Kelvin3028:

My family can buy ur entire generation... Go google that...by the way... Wats ur definition of poverty? Recharge cards?!
Oh plzzz!

pretydamsel1:
True talk @ op. anyway I hardly buy airtime

jibbish:
dts gud.... I like ur receiving ministry.

Boscojugunu:
Yes nah. Imaging me dating four girls at a time. I waste money calling dem every day. Y recharge card money no go plenty pass food money. I pity myself tho

pat077:
big lie.

kelvine:
Very correct, that's why some people beg for airtime all the time. Talk is not cheap anymore.

pretydamsel1:
True talk @ op. anyway I hardly buy airtime

osemu8:
i saw it in your eyes

chronique:
This is true. I'm one of such persons. Last year,I downloaded an application on my mobile phone to monitor my expenses and I realized I was spending well over a 100k per month(on myself alone) and the major expenses were on fueling of vehicles and recharge cards. Food always came up as the least thing I spent on. To avoid high bp,I stopped using the application...

pretydamsel1:
hehehehehe

osemu8:
do u live in ph?

adanduka:

Perhaps, the cost of recharge cards and data should be looked into because we still need the services offered but not at the expense of our daily bread.

Gerrard59:




Which app is that?

Kelvin3028:
Who do d survey? Where dem do am!
Iffa hear dat again... I go sue u... My papa go by jst #100 card, use am 4 2wks, my mama too, me na #50 naira transfer I dey do... I no dey even get mb... Y dem no survey me nah? Make I spoil evrytin 4 dem.

Kelvin3028:
This trend about airtime reminds me of something..., I did a stat of how much I spent in calling my long distance ex last year... When I arrived at the final result of 42,350 par annual, I just broke up with her without looking back.

adanduka:

Perhaps, the cost of recharge cards and data should be looked into because we still need the services offered but not at the expense of our daily bread.

Kelvin3028:
This trend about airtime reminds me of something..., I did a stat of how much I spent in calling my long distance ex last year... When I arrived at the final result of 42,350 par annual, I just broke up with her without looking back.

chronique:
This is true. I'm one of such persons. Last year,I downloaded an application on my mobile phone to monitor my expenses and I realized I was spending well over a 100k per month(on myself alone) and the major expenses were on fueling of vehicles and recharge cards. Food always came up as the least thing I spent on. To avoid high bp,I stopped using the application...

yomi007k:

Lol
Pls can I get dt application.
Thanks

qbd2:
Are u sure? Cos dem alawin. Pple rarely callor message now, all na whatsapp or bbm

unyours:

Nigerians may be spending more money to recharge their phones than they spend on feeding, a recent survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the World Bank has indicated.

The result of the General Household Panel Survey conducted by the NBS in collaboration with the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Group indicated that each household in Nigeria spends an average of N20,874 on recharge cards, N14,620 on food N33, 373 on house rent, N13,860 on petrol, N7,748 and N6,660 on kerosene on a monthly basis.

Using the data as a basis to calculate for the entire country showed that on average monthly, Nigerians spend about N449.73 billion on recharge cards, N399.65 on food, N143.3 billion on kerosene, and N149.17 billion on house rent.

The data also showed that Nigerians hardly use mortgages facilities to pay for their homes, but rather purchase houses directly. According to the data, the amount spent to service mortgages was the least of the expenditure profile of the average Nigerian family with an average of N3.09 billon used monthly as against the monthly estimate of N149.17 billion spent on payment of house rents monthly.

According to the NBS, 5000 households were selected from the NBS’ annual general household database (cross-sectional covering the six geo-political zones) and surveyed to generate the data released in the GHS Panel report for 2012/2013.

Though the data above indicates average expenditure patterns by per household in Nigeria, it was enlarged to cover the entire population in the country.

The NBS estimates that the average Nigerian family had 5.7 people per household. Using a population of 170 million as at year end 2013, an estimated 29.8 million households were gotten for the entire country.

http://leadership.ng/business/343678/nigerians-spend-more-on-recharge-cards-than-food