₦airaland Forum

BeardedMeat:
They tolerated the nonsense, were complacent and watched helplessly while the ruling class stole the people's wealth.
That's why this generation is saying enough is enough.

Mention any activist that fought the government more than the likes of late Tai Solarin, Late Gani Fawehinmi, Baba Omojuwa, Beko Ransome Kuti and co?
How many youth activists are currently in detention presently?
You mean this yahoo generation

Cindypresh:
Shatap

1983 hardship was caused by the same buhari you, Apc and tinupoo packaged for Nigeria in 2015 and voted him again in 2019.

People like mannabbqgrillz, seunmsg, omoawoke, freestuffng, Madridguy and host of other urchinnns defended for 8 wasted years

apc miscreants didn't find the letter written in 1983 when tinubu led a protest against goodluck jonathan. The agbado rodents will never take responsibility for their failure, they always find a way to shift blame from themselves

EyeCumInPiss:
Let's do small arithmetic:

Bag of Brown Beans in 1983
=₦200
Bag of Brown Beans in 2024
=₦100,000

So Bag of Brown Beans increased 500times in 41years

So if we continue like this, in next 41years (year 2065), price of Bag of Brown Beans will be:
500×₦100,000 =₦50m

By then Minimum Wage will be around ₦50m too.

Nigeria has never been great, na the potential dem been dey call great.


The worst aspect is that, Nigeria of then was better than Nigeria of now, and Nigeria of then was still not a power house, or doing anything special. That useless Nigeria those days, that the coup plotters used as excuse, is even worse than the Nigeria of today; only that now, there is internet and cell phones.

The country needs a major reset but we are not ready to face it.

Subsidy was removed, govt is facing maintenance of refineries, they even committed to November, govt resolved the issues with crude supply to local refineries. Govt is trying to boost production and remove a major import dependency item....this has led to serious hardship but rather than engage constructively like someone who sees and understands the end goal, we are here demanding that subsidy be returned that govt should continue to borrow to block a useless hole.


Currency was being defended with borrowed funds, some of the fund was even collaterised by future crude sales....govt decided to float it and block another corrupt hole ....that led to initial hardship but rather than engage constructively and genuinely....we are out here on the street destroying properties and asking govt to return things to the old ways that has bled us dry and made us paupers in a rich country....


Nothing good comes easy and stopping decade long bad practises will definitely come with short term pain....are we ready to endure as a nation?

DTaj:
Good deal? Did you know the salary of a University lecturer in 1983? How old are you? LOL! In that year, in 1983, more than half of Nigeria's population could not afford the N200 bag of beans you termed "good deal"!

Truth is, from at least under Gowon's profligate (wasteful) regime, where salaries of workers were arbitrarily increased and backdated (even when Chief Jerome Udoji, the Chairman of the Wage Review Committee, did NOT recommend any back-dating), inflation in Nigeria started a flight and our country never remained the same!

It was after this stupid salary increase by General Yakubu Gowon, that the average Nigerian started buying tonnes of foreign goods and our taste for imported stuff changed! FOREVER!

THERE WAS NEVER A TIME THINGS WERE NOT EXPENSIVE IN NIGERIA, AT LEAST FROM 1970! FACTS ONLY.

The items this current generation thought were cheap (because they used current prices to compare) were NEVER CHEAP! Just as it is today, majority of the population could not afford those items!

When an uncle bought an Opel Record card for about N300, he was the ONLY ONE who had that car in the entire city he lived at that time!

When school fees were less than N100 per term, majority could still not afford it.

If Canadians and citizens of those countries our young persons run to had fled their own countries, would they be able to run to those countries now? NIGERIANS MUST DEVELOP NIGERIA!

Nigeria needs a reset!

We need an ELITE CONSENSUS, where those in government and the elites (big-men businessmen, the intelligentsia, enlightened, etc) would sit down and agree: WE WANT OUR COUNTRY TO MAKE PROGRESS, ENOUGH OF INDIVIDUAL GREED, else, we would continue to move in circles, and succeeding governments would continue to be worse than their predecessors! This is NOT about Tinubu, Atiku, or Peter Obi.

May God help my country, Nigeria, to move form potential to reality! AMEN.

In 1983 the salary of a new graduate entering civil service was less than 300 Naira.

aremubabs:
The letter was dated November. Buhari became head of state in December.




So, how did Buhari cause the hardship?




I have told people that the worst president ever is Shehu Shagari imposed on Nigerians by Obasanjo.




Under Shehu Shagari, our local markets disappeared as foreign goods flooded our markets. Since then, we have remained lovers of foreign goods. This began the destruction of the value of our naira.

Since your Messiah buhari locked borders did things get better??

Just open mouth waaaa 🙄

brain54:
I like the way he broke the news of the increment...

To the parents.

Nowadays, nobody cares to give any explanation.

"Dear parents,

From next term your wards are to pay...."

At least they were simple, humane back then!

Just to add N20 o..lol

easzypeaszy:
Wetin the man do?
Was he a bad person or you just felt cursing him will ease ur pain...just curious to know.

That was Solarin quote to his students...
He believed navigating obstacles on our path makes us better humans... I remember protesting as a pry 4 pupil in 1993 for being served what was called Bambara beans (instead of moi moi) and indian Pap ..on a Saturday morning..we all refused to dine and matched to his residence "usual we no go gree"
Baba calmed us with a detailed explanation of a lapse in logistics causing d change in menu..
Promised us more rice on Sunday to show how sorry he was ( we only eat rice on Sundays then).. I feel sorry for my children who eat rice almost daily
We accepted d deal... My Boarding fee and tuition then stood at
N2000 plus ..today that would amount to close to N500k a term or more..
From a N20 increase in Boarding fee in 1983 to what I paid (2k plus ) in 1994 ...I believe Audu Ogbeh when he said Naira was devalued on a weekly basis from 1980.. can we ever get it right?

Slimvincent:
200 a bag of beans is good deal compared to the reality of today.

My dad will vehemently disagree with you

200 is good deal when minimum wage is barely 100 naira a month ?

Nigeria was never good, there is no time people are claiming Nigeria is better than it was in the past

DTaj:
GOD BLESS YOU, MY BROTHER/SISTER!

Younger folks did not know Nigeria of yore.

There was NEVER a time things were cheap.

Never.

They should listen to old musical records of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s.

It was the same wailing and gnashing of teeth! LOL.

Are you guys okay? So because there was never a time things were cheap we should continue like that and besides I could recall the economy was not like this during yardua and Jonathan's regime until the same APC got to power and destroy everything

Cindypresh:
Shatap

1983 hardship was caused by the same buhari you, Apc and tinupoo packaged for Nigeria in 2015 and voted him again in 2019.

People like mannabbqgrillz, seunmsg, omoawoke, freestuffng, Madridguy and host of other urchinnns defended for 8 wasted years

Buhari only took over around October 1983, so how did he cause the 1983 hardship?

geoworldedu:
Corruption and cluelessness in Nigeria has always been from its origin, but this Tinubulation is the father of them all.

Haha..tinubu inflation na 99G network e carry dey download.. As you talk am ehh na 'last burial we dey so..

Slimvincent:
200 a bag of beans is good deal compared to the reality of today.

That’s not how money works. 200 in 1983 is the equivalent of around 150 thousand today.

EyeCumInPiss:
Let's do small arithmetic:

Bag of Brown Beans in 1983
=₦200
Bag of Brown Beans in 2024
=₦100,000

So Bag of Brown Beans increased 500times in 41years

So if we continue like this, in next 41years (year 2065), price of Bag of Brown Beans will be:
500×₦100,000 =₦50m

you are a big clown I don fall off for bed while laughing

GeneralDae:
Buhari only took over around October 1983, so how did he cause the 1983 hardship?

So buhari didn't cause hardship at all??😏

Me i don die by that time. My children will sort themselves. I cant come and kill myself with future worries. Present one don do me wallahi

EyeCumInPiss:
Let's do small arithmetic:

Bag of Brown Beans in 1983
=₦200
Bag of Brown Beans in 2024
=₦100,000

So Bag of Brown Beans increased 500times in 41years

So if we continue like this, in next 41years (year 2065), price of Bag of Brown Beans will be:
500×₦100,000 =₦50m

nlfpmod:
Credit: Alli-Balogun H.Lekan

So all this turechi na just to inform papa and mama them say there will be #20 increment of boarding fee from next term.

adonainana:
To add a bit of economic context

Dollars rate to the naira in 1983 was 0.765 so a bag of beans being sold for 200 naira was exactly $261 dollars (200naira / 0.765) back in 1983.

Today bag of the same beans is 100,000 naira and the exchange rate is $1 - 1600 naira . Which works out as 100,000 naira divided by 1600 which is 62 dollars

In real economic terms, the hardship in 1983 was 5 times worse than the one we are experiencing now

According to the principal of the school letter a bag of beans sold for $261 dollars then. It sells for 62 dollars now

Also historically speaking just the way 1983- 1985 and life eventually got better after

This time too in 2024 shall pass.

No country can experience inflation forever

Have faith

Shalom

I think our best years ever prior to now (since 1960) in terms of all economic indices were in the Jonathan era. 2012 and 2013.

iswallker:
See how you exposed your ignorance to the whole world...

Your children will not be proud of you right now...

He didn't curse Solarin. It's a phrase made popular by him.

u be mugun...first of all we in the North don't even kw him not to talk of his quotes

EyeCumInPiss:
Let's do small arithmetic:

Bag of Brown Beans in 1983
=₦200
Bag of Brown Beans in 2024
=₦100,000

So Bag of Brown Beans increased 500times in 41years

So if we continue like this, in next 41years (year 2065), price of Bag of Brown Beans will be:
500×₦100,000 =₦50m

Reality is never a linear curve.

easzypeaszy:
Wetin the man do?
Was he a bad person or you just felt cursing him will ease ur pain...just curious to know.

That was the only single prayer DR. TAI SOLARIN PRAYED FOR HIMSELF ONCE A YEAR.
He was an agnostic ( he doesn't and can't tell whether God existed or not).

So he prayed, God let my road be rough this year. When it is rough, then the best in me comes out.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo always called "The Hard Way", the best way to real manhood.

kingsways:
Human always complain

They should not have removed Shagari

Shagari plunged Nigeria into recession through unmitigated, unseen-before massive corruption.

Check the beginning of Onyeka Owenu's documentary in 1983 on YouTube.

Slimvincent:
200 a bag of beans is good deal compared to the reality of today.

still same if u ask me.the worth 200naira of that time is like almost 300k
now judging by the exchange rate then and now.We have been collecting from our leaders

kheny12:
Our elders really enjoyed their childhood back then. Bag of beans N200 but now 100k+.

We eat beans daily in Nigeria then and rice only on Sundays and festivities..
Today we eat rice daily and beans .....

easzypeaszy:
Wetin the man do?
Was he a bad person or you just felt cursing him will ease ur pain...just curious to know.

" May Your Road Be Rough"

It's the Title of a famous article he wrote on January 1st , i think in 1964.

It's prayer of success.

Pain is needed for success.

In other words, don't wish it was easy, wish it was hard. The hardness and roughness makes success possible.

AdeCityzen:
I don't take an atheist like Pa Solarin word serious, either good or bad.

But the words of Olukoya the evil one , or Pa Adeboye the tithe gatekeeper or Oyaki...
Wooo... you have all said you will die , not examining your chains.

Wish you religionists best of luck in your "kingdom".

As for me, after my passing, let me appear before Olodumare, and declare all I did on earth.

That's enough for me.

Softmirror:
This man was made to head People's Bank inorder to alleviate the sufferings of the people. Guess what? . He failed woefully. It's not funny That is critics for you.

You youngings...need to go back to the archives.

Babangida, the evil Genius, appointed Dr. Solarin as head of ppls' bank, but wait...what about the board of directors and others?
They were handpicked by Babangida, as sleeper agents, to make sure the bank failed ( the original plan).

Ppl forget that Babangida conducted elections and pretended he was going to handover to democrats, but then took the title " President Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida" not "General" again.

He was sending a message...
All I'm saying is Babangida BELIEVED in the MACHIAVELLIAN APPROACH to life: make you assume he's going one way, but he's planning for you to fall in the pit.

For the records, Dr. Solarin resigned his position as President of the Peoples Bank: he was disgusted with what he was seeing.

DTaj: We need an ELITE CONSENSUS, where those in government and the elites (big-men businessmen, the intelligentsia, enlightened, etc) would sit down and agree: WE WANT OUR COUNTRY TO MAKE PROGRESS, ENOUGH OF INDIVIDUAL GREED

Sorry sir, at the level we are now, it seems it's too late.

Only a genocide ( totally useless and unnecessary) will or may (or might not) even reset this contraption .

I think it's over. Too much innocent black ppls blood wasted .
Only "judgement" remains.

PandoraObi:
Hardship didn't start today

What are you implying? Hardship didn't start today? Oniyẹ̀yẹ́. Did you check the year? 1983. That was when your failure ex-general Buhari was in power, a man known to be a badluck and a catastrophe to what is good. This same hardship continue when he took the baton via rigging from Jonathan in 2015 and that same hardship skyrocketed during Thiefnoobu-led fraudulent "grab it-steal it-run away with it" cabalistical government. Continue fooling the gullible with your propaganda. We know your game. APC time is up in Nigeria.

caye:
But the words of Olukoya the evil one , or Pa Adeboye the tithe gatekeeper or Oyaki...
Wooo... you have all said you will die , not examining your chains.

Wish you religionists best of luck in your "kingdom".

As for me, after my passing, let me appear before Olodumare, and declare all I did on earth.

That's enough for me.

Okay. It's a free world buddy