₦airaland Forum

justmondris:
At 1euro to 1200 naira, that's around 12000 and the price of items in that cart is not upto 12k in Nigeria.

How is it that you guys are all missing the point?

£10 spent in the original post is earned PER HOUR in UK. Which is minimum wage here that is being reviewed upwards in January 2024 across the country. Not per month.

Average weekly hours is between 16hrs and 40hrs. For those earning minimum wage, calculate it. N30k monthly minimum wage in Naija and u take out 12k to buy an almost empty trolley of food, no be die be that? That's the point here.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
Kai! Sis

We are not o.
We are faced with constant threat of insecurity esp kidnapping and armed robbery. U can't travel freely, one must pray for hours before traveling, transport very very costly. Food nko? Most are on 0 0 1 meal per day. And the meal is not balanced diet.

Sis one cannot enter bush to either farm or stroll in peace again without being attacked for no just cause!

Omo! That bad Its not as if I have been away long o. I hear stories but what you have typed is unfortunate. Sorry about that. Just have hope....

Tohsynetita1:
which one loyalty card?

You can download it from their app and use the QR code or barcode with your phone each time at the till.

some stores like Coop and Tesco also send you the cards, like debit cards via royal mail to your home so u can also swipe it.

With it, you get discounts and loyalty points whenever you shop be it self service or with customer service assistants.

Most of the major discounters do it.

sukkot:
ahhh well i hope you are enjoying the london because we are here enjoying the naija

I am not in London though.
Somewhere in UK.
Naturally, you have to enjoy it, grumbling everyday will give a person heart problems and una politicians will be glowing up dey go.
Nigeria go better sha.
Cheers

money121:
How old is your sim card?

Mine : 16yrs

Airtel Sim and still active uptill date

Let know how old is your Sim Card

If you really meant original phone number, then my glo is since 2005. But I changed to Nano sim cos of a new phone in 2018 while retaining same phone number

sukkot:
so somebody will sell his 3 bedroom house in lekki and quit manager job at zenith bank to go and share studio flat in london ? jesu kristi

Not everyone sold landed properties. Most just sold household items. Again, this amount is mostly for new Masters grad students not experienced Hires.
Check Indeed for yourself.

Most that entered School, how many had own properties back in naija? Na beans?

sukkot:
so you are saying 28000 per annum is a high amount for London ? Tax will bring that down to 21000. Rent of 1500 a month will bring that down to 3000. We have not factored in water light gas food transport tv license etc etc . You can’t afford to live in London if you are earning 28k . With that amount you will be sleeping in the library and taking your shower in a gym 😆😆😆😆

That's for barest minimum start on average which is far higher than £22k average for other areas around the country. My assessment is quite correct. Also I have seen starting jobs where employers advertise to pay a lump sum of about £2k addition to help with moving costs to London. Network Rail that came to one Uni was offering £2.5k for 2.1 and 1st class grads.

Most of those kind of people will rent house shares or studios way less than that and share bills. I have explained before that Water, electricity etc are all about £300 total. TV license is nothing and nit everyone pays. I have never. Phone bills if you want to go Boougie is about £25/ month. Council tax btw £150 / £200. I do £5 phone as there is free WiFi everywhere.

All those that are doing it, how many wash in a "library" My brother, rest. I live here and I am telling you facts not going by assumptions of what I think I know from Nigeria.

sukkot:
yes but do those in Nigeria pay all the uk bills ? It all evens out

Bro, my rent was N550k per year at OPIC estate outside Lagos o. And then drive through that horrible traffic into the expressway daily to work. And that was because we formed bond with the landlord. The minute we told our landlord we were leaving, I got him a new tenant I met here on nairaland. Landlord jacked the rent for the guy to N1mn - 3 bed flat. The guy was telling me via WhatsApp. I swear! They finally agreed on N850k. Same compound, we pumped our water - which was basically clay and spend N4k to buy chemicals plus a small bag of alum every month to throw inside the tank on every pump. I kid you not.

My phcn bill with prepaid meter was N22k / month excluding previous gbese that accumulated after we paid for meter and they were still sending us inflated bills and this was then o. With some SERIOUS rationing. I swich off fridge and completely offloaded my freezer when I go to work. So I was paying crazy in naija for utilities I didn't even enjoy or had to provide for myself. let's not even talk of medicines when ill.

The bills are NOT crazy at all like you guys think else, why do people stay? As for your London comment earlier, Londoners pay the highest percentile in rent truly but also earn the highest percentile in income averaging £28k to the high £60Ks. Trust me, my naija secondary school friend who lives there, it's chicken change compared to her net pay at month end o.

If you have a partner, it's even better cos u share bills for a single hhousehold.I repeat, its not as crazy as you think and u can save quite well in such a short time too.

Panda7:
Don't believe everything you read on the internet, some things are meant to suit ego. Receipts can be altered and edited, besides there was no reason to post and compare it on the internet.

I shop in Lidl and what was posted by OP is true o. Only thing i dont buy is the chicken and onions as I get them from proper Al-Halal shops run by Arabs which are cheaper. The spaghetti I bought last (May 2023) - I got 6 packs and paid 0.30p each then so e don even cost. Pls just go to Lidl store online on Google and check for yourself. I have attached straight from their app for you to comfirm and these are their current leaflet.

The best part is that when you have a clubcard (loyalty card which is free), you even get some discount more at the till!

Not everything that seems too good to be true to you, is now a blatant lie.

sukkot:
that is too expensive for 10 pounds. 10 pounds is 15000 naira. HERE IN NAIJA THIS THE PRICE

bread 800
oil 1500
2 pasta 1000
chicken 3000
potato 1000
butter 1500
2 canned peas 1500
one baked beans 500
TOTAL 10,800 NAIRA. I STILL HAVE 5000 LEFT FOR A BOTTLE OF WINE 4000 AND SUYA 1000

KINI BIG DEAL ?

But are you earning that every HOUR? This analysis is easy to grasp bro. In UK, that's lower than minimum wage per hour. And most work between 20 to 40 hours per week. Now please, do the math.
I think that's what the OP has been trying to state.

femi4:
Did she tell you she pays rent monthly for as much as 1000 pounds....dey play

Outside food, everything is damn expensive
Council tax, tv licence, power n gas bill are recurring expenditure that dem no born you well make you skip a month

Actually, that is not totally true o.
I didn't pay Council tax for my entire first year as I was exempt. Now I pay £100 / month which is shared between my partner and I as we both work. Around London, council tax is higher usually around £150 to £200 per household and they earn the highest so that's child's play to them.

Gas, electric bills? Lol, are NOT expensive at all. All Is paid in my current rent for e.g. - gas, electric, garbage, WiFi and even cleaning less than £700 a month. We only pay £5 for the washer and dryer per laundry day and they are so huge, u can pack 2 weeks worth of laundry sef and spend that every 2 weeks. For households bringing in an average of £4k monthly after tax, that's nothing na. TV license isn't compulsory as we haven't paid that at all. My best friend and her hubby pay £7 monthly. Very reasonable.

Case in point, a place called Leamington Spa which is viewed as expensive for a suburb in West Midlands, all bills is less than £300 per household. Most water bills dont go above £15 sef. And such people renting there (upper middle whites) earn between £30k and £60k annually on average, again very affordable for them.

Brand new clothes, bags, shoes and electronics are also not crazy at all. The shopping centres are always packed full with people shopping like crazy. Trust me, these people love their fashion...and pets! Remember most produce locally.

Trust me, you can save real good here within 3 months even on a starter graduate salary of £22k annually.

fastseo:
Dont let that deceive you... With a week or 5days work you covered your rent.

Bless you! Most don't believe it. Sometimes,I think some Nigerians over hype these things so folks back home don't ask them for money or are just being wicked so they don't join them.

Until I came, a close fam that was lamenting since, I just found out owns 2 homes. One completely mortgage free.

Angelfrost:
What's even there to tell??! Must you tell everything and anything??!... Even when you relocate, you shouldn't go announcing it like it's a world record.

Learn to succeed in private.

Most Nigerians just like to be noticed.

God bless you!
I recall shortly before my plane took off and I had to put my phones on Aeroplane mode, I called my 3 closest friends from Uni days and told them. One was annoyed sha, a bit understandably.

Kept it to only very few fam members. Its even WhatsApp that casted me more when I changed sim months after.

Learn to succeed in private o!

Sergio103:
Akwa ibom.

Calabar

OYO

Kano

In this order

Calabar js now a State

What's Kano doing there?

Ahmed0336:
Ah Ah.

Wetin concern Owerri matter and people wey dey Abuja

No vex, what happened in Owerri bike?

[quote author= post=126759064]Very Good interception. Kudos to them.
Btw,
Some of these corrupt souls will think it's another kinda of banana 🍌 🙄.
Thank God all of us at MANNA are no longer in the world....[/quote]Childish talk as usual

Whalis:
We miss Buhari. Nigeria would have joined allies.

Nairaland! U guys won't kill me

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Israel is just an overhyped military power in ME. If a rag tag militia group can take such time to prepare & invade Israel unaware, I wonder what big boys like Iran & Turkey will do to them.

I am honestly still in shock. They purportedly have one of the most sophisticated and expensive underground Intel network in the world. How the attacks failed to reach their Intel units is still baffling. The Islreali defense minister has a case to answer as well imo. Baffling!

Kobicove:
What a terrible tragedy

Only a brainless idiot would discharge fireworks inside a building

People really need to learn to use fireworks in a responsible way

I don't think it's the regular Xmas type fireworks. I belive it's those colored indoor fireworks that they use here in Nigerian weddings too. The ones that shoot from the ground and can reach up to 10feet even. Some have smaller types they put on Champhage bottles and cakes used in nightclubs.

When I read the story earlier on cnn this morning, they mentioned the cheap type of roofing and building bond materials used in the building which are highly flammable. It's a shame really, all the needless deaths at a time of celebration.

Treasure17:
Congratulations to her. Prepare to Japa and move on.

Exactly what was on my mind when I saw Nursing

Dreamhighnow:
Russia can't do him nothing

Exactly. Putin that doesn't even have the liver to travel out of Russia. Even to SA, his supposed ally, he had to beam in for all the meetings.

DenreleDave:
One of the most common debates in the world of sport is who is the greatest athlete of all time. It’s an almost impossible list to determine, with so many factors coming into consideration. Accolades in their respective sports, social media presence, and general persona are some of the key factors that we use to rank athletes, but TheTopTen use fans to rank theirs.

Ranking athletes is not their only list, however, as they also have tier lists for animals, books, and even quirky lists such as, ‘things we learned in school that are now useless.’ That's probably quite a long list... apologies if any teachers are reading this!

Today, we're not just going to look into the top 15 athletes of all time, oh no, we're actually going to look into the top 15 most popular athletes of all time, according to the fans. They may not be the greatest, but they are loved, so without further ado, let's get into the list!


https://www.givemesport.com/the-15-most-popular-athletes-of-all-time/?taid=64e35fd7f243fd0001dd6b06&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem-GMS&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Twitter#sir-donald-bradman

You should have written sports personalities. Aren't athletes only the ones engaged in the field of athletics proper? Like Sha'Carri Richardson and Bolt for example?

oluwaseyi0:
after removing subsidy do we really need to tax any form of fuel?

I studied Economics and this was the first thing that came to my mind. Now, I am confused. The policy seems to be coming at the wrong time.

ghettowriter:
Gabon's former President Omar Bongo had 70 bank accounts, 39 apartments, 2 Ferraris, 6 Mercedes Benz cars, 3 Porsches and a Bugatti in France.

He ruled for 42 years (from 1967 to 2009).

His son, Ali Bongo has been President since 2009.

He has just been overthrown in a coup.

ALL EYES ON CAMEROUN

Omo!

FireUpNow:
More work for ECOWAS. Will Babablublu order military action against them too?

I am unsure the Coalition has enough resources- manpower, ammo, other military hardware and funds to coordinate 2 interventions simultaneously. Niger would be laughing now.

Eriokanmi:
Even Crush, Krest and DrPepper, the indomie generations don't know. Dr Pepper still sells in some parts of America and Europe as I speak, in bottles and cans. I saw one in Switzerland in 2017

Dr. Pepper is sold in packs and single cans in the UK as we speak. Any COOP food and Mom n Pop store sells it.

tonyshine01:
Olo was my best favourite

This was a soda too

Racoon:
See a whole Singapore-a fellow third world country ranking first in the global aviation hub, but Nigeria has not even producing a matchstick in its 63 years of miserable existence plagues by all manners of problems. From corruption, to ethno-religious supremacist violence, grossly incompetent, corrupt
& wicked leadership

Meanwhile, while the world is making progress in this hub of economic investment and global travel, Nigeria government is shamelessly lying, scamming and defrauding it citizens and country with a fraudulent national carrier built on foundation of lies and propaganda

Singapore is NOT classified as a third world country, bro.

Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK.

She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts.

A key figure in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, she also served as the first female president of the oil exporters group Opec.

The 63-year-old, who has been on bail since her arrest in London in 2015, has denied corruption allegations.

Assets worth millions of pounds relating to the alleged offences have been frozen as part of an ongoing probe by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).

"These charges are a milestone in what has been a thorough and complex international investigation," Andy Kelly, from the NCA's International Corruption Unit, said.

The NCA says Ms Alison-Madueke, who served as oil minister from 2010 until 2015, is alleged to have benefited from:

At least £100,000 ($127,000) in cash
Chauffeur-driven cars
Flights on private jets
Luxury family holidays
Use of multiple London properties
Furniture, renovation work and staff for the properties
Payment of private school fees
Gifts from designer shops such as Cartier jewellery and Louis Vuitton goods.
The US Department of Justice has been able to recover assets totalling $53.1m linked to Ms Alison-Madueke's alleged corruption thanks to evidence provided by the NCA in March, the agency says.

The NCA added that its agents had also worked closely with Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Ms Alison-Madueke, who currently lives in London's St John's Wood suburb, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 2 October, the NCA says.

Nigeria is one of the world's largest oil producers, but few of its more than 225 million inhabitants have benefited from this wealth.


source: BBC news
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66582585.amp

Acidosis:
Count it all joy. Undetected and untreated hepatitis could damage your organs. You can only treat what you know. You didn't get the job but you got a medical report that could spare your life.

Always writing with intelligence

MechanicMike:
helo please are u intaressted in doin housegirl work & be provide nice uniform including free lunch & dinner & u will be paid a cool 25k(25000 naira a month.this is a shance for u to make extra money. Do u want please?(no oofense)

Hello! Are u interested in being foolish?
Oh no! I see you already are sweetie
Small offence dey sha, I no go lie.
Happy Sunday!

datola:
Average salary means it can be higher or lower.

Average salary in Canada is less than $3,000 and you have to pay rent of over $1 000 plus other bills and feeding.

What will now remain

Japa geng over to you.

NET salary bro.

Fineman2:
My name is John. I am 35 years old. I lost my first wife in 2020, so I remarried in 2021 so that my daughter can grow up with a motherly love.

However, my new wife has made it a point of duty to always maltreat my daughter.

Each time, I want to interfere, she tells me to stay out of it. I know I should stand up for my daughter but I am in love with this woman because she came into my life when I needed someone the most.

I reached out to the family of my late wife last month to allow my daughter to stay with them while I send money for her upkeep, but they refused. They said my daughter cannot grow up without a mother and still grow up without the presence of a father in her life.

I have had several conversations with my wife and I have begged her to accommodate my daughter since she is yet to conceive but she told me to get rid of her from the house.

She practically complains about everything my daughter does. I am unhappy about this but at the moment, I am caught in between the woman I love and my beloved daughter.

Please what should I do?

I am honestly really sorry for you and I say that without an ounce of sarcasm.
The mere fact that you are here pondering between your own flesh and blood and a heartless sadist of a wife evokes such sympathy.

huptin:
Sharp guy, this is the newest plug in town...can't stop clapping for you my guy!

Check out the story of retired US basket baller Stephen Jackson. This one is even small. I read the story on Twitter this morning. Bro is now my newest legend!

Iliveforever:
Ned nwoko oooo 🎶🎶🎶
Ned nwoko

Ned nwoko ooo 🎶🎶🎶
Ned nwoko

insidelife22:
What oyetola couldn't do in Four yrs, Adeleke did in 100 days.

I had erroneously gone with the flow of the media when they dubbed him "the dancing governor" a while back. I was irritated that I didn't hear much concerning his manifesto during his campaign and couldn't understand why anyone would vote him in. I was wrong. This man is clearly working. I am glad I was probed wrong and the people of Osun are reaping some dividends from his appointment.