Jakumo:
This is what happens to Nigeria's oil wealth when it is made available to the former hairdresser to a head of state, via the back door allocation of oil fields that are being milked for billions of dollars to this day.

Enjoy the money, y'all, because it was ALL diverted from the national treasury of the Nigerian federation. The forgoing pictures are the closest any of you mortals will ever get in the way of benefits derived from all that stolen wealth that grows exponentially by the hour, in that woman's offshore bank accounts.

ivolt:


Your entitlement mentality may limit your achievement.
Private money can be spent anyhow the
owner wishes, it is not in your place to dictate how it is
spent.
She owes you nothing unless of course the money was
illegally taken from you in which case you can sue for
theft or fraud.

Since you are educated, you should be able to think
better than an average joe on the street but unfortunately
that isn't the case.

I repeat again she owes you nothing even if that stupid
racists was able to fool you.
You could have avoided being fooled by asking for just
one English billionaire who spend his/her money
building public roads and bridges or even sharing it to "poor" people.

I'm not in anyway entitled, even though you are right about the larger percentage of the country in regards to our entitled mentality. My issue with the wedding is that the money was stolen from her own people. Kindly tell me how she got the oil blocs that was meant for the whole population? You don't see private people owning oil blocs in a right reasoning nation.

Spadelicious:

Oaf.

ivolt:


No they are not. Nobody sends money to another country with a gun pointed to their head.
Naive average joes usually think that money sent as aid are a loss for them but their
politicians and intellectuals know better.

If the racist was not a coward in real life he would hold his government responsible
for his pathetic life or run for election to correct the anomaly instead of hating on
how a private Nigerian citizen chose to spend her money.

winterfell007:
This is one reason I support Niger delta avengers to cripple the oil industry for this mofos. The Nigerian private are filled up with chronic rent seekers. We seek an egalitarian society but I think it's almost to achieve it judging by what I see here.

grandstar:



I remember buying mars for 50k in 1981.

That means your dsds 25,000 could buy 50,000 mars bars which cost 299 at Shoprite.

That means your 25,000 then will be worth 15,000,000 today. That's a lot of money.

That 25,000 could easily buy 2 brand new cars then. Minimum wage then was 125 naira.

Martinscue:
I'm not in anyway entitled, even though you are right about the larger percentage of the country in regards to our entitled mentality. My issue with the wedding is that the money was stolen from her own people. Kindly tell me how she got the oil blocs that was meant for the whole population? You don't see private people owning oil blocs in a right reasoning nation.

ivolt:


How is it your business what a private individual choose to do with her money ?

ivolt:


No they are not. Nobody sends money to another country with a gun pointed to their head.
Naive average joes usually think that money sent as aid are a loss for them but their
politicians and intellectuals know better.

If the racist was not a coward in real life he would hold his government responsible
for his pathetic life or run for election to correct the anomaly instead of hating on
how a private Nigerian citizen chose to spend her money.

Prince williams spent $34 million dollar state money on his wedding, yet we
didn't see the poverty stricken concerned brits troop to the street in protest

eyinjuege:


Let us tell ourselves the truth...

Nigeria has no business receiving aid from foreign countries.
Their average Joe in those countries resent it.
Those giving the aid do know why they do so. Its not exactly due to the magnanimity of their hearts, but more of a control thing.

grandstar:



I remember buying mars for 50k in 1981.

That means your dsds 25,000 could buy 50,000 mars bars which cost 299 at Shoprite.

That means your 25,000 then will be worth 15,000,000 today. That's a lot of money.

That 25,000 could easily buy 2 brand new cars then. Minimum wage then was 125 naira.

Jakumo:


The money is being stolen from Nigeria's oil fields on a daily basis by many people who gained such access through the back door. The looting of public wealth is not only a matter of public interest, but one that should be denounced for precisely what it is - EMBEZZLEMENT, on a gargantuan scale, that is sadly, ongoing, even as we type these inconsequential rejoinders in discussion forums.

ivolt:


Prince williams spent $34 million dollar state money on his wedding, yet we
didn't see the poverty stricken concerned brits troop to the street in protest

ivolt:


Is there any money in Nigeria that is not viewed as stolen ?
I find this kind of view as ridiculous, and it is like recommending
communism where government controls everything and we are all
poor(in theory) and we have to queue to get our daily bread courtesy
of the almighty government.

Profiting from ones investment is not stealing, if that is the case,
we are all thieves until government becomes our sole provider and
we lose ability to own anything.

Jakumo:


If due process was NOT followed in the secretive allocation of national oil fields, then such allocations were and are ILLEGAL, meaning they should ALL be revoked, whilst the billions of dollars already stolen and hidden by criminal beneficiaries of nepotism, such as this former hairdresser, should be declared to INTERPOL as stolen public funds, as the first necessary step towards RECLAIMING what is left of such loot, for reversal BACK into the Nigerian federal treasury, sooner rather than later.

ivolt:


The keyword is "if", if the government determines the allocation as illegal
they should sue but I haven't seen any move to that effect. However, you
can't label someone as a thief when there is neither investigation nor charge against them.
What we imagine doesn't determine reality.

emmanuel596:
If I have money I will spend it well on earth because I won't die with it but I must make sure I change the lives of soo many people that on my burial day there's gonna be millions of good will massages and soo many people thanking God that I was born....but God himself will punish this people if they ever breakup or divorce.... My dad told us about how he spent 25,000 naira on his wedding in 1982 and today he is 35years with my mum happily married there's a difference between wedding and marriage.... These days weddings don't last but am writing an article about why marriages don't last in the 21st century it will hit nairaland soon

Jakumo:


Good point. Practices that a corrupt and venal government may regard as legitimate business conduct, may later come to be defined as brazen daylight robbery, by subsequent administrations, who are then free to lower the sledge hammer as needed.

Pearly255:
Lord Jesus may I never smell poverty in Jesus name... Amen! In few years to come am gonna be the richest woman on earth. Amen and Amen.

ivolt:


I await such declarations.

lastclaire4:

Hmmm from your speech you are trying to say your father's wedding was cheap. You don't have to be an alakija to know that your dad's wedding was very very very expensive at the time. Don't look at it that it is 35k. But ask yourself how much was a brand new 504 at that time. To get a clearer picture 504 of that time is like Toyota of today.
Mind u those times nothing like contract anything out cooking was done by family and friends.

Martinscue:
A foreigner reaction to the wedding

idolda:
Nigerians and their stupid notice me mentality. Money that could have been put to better use by investing in charities wasted away just to boast their ego

emmanuel596:
If I have money I will spend it well on earth because I won't die with it but I must make sure I change the lives of soo many people that on my burial day there's gonna be millions of good will massages and soo many people thanking God that I was born....but God himself will punish this people if they ever breakup or divorce.... My dad told us about how he spent 25,000 naira on his wedding in 1982 and today he is 35years with my mum happily married there's a difference between wedding and marriage.... These days weddings don't last but am writing an article about why marriages don't last in the 21st century it will hit nairaland soon

idolda:
Nigerians and their stupid notice me mentality. Money that could have been put to better use by investing in charities wasted away just to boast their ego