thelastPope:

One thing that makes me laugh always is the way some statistics are thrown around by funny organisations without any true research. The first time I saw this, I almost fell from my chair with laughter! Absolutely bullocks!!!

How can you claim that every money that came to Nigeria through western union or equivalents are dash money from Nigerians from diaspora and say its your contribution to Nigeria? Sincerely speaking, how much of that money did you really contribute. Be sincere to yourself.

Let me lay it bare for you. The monies from that report includes:

1. Monies for payments for services rendered by Nigerians
2. Debt being payed back by many diasporan Nigerians
3. Yahoo and 419 payments. A very big chunk.
4. Monies being brought back in by money laundering peeps
5. Contributions from Nigerians in diaspora to family and friends
6. Payment for Exported goods and services. A good chunk of money

It is foolery and deception to come here and post such as money Nigerian's in diaspora are contributing to Nigeria.

Sky-walker:


WTF. OMG. I swear Nigeria has a long way to go. burning fellow human over phone? haba, which levels na? They should be arrested for murder

ndu_chucks:

True Nigerian at home and in diaspora alike, are bitter,but the OP asks a question about those in diaspora

tpia@:


just curious- can you, personally, tell me of any nigerian overseas who has resided permanently there (with minimal or no visits to naija) and lived to up to 70 years while doing so.

i dont seem to know of any, for some reason.

However, i do know of my grandparents who never set foot overseas in their lives, yet every one of them clocked over 80. Despite not being educated or having access to state of the art healthcare systems.

just wondering.

of course I'm not knocking abroad but one occasionally notices such things.

chatterly: THERE WAS AN ARTICLE ABOUT A NIGERIAN WOMAN WHO WAS DENIED A US VISA DUE TO SOME ISSUES ABOUT HAVING HER BABY IN THE US,SUPRISINGLY A LOT OF THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS CAME FROM DIASPORIANS!!!!!

Dede1:


Your stream of thought is the basic conflict of this discussion. Everybody should not rake millions into an account to be regarded as human. In USA, whether a customer of any bank had deposit of $100.00 or $1, 000,000, he or she attracts the same cordial respect from the bank.

Dede1:


Your stream of thought is the basic conflict of this discussion. Everybody should not rake millions into an account to be regarded as human. In USA, whether a customer of any bank had deposit of $100.00 or $1, 000,000, he or she attracts the same cordial respect from the bank.

Billyonaire: where was I, when this delicious thread was uncooked early ?

bisiswag: Haha,@op,may God bless you cos following that thread on obama n romney debate made me think long and hard abt dx xtion. N am going to let u know why they r so bitter cos its a no-brainer,hehehehe. They r bitter cos they are so trapped in a foreign man's land(and believe it or not,racism is sooo there) plus d only place where they can come back to and be free is rife with ASSORTED AND COLOURFUL CRIMES. There is nothing like true freedom my dear,and they crave it so much but are ashamed of admitting it cos they have sooo preached that d grass is greener over there. N pls oh,no one shld bite my head off oh cos i have some dears over there who actually dnt tink lyk dx!

Were you denied visa?? speak out now, so those in diaspora can tell you how they got their's instead of exhibiting that bitterness in question on a public forum

Godman_n: As one that lived studied and worked abroad, but choose to come home out of sure patriotism and also bc I don't want the stress of obtaining permanent residency; Nigerians at home are mostly ignorant, corrupt and lack any understanding of what we lack as a nation. they can hardly get how we've been set thousands of years back by our leaders.

thelastPope: I am really getting irritated by many Nigerians in diaspora. They seem bent on seeing Nigeria and Nigerians go down. They come here and all over other Internet sites spewing garbage about Nigeria. They will put down anything positive about Nigeria. It seems they are suffering from gross bitterness.

There is no denying the fact that Nigeria has many issues but we cannot solve it by hating ourselves with so much raw hate and talking nonsense all the time. There is a time to critisize. For example, I like to criticize our excesses on materialism as a people which leads us to many unwanted stuff like corruption and crime. But insulting the nation and saying we will never make it and making us look so pathetic to the rest of the world is just too bad! We have our dignity and pride and we will never sacrifice that on any alter of self defeat and hopelessness.

If these bitter diaspora folks can't see anything good about Nigeria and Nigerians, I wonder why they even bother to post on Nigerian forums. They should carry their crap somewhere else. They forget that they are part of those who have failed Nigeria because they have not made any meaningful contribution to Nigerian growth.

Some of us travel out of the country and know how many of these folks live in Europe and even the US. In spain, Italy and Greece, many of them beg on the streets. In the UK, I don't even want to start. They haul themselves, sometimes as much as 15 in a 2 room apartment! Yet they talk nonsense here on NL because they can afford cheap Tmobile internet connection.

We have no other country but Nigeria. We must stand up and build it. Yes, it is a long road but it is a journey worth taking! Our families and friends live here. The question we must ask ourselves today is how can we make it better?

Apologies/acknowledgement to the many Nigerians in diaspora who do not fall into this category. Your patriotic contribution is a blessing to some of us!

paris10:

They are those with "white men" mentality. @Justwise and his buddies have never seen something positive or good about Nigerians. They fail to realize that the grounds has shifted beyond them. Reading negative news about 1% of Nigerians misbehaving does not in anyway make Nigeria bad. Just check the travel section, you'll see so much hatred coming from these b.a.s.t.a.r.d.s

They have failed to realize that certain policies and greed are the root causes of all crimes. The Western media on the other hand loves picking on African countries, especially Nigerians. Ignorant a.s.s people like the one mention above digest these news without critiquing the bias and intentions of those broadcasters.

Every nation is corrupt, and every nation's got bad eggs amongst it citizenry. Nigeria is not perfect, but surely we will get there.

obadiah777: and i speak for all nigerians when i say we are genuinely concerned that your english is 3000 years behind most peoples english

slyfoxxjoe: Funny u start a topic on Diasporans hating on home based nigerians and in turn insult them? are u not a perfecy hypocrite? ur own comments along with those of almost everybody commenting here seem induced by jelousy. in the west or home in Nigeria life could be good or tough anywhere and it depends on a persons personal situation so stop generalising! u talk about the few diasporans u know and use that to make a general assumption that diasporans are all suffering/ maybe u should come and let me introduce u to the ballers here then maybe u will shut up.the first step to stopping this bad blood between diasporans and home based Nigerians is getting rid of this rather silly general assumption we Nigerians seem to have that life is good for everyone abroad and tough for everyone back home.

thelastPope:

Like I indicated in my post, not all diasporans are bad. But most of them are. I repeat, they contribute nothing. There are over 1 million Nigerians in the UK. If a tenth of them contribute meaningfully to Nigeria, believe me, you will feel the impact. These Nigerians even collect monies from many foreign donors in the name of coming to Nigeria to develope the place but end up spending the money on expensive cars. I have first hand experience so I know what I am saying. Most NGOs in Nigeria were started by Nigerians in diaspora and 90% of these NGOs are fraud! They are a nuisance here on NL.

You might not know the value of building hope in people but I know what it is to inspire hope. If we are to go by the NL contributions of many diaspora Nigerians, we will all give up.

slyfoxxjoe: Funny u start a topic on Diasporans hating on home based nigerians and in turn insult them? are u not a perfecy hypocrite? ur own comments along with those of almost everybody commenting here seem induced by jelousy. in the west or home in Nigeria life could be good or tough anywhere and it depends on a persons personal situation so stop generalising! u talk about the few diasporans u know and use that to make a general assumption that diasporans are all suffering/ maybe u should come and let me introduce u to the ballers here then maybe u will shut up.the first step to stopping this bad blood between diasporans and home based Nigerians is getting rid of this rather silly general assumption we Nigerians seem to have that life is good for everyone abroad and tough for everyone back home.

GboyegaD:

To say I am disappointed in the line of your reasoning over this response is an understatement. What he was referring to was average lifespan and not individuals. I know you want to support the line of argument of the OP but you don't need to go out of good reasoning to justify the claim.