Some people has now turn to beggars, one way or the other. Both online and real life. Civil servants not excluded. May God help this country.
People are acting as if they don't know . I pray 🙏 it doesn't get worse than this otherwise......

NVera:
Good day everyone.
With the unbelievable increments in almost everything in Nigeria, how does the poor survive?

Most people were complaining when petrol was #200plus, now it is #600plus.

A bag of rice can barely be purchased by the average family, some people are being paid peanuts as salaries, they are barely surviving.

With hope they keep believing things will be better, but the price of basic things keeps skyrocketing as if armed men are chasing them.

How do people earning #20,000, #30,000 per month survive? Some families with 3 to 4 kids, how will they survive?

The cost of daily transport alone is killing, do our leaders ever consider those living below par, how they survive?

The poor are getting poorer, everyone is complaining, people are frustrated, most people can barely see what to eat.

The poor among us, what should they do? Because with all this it's just like they are saying the poor should go and die.

economic woes is making people jump from 3rd mainland bridge daily

People need to be sensible so lacking

Lucasino:
Some people has now turn to beggars, one way or the other. Both online and real life. Civil servants not excluded. May God help this country.
People are acting as if they don't know . I pray 🙏 it doesn't get worse than this otherwise......

IbeOkehie:
■ A lot of these failed governments were DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED. Even the military governments were very popular despite imposing very destructive policies. President Buhari remains one of the most popular Nigerian Presidents, he would have won again if he was the APC candidate, afterall President Tinubu was his partner in power. Another popular President is Murtala Mohammed. That's the President that ordered the Federal Government take over of the University System in 1975. We all know how that has worked out in the long term. But Murtala is still a hero for most Nigerians.
■ Don't mind them. Nigerians...especially the university graduates...are terribly unenlightened. 😔 Good Luck to Nigerians!

1. Nigerians are now experts in practicing what I like to term Lazy Democracy — Democracy by the people, not according to the will of the people but rather according to the will handed to the people by the politicians. They literally hand their mandate over to the politicians and then come back to whine when it backfires against them going as far as to claim Democracy doesn't work. It disgusts me!

:DCorrect

Kobojunkie:
1. Nigerians are now experts in practicing what I like to term Lazy Democracy — Democracy by the people, not according to the will of the people but rather according to the will handed to the people by the politicians. They literally hand their mandate over to the politicians and then come back to whine when it backfires against them going as far as to claim Democracy doesn't work. It disgusts me!

You got it right

number1 for foolishness

I just hope we will continue to have sensible people like you before they all turn to zombies.

Kobojunkie:
1. Nigerians are now experts in practicing what I like to term Lazy Democracy — Democracy by the people, not according to the will of the people but rather according to the will handed to the people by the politicians. They literally hand their mandate over to the politicians and then come back to whine when it backfires against them going as far as to claim Democracy doesn't work. It disgusts me!

flokii:
I think about this too.. it's even those below average income families with up to 6 kids I feel sorry for.
As it is now, feeding 3 mouths is not easy, talk mote of 6-8 mouths. It is well.

Covid lockdown didn't stop them from breeding, this too will probably not stop the poor from continuing to breed like rats.

Anyhow or anyway the poor has been surviving in d past then I think it's time to change their ways of thinking and find multiple means to earn 🤔

So my idea was that d government are actually good when we are painting them black in d past that is when fuel was #65 but it's now people can refer them as real black people right 🤔 because d fuel is up to 600 now 🤔

NVera:
Good day everyone.
With the unbelievable increments in almost everything in Nigeria, how does the poor survive?

Most people were complaining when petrol was #200plus, now it is #600plus.

A bag of rice can barely be purchased by the average family, some people are being paid peanuts as salaries, they are barely surviving.

With hope they keep believing things will be better, but the price of basic things keeps skyrocketing as if armed men are chasing them.

How do people earning #20,000, #30,000 per month survive? Some families with 3 to 4 kids, how will they survive?

The cost of daily transport alone is killing, do our leaders ever consider those living below par, how they survive?

The poor are getting poorer, everyone is complaining, people are frustrated, most people can barely see what to eat.

The poor among us, what should they do? Because with all this it's just like they are saying the poor should go and die.

Kobojunkie:
■ You dey read at all? The changes are for the betterment of the country not just the section of the country that is poor. It is left to the poor to choose whether rise or die at this point. Nigeria cannot and should not keep lagging all for the sake of the poor. The poor need to step up.

2. Well, if people continue to live as they did before now... multiplying like rats, and living foolishly--- of course suffering will remain their lot. However, if people decide to finally cut coats according to their size --- commonsense --- then their is hope. I am not against the poor but the country was not built only for them and the poor need to help themselves at this point.

How do you cut coat according to size with very weak inhumane wages? U made people in a country where min wage is just $30 to pay the same amount for fuel a country like USA with min wage of $3000 pays for fuel is that not witchcraft?

Let the poor keep Ronuing


If the poor are really tired, APC won't get enough vote to the extent that it will be possible for them to rig Balablu to Aso Rock

Make we dey enjoy the renewed shege dey go

Kobojunkie:
Stop telling these fairy tales abeg!

Yeah it’s fairy tales that’s why Nigeria can never develop, China and India population are higher than Nigeria them never stop to Dey born children 😂😂

Kobojunkie:
Why do all these responses seem so very disconnected from reality?

When in the last 63 years has the Nigerian government ever not failed the people of Nigeria? The Government has almost always failed the people yet that didn't stop the people from breeding like rats and causing the population to balloon to over 215 million that it is today, a situation that is not sustainable given that in the same period of time Nigeria has spent a lot of its vast resources away while the people did other things. So why resort to blaming the government at this point when the Government has almost always been a cracked pot since its beginning?

You have to understand that basic instincts drive humans towards seeking pleasurable experiences sir. The rich obviously have access to more pleasurable activities than the poor therefore the poor tend to engage more in sexual activities hence population growth.

You know what this means? Driving more people into poverty will only lead to a further increase in population which benefits none of us. A responsible government would find a way to improve the economy without plunging more people into poverty.

Now, before you ask me for what I would do, remember that I didn't campaign to be voted for in the last elections. They asked for the job so it's their responsibility to find solutions to the problems.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
■ How do you cut coat according to size with very weak inhumane wages?
■ U made people in a country where min wage is just $30 to pay the same amount for fuel a country like USA with min wage of $3000 pays for fuel is that not witchcraft?

I don't understand how and why you folks like to reason things backward for Pete's sake. Have you ever really pondered why the wages are weak and inhumane? Also, what has cut your coat to size to do with whether the wages are weak and inhumane, or not? Isn't cutting your coat to size supposed to be the common thing to do in any austere situation?

2. Stop with the inane comparisons and focus on understanding the reality of Nigeria as it truly is. You can't sensibly set the minimum wage higher than the earnings of those to pay it, can you? Cut the bull abeg!

Christistruth00:


Start some backyard Agriculture

Yes na. The backyard agriculture in his rented apartment will give him rice,beans,Cassava,Garri, and everything for the whole year to feed him naa.

Olodo!

emorse:
■ You have to understand that basic instincts drive humans towards seeking pleasurable experiences sir. The rich obviously have access to more pleasurable activities than the poor therefore the poor tend to engage more in sexual activities hence population growth. You know what this means? Driving more people into poverty will only lead to a further increase in population which benefits none of us.
■ A responsible government would find a way to improve the economy without plunging more people into poverty. Now, before you ask me for what I would do, remember that I didn't campaign to be voted for in the last elections. They asked for the job so it's their responsibility to find solutions to the problems.

Am I not a human being myself?

2. Abeg, stop these fables o'jare! Nigerian people do not want a responsible government which is why for the past 63 years they have had exactly none of that. Get with the program already!

Kobojunkie:
Why do all these responses seem so very disconnected from reality?

When in the last 63 years has the Nigerian government ever not failed the people of Nigeria? The Government has almost always failed the people yet that didn't stop the people from breeding like rats and causing the population to balloon to over 215 million that it is today, a situation that is not sustainable given that in the same period of time Nigeria has spent a lot of its vast resources away while the people did other things. So why resort to blaming the government at this point when the Government has almost always been a cracked pot since its beginning?

Stop the blame game and do the work.

Place your focus on why the government doesn't have social aid programs for the poor.

That's something. Let's start from there.
All over the world, the poor still make babies.

Making babies doesn't mean the government shouldn't play its role.

They're two different issues.

SeriouslySense:

Apparently the foolishness is powerful

The thing puzzles me to no end. I think part of it is TRIBALISM. I mean look at Muhammadu Buhari. He literally destroyed the Nigerian economy in 1984 to 1985, in less than 2 years. Yet Nigerians elected him to replace PDP that had brought them a good banking system, made telecom services universally available and fixed the cement market, or at least made cement scarcity a thing of the past. So at least PDP had a good record of beneficial economic reform.

Why did they reject PDP? Because President Jonathan tried to abolish fuel subsidy and pass the PIB. I keep saying the present phase of the Nigeria Crisis started with Occupy Nigeria in Jan 2012. Bola Tinubu & Muhammadu Buhari even told Nigerians back than that "there is nothing like subsidy, subsidy doesn't exist." The same subsidy....according to President Buhari in his last budget speech...has now bankrupted Nigeria.

How far with subsidy? And Nigerians re-elected the same APC that lied about the simplest things. 🙄

Tribalism is a big part of it but Nigerians don't want the solution to that either. So they will continue to suffer. Deservedly so.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

madjune:
■ Stop the blame game and do the work. Place your focus on why the government doesn't have social aid programs for the poor. That's something. Let's start from there. All over the world, the poor still make babies. Making babies doesn't mean the government shouldn't play its role. They're two different issues.

It is like you are one of those pre-programmed not to visit reality at all in anything, so I will choose to waka pass you at this point cause I am not about to start my day with such foolishness!

Kobojunkie:
I don't understand how and why you folks like to reason things backward for Pete's sake. Have you ever really pondered why the wages are weak and inhumane? Also, what has cut your coat to size to do with whether the wages are weak and inhumane, or not? Isn't cutting your coat to size supposed to be the common thing to do in any austere situation?

2. Stop with the inane comparisons and focus on understanding the reality of Nigeria as it truly is. You can't sensibly set the minimum wage higher than the earnings of those to pay it, can you? Cut the bull abeg!

I am not saying the minimum wage should be exactly same as US own.

But that $30 is too poor. It should be close to Nigeria contemporaries
Our mate is getting between $150 - $200 even with thier Hyper devalued currencies

happney65:
■ Yes na. The backyard agriculture in his rented apartment will give him rice,beans,Cassava,Garri, and everything for the whole year to feed him naa. Olodo!

You people like to avoid commonsense any which way you can.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
■ I am not saying the minimum wage should be exactly same as US own. But that $30 is too poor. It should be close to Nigeria contemporaries. Our mate is getting between $150 - $200 even with thier Hyper devalued currencies

You are not making any sense. Use your brain abeg!

About 70% of the population are considered to live in poverty so that means the country does not produce enough to even begin to set a minimum wage standard across the board without possibly crippling the chances of a majority as far as business is concerned. Stop deceiving yourselves with fantasies that are disconnected from reality on the ground.

Kobojunkie:
It is like you are one of those pre-programmed not to visit reality at all in anything, so I will choose to waka pass you at this point cause I am not about to start my day with such foolishness!

And, it seems like you either work for the Nigerian government or you produce brooms for APC.

happney65:


Yes na. The backyard agriculture in his rented apartment will give him rice,beans,Cassava,Garri, and everything for the whole year to feed him naa.

Olodo!

One of Obasanjo's farm former supervisors said he started ,Quail farming in his bedroom and that was what later became his successful Agricultural enterprise which included a Piggery

madjune:
■ And, it seems like you either work for the Nigerian government or you produce brooms for APC.

Abeg get away!

Christistruth00:
■ One of Obasanjo's farm former supervisors said he started ,Quail farming in his bedroom and that was what later became his successful Agricultural enterprise which included a Piggery

EVen the farming of earth worms, of maggots and even cockroaches can be turned into a lucrative business by those who are open to using their minds.

IbeOkehie:


The very rich are the numerical minority in EVERY country. This means that the poor control every democratic country. They tend to vote for socialist, progressive parties. That is how the poor fight for themselves, with their votes. Unfortunately they tend to be ill-informed, ignorant and driven by base instinct

Socialist & progressive political parties tend to destroy economies and produce poverty. The poor voted for APC and this is the result.

Good Luck to Nigerians.

The masses voted for LABOUR PARTY ( Peter Obi) but it was upturned by INEC and the JUDICIARY.The peoples will was subverted by the currupt system.

coputa:
■ The masses voted for LABOUR PARTY ( Peter Obi) but it was upturned by INEC and the JUDICIARY.The peoples will was subverted by the currupt system.

How long will you folks continue to throw up this excuse abeg?

Kobojunkie:
EVen the farming of earth worms, of maggots and even cockroaches can be turned into a lucrative business by those who are open to using their minds.

Thank you

Maga123:
It was before during and after 2023 election i discovered that the common man in nigeria has not suffered enough.except for Gods intervention this is just like warming up the pain hunger suffering has not started

Bro. You cannot blame the people or citizens for the outcome of the 2023 election. You possibly can't.

Meedon:
■ Bro. You cannot blame the people or citizens for the outcome of the 2023 election. You possibly can't.

Really?

Kobojunkie:
Abeg get away!

I don't blame you.

I only blame the half baked education you received.
Poor sense of history or research will only lead to distorted deduction of issues.

When China's population ballooned through the 80s and 90s and the government initiated the one child policy to curb its economic fallout, didn't they provide social aid programs for its citizens?

Go and read. Then you can come out and claim authority.

madjune:
■ I don't blame you. I only blame the half baked education you received. Poor sense of history or research will only lead to distorted deduction of issues. When China's population ballooned through the 80s and 90s and the government initiated the one child policy to curb its economic fallout, didn't they provide social aid programs for its citizens? Go and read. Then you can come out and claim authority.

Abeg get away!