₦airaland Forum

SUPERPACK:
Speak for those that have zero in economics sha not me. With that pay I will enjoy my life here in Nigeria and never look for more. I will still save 250k per month at the end minimum. I live a minimal lifestyle, no smoking, drinking, clubbing, womanising nor friends and don't fancy social attention.

It's more complicated than you are assuming.

There are numerous factors that will determine if N500k per month is enough for someone to run himself and his household.

Some of these factors are;
1. Number of dependants - wife, children, parents and other extended family members. School fees for 3 children in primary/secondary school alone will gulp between N100,000 - 300,000 per month depending on location and standard of school. And I am not even talking of V/I, Ikoyi, Lekki, Ajah or Ikeja.

2. Rent - this depends on local government of residence and type of house, whether self contained two bedroom or three bedroom.

3. Taste. This is the type of car, clothes, gadgets and even food. Expensive cars are expensive to maintain.

4. Other conveniences like generator, water Dispenser, DSTV, air-conditioner, etc can be quite expensive.

In summary for a bachelor or a small family unit living in low priced apartment in low to medium residential areas not to far from the office and nothing too extravant, you can be considered rich.

But for a man with responsibilities for more than 6 people, living in quality apartment in medium to high brow residential areas. You are poor

cornelboy:
God doesn't exist, so how did the universe came to be?

Knowing how the universe came to be is unknowable. Even you have no idea.

cornelboy:
As an athiest, what's your view about life?

Life is. We just find ourselves in it.

I love this video which started with public debate or lecture on Islam. Aman (probably muslim) asking the Muslim cleric why God gets angry and resorts to threats of hell and punishment just because people decide to worship another God (a common attrubute of the Abrahamic Gods). He asked if these are not egotistical human traits which should be beneath the qualities an omnipotent and omniscient God.

The cleric went on a stupid ramble of how worshiping and praising God( Allah) benefits only the worshipper and not God, because its an advice form God, and that following God's advice provides benefits.

Anyway, after a clip of Sadhguru's views on religion was added. He explained why religion is the greatest cause of conflict on earth and why why people use religion as a cover for all types of atrocities. To me it explains why Nigeria despite being one of the most religious countries of the world is also have one of the most wicked, heartless, corrupt, deceitful and selfish people.

Watch it and give your opinions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJVnPJ3LyI

christejames:
This just proves that Nigeria is a huge banana republic where anything happens...

If he is jumping bail, you mean in EFCC Academy they didn't teach you guys other ways of legitimately arresting an offender without creating scene?

I'm not holding briefs for Okorocha, but if I am him, I will press charges for invading and damaging of properties.

Someone that jumped bail? You need to watch Dog and Beth on DSTV and see how they burst into homes to arrest fugitives that jump bail. I will only fault the EFCC if they don't have an arrest warrant from the courts.

writeprof:
May God open your eyes!

Believe me my eyes opened over 30 years ago.
I woke up from the matrix to realize that a God that I have to bribe before he protects me is worse than Nigerian police.
A creator that is not aware of the needs of his creations and needs to be asked before he provides is a poor creator.
A God that can be commanded by man is a weak God.
A God that suffers all the primitive human emotions of anger, fear, jealousy and revenge is a vain God.

Xedmark:
You made a mistake from the beginning. It's not about buying a second handed item, it's about the way you handled it. You need to understand security issues properly before engaging yourself in buying second handed things. I also buy second handed things and it's not a big issue. Before contacting the guy (the owner) you ought to have contacted the police first from the beginning immediately you discovered theft, reporting the case and having it documented with date.

Except the girl is willing to exurnurate you. You will also be seen as an accomplice in this case. I track phones for police and I know what this entails. I wish you luck. It's not too late you can turn yourself in with proves of your chats with the girl in question but note until they find the girl the police can decide to detain u for further investigation but your chats with the girl should be enough prove that you're innocent. Goodluck!!

Most people here don't have experience with Nigerian police. They don't care about the truth or justice, they only care about how much money they can squeeze from each case. He has already made too many blunders, for example buying an apple device second hand from unknown source, paying cash for the item, not collecting receipt of the transaction and contacting the owner directly with his real contact details. He should never go to the police station alone without a lawyer and a respected senior family member, preferable a security officer. Else he will be locked up and exploited. He will be locked up and asked to bail himself with ridiculous amount of money.

My advice is he should go and make a report at the nearest police station with lawyer and a respected senior person. He should write a full statement with all evidence attached, including contact details of the girl. He definitely will be arrested and the laptop will be seized as exhibit. But his lawyer and the respected elder will get him out on bail same day with minimal amount of money. The police will then commence their investigations.
The onus of finding the girl is on you. You will need to provide necessary information and sponsor the trip to find and arrest the girl. If you had transacted with bank transfer, it would have been easier tracing her through her bank. But since you used cash, the only other means of tracing her is through her phone numbers. And phone number tracing can be expensive.

I hope you get out of your predicaments safely.

Afonjakid:
Keep lying to yourself.

What of imo state and Ebonyi state,

Last year, imo state was almost gone until the military and Aba kyari stepped in to help out.

For sometime now, orlu have not withnessed any major attack unlike before

Don't mind them, they are supporting criminals killing their own people in order to blame fulani, Buhari, DSS and others. IPOB just like boko Haram has numerous fractions with some violent and criminal minded.

Soludo thinks he is still a banker, he has not yet realize that to govern Nigeria you have become an agbero. Hope Uzodinma, a natural agbero took the fight to ipob and other criminals. He brought in the DSS, police and military to flush criminals terrorising whole communities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyRt622l60k

Ikinternational:
Stupid n Senseless

All the caucasian wealthy men hands are clean abi. Have you finished insulting them?

This silly white boy can use a good slap.

I dare any African supporting him to go to his country n insult any of their treasured companies/men n see what happens


Nigerians have horrible customer service.
But that's not for an outsider to say

Shut up n eat your food as they say.
N Thank God for a safe trip

Making excuses and attacking the messenger instead of the message, due to tribal or religious sentiments. This should not be about whether all caucasian wealthy men's hands are clean in comparism to your tribesmen but about the safety of Nigerians.

It's not only airpeace that the "outsider" has reviewed, he had reviewed many other airlines in Nigeria and other countries. That's his niche. He makes YouTube videos of airline services in many countries of the world, particularly airlines with reputable poor services.

Airpeace services are atrocious. I know a young pilot that resigned last week from airpeace. He said that the number of operating planes have reduced from 15 to just 2. He said most times the air-conditioning in the cockpit is not working and had to fly the plane sweating. He went to look for job outside the shores of Nigeria.

tayo60:
That's how people from that tribe do to their son in law. Overbilling the man as if he dey do them favour for marrying their daughter

After the excessive exploitation, they will still demand the son in law sponsors the education of one of their sons or send one of their sons abroad. In addition to that they also expect periodic monetary gifts.

writeprof:
Tithes are given to God and not the pastors. Change this erroneous mindset. You only do yourself good if you PAY your tithes and not God.
It's good you give to supposed poor people because God will still bless you, it's one of His principles of prosperity but watch your blessings multiply if you pay tithe to God and disabuse your mind from thinking pastors that are blessed already without your tithes depend or need your tithes to be rich.

Quit that rubbish. A God that was supposed to have created the universe doesn't need to blackmail you for money. You cannot give anything valuable to God outside praise and worship according to real Christianity.

The doctrine of tithes is 419 pastors are using to live extravagant lives off their poor members.

I witness something similar when one of the son of the late chairman of the National sports commission under IBB wanted to take a igbo wife. The guy went to the traditional wedding with over N1 million in his pocket. After consistent billing, he ran out of cash and had to start borrowing from his brother. It got to a stage where he got annoyed and walked out, saying he was no longer interested in the marriage. Come see begging. It took the intervention of many guest for the guy to come back. After which we was immidiately handed over his wife.

Danibonk:
Make them marry them daughter by their self

But the girl is pregnant. That means the girls father will adopt the child while the guy goes to search for another wife, according to igbo culture.

Drama as bridegroom walks out of engagement ceremony in Isiala Ngwa due to extortion.

He paid N1,500,000 to cater for food, tents, chairs and a public address system.

He was also made to set aside N100,000 as the bride price that the two families had agreed on.

Okwudili was asked to add N50,000 to the bride price because he had already impregnated the girl.

He was slapped with a N10,000 fine for making a detour to the wrong path and ending up in a different homestead instead of the girl's.

He was also asked to pay N15,000 to appease the elders who had become tired of waiting for his arrival.

Drama however ensued when twelve girls covered in loose robes from head to toe were paraded before Okwudili and he was asked to guess who his fiancée was.

He pointed at the wrong woman and that lead to yet another fine of N15,000 thrice

The decisive moment specifically was when the elders demanded for a refund of the total sum of N850,000 that had been paid as the girl's school fees and upkeep since she started primary school!

Fuming with anger which he tried his best to hide, Okwudili excused himself to visit a nearby latrine and disappeared!

He switched off his phone and was last seen in a bus heading to Lagos from Owerri.

https://dailynewsreporters.com/man-absconds-from-marriage-ceremony-in-isiala-ngwa-over-incessant-demands/

sukkot:
now guys understand that i somehow have the feeling that i got cheated. in fact i know i got cheated but i would need you guys to tell me if i got cheated or i did well. but that is not the story. the story is this so she brought the plantain. six in total and said 2000 and i knew right away i was being cheated but see sometimes as humans we have to look past this being possessive with our money stuff. you have to once in a while ( or frequently ) reward people who are trying and making an effort to succeed. dont always feel the need to squeeze every last drop of your change out of people or to beat peoples prices down to the point where they cant make a living themselves. ALWAYS have some bit of compassion for people and think about their survival too. stop pricing down people to where they can hardly make a living after working so hard

and so back to my story i looked at this woman, she is sitting under the sun all day i looked at her tray, there is maybe like 7 bunches of plantain in there. am thinking if she sells all today she gets 14000 but of course she bought the plantain somewhere else so she has to pay for the plantain too so at the end of the day what is her profit margin ? maybe for herself for the whole day maybe 3000 ? and she will buy food while sitting there for 10 hours so maybe she takes home 2000 ? she looked like she has children she will have bills and expenses etc etc etc. MY POINT IS THAT I KNEW I WAS GETTING CHEATED BY BUYING THAT PLANTAIN FOR 2000 BUT I DIDNT MIND GETTING CHEATED BECAUSE SOMETMES YOU JUST HAVE TO REWARD PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING SO HARD. AND SO I GAVE HER THE 2000 AND HOPE HER LIFE IS FINE.

You are not getting cheated and you are not doing any philanthropy. That the current market price of plantain. Plantain is off season right now and so very scarce. You are even lucky to see plantain, my wife had not been able to see plantain to buy since yesterday. I usually eat plantain with my beans. I have to switch over to sweet potato as plantain is very expensive if you see it to buy.

In another month or so the price will come down to normal. That's how other seasonal crops like tomatoes, onions and even yams fluctuate in price.

Litmus:
Indeed. But you seem to indicate that it does not happen in "saner climates" and not that it shouldn't happen in sane clims. I get that you're suggesting, by his suspension, that it isn't Fijian Police policy.

Besides I've been on a bus in the UK in which police boarded and detained the driver. You might argue that, obviously, in exceptional instances, police reserved the right to board the relevant bus and detain the driver. However this leaves the question what type of circumstances and how would police perspective versus the public perspective determine the right circumstances.

Key word - bus. Public space. Now have seen a policeman enter a private car in the UK without authorisation? Not even to arrest a driver suspected to have committed a crime, but to ask for particulars or to enforce a traffic offence.

AntiChristian:
So did those who burnt the lady ascribed their actions to Islam?

This is the reason why I say most Christians are of the devil. They claim to be lead by the Holy spirit yet they demonise without proper judgement!

Yes they brutally murdered her to protect Islam (in their warped reasoning)

And a Muslim that can behead people or burn people alive for silly reasons is not worse than the devil?

TenQ:
Ask questions when you are confused!

And you think you are knowledgeable about religious matters?

Eriggs:
In saner climes, the driver will serve prison time for this act

In saner climes, would a police man or woman jump into your car uninvited and without your permission?

In saner climes the driver will accused the police woman of stealing a gold necklace he kept beside the passenger seat.

anthonyuncle:
she's 19, your daughter is 3, that means she got pregnant at around 16 or 17.

even if age is nothing but a number, she wasn't matured for what you got her into.

carry your child, take that child to a distant relative that can take good care of her(cause your so called wife will definitely come for her), then focus on your life

Your maths is off.

She is 19 year now, and they have a 3 year old daughter. That means she was 16 when she gave birth. It then means she was 15 when she got pregnant. So the question is, at what age did he start having sex with her?

In some jurisdictions he Will be in jail. The irony is that he said he is educated. I hope his education is not in Islamic studies.

I honestly don't know if we are progressing or retrogressing. Nigeria seem to be going back to the middle ages. People are being burnt alive for blasphemy, organs are being harvested for money rituals, and innocent couples are being brutally murdered for no just cause.
We are descending lower than even savage animals.

helinues:
The UGM are simply saying they do not want any graduates or learned person from SE. They just want others to be illiterates like them.

The learned people from SE should cover their face in shame as Illiterates Ipob are rulling over them

In other words Boko Haram, meaning Book is Haram.

IPOB having a common goal with Boko Haram.

Okwyjesus:
CAN should hire able lawyers immediately for the case. Am ready to donate for the legal fees. Am not joking

Christians only knows how to make noise on social media. Muslims take action without making noise. If Muslims can assembly 34 lawyers to defend their brothers who blatantly commited murdered a Christian, how many lawyers have the Christians been able to assemble? Are there no lawyers in CAN? What has CAN done to support the family of Deborah and make sure the murders are brought to book?

UtuokeAlcoholic:
Muslims are the most tolerant of other religious adherents. You will never see Muslim blaspheme against other people religion. Muslims only disagree with your religion believe just as you disagree with their own. As you can see the girl was not killed because she didn't believe in the prophethood or message of Muhammad but because she insulted him. Don't tell me the fedility bank CEO blasphemed against Jesus, he only disagree with the hoax that Jesus was killed and rose. Which is the believe of every Muslim that Jesus was never killed nor rose.

Muslims blaspheme the Christian religion all the time.
Calling the crucifixion, death and rise of Jesus a hoax is the greatest blasphemy in Christianity. It is similar to saying "Allah is not the great and Muhammed is not his messenger".

You guys are very sick, mentally sick. Burning a helpless girl just because she voice her opinion is the height of barbarism. You guys are worse than animals.
I now understand why China treat people who believe in Islam as mentally sick and needs to be isolated from normal society.

DrFunmisticGlow:
Legalisation of abortion could have prevented this

That's the quagmire religious extremists put every sexually active young girl. They want to women who mistakingly gets pregnant to carry the baby to term as punishment for having sex outside their religious doctrine.

Abortion pills are the safest means of abortion. It's very effective for pregnancies less than 8 weeks and relatively cheap. But criminalization of abortion has made it unavailable and when available beyond the reach of most people.

mickyeddi:
Well said! In life, you don't demand respect from others, you earn it. It's time for Africans to fix the motherland.

Nigerians still possess that slave and colonial mentality. We all desired to be shipped across the oceans to use our skills and energy to work and develop foreign lands.

We destroy our own motherland and then crave for acceptance in foreign lands.

cococandy:
They are not ready for that conversation yet.

This war has made me respect the Ukrainians more. In the middle of a devastating war, most Ukrainians are staying in their country to fight. It is mainly women, children and the aged that are migrating to European neighbouring countries. The president, his wife and children are still in Ukraine as we speak. Most government officials are staying put in Ukraine despite all the bombings by Russia.

If it was in Nigeria, most Nigerians with passport would have left the country. The political elites would have sent their families abroad and have a private plane on standby to evacuate himself if the situation escalates. During ordinary SARS riots, most of the political elites ran to Europe.

Nigerians seem to have little attachments to our lands and abandon it at the slightest discomfort.

Religion (the imported ones) were imposed on us as a prison. A prison to enslave us for eternity. A prison which you cannot escape.
Religion is an effective tool to divide the nation, community and family. This is one of the main reasons African countries can never be at peace, the reason we can never develop or make any serious progress.

seguno2:
And why should they send us?
Did we send them when they were suffering
We better get our own act together and face front.

Abeg helep me ask dem, watin dem dey find for Ukraine? How many Ukrainians dey for Africa? When you make your house uncomfortable and always run to another person's house, they will treat you like shit.

Ukrainians hate africans, especially blacks.

The is the aftermath of religious indoctrination. This is what you get when you indoctrinate a child from birth. The murderers did not think they did anything wrong as they gladly posted their deeds online. These people had been indoctrinated with violence and intolerance in Islamic schools or madrasa from childhood. Islam as propagated to poor people is all about submission, fanatism and violence.

Merseycider:
They will not blame christianity now oooo but if na muslims ,na islam cause it.

Christianity and buring people alive na 5&6 mostly under the church building

She did not kill in the name of Christianity, unlike you guys that kill, behead, rape and burn people while shouting Allahu akbar.

Where have you ever seen Christians burn people alive in the name of God? Or is lying another trait of Islam apart from violence?

GreenOaksGift:
Why give birth to the child if you know you will end up killing the child? Heartless girl.

Because abortion was not readily avialable. It's both illegal and expensive.