NewStats: 3,263,781 , 8,181,388 topics. Date: Saturday, 07 June 2025 at 09:44 PM 2t1p37

jamafa:


The minimum wages is #70,000. It's not 2k per day.

Let us pretend that the sales girl in that your street is earning #70k.... You can play pretend, I don't - what percentage of our population is employed by government?

Bluntemperor:


How did you arrive at your ' 2k is the minimum pay per day for a minimum worker' ?
Some of you talk loosely here, without justification and verification.
I pay Labourers 5k here,for daily jobs.
Stop hate and bitterness towards the govt,just to placate them.

See someone whose talk has grip!
What percentage of the Nigerian population earn 5k daily?

How many people in Nigeria earn above #100k? Your self-aggrandizing claim would put your labourers at #150k per month. Talk sense

budaatum:


I don't think they ask about pay per hour before selling you stuff in the market, or you'd just send a low earner to go get it for you cheaper.

And no, I was not comparing. Just stating a fact.

That's the point. To a Nigerian, 2k for a tuber of yam is not justifiable - to make that yam a complete meal, he'll need to spend 4k at least (unless he wants to use oil).

So unless the fact you wanted to state was that you leave in Europe, then 'stating' the cost in UK vs the cost in Nigeria is not factual.

Lolz419:

And you will make that £5 in less than 30mins.
But u can't make 2k in Nigeria in 4hours

On a Nigerian pay of 12 million Naira per annum, which is a million a month and ₦250k a week and ₦50k a day, and ₦6250 and hour, I bet I can make it in 20 minutes in Nigeria.

Not everyone's in Nigeria or where I live is on minimum wage after all.

Fao :afonja007, ayindejimmy, amazingspiderma, Stephen0mozzy, etc.

ayindejimmy:


Nigeria is the highest producer of yam in the world .
So ,please ,excuse us on this if we are pissed

I do understand why you are pissed. They pay you little and charge you a lot for your daily bread.

You wouldn't believe this, but Nigeria does not seem to produce, or at least, sell as much yam where I live as Ghana does.

We don't even plant yams in my hometown in Osun State anymore, because before you harvest it, someone will come and harvest it for themselves. And in the North of Nigeria, cattle herders have chased the farmers away completely.

I can just hope we don't start importing yam, or that yam will cost 10k plus.

budaatum:


On a Nigerian pay of 12 million Naira per annum, which is a million a month and ₦250k a week and ₦50k a day, and ₦6250 and hour, I bet I can make it in 20 minutes in Nigeria.

Not everyone's in Nigeria or where I live is on minimum wage after all.

Fao :afonja007, ayindejimmy, amazingspiderma, Stephen0mozzy, etc.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣70 % of Nigeria population don't what your talk about

Afonja007:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣70 % of Nigeria population don't what your talk about

I do understand. The thought of considering myself worth minimum wage of ₦70k boggles my mind. I can just about hear ma asking me if that's all I'm worth after her huge investment in me.

But I guess the schooling she bought for me was not scam, or she didn't allow it to be. She loved her koboko way too much to not use it whenever I chose to waste my school fees we struggled to work to pay.

Stephen0mozzy:
That's the point. To a Nigerian, 2k for a tuber of yam is not justifiable - to make that yam a complete meal, he'll need to spend 4k at least (unless he wants to use oil).

To a Nigerian consumer, perhaps.

To the person planting the yam, 2k is not enough, considering cost of land, and fertilizer, and labour, and security, and storage, and transportation, and loan interest.

That's probably why some smarter farmers (the Ghanaians, since Nigerian yam is not available here much), export their yam where a small tuber costs £5.

Farmers don't care if you eat, is my point. They plant their crop for their own profit.

Kebbi state? I thought they said foodstuff is cheaper?

budaatum:


On a Nigerian pay of 12 million Naira per annum, which is a million a month and ₦250k a week and ₦50k a day, and ₦6250 and hour, I bet I can make it in 20 minutes in Nigeria.

Not everyone's in Nigeria or where I live is on minimum wage after all.

Fao :afonja007, ayindejimmy, amazingspiderma, Stephen0mozzy, etc.

12million naira per anuum? Abeg try dey lie with facts na. You're talking about the earnings of people at Director Level.

The people at Director Level salaries in Europe is gon be way above £300K.

Nigerian pay of 12 million per anuum keh.

budaatum:


To a Nigerian consumer, perhaps.

To the person planting the yam, 2k is not enough, considering cost of land, and fertilizer, and labour, and security, and storage, and transportation, and loan interest.

That's probably why some smarter farmers (the Ghanaians, since Nigerian yam is not available here much), export their yam where a small tuber costs £5.

Farmers don't care if you eat, is my point. They plant their crop for their own profit.

A Nigerian Consumer made the complaint about the price on a Nigerian Forum with Nigerians under the Nigerian Economy.

The complaint is not against the farmer, but that cost of this have so skyrocketed due to the loss in value of our hallowed Naira.

patrickcollins:
it's not about Nigerians again, just as Jamb system had glitches reducing scores of candidates, INEC glitches would be worse and we would be helpless

So what is the solution?.. what do you suggest

Stephen0mozzy:
12million naira per anuum? Abeg try dey lie with facts na. You're talking about the earnings of people at Director Level.

The people at Director Level salaries in Europe is gon be way above £300K.

Nigerian pay of 12 million per anuum keh.

I am talking about people who refuse to limit themselves to minimum wage. You don't need to be a director to earn a measly ₦12m per annum. Your employer just needs to value you that much because you likely make them 10 times 12m per annum.

Stephen0mozzy:
A Nigerian Consumer made the complaint about the price on a Nigerian Forum with Nigerians under the Nigerian Economy.

The complaint is not against the farmer, but that cost of this have so skyrocketed due to the loss in value of our hallowed Naira.

That so called "loss in value of our hallowed Naira" affects the farmers too, since all their input cost have gone up. And they'll recoup that cost by charging consumers more.

Solution? Perhaps tell your employer you are worth more than ₦70k. Though, with the high unemployment rate, your employer might just easily replace you with someone else.

By the way, the "loss in value of our hallowed Naira" is due to a reduction in productivity, but that's probably beyond the scope of those complaining about the price of yam.

budaatum:


I am talking about people who refuse to limit themselves to minimum wage. You don't need to be a director to earn a measly ₦12m per annum. Your employer just needs to value you that much because you likely make them 10 times 12m per annum.



That so called "loss in value of our hallowed Naira" affects the farmers too, since all their input cost have gone up. And they'll recoup that cost by charging consumers more.

Solution? Perhaps tell your employer you are worth more than ₦70k. Though, with the high unemployment rate, your employer might just easily replace you with someone else.

By the way, the "loss in value of our hallowed Naira" is due to a reduction in productivity, but that's probably beyond the scope of those complaining about the price of yam.

You're saying different things, if it was about worth, you would have remained in Nigeria and earn the measly N12m na - you know how many worthy people are unemployed because there's no platform to actually provide the value that will pay them their worth?

What would be your annual salary of you were doing your current job(s) in Nigeria?

You don't use outliers to define a general population - how many companies in Nigeria can pay N1m salaries?

ufotunang:


So what is the solution?.. what do you suggest

The man in Aso Rock has captured the Judiciary, INEC, Legislature, Security systems. Why is the legislature avoiding making a law for transmission of election results from the polling units. He has always played dirty and he wouldn't change now

Stephen0mozzy:
You're saying different things, if it was about worth, you would have remained in Nigeria and earn the measly N12m na - you know how many worthy people are unemployed because there's no platform to actually provide the value that will pay them their worth?

What would be your annual salary of you were doing your current job(s) in Nigeria?

You don't use outliers to define a general population - how many companies in Nigeria can pay N1m salaries?

You assume much about me.

First, I am not and have not used outliers to define a general population. I have been here long enough to know that different different people na im de, so I don't expect everyone to be me. This thread alone shows different people buy yam at different prices for whatever reasons, and that was my intention of posting the price of yam where I live, which you are now pounding into a meal.

I, as in me and not anyone else, would not remain in Nigeria for 12m if I could earn more elsewhere, which was the case. My skills earned better pay than 12m and I went for it. Basically, I found an employer to whom I was worth more, perhaps because I did not limit myself to Nigeria. As I said, ma and I paid school fees, and she would koboko me if I had not utilised the education she bought for me. And no, I do not have a current job. I earn for myself. Payment for my skills would be the same wherever I sold them.

Nigerian companies and the government exploit labour is why Nigerians don't get paid more. 70k is slave wages, and in my own opinion, no one should accept a minimum wage of 70k unless they are the sort who sweat small for their daily bread, which will cost what it costs regardless of anyone's pay. The baker is not your friend.

Now, as I said. different different people. And that includes seeing things differently too since we are not programmed the same.

patrickcollins:
The man in Aso Rock has captured the Judiciary, INEC, Legislature, Security systems. Why is the legislature avoiding making a law for transmission of election results from the polling units. He has always played dirty and he wouldn't change now

Abi.. compulsory transmission of election results from the polling units and also electronic voting and to ban manual counting of votes in collation centres because this is where the manipulation of results and rigging starts..but our legislature and national assembly will not want to make this laws

ufotunang:


Abi.. compulsory transmission of election results from the polling units and also electronic voting and to ban manual counting of votes in collation centres because this is where the manipulation of results and rigging starts..but our legislature and national assembly will not want to make this laws

They are evil, look at South Africa and how their elections and results were transmitted and it was credible

patrickcollins:
They are evil, look at South Africa and how their elections and results were transmitted and it was credible

..they know that if they approve all these things they will lose the election