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Are Ireland's 17,600 Nigerian residents able to send home 468 M last year???

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  • #602
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Grand Moff Tarkin wrote: »
    So it could just as easily a correct figure as an incorrect figure?

    Just for the record I don't think for one second that much money(As stated in the OP) has left the country but there has been an awful large amount went out the last ten years or so.


    ...in a lottery number sort of way, yes. And that refers to all the remittances, not just the Nigerian.


  • #603
    godwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭godwin


    Hypocrisy at it's finest , while the Irish are moving abroad to avail of liquidation laws and working and sending money home to mammy and daddy , people who work in Ireland and send money home are given guff.


  • #604
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    godwin wrote: »
    Hypocrisy at it's finest , while the Irish are moving abroad to avail of liquidation laws and working and sending money home to mammy and daddy , people who work in Ireland and send money home are given guff.

    60% unemployed that doesn't include those on illness /disability

    Unless the other 30% give or take actually employed are earning millions per annum

    Guff doesn't mean a thing
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  • #605
    Grand Moff Tarkin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Grand Moff Tarkin


    Nodin wrote: »
    ...in a lottery number sort of way, yes. And that refers to all the remittances, not just the Nigerian.
    So it could just as easily be closer to the truth than a lot of people would like or be willing to admit. Thanks for clearing that up.


  • #606
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Grand Moff Tarkin wrote: »
    So it could just as easily be closer to the truth than a lot of people would like or be willing to admit. Thanks for clearing that up.


    ...in the same way that a lottery ticket might win.


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  • #607
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Nodin wrote: »
    ...in the same way that a lottery ticket might win.

    So,just to underline the WB's misleading statistics thing,it should then be entirely possible that the Nigerian folks in question actually brought €468 Million from Nigeria into Ireland...I suppose,using the flawed logic principle,it is a possibility...yes .?


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #608
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    AlekSmart wrote: »
    So,just to underline the WB's misleading statistics thing,it should then be entirely possible that the Nigerian folks in question actually brought €468 Million from Nigeria into Ireland...I suppose,using the flawed logic principle,it is a possibility...yes .?


    ....theres no real data.


  • #609
    Norfolk Enchants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 208 ✭✭Norfolk Enchants


    Nodin wrote: »
    It hasn't been established they've sent out that much money.

    It has been. By the world bank.

    Produce figures to the contrary or a rebuttal. This 'the figures go against my worldview, so they are false' routine fails to cut the mustard im afraid.

    Back on track - how did 17, 000 Nigerians send home near half a billion euro in 2011?


  • #610
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    The article in the OP is misleading and based on shoddy information.
    As such this is just promoting anti Nigerian prejudice.

    So this is being closed.


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