₦airaland Forum

Fugazy2023:
Time value of money. He is right.
What you can buy with 1 million today, you can't by with 1 million even by end of this year because price would have increased...

buy dollar and keep under your mattress.
It's still savings abi? And the value will increase.

sunsweet33:
How about the BARBARIC practice of beating children to pulp that Africans tend to see as normal? How is that now affecting you as an adult?

Do you people raise hand against your loved ones? 🤔

Unfortunately I never experience this. Neither did any of my friends all through my childhood. So are we normal Africans?
I won't pretend that I don't know parents used to beat children. But that was never in my environment, here in all the places I lived in Nigeria.
I guess it's just a different lifestyle.
What I experienced, was being beaten by sadistic senior boys in boarding house in school. I never understood why they did this. But after so many years pondering, I guess they either copied each other, or some of them were children of police or soldiers who came from barracks and were regularly beaten at home by their frustrated military parents. So they carried the violence over to school.

CandidAdmin:
I don't know what caused it but anytime I want to talk to the opposite sex, My heart starts to beat really fast. In short, I'm really shy in front of that gender but not that shy in front of my fellow men.
Might be shy at first but after like a day or two, I'm over it.

You don't have much money and you a good job. You're unable to promise the girl heaven and earth. And you feel she will look down on you when she finds this out. This is why you are shy.
You have to work on yourself. Live truthfully and stop trying to impress anybody. The girl that is normal headed will fall for you.

ideamonster:
thanks OP. everybody in Nigeria is having trauma issues

In a very short period, Nigeria has turned from what we thought it would be into whatever shit is happening now. People are confused and demoralised.

lexy2014:
Pls check the comment I responded to. He doesn't agree with u

When we subsidise fuel, it becomes cheaper right?
We buy more of it. Right?
We can run businesses. Right?
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Because we're buying this fuel, EU who is producing the fuel, is "working" by producing the fuel. They have jobs to produce the fuel for us.
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Now we're not subsidising, we are not buying much fuel again. EU refineries are not able to sell. They are not working. They will become jobless.
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But we too are suffering joblessness, because no fuel to run generators to do our normal businesses.
No work for us, no work for EU. Everybody sits down jobless.
This is what 3 of us are saying,
You, the guy you commented and myself.

lexy2014:
Is it fuel Subsidy that is preventing job creation in Nigeria!?

Cheap fuel, you can run generators, run business, employ people
Expensive fuel, you can't run generators. Your goods will be too expensive to sell, business will collapse. No employment.
Subsidy= Cheap fuel
No Subsidy = Expensive fuel.
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Whatever the case, we would have to set up another type of business model. For now, we suffer, trekking, job loss, no generator, no business.

Curious345:
Reno . The only Nigerian politician still smoking cheap weed.

But he is correct to a certain extent

Do you know of African Americans? Black people in USA?
Well, some of them have been doing this return to Africa thing.
But they go to Ghana instead of Nigeria. Because they still prefer Ghana

You have already walked about naked by yourself on a very normal day.
So please keep your nyash inside your trousers, Abeg.

VULCAN:
Nairaland is the first and only place I have ever read the words cousin sister.

It's an aberration.

3 people
Cousin (comma) Sister (comma) and I
Cousin, sister and I

All this Percent percent statistics is nonsense O.
Shey you know if they were sending 1 yam tuber last year,
then this year, they started sending 2 yam tubers that one is already 100% increase.
The whole Nigeria send 2 yam tubers overseas, and we will be jumping up and down about 100% export increase.

Low level

wiseone28:
Maybe the media dey hide am unlike what they will report on Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgY2TMBZn8

They might not be so many, but people sha became homeless.
The only difference is that because they are white, other white people catered for them better.

wiseone28:
Even as there is war in Ukraine you will never see homeless or hungry people 🤔
But check Sudan .

You forgot the Ukrainians that ran out to poland and other countries...
They are homeless na abi? As their homes have been bombed off.

Aboguede:
Tinubu want to blindfold Nigerians and steal our common wealth but he will fail

Fail how?
He was a questionable character. Everybody knew that.
He didn't win election. Everybody knew that
But everybody still allowed him to be president which he is now.
So which magic will everybody perform now so that he won't steal our common wealth?
He will steal the common wealth and Nigerians will not do anything as usual.

12345baba:
Ignorance bad sha

Ignorance is when somebody honestly doesn't know.
But in Nigeria we have this problem of seeing something, looking at it very well and refusing to know it still.
What do you call this type?

Zupay:
You are busy showing off ignorance while forming intellectual.

Compare it to the UK, where when you are age 23 or over you can't be paid less than the national minimum living wage of £10.42 per hour, for a 23 year old who lives and works in Coventry, 60 hrs per week earning £652, after necessary deductions he should be going home with at least £500 weekly and that is about £2,000 monthly. He pays the rent for his room, £500(bills inclusive), monthly health insurance of about £90, food for £150, Monthly bus pass for unlimited bus travel within West Midlands that covers Coventry, Birmingham etc for £55, clothing, footwear and toiletries £300, phone subscription £25, hanging out £150......Oya, now compare him with a Nigerian graduate earning the minimum wage of N30,000 monthly.

Olboy.
The time I was there, minimum wage was like £5.25 or so. I was above, earning about £8~ish. Monthy part time take home was about £600~ish. Naira was 250 ~ 1 GBP. Roughly N150,000 for student work O.
E just pain me say, na there I dey spend the money. By now that same work would translate to about N350,000 monthly.
Student part time work O. 4hrs a day.

kokoA:
Wetin dis one know sef? Mccheeww Where in the world do people receive 30k monthly as salary?

30k NAIRA O!
$38 per month O!

Nightwolf1:
😋😋 Why are they complaining? They should pay and move on.

Everybody like london because it's very clean.
But that cleanliness comes about because refuse collectors do their work well.
They do their work well because they are paid
They are paid by the government who collects the money from "council Tax", a mandatory tax for everybody.
And council tax isn't cheap.
Everybody must pay it.

bigdammyj:
Reading...

If your house and land is in the city, where are you supposed to go?

This billboard is still hung at Falomo in Lagos.
Because Nigerians can forget very fast Eh.

Westernlove:
It's Just Very Unfortunate!!!

That A lot of Nigerians will remain Very Gullible for a long period of time.

It's Just Very Unfortunate!!!

During colonialism and during our 33 year military dictatorship, the leaders BEAT patriotism into every Nigeria's head. But since we started this democracy, there is nothing like patriotism again. Nobody knows what the ideals of the nation are. Nobody looks up to emulate any leader. In fact, we are completely confused as a people. Doing rubbish up and down..

Why do we have 1 billion Nigerian graduate Engineers and not one of them can find alternative fuel / car / bicycle... something sustainable.
What were they doing in their engineering na?

lexy2014:
Very necessary but the same govt thru it's agberos collects tolls from these people

And they will collect again today from these people to return their wares to them.

Depriest2020:
Nigerians and road side trading nawa. On top rail track too them they sell.

It is called advertising and marketing.
I used to think that white people don't advertise. But they advertise like shege!!
All their TV stations full of advert.
The whole Internet full of Advert.
Ebay, Amazon are all Adverts.
They bombard their adverts in digital space because they have light/Electricity.
We bombard our adverts in REAL space because we don't have light/Electricity to compete with white people online.
Simple.

Basicend:
Just about 10 years ago. . Entry level jobs in intercontinental bank, diamond bank, GT Bank, Virgin Nigeria, Unilever was as high as #185,000 - #200,000 after training schools.

Those days, an entry level staff could easily buy a very 2nd-hand or cheap brand new car. .

Today, most entry level jobs are contractual and the pay is around #70,000. . In a hyping inflation besieged economy.

Today. . Most of them can't even pay house rent.

How did we get ourselves to this level?

Buy performaning the biggest evil!
Selling money.
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Foreign exchange is made available at CBN for businesses and manufacturers to use for purchasing equipment to PRODUCE A PRODUCT that would be sold in exchange for more foreign exchange.

But some F***ing smart people take the CBN foreign exchange, and give it to mallam to sell at black market rate....TOTALLY BYPASSING PRODUCTION of any products.

The result is INSTANT inflation. The money you have becomes less valuable. We now have zero industries. We can't been by petrol and diesel to even run the little ones that remain. And no salary to pay anybody.

Generator sales in London is Zero.

lifezone247:
Yes, yes and yes. AC has nothing to do with fuel consumptions. It’s uses gas when the engine is running. Make una stop that mentality abeg.

The gas is compressed by the compressor.
Once you turn on the AC the compressor clutch engages such that the pulley starts to work the compression engine. That is an extra work for the car engine. Extra work = Extra petrol.

Jennyclay:
Most of you jobless men have pride

You don’t have another job and yet you’re resigning from the little job you’re managing . If I’m one of the management I would make sure you don’t get your salary!! Nonsense!!

How much is even your salary in your current job? If your salary isn’t up to #1 million a month, just kindly stay away from a relationship before you put someone’s daughter in abject poverty

It's like that tortoise story. Tortoise fell inside soakaway pit and was there for 7 days.
By mistake, somebody came to rescue him.
That's when tortoise started shouting, "Do fast-fast jor... This place is smelling".
The daughter is already in the abject poverty, managing her life.
When you manage to ask for her hand, she will start shouting that you are wasting her time in abject poverty.

Stanweezy:
Best thing so far, competent and requisite requirements should be the criteria and not age requirement.

Most of the private sectors are using this age limit stuff to pay graduate peanut in the name of graduate trainee because they know to hire competent hand will cost them.

They're not making that much money in the first place.
So they get the cheapest labour they can to do the work.
Don't work in such places.
If you are fully experienced, they will stress you out with unlimited work.
If you are a graduate, they will still stress you out with unlimited work.
No escape from the stress.

mrvitalis:
Companies would still employ who they want

It's all about vibing.
Company will take in people that vibe with them.
If you don't vibe, or want to come an put sand in their garri, they won't take you. Simple.

izubext007:
how will you feel if you are inter view a 60 years old man

I would feel that the 60 year old man has lost his place in life.
Why is he 60 years old and still looking for a job?

drerocker:
And expirence

Sorry, Experience will always be required.
If an employer brings you in without experience, they will have to train you to do the work.
They will spend time, money, and energy training you.
After 3, 4 months of training, you learn the work, then run away...
the employer would have just spent 3, 4 months training. He didn't work, didn't do any contract... Just training.
Then they find another person again and train...
The place will change to training center. They won't be working again.
Just training random people free everyday...
That is not a business.
So YOU, go and train yourself and scrape up experience ANYHOW-ANYHOW.
and use that to just find yourself a job.
or Kukuma start your own business with your experience.