₦airaland Forum

jaguar1997:
Have it in mind obi is not desperate to be president of Nigeria
He is a billionaire

He just want to save the country for us
With his honesty.

Megaplusprime:
Those People that are supporting Peter obi to be President of Nigeria Should tell us 10 things he intends to do if he finally wins
How about buying fuel @ #300 like government paying #1000 subsidy per liter for citizens
How about defending naira heavily against dollar,maybe dollar can go to #700 naira

ResidentSnitch:
Oh keep kwaet and go back to your terrorist-infested Oyo and stop claiming another man's place as yours.
Those so-called strangers will keep on contesting until you have one of them as your governor. You can only cry more and hit your head on the wall even more.

baba11:
Why greenhouse?
North has more sunlight than us!

FuglyGurl:
Yoruba Nairaland Users Lean Obi: 69% Prefer Him to Tinubu

richeeyo:
My question is do you know what $12,000,000 is ❓

Even coca leafs grown in that portion of land wouldn't worth
That to the grower not even close by a mile

Magnetic010:
Can we farm ginger in the south?

Nwaikpe:
Well, back to the point: I bet you don't even know the meaning of gentrification. If you do, it wouldn't have been the best word to use in your context. In gentrification, the wealthy environment becomes too costly for the wealthy, and they move to less wealthy areas, not to make it better, but to maintain the same wealthy lifestyle at a lower cost. This inadvertently increases the cost to meet up where they left off. E.g., the case of Yahoo boys moving from Lagos to Delta, Edo, etc.

Nwaikpe:
No sensible state will want to be like Lagos.
Developing exclusive cities at the expense of increasingly impoverished areas is not "development" but a facade.
It takes the models of China and the UAE, where 90% are extremely poor, yet some areas are heavily built up just for the show.

A better model is the American, Israeli, Japanese, etc. model, where everyone, everywhere, is rich.
The only ghettos you see in these countries are ghettos developed by those who willingly disenfranchised themselves.
But all of Lagos is a ghetto, only a few exclusive areas. That is not development bro. It should never be copied.

aswani:
Clearly, the mods are putting themselves in a position where they might be complicit in anything that happens to Ndigbo or any violence in the next elections when Peter Obi loses. This is not a good situation.

You said that these types like the op are not Ndigbo and they are just looking for people to hate Ndigbo and I can now see that this is very true.

The playbook is clear as I have seen a few threads lately following the pattern below.

Ndigbo haters (I suspect from the SS) start a thread like this, Yoruba posters would spill their bile in return. Ndigbo posters, like that esnbrutality, will also throw their hat into the ring in their own unique way and the thread degenerates into pure hatred between two groups of people that have lived together in peace for a long time.

There is a thread here about NDC fielding Ndigbo candidates in Lagos that should have been binned ages ago as very little there is fit for purpose. Mods need to stop such early as that violence from last elections in Lagos is going to be child's play if they don't.

Precious201010:
See dem rejoicing up there, how many people have jets in Nigeria?. Are we saving the airlines have not been maintaining their various airlines?..

He should bring Toyota or Honda assembling plants... That'll even create more jobs and reduce the price of new cars.

Helinuse:
The nonsense we celebrate.

🤣🤣🤣

Maintenance hub?
For what?
How?

How much Air traffic do we have?
All Airlines have their own “maintenance” crew isn’t it?
Then what is a “maintenance hub” for a manufacturer?

This, my brethren, is a scam!

Princedapace:
I was battling with network issues recently, and it reminded me how difficult it has become to survive here. There is no stable electricity. Most of us survive on generators.

South Africa achieved significant progress in electricity within two years, yet after four years, nothing meaningful has changed here. It is still the same story and the same daily struggle.

Now, remove emotions for a moment and look at the reality:

A kilogram of gas is about ₦1,400. That is extremely high for a country with very low salaries.
A crate of eggs is between ₦5,500 and ₦6,000.
A bag of cement is around ₦12,000. This is one of the reasons house rent has skyrocketed, because many citizens can no longer afford to build homes.
Renting a 2-bedroom apartment in most state capitals now starts from about ₦2.5 million and above. That is insane for a country where the majority of citizens are struggling financially.
Fuel is around ₦1,400 per litre.

Fuel powers our generators. If you run two businesses, you may need two generators.

For someone like me who works online, I need electricity almost 24/7. A huge part of my income goes into fueling and servicing generators because, most nights, my generator runs till morning. I work with clients across different time zones, sometimes at 2AM.

What does all of this mean?

Our purchasing power has dropped drastically.

Yet, despite these realities, the tax burden keeps increasing.

I honestly want to ask: does the government truly understand what Nigerians are going through?

Even someone earning ₦25m–₦30m yearly in today’s Nigeria is not necessarily living comfortably. A large percentage of that income already goes into solving basic social problems and surviving.

You pay for:

Electricity
Security
Healthcare
Transportation
Water
Education

Everything.

So where exactly is the money left to pay huge taxes from?

How many Nigerians can genuinely save millions yearly after handling all their responsibilities as parents, children, and providers?

To survive, many people are already being forced to reduce their quality of life:

Cutting down electricity usage despite terrible heat
Moving children from good schools
Switching from bottled water to sachet water
Selling better cars for cheaper alternatives because of fuel costs
Cancelling vacations and basic comfort

The painful part is that many self-employed Nigerians hustle endlessly just to stay afloat, yet at the end of the year, they are still expected to pay heavy taxes.

One of my friends, despite earning what many would call “good money,” is already in debt because of school fees and living expenses. Yet, government expectations are based only on income figures, not the harsh realities behind those figures.

And remember, this is a country where many parents depend on their children financially just to survive.

Honestly, many leaders cannot relate to what ordinary Nigerians are facing because:

Their electricity is sorted
Their security is sorted
Their healthcare is sorted
Their feeding is sorted

So they may never truly feel the pain of the average citizen.

Dear Nigerian leaders, Nigerians are suffering.

We are exhausted.

What could be done differently?

Reduce excessive tax burdens. Maybe 3 percent for now. Please, this country is poor or increase the threshold to maybe 50m per year if you truly wants to target the rich for income tax.
Fix electricity.
Tackle corruption seriously.
Improve security so farmers can return to farms safely.
Support the tech economy so more young people can earn online.
Invest in skills and digital opportunities.
Cut down excessive government spending and luxury packages for politicians.

Nigeria is a poor country with multidimensional poverty. In many homes, one working person carries the burden of an entire extended family.

Tax should not be the first priority when citizens are already struggling to survive.

As I write this now, my area is in complete darkness again. Families will spend heavily on fuel tonight just to have light for a few hours.

So I ask again: after paying for survival, where exactly should the tax money come from?

We are tired.

The bills are too much.

please can someone push this to front page?

I want to understand why the sacrfice must be done by the suffering masses instead of the politicians. I am curios to know why. Why must I suffer what I didn't cause?

Ojiofor:
Have your life changed for better since both failures became president?
You are still living in abject poverty.

femi4:
Lazy youth using politics as a way out

math2001:
delta state is part of western

math2001:
Only igbo shout biafra

Owombakara:
I tire o. In 2026 someone is drawing this sort of map. Did you consult the people you drew in the map? No be 1967 be this o

Owombakara:
Interesting.

This your map, is Biafra touching the Atlantic ocean? That's Cross River or Akwa Ibom. Are those states part of it?

SmartPolician:
Yes, he will be scared corn primary! Ewwu Gambia!

Endinjustice:
The only method you and your likes used to arrive at this dumb conclusion is because he is the son of buhari the incompetent failure.

Henrymas:
How Nigeria rewards failure and mediocrity, what a country!

jaxxy:
Definition of nepotism. This boy has no working experience