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Ihebu4chelsea:
Which brings up the question, what do people really gain from smoking weed?

Most likely the highness feeling now.

GloriousGbola:
How much will nightclub in egbeda pay. Their clientele no go pass loud and careless jjc yahoo boys - the kind that get picked up in EFCC raids.

IMHO ice prince is trying to stage a comeback by courting controversy

https://www.nairaland.com/8663276/ice-prince-body-transformation-before

The other day he said he lost weight

I suspect these pictures because his face is obscured and the tats do not appear to align

Let's assume it is him. Na Pesin like this go dey perform every day for nightclub? He will just collapse on stage. Breathing hard into the mike.

Also Someone would have posted his pics to SM.

And Once NDLEA wakes up and asks for his plug that made 340m selling drugs in 6 years you will see a retraction

I no dey argue with u again my oga. U are right, he is staging a comeback to drop an album.

WhoDeyHause:
He might have been giving priority to the drugs ahead of other stuff to spend. Only to calculate and regret it from his outflow. That's why most of what blue ray is saying doesn't surprise me. Drugs and bet are two of the worst addictions that will make you burn money like leaf.

U get bro! Most people are not seeing it from the angle of addiction.

When some people say they've lost like 20m to betting within 5 months of this year, you would look at them and think it is a lie because they don't even look like someone who makes N10m per annum. So you would wondering how's it possible they lost double of that to betting addiction when we have not even spent 6 months in the year.

I recently watched a skit showing 3 friends who were all hungry and deliberating on how to source for food. Two of them agreed they should all contribute so they can buy food but the 3rd one claimed he had no money but would eat if they are able to source for food eventually. So the two guys devised a means by changing the topic to contribution for "cana". The 3rd guy quickly agreed they all contribute to buy the weeed and even sent his own contribution first. Immediately they confirmed his transfer they cussed him for always being eager to buy smoke and not food. They told him the money will be used for food and there's nothing that can be done about it.

In the comment section of that skit, there were quite a handful of comments of young guys claiming they have friends like that ; guys who are very much addicted to weed and give it priority above any other need they may have.

izzou:
You are trying to swell this guy's worth oh

Two or three shows in which week?. Is Ice Prince the only artiste in Nigeria?

Maybe na when GEJ dey on board you dey talk about. Which hotel go dey float shows on Weekdays, and still bring in Ice Prince to perform?

I like Zamani, but I don't think that with the rise of other artistes in the past 6 years, I will pay premium to go and watch him sing Oleku, or Aboki.

Another thing could be that he had other means of making money...That one still dey

Okay then. I agree with u.

No need trying to count someone else's money on their behalf sef.

izzou:
If Ice Prince does 1.5 million naira show every week (which isn't possible), he would earn 78 million in a year.

78 million naira.

Then e wan tell me say e use 60 million smoke Igbo

Well, no wahala

Read again! A show will pay around ₦1.5m and he can grace at least two or three in a week.

Way back when I dey go work I dey always see clubs and hotels who host ladies night on Wednesdays and another show on Thursday when I'm going to work in the early hours of thurday and Friday.

You will see people coming out of those places around 5.30am to 6.30am.... And dem go still do weekend shows.

larride:
Who go pay Ice prince 1m for this Tinubu economy? Which year him song bang last?

Ice Prince na old taker o

Lolz. Just dey play

Sometime ago I saw a banner of him showing up at a night club somewhere around egbeda. A club where they overprice their drink on a normal day.

On such a day he would come, they will overprice their drinks even more and pay far above N1m for his appearance fee sef.

E be like say Una no know how those nigife business dey really rake in money from all those yahoo boys regularly.

Move around this weekend and u will see one or two hotels hosting a celebrity u consider as being an old taker. Those night life business owners dey use dem dey cash out steady

izzou:
My opinion is based on assumed earnings, and not necessarily if it's possible to consume it.

Anything is possible. I'm just saying how much would he be earning to spend that on just weed.

He would still buy booze and go clubbing
Feeding was there
Housing was there
New toys was there
Family was there

If you say you spent 60m yearly to smoke only Loud, how much did you then spend on the others?

If it's about consuming 155k worth of drugs in a day, I no dispute am. But his earnings no match wetin him dey talk

These people rent houses like me and u na, it's just the location & cost of rent that differs. Me I fit rent 2 bedroom @4.5m per annum at Ajao estate make B-list artiste rent N20m per annum house for one of those estates after abraham Adesanya, Ajah

All those hotels they lodge na show promoters dey cover those ones as part of cost of bringing them to shows. And the drinks they usually drink are sometimes on the house ; u no go carry artiste come show make u no fit do Martel and casamigos for the artiste's table for him and his entourage.

I get friend that once invested in all these record label business, so I know a little about those things.

I'm not saying they won't be spending on feeding and giving handouts to brothers and sisters (if they have any), but u should understand this smoking na addiction which may be taking majority of their earnings.

For somehow that is assured of at least 2 to 3 shows in a midsized hotel in Lagos that pays him nothing less than 1.5m per show, he can always spend 155k on smoke. Na u dey reason say person wey be igbo addict go dey too get plenty savings 😂

afrodoc2:
Well i am not connected that well to know how many shows he goes to or what he charges. I don't know how much in demand he is.

I would still classify it under the lambastic category, but the actual figures might not be too far from what he claimed.

Exactly. The actual figures may not be too far off his claims.

If no be say I dey see people transfer "igbo money" give dealer for my presence, I no go believe say that thing dey expensive like that.

afrodoc2:
The issue is not the amount of weed but his ability to pay for that amount of weed in a 6yr period. I have had friends and neighbors that were heavy into it to the point of life derailment so i know how deeply it can take over one's life.

Iceprince still dey do shows wey dey pay above a million regularly . If it is about being able to pay, I think he can still afford it since it is his own addiction.

I don't the guy has a family he is really supporting with real cash. Maybe if he was married with a handful of kids whom he needs to support financially , I will agree he may have run into debt financing that lifestyle and still caring for his family sha.

izzou:
I think it's exaggerated sha.

Spending an average of 155k a day sounds too much. How much was he really earning?

You're looking at the weed part. What about food everyday? Other miscellaneous expenses nko? It means Zamani might be burning 300k and above per day.

Ahhhhh...That obviously is an exaggeration

Well, na him get him pocket and na him know wetin dey inside.

My own point is If guys wey dey see Yahoo money, random guys from old money and people wey dey do business fit dey buy weed of 80k dey smoke at one sitting with friends, I wouldn't really doubt a celebrity who sees regular money who claims he spends more than that daily on weed.

There's one misconception I see people have about some of these artistes people have; I mean artistes whom we tag as artistes who "fell off". Most people think they are no longer getting money because they don't have banger hits blaring on the airwaves. I know you are somene who drives around Lagos, you will agree with me that if you drive around areas like Igando, Ikotun, Ejigbo, Ikorodu, Apapa, Ojo, Surulere, etc ; you will see clubs, hotels and lounges listing these C-List,D-list artistes as headliners for a show they have from time to time. Most of these guys still charge over a million naira to show up at these shows.

Someone like Portable despite how rough he is , he won't even leave his house in Ogun state to perform in a "big hotel" in Ipaja. Let's not now talk about someone like Iceprince wey dey fly all around middlebelt, Abuja and Lagos to still show up at shows where he still gets paid millions for pulling crowds for those nightlife business owners in those axis.

obainojazz:
I doubt the figures but weed smokers spend a lot. I had this guy back then that took all my cash for bank transfer cos he kept buying. Dude was spending 50-100$ at once on weed and looking at his life now after, doesn’t look like he’s doing well.

Exactly!

It's only because iceprince quit smoking, did self audit and realized how much he has burnt on his addiction ; that's why it's looking like breaking news.

Most people who smoke like that and have access to regular inflow don't take stock of how much they spend on the addiction.

I even think that's why most of the big celebrities we knew in the past go broke because they were just fueling their addiction without taking a step back till their accounts were empty.

iamoyindamola:
Bros its not possible, he can't smoke heavily like Jesse jagz, wizkid or naira marley these guys are chimney compare to ice prince more over what is his source of income to afford such lifestyle.
How many shows does he attend and he wasn't the best in choc city too, these guys exaggerated alot and you believe him

They don't smoke alone now. These musicians are always with guys around them and girls who smoke too.

I've been in gathering of guys that smoke and I see the tiny portion of "loud" they buy and smoke finish at one sitting cost as much as 80k

Do you know some of them don't wrap the weed in the normal paper wrap tbey call rizzler? Some of them wrap it in "backwoods" which is also an expense on its own.


The figures may look exaggerated because one may not want to believe he can smoke at that rate for 6 years on a stretch, but I Don see people wey be say if dem no smoke dem no fit chop so they smoke before each meal.

MSGAMBLE9:
Ozil - His issues at the Club has nothing to do with the Chinese Muslims, while the Club distance itself from the his comment then they did not invalidate it cos even the UK government had it issues with the Chinese treatment of it citizens... His issues with Arteta comes from the manager wanting him to press more which isn't his game and ego issues (probably Ozil never rated him being more accomplished than MA)

Auba - The player has said it many times that it's was MA that granted him the leave of absence to visit his mom only to change and leave him out of the team when he came back https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28211926/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-arsenal-arteta/

Special mention to Guendouzi who does what Veira, Parlour and Keane did back in the days ...

He won the League and that's Great, but I won't call him a good Man Manager of the class of Fergie (Keane, Ronaldo and Ferdinard) and Wenger ( Merson and Adams) or Ancelotti with the shiit he has to swallow at Madrid with big egoistic players...

Aubameyang getting bundled out of Arsenal is not a Mikel Arteta ego thing but issue of an Indisciplined player who exhausted all his lifelines and had to be shown out of the club by whoever was the manager at that time.

Auba had series of disciplinary issues that culminated to having his captaincy band stripped off him and eventual freeze out of the team.

Auba had repeated history of lateness to club trainings as a senior player and captain of the club. It was even reported he was late to a particular North London Derby. These things were piling up till the incident of him violating the team's COVID-19 protocol.

No serious coach worth his salt that is trying to build something at a club that's been faltering for years will condone Auba's excesses. Not when he has impressionable youngsters in the team like Saka who were looking up to players like Auba as role model.

Auba getting axed was good riddance to bad rubbish and has nothing to do with whether Arteta was a good man manager or not.

Ibime:
Do you know what N50k of weed looks like?

He no smoke pass his brother Jesse Jagz and Jesse does not have N5m to spend on weed yearly

WizKid and Burna sef never claim that kain expenditure on weed, na Iceprince

Ice Prince na Cappadona for this

The bold shows u don't know anything about the subject matter but u want to argue based on book knowledge and off Ur assumption that "iceprince is broke"

Pleass go through the various comments on the thread that follows this tweet.

NB: The strain they are talking about is what they call "Canadian Loud" on the streets.

https://x.com/n6oflife6/status/2059681472026419611?s=46

Ibime:
I was in a restaurant about 4 years ago where they were hawking Ice Prince ticket to perform in the same restaurant (capacity of like 100 people max) for £10

We just laughed and said we're not interested.

Premium cap from Ice Prince

Somebody whose idea of extravagance yesterday was blowing N30m MTN ambassador contract on Bentley now talking about N340m on weed in 6 years. That's N155k on weed per day. Even Snoop Dogg will struggle with that

Dey play!

Some regular yahoo boys living in a middle class estate in Lagos dey spend 70k-90k daily on weed.

Now think of a celebrity like iceprince that will always have boys in his crib and even girls that smoke sef. He may spend more than that 155k daily u are estimating sef.

If you are looking at the total sum of over ₦300m u will think it's totally impossible, but u forget he will be paying his dealer maybe daily, bi-weekly, or weekly sef.

I'm sure the only way he's able to track the amount he spent on that misadventure is most likely because he makes payment with all these opay, Kuda, and other Fintechs apps where u can keep track of the amount u sent to a particular beneficiary over a defined period of time.

Ibime:
Any update on that Unijos alumni that was kidnapped on the way to Kaduna?

Or we just dropped his matter and moved on?

He has regained freedom.

Few weeks back there was a video of him sharing testimony in church and recounting his ordeal in the hands of his abductors

https://x.com/_thrixian/status/2054128789500653660?s=46

GloriousGbola:
kind of my thought too

the guy has been off teh radar for the past 6 years - no shows, no podcast, no tiktok - where will he get 340m to blow on drugs from?

to blow 340m on drugs and still be in the state he is with no scandals of cheating people, owing people etc [ which is what happens to broke drug addicts] he would have to be on serious liquidity to magnitudes of his drug spend - meaning if he is blwing 34m on drugs he must have had like 700m to 1 billion for other living expenses over the same period

Lolz 😂

Who told you Iceprince has not been doing shows?

He may not be headlining the big shoelws that make the news, but trust me he's not been sleeping and waking in his house doing nothing. I know someone who works closely with him that often posts iceprince performances on his status steady 2025, 2026..

Ibime:
Cap

Iceprince no get reach like that.

Ok

GloriousGbola:
I am asking HOW you are familiar with the operating costs of getting high chief.

This your in depth knowledge is suspicious.

Abi as EA matter you dey organize alternative recreation for Ogas at the top?

Back in the day someone was def doing some pimping for the randy Ogas in the office with runs girls.

I suspect the cost scales according to pocket of user. We had a guy working for us who was taking and at the time we were paying the guy like 120 per month I think

I'm actually a very social person who goes out a lot. I have friends who invite me for ocassions of friends of friends.

When I'm in those gatherings I'm very observants and I dey ask questions for knowledge sake.

The strains all those celebs and big boys are smoking are very expensive and not the one all those gbèrò dey smoke o

GloriousGbola:
🤨

It's an expensive lifestyle that is very difficult to keep up with Sha. I think it's a major reason yahoo boys always go broke at the end.

Even as an artist/celebrity, if u are not as reach as artists like Davido, Burna, Wizkid, etc u may still go broke indulging in those drug lifestyle.

Iceprince took the best decision to detoxify and quit if not, he would lose more than he had lost especially when he's no longer making hits and not even the regular local hotels are calling him for ileya and Itunu awe gigs

TemporaryHansel:
See what I said there:

No be lie!

I've witnessed it severally and I marvel at how expensive such tiny portion of weed can be. I think it's the reason why mots boys who have seen money before always end up broke especially when addiction sets in.

You will seat with guys at parties who would not eat while every other person is being served. They will keep declining food telling u they will eat when they are ready.

The moment their dealer comes they will go outside, smoke up make their belle for open and that's when they are now ready to eat to their fill.

https://www.nairaland.com/8679967/ice-prince-spent-340m-weed

Iceprince said he spent over N340m on weed in 6 years and I see people saying he's lying and most likely chasing clout with his claim.

Omo! If u know anybody who smokes all those loud and other expensive strains of weed on a personal level, u will know he may not be exaggerating with those figures.

You will boys calling their dealers to bring few grams of loud and they will be transferring 70k, 100k for something tbey will smoke at one sitting.

This is why no reasonable Nigerian with education above secondary school level should support Dangote's push for monopoly in the oil and gas industry.

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has reduced its gantry price of diesel by N200 as importers reportedly receive new shipments.

The refinery cut the price from N1,800 per litre to N1,600 on Wednesday, according to Platts, an independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets.

Confirming the reduction, Joseph Obele, the national public relations officer of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), said the diesel price was reduced on May 26.

The development comes amid a legal dispute on import licences issued or renewed by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) to fuel marketers and NNPC.

Obele told TheCable that the latest price cut is widely seen as a positive impact of increased competition in the downstream petroleum sector.

“Dangote Refinery recently took legal action after NMDPRA granted five import licences to marketers for the importation of petroleum products,” the PRO said.

“Over the weekend, several of the vessels reportedly arrived, and the refinery reduced the price of AGO commonly known as diesel, by N200. The reduction is from N1,800 to N1,600.”

You may love Dangote for the investments he does in Nigeria while other billionaires take their money to offshore tax havens for investment, but don't take Dangote as Ur friend when it comes to how he prices his products.


https://www.nairaland.com/8679949/dangote-refinery-cuts-diesel-price

iamoyindamola:
Exactly we should be using saw dust and stove

Raumdeuter say APC years better pass PDP years because people never start to upload how dem dey use Abacha sawdust stove.

Maybe when people people upload how dem dey use Firewood cook in 2026 he will turn Amala to claim they are doing so out of choice and not out of necessity because the master strategist Don dey give x5 FAAC to Ur governors

MSGAMBLE9:
Mikel Arteta has been named the Premier League's Manager of the Year ✨

Well deserved!

His team was on top of the EPL table from game week 7 to game week 38. That's a whopping 31 game week on top with jeers from rival fans speculating and praying that you capitulate, lose the league and come second for the 4th year running.....but despite the up and downs he was able to keep the players going. Even when some of the players were exhausted, everyone just kept on going.

Arteta seem like a good man manager Sha beacuse tell me how he didn't use Lewis-Skelly all season and somehow when he called on him in the final games of the season the boy gave us his 100% without having a chip on his shoulder?

The whole celebration that followed the EPL win showed Arteta had a very cordial relationship with almost everybody on our team.

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larride:
Na me know wetin I dey face. I currently spend over 60% of my salary on transport and feeding that to even save for rent, school fees and other responsibilities is like a pipe dren and everything keeps increasing every day.

I went to MRS to fill cooking gas on Saturday and cooking gas has moved from 1350 to 1600, I was just shaking my head and hissing. This same cooking gas was 1050 last month, an increment of 550 in less than a month, how do you plan towards that?

The only thing that has remained relatively cheaper this year is foodstuffs like rice, beans and the likes.

It is well bro.

The way even drugs like malaria drug, Antibiotics and common carttarh drugs take expensive now sef, I wonder how people who have serious underlining ailments dey suevive sef.

Even if person go general hospitals wey dem no too dey charge for consultancy, u will still have to buy drugs, drip, pint of blood and injection which are also expensive.

Theflint1:
All the way from Trump's America

Person wey dey live in alternate to reality when it comes to naija matter.

GloriousGbola:
I see afrodoc below

I click am

See say na old profile with the following

https://www.nairaland.com/536440/cocksman-chronicles-d-story-reluctant



Why you wipe the story

Afrodoc, set awon Le Coq Sportif

Roland17:
E be like say him papa follow do sef

izzou:
That's a very good way to wipe out money easily.

See the one wey Umahi build for Abakaliki. Billions of naira in his Aza, with no questions

Fayemi too. I remember when Oasis was telling us how the Agro port will boost agriculture trade amongst states.

So, it is Ugu leaf that is 3 for #500 naira, that someone will go and waybill by air. Aviation fuel don cheap like that?

States wey dey practise agriculture in the middlebelt and core north no build agro airport, na Ekiti state wey almost every every family get one professor dey build cargo airport in the name of boosting agriculture trade.

I feel those politicians don see our people finish,....They know the lamba our people are willing to believe, they sell the lamba to party faithfuls and their supporters then they wait for them to pass same lamba down to the less educated in the society who will sing their praises to high heaven.

See someone like Umahi, till date he believes he is a good manager of resources due to the white elephant project airport he constructed. He doesn't care whether plane flies in and out of the airport. I'm sure in few years to come he will start campaigning for president and will refer to that airport as one of the projects he "delivered" while he was governor.

Roland17:
Bayelsa to PHC Airport is less than 2 hrs. This is another white elephant project intentioned solely to siphon money. Smaller states should be collaborating with neighboring states for Air travels. The need/ demand for a commercial airline in Bayelsa is nearly non-existent.

Infact, if they invested those funds in improving their waterways travel/ commute, they would have better overall long-term outcomes.

izzou:
To find a direct bus to Yenagoa is not even common. The fastest means is to enter a bus going to PH, and drop at Yenagoa junction.

Na the same people get airport and airline.

It just seem Nigerian governors are fantastically wicked with the way they come up with these white elephant projects to siphon money from their respective states especially once they are in their second term.

There's no justification for that Bayelsa airport at all.

I know we have people who believe we have infrastructure deficit as a country o, but I don't think absence of airport should be counted as infrastructure deficit.