michlins:
They would call you corrupt soon. Fact is that if you aren't a politician, you na sufferhead

Selfish set of individuals. All I see here is complaint about their own wealth.
Not one of them is helping any Nigerian.
We will be sitting here looking and suffering, while the Western world will be sending NGOs and United nations into our villages to help suffering and sick people.
Theses ones only know how to finish their parent's money and run to london.
Useless set of complainers.

GidiWoodsMan:
The question is what did their parents actually do to afford that lifestyle for them back in the day? 3.5 mil per term school is definitely not for the middle class, even less 20 years ago. So why don't people like him just do what the parents did, continue running the family business and just keep getting richer?

My guess is that there was never any business to begin with. Maybe their parents were the jobbers who brought Nigeria to its knees in the first place, now they are either retired or dead, so no more access to free money. Of course the kids of today's political class and their proxies are the ones attending 3.5 million per term schools now. And guess what? Themselves and their parents are eating the future of Nigeria, today. Those kids will surely come back here too, to lament when their parents are dead.

Some people were trained on how to spend money but not how to multiply it.

If you have thought in schools before you will understand better. This kids don't know how their parents hustle to ger rich so after the death of their parents they sell off their properties. The writer shouldn't have place all the blame on Nigerian situation after all many of them are children of political elites.

GavelSlam:


Where ?
UK?
USA?
Canada?
Scandinavia?

You don't produce anything but want to live like Jay-Z.

Nigerians and their sense of entitlement.

De-industralization is a deliberate act in Nigeria,we are programmed to consume what is produced,and these people and their agents want to keep it that way..

GavelSlam:
They are the elite based on the 'hustle' of their parents.

Question now is, what is their hustle?

What are their expectations?

If they have a car and home already, I'm assuming they want more.

All well and good, but is that a realistic expectation?

If you have all these, then your only rightful complaint should be issues relating to insecurity.

Wherever else you find yourself you would hardly have more than a car and home.

I think you make quite a valid point, because according to the guy, all of them have successful businesses or careers. So what more does he demand from Nigeria?

At first I thought his points resonated but now it seems entitled and unrealistic.

CodeTemplar:


May envy and jealousy not consume your brain.
Were they isolated from the society totally? So because they have rich parents they must carry that tag for the rest of their lives. The average working class rich kids still ends up interacting with the world

What is the definition of "rich kids"?

You people are controlled by money, you worship at the altar of money. Everything is money to you people.

You, in particular, make mockery of public schools and their fees. Is that necessary? Now you talk of "rich kids" of the working class. In Nigeria there is no such thing.

I once went for enquiries on some volunteer work as part of my desire to give back to the society where ever I find myself. I could see a lot of London schooled vapid senseless children who could not answer my questions. These are your working class rich kids, I presume, who you feel interact with the world. They do not. In Nigeria they are worshipped by lower staff who are even older than them. They are at the important desks and know nothing about why they are there or how they got there.

Pls let me repeat what i said on LIB again cos this is the story of my life. My dad built a filling station in 1998. At the time we did a certificate of value and it was valued at 8 million Naira in 1998. 8 Million Naira was 400,000 Dollars ( 1 naira to 20 dollars). I wanted to cry when we done another certificate of value this year, It was valued at 15 million naira ( 40,000 dollars) so before i started crying i asked my dad, why did he believe in the Nigerian dream, assuming he sold the property for 8 million 20 years ago and went and jejely bought a property in the uk or in the US with his 400,000 dollars,

He would have been a millionaire in dollars now cos 400,000 dollars 20 years ago is probably something else now in the SAME CURRENCY.

Nigeria why ??

So even me now i wonder how would i be able to meet up with my dad achievements just right about the same age he done it too i am approaching now.

blizard44:


Are you better off?

Things are simply hard for the general population.

This is not Karma.
You either still don't get it or pretending not to .

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Water down pass garri.

Mine is not to come and complain on Social media, nor boast about the successes in my life. As long as I've used social media, I have never done either. And sadly, you will never know what my personal circumstances are.
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Well at least those who went to Atlantic hall, flaunting their parents wealth with reckless abandon, their eyes are opening small now.

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

Its not a sense of entitlment, he is basically saying his generational wealth is way less than imaginable. Even to the extent that he cannot even afford the same priviledges his parents gave to him, despite the possibility of them passing on the same wealth to him.

In other words, there was indeed a country

No thanks to the wicked ruler, watch and see how zombies will come attack you by calling you names like looters and thiefs

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

What he is saying is that they may not be able to afford such for their kids because of economic hardship unlike the good old days of fair and friendly economic policies.

adonainana:
Pls let me repeat what i said on LIB again cos this is the story of my life. My dad built a filling station in 1998. At the time we did a certificate of value and it was valued at 8 million Naira in 1998. 8 Million Naira was 400,000 Dollars ( 1 naira to 20 dollars). I wanted to cry when we done another certificate of value this year, It was valued at 15 million naira ( 40,000 dollars) so before i started crying i asked my dad, why did he believe in the Nigerian dream, assuming he sold the property for 8 million 20 years ago and went and jejely bought a property in the uk or in the US with his 400,000 dollars,

He would have been a millionaire in dollars now cos 400,000 dollars 20 years ago is probably something else now in the SAME CURRENCY.

Nigeria why ??

So even me now i wonder how would i be able to meet up with my dad achievements just right about the same age he done it too i am approaching now.

If the Twitter writer had stated​what you did how you did it, I'm sure people would've understood him better.

Instead it's about arrogance v riches.

Dacronym:
Very Interesting Stuff, the Nigeria Nobody talks About. The real Nigeria! Can You Imagine? Atlantic Hall Of those Days? Lol

NLers pls help me oh, i was Born with a Wooden Spoon. Customised Soccer Jerseys For Sale 10k only per Jersey. Thanks ✌️

Atlantic hall dat we normally bounce from entering our school then they go just remain gentle through out
Great Finbarian Pls hala yur old boy here

Dacronym:
Very Interesting Stuff, the Nigeria Nobody talks About. The real Nigeria! Can You Imagine? Atlantic Hall Of those Days? Lol

NLers pls help me oh, i was Born with a Wooden Spoon. Customised Soccer Jerseys For Sale 10k only per Jersey. Thanks ✌️

u



Atlantic hall dat we normally bounce from entering our school then they go just remain gentle through out
Great Finbarian Pls hala yur old boy here

realmedia:
Nigerian man recounts how his ''N3.5m per term'' secondary school reunion turned into a tale of woes about Nigeria

It is quite an interesting read. Read his tweets below...

Happen that the original blog that carried these news was ommitted, and the blogger is here on NL.
Lets always give credit to our sources

GidiWoodsMan:
The question is what did their parents actually do to afford that lifestyle for them back in the day? 3.5 mil per term school is definitely not for the middle class, even less 20 years ago. So why don't people like him just do what the parents did, continue running the family business and just keep getting richer?

My guess is that there was never any business to begin with. Maybe their parents were the jobbers who brought Nigeria to its knees in the first place, now they are either retired or dead, so no more access to free money. Of course the kids of today's political class and their proxies are the ones attending 3.5 million per term schools now. And guess what? Themselves and their parents are eating the future of Nigeria, today. Those kids will surely come back here too, to lament when their parents are dead.

I went to a private primary school (not Atlantic Hall, not in Lagos) back in the day

1.Parents had side hustle....my mum had to start a business, and my dad bought shares.

2.Parents sacrificed well well. No new clothes for Christmas, no shopping in Leventis or Kingsway, savings, savings, savings.

3.Did I mention my parents were both lecturers whose salary was bad..so bad that one Hausa trader my mom knew was shocked when she told him her salary. (this was 1980's//90's )

4. Fortunately the university my parents worked for provided housing....(though that was at the cost of a chunk of my dad's salary)

Tellemall:


What is the definition of "rich kids"?

You people are controlled by money, you worship at the altar of money. Everything is money to you people.

You, in particular, make mockery of public schools and their fees. Is that necessary? Now you talk of "rich kids" of the working class. In Nigeria there is no such thing.

I once went for enquiries on some volunteer work as part of my desire to give back to the society where ever I find myself. I could see a lot of London schooled vapid senseless children who could not answer my questions. These are your working class rich kids, I presume, who you feel interact with the world. They do not. In Nigeria they are worshipped by lower staff who are even older than them. They are at the important desks and know nothing about why they are there or how they got there.

May you not die of inferiority complex.
According to your claim, you once went somewhere...and saw some people ... then you quickly generalize based on you feeling of inferiority that has metamorphosed into full blown hate that all working class rich kids are like that. Don't go and improve on your life. Be counting comments and monitoring who condemns public universities there man.

Your eye go soon clear.

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

Uncle stop reading with prejudice. He's only trying to make a point. Quickly grab the point and stop trying to misunderstand what he said.

In case you still don't understand, he's trying to say that he and so many other Nigerians whom we PERCIEVE as elite are still leaving the country and it calls for concern. Any other thing you reason outside of this is just your own way of bringing controversy

CodeTemplar:
May you not die of inferiority complex.
According to your claim, you once went somewhere...and saw some people ... then you quickly generalize based on you feeling of inferiority that has metamorphosed into full blown hate that all working class rich kids are like that. Don't go and improve on your life. By counting comments and monitoring who condemns public universities there man.

Your eye go soon clear.

What inferiority complex?

You see the problem with you and your kind? You assume that once people don't agree with you, they are poor. Do not jump to insult everyone you meet online.

I am not Nigerian to begin with, so some of your rants above, I do not even get them.

You sound disgusting and bitter. You think you are better than everyone else, but you don't know everyone else. There is no thread that you do not use to belittle your fellow countrymen with your wack pride about attending a school the people in public universities believe you only entered because you are not intelligent and your entry results were so poor.

That you went to one of your mediocre private universities in Nigeria is not enough to make you speak of inferiority. You are inferior to me already. Go.

Maybe you think you are a rich kid. You aren't. You're poor to me. Your hatred of your superiors will one day get you into sticky trouble. May baseless ego help you fall hard.

GidiWoodsMan:
The question is what did their parents actually do to afford that lifestyle for them back in the day? 3.5 mil per term school is definitely not for the middle class, even less 20 years ago. So why don't people like him just do what the parents did, continue running the family business and just keep getting richer?

My guess is that there was never any business to begin with. Maybe their parents were the jobbers who brought Nigeria to its knees in the first place, now they are either retired or dead, so no more access to free money. Of course the kids of today's political class and their proxies are the ones attending 3.5 million per term schools now. And guess what? Themselves and their parents are eating the future of Nigeria, today. Those kids will surely come back here too, to lament when their parents are dead.

there was a comment someone made in that Twitter thread. He said that Buhari has successfully demonized wealth and made people to think being wealthy is akin to bring corrupt.
that's exactly what you're doing.
also, he said 3.5 million per year. This OP posted the wrong thing

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

Yea you're right. While I know what he was trying to say as per the regular economic issues, his entitlement mentality kept popping up and killing his delivery.

Just because their own parents made enough to aend them to a 3.5m school doesn't mean they should feel entitled to the same privilege. After all, most elites are still the ones in the corridors of power, so what happened to them?

Poor people become rich, rich become poor. If you don't have money, you don't have it, simple.

It's very pathetic honestly, the situation the country is, is very saddening. Leaving Nigeria cannot and will not be the solution, if we cannot challenge our political elite, if we cannot stop praising corruption, if we cannot stand up for our right, if we still support tribalism against experience and intelligence and good leadership, if we can't hold our leaders accountable on how our money is being spent. Americans, Britain, France, Chinese, etc are still colonising us mentally and economically and yet we are going out there to grow there own society. While they do little than exploitation down here in Africa.

Come to think of it the country we are running to was built on some people sweat and sacrifice but nobody in Nigeria is ready to sacrifice anything for our dear country. Our only concern is our life and family. Imagining the wrought in every sector that your and my father is involve in.

Until we all rush to the street, we disobey what they call constituted authority and being deviant to all this national assembly stupidity. National assembly that should represent you and I are sitting there sharing money all the policy and bills that will make life worthwhile for you and I are abandon while the one that will swell there pulse and company are being appended or pass.

What have they done to insecurity, Power, and the likes of MTN and multi choice are treating Nigeria the way they like what they cannot do in south Africa is being done here. Even Chinese and Lebanese are enslaving people in this country, or the Indians.

Dangote Cement in Bene and Ghana please check the amount is being sold there compare to the amount we are buying at home.

Everything still boils down to our attitude of accepting fate and praying as long as we can afford it no problem. Even when those things are wrong.

The solution of our problem is revolution is not necessary bloody or fight with guns but protest and disobeying constituted authority till they obey the masses because a country is for the people living in it not for the few controlling it.

uuzba:

This is simple Karma.
They were the ones forming big boy in the days, spraying money and flauting wealth.
That time is over now. Now they are facing hardship.

same hardship you're facing, except that they're better than you.
keep being happy in your poverty

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

Not exactly arrogance bt the reality and if he shud say more u might get more pissed bt there’s no modest way to describe it so u get the picture. However being wealthy back then due to their parents doesn’t mean they are on same or a better level now especially for those who didn’t know how to build on such opportunities cos comfort doesn’t make u hungry for success, The struggle does.

GavelSlam:


Where ?
UK?
USA?
Canada?
Scandinavia?

You don't produce anything but want to live like Jay-Z.

Nigerians and their sense of entitlement.

I get angry wen I see idiot like you speak, who is talking about living like Jay z, is asking for our basic amenities now sense of entitlement?
Is it now a crime to ask govt for constant light, good road, good health care. No one is saying govt should give us everything but what we deserve.

[quote author=LadySarah post=77607422]I see no arrogance here.Igbo si ''o na ara ahu ya arawa ahu' '.Before they will trace him to Ikoyi ,just like the ph fishhead lady that flaunted her husbands earnings and they met Their waterloo that night.

What he said is something to reflect on.Nigerians are getting poorer.Before You Come at me with your rice nonsense,check the price of our former foreign rice against our local now.Can the poor even cook palm oil rice with it?I met a woman last yr who sincerely begged me for rice that her family now eats sweet potatoes for months now .Rice is a luxury to ppl now


Phedc since last yr announced 3 days on 3 days off power for us against regular 20 hrs plus Light we were enjoying.now Its 5 days off 3 days on.The enterpreneurship we are preaching,how does the common man power his business?

Npower volunteers opened a thread here to mobilize themselves and Vote in Buhari again because of #30k stipends.Graduates selling Their rights away for






N-power sold theirs for N30k. Bro, its a bit fair.
Those that sold theirs for N500 on the queue nko.

If you want to sell your vote, calculate your annual income x 4 years. I will clap for you and hail you

tolanibae:
50 shades of arrogance has overshadowed the main point he’s trying to pass across

Its good that people are speaking up but this one’s sense of entitlement because his parents made it in the 60s, went to 3.5 million secondary school and built house in VI is somehow.

There's no pride in what he said, he's parent were rich, he was born with a golden spoon, but life in Nigeria is now getting hard for even the rich, what about the poor.

tactius:


I went to a private primary school (not Atlantic Hall, not in Lagos) back in the day

1.Parents had side hustle....my mum had to start a business, and my dad bought shares.

2.Parents sacrificed well well. No new clothes for Christmas, no shopping in Leventis or Kingsway, savings, savings, savings.

3.Did I mention my parents were both lecturers whose salary was bad..so bad that one Hausa trader my mom knew was shocked when she told him her salary. (this was 1980's//90's )

4. Fortunately the university my parents worked for provided housing....(though that was at the cost of a chunk of my dad's salary)

God bless you for this post. There are parents who had to live almost like rats just to be able to afford private schools for their wards
There are also students who just secured their admission in CU with faith and had to struggle to pay school fees all through.
The problem with these hateful creatures attacking rich folks is their inability to mind their business in life. They are always comparing themselves to the next man.

You don't know what the other man has put in place to afford what he can afford, you just see him having things and the next thing that comes to you mind is "they think they are better than us".

A friend of mine who supported buhari the first time bur latter changed the second time told me one day that if i knew the level people traveled out of nigeria that i would be cursing this government daily.

charliboy654:

I get angry wen I see idiot like you speak, who is talking about living like Jay z, is asking for our basic amenities now sense of entitlement?
Is it now a crime to ask govt for constant light, good road, good health care. No one is saying govt should give us everything but what we deserve.

I take it this is what this thread is about?

How when they were in Atlantic Hall, they enjoyed 24 hour electricity or perhaps it is about the pipeborne water that they enjoyed at their various locations.

You aren't the sharpest tool.

dokyOloye:

I swear.
Buhari and liar Mohammed have successfully hijacked people's brain to believe poverty is a virtue.

You can say that a thousand times. Are we jinxed to have such narrative?

GidiWoodsMan:
The question is what did their parents actually do to afford that lifestyle for them back in the day? 3.5 mil per term school is definitely not for the middle class, even less 20 years ago. So why don't people like him just do what the parents did, continue running the family business and just keep getting richer?

My guess is that there was never any business to begin with. Maybe their parents were the jobbers who brought Nigeria to its knees in the first place, now they are either retired or dead, so no more access to free money. Of course the kids of today's political class and their proxies are the ones attending 3.5 million per term schools now. And guess what? Themselves and their parents are eating the future of Nigeria, today. Those kids will surely come back here too, to lament when their parents are dead.

As usual, anybody that complains was a beneficiary of free money, according to APC sadists and zombies.


My mom is a hard working woman. In 2012, I knew how much she was earning. She even had much responsibilities then compared to now. Yet, she did not complain.

I know how much she earns now, but unfortunately, she is now poorer than she was in 2012. Just yesterday, she called me and was complaining bitterly.

One thing I have come to realize is that most people who support APC are poor sadists who think that because they could not make it, no one else should. And if you try to complain, they call you a beneficiary of free money. Sadistic animals. They don't believe someone can make a lot of money through honest means.


Before this animal in asọ Rock came in, my friend, an architect was making a lot of money. The real estate industry was booming. Even civil servants who were just earning little could afford to build at least a 3 bedroom residential apartment for themselves. But what is happening today, people could barely feed, talk less of building houses. Maybe those civil servants were beneficiaries of free money.

Tellemall:


What inferiority complex?

You see the problem with you and your kind? You assume that once people don't agree with you, they are poor. In my early grade school, my school fees were paid in thousands of US$ per month. I did not grow up in Nigeria and I'm not Nigerian. Do not jump to insult everyone you meet online.

I am not Nigerian to begin with, so some of your rants above, I do not even get them.

You sound disgusting and bitter. You think you are better than everyone else, but you don't know everyone else. There is no thread that you do not use to belittle your fellow countrymen with your wack pride about attending a school the people in public universities believe you only entered because you are not intelligent and your entry results were so poor.

That you went to one of your mediocre private universities in Nigeria is not enough to make you speak of inferiority. You are inferior to me already. Go.

Maybe you think you are a rich kid. You aren't. You're poor to me. Your hatred of your superiors will one day get you into sticky trouble. May baseless ego help you fall hard.

With all the phantom superiority complex you attributed to me, I have never come here to say I attended a private school and I challenge you to show me where I ever made such comment.
I never boast of attending schools of xyz thousand US Dollars in my life. If you read between the lines well, I don't go an attack without feeling attacked first. The public school system you accuse me of attacking has been belittling private schools even before the first private uni graduates their pioneering set so if you want to speak on private-pubic schools attacks here be factual and take it from the aggressors to make your comment fairer.
In fact there is little or nothing tying to me to any private school here. I challenge you on that.