Pamir Plateau: Where the air is thin and excuses don't survive.
Panning across impossible heights - just like
Naija hustle: Keep climbing no matter the odds. Discipline carries you when motivation quits.
What's your "high pass" challenge right now?
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I bought fuel yesterday in Toronto, Canada, at $1.7999 CAD per litre, and it cost about $98.95 CAD to fill up my tank. This should ideally last me about a week or more.
Now, the minimum wage in Canada is $17.95 CAD per hour, which means someone who works an average of 8 hours a day will earn $143.60 CAD before tax. A day's salary is enough to fuel his or her car for 2โ3 weeks. This means that even one of the lowest earners in Canada can afford to own and drive a car daily without the cost of fuel becoming an overwhelming burden. Public education for children is also free and of high quality.
In Nigeria, fuel is about โฆ1,300 per litre. It would cost about โฆ88,000 to fill up a similar tank. The minimum wage in Nigeria is โฆ70,000 per month. This means that an entire month's minimum wage cannot even fill the tank once.
A minimum-wage earner in Nigeria cannot realistically afford to own, fuel, and maintain a car. The same person still has to afford food, rent, children's education, healthcare, electricity, transportation, and other basic necessities. The list goes on.
In fact, even a bank manager in Nigeria earning โฆ1 million monthly could still struggle to maintain a decent standard of living after covering these basic expenses.
This is one reason poverty is so widespread in Nigeria. The cost of basic living is simply too high relative to what the average person earns.
You don't just have an income problem in Nigeria. You have an affordability problem.
For millions of Nigerians, simply living a decent life has become too expensive and increasingly impossible.
Fought against corruption and spoke his mind throughout his 9 years and still managed to deliver legitimately.
We were robbed of a greater legacy and trophies, but Iโm forever thankful to Jurgen for beating the cheating organisation.
Legend. โค๏ธ
You are building a "Hormuz" in Nigeria
1. About 90โ95% of Nigeriaโs export trade by value passes through Lagos and the South-West,
2. About 75โ85% of Nigeriaโs import trade by value passes through Lagos and the South-West.
3. About 95โ99% of Nigeriaโs merchandise (goods) trade by value moves by sea. Exports: 98.99% by maritime transport. Imports: 94.74% by maritime transport
If anything happens to Lagos, and the roads and rails in Apapa, Nigeria will starve, and almost all industries will close down; it's not hyperbole. Look at the numbers above
Thus, the FGN should open up the nation's trade routes and build redundancies. This is not tribal; it's trade
In May 2023, the Federal Government signed an agreement with Imo State and the Nigerian Navy to dredge the Oguta/Orashi River, which will open up the South East to the Atlantic via Degema
Dredging this river, and any river, to open up the Eastern waterways would, and I quote President Tinubu, "help decongest the Lagos port corridor, reduce pressure on the Apapa and Tin Can Island ports, and lower costs and delays for importers, exporters, and consumers."
Today, the FGN has moved on from this project in Imo State and the Abia State Azumini project; the South East Governors developed the projects, but the FGN has moved on
I have a simple ask: is President Bola Tinubu facilitating road, rail and power connectivity, strengthening investment security and our maritime domain, and removing unnecessary bureaucratic obstacles for any port outside the South West of Nigeria
I ask so I can be educated.
Regards