*Hauwa*:

someone said the Rich people do not complain only the poor people are complaining. oh well, the rich are always working so others do the complaining for them.

9jaganja:

when I was like 17 I went to see my mum in London from Nigeria and I did this club promoting job which pays better than 9-5 in London 

felifeli:

And how old are you now  if I may ask ; and when was the last time you visited London ? given that this thread is about current affairs and not history 

fayahsoul:

Canada is a cold, racists, uncultured, boring, depressing, pretentious and cheesy country. A lot of gays too.

Life here is crapy and it kills the spirit. What an abormination we call western civilization.

I will be out of here by 2010 max.

9jaganja:

HAHAHAH! Bro sheriff, what has Canada done to you? You are waiting to get your citizenship I know. But it isn't that bad if you organize with your own people.Where are you planning to move to? Hope not USA cause it's more racist out there. Peace.

f6:

It's true what the poster has said, but i would say it all comes to down to you as an individual, I came into the uk in 2007, yes i dropped out of university in nigeria literally in my final year, but now i have no regrets because so far i've been very disciplined with my master plan. I'm currently at the Anglia Ruskin Uni in cambridge and currently work part-time as a T-mobile retention agent, which is my only source of income and caters well for my rent, my fees and what not, So it all boils down to what you to chose to do and how convinient it is for you, and if you want it you'll get it , the conditions of living in england are way far better than back in Nigeria and theres a wider spread of oppurtunities to inhabitants whether educated or not here than it is in nigeria, It obviously has its downside as it works out to be very expensive to live in , but if u do the right thing here, you will go on to cherrish it for the rest of your life regardless of what country you chose to relocate too, this is my stand

fendx4:


. . . Without wanting to contradict a post I had previously read that the hairdresser lady from Owo, Ondo State now has two properties : London and Nigeria. I can tell you for a fact that there are 26 year olds building and buying houses here in Nigeria. I was as stunned as you could be reading this post until I calculated the age this UNILAG Graduate, KPMG working boy, ICAN Associate had built his house! Was he lucky? No, he was focused, in Nigeria!

dayokanu:

The boy in question is not telling you the truth. The starting salary in KPMG, PWC and delloitte is about N150,000 per month. after working for 4 years even managers in these organisations earn like 700k per month.

Do you know how much it costs to buy land and build a house in Nigeria? Maybe the guy is doing some other things he is not telling you. I am not insinuating illegit. But he is not building the house on his salary.

fendx4:


Again it is misleading to think that your location determines your relevance in life. If you have nothing to offer, life will never recognise you.

In a nutshell, you can be all you can be if you want to be irrespective of location, creed, color or race

Busy_body:

Good luck to you. Not trying to call you out, but you have only been in the Country for a year, so how are you able to afford the foreign students fees which is going to be around an average of £7,000 on your Tmobilr retention, except you have done some wuru wuru or mago mago

Even if you got married to a citizen, you have not been in the country for three years to qualify for home student fees, so my take is that if you are prepared to do the same wuru wuru/mago mago in Nigeria, you could make it too. Mind you I said could, because you are obviously on a three year course, which you only just started, so you shouldn't be counting your chickens yet

Bottomline is that both Nigeria and Diaspora is good as long as you are not averse to bending the rules

ifele:

When we talk about " abroad" we mean western world white mans country. Yu see I am in Canada and they will allow some blacks to succeed while they are using them to make money. They will degrade some of us to cleaner and make us do shitty jobs so they can laugh at us. They refuse to give us good jobs even though we are capable. My class mate who went to university with me here in Toronto he is driving taxi now. I beleive black should seize any opportunity to take advantage of whites and get what they want and escape to their own country Africa the motherland. White people are dangerous,demonic and callous. They have humiliated black people now God has humiliated them. If yu are black and yu live in us,uk,canada, europe get their(whitey) money whether through lottery or fraud and go back to Africa to develop yur countries.Thats the only way to solve our problems. Look at the Chinese there are thousands of them in Canadian, US, UK but they always go back home to develop their country. Thats why China is great. Thats why Korea is great.Thats why Japan is great. Blacky wake up.

Busy_body:

The boy in question is not telling you the truth. The starting salary in KPMG, PWC and delloitte is about N150,000 per month. after working for 4 years even managers in these organisations earn like 700k per month.

Do you know how much it costs to buy land and build a house in Nigeria? Maybe the guy is doing some other things he is not telling you. I am not insinuating illegit. But he is not building the house on his salary.

Pally, I can tell you for free that he fella was not doing any mago mago thingy.

Again I read a post from someone that enquires should be made about the fellas driving new cars and building houses. Perharps he/she should take a vac and visit Nigeria for about 4 weeks. Fact remains that there is the re-emergence of the upward mobile middle class ok. And while a significant percentage of this strata are professionals in their fields, employers of labor have also recognised the fact that intelligent human resource is the best inventory that you could have now. In my field, Investment Banking, I have observed that there is a large number of young people that are doing fantastically well.

People times have changed, people are coming back home to reside and get excellent rewards for their cerebral giftings. Again this rewards are not just financial alone, there are other attachments that come along with it. All you need is to have something to offer from the grey matter.

As I stated previously, I had planned to relocate too. But considering it now, I think vacations can do. Moreso, peeps if you have money, you can import the Bahamas to a private beach in Lagos. Everything will be there, everything

My two cents (again)

trustboy:


. . . f6, i think you are rather too optimistic with your projections and plans, in the current economic climate you can't be too hopeful of paying a fee of £12000 over a period of 3 years on a student visa. I am afraid your plans may backfire. What happens if you loose your job? I wish you all the best.

Busy_body:

You have hit the nail on the head and spoken the truth, but this shall not be F6's portion by the grace of God F6 say Amen

Busy_body:

You have hit the nail on the head and spoken the truth, but this shall not be F6's portion by the grace of God F6 say Amen

proudly9ja:

Nice thread, Nice posts.

I think in one way or another, you have all said it all. Il just like to add that:

First,Naija is my beloved land. I love her to bits and I'm proud to be a Nigeria. However, some people have continuosly made sure that the land is not habitable for a lot of Naijas. I must say here that one thing I have found on this thread is the 'unfortunate' idea that succes is equal to having stupendous wealth. Thats is an idea we must perish from our thoughts for our Nation to move forward.

If you want to relocate abroad, I must tell you that its not as easy as people make it seem it is, however, it is easier to be comfortable here than back home. You can work (even the odd jobs that some people are quick to condemn) and feed yourself and your family. The thing back home is we want to work little and make great pay. Thats why we are never satisfied with our jobs. However, I must warn you to be cautious. Maybe what you should do is to, if youre married, go alone and see what lies ahead while your wife/husband remains in Naija. If you like what you see, then you can come back for them if not, stay back home.

The other thing is, make sure you are doing what makes you happy. I had 2 offers from a bank and a consulting firm back home but for me, my dream is in Engineering and providing solutions to Engineering problems. I could have stayed back and made the money, but where will the fulfillment be? This is my second year here now and I'm already on my PhD. I'm sponsored by the same government that a lot of people here have accused of being racist. Well thank God for my own case. But things are exactly the way you view them. I choose to be more positive in my thinking and it has helped. So be focused and understand what gives you joy and fulfilment. When you do that, please go anywhere to realise that dream, even if its Ghana!

On a final note, may I say that no matter where you find yourself, even if na Naija we dey, let us remember that Naija does not belong to a set of thieves and rogues, Naija belongs to us all. Once in a while, when you can, go back home and give a little bit of something. Free services in a hospital, digging a borehole in a village, etc. Little things like that which wont cost you more than 40/50 - 100 pounds will go a long way in saving lives. I'm working on a project back home, if you are interested, please PM me. Naija needs us now more than ever. We owe it to our children and children's children.