₦airaland Forum

richmond500:
how do we confirm its not a fake news?

amliftedhigher:
His only crime was he ask why they are taking his friend's away.

richmond500:
how do we confirm its not a fake news?

DoggoneDogg:
By Nairametrics Analysts


Source: Nairametrics

dettolgel:
@op it seems your brain is paining you.

When will Nigerians start reasoning like people with functioning brain?

If there is anyone to blame it is the government both past and present.

Why did I say so:

1. if past and present governments had fixed our health system, passerby would have called ambulance to come get him. The EMT would have started treating or at least stabilize him before taking him to the hospital thereby increasing his chance of surviving.

2. If the past and present governments had improved security and provide opportunity for the army of jobless youths, the chances of him being targeted would have been reduced.

As for the passerby, you want them to take him to the hospital that will reject him without police report.

In the cause of trying to get a police report if he dies, the police will arrest the good Samaritans. The helper will be held for murder and accused of assassination and forced to cough out a large amount of money before being set free.

This brings us to point 3. If the past and present governments had made genuine effort in cleaning the police force ordinarily citizens won't think twice to help victims and hospitals on their part won't turn back such victims for lack of police reports.

Yes, I put all the blame on the government on our demonic politicians that over the years have done nothing but rape and blunder this country. The blood of untimely death of any Nigerian due to factors related to the governments not doing their jobs either in the past or present is on the head of the politicians and their families.

Reflect7:
If institutions are taking down the Nigerian flag in the East for fear of IPOB attacks, then it is time for a national state of emergency to be declared, and for the deployment of the military to the entire south east, for a comprehensive flushing out of all IPOB elements.

CitynewsNG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnFfDTiNYNU



Source: Vanguard News Nigeria

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/gunmen-set-anambra-station-ablaze-kill-5-officers/amp/

BigCabal:
Every week, Zikoko seeks to understand how people move the Naira in and out of their lives. Some stories will be struggle-ish, others will be bougie. All the time, it’ll be revealing.

The 26-year-old in this #NairaLife YOLO’ed her way through some years of her adult life until eight months of unemployment stopped her in her tracks. Now, she’s all about financial security. How does she navigate this when her 9-5 pays her ₦70k? Sorry for your Dad

What’s your oldest memory of money?

This would be in the early 2000s. My dad used to give me and my siblings some money to take to school at the beginning of the week — I don’t remember how much, but we would end up not spending it. Whoever saved the most money scored some bragging rights. At the end of each week, we pooled our money together to make a big purchase.

My dad was an accountant, and I think his job influenced his relationship with money. He’d never give us the money he didn’t believe we needed. He always said children who were exposed to too much money had a tendency to steal. But as we grew older, he started giving us our allowances based on the classes we were in. In 2006, when I was in JSS 1, my allowance was ₦10. This increased to ₦20 when I got to JSS 3 three years later. The money was barely enough to do anything. Guess what I decided to do?

What?

I went to a boarding school for my senior secondary education to force my dad to give me a lump sum amount every term. My allowance at the beginning of the term was ₦1k. My dad would also keep ₦500 with one of my teachers. I would live on ₦1k for the whole term and at the end of the term, I’d collect the extra ₦500 to take home.

Interesting.

When I got to SS 2, my parents separated and that translated into more money for me.

How?

My dad got custody of us. My mum was no longer physically present and she tried as much as possible to make up for it with money gifts. Whenever she visited me at school, I got ₦10k. When I graduated from secondary school and got into university in 2011, the ₦10k became my monthly allowance.

But that stopped in my second year — my mum was relocating, so she resigned from her job and didn’t have as much money anymore. I wasn’t getting any allowance from my dad because the university was a short distance from my house, so I didn’t live in a hostel. Once my mum moved, I knew I had to figure out what to do to make money.

What was the first thing you did for money?

Does working on my dad’s fish farm count? My dad ran into problems at work in 2012 and quit his job. Subsequently, he started a fish farm and put us, four kids, to work. When we made big sales, he paid us about ₦2k at least once a month.

Simultaneously, I was working with a friend’s dad. He owned a lottery kiosk and he hired me to work on Saturdays. Typically, I worked from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and got paid between ₦1500 and ₦2k. Later in 2012, I started ushering and making between ₦5k and ₦10k every two months.

The biggest lumpsum amount I’d make in uni came in 2014.

Tell me about it.

It was the buildup to the 2015 general elections. Some campaign organiser hired me and some other girls to work on their campaign train. The job paid ₦10k per week, and I got ₦40k in the first month. In the second month, I got ₦70k — I worked an extra three weeks before the project was cancelled. bought a second-hand Samsung phone for ₦35k. I’m not sure what I did with the rest.

How was your relationship with money at this point?

I wasn’t big on saving anymore because there were things to use money for this time. I struggled to find a balance between earning and managing money and thought I could always make more.

So what happened after?

I wrote my final exams in December 2014 but didn’t graduate until a year later. ASUU strike happened. During the time I was at home, I worked on my dad’s fish farm. In 2016, I was finally mobilised and moved to Abuja to serve. My PPA paid me ₦7500/month and the federal government paid ₦19,800. I had a constant source of income now. But I made a money decision that could have gone wrong.

What was it?

MMM. Some of my co-workers introduced me to it. I put ₦15k in the first time and got ₦33k. Afterwards, I invested ₦10k. The thing casted on my third try, but I got my capital back. However, I’d introduced my mum and my brother to the scheme and they lost their investments. It was my first reality check about putting money into things I didn’t understand.

Anyway, my service year ended in May 2017. Hello, unemployment. This was when it first struck me that I could have done better with my finances.

Omo. How long were you unemployed?

Eight months. Those months were horrible. My mum came through whenever she could, but the frequency was far and in between. I was living with my brother and living off him. He didn’t mind that I couldn’t pull any weight, but the guilt ate at me. It’s one thing to be broke, but it’s another to be broke and knowing that your choices got you there.

I got my first job post-NYSC in January 2018 as a content developer. ₦40k a month. But I only got paid ₦10k once.

Ah.

All I heard was “Sorry.” or “Don’t worry, take this small change for transport.” Nobody could have prepared me for the helplessness I felt. After three months, I quit the job. I didn’t even turn in a resignation letter — I just stopped going to work.

Phew.

Two weeks after I quit the job, I had to travel home. My dad had fallen ill. Cancer.

Oh wow. I’m so sorry.

I won’t lie, it was one of the toughest periods I’ve had to deal with. My eldest brother wasn’t making a lot of money. My younger sister had just finished her youth service. My youngest brother was still in school. And there was me, unemployed as well. The family had only one source of income, and we were dealing with a terminal illness.

What was it like navigating that?

Tough. I stayed home from March until September 2018 to work on my dad’s fish farm, so we could get money to buy his drugs. There’s no nice way to say it; we were at ground zero.

Thankfully, a graduate trainee job I had applied for at a bank came through in September, and I started making money again.

How much did the job pay?

₦100k and I worked as a bank teller. For the first three months, more than 80% of my salary went into my monthly running costs, including the money I sent home for my dad’s medication. But I was making sure I saved ₦10k every month. Things got a little better in December because I started making more money at the bank, but it wasn’t from a raise.

What was it?

Tips from the bank customers I had built a relationship with. On average, I was getting between ₦1k and ₦3k daily in tips from people who had business to do in the bank. This took care of my feeding and transportation expenses for the day.

I had more money to save now, so I joined a contribution scheme with nine other people, and we saved ₦50k every month and took turns to cart away the money.

I also had my personal savings — ₦10k per month. I’d seen what not having money could do and saving money seemed like the best way to avoid it.

For the first time in forever, things were looking up. Then my dad passed away in December 2019. Cancer finally got him.

I’m so sorry.

Thank you. Funerals are expensive. The whole thing cost me about ₦800k, and I think the whole family spent up to ₦5m. We were broke oh.

How did you raise the money?

A lot of it was cash gifts. I had to take a break from work for a few days when he passed, and the bank customers with whom I had a rapport noticed. They found out the reason I wasn’t at work and started sending me money. ₦20k here. ₦50k there. Also, I got my ₦500k from the contribution scheme. It was in January 2020, in time for his funeral.

After the funeral rites had been completed, I had about ₦250k left. More money gifts came in when I returned to work, which shot my savings to ₦450k. The contribution scheme cycle had passed, so I was back to earning my full salary. But I was still channelling most of it into my savings.

Fast forward to March 2021, I lost ₦250k in some investment scheme.

What happened?

My contract with the bank was going to expire in September 2020, and I knew I didn’t want a promotion to full staff. I wanted a stronger safety net. Someone told me about the investment opportunity and I went in. The term was that I’d get 10% of my investment in the first month and subsequently receive 20% for six months. The first payment came through right before the lockdown. Then the whole thing came crashing down. That was the last payment I got.

Omo.

I was in worse shape than before, and I had only a few months to spend at work. I doubled down on my savings and made it ₦20k/month. When my contract with the bank expired in September, I had ₦300k in savings.

But you were out of a job again. What was that like?

It wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. I got a gig as a freelance content writer with someone I know. Then I got similar jobs with two other people. The rates were ₦1.20k per word. On average, I was making between ₦10k and ₦18k per week from each person I was working with. But it was also a lot of work for little reward. I did this for two months, then I got another job.

I was hired as an executive secretary at a forex management company for ₦50k/month. It wasn’t a hectic job, so I had time to continue freelance writing and making money on the side.

What has happened between then and now?

I got tired of writing for people and earning so little money in return. In February this year, I turned my sights to Fiverr. Later that month, I got a job on the platform, which paid me $20. Subsequently, the client put me on a retainer — $100 per month to create content for their Instagram page.

By this time, I had spent up to six months at my job, and they reviewed my salary to ₦70k. In May 2021, another client put me on a retainer, paying me $5 per hour. I was making $80 per week.

And how has your relationship with money evolved?

I’ve been saving most of what I got from my 9-5 and my side gigs. It’s been easier to do this because I always get money gifts from men these days. It’s hard to put a number to it but a ballpark amount would be ₦50k – ₦60k, and I put most of it into my savings.

I’m open to taking more risks too. In April this year, I took ₦300k out and put in an investment opportunity at my place of work. The terms are that I’ll get 15% of my investment every month, so it’s been bringing in an extra ₦45k/month.

Hmm. What does your savings chest look like at the moment?

₦800k sitting in my PiggyVest and $1200 in my dollar account. My goal was to have ₦1m savings goal by the end of the year, and it looks like I’ve surpassed it already.

Yay. This sounds like a good place to talk about your monthly running expenses.
I get ₦115k from my salary and my investment. The first thing I do is to save ₦30k – ₦35k. The other running costs look something like this:

What have your experiences done to your perspective about money?

I’m a lot more responsible with money now. I know what it feels like to be stuck as an adult, and I know that a constant source of income brought me out of it. So it makes sense to respect money and be responsible with it. Money has also become a safety tool for me. Knowing that I have it saved up somewhere is enough for me to have a good day.

Fair enough. How much do you feel you should be earning right now?

From my 9-5? ₦180k seems like a fair amount, but I stand a higher chance of making that from freelancing than from my day job. And that’s how I plan to increase my income.

How?

The plan is to double down on freelancing and figure out how to get better-paying gigs. I recently paid $120 for a course that should help me leverage freelancing platforms. The plan is to make enough dollar earnings by January next year, so I can quit this job.

Rooting for you. I imagine there’s something you want right now but can’t afford.

I don’t know. Maybe a car. It would definitely make moving around easier, but I don’t have ₦1.8m – ₦2m to splash on that right now.

What about something you bought that significantly improved the quality of your life?

I recently splurged on some human hair, and it cost me ₦80k. Not sure if it improved the quality of my life, but it made me feel really good.

Fair enough. On a scale of 0-10, how would you rate your financial happiness?

6 ½. I’m not making enough and it makes me anxious. It’d be great to unlock more streams of income. That’s why I need this freelancing to work. My target is to make between $1k and $2k per month. When this happens, I can move up to an eight.

Source: https:///2WiRD9X

assent:
I understand. My comment exposed the lies in your Soul and you Igbos are boastful, thereby hating anything that exposes your lies and weakness.

Look among you when looking for betrayers and backbitters. Leave youruabs our of your takes of woe.

assent:
I understand. My comment exposed the lies in your Soul and you Igbos are boastful, thereby hating anything that exposes your lies and weakness.

Look among you when looking for betrayers and backbitters. Leave youruabs our of your takes of woe.

assent:
If you are not too blind, you would have seen that the news is about Igbos.

Yorubas aren't your enemies. Your enemies are among you.

assent:
If you are not too blind, you would have seen that the news is about Igbos.

Yorubas aren't your enemies. Your enemies are among you.

geekay4real:
I am not surprised SE governors aren't present, history is about to repeat itself. In the first Nigerian republic, this was the same treatment Zik melted at Awo. Despite readiness of Awo to form alliance with Zik and other minor group and take finance minister, Zik went ahead and form alliance with NPC thinking they will be easy to manipulate due to their level of exposure. Inability to achieve his aim led to first coup and retaliation of this coup led to Biafra war. It baffles me when people who know little or nothing about history keep saying Awo betrayed Igbos whereas their leaders have been reasons why we are here today. Imagine alliance between two great leader but greediness will not allow it.
Hausas are taught all these in a very hard way and best way to Nigeria problem is either regionalism or secession.

zombieHUNTER:
No doubt this is the worst set of Governors the East ever...

But Why you would forget 2015 elections in a haste is what I can't phantom

assent:
Dear Igbos on nairaland, hope you can now see that your real enemies are not yorubas? Your real enemies are among yourselves. Your fellow Igbos are the backbitters, not yorubas.

If you are looking for untrustworthy people, don't look in the direction of the southwest; rather, look among yourselves.

Mikelarteta:
There is this yoruba saying that if you pound yam in a leaf or prepare a soup in the shell of a groundnut, whoever’s stomach that has to be filled, will be filled.
What that simply tells me is that the Grace of God is our sufficiency.
When Gods Grace is sufficient for you and your family, you could be earning 30k a month but getting gifts or things worth over 100k. That’s the Grace we talking about and I pray that as you are reading this, the Grace of God will be sufficient for you and your family.

AntiWailer:
Only jobless bandit like u will like to sit at home on Monday.

No reasonable 'ndi gbo business' minded person will.

Grayoso:
Stop insulting hollowly like a loser stuck in the past and entirely accepting of his position as a subjugated 'slave'.

You can remind us of what obtained as much as you want but the vigorous fight some southern leaders are putting up today to achieve subtle and irreversible fiscal and socio-economic autonomy is encouraging.

All Southerners should maintain the momentum and support this drive to shape a more equitable Nigeria.

The only thing constant in life is change. A situation that has obtained for a thousand years may come crashing down in a day because of those brave enough to say "enough is enough".

BeeBeeOoh:
http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/13/2023-presidency-going-southern-nigeria-wishful-thinking-not-practical-%E2%80%93-northern-senator

inumidun2010:
Is the VACCINE a dose of ANTI-CHRIST...
Naso una G.O talk say TV Na DEVIL'S BOX but Na still the SAME DEVIL'S BOX dem dey use EVERY MONDAY.....
If OYINBO wan KILL AFRICANS, all those FREE ROLL BACK MALARIA PROJECT and KICK POLIO would have been the BEST STRATEGY...
God gave the AFRICAN MAN BRAIN, but some still allow RELIGION DICATATE FOR THEM...

atorioke:
By the way, I'm from Delta, Nigeria. We have the third best IGR, and most times, highest FAAC allocation

Sharatan:
Before you blink now you'll start hearing of assassinations, kidnapping and deaths. Politics na truly dirty game.

SlyDev:
Igbo man.... Fight ur fight alone.... Lagos is not south east.... Imagine almajiri state dwarfing the whole alaigbo

thebosstrevor1:
Both muslims and Christians forcefully converted people into their religion, the reason was not only for religious purposes but for political purposes

The more Christians, the more they will support Christian agendas likewise the more muslims, the more they will support muslims agendas

franklingud:
Sensible write up by a sensible female.

Future is female indeed.

asiwajuonafeko:
Hello guys, how did u do it cos I only received there text but didn't see any mail up till now. This country ehh

Tokskob2008:
This people should be left alone to do whatever they like to do within their country, if they like let them kill evey single citizen in their country na them sabi..