₦airaland Forum

Qasim6:
Pekele pekele

Na from dressing room Mancity dey score now abi wetin??

sonature1:
All I know is that Nigerians don't take this country seriously. There's no way Benin Republic will be enjoying our subsidy without Nigerian customs and other border patrol agencies getting their share of the largasse.

How do you think custom officers earning 150k per month do live large? Buying many cars and living expensive live

mrvitalis:
The matter is this Igbos states have refused to tax businesses to allow them freedom to grow ....this was systematically done since 1970s

But now it's time we at least tax buildings to develop our infrastructure

20% tax on the rental values of buildings in nnewi can raise over 30 billion yearly ....this can go along way to building basic infrastructures

Mr viatlis and tax ehhhhhhh

I didn't even check the moniker but immediately I saw tax tax tax, I knew it has to be you.
They must chase you far away from the corridors of power if not na tax you go take kill kill people

vowiski:
This man surely knows how to deceive his gullible followers .. so smart

tensazangetsu20:
It could be worst. You could have been nigerien or Ghanaian

Or Burkinabe or Sudanese or Gambian

vickydevoka:
Imagine someone studying peace and conflict management or early childhood and youth studies

RaptorX:
People spending thousands of pounds on rubbish courses you can do in Nigeria cheaply just to brag I am studying in the UK. Oyinbos are big time scammers, they make your yahoo boys look like amateurs.

osuolale95:
Spent close to 3m on a building, which am yet to even completed. The money I suppose use start business. Anyway the house is on my page here on nairaland labelled for sale

MetroLane:
If to say the boy get yansh and breast.....And as him dey skip, the yansh and breast dey bounce, all the senators for don reach there.

But since na boy wey get gbola like Dem, since January, na today we dey know...

Highest Government go do, Dem go buy more skipping rope give the boy.

bukatyne:


When they say for better for worse, they refer to challenges that life throws at the couple; childlessness, job loss, health challenges, issues from in-laws, special needs children etc.

They are not talking about one of the parties roving mad and becoming a witch/wizard to the other party.

It is this 'marriage is not meant to be perfect ' that enables you men especially to waltz in with stupid behaviours and lack of home training hoping to be tolerated and accepted.

While marriage a might not be perfect because life is not perfect and the challenges I mentioned above, marriage ought to be enjoyed by both parties.

So ask yourself: these behaviours I put up, would it make my spouse enjoy this marriage?

Life is already throwing challenges, why should someone meant to make our lives more beautiful contribute or sponsor the major challenge?

Only if you know the huge percentage of just putting up with bad behaviors from women in Nigeria, the emotional traumas, psychological traumas women are causing a lot of men in Nigeria, you will be shocked.

luminouz:
What's all these


You knew she had a man, yet you didn't mind.

She got drunk by another man and was prolly smashed, you didn't mind.

Did I read that you don't give a shiit about who she was dating and she increased your confidence because she looks like a model and squeezing her boobs and nipples gets her turned on(but another guy already smashed her six ways from Tuesday) yet YOU DIDN'T SMASH AND YOU THINK THAT'S A WIN?

Or am I not reading this right? That girl is running rings around you. While you hike her footsteps up a mountain, another nigga hiked her toenails to the moon with brutal fuçking. You are playing with the friendzone and you don't even know how messed up that is. You are the nice guy bro...that girl will NEVER want you. You already made yourself her beta.

Abi no be miracood wey dey drop pills be this ni? Or my eye dey pain me?

Solofresh2:
Yes,never date such women.Women are very emotional people who will cheat on you eventually if they are not sexually attracted to you.A woman can stay with you because of your money and don't find you attractive, only to get a young boy to sleep and spend your money on that same boy.
A woman who don't find you sexually attractive will friend zone you and use you for her selfish interest.Either a virgin or not,there is this guy a lady is always longing to sleep with.

Be wise guys

Bro, please don't worry yourself about who a woman finds attractive or not. That is not your problem.
I don't expect a man with money to struggle with a woman if he knows his worth and the advantage the money is putting him.
A man with money is a man that is expected to have options with women and not just stick with one.
If a woman doesn't find you sexually attractive, it is not your fault. Move on.
With your money and we'll used - nice ride, nice apartment, good dressing and sense of fashion, you are the one who is suppose to be changing women and not the other way round. You will be meeting women in everywhere you go - mall, airport, gym, pool etc so why sweat over one that is feigning not interested.
Relationship no hard, na you dey find Love.

thesilentman:
You ask why?
Number one enemy of woman is time/age.
Coupled with our societal norm that considers inability to marry at a certain age range,say below 30,as a kind of stigma.This leaves many women to settle for less 'taste'-wise especially as long as the man meets 'the provider' criterion.
After getting married to remove this stigma(forget,this is no Europe,being single at marriageable age in our society will continue to remain a stigma),the 'tastes'-to put it crudely resurfaces-and this exactly when women start to complain about being in a loveless marriage.
Bonus for men: marry the woman that's clearly attracted to you.You don't have to find her superbly attractive yourself.Just a modest woman that respects and finds you attractive.

We all are managing each other.
No one is doing the other a favour to marry them.
Many women marry because age is not on their side, the stigma and also looking for a provider and not necessarily who they wanted.
Men also marry who they can afford to marry and not who they wish to marry.
Give all men money and see them all ditch their ugly or dirty or illitrate women and marry the women of their choice.
Have you ever wondered why men marry another woman when they are rich? Or keep them as a permanent side chick? Obasanjo's first wife was benched by stellar, the present buhari wife is not his first wife, GEJ kept a beautiful lady in UK as his second wife or permanent side chick. The list goes on and on.
We all are just managing each other

buJu234:
..

this UK people sef..

4.5%.. and una dey shout


what abt countries paying over 18-20% many years now...

It is not good for their economy.

Reason why western countries developed so fast is because of huge debts to the citizens and country.
You see people take car loans, house mortgages, student loans etc to survive and that is how their economy was planned to make money circulate within the economy.
If you take a £200k flat mortgage payable in 20 years at 1% interest rate, you will pay back £240k pounds after 20 years to have the apartment. That is 20k per year or £1,700 pounds per month.
If interest rate goes to 4.5%, it means a 200k flat will become 380k flat payment after 20 years and that is foocking huge to pay.
The chances of defaulting will be high.
So what happens?, People start avoiding loans and that terribly slows down the economy.
People will start avoiding buying a lot of things and many companies will collapse thereby creating more unemployment.
UK economy will become like 3rd world countries that are cash-based economy.
You will save for years to buy house, saving for years to buy second hand used cars because to be honest, only a fraction of people all over the world can afford brand new cars.
Most whites drive these cars on loans and that is about to be unaffordable.

LagBlogger:
Don't mind the clown. Any opportunity to show that Nigerians abroad are the ones supporting Nigerians at home he will quickly jump to start spewing rubbish.

The remittances from abroad is less than 4% of GDP so how does this make sense?

To answer you, a lot of people do undercover runs in naija. Some are legit, others are not but don't underrate many people who have jobs, their job is a front to access contracts and side hustles that brings them cool cash on the side.

They won't share their secret because they don't want to lose their privilege.

But not all are legit.

Don't mind that idiot "Abroad Supremacists" attitude.
They feel all Nigerians at home are suffering and the ones abroad are the one feeding everyone at home. Without them, people at home will die.
Any small thing, they will quickly point out abroad people $25b remittance as if that is what is floating the economy here.
Many remittances are even from fraud(yahoo), drugs money that needs to be cleaned back into our economy. There is even a sizeable percentage of Nigerians working from Nigeria earning dollars like the IT guys working remotely likewise many people working outside the country but mandatorily must send money home.
I work outside Nigeria, likewise hundreds of Nigerians working in Qatar, Saudi etc offshore, guys working on LNG tankers and many more industries that earn in dollars and being paid into our Dom account.
Unlike the abroad guys that may likely not send money home in months probably saving, or servicing loans abroad or trying to pay for school fees, we working outside have no choice than to send our money home on monthly basis because our family is here, Nigeria is our final destination after few months of work so our own remittance is even constant. Whether we like it or not, we have to send it home.
If 1000 Nigerians are working outside and been paid $5000 each monthly, that is $5m monthly quietly without noise and 600m dollars yearly and this will be added to abroad remittance plus fraud/yahoo money plus drug cleaner money and so more yet abroad guys won't let us rest with remittances.

Kaa4:
I wish people understand the report. There are Nigerians in this country who earn more than NGN2,500,000 per month as well as those that earn NGN15,000. per month. Average is a composite figure. I think the report is credible. You can now do your math to know where to relocate to!

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advanceDNA:
Everybody should hustle for their orgasm

LadyRosa:


Its not easy o, but I dey spread my tentacles everywhere.

Hubby just had a salary raise,thank God!
I'm a business woman/ entrepreneur and into anything wey go add change,so I be freelance agbero.

So, I get one small land for house wey I take dey rear domestic goats, 5 is heavy, like 4 Ewure dey down wey don dey smell iru iru, so meat no be my problem just incase babablu Bleep up SURELY! I go soon put knife for one throat wey just break one of my big bucket because him won 4ck him mama!

NA SO I call carpenter, him nack chicken cage that can take capacity of 50, i buy noiler and broilers DOC ,throw put,run light buy feed keep dey train them.The one wey to disturb I give am DOGOYARO, if e no survive ,good news for my bingo. Some i dey sell off because my hubby don begin call me broiler as my body don dey full.

I come still add Foreign turkey join 3 female one male.

As kerosene dey go up, I reason say charcoal too go go up, na so January wey every dry, I go village market see as sellers sit down dey look no customer. I priced one bag of charcoal 2700( something wey them dey sell 3500), na him I first carry 2 bags, then 1 week later another 3 bags)

So right now, gas dey, charcoal, dey, electric cooker dey. I like the charcoal self because he dey help my broilers stay warm.

I don book for one fulani woman to bring Fulani local fowls for me like 5 that one go just dey parade up and down dey born.Them dey tall fat, fulani fowl breed good die!

For the small land wey remain, I plant ugu, scent leave, egusi, waterleaf, okro, curry leaves.

I still rent another 100by50 call aboki last week to clear am then put ridges, so that place na for corn, then groundnut and beans. Another land wey person get for my side I won call the man weda him fit give me , I plan to put yam that side.

Last December, I travel 22, then on 26 wey I no say moto full ground as nobody dey return back na him me enter road back, so transport cheap die to carry foodstuffs.

My MIL no happy but I use style promise her say I go show Easter and I go dash her earring

Na so I pack yams ehn! Omo I paid less than 5k to move this yams, I reach my base begin cut yam soak for water, as the harmattan wey enter February dry am, na so I grind, that one full rice bag(almost50kg).

So food no be problem!
Agbado still dey!

Before salah i wake go village market go buy tomatoes, As I buy the tomatoes na him I see shombo and tatchell wey heat cash small and the farmer just they select am, me just use style as the agbero wey I be price am, omo! I clear EVERY! UPGRADED AWALAWA. The onions wey rain beat wey go spoil before them but am for trailer, I clear almost half bag.

Na so I dey smell like fowl cage when I reach house.My husband don laugh tire dey shout " Which kind woman wey I marry?" " WHERE did you get all this from"!

Story...

I begin watch and cut onions o because na raining season we dey, I grind am, at the end of the day, na three custard medium sized bucket he full, the remaining I dash one of my stupid friend wey no gree get sense.

As for the tomatoes,shombo and tatashe, omo even if I get 5 children he go carry me reach 4 months. I have a double chest freezer so every xey well blocked.

So when my neighbours dey speak through their nose, dey complain how 100k no dey reach for one month for house runs, me go dey tap my feet, a bottle of chilled ogogoro for my front, I go follow them dey agree.
I no dey tell people wey dey form how to get sense.

Oh! I forget to add,
* whispers*

I dey buy firewood specially to dry up those UPGRADED BASKET OF FARM AWALAWA.
Una dey expect say make I use my gas or charcoal take dry full basket of tomatoes?I DEY MAD?!

I rather use the 'excess 'money buy one crate of Heineken put for fridge.

Chaii

Walahi Poverty na bastard

DeLaRue:
Inflation in Lebanon is over 250%. Today, bread in that country costs 50 times as much as it did 3 years ago.

That's the equivalent of buying a N500 loaf of bread for N25,000.

250% of 500 is 1,250. So the bread that cost 500 in Lebanon 3 years ago will cost 1,250 now

SeaTrade:
People always judge the world from their immediate perspectives,
Next time when you see them doing that,just know where it comes from.

Hmmmmmm

SeaTrade:
Airpeace flights are full round the clock.
You'd be very naive to expect any airport in Nigeria to have as much air traffic as Frankfurt airport that is a hub for an airline as big as Lufthansa ,that flies all worldwide routes, bringing people from world over to catch their connecting flights from there.
You think na Germans dey inside all those planes ?
Local flights in developed countries aren't such a thing because there's something called "rail",
If you've ever been to Europe,you'd notice that most airplanes air flying regionally,Germany to Spain,France,Holland,etc...This is politics.
There's some regional agreements that formed schengen which removed the political bottleneck for human movement, hence you'd have more frequent flights connecting large cities since people can now move with zero bureaucracy, Africa don't have that.
South Africa has South Africa Airways,that airport is their hub too,Same with Kenya,Ethiopia,Amsterdam Schipol that houses KLM,Nigeria has none...All those planes going to those airports are filled with people of different nationalities coming from different places trying to catch connecting flights and not locals.
Nigeria has a very robust middle class that can fly in planes easily, else Allen won't be buying planes up and down,
You're not smarter than him.

I don't know why people look down at Nigerian middle class as if they virtually don't exist.
Bro, Nigeria has a very large middle class but what people see mostly are poor people.
A guy I am on his WhatsApp group advertised Kenya tour and within 2 days, 4 people already paid for it. 1.5m per person and it has always been like that.
His Rwanda tour, Dubai tour etc likewise other tour groups I am in.
A sizeable percentage of Nigerians are doing well and living good life

Mogadishuu:
See I don't have anything against you or your new found love/ bae but I am glad you chose to change bae.

You and your former dude (jalodo or whatever his moniker was) that found each other earlier on nairaland are fcukingUGLY. Yes the truth is bitter ... Two Ugly people should never make babies.

No jokes, y'all both ugly and I am glad you both went your ways. There are enough monsters in the world already than for the two of you to make baby monsters.

Chaiii

Nairaland

Omoh Funmi, you dey flex small oo

Are you Leo? You vibe like one.

You like perf a lot, likewise outings which are just like me.

Have been thinking of going to Landmark too but I have other places to go.
So landmark should take the back seat.

Hello Funmi.

I see you are a lover of perfume, which means we are in the same boat.
I love perfumes.
They know me for this at work place.
I developed interest on perfs in my senior secondary school days.
I don't know the brands you listed but I guess they are all feminine perfumes.
I started with Brute and Nivea roll on and with time moved up to Active Man.
One thing I noticed about these perfs is that they are mostly eau de toilettes and not eau de parfum which means even though they have good fragrances, they don't last much.
Max 2/3 active hours while like 6/8 passive hours.
Over the years have tried many fragrances like Smart collections, Faithful (many people asked me for this perf name when I used it but very very scarce) and my last perf was Aventus Blue about 12/15k
I love Aventus Blue most because it has this masculine oak/mahogany fragrance and it is not loud unlike feminine perfs.
It just gives you that cool, quiet, masculine scents that is attractive to females.
But I am budgeting 50 to 80k for a bad perf next week.
If I just use am fiammmmmm!!!! Anywhere I pass should still have the scent for the next 15 mins.
My target was to get it in Dubai because they have a largeeeeeee mad duty free outlets for perfs and many other things but emirate has cancelled flights to Nigeria, likewise UAE placed a ban on us so most of my traveling's had always been taag airline or eithopia or Turkish airlines.
So my plan is just to buy it at Ikeja city mall. They have a good nice perf outlet there too

Das1mama:
E go better!!, This life na scam!!, Life no balance!! Abeg make dis world just end abeg!!. Typing...

@ the bolded is very very common to broke people

advanceDNA:
Hey, I have not eaten since morning

My phone fell in water, I need to change it..

My hair is itching me...

I don’t have active data sub

You are still chatting with her: my sub will soon finish oooo..

My Brother was hospitalized yesterday, we
don’t have cash at home

You just met her on Wednesday: “ Friday is my birthday”

And the most common: please send me urgent 2k..

LordAdam16:
Yea. The stats do not accurately reflect the actual take-home of Nigeria's working class.

And I agree that it is corruption.

A lot of practices that in the West will earn an ethics complaint at best or a multi-year felony are conveniently ignored in Nigeria. Interestingly, no one has a problem with it. Including the so-called religious leaders and their "may my helper locate me" pew.

On some level, the Nigerian populace deserve no sympathy. It's a Wild West, Mad Max situation. The sh*t they pull and are willing to pull if given the opportunity is eye-opening. It is especially hilarious when they expect to earn multiples of their income tax-free through morally grey schemes, but blow a gasket when contractors refuse to work on projects they've received payment for or some creative mfker says a snake swallowed millions.

It's like "F*ck you, I've got mine", now you go adhere to the same laws and ethical guidelines I flouted. Oh, I'm just a commoner and one of the "poor masses", so my corruption doesn't count. Now, those big baddies that use the exact same schemes I've leveraged to siphon billions. They deserve the death penalty. Unless they're from my village, state, or region and are demonstrably generous with their loot. In which case, their corruption is justified.

Now, why don't I get unemployment benefits/childcare credits/dividends (like Alaskans), universal healthcare, free education to tertiary level for my wards, and a bazillion other "dividends of democracy"?

-Lord

Abeg Lord Adam leave me jare.

-Lord

LordAdam16:
The bolded is so true.

People dey cash out for this country. Nothing extravagant. Just enough to keep them going and achieve modest goals. A used car. Buy a land. Once you can pay your bills and rent a flat, start planning/saving up to start a building project.

That said, it could also probably be confirmation bias. If you don't personally know a lot of actual broke people--living on loans (credit), kids go to essentially free public school, they live in face-me-I-slap-you where they owe rent that's around 200% of minimum wage, only buy second-hand (Okrika); you'd just go to a Mall or Cinema parking lot and think Nigeria is a robust middle income country.

In any case, we have a fledging middle class. Our population makes it seem like all classes have huge numbers. From the money bags building empty luxury estates to the trench dwellers not knowing where the next meal is coming from.

-Lord

You are right.
It may be fake life but then, I think it is corruption.
A sizeable percentage of Nigerian working class are seeing unofficial money at work.
Call it corruption, call it under-the-table money or whatever. One thing is for sure, the average Nigerian family is living above their official take home money.
When I was working in Nigeria, I do see behind-the-scene money of between 50% to 500% of my monthly salary per month depending on our activities and it is applicable in many sectors of the country be it police, immigration, teachers, etc.
My mum who was a headmistress always come home with atleast 5k per day weekdays aside her salary and I know she has been doing this even when she was a teacher

IbeOkehie:
A lot of that money....not all, but a lot of it...comes from relatives abroad. It's not too hard to figure out.

It is not relatives abroad.
No one will be sending you money monthly for your upkeep. No one.

I am close to these people and I know it is not relatives.
Do you actually think it is interesting sending money to people on monthly basis?
Many people are making money in Nigeria, you better don't be deceived with the harshness of the economy.
How they do it, I don't know.

Dotherightthing:
Nigeria

The interesting thing about Nigeria's average net salary is that many people earning such can end up accomplishing more in Nigeria than those earning thousands of dollars in other countries.

I think this is common to 3rd world countries.

Salaries are low but people living above income.
I guess corruption is normalized here.
My of my friends in church earning 400k drive brand new cars, I mean brand new jeeps and I earn far far far above them so I wonder where they get this money from.
Even their doings - buying properties, donations in church, you start wondering if you people are in the same country.
EFCC needs to start investigating income earned to life style proportion and over 50% of Nigerian working class would be hauled off to jail.

Gerrard59:
Good. In that case, Nigerian men are not top of the food chain regarding dating when abroad. Isn't that the reason they lament of lack of sexual partners aka knack o before going to the abroad? These men believe the 5K or 10K they give to young girls in Nigeria can be replicated abroad, but it is a lie. You want to use money to buy the heart of a Swiss girl? How much does he have to do such?

Atleast, they attract mid to low quality ladies in the societal ladder.
Now, the question is, how many men do Nigerian ladies attract abroad?
Even in Africa, outside Nigeria I don't think any other African nationality want to touch our ladies and that speaks volume compared to our men.