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StoryHaven:
It's very very very very very good to live modestly even when having billions. Mark Zuckerberg should be a good example to youths. Despite being among the world's richest, he is simple and modest.

They nearly cut of the head of one of your mentors last week, In a bid to get his neck chain of millions of naira.

You actually think mark is modest because he wears tee shirts? You gats go read more about the guy.

Ance4Liverpool:
You better spend wisely and invest wisely
I don't want to hear the kind story of taribo and Peter rufai

Nigerian sha, we too get mouth, you mean say you get mouth advice persin weh get this kin excess money to spend and invest wisely?

Oya let the "how many people in his community has he helped" crew come and sing for us.

Kajaard:
You did nothing wrong bro.

Nigerian pastors only take and never give. A far cry from what the Bible teaches.

They are like police. Have you noticed your friends that are policemen always expect you to give them money but never give you?

Ikaeniyan0:
Delete this comment.

Give a reasonable reason why and if it makes sense I will delete.

This could be the usual skit. Which magistrate court in Lagos sits speaking igbo?

tinnymerit:
It's expensive.
Burying site for dead body now cost btw 1.8m to 2.5m depends on the location.

Where we buried my beloved baby sister last year cost about 40m for the regular area normal size chamber. That is aside the finishing ie tomb stones etc.
Vaults and gardens Ikoyi.

Crace woman, see as she be..
Even starmer made fun of her say she thinks she is the saviour of british culture and civilisation.

My opinion is that if you are young and give birth do dna test even if your wife is Mary magdaline, angel or pastors daugher. Do it before any bond is formed. Atleast you have the option to backout or continue. But if you are advanced in age, oga just take life as it is, don't go and search for what you do not want to find. You search you might end up in early grave due to heart ache.

D00msDay:
This wan na village people handwork, nothing u wen tell me.
Well, his agent can still lobby and secure him a move to the Saudi league, their transfer window is still open. This is where a gud agent comes into play.

Btw, Fergie001 how is Amorin?

But as e be, no be say Saudi go price am anyhow?
Anyway anything is something, at all at all na him bad.

Abeg make them come back home, we cannot stay and watch few people destroy our country then when it is not conducive for us we go to other people's place and overwhelm their own system.
I don't know about South aftrica, but few countries I have visited, on the tourist visa it is stated no recourse to public funds. Ie eg in UK you must pay if you go to public hospitals or on the alternative visit private clinics, European countries use to require you have medical insurance.
Anyway I hope by the time Nigerians start paying heavy tax weither they like it or not by 2026 people will show interest on how their money is spent by politicians. A situation where one short aggressive man will amass so much wealth as a public official he will buy rolls Royce as his official car, he will use 37b to renovate a building while hospitals under his jurisdiction does not have paracetamol, where nurses and teachers are on strike for poor pay, a person that will use private jet costing thousands of dollars per hour as his family uber, someone that has never held a known job or ran a business or law chambers, blowing tax payers money as if it is paper, then Nigerians will be hailing him, next thing is to go and be a nuisance in another mans country who has held his politicians to account to make the place a better place.

Demigod22:
What Peter Obi is doing is not giving back to the society, he is only campaigning. Giving back to society is charity, you are not doing it for gain. A politician who stole from a State, is going about sharing that meagre amount of money, hoping to gain votes in the next election is not giving back to the society.

You buttressed my point.

Kewtt:
Strongly vigorously and vehemently supported.

But I still wonder why bro jay jay Okocha is hawking betting company as his contribution to humanity

Who does contribution to humanity help in the present naija reality? Jay Jay okocha is making a living through his betting company to take care of himself and family.
Naija is not a place you say you do anything for humanity, people will demand and take your give away while some will hail you, other will still yab you that you did not do enough. Peter Obi that is going around donating money for borehole, giving money to nursing schools and other critical areas, has the reactions not been negative from some people that have never done anything good before? That is why some considered sabinus foolish for tarring roads in his community in PH, if by mistake his earnings reduces and he goes broke, it is the same people of that community that will yab him and consider him an object of redicle. Ahmed musa that built stadium and others, let him go broke then you see how far if he wount be neglected. Those days guys considered mikel Obi a stingy guy that did nothing for humanity, omo, the guy kept his money, stayed abroad far from hungry people back home, he is currently enjoying his money in retirement. I bet you if he had returned to Nigeria, his story would have been like taribo, rufai and the others.
Omo, if you have money save it, invest it, take care of your family, as a man also enjoy your life, fly to London, Paris, Turkey, China for goodtime, eat the finest cheese, forget about charity aka humanity, cos they wount remember you when the chips are down.
Go and ask of Queen Naomi and that Ibadan radio guy that planned charity event that went south, no be jail them land? To say them use that money buy car, go London or chop am belle full, them no for go jail.

emmaodet:
You can fly to Indonesia or Philippines for a week and fly back now to save cost

I thought they said 3 months not few weeks exclusion period, besides is Indonesia or Philippines visa free to nigerians? Even if it is not, the cost of staying there for 3 months may not make sense, rather fly back to Nigeria.

PulaPower:
E doesn't make sense..

But what you stated isn’t what they’re saying..

You’re not to return to Naija every year, but to go to any country of your choice outside New Zealand for 3 months yearly. You can choose to go to USA, UK, India, Europe, anywhere outside New Zealand sha..

I fully understand that, but how many people will even go to new Zealand for seasonal work if you have UK or US visas even European in the first place? How many countries in the Asian Pacific are visa free to nigerians, closeby enough to make savings in the cost of tickets. Don't forget the reason your are flying out is because you must spend 3 months in a year outside new Zealand, meanwhile one will be earning minimum wage.
Even India if all places is not visa free to Nigerians. You must apply for visa from Nigeria.

All I see is more bottleneck, increased difficulties, corruption and more cost to importers/exporters.

People in close countries eg, Philippines, India, Bangladesh and lots of other countries with poorer people than naija will fill such roles, people that can fly out with little money to their countries for the 3 month exclusion period yet earning will still make sense.
As a naija person imagine the cost of ticket from naija to new Zealand, then think of flying out then returning every year. At the end of the day no meaningful saving go de.

Blackman7:
Good . Imagine lending 5k from opay / easy money loan for 60 days and paying N5500 each month (N11000) total. It's a scam

How is it scam? People see the interest rates yet decided to take it, then they say na scam. If there were other means of getting loan aside them, they would have taken, Isnt it because they could not get any from family and friends or regular banks?
Someone then decided to take the risk and give me money they borrowed from elsewhere and you do not know the interest will be high?
I bet you even if the interest was 1% Nigerians will still find excuse not to pay as igbese is deeply rooted in our genes.

Sucre6:
This is amazing, such a beauty, why haven't the governor don anything to develop and improve this beach, this is a money maker, beach houses are the most expensive houses abroad, because of the view and nature there, how can Nigeria have so much untapped resources yet remain poor,? Too bad

We are not realist in this country, we love to catch cruise over the slightest thing.
So you will actually let a governor go to such remote place to go an pump billions building so called tourist attraction. Even if he is crazy enough to do so, will you visit such place, even if one is essentric enough to do so how many others will go there to make the place viable? Bros it is lizards and wild animals that will occupy the place months after it's opening. As per real estate, let's forget about that one because only a mad man will go and build or buy property to live or rent in such place.
With reduced purchasing power and even insecurity in the land, how many families can say they want to go there for vacation? Rather people will do the normal vacation available to us here which is to enter the nearby joint, have several bottles of chilled beer, the wild animals you will see during the "vacation" is point and kill catfish in pepper soup form, bushmeat pepper soup and nkwobi, whole been entertained by oloshos.
As per that area, the good news is that dangote is proposing building a port miles from there, maybe that will bring economic opportunities.

Two sides to a story, better to hear the man's side. Women can tune a story to fit their narrative, they will turn the story and gain sympathy making them the saint and the man a demon.
Until you hear both sides, take her version with a pinch of salt.

DoctorStanley:
While some wey dey there since forever or even born there still look wor wor!😅

Persin weh don dey there from thy kingdom come and still worwor mean say na from belle the worwor come, no hope for am.
But person weh land there come fresh, know say na owu cause him own. Lol

See as his face has changed, watin de that their breeze abi food for that abroad sef.

Oga, unless you want to marry, if not it will be better to have like 5 chicks, not commited in anyway. When you need female company you pick one, do the needful, sort her some cash let her go, block her number on call and WhatsApp. The next time you need company you unblock and invite her.
Oga that saves you money and stress in the long run.
Nb: na so I read an somewhere say guys weh sabi de do nowadays.

frog12:
you no answer my question. redmi and techno simple ones start from 90k.
how much you see dem now?

Me no enter those shops if them de there. Besides me or my people no de use that one so we no know. I understand say na aproka processors them de use. The betta ones de start from like 500k at slot.

kunle4toyeyaho:
PMB's economy that was selling crude in advance to pay subsidy and subsidise Naira? you definitely don't know what you're saying.Baba Buhari tried his best and he did well in some aspects but he should have taken some decisions when it ought to have been. If Tinubu had not implemented subsidy removal, probably we would have sold out crude oil upfront till 2032 and use the proceed to take care of the present. Is that the type of economy you want us to continue with?

That is the mistake you guys always make, you find excuses to tolerate corruption and inefficiency. The country did not need to sell crude in advance, neither did it need subsidy or even if it needed some, it could pay, afterall countries around the world subsidise one way or the other on critical issues. Abi US and UK were not subsidising purchases of EV vehicles? Were they not subsidising farmers? If I remember right there was what was called cash for conkers, where government pays you to scrap your old vehicles for newer more efficient ones in the UK.
Most of the subsidy was scam, are we not of recent hearing of the trillions a former cbn governor chopped, a man that was building 700 unit housing estate, his own personal city. Have you not heard of one tunde, a young man said to be selling recharge card before his uncle became oga, amasing so much money even his fellow crook the cbn oga had to raise alarm to the young man that his own was too much, people will know. Rumors had it then that the guy had 1.5tillion in just one account, it was too much they had to create a special account for him. Did you not hear of the aviation minister and air Nigeria, of the billions chopped yet no airline, so tay they had to hire and paint one plane to show?
Oga look at Lagos State, it is on record ambode added no debt through loans yet look at the major infrastructure eg Oshodi interchange etc he did, streetlights all over powered by generators burning diesel yet money was enough without debt. Others came before him including oga at the top, now after him more debt.
I once knew and aide to mid level official in one of the poorest States in the southwest, this guy once showed me his account balance in excess of 1.2b, apparently his oga was using his accounts to hide money, the guy said that was just 1 account and there was many more. Meanwhile that was a state they said no money to pay workers. Have you not heard of the guy that paid school fees in advance all in dollars?
Oga Nigerians do not deserve to suffer this much, no money this and that, we must remove it to stabilise naira yet there was money to buy a 300 seater airliner, the type airfrance uses to fly Passangers to Lagos not for Nigeria Airways but for presidential jet.

frog12:
how much be the chinese redmi phones? or tecno?
who go buy phone for 900k ?

Lol, na so.

TheGoodJoe:
The stats won't tell you the other government were subsidizing light, education, petrol and exchange rate. This government is doing none and want to brag.

Fair enough, where is the money from removing all the subsidy? We use to pay eg N10 per kwh, today we are paying N209. We use to buy petrol for 145, now it is 890, students in federal and state universities now pay fees in hundreds of thousands.
The question still stands, where is the trillions we were told we will save from the subsidy removal. Where is the appreciation in value of the naira as dangote refinary is now working, shebi they said it will ease pressure on our foreign exchange due to dangote fuel replacing imported one.
Oh, I forgot, they are spendind the trillions on coastal road, on 37b renovation of ICC Abuja etc.

Racoon:
Those who worsened Nigeria's woes are always well known

Bros, today I went with my kids to ikeja, we decided to stop by shopright as we had not been there for sometime. Omo, my jor dropped, have any of you guys been there lately? That place tells the tale of this economy under apc, buhari and how current oga at the top finally rubbed the icing on the cake ie the "finish him" move. That section we use to buy steak, sausages ie the butchery all gone, shelves that use to be full all empty. The bakery deserted, infact we left without buying anything, at the door the security lady asked if we did not help them buy something, security before that will harass you for receipt now pleading for us to buy, maybe so they will see salary.
We entered iPhone shop, 16 promax 3m+, the cheapest one was my daughters type ie 13 for 900k+.
Samsung store nko, phone of 3m, money we use to use to buy brand new car 10-12 years ago before this apc charlatans seized power.
Oga what hit me the most was the cherry motors stand, one small car had price of 45m, the other 75m! 10 years ago even to see a house worth 45m you had to go to lekki and na mansion, now you talk of a Chinese entry level car for 45m? At our level and age in life anywhere in the world if this country had its act together, we should be riding at least a S class Mercedes or BMW 7 series, not the one one is looking at Chinese car that we still cannot afford.
My point is that these people talk of reserves being the highest, they talk of how well they are doing, but the reality is they have plunged we ordinary Nigerians into deep poverty, destroyed our purchasing power to the extent even if you earn 2m monthly you cannot buy the cheapest brand new car. Even if you earn 1m monthly you cannot afford to buy a 22 year old 2003 camry big daddy that sells for 7.5-8m. Is this not weaponised poverty on a mass scale?
Where is the trillions from subsidy removal, why has naira not appreciated to store up our purchasing power?
What baffles me is those on this forum that have not fed 3 square meals today, those who will never know the smell of driving a brand new car in their lifetimes are the ones singing the praise of the current misfits.

maiunguwar:
What about contracting HIV/AIDS, since most of these teenagers don't use condoms

That one you do not have control over, you do your best and leave the rest. Abi will you lock them indoors, monitor them 24 hrs?

So? What is wrong in that? Such parents have seen that their environment is a high risk area for pregnancy through early nacking and have decided to take precautions, there is nothing wrong with that, I'd rather say they are being proactive.
When you see the trends among young girls in your adugbo to nack and get pregnant, your only solution is to lock the girl indoors, follow her to school, wait till she closes, if you cannot do that and you do not want her to make the mistake of getting pregnant and you having to make a choice of termination, or having her life disrupted by teen pregnancy is contraceptives not the better option? Those days daily pills was made available to young ladies without discrimination.
See, back when I had an office overlooking a junction where you had all those evening street traders with their female kids assisting them, the trend was that at a certain age, all the girls of that age range will get pregnant. Maybe one will test gbola, tell the others how sweet, then influence them to try, that is how pregnancy enters, their schooling is disrupted, most don't get married as it is Okada riders, agberos that impregnate them, the best amongst them is maybe a Korope driver. Next thing the next set of younger ones follow suit with pregnancy burdening their poor market women mothers to care for them and the kids, the circle of poverty continues. They graduate from that to olosho.