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MemphitzDgreat1:
Absolute NONSENSE!!!
I'm a Nigerian and I CAN LIVE ANYWHERE I feel like. You Agbadorians SHOULD PUT A STOP TO ALL THESE ETHNIC BIGOTRY!!

Please go through my posts, I am not an Agbadorian. But putting up a fight against a politically backed group in their native land is a dangerous thing to do in the long term.

pocohantas:
I recommend whatever you recommend.
Do not ask me bait questions. You are not curious. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you.

We are not quarrelling. I was just curious.

madridguy:
Polygamy is the answer to their prayer.

Many will disagree, but this is the ultimate solution for many single women who wish to get married. In a world where there is almost parity in both genders and there are few marriageable men, single women might have to take a re-look at polygamy.

Our forefathers were right on that aspect because the current side chic model does no good for a lady who wishes to marry the sugar daddy she dates. Polygamy is a better option. In fact, polygamy puts more responsibility on the man than the woman. The current side chic model greatly benefits men.

P.S. Only well-to-do men should be polygamous.

pocohantas:
Nigerian women don't learn.
Especially those ones in the church. Same church and Pst Bolaji that told them to endure and bind the spirit of infidelity in their husbands. Look at the comments of the Adams they want to sleep at night with. I wish them the husbands they desire. I pray it works out well for them because if this works, they wouldn't be there to start with.

I am genuinely curious, what do you recommend to those ladies? Divorce? Do the husband back with another man?

I am not for the pastor or the women. I am just curious.

Karleb:
Reason why these singles conferences don't work is because they are never catered towards men.

And they also don't encourage women and the few men that come to interact.

Advice too much but actions so little.

To be fair though, these churches do organise conferences and fellowships for young men. I have been told of such, but I did not attend. The issue with marriage is that these women are super hypergamous amidst social media trends. The economy has nosedived for a decade and counting. People have lost lives and businesses. These actions affect the average young man's ability to provide. Additionally, there have been cultural changes towards the marriage institution. Some will marry, others won't.

I strongly think that a significant number of young Nigerians would love to marry earlier than usual if the economy were as pre-2015. Then again, some people have to leave Lagos so they can marry, especially if they believe their current income in Lagos cannot maintain their desired standard of living.

Since it is HICC, I believe the congregants will be upwardly mobile middle class ladies. I never knew our young women loved marriages so much. Aren't men sccum again? Is marriage that necessary? Wouldn't marrying a woman be a more better option? Must a young and modern woman marry anyway? C'mon!

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Interestingly, the number of anti-men rhetoric has reduced significantly compared to pre-COVID.

What changed in the last five years?

004gist:
Am in Europe right now. Will u tell me to come back to Nigeria to vote? The probability of me coming will be low. Even if i have the money for flight. It wont be easy. The opposition in Lagos got over 500k votes as released by INEC even though we suspected it should be more.
Will 500k Nigerian be subjected to travel all the way home with an average transporter fair tro and fro 100k to say Lagos to PH?
With all the insecurity on the road. Will u subject your self to this?
Is just a way to disenfranchised millions of Nigerians and this is not good for Nigerian development and democracy

Have you seen why Oyibo man is superior?

Some will say Oyibo has right-wingers, alright, but watch how their elites manage them compared to Nigeria.

MemphitzDgreat1:
I go come out and vote for the candidate of my choice and NOTHING go happen to me... the last thug wey try this nonsense wey una Agbero chairman dey talk didn't live to tell his story at Amuwo Odofin in 2023.

Lol

Ask those whose shops were burnt and houses were demolished.

I will be here to remind you.

hotseat:
This is uncalled for!

Non-state actors must stop heating up the polity.

Electing a candidate(s) into office(s) is voluntary and a matter of choice of the individual.

Nobody has the authority to compel anybody to vote for a particular candidate(s).That's unacceptable in a democracy and stands condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians. The police and the DSS must invite this lousy fellow immediately!

Nigeria is not a banana republic!

But the SSA on Social Media to the LASG once led a protest with a banner "My Lagos, not your Lagos". Nothing happened to MC Oluomo when he threatened a certain group of people. It is unfair to seek DSS services for this group when you did not say the same for the above persons.

If you did not do anything to KWAM 1, why try the same for KWAM 2?

Nothing surprising. It is Tinubu's brand of politics. What surprises me is how the seemingly educated or supposedly educated class keep mum while these activities take place. However, it is a good thing everyone sees it. Thank God for the Internet and its sister social media. Young ones as young as 15 get to understand Nigeria early enough.

So come 2027, expect another round of flogging, this time laced with a stronger brand of juju and pepper. Also be ready to be aware that your children will have tainted blood. Don't say you were not told o. At least this time, you were told more than 12 months ahead.

Welcome to Nigeria.

InvertedHammer:
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He is right.

I don't blame him. For instance, go to Alaba International, Ladipo Spare parts market or Trade Fair complex at any given day. If such swarm of able-bodied men can be intimidated at their polling units by a few touts, who are we to complain? It is not as if touts are supermen. Some problems are solved easily with 2x2.

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You really expect businessmen who are not native to the area to fight touts who are native to the area and are politically backed?

Everyone knows this. Only trib@lists disagrees.

Nfest:
Ok, I had a serious issue in Nigeria. I had booked my flight to leave via Qatar Airways, but on getting to the Qatar desk in Nigeria the agent profiling me started asking for all sorts of things, my degree certificate, my nysc certificate, my admission letter, and all sort of nonsense. After I presented everything he then went and asked if I had paid my school fees. I told him I had paid and showed him the receipt. The man said he needed to see money leaving my Nigerian account to the Japanese account.
Meanwhile I had paid the money to a family friend who used his own money in Japan to pay so he didn't necessarily need to move money ople who profiled me on Saturday and finally left the country on the 1st of October.

Do airline staff really have the right to profile prospective travellers like this? What if you were going for a business conference?

cucumbar:
Abeg, what is Tinubu solving 🤔

Una no Dey taya to play the blame game?

Buhari made a thorough mess of the economy. Tinubu campaigned and supported Buhari in 2015, so he is not exonerated. There isn't much difference between both men as they are r@b!d tribalists, but Tinubu's economic policies are better off than Buhari's.

obataokenwa:
In a nutshell, all im trying to say is that Children abroad are more focused and set their priorities right from early age. Youths in Nigeria are not focus and most times are ashamed to start small or even learn a skill or trade.

How many kids abroad depend on yahoo for survival or how many of their girls are online or on the road doing prostitution depending on man for survival. Alot of 30+ in Nigeria dont even have headway. Ive advised some and even volunteered to pay for them to go learn skill like electric car repair, solar connection but none accepted my offer. Im talking from experience cos Nigeria is a timebomb of youths doing nothing

Wow!

To be honest, Buhari's policies decimated the economy. Jobs became scarce and life turned harsher. Even the term "hook up" became infamous during his time, not before. Before Buhari's tenure, it was known as "runs" and was not shown in the face.

I get your point regarding depending on yahoo, but fellow Nigerians supported them in the name of boys dey hustle.

BTW, is where do you see this crop of youths? Like which part of Nigeria? I ask because Nigeria is a country of many nations.

obataokenwa:
Abroad by 18, 19, 20 people already have kids so that by 40, they're done training children. More reason they're responsible and focused in life while in naija, a man and a woman of 30+ still dey post sexy pictures on instagram.

This lie again! There's no where abroad where teens are having children and raising them. The fertility and marriage rates in the abroad have collapsed! Oyibo no dey born again. Even in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and heck, Barbados. Marriage and birth rates have plunged.

Nigeria, or at least southern Nigeria shouldn't be any different.

You see people give stupid reasons for being single. A man or woman of 30+ that's not in a serious relationship dont have any reason to blame Tinubu for bad govt.

The effects of Buhari's administration still lives on. That's what Tinubu is solving (the economic aspect). Graduate trainee jobs reduced drastically when Buhari became president. A present 30 year old graduated at the age of 22 when Buhari entered office. How do you think life has been for such a person?

Apcnewrecruit:
The monopoly of dangote in the cement industry, raising cement to 10k per bag is one of the causes of rent hike

BUA exists. A Chinese company bought over Lafarge.

That is not a monopoly.

ednut1:
Nigerians like to buy land for outrageous prices which drives up cost of buildings. Last last some of us need to go back to mud houses

They call it land banking

NNtv:
This rent matter is very serious. Imagine paying 1.5m for two bedroom apartment and agents will be at the other conner asking for extra 1m that will cover their fee, lawyer agreement and management.
Now, how many youth or public services employees can afford that.
It is clear price of things in Nigeria raises by the drive of yahoo guys because they are the only people who can easily pay such.

What about remote workers who earn between $1K - $2, 500 per month? Abi na every young person dey do yahoo?

Gerrard59:
To solve the housing shortage problem anywhere is relatively simple:

- Increase the supply of land and ease the process of building houses/apartments. The government should also go into public housing provision. That is what the Singapore government does. After COVID, property prices ballooned because of WFH policies, returning Singaporeans from abroad, people who emigrated from Hong Kong because of kini kon CCP laws, rising costs of labour as most workers moved back to their home countries, rising costs of building materials because of supply chain backlog from COVID etc. Expectedly, citizens complained and the government rose to action by easing border rules for construction workers and investing massively into newer PUBLIC housing developments. On the other hand, she released new lands to private developers while also increasing the taxes on those who purchased more than one property. The government also increased the tax rates on foreigners who purchased properties and closed loopholes. As I write, house rents have declined considerably compared to 2022 levels. It is not magic, but specific government policies.

- In Hong Kong, prices plummeted as many foreigners emigrated for various reasons. The government still had to invest in PUBLIC housing developments to satisfy the demands of younger Hong Kongers, especially as housing is tied to marriage, which is tied to fertility rates. But because the HK City Council generates hooge revenues from land sales, the government has not reduced the prices, unlike its counterpart in Singapore. However, compared to pre-COVID, house prices have declined significantly. To prop up demand, the government has eased immigration rules.

P.S. None of those governments DICTATED or stipulated to private developers the prices they should peg to lease their properties like our resident Karl Marxes argue, foolishly as expected anyway. Dictating to private developers how to price their rented properties has not worked anywhere in the world.

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To solve Lagos housing issues, again, it is simple:

- Lagos MUST build UP. It is Nigeria's smallest state with the biggest economy and the most populous. That is more than enough to warrant consistent and increasing demand for apartments.

- High-speed railways to Ogun, Oyo and even Osun states. Everyone must not live in Lagos itself. Well-tarred roads leading to train/metro hubs so that commuters can easily and quickly move from Point A to Point B. Make driving, especially personal cars/vehicles, expensive within Lagos itself. Upgrade and privatise the water ferry transport systems. Insist on safety, cleanliness, punctuality and efficiency.

- Other states should be opened up economically so that the majority of young Nigerians don't have to move to Lagos to begin their nascent careers. States like Delta, Edo, Ogun, Oyo, Ebonyi, Bayesla, Cross River, Benue, Nasarawa, Niger, Kaduna, Plateau, and even the unfortunate Kogi should and can be developed as commuter hubs for residents. That is how it is easy in Japan, where most commuters live in Chiba and Saitama but work in Tokyo. How is this possible? Trains!

Are we so unintelligent in that part of the world that we cannot copy good things from others who have mastered them?!

For those aforementioned states to become commuter zones, invest in infrastructure, especially roads and railways, and most importantly, in security. Again, these are simple policies. Nothing is hard here, as it is not rocket science.



Because fewer people are not building newer homes for tenants to rent. People rather build and offer as Airbnbs. The Airbnb phenomenon also affects house prices elsewhere in the world. Since private investors own those properties, the government cannot regulate them, so the government should invest in public housing. The Singapore government banned Airbnb in public housing.



How is that bad? Is the landlord unaffected by the increase in goods and services in 2024? Is the value of 50K in 2013 the same as 50K in 2024? The very reason why landlords with older homes can increase their prices to compete with newer ones is supply and demand. I already covered supply above. If the demand for residential properties remains consistently high, basic and elementary economics says there would be a corresponding increase in the prices of properties regardless of their ages.



And if the shape is renovated to 2024 standards, should the landlord lease them on 2013 prices because the property was built in 2013? Is the price of cement in 2013 the same as that in 2024? What about the wages of construction workers?



It is not wickedness but basic economic principles and concepts. Nigerians have this attitude of using words anyhow. Wickedness is when the landlord outrightly refuses to lease the property even after offered millions. Looking at it again, that is not wickedness because the landlord has the right to choose whether or not his property should be rented out.

If you want to be kind with your properties, it is very simple. Go out there to build houses and rent them out however you like. That is the beauty of capitalism: you choose what to do. Hopefully, you and many others get to practice what you people have mendaciously preached in this thread.

Nothing has changed. The solutions are simple. Other people have implemented them.

obaidan:
This gender again. Dear young kings, when and if you decide to deal with this gender, ensure you are not holding the short end of the stick. Otherwise, you will weep. They will ask you why are crying u no go fit speak up.

The solution is to use condom and have it at the back of one's mind that it is not every girl/lady one should have sex with.

Are there really that many single women in their 30s and above in Nigeria these days who genuinely need marriage?

occfx:
In Geh Geh voice, no let them pressure you ooo. Man no dey benefit anything in marriage especially when you are rich. Baby mama is the way.

But for me, if you are celeb, no marry anyone wey no grow with you as a natural friend. Na ashawo go surround you by now. If you no get girl friend wey stuck with you far back. Shun them

No responsible man deliberately decides to have a baby mama rather than marriage.

Water is wet.

We've been preaching it tirelessly on Nairaland, but we're being accused of miss ogini and simping

Alliswell248:
Everything is wrong with it.
Imagine Pbat calling out governors of opposition parties criminal and incompetent and sending troops to Abia , Anambra and Enugu.

U.S. state governors have greater political power than their counterparts in Nigeria. So, why have they been incompetent?

Gbolarshow:
All I see is a very brutal truth. How will a Governor that can't control his state be dragging the President. Murder cases in your state week in week out. Mr President want to step in and clean up tyrants for him. what's bad? except you dont want the truth.

This is where I want to understand Trump's critics. These cities are unsafe with people killed recklessly. Why have their governors done nothing to arrest the murderous tide happening in their cities? At least, unlike Nigeria, US states' governors have powers.

WriteerNg:
⚡U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent reading a text from Agriculture Secretary Rollins warning that $20 billion U.S. bailout to Argentina backfired.

"We bailed out Argentina yesterday and in return, the Argentine's removed their export tariffs on grains, sold a bunch of soybeans to China."

I wonder why people praise that Argentine president. He has not done anything remarkable. The country is just lucky it is a white majority one, so they use that to obtain loans upon loans. Shey the Milei dude campaigned on an anti-China rhetoric, but it was not up to six months he vowed to boost trade with China? If not for China's economic open trade with so many countries, dem for hear wheen!

ReesheesuKnack:
They want to impose a 6% TAX on International Students so that they will use the money to fund grants for ‘Home’ students!!!!

The same international students that even after getting glossy paper UK degrees will wait a minimum of 10 years to get ILR?

I have no dog in this fight, but the bold is fair and normal in most countries with a high number of international students.

I have a very strong feeling that the Labour Party rep that used to be on this thread, MissJekyll has Japa’ed a long time ago.

Thanks for spelling out the moniker.

One thing though, I am glad Labour is at the forefront of these new anti-immigration policies, else we would have been told na only conservative parties dey anti-immigration. Chai! It is always good to understand humans' behaviour from basic economics, biology and psychology so one plans ahead.

Nigerians actually deserve it, though. They supported yahoo yahoo boys with the talk that those boys are hustling. These are the societal consequences for supporting bad bad things. When we preach against it, they call us names. Now, you cannot rent a decent home because the boys you cheered have pushed you out of the rental market. Even when you can compete, would you want to live in a compound or area full of yahoo boys?

We warned, but we were called names.

MrDoGood:
The government should better start regulating the prices rental prices. Even Agbor that's a village (if not for okowa), is also calling huge sum for rental. Tell me which company/work dey for Agbor?

There is NO PLACE on earth where government regulation of rents on privately owned properties led to a reduction in house rents. In fact, in almost every part of the world, the moment the government steps in to regulate or set the rules, the prices INCREASE rather than reduce. Government interference leads to an increase, not a decrease.

That said, the government has no right to dictate to a landlord or landlady on the rents to charge. The government should construct its own buildings, which are known as public housing.

Look at Benin City, apart from hotels and bar, which company or big office dey for Benin City? How many people dey work for NPDC? What's even the minimum wage? 😔

I thought Presco, Okomu and other palm oil companies have offices there? Don't these companies' activities elicit other related businesses to support their operations?

But then, it is Asaba, Benin City and Warri. Doomed cities! Doomed, Doomer, Doomest! Colour me surprise.

emmaodet:


80% of nigerians would be willing to kill the president at first sight. Economic sanction is devilish.
I can't just imagine that happening in Nigeria....it will be total disaster. Such government would be booted out quickly.
Another problem with sanctions is that it renders the citizens soooo useless that, people would be falling on each other to be recruited as spies for foreign agents for as low as $20.
The government won't have anywhere to hide because any top secret meting would be revealed instantly the meeting finishes by atleast 5 members in the meeting.
This is why iran is not finding it easy with espionages and double/tripple agents within her rank.

It would be worse for us because we are way too divided. Lord was apt with his narration about the efficacy of sanctions on a global level and why China has to create a second economic system for would-be countries to participate and thrive in. Talking about Iran, they are just too incompetent, as they had the opportunity to arm themselves way ahead of time. I believe if they had nukes, they would have been in a strong negotiating position.

Fred2020:
It's good you caveated it....Chile is not in the top twenty of per capita income or the human development index.

As we have discussed privately, the lax student work hours benefited him greatly. Such would be unheard of in Europe and other popular places. Chile is very unpopular, too far from major migrants' home countries, is Spanish-speaking. Chile does not advertise itself for immigrants to move to as Australia and Singapore do. The US has slapped a $100K fee on companies that want to hire foreign staff on H1B, but the same country has stated clearly that H1B1 is unaffected. Who are the beneficiaries of H1B1? Chile and Singapore.