NewStats: 3,263,177 , 8,179,325 topics. Date: Wednesday, 04 June 2025 at 10:58 PM 355y1n

uvie66:
...my brother I concur because I am on 2.5 k a month net and live in London but always still manage to save 500 every month out of it, despite coming to three times a year to flex. The trick to living in London is do not punch above your weight.

.... despite coming to naija...

borie4u:
But that comparison no make sense at all. Except U dey live for London house rent, bills and naija food U can't spend £1200 and the remaining na savings with better enjoyment. If U try save 500£ na almost 1million naira be that which is even more than the salary for naija with all the food stuff inflation.
House rent =600-650£
Bill= 250£
Food=100-150£
Council tax= 150£.
Salary= £2000
Tax=350£
Net Money= 1650£
Expenditure= 1200£
Savings= 1650-1200= 450£
Savings in naira = 450*1850~#900k.
UK anyday anytime twice on monday

...my brother I concur because I am on 2.5 k a month net and live in London but always still manage to save 500 every month out of it, despite coming to three times a year to flex. The trick to living in London is do not punch above your weight.

Procashtips:


Professionals don't earn 2000

Meaning they were well to do in Nigeria before relocating.

2000 is for the averages. No professionals or business guys earn 2000, maybe in days or weeks.

We are talking average earners, not professionals.

... nonsense talk a band 5 professional nurse earns 30k a year which equates to about 2k a month, an FY2 Doctor is on 33k and a police officer salary is about 30 k starting.

Procashtips:


Are you saving it here so you can spend it there?

The same 300 you're saying here, they can also save the % overthere.

Question goes back to, can you actually live a comfortable life with 1700 out of 2000?

Someoen earning ₦500k can comfortably save ₦80k+₦100k too while living a more comfortable life than the one earning 2000 and saving 300

Please do the arithmetic for me, how can someone living on 500k live a comfortable life in Nigeria, because the last time I checked a flight ticket to London for holiday is over a million, a comfortable SUV is over 10 million, rent for a 2 bed flat in Ajah or anywhere in the island is over 2mllion, and installing Solar system in flat is over 4million I never put children school fees and the rest. Please break it down for me.

OboOlora:


Which caregiver will make £4k/month after tax in the UK.
Na so una de talk rubbish wey una nor know.

Do you know £4k/month after tax is roughly £70k/annum b4 tax?

Even if u pack all the extra shifts and almost kill urslef, max na 3k/month after tax

The more u work, the more Tax takes.

My brother the thing weak me, if a caregiver makes 4k a month how much is a newly qualified nurse making them, people go just dey misyarn anyhow.

Blessedarethepe:

Who are the staff of government schools?
Who are the medical officers in govt hospitals?
Who are staff of government educational institutions?
Who are the staff of Environmental protection agencies?
Who are the staff of all government agencies?
Please try and know about your country.... there are many more

Okay, thanks for the enlightenment.

Pennilessword1:
I regret being an African

... What a quote, if you regret being an African, it's like you regret being a black Man because every black human being on this earth originate from Africa.

They want to strike, at the end of the day what services do they even provide? Is it water, or electricity, Can someone please tell me the relevance of these federal and state employees?

ijustdey:


https://dailytrust.com/70k-minimum-wage-cant-take-any-nigerian-family-home-rep-chinda/

....one wife and four children, that is where the problem lies. In a country where the government does not provide anything for the citizens. People should learn family planing, having many children does not equate to prosperity.

demzey:
This one day UK day shout patient patient, you go soon turn patient

The thing weak me, she is in country where there is constant light, inflation rate is under 3% and minimum wage is #18000 an hour, that is why she have the effontry to comment from afar.

mightyhazel:
Where are their professors in Engineering? Can't they generate some form of electricity? Solar?

..... the thing weak me, Nigeria professors ends on paper, what happened to Solar energy!!!

y3mi:

Even if girls dey find oshofree... Does your mockery justify them been endangered by your gender ?

...it is not mockery, but facts, majority of girls prefer to tender what is between their legs for quick bucks that is Olosho business is lucrative for them.

ProjectsCityNG:
Tell us what you mean by unbefitting first

...my brother the thing weak me.... kidnapping, ashawo,..etc

Lumarstone:
The proposed amount as minimum wage is grossly inadequate. Bachelors like corps can't even cope with that figure let alone family Men with children. Minimum wage should not be less than two hundred kky, or close to that figure. Any amount less than #120,000 is a joke and daylight scam.

I left..!

Put up a position for Security officer at 50k a month make you see how many people go rush.

Girls and Oshofree is like 5&6

vanbonattel:
Na covered drains we go chop?

Dollar is N1,600 now

Yes, mumu, na covered drains we go chop. Or else you and your family go dey throw dirty inside to block am.

God1000:
It is very difficult to see children of our politicians from governor, senator, minister to president in our universities and they claim to love this country.

Anyway, congrats to her and her Dad the man that raised her.

I concur, they see their own universities as not worthy for consideration of their children's education and they are the Governor of the state. These people have no shame.

Provide name and school name, let us chase him wherever he is on this Planet, as long as he didn't japa to another planet he can be tracked through social media and other covert sources.

MaziX:
don't judge sir. Don't

....So how where they kidnapped if a responsible adult was with them.

tungamaje:
Carelessness on the part of the parents. Why should these little kids be returning from school on their own? Where is their mum? Maybe at home doing Facebook or watching movies on YouTube

Once again Nigerians will have Children they can afford to look after, three kids on their own to school in country littered with kidnappers and ritualists.

MrIcredible:
38 years!
No life
No family
No possession

In a land of possibilities...

The man no try for himself at all.

I concur

Kobicove:
This guy went to the UK in 1986 and for 38years he was rigmarolling and did not bother to organise his life and get proper accommodation.

Why would a normal person prefer to be squatting and 'crashing' on friend's sofas for 38years?!

I really can't say I blame the UK government if they decide to deport him

What was he doing all this while before he had a stroke in 2019, you didn't sort out your papers, get on the property ladder, build houses or business in Nigeria, I'm confused. Back in the 80s it was easy to get paper, look for a struggling white British citizen woman give them a couple of thousand of pounds to get married to and divorce after a couple of years.

CodeTemplar:
Problem with the more-money advocates is they don't realise it only solves temporarily the problem of lack and imposes inflation on the long run. Tripling the minimum wage may sound sweet for the moment, but when a very simple economy releases so much money into the hands of people termed "workers" and they hit the market to make demand, the trend of inflation over the past 6 years that has eaten the profit margin of the sellers and distributors will propel them to attempt to jerk up prices then regain their former status and possibly improve it. That will lead to a new inflation cycle and N100k may never buy you what even N20k can as of today. Same mistake we made promting money to pay people who don't help production of essentials in anyway.

No one is talking about the problem of low productivity of essentials that brings about low supply and thus higher prices. What about rent seekers that just form strong units and extort productive people? People like louts, bandits, secret societies,idle police officers, career grassroot politicians etc ?

.... you are talking sense, the union should be talking to their of efficiency savings like ghost workers, unproductivity workers, workers that don't show up for work but expect to get paid, and latest one is workers that have resigned but still collecting salary

Honestey:
Ododo: Good morning Mr president
Tinubu: Good morning how was your trip.? Why are you here?
Ododo: Sir, I came to seek your forgiveness over my action towards EFCC when they came to arrest that white-rat. There was nothing I could than to at least try protect the man who helped me to become the governor of Kogi.
Tinubu: You know that was wrong and you might be questioned about it after the expiration of your tenure as governor.
Ododo: Sir actually that's why I'm here I don't know what I can do because he is sleeping in our government house female toilet and my wife is troubling me about that. Our budget for food is looking like a nothing now that we have to share everything with someone who should have gone elsewhere. In fact he is trying to establish a office within the government house where he will be giving me order on what to do. I'm getting frustrated already.
Tinubu: I can imagine how you are feeling but that's how rats are, especially the white one calling itself a white lion. My advice is that henceforth stop feeding him and stop cleaning that female toilet. Let you wife enter shit there and leave it unflushed. I bet he will find his way out.
Ododo: Ok sir, I will do that

😁😁😁

Richtaiwo:
I apc but this Ododo is damn irritating. I don’t have anything against him or his mode of operation. Infact I don't know anything about his istration or how he became a governor. Whenever I see a man bleaching his skin, I always have this feeling he is irresponsible.

a former stooge of Bello, what do we expect.....

Me I don't understand how this Godfatherism work, Nigeria is a funny and convoluted place. A commissioner is more loyal to a Godfather that is no longer in power than his employer the Governor. So how will there be order, mutual respect, and discipline between the Governor and his commissioner if the commissioner allegiance is to the Godfather who placed him there in the first place. This is the problem with most juicy positions in Nigeria, CBN, NNPC, CUSTOM, NIRS, etc.
When you have been recommended and installed by a powerful politician it is difficult to take orders from your immediate supervisor who you see as nobody compared to the powerful politician that facilitated your employment.

MT:
This is what extreme frustration can do.

A trained Engineer doing a security work in the cold, he will definitely gets frustrated.

The wife might even be taunting him for not bringing enough to settle their bills, which will aggravate his frustration.

I assume he was earning good money in Nigeria as a trained engineer before moving to the UK.

This is one of the dark sides of relocation which people do not pay attention to.

If you are in the middle class in Nigeria and earning averagely good money, think twice before you relocate. You can only relocate if you are legitimately getting married to your spouse who is a legal resident or you have a job which pays better as a middle class over there.

The grass is not always greener at the other side.

.... People keeping on saying a trained engineer, he may be a trained engineer on paper but the jobs to sustain himself in Nigeria was not forthcoming because of they were, there wouldn't have been a reason to japa the first place.

jubrilELsudan:
SOME OF YOU NIGERIANS ARE REALLY VERY STUPID PEOPLE AND MOST DAFT SAYING THIS IS A CIVIL CASE

I DARE YOU ALL WITH YOUR FLAT BRAIN TO GO BUY A CAR THEN MAKE PART PAYMENT THEN SIGN AGREEMENT TO COMPLETE THE PAYMENT IN INSTALLMENTS THEN FAIL TO PAY THE INSTALLMENTS THEN WHEN THE SELLERS CALL YOU ABOUT YOUR NONE PAYMENTS THEN YOU GO AHEAD AND INSULT AND THREATHEN THEM AND TELL THEM YOU WON'T PAY THEN WHEN YOU ARE ARRESTED YOU SAY IT'S A CIVIL MATTER

GO ABROAD AND DO THIS AND SEE THAT YOU WON'T GET MINIMUM 25YEARS JAIL

HERE ABROAD THAT YOU FAIL TO MAKE PAYMENT FOR A MONTH THEY ALREADY FLY TO REPOSES YOUR CAR THEN TALK MORE OF NOT PRODUCING THE CAR....YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR CAR THEFT

if na abroad they will jejely come and take their car with the spare key.

Babaibeji2020:

He's an idiota.....the content of the petition would contain "threat to life" and or conduct likely to cause the breach of public peace.....those are criminal contents that demands police intervention.....

..,....I concur the Man dived over his security gate threatening his own safety and those around him.

Nonsense talk....and how will a debt recovery agency get the vehicle or money from that agbero that flew over his gate like an agbero, violence begets violence.

Sonnobax15:

HML to Dem...

She's a human being first of all,and as well deserves love just like every other person out there..... Personally,I don't rate physically challenged people low......I see dem as who they are and not whatever illness or predicaments they are faced with...
You talk sense, whether rich or poor every human deserves love and affection.


Kudos to Dem!!!

Dshocker:
Inconsequential and waste of public funds.

Since the military has intentionally refused to exterminate bandits and bokoharam in the north, all because they cash out and benefit from the annual billions earmarked in fighting insurgency.

How is this waste of public funds again ?