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Segedinho:
about 3 persons have told me to avoid it..


That their engine were gone b4 1 d end of 1 year...

People rushing to do conversion get mind sha. It can never be me, I must wait make I see people wey don learn sweet or bitter lesson before I consider am

iamoyindamola:
What's wrong with it
I tried it now and was able to download from the link

I was only able to download Season 2 episode 1 from the link. The rest of season 2 are not downloading, when I click instant download and then Genrate link it keeps writing "ERROR !User Session Error".

iamoyindamola:
S1 https://driveseed.org/file/6Kw1TqgQNtAT0A5YE7z9

S2 https://driveseed.org/list/76cf9efbf8fe1e70f5261798e217cbdeI40lvevo4X

I have downloaded season 1, but season 2 link dey mess up

Ibime:
No mind Nihilistjnr. Ask him for his pension savings

Jolly in UK starts at age 57 when you can access 1/4 of your pension tax free

Most high earners dump a lot in pension to avoid taxes

At 57, they then turn Zaddy, stealing young girls from niggas half their age

The way u described it , I can tell u are looking forward with so much joy.

Segedinho:
Christmas ke..

My baby 1 year birthday is next month....told babe it is just photoshoot and in-house lil chops....

As e be now, me don change am o.. my priority na cng b4 month ending....


Things are getting extreme and I wonder how much we can adjust....

E no easy.

10k is behaving like 1k nowadays. To watch EPL matches at home for weekend alone person go don use 10k buy fuel alone

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I doubt oh

I left Lagos for the village early January, and the east was scanty. Many didn't come back. Most my cousins didn't come.

Insecurity for one, and with this rising cost of everything, na all of us go dey this Lagos

As it is, only your transport is 100k. You never budget wetin you wan use take make noise for village.

Abeg Abeg [/color]

I've always been of the opinion that if u send like 50k out of the 100k transport to people at home, they will appreciate it more than ur presence. U fit do video call with them , technology has made things easier. But when I say some of these things people always look me with one kind eyes

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It depends on where you come from sha...

I am from the east, and my family and extended family are from there. You cannot just draw a line on where you should visit or not.

I am assuming you're from Lagos, Ogun or Oyo. If you were from Ekiti or Ondo, you for dey reach there
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You are right sha.

But I was referring to traveling for engagements like a friend doing wedding, going for burials, etc outside your state of residence. Right from time I always avoid those kind of travel. I am not anti-social o, but once the social event is taking me out of Lagos the chance of me attending is like 3% out of 100%

Unlimited22:
😂😂😂😂

When I was going to camp at the end of 2022, I carry 12k go from PH to Jalingo.

When I was coming back from Jalingo last December I came back with 30k


In 2022 I dey use 3500 run PH to Benin with Muyi Line.

Now na 13k-15k

Na wa o. Now with this new increment the prices will go further higher

As at few minutes ago someone sent a video to our group chat, NNPC at Falomo Ikoyi has adjusted their pump price from N855 to N998 per liter

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The thing is crazy.

Same income, meanwhile bills are increasing every second.

I doubt if much people will travel for Christmas this year

Make all of us maintain composure inside our house.[/color]

People will travel, it's just that they will be stranded when it's time to go back to their bases.

They will burden people who didn't travel to help send them transport with promise that they will pay back once they are back to base and start hustling. Some will borrow from Palmpay or Opay just to return back to base and then start hustling to offset their debt in the new year.

Unlimited22:
In 2022, we hired two coaster buses plus two small ones to convey people from Port Harcourt to Benin for my church biennial youth convention. Our total transport bill was not up to 200k.

Last two months. Same convention, same distance. Smaller number of delegates. Two wagon buses.

Our bill for transport alone was 1.6m

Una wey dey always travel dey try sha.

I always intentionally excuse myself from any form of interstate travel except for work and the cost of travelling will definitely be funded by the company. I no dey follow anybody go anywhere wey pass Ogun State. (And it's even parts of Ogun state that's closer to Lagos).

GloriousGbola:
4 picture upload limit,

ypu have reached your quota.

think carefully before you upload pictures

nihilistjnr:
This forum is actually fücked

I guess he’s limiting the number of picture one can upload in a day. The funny thing is na u go figure am out, he no send anybody any memo on it.

As for billings ehn , na daily occurrence for naija o

nihilistjnr:
BlueRayDick you can see how bills wan kill my papa and its only Wednesday.

Edit: it's like S.eun server still having problems with posting pics sha

No attachment is showing

iamoyindamola:
Plus the 2 years limit them to the job for 2 years
Imagine not doing anything tangible for 2 years

Btw US visa lottery is out

Yes, that 2 years post job visa, person fit spend am without getting a job that will give u sponsorship visa sef.

Naija has not been on the countries eligible for US Visa lottery since early 2010's or thereabouts

Theflint1:
Single parent with 3 kids and hoping to combine school and side hustle sounds like a recipe for disaster. Maybe like 4 years ago, to wing am no go ruff like that, but from what I'm hearing of Canada these days, all that baggage e go hard wella.

And true, e no get how you wan plan reach for these things, if reality is determined for fvck one over, it will. Even people with tons of experience from Naija and overseas dey find am difficult.

They were probably thinking the husband sending naira combined with the wife working over there will see them throughout the period of her schooling. I guess the naija economy made the husband's contribution insignificant.

nihilistjnr:
Canada has been fücked for a long time based on what I've heard from awon temi over there.

The biggest problem most people would find is the managing high cost of living vs Income earnings.

That's why I said you can survive in UK because low income jobs still dey and low to mid incomes in the 40-60k bracket are harder to find but them still dey around.

The problem is when you have settled down and are now looking to move from surviving to thriving. Firstly taxation will kick you in the throat.

For example the difference between earning 50k annual salary and 60k annual salary is only £500 extra a month, because additional taxes kick in to ensure that you don't take too much home...yet the difference in operational responsibilities between a 50k earner and a 60k earner in the same company could be fairly substantial.

So like in Hezbollah, you might find people trying to avoid promotion because their responsibilities increase significantly with only margnial increase in compensation. Meanwhile bills are high af and only getting higher.

But it's when you hit 6 figures that you really feel that pain. Your take home on a 100k salary is about 68k before pension contributions. Your take home on a 200k salary is 118k - the government is eating 82k of your money just like that.

When im talking about japa struggle its this particular part I'm talking about. Most of us came here to thrive not just to survive. And the government is making it increasingly more difficult to do so.

Na wa o.Even here in naija I dey vex for how much I pay as tax; anytime I look at my payslip anger dey always build inside me.

Does this high tax rates also apply to footballers too?

iamoyindamola:
You see this japa thing have stopped thinking about it
Every country don't have it easy again, I read from a lady in this Nairaland
She started Canada PR from 2015 and got it this year, then she started looking for work from April only to get it by September imagine she's not financially okay or have people to rely on during those tough times
If you are balling in 9ja it's better to continue or try get foreign remote jobs that pay in USD or pounds
If not to start all over again in foreign land is my biggest fear especially with family
They only have better life in terms of security, good warfare etc
If you look at it sef with money all these are possible in 9ja
Why spend fortune of almost 30m to japa Omo I no fit


Someone was telling us about US sef, school route

Na US Visa hard pass, but if u enter US u go still see way to survive unlike UK wey be say depression fit kill person before things soft.

The fact that some Nigerians over there in the UK are further exploiting new entrants is not helping matters. Naija's will give plenty people COS for care job with few shifts available.

Theflint1:
Sorry to say, but it's sounding like they didn't do proper research before moving, e go pay dem down the road, but dem go find am really tough first couple years.

That schooling and working paroles not as easy as it was, even PRs and citizens dey find am tough with jobs, it's why you're seeing Trudeau, a pro-immigration politician enacting stringent immigration policies.

Lol @ the bolded. If e never happen to u ehn, u go think say the people involved no plan well. Mike Tyson said everyone thinks they've got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Even people that planned are extremely well are finding things difficult over there. A very close friend of mine moved to UK around October 2022 for Masters. He already had a masters here in naija and had a decent paying job where he's a team lead. Initially I was worried how he's going to cope running masters and work togther but he was able to weather the storm.

Fast forward to 2023 he was done with masters and the search for a decent job began. It's been over a year now and he's yet to get a decent job that can at least change his status. He's been doing jama-jama till date and bitterly lamenting about situation of things. He has attended several interviews and all they kept telling him is sorry he doesn't have a UK Job experience.

I didn't know how bad things were for my guy until another of our friend who entered UK on care visa was gisting me about his own experience. They both linked up for a while over there before that one japa commot UK. That one told me how they both did any menial job that comes their way from lawn mower job to security for night clubs to even serving jollof rice & small chops at parties. I felt pained that my guy with 2 masters is serving food at parties but the guy that was gisting me said and I quote " Padi even if u get 3 PhD's if u never see better job for UK ehn, u fit do cleaner just to pay ur bills o"

I agree that things will get better in the long run but make person never enter depression before things get better o.

nihilistjnr:
Completely understand your point but subsidy recipients don't all have to be on tbe same level - that's why I mentioned school, fuel etc in addition to Hajj and Jerusalem pilgrimage.

The government doesn't have enough to share to anybody again even the well connected like you mentioned, and that's a serious problem.

Omo with regards to UK, I don't even know where to start..I work as a contractor offering consultancy services to clients but the UK implemented some tax legislation 2 years potential penalising clients if their contractors don't declare taxes appropriately.

As a result a lot of the work that I used to get has now gone offshore, whilst my tax liability has gone through the roof (My business paid over £40k in taxes last year alone, excluding personal income tax), and the prime minister is rumoured to be looking to increase taxes even further up to a rumoured 45%

I ran one small contract on the side this year in a personal capacity rather than through my business and the tax legislation I spoke about led to a situation where my take home after tax and minimum pension contributions was 48%.

Talk about monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. Omo UK as a country is finished for now. It might recover later down the line, but I won't advise anyone to Japa here anytime soon if you want to do more than survive. If you want to earn 25-40k you can turn up - but the moment you decide you want more from life, this country will smack you in the face and dropkick you in the balls.

Omo! Where person wan come japa to if it's this tough already in the UK?

I spoke with a relative in the US over the weekend and he was telling me of how things are tough in Canada too at the moment. He shared the story of a family he's currently following up with in Canada.

The wife was supposed to study and work in Canada so she moved with 3 kids while the husband remained here in naija. He was supposed to join them after they had fully settled over there. Due to one reason or the other, the woman entered CA one week later than resumption date so the school said she couldn't register this September and will have to wait till January.

The issue now is she has been unable to get any job with 3 kids. One of the 3 kids knows how to braid hair so the girl is the one practically sustaining the family of four with the meagre income from the braiding of hairs she does. The father who is in Nigeria is a businessman and has been sending naira to them but his business is on the brink of collapse because the money he's sending is putting a hole in his business account. The current state of naija economy is not helping matters.

iamoyindamola:
You are looking for trouble
Remember the woman that was fighting against mass wedding what later happened

It just doesn't make sense to me sha. I mean why sponsor a broke man to pilgrimage, he comes back as an Alhaji but a broke Alhaji.

I mean all my life I've seen middle class people going to hajj off their own pocket. I've also seen wealthy individuals sponsoring members of their family to Hajj; but before thinking of sponsoring them to Hajj they already set up businesses for them like bakery, transportation business etc. That makes more sense to me.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Trying to charter a Sienna to attend a burial in Abia state; 7 passengers

The cheapest we got was 500k...To and Fro

We still dey scratch head to raise the money, na him price of fuel change this morning.

Nigeria has never had it this bad.[/color]

Omo!

500k to charter a Sienna? How much Sienna drivers go dey deliver weekly?

I think the price is on the high side, but then when one thinks of PMS being sold for over 1k per liter u start think the driver's gain might not actually be much sef.

GloriousGbola:
islam counts your sins against your good deeds. in the end it is the tally of your sins against your good deeds that determines if you enter hell or al jannah. if you do a pilgrimage and it is accepted, your slate is wiped clean. so from a purely religious standpoint, it is subsidized salvation

Then people should put more efforts into doing good now that government can't afford to subsidize Hajj anymore. Salvation na personal journey

iamoyindamola:
Hello, you need to go to the north
The entitlement these guys have is second to none, the government sponsor 80%of them the 20% are the rich or not broke

I know bro, that's why I said no reasonable state goverment should be subsidizing Hajj/Sponsoring Hajj at this point. States like Gombe, Bauchi, Kebbi, etc have no business sponsoring anybody to Hajj because like majority of the states in Nigeria they are struggling economically and borrowing to run government affairs. They should shed the weight of sponsoring Hajj

izzou:
[color=royalblue]When they changed to 858 last month, it was without subsidy naa.

Which kind opaque Leadership be this?[/color]

The more u look, the less u see.

There was subsidy involved, that why NNPC and Dangote were both issuing useless press statements without stating the actual cost price of Dangote's PMS from source.

GloriousGbola:
but but but is this not wickedness? denying the common man his right to salvation? how can you support this act of cruelty by T-pain

There's no religion that makes pilgrimage a requirement for salvation na. Even Islam requires u to go for Hajj only of u can afford the trip.

nihilistjnr:
This is actually a harbinger of doom in my opinion. The only reason these subsidies exist in the first place is to go someway towards pacifying the masses.

If the government was broken but you were at least seeing cheap petrol, cheap school fees and subsidised Hajj, at least you go dey hold your side.

When the government is broken and you're seeing nothing....

We dey experience something similar for this side, and since the beginning of the year I've been seriously exploring opportunities to leave the UK for good. It's Japa time

The issue is most people going for pilgrimage are not broke in any way. At least the people in my family who have been to Hajj are either sponsored by a wealthy relative or those who are living comfortably well. They are people whom Yorubas will say "won ni ajeseku". Dem don chop and e still remain for ground.

So the subsidy is not really going to the masses like that. Cheap education and cheap petrol are actually things that will pacify the masses jare.

As regards leaving the UK, most of the people I know whom relocated to the UK are not finding things easy.

Is it brexit that 4cked the UK up or there's something else ? A friend of mine had to run commot UK to Ireland, he claimed things are a little bit better over there even tho the Euro is not as powerful as the Sterling.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Why is NNPC changing price overnight?

What is the reason for this increase again?[/color]

They obviously don't want to subsidize Dangote's PMS like they have been subsidizing imported PMS(The same subsidy Tinubu allegedly removed on May 29 2023). I heard on a radio program earlier this morning that NNPC was subsidizing Dangote PMS with over N3bn daily.

It appears they want to hands off doing that and obviously it will lead to further hardship on the general public.

https://www.nairaland.com/8234602/hajj-fare-hit-n10m-nahcon

This is a nice move . Let subsidy be removed on all forms of pilgrimages be it to Saudi, Israel, Jordan, Cuba or any other country.

Anybody that wants to go on a pigrimage should fund it 100% from out of pocket.

I hope state governments would follow suit as well. Any state that is still borrowing money from internal or external lenders has no business subsidizing pilgrimage for its citizens. Any state that continues to subsidize pilgrimage should be sued by concerned citizens.

Ellexy:
Please can you list members of this crew....?

They know themselves na . Awon terrorist apologist .

I’m sure if we reverse the hand of time to October 2001 , these set of people will be talking us how Osma Bin Laden was a “resistance “ one man army who used the 9/11 to fight against the West’s oppression. 🤦‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
Like football actually saved the guy if not he will fit a thug
Did you see the part he clipped the wolves guy trying to counter or the Bournemouth guy in front of ref
He escaped booking in those 2 scenes

I guess these are the clips our rivals watched and claimed we were using dark arts .

White is never beating the allegation. Na real agbero

Roland17:
I will use Osibanjo, whom you have on your list as an example. Osibanjo did not jump into commercial law right out of school. Osibanjo created his visibility and legal presence through the academia which gave him credibility and experience. He became a lecturer and grew in the academia before joining government and active politics. Deji doesn't have that, infact, at 41, he is a late bloomer in the legal field, consequently, he has to find the shortest route to earn that visibility in comparison to a 23 year old Osibanjo who joined the academia right after school and grew in the field.

At 41, he doesn't have the "working" in the field to earn any credence, especially if he hopes to become a SAN someday. Consequently, he understands he has to build the blocks using the shortest cut to earn that credibility, experience and constant visibility in the legal world. Another example is Kenneth Okonkwo, another late legal bloomer. He was over 50 years old when he graduated from law school but he also knew he needed a different type of visibility that is fast in earning his stripe in the field.

I think Activism is the easiest route to earning the human rights lawyer tag. If he keeps raking these stripes with his now "legal" activism which now gives him some level of credibility, he would be able to take advantage of opportunities when they come up. Considering he is a fresh lawyer, no one is going to give him a primary role in treasonable cases like you mentioned. However, if he earns his stripes by winning cases that also involve some form of activism, he may be invited to join a legal team for a high profile case, again, not as the lead counsel but a part of the legal team. Na step by step. That experience will give him the needed experience exposure which he needs, especially if that is the route he wants to follow.

I get ur point now. You are right , if he actually wants to make anything out of his law career activism seem to be the easiest route .