₦airaland Forum

YoungBTCxchange:
you dey always talk out of point i swear

She said the truth. There are no jobs in SA. Unemployment is as bad as Nigerias if not worse.

Many Nigerians there turn to crime.e to survive. It's a gangsters paradise.

OracleJay411:
1 year and U run back. Are U a quitter? So what should people who were born in SA , over 40 and living there all their lives do? What should Nigerians who have been there hustling for 5yrs do? Just 1 yr and U run.
I know SA is difficult and very unfriendly but there are still some opportunities there that if u are hardworking, creative and patient, U will achieve

Well, since U have run, all the best o

There are no jobs. The jobs he is bound to get will be shitty jobs, and Black South Africa's are now going about demanding co.panirs sack their migrant labour and replace them with locals.

The alternative is that he turns to crime. That's what many Nigerians there do,

RealityKings1:
Atleast you tried, you can still try more.
What you need is to work with sense and less struggle. If you are working with sense, 1 year is a very short period to achieve anything reasonable. But if you are working with struggle then you can achieve alot under 1 year.

I'll suggest you reevaluate your reasons of coming back. Stay there and try to forge ahead. There is a reason why you were able to raise enough funds for the flight over to South Africa in the first place.

There is nothing in Sputh Africa! Nothing! It should be a warning to you but you prefer to chastise him.

There are no jobs. There's sky high unemployment. Their economy is barely growing more than 2%.

Do you want him to turn to crime like many Nigerians there?

Samantha125:
Haibo!!! So you expect him to have stayed in SA and be our problem? Next thing he'd have resorted to selling white powder for survival and when we speak, you guys were immediately gonna jump into conclusions by singing your favorite song.

We also have our own issues, so if you can't find yourself a legit employment in SA, take you belongings and the little dignity you have left and go back home because there's no place like home.

As for you op, don't mind this person, you did the right thing.

So many Nigerians are ignorant.

When migrants don't find jobs, they turn to crime. The claim by South Africans that may migrants are into crime I'd true.

Hundreds of Nigerians came back about 2-3 years back. 2 of them were involved in armed robbery after they returned. These two did not rob together. So, two separate incidents.

This never happened with returnees from Libya or anywhere else.

South Africa needs to do something about the high unemployment rate. The reason why SA has a very high unemployment rate is due to rigid labour laws. This discourages job creation. The laws are more suited for big companies than for smaller ones.

Sadly for you guys, the unions who drew up these laws want to keep it that way.

Please Google "What are rigid labor laws?"

Mrkc:
After over one year in SA without anything to show for it, I have finally decided to come back to Nigeria.

With no job, house or anything tangible to fall back to but i am just determined to start all over again because i believe no matter how far you have gone on the wrong part it is never too late to start again.

In my late thirties, no qualifications, no family, no flourishing or tangible business but determined to learn anything that can at least substain me.

Welcome back my guy

Now that your eye has now cleared, you probably realus3 that there is gold in Nigeria.

A business you can start in Lagos is estate agency.

All you need is a blackboard to write a list of properties. Network with agents in your area to get properties to advertise. Make a registration form for your clients to fill. You can charge 5k. Some charge them 15k. That registration fee can give you feeding money. Tell them that with the money you will show them at least 3 properties.

Find a strategic place to place the board. Liase with a shop, or office. Many will let you put it there for free in front of their bisiness. Who ever is interested will call your number and you go and meet them. You don't need to be in the shop. The blackboard is simply a means to contact you.

You will learn on the Job.

Celestialsword:
One year is too short a time to achieve anything tangible except you are into illegal business.

You lacked patience to study and learn the ropes, you cannot make anything tangible in life,in a hurry

There's nothing in South Africa. That's why is back.

Unemployment there is sky high, and crime rate is high. In addition, xenophobia is real. Black South Africans are showing up at workplaces and demand that all migrant workers must leave, to make way for jobless locals.

Many Nigerians turn to crime to ether sustain themselves or to thrive.

PeterObi4Presid:
Business is really hard in Nigeria if you are not there 247,
We are too wicked, greedy and dishonest.

Less than a week, I employed this boy o, to manage my gas filling retail business and POS.
He displayed passion, initiative and experience about the gas filling business and handling of POS....so I just took the chance, we also speak same language. I've been acting nice and all but I think I now know why most Nigerian bosses are mean to their workers by default
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Now from first cylinder we couldn't account for 10kg
Second cylinder was started today by him......when I told him to calculate everything sold from first cylinder based on daily record book ....it felt short of 10kg
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From the sales from second cylinder that started today, The account book does not tally with what is remitted through ATM/POS mode of payment .....I dint know this until I checked my Moniepoint acct as I got home now cos my phone was dead before I went to the shop this evening
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Even the POS part of the business does not tally with the cash I gave him this morning for people who need cash withdrawal
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I'm boiling right now realizing the boy had lied to me when balancing the account this night using the record book, only to get home and power my phone to see cash fell short of 23k in my monie point acct linked to the POS
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How do you handle boys who think they are smarter than you because theyve been in the business before?
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And what are your experiences with dishonest workers in your business , especially this gas retail business or POS business
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Modoified: how do I handle this case now....cos my mind is just boiling ....how can a new business fall short of 38k in less than 7 days...

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Let him work a full 30 days and sack him with no salary.

Alternatively, force some of the money he stole out of him. Arrest him until he spits out the money, and then sack him.

It might be best you look for very religious types like Deeper Life or Jehovahs Witnesses.

You need to visit their congregation and meet the elders if they know anyone they can recommend that is trustworthy.

My car is safe.

The BMW 9 series model is not affected

He was dealing with diesel as the price of diesel was deregulated.

I knew he was not part of the subsidy racket.

DelilahMakinde:
Please check your calculations
Something isn't right.

I used extremely conservative estimates.

Check below:

https://soundcamps.com/blog/how-to-get-1-million-streams-on-spotify/

https://soundcamps.com/spotify-royalties-calculator/ Use this to calculate it. I chose India which is similar to Nigeria in terms of per capita income.

1 000,000 streams will bring in about $2,200.

3billion streams will bring in $6,600,000.

And this is incone that keeps coming in, even while she sleeps!

Jeezuzpick:
Attract them to become what?

Taxi drivers and factory workers?

Mmmmmmmmm?

What of their own "Canada Experience" trap?

Don't mind them.

There are simply too many migrants in the country and they should work on absorbing those first, rather than pile in more

If Ukraine can hit Russia's oil wells or infrastructure, it will lead to a spike in crude oil prices.

This would benefit Nigeria.

koladata:
I'm tall, and for some weird reasons I'm attracted to short ladies, never met with a dwarf but I kind of like them from a distance. If I'm close to one I might fall in love.

Do you know that your sons height is largely dependent on his mother's height?

They are Irish gypsies.

Getting married early is part of their way of life.

There's no question mark at the end of mistake sentence.

It's an ommission that I'm guilty of once in a while.

She is most likely a single mother.

To her, a child is more than enough. A husband will just be jara

Why are two war torn countries building nuclear plants?

What if rebels or insurgents decide to bomb it?

Odikwa risky!

abhosts:
The naira is not gaining any strength. It is Trump's dollar that is losing value against all other currencies. If the naira was gaining strength, the British pound would not be ₦2100.

The Naira has lost some value and it's not surprising but has been hidden due to the dollar weakening as well.

The low price of crude oil, and fiscal pressure of a huge deficit, and huge government borrowing have hurt the Naira.

erad:
How do you call a currency weak because of how much it exchanges with the dollar? The value you get for $1 dollar in Nigeria, can you get it for $1 in those other countries with 'stronger' currencies?

Forbes should know better.

Thank you my brother.

When Forbes said weakest, they don't mean it the way many here on Nairaland view it.

South Korea's won is one of the weakest based on numerical numbers but it's one of the most respected currencies in Asia.

What's important is whether a currency can keep its value, and the Naira has done so after it was floated.

KnowAll:
Seirra Leone has redominated it is now 1 to 20

Nigeria should mot predominately the Naira unless its sure that inflation has been tamed.

Shawarmagirl:
This is good news and good for democracy.

I told someone if you think Israel was not aware of October 7 attack, you are joking. Israel is very much aware of the attack before it's happened. Israel needed a platform to carry out their agenda on Palestine and Gaza. Though Iran nuclear weapons is their target too.

Nothing takes Isreal by surprise. October 7 attack was a bet.

Israel was unaware but the Egyptian intelligence had warned them that Hamas was planning something, that they should be on guard but they did not take the advice seriously.

guass:
First ask Hamas to immediately release the hostages.
Those presidents on the side of Hamas do not understand what Israel is fighting for. Released hostages confirmed that many hostages in Gaza are being fed with faeces and some asked to dig their own grave. Terrorists are truly dangerous.
ISRAELI PM NETANYAHU MADE IT CLEAR AT THE UNGA THAT IF THE REMAINING 48 HOSTAGES ARE FREED TODAY, THEN THE WAR ENDS TODAY, PERIOD.

Who told you they support Hamas? They don't just support the sickening genocide going on.

One should call a spade a spade.

Hi guys,
I haven't been following this thread consistently.

How good is Spaceship when it comes to selling domain makes?

WelcomeToBiafra:
It will reach 1900 after December, Nigeria government operates with propaganda and lies, any system or company that want lessens suffering of the masses Nigeria government/efcc, dss will destroy it to keep oppression policy actives...

The fundamentals does not justify 1,900.

We are already in December. This is September.

Kaa4:
Regardless of the price at which it is sold, the black market will continue to exist. The matter at issue is the amount of premium that must be low and very insignificant to cause round-tripping.

Lamido Sanusi said the differential should never be more than 3%. The World Bank was even more generous by saying 5%.

Anything beyond these differentials breeds corruption and distortions in the economy.

surgical:
Tinubu doing the exact thing he criticized others of, he is now managing the forex flotation, he is fixing exchange rate after a failed experiment of total flotation
Government by trial and error

The Naira isn't pegged as the currency was floated
. You sound contradictory.

In addition, the flotation was a massive success. The foreign reserves has grown from a bet foreign reserve of $4bn in 2023 to over $40bn today.

The net foreign reserves refers to the actual amount of forex the central bank has access to, and not just the entire figure which can be misleading.

I was in England for two months and nobody begged me for a dime.

The very day I landed in Nigeria, at the airport, airport staff were begging me for money.

It's due to inadequate pay. Let's not deceive ourselves.

How else will someone earning 40k a month with 2 kids meet up? It's not even sufficient for one person.

And that's why people give them moneyy: to supplement their meagre salaries.

Validated:
But why do we still have black market though? Everyone with bank account and BVN should be able to access FX at official rate. Anyway, we still hope that Tinubu remembers that his Renewed Hope benchmark was N300 to the $. Even if he can't fulfill his promises, he should return Naira to pre- May 29, 2023 rate of N460. Then, we can commend him. Now, he is only clearing him mess.

It will never return to 460. Never. The fundamentals do not support.

You might as well expect a pregnant woman to deliver 2 months after conception.

hope4nigeria:
why are you people not always talking about the hostages still held in Gaza but quick to shout innocent woman and children, are the hostages wood and iron? What is difficult in you people telling your friends terrorists to simply free hostages and all of us will then face Israel for doing too much, if na you they held your people hostages and you get power, you will do worse than Israel, infact Israel are too soft on Palestinians honestly

So, this supports the mindless slaughter of thousands of Gazans? The disporportionality is extremely disturbing.

All the Israeli hostages would have been released by now had Israel stuck to the peace agreement, which though being one sided, was a worthy prize to pay for their release. The more cruel isreal is to the Palestinians, the more the hostages will pay the price. Hamas would take this out on the hostages remaining.

Frankly speaking, Netanyahu endgame is to move out all Gazans. They are now destroying all buildings in Gaza. This is a scorched earth policy.

You're a comedian.

He should be unapologetic for what he said.

The issue here is not that he has failed to end the insecurity plaguing the country. The issue here is that you support Israels relentless bombing of Gaza and the thousands of innocent civilians that are consumed by it.

ruzell86:
The 'Ebora of Owu' already stated the fact that those refineries can't work. But they chose to believe Ojuyobo's propaganda and the APC Govt. of lies instead. Only time will tell...

The problem was never APC. The problem was Buhari.

Kachikwu had already told Buhari that the refineries were antiques and it was cheaper to.impirt fuel that to refine fuel from these aged refineries.

Buhari refused to accept reality and instead approved the borrowing of $1.5bn to repair the decrepit Port Harcourt refinery.

Buhari was an economic illiterate whose policies bankrupted the economy.