Controversial Nigerian media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, better known as Daddy Freeze has come under heavy criticism after he asserted that Nigerians with less than N500,000 in their accounts are living below poverty line. NAIJA NEWS reports.
The media personality made this known in a recent video where he stressed that only those who live in villages will be comfortable with less than 500,000 Naira in their accounts.Information Guide Nigeria
He maintained that those in the cities will always have a low standard of living if they have less than N500,000 in their accounts.
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He said, “If you don’t have N500k cash in all your accounts joined together, you are living in poverty unless you live in a village. If you live in Port Harcourt, Lagos or Abuja, and you have less than N500k, you will live a substandard life.”JAMB Portal
The statement did not, however, sit well with Nigerians on social media who called the media personality out for putting so much pressure on young people with a statement like that.
Reacting one TeeTalk wrote: “Later, you wonder why there is a high increase in Yahoo, prostitution, kidnapping, and arm robbery; it is solely because of pressuring tweets like this. Most Nigerians live on loans; tweets like this make do the unthinkable.”NYSC Portal
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