₦airaland Forum

stokfrick:
Is that money, 70k even enough for a normal human being per month to live a life of even management, not to talk of taxing it.
A lot of you here supporting this tax shitt have no conscience left

Minimum wage is not meant to be enough for normal people in most places in the world. I live abroad, and in my first few years as a student, I was earning around a minimum wage. You know what? I paid taxes.

I don't see any country that make minimum wage earners comfortable as a serious one.

advanceDNA:
Sir.... stop misrepresenting facts ....
The 800k is per annum...which is just around 66k per month....
Minimum wage is 70k....even cleaner struggling to survive is not tax exempt....

Grandma tha the son sends 80k that's no longer enough in the economy is not even tax exempt

After destroying the economy and purchasing power of the naira ...APC led govt should know that classifying tax exempt at 66k per month is a deceptive assessment to make sure no one is technically tax exempt....

You are just being overly critical. A minimum wage earner earns 840,000 in a year. Based on the new tax law, the 40,000 on top of the 800,000 is taxed at 15%, which means that a minimum wage earner pay 6,000 naira per year (500 per month) in tax. A minimum wage earner pays more than this in the old tax regime.

Many of you that criticize do so either maliciously or due to ignorance.

Our tax collection rate in Nigeria is one of the poorest even in Africa. The understanding of tax by Nigerians terrible. Many of you need to get it into your heads that tax payment is vital for any society to thrive.

Naija na cruise.

Someone claimed, without evidence, to have won the 2023 presidential election. Come 2026, the same person is willing to deputize the one that came second in that same election.

If he actually won the election like he deceived his supporters to believe, it means that he defeated not only Tinubu but Atiku too. Can anyone explain to me like I am a kid why he is willing to deputize Atiku to contest against Tinubu? The more you see the less you understand in Nigeria.

If Obi actually won the last election, then he should win 2027 convincingly without queuing behind Atiku, given the supposed failure of Tinubu on economy and security.

PDP still performed better than ADC.

I would not be surprised if PDP get more votes than ADC in 2027.

If Wike's factor can be addressed, having the opposition unite under PDP would be the best option in 2027.

Racoon:
Guess Peter Obi stand on these genocide and humanitarian catastrophe is what earned him the obvious animosity of the APC and their supporters? I disagrees

I disagree with you. Could you post evidences here. Peter Obi has never take any stand about genocide or humanitarian issues, except when he needed such for political capital. People can see easily through that.

This particular case is a slippery slope whichever way you look at it, and Obi knows it. That is the reason he and Atiku have been careful.

Salewa97:
A country where opposition are not allowed to criticize the government without being lambasted.

Unfortunately for the government, they have no opposition in the country as the so called oppositions are more interested in dragging the government down

Read you posted again and ask yourself if it makes sense.

So, Obi is afraid to make his stand on clearly known because he doesn't want to be lambasted. He can't make his position known about killings because he doesn't want to be insulted and dragged? In that case, he must be too selfish to be a president. Is it not the same Obi that doesn't waste opportunities to lambast and drag the government?

If you are putting yourself out there as a candidate, being insulted, lambasted and dragged must be expected. If can't be thick-skinned to such, you have no business being president. Do you know how much insults Trump and other leaders of democratic countries get everyday?

The reason Obi is not saying anything is because the issue on ground is a tricky one that could potential ruin his political chances in 2027. Atiku has been careful about it as well. If he claim there is a genocide, he might not get a single Muslim vote in 2027. If he say there is no genocide, he would struggle badly in the NC, a region without which he will never become the president. Obi is very smart and he knows this.

So, quit the hypocrisy.

I agree with Mike Arnold on this. Some hypocrite supporters of Obi and Atiku would tell you that "Obi and Atiku are not the president, and they don't have to talk". Real leaders make their stand clear on issues.

Funny enough, Obi and Atiku have never been shy of making their stands known about national issues they can mine to reprimand the government, especially Peter Obi. However, they are careful with this particular issue because of 2027, and they know that making a stand could dent their 2027 aspirations.

The joke is on the people that consider them as the Messiahs of Nigeria. One thing that is clear is that Obi, Atiku and Tinubu are all hustling for political power. It is the Obidients that try to shame the supporters of other candidates. Obidients consider Obi's quest for power as a righteous course, and anyone who is opposed to it must be vilified and called names.

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You can tell that to your co-travelers who have been jumping in excitement all over social media, not because of the lives of Nigerians being lost, but how Trump's intervention marks the end of APC and Tinubu. In fact, more than 90% of the posts I have seen on social media, especially from a region in Nigeria has been about that. Some of them are even drawing parallels between how Obama "influenced" GEJ out of power in 2015 and how Trump is doing the same to Tinubu in 2025

You are being dishonest here. Don't pretend as if you care about the deaths in the North. You mainly see this Trump's intervention as a fuel to your opposition and resistance to APC and Tinubu.

Brendaniel:
If Tinubu was doing his work, would all these have emerged?

Funny that some of you think this will bring Tinubu down. If anything, it is likely to work in his advantage. Muslims in the Northern Nigeria are beginning to see this development as one orchestrated by Christians against Muslims and the Muslim-Muslim ticket. I can't see how this will not benefit Tinubu.

The Christians in the SW, SS and NC who are already supporting him will not stop supporting him. Have you wondered why Atiku and Obi have refused to utter any word in this regards in the past 48 hours?

AqualinaXYZ:
Tinubu your time is up and cup is full




You’re about to get Jonathan treatment in full



Karma no kuku send your papa

Funny that some of you think this will bring Tinubu down. If anything, it is likely to work in his advantage. Muslims in the Northern are beginning to see this development as one orchestrated by Christians against Muslims and the Muslim-Muslim ticket. I don't see how this will not benefit Tinubu.

The Christians in the SW, SS and NC who are already supporting him will not stop supporting him. Have you wondered why Atiku and Obi have refused to utter any word in this regards in the past 48 hours?

Fayemi is one of the most despicable politicians in Nigeria. He is a hypocrite and a corrupt politician masquerading as patriot.

He was among Jonathan's loudest critics, and he benefitted largely from that political expedition that replaced Jonathan. Fayemi is only saying this because of his current opposition to BAT.

Claiming they knew Jonathan was doing well when they were protesting against him is a very ridiculous statement. Fayemi can only speak for himself.

Besides, there is no country in the World, where the opposition would refrain from contesting power against the incumbent because the incumbent is perceived to be doing well. It never happened in the past, it will never happen in the future.

Love800:
So what do you think AIT is doing wrong for dem to be experiencing this?

How often do you watch AIT? Do you watch them as much as you watch Arise or Channels? There in lie part of the answers.

Secondly, companies die everyday all over the world due to poor management.

Procashtips:
Too many wrong comparisons here.

1k for haircut in Nigeria?
Then there are also places in the US you can have an haircut for 15 or 20.

Eat out 2k in Nigeria?
Then you can also eat out in the US for 5, 10 or even 15.
You don't need 10k salary to live and have a family with 2 children in the US. You can as well live with less than 5k.

Except you're claiming people in the US with at least 2 children earning from 6k upwards.

It is obvious that you have never lived in the US before, yet you are making bold statements about the economic realities of the place, perhaps, based on hearsay. You just want to argue for the sake of argument. It's people like you that make people with relevant information to keep shut.

Akalia:
What's your point cos I don't gerrit

My points are very clear. You have your reasons for not getting the points.

trytillmake:
Baba thanks for this, that's means na to dey charge better money for remote jobs be dat.

You get it. You would enjoy those dollars more if you earn them in Nigeria through remote jobs or an export business.

Procashtips:
Too many wrong comparisons here.

1k for haircut in Nigeria?
Then there are also places in the US you can have an haircut for 15 or 20.

Eat out 2k in Nigeria?
Then you can also eat out in the US for 5, 10 or even 15.
You don't need 10k salary to live and have a family with 2 children in the US. You can as well live with less than 5k.

Except you're claiming people in the US with at least 2 children earning from 6k upwards.

Where in the US do you live? I have lived here for almost 10 years, and I know what I am saying. I came here as a graduate student, living on $2,000 a month. So, I have experienced both sides of the divide in the US.

By the way, I don't understand the bolded part in your post. Are you saying 1k is too much or too little to get a haircut in Nigeria?

I wonder what people blaming Tinubu few days ago for AIT's closure would say now. We like to politicize everything in Nigeria.

AIT is just a disaster waiting to happen, and this has nothing to do with Tinubu. If you are in doubt, go on YouTube, and compare AIT's subscribers to those of Channels, TVC and AriseTV. AIT can't boast of 50,000 subscribers, but Channels has almost 4 million subscribers, TVC and Arise have more than 1 million.

The fact is that AIT is dying slowly and painfully.

To those blaming Tinubu, I have a question for you: when last did you watch AIT? I know most of you are likely to be committed watchers of AriseTV for obvious reasons. Why not AIT? If you don't watch AIT, your friends don't watch them, I don't watch them; it is only a matter of time for AIT to die.

I have been living in the US for almost a decade, and I can tell you that the value of $1,000 in the US is less than 90k in Nigeria.

It is surprising that many of you, including graduates, don't understand that you cannot just arbitrarily convert dollars or pounds to naira in this context.

You cannot start a family anywhere in the US with $1, 000. You would need at least a job that pays you $6,000 per month to think of marriage. An ideal monthly salary would be around $10,000.

With 1.5 million in Nigeria, you can afford to marry a jobless partner, support two children, and own a decent car.

You could eat out in Nigeria with 2k, but eating out in the US would cost you around 25 dollars (35k). I get a haircut every month for $50 (75k) in the US. In Nigeria, I could get the same haircut for around 1k.

If you have a baby in the US, you would need to spend around $2,000 (3 million) per month on day care. In Nigeria, you would pay maybe 50k.

I laugh each time I see some posts on social media converting people's salary in UK/US/CA to naira, thinking the naira equivalent of those figures have the same impact in those countries. It is unfortunate that some people have such mentality.

That being said, if you manage to have some savings in places like US and you bring such to Nigeria, you could tie up a project or more.

LordBiden:
I doubt Mr macron knows who OBO is.

Most of these celebs go at every length to lobby for photo shots like this.
Even me that is not a celeb can take pics with Macron so no big deal here.

No be cubana chief priest I dey see at the left side so. Mr follow follow.

Some of you on NL are suffering from chronic low self-esteem.

From the way Davido sat with Macron and posed outside with him, it is obvious that it was a visit. If you didn't know, Macron is very familiar with Nigeria. He was working in the French Embassy in Nigeria few years ago. The last time he came to Nigeria, he visited Fela's shrine in Lagos and made it known that it was not his first time visiting there.

RevenuesBoost:
Whether playfully or not, helping your wife do the dishes is cool.

My husband helps me some things and I'm always happy each time he does.

Cooking, doing the dishes, washing clothes and cleaning the house can be really stressful at times.

Just dey play!!!







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spiceadole:
Men prefer to marry DOWN because they want to CONTROL their wives
It's very difficult to control someone you are not feeding

So even if you meet an averagely well to do lady ,you will take her for granted.
Collect her money and flex with jobless hungry girls.

Then still marry a lady who is "lower" than you

This is a misconception that some of you have, maybe due to self-esteem issues. There is absolutely no guarantee that if you marry down, you would get a submissive woman. I didn't marry down, and I can tell you that my wife defer to me more than some "broke" ladies I dated before marriage.

KiNg0G:
As a man from a poor background struggling day and night trying to make ends meet in his early youth age is there any chances he can one day get to marry a wealthy lady in the future unexpectedly.

I mean we have so many wealthy people in nigeria, go to the north, the west and even the east. Generational wealths, politicians, companies owners, car dealers, rich rich folks like I can't help to think who do their daughter's marry to.

This baffles me so much, Will it be possible for a bricklayer to get married to the daughter of a senator Just for once one day in Nigeria. Or a phone repairer getting married to a daddy go daughter and more

I'm asking this questions for myself because of the dream I had few years ago about the wealthy family I married into, that's why I am still single waiting.
Pls advise me if I am wasting my time or it might one day come to pass. I should still hold on

It happens every time. That said, you need to upgrade yourself too. I am talking from personal experience and those of many people I know.
I came from a humble (not really poor) background. I studied at two federal universities in Nigeria, even worked in Nigeria for some time. My big leap came after I got a funding to do a Ph.D. in the US. From that moment, my social standing improved. I got married to a lady from a "rich" background, with double Ivy-league degrees, who is also a professional.

This would never had happened if I was comfortable with my previous state in Nigeria. My story is not unique. I have seen many similar stories to mine.

By the way, I have never made marrying into a rich family a priority of mine. I would not advise anyone to do so. Just focus on upgrading yourself.

We can easily guess those behind the so-called ADC Vanguard X page.

We see people like that here on NL , Facebook and other media, always hiding behind names reflective of different tribes in Nigeria to make disparaging comments on other tribes or their political opponents.

I am always suspicious of names on NL that reflect tribal origins. The people behind those usernames are always not from the tribe those usernames suggest.

I can see a similar connection with the people behind the ADC Vanguard X page. They are very likely the supporter of a particular presidential candidate, and are hiding behind the page to continue the attack on Tinubu, which they have been doing for the past three years.

immortalcrown:
Relativism is bad

How is relativism bad? It is unrealistic for everyone to start at the same point in this life.

You have certain advantages over some other people in life too. Should that undermine any success you achieve in life in the eyes of people who are not as privileged as you? There were people with backgrounds similar to Dangote decades ago who are nowhere today.

Dangote has done so well for himself. In my books, Dangote coming from money will not diminish it. His staying power is also to be admired.

Dogalmighty17:
Dangote never had any humble beginnings OP. He as a person may be humble but he has always been in money. The family he comes from have been in money since the 1800s. They were in money before Nigeria as an entity existed. Dangote's grand father is the reason why the British created First bank. He was that banks first ever customer. He brought camels loaded with shillings to the bank to deposit.

There were other wealthy people during his grand-father's time who don't come close to him today. Many know he is from money, but he has a unique business mind.

Seunpapa65:
Humble beginning Kee on top person wey don get networth of 1m dollars them

Going by where Dangote is today, some people would argue that to be humble beginnings. It is not everyone that would start life with no shoe.

immortalcrown:
Define humble beginning.

19 more characters needed.

Yeah, we all know that Dangote did come from a well-to-do background. However, you cannot deny his business acumen and evolution as a business man. He is totally in a different league. What stands him apart is his unique business perspective. While those jealous of him would attribute his success solely to political connection and/or monopoly, there is no doubt that he has a mentality that is not common in Africa.

To your point, being the owner of the largest oil refinery in Africa and the richest black man in the world, many intelligent people would consider those things advertised in that newspaper to represent humble beginning.

Humble beginning can sometimes be relative.

fineboynl:
Nigeria debt is now 149 trillion as against N80 buhari left it.

This is a dishonest presentation of the numbers. Nigeria borrow in dollars. If you use the exchange rate under Buhari to calculate the 80 trillion under Buhari, then use the current exchange rate to compute the dollar equivalent of the 149 trillion now, you would clearly see that Nigeria is owing less amount.

The problem with some people in opposition is that they are also very dishonest while trying to criticize the current government.

Bunnatex:
As it stands, it's now between the ELITES and the MASSES

You mean ELITES vs MASSES (e.g Atiku, Tambuwal, Obi, David Mark, Amaechi, Dino).

Be deceiving yourself. There is little to no difference among most politicians in Nigeria. People just vote for whoever based on personal preferences, tribalism and so on.

Some of you, blinded by your preferences and sometimes tribalism, hype up certain politicians as messiah and pro-masses.