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Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Judolisco(m): 9:41pm On Mar 17, 2025
RIP baba....
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by concho(m): 9:42pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
.

Anyone can start any business with any amount, but the definition of wealth based on N2m reeks of pure illiteracy.

2m cannot rent a shop in a lot of places in Lagos...
Ordinary keke napep is around 4m naira.

If the definition of wealth is just a little above 1k USD then most people here haven't seen any money in their lives.
I’m not protesting your projection bro . I’m just curious on the business part .
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by OlofofoCorner: 9:44pm On Mar 17, 2025
JASONjnr:
Again, you are talking in your own line of interest......

Rest biko.....

There are people that 2m will change their life if given...... Might not buy what you think it will... But will certainly make many people wealthy......

I won't reply your comment.....you don't strike me like a reasonable person.....
🤣🤣🤣🤣

Most of you will just throw words around without knowing the meaning.......
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Habib101: 9:46pm On Mar 17, 2025
Donate some of the money made to his family at least
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by OlofofoCorner: 9:47pm On Mar 17, 2025
Habib101:
Donate some of the money made to his family at least
Did you read the post at all?
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by iwaeda: 9:48pm On Mar 17, 2025
Chilipepper:
“His photographs changed my life, and now he has returned to his creator."

A centenarian drummer, who became the face of Nigeria's Non-Fungible Token (NFT) community in 2022, has passed away.

Photographer Adisa Olashile, who captured the iconic image of the elderly drummer years ago, shared the heartbreaking news on his social media.

Many recalled Olashile’s generosity, as he donated 50% of the proceeds from the NFT sale of the man's photo to support him, earning widespread praise for his kindness.

Photo credit: @adisaolashile / Instagram
Ayanniyi omo Ayangaalu, omo bolode oku, ode baba eni ogbodo wu gbegi. orun re ee. grin grin grin
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Habib101: 9:48pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
In case you've not seen money before, N2m isn't what it used to be when you were growing up.

Stop calling an amount of money that cannot buy Keke Napep "wealth".

Ciao!
My brother if I can get a quarter of that amount I will be greatful
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by ednut1(m): 9:49pm On Mar 17, 2025
NFT was just pure scam
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Ofadaman(m): 9:49pm On Mar 17, 2025
I remember this day
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by santaclaws: 9:50pm On Mar 17, 2025
concho:
I’m not protesting your projection bro . I’m just curious on the business part .
You can run a micro-business with 2m or less, even with a few hundreds of thousands: running POS services, selling recharge card, selling derica of rice and beans etc inside a roadside container shop...

These are businesses that can give you N500 to 5k profit daily, at least you will have something to eat, but you wanna run a real business with reasonable daily turnover, you need nothing less than 10m.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by bluestone2015: 9:52pm On Mar 17, 2025
So 1m is wealth.
Enyi, upgrade a beg.
JASONjnr:
RIP Baba

Your wealth came at your old age......

Even tho people might think it wouldn't be meaningful to gather such wealth at your late age..... It will mean well for your children and grandchildren......

Go well.....As you pass your blessings to your children and may you watch over them as you take your place behind your creator.....
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by simpleseyi: 9:55pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
In case you've not seen money before, N2m isn't what it used to be when you were growing up.

Stop calling an amount of money that cannot buy Keke Napep "wealth".

Ciao!
The woman that grinds pepper in a small stall in the market, is One Million Naira not wealth to her? This particular Baba that goes to parties without invitation, just to drum for people and be given few notes to eat, is is One Million Naira not wealth to him?
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by santaclaws: 9:56pm On Mar 17, 2025
simpleseyi:
The woman that grinds pepper in a small stall in the market, is One Million Naira not wealth to her?
Wealth to her? So someone with 1m in her account is wealthy? You can't even call her rich, not to talk of wealthy.

Keep deceiving yourself with Naira, not realising the money has totally lost value.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by folake4u: 9:57pm On Mar 17, 2025
Oh my!! I remember when this man trended. He had such soulful smile.

RIP to him.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Greenback: 9:58pm On Mar 17, 2025
edoncast:
OP
I am sorry cos I will like to derail this thread.

I read somewhere here today when some people all claimed Lagos really stink but I am here to tell you that as a staff of LAWMA that the outrageous debt owe LAWMA by houses ,companies and other facilities are mostly (90percent ) owe by the south east and south south indigenes living in Lagos .

If you think I am lying ,you can do a survey by yourself in your street with your PSP operator .They all claim regularly they don’t have wastes and they don’t generate wastes when we all know that there is no alternative to LAWMA (wastes disposal )rather than to patronize LAWMA .Does anyone exist who doesn’t generate wastes ?

Look at the wastes on the roadsides ,wastes at the T -junction of your house and other areas .These are the kind of people who dispose wastes illegally .Some even throw out wastes from their cars .Some will tell you they take it to their shops or houses as if they are actually doing that .They dump it every where and it is still LAWMA that will evacuate them while their bill at home or shops or offices /company keep accumulating and at the end of the day,they open their gutter mouth to ask the foolish question “how come my bill have ran into 500,000?”.

I will keep telling customers you don’t have alternative to LAWMA patronage even if you keep messing the streets around ,your bill will keep reading .Even if you tear that LAMWA bill ,you can’t erase it on the system(LAWMA database ).You don’t have another source of wastes evacuation unlike NEPA where you can decide not to make use of them and you still get power in your house or offices/shops .

The igbos most especially mess up Lagos and you can see them at all the bus stops selling wares and stuffs at illegal places even on the rail ways .80 percent of igbos in Lagos constitute environmental nuisance in Lagos by selling

Chargers
Batteries
Second hand clothes
Fake drugs
Fake drinks at prohibited places

They should stop spewing thrash.These are the developers that built Lagos but refused
to build their fatherlands yet they will never go but keep complaining .

I will edit any typo later pls .
you are nothing but a huge disgrace of a human being...shame
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by simpleseyi: 10:00pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
Wealth to her? So someone with 1m in her account is wealthy? You can't even call her rich, not to talk of wealthy.

Keep deceiving yourself with Naira, not realising the money has totally lost value.
What that Baba see as Wealth is not the same as what Dangote see as Wealth, definitely not you and your fellow Yahoo boys see as Wealth
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by concho(m): 10:00pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
You can run a micro-business with 2m or less, even with a few hundreds of thousands: running POS services, selling recharge card, selling derica of rice and beans etc inside a roadside container shop...

These are businesses that can give you N500 to 5k profit daily, at least you will have something to eat, but you wanna run a real business with reasonable daily turnover, you need nothing less than 10m.
On the contrary, bro,

I don’t think it’s always about the capital. More often, it’s about the turnover, the type of business, and the person running it.

You could have ₦10M invested in a business but make less than ₦10K daily in profit.

Meanwhile, someone with just ₦2M in a foodstuff business could be making at least ₦20K daily.

I’m speaking out of experience .
Btw , are you in Lagos state ?
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by santaclaws: 10:07pm On Mar 17, 2025
concho:
On the contrary, bro,

I don’t think it’s always about the capital. More often, it’s about the turnover, the type of business, and the person running it.

You could have ₦10M invested in a business but make less than ₦10K daily in profit.

Meanwhile, someone with just ₦2M in a foodstuff business could be making at least ₦20K daily.

I’m speaking out of experience .
Btw , are you in Lagos state ?
Obviously you just wanted to argue... I don't have time for that bro.

Peace 🙏🏾
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by concho(m): 10:12pm On Mar 17, 2025
santaclaws:
Obviously you just wanted to argue... I don't have time for that bro.

Peace 🙏🏾
I’m not arguing at all. Funny enough, I even took screenshots of your perspective. I never doubted you—I just shared my own thoughts or a different angle on it.

By the way, you didn’t answer my last question.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by carzeem1: 10:18pm On Mar 17, 2025
concho:
On the contrary, bro,

I don’t think it’s always about the capital. More often, it’s about the turnover, the type of business, and the person running it.

You could have ₦10M invested in a business but make less than ₦10K daily in profit.

Meanwhile, someone with just ₦2M in a foodstuff business could be making at least ₦20K daily.

I’m speaking out of experience .
Btw , are you in Lagos state ?
20k profit or sales a day selling foodstuff with 2million startup?
If it's sales YES, profit NO but a few good days during festivities etc you make such profit.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by edoncast(m): 10:18pm On Mar 17, 2025
Greenback:
you are nothing but a huge disgrace of a human being...shame
If I am nothing ,then what are you olori Pelebe
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by simply22: 10:19pm On Mar 17, 2025
May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Habib101: 10:24pm On Mar 17, 2025
OlofofoCorner:
Did you read the post at all?
Who benefited from the funds ?
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Sonofgod1990(m): 10:24pm On Mar 17, 2025
JASONjnr:
Again, you are talking in your own line of interest......

Rest biko.....

There are people that 2m will change their life if given...... Might not buy what you think it will... But will certainly make many people wealthy......

I won't reply your comment.....you don't strike me like a reasonable person.....
Yeah i will use the money Carry 5odds. That's 2mx5 that about 10m grin
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Electorate: 10:42pm On Mar 17, 2025
JASONjnr:
RIP Baba

Your wealth came at your old age......

Even tho people might think it wouldn't be meaningful to gather such wealth at your late age..... It will mean well for your children and grandchildren......

Go well.....As you pass your blessings to your children and may you watch over them as you take your place behind your creator.....
The title says "Nigerian" but because the name suggests a Yoruba man you are quick to wish him well, would you have done same if he were to be an Igbo man? Oniranu, nairaland residential tribal bigot.

Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Uche559(m): 11:02pm On Mar 17, 2025
A millionaire is smne with a million dollar in his/her account.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Okortor: 11:10pm On Mar 17, 2025
Soon gwogwogwo too will soon pass away..it's the sad reality where life!
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by geoworldedu: 11:15pm On Mar 17, 2025
JASONjnr:
To you.... It isn't..... To alot of Nigerians out there .... It's wealth. #peace☺️
2m usually looks like wealth until one starts earning it. Then it looks like poverty. We gon go for 5m. Me sha want 2m monthly salary this year. I am working my ass off maybe I can get something close to it. I ain't giving up.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Mandate1: 11:22pm On Mar 17, 2025
JASONjnr:
To you.... It isn't..... To alot of Nigerians out there .... It's wealth. #peace☺️
2m is no wealth sir. In less than a year it will be exhausted.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by NotOfThisWorld(f): 11:25pm On Mar 17, 2025
May his soul rest in peace. He's now drumming for Jesus in Heaven.
Re: Nigerian Drummer, Whose Iconic Photo Sold For Over ₦2M As NFT, Dies by Mandate1: 11:26pm On Mar 17, 2025
edoncast:
OP
I am sorry cos I will like to derail this thread.

I read somewhere here today when some people all claimed Lagos really stink but I am here to tell you that as a staff of LAWMA that the outrageous debt owe LAWMA by houses ,companies and other facilities are mostly (90percent ) owe by the south east and south south indigenes living in Lagos .

If you think I am lying ,you can do a survey by yourself in your street with your PSP operator .They all claim regularly they don’t have wastes and they don’t generate wastes when we all know that there is no alternative to LAWMA (wastes disposal )rather than to patronize LAWMA .Does anyone exist who doesn’t generate wastes ?

Look at the wastes on the roadsides ,wastes at the T -junction of your house and other areas .These are the kind of people who dispose wastes illegally .Some even throw out wastes from their cars .Some will tell you they take it to their shops or houses as if they are actually doing that .They dump it every where and it is still LAWMA that will evacuate them while their bill at home or shops or offices /company keep accumulating and at the end of the day,they open their gutter mouth to ask the foolish question “how come my bill have ran into 500,000?”.

I will keep telling customers you don’t have alternative to LAWMA patronage even if you keep messing the streets around ,your bill will keep reading .Even if you tear that LAMWA bill ,you can’t erase it on the system(LAWMA database ).You don’t have another source of wastes evacuation unlike NEPA where you can decide not to make use of them and you still get power in your house or offices/shops .

The igbos most especially mess up Lagos and you can see them at all the bus stops selling wares and stuffs at illegal places even on the rail ways .80 percent of igbos in Lagos constitute environmental nuisance in Lagos by selling

Chargers
Batteries
Second hand clothes
Fake drugs
Fake drinks at prohibited places

They should stop spewing thrash.These are the developers that built Lagos but refused
to build their fatherlands yet they will never go but keep complaining .

I will edit any typo later pls .
are you from Lagos oga? Is Lagos state your state of origin? People who have never travelled out of one location keep yarning dust.
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