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Seriously this needs to be curbed.

You notice how security details, people employed to do service they were paid for beg for money.

It is so rampant that if you decide to go to a place to get stuffs as young guy and dress nice you have to put an angry face to avoid being begged.

Imagine having to go to 3 commercial places. Road side people will beg, security will beg, attendant will beg.

If you notice they avoid those older men and women and target young people. I hate it because it means that they see you as vulnerable and an easy catch because you have money to waste.


Seriously, you see able abled people begging you everywhere. Filling stations attendant force you to add money when you want to transfer for fuel or pay card. You will definitely be begged.


The issue is that begging has become so rampant that even someone using an iPhone 12 will beg you and they look comfortable.

The worst is that you don’t even know who needs help and who wants to beg so they can buy colos or smoke.

What is happening?
Sometimes this is making it hard for those in need to actually get help when almost everywhere it is normal to beg.

*Flie photo attached by admiin for illustration.

Begging used to be shameful and it takes a lot of strength to do

Now boys beg, girls beg and when you tell them what you do to get money and advise some they run. Imagine someone begging you for money saying he can’t do the legit work that pays your bills. It doesn’t work that way.

The worst is that the average Nigerian just allow sufferhead and we all know the root of the problems is those in power. But we prefer to beg others.


People will beg for money to Bleep, smoke and gamble.

It is what it is.

casdoruche:
Seriously this needs to be curbed.

You notice how security details, people employed to do service they were paid for beg for money.

It is so rampant that if you decide to go to a place to get stuffs as young guy and dress nice you have to put an angry face to avoid being begged.

Imagine having to go to 3 commercial places. Road side people will beg, security will beg, attendant will beg.


If you notice they avoid those older men and women and target young people. I hate it because it means that they see you as vulnerable and an easy catch because you have money to waste.


Seriously, you see able abled people begging you everywhere. Filling stations attendant force you to add money when you want to transfer for fuel or pay card. You will definitely be begged.


The issue is that begging has become so rampant that even someone using an iPhone 12 will beg you and they look comfortable.


The worst is that you don’t even know who needs help and who wants to beg so they can buy colos or smoke.


What is happening?
Sometimes this is making it hard for those in need to actually get help when almost everywhere it is normal to beg.

My brother the thing just tire me. These days people (especially girls) beg not because they need the money for anything in particular but they just want you to give them your hard earned money.
I don't blame them that much sha, the prevalence of these small small yahoo boys has made them believe that any young guy that is nicely dressed must be a yahoo boy with free money to throw around.
The most annoying thing is that name PABLO they call when begging.

Pathokpo:
My brother the thing just tire me. These days people (especially girls) beg not because they need the money for anything in particular but they just want you to give them your hard earned money.
I don't blame them that much sha, the prevalence of these small small yahoo boys has made them believe that any young guy that is nicely dressed must be a yahoo boy with free money to throw around.
The most annoying thing is that name PABLO they call when begging.

It is very annoying and I try as much as possible to be calm. One thing I learnt is never give money to someone you will have to meet everyday or where you frequent daily. I just need to shun him once and that’s all.

I don’t like a situation where immediately you see me you start running towards me or when I don’t have I feel guilty like say you work for me.

I over heard some people discussing how a young man approached their neighbor with a Cutlass begging them to allow him cut the grass around their house and be paid afterwards. The allowed him cut the grass and paid him #5,000. He finished in less than a hour and moved to another house hold which he was paid even more.

They said the young man told them that it is better than stealing and begging. That is the young man's choice of mindset in finding solution to his financial challenges.

BEGGING IS A DISEASE OF THE MIND!

The most absurd thing is, when you give, they try to turn you to their ATM and the day you tell them you don't have you become a bad person to them.

casdoruche:
It is very annoying and I try as much as possible to be calm. One thing I learnt is never give money to someone you will have to meet everyday or where you frequent daily. I just need to shun him once and that’s all.

I don’t like a situation where immediately you see me you start running towards me or when I don’t have I feel guilty like say you work for me.

The major problem (especially with female begging) is that if you decide to give them some money out of pity, you immediately become a tap where they go to fetch free money anytime they cross your path and whenever you refuse, you become the state enemy number 1.
The best thing is to refuse their demands from the very beginning. It's impossible to satisfy their begging appetite.

It has gotten worse.

Our airport is horrible. Banks, churches, even where I live, the securities there wouldn't let you rest. If you're driving in or out, bye bye sir welcome sir happy weekend sir... Etc. Everywhere you turn to someone is begging you for money.

The other day I was visiting a friend around ayobo so I decided to go to Jendol (supermarket) to buy bread. I love their bread so much.

As I picked up the bread and was heading to the cashier to pay and leave, one able bodied guy just walked up to me and told me in fluent English to pay for him. I looked into his basket and saw it was filled with all sorts of things. So me way just carry bread I no get sense ba. I just looked at him and hissed and continued walking away.

Most people have taken begging as a job cos they make more money from it than people who work legitimately. And it has made people who genuinely need help unable to get it. These days I don't pay any attention to strangers walking up to me to ask for money.

The menace has now spread everywhere. There are some places I've deliberately avoided in recent times because once they see me like this, I must drop something. These are government controlled offices o.

.. Agbero for street sef dey there o. Boys for area sef no dey allow man rest. Begging is now a normal thing to many people out there. No shame at all, kilode? 🤥🤥

Lol this is the faith of Nigerian youth. Since they prefer queueing for rice and coming online to watch gehgeh instead of being productive and holding their government accountable for the menace they go through. But instead they shy away from their home burning but becomes champions on foreign affairs that don't benefit their lives in any way.

More corporate beggers to emerge.


That's why I love how tinubu is punishing them left and right.

Right now in this present Nigeria, you either be a begger or a yahoo boy or a 304 or you're straight jobless, either way obi must be blamed

Na una dey give na.

I don't dole out money anyhow. Nothing like free money in my dictionary.

Work for your money!

Softmirror:
I over heard some people discussing how a young man approached their neighbor with a cutlass begging them to allow him cut the grass around their house and be paid afterwards. The allowed he cut the grass and paid him #5,000. He finished in less than a hour and moved to another house hold which he was paid even more. They said the young man told them that it is better than stealing and begging.

That his the young man's choice of mindset in finding solution to his financial challenges. Most will prefer begging or stealing.

I hate people who fabricate lies or peddle propaganda just to pass across their message.

And dem plenty gidi-gan for the internet.

We are not kindergarten children on Nairaland.

No be only “Less than an hour, Na less than 3 seconds “. Mr. Over Header!

Lol, Northerners take the lead here, here is what I am talking about

casdoruche:
*Flie photo attached by admiin for illustration.

I have one that each time I go out of my way to spare her some change before I left naija she would complain that do I think she is a little child that I will be sending her peanuts 😩. She changes job within six month of employment and will become redundant afterwards. Her excuse is that the job was too hectic for her.
Just because she has means and skills of begging

The new one is car spotters beggars around Ikoyi link bridge roundabout .. nuisance

I don't give and don't even feel bad about not giving in to such begging.

Pathokpo:
My brother the thing just tire me. These days people (especially girls) beg not because they need the money for anything in particular but they just want you to give them your hard earned money.
I don't blame them that much sha, the prevalence of these small small yahoo boys has made them believe that any young guy that is nicely dressed must be a yahoo boy with free money to throw around.
The most annoying thing is that name PABLO they call when begging.

What??

As funny as it sounds that should be feedback on the way you appear.

It should be criminalized with fine. Maybe the culture go reduce.

marlow1962:
Lol this is the faith of Nigerian youth. Since they prefer queueing for rice and coming online to watch gehgeh instead of being productive and holding their government accountable for the menace they go through. But instead they shy away from their home burning but becomes champions on foreign affairs that don't benefit their lives in any way.

More corporate beggers to emerge.


That's why I love how tinubu is punishing them left and right.

Right now in this present Nigeria, you either be a begger or a yahoo boy or a 304 or you're straight jobless, either way obi must be blamed

You have appeared here with your usual wailing.

You go wail and cry beyond 2031

Many of them are actually richer than you can imagine.
Someone used begging to build a one storey building in my village in the early 2000s.

godwinngbede:
Lol, Northerners take the lead here, here is what I am talking about

Wait a minute, do they have an id card to go with ??

Omashe ooo!!

insult them and watch them flip from humble and polite to abusive and aggressive

na then you go know say na hustle

You're not alone in feeling this way.

What you're describing is something that a lot of people—especially younger adults who look like they "have something"—deal with, and it's frustrating. It’s not even just about being asked for money; it’s the expectation that you must give because you look decent, or because you used a smartphone, or wore clean clothes. Somehow, being young and presentable equals “you must be loaded” in their eyes. It’s draining.

And you’re right—it’s not just random people on the street anymore. It’s security guards, fuel attendants, sometimes even staff in shops or public offices—people who are on duty, paid to do a job. That constant “anything for me?” can feel like harassment, and it puts you in this weird emotional spot where saying "no" starts to feel like a crime.

What’s even more disturbing is how strategic it’s become. Like you said, they often don’t bother the older folks—they target the younger ones. There’s a kind of profiling at play. The logic is: you're young, well-dressed, maybe you have a phone that looks expensive, so you must have extra to give. But what they don’t see is the hustle, the rent, the family back home you’re supporting, or the fact that you’re just managing to keep it together.

And yes, it absolutely does make it harder to help people who genuinely need it. Because when everyone’s begging, and some are obviously gaming the system (buying weed or “colos,” like you said), how do you separate the person who skipped a meal from the one who just wants extra cash for habits?

This isn’t just a moral or cultural issue anymore—it’s a reflection of deeper systemic problems. People are underpaid, cost of living is high, unemployment is a mess. But instead of looking to fix that, what’s developing is a culture of informal taxing: people are trying to squeeze whatever they can out of those they think are better off, regardless of whether that’s true.

It’s exhausting. You're not cold-hearted for feeling irritated. You're human. You're allowed to protect your space, your peace, and your pocket. You don’t have to carry the weight of an entire broken system on your shoulders just because you wore clean shoes to the store.

But still—it's okay to have empathy and boundaries. You can care about what's going wrong in society without feeling pressured to be the solution every time someone asks for "something small."

Those giving them has made it a lucrative job that more beggars are now roaming our streets.
The entitlement mentality is another thing entirely.

I have not found it as difficult to keep walking along when begged for money. If I don't want to give, I just look straight ahead.

I admit that I don't do a lot of on-street walking, and so my exposure to the most intrusive type of public begging is probably not representative of what others have encountered.

men and women beg in Nigeria

This country is filled with beggars

The worst is at the airport, by the way how do you expect these people to protect you if our security agencies are also part of the alamajiri begging culture

If you have give them, if you don't just ignore them

The way they are dominating and intentional is even scary. They don't give you room to say no. It's very irritating.
You take your kids to school, teachers and security men will beg.
You park in the market to buy things, security men will beg.

You go to ATM to withdraw, people are behind you to beg. It's very draining. I stopped patronising a mall because their staff beg a lot.

No big deal

We give voluntarily when we have and don't if we don't have.

But will never put up a funny face cos I don't want to be taxed.

Delta State has the highest rate of adult beggars.

Working class and healthy adult will be begging you for money and freebies.

To go drink for beer parlor now na problem. I usually go very far from my location just to sit and drink with peace.

godwinngbede:
Lol, Northerners take the lead here, here is what I am talking about

Jeez. This can't be real.

An association for begging?