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Enddy50ty:
Nice move for BUA cement but honestly I’ve never seen anywhere they’re selling for # 3,500 naira.

All these prices are just on the internet and pages of newspapers.

It's like you didn't read what OP posted. #3,500 is the price from the factory. The problem now is cost of transport to where you are may vary the price.

For instance, how much will a distributor charge to transport a bag of cement from sokoto to Lagos or from Sokoto to Abuja or from Sokoto to Edo?

Definitely, the price will vary from location to location depending on cost of transport....

The wahala now is that everybody wants to buy only Bua because of price, so supply is scare with people closer to the factory getting access to the cement better than those further away, like in Uromi now, based on cost of diesel is #1,300 per litre, it has affected transport cost so a bag of bua cement is #4,500....

By the time it reaches lagos, it may be different

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Whizzdom:
On Tuesday (21-12-2023), I was having serious fever, so went to buy an over-the-counter malaria drug and one flu tablet. The lady chemist told me to use 4 tablets in the morning and 4 in the afternoon for the malaria drug, but for the Flu medicine, I should use 1 tablet in the morning and at night. I took 4 tablets in the afternoon that day. On the next day, which is Wednesday, I took 4 tablets making 8 tablets in total plus 1 Flu tablet, A few hours after I took that medicine, I felt a sharp pain in my left hear, after which the pain subsided.

I am Welder by profession, I went to work that same moment, at work, I was using a grinding machine to grind iron to make iron smooth, the machine makes noise, but this day, as I was grinding, I could feel something in my brain or inner ear bringing buzzing sound or noise into my ear, after grinding that iron, I couldn't ear anything, all I was hearing is just noise.

The next day, which is today Thursday, I could hear people speak but they have to be loud, and my ears can't tolerate noise at all.

To go hospital hard me because I no gallant because of the series of test they will have me run which will expend my money I don't have.

My question is to the learned health practitioners in the house, should I give it time for it to heal on its own or I should go to the hospital for doctor's opinion on the matter.

Attached are the medicines for your scrutiny, I hope it is not one of those fake drugs.

Changes of hearing is one of the side effects of this drug. Coupled with the occupational hazard of your job which is exposure to loud noises, it can trigger changes in your hearing.....

You should have stayed away from work for at least a week while taking this medication.

See an ophthalmologist, they are specialist in ear related cases. The deafness may just be temporary but if not handled well may become permanent.

Go to any teaching hospital or ask any doctor working in a teaching hospital to refer you to an ophthalmologist.....It is well!

I once experienced bad side effects with an anti malarial drug that was recommended by a pharmacy that killed my sense of touch, killed my appetite for food and bruised my kidneys, and I was urinating pure blood for days, till i got help from a doctor....

The drug dealt with the malaria oooh, but I follow the malaria collect.

One time during my ordeal, It took 30minutes in the bank for me to activate ATM card, fingerprint reader couldn't see my finger. I will be having tingling sensations in my fingers for days .Some days I can't use my phone, because the touch screen couldn't feel my finger. I use to bite my finger till it turns red, just so I can use my phone.

That's why now, any antimalarial drug whey pass Lonart DS, I no dey do, I can't kill myself by myself, with my own money.....

Winnin009:
You’re still saying nonsense. Lol. So after he pays taxes; he still have well over 20m to himself. His tax covers healthcare care(which is one of the best in the world, you can see your leaders flying there daily) and education which is still one of the best j the world.

When you calculated taxes and still said he still has to pay for healthcare, it was obvious you don’t know what you’re saying. A simple google search will save you from that ignorance. (Unless he wants to pay privately for health insurance)

You must have really low standards to think one can live comfortably with 500k monthly with family of four and paying school fees, healthcare, light, gen and feeding.

You highlighted the cost of food like akpu is the only food there. It’s common knowledge that food isn’t a luxury there like it is here but you can believe what you want.

Just don’t come with phony stats like you’re talking to some uninformed individual like yourself.

He say na access to better clothes; lol. See your reasoning. Lol. What you call better clothes here are cheap clothes there. You’re still making no point. I’m not sure you have anyone abroad and if you do then stop talking to them. They clearly don’t like you.

Build one house in one remote area after saving all your life as a bank manager; like I said, you have low standards. Lol.

This uk guy with 20m to spare will live a more comfortable and fulfilling life lol. In five years, he’s already building his first house while you’re still saving up your 500k that loses value with each passing day. When he comes back home, because of his diligence to work and the way the system reward works, the bank manage will trip over his laces to please the window cleaner.

Let’s not even talk about the kids; from an intellectual standpoint, they won’t even be mates. Do you think the bank manager can afford the latest gadgets for his kids when they want? I can tell you for free that he cat try that on a 500k salary. I’m sure you know that garbage disposal guys can literally afford to get their kids the best of gadgets.

You talking about a car; 😂😂😂
The manager would have to save to buy a car of his own (unless of course the bank gives him an office car) and will only be able to do that after years but with the window cleaner job, the uk guy can get a car after about 6 months or less of work.

Please, the difference is basically light and day.

Also note this; someone making that money in the UK might be in the below average income family in the uk but definitely not by world standards but the bank manager isn’t even exactly comfortable in Nigeria and across the globe, he is downright poor! That’s $500/month you’re justifying!

Well I guess you are well informed and I am not?

Let me understand something....

I said his take home pay after income tax deductibles is £20k+, you say that is still #20million, as though he will live in Naira based on cost of living in Nigeria in Naira or live pounds based on cost of living in the uk, okay.

You said someone earning £1,917 will build his first house in the UK within 5yrs (not mortgage ooh, not buy, build his first house in the UK), please bless us with your wisdom and tell us parts of the UK where someone who earns £1917 pounds a month will be able to build his own house within 5yrs. How much do you think it costs to buy a house in the UK, let alone build one?

Also you said a window cleaner of high rise buildings in the UK may be below average income based on UK standards but not world standards, but the Bank manager in Nigeria, earning #500,000 a month, based on all standards across the globe is poor?

Also you said, a bank manager will have to save for many years before he can afford to buy a car, but a window cleaner of high rise buildings will be able to afford a car is 6 months or less ?

Well dem don first talk am say na only 3 people you no fit advise for this life.

People whey newly join APC! People whey fall in love and people whey never enter UK!

erico2k2:
There is another basic Economic fact you guys do not know, you basic salary those specify the salary you take home, I will take myself as an Example cos I am a hands on worker. Now I earn as much as my basic salary in overtime and off duties work cos we do not call it over time we call it premium pay ie x2 or x3 our basic pay per Hour. There is a lot you guys do not know about the west so It would be in your own interest to allow those who live i n the west to explain stuff to you guys to increase your KnowledgeSet is not an argument but basic truth, There is a lot you guys do now know but Im sure o nce you ask the right questions respectively you will get the right answers!

£23,000 a year is just £1,917 pounds a month, how much is food, how much is house rent, furniture, fittings and electronics? How much is phone and phone bills? Car note and fuel? TV license? Gas for cooking and heat in winter? Clothes nko? NHS/Health care cost nko?


Based on current income tax system, personal allowance (which is annual income that isnt subject to any income tax) is set at a threshhold of £12,570. Anything above this to £50,270, the excess is subject to a 20% deductible income tax.

So by simple maths £23,000 - £12,570 = £10,430

20% of £10,430 is £2,086, so his annual income tax out of that £23,000 a year is £2,086. Which means his annual income after they deduct income tax is £20,914. That is £1,742 a month......

We have not deducted NHS and other deductible taxes from that £1,742, we haven't touched on your personal bills and utilities......

Anybody, earning £1,917 monthly before taxes is considered low income, anybody that earns £1,917 monthly before taxes that supports a family is considered poor in the UK!!

At #6,000,000 a year in Nigeria Sir, you are not poor. If they paid you that #6,000,000 here in a year, you are more than capable to live a comfortable life, dress well, buy a good used car, raise a family, send your kids to reasonably good schools and if you manage money well, build a house in one remote area to retire to as a pensioneer.

Try and achieve the same feat in the UK on £23,000 a year whether you no go jam rock!

Winnin009:
How is making 23k pounds a year worse than making 500k a month? You do know that one translates to over 20m Naira annually while the other is 6m annually. Lol.

Please, kindly tell us how it’s better? Ohhhh because he’s inside AC and a bunch of loser bankers call him sir?! He should forgo 14m and access to the best facilities life has to offer because of what? Your ego?

This is the problem with some Nigerians, you assess ones income overseas based on the value of the money in your own country.

Is he living in Nigeria or living in the UK? Will he spend his income based on the cost of living in Nigeria in Naira or the cost of living in the UK in British pounds?

If I want to follow your argument in reverse, inside that same UK so, to buy raw akpu (Fufu) whey no big reach anywhere, is £2, which is #3,130 compared to #100 in Nigeria, e make sense abi?

£23,000 a year is just £1,917 pounds a month, how much is food, how much is house rent, furniture, fittings and electronics? How much is phone and phone bills? Car note and fuel? TV license? Gas for cooking and heat in winter? Clothes nko? NHS/Health care cost nko?


Based on current income tax system, personal allowance (which is annual income that isnt subject to any income tax) is set at a threshhold of £12,570. Anything above this to £50,270, the excess is subject to a 20% deductible income tax.

So by simple maths
£23,000 - £12,570 = £10,430.

20% of £10,430 is £2,086, so his annual income tax out of that £23,000 a year is £2,086. Which means his annual income after they deduct income tax is £20,914. That is £1,742 a month......

We have not deducted NHS and other deductible taxes from that £1,742, we haven't touched on your personal bills and utilities......

Anybody, earning £1,917 monthly before taxes is considered low income, anybody that earns £1,917 monthly before taxes that supports a family is considered poor in the UK!!

At #6,000,000 a year in Nigeria Sir, you are not poor. If they paid you that #6,000,000 here in a year, you are more than capable to live a comfortable life, dress well, buy a good used car, raise a family, send your kids to reasonably good schools and if you manage money well, build a house in one remote area to retire to as a pensioneer.

Try and achieve the same feat in the UK on £23,000 a year and see whether you no go jam rock!

papyjaypaul:
That's one of the top paying jobs abroad because of the safety risk. To clean window no be small and if it makes you happy, good. Nigeria should let people be paid for their skills so unemployment can reduce. I wish Seun pays jobless people here to help the economy.

To those who always judge japa, many of you suffer from low self esteem. The land is green where you water the grass. If Naija bad for your eye, everything you do go bad, u no go see good thing there. Focus on your life wherever you are and stop wasting your time worrying about others.

I promise you, they are not considered as skilled workers and aren't paid as much.

Some care workers make way more than that.

Note, that figure stated is annual salary.

He was probably better off collecting #350,000 - #500,000 as a Branch manager than running overseas, except he has a plan to upgrade his qualifications and get better jobs offers, he isn't living his best life at the moment

GuruboiNaija:
https://.ng/2023/12/14/tinubu-announces-plans-to-end-food-insecurity-in-nigeria/

It's a lie! Tinubu never said that.
He already told us how he will do it with garri, cassava and agbado!

How can tunubu tell you how to end food security and didn't mention agbado once?

You dey lie jooor

Opportuneke:
This is my take on this issue…

The military is military any day anytime 👌🏻
Military works based on instructions and order 💯

Why will you be in mammy when you were supposed to be receiving lectures, 💁🏽‍♂️ That’s arrant nonsense, it’s indiscipline.

You don’t flout orders and think there won’t be consequences.

I served as far back as 2012 in Enugu state, Udi local government precisely during the days of Sullivan Chime as the governor.

Don’t come online to tell us bullshit 🤷🏻‍♂️

This so called woke generation are so indiscipline and leverage on social media as a tool of defense while playing the victim card.

I pity for this generation.

Nobody will harass you if you are discipline and adhere strictly to instructions.👍

After five years of postgraduate experience, I got to know how the military operates because I eventually became a member,💁🏽‍♂️ then you would realize that most of the things done out there are totally unacceptable because everyone tends to claim rights and freedom 👌🏻
Visit any military formation and see for yourself, they are always organized just because there’s law and order.


👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼However, I detest harassment as the case may be. But the media didn’t really propagate the real cause of the chaos.🤦🏻‍♂️

We have all seen the kind of society we live in,🤷🏻‍♂️ moral decadence has taken over the climes.

The children of this generation 🤔have no regards and respect for their elders all in the name of woke generation

Let’s always have it at the back of our mind that without an action, there can’t be reactions 👌🏻

In as much as the camp commandant maybe redeployed for going too far, I also foresee that the corp members in question may as well face dismissal or withdrawal from camp based on indiscipline 🤷🏻‍♂️

I rest my case.



You are free to speak bro.

I have spoken 🙌🏻



Kindly go through my write ✍🏻 up again, this time slowly please and without emotions 🙏🏽



Kindly point out a place in my write up where I supported brutality and harassment 🤔




Was there a place I sided with harassment or brutality of any kind in my write up🤷🏻‍♂️

Please read again 🤭




I really appreciate your input, of course I don’t expect majority to agree with my point of view 👌🏻

However be reminded that the same Nigerians who have refused to obey LAWS AND ORDER in their own country and decided to travel out have been compelled to obey the laws of those countries they migrated to 🤷🏻‍♂️

Those countries we all rush to because they are developed actually got to that stage because they are disciplined and they respect laws and order. 🙏🏽




You made a salient point, we are not in junta however a sick corp member should report at the sick bay where he/she will be taken care of and can as well be given a medical paper stating the conditions of his health.

Assault is never an option, the camp commandant may have gone out of the box in addressing this issue.

You just stated that you served and never witnessed such situation, exactly my point, 👍 something must have transpired. It’s just unfortunate the issue is not well handled.

Talking about soldiers welfare and wellbeing as well as military operations just like you mentioned sambisa, hmmm I will like to tell you that, if you think you know anything about the military, you don’t know shit.

Nigeria is gifted, Nigeria’s military is one of the strongest fighting forces on earth but there are somethings better left unsaid.

This is a discussion for another day 👌🏻

GOD BLESS NIGERIA 🙌🏻

Be rest assured, no Corps Member will face any disciplinary measure for what transpired here......

In fact, they will increase the size of fish in their stew from that day forward to ensure morale and order returns to the camp........

If anything, NYSC will do damage control to ensure that not only is this matter de-escalated and wiped out from social media memory/frenzy but will leverage on it to ensure military formations in Abuja expand their quota for Corps members........

We have had worse than this and the heavens didn't fall, this one na wawa matter.

And for reference, I did my NYSC in Jos with NAF and was fully/culturally integrated within the base, went to a command secondary school as kid, so I easily had the best track record as a Corps members which earned me access to de-briefings were Squadron Leaders and Wing commanders use luck to enter.

So I am speaking from some depth of experience!

ArmaniUhuru:
Where is Manchester United?

They have changed ministry! No be club again ooh, them don turn beer parlour.....

Wahala oooh.....

Brilliant007:
I have gotten to roofing stage of this 3 bedroom Bungalow
I want to use step tiles roof and I have added the roofing sheet sample.
I want to do the roofing next week
Anyone with idea of how much it will cost.
I have added image and size.

Do it after December, it will be better/cheaper. No more than 3.5m

Feel free to make your VIN request

Its here again

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Come buy something

ImoleNaija:
For weeks, I have lost interest in sex. Even when I try to force the erection, I lose it before mounting, as there's no strength to sustain it at all. All her words of encouragement/motivation hold no water. She's so pitiful.


Experienced husbands, how do you manage your sex drives & financial depression?

Less coke and Fanta and more exercise, preferably with heavy weights.

Dry bones will rise again

nairalanda1:
There once was a club called Manchester United.

Baba this one no be club again oooh. Na beer parlour.....

okeysoninv:
You have 100m , billions of naira instead of going to South East to develop our land you went to a strangers land to develop it for them. Foolish set of people. They should demolish more lands of this set of foolish people who refuses to learn.

Where you wan see land at the current prices they bought them in cities in the east..?

They invested in those areas because they were cheap, plus proximity to their means of livelihood, where they make their money.

Abi make them open shop for Trade fair before volks barracks dey travel go east everyday?

Happy Birthday to a wonderful Man who has impacted more lives than people will ever know by the help and hand of God almighty

Simple, because of yansh and bwest.

If you have it and know how to package it, you will always be smiling to the bank 😃 😊 🙂

Wordson:
Arsenal won dat by the skin of their teeth.
Dey may not be so lucky in dir next game...
Aston villa is home against them on Saturday..

And Aston villa haven't lost any EPL match at home this season, in fact they have won all their home games this season... So they better go brace up for a thrilling exhilarating encounter

This is arsenal's first win against Luton at home in 38yrs.

They just broke a record, Chill out and celebrate grace!!

Prospertochu:
My x wife and I share 3 children together ( 4 years old triplets 2 boys 1 girl). I live in another state due to the nature of my job.

The girl lives with her in Lagos and the boys are with my mother and sister in the village. I rented another apartment for them far away because I don't want my x or her family to come and kidnapped my boys the same way she kidnapped the girl .

My x wife and daughter are going to the village for xmas she want me to give her my mum adress so she can see the boys she said she bought plenty gifts for them .

I refused because the last time she visited she took all 3 children to her parents house only for her to kidnapped the girl leaving behind the boys.

I don't want her to kidnapped my boys and she has threatened to take me to court for custody she said the judge will grant her custody because the children are tender .

I told her to go ahead and report me anywhere she wants. I am scared to loose my boys. I love them so much they are my everything I won't bear to lose them.

My boys are only 4 years old is it true that the judge will grant her custody because they are tender ?


Edited 1 : https://www.nairaland.com/7112098/x-wife-demanding-me-more#112551530



Edited 2: https://www.nairaland.com/7436944/ex-wife-kidnapped-daughter#118450454

False. The boys are with your mother, the court is more likely to have them removed if there was no maternal care or nature available to them.

Since your own mother and sister is there, it will suffice.

What court will frown upon is denying visitation rights/access to the mother, other than that you are free.

But you didn't go into details of your situation. You called her an ex, did you guys ever marry?

What kind of marriage, was it traditional only or you went to registry?

Or did she just have kids for you?

Clarification on these will make it easier for you to be properly advised......

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour/8#127286855

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

Cost of living, Nigeria is better but standard of living?

Overseas is better (US and UK)

bestman09:
They want to rubbish his name and image

Na lie! Them dey find free awoof cement.....

youngrichnigga:
Rabiu dodged the bullet; APC and Balablu will rubbish anyone that gets involved with the evil party eventually, better to dine with the devil using very long spoon 🥄🥄🥄

You sef! Must you follow Devil chop......no be long throat be that one....

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