You messed up OP, dubai of all places? Hell where u thinking?
You could have used that money and time to go to Germany/Netherlands/Denmark where they have lenient immigration laws
With very strong currency. Why in Gods name would u choose to go to a muslim country of all places with strict immigration laws?
Also you gave up too quick. I guess you're not the kind of guy to keep pushing

2013 Topic made FP In 2016...odiegwu! And d last Time OP came online was 5months ago...maybe him dun go back Dubai

agboolakolade:
My name is Kola, an undergraduate student of Ekiti State University, 400level final year, studying statistics.


It has always been my dream to travel abroad at a tender age and make some certain amount of millions and come back to Naija to start business.


My department is one of the toughest and baddest in my school.


The lecturers fail the students anyhow,imagine scoring 11 over 70 and a lot of prerequisite courses.
In a nutshell, due to the low G.P I'm having I decided to quit school and travel abroad without my parents' consent.


I made connection with my friend in dubai who lives around deira who claimed to have got job 5 days on getting to UAE.


I paid 800dollars for the 2 month visa, the visa came out and 3 days later I headed straight to MM airport.


I went to Emirate office to buy ticket and to my surprise the price I saw online has increased from 125k to 136k and I have made all my calculations from onset. I went to EtIhad office and behold they have closed, no flight for that day. I had no Option than to purchase the emirate. I bought the ticket and I join the departure queue a first timer, Immigration go chop, NDLEA go chop, I paid token.



I was welcome by some white Arab girls, saying "welcome to Emirate Airline". I felt like a King. Our flight took off. I was giving dish menu and I took option for rice. I drank 2 red wine, 3 cup of tea and coffee also, I can't eat their rice because it smells like perfume; totally different from Naija rice.



We departed around 2pm and got to Dubai 3am midnight. On landIng there I felt a new breeze and I was welcome to Dubai. The airport is so fantastic, I saw different races from Russia, UK, Ukraine, Germany and others who came in there for tourist. The port of entry was full and when it was my turn, they checked my visa, my passport, snapped me and I was passed in...that was probably my happiest moment on heart not know the bitter truth yet.



I called my guy and he asked me to carry cab to Blue Diamond hotel in Dubai. I slept there and early in the morning I called my guy and he came at evening time. He took me to a place to drink Castel beer with a lot of smokes, afterwards that he handed me over to another person called agent..

I paid 200dollars for house rent and he requested for 200dollars for agent fee also. I have met a guy earlier who told me he has been in Dubai since December 2012 till February 2013 and he got no job. On getting to Diera I saw a lot of Naija sitting down eating rice smoking shisha and talking.

I guessed in my mind that maybe they are house owners in Dubai but later I realise they came the way I came far back as 12years 10 years and some 6 years ago. They were tricked also and when they got there was no job. You have no option than to sell your passport and turn to cargo boy dealing with goods and clearing agent with visa agents also.

After 3 days I noticed my life in Naija is far better than that I put my self to in Dubai. I realised later that job is difficult to get and I have spent all my money in my account for this dream. I was left with 265dollars and I realised the earlier the better to return to Naija and continue with my bad CGPA in school. The life there is good with light, water everywhere, good road, good communication and easy environment but the major thing is how to make money there which is a lot difficult without a job, unless you are into business, come to buy goods, spend 2 weeks and go. There are many Nigerian youths roaming the streets of Deira without any job, claiming to live big abroad, posting nice pictures on beach with oyinbos on Facebook and Twitter.

My dear brother don't just run waka go Dubai or any abroad if no be school. You go hear 'whin' if money finish or your hand oo. Unless you go to better country like Canada, Australia, please don't run comot for Naija if no b school u wan go school because am talking from bitter experience.

I spent all my life saving within 5 days because of ilu oyinbo (whiteman's land).


After 5 days I went straight to Airport Terminal 2 and changed the date of my return ticket at Emirates office and was charged a token...

I boarded on flight and even met a oyinbo girl from New Zealand while awaiting flight..I took off and landed at Lasgidi. I was very happy, and I went straight to the woman behind taxi park selling hot amala with ewedu soup and correct meat and pomo to ka...

I lodged at a small hotel and the following morning i headed straight to the park of Ado Ekiti Garage.

Finally am back to school so happy and overwhelmed with joy because I have achieved my initial dream at 22years old...now about to go for NYSC and maybe I can go for my Masters in Canada or Germany later and return back home...


My people Naija sweet.., we no know the value...God bless Naija...

Mind you my mates I left in Dubai are still their but by the time they hear I'm a CEO or Managing Director of a company or Major in the army they will be ashamed to come to Naija again..

My God help us all to fulfill our destiny...its not always greener in abroad ooooooo.....

You where very unfortunate. I know many people who fell victim of such circumstances. My story is different. A friend invited me to Dubai, not an agent. I only spent $100 of my own cash and my friend covered the cost. I got a job in 2 weeks and I earn over 650k Naira equivalent.
I even met a Zimbabwean lady who worked in my company but her sister lobbied her into a higher salary job.
You were just unfortunate. I have been here for a year and my family and friends are proud of me.

Dubai Do bye.

riddler4real:


You where very unfortunate. I know many people who fell victim of such circumstances. My story is different. A friend invited me to Dubai, not an agent. I only spent $100 of my own cash and my friend covered the cost. I got a job in 2 weeks and I earn over 650k Naira equivalent.
I even met a Zimbabwean lady who worked in my company but her sister lobbied her into a higher salary job.
You were just unfortunate. I have been here for a year and my family and friends are proud of me.

650k a month?

story sweet oo but
I de suffer here oo I I rather go der

Shiitposter:


650k a month?

Yes.... I work at Souq.com

No offense, but this your use of English sha.

I have a feeling it was a factor

I personally know 3 guys roasting away in dubai,sharjah,God help them,major Bad decisions

Even though I think u took an UN wise decision by traveling but I admire you cos of two important things
1).You set a goal and did everything within your power to achieve it.That's impressive
2)You were wise by finding out there was no headway for that dream at that particular moment, then took an alternative. Am really impressed&motivated. Believe me,I have learnt something today

Almighty God please locate me and give me more blessing, more mercy,grace and breakthrough with long life as NL mods locate this topic for front page since 2013

Lol

Jst makin FP after three good solid years !

Its a wow !

Shiitposter:


650k a month?

Curiosity has cost more maiden head than love. Stop now or you will get slammed....

Life in abroad is awesome but all depend on meeting the right ppl to get the right information and having the right residence to enable you work and have some right to govt funds. You can not expect a better taste of any country with a visiting visa. Visiting visa means you are just goin to a country to visit a friend or family member for holiday nd to see how the country looks like without recourse to govt funds or lookung for job.Looking for work with a visiting visa is just like looking for a better well paid job without having the right certificates, you know thts not possible. Even with student visa, if you don't have your money to spend, life could be miserable but when you have the right status, life abroad { UK,USA and Canada} is very sweet.

I HAD TO CHECK THE DATE,AFTER SEEING THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS THE OP WASTED...E CANT TRY IT IN 2016 NA,WHEN 1 DOLLAR CAN BUY HIS VILLAGE.

JST JOKING O

Thank God you have sense of value. Those who don't have self worth are still there roaming about doing nothing.

Hu so ever believe ur story is a beginner,pure lie!

speechless

Naija sweet die!!! Na our leaders be our natural disaster.....

My experience is different. My goal after an initial stint in the UK was a resolve never ever to travel out with my own money. Today all my trips abroad are paid for by my employer. I missed going to Deira the last i went to Dubai , i stayed all through around the world trade centre . I learnt one thing though, those Arabs are snubs and i won't encourage even my enemy to go to Dubai. Even on a company sponsored training, my other delegates were forming, but trust me, i chose every opportunity to let them know that I flew thousands of kilometres to attend a training that some of them were attending from distances as close as doha and Bahrain. It was an eye opener on cultural superiority but in all, the op took a wise decision to have bailed when he did. For those insisting on abroad things or nothing, i want to say that sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side because it's fake.

my bloda.

ekaaaa eji ofu onye ochaaa gwochara ogwu ego nah
INA amu olu amu.
IGA amugide tooooo Na amu

agboolakolade:
my brother,I have start savings right after my waec and neco,that's what helps me because that the biggest dream of my life as at then but I later realise life is more than that and I set new dreams ahead...if a man is not dying to achieve something then a mad man is better than that coward....thanks bro..

STATISTICS dept

Mr halid
Mr ogunwale
Dr abi na prof Adeleke
Mr Akinyem.........

hope this dude are still doing fine?




welcome home bro......

no place like home.

ecolime:
It's easy to gallivant when your papa has money. Wondering how a student has so much money at his beck and call for travel runz. Nice story sha. Lesson for all

uncle we need to invite DSS and EFCC here this guy papa follow chop our yam... see as he open mouth dey talk how he ravish 1mil within 5days... he even won go Canada do his masters, when some of us here never enter aeroplane before... kai barawo

agboolakolade:
Kudos to the moderator and admin.of nairaland.I love you guys..you are highly intelligent.may God bless you all..

Oh, thanks God for not ending up begging On the street before Taking the right step, seriously foreign country has been overhype. Meanwhile
Brother I will like to Get connected to you, U just mention eksu in ur write up and i seriously need some info of this citadel. Kindly mail me At ogundareabiodunmercy@gmail.com... Thanks

Especially when you get to sharja ,diera naija boys full even when UAE granted them amnesty to go home they refuse to leave ,another thing that I saw is our girls mostly Yoruba and Igbo girls doing prostitution in palm diera I wept
When you get the job then you will exit for visa change on those their low life jobs
,the most annoying thing is that you will see Nigerians doing security jobs ,cleaner ,housekeeping jobs they refuse to do here in naija.
Dubai is not a place to hustle .don't be deceived ,go there spend your cash and fly back

Op the rice smelling like perfume part of your story lol

untold stories abt DUBAI

My guy you said it all. A lot of young guys want to go out there looking for greener pastures because of the economic hardship in naija but most of them don't know the truth about where they are going.
It is not only in dubai you have this type of wahala America is not left out. Many are in America doing 12 hrs job with no break in between and after paying rent and transport you can hardly save anything.
Let us pray for naiJanuary to be better that God should pass through our land then all us go enjoy am.

A word is enough for the wise.

I also came back from Dubai on friday. I was there for a month. Some of the things u highlighted are correct. The problem wit dubai is if u don't hav enough money for start-up, then there is a problem. You must hav cash to pay agents for work or to do business. I got a cleaning job myself witout paying an agent wit a salary of 70k but I rejected it because I'll hav to work for long hrs, I hate stress. I connected a friend to take it. It's all about meeting the right people. We went to an area of low class people in Dubai. Deira is for the biz minded. I never went there during my stay unless I needed to buy somtin.

Na so that your friend too go dey form sey im dey for diaspora abi
SMH!!!


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riddler4real:


You where very unfortunate. I know many people who fell victim of such circumstances. My story is different. A friend invited me to Dubai, not an agent. I only spent $100 of my own cash and my friend covered the cost. I got a job in 2 weeks and I earn over 650k Naira equivalent.
I even met a Zimbabwean lady who worked in my company but her sister lobbied her into a higher salary job.
You were just unfortunate. I have been here for a year and my family and friends are proud of me.

Yes he was unfortunate. But mind you, the absolute majority of Nigerians in Dubai have the same plight. Very few are fortunate to get what they are looking for in Dubai. I was in Dubai precisely Dera for two months. I got the same story to tell. So I can relate to everything he said. Most Nigerians I saw in Dubai are wasting away there and unable to get out of the country. Thank God I gave myself brain and came back to Nigeria before I got stuck in Dubai and unable to get out. If I because of what people would say if I came back to Nigeria and I remain stucked there, I won't be in the US today.

and agents in Nigeria, who has never been to DUBAI will be in Nigeria deceiving dia client.am in dubai now,tins ar movin fine for me,but majority of guys here dey inside hell

It is well