I don't believe these calculations.

Do a pint size /cup of carbs, proteins, fat and oil, and vitamins (fruits or veggies). Even excluding cost of cooking, it will be far more than 1k.

If you're not cooking and you're just buying already made food, you may get a stiffly rationed healthy diet so to speak, but not enough to even come close to filling your belly. Maybe 'bite/snack size' food, not 'satiate your hunger' food.

If and only of they mean a healthy diet that still leaves you hungry 30 mins after, then their calculations fit work..

Stale and old

Recycling news from Feb 2024 in May, probably due to lack of any good news to share, or just something to save face from all the lies bursted in recent times.

Lol

Taal17:


July is 2months away.
How do they feed? Then they'll be out of status
When baby is born they cant leave either for another one month at least all things going well cos pregnancy no always dey straight.

Let only wife go back and hopefully they have support back in Nigeria.
He can wait it out finding a job before the date.

best advice in this scenario 💯

onatisi:
This problem is simple common sense economic issue . Increase production ,reduce importation , improve security ,and automatically the naira rate will improve , you can't continually defending the naira artificially and think that will change the realistic value of the fx market. Well we don't even have people within common sense in power anyway .

it is simpler sef. But dem don take lies and deception curse the APC and their hopeless minions. Refined petroleum products gulps 37% of FX. Commonsense dictates that once we can refine our products in Nigeria, there will be a lot of dollars freed up and available. Of course, petrol price will go up to the thousands but the naira will be stronger and better ( this is for those who somehow expect Dangote to reduce petrol price🤣, petrol costs more to refine than diesel, so if diesel is 1k, find X)

But we still dey wait for PH refinery after the third deadline elapsed March 31, and Dangote date remains unknown.

But once you dare call out the lies, deception and propaganda, some unfortunate accursed fellows will say you're unpatriotic.

All those who hailed Buhari for 8 years only to turn around and blame him and have now carried on that same legacy to this one, una no go die better. Your lives will perpetually remain in the state Nigeria is today, one without purpose and direction!

Like the decrepit griller at dem manna would say, NO BE CURSE, NA FACT.

OfeAchi:
I pray it gets to 1900 per dollar. I bought at 1700 some months back thus I need to recoup and make outstanding profits.

I bought at 725, e be like that one na super duper outstanding profit.

Anyway, I ain't selling till the two refineries come on stream. Emi o le je ki Nigeria ba aye mi je. Awon t'aye won ti baje OYO ni e wa. Emi o le join yin ooo🤣

We should be thanking God that japa wave has died down since this year. If to say that japa pressure on FX continued till this year, e go don burst that 2k to 1USD tey tey

maasoap:


Many Nigerians are saboteurs, you have to agree to that. Saboteurs in the sense that many Nigerians are simply buying dollars to keep in order to sell later and make profit, simple as that. Pure currency speculation which is harmful to our local currency and economy.
You even see popular and famous people online encouraging Nigerians to engage in currency speculation. Even teenagers on the streets are buying as low as few dollars for the purpose of speculation.
Nigeria placed ban on whole 41 items from importation under Buhari and it is still in effect till today.

why so pained? Leave your money in naira and watch your money burn, simple as that. I choose not to let my money burn, and so will hedge my savings in a stable currency.

Live and let live, no be so una dey say? Lol

Wetin consign saboteur for this matter. Some of us simply don't wanna join the league of unfortunates, due to the stoopid decisions of their stoopid leaders.

I know how much easier my life would be today, if I had converted a savings of 3m in 2015 for $20k and just forgot it in a dollar mutual fund. Hold your naira abeg. Nobody's stopping you.

emkz:
Home Secretary action delivering major cut in migration

Robust Home Secretary action has driven an almost 80% fall in student dependant applications in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-action-delivering-major-cut-in-migration

well this isn't the full gist. The full gist shows student numbers haven't dropped so much (put at 15%), although we both know when the breakdown is done, we'd find that the Nigerian applicant numbers have plummeted by a huge percentage, but it appears other nationalities still dey go Youkay

Zahra29:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/30/number-foreign-student-family-members-coming-uk-falls/#comment

Interesting that despite the new restrictions, the drop in UK student visa applications is nominal compared to the doomsday predictions....down to 35,000 from 39,900 this time last year. It would be good to see a breakdown of these student visas by nationality.

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A crackdown on foreign students’ visas has slashed the number of dependants they are bringing into the UK by 80 per cent, Home Office figures show.

The data revealed that the number of dependants granted visas to join their student spouse or parent in the UK has fallen from 32,900 in the first quarter of 2023 to 6,700 in the same period this year.

The number of overseas students applying for visas also fell by 15 per cent, from 39,900 in the first quarter of 2023 to only 35,000 in the same period in 2024....


A crack down by the Home Office on bogus care homes is also believed to have contributed to a 25 per cent fall in the number of health and care visa applications, from 205,800 in the six months from April to September 2023 to 153,500 from October 2023 to March 2024.

This comprised 40,800 main applicants and 112,700 dependants, provisional Home Office data shows. It is likely to reduce further as a ban on care workers bringing dependants into the UK takes effect after being introduced on March 11. Doctors, nurses and other health professionals remain able to bring dependants....

Mr Sunak is expected to announce curbs on foreign student visas amid fears that the route is being used as a back door into claiming asylum.

The Prime Minister is expected to restrict access to the graduate visa route, which currently allows students to remain in the UK for up to two years after finishing their studies without the requirement to get a job.

The announcement is expected to come after the Migration Advisory Committee (Mac) completes a review of the graduate visa route on May 14.

Options understood to be under consideration include reducing the time a foreign graduate can stay in the UK without a skilled job to either six or 12 months.

NsppdBabe6:

This news is fake, CIU posted a disclaimer, none of this happened, a colleague of hers created this content to tarnish her image. I have the disclaimer posted in my trust Intranet. I can share with Nairaland.

the way that mail was written, make me very much doubt the authenticity..either that, or the standard has really gone far beneath the ground at the NHS.

Check the mail address to be sure it isn't a spoofed email. The person wey write this one be like scammer wey dey hold serious grudge with punctuations, and just overall very horrible with written communication.

Been a while we heard vacuous tales from loony Lere.

The mentally decrepit Reno Omokirikiri is the rabid barking dog we've had to endure its inanities in recent times.

Just today I mentioned it in the living in UK thread how Russians largely love Putin.

These dont look like people who are living in fear for their lives..

Abi my eye dey pain me ni

Awon weere

Who wants to unite with some raving mad lunatics?

Ko ni da fun unity yen!

Go and protest your protest. Na una put them there, I no follow put them there. No protests from my corner.

Gerrard59:


https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3260307/made-china-2025-china-meets-most-targets-manufacturing-plan-proving-us-tariffs-and-sanctions

When people, especially black people, mock China with poverty statements, I find it very appalling and ridiculous considering after Whites and Chinese cousins - Koreans and Japanese - Chinese are the next in terms of developmental status. Arabs exceeds us. So, why try to belittle China?

Yes, China has poor people, just like every country. However, in the East and southeast parts of China, where much of the wealth is, the development of China is at the same level as most Western countries. The major cities of China are comparable to those in the West. There is wealth in China and much of it comes from sheer economic activities rather than the stock market. The recent ranking of billionaires shows it - Chinese cities dominate disproportionately. China, a country filled with destitutes over forty years ago, now has more billionaires than any other country and commands a lot of economic dominance. China trades with more countries than the US.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-which-country-has-the-most-billionaires-in-2024/#:~:text=China%20has%20814%20billionaires%2C%20the,while%20the%20U.S.%20gained%20109.

When I read the above article in the SCMP, if no be say I dey inside train, I would have shedded a tear because I was extremely impressed by the foresight of their elites and determination to succeed.

E dey irritate me anytime I see black people lampoon China. I keep reading dictatorship and mumbo-jumbo, history has it that EVERY developed and prosperous country you see today underwent a form of dictatorship before it became a prosperous democracy. There were bullying, mass killings and high-handedness. Economic development came before democracy, not after. In cases where there were semblance of democracy, there was a dominant ethnic or racial group or political party who controlled everything. But the majority of countries at the forefront of economic development had a form of dictatorship before they liberalised their political systems.

That said, Mr Treadway, Nigeria in its present state can't develop even with a benevolent dictator (Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was described as such by Western media). The country's demographics doesn't permit that to happen. For dictatorship to work effectively for the benefit of the populace, there needs to be an ethnic or religious or racial dominance by a group that is egalitarian, enterprising, creative and pragmatic.

Lastly, black people, regardless of where they come from, should stop criticising China. Leave that to people who have built functioning societies.

you no dey ever disappoint my guy.

True, the unity debacle may also pose some problems, but with an authoritarian, that is not enough of a deterrent. For naija matter, the people simply cannot unite to elect the best of them or even do what is best for themselves. They can't unite guy! You know this and I know this!

If we do have an authoritarian who has the passion for the country at heart, I truly believe that may work better for us. Just take the reins and do whatever needs to be done, everyone will fall in line. The key thing is that person being passionate about the country.

Anyway, make I bone the matter.

ReesheesuKnack:


If anyone has been RANTING on this thread, it’s you.
Here you are in the UK, in the WEST pontificating how lovely & glorious Russia is, and how amazing China is.

Here you are, in the West saying all sorts of tbings about how horrible the west is. And how disgusting USA, UK,Germany etc are… Yea! You are entitled to your opinion.

Why don’t you leave the West and its values, and na gate towards the Russia or China that is your eldorado?

You have ranted a lot bro. We have ALL hear you. You don win. Now chill .

I'm in Nigeria, most on here know that.. what else?

I never called China my eldorado, you made that conclusion up all by yourself.

Goodenoch:


This is pointless. The absolute number of Chinese emigrants is useless.

What matters is what proportion they are relative to the proportion of US citizens emigrating to China.

There were less than 1,000 American students in China in 2023, and this is up from 350 the previous year.

Conversely, there were about 300,000 - THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND Chinese enrollees in American schools, with 86,000 last year.

https://www.voanews.com/amp/bilateral-tensions-cause-the-number-of-american-students-in-china-to-plummet-/7404085.html
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/amp/for-many-reasons-fewer-chinese-students-attend-us-schools/7537255.html

That means a Chinese young person is hundreds of times more likely to choose to go study in the US than an American young person is likely to.

Interpret that as you will. The figures speak for themselves though.

how many Americans are even in American schools.? I have the stats but indulge me.

Meanwhile, this your post reminds me of an interesting thread nearline tagged me in recently...not news to me, but immediately I saw your response I remembered the thread
https://www.nairaland.com/8059756/illusion-western-educational-superiority#129403640

Kenn55:


He poisoned him and wanted him dead immediately but Alexi Nalvanly was lucky to survive the poisoning thanks to Germany that took him and cured him. As a patriotic Russian, he still felt he has to go back to Russia despite being warned not to.

I don't really blame Nalvanly for wanting to go back home. Any reasonable person would expect that since Saint Putin has tried and failed to eliminate him before, he will just leave him alone, we were all wrong, in fact, we were dead wrong. As soon as Nalvanly stepped into Russian airport, saint oga at the top arrested and locked him up, bid his time and this time around eliminated him and ensured that no one can save him this time. Sad end of a young man whose only crime is having the audacity to oppose the "god" of Russia

If the Russian state can be this cruel to its own people who disagree with him, If and when Russia becomes the number 1 super power, do you think they will spear you and your people when you disagree with them?

Your evil desire of wishing this kind of cruelty in Nigeria will never work for you. God forbid!
With time, Nigeria will thrive and succeed democratically, economically as a free country with citizens enjoying their fundamental right of freedom of expression. There are countless number of countries from east to west to even Africa who are freedom loving, democratic and also prospering too. We don't have to become a repressive authoritarian society where one man can use the power of the state to murder his people anytime he wants without accountability.

I hope people around you know the kind of person you are else they are playing with fire cos with this your mindset, you can be deadly.

and yet you're ranting from the UK. How has your 'good desired' democracy helped your life or the family you left behind in Nigeria, since you don 'escape' now? How has the democrazy removed Nigeria from the deplorable state it is in 64 years after??

One-way thinker🤣....

Authoritatian is bad, but we had kings for centuries and earth didn't collapse.


Shior.

Deadly ko, Deadpool ni

Goodenoch:


Lol. This is why I love statistics. You can sermonize all you like but figures will always tell the unvarnished truth.

Anyway, I’m sure they’ll soon come with more analysis to show why all the Chinese emigrating are mistaken.

stats and facts indeed don't lie. If all the Chinese in the diaspora are put at 10million that is a whole lot less than 1% of their population of over 1.4b.

So the stats show they are not 'trooping out' as you've depicted, cos hey less than 1%....

In these kain discourse esp with India and China, we can't just be looking at the numbers without taking into account the sheer population of both countries. They have over 30% of the world's population so.....

See estimate of Nigerians in diaspora below.

Hope we can all see that the TRUTH is that Chinese are not trooping out as depicted.

Zahra29:


Why would I listen to Seun Kuti?

Lol, would you keep mute if your visa came with benefits?

No one is saying not to speak your truth, but why choose to apply for a visa to live in a country that you don't trust or agree with (majority of) their laws,ethics or policies - and spend a lot of your time unhappy/angry and criticising said policies.... You couldn't pay me to live in Russia, Iran, China etc as their governments don't even care what the people think.

again I understand that you're entitled to your opinion, but when something works, I am very very amenable to change. China is a great example. Gerrard59 is in Japan, most don't look to places like China and Japan, but still doesn't change the fact that autocratic China that was struggling with poverty less than 50 years ago, has an economy bigger than competing with the USA today (*modified/corrected* cos it is not in absolute terms but only when you consider Purchasing Power Parity), and is number one on virtually everything you can think of (quality of education, health systems, infrastructure etc.) Google it if in any doubt. We just tend to not really attach much attention or significance to non-english speaking countries. Russia is still far better than Germany economically toady even despite two years of significant sanctions. The top rankings for education and healthcare, English speaking countries no even dey top 20.

Life doesn't start and end with English speaking countries o...or democracy. Autocracy certainly works for some, and democracy isn't absolutely the best. I actually believe Nigeria will be in better state with an autocratic leader who has the nation at heart, even if he only has it at heart up to just 25% and is selfish with the remaining 75%

ElSudani:


Can you please publish the lie here for all to see? Tell us exactly what Bayo Onanuga said that turned out to be a lie.

tell us why Bayo Onanuga deleted his own 'announcement'

Fujiyama:


Aren't Nigerians fed up with being taken for fools, day after day, week after week, month after month? When will they say, 'enough'?

never! 2023 has shown me everything I need to know about this country and majority of its people.

Zahra29:


Fair enough, at least you're being true to your beliefs. It's when people "hail" a country over others, but would never choose to live in said country that I think there's an element of cognitive dissonance going on lol

As long as you're happy with the bolded and having no voice to effect change, but as you've rightly said, perhaps autocracy is the best system for certain countries and peoples.

already used to not having a voice to effect change in Nigeria. The voice don dey rusty. Ko ni meaning mo🤣

Kenn55:


It is you that should think without bias. If you are rational, you should have known that Putin and Russia are no saints, they are as bad as the US and west. You should have known that Russia is also seeking to dominate like the US. You should have known that Russia is also looking out for it's own selfish interest like all world powers do.

Every bad thing you have against the west is also applicable to Russia. US and its allies invade countries for their selfish interests, Russia does the same. Since 2000, US has invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia has invaded Georgia and Ukraine. Russia has been sponsoring breakaway rebels in Georgia, Maldova, Ukraine etc to declare kangaroo independence yet Putin is your Angel and you wipe away his sins.

All world powers are bad players. But at least in the west, no leader is "god", they can be challenged and removed by the people unlike your Angelic country Russia. In the west, Opposition is strong putting check on government to behave themselves. In the west, Oposition has power, media has power, legislators have power, courts have power, civil society have power the people have power, it is never a one man show.

Putin came to power in 1999 when Bill Clinton and Obasanjo was in power. He has succeeded in making Russia a one man country where he is "god". He has changed Russia constitution 3 times since 1999, the last one being last year to give himself another 12 years in power. Russians can't talk, if you talk, you chop poison, fall from high rise, rot in jail if you are lucky or your plane gets shot down.

Do you know how many Putin's opposition and critics Saint Putin and his gang have eliminated since 1999 by poisoning and throwing them down from high rise buildings?

Will you be happy if Nigeria adopt the Russian model? Tell yourself the truth for once.
As we speak, Russians can't call Ukraine war a war publicly, they passed a law criminalizing calling it war. Imagine a government making it a crime to judge for yourself how you see things. Russians no longer have independence of thought, they have to be told what and how to think by force because one man cannot afford to be criticized. I just hope this Saint Putin Russian model nonsense is not what you guys are wishing for Nigeria to become. God forbid!
By the way, I'll take Tinubu and Nigeria over Putin and Russia, you can put your money where your mouth is by relocating to Moscow and not living in the freedom loving west and still talking nonsense. Mtshewwwww

check am bro, Russia invaded Georgia and Ukraine correct...but both countries and Russia historically were all brothers that once shared landmass. Which landmass US share with Afghanistan and Iraq? Lati odindin US of A dem cross all the way to the middle East to find trouble. You sef check am na

As to your question, if we can find an autocratic leader that is that passionate about Nigeria, passionate about making it formidable abeg I no mind. I will take a wild guess and say you emigrated too, like most on here, evidence that the democratic dispensations since Obasanjo has only left us with the worst of us leading us almost always, while Nigeria constantly sinks. They win, Nigeria lose. I would def wholly accept a diff approach, even an autocrat. Thank you

Orisa bi o gbemi, at least fi mi le bi o se bami👌

Again, like I told Zahra, aside the language speaking barrier, I could live in Russia. I have two pals there and they are balling. Enjoying same world-class infrastructure, are married to beautiful women, and have beautiful kids. Russians largely love Putin. I wouldn't live in the US if I could live in Norway. For those who still have it in them to learn a new language, countries yapa, Russia included, where you can move to and live super fine. All this Canny, USA, Aussie and UK most naturally throng to, na cos the language is English. No be say other places no dey viable.

Lexusgs430:



So nah only oyinbo wife, dey enter your eyes.......😁🤔😜

bro, awon obinrin yen fine e jo. Ha!

Zahra29:


I hear you...it's all subjective....

To each their own.....at the end of the day, perhaps "good Vs evil" could be decided by the country one would live in if they had to choose....."innocent, misunderstood Russia" or " evil, aggressor US"....I think we can safely guess lol

I swear down aside the language barrier, I no mind living in Russia or other Nordic countries than the US oo. I have two friends who went to study there and have remained there for over 15 years and they are balling. If you see both their wives ehn, you would never believe that a black/Nigerian could score such women, as in gorgeous model spec women oo. Also, I know damn well my kids won't come back from school to tell me there are 100 genders, or that the definition of a woman is debatable 🤣

As long as I don't challenge Putin, I'm sure I'll be just fine. I am a freethinker o, so nothing says democracy is the best, or autocracy is evil. I believe in situational leadership. Autocracy is working wonders for China and Russia, and democracy is the bane of Nigeria. Go figure

Zahra29:


Well said....people painting Russia as the victim is laughable. The US isn't innocent/perfect sure, no country is. But we're talking about a "man" who was behind the shooting down of a full passenger plane, killing 300 innocent civilians. A "man" whose political opponents meet untimely deaths both in Russia and overseas...anyone remember Livitneko who was poisoned and killed in a UK hospital in 2006....and attempted murders of other russian nationals a few years ago in Salisbury....on and on it goes, but somehow he's the aggrieved party ....it's true that some people love a dictator

zahra wey dey always dey on point! 😁

I was gonna respond on the shooting down of a passenger plane comment, but I realised I need to read more on the incident. I only know both the Soviet Union and the US shot down fully loaded passenger planes in 1983 and 1988 respectively. I also know that unlike Russia, the USA has been at the forefront of instigating crisis in several countries to further their own interests in the last 30 years. Talk about murdering millions not even due to direct confrontation/provocation o but under claims of a search for weapons of mass destruction only to find none. That def is far more cold than shooting down ten Boeing aircrafts.

All those poland, Finland no interest Russia, Ukraine is historically and strategically relevent to Russia, and to the WEST/US cos of its 'valuable resources'. Let the North Atlantic respect the East. The east isn't the one encroaching and encircling the west, the west is the one doing all that....to what end??

Dude threw his career away for pussy.....lol🤣🤣🤣

One mummy was telling me on Sunday how she fears what will happen to Oyo state after Seyi Makinde exits.

Now I understand her fear. Shey we fit see person wey get sense and empathy like that again true true. This balablu idiot was on on the ballot in 2019. Thank God he was roundly rejected!

toughest007:


Baba, it's not a 'choosing a side thing', it's basic statistics... The US has its footprint on EVERY wahala on earth and beyond.

How many countries have Russia invaded and bombed since the collapse of the Soviet Union as against the US since WW II?

Which countries have Russia instigated insurrections and sponsored coups as against the US?

How many people have died from Russian bombs as against the US?

We know who the bully and aggressor is... QED

GBAM! Lobatan o
The US/NATO is the aggressor, and had been for the last 30 years at least. Ain't no way I can ever see Russia as the aggressor when the only time in the last 30 years they have been 'the aggressor' is in movies.

If Ukraine like make dem get sense, if dem like make dem no get brain. Na dem and their people go lose, while US/NATO/the west loses nothing.

Talk about being foolish.

Oh oh!

Alas, it was on their very own website that this is a fresh loan, but a certain nairalander called SEUNMSG who has a reputation for not knowing his right from his left, said it was accrued interest.

What's more befuddling is he did so with no proof whatsoever, and no mention of the other relevant parameters ie.
the interest rate, the total sum, the tenor..that way at least even if he no get proof, we fit do simple calculations to know wassup.

Desist from drinking alcohol early in the morning as it affects cognitive function for the rest of the day, but iro oo dem no go hear.

Shioor