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It would take an extremely massive rigging for APC to win the presidential election in 2027. Cos with the kind of hardship they've put Nigerians in, only a brain dead person would willingly vote for them.

TheStranger:
I know someone that bought a car directly from the US, he used it for a week before his license was delivered

Bro I got my license plates the same day I bought my car.

What are they registering that should take them one week? Unless the person doing it for him was just lazy. Cos there's nothing special in registering license plates. Just your regular biodata and Voila the plates are ready.

GloriousGbola:
i have no sympathy for any person who decides to drive a car without a license plate

it is actually a deliberate and conscious act of irresponsibility

Exactly cos the car dealer you bought the car from would definitely offer to get you license plates, or direct you to people who would do it for you. Maybe he refused cos he had someone who promised to do it at a more cheaper rate.

GloriousGbola:
i have no sympathy for any person who decides to drive a car without a license plate

it is actually a deliberate and conscious act of irresponsibility

Exactly cos the car dealer you bought the car from would definitely offer to get you license plates. Maybe he refused cos he had someone who promised to do it at a more cheaper rate.

armadeo:
Speak for yourself. You just went on a rant because your usage makes you seem smarter than the average. Well you're using your capacity.

Again I tell you many people are using more than 100k a month on light bills. Just say you don't know anyone.

You say people don't load 200 units at a go. Lol. I know many in thier houses who do this and more.

Next time just say to the best of my knowledge and don't assume

Below is my Dec purchase
I bought 50k on the 9th and by the 23rd it was gone. I had to buy again.

Prepaid metre isn't a big deal. I use it so don't be condescending.

If you're spending 120k on bill in a month then you're using a non inverter AC and other heavy appliances.

Joe Igbokwe once cried out that he spends about 20k on units everyday in his office. At least he admitted to having about 7 units of non inverter AC and other heavy appliances in that office that swallows the units.

This is the thread

https://www.nairaland.com/8207600/high-electricity-tariff-kill-businesses

I use 50k every month and at least I can say my house has the basic electronic necessities every house should have. So it's not about capacity or whether or not I can afford to spend more. It's about what exactly you're using in your home that's swallowing your units and how you can curb it so as to reduce your spendings.

armadeo:
Naturally wasteful. What does that even mean?

Just say your power demands are different.

What's the average you are talking about here monthly basis ?

The way you're sounding, it's very clear that you either don't use a pre paid meter or you don't load it yourself.

If you do, you'll know that it's almost impossible to exhaust 200 units in a month for a flat.

And in case you're not aware, the consumption rate of units in Band A and band B, C and D are the same. The only difference is the price of the units.

I bought 200 units early this month and today is 28th and I still have over 70 units left. Meaning it could carry me till at least first or second week of July.

I put off my freezer once I wake up cos I leave it on over night making it freeze it's contents. I don't put on the freezer again until night when I want to go to bed cos most of its contents are still frozen. As for AC I only put it on at the peak of heat. (mostly in the afternoons). I barely watch TV only when there's a live match going on. So what are you arguing about?

If you spend up to 400 units (100k) in a month say it here with evidence.

If you're the only one using your pre paid meter, you can effectively manage how you consume electricity.

Let me even shock you. Most average Nigerians using pre paid meters in Band A don't load up to 200 units at a go on their meter. They load maybe 20, 30, 40 or 50 units and still use it for weeks. You simply have zero knowledge about pre paid meters.

GloriousGbola:
i always say the first purpose of money is to make your life easier and more convenient

a poverty mindset can make you take decisions that look like they are saving money - but at the expense of your pace of mind and comfort and time

and unlike money, you cannot get time back

Very true.

Last week, I came across a 2013 thread where Mike Adenuga spent about 200m to purchase a burial ground at Ikoyi cemetery.

https://www.nairaland.com/1341077/mike-adenuga-paid-n200million-burial

If you go through the thread, you'd discover that so many people critized him for doing so. Most called it a total waste of money.

Like you rightfully pointed out, they spoke out of a poverty mindset. I'm sure that those whose financial level has improved since that 2013 wouldn't make such statement in 2025.

GloriousGbola:
one of my guys back then was always very happy when his alaba cd of an artiste had more songs than my original imported american edition cd of the same artiste

your own just has the paper inside it, mine has the all the tracks

another sign is that they often have beef for fine chicks who are out of their league and automatically assume the babes must be loose

then they will call you ajebutter for haing washing machine because washing clothes by hand is somehow a sign of hardworking character

pocohantas:
Hahahaha! I used to do all. Honestly you are right. Especially the highlighted.

Lol. That of the washing machine skipped my memory I would have written.

There's these aunt who visited me from the east and saw my own and started complaining. She even advised me to sell it before I get married so that my wife wouldn't be lazy. I just told her OK cos I wasn't ready for any kind of unnecessary arguments.

I used to have that mindset during my university days but with time it vanished.

armadeo:
Guy dem Plenty. Many people are using over 100k a month for powering thier homes on band A. Once you on AC na die be that.

No bro they're not.

I'm not talking about duplex, shopping or office complex. I'm talking about 1-3 bedroom flat, 2 inverter AC (not your regular AC) freezer and your TV and other electronics.

You won't come close to 100k. I'm using myself as an example. Unless you're naturally wasteful.

PlasmaTV:
50k?
For those appliances that you mentioned?
I doubt it, boss.
More like 100k.

Bro. 100k would be 400 units on band A. I don't think I've come across any home in Lagos that consumes 400 units every month regardless of their electronic appliances.

lastmessenger:
If you think estimated billing is evil wait till they bring the prepaid meter and you are in band A

Believe me when I tell you that I'll happily embrace band A to estimated billing. In estimated billing even if you don't have light for 2weeks nepa would give you outrageous bill. In Band A you can move your change over to neutral if you're going out to preserve your units. You can determine how long you want it to last.

The highest you can spend as a band A user if you're living in a flat with 2 inverter ACs, deep freezer, TV and other smaller electronics is 50k per month. That's about 200 units (or more if you're given bonus)

What you should know about band A is that the consumption rate is the same as other bands. The only difference is the cost of units.

Estimated billing on the other hand is crazy. I've see an estimated bill of 387k on Twitter. For a flat. And one crazy fact about estimated billing is that your bill keeps increasing every month. It never goes down.

When they're always offering cheaper alternatives whenever you tell them how much you spent on a particular item.

Eg. I spent 40k to prepare a 5 liter pot of soup.

Them: You for give me the money I go use 10k cook am sef. You too de waste money.

Eg2. A painter told me to bring 50k to paint my room.

Them: Something I can do for 10k then you can add something for me.


People who say things like I can never use 100k to buy phone.

People who enter plane like to waste money, night bus is better.

Na mumu de go boutique. Okrika is better.

Second hand electronics is better than brand new.


If you here those words just know that it's poverty that's talking.

For me I have my OPAY account ready at all times. My traditional bank is for receiving payments, which I'll move a part to my OPAY for consumption. So far they haven't failed me.

It's a shame to our commercial banks that with all the billions they claim to make yearly, with all they decades they've been in the system, small banks like OPAY with no visible branch has faster transaction rate and better performance than them.

press9jatv:
they may not come from Anambra State. They might came from other South East States.

Oga rest biko. I'm telling you people that taught me personally. You're telling me they may not come from anambra state.

Even the dean of my faculty was from anambra state.

helinues:
When would you people ever take responsibility without pointing fingers? Do you know more than those who compiled the list? How come this statistics have not been disputed for over a year now

Me that schooled in anambra and knew these indigenous profs personally, you want me to believe one useless list compiled by a tribalistic Igbo hater?

It's not your fault Sha, your kind would believe anything bad from the east without verification.

Even without my post, common sense should tell you that anambra state hosts a federal, a state and a handful of private universities. So saying there are only 7 professors in such a place is just pathetic.

Attached are 2 indigenous professors in my department (Computer science)

Prof Anigbogu taught me from year 1 to final year. He's from Nibo in anambra state.

Prof Onyesolu taught me in 300l and final year. He's also from anambra state.

helinues:
I actually find it ridiculous as Anambra only have 7 professors in Nigeria university. The lowest from South East, lowest from Southern Nigeria?

What's happening to Anambra education?

Before arguing blindly, kindly confirm below

https://www.nairaland.com/7999795/number-professors-per-state-nigeria#128440252

This is a lie from the pit of hell. I don't know what you people gain in all this unnecessary tribal arguments you bring up everyday just to tarnish the image of igbos.

I schooled in Unizik and my department had 2 indigenous professors, we had about 3 in Physics department including prof ekpunobi (whose wife is also a prof in chemistry department pics attached) where we borrowed certain faculty courses from, 2 in mathematics and 2 in chemistry department. This is just a few departments in my faculty.

We've not even moved to other faculties, then the deans, VC and DVCs.

And we still have ANSU (Ojukwu) university which would definitely have indigenous profs as well.

Biko rest with this your propaganda, it's becoming pathetic.

richiemcgold:
Iran has no friends. Even their middle east neighbors don't show any support. I mean the likes of Saudis, Oman, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and other Middle East giants

Iran directly or indirectly sponsors most of the notorious terrorists groups in the world. Who would make friends with such people?

I'm more worried about the environment and surrounding where the surgery was performed.

LordBiden:
Thats a good move.Trump must get that thing he is looking for.

Trump has finally dragged America into a middle east never ending war.

MAGA in the mud.

You don't get it do you? This isn't a Trump issue.

The US has been envisioning a possible attack on Iran right from the gulf war era. The reason why they couldn't proceed was because they had no concrete reason to.

Iran has just handed them a reason to turn them to Iraq and Syria where armed gangs kill each other on a daily basis.

If they're bombing the US bases and the US is hitting vital targets in Iran with precision, sooner or later Iran wouldn't have the means to sustain the war anymore. Cos within weeks, a large percentage of their military command structure would be destroyed. And guess what, that's when the ground armies would be brought in to occupy their country whilst they steal their resources.

That's how the US makes their money from the middle east. And sadly, Iran played perfectly into their game.

JimohMomoh:
I remember during the last Olympics in France some of our athlete had to borrow Bicycle from other participants to train

Bro it's that bad.

Even if the FG releases money for the athletes, it would be looted by those in charge.

englishmart:
Nah! JUST YOUR PHONE. Laptop isn't in the picture at all

In that case, t's impossible to exhaust 6GB on phone alone. Unless you're connected to your laptop.

What would you be doing on the phone to consume 6GB let alone 10?

Obviously turkey would take good care of her than Nigeria.

If you know what upcoming athletes are passing through in this country, you won't even waste your time representing it. Check out any Olympics, most nigerians keep winning medals for their adopted country yet Nigeria itself goes home empty handed.

It's not Oridinary. Nepotism, tribalism and corruption has eaten deep into the system. And competing under such circumstances can give you PTSD.