2. Subsidised homes. Like the ones built by shagari in the 80’s . Little one two & 3 bedroom houses. They would pay N5000.00 per month
3. Build large cooperative stores that would sell groceries at rock bottom price. That means government would buy fruit and vegetables from farmers and subsidies them. Including meat rice& fish.
It can be done. There would be know reasons to increase wages which would eventually lead to a runaway inflation. The 650,000 labour is asking for would lead to runaway inflation just like in Zimbabwe.
Even school fees is more than 30k.
You can't avoid increasing salaries. The above benefits can still be done. After all, we pay taxes here.
Without an increase in salary, people are just living from hand to mouth
I support Fubara 100% in this fight but let us be honest, that guy has not been impressive since he became a governor.
Detractors no longer have access to the state Treasury so I expect projects to be buzzing left, right and center. But NO, no significant development till date.
Lets hope he starts delivering when this fight is over.
Maybe he started paying again after BAT interrvened
Wike's loyalists led by the State APC CTC Chairman, Tony Okocha; Minority leader of the House of Reps, Kingsley Chinda; other members of the Reps Caucus, LGA Chairmen and others storm Rivers Assembly Quarters in solidarity to the Amaewhule-led Rivers Assembly.
Fubara wan comot daily bread from their mouths. Lol
NB* : This thread isn't created for banter or insults, but just to register my disagreement to the other thread.
For those who are busy and multitasking on a job, VN is actually a very important means to send a message across without having to edit, delete and do all that, when you can just open a voice record and say what you need to say and send.
And then if I need to communicate my feeling to the receiver at the other end, VN is the best tool. Not to mention those who might have lost a limb, how do you expect them to type a lengthy message?.
I so much believe that VN on any platform is a very good invention.
Nice response. The other thread was almost blaming people for choosing to use voice note
If you're not comfortable with VN, just tell the person. That does not mean many people don't find it useful, myself inclusive
flyinnizam: The fact that the naira exchange rate being in the news always unlike few years ago says a lot about this administration. I am sure some people knows the direction I am going to.
It's because APC and her supporters want to prove that Tinubu is working, while every other person wants to prove that Nigeria is getting worse.
A simple way to do that is to look at the exchange rate
A heavy rainstorm at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger State, led to significant damage to the facility and enabled 118 inmates to escape on Wednesday night. The Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service confirmed the incident, attributing the escape to the damage caused by the storm, which included a breach in the perimeter fence. Ten of the escaped inmates have been recaptured through collaboration with security agencies, while efforts to find the others are ongoing.
Where will those who were recaptured be kept? Is it in that dilapidated building?
obembet: One point currently separates the top three teams.
This is the first time in a decade that three teams have been separated by just a point after 28 games, but can the current contenders maintain their title bids and take this thrilling race all the way to May 19?
So who have the toughest opponent and who have chance of winning the league
Treadway: just say a toilet cleaner in Aussie lived a better life than you did while you were in Nigeria. Personalise this inferiority complex abeg. Own it! Don't bring one mythical regional manager of zenith bank into this. Not everyone was evidently miserable like you while you were in Nigeria. I thank God everyday for the fact that I don't think so lowly like this. Jeez!
This stale line is so nauseating. A destitute in Aussie sef was living a better life than you were. We know, we get it.
All these peeps in Australia that sought to die by suicide were happy, fulfilled, ok and satisfied to death. Smh
Nigeria mostly lack data on these things. The only suicides you hear about are the ones that make it to the newspapers.
AmuDimpka: someone who is an accountant earning 1 million plus and leaving Nigeria to be a forklift driver in Australai hasn't made much progress..he is at the lower ring of career ladder there and that's the truth ...
It's like been a medical director in Nigeria to travel and be a truck driver ...the person hasn't made progress in career ...that's the truth. Forget all the money . Within him he will know the truth and will tell himself the truth forget these things ....
That's the way I measure progress...notdollar and cents ! At 48 yrs he is a forklift driver how long will he work and click career ladder in Australia...maybe 15 yrs or plus ...then calculate his age
1st generation migrants most times have to pay a price for their decision to migrate.
If he lives to his 70s, his children should have settled well and probably be doing well. That alone will compensate for anything he feels he lost leaving Nigeria behind.
He took the decision to migrate not just for himself, but for his family too
AmuDimpka: no wahala...I wish you luck. At 55 - 60 one should be retired travelling around yhe world. That is my perspective not learning forklifting at 48
His salary in Nigeria cannot help him travel the world at 55-60.
However, his Australian forklifting job can provide him cash to travel a couple of countries, even visa-free.
It's you that's looking down on the job. Where he is, nobody looks down on him because he does forklifting for a living.
He may not be able to get return ticket for himself and family to visit Nigeria by packing cartons.
The best bet is to build here from remote and return back alone sometimes and plan how to get the family. I personally do not see his wife and kids coming back permanently;
Except his wife is planning to come back with him.
As for the children, forget it. They will not come back. What's the motivation to come back to a land their father left at 48
Yes it is very humbling my brother. I can not imagine a man at almost 50 years decelerating from being a Boss to a Boy Boy for Oyibos. In exchange for clean 247 electricity and security. Definitely, they are better organized than us, right?
But it depends on where you lived in Nigeria. You mentioned being an Igbo man, so it could be that your city is not properly organized as opposed to other places with serene air and cleaner environments.
Alternatively, working as a warehouse handy-man is boy boy in your language. But congratulations for promoting yourself from big man to boy boy.
I promise you that we will build Nigeria, so your children can have a better place to return to, and hopefully you will be visiting often and not when you are too weak to be useful to Nigeria.
Usefulsense: Before I commence my story, I want to specifically thank those who advised me not to travel. Your advise was borne out of genuine love and concern. One stated clearly that I should not leave known for unknown.
However, taking the bold step to leave Nigeria at the time I did was the best decision I ever made in my life. In fact, given the same scenario and even if I am 52 and my salary was #2million per month, I will still leave Nigeria.
The first 2 months was very difficult. The mistake I made was my insistence on getting accounting job. I did over 60 applications and all of them were rejected. I have no Australian experience neither do I have Australian certification.
My wifey was indeed an angle in human form. She provided the needed support. She shouldered all the financial responsibilities all by herself. This is the part that almost pushed me into depression. As an Igboman, we consider it a taboo for our women to feed, house and cloth us.
After two months, I decided it was time to re-strategize. I enrolled for a forklift training and within two week, I obtained my forklift license. Not satisfied with that, I took some courses and did some checks that will qualify me to go into disability support work. I obtained First aid certificate, Diploma in mental health, certificate in infection prevention and control, certificate in care for the aged and disabled, police check, working with children checks, NDIS worker check, NDIS orientation certificate and many more.
I started applying for warehouse jobs. In fact, I had to reject a lot of them. I settled for one of the warehouses and it has been awesome working for the organization.
I have not gotten what I am looking for yet. I am using the warehouse to keep body and soul together. In the warehouse where I work, you will see people of different ages. from 18 years to 65 years working and making a good living. in Australia, there is always something to do.
The only thing I miss, is the big man mentality we have in Nigeria. Where I will sit in my office, call one of my staff in intercom and ask for a cup of coffee; and it will be brought to me in seconds. You can't try that rubbish here.
The level of security here is top notch. I have no fear, i move about anytime of the day/night.
After one week in Australia, I concluded that Nigeria is a completely lawless country and an animal jungle. Here everything is ordered. I am yet to hear a driver blow his car horn while driving. There are no touts, there are no omoniles. Electricity has never blinked for one second. water is constant, gas is there. I have never seen two persons fighting in the street. I have never seen a mad man or woman on the road or street beggars. The air we breath here is different from the air we breath in Nigeria.
It was in Australia that I realized that the saying in Nigeria that Nigerian police is your friend is actually true. Break the law in Nigeria and police catches you, just give them #2,000 you are off the hook. And the circle of lawlessness continues. Here, it is a different ball game. Proposing bribe will be used as evidence against you. It doesn't matter who you are. Every one is civil.
While in Nigeria I suffered malaria every month. There is no month I don't treat malaria. Since I got to this country, I have never had headache let alone malaria.
Children are doing wonderfully well at school and are already speaking through their nose.
In conclusion, I made the best choice. Even though I have not really found the kind of job I want to do, the little I am doing now contributes in paying bills and I have savings more than my monthly gross per month in Nigeria.
If you are above 45 years and have your partner already in this country, and you are an employee of a company, it is in your best interest to leave Nigeria. Provided, of course, that you are healthy and you are not lazy.
One dark side to moving abroad is that you have more chances of being divorced by your wife. This is a story for another day as I have gathered enough reason on why families divorce and will create a thread on this someday.
I am open to any question you may have.
Which class of visa did you Japa with, and how long did it take you from application to approval?
ignis: I would not appreciate a bolt driver marketing plantain chips and groundnut to me on a trip. I'd rather he concentrate and focus on his business. The business of business is business.
We celebrate rubbish in Nigeria and call it innovation.
If he decides to negotiate a price different from what he agreed on the Bolt app, you'll still complain.
Forget the rule of law ... Ask for how much the doctor charged .. this was tactically removed from all of this ..Igbos are toxic.. police wea dey protect .. suppose even get free hospital treatment ... And consideration .. but Igbo man will always be Igbo man .. ask the dumb ass doctor how much he charged and see who is trying to kill who .....
It is private clinic Sir, and he was taken there unconscious.
His original bill was also reduced.
Stop this ethnic profiling... it's not going to help you
If you have a shop please tell us so we can come collect goods for free without paying
If doctor doesn't treat patient...wahala
Doctor treats patients and charges his rightful bill...wahala
Why wasn't he taken to a police hospital so he can be treated for free? Why was he taken to a private clinic? Is someone's private hospital now a charity home?
Can any police hospital in Nigeria employ a Neurosurgeon?
He said his findings, if adopted by the federal government, would help to direct the efforts of the military towards identifying and eliminating bandits wherever they may be hiding in the country
This is where the problem is: if adopted by the Federal Government
NoToPile: They completed the marriage rites when her family members came around.
The mum and brother were late the church and not present as at when he asked who is giving her away.
If this were the case, the couple should have simply told the Pastor that the bride's family members were still on their way, instead of just keeping mute and acting as if the bride's family absconded from the wedding.
Now see the embarrassment this video may have caused them.
Only few people will get to hear this your angle of what happened.
Quick question: What will happen if National PDP officials were present in both Shaibu and Obaseki factions primaries? Who is now the authentic candidate?
jeejo: I understand that what I am about to explain will earn me insults from a selected few individuals because the same culprits are active here on Nairaland, so I am ready for that as well.
If you go to Binance P2P, there is a heavy manipulation going on there, and from my deductions, most of the big Binance P2P Merchants are united in carrying out this manipulation. Some of them even have over 2 Million dollars worth of USDT in their Binance P2P Funding which begs the question whether these people are truly Nigerians or probably foreigners making money from destroying the Nigerian economy.
Many people might not understand the strategy these merchants use, therefore, I will try to break it down.
This is how the manipulation works:
1. Lets assume that the Naira to Dollar is currently exchanging at the Parallel market for 1,500 Naira. On Binance P2P, the group of Merchants will create multiple fake ads claiming that they will buy your USDT for 1,700 Naira(way above the parallel market price). I call these ads "fake" because they will set a minimum limit above 5Million naira, which means if you want to sell your USDT to them at this exorbitant rate that they created, you must be selling a usdt value worth over 5Million Naira at once. This strategy works in filtering out majority of average Nigerians that want to sell their USDT to these Merchants. Meaning these fake ads will remain at the top of the p2p "sell" section for as long as these group of Merchants want it to remain. And if by chance someone who has enough USDT to meet the minimum limit decides to sell to these merchants, they will simply cancel the trade, and create another ad.
2. Now because these group of merchants have filled the P2P "sell" section with these fake ads claiming to buy your USDT at an exorbitant rate of 1,700 NGN, they have automatically shifted the P2P price of Naira to USD to 1,700 Naira, and now they will be selling their USDT to the public under the "buy" section above 1,700 Naira. Now - unlike the fake ads they created with a minimum limit that is above 5Million Naira to discourage sellers for selling to them at this high rate - when they are selling their USDT at this already manipulated price, you will find limit as low as 4,000 Naira because they want to sell to the Public at the exorbitant price they created.
Binance P2P is the new AbokiFx where BDC operators get their current price of Dollar from. The fake price originating from there is in turn used by the BDC operators to set their Dollar selling prices even without any corresponding demand. But the interesting part is that these BDC operators won't buy from you at any rate close to the exorbitant price they are selling the dollar to you. Here in Benin city, even though the parallel market price of Naira is above 1,600 Naira, the Abokis hardly buy your dollar for above 1,500 Naira but they will sell to you only above 1,700 Naira.
Some people might argue that if Binance is to blame, how come the official exchange rate is now above 1,500NGN to 1 USD? The answer to that is simple. Each time the rate in the Parallel market moves up, the CBN is forced to also adjust official rates upwards in order to close the gap between both windows or else the black market rate will be too wide that it will create an irresistible opportunity for round-tripping.
There is a huge rot in the entire BDC system in Nigeria that I don't think this CBN governor has any idea how deep it really goes.
In as much as there are a lot of Nigerians trading on Binance, the volume of trade is very low.
It is not the few millions being traded or "manipulated" on Binance that is crashing our Naira.
Other countries trade on Binance too. Do you hear such complaints from them.
Nigeria's problem remains clueless, greedy and selfish leadership. It's been on for so long. Unfortunately, the bubble just burst.
I like your analysis Sir, but I'm sorry, you're wrong this time.
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