nairalanda1:





Ah the old minimum wage argument

But let's say that an American uses 4 dollars to buy a gallon....since their minimum wage is 14 dollars...the truth is, how long is that gallon going to last him?

Therein lies the problem.

Add the fact that the same guy is paying taxes, paying insurance, paying a host of other costs...rent included...out of that 14 dollars a gallon.

The fact is, most Americans rely on their car....so their fuel expenses are going to be a lot

Plus here is the daily spending of an average american




Let's assume that an american earns 14 dollars per hour. Let's assume they work from 8am to 5pm...that's 9 hours...which means they earn less than 140 dollars, which means they don't have enough money for the above.


The truth is, the way you guys do minimum wage, you take the amount americans earn and apply it to Nigerian situation. Meanwhile if you apply it to USA situation, a chap on minimum wage won't earn enough to make a living.


Plus, someone on minimum wage in the USA and Nigeria won't be owning a car.

You must think you are talking to some idiots sat in Nigeria. Who spends all that you’ve quoted up there everyday? You even went on to say someone on minimum wage in America can’t afford a car, yes might not be able to buy a brand new car but will definitely get a used car in 3 months if a car is their priority

DaddyCoool:


Yes, as in below

(Note: 4 liters is more than a gallon)

Average minimum wage per hour in America is $14. So an average American on minimum wage is spending less than half of an hour pay to buy a gallon of patrol, In Nigeria were minimum wage is 30,000 naira one would be spending a whole days pay to buy same 1 litre of petrol. So how does the comparison work oga?

The guy is tired! He is loosing steam

Mushmush:

He is wiser than your demigod Peter Obi. So Mr Pandora Peter Gregory Obi didn't build any school during his 8 years tenure as the governor of Anambra state? What a shame. Reno said it on live TV that he will give anyone $10k who can show him one school Mr Pandora Peter Gregory Obi built. Not renovation! It's a shame that some senseless Nigerians actually thought that Mr Pandora can be the President of this country. Come 2027, he will still collect koboko from the Jagaban of Africa. Obi supporters, receive sense in the name of Jesus

Building new things is an old trick used by politicians to fill their pockets. They inflate the budget and build rubbish without maintaining the existing infrastructures. The southern part of Nigeria do not lack schools, It lacks very good schools. Obi is right to renovate and maintain existing Schools.

segsman:
He told you His God is a consuming fire.... Don't toy with that bro

Ask Daddy freez who dear men of God

God never ask us to refer to him as a consuming fire bro.. God said to Moses if they ask who sent you say “ I am who I am” Consuming Fire is used by Nigerian pastors to threaten people

He didn’t even tell us who his God is

christejames:



😂


Bro you funny ooo



Apart from cities like Enugu, Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, parts of Lagos and Calabar which other Nigerian city felt even a touch of planning in them by the colonialists? And the areas touch here were places this people live and are exclusive to them alone which is unlike that of the French where they plan the whole city across length and breadth which is not just for them alone but also for Africans who support them...


You should have enquired why the French are the least racist amongst this colonialists even till date.

Bro you need to travel to educate yourself and stop dishing out beer parlour gist

christejames:



Because those countries were engaged in some turmoil due to the political greed of Africans doesn't mean the French didn't achieve anything worthwhile for them.


Check the ancient city layout for those cities and how some of govt of those countries are currently and judiciously following the development plan.


Check out the plans and current city layout for Niamey, Cotonou, Lome, Dakar, Douala, Bamako, Abidjan, Kinshasa and other French colony city and compare them with their English counterparts.

The same applies to Nigeria as well.

christejames:
One thing you should know is that Algeria 🇩🇿 was a French colony and French colonialist unlike their English counterpart adopted the policy of assimilation in almost all their colony, developing the places like their own homes even while milking the place but the English colonialist? Those ones are worst than bandits in almost all their colony, they only touched few places mainly in the Southern part of the continent because of the weather which is kind of similar to theirs and they even want to take up those place permanently as their home as they did New Zealand and Australia



And again, not just Algeria but the whole North African major cities look that way because they are also closer to Europe where they trade and have some economic activities with.

Have you been to French Sub Sahara colonies? The likes of Mali, Niger, Cameroon Congo etc.. We Africans kept ourselves backwards no one elsewhere did. The English has many well to do colonies than the French and Spanish colonies.. Bad leadership and bad followers is what finish us in Nigeria

StOla:
You think they do anything for your own benefit?

UK will use you and after 30years, all you can claim to your name is that you have pension to pay rent.

Once they detect that immigrants are taking up juicy jobs they have envisioned for Citizens only, they come up with another policy.

Very smart people who know how to use others to make their country work.

Till today, I cannot count 5 Nigerians who made it big in UK outside of sports. Even the Nigerians in UK entertainment had to go to the USA to make it big.

All are just surviving.

Same cannot be said about the USA and the opportunities that abound for legal migrants.

Nigerian professionals change jobs in the US as fast as a dirty area boy changes his boxers. But for UK, Segun and Emeka still work in the same company that managed to employ them 10years ago without anything tangible to show for it.

Lose that UK job, and you will know that there are no other jobs to get in the UK.

UK?

Yuck!

where are the people in UK seeing money to remit back to Nigeria

ChristCee:
Do you know the funniest thing about these pictures? I am living in Russia and I am looking at this news as if it happened in a different foreign country far away. As in, Russia is very big and unique. My city is about 7- 9 hours from Moscow based on your type of plane.
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Most flight would make a stop in Krasnoyarsk or Irkutsk before going to my city increasing travel time to like 13 hours.
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In comparison, direct from Nigeria to Moscow before Ukraine war was about 6 to 8 hours!
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But every part of Russia is developed. This is where UK and europe. should learn. You colonized a lot of countries and milked them dry...but Russia has a lot of federations in it and the government equally developed every part. Every part of Russia wants to keep being Russia because they love the leadership but how many African countries want to keep being a part of their colonial empire? It says a lot.
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I am not a 'pro Putin' I really see myself as a neutral person in world politics but to be really honest, If a country in Africa was colonized by Russia, that country would be competing with Europe and china in terms of development today. Look at all the breakaway countries from former USSR which one of them is poor and suffering? Russia was not milking those people, Russia was developing it.
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Judging by the very few people that live in my city 350k you would think this place would be a village but no! Pretoria and Johannesburg combined cannot be compare with Yakutsk even though this is the coldest city in the world.
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To crown it all, Russians love black people. You can even see it in President Putin's policies. Unfortunately we were colonized by Europeans that actually hate black people. One fool from Belgium was even cutting arms of thousands of people in Congo! Chai...Africa has really suffered in the hands of these European supremacists.
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One of my female friends in the city often send me pictures of half cast kids asking me what I think our baby would look like...I keep avoiding that question.
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We walk on the street at night as if it's afternoon
No gun violence.
People kiss and hug and display affection publicly without being mocked
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Everywhere is peaceful
No one avoids you in the bus because of your colour.
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If people look at you too much just know they are fascinated and want to talk. A simple Привет! And you will see them smiling and asking you questions.
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Honestly...Russia is the country Africa should have befriended a long time ago.

You have made no sense. You must think people are foolish like you

2mch:
This OP is a stark illiterate and all the fools rejoicing on this thread are all blockheads and extremely unintelligent. No way and at no poInt does this article indicate that there is a Change in floating the Naira. It just means the CBN is regulating BDC and the rate with much stricter policies. Making the Naira stronger. A lot of you are fools sha, no wonder Obi could make fool of you people like this and those dumb politicians actually get away with a lot.

Wait till this time next month before you start calling people stark illiterate.

Beverlyjean:
Klopp is a super coach... he is probably on the same level with Guardiola... given that he has never managed an A class team... he creates AClass teams ... he actually used kids to beat Chelsea in the final ... Liverpool and Dortmund were not Aclass teams when he first joined them... gave them league titles against all odds and took Dortmund to the final of UCL and won it with Liverpool ... 3 UCL final with 2 different teams is not easy

Shut up you know nothing about football

mmsen:


China is a huge country with significant raw materials as well as manufacturing.

The UK doesn’t have either. Just the legacy of global theft and modern money laundering.

You don’t know what you’re talking about most Nigerians like you just follow crowd mentality without research..

Just Google this companies and which country owns them also

Range Rover, Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Rolls Royce etc .

For your information Rolls Royce is the maker of plane engines

RingRoadCartel:
What this APC guy does is.. he brings some potentially controversial threads here and makes sure to comment first in order to control the discourse. He's doing it before another person will do it so that people don't get to express their views freely without first corrupting them with his own.

Notice how he didn't mention where he got those stats he was just pulling out of his ass? Notice how he said that we will save trillions in naira, but declined to mention how his oga uses billions of our money to buy dollars that he will use in lodging in luxury hotels + other miscellaneous? Its only you and I that are told to make sacrifices, no part of Tinubus governments involvement in that sacrifice was mentioned.

When you see the way he throws around numbers, you'd think that that is actually how it'll play out. What Nigerians should understand is that spin doctors are just that. They're not economists. Their job is to control public perception. They know they're quoting jargons, but if you know the truth, they won't get paid. They get paid to convince you that you're privileged to suffer.

I wish I could like your post 1000 times, You know their game. The OP thinks everyone is stupid

mofedamijo:


Learn to read and understand.......the last airbnb I stayed in NYC was $88/night in 2022, same place goes for $264 per night now.

I have friends in the U.S who can't afford to pay their mortgage again, and had to forfeit their home this year. Mind you, they've owned the house for over 8 years. This is the first time I am traveling and every Uber driver who has picked me up have some horrible lamenting about inflation. Imagine a house where husband and wife are working, yet, all their salaries goes in to bills.

I am not here to compare, my point is that its crazy all over the world.

You know it’s crazy when you see Indians leaving Canada and moving back to India.

Using accommodation prices to compare everyday items doesn’t make any sense. Lodging and accommodation prices goes up and down based on how busy the bookings are ie peak and off peak periods. The inflation we are suffering in Nigeria is just too much. Every day Items are going up at over 500% increment and a lot of people are poor, no even salary increase

spirul77:
beer parlor talks, do you think all the money being generated by the full 20 epl teams to the British economy is up to half a billion pounds anaually?

Go check the top twenty biggest contributing sector to the UK economy and see where football is.

Na so dem talk say na Nigeria dey give UK money. Say it Nigerians stop to go UK, UK economy go collapse

Tinubu supporters looking for bad news all over the world to justify the hardship in Nigeria. We can see through your foolishness. Comparing your economic woes to top 10 economies in the world. What a shame!!

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Some B61 bombs can be carried by fighter jets like the F-15E and the F-16. But the B61-7 and, presumably its replacement, the B61-13, is designed for nuclear-capable bombers only, meaning that the B61-13 will likely be carried by the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, and possibly the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, if both are in service at the same time. (The iconic B-52 no longer carries gravity bombs, in part because modern anti-air missiles make the venerable bomber too vulnerable to being shot down when in bombing range. Instead, B-52s can carry existing and future air-launched nuclear cruise missiles.)
The B61-13 is intended to have the same yield as the B61-7, but with the modern safety, security, and accuracy features common to the B61-12 line currently in production. This includes the B61-12’s inertial guidance system, for greater accuracy, though there is only so much that specific accuracy matters when it comes to guiding a bomb that will produce blasts in the tens or hundreds of kilotons.
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Yields are an abstract way to talk about the effects of heat, pressure, and radioactivity on cities and people. NUKEMAP, by technology historian Alex Wellerstein, offers insight into how such blasts would play out in real life. A 50 kiloton warhead set off in lower Manhattan would kill an estimated 273,000 people, injure an estimated 471,000 more, and send a radioactive plume all the way to Hartford, Connecticut. A 360 kiloton bomb, in the same location, would kill an estimated 778,000, injure an estimated 1,045,000, and send a radioactive plume almost all the way to Lowell, Massachusetts.
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“The B61-13 will strengthen deterrence of adversaries and assurance of allies and partners by providing the President with additional options against certain harder and large-area military Targets,” reads a fact sheet shared as part of the announcement of the B61-13. The fact sheet also notes that the development of the B61-13 is “pending Congressional authorization and appropriation.”
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“The military doesn’t need an additional, more powerful gravity bomb,” write Kristensen and Korda. “In fact, Air Force officials privately say the military mission of nuclear gravity bombs is decreasing in importance because of the risk of putting bombers and their pilots in harm’s way over heavily defended targets – particularly as long-range missiles are becoming more capable.”
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It is precisely because the scale and power of nuclear weapons constrains their use in all but the most existential of wars—to the point where none has so far been used in war since their devastating debut in August 1945—that the nature, design, and continued production of thermonuclear weapons is a policy question. The continued modernization of the US nuclear stockpile, which means refurbishing parts like plutonium pits and moving old warheads to newer casings, is a choice successive US presidential administrations continue to make, adapting the weapons of the past for an uncertain future.

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PaganTerrorist:
Make UK try closing down the rate people are entering there

Make them be like US and Canada for once

There are more Nigerians in the US than in the UK. These countries do open road once in a while depending on the government in power. We all know the UK will start closing up from next year that’s why people who have means are trying to get in now

Ikaeniyan0:
Are you spending dollar or naira in Nigeria?

Are you importing fuel in Dollar or in Naira? Or you are too blind to see the foolishness of the government

Ikaeniyan0:
The problem with some of you is that, you're dumb but think you're clever

If the landing price of a litre of petrol is #900, when petrol was #200, government will have to pay #700 as subsidy, now that's like #650, Government will only have to pay #250 as subsidy.

Can you see you're very dumb?

You are the one that’s very dumb. What was the dollar exchange rate when petrol was #200? You and the government don’t have sense

I knew the Tuition fee was going to increase by hundreds of percentage. Laughing when FG and some state Governments were saying nothing like school fees and it’s free

Zico5:
No where in the world is safe again. Some of the countries we are looking up to have their challenges as well. The worst place to live today is UK. The tax alone can send someone to hell. We live in a trying times. Nigerians need to buckle up and face the reality. We are the one to fight for our existence. These people in power dont care so far they can maintain their expensive lifestyles. We shall survive.

Is like you don’t know what the tax rate in Nigeria is. Nigeria has one of the high tax rate in Africa

NOwazobia:
12 million? ok.


So what happens after 6 months l, and what can one do with 8k?


Another siphoning mode activated.


please, I don't want to miss Buhari oooo... 🥺

After 6 months they should have saved enough money to open businesses to survive on

OP what about the black guy that killed 3 white people.
So the UK is not also safe for white people?

Don’t make up excuses for people sick in the head. The good is the law will always fish them out unlike in Nigeria

Islie:



https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/naira-devaluation-expect-price-hike-telcos-tell-subscribers/%3famp

Nlfpmod

What!

Snowx:
This Putin of a guy is plotting deadly attack, he's using one of the 48 laws of power. Surrender and hit when they think everything is going smoothly

You wish!

Moniya4Real:
Yahoo and hush puppy likes money plenty past legit ones

Those are not taking into account here. They are talking trackable remittance

Governors owing salaries, pensions, gratuity etc., are now fighting for you. Nigerians deserve the leaders and the suffering they get. Those Governors fighting this new naira policy only fight for their greedy interests. They don't care about us. They didn't tackle unemployment, electricity, education, fuel scarcity etc., like this.