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This reminds me of the recent case of a woman in the US who killed her husband and then wrote a book on coping with grief.
Wonders shall never end.

You are right, the right economic term for what you are saying is "purchasing power parity-PPP" If you use PPP exchange rate,the minimum wage amount in USD will be higher but it will still quite low.The sad reality is that there are Nigerians who even earn below said minimum wage,I just left a hotel now, the receptionist told me she earns 25k

helinues:
What people don't know is, price of things are cheap in Nigeria . How much is an average 1 room in Nigeria compared to other countries?

Why are other countries in Africa for example not throwing parties the way we do in Nigeria?

Compare ordinary the price of a beer in Nigeria with other countries and see the reason.

Though the minimum wage in Nigeria is low but with low price of goods and services, we should be doing better if we reduce our unnecessary spendings

Religion, festive activities and parties cost a lot yearly in Nigeria now add expensive data people are still affording even though they don't make money on internet

God bless you for saying this.Truly,apart from real estate,Abuja has no real economy, only looting of government money. Whenever young graduates tell me they want to move to Abuja for nysc or better job prospects, I always advise them to move to Lagos, Ogun,Anambra etc Ofcourse another industry that is doing well in Abuja is prostitution aka "runs"

Spreadlove8888:
Same as my own thoughts too

Only infrastructures
Roads
Crossovers
Bridges
Street lights
Real estate and other stuffs

But no active manufacturing industry like we have in the south.

Or it is because it's the national capital?


quote author=tasalanoni post=138897389]Abuja is one hell of an overrated place. It doesn't have its own economy beyond politics and looting. People who haven't traveled to civilized countries would equate it to a paradise.. Everything there requires one stupid Aboki connection or the other.
If I were to be given the option of living in the best parts of Abuja or similar living standards places in Lagos, I'd choose Lagos anyday anytime.
Real dumb ass city. Fake life, weak economy outside of politics, zero mental stimulation and ingenuity beyond real estate, scrambling for connection, lazy folks heavily dependent on stolen public funds, no active industries. Just infrastructure that preserves the ruling class.

Kemi Badenoch is very brilliant. If she doesn't succeed in becoming British PM it will be a good idea if a future president of Nigeria can invite her to become finance minister or petroleum resources minister.

This one obviously paid someone to write WAEC for her.How can she not know that the small intestine comes after the stomach?

If you believe that a human being like you can tie your destiny, then you probably need psychiatric evaluation

SmartPolician:
This is one of the most common arguments had in Lagos. Why would a supposedly rich landlord tie the destinies of his tenants?

While he rest of the world is advancing in medical science, tech and other areas, Nigerians are using fetish practices to advance their wickedness!

Because most things consumed in Nigeria are actually imported and paid for in USD

Emeskhalifa:
Why does everything have to be compared with Dollar?

Iran doesn't give a 4k about dollars yet Iran is well developed.

Can't Africans especially Nigerians breath without mentioning dollars?

This Bwala should keep quiet so that people can forget his shamelessness and lack of integrity. He exposed himself on a global media platform and instead of keeping quiet and letting things cool,he is digging deeper.

These guys are finishing themselves with steroids,very unhealthy. Congratulations to him anyway

The buck stops on the president's table.Stop the excuses.If we wake up tomorrow morning and find that Nigeria is the safest country on earth with the lowest murder/crime rate,we will sing his praises.As a people, we must learn to take responsibility and stop the usual whataboutism.

getcut:
You’re correct that Nigeria currently operates a centralized federal police structure where the Inspector General ultimately answers to the presidency. No serious person disputes that the Commander in Chief carries national responsibility for security in Nigeria. But acknowledging that reality does not erase the operational role of states.

In practice, governors remain the chief security officers of their states. They chair state security councils, coordinate intelligence with police commands, fund vehicles, fuel, housing, and operational logistics, and work with local security outfits and community networks that provide the first layer of intelligence. Without that cooperation, federal forces often operate blind at the local level. That is exactly why the debate around state police has gained momentum. The current centralized model has clear limitations in a country as large and complex as Nigeria. The push to amend the law is meant to address those structural weaknesses so that policing becomes more responsive and locally grounded.

So yes citizens are right to demand results from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the federal government. But serious analysis must also recognize that security failures are rarely produced by a single office.

Why do you guys always think of only oil? Oil is not the only resource known to man.While
it is true that Libya has more oil per capita,Nigeria actually has more resource diversity including arable land for agriculture. Even in the oil industry, we are producing far less than we should for a country with our size of reserves and population. For decades we had no functional refineries or petrochemical plants.Nigeria is not doing well as a country, acknowledging that fact is not lack of patriotism.Part of loving your country is being able to say the truth
about it

LordBiden:
The reason why comparisons like these don't make sense is this,how can you compare a nation of over 7m people with massive oil deposit with one with over 200m people.

The practice of governors funding "logistics" for police operations is purely supplementary.Nigeria currently has a unitary federal police.All the security chiefs including the IG of police report to the president and the police budget is part of the large federal budget every year.Let's learn to call a spade what it is.The president was elected to do a good job not to give excuses.
N.B: There is consensus that the unitary federal police model has failed,which is why the president is urging the senate to amend the laws and approve state police.My displeasure is that it is not being handled speedily.

getcut:
Yes, the President as Commander in Chief will naturally face criticism for national security. No one disputes that. But pretending that insecurity begins and ends with the president is a misunderstanding of how the system actually works.

Security failures are rarely created at the top alone. Intelligence, policing, and prevention start locally. Governors control state security architecture in practice they fund logistics for police operations, coordinate vigilante and community security structures, influence intelligence gathering, and control local political environments where banditry, kidnapping, and militancy grow. When communities become ungoverned spaces, that failure begins long before federal forces are deployed.

Even the most powerful Commander in Chief cannot compensate for weak local governance, poor intelligence cooperation, politicized local actors, or communities where criminal networks operate with protection or silence. That is why serious security analysis never reduces national instability to a single office.

Criticizing the president is legitimate. But claiming that the presidency alone explains pervasive insecurity ignores the shared responsibility of governors, legislators, local authorities, and communities themselves. Security is a system, not a single chair in Abuja and any argument that pretends otherwise oversimplifies a complex national problem.

We have gotten to the point in Nigeria where people have no integrity and they are not ashamed to let the world know it.Bwala is just one of many such people in the country.

You are wrong. The federal government controls all the major security agencies:police,army,navy,civil defence etc.The federal government is headed by the President. Yes,we can still blame the governors etc but the President is commander in chief and will always be the first to be criticised for pervasive insecurity. We don't need excuses, we want to see results.

getcut:
Jumping straight to tribal labeling is exactly the problem. The moment every security incident in Nigeria is reduced to this tribe or that tribe, the conversation stops being about security and starts becoming ethnic blame.

Banditry, kidnapping, and rural violence are criminal and security issues not a tribal scoreboard. Turning it into who supported President Bola Ahmed Tinubu or which ethnic group must answer for criminals only deepens division while the real problem weak enforcement, local security failures, and poor accountability remains unaddressed.

In reality, development is driven largely at the state and local level. Governors, senators, and local government chairmen control budgets, infrastructure projects, state secuity, schools, hospitals, and basic services within their states. Federal allocations are distributed to every state, and it is those local leaders who decide how effectively those funds are used.

The president’s role is primarily national security coordination, economic direction, diplomacy, and maintaining balance among states. When theres is insurgency or disturbances in a state, roads collapse, hospitals decay, or schools fail in a state, the first line of accountability should be the governor and local leadership, not simply blaming a president because he comes from a particular tribe.

Nation-building is not a tribal competition. It’s a collective responsibility that requires citizens to understand how governance actually works and to hold every level of leadership accountable, not just the one that is politically convenient to blame.

As in eh.The country is in ruins and our so called leaders are busy doing politics. Let's forget the rest of Nigeria, what benefit have ordinary people in the south west gotten from Tinubu 's government? They can not even live in peace without fear of kidnappers and murderers.

pointblank247:
And you still call this place a country ? Trump was mild in his choice of word describing us

Maybe Bwala thought the Al jazeera guy is Rufai Oseni who he could threaten and accuse of being rude and disrespectful. Mehdi Hassan should invite President BAT next.

The Bwala guy showed his complete lack of integrity by continually denying what he said in the past.I don't really blame him for his poor defence of the government's performance on security and corruption, even Albert Einstein won't be able to defend this government on security/corruption because the failure is complete.

God bless you for saying this. We are so stupid in this country

weslay:
This is why Nigerians need to look beyond tribal and religious sentiments during elections. He must be Muslim/Christian, na my brother, na we dey dominate, this is the end result. Everyone will suffer irrespective of tribe or religion

Any African who fights for Ukraine or Russia is a fool.

This is so shameful. Any respect I have for this man has evaporated.

Abeg US & Isreal,we no follow them o.Make una no vex,We southern Nigerians love You.

Number of warships don't tell the whole story,if not a man with 1,000 canoes with a few simple guns mounted on them can claim he has the largest navy in the world. The power and degree of technical advancement of the warships matter,not just their total number

Pierocash:
So NIGERIA has 152 warships, that is difficult to believe. I think Nigeria isn't that small the way most Nigerians think

Those of you abusing her are either delusional or hypocrites.Is Dubai not safer than Nigeria? Why do you hate the truth?

When you guys start the next world war,please leave Africa out of it.Thank You very much

WriterNig:
And that addiction will be cured the day bombs fall on US cities.

They'll get to experience what they've subjected other countries through for decades.

Bombing other countries relentlessly while they're safe back home makes them feel invincible.

This is why they're against any country developing long range ICBMs that can reach their country.

They want to be able to kill you while telling you not to develop weapons that can kill them back. American logic.

The US bombings have killed nearly 5 million people in the middle east.

Don't cry when the US really decides to flog them

God1000:
Even Saudi Arabia is also under missile attack, Israel and US have for a long time underestimated Iran's capability, I hope this isn't the start of a regional war


To every action, there is equal and opposite reaction

A child that says his mother will not sleep will equally not sleep


Iran is not Venezuela

Do these rules apply to your governors,ministers and political class generally? Or are they meant for only ordinary citizens?

Working out is so important. Also avoid taking coffee any time beyond 10-11 am.Have a regular time for night sleep, stop using smartphone atleast 1 hour before bed time.Always sleep in a cool dark room,you may need to use fan or AC if the weather is hot.

PAQ:
I have had insomnia since i was a teenager. In my younger days up to late 30s i could stay up 2 whole days sometimes with heavy drinking on weekends, there are days i will play video games after dinner until 6am then take a bath, get dressed and off to work. I have learnt to live with it and accept it as a part of my life, it has never affected my personal or work life. Doctors said i should monitor my BP because not having enough sleep can raise BP, but to God be the Glory i dont have high BP. I work out alot and try to be as physical as possible, that has contributed to my overall wellbeing, plus maybe good genes. I am in my mid 40s now, i still get sleepless nights but not nearly as much as before. Age is a MF!

You are not alone, dont let it bring u down, work out, do stuff to drain your excess energy, if nothing works then take it as a part of your life. Nothing worked for me, i learnt to live with it as a super power.

Well,since you feel so strongly about this,go and fight for them then.

Edusouls:
Thousands of Colombians are fighting for Ukraine as well, so many paid mecenaries by the west are fighting for Ukraine including the brits, the thing is that Russia Ukraine war is a big one people are taking sides, this conflict caused by wicked west is raging and the more it’s raging the more it draws people inside, Africans love Russians more cos they we’re not involved in the liquidation of Africans during the brutal colonial days…

He "saved" 5 million in less than 3 years.His Oga really suffered,losing money and then eventually losing his life.It is well.

My dad was a wealthy businessman.Since he died in 2017,I haven't even bothered asking my mum and elder brother about his money and assets (apart from the ones I can obviously see) because I used the university education he gave me to get a job and from the job I saved enough and now own my own business, so I am comfortable. I will eventually ask though, where I come from,we don't rush these inheritance/estate issues unless we are desperate.

Ha ha ha.
Elon doesn't easily part with money. It must be tied to a project proposal he likes.Or you agree to become one of his various baby mamas if you are female and he finds you attractive. None of the present baby mamas is black though.

Houseofglam7:
And then just like Jesus fed 5000, oga Elon, epp me with $1 million 🤭