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Good day guys, being outside Nigeria does not give you guys audacity to abuse Nigeria, the country that gives you sense of identity, what most of you guys are today is partly due to Nigeria nation. All what we take for granted in Nigeria, we all know how much they cost here in US i.e College education.

Am very proud to carry Green passport, anywhere here in US, as long i don't have anything to hide, am a good ambassador in conduct and behaviour and performance in my training.

Get it right am here in US for more than a year, sent here for for first class training by company i work for in Nigeria. My brothers Crime rate in whole Nigeria is small compared to what happened in only New york (US), UK South Africa etc.
They are alot of stuffs going on badly here compared to Nigeria. Child Kidnapping, serial killing, please watch trutv or MNSBC crime file for confirmation. etc.

The only place in Nigeria with the minimal problem is Lagos and Port-Harcourt, none of it is compared to serial killing by single culprit in US.

Yes, Nigeria has his own problem, but not that bad compared to other nations even in developed world, hopefully with our banks now stronger, with money to lend out, the economy will get out of wood.

To me America dream is a fake dream; you all live on credit, college on credit, house on credit, car on credit, vacation on credit, etc.

Military services for college education, global warming, am in California, California is hotter than Gusau in Zamfara or Madiguri (Borno state).

My brothers, you have right to reside anywhere in world that is conducive for your ambition and fulfillment of your dream, but condemn your country because of plate of porridge is abnormal and unafrican, it is against the norm and ethics of Africa.
There is Yoruba adage which says: You don't destroy the home because are leaving home for another town. ( Ma ba ede (home ) je nitorpe o nlo si ede (city in osun state)).

Best of luck guys

@CHOCHORI
When last did you read the 1999 Nigerian Constitution or have you ever read the 1999 Nigerian constituion?

port1976:

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## Good day guys, being outside Nigeria does not give you guys audacity to abuse Nigeria, the country that gives you sense of identity, what most of you guys are today is partly due to Nigeria nation. All what we take for granted in Nigeria, we all know how much they cost here in US i.e College education.

## Am very proud to carry Green passport, anywhere here in US, as long i don't have anything to hide, am a good ambassador in conduct and behaviour and performance in my training.

##Get it right am here in US for more than a year, sent here for for first class training by company i work for in Nigeria. My brothers Crime rate in whole Nigeria is small compared to what happened in only New york (US), UK South Africa etc.
They are alot of stuffs going on badly here compared to Nigeria. Child Kidnapping, serial killing, please watch trutv or MNSBC crime file for confirmation. etc.

The only place in Nigeria with the minimal problem is Lagos and Port-Harcourt, none of it is compared to serial killing by single culprit in US.

Yes, Nigeria has his own problem, but not that bad compared to other nations even in developed world, hopefully with our banks now stronger, with money to lend out, the economy will get out of wood.

To me America dream is a fake dream; you all live on credit, college on credit, house on credit, car on credit, vacation on credit, etc.

(4) Military services for college education

global warming, am in California, California is hotter than Gusau in Zamfara or Madiguri (Borno state).

My brothers, you have right to reside anywhere in world that is conducive for your ambition and fulfillment of your dream, but condemn your country because of plate of porridge is abnormal and unafrican, it is against the norm and ethics of Africa.
There is Yoruba adage which says: You don't destroy the home because are leaving home for another town. ( Ma ba ede (home ) je nitorpe o nlo si ede (city in osun state)).

Best of luck guys

Thank you my Brother.

4) My "Aburo" just return from Iraq because of free tution fees. American citizen for that matter!

@PORT1976

we did not leave naija because of street crime,we left because of political & leadership crime such as police arresting and locking up innocent person or pple,governors not executing road works,no light,no water,driving ur car to police check point 4 no reason police demanding money 4rom u so called egunje,president's shifting public funds to swiss account ,even if dey steal those money and invest them in the country many pple will have job and many of us'll be there,oh i 4 got strike lecturer's or teacher's not getting paid poor student's we pay d price ,course of 4yrs will take more than 10yrs for student to graduate.infact my broda thnk god because u re lucky how many of us did our company send to us for training

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 No Nigerian Citizenship For British By Marriage
« on: July 02, 2008, 10:27:05 AM »  

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Dear All,
 I was shocked today by the response from the Nigerian Embassy London by 15:57(02/07/08) that there is no provision for citizenship for any British by marriage.
 I am married to an English girl and she loves Nigeria so much and want to be a Citizen but was shocked when we were told that she can't get Nigerian citizenship notwitstanding that we are  married and I hold dual citizenship.
 Could this be a reality- [b]I am entitled to dual citizenship -British by the virtue of marriage  and Nigerian by birth but my wife is not entitled to Nigerian citizenship on the same basis(Marriage)[/b]Guys abeg I need some info as I don't know what and how to go about this,  
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Oga, in as much as I have no qualms with you trying to get naija citizenship for your wife, I think your statement above clearly reveals your ignorance (no offense) of immigration laws.  I believe you were granted British citizenship via naturalization not only because you were and stayed married to a British citizen but because you've permanently resided, abode by their laws and met other specified criteria to qualify for naturalization.  I don't think visiting naija multiple times a year qualifies as permanently residing in the country the last time I checked.  As a result, that makes your wife ineligible for naija citizenship because neither of you permanently reside in naija.  Also, just like someone pointed out, you have to clearly demonstrate (in this case, your wife) genuine and vested interest in the country i.e. reside there, contribute to the economy and so on.  And since you have no way of proving that, I'm afraid the naija consulate have the right to deny your wife naija citizenship.

If I were you, rather than wasting time here ranting, I would start researching the criteria to be met and ways to meet them.  Perhaps, you don't have the intent to stay in naija (I won't blame u though) but trying to claim the right of citizenship for your wife solely on marriage to you won't cut it.  And to those of you here just spitting venom, na una sabi.  As if say if una get chance waka comot naija now, una no go waka wey una dey preach that patriotism bologna (hisses), yeye hypocrites like una!  Abeg, make una carry go o jare!  Peace!

port1976:

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Good day guys, being outside Nigeria does not give you guys audacity to abuse Nigeria, the country that gives you sense of identity, what most of you guys are today is partly due to Nigeria nation. All what we take for granted in Nigeria, we all know how much they cost here in US i.e College education.

Am very proud to carry Green passport, anywhere here in US, as long i don't have anything to hide, am a good ambassador in conduct and behaviour and performance in my training.

Get it right am here in US for more than a year, sent here for for first class training by company i work for in Nigeria. My brothers Crime rate in whole Nigeria is small compared to what happened in only New york (US), UK South Africa etc.
They are alot of stuffs going on badly here compared to Nigeria. Child Kidnapping, serial killing, please watch trutv or MNSBC crime file for confirmation. etc.

The only place in Nigeria with the minimal problem is Lagos and Port-Harcourt, none of it is compared to serial killing by single culprit in US.

Yes, Nigeria has his own problem, but not that bad compared to other nations even in developed world, hopefully with our banks now stronger, with money to lend out, the economy will get out of wood.

To me America dream is a fake dream; you all live on credit, college on credit, house on credit, car on credit, vacation on credit, etc.

Military services for college education, global warming, am in California, California is hotter than Gusau in Zamfara or Madiguri (Borno state).

My brothers, you have right to reside anywhere in world that is conducive for your ambition and fulfillment of your dream, but condemn your country because of plate of porridge is abnormal and unafrican, it is against the norm and ethics of Africa.
There is Yoruba adage which says: You don't destroy the home because are leaving home for another town. ( Ma ba ede (home ) je nitorpe o nlo si ede (city in osun state)).

Best of luck guys

i don't know from which wood work u crawled out from but at least be truthful or hold some serious facts before u come out here talking. i am glad you're repping Nigeria in the right light in the USA but please your points are baseless and fictional. first of all, the only reason why u were sent for training to the USA is the fact that your company didnt see u get the same quality of training in nigeria, but that was/is made possible by the american dream, which by the way is not building a life on credit but being pragmatic, working hard and smart to build a life u want to life and sustain. i have heard of folks who earn just $30,000 per annum and yet was able to save and send their kid to college with out a loan or grant. fact is, they lived their lives within their means and invested their savings meaningfully, thats the american dream. the reason why americans are in credit problems is the very fact that they are gullible, very very gullible. they buy into just about anything that "looks" good, hook, line and sinker, so they the credit card companies and other vultures that call themselves a kind of service or the other take advantage of them. i am off for my vacation in 2wks and i am paying off my own money, that way i don't over spend and then pay later. i only use my credit card when i am sure i got the money to pay back in full every month, i have never been charged for any interest. my mama didnt give birth to no fool baby

as per crime, i don't know what scale u used to do your measurement or assessment but a country like nigeria where documentation is next to zero, u can't claim it has lesser crime than the USA. for one thing for sure, about 80% of the crime is probably not reported or properly documented. crime is extremely high in nigeria, if u want to know, let there be a car accident and u will see how people that come to rescue the victims steal from them. i got family in abuja and they are constantly complaining of the crime wave, the fact these things don't get on the news always don't mean they don't happen. i did my NYSC in ogun state and they are constantly kidding people for rituals especially non-natives. imagine NYSC officials telling us to be careful during our camp and watch where we go. Corpers were kidnapped the year before. we went for our endurance trek in the woods and we were stopped at one point by the military men with us because they got an intelligence report of some rituals going on, the officials went into a panic and some how found a way of escorting us back to camp with military presence to prevent losing more corpers again. more over during my stay in abeokuta, the alaka of egba land died and boy did hell break loose. lots of people were reported missing. we were told not to come out at certain times. things happened but no one wants to report it. i have countless examples of my experience in ogun, from egba lands to the ijebu lands and sagamu. thats just ogun alone. the east and south south is a whole didnt ball game. i can write a book of my experience in and around nigeria. what about the north were christians are killed for some stupid religious reasons. i usually call myself a true nigerian, i was born in lagos, early school days in PH, live in abuja, schooled in minna, served in ogun, visited numerous nigerian cities, been to enugu, kogi, ibadan, imeko, ilara, jos, kaduna, bida etc and i can tell u that crime in these places are not documented.

now i don't know where you're in california but please, california is no where close to zamfara in heat and temperature. please learn to use a thermometer and u will see. oh please, u should do the conversion to degree celsius, maybe that will erase your confusion. also learn to check on the global weather report and u will see that the difference in most times is 7up.

so after all these words, what do i think of nigeria, i just have one word, HOME, thats it, HOME, HOME, HOME. i love the country and i am a very proud nigerian anywhere i go, people i work with know me for that. so i say, God bless Nigeria.

@ Akolawole

please can u make a better contribution than always saying stuff like, "thank u my brother", or "abi" etc.

Akolawole,
You make the issue too personal, though we have differences on perceptions but at least we share the same view about home be an home no mattar what, and that is my subject mattar.

I made my contribution based on what i know about States and Nigeria. Am not painting Nigeria as heaven on earth but to debunk rumour as if crime is peculiar to Nigeria alone.

It is not for me to argue your experience in Ogun state or any other part of the country, we have our problem right, but should not be over exaggerated as if it is out of this world.

You don't need to know which wood work i come from or do, Am engineer by training, if temp is 105/100F in most of California last week, you can do the conversion and tell me.

The fire brigade has been working twenty four hours; all across US for the past two weeks to quell fire in southern California due to hot weather, you can challenge that too. To extent that the state of emergency has been declared in one of the counties in California. ( Check CNN NEWS TONIGHT FOR UPDATES) I work in Bakersfield, Santa Fe Spring and Long Beach in California.

I never used the word "thank you my brother" or "abi", you can read my submission again, but encourages guys to follow their dream,pursuit and aspiration anywhere in the world, but not to defame Nigeria. whatever they are today is partly due to Nigeria.

On lighter note, you are good economist because you are from Nigeria (Ijebu) that is why you are not involved credit card mess.



No offence, let us love our country if we dont need it, who knows our children might need Nigeria or Nigeria might need them.



I equally schooled in Minna, maybe we are even friends.

oladiipoabiodun@yahoo.com is my email, let reach out.

@Port1976

I believe the post is meant for Mr Na2day

It is a wonder, why so many Lebanese and Indian pple are camped out in Nigeria, and eeking out a serious living. Wonder why China town sprang out of no where in Lagos? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Na2day,

Thanks for your posts, they have been very informative.

@ poster, read through Na2day posts. I am sure you will learn one or two things from them

See Nigeria dey do shakara for citizenship!!!

Make I laff well 

ovadose:

It is a wonder, why so many Lebanese and Indian people are camped out in Nigeria, and eeking out a serious living. Wonder why China town sprang out of no where in Lagos? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

China town? In Lagos?

I don't know what to say

@ port1976

to be honest, the reason why i havent replied u is that i don't want to go back and front arguing over these issues but let me just say these few points.
for starters, i am not Akolawole. secondly, i wish u read my post again and see if u can understand my point, i will greatly appreciate it. i still don't see your weather point but if it makes u happy, knock yourself out. Arizona is just about the only place i can think of that will have constant high temps that can compete with sokoto or zamfara. moreover, weather conditions don't really tell if a place is backward or progressive. if there is something i have learned in nigeria is that natural norms never work. i am a firm believer of "necessity is the mother of invention". in most part of the west, this statement is positively true but in nigeria, honestly, it doesnt hold. the california u complain about have adapted to responding to those fires with quick responses and so much tech that its not even funny. u may not appreciate it but let half of those wild fires happen in most cities in nigeria and last for days and let see the nigeria fire service respond to it, then lets see if u will still be willing to complain. moreover, alot of the fires in the states are caused by man. now why on earth should i check cnn for updates when i have NTA news to listen to, I'm just saying, and dude, u are at long beach, u should be the last person in the world to complain, u got great view and if you're into "lookonism" u got all those bikinis to see still u die but if you're God fearing, i recommend u rent your apartment in a church, california and florida beaches is really the WILD WILD WEST.

the other part of my post was reference to Akolawole not u port1976 and lastly i am not ijebu or yoruba for that matter(no offence to ijebu people or the yoruba nation), i wonder how u came to that conclusion

@ overdose
u want to know how china town came to be in lagos? if u remember during the abacha regime, lebanese, indians and chinese flood nigeria just because the west threaten various sanctions on nigeria and abacha let these folks in to annoy the west. remember the fake railway rebuilding project? and the IT and oil contracts given to the chinese with no merit for it. and if u know the history of the chinese, they never leave until they milk dry the land.

@ labo

thanks. i am happy that at least one person understands what i wrote.

to all,
i am feeling sleepy so i gotta hit the hay sack, its 2:32am, don't know if anything i wrote makes sense but i am sure there are tons of folks here that will put me straight. see y'll in the morning.

This is misinformation. Nigerian law allows you to claim citizenship through marriage, birth, and naturalisation. Please go back to the Embassy and ask to speak with a superior diplomat. The guy who said this must be a fool.

Thats not true! Nigeria recognises dual nationality only by descendant, so she has to renounce one nationality or get it otherway.

port1976:

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Good day guys, being outside Nigeria does not give you guys audacity to abuse Nigeria, the country that gives you sense of identity, what most of you guys are today is partly due to Nigeria nation. All what we take for granted in Nigeria, we all know how much they cost here in US i.e College education.

Am very proud to carry Green passport, anywhere here in US, as long i don't have anything to hide, am a good ambassador in conduct and behaviour and performance in my training.

Get it right am here in US for more than a year, sent here for for first class training by company i work for in Nigeria. My brothers Crime rate in whole Nigeria is small compared to what happened in only New york (US), UK South Africa etc.
They are alot of stuffs going on badly here compared to Nigeria. Child Kidnapping, serial killing, please watch trutv or MNSBC crime file for confirmation. etc.

The only place in Nigeria with the minimal problem is Lagos and Port-Harcourt, none of it is compared to serial killing by single culprit in US.

Yes, Nigeria has his own problem, but not that bad compared to other nations even in developed world, hopefully with our banks now stronger, with money to lend out, the economy will get out of wood.

To me America dream is a fake dream; you all live on credit, college on credit, house on credit, car on credit, vacation on credit, etc.

Military services for college education, global warming, am in California, California is hotter than Gusau in Zamfara or Madiguri (Borno state).

My brothers, you have right to reside anywhere in world that is conducive for your ambition and fulfillment of your dream, but condemn your country because of plate of porridge is abnormal and unafrican, it is against the norm and ethics of Africa.
There is Yoruba adage which says: You don't destroy the home because are leaving home for another town. ( Ma ba ede (home ) je nitorpe o nlo si ede (city in osun state)).

Best of luck guys

I don't know what you had before hitting the keyboard, but being patriotic doesn't mean being blind and dumber. There are two groups of Nigerians abroad, the first group is where you belong, comprising of our rogue politicians/their families/friends with our stolen wealth in their back pocket and a typical northerner semi illiterate that arrived to do training sponsored by their govt or foreign company and will go home to become a big man in his emirate after his training. Though abroad, they knew nothing about hardship to pay rent, legalise their stay or even the worry of what they eat because everything is all paid for.

The the other group are Nigerians mainly from the south, some of them with long chain of worthless degrees from Nigerian institutions, with no job prospects, no future of success without crime. If they lucky even to become a driver to an illiterate rogue politician, it's a priviledge to them, hence they will do anything to escape from Nigeria, anywhere to them is better. Some as we speak are starving in north African deserts, trying to escape Nigeria.
If by the grace of luck, they made it into a foreign country, they do not want to be as myopic patriotic as you are.

The reason you are in the U.S.A for your so called training is because the knowledge you came to acquire is not available in Nigeria and were available the type of comapny that sent you to the U.S do not recognise them. In the course of your training, how many times did you turn up for class and there was no power supply? or got home in the night, turn you tap water to drink or have a shower and it's running dry without water? since you are comparing Nigeria now with New York.

There is serious crimes in New York, but the authorities do not leave citizens at the mercy of criminals. Can you dial 999 OR 911 in New York or any other U.S cities and you are ignored because the police gun has no bullet? Has the fire serviceS ever told you that their motors has broken down or the fire service turning up after two hours of your call but without water?

Now about your comparism of Gusau with California. I don't know where you got your thermometer or where it was made but lets assume that your bogus claims was right, it gots back to aminities again, no matter how hot or cold a place in the world is, it is the supply of water, electricity, gas that make it habitable, if California according to you is hotter than Gusau, they will hardly notice because they do not lack the power to use their air conditioner. When was the last time Gusau experience a 4 hours steady electricity? This is the kind of distortion you will be spreading at the end of your course instead of using what you had seen, heard to change things.

Finally about your leaving in credit nonsense. It shows your total lack of modern economic knowledge. God help Nigeria, that you will assume a position of authority like many other after sojourning in the U.S without learning anything and then assumed power in Nigeria. The credit is there to help people to do things they wouldn't have done without it, like starting a business without having to have a rich parents or relatives.

In your Nigeria, when you are poor, you have every chance to remain poor unless you do mago mago things to break from the chain of poverty. All good jobs in Nigeria belong to rich people and they will replace themselves with their children and friend when they are tired. Some of them even had 3-4 of such jobs while many graduates are roaming jobless. There are may Nigerians with good and sound entreprenuer might but has nothing to help them finance such ideas. In the U.S or other sane nations, if you have a good idea or good business plan, you can be financed by a bank through credit withot coming from a rich family and the interest on the borrowing is not in 2 digits as obtained in Nigeria.

As anybody who had borrowed money in Nigeria banks of their experiences? That is if you are willing to give the bank manager 10% of the money you are borrowing as his condition of giving you the money. But in the U.S and other countries, you don't need to know the bank manager, you can even apply and successfully get the fund you needed from you own bedroom with your PC.

Do not make asumptions based on those that abused credit cards and use it to buy any latest gadgets. If I can be able to buy something I needed (not wanted) urgently like medical bill, how useful can you say the availability of such credit is? And then pay it off at the end of the month, when your salary is paid straight into your bank account without any story that armed robbers has snatched you salary in cash as obtained always in Nigeria,
Get real my friend!!!!!!!!

port1976:

Akolawole,
You make the issue too personal, though we have differences on perceptions but at least we share the same view about home be an home no mattar what, and that is my subject mattar.

I made my contribution based on what i know about States and Nigeria. Am not painting Nigeria as heaven on earth but to debunk rumour as if crime is peculiar to Nigeria alone.

It is not for me to argue your experience in Ogun state or any other part of the country, we have our problem right, but should not be over exaggerated as if it is out of this world.

You don't need to know which wood work i come from or do, Am engineer by training, if temp is 105/100F in most of California last week, you can do the conversion and tell me.

The fire brigade has been working twenty four hours; all across US for the past two weeks to quell fire in southern California due to hot weather, you can challenge that too. To extent that the state of emergency has been declared in one of the counties in California. ( Check CNN NEWS TONIGHT FOR UPDATES) I work in Bakersfield, Santa Fe Spring and Long Beach in California.

I never used the word "thank you my brother" or "abi", you can read my submission again, but encourages guys to follow their dream,pursuit and aspiration anywhere in the world, but not to defame Nigeria. whatever they are today is partly due to Nigeria.

On lighter note, you are good economist because you are from Nigeria (Ijebu) that is why you are not involved credit card mess.



No offence, let us love our country if we don't need it, who knows our children might need Nigeria or Nigeria might need them.



I equally schooled in Minna, maybe we are even friends.

oladiipoabiodun@yahoo.com is my email, let reach out.

I second Eziachi's opinion here. You come off as someone who has absolutely no clue what he/she is talking about.

Eziachi:

I don't know what you had before hitting the keyboard, but being patriotic doesn't mean being blind and dumber. There are two groups of Nigerians abroad, the first group is where you belong, comprising of our rogue politicians/their families/friends with our stolen wealth in their back pocket and a typical northerner semi illiterate that arrived to do training sponsored by their govt or foreign company and will go home to become a big man in his emirate after his training. Though abroad, they knew nothing about hardship to pay rent, legalise their stay or even the worry of what they eat because everything is all paid for.

The the other group are Nigerians mainly from the south, some of them with long chain of worthless degrees from Nigerian institutions, with no job prospects, no future of success without crime. If they lucky even to become a driver to an illiterate rogue politician, it's a priviledge to them, hence they will do anything to escape from Nigeria, anywhere to them is better. Some as we speak are starving in north African deserts, trying to escape Nigeria.
If by the grace of luck, they made it into a foreign country, they do not want to be as myopic patriotic as you are.

The reason you are in the USA for your so called training is because the knowledge you came to acquire is not available in Nigeria and were available the type of comapny that sent you to the US do not recognise them. In the course of your training, how many times did you turn up for class and there was no power supply? or got home in the night, turn you tap water to drink or have a shower and it's running dry without water? since you are comparing Nigeria now with New York.

There is serious crimes in New York, but the authorities do not leave citizens at the mercy of criminals. Can you dial 999 OR 911 in New York or any other US cities and you are ignored because the police gun has no bullet? Has the fire serviceS ever told you that their motors has broken down or the fire service turning up after two hours of your call but without water?

Now about your comparism of Gusau with California. I don't know where you got your thermometer or where it was made but lets assume that your bogus claims was right, it gots back to aminities again, no matter how hot or cold a place in the world is, it is the supply of water, electricity, gas that make it habitable, if California according to you is hotter than Gusau, they will hardly notice because they do not lack the power to use their air conditioner. When was the last time Gusau experience a 4 hours steady electricity? This is the kind of distortion you will be spreading at the end of your course instead of using what you had seen, heard to change things.

Finally about your leaving in credit nonsense. It shows your total lack of modern economic knowledge. God help Nigeria, that you will assume a position of authority like many other after sojourning in the US without learning anything and then assumed power in Nigeria. The credit is there to help people to do things they wouldn't have done without it, like starting a business without having to have a rich parents or relatives.

In your Nigeria, when you are poor, you have every chance to remain poor unless you do mago mago things to break from the chain of poverty. All good jobs in Nigeria belong to rich people and they will replace themselves with their children and friend when they are tired. Some of them even had 3-4 of such jobs while many graduates are roaming jobless. There are may Nigerians with good and sound entreprenuer might but has nothing to help them finance such ideas. In the US or other sane nations, if you have a good idea or good business plan, you can be financed by a bank through credit withot coming from a rich family and the interest on the borrowing is not in 2 digits as obtained in Nigeria.

As anybody who had borrowed money in Nigeria banks of their experiences? That is if you are willing to give the bank manager 10% of the money you are borrowing as his condition of giving you the money. But in the US and other countries, you don't need to know the bank manager, you can even apply and successfully get the fund you needed from you own bedroom with your PC.

Do not make asumptions based on those that abused credit cards and use it to buy any latest gadgets. If I can be able to buy something I needed (not wanted) urgently like medical bill, how useful can you say the availability of such credit is? And then pay it off at the end of the month, when your salary is paid straight into your bank account without any story that armed robbers has snatched you salary in cash as obtained always in Nigeria,
Get real my friend!!!!!!!!

God bless u plenty. i am half disappointed that he even went to the same university i went to, i feel intellectually cheap for that.

I have just spent the last 10 minutes or so reading what I describe as wayward and irresponsible comments from people if not Nigerian but with Nigerian roots. I am a Nigerian and have lived in England over 10 years. In that time I have been granted indefinite leave, but I refuse to apply for a British passport. I have associated with many people from different walk of life, but I find my own people are the least patriotic. Some of you guys might as well cut all ties with Nigeria. Nigeria might be a long way from perfect, but it is our motherland. Show more respect to this our beautiful country.
My guy with the original message, I it would be a blessing to your wife and children if they can experience all that Nigeria has in abundance, I wish all the best with your future dealings with the embassy.

God bless Nigeria

Love your country people, irrespective of all its short comings

ijero:

I have just spent the last 10 minutes or so reading what I describe as wayward and irresponsible comments from people if not Nigerian but with Nigerian roots. I am a Nigerian and have lived in England over 10 years. In that time I have been granted indefinite leave, but I refuse to apply for a British passport. I have associated with many people from different walk of life, but I find my own people are the least patriotic. Some of you guys might as well cut all ties with Nigeria. Nigeria might be a long way from perfect, but it is our motherland. Show more respect to this our beautiful country.
My guy with the original message, I it would be a blessing to your wife and children if they can experience all that Nigeria has in abundance, I wish all the best with your future dealings with the embassy.

God bless Nigeria

Love your country people, irrespective of all its short comings

i honestly dont understand ur point. are u saying that if someone criticizes nigeria, it automatically means the person is unpatriotic? would u rather have a critic or someone that just pays lip service? for all who of u carrying the patriotic flag and have not contributed positively to nigeria, i dare say u r all just paying lip service. like the good old saying goes, action speaks louder than voice.

Nigerian Embassies and consulates sef dey form levels!haha

The truth is that if ones father is poor, it is not his fault. But if I one poor, then I he to blame.

The fact is that been born Nigerian is a blessing! Have you ever seen an individual particularly from the eastern part of the country that takes up arms against his mother demanding to know who his father is? He knew the implication of not having a root.

I tell you the truth, I like been NIGERIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi,
am very much concerned about this issue and am also married to a forienger,cos i also stay abroad.
i think the embassy missed inform you and i think you should take it up by writting a letter to ministry of foriegn affairs abuja,cos the constitution of nigeria allows your wife to be a citizen once you are legally married.

This has to go down as one of the funniest thing I've ever heard. How on earth can you really want to leave Britain and go to Nigeria. No offence to Nigeria but come on now. Maybe the woman is a fugitive. Is she really sane.

Mpele:

This has to go down as one of the funniest thing I've ever heard. How on earth can you really want to leave Britain and go to Nigeria. No offence to Nigeria but come on now. Maybe the woman is a fugitive. Is she really sane.

well she is perfectly sane, she is not going there to get a job, i believe she wanna invest in nigeria. there is nothing wrong with going to invest in nigeria as long as u know the consequences

We suffer in naija,but still we remain the happiest people on the surface of the earth.I have visited a lot of countries in the world and presently live abroad,but I will give up all the money I have to walk the streets of Lagos with my feet,struggle for molue and drink garri.It is only a fact the if you are where you are you will feel like going where you are not.All we need to do is to change our mentality and see good in ourselves then thing will work. About not being granted a Nigerian citizenship it is not a big deal.The british people have done far worse to some Nigerians,so if this happens,it will help then to see than we are also a people to be respected and not taken for granted

I havent gone through the whole thread and i apologise if this turns out to be repititive

@poster do not even consider getting ur wife a nigerian passport ''the nigerian way'' trust me u would only get ur fingers burnt. i have seen it happen. my advise to u is to follow set procedure. just becos its ''nigeria'' should not make it any different. we are all ready and willing to follow procedures set by other countries and bodies why not nigeria? this is beyond patriotism lets try and be objective. cheers

na wah for u guys but its all fun, yes tokunbo has been banned lol nash don become tokunbo? abi na only white woman nash be tokunbo?
but the real fact is that nigerian embassy is totally useless in all aspects of being an embassy
and i thinbk we should advocate for the emabssies to be closed as they are not representing nigerians abroad in any aspect, in fact belitling us
so gus keep it up, lets start using our positive minds to find ways to let the stupid leaders know that nigerians are tired of the stupid things they are making us go throgh

This is another portion of the constitution review that must take place. People who are married to nigerian should be given citizen if they live in nigeria for a period of 3 to 5 years or have at least 3 children to a nigerian out side of nigeria,

that is just one aspect, the whole foreign affairs department needs over hauling, that department is a lame duck
but as idiagbon said we have no other country than nigeria so its on us to make it better
but with our political climate we are already immune to any changes at all, no amount of pressure or problem will change the leadership elite of the country except if we step up awareness
so what can really be done?

I wished to quote a previous poster's comment (July 2008) about citizenship requiring a residence qualifying period in the country (in this case Nigeria). This is not strictly the case.

My husband is Swiss and we both live in the United Kingdom. By virtue of our marriage alone I am able to acquire Swiss citizenship through facilitated naturalisation after 6 years, as we reside in a foreign county (5 years if we resided in Switzerland). Of course I would need to be able to converse in one of the national languages and show close ties to Switzerland (no problem!). Still, there is no prerequisite to have resided in Switzerland prior to an application for naturalisation.

Same for the French, Italians

It's a shame though that there isn't such a process for the acquisition of Nigerian citizenship via marriage. My husband loves Nigeria, the culture, linguistic diversity and history and would have loved to become Nigerian at some point in the future. It is not about what he stands to gain by being Nigerian, it's more a sense of identity because I am Nigerian. Sadly this may never happen.

Plum70:

I wished to quote a previous poster's comment (July 2008) about citizenship requiring a residence qualifying period in the country (in this case Nigeria). This is not strictly the case.

My husband is Swiss and we both live in the United Kingdom. By virtue of our marriage alone I am able to acquire Swiss citizenship through facilitated naturalisation after 6 years, as we reside in a foreign county (5 years if we resided in Switzerland). Of course I would need to be able to converse in one of the national languages and show close ties to Switzerland (no problem!). Still, there is no prerequisite to have resided in Switzerland prior to an application for naturalisation.

Same for the French, Italians

It's a shame though that there isn't such a process for the acquisition of Nigerian citizenship via marriage. My husband loves Nigeria, the culture, linguistic diversity and history and would have loved to become Nigerian at some point in the future. It is not about what he stands to gain by being Nigerian, it's more a sense of identity because I am Nigerian. Sadly this may never happen.

Is it not a shame that there is no such route to citizenship in the UK as well? You have to be resident in the UK in order to be granted citizenship!

I dont understand what the problem is with most of those criticising Nigeria for having her own laws as a sovereign nation. the same people are the ones that would tell you they want to be proud to be Nigerias; but they want Nigeria to do everything they see wherever they go. Nigeria has a right to make laws to suit her own purpose and if such a law requires residency before citizenship for foreigners, what is your problem with that?

How many of you have criticised America for their stringent citizenship laws or even said anything about UK residency and citizenship laws?
You are always quick to kill Nigeria for being different habaaaaaaaaa