₦airaland Forum

aylipple:
Now, this is some sensible talk. There are foreign celebrities who visit Nigeria, showcase the poverty & slum areas as well as give some “little charity” for the cameras & it ends there.

Then, there are those who visit all the fancy, elite & beautiful parts of Nigeria & they also showcase this other “lovely & oft ignored” side of Nigeria; in so doing, they either deliberately ignore or don’t see the millions of Nigerians on the streets who are suffering & struggling every day for survival.

Then, there’s this particular lady here, who admits that there’s a huge potential for entertainment tourism in Nigeria (read Lagos) but she couldn’t help but notice the poverty & hunger in the land; she didn’t end there, she has used her platform to call for help for these vulnerable Nigerians & this should resonate more among her celeb circles because while it’s easier to visit Lagos for “detty December” & get to soak in all the razzmatazz & night life the city has to offer, there is a glaring & palpable reality - most of the people are passing through difficult times (and this isn’t peculiar to Nigeria) & they need all the prayers & support they can get.

While it’s true that the twin policies of subsidy removal & “floating” of the Naira are necessary evils, they’ve to carry a human face! What’s the essence of policies if it plunges more people into poverty, hardship, despair & starvation? Or what’s the essence of a policy that appears to impact the citizens more than it impacts the leaders who themselves introduced these policies? Has the President or governors reduced their foreign trips or the delegation on their entourages? Have the stopped buying brand new bullet proof cars for their comfort, luxury & security? Have they stopped fueling the Presidential jets or vehicles from public coffers for their private trips while many Nigerians than ever before can’t even afford to buy used vehicles not to talk of fueling them? Have they stopped allocating billions of Naira for upgrading their residences, offices & government or guest houses while many Nigerians can’t even afford decent accommodation? Have they stopped feeding large at the expense of the people who barely afford 1 meal a day now? Or have they reduced their wardrobe allowances or put a lid on their insatiable quest for stealing from the public purse? Etc.

Until our political leaders demonstrate a genuine connection to the pulse of the people on the streets & experience what every day Nigerians experience as their reality, we’ll never truly make a headway; we’ll just keep going around in circles & deceiving ourselves we’re making progress while the people languish in abject poverty!

political leaders cannot demonstrate a genuine connection to the pulse of the people on the streets because they are puppets of whyte people that have deep hatred for black people..

so don't expect black politicians who work for whyte supremacists to have compassion for their fellow black people because those black politicians were chosen because they are anti-black in nature and will pass anti-Nigerian and anti-black policies just to impress the whyte people they work for..

Myrepublic:
Is it not the fact.. Why sugar coating,when an average Nigerian can't feed very well,just because some persons are just greedy. With the wealth and resources we have in this country, nobody is supposed to eat nothing less than three square meal a day. But because of people like you,the country is being raped like people like you..

the wealth and resources is in the land of some specific ethnic nations ( tribes as you like to call them )...

it is those ethnic nations that are supposed to eat nothing less than 3 square meals a day and others are supposed to go and work for and look for what they are supposed to eat because they were normally meant to be poor.....

but because of the abolishment of regionalism by the i:gbos the country is being raped by people who were never ever meant to have access to those wealth and resources..

shiwex:
And you think thats the way out. How many people can earn in dollars? Are we a dollar spending country, why should you earn in dollars. Nigerians instead of fixing the issue , they will be looking for an easy way out. I do not see anyone in America saying...oh to survice earn in pounds.....

josh123 is right.. you have to earn in dollars if you want to live well..

We did not create the global financial system so in future years we will never get there..

The system is created by eu:ropeans to benefit eu:ropeans and eu:ropeans hate black people so the system will never ever benefit Africans...

Nigeria spends Naira not dollars..

Naira used to be close to the dollar but whyte people knew that a black country having a strong currency is bad for them so they use their institutions to tell Nigeria to devalue the currency if they want loans and also use Nigerian presidents to do other anti-Nigerian and anti-black policies..

If Nigeria budget is ₦40 trillion and N1 was equal to $8 Then Nigeria won't be suffering now.

Nigeria will have to make ₦7 quadrillion to make over $1trillion. Thats impossible..

and the people she is talking about are the unskilled people who Lagos state allows to roam the state aimlessly and the place called makoko which Lagos state also allows to continue to exist because they will be seen as wicked if they do anything about both the unskilled population in Lagos and slums like makoko

Heffalump:
Point of correction, I'm not Igbo any bit and if I'm one, I cannot reject or denounce my roots.
Your senseless post portrays you as a tribal bigot, which the rule of this platform abhors. But nobody will sanction you because of the tribalistic tendencies of the mods and members of the board.

A learned and sensible fellow addresses issues as they are and not by tribal innuendo at all times. I dislike the social media post of Betty and was about making a post criticizing this act, before my attention was caught by your senseless post. Her husband is dead, and this the time to make peace with everyone and move on. We all saw what happened, she felt otherwise that her husband was not given the right honor before and after death because of the eagerness to grab power by the current governor. Women think differently. Sometimes you got to ignore so many things to maintain inner peace and equanimity of the mind. You failed to realize that the husband she's protecting today is a Yoruba man, your brother and uncle. My grouse with her is the manner she's taking it too far.

You called igbosomalia a tribal bigot but did not call betty a tribal bigot..

your double standards prove that you are igbo or one of your parents is igbo..

Tribal bigotry can only be countered by tribal bigotry nothing else..

Umuinyioku:
Liar!

Who told you Igbos don't want to leave Nigeria? Why the separatist agitations/struggles if they don't want to leave Nigeria?

Don't disturb me with your naked lies please.

The agitations is to blackmail and manipulate other Nigerians..

Umuinyioku:
I won't go into polemics of Igbo -Yoruba relations.

Bye

you don't want someone to clear the lies you have been fed...

igbos never ever wanted to leave Nigeria..

igbos only wanted to control the politics outside of eastern Nigeria..

MadPolitician:
If the goal was to kill off the leaders of the other major tribes, they would have started with one genocidal Awolowo, whp was rotting away at Calabar prisons as at the night of January 15th 1966. The whole of the east was totally under the command of the coupist. Awolowo was the preferred leader of the south west. All the coupists should have done was to walk in there and pulverise the ijiot with machin gun fire. But they did not. You know why?

because whyte people wanted their own oil companies to control the oil in Nigeria and Awolowo did not have any political power anymore and in prison was not stopping them from getting the oil..

Awolowo was not a political leader anymore so killing him would have exposed the igbos too early .. Calabar is Efik, Efut indigenous lands not igbo land...

for at least 6 months, the whole of Nigeria was under the command of the coupists and not just the whole of the east so if the coupists wanted igboland to leave Nigeria then in those 6 months they would have approved it but they didn't because they wanted to control the whole of Nigeria and not just the east ...

nbisi:
All I see is key board warriors. For her to have reacted this way they should be something we r not seeing. Some people that hide under the guise of internet to type rubbish cannot get to d level she has gotten.. Pls let respect the widow n allow her to be.. My option sha

tishbite43:
Keep your hatred in check
Don't kill yourself

she is the main keyboard warrior by using ethnic slurs and hatred against Yorubas.

go and tell her to keep her hatred in check

nbisi:
All I see is key board warriors. For her to have reacted this way they should be something we r not seeing. Some people that hide under the guise of internet to type rubbish cannot get to d level she has gotten.. Pls let respect the widow n allow her to be.. My option sha

tishbite43:
Keep your hatred in check
Don't kill yourself

she is the main keyboard warrior by using ethnic slurs and hatred against Yorubas.

go and tell her to keep her hatred in check

Umuinyioku:
Lagospedia... who cares?

Southeast is ready to exit Nigeria if allowed. Why was the civil war fought. Not for independence?

So,why do you think southeast won't go if allowed?

Lazy doles!

the civil war was fought because igbos wanted to start making decisions for non-igbos..

that's why igbos killed the leaders of the major tribes and abolished regionalism..

just the way the comment below asks

Tzar:
When did an Igbo woman start making decisions in Yorubaland?

Umuinyioku:
Do you reason at all? Why ethnically biased?

Is it because Betty, The wife,is not a Yoruba? If she were a Yoruba, would anything be done in the husband's honour without being involved or informed?

Common, think outside the box devoid of ethnic machination.

Betty is right. State government is wrong with the arrangements without involving the family.

because the wife is also ethnically biased and the state government is serving her a taste of her own medicine and once a person's husband is dead that person is no longer legally connected to that person..

if she was Yoruba she will not be verbally attacking the state government.

State government is right.. Betty is wrong.. Betty marraige to Akeredeolu ended the day he passed away and she can no longer be described as his family... his family are his immediate relatives and children...

TOPCRUISE:
Which kind wife Akeredolu marry before he died and was regarded as First Lady.
By definition she is a pained, vengeful and manipulative wife. For someone to devalue the platform that brought her now deceased husband to the position of Governor and now despise the honor they want to give him with her comments that shows how much venom of a woman she has in her.

seanfer:
Akeredolu's widow is just a bitter person.. How did she treat these people when her husband was active as the state Governor?
What goes around comes around, you can't treat people with bitterness and expect them to show you love when they have nothing to gain from you.
Also she should know that she can't tell the state government how to honour a former governor.

she is not a pained, bitter,vengeful and manipulative wife towards igbos..

only towards Yorubas and non-igbos..

What is stopping her from distributing rice in the SW

Bimpe29:
There's nothing to fear about the Shari'ah Court in any part of the country.

there is a lot to fear about sh:ar:iah in the Yoruba nation...

it means muslim employees can sue their non-muslim employers to sh:ar:iah courts which means non-muslim employers will reduce the amount of muslims they hire which will indirectly lead to more poverty amongst muslims.

it means muslims and non-muslims can no longer talk casually anymore.

it means non-muslims who can empower and uplift muslims will stay clear of uplifting muslims which means more poverty amongst muslims.

it means non-muslim schools will not give muslims admissions anymore or will have muslims sign agreements before they are given admissions..

it means non-muslim financial co-operatives and unions will no longer offer help to muslims.. e.t.c..

millions Yoruba muslims already have it bad in the SW.. sh:ar:iah will make their situation worse and give an edge to non-Yoruba muslims in the same SW which they are indigenous to...

Maria96:
I saw the below from GIGM website. How are Nigerians coping , how are corpers and traders coping, what about those with other businesses like burial, weddings etc. This is shocking

The same price for FCT, Abia and Akwa ibom is not profitable..

zackmann:
I've been to a lot of countries, and I must say that the cost of living in Switzerland is really high. The average price of a bottle of water here is $5. When I arrived last week, I spent 55 dollars on a pack of bottled water, which didn't even last for a week. I've been here for 9 days now, and I must say that my bank account is really feeling the heat. Everything here is damn expensive. Switzerland is for the rich abeg. Nothing anybody wan tell me. Today, when I went shopping for groceries, I thought I was going to spend not more than 80 dollars, but to my utmost surprise, I ended up spending over 200 dollars on little items. When I was in Norway, Australia and Netherlands, I thought that the cost of living was high (these countries are quite expensive to live in), but this is just on another level. I'm leaving here on Saturday abeg, before my account starts wailing.

Guys, let me use this medium to drop a piece of advice. If anyone is advising you to leave Nigeria, show gratitude to that person, because he/she wants the best for you. I've been touring for 6 months now, and I must confess that Nigeria is a sh*thole. This is actually an understatement. If there was a worse word to use to attribute Nigeria, I'd have used it. Once I'm done with my travels, I'm permanently relocating to a European country. I'm just using this medium to gather my facts first, before making a final decision.

I'm an American citizen by birth, but I've not lived there for 2 straight years; I've been on and off. America is kinda cool, but I've no interest in living there permanently. UK and Canada are for introverted people, in my own opinion. Right now, I'm thinking of maybe Sweden or Germany for permanent relocation. I was forced to learn Deutsch, because I studied in Germany from 2016-2022; before relocating back to Nigeria, to handle my Dad's businesses. I learn languages fast, but it took me 6 months to almost perfectly learn Deutsch language. I now speak English, French, Spanish, Deutsch, Latin, and a little bit of Hebrew. I'll be posting more with time. Merry Christmas in advance guys.

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You're very stupid for calling Nigeria a sh*thole..

Nigeria is the country that provided your dad with the funds and education to give you the life you have today without Nigeria you would never have the life you are living now

olayinka63:
That is why tax reform is coming on board. But they are still saying Lagos will benefit more? I don't understand how.

Lagos will benefit more because in reality Lagos has the highest amount of consumers in Nigeria..

In fact, southern Nigeria has the highest amount of consumers in Nigeria..

Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Abuja, Rivers, Delta, Anambra, Abia, Edo will benefit the most...

Ezmans:
Ogun state is not doing well but kudos to oyo state

you saying Ogun is not doing well means you do not know how to read between the lines and you do not know how to detect fraud through comparing reality with a made up document..

in reality Ogun is close to Lagos in terms location so that automatically means the next state with high consumption and VAT should be Ogun..

Most of the companies that don't have HQ in Lagos have their HQ in Ogun so this VAT list is very fraudulent..

chukwuma234:
How about the states the contribute petro dollars? Is lagos not robbing them? All the brewery, tobacco & beverage companies that consumption happens outside lagos but pay VAT to lagos is Lagos not robbing them? Do a little research bruv.

Lagos has the largest amount of consumers in Nigeria and other states in southern Nigeria also have a large consumption rate.. Once the tax bill is passed Lagos will still receive the most VAT...

According to the fraudulent list, VAT is shared by population not by consumption.. Once its by consumption then the top 3 states would Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Rivers, Abuja, Delta, Anambra e.t.c..

yinkeys:
How do you properly quote multiple people this way ?
I struggle to do it

Open the quotes in multiple browser tabs then copy the quote from one browser tab and paste it in the browser tab i want to submit and ensure there is at least one line spacing between each quote.

Sheuns:
Wealth not sustained can be ended in two generations. Many successful cocoa farmers in the past that have children not enjoying from it now.

Cash crops were abandoned by our politicians for faster oil money.

Politicians = public sector

Cocoa farmers = private sector

Unless the farmers children do not maintain the farms then the children are at worst dollar millionaires..

obailala:
Was wondering why no one else was mentioning this earlier in the thread. The report didnt mention there was an increase in output... The 300% is just a facade that's purely driven by the devaluation of the Naira.

In 2023, $1 was N400 but now it's N1700. So by default if I export a tonne of cocoa every year, the Naira devaluation automatically means I earn 400% more in Naira; and we all know the inflation already swallows this extra income.

Voodoo economics!

yinkeys:
Devalued naira
Inflation factor
It may even be less in value on the global market than what was exported before (2 years ago)
Let’s get to work, dump the propaganda machine

Freethinker87:
They’re now feeding Nigerians fabricated statistics, and many are swallowing them without question. Notice how crafty they are, they conveniently skipped mentioning the tonnage of cocoa Nigeria exported in 2024 but highlighted the price instead.

Why not disclose the tonnage so we can measure the actual increase in output, rather than highlighting the increase in Naira price caused by the devaluation of the Naira? Naira was N570 in 2023, but now it’s N1750.

Incase you’re in doubt, Nigeria earned ~$670M in 2023, at the current exchange rate that amount would be over N1.17T but they want Nigerians to celebrate N664B which indicates a decline in output and revenue in 2024.

Then according to the post, Nigeria made $368,000,000 in 2024 which is significantly less than 2023's $670,000,000..

T:inub:u has killed the economy by devaluing the naira.

Ex0rrcist:
You made a very good point, I just want to let you know that going each other's way might not change anything. The elites still remains, you don't kill them off like the France revolution. Sudan split, Ethiopia also split, and nothing has changed in those places till date.

The western influence you alluded to also has little to no effect if the leaders are actually willing to work for the people.

Loveenthed is correct..

If the leaders are willing to work for the people then those leaders will work against western influence..

It is western influence that made t:inuboooo to devalue the naira which spoilt the purchasing power of every Nigerian.

Zackattack:
The conversation to naira is not necessarily. We really should stop doing it.

In this case it is necessary...

how many Nigerians can afford ₦1.3m per week

and the woman was jobless in the UK...

Onegai:
So painful!

I wish she had a support system, even the local mosque she attends or Nigerian community to rely on.

The Nigerians in the UK are not very communal-minded, everyone is in their own enclaves and mind their business. Even when they form groups, it's rarely to help out but how to benefit from taking advantage of one another.

Nigerians are not very helpful in general.

If she was Indian, a family would have taken that toddler in.

We need to do better as a society.

A family helped her but they have their own issues to deal with too and they left the child un-supervised and the child died...

no one will look after another person's child with the same dedication they would use to look their own child. and what stops the woman from carrying her child with her?

it has nothing to do with Nigerians.. the woman is a bad mother..

anyilalaz:
This tax will Favour the North more...
This is what Kalu Aja mentioned:

Dear North and Middle Belt

Respectfully, if the new tax bill is passed,

You have the advantage of a lower labour cost

You have the advantage of solar power

You have potentially the largest source of power from a single point, and that's tbe Hydro dam in Taraba

You have the land for mechanised agriculture

You have the advantage of freshwater rivers, with fish

You have gold

You have uranium for nuclear power

You have silca for solar panels

You have cobolt for EVs

You have iron ore for steel

You have hides and skin

Why, in God's name, are you dragging consumption tax with Lagos and Rivers?

When was Kano a centre of Commerce? What about Borno?

Your leaders are looking through a straw and telling you the world is small

What was Sir Ahmadu Bellos' Vision for the North? Did it include oil? Did it include VAT?

Was the North not the most significant contributor to FX earnings to Nigeria from the Western, Eastern, and Northern Regions, from just Groundnut?

Leave Crude oil for Bayela, go and redevelop Groundnut oil

Like I told another NL user - "before 1914 amalgamation southern nigeria was rich by just selling resources because the revenue from the sale of the resources could cater for its population and there was still millions in net profit ( budget surplus ) and that net profit money that should have been used to further the infrastructural development of southern Nigeria, due to amalgamation in 1914, was used to balance the budget deficit of northern Nigeria because northern Nigeria was always running at net loss ( budget deficit )...

the bri:tish could not make northern Nigeria profitable, is it un-educated and ter:rorists loving northern nigerians that will now make it profitable.

north has been doom that's why the Br:itish joined north and south Nigeria together in 1914 because the north always had deficit balance of trade.

Factcheck0001:
a pained Igbo

U have no option bro just accept it n move on

Thats a nor:therner not an ig:bo person

aswani:
Thank you so much for this.

Yet another reason for not leaving Nairaland to those Obidients who can only insult and abuse.

These are nuggets of knowledge that we need on here.

Thanks once more

They are nor:therners not obidients.

ycat:
I was going to say the same. The obidots conflicts have become afflictions for them, they lost their minds because a Yoruba man is president, now they can't think straight.

those are nor:therners not ig:bos..

Cmanforall:
And in Nigeria, there's tribalism

How is that racism?
Maybe Africa should organise there own pageant

only a person living outside their ethnic region will say there is tribalism in Nigeria..

There is no tribalism in Nigeria..

Each tribe in Nigeria has its tribal location and region and some tribes have bigger regions than others.

most Nigerians especially southern Nigerians shout "tribalism" because they are not living in their ethnic region and want to manipulate the system of the region they are living in to favour them.

Topman7:
Oh boy the problem is Money.

Owo.

Ego.

It’s not that Nigerians don’t know they can do it.

It’s the fact that the French are putting in €300 million cash to set the ball rolling, and the Tinubu administration are good with that, and are happy to be assisted by French capital and technology as they go about ensuring food security .

If Nigeria had an annual budget of 2 trillion dollars like France, as opposed to our current 40 billion, of which nearly half goes to debt repayment, it would be a different ball game.

We would not need anyone’s money and ‘collaboration’. In future years we will get there.

We did not create the global financial system so in future years we will never get there..

The system is created by eu:ropeans to benefit eu:ropeans and eu:ropeans hate black people so the system will never ever benefit Africans...

Nigeria spends Naira not dollars..

Naira used to be close to the dollar but whyte people knew that a black country having a strong currency is bad for them so they use their institutions to tell Nigeria to devalue the currency if they want loans and also use Nigerian presidents to do other anti-Nigerian and anti-black policies..

If Nigeria budget is N40 trillion and N1 was equal to $8 Then Nigeria won't be suffering now.

Nigeria will have to make N7 quadrillion to make over $1trillion. Thats impossible..

epainos:
Ok. No problem. I wish you well here. I'm not the kind who will throw words front and back with someone who is clearly not intelligent enough to handle my level. Good luck bro.



Keep spreading lies ....the day you will be handled, social media will start shouting why. Obviously, you don't know much.

I don't discuss with your level. Sorry. Take care!

the over 100 years that F;ran:ce colonizes over 14 African countries has never benefitted those African countries are now lies... you're a hypnotized house slave..

you're the one that will be handled and arrested for treason and social media won't even shout on your behalf.. obviously my level is a trillion times higher than yours and you will never reach my level with your dull brain and lack of common sense..

you're a house slave..