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Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by PlasmaTV: 3:34pm On Jul 05, 2025
I remember when I used to take N20 to school.

Good old days. Before APC came into power.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by cunny88(m): 3:35pm On Jul 05, 2025
Thats 60k a week, 240k a month and 720k a term.

Thats way too high
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by advanceDNA: 3:38pm On Jul 05, 2025
PlasmaTV:
I remember when I used to take N20 to school.

Good old days. Before APC came into power.
Baba....stop the cap....
Which one is 20naira before APC....
...APC that just came into power around 2015.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by ideatoprince18(m): 3:38pm On Jul 05, 2025
500# plus food biko.... Money no dey

The country is hard
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by PlasmaTV: 3:41pm On Jul 05, 2025
advanceDNA:
Baba....stop the cap....
Which one is 20naira before APC....
...APC that just came into power around 2015.
Lol
I said I spent 20 before APC. That could be 20 years ago. It could be 15 years ago. That's still before APC.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by enemyofprogress: 3:49pm On Jul 05, 2025
I give him 5k everyday, that's 25k per week. Things are too expenses these days.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by SonOfTheRisingS: 3:49pm On Jul 05, 2025
Say No To Poverty and Stingyness in Nigeria by government evil policies...

Some parents here and out there sold their wealth during Nigeria government elections campaigns grin
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by dapadawee(m): 3:49pm On Jul 05, 2025
GloriousGbola:
a meal in my kids school is now 2k - so depending on the school 4k a day may be what they are charging.
preparing food for the kids to take to school daily is an option, but it comes with its own wahala if you dont have a maid.

as things stand - the last born gets food cooked for him to take to school, the older kids buy food in school.
also some schools have a policy against children bringing cooked food to school.

i actually just pay directly to someone handling the food, rather than give the kids the cash.
Am sure you're lying.
Why can't you cook for all kids in the same pot.
Why cook for one and the rest buys food.
U think say I be nanamu.

However pocket money is what we are talking about. Money miscellaneous
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by advanceDNA:
cunny88:
Thats 60k a week, 240k a month and 720k a term.

Thats way too high
Some pple don't look at their expense per annum so they don't know just how much they are wasting....

Imagine banker earning 6M per year
complaining he doesn't have much to show....when we analysed his expense togeda...
cost on DSTV premium is over 400k because he wants to have all stations, table water was a whopping 50k per month(600k per annum).

.. by the time we got to the fuel he burns on generator per night, beer, shawarma, and urgent 10k he sends to the parasites in his life.. he was sad all through the day
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by advanceDNA: 3:55pm On Jul 05, 2025
PlasmaTV:
Lol
I said I spent 20 before APC. That could be 20 years ago. It could be 15 years ago. That's still before APC.
As in 20naira to school for luch?? Are u like 80 years old..
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Capernum: 4:03pm On Jul 05, 2025
advanceDNA:
As in 20naira to school for luch?? Are u like 80 years old..
You are obviously a genz... I used to collect #3, three naira, to my primary school those years and I eat enough beans and yam and collect change. Meanwhile, I'm not up to 40 years old.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by stainzvill(m): 4:04pm On Jul 05, 2025
Make wuna dey lie softly na. Remember say God dey look us
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Gbadugbakun(m): 4:07pm On Jul 05, 2025
stainzvill:
Make wuna dey lie softly na. Remember say God dey look us
I have a friend who's shop is close to my place. He sells baked stuffs, meat pie, egg roll and all. The kids who come there spend over 2k. I kid you not. Some buy 2 meat pie which is 2k plus coke. Making 2k5. Our money no get value again.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by sprints1: 4:19pm On Jul 05, 2025
I taught a child like that so obese she is just 14 but chronic hormonal imbalance what o meant by that is she is so obese and can eat 7 times a day. She mostly buy junks. Her parents give a her lot of pocket money and her hygiene issues is quite terrible. Sometimes it is even obvious to the class and school is on her period. She even leaks in class. But the stupid school doesn't care about hygiene and sanitation. Complained to them dem negedo even the VP sef no neat.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by dododawa1: 4:35pm On Jul 05, 2025
Without food ₦600_₦700


With food ₦200_₦300



Na my own I dey talk ooooooooooo
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by PlasmaTV: 4:50pm On Jul 05, 2025
advanceDNA:
As in 20naira to school for luch?? Are u like 80 years old..
Lol
No, I'm not 80.
That's to tell you how bad APC has wrecked the economy, my bro.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by IJAYA001(m): 4:51pm On Jul 05, 2025
How much is she given you in a year as her sibling, if zero then don't Carry her matter for head.

IRE O
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by FalseProphet1(m): 5:19pm On Jul 05, 2025
SlavaUkraini:
Baba want start to dey collect tithe oooooooooo grin grin
If I no collect tithes wetin I gain.

Economy hard abeg, to see vision no easy. You gats chop belly full before you go fit see anything.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by yemmit90: 5:20pm On Jul 05, 2025
pocohantas:
Lucky kids! They are earning more than many Nigerians
Very very lucky, but I think their mother need to be cautious with the way she spoiled them if she is not a very wealthy person. If she is giving them 12k now at secondary school level just for breakfast and lunch, it means they will be collecting 50k per day when they reach higher institutions.

The question is, would her income still be able to fund that lifestyle.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by bluefilm: 5:28pm On Jul 05, 2025
All I know is that people still get money in this country
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Aarenasbaba(m): 5:46pm On Jul 05, 2025
Asake would eat at home everyday and go with take away, if there are biscuits and drinks at home, no kobo but if they’re not….. average of 500 daily…. My Asake is in nursery one
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by mukthar2000(m): 5:58pm On Jul 05, 2025
You better advice that ur anuty very well to stop digging her early grave with that her flashy life style, so that so that her own story would not be more than that little girl in chrustland school at Allen.


She fit be single mother shaaa, those baba Alaye always spend for her .
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by advanceDNA: 5:59pm On Jul 05, 2025
Capernum:
You are obviously a genz... I used to collect #3, three naira, to my primary school those years and I eat enough beans and yam and collect change. Meanwhile, I'm not up to 40 years old.
Baba. Stop the cap... which one is 3 Naira..
U pple should stop all these lamba
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Oomardesigns: 6:04pm On Jul 05, 2025
People get money o

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Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Ilekokonit: 6:26pm On Jul 05, 2025
Nazgul:
Her first daughter in SS2 uses an iPhone which was bought by her.

Her first daughter is just 15, yet she's so fat that you can mistake her for a 25 year old. It's not good for her health.
Apart from the obesity part, there is no amount of money a parent can give a female child that is too much.

If you don't give her enough pocket money, some predator for example a Nigerian politician may use his stolen funds to lure and corrupt her like they've already done by turning the daughters of the common man to their mistresses.

Also, when I was growing up, a lot of boys used to "lift" their parents properties, jewelries, building materials and at times generators and in one instance their Dads car and sell it for peanuts just to have pocket money to flex. This "may" not have happened if they were given regular pocket money.

Today's world is ultra expensive and parenting does not stop at just providing education, food and clothes for our kids.

God provide for all parents.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by truthhurts2: 6:37pm On Jul 05, 2025
advanceDNA:
As in 20naira to school for luch?? Are u like 80 years old..
I received that a lot of time when the kontri was still in half-sane mode and I'm just looking at 40 right next to me.

I will eat more than enough and still have change left with me inside the #20
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by FalseProphet1(m): 6:39pm On Jul 05, 2025
truthhurts2:
I received that a lot of time when the kontri was still in half-sane mode and I'm just looking at 40 right next to me.
During my schooling I was give 50kobo notes and N1notes as pocket money.

Then most snacks were sold in kobo. Snacks like koroko, kuli kuli, tanfili, sispelebe and many more.

Our naira was so strong then.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Ulunne777(f): 6:48pm On Jul 05, 2025
Kobicove:
Why would day secondary school have a policy against students bringing cooked from from home? undecided

This is the first time I would be hearing of such
Like things are happening.
Haaaa!!
Me that cooks every morning and the school's reject it.
Chimooo!
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Topman0001(m): 6:50pm On Jul 05, 2025
My two kids go to school with N200 daily.
So I spend 400 naira for their pocket money daily
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Coly2012(m): 6:53pm On Jul 05, 2025
Let the children eat very well at home in the morning, and give them #500 each to get snacks, it may be just biscuit Borns or something to just hold themselves before getting home in the afternoon, it's a pity we are bringing up lazy children in this our generation with the way we dish out money and always want to make them comfortable.
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by Ulunne777(f):
advanceDNA:
Baba. Stop the cap... which one is 3 Naira..
U pple should stop all these lamba
Lol,how old are you?
I'm nearing mid 30s and my church offering then was 1 naira out of it I would use 50kobo to buy I pack of tiger nut,1 groundnut and 1 colored ice cream and give God the other half. grin grin grin grin

Every morning I would be given #50 to go buy family bread,10 in a pack for breakfast at the bakery close to our house.
I never went to school with money bcoz our lunches were packed everyday and my family was comfortable.
This was late 90s btw
So #20 would be early 2000 depending on state
Re: Parents How Much Do You Give Your Kids As Pocket Money To Take To School? by advanceDNA: 7:02pm On Jul 05, 2025
Ulunne777:
Lol,how old are you?
I'm nearing mid 30s and my church offering then was 1 naira out of it I would use 50kobo to buy I pack of tiger nut,1 groundnut and 1 colored ice cream and give God the other half.

Every morning I would be given #60 to go buy family bread,10 in a pack for breakfast at the bakery close to our house.
I never went to school with money bcoz our lunches were packed everyday and my family was comfortable.
This was late 90s btw
So #20 would be early 2000 depending on state
Now u don change am to 50kobo??..::baba you are just exaggerating
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