₦airaland Forum

richmond500:
He is very popular and enjoys media/youth support.

The problem is his inability to form a coalition or share the pains of his supporters will be his biggest undoing. He better win this election cos some of his supporters who were disenfranchised in NDC and he asked them to accept the outcome will dump him after 2027.

Sometimes I wonder if himself and Kwankwasor are working for Tinubu relection by fragmenting the opposition

If Obi believes that he is more popular than Atiku then something is wrong with that man. Does Obi thinks that been a formal governor makes him known before 2019 election. Does he thinks Nigerians know about governors. How many people know Donald Duke and formal governors of some States. After Atiku made him popular by giving him vice, now he claimed he is more popular. Funny man.

yarimo:
By writing results in your bedroom even before the day of primary election abi ? Lawal babachir what can you say about this claim from David mark

What about APC that rigged election for Tinubu even when Tinubu was unopposed. Rigging is endemic for APC.

All of the candidate including Obi, Atiku, Tinubu are there for their personal ambition. Nobody should whine anybody oo. It's always your ambition first before service. Those of us not in politics it's because we don't have such an ambition.

Ttalk:
Why did Atiku delete his post on the innocent Deborah that was killed for blasphemy by Atiku Muslim fanatics?

Why didn't Obi condemned the killing of Deborah that was killed. Show me Obi tweets about the killing.

Just imagine dropping bombs on thier celebration. Even if the government was aware of this opportunity to take out this terrorists in such a great number I know that they won't because of Allah that the terrorists are worshipping.

god111 or evil111 was busy praising Iran. He talks as if those in Israel or USA side are really interested about the ongoing war. What is my benefits whether Iran is destroyed or not.

God1000:
God bless Iran, they are the good guys

Iran has truly humbled america oo, The almighty america is now demanding for talks

But you no say you no too get s.e.nc sha. Missiles that were even intercepted. Even if Israel send just one it will hit it target. Stop disturbing us with Israel vs Iran or USA. These are old news.
Did you see on this forum the latest Ukraine attack on St. Petersburg, Russia.
Let focus on new things jor.

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.

What is helping me that I don't feel much of the heat is due to the fact that company takes care of my transportation, feeding too. I work in community that I spend almost nothing for power.
But once I leave work location to town. Na there spending they start.

If Tinubu has used the money for coastal highway to reconstruct all these bad federal road some people will still be praising him for those things.

AlphaMale666:
I'm 35 years old.

Soon you go get sense just be patient.

AlphaMale666:
There is nothing a guy can tell me, once I see a guy I knew get married, were no longer friends! For a guy to marry, it just shows you're a woman wrapper, a simp, and will do anything for female validation. As a guy, you should be afraid of married men. They can even go as low as wash women pants for them. They're born fools! Absolute lowlife people! Slaves to society! I spit on all married men's graves! You're all disgrace to manhood!

Who be this one again. For your mind you are Alpha male Abi. You no know your left from right.

geoworldedu:
The evil brought by religion can be removed, then the worldwide evil will reduce to like 5%, which makes everything better. As for your Jesus to come out from the sky to reign, sorry, that ain't happening.

Your Jesus is dead and has gone to his grave ...uhm, ah, gone to his grave.

They planted a mango tree over his head... Uhm, ah, over his head

In the day of judgement it will be in recoded that you rejected Jesus. The only advice I will give you is that just in case you refuse to be born again, then Jesus comes, do not accept the mark of the beast. Jesus is coming and rapture will happen sooner or later.

HacheNoire:
Empty threat!

The Great APC is projected to win and there is nothing any thing born of a woman can do about it.

The Nigerian Armed Forces is ever ready for active combat!

Y’all be sounding like you even have any chance of winning! Stare at the reality facing you and accept reality!

What is reality to you? But I don't blame you sha. Na Obi I dey blame for his desperation to be president. They have used him before and still using him.

The government has been sleeping since. Let them wake up and do their job.

geoworldedu:
The fact that religion (evil) has been formed by humans from the moment they started thinking of what to worship doesn't mean that religion (evil) cannot be taking away for the betterment of humanity.

Not possible. As long as good and evil exist it will continue. Until Jesus will come to end the reign of the devil that is when what you are looking for will be bought not in this time. The time will definitely come.

geoworldedu:
Please give me the history that predates religion abeg. You said before religion they have been killing each other massively like this? Please kindly give me a history where there was no religion in it.

So if you know that from human existence they have been religion then why still talking about it now.
From scripture religion did not start from the beginning. Men have been serving one form of God or another from the beginning of time but we can't call that a religion.
But for killings it has always been there. Why did God destroy the earth with water? Evil and wickedness was the reason.

3kay945:
I am not saying Prayers isnt good. But what about those pastors and members that were kidnapped right in the church during service?

What do you say about that? Sir?.

That is why I said it's God's mercy that is keeping all of us alive. They are people if they did not pray some thing could have gone wrong in their lives. While some did not pray enough to change the situation. You remember that Jesus said this one cannot go except by prayer and fasting.
Look at Daniel he prayed and fasted for 21 days, that means if he had quitted earlier then he would not have had the answer. So sometimes we quit to early.
However, sometimes even when you pray you may still go through situation but God said when you go through the fire you will not be burnt.

AngelicBeing:
Gbamsulotey, Plus pray the Dangerous Prayers of the Psalmist daily, invite Military Angels of God to shoot, kill, destroy, dismantle and pour Concentrated Acid on anyone or agents of darkness that is targeting you, your family or children, let them be killed and massacred by the Violent Angels of God in Jesus Name Amen 😜

HAHAHA mucheche Hahaha 😂

😀😀😀 Funny guy. Prayer is by faith so I don't have to say all the saying. Just few declaration or prayer things will just be good.

geoworldedu:
God cannot protect anyone because the god you are talking about is even in a spiritual cage as we speak. Removing religion from the world is the foundation to removing terrorism. Killing fellow humans in the name of religion constitutes 99% of the reason for terrorism. Eliminate that nonsense and watch how humanity will be secure again. Anything other than that, we are just starting.

Before religion men have been killing themselves for ages. You cannot take worship from human existence because human will always look for what to serve. However, you better that there is a creator that created the world you live. You cannot be wiser than people who have involved in worshipping one form of deity to another. Through out history they believe that such gods they served did saved them. But we know that there is only one God and one mediator between God and man the Lord Jesus, the creator of all things. You need to give your life to Jesus Christ for your salvation. Today the gospel has been preached to you and this forum will stand has a witness that I preached the word of God to you.
People have encounter God and I for once I have had practical experience of the power of God that worked in my life. You can experience that too if you will believe. Believe in the saving grace.

Why those things you posted are good o. At the end no matter how carefully you can be na God the protect people o. Don't play with prayer, you have to consciously pray for your safety.
Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.
It's God's mercy that is keeping many people at the end.

God1000:
It serves america right, they can no longer control the monster they created


They spent hundreds of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel for decades, defended and shielded the Zionist regime at the united nations and other international organization from prosecution.


Dem never see anything sef

Na you again. 😂😂😂 People are looking for something sensible to post online yours is USA and Israel be your problem.

Darekiki:
Obi and atiku go cry water for 2027. If Dem no win.
One truth I know say as e bad reach some people are still building mansion and buying car. While in Jonathan time dey no fit.
nA one major prayer make God make everything and every season work for your own favour.
Yeye obindin wheel barrow guys go dey rejoice when people dey suffer. Bitter politics.

And nobody built mansion and bought car during Jonathan's government.

ClassicMan202:
Lols.... Full-scale half scale ko




If Tinubu was half of what Goodluck is, he would be given life president.

Tinubu recalibrated the metrics of failure, we were thinking Buhari was the lowest we can go, but Tinubu is digging so deep, we will soon hit crude oil

He is digging it like Iran underground tunnels. And even US B2 bunker burster bomb can reach the dept of the failure.

What is making me laugh the most are the pictures I am seeing. Obi will really run out of this party after the election. Why are people always standing in front of him?

God1000 the doom man. Always looking for any news against Israel and USA. You don't have anything else to do.

Luckyymann:
Alot of these young soldiers or should I say, non battle tested and newly transferred to let me say ( Maiduguri) in particular, both NCOs/officer's.
They really don't know how terrific and devilish those Boko Haram muzlims jihadist are.

We and others that experience and witness/repelled/attack those infidels knows the attrocities committed by those bastards and understands never to take anything for granted.

Back then when we were leaving each FOBs , I'd talk to my fellow comrades and make them understand what we've done to them and knowing they'd always look for a way to seek revenge. I'd compell them to always be on guard else their base might be overrun.

How you go tell me say, Boko Haram go capture and behead not one "8"! were they sleeping?
I'm proud to say Boko Haram felt my wrath while I was still in Active service.

As a soldier you have to make up your mind to die at anytime.
I'd rather die than watch anyone give me a stupid order, e come be B.H?

I wonder the type of soldiers them dey train now.
Biscuit soldiers!

God forbid.

To me as a soldier posted to such an environment. You should already know the hazard associated to your job. A soldier most be ready to die. You have to fight to die. It's crazy for a whole 8 soldiers to be captured and beheaded. Were they truly sleeping?

Ezeama400:
Okowa who’s from Delta couldn’t deliver and win his state for Atiku in 2023 despite being the Vice presidential candidate and the then a sitting Governor as well ,is it Sheriff that will deliver for you ?

Good luck with your wishful thinking..

We will prove to you once more that there is difference between state and federal election

That was because Okawa did not interfered with the election. Sheriff will not do the same thing so just get that. You saw what Wike did so they will copy that across South South.

Anything Obi says is correct in the eyes of Obidients. If Atiku says this they will call him fellow old man. I am watching them. Not that I wanted them to speak against the man of God because I don't do that but only questioning their hypocrisy.

Atiku is always losing the online post 😂 but he go really shock both of them because Northerners are not plenty here.
Igbos and Yorubas are more here.

dominique:
As long as they're going to release everything n their country, no wahala

That is how those diseases spread around the world. It must be stopped. The kind of sickness people have now in the last 50 years they were not in existence. Now you see children with BP, cancers etc.

Northernblood8:
Good idea if it is safe. This is the only way to help People overcome mosquito bites especially when in captive

This is how they always fool you people. Why are some of you easily deceive self. You are yet to ask yourself why are there so many disease around the world. Unprecedented cancer and viruses. Virus that does not exist in nature they created it and now they are so many cancer diseases. Where did ebola and COVID 19 etc came from? You guys don't ask questions. You keep getting your information from WHO.