Former Watford striker Odion Ighalo is using some of his £190,000-a-week wage from Changchun Yatai to open an orphanage in Nigeria.
He has now revealed on his Instagram that he is set to open an orphanage in Lagos, the city where the striker was born.
He revealed his intentions to open the residential institution last year to The Observer, declaring: “I’m planning to open an orphanage in Lagos next year.
“I don’t do these things because I want people to praise me.
“I’m not a millionaire but I have more than lots of people back home and I want to help them."
“It was only China that could give them what they wanted. I understand football is business, they sell and buy to make profit.
“On a personal level, it is good money for me but if I had my way I would love to stay in the Premier League.
“I have my family here, the kids are in school here, they have their friends here and getting that stability is never easy when you keep moving your family.
“But what can we do? Life goes on."
even though he's making bucks now doing something charitable like this is amazing. If only, every footballers can do the same the world would be a better place and poverty would be destroyed
Ighalo to open orphanage in Nigeria
posted on 20/2/17
comment by Nicky Law's bald coot (U6025)
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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
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comment by Nicky Law's bald coot (U6025)
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comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
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Put it in perspective, it is the equivalent of someone on minimum wage giving around £10 per month if it costs him £5,000 a month.
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What a wack job way of looking at it.
5 grand is 5 grand, regardless...
I could give a charity my 'equivalent' £5 a month, but they're gonna do next to f all with it.
They can do a lot more with £5k a month, regardless of the respective wealth of the person giving it.
What a pathetic, lousy standpoint to debate from.
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Tory
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How much do you give to charity every month?
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Usually 24 hours and what I can afford. you?
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That doesn't seem like enough. How much do you earn? Need all the criteria before I can subjectively determine if you're doing enough...
What you can afford, might not be what I deem to you be able to afford...
posted on 20/2/17
No answer came the silent reply...
posted on 20/2/17
comment by Nicky Law's bald coot (U6025)
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I get that point and agree to an extent.
You are wilfully not getting my point. It's easy for him, he's doing a tiny percentage of what he is able to do, millions of ordinary people give more of what they have than this man you are fangirling over.
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Without seeing the guy's net worth and liabilities we have no idea how much he can afford.
He in all likelihood *could* given more. So could millions of others.
The point is, even if he is giving 0.01% of his earnings to this project is not grounds to criticise. Or shouldn't be.
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The point is, even if he is giving 0.01% of his earnings to this project is not grounds to criticise. Or shouldn't be.
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It is, he is in the position to do much more and won't, not just him many many others that have more money than they could spend
posted on 20/2/17
comment by Nicky Law's bald coot (U6025)
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The point is, even if he is giving 0.01% of his earnings to this project is not grounds to criticise. Or shouldn't be.
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It is, he is in the position to do much more and won't, not just him many many others that have more money than they could spend
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How do you know this? Do you know what his future intentions are?
posted on 20/2/17
comment by Nicky Law's bald coot (U6025)
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The point is, even if he is giving 0.01% of his earnings to this project is not grounds to criticise. Or shouldn't be.
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It is, he is in the position to do much more and won't, not just him many many others that have more money than they could spend
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It's totally subjective though.
I am in a position where if I wanted to I could give £500 a month comfortably.
However, I'd rather put half of that a month into the savings account I set up for my daughter, and the rest into my personal savings account for a rainy day or towards my retirement.
You can't presume to tell people what they should/shouldn't be giving to charity. That's some idealist hippy nonsense right there.
I'll just keep giving Unicef £18.60 a month out of guilt that my daughter lives a worry-free life, and I waste money on almond croissants.
posted on 20/2/17
Nicky Law's bald coot
I quick Google search shows Ighalo has done quite a bit for charity, throughout his career. The orphanage however the biggest project to date. Possibly because when he was at Watford he was earning much less.
As we are discussing this purely on financial terms, it’s probably worth pointing out we have no idea how much Ighalo has invested, nor committed to this project.
Whilst I’m no expert, I’d imagine an orphanage doesn’t pay for itself. The day to day costs of running the place. The various overheads. Then there’s the staff. Other than paying for the property, we have no idea what else he plans (or has pledged) to do.
So before suggesting he is in a “position to do much more and won't” maybe best firstly gaining an understanding of how much of commitment he’s made, or plans to make.
posted on 20/2/17
comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 9 hours, 54 minutes ago
I get mugged off by Unicef for 18.60 a month, because a cute young lass knocked on my door with pictures of sick children...
I've thought about cancelling it a hundred times, but every time a do I think of my little girl and that stops me...
Well, that and guilt over the fact that I spend £100+ a month on a coffee and almond croissant from Cafe Nero every morning.
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Nout wrong with that my man, a coffee and an almond croissant is the best way to start the day.
Although I don't know what your doing in cafe Nero, the croissants from there are diabolical.
posted on 20/2/17
Somebody needs to tell Ighalo that he could save a fortune by just getting the children to build the orphanage.
Most infant school-aged children in Borno state, for example, don't go to school, so they are effectively unemployed. I'd have it built there. Once they've completed the build, the children could also run the orphanage, securing them continuing employment.
The savings Ighalo would make would allow him to stick to the rule 'charity begins at home', which for him is now China.
He could sponsor at least thirteen pandas with that much money.
posted on 20/2/17
Yeah encourage the child labour