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braimeddy:Efe just dey Dull I swear. The guy for Don tidy since |
Roon9:AS IN CELEBRITIES |
Which one is fake house mates |
Gifty and Coco ice will leave for sure, bassey debby rise and bisola got more votes |
JehanEddy07:THE GUY IS DAMN GOOD, MARVIN SHOULD SIGN DEBBY. THE THING ABOUT BBN IS MOST OF D CONTESTANTS ARE REALLY TALENTED, THEY WOULD FARE WELL EVEN IF THEY GET EVICTED |
Na money d guys dey find. That tomboy hold bar |
Just pH of 20k, I hope I will get my 50k that was stocked |
Benita27:Hope you will say same thing if you guy locks his phone and u don't hve access to it. D problem is not her locking her phone, it's her hiding her password. It makes it so obvious she is hiding something. I hve long forgotten about it |
Light full everywhere for UYO and pH dunno wat u saying |
bibijay123:It's somehow locking your phone don't you think so |
ok |
This is not funny. Beat the guy but dont take his life |
funny |
Are you tired of getting 10 likes or even none. Boost your number of likes on fb to as high as 500. It's cheap and affordable just with 1000naira |
Who dey keep gf for this kind period wey money dry. Me just broke up. Lol. Relationship is over rated. Most baes are looking for guys to suck dry |
Jaideyone:k |
Mmm is finished |
Joblessness. No wonder our country is still in recession |
Lobatan. Nigerians should move on. January is hard o. Keep the little money you have, stop dashing scammers your hard earned cash |
N.B: This is not a post in defense of MMM or other ponzi schemes. To "live according to one's means" is—as a low income earner in Nigeria—to die. Not immediately, of course. Life is hard in Nigeria. Our economic realities make sure of that. It's tougher when you're a low income earner. Have you ever sat to ponder on what that barrow pusher that passes by your street eats daily? Those onion sellers from northern states, struggling to make a decent living? The roadside vulcanizer making less than a thousand naira a day? Ever wondered how their average day goes? If you don't like to torture yourself, don't. The reality of over a hundred million Nigerians is one of endless struggle for sustenance. We live in a country where you can literally spend all your salary on feeding. Clean drinking water is expensive. One has to make do with water from boreholes, wells and rusted pipes. Your salary a month cannot even buy you a decent dining table. Furnishing your apartment takes months of endless planning. Ours is a country one cannot afford to fall sick in. Two months ago, I took my mom to a hospital. She was diagnosed with a throat infection. The drugs prescribed alone cost N18,000. Combined with fees for tests, consultation, etc over N25,000 was spent that day. Now think about that. In a country where subsidized Healthcare is near nonexistent, where our hospitals are severely lacking in Healthcare equipments and in various stages of degradation where they exist, in a country where a visit to the hospital is preceded by appeals to whatever diety or star one fancies for safety during the visit (the irony) and a nagging trepidation that the hospital personnel would misdiagnose, prescribe wrong drugs or, depending on the severity of the ailment, forget surgical scissors in one's abdomen, how does one who's earning, say, N40,000 shell out that much money for drugs? Considering all these, it is little wonder why pentecostal churches in Nigeria are so vibrant and successful. The rise of pentecostalism in this part of the world started during Abacha's regime. Since then, we've seen an exponential growth in new age pentecostalism across the nation. Why are these churches so successful? Well, apart from whispering words of comfort—sweet nothings—into the ears of the "heavy laden", they sell promises to the masses that simply cannot be redeemed. Miracle healing here. Unlimited source of wealth there. prosperity, here and in the hereafter. You're told exactly what you want to hear. Not because it's the truth. But because it is comforting. You part with a portion of your money, and in return you get happiness. It is against this backdrop that we've seen a proliferation of ponzi schemes in Nigeria. These ponzi schemes are more pragmatic in their promises than all the churches put together. An investor (if that's what they're called) in a ponzi scheme makes, in one year, what the church can't offer in ten. This post isn't even about greed or contentment. This isn't even about the scourge of western consumerism and the psychological impact of advertisement. This is about sustenance and survivability. This is about the one earning N29,000 a month trying to make ends meet. This is about the market woman scared that her children will be chased out of school in the wake of an upward fee review. This is about not having to rack one's brain to come up with what cassava-based meal to have for dinner. We have an economic reality that pushes citizens towards ponzi schemes as short- term solutions to their long-term problems. A friend of mine was earning about $1,000 a month as at January, 2016. Roughly the price of two iPhone 7s. By June, his salary was barely able to buy one. Same job. Same salary in naira. Of course an iPhone is not a yardstick for measuring consumption per capita or wealth, but in an economy so heavily skewed towards, and largely dependent on importation, we live at the mercy of the value of the naira. I contend here that wealth (and by extension the availability of money) defines and determines our morality. I'll explain: During the MMM boom, between June and October, ponzi schemes were condemned by a great many (youths especially) as being "morally wrong." Many young, educated people came on social media to criticize them as unethical. Curiously, a lot of those who condemned ponzi schemes on grounds of morality and ethics are people who have had their morality (or their conceptions of it) refined by books downloaded from Torrent and/or other piracy websites. A lot of the entertainment we consume and binge on are largely available thanks to piracy. To be well read and informed in Nigeria is expensive. That's just the candid truth. One has to resort to sharing and downloading pirated copies of materials—morally and ethically wrong— necessary to attain the level of knowledge one desires. During the Internet data cheat fiesta (MTN simple server, anyone?), gigabyte upon gigabyte of pirated materials were sourced from the Internet via data connectivity that wasn't paid for by the same people condemning ponzi scheme on moral grounds. Morality tends to take the back seat—relegated to the background—when our comfort, survival and sustenance is threatened. This is not a condemnation. It's economics. Because we humans are analog beings. Our morality isn't controlled by logic gates. We don't see in 1s and 0s. Nay, our morality is a knob. Turned on and off at will. Listen closely to the belligerent defense put up in favor of ponzi schemes. Read between the lines of all the "who you don epp?", "MMM is real, coman beat me". Sieve through all the "Eez it your money?" and "enemy of progress" rants. Beneath it all is a consciousness, desperate, yearning for help, catching at straws, striving to survive in a maddening world. And just like the salvation offered in churches, ponzi schemes are as reassuring to Nigerians "as the picture of an oxygen atom is to a drowning man." Source:Godswill Vesta Utong Facebook Lalalastic mynd44 |
okay good |
dollyjoy:Because D guy said your boooobs are sagged, u changed dp. Low esteem |
Silentscreamer:See your black face. Shy bae. |
FortuneTeller:Shey u a fortune teller na, I expect u to know. Am planning to, do u hve a buyer |
silvernus0:Lol. True bro. True talk. Someone needs the 2k more than I do |
Dear Mavrodi, It has been little over a year since the creation of MMM Nigeria. Many Nigerians saw this as an opportunity to reduce the pains they were facing as a result of the economic recession of this great country. However , their expectations were cut short when you announced MMM-NIgeria will be taking a break and resume on the 14th of January ,2017. You made lots of people lose interest by freezing their accounts thereby putting them in a very bad position where most of them had to cut short their most of their plans. I must commend you for keeping to your words , MMM-NIgeria is back and at the moment people are being matched to make and receive payments. However, you mus know NIgerians are smart people and won't be moved by such gesture. We all know MMM Nigeria's strength is based on its participant willing to provide help. How do you intend to sustain this community when the number of GHs outweighs the number of PHs. Let me make it clear , people have lost hope in the community. But there is hope, yes there is hope . MMM has a large number of participant, that is one of her strengths. For MMM-Nigeria to be sustained, People must definitely PH to GH even if it is a patry sum of 1000 naira. That will make more people key into it. Wish you best of luck, I got paid today 5k today and I am returning 2k to the community. I guess it will help another participant in need. Act fast before everything crumbles. Regards, Codegenesis |
tundeks:He is making sense Now |
I really don't know how sustainable it is going to be. But if i were the MMM mods, i will tell every participant to PH of 1k before GH atleast it will reduce the gap a bit |
zamirikpo:
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Waspy:I cant even remember the last time I went to the bank to pay in money, I just do transfer. The transport money i will use to the bank and the stress of standing and looking at the angry cashier's faces is something else. So i just use quickteller or Access Mobile |


