₦airaland Forum

So all of that proteins-all-day sheet was what? Nigerians ehn! 🙄🙄🙄

Obaaderemi2:
But that is the same thing he said. 2024 was just last year

Stop lying! 🥱🥱🥱

GeneralDae:
I think this is the highest that has ever passed through Banks and official channels. Most of the previous 17 Billion USD didn’t pass through official channels but were concentrated in the black market and largely unaccounted for. I don’t think we ever got over $400 million in a single month prior to this.

Storyland! 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱

Eniitankorede:
✓ Most of that $17 billion came through informal channels. And government had no access to most of that dollars falling in private hand. Very little amount of $200 million and below was coming through official means. That is changing now. Most Nigerians in diaspora are now choosing official channels as the naira value has been harmonised between official and black markets. This means more dollars is flowing into official channels to be used by government to increase forex reserves and stabilise the value of naira and even increase the value of naira as compared to dollars.

Storyland! Information channels even after your government had praised itself for achieving unification back in 2024? Una go continue spinning tales tire. 🥱😩🥱😩

poiZon:
✓ During GEJ, na 20billion dolls we dey get some bad years..

Na why that time tinubu, bakare dey sidon for their bedrooms order champagne with their master card, in the next eke market day, consignment go drop.
Seunmsg dey use him master card that time dey subscribe for cheap porn sites just to self-service anyhow...
Life was sweet until APC, association of past, present n previous Criminals came onboard.
They first blocked the privileges of Nigerians buying something on eBay, amazon, ali Express with their naira account, the next thing was to stop dollar payment from counters in all commercial banks, so if ur relative sends u dollar from abroad, the bank will pay u equivalent in naira, that's where the round tripping started o.
Nigerians abroad started using alternative ways to send funds to their people back home.

This isn't about GEJ but about reports that were published in 2024 and early 2035 regarding the same subjects and this administration

SeaTrade:
Because these remittances were sent through unofficial channels which couldn't be accounted for by the CBN.
Now due to rates unification, no more incentives to go through black market routes so more and more people are coming through right channels.
That's why it is prospected to grow to 1B by 2026 as more and more people join the basket.

According to your government, unification was achieved back in 2024 after which it then reported that over 17 billion dollars was remitted from the diaspora. . Why are you now trying to spin a different story entirely?

Schprobs:
✓ Am from a poor background ends at 30, @ 30 ure the background
Let’s see what’s u will makes out of lifeMr writer

Why? Because his parents are meant to be his competitor of what? Are you sure you are OK at all? 🥱🥱🥱🥱

samcolee:
✓ Trading and farming on large scale so food wasn't a problem

Storyland!🙄🙄🙄

Go back and continue working on your fable,abeg! It is obviously not there yet. 🥱🥱🥱

Only $600 million a month at this point in time? Yikes! Nigerians in diaspora no dey too send money home again abi wetin? At this rate, the county will fall far short of previous high of about $17 billion a year from the diaspora.😐😐😐😐

Loisemm2:
➜At 36, the bride cannot arrange for transportation or organise her family to arrange transportation for her own wedding? Hmm. And the family too cannot bring out transportation for themselves to their own daughter's wedding. Haha. It's not everything the groom would do na.

Let's not be quick to demand she foot the bill since we don't know what her marriage contract requires of her in this.
@OP...

OsinAmaka:
➜My neighbor that want to get married soon met me for advice base on the items on the list and other activities that will follow during his marriage ceremony.
One question he asked that i couldn't give him an answer is this, 'transportation of the bride's family to the wedding reception, who will foot the bill" i told him to wait for me that i want to do some consultations.
Please fellow nairalander, help him out.

...it depends on the arrangement that was made between the man and his bride. He should not have to ask you this question, but instead work it out with his bride.

DelilahMakinde:
➜My husband will never suffer Take it to the bank.

This is what happens when mothers raise their daughters to see themselves as wives and not much else. 🙄🙄🙄

What has knowing — not even owning — so many restaurants to do with not suffering? 🥱🥱🥱

Skyfornia:
➜Hope you won't repeat same to your kids?...by now I'm sure you have acquired more than N100m for your unborn kids.

If he is still struggling to get out of what is generational poverty—his very own parents being the enablers of this, why ask him this question?

greenermodels:
➜you're definitely not from the southeast if your parents are this unmotivated. The truth is that some parents are a stumbling block to their families and the economy is only magnifying this now.

Stop spreading these nonsensical racist lies. There are 10s of thousands of equally unmotivated parents littering even the South East, as in any part of that country. Nigerian parenting style has almost always been of the entitled and unmotivated type.

Sirchiboy:
➜The thing keep coming back

You can't make it go away by avoiding it. You have to accept it, and your OP shows you have. Now you can finally heal and be better.

Peliman:
Thank God u are now adult let's see how you raise your kids.My dear it's normal for you to be born poor but remaining poor after you have grown up becomes your responsibility. The earlier you admitted and try to help break the generational yoke of poverty the better. Even Davido that was born to rich family is still Hustling. Am sure you are one of those kids who banks on inheritance. Thank God you have to hustle 😂 😂.

Some of you are very terrible when it comes to critically reasoning about reality.

edungene7:
➜You need help try talking to counselor truly parents her suppose to provide a foundation for children to grow but this is Africa most parents have the entitlement mentality it should be all about them, very few understands the importance of sacrificing personal needs for the sake of their children future it's not about certification
➜ bro I have seen okada riders without formal education who understood the importance of education and trained their Children with the proceed from okada riding together everyone is doing well.

You are missing the point. OP is not dragging his mother alone, but also his father, who knew quite well that both he and his wife did not make enough to feed themselves with let alone adequately raise and train so many kids.

2. An Okada man who is a father and should have more time present raising his kids, too. He may have a wife, but children also benefit immensely from having their father physically present in their lives as well. That connection between a child and its father should not be measured only by how much money he was able to provide them. A father should be there to both nurture and teach his kids at the same time, all while making time to also work to provide for their kids. Such a man should probably have just one kid.

Claiming he understood the importance of education and so spent so much of his time working to make money to train his kids should not win the Father of the Year award by any means.

Skooltynz:
➜What about you are your sure you too are on the right path,most of my secondary school teachers have cars and houses just with nce.school degree no be guarantee for success .

You are obviously lying! 🙄🙄

Even back in the 80s/90s, what you describe was not possible for people with NCE, let alone now. 🥱🥱🥱

Makamatic:
➜Planned parenthood isn't no joke oo . For this Tpain economy , plan wella b4 your born pikin oo , because na this Tpain economy and the coming one, some pikin go call their parents bastard , its a global phenomenon not only nigeria , so plan very well as a guyman . [b]Omoboy i hear say you done reach 40 years only you have the right to talk about your parent how you feel , they mae done Bleep up somewhere but you self you gats hustle like thief oo so your children nor go write lamentations too like you [/b]because e fit be say your papa go even try pass you ... mahn breaking generational poverty cycle isn't no easy feat 💔💔

So many people in today's world have been doing exactly that... refusing to make the same mistakes those before them made. And the journey begins with one very important step. And that is accepting the mistakes your parents made for what they are, mistakes which do not need to be brushed aside as anything less.

2. There are people out there who are going as far as not to have kids at all because they refuse to perpetuate the same horrors that were inflicted on them by planless parents. These are wise individuals... wiser than many of those parents Nigerians seek to have praised.

blingxx:
➜The moment also start to understand say this life no be miracle everything na maths and calculations..sadly most of our parents don’t understand how life works

It isn't that they do not understand, but rather that they reject all avenues that would require them putting in necessary effort, opting instead for magical shortcuts like the many prayer houses/juju rituals.

samcolee:
my parents were not graduates but lived comfortably better find your own path in life and stop complaining.

How were your parents able to live comfortably? Tell us the truth!

Sirchiboy:
......Throughout my 40 something years , I have never seen their wedding pic.
After few years of marriage , she got job with her primary school certificate receiving peanut.
Throughout their marriage they ware going from one loan company to another borrowing money to survive because of lack of planning before they married.
In my primary school days , I could remember how some of the creditor will come to our house and carry property if the fail to pay on agreed date.
This woman will be in the church deceivin herself praying from morning to night for break through.
How can you have breakthrough wen you no get hardwork or business or no school.
You had opportunity to go school but you no go rather you choose marriage.
It was so unfortunate I am one of their product
File photo used for illustration

Kudos! If only more people out there were more honest about these things.😐😐😐

Tendd:
She is a fit lady who takes care of herself physically and mentally.l follow her on YouTube.Being consistent and disciplined on exercise,shapes our overall Wellness and determines how we function on other daily activities. Everyone,both men and women must lift weights if you want to stay healthy and live longer Kudos to her.

While I applaud the lady for being fit and all, not everyone must lift a 100-pound weight or more to be fit or live long, abeg!

Dogalmighty17:
➜She is not in anyway disciplined. What she exhibited was a very poor lift form capable of causing serious back injury. She lifted her back instead of her legs. Compressed vertebrae, herniated disks and nerve compression in the spinal column is what she is risking.

Nonsense!

Pepperdemisback:
Only a yam legged one can do that. Complete?

So, this 78-year-old Grandma is a yam-leg to you?

naijapikin2:
➜Hahaha I'm having you where I want.
1. What you so strongly believe in is obviously a mirage for some others. Many will see your views as warped (I do).. something that works for over half the population of the world cannot be lies or fabricated gimmicks you wouldn't know that you are too braindead to fathom.
2. Your online rantings have just revealed their origin. An uncanny unwillingness to see the comic side of life. (This is pitiable). Where you birthed and groomed in a chemical lab? 😁
3. The evidence of the power of our God is people like you. Can't you see that you unwittingly outsource your intelligence to the FACT that God is.. reigns... And ever will be? Let me tell you how... The presence of FAKES is a validation that ORIGINAL EXISTS... I mean if nothing, this should hit home. Hahaha.
I'd be honoured to meet you in person one day to really have a healthy convo on this twisted line of your postulations.
STILL WAITING FOR YOUR RUBBER PELLETS 😁😁😁

1. That only holds true if there exists no verifiable evidence—again, not delusions— for that which I supposedly strongly believe in, right? Well, no religion or tradition— and their numerous subdivisions/interpretations/mini gods/idols— has been able to present tangible evidence for any of their many claims.

So, how can someone be said to work for half the world when there exists to date no tangible evidence that that thing in fact works for the people in question? No be fraud dem dey call that one? 😏😏

2. Whatever it was, it helps me see through the bullsheet that is you and other religious nutjobs. That is more than enough.

3. There are over 4000 different deities/gods out there. So, which of them do you claim has this intelligence you speak of? (I believe this happens to be the exact same argument that many others out there have for their own gods, too.) Sheeesh! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

naijapikin2:
➜Your implications do not tilt at the truth... Your ways are and thoughts are a reflection of a failed upbringing. Of course they are true men of God and the fake ones also, in addition to the ones who vainly try to usurp the gospel in all of these God still reigns supreme.
2.if you choose to be unenlightened about such things as movies then sorry to say, your life must be one compendium of boring sequences.
😛😛😛
3 millions... Nay billions of people globally attest to the omnipotence... To the omniscience.. to the omnipresence.. to the all power.. all sufficient God. Your minute knowledge about God not withstanding.
PS: you and I have been through this road before, and trust me I've got the sounds in my trunk to last the whole 9 yards... So keep shooting your rubber pellets. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

1. Here's how the game has almost always been for you religious folks.... one man's god of man is another man's charlatan. That is the reason why there are over 46,000 different kinds of gods of men in the religion of Christianity alone, all of them "true gods of men" only to those who subscribe to their own brand of bullsheet... the same kind that has kept women and children existing as subdued individuals in the eyes of their gods.

2. Unenlightened about movies that were meant not to be taken seriously by the entertainers who made them? WOW....🥱🥱🥱

3. They attest, yet to this day not a single one of those billions can be considered any different from those who don't even have a god to attest to. That billions subscribe to a delusion DOES NOT make said delusion of truth or of value, not even to the human race. A delusion remains just that... a delusion/lie!

MazzMet:
➜This same man has never called her ever since she came to Lagos, at least to know how she and the kids are faring. The church has been so helpful, according to her. It was the church that gave her transport money to come with her children. He almost collected the money from her, discouraging her from coming, but she insisted. Her first child is 17 and she's in school, studying Engineering, suffering, as the father has refused to work. The pastor has helped him secure jobs several times, but he always turns them down.
➜My sister said she’s fed up with the marriage and she’s never going back. Things have been so difficult for my family even before their arrival, now she came with her children to complicate things and make it worse.
Her daughter always disturbs her on the phone, crying and asking for money, and she has no money. I wonder who advised the poor girl to sit for jamb and enrolled in school. I was forced to send ₦5,000 from the ₦12,500 in my account. I have been having sleepless nights about my sister situation. How I wish she listened to our late father, how I wish she had listened to the family. Her children cried to bed last night without food. School will resume in two weeks’ time, what would be their fate? The day I set eyes on my sister, I couldn’t recognize her. She looked pale and worn out. Someone who’s not 40 yet. My mother is so heartbroken. All these break my heart.

Sadly, your sister's story is not unique or new, as there are 10s of millions of Nigerian women whose youths were manipulated and wasted in pretty much the same way since at least the last 60 years of the existence of that country by men who prey on gullible young women. These older men intentionally target young women who are desperate for love. If you look well, you might be shocked to find that the man who married your sister already had a family which he may have abandoned before going after your youthful sister— young blood—to groom, use and control until he is ready for his next target.

2. The man knew not to legalize his situation with the woman since he wanted to keep his options open for his next time. Your sister can't really do much except file for support for her underage children in the courts. He never intended for her to be able to have any power over him when she finally realizes the scam, which is why he intentionally kept her subdued and penniless throughout the relationship. So, the fact that she gained nothing out of the many years of the relationship is to be expected.

At this point, what she can do is accept her errors and start her life over again by getting her thoughts and actions together. She should also endeavor to voice her mistakes to her children so they are fully aware of the mistakes she makes, both as a young woman and a woman seeking love. That way, they have enough to go on as far as avoiding making the same mistakes in their own lives. She has a 17-year-old child of her own who may also be vulnerable to other men out there looking to play the same format that her father played on her mother. She should do all she can to ensure her daughters do not end up falling down the same hole she did and having their youth and dreams stolen similarly. 😥

Another thing your sister can do is broadcast the image of this man who did this to her all over social media; she should call him out for the fraudster that he is, both to warn other women and to let them know that not only is this format real, but also detrimental to all women. She may not be able to take him to court, and he may be the father of her children, but he is a deadbeat father and a fraud of a man who deceived and used her — and probably other women out there too — for so long. Your sister can take it up on herself to call out these monsters for who they are.

naijapikin2:
➜And I say again. Nope nope nope. No true man of God will tell a woman to live her her life to fulfill a man's purpose, but you wouldn't know that as an atheist that you are. So go ahead and chew on whatever you believe.
2: if you can't learn from a comedy movie. Then your life is really devoid of happiness.
➜Sorry I can't help you neither can anyone talkless of God. (Yeah God a subject that makes you cringe)

Since practically all your gods of men do this, you are invariably declaring that there are indeed no such things as a true man of god, right?

2. Wow... so, people who don't watch or care much for the wisdom nuggets from movies meant to serve instead as comedic entertainment, have lives devoid of happiness? This formulae abi na equation for life and happiness must be garnering you success with everyone you meet out there. 😩😩

3. The same gods that could not help men stabilize themselves as provider and lords over women are now changing their tune, thanks to wisdom gleaned from comedic entertainment. Those are the gods you intend to be of help to me?

naijapikin2:
✓ No God has ever said a woman should fulfil the sole purpose of her husband and neglect herself.
✓ And Point 2: we learn from all Instances in life including movies. Don't you?

Yet, your pastors, traditional leaders and imams have always taught women that the gods have done exactly that in order to keep them subjugated. 🥱🤟🤟

2. A comedy movie as source of wisdom for you? Ugh! 😐😐😐

lawani:
➜Land cant be a problem for you if you want to farm. You can use your husband's land or any vacant land but you will pay isakole.
➜You can make palm oil too as it was women's job after men do the harvesting. Trading was almost totally a women's affair and they controlled the markets. Many women got rich through trading. Madam Tinubu had over 2000 people in her household. Efunsetan Aniwura used to send ships to Brazil

How many husbands had land? How many women had husbands who could afford to lease lands? Again, stop telling these fantabulous stories, which mainly serve as embellishment and nothing more.🙄🙄🙄

2. They could make palm oil from what? stones? Abeg, cut the bull, o'jare! People like you like to paint pictures of how poverty was not a problem back then, as if the rest of us as stewpid for you.🙄🙄🙄