I visited a part of Lagos over the Christmas holiday and was stunned by the ostentatious display of wealth by young men in their early twenties. Imagine driving a petrol-guzzling car at 600 per liter.

I was told by my bolt driver that the boys were all Yahoo boys and their numbers had tripled in just under a year.

The sad part came later when he explained how he would abandon driving bolt for yahoo as soon as he saved up enough money to buy a gaming laptop with a years high speed internet subscription

Then today, I watched a heart rending video of young Nigerians analysing strategies for yahoo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0r4pp-u_uI

This begs the question:

how do you dissuade young people from fraud in a country with terrible entry level salaries?

omoh..........bet9ja and yahoo nah the only youth empowerment we get for nigeria.

knw dis and knw peace


95% of the boys for my street nah yahoo boys.

Illegal1:
omoh..........bet9ja and yahoo nah the only youth empowerment we get for nigeria.

knw dis and knw peace


95% of the boys for my street nah yahoo boys.

Are you for real? 95%

Illegal1:
omoh..........bet9ja and yahoo nah the only youth empowerment we get for nigeria.

knw dis and knw peace


95% of the boys for my street nah yahoo boys.

Same here. In fact, I used to live in an estate that was strictly for young, upwardly mobile professionals. We had investment bankers, big 4 consultants, csuite executives and top level government executives living there. Until gradually, Yahoo boys started moving in.

They came with all these young, slim girls in skimpy outfits and the neighborhood slowly began resembling a hookup hotspot.

Folks started sell their apartments and houses and moving out.

Today, almost everyone there is a yahoo boy. And it's scary.

Dimaya:


Are you for real? 95%

omoh.........u can't stay in my street if u are nt a yahoo boy bcus shame go catch u if u see wetin small boys or ur mate dey do.


even parents are nw encouraging their children to do yahoo,bcus it seem yahoo is the only way forword..


omoh i swr,i go soon join them ooh.

Illegal1:


omoh.........u can't stay in my street if u are nt a yahoo boy bcus shame go catch u if u see wetin small boys or ur mate dey do.


even parents are nw encouraging their children to do yahoo,bcus it seem yahoo is the only way forword..


omoh i swr,i go soon join them ooh.

This makes me sad to read.

I No blame anybody again every hustle na hustle, some people no get anybody

4mee:

This makes me sad to read.

omoh.........its sad,bt dats jst the reality on ground

E nor dey hard to know person wen don see food chop this morning. They think life is okay with everyone, so they feel they can dish advice to everyone according to their own experience with life.

Everyday yahoo boy story. Make una leave Dem boys oo, nobody dey help anybody for Nigeria oo

I dey hustle binary for the Instagram oo. What's the update ma fellow hustlers

Dimaya:
I visited a part of Lagos over the Christmas holiday and was stunned by the ostentatious display of wealth by young men in their early twenties. Imagine driving a petrol-guzzling car at 600 per liter.

I was told by my bolt driver that the boys were all Yahoo boys and their numbers had tripled in just under a year.

The sad part came later when he explained how he would abandon driving bolt for yahoo as soon as he saved up enough money to buy a gaming laptop with a years high speed internet subscription

Then today, I watched a heart rending video of young Nigerians analysing strategies for yahoo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0r4pp-u_uI

This begs the question:

how do you dissuade young people from fraud in a country with terrible entry level salaries?

that guy in blue sounds like he does a lot of yahoo

The country is too difficult and inflation is getting worse.

Imagine, finding a job that pays u at least 50,000 a month which is not even enough is so difficult to find for the average person.

People are still working for 28,000 job a month, how are we going to survive bruh

Yahoo seems like one of the only ways to live a decent life in Nigeria but they should just not scam fellow Nigerians, their focus should be in Europe and America

Nothing like yahoo. What we have now is rituals. Soap..juju. if u don't make use of it.u won't cashout. If u like buy data of 50gig.without juju.u r lost.

Nomerci:
Nothing like yahoo. What we have now is rituals. Soap..juju. if u don't make use of it.u won't cashout. If u like buy data of 50gig. Without juju you are lost.

Hmmmm lol

Nomerci:
Nothing like yahoo. What we have now is rituals. Soap..juju. if u don't make use of it.u won't cashout. If u like buy data of 50gig.without juju.u r lost.

that's a big lie. Just have better update and format and u will cash out.

Everything is just online manipulation

RawSex:
that's a big lie. Just have better update and format and u will cash out.

Everything is just online manipulation

50 dollar Gift card?

RawSex:
The country is too difficult and inflation is getting worse.

Imagine, finding a job that pays u at least 50,000 a month which is not even enough is so difficult to find for the average person.

People are still working for 28,000 job a month, how are we going to survive bruh

Yahoo seems like one of the only ways to live a decent life in Nigeria but they should just not scam fellow Nigerians, their focus should be in Europe and America

How can anyone be working for 28,000 a month?

That can't possibly be true, can it?

Nomerci:
Nothing like yahoo. What we have now is rituals. Soap..juju. if u don't make use of it.u won't cashout. If u like buy data of 50gig.without juju.u r lost.

That's what the discussion centred around. Lots of young boys now doing jazz to control the maga. What blew my mind were the folks who said lawyers are also doing jazz to get clients, can you imagine?

RawSex:
that's a big lie. Just have better update and format and u will cash out.

Everything is just online manipulation

People are going diabolical and you think it's just ordinary. That can't be true

Illegal1:


omoh.........its sad,bt dats jst the reality on ground

It's f**king depressing.

Countyguy:
E nor dey hard to know person wen don see food chop this morning. They think life is okay with everyone, so they feel they can dish advice to everyone according to their own experience with life.

Everyday yahoo boy story. Make una leave Dem boys oo, nobody dey help anybody for Nigeria oo

Nobody is ready to work anymore in this country. Nobody

4mee:


How can anyone be working for 28,000 a month?

That can't possibly be true, can it?

Lol . There are people who earn lower than that. Most sales boys and girls here in enugu earn 15k-25k . How much do you think bet9ja cashiers are paid monthly.

4mee:


Nobody is ready to work anymore in this country. Nobody

Where do you see work sef. a graduate will be earning 40k-50k monthly while his daily transport to and fro is 1500 or more , feeding for morning afternoon and night 1500(let's assume).that's 3k daily , calculate that in a week alone and it will give you almost half his salary not to talk of 4 weeks in a month. He still has house rent to pay, nepa bill of about 5k monthly,he go buy water, wear cloth, he still get family for village, he go marry ,born kids ETC. How people like that survive is still a mystery.
That particular job has about 30more Interested applicants so he will even be called lucky if he gets the job. This country is rubbish. Say I never join the Yahoo sef na because I never see who go put me through

Ebukacute:

Where do you see work sef. a graduate will be earning 40k-50k monthly while his daily transport to and fro is 1500 or more , feeding for morning afternoon and night 1500(let's assume).that's 3k daily , calculate that in a week alone and it will give you almost half his salary not to talk of 4 weeks in a month. He still has house rent to pay, nepa bill of about 5k monthly,he go buy water, wear cloth, he still get family for village, he go marry ,born kids ETC. How people like that survive is still a mystery.
That particular job has about 30more Interested applicants so he will even be called lucky if he gets the job. This country is rubbish. Say I never join the Yahoo sef na because I never see who go put me through

Lol... You no lie atal.

This country is so messed up that hustling legitimately now looks like a curse.

Ebukacute:

Lol . There are people who earn lower than that. Most sales boys and girls here in enugu earn 15k-25k . How much do you think bet9ja cashiers are paid monthly.

How can anyone survive on 15K per month? That's 500 per day? How?

You guys can't be telling the truth

4mee:


How can anyone survive on 15K per month? That's 500 per day? How?

You guys can't be telling the truth

Let me shock you!

The truth is that most of us are looking for 15k per month job and there's no vacancy...

Remijuice:

Let me shock you!

The truth is that most of us are looking for 15k per month job and there's no vacancy...

4mee is buti. She's among the elites, that's why she doesn't know what's happening on the streets. There's a video of Nigerians lamenting what they've experienced during job hunting. I'll find the link shortly and post it below

Dimaya:


is buti. She's among the elites, that's why she doesn't know what's happening on the streets. There's a video of Nigerians lamenting what they've experienced during job hunting. I'll find the link shortly and post it below

Life is ironic.
You are the biggest yahoo boy on nairaland.
With your multiple accounts littering both the jobs/vacancy and family sections

Its ironic the same you is preaching against fraud.

4mee:

How can anyone survive on 15K per month? That's 500 per day? How?
You guys can't be telling the truth

omoh..........are u not in nigeria?

Namkbank:

Life is ironic.
You are the biggest yahoo boy on nairaland.
With your multiple accounts littering both the jobs/vacancy and family sections

I'm a honest person. Work a decent job and invest the little I can. I'm also contented with what I have. Unlike most of you, I have no intention to blow. Just live my quiet life, stir up a little ruckus on nairaland and enjoy time with my family.

And I'm grateful to God for all I've laboured for. You should live your life the same way.

Brings peace of mind.

Ebukacute:

Say I never join the Yahoo sef na because I never see who go put me through

omoh..........i tink say nah only me slf.