A Few Questions Before Making Travel Plans To Naija

It depends on the lifestyle you want to live when you get home. $1000 is about 120k if I am right.

For three months, that comes to about 40k per month. An average taxi cab depending on the distance is about 1K. A decent fast food meal also costs about 1K. So a return trip out with a taxi and a meal will set you back by about 3K. Going out for drinks will also cost you money. If you have a car available to you, you will likely spend less. Hope the $1000 does not include money to settle people?  Otherwise, it may not be enough!

You can carry whatever electronics you like. The situation is not that bad. They may not even stop you at customs point. If they are portable items and can fit into your hand luggage, then the better. Try to carry your portable and high value items in your hand luggage.

I wont discourage you in anyway from going back to motherland for a visit but there is no way $1000 can take you for 3 months no matter how wise and cautious you want to be with money. Plan well before you go and from the look of things, this is your first visit home since you checked out like Andrew. Your first week in Nigeria will take you 50000 naira that is being very conservative. You land in lagos and then take a taxi home (if u don't have a car ready) and pay 4000 for that trip to ur house. U don't have a house or a place to stay in Lagos? then map out 4k for a moderate hotel. Consider your trips from one point to another in cab everyday, you will be spending at least 2k daily on transport within Lagos depending on your itineraries. Your meals will take money too.

Should you use a personal car? A liter of fuel costs 70 naira and daily you will need about 20 liters ( considering hold ups) and that is 1k4hundred. Planning on staying in a hotel all through then check the cost of hotels every night. Planning on staying in your house or putting up with someone, then 7 litters of petrol to be modest for the generator and that is about 500 naira plus your transport daily, you will be spending 2k5 for transport and generator daily excluding meals. 2k5 daily by 30 days is 75 thousand naira for the first month and for 3 months is 225000 naira for transport and gen alone.

You may decide to skip the gen after sometime though but please arrange well unless you will get support from your brothers and sisters.

For me it is harder. I don't have a house and I stay in a hotel each time I go and I go twice a year.  Putting up with someone to skip the hotel bills is equally expensive as all their problems becomes yours. they will be relying on you to buy food for everyone. Guy you sound lucky men. We drink and smoke and every evening na u go dey buy drinks for everyone. Can u imagine drinkming and ur friends will be looking and watching.

Even for an orphan without siblings and relatives and friends, 1k wont last three months.  Give it a trial when u are broke you run back afterall no be Niger you for grow ? there were times when u didnt have 1k and u stayed for years. Now with 1k u can try 3 months.

As for gadgets,  be on guard they wont take it at the airport. Niger people use all the latest electronic gadgets u can think of so it aint a big deal.

Try shaa. I will be there in mid october. I can do a market survey for you and tell you how to spend the 1k dollars

you are surely not in TUNE with Nigeria.

cheapest hotel that matches bit of quality is $250 per night.

in two days you are dead-broke.  cheap hotel is about $70 a night: you get brown water, cockcroach, etc that gets you only 10days.

Nigeria is fucking expensive. For 3 months you need atleast $10,000 to live well.

Good Luck.

$1000 will not scratch the surface at all. Unless you already have accommodation and transportation taken care of and it will not cost you anything. Where will you be staying and where would you be visiting while there. Anything you do there (just like any other country) will cost you some money.

@ poster looks like you watch too much western media. I posted a mini dvd player to my younger brother, he got it within week. I have posted other things since then and each time it arrives naija on time and in the same condition it left Europe.