cap28:

i dont know why you are suprised why "people like me come here to post " am i not a nigerian? do i not have the right to post my opinions on here?

You claim nigerians enjoy low cost of living -how come food prices are so high? how come the average nigerian can not afford to live in a decent accommodation and is forced to live in places with untarred roads, overflowing open gutters stinking of raw sewage?

how come the average nigerian can barely make ends meet on the meagre salaries that they earn, if cost of living was as low as you claim how come the majority of nigerians livign abroad are supporting their relatives back home?

Tax may be as high as 40% in some european countries but at least the money is used to provide universal healthcare, free education, clean and tarred roads, underground sewage systems, responsive emergency services like the police, fire services and ambulance services.  In nigeria we all know where your taxes go - straight into the pockets of those thieves you call leaders thats why your roads are death traps, your healthcare is non existent your educational services are substandard and your police services are glorified armed robbers.  Wouldnt you rather pay a lot of tax and live in a clean and secure environment?  Wouldnt you prefer to be able to send your children to schools where they actually graduate with the ability to read and write?

the govt doesnt bother with you because they are too busy looting the national treasury, this is why you are all left to your own devices - the thing you fail to understand is that your govt should be serving you- you should be holding them to account not allowing them to get away with grand theft.
Governments have a responsibility to provide for their citizenry - nigerians are the only people who demand nothing from their govts thats why they continue to abuse and exploit you. As you can see they are about to shaft you once again by hiking up petrol prices under the pretext that they intend touse the money generated to provide infrastructures - if you beleive that this govt of criminals have any intention of doing anything constructive for the nigerian populace then you must really be naive.  
Understand this - THEY DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU- THEY DONT CARE WHETHER THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF NIGERIA DROPS DEAD - ALL THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IS FREEING UP THIS EXCESS MONEY TO FINANCE THEIR ALREADY LAVISH LIFESTYLES.

Here in the UK the average person can afford to take care of their family without having to engage in criminal activities, their salaries are sufficient to put food on the table and pay for their electricity and gas bills.  Those who can not afford to do so ie the unemployed, pensioners, disabled etc are given assistance by the govt and are not abandoned and left to rot as is the case in nigeria, the fact that you come to the UK and take your friends out does not mean you are better off than them - unless you are going to tell me taht you also pay their mortgage/house rent and bills?

I find it funny that you can say your friends in the UK live from hand to mouth when over 70% of the nigerian population live on less than the equivalent of $1 a day.

dmainboss:

First, you do have a right to post. I was only referring to the content of your post.

Having said that, you are going round in circles. I have already stated that what we lack in Nigeria is infrastructure, so we complely agree on that. But your previous post postulated that there is high cost of living in Nigeria. Very untrue.

Please stop quoting the cliche Nigerian NGO's quote when they want to collect funds from International organisations. 70% percent of Nigerians do not, i repeat, do not live on $1 dollar a day. I have traveled several states during this holiday period and I don't know where you lot get those cliches from. They are completely false. $1 is the cost of 2 bottles of soft drinks. Most Nigerians will afford that daily without stress. $1 is the profit you make from selling 3 bags of pure water. An average pure water seller can sell over 15 to 20 bags in a day in urban centers and around 10bags a day minimum in rural centers. And that us not normally the only thing they sell. Please stop peddling those false figures. All the artisan I know around me constantly drink at least 2 bottles to 4 bottles of star daily. except those that don't drink. Please stop. It is only almajiris that that will apply to and they are not 70 million.

Food prices are not so high in comparison to other countries. We say that they are so high because we are humans and have many needs we need to meet, but in reference to your post, they are not so high. In Lagos where you have one of the highest cost of living, I can eat comfortably with N100. With n150, I can eat with a decent piece of meat. Not saying that is the best we should have, but am only speaking in relation to your post. In other states, it could be less. If you want to eat in Tantalizer and Mr Biggs, then you will have to pay big bucks. But that is not the norm.

My point is simple. What we really suffer is infrastructural development.

babestella:

i cannot imagine people buying pms at 140 per litre and burning the same in the mad traffic gridlock along lekki express, Agege, Ikotun, Ipaja all around lagos. How will you feel when you buy 20 liter of pms, burn in in traffic gridlock, and when you get home, you don't even have up to 5 litres left in your tank.

In advanced countries where pms is sold as high as between 150 to 200 per litre, they have very good roads network that in less than 20 mins drive you are in your home or anywhere you want to go within the city.


There are good rail (in fact luxury rail transportation for that matter) which can et you to your destination within minutes, what do we have here?

Noffin bro, just silly roads which are even claiming peoples life on a daily basis.

Com'on lets face the fact, is our govt handling things the way it should handled.


At least if people cannot afford to fuel your car all week, you have alternative means of getting around their businesses or to your offices.

What are we talking about this govt should be shut down until they learn how to do things the right way.

cap28:

I dont know why we derive pleasure in lying to ourselves - if the cost of living is low why do so many nigerians queue up endlessly outside various embassies of the world in a bid to get the hell out of the country?

why were there so many nigerians living in libya?  why did many of them come back to talk about how much better their standard of livign was when they were in libya?  

we love lying to ourselves.

philip0906:

I hate it when these dudes living in diaspora who d not feel d pinch come in here and type shyte like they'r some genius

all4naija:

You live in it yet you complain every now and then.Why? Economy doesn't require anybody to live there to know what's happening to it. Nigerian economy is dependent on oil. Please, stop using a conjecture for an excuse!

KenGali:

Thank God the wacko subsidy is finally going. but my own issue is with the implementation o! PPPRA should also be scrapped with the subsidy, else Nigerians are then being taken for a ride. There is absolutely no role for a price regulatory body in a system where prices are deregulated, except someone wants to continue to licence importation of petrol products. If that's the case, then the sector is not deregulated as supply becomes regulated with deregulated pricing, this makes for no competition and price build up. Supply must first be deregulated before prices are let loose, also the govt. can only check product pricing by becoming a player in the market with at least 20% market share and low prices. The continued participation of PPPRA is a problem to me as it shows the govt. is not doing away with import licensing. Only DPR and customs should be concerned, DPR with quality and Customs with the import taxes, which will need to be upped to encourage local production after prices are driven down by the initial oversupply and high tempo competition among the marketers following deregulation.

all4naija:

@philip0906

I quite get your diversion but look well around it again. Now, tell me why the subsidy is not part of what the corrupt individuals have not been profiting from? If this plan succeeded and the president is able to forestall other projects with it then it a bonus for his administration. How do you fight corruption in a country like Nigeria when the economy is dependent on oil? On what favor the rich few why the masses will soon face a much more hardship if left unchecked.  You see there are always more questions to answers or than answers. I still think this ideal is not all that bad if we looked at the consequences it might have in the future

all4naija:

^^^
It is like begging the question. What part of the corruption you didn't understand I am talking about than removing the subsidy that is very obvious? It is like the egg or the chicken which came first question. Why not just let eat the chicken and egg and forget which came first?Let's get rid of subsidy and save our economy.

How do you fight corruption in a country like Nigeria when the economy is dependent on oil?

Food prices are not so high in comparison to other countries. We say that they are so high because we are humans and have many needs we need to meet, but in reference to your post, they are not so high. In Lagos where you have one of the highest cost of living, I can eat comfortably with N100. With
N150, I can eat with a decent piece of meat. Not saying that is the best we should have, but am only speaking in relation to your post. In other states, it could be less.