₦airaland Forum

lawani:
If you think it is no disadvantage to an economy if rent is fifty times what it is in another country or an automobile is sold twenty times the market price to the masses then there is no words for me to exchange with you. We are entirely not on the same page.

We are definitely not on the same page, and you are very free to ignore whatever I say if you think you know it all and only your own opinion counts!

It is not a matter of advantage or disadvantage, but about cost! Or will you tell gari seller to sell you their gari at a loss to themself because that's all you can afford?

If I buy land in Nigeria for ₦100, and spend ₦1000 building a house on it, and local government charges me like 10 kobo a year for rates, I might be incentivised to rent it to you for ₦10 a month, but you should not expect me to pay millions for land and spend tens of millions to build on it and then rent it to you at a loss!

I did not build my house because of your "cost of living", and there is always a bridge you can go live under if you can not pay rent to live in my house!

NerdCat:
I think, therefore I am. 🙃

Sorry for barging in. But I wonder how true this is, and if you have considered that 'you are, therefore you think'?

Essentially, did your "thinking" precede your existence, is what I am asking?

lawani:
Do you now realize that high pay in high income countries is because of the cost of living mainly and not because of your productivity?

I do not realise any such nonsense, and It is not true that "high pay in high income countries is because of the cost of living mainly and not because of your productivity"!

No one will pay you "cost of living" if they are not producing the revenue to pay it!

lawani:
A minimum wage earner in London is paid many times more than a permanent secretary in Nigeria or even a consultant medical doctor and it is not because the minimum wage earner is more productive.

Dude, please! It is not simply because the minimum wage earner in London is more productive than "permanent secretary in Nigeria or even a consultant medical doctor" is why the minimum wage earner is more productive, but because workers in London are more productive on the whole than workers in Nigeria on the whole.

You will not pay a living wage anywhere if your company is not productive enough to make the revenue to pay a living wage!

lawani:
It is because of a cost of living crisis that needs to be solved. We are different in that I see it as a problem that needs to be solved and you don't

Stop being disigenius!

You can only solve the cost of living crisis by increasing the revenue of those paying it. And you increase revenue by increasing productivity!

Do know that when electricity goes off productivity decreases and companies lose money. London knows this, so they hardly ever have blackouts.

Study the below. It might increase your understanding.

In 2026, the United Kingdom's nominal GDP per capita is projected at approximately $61,006, according to International Monetary Fund (IMF) data. When adjusted for purchasing power (PPP), this figure rises to $67,585

In 2026, Nigeria's nominal GDP per capita is estimated at $1,556, marking a significant projected increase from approximately $1,223 in 2025. When adjusted for purchasing power (PPP), the figure is much higher, estimated at roughly $9,990 for 2026

truthera:
A revolution becomes inevitable when a democratically formed government chooses to impose it's draconia will and retrogressive policies indefinitely on a suffering populace.....

In a democracy, you accept you ignorantly elected a government that imposed "it's draconia will and retrogressive policies indefinitely on a suffering populace", if that's what they are doing, and you open your eyes at the next election so that you do not make the same stupid ignorant mistake!

truthera:
You stylishly dudged my question which I will ask you again, how will making Peter Obi president unify Nigeria or stop Fulanis expansionist agenda current ravaging the north, middle belt and part of your region the south west ravaging the north, middle belt and part of your region the south west..... Until you answer this question, we may continue the conversation.....

Please confess that you do not like my answer as stated in mine you quoted, because electing Obi will not solve the problems that Nigeria faces, which is not just "unify Nigeria or stop Fulanis expansionist agenda current ravaging the north, middle belt and part of your region the south west", like you want to assume, but increased participation by all in the governance of our united Nigeria!

All that electing Obi or anyone else for that matter, apart from APC, will do is change the actual party and government of Nigeria to a new party with a new agenda! Because we can not keep electing the same party many are wailing about and expect the agenda to change! And we will be proving to ourselves that we chose who rules us.

Please know that I am not conversing or responding to you for your sake, nor do I care what you think. I am responding to you so more rational beings can consider what I have to say about whatever it is you pose!

First, Vote for Obi!

I think Farooq Kperogi thinks the totality of the Nigerian electorate are rational human beings, and that the majority of Nigerian are tribal or religiobal and stupid and smart.

Tinubu is from my Osun State, though he does not share my atheism, and I want you all to vote for Obi or anyone else for that matter but my Obi first, because APC has ruled for long enough and I want change.

As for the hardship of Tinubu's policies, no rational intelligent Nigerian should expect life in Nigeria to be easy after so many years of fuel and currency subsidy that benefitted a few. It's like daddy kicked you out of his house and you now have to rent and buy your own food and pay your own bills. No, it's not gonna be as easy a life like you lived before!

Of course you'd want to get up and return to daddy's house, but unfortunately, no father of yours in bringing out his best robe to put on you so you can return to merry.

Do know that less than 10 million Nigerians elected Tinubu out of the almost 100 million who were registered to vote at the last election while 90 million of us sat on our asses and are now wailing, which would be laughingly funny if not tragic!

Again, vote! For Obi or anyone at all, or wail more next term!

lawani:
So you think it is because you are productive that you spend half of your income to pay rent? Companies monitor the cost of living in your city to determine how much to offer you. Not because you are more productive than your counterpart who works in Ibadan Nigeria

Actually, my productivity makes me own houses that I rent out. And the rent I charge is not set by any company, and nor do I determine how much I charge by how much you can afford, but by the going rate for similar houses in the neighbourhood my houses are in.

I'd of course love to charge for my house in the Orolu Kingdom what I charge for the ones in Ibadan, but despite the one in the Orolu Kingdom being larger and on more land, no one will pay me what I get for the ones in Lagos.

And it's not because the people in my Orolu Kingdom are not as productive as people in Ibadan and Lagos, but because there is more investment in Ibadan and Lagos than in my Orolu Kingdom, so more jobs and created in Ibadan and Lagos, and more productivity, and hence the huge demand for workers and places for the workers to live in Ibadan and Lagos than in my Orolu Kingdom.

lovediehatelive:
Has anyone ever experienced such?

No, no one has ever experienced such. You are the first person on earth to experience such. And it's such a huge experience to experience too!

Who can imagine Arsenal losing to Man City like that!

truthera:
If all south east states boycott the national election, the message would be loud not just in Nigeria but the whole world....

Na lie, dude. The entire world will wake up the next day and just ignore you for being silent and not voting!

Seriously, my Igbo people, I hope you all understand that keeping quiet and not voting is the dumbest thing we can do, and voting en mass is how you will be heard loud and clear!

Do please dislike this post to let me know if you disagree!

truthera:
I hope you read my post, all igbos should boycott the national 2027 election and demand for a referendum.....

Many Igbos have boycotted national election before!

They ended up not being part of government and wailed at their own self exclusion, and have now learnt from that error now that they are being ruled by fools, I hope.

Parachoko:
I'm Glad you Obidients are now Accepting the fact that Peter Obi will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

I am Obidient, and I do not accept that Obidience will never become the President of Nigeria!

In fact, I strongly believe that even you, as stubborn as you might be, can still become Obidient one day.

We just need to make you understand that it is not about Peter Obi, but the Kingdom that is inside yourself. But I guess I should go and make my fellow Obidients understand that first.

truthera:
I asked you the last time in another thread, how will 2027 election solve Nigeria's root problem?

Nigeria's root problem is the non-participation of Nigerians in Nigeria's development and progress. And that is what voting and elections will eventually solve in 2127 if we start now! And no, that date there is not an error, unlike your own "2027", like you think we are proposing a miracle.

Your own miraculous revolution, on the other hand, is more a revolt to destroy what already exists! And you think you'd be better off afterwards, to which I disagree.

Let me tell you a secret. Tinubu is increasing taxation on Nigerians with the loans he is collecting. The plan is, when you feel the yoke of future governments taking a larger proportion of your hard earned income as tax, you will wake up and vote to decide who takes steals your money from inside your pocket.

My own hope is that we wake up long before 2127, or we might be waking up as slaves!

I think I'd like this one, but will wait for user experience while I rob a bank.

https://www.byd.com/ng/car/shark-6

ALHAJIJUJU:
Your role, prime minister of the movement.

As follows

As the chief whip of the movement

As the spy master of the movement

As a researcher of the movement

As a winner of souls for the church

You are required to confirm within seven days and we conduct pig leg and chicken neck ritual to seal the role

The role is for life non negotiable

Chief whip, spy master, researcher of the movement, winner of souls, for life, is quite a lot of work! But you at least did not include 'saviour of the souls'.

Please, what is the budget for all this work?

And is it a paying position?

truthera:
Igbos shouldn't be deceived as nothing revolutionary that will benefit them will come out of an Obi presidency if he some how miraculously wins in 2027.....

We all know you think elections and voting are useless, so don't think you fool us by trying to hide behind Kanu's release!

I am Yoruba, and I want Obi to win so we can have a change from APC. So my hope is Igbos do not listen to your sit at home, because even if my Obi does not win Igbo and every Nigerian voter's voice must be loud so we are all heard!

IjeBos:
Why are you still arguing with him?

Where are my eyes? I can't believe I see this.

Did she infect him, is what I wonder!

And what's the status of his children?

Is he saying we should not bother voting because God has voted for us, or we should vote to express the will of God?

I'm just wondering how his followers see this.

But egg is $1.99!

Inflation has been accelerating since mid-2025. In each of the three months of December, January, and February – so before the war and before the energy price spike – the PCE price index had already surged by 4% to 4.6% annualized (black circle in the chart). The March spike is on top of that acceleration (blue line). And it was energy, but not just energy.

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/04/30/inflation-in-the-entire-us-economy-is-rocking-and-rolling-and-its-not-just-energy/

lawani:
So the cost of living crisis should continue? North Korea should have a per Capita income of 1000 dollars or Burundi should have 300 dollars while some countries have over 100, 000 dollars? If it continues then some countries will only have an economy based on the service sector and not much else and that will be the high income countries. If all low income countries should sit up to organize themselves by increasing their tax to GDP ratio to work for their people and they are already sitting up then the service economies will start losing people to emigration. Who will want to stay in a country where people are slaving for the real estate investors?

It has nothing to do with your "cost of living crisis"!

Now you mention it though. Students in a country arrive in class after spending the night doing holy ghost prayer to be taught by teachers owed 3 months salary, compete with students who had a good nights sleep in their comfortable bed and arrive in class to be taught by competent satisfied teachers. Can you perhaps imagine the difference in their productivity when they grow up and start working, and would yiu pay them the same wage if they don't produce the same amounts?

Low income countries should sit up and learn to be more productive is what I'd think. But if they don't some countries' peoples would most definitely continue to emigrate to serve others elsewhere.

illicit:
Na wa 4 children of nowadays o....

Na wa for their parents of nowadays too.

lawani:
You should be able to see this because there is no reason why the same quality of housing in different parts of the world should be priced differently. So rent in New York and etc is not what it should be. I hope you see the point.

Thanks for educating me about per Capita income. I missed the difference.

Land in New York does not cost the same as land in say Makoko. In fact, land in GRA Ikeja does not cost the same as land in Makoko, so rent on houses built on either can not be the same I wouldn't think, since the total cost of building differs. And that's not even taking the difference in supply of amenities (light, water, good roads, local tax, neighbours even, and demand, etc) in different locations into consideration.

Just the availability of jobs and demand for housing can create a difference in rent. A 3 bedroom house in my own Orolu Kingdom would cost less than a room in a face to face in Lagos due to low demand alone, and I can't see why or how they'd be priced the same even if building costs were the same.

cococandy:
Let me make it clear to you. IDGAF what you think about abortion

You don’t get a say. Don’t like it? Oh well too bad.

Hard to explain to some that 'my choice' excludes their opinion, so best not bother as you advise.

bayelsaowei:
It’s not possible to have a daughter and stand behind/worship a sex offender and a pdf. It’s not possible..

It’s not possible to have a daughter and fight against every initiative that supports the female child..

It’s not possible!!

You obviously don't know maga logic.

There is apparently a thing they call "good intent of a wrong act" that they use to avoid their own dissonance and justify their own hypocrisy.

I don't think children are calculated in household income unless you are farming them out for a wage, so the income of a family of 2 parents and 3 children will be $10k per annum at best.

As for your, "No country in reality needs up to three thousand dollars per annum in per capita income if the cost of living were what it should be", rent in New York for a family home is way more than three thousand dollars per month, and cost of living is what it is and not what one wishes it should be!

I'm planting bitterleaf on my windowsill. It's like gold where I live!

The ball in the middle is a tennis ball, for size. They are in what's no bigger than a small coffee cup.

DeepSight:
Has it ever occurred to you that people see more of who you are here than everyday people in your real life may see. Because here, there is no physical appearance or setting or social placement to coat who you are. Its your mind on display.
Think on that.

Because I swear, if you had a clue how you come across.

He is not aware he is showing his spirit for what it is.

Gabrielshow26:
He is a lawyer not a science student. Pardon his ignorance😅. Omo, budaatum you wicked gan😂. Why would you do something like that 😂?

He provoked me and has never stopped provoking me, hence my wickedness towards him even though I forgive him because he obviously does not know what he is talking about. Like you said, a lawyer, and not a science student. But I doubt he is the sort you'd hire to lawyer for you.

He should pardon his own ignorance and learn, is what I think, but heaven will freeze first before that happens, unless you can teach him better. To wit, goodluck, Gabrielshow26. I pray you succeed where I've failed.

raumdeuter:
Segregation means white people lived in separate areas from black people

Now explain how that made them stay with the women they impregnate and now choose to do the opposite

During segregation, men were limited to working in their immediate vicinity, but afterwards, they were free to travel to get jobs, and they'd leave their kids at home fatherless with their mothers.

But we do have a professional father who has left his own children fatherless to go and work elsewhere, though he has not told us yet that he sends money home to them. Help me beg him to tell us why his own children are growing up fatherless please. We all might learn from his experience.

bemeruca:
You can do it right.
You can be a hypocrite with good intent not malicious intent. That's why I am a good hypocrite

Makes sense to you, I bet. And explains your dump support.

He ræped with "good intent" and grabbed cats with "good intent" and lies with "good intent" and scams with "good intent", and that must make him a good intender in your eyes. But you thankfully only have two eyes and most won't let you do their seeing and will beg to see different to what you claim to see.

Do let me know if you'd accept that CK's murderer murdered him with good intent. And if you can't accept it, do let me know why please.

tctrills:
How about a segregated person. During segregation, 75% of black fathers remained at home.

Now, this is amusing indeed!

Where did you expect a segregated black man pre-civil rights in America to go if he left his home, tctrills?

And do you understand the poverty he'd have lived under segregated at home and unable to go where the jobs were?

bemeruca:
I don't like hypocrisy

But it does seem like you don't mind being a hypocrite since you do the "such behaviour" that you claim you don't like! Or is it that you do not think you are being a hypocrite in doing what you don't like and condemn others for?

So let's start with you defining hypocrisy, so we both know what you mean. And don't forget to educate me on that thing you are a professional at that I keep asking you about please.

bemeruca:
My point is when a system is abused by people and illegal behaviour, migration, etc. It may affect the innocent ones when crack down starts. This is why I don't like such a behaviour even if I did it to get to the US under Biden.

You did "such behaviour" but you don't like "such behaviour" but are here condemning those who did the "such behaviour" that you did because you did your own "such behaviour under Biden"?

Can you me tell me the meaning of the word 'hypocrite', please. I need to know if you know what it means.

And also attend to the matter mentioned in my post that the spambot is hiding from you please. Thank you very much in advance.