Nigerians In The UK Are So Stingy

on a more serious note. this whole issue depends on who is calling, when and why the call is being made. my elder brother left nigeria in 1994 to work in the western world. he lives in the states and each time he called home all we are interested is wehter he has eaten, has warm clothes, is safe, we ask about housing, wether he is suffering any racial abuse, etc. it took about 2 yrs b4 he started sending small small money home. each time he sent money, we ask if he has left enough to take care of him. on 9/11 we all called him to ensure he wasn't affected. i never asked him for a penny until 1999. 5 yrs after he left for the states. that was when he gave me about $200 and when i got the money i was scared he may starve a few days for that, that is the spirit of a brother/real friend. one who really cares.

i left nigeria '05 to study and someone is calling me 2 months after i left asking for money, e dey craze?  

i still have a sister in nigeria and she calls me asking if i have any problem. my dad is worried anytime he doesn't hear from me in 2 weeks if i'm ok. each time there is a terror threat in the UK she is the 1st to call me to ensure i'm ok that is someone who cares  even telling me she can send a few quid to help me out

i have a friend who also calls regularly. i also call him. anybody expecting money from me who doesn't know if i have had lunch (yes, some of us struggling nigerians in the UK don't have food sometimes ) go tire for the calls. any naija number i no know de waste time. anyone wey catch me unawares by the time i don tell am all my problems, he go forget why e call me

meanwhile de manb wey dey london de suffer for cold de live for one tiny room wey e dey pay £200 per month.

no rumour without an element of truth somewhere i can prove it now if you want

@ TOPIC

Things are hard in US too
Things are so hard in US, that even my sister have to send her dog to work. 
The poor Animal have to work at a local security firm or else they will both starve.
the dog brings home $80 a week minus Pet life insurance and taxes.

@Caradona

that was really funny, you can imagine, for all we know the dog might be doing overtime as well.

@samsilo
good analysis, only u forgeot to mention very few nigerians are in that income bracket, now imagine the hardship they are going through

@glaton,

bill fit kill u here oh and na true talk

Fucking Hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is hilarious.
Nigerians in the UK are stingy?
Try Nigerians in the States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

i aint working for no one why shld i be giving free money out. nopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

let every one in 9ja know that abroad is nt easy,sum pple r just hia cos they r hooked already,so y cant u pray 4 us hia instead of  bombarding us with requests to do,i remember i ve not spent two months abroad wen sum1 asked 4 200 pounds,its really frustrating

@ Kitaun,

I disagree with u.
No one is stingy.The economic strain is the factor here.
Can u give what u don't have?
Nigerian immigrants make an average of 250-300 pounds a week.
With imminent mad bills to pay that amount reduces to 20-30 pounds a week!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets do the math. . . . . .  It means u have just 80 pounds to save in a month.

How wld u feel when someone calls u up to ask for 600 pounds?
You are skint and the cold weather gets u fucked up and someone in Lagos needs 600 pounds because he wants to throw a party?
Blimey. . . . . . . U will go ballistic.
Thats the mentality and the reality here.
A lot of people are so skint they are living from hand to mouth.
The income is just enough to take care of an individual and thatz it!!!!!!!!!!!

lmao. lets hope he didn't pick up those shaving sticks from the dollar store/dollarama.

@ Kitaun,

U will always find bad eggs in every situation.
My point is Nigerians are always snappy to say the folks living abroad are STINGY.
The fact is these people dont even have enough to feed 'emselves, let alone give out.
I understand most guys get to UK or US and start claiming to be what they are not and this increases the parasitic levels around 'em.
Loads of geezers send pictures of someone else's car and crib to deceive folks in Nigeria. Why they do this? I really dunno but its the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!
Eventually, the expectation and demands goes astronomical and people think a guy driving a McLaren should be able to spare 600 quid whereas the guy they are hoping on is a BUS PASS disciple.
Do u get the drift?
A lot of guys really wanna give but they dont have enough to give.

@JACKAL

Well said!!!

but then if like u said some folks live on 80-120 dollars a week, why dont they deport themselves back home?

why waste away in another man's land when even the folks asking for kisi from u are doing beta?

why live a fake life?

if front no gree u, den u suppose fit trace your steps back home, what sayest thou?    


@Omogenaija

the topic is not dumb; its a very popular notion that Naijas in UK are stingy!!!

only a few us based here actually know whats up, so do not necessarily get sucked into that line of reasoning or get lulled into hasty generalization

lol, @omogenaija.

@topic, I don't think anybody is stingy. If u think so, u shld work hard to be where they are too. Idk, naija pple think bein' abroad means swimmin' in money but it's not. pple actually suffer in d so-called abroad, workin' their ass off and all u do is ask them for money. i mean, it's frustratin'. some pple barely see their kids 'cause they have like two jobs. Nobody is stingy, u can only know if u were in their shoes.

thanks girl ,  u said well

Thank you Jackal. Nicely said.