₦airaland Forum

Nnamdipapa:
Ok, today I was out to do an oil change and decided to branch by my favorite Afghani store where I usually buy provisions when in the vicinity. Now, I came across an organic crate of egg for $16.99, 30 medium sized eggs in a crate.
Now, I remembered I spoke with a friend in Lagos last week who priced a similar crate of egg at 6000Naira, Yes ! you heard me right! 6000Naira! Folks in Nigeria do not know how good they have it Living in Nigeria so next time you complain about Nigeria, remember a fresh organic crate of egg goes for N6000 and things are way cheaper in Nigeria compared to the western countries.

So, there is something that should make one happy living in Nigeria
I am waiting on pins and needles for the minimum wage crew.

How much are u earning per hour there. And how much is your take home at the end of a day.
You guys abroad are just insensitive to know that average Nigerian salary is less than 100k. Some even earn less than 50k with this econonmy

Dotherightthing:
People earn more from other runs their salary. Will you guys ever get this? I once saw man tip a security guard at the ATM 6k or more after withdrawing cash.

The question is, how many percentage of Nigerians can afford to tip a security guard?
So because one man tip security 6k its now evidence that Nigerians are doing well. Keep deluding yourselves in the little cocoon of deception that you have built for yourselves.

SeraphicWind:
These you peoples annoying comparisons is getting stale day by day. Very annoying.

It is just like you people want to be mocking people.

I believe you are the USA. Many of us live outside too.

A mechanic making 25 dollar per hour in the USA can afford 2 crates comfortably. Just with 1 hour salary.

A mechanic working in Nigeria even under a notable company cannot even buy half crate with 3 hours salary.

Going by your stale comparison, it requires 12,000 naira to buy just 2 crates. How many mechanics earn 12,000 naira daily not to talk of hourly?

Let us not even talk about civil servants. Many of them earn less than 30k monthly. I mean millions of them.

That means their salaries will finish just buying 5 crates of egg!

What happens to other necessities of life?

Will your one day salary in the USA finish just buying 5 crates of eggs? Let us not talk about 1 month.

Guy please stop. I beg you in the name of God almighty. You are mocking people.

If you have spare cash, support people in Nigeria so that people can eat.

People are mad hungry in that country!

N.B
I live extremely far away from that hellfire on earth.

Bro men like you are few on earth.
God bless you for your beautiful write up.
Don't mind all this privilege indomie generation people.

Pointless thread posted for “engagement.”

SeraphicWind:
These you peoples annoying comparisons is getting stale day by day. Very annoying.

It is just like you people want to be mocking people.

I believe you are the USA. Many of us live outside too.

A mechanic making 25 dollar per hour in the USA can afford 2 crates comfortably. Just with 1 hour salary.

A mechanic working in Nigeria even under a notable company cannot even buy half crate with 3 hours salary.

Going by your stale comparison, it requires 12,000 naira to buy just 2 crates. How many mechanics earn 12,000 naira daily not to talk of hourly?

Let us not even talk about civil servants. Many of them earn less than 30k monthly. I mean millions of them.

That means their salaries will finish just buying 5 crates of egg!

What happens to other necessities of life?

Will your one day salary in the USA finish just buying 5 crates of eggs? Let us not talk about 1 month.

Guy please stop. I beg you in the name of God almighty. You are mocking people.

If you have spare cash, support people in Nigeria so that people can eat.

People are mad hungry in that country!

N.B
I live extremely far away from that hellfire on earth.

You just took the words right out of my mouth! I still don't know why people still make such useless and unintelligent comparisons when they know that earnings per day in these countries far outweighs minimum wage here in Nigeria in a month. A colleague of mine in Australia earns about AUD$180 per hour as a medical doctor. That's about ₦180,000 naira per hour alone. And he works for about 8-10hrs a day. That's like ₦1.8million naira per day as his wages. His HOURLY salary is like 2 times the MONTHLY minimum wage here in Nigeria. So to make comparisons between these advanced nations and a failing country like Nigeria is really stupid to say the least. Some people lack common sense

Nnamdipapa:
I have my tickets for the end of the month already. Nigeria is fun, my friend. You need to learn how to survive and thrive in the system. Nigeria is overall cheaper for me from my research.

Stop comparing apples to oranges. How do you explain to a common man on the street that car of 20 years old aka a 2005 Toyota Corolla is 9.7 million has of 3 months ago?. How can a 20 years old car be worth 10 million naira?
Honestly to me it doesn't make any sense. Nigeria needs to work on its economy. Your alleged research can't and won't work because the strength and the stability of the currency was not placed as a methodology in driving to you conclusion that: "Nigeria is overall cheaper for me from my research"

SeraphicWind:
These you peoples annoying comparisons is getting stale day by day. Very annoying.

It is just like you people want to be mocking people.

I believe you are the USA. Many of us live outside too.

A mechanic making 25 dollar per hour in the USA can afford 2 crates comfortably. Just with 1 hour salary.

A mechanic working in Nigeria even under a notable company cannot even buy half crate with 3 hours salary.

Going by your stale comparison, it requires 12,000 naira to buy just 2 crates. How many mechanics earn 12,000 naira daily not to talk of hourly?

Let us not even talk about civil servants. Many of them earn less than 30k monthly. I mean millions of them.

That means their salaries will finish just buying 5 crates of egg!

What happens to other necessities of life?

Will your one day salary in the USA finish just buying 5 crates of eggs? Let us not talk about 1 month.

Guy please stop. I beg you in the name of God almighty. You are mocking people.

If you have spare cash, support people in Nigeria so that people can eat.

People are mad hungry in that country!

N.B
I live extremely far away from that hellfire on earth.

I paid a mechanic 40k yesterday for two hours of work , that’s way more than 1 crate of egg.

Dotherightthing:
People earn more from other runs their salary. Will you guys ever get this? I once saw man tip a security guard at the ATM 6k or more after withdrawing cash.

So you need to rely on Almajirism as another source of income? Until dey kpai one this motivational speakers others won't learn

Nnamdipapa:
I have my tickets for the end of the month already. Nigeria is fun, my friend. You need to learn how to survive and thrive in the system. Nigeria is overall cheaper for me from my research.

Because you now earn dollars that you converted to Naira. If at all you are living there and earning the dollars. From the way you are carrying yourself I smell a rat.

Anybody telling you Nigeria is not hell is deceiving you. Out here you work so hard for little. Everyday I keep imagining how an average Nigerian is managing to survive in this tinubulation. Both lazy and hardworking people have now turned beggars,yet someone will want to compare Nigeria and USA. It is the same narrative that government push to the gullible ones and they swallow hook line and sinker. If you can survive in Nigeria,you can survive anywhere else in the world.

ceejayluv:
Oga, $16 is one hour work in the USA. 6k naira is 2 days worth of work for a minimum wage earner in Nigeria. It's not cheap here for Nigerians living in Nigeria

How is it 2 days work?
A secondary school teacher earning 30k/monthly earns 30000/22= #1,363 per day that means that you need about 5days work to buy a crate of egg.

Dotherightthing:
1. Minimum wage is for FG/state employees not private companies like banks, telcos, oil companies etc. They are wide apart.

2. 70k is the basic salary which only corpers earn. The least paid civil servant earns NGN110,000.

3. Nigerians NEVER rely on salary alone. There is always one runs on/off the job that augments or surpasses the salary.

4. In the US, rent, healthcare, taxes, bills etc are also high not just the eggs.

Can you be a banker and have a side hustle? It's either you are on your own or stay with the minimum way. Let's a banker earns 250k monthly (that's even Manager's salary ). Subtract the expenses involving power, feeding, healthcare, and renting.

Nnamdipapa:
That is super duper cheap. Also, I love that you don't have to réfrigérate the eggs which means its really organic. Here, it gets spoilt without refrigeration at a certain temperature.

Which country are you in that your egg spoils without refrigeration.
In Canada you may or may not put them in the refrigerator and they wont spoil.

Nnamdipapa:
Take out your mortgage or rent, taxes, car insurance, home insurance, property taxes, huge utility bîls, heating and water and tell me what remains of your $2000. Most are probably gone within the first week of pay.

And you assume Nigerians earning N30,000 don’t pay utility bills because? You drink water from tap, Nigerians buy pure water, pay light bill, security levy, rent, local informal tax from touts all from that 30k.

Truly when God bless you, you go think say others dey play

Where did you buy 10500 am buying 20500 just because am a proud obident. a new Nigeria is possible

LillyandDaisy:
For us who stand on the mandate is #1500 but those that Atikulated #5000, Obident #10500

koning:
Comparatively and relatively speaking, Nigeria is still way cheaper than most countries on this planet. You don't always jump on people living abroad.

A crate of egg for $16?! Do you know what that means to an average American.

Right at my backyard in Nigeria is a poultry where i can get the same crate of organic eggs for N5,000. Sometimes for even less.

Nigeria is still very cheap. Very few people in Southern Nigeria suffer real hunger.

It's stupidity to just look at the cost of goods in isolation! The costs of goods must be placed in tandem with the PURCHASING POWER of the average citizen of that country. That's what makes a good either cheap or expensive. A good that costs $50 might be considered cheap to someone in a country where the minimum wage is $100 per hour, but expensive to someone in a country where the minimum wage is $10 per hour. So before you make comparisons, place the costs of goods in tandem with the purchasing power or minimum earnings in that country. The minimum wage in Nigeria is ₦70,000 per month or #2,500 per day or ₦250 per hour for a 10hr working day. That in the US is $7.25 (₦10,875) per hour for federal (or $72.5 for a 10hr working day), and up to $18 per hour (₦27,000) for some states. Now can someone earning that minimum wage in Nigeria of ₦2,500 per day afford a 30 egg crate at ₦6,000? Compare this with an average American earning the federal minimum wage of $72.5 being able to afford a 30 egg crate of $16. So you see your logic is baseless

coleon:
Though I understand where you are coming from and I know that poverty dealt a higher and serious blow to you while growing which is evident in this abnormal analysis you made . To think that you are postulating that eggs which is a common stable food and should form a nutritional diet of every child should only be reserved for special days is not only shallow but a miguided statement in all ramifications. Infact, the WHO recommended one egg per day for every child but in your attempt to support what is not supportable and to show that you probably grew up in a refugee camp you have decided to say eggs should only be eaten on special days like you did and even attach some luxury living to eating eggs!!!
If minimum wage cannot make someone to afford eggs then what else would be affordable to the person , is it rice which is a no go area because a bag is 80k, beans no go area too or potatoes.
You people should not bring your refugee camp mindset to this forum and allow people to live their lives in peace instead of gaslighting them unnecessarily in a bid to make Nigeria and government look ok. I don't blame you but the fellow that brought this stupid comparison to this forum in the first place.

I can bet almost anything that your brain was substituted for potopoto at the hospital! The same WHO that you cited, also said to stay away from eggs in the 80s. Minimum wage was never designed to be the standard wage, it was never designed for adults to stay there all their working years, it was meant as entry level, by 5 to 10 years of experience you should be making double or triple minimum wage but as usual most of una are stagnant and unskillful!

My analogy still stands true, most households in the 80s only ate eggs on special days usually weekends, the ones making minimum wage back then were not stuffing their mouths with eggs every day!

Peacecore:
Oga diaspora you're causing nuisance here.
Come back let's exchange location.
I know this is the easiest way to mock those in Nigeria but God will help us in Jesus name, amen.

Lmao 😂🤣😂🤣 don't mind the guy. I don't even believe he is living abroad and earning dollars, he just wants to press necks. I have been living in the US for years but I will never put of such write up because the comparison is baseless.

Nnamdipapa:
Point of correction, Nigeria is not hellfire, I should be there next week to enjoy my life

you for stay make the money na.

Nnamdipapa:
You better pity yourself if you cannot afford simple flights to Nigeria. I got a one way ticket from Toronto to Lagos for $3,200 on Royal Air Maroc.
If your earn dollars in Nigeria, have your own home with solar power, good security in a double gated estate and spend in Naira, Nigeria can be HEAVEN ON EARTH.
Never make the mistake to assume everyone has the same experience in Nigeria and if you cannot afford a flight from Denmark, you might be better off in Nigeria.
Africa is the next ftontier for investments opportunities as the west is getting saturated.

Wow at bolded. I would never spend that on a single flight. Not if someone's life wasn't at stake or some other serious situation.
That amount would help many schools kids from our charity organisation on ground.

Yes, I have spent almost 3 times the bolded for a family's summer holiday, adjusted for today's inflation.
Air Maroc don hammer.

As for the double-gated house, that suggests an elitist mentality. No country serious about going forward would compel citizens to live in a double-gated housing just to be safe and live a normal life.
Put yourself in the shoes of 80% of the people, the majority who struggle.

I used to go to 9ja at least once or twice yearly around 25 to 10 years ago. Now I don't. The poverty is too much there. It's sad to see.
May be you can lock yourself up somewhere safe in 9ja and pretend all is well.

jamafa:
16.88 dollars is not 12k. 16.88 dollars in naira is 25k+.

A create of 🥚 in my area is 5200,5300. It's 25k in UK. That's 5*

Since dull comparison is now a thing, Minimum wage in Nigeria is 397 naira per hour. In the US and UK it's above 15 thousand naira. That's 37*

hosemujica:
I paid a mechanic 40k yesterday for two hours of work , that’s way more than 1 crate of egg.

And you believe the entire 40k you paid him is for workmanship?

Nnamdipapa:
Take out your mortgage or rent, taxes, car insurance, home insurance, property taxes, huge utility bîls, heating and water and tell me what remains of your $2000. Most are probably gone within the first week of pay.

There are opportunities for two jobs or more abroad. In Nigeria to even see a job is hard. Comparing Nigeria to USA in terms of standard of living is baseless and senseless