LAYO,THE CREATOR.
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I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all.
The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all.
At. All.
The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you.
So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable.
Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen.
That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing.
If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7.
Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist.
Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
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@Maleekback A fake plant would look nice, aesthetically and give colour to your space
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I agree @SophieRaiin
As Governor, I’ll also impose a 50% sales tax on OnlyFans purchases in addition to my 50% sin tax on OnlyFans creators.
The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. It is not to be bought or sold online. Our men and women deserve better.
NotSourced@notsourced
Sophie Rain: “If James Fishback becomes Governor and I get taxed 50%, I also think the OnlyFans consumer should be taxed 50%.”
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I can relate so bad.
Almost done with the work when the client came to check the progress on it, then having to use another +hour to convince her that iPhone quality + sun is what makes the picture of the fabric she saw different from what she's holding...I nearly ment
Ajebo Carpenter 🔨@Ajebocarpenter
Fabric sourcing fit put you for depression 😂
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Asake made songs we could relate to because at some point, we were all in the same headspace. Today, he’s in a different headspace that a lot of us cannot relate to and that’s why there’s seemingly a disconnect.
But remove the need to be in the same headspace as Mr M$NEY and you have yourself an enjoyable album.
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@Ajjogwu Comparing a street pop artist to a pop artist is wild sha.
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This comparison is intellectually dishonest.
South Africa’s personal income tax ≈ ₦60tr.
Nigeria’s ≈ ₦3tr.
And we’re supposed to conclude:
“People opposing tax reforms are just tax evaders”?
That’s not analysis.
That’s misdirection.
Let’s deal in facts.
1. You cannot tax income that does not exist.
South Africa has:
• A far larger formal labor force
• Higher median wages
• Stable payroll systems
• Reliable employer reporting
Nigeria has:
• Over 60% informal employment
• Millions earning below subsistence level
• Wages eroded by inflation
• Weak payroll enforcement
You don’t get South Africa level income tax from a population that is largely informal and underpaid. That’s arithmetic, not ideology.
2. Tax revenue reflects state capacity, not citizen morality.
Countries don’t collect taxes because citizens are “obedient”.
They collect taxes because:
• Income is traceable
• Services are visible
• Enforcement is credible
• Trust exists
Nigeria struggles with all four.
Blaming citizens for structural failure is policy cowardice.
3. South Africa taxes income, Nigeria taxes survival.
In Nigeria:
• VAT hits the poor hardest
• Inflation is a hidden tax
• FX instability destroys real wages
• Fuel and power costs are privatized
When people resist “reforms”, it’s not because they’re criminals.
It’s because the state keeps extracting without delivering.
4. High tax revenue is an outcome, not a starting point.
South Africa didn’t tax first and then build institutions.
It built:
• Functional registries
• Banked wage systems
• Enforceable contracts
• Credible public services
Then taxes followed.
Trying to reverse that order is how states collapse legitimacy.
5. The laziest argument in public policy:
“Anyone who disagrees with us must be guilty.”
That logic would mean:
• The poor oppose taxes because they’re criminals
• Businesses resist taxes because they’re immoral
• Citizens complain because they’re dishonest
No.
They complain because the social contract is broken.
Bottom line:
Low tax revenue in Nigeria is not proof of tax evasion.
It is proof of:
• Informality
• Low productivity
• Policy failure
• Weak institutions
Until government fixes income, stability, and trust, tax “reforms” will look like punishment, not progress.
You cannot tax your way out of economic dysfunction.
You must build your way out first.
Nigeria Info FM 99.3@NigeriainfoFM
🗣️South Africa generates over ₦60 trillion from personal income tax. Nigeria? Under ₦3 trillion. 🗣️Many people fighting these reforms won’t tell you why it’s because they’ve made money for years without paying taxes. @taiwoyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. He spoke at the January Business Breakfast of the Franco-Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lagos (@CCIFN ) #LetTalk
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