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izzou:
[color=royalblue]So only that girl remain?

Kai![/color]

I read he has 4 kids; so I'm guessing he has 3 surviving children whose lives will never remain the same again .

Life will just humble u! Just last week his university made the news about their fees that are to be paid in dollars . All of that and more he has left behind. Chai!

The Wigwe's 💔

Damn! I slept for a few hours and Herbert Wigwe is gone 😢😢😢.

This one pain me ! It brings memories of sosoliso air crash that had Bimbo Odukoya , the PENGASSEN chairman and those Loyola Jesuit college students on board .

Emaprince:
BlueRayDick. You see what I feared the last time passengers of GIG and ABC Transport comp was kidnapped?

Passengers in a GUO bus just got kidnapped and the driver shot dead.

https://www.nairaland.com/7996577/guo-motor-attacked-passengers-kidnapped

And so it begins! U will be surprised that people will still come here and ask u if kidnapping of passengers started under Tinubu 🤷‍♂️.

This is why I have shunned road travel outside Lagos and ogun state for a long while.

When I see people travel on long distance via road I just marvel at how they do it with all the insecurity in this country

Sportsweb:
Very simple.

I know all fingers are not equal. All those things they listed there are luxuries. I know how I was raised according to the size of our coats. 600k is more than enough abeg,infact it's too big for simple family man way no send all those luxuries.

What's data for family, DStv sub and all those stuffs am seeing on the list.

My aunt and her husband combine bring in about 300k monthly, they still live in comfortable flat and also enjoy life while training their kids. They plan themselves and cut their Fine Coat according to their size jare

Mention specific items on the list aside DSTV that is a luxury for a middle class family.

For Ur information, family data is the same thing as the data u and Ur spouse use for one whole month on Ur iPhone or laptop or smart TV.

Ur aunty & husband combined income of 300k is prior to this current subsidy removal and floating of naira . No? Have u asked her for money the way u normally ask her before now? What was her response? Did she give u the same amount she usually give u?

The discussion is not about the fact that people earning below 600k today will die of hunger ; the discussion is centered on the fact that if u earn 600k or below before Tinubu's subsidy removal and floating of dollar ; u will struggle to adjust ur spending pattern without groaning.

Na from there different people just dey pick their own narrative dey run with am.

iamoyindamola:
Yeah na everybody go chop breakfast
That was hit

Na episode 13-15 link I dey look for now o

iamoyindamola:
Motivation speaker isonu
Once had a maths teacher that check answer at the back of new general mathematics that year to confirm he's right or wrong

I had oneteacher like that too. I for cast am that year but she was a fresh graduate who got Lagos state government teaching job and lives very close to my house while I was in SS 1. She was our maths teacher that year, but she obviously no Sabi the thing at all. She wan use assignment kill us and she dey check answer for new general maths. She always works the answer back

She don dey Canada now sha cos her hubby married her while he was already in Canada. She didn't do the teaching job for so long for students to cast her sha.

Away from politics.... This killed me 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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raumdeuter:
So you think subsidy grew from 600m to 2bn in 12months by APC coming up with mumbo jumbo?



So if someone present that chart to you of subsidy growing by 300% in 12months you will say it's APC mumbo jumbo

Whatever makes u sleep well at night! If u like, quote just one word out of 1000 words in a single post.

The people that don't have an agenda to defend APC at all cost will read the full post and understand the context of the part of the part of the post u quoted in isolation.

iamoyindamola:
Madam: Tommy I dont want bullshit, people must really believe my father is dead
Tommy: do you want me to cry I have been practising how to cry lately

What kind of guy is this

He's a body guide, chef, plate licker etc
Yet he's stupid 🤣🤣🤣


Cc blueraydick

Did u see where they used Burnaboy's last last song in season 3 episode 12? I screamed 😁.

Burna big pass anybody for this Nigeria music industry aswear!

GloriousGbola:
In 2012,nigeria was earning more than today.

There is a lot of revisionism about the subsidy removal
1) from the chart the subsidy grew by 400% from 2010 to 2011.
2) i remember that at the time moman wrote an open letter complaining about the proliferation of brief case companies that were making subsidy claims.

Simply put under gejs admin the subsidy became a free for all where connected people would supply product on paper and get paid.

When it got out of control, rather than initiate punitve measures gej opted for the lazy way out by removing the subsidy without notice. I remeber it as it was on January 1. You may remember as well because Nigerians who traveled for Xmas were stranded. It was a complete mess and an own goal.

What should have happened is someone should have accounted for a 1.5 trillion increase in a subsidy. Instead gej opted to sweep it under the carpet and pass the fallout to Nigerians without any warning.

Tinubu removed subsidy while I was watching his inauguration, before his inauguration speech finished I drove out to look for fuel and all filling station ahd already adjusted their pump & even locked their gates. Is that not worse than removing subsidy during Xmas break?

Have the brief case companies been identified and prosecuted under APC government since 201t when they took over? How many people do u know that have been jailed by APC Govt in the past 9 years for being responsible for.subajdy scam?

It's now looking clear now that APC just came up with a lot of mumbo jumbo just to discredit Jonathan's Govt only for them to gain control and plunge Nigeria further down the abyss of hardship.

Griffon:
There was no analysis for Tinubu to make. He was only copying his opponents’ strong points.

It’s akin to copying an answer in an exam hall, without showing full working. If investigator asks how you arrived at your answer, you go explain tire.

Short and simple!

His supporters would try to spin it, but it is what it is!

GloriousGbola:
We have had the discussion on subsidy over and over.

From 2016 nnpc has been the sole supplier of petrol in Nigeria. The fg stopped the subsidy in 2015 when Saudi crashed the price of oil to kill the US fracking industry. Price of petrol was 100 per litre or thereabouts at the time.

It was a peculiarity, low oil price, low revenue, low petrol price. As oil prices rose, revenue rose and petrol prices rose as well. This is actually when in hindsight Buhari should have bit the bullet and not returned us to subsidy via undercoverry. The pain of subsidy removal would have been behind us and we would have transitioned.

But it is what it is.

So Buhari should've proceeded with subsidy removal irrespective of 2hat anybody says but Jonathan in 2012 shouldn't? Why?

GloriousGbola:
The fg was owing nnpc 2.3 trillion naira in subsidy payments . Nnpc had stopped remitting to the federation account because of this. So what do you think would ultimately have happened if the fg had not removed the subsidy. All Buhari ultimately did was delay the inevitable till after his exit. Which is actually a ceo business strategy. Let the next guy clean up the mess. I will be long gone and it will be someone else's problem

I thought subsidy probe has been on since God knows when. Does Buhari's job in the past 8 years not involve probing NNPC and outstanding sunsidy payments?

Nigeria is a company that has been under the same management for the past 9 years. No?

If a Buhari that was the greatest beneficiary of the politically motivated 2012 subsidy removal protest refused to remove subsidy for 8 years of studying the polity that should tell u a lot.

It will not hurry anybody to admit they gaffed ing with Tinubu hoping the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy will spell this much room for the general populace.

Tinubu is the president today, his actions and inactions have thrown the people who voted and those who didn't vote him into serious hardship. If anything, na how to bring the people out of the abyss he threw the people into supposed be person concern. No be say na gaslighting wey no change status quo

Taguchi:
It is quite unfortunate that President Tinubu is defining an era of hardship just like Buhari before him

During PMB' era time I dey hear things like "for this Buhari economy" now Tinubu don get him own"economy" and it's significantly worse in almost all ramifications.

Quite unfortunate really.

Na within 8 months Tinubu get him own economy. Even his supporters both in the west and north are turning their back on him

akwesenana:
Even marijuana sef. The quantity don reduce seriously.

I don't know about that one ó

Bombblacks:
This guy has never been featured by any top artist in Nigeria yet he is getting gigs in London.

He featured Olamide for his zazu single. Nonetheless he's one really lucky chap. The fact that he's rough outward look did not even deter someone like skepta from giving him gigs.

TrebleChamp:
They are finding their voice now, be like the shege no spear even the elite...

https://www.nairaland.com/7996171/tinubus-abrupt-subsidy-removal-caused

The fact that people spent days here defending the abrupt subsidy removal will always amuse me. They even praised him as being bold and courageous to have done what Buhari could not do.

Nowadays sef I no dey see anybody dey type " akànbi Ọmọ olodo idẹ" on whatsapp status again in praise of Tinubu. I come dey wonder if the odò idẹ Don go missing àbí e Don spoil 🤷‍♂️

TemporaryHansel:
small action bitters bottle for 1,300? Are you sure you they didn’t cheat you?

Scam me keh? Something wey I buy for jedi joint.

I go drink jedi and I had to buy action bitters for dem egbon I met there cos we begin talk about Naija matters and general discussion.

Ihebu4chelsea:
Suicide is never an option! Action bitter and ballamour still dhe!!

All those ones sef Don dey expensive na. I still buy that action bitters small bottle for some Ẹ̀gbọ́n recently. I think it was 1,300. Something wey be say the big bottle na like N1,200 before.

Dem don dey sell black bullet for N1,200 at normal retail shops 🤦‍♂️..... Something that was sold for N250 in 2015.

Even trophy beer that uses to be one of the cheapest is now N600/N650 at normal local bar

No wonder suicide is on the rise; alcohol wey people dey use carry their mind commot their problems sef Don dey unaffordable again

Odunharry:
I know people who pay around 350-500 for 2nd around that area.

That's pre-Tunubu administration rent u are quoting right there . Do u know how many landlords have increased rent by 100% this 2024 ?

U can know someone who paid 400k for 2 bedroom in those areas as at January 2023 , but have u asked the person how much he paid January 2024?

The discussion is centered around the current happenings , not historical data that has been overridden by a lot of things that has happened in the last 1 year

Itsrm:
I heard most companies mark up their procurement with a 300 naira premium just to guard against devaluation. Like as dollar is around 1500 now, they wiill record it as 1800 in their books. The real shege will start when new products hit the market.

People are not ready yet for what's coming if things keep going this way. Most of the hike in prices of imported and locally manufactured goods we are still dealing with are increment on goods traders already have in stock . By the time the traders restock prices will jump further higher .

Itsrm:
Na the koko gan be that. I remember DSTV compact was N5,000 in 2015 and with it, I could watch all premier league matches. I think they even used to have a subscription of 1500 at the time.

Now I'm forced to pay 19,800 to watch the same thing I was watching with 5k and with the devaluation of the currency, only God knows what they have in store for us.

The devaluation has affected a lot of things that people are not even talking about.

Early this week I worked on a procurement which we processed this same time last year when we overvalued the dollar at N700/1$ (out of our own volition ) .

That same transaction we had to value at N1500/1$ out of necessity now.

I had to do analysis/shalaye in the mail to the oyinbo oga that was going to approve it for him to see that the dollar value remains the same but na naira don pafuka shoot the price up to an increase of 114% of what it was last year in naira .

I fear people will lose jobs in the private sector in the coming months ; especially in companies where they don’t really have a working organized union . Promoters of companies will explore retrenchment as means of staying afloat . A lot of companies will even default on credit facilities ; banks’ business recovery units go tire sef

Jodera:
Lol... I'm talking middle class here.

I grew up going to pry sch in the early 2000s and I'll grade my parents(esp my dad as a little above middle class) and the pry school I went to is a Catholic school in Abuja. The school fees is high wrt the other schools my peers were going (as at 12k when I graduated in pry sch and other schools as at then ranges between 4-7k) yet I don't take snacks to school. The only people bringing snacks alongside food were the very rich kids and you can easily spot them. I dunno about now but even my uncle that sends his kids too doesn't add snacks to it and no, it's not a public school.

It's all about instilling it sha. If our parents hear that we beg or look person food longingly, we don die for house that day. And God bless you first let you steal.

Well, everyone with the way they view things sha cos we were actually taught that taking snacks alongside food is luxury. And funny enough, every of my siblings and uncles are following that approach. It's a big reason I found it surprising hearing it here, I never knew it's now normalised.

As for the TV part, I still see smart TV as luxury. Most average/middle class families I know of, only few uses smart TV. Most na all these wall mounted plasma TV. It can be wide too. Shey no be just to watch TV and dstv mostly ni

I attended primary school in an area that’s not even considered urban in Lagos state yet almost all the kids came to school with snacks . Those who don’t come with snacks either come with cash to buy during break time or beg from others .

My parents do not believe in handing a minor cash for whatever reason , so we go to school with our own snack from home coupled with lunch . To me that’s not in any way luxury . Even when I serve for a federal government owned boarding secondary school , the students there could still afford snacks like fish roll, egg roll, wara and the likes despite having their lunch covered by their boarding fees .

So I find it strange that u see snacking as luxury .

As regards Smart TV , I still don’t understand why u see it as luxury sha . In fact I see it as if u are saying using a Windows 10 PC is luxury in 2024 when there’s windows 7 or Windows XP.

Iamoyindamola comman see my MCM portable in London 😂

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Theflint1:
These guys are prepared to send us to Nigeria of 2003 just to advance this live within your budget narrative. LCD TVs have been pretty normal since like 2008 and almost 20 years later it's still supposed to be seen as a staple.

Nigerians get long-suffering ability sha.

Itsrm:
I think the state of the economy is now making us see basic things as luxury. Cooking with gas will soon be luxury. People will be advised to cook with firewood

Aswear !

Me wey do my childhood in the late 90’s / early 2000’s I dey take snack and food to school and my parents no even get money . Imagine now having to tell my child today that snack is luxury 🤦‍♂️

APC do this one !

Itsrm:
They told me in my sons school he was always looking at his classmates when they munch their snacks and advised we also buy for him.

I had no choice. Is it really luxury? What alternative do I have. Tell him not to look at them when they eat?

Don’t mind Jodera . As if we all didn’t have classmates whose are known for begging . As a parent u definitely won’t want ur child to be in such position and u will do everything possible to make not develop such bad habits .

It’s not even about luxury .

Jodera:
The bolded, I see it as something new gen z upbringing sha. In our family we don't do it and even while growing up, I nor my siblings weren't exposed to such sha and we didn't see any big deal in that. But no matter how we want to look at it, it's still luxury. It's just one of those luxury instilled as necessity by most parents. Just as some people can't do without having/subbing DStv in their home because they think it's necessity.

As for the others, aside personal surfing which I use on my phone, most of the others is just once in a while and it's not most families that have this home internet sef. Average Nigerian family man doesn't have smile or swift at home in this our obodo naija. As for Smart TV... Lol, that's really luxury. Except one have it before cos he's once Rich, what would make a family man earning like let's say 200k have smart TV when he can buy normal wall Lcd TV?

Na egbons full here oo

I believe we are talking about a middle-class family and not an extremely poor family na. Smart TV was still around N350k before Buhari left. That is not expensive, even civil servants can afford to get them via membership of co-operative societies. If someone earning 600k cannot use Smart Tv, then who can afford it then?

As regards the snack, u would not want ur child to beg other kids because u are being principled or frugal. Snacking is something almost every kid does. U can't just go zero on snacking if u don't want ur child to be begging other kids or worse still, steal from others. Na ur pikin teacher sef go advise u to try dey give the pikin if at all bobo and coaster biscuit make other pikin for rest

Theflint1:
By family data I mean data you spend on your phone, plus the one your wife spends, abi no be data you use dey Nairaland now?

I think people deliberately set their mind to misunderstand u and misconstrue/misinterpret some of those things.