Says the fool shouting from the roof top. Poor men in rich men s clothing this is the most pretentio

Florence Cuppy Otedola, Eku Kessie Edewor, Misan Harriman, Rotimi Alakija, Chin Okeke, Richard Vedelago and Adora Mba are just some of the young Nigerians included in the feature while Kola Karim represented the older set.
The feature highlights many of the facts which the international press focused on Nigeria has been enamoured with lately Nigerians are this country s (Britain) sixth-highest foreign spenders , Nigerians spend 300million pounds annually at British Universities and schools , Nigerians are investing 250million pounds costa cruise reviews in British property every year  juxtaposed alongside stats such as All of which might seem jarring from a country of 170 million people, 70 per cent of whom live on under £ 1.25 a day.
While all this is interesting, many featured in the article and their families are said to be upset. Claiming that the article possessed a mocking judgemental tone and presented them as shallow and privileged while others believe costa cruise reviews it was a well balanced article with the facts well presented and subjects distancing themselves costa cruise reviews from the lavish lifestyle. For example,
the budding oil and property mogul Rotimi Alakija whose mother, Folorunsho Alakija, is the richest black woman in the world (oil) and dropped £100m on four flats in One Hyde Park ( She didn t mess around, costa cruise reviews says Vedelago, who helped sell them to her) tells me a Nigerian champagne war in an American club ended with the winner spending £1.1 m, though Rotimi certainly wasn t there: That s just silly. It s not part of who I am.
Exactly! There s a thin line between the two. I think for us mere mortals success is all about being able to afford a comfortable life. Comfortable is relative from person to person. For some it s several vacations a year, several designer bags, a huge house in a nice neighborhood, BMW/Benz, etc and for others once a year trip to somewhere costa cruise reviews nice even if it s out of state(LOL), Zara, Asos, one designer bag etc and there s nothing wrong with either one. Just be happy with what you have jare. We mustn t all be wealthy.
We all can t be wealthy.Very true but when a small number of people become wealthy by affiliation with Govt directly or indirectly ( through backyard contracts which no one cares to supervise ) , then there is a problem costa cruise reviews and nothing honest about that.
Says the fool shouting from the roof top. Poor men in rich men s clothing this is the most pretentious crap I ve read in my life and yet you were able elicit something powerful from this drivel. Amazing.
What s drivel about that? Wealth does whisper and whether you think it applies to the group of men and women in this article has got absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it s a true statement. Perhaps next time it ll do you a world of good to first understand the concept in which something is being expressed before giving your presumptuous opinion.
What oh, so that s who Richard Vedalgo is??? Ah, me been no know oh . saw him at a wedding in landan and all I thought costa cruise reviews was Oh, that s the guy who was featured in the ad for an Abj shop that Bella Naija ran (I m too lazy to fish the link out) so na him dey tell Tatler say wealth dey whisper when money dey talk?? Abeg, who are the Veldagos and how did they come by this wealth costa cruise reviews that whispers sweet nothings? My curious mind is seeking to know
Seriously, though Kola Karim , Anthony Adebo who are the parents of these children chopping money silently?? Even Eku, I had no idea she was on the £10K spending-in-a-club level, I just thought she was a TV presenter who was always featured on BN. Seriously, I m starting to understand why there s such a Shark-eat-Crocodile attitude in Lagos/Abuja, because the levels of oppression the lower middle classes must be subjected to daily must be crazy, man
And I m still very shocked at the kind of wealth possible for some Nigerians to enjoy from generation to generation. Not because they don t deserve to enjoy whatever costa cruise reviews they ve worked hard for but because of how generally bad the country is for many people. If the arena is favorable enough to make billionaires out of a few, why can t we at least have the basic infrastructure of functioning health, educational, transport, power, etc. services which WORK for the benefit of the masses? That kind of gross injustice is simply terrible.
Eku isn t in that level. Her family is comfortable and rich by Nigerian standards and she definitely has a lot of wealthy friends but she can t compare herself to Cuppy Otedola. She seems to be a hard working girl with a lot of drive and ambition, so more grease Her sister on the other hand sounds like a vapid wannabe who is trying too hard to belong in this article costa cruise reviews about billionaires.
Would Kess Edewor, pls Zip it!! she comes across as extremely shallow. Cuppy for a 21 year old sounds intelligent. was I not reading weel or understanding weel, but was the vedelago guy saying there are families that get their basic food stuff from UK when they can get it from ABJ ?
SMH .. Nigerians will never learn. Showing off when no one could care less. More than 70% of the country lives under poverty line and yet we are the 6th largest spender in UK?! How ionic..to be so rich and yet so poor.
Of course I don t blame people for being rich. I just wish we can be more of a service, community developing minded people instead costa cruise reviews being so materialistic. Maybe if we tried sharing, there would be less killing, costa cruise reviews stealing etc. Not saying this is yhe only solution but who knows, it may be part of it. Anyways, there s so many dimensions I can take with this article costa cruise reviews .. I just feel pity for my country .
should i be pained?should i be bothered? they are truly the moneyed set( cant blame them, my grandfather was busy fighting for equal pay for workers instead of getting costa cruise reviews involved in pre-independence politics like their own grandfathers).
gbam! whether u fly scones costa cruise reviews on private jet or u import prostitutes and escorts from russia and cannes, nigeria costa cruise reviews remains a third world country (with tremendous wealth and potentials) with greedy and selfissh people and the situation is getting worse! people are laughing at us, while we think we have arrived !smh
I mean the article basically says, don t be fooled for all the affectations of polish these negros have, unlike their asian and middle eastern counterparts, they come from a shithole! And a lot of the wealth was derived draft or close connections costa cruise reviews with the government.
Why are y all getting personal about this article? I shared my views on it, if you didn t like it fine, but why attack and get so worked up? Instead of attacking costa cruise reviews people s comment why not send an email to the writer of the article or the editor of Tatler?
LMBAO!!!! Yes it was VERY mocking with a sly, tongue-in-cheek tone. I sincerely hope this article costa cruise reviews was selectively edited; I do not want to believe Kessiana Edewor is as thoroughly stupid costa cruise reviews as she sounds. I m also quite surprised BN people here didn t know that Eku came from money, not that that in itself is a crime. This comment on Africa: If it s dirty and looks worn out no one wants to buy it I have to agree with Kola Karim there. It s annoying that you have to go to the trouble of telling people that your country is not 100% stocked costa cruise reviews with thatch villages and mud huts. It is just common costa cruise reviews sense that every country has the rich along with the poor but if that point is not made, we don t get investments, especially with all these Boko Haram things. What I m wondering is this: what did these people being interviewed think the article costa cruise reviews was going to be about? Why are they surprised? It is not a crime to be rich but in a country where only 10% (if that) can afford to be comfortable, regular people in their own country and other countries are going to find some of their lifestyle habits a little hilarious at best and utterly ridiculous at worst. And this article could definitely costa cruise reviews have been worse (although the writer may have gotten sued after).
So all you above you haven t actually READ the article costa cruise reviews then. Cause if you have you would not make such silly, shallow-in-themselves comments. You also don t know TATLER because if you did you would understand the readers it caters to.
IM PROUD TO BE NIGERIAN. it is about time England knew we too are smart, well cultured and not black fly-swatting individuals. We too are in the upper society costa cruise reviews of not just our own country but THW WORLD. THE NIGERIANS HAVE ARRIVEDDDDDD so get used to it!!
@ nomad I have been laughing for the last five minutes! please don t make them throw me out of the library! They have arrived indeed yet everyone around you is hungry. Bill Gates and co are setting up foundations left, right and center to cater for people around them!
To be honest, I don t understand costa cruise reviews the vex. And this is coming from a market woman like me who is jejely pricing my agbalumo costa cruise reviews in the corner. This is these rich people s reality and some magazine decided costa cruise reviews to hit them up to discuss costa cruise reviews it. They are used to buying Porsches to go to the gym and probably can t imagine life any other way. Most of them probably inherited this wealth from their families. I don t think that they are under any obligation to donate to charity or feed the hungry. We all can t be Oprah. If they want to race Ferraris around town and talk about it in an article, I can t even be mad cos that is their reality.
That statement from the article, right there, is the crux of all Nigeria s problems. Not the excesses of the moneyed class, but the fact that we spend, but do not produce costa cruise reviews or add value. Nigerians know how to sip champagne, but we do not produce any kind of alcohol or premium spirit in this country that can be exported. Yet this country has the soil/climate for most kinds of fruits.
Truth be told, these new money types are not doing anything new. Rich folks in our parent s generation lived the high life. When i was growing up, Golders Green which is also a well to do neighborhood had Nigerians who owned houses in every corner. St Johns Wood, Hampstead, costa cruise reviews Chelsea costa cruise reviews and the likes were the favorite haunts of the Nigeri