've busted the criminals who held her in their car against her will.

Now, I have been frequenting that route for a while now and I remember like 2 to 3 years ago there used to be some special police tactical unit that do mount roadblock around Charley Boy bus stop on that Gbagada axis. Most times people cuss them for causing unnecessary slow-moving traffic due to their "stop and Search". It was ironic hearing the lady wish those same policemen we used to cuss mounted the road blocks we love to hate.

semid4lyfe:
Saudi investment in their league don dey pay off. See wetin Al-Hilal do Man city. Truly, money na water.

I agree the Saudi investment will succeed where the Chinese failed. But I don't think realistically those Saudi teams can beat their European counterparts in real competitive games.

I've not had chance to follow this World club cup fully, but most of the highlights of the matches I've seen just gives the vibe of Pre-season matches which most teams don't take seriously, instead the coaches use it to experiment new tactics, test new players and fine tune their squad ahead of the new season.

Emaprince:
Bro endsars was literally a war against police.

You can see videos of policemen being k1illed...so they were all hiding for their deer lives.

Even with the numerous killings in several parts of the country, isnt it looking like vigilantes or local security outfits are the best to protect communities than relying on our police?

Baba, the point Raumdeuter was making and which I agree with him on is that as bad as Nigeria police are; their absence is not desirable at all.

In the days that followed the ENDSARS massacre, most policemen downed towns across Lagos state and most communities were on edge. Men formed themselves into vigilante groups keeping watch over their communities for fear of being overrun by criminals in the absence of police. There was serious fear and apprehension across various communities . If u lived in a middle class environment that time, u will understand that fear.

Nigerian police have their various failings o, but they are like the ones holding this our society from descending into total chaos. The typical Nigerian would not even behave well without being compelled to, now imagine the criminals amongst us being given free rein in the absence of police?

And yes, it is our taxes that is being used to fund the police and other security agencies. I know someone personally who had his car stolen at a car wash in Oshodi Lagos and Nigeria police helped him track and recover it around Idi Iroko Ogun state before the thief could cross boarder.

Ibime:
Which exam dey last from January to July

Meanwhile e be like say dem dey accuse you of using ChatGPT. The way you switched from Waffi slang to Queens English in the last couple of months, there may be some legs to the allegations

Wait fess!

So, if I wake tomorrow and decide to start typing in proper English instead of pidgin and code mixing ( most especially substituting "U" and "UR" for "YOU" and "YOUR" respectively); people will assume it is ChatGPT assisted and me typing it? 🤷‍♂️

I used to think it is common knowledge that most people prefer to type in less formal way online simply because they feel comfortable doing so, not necessarily because they can't.

Payporte01:
Dey play!they will milk the shiit out of it,
The American version series is coming out next year or early 2027

Goodluck to them o

Amigoss:
Pastor Bolaji of harvesters dropped a GBA take and as usual the senseless mobs obidients are after his life

What did he say/do?

GloriousGbola:
I think they wrote 'the final season'

It better be o

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Another Squid game don come out?

These people will ruin this show for nothing [/color]

It has been ruined already. The last one before this one was shiiit, this one gbey released last Friday is even worse......

I hope they stop the madness and don't release another one. It was the first season that only made sense

GloriousGbola:
with nigerias precarious finances we had no business floating a national carrier. it was nothing more than an unnecessary vanity project with no ostensible purpose other than boosting the ego of buhari

The issue is from now to 100 years Monerozi will not see the point that the Nigeria Air was totally unnecessary .