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Pumpkin, green and garden egg leaves, ukpaka and chicken wing.
Dinner is served, come and eat.

Really!!! Thanks.

radautoworks:
This is so Jamaica coded 😁

Boiled sweet potatoes, fried eggs and vegetables.
Smoothies- pineapple, watermelon, bananas and fresh tomatoes..
Come let's eat...

Looks yummy.

radautoworks:
Irish lamb stew with mashed potatoes

Homemade Akara and Pap. I remembered to snap tonight....

Don't mind them.

Gbadugbakun:
No teacher has the right to barb the hair of a child without the consent of the parents. If you try that with my child you're going to jail because I'll pay influencers to drag you and the school on social media and say that you use children's hair for rituals that's why you barb them without their parents consent.

Then I'll have the teacher arrested for rituals, she'll be remanded in jail while investigations go on. God help you if my child falls sick during that period, your own don be.

Just focus on your teaching and leave the kids alone.


Edit: ‎Its clear that many Nigerian don't understand what discipline truly means. I've been receiving emotional quotes with regards to my opinion. No wonder the world sees us as a jungle.
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‎I never Said discipline is bad I said shaving a child's hair without the consent of the parents is totally wrong and shouldn't be counted as discipline. Please try to read and understand with your head before quoting me.
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‎If you're a teacher in Europe or America would you shave a child's hair without informing the parents, you'll loose your license as a teacher and go to jail. There are some nonsense I cannot tolerate as a parent.

There you go again, it is not encouraging that a married teacher should earn 120k in this current dispensation. Teachers own are the worst- living from hand to mouth.

Muyiwaipere:
See ungrateful people o.

You better thank God and manage your expenses....I see married men collect #120k as salary

Earning much more but living lesser.
Making a descent meal now is like tug of war.

Ifeoluwadev:
Before anybody calls me a liar or a complainer, sit down and read this first. Because I have numbers. And numbers don't lie.

In 2019, I was earning ₦150,000 per month. Junior staff. I was not rich at all. But I was comfortable. I could breathe.

Today in 2026, I earn ₦500,000 per month. On paper that is more than 3x growth. I should be living large. I should have savings. I should be talking about investments by now.

Instead I am broke before the 25th of every month.

Let me show you exactly why.


THE NAIRA ITSELF
In 2019, one dollar was roughly ₦360.
Today in 2026, one dollar is over ₦1,500.

The naira has lost about 75% of its value against the dollar in 7 years. So anything imported, whether electronics, medicine, baby products or even some food, now costs 4 times what it used to.

My ₦500k today equals roughly $333.
My ₦150k in 2019 was worth roughly $416.

Read that again.

I earn more naira but fewer dollars. In real purchasing power I have gone backwards even though my salary tripled on paper.


FOOD

In 2019, I fed myself comfortably for around ₦30,000 per month. Decent food, market twice a week, occasionally a small restaurant.

Today that same lifestyle costs me at least ₦120,000 and that is me managing carefully.

| Item | 2019 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Bag of rice (50kg) | ₦18,000 | ₦85,000+ |
| Cooking gas (12.5kg) | ₦3,500 | ₦18,000+ |
| Groundnut oil (4 litres) | ₦2,800 | ₦12,000+ |
| Tomatoes (paint bucket) | ₦800 | ₦5,000+ |
| Full chicken | ₦2,500 | ₦10,000+ |
| Big loaf of bread | ₦350 | ₦1,500+ |

My food budget went up by 400%. My salary went up by 233%. The food is winning.



RENT

In 2019, I paid ₦350,000 per year for a decent one bedroom in a Lagos suburb. That is about ₦29,000 per month if you break it down.

Today that same apartment, same area, same size, same leaking ceiling, is ₦1.2 million per year. That is ₦100,000 per month equivalent.

I now spend 20% of my gross salary on rent alone. And landlords still want one to two years upfront. So every renewal season I need to drop over ₦1 million at once like I am buying land.



ELECTRICITY AND GENERATOR
In 2019, NEPA was bad but manageable. Fuel was ₦145 per litre. My monthly gen fuel was around ₦8,000.

Today petrol is close to ₦1,500 per litre. My monthly generator fuel alone is ₦45,000. And NEPA is still giving me the same 4 hours they gave me in 2019. Nothing changed on their side except the bills went up.


TRANSPORT

Bus from my estate to office in 2019 was ₦150 each way. That is ₦300 per day, about ₦6,600 per month.

Same route today is ₦700 minimum each way. ₦1,400 per day. Nearly ₦31,000 per month.

Ride hailing? Multiply that by three. I now spend between ₦30,000 and ₦50,000 every month just moving my body from home to work and back.



SO WHERE DOES THE ₦500K GO?

| Expense | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Rent (broken down monthly) | ₦100,000 |
| Food and groceries | ₦120,000 |
| Generator fuel | ₦45,000 |
| Transport | ₦35,000 |
| NEPA bill | ₦18,000 |
| Airtime and data | ₦12,000 |
| Toiletries and misc | ₦20,000 |
| Tithe | ₦25,000 |
| **Total** | **₦375,000+** |

That leaves me ₦125,000 for savings, emergencies, hospital, clothes, sending money home, school fees if you have children, and anything unexpected.

In 2019 on ₦150,000, my total expenses were under ₦90,000 and I had ₦60,000 left. That leftover was worth $167 at the time. My ₦125,000 leftover today is worth $83.

I saved more real money when I earned less. That is not a feeling. That is arithmetic.



THE PART NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
Beyond the numbers, what has changed is how money feels.

In 2019, seeing ₦100,000 in my account felt like safety. Like I had options. Like I could breathe easy.

Today I see ₦500,000 land on payday and my first feeling is anxiety, not happiness. Because I immediately start calculating what is owed, what is running out, what will still not be enough.

That shift from feeling okay to feeling like you are always one emergency away from trouble, even as your salary grows, is what this economy has quietly done to the Nigerian middle class.

We are not imagining things. We are not lazy. We are not bad at managing money. We are just running on a treadmill that keeps speeding up.



MY QUESTION TO NAIRALANDERS:
What was your salary in 2019 and what is it today? Are you genuinely better off or are you like me, earning more and living less?

Drop your numbers in the comments. No judgement for anybody. Let us count together.

Yam and egg sauce
Yam and vegetable with ukpaka
Yam porridge, infact anything yam

Mariangeles:
Rice & Beans.
Jollof rice and beans in particular. Any accompaniment is extra.

I can eat this dish almost every day, and I'm sure I wouldn't get fed up with it.

What is that one dish you can eat without getting tired of?

Happy weekend, foodies.

Please can you teach me the poppyseed dressing?

NotOfThisWorld:
Salad this a.m with poppyseed dressing. This poppyseed dressing is sooo sooo good.

Same here, big plate or tray for us the three youngest siblings.
My brother will pack all the stock and dry fishes one side and patiently waiting for us to get distracted, once he noticed we were distracted, all goes to his mouth..
Sharing of meat is done by the youngest too...
Nna eeeh, better share in different plates because the eldest always cheat the younger siblings.....

DeltaBachelor:
Your meat/fish or any protein available is your trophy. You only eat it after you must have done justice to the food. Funnily enough, even at 40 something years old now, I still maintain that rule together with my siblings. Chai. This life na wa o. Another is “no talking while eating”. If you do that, you go collect immediately from Old boy. The last one is that sometimes we all eat together in a tray to maintain family/sibling bond. Na when mumsi notice say lion sibling Dey wey get cooler and refrigerator for mouth when she serve hot food she change that rule come Dey give us our own portions . lol. My sisters prefer eating together when it is for food they don’t like so that my mum won’t be able to know how much they have eaten.

But if na their favourite food, you go hear “ Maale abeg put my own separate for plate, I NEVER READY “ lol.

Then last but not the least…. Sunday mornings na better pap with peak tin milk and better beans for morning we Dey chop, then rice and stew in the afternoon. TBH, you wouldn’t even know these children stay in a Face-me-I-Slap-you house in Ajegunle because we come fresh pass some Ajebo sef. Chai !


If na food department, my parents tried abeg. They made sure we don’t lack that and even till date, nothing person go chop wey go enter my eyes even if I don’t have the capability to get it. They showed us self-contentment. Enjoy while available and when it isn’t still understand it is only for a short while and things will get rosy again.


May God continue to bless all caring parents. Amen. For those that have lost theirs, may their souls continue to rest in peace. Amen

Yam with plenty vegetables and African oil bean.
Yam and egg sauce.
Yam and oil with enough pepper and onions.
Porridge yam and veggies
Roasted yam and well garnished oil
Fried yam and eggs.
Infact, anything yam goes for me.

Oil dey your head. Senior man.

Love800:
Yam and red oil with enough drinking water.

FearGod.
If not God
Best
Testimony
Offering
Shepherd...

Good day too. The children are fine and almost done with university.
How are you Sir/Ma? Hope you and your family are doing great....

Poster forgot to add,. I wrote a letter to my friend, I don't know where I lost it, some of you might pick it up and put into your pocket .......

Aleem26:
You forget to add AFTER ROUND ONE & I CALL ON...I use am yansh our Neighbor then

I thought as much. Wholesale price.

Luckysbab:
That rate should be for a crate, retail.

A crate could go for ₦5,000, that is 30 eggs.

Me too surprised, I don dey reason my area dey expensive oooo.

Luckysbab:
Where una dey buy 3 eggs for ₦500?

Sickness ooo, you can't just feel yourself. The restlessness is topnotch...

Thank God I didn't watch..

zyphr:
She was just beating around the bush. She didn't give any tangible reason. Not even one reason. Just showing boobs. I wasted precious time watching that video.

Hahahhahah, more are coming dear.
E never finish sef....

TheStoriesOfMan:
Stop activating my hunger nwanyị ọma 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Unripe plantain porridge with scent leaf.
Roasted plantain mixed with beans, palm oil, ukpaka, onions, pepper, hot onions etc...

Same here
Pastas and noodles....

boxypane:
Indomie and spaghetti 🍝, now you have to put more effort before I even say I want to eat...

Already eating before I remembered to snap.

I started eating already before remembering to snap.
Delicious jollof rice with fried drumstick..

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SpaceX:
na so so mess mess you go Dey do..

Why? Explain please. Do not normally do with garri, just cleaved it.

Brunch is ready, come and join me.
Have a lot to post but this app wouldn't allow me, I don't know why.

Hmmm, really?

EACBLAZE:
From the main video I watched on Facebook, the man is HIV positive and have been spreading it to both married women and underage single girls
That's is why they paraded him

Can you imagine the audacity? Still searching for their crime. Case of He without sin stone first.

Immatex:
He has no right to apprehend and video, circulate a video of two adults who chose to live their life as they please, no right whatsoever.

Even the Police has no right to parade suspects on camera or record interrogations to post on social media.

This is invasion of privacy, extortion and blackmail. This is jungle justice. This is wrong

Bea1234:
My God pick my call. My parents suffer, I suffer, but I no want see my children suffer.

Amen.
Same here.

She is human first and she is beautiful. Bullies, shame on you...

Hahaha hahaha 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣, you no w.ell ooooo.

Zooposki:
Men hailing married men with side chicks, not knowing it’s their wives that are the side chicks.