GavelSlam:


Your speciality is the sexuality page.

I don't know what you are even doing here.

bishopkay:


I'd comment on only the bolded. My guy running a business successfully in Nigeria isn't easy ooo speaking from experience. The days of our fathers and now no be same ooo.

To keep my farm afloat, I have to run a plant at least 12 hours per day, I have to pay the local vigilante and also the police to do special runs/patrol of my premises every night to deter thieves. You pay back breaking taxes with the officers trying desperately to frustrate you since you won't give them something to facilitate it or outrightly give them the money so they do you know what with and so many more.

Worse is I don't even live in the state, talk less the town due to high rate of insecurity, indiscriminate police harrassment and other forms of madness. I am a very tempered fellow and I know I won't tolerate such; so for my own safety and sanity, I left. Now imagine running there monthly to access things and you still have to keep afloat. On the way, one inbred bastard policeman on a check point would say you look too young to be well dressed and you should bring your phone for inspection? Hmmm

I have seen many businesses I mean old ones fold up. High costs of fuel and production, high cost of rent whereas no increase in living standards. Many people just do business this days so that it won't seem like they don't have anything doing, neither do they want to be shamed and laughed at they had a failed business.

Life for a young man especially and woman in Nigeria is not easy ooo. So please take note

anungangampu:
i dont blame you..sycophancy is a mental illness and you are suffering from one,.

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.

dokyOloye:

If it comes across as arrogance, then something is wrong with you.Probably an inferiority complex.
Dude is probably a silver spoon who is stating it as it is.

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.

afroxyz:


Nigerians psychology has been so twisted. of all the truths the poster was trying to profess, it's his social status she was interested in. I don't know who is worse in this country. Nigerians or the government.

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.

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.

LadySarah:
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
#30k?Isnt it cringe worthy?

Insecurity,purchasing power Very low,Its a sad situation

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.

GavelSlam:


You are a striving young man and you produce.

No one said it would be easy but you would get there someday.

Nigerian parents born like rabbits putting more pressure on the few resources.

In addition, they cut corners, provided inadequate education to their offsprings whilst they engendered a culture of corruption...Anything goes.

No Jupiter would change Nigeria but Nigerians.

They can continue to compare a $70 per barrel economy to a $110 per barrel economy of the immediate past, for they accept that it is all in the past and they must forge ahead.

Those talking about attending institutions that cost 3 million should continue to run the factories their parents ran to sustain such outlays.

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.

LadySarah:

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

blizard44:
Pride?

I don't see pride here!

If you read with open mind , you'd notice that he is harping on him and his likes that we consider privileged , for emphasis.

If the sons of Big Men and former Big Men, that are still by our estimation - Big men , are roasting and sweating, what hope is in for us hoi polloi?

If you have the means, run!
Run , broda.
Because Nigeria don enter one chance.

Everyday we wake up to news of bleak and bleaker future.

And you think this ship is not sinking?

Even Buhari talk say una never see anything. He promise say this four-years go worse.

Hedonini:
Let them run if they want. We die here. I've had the 'open ticket' to run away for years now, but I've not and will not take it. We die Here.

There was Nigeria before Buhari, and there'll be Nigeria after Buhari.

The kind of obscene wealth I'm pursuing, I can only make it here. No way in hell am I going to work for $12/hour and live life like a plebeian like most Africans do over there.

I'll rather secure the bag of loot here. If I die, I die here.

LadySarah:
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
#30k?Isnt it cringe worthy?

Insecurity,purchasing power Very low,Its a sad situation

Grupo:


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.

INDUSTRIALFAN:
no. There is no sense of entitlement in what he hast typed. You are just upset. Calm down and get his point. He is wealthy because of his parents and that he acknowledged. By all standards, he isn't supposed to be struggling to keep up with an affluent lifestyle but the economy is haaaarrrrd. If people like him re beginning to feel the economy's bite, what he is trying to say is "then he can only imagine how terrible it must be for those below where he is."

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.

afroxyz:


Nigerians psychology has been so twisted. of all the truths the poster was trying to profess, it's his social status she was interested in. I don't know who is worse in this country. Nigerians or the government.

bishopkay:


Until police catch you when you come out to piss for gutter for night or just taking an evening stroll to go buy food by 8 pm.

When they beat the living hell out of you and frame you up as a kidnapper, or drug dealer or even shoot you and put a gun on you that's when you'd know Nigeria is not worth it.

Funny enough I had such a mindset at a time but now, I can't wait to get out! Except you are Into unmentionables, you can also do what you do here to make that "obscene" Money over there then when you come to Nigeria for holiday, you can hire a police escort!

badliman:
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.

tactius:



I came across your post.

What is happening in Nigeria is called oil shock.

We were here before. In 1980, my dad and mom earned about N500 as salary combined. With that salary they were able to look after themselves well, and send a relative of my dad's to school.

In 1980, the oil price was at its highest....and had been since 1973....so things were good. Back then, salary earners like my dad could even afford a new car. NEW car...not these second hand jalopies.

In 1982, oil prices crashed, and so did the economy.

By 1983, things were so bad that Nigerians were eating from trashcan

Buhari took over on the last day of 1983....the oil price continued to fall, IBB took over in 1985, partially removed subsidy...improved econmomy for 2 years, then things went back to square one.

By 1988....my parent's salary could not keep them and their family (both lecturers). Back then....side hustle mode activated. That's how we survived till oil prices shot up again in the 2000.

Even if GEJ won, we were heading into a recession...as Ngozi Okonjo Iweala said. And it happened before. The reason why we were prosperous in 2012 was high oil prices above $100 .

On May 29 2015...OIL WAS at $75. By 2016, oil was at $30. Since then it has never gone above $80. The good times are over.

bishopkay:


When obasanjo was in power how much was crude per barrel Bro? It was 27USD per barrel in the year 2000 and kept falling and rising within same range but we had better living standards. As ruthless and kleptomanic as abacha's military regime, the standard of living was good to an extent than what we have now. So you see, it is not about the cost of crude in the market, but about the piloter of the affairs of the country!

I dare say even if crude rises to 200usd per barrel, an inept buhari and his archaic policies would still ensure life is hard for Nigerians while rejoicing we have unseen billions in our national reserves.

Policies are what create wealth in a country my friend. OK how difficult is it for the president to declare a state of emergency on the police force and make a hard stand on police brutality? Have you ever heard him speak about it? No you will only see his Twitter handle tweet about it. A handle he most probably doesn't even know the login to and handled by an aide.

A critical matter like that which could soon degenerate to a full blown lynching and attack of policemen on the streets and the C in C won't say a word about it. Presidents in developed countries come out to address the nation for less!

Do you know this whole police issue alone have made some of our best minds run away from this country and with many more begging and crying at different embassies to run away? Heck I'm even contemplating running too. Preparations already in top gear.

I am an employer of labor. Now what happens to the staff I pay salary to feed his family? What happens to his children my small salary helps him cater for? This is the ripple effect of incompetence which genuine Patriots like me cry out against!

So don't think when people complain it's because there is no free money no that's a bad mindset! I was so dissapointed at the tweets I saw on omotola's page the other day. A renowned actress being accused of staying afloat by corrupt monies, simply because she spoke against the ills happening in the country... Is this how low we've sank as a people?

Mind you no policeman would ever harass her ooo but the poor people whom she speaks for would be the ones castigating her!

olas24u:

People that you left behind will have gained a lot and localize fully and consolidated their positions when you decide to return.so many old men in the UK are regretting staying behind and living misreable lives.You are old and taking care of old people,is that not madness

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.

afroxyz:


quick question: what makes you think if you dad went abroad you would be richer than him now?

bishopkay:


You mean if he had used 400k USD 20 years ago to buy a property in the US for example?

You still don't know why sensible people live this country... It's the working system and a HOPE for a better tomorrow... A hope most don't even have again because many people in Nigeria just live life the way it comes to them now LOL

walex2:



I will forever be grateful for this administration for one thing: everybody learn how to work hard and there is no more rent seeking among the elites. please let me know if those who are paying 3.5M per three months would write the same WAEC that those who are going to public schools will write and still come out with better grade. ohh someone will say is because of my poverty mentality but let his father invest half of those school fees from jss1 to ss3 and see the returns on the investment for him in those 6 years if he will ever need to travel again to Canada to hustle.

bishopkay:


My good friend... Don't let experience teach you!

True what you said, not everyone does well over seas but You have to know wise people don't run over seas because of basically work... They go because of their working system! Our system is irredeemably broken and it can't be fixed by these crop of leaders and followers!

Don't forget the pendulum could also swing where people who went there came back to establish something for themselves and see their old friends who refused to take the leap living in penury or outrightly dead!