₦airaland Forum

I say open you mouth for me joor

Now for the next phase.

Testimonials about Mr Okwute Peter Obi.


From fans and now foes (or closet fans.. Who knows)

https://peterobi.online/testimonials/

iamoyindamola:
Was about to quote you sef
Tell your guy to rest and stop playing the tribal card everyone knows him as Chinedu

https://www.nairaland.com/8750096/campaign-yoruba-coming-election-gbadebo

At this point, I don't think anything this guy does will change the opinion of again.

As against telling the youths to focus on akara business..

Wawu

Open for me joor

Open uppppp

Unlimited22:
Ladies and gentlemen, although some of us already know, I say make I use this opportunity tell this honourable house say I have joined the League of wicked abroadians. I want to thank everyone(and there’s quite a few of us) who have contributed to this journey, by way of advice, finances, encouragement and support etc. May God bless each and every one of us, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria(if it is necessary)

Congratulations bro.
The land must favor you

GloriousGbola:
Yes. Let us start another subsidy that will become a drain on govt resources and will fail.

So how do you think government solves issues like this when they enter the market?

izzou:
Okay, let's assume they rent. Do you think that with the cost of materials today, a brand new self con will go for 400k a year (40% of a 100k salary earner's earnings)?

You know it's not possible.

And yes, I agree that the government has not done reasonably enough, and this lapse is showing because there's a serious shortfall of private investors

Transportation and logistics in Lagos is a little better and seamless because there's Uber, Bolt, and delivery bikes. All these are product of individuals jumping in. Remove Bolt and Uber and Delivery bikes. How would Lagos be?

People are buying lands to build Terrace duplexes at 500 million. Scroll on IG. Nobody is building self con or one bedroom that is affordable. The rest are advising us on mutual funds and stocks; Telling us to invest 100 million on Dangote refinery

So we are left with the government building theirs or paying exorbitantly for rubbish.

So yes, I agree that enough isn't done, but maybe it is heavily felt because private investors are scarce

You realise if you rent at even 500k, people will pay immediately for it right?
Is LASG doing this to make money right now or to solve a serious problem?
Or should all government solutions be geared towards profitability?
There is a market for affordable housing if the barrier of entry is low. Only LASG can provide that at large scale.

GloriousGbola:
Are more People living with their parents or not?





Because the only challenge the govt is facing is affordable housing. There is nothing else Lasg has to work on.




Lagos state actually has mortgage schemes. But it should be clear to you that whatever housing estates LASG builds, they will be out of the reach of entry level employees.



I know exactly how that goes and you do as well even if you want to claim otherwise. A person living in his relatives bq and paying a small sum.

When Canada releases its next major update (last was 2021), then you can confidently say more people are living with their parents.

I did not say LASG has to work on only one challenge, we are focusing on housing as an issue. Don't be smart with me.

Bruh.. You tell me the price of selfcon in 2017 in gbagada?

izzou:
So, while agree with you, I still believe that it wouldn't be affordable for a 100k salary earner.

Let's assume that the government wades in to build. The cost to build would still remain the same. The project wouldn't be cheaper to build because LASG is the financier

So even reselling at a 1% profit won't make it cheaper for a 100k salary earner.

Do you agree with this?

Why must they sell the units?
Why not rent those units out? Is there any law stopping them from doing that?
These are things LASG can actually explore. The idea is to crash the price of rent or stop the increase.
Would you admit LASG has not done even close to anything reasonable to solve this issue?

GloriousGbola:
Prices are not dropping down. I regularly read about people living with their parents.

The irony of you claiming that covid19 somehow pushed up house rent.



It is an owners market. Lagos has the highest number of economic migrants. Look at those 347 uba grad trainees as an example. They were likely in Lagos for 6 months to 1 year. Housing infrastructure cannot keep up with demand, more so when Lagos has a highly speculative real estate market. My fam has a house in festac. In 2011 a similar one was sold for 15m.today it is likely 45 to 60m. So how do you expect rents to remain low if you are looking to live in high brow areas? And your claim of 200k rent for a selfcon in gbagada, the mainland HQ for Lagos upper middle class sounds like a special kind of LAMBA.

Lmaooo oga prices of houses in Canada has fallen since after covid19.
That is information you can easily search for.
I don't know if covid19 was the determinant factor of price increase but I do know it got to it's highest at that time.



Like I told Izzou, LASG can afford to build alot more housing units than they currently do and either drive down the market price or at the very least keep it stalled. And when I mean alot, I mean alot more housing units.

Also yes in 2017 a selfcon in gbagada Paul Odulaja street cost 200k per annum. I know this because I was living in gbagada.

It is an owners market and yet Lagos has refused to be a player in that market.

izzou:
I am sure if they asked him this, he wouldn't say people should live with their parents.

What exactly do you propose for the housing challenges in Lagos?

Because for me, we are left with few options, and the population keeps increasing.

Then he's not smart enough to understand the implication of that question.
And I can't answer that question. But if Lagos state builds even more housing units and actually spends money that they waste and steal on projects like housing (again), it will drive down the price or atleast give more options to youths.

Lagos state cannot say there's no money to build atleast 200k units of selfcon year on year.

After all how much sanwo Olu babe use buy jewelry?

izzou:
Go back and listen to the interview again

That was the question.

He wasn't asked what are his plans to reduce rent.
He wasn't asked any of all these stuffs you wrote there.

The question is simple
"How can someone earning 100k pay a rent of 1 million in Lagos?"

How exactly is that answer a bad one?


I'm not defending his policies or whether Sanwo-Olu is more brilliant. His answer was right and compassionate.

The question is highlighting the problem of astronomical rent prices for basic housing options

GloriousGbola:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Canadians+living+with+their+parents&oq=Canadians+living+with+their+parents+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDkzNzhqMGo0qAIAsAIB&client=ms-android-xiaomi-terr1-rso2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#lfId=ChxjMe



Ironic that you live in the West and have somehow missed the exact same trend happening all around you.

Yes because by the time it got to covid19, the price of houses skyrocketed and between then and now those same prices have been dropping back down.

Why is the same not happening in Lagos or naija at large since you want to compare Canada and Nigeria then

izzou:
The question was .....
"How does someone earning 100,000 a month, afford a rent of 1 million in Lagos?"

I think Hamzat answered well. There's no need for a 100k who's gross is 1.2 million a year, to go and rent an apartment of 1 million

He also stressed that if you're single, try staying with a relative or parent so you can save.

I wonder how this is a bad response..

The issue is the rent being 1m.
You are supposed to be able to afford a selfcon on a 100k salary.

Your goal as a governor is giving us solutions on how to counter the high cost of rent in Lagos state and not tell me or every other young person the reality they already are forced to live as a solution.

2017, a selfcon in Gbagada was 200k or less if you enter the bariga side. If you worked in Ikeja Electric and earned 120k as a starter, you could comfortably pay that rent then.
By 2022 it was around 400k.
Now it's like he said 1m.

What is the plan to reduce or stop the steady increase of rent?
Whats the plan to make the state for more attractive to companies that can pay salaries for people to afford cheap housing.
After all they as government of Lagos state have joined Tinubu to claim the economy is stabilized

Sanwo Olu is looking like Albert Einstein compared to this guy.

Becaussseeeee

🏠 ₦100,000 salary. Lagos rent. How does it work?

Lagos Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat (@drobafemihamzat ) says young people shouldn't expect to start with expensive self-contained apartments, arguing that housing should begin at a level people can afford.

Thoughts?

Watch… pic.twitter.com/99lHiUYmFB

— Nigeria Info FM 99.3 (@NigeriainfoFM) August 20, 2026

izzou:
So 5 or 6 people that asked questions and used "Sir", broke policy.

But the one person that spoke otherwise didn't.

I'm happy she stood on policy sha.

Lmao it will be a waste of my time to engage you in something as straight forward as "following policy".
My brother please when you see plenty people breaking policies, follow them.

I'm done with this conversation🙏

izzou:
How come those who asked questions before her used "Sir"?

Was it a different policy they read?

They chose to break policy. There are numerous evidence of people getting chastised by ogas and madams for calling them Mr or Mrs or sir or Ma.

She chose adhere to policy thinking that the same TOE that likes to be the poster boy for everything modern would also be an ambassador for UBA policy.

But oh well.
Na here we dey.

odizeey:
You go know who never work for better organization before. 🤣

Actually I know they have its why I'm surprised by the fact that they would rather not just ask for the policy to be scraped off as against breaking such a rule.

Lmao.. Remove the damn policy and stop training people on this.

It's really that simple.

Instead of all this "use your head" or "show respect" or "show common sense".
Just remove it from your HRBP to save everybody the stress.

E nor hard.
As person call am, this na the height of corporate hypocrisy😂😂

BlueRayDick:
No be fight baba, shebi the company policy say make she call the chairman of the board "Tony"..... Make she continue jàre.

Tony Don kukuma destroy that policy with his own utterance. So everybody knows how to act going forward.

Atleast everybody can now see which comes first.
Oga's mood is higher than policy🙏

BlueRayDick:
Okay bro, she's free not to use her head.

When she starts managing high networth customers of the bank, she should refer to Otedola as "Femi" when she gets into a meeting with him.

Oga.
You have not answered the question.
What is the need for using your head when policy and training by the same bank states otherwise?

Again wetin deh happen here?
Wetin different between this your position and people wey dey talk say you suppose thank your employer for paying your salary.
Or query junior HSE staff say "how you go tell oga say make e wear PPE?!"
Or tell person say "oga never commot office but you dey go house"

Loool Jesus take the wheel

What are we doing here

BlueRayDick:
I don’t know if you are just playing devil’s advocate here or you are being sarcastic sha….but trust me , it’s lack of emotional
intelligence to be addressing a senior executive like Tony Elumelu by his first name irrespective of what they must have told her in banking school .

The right thing to do is refer to him as Mr. which is official and already conveyed respect .

I'm sorry but if they want to do mental gymnastics then please let UBA stop the act of training people on first name basis. People have confirmed that they usually imbibe this from their GT programs and it is part of their policy.

So what exactly is the need tk start jumping mental hoops?

If UBA is trying to be on a global standard for HRBP then why is she expected to use her head when the bank trained her to do what she did.

What stops Tony from also saying he is bigger than the HSE Policy of UBA then?
Or any other policy

liveLongNprospa:
Omo.. PR secured for me, madam and smally.

This year ended great🎉

Lol.. I knew this would have real ROI but I didn't expect this amount of blessings.

Geography is the greatest lottery omo😁

Someone asked Wahab Okoya if he knows the price of fuel today, and his response left me wondering if he lives in this same country. pic.twitter.com/4jITzEnEIB

— Mikeoriv♨️ (@mikeoriv) February 1, 2026

Rich man pikin😭🤣

2027: Going By Numbers, APC Should Present a Muslim-Muslim Ticket - Aliyu

Christians are no longer complaining or feeling shortchanged by the Muslim-Muslim ticket like they were before the 2023 elections. All the fears Christians had have been alleviated. This government hasn't… pic.twitter.com/OrhsY6cEF3

— ARISE NEWS (@ARISEtv) January 30, 2026

Very good.
Let nobody pretend going forward.
Since it is an issue going back to the usual Christian/Muslim formula, let us not hear tears for Christian/Christian ticket in the future

Happy Thursday

Ibime:
Bell finally rolled on sweet grandmother yesterday morning, 3 months shy of her 103rd birthday. Though her senior brother was always adamant she was born in 1922 and not 1923 as she claimed, so she may have been 103 already. A great innings for a great woman who spent 60 years of her life adopting and training dozens of children beside her own from her 30s and well into her 90s.

I celebrate her life.
She must have lived🙏

[quote author=OkpaNsukkaisBae post=138255834]ICE on mask thus you don't even their identity whether they're Assasinns or kidnappers.
With not less than six armed officers attacking the late Alex Pretti on the ground, there was literally no way he could overpower them. They could easily disarm him and then arrest him. I don't know American laws, but I don't think those who resist lawful arrest should be killed especially ones who have been subdued, literally neutralized. No threat of live whatsoever. He didn't attack ICE, he was just trying to defend an old person who's been attacked by ICE. He no even resist arrest. Person wey dey ground already. How he wan take resist arrest?

🇺🇸 BREAKING!! New angle released of the Minneapolis federal agent shooting.

This appears to be footage from the opposite side of the incident, likely taken by the woman in the pink jacket seen in the first released video. pic.twitter.com/xGlriyMMq0

— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) January 24, 2026

okay this is bad.

Wiuunn