ruggedtimi:
inspiring

mu2sa2:
On top looking for greener pastures! Seriously, even if he started with selling gala or "pure" water anywhere in nigeria, after 20 years he would have been better off than wasting all those years playing hide-and-seek with the police in oyibo land. Now 55, no wife, no children, no job, where will he start?

Youthleader22:
The beauty of the story is that he didn't for once taught of returning to Nigeria. It took him many years and he turned a good person. He didn't allow the harshness of poverty or frustration make him a gangsta. He was good and the people saw the kindness in him and helped him.
May our helper locate us this year 2020. IJN. Amen.

Skepticus:


One thing a lot of people don't know is that achievement is subjective. The leave to remain might be what he wanted all along and he'll be satisfied.

That you can't sacrifice that much for something doesn't mean that others can't sacrifice their comfort and suffer much to achieve that.

philip0906:

My friend please go and sleep in London buses and free me...

Tueh!!

Youthleader22:


Everyone saying he wasted his youthful years are ignorant of who human are. Not everyone wants to be very rich and popular. I'm sure what he wanted was to live a simple life and the love of the city of London gave him that idea of staying back.

I have uncles and also know of so many people living in UK and USA doing very well but they never step thier foot in Nigeria. So what are we talking about?

alfasexy:
This is why I hate church people. They will do everything and even spend to keep you in your misery while praising themselves that they are doing good.

samorobo:


Lay low in poverty while people are escaping their rathole to mansions.....

Just because it hasn't worked for you doesn't mean it hasn't worked for others..

toyetade:

Your writing has betrayed you. . Make your point without being abusive. I live in the same london with my own personal house worth more than £500k and british citizen since 2008 though I left Nigeria with just 6 months Visa 2001. I didn't have to sleep in buses to achieve that. Stay in your Nigeria and enjoy your ignorance

Chaleeee:


If it has worked for you, you won't be on nairaland justifying the contraption called Nigeria.

dederocs:

What is your status in the British society?
If you are not one of the start up guys, or business men there exporting Nigeria, but just hustling and living the mundane 9/5, then shut up. A lot of Nigerians don't need to wake up and go to work by 9am, and still make much more than you. Am sure you are a 9/5iver trying to catch up with the British rat race, enjoy it and leave us in peace. I take vacations to UK, Dubai etc, but still love it here, and live here. stop sounding like a local man that just got an opportunity to travel out. Yes, I do business. All the top African business men and mega stars reside here, so it depends on what you do in Nigeria, I really don't envy you Nigerians working your ass out in the UK just to survive, no reasonable person will envy that life. It's just toiling.

dederocs:

What is your status in the British society?
If you are not one of the start up guys, or business men there exporting Nigeria, but just hustling and living the mundane 9/5, then shut up. A lot of Nigerians don't need to wake up and go to work by 9am, and still make much more than you. Am sure you are a 9/5iver trying to catch up with the British rat race, enjoy it and leave us in peace. I take vacations to UK, Dubai etc, but still love it here, and live here. stop sounding like a local man that just got an opportunity to travel out. Yes, I do business. All the top African business men and mega stars reside here, so it depends on what you do in Nigeria, I really don't envy you Nigerians working your ass out in the UK just to survive, no reasonable person will envy that life. It's just toiling.

Yankiss:
This is difficult to understand. Wasting all of 21 years jumping away one's destiny. Am I the only one who thinks the refugee aspect of running from an iron-cast dictatorship was cooked up by guyman? Raise your hand if u thought so too. Nigerians cant cease to amaze me. For God's sake people still make it in Nigeria!!

mu2sa2:
On top looking for greener pastures! Seriously, even if he started with selling gala or "pure" water anywhere in nigeria, after 20 years he would have been better off than wasting all those years playing hide-and-seek with the police in oyibo land. Now 55, no wife, no children, no job, where will he start?

dre11:


https://www.thecable.ng/report-how-nigerian-asylum-seeker-spent-21-years-sleeping-on-london-buses

Youthleader22:
The beauty of the story is that he didn't for once taught of returning to Nigeria. It took him many years and he turned a good person. He didn't allow the harshness of poverty or frustration make him a gangsta. He was good and the people saw the kindness in him and helped him.
May our helper locate us this year 2020. IJN. Amen.

nextstep:
21 years ago was 1999. Which military regime kept him from coming back since then?
His peers are DGs, managers, business owners in all kinds of fields now. Is it now he will start building towards retirement?

My people, please don't go and waste your life in obodo oyinbo. The best situation is those who hustle and make it here, and can visit that side any bloody time they want.

People say no jobs, no opportunities... There are tons of people making it big in legitimate businesses, so unless you're waiting for a job to land in your lap, you need to go out and seize the multitude of opportunities out there.

Chaleeee:


Where are people making it big all over the country? Abeg show me the place. Where are the opportunities? Or you mean opportunity to commit suicide?

greenprince:
Despite everything, crime was NEVER an option

I respect his character

ekerintee:
Sometimes some people ridicule nigeria because they have not gone out,when you ask nigerians abroad.they will tell you know place like home.even as bad as Nigeria is,it's still a good place .Every country has its own problem.The best place to make money is Africa,not abroad.Every cent you make abroad goes back to their economy.you work your life out to sustain their economy.while Nigerians are sleeping ,some of the people working abroad are already at work.do you know people wake up so early to work in some places doing tedious work and sleep late and because they send you money .you think life is easy for them.Do you know how many work some Nigerians are doing to survive .do you know the kind of racism they go thru.do you think they are given hundred percent opportunities abroad.some spend several years abroad with nothing to show.do you know there are many people who have spent 30 years abroad without having houses abroad.they build house in Nigeria and when they build house.do you think many can afford to build a house in banana island .I am not saying some cant afford it.the truth is that most Nigerians abroad are just average people abroad and not extremely rich



Even 50 years with no house sef. That one na normal things. Even if you get am, na in moRtGage
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Blessed on your comment, while someone just said it's better to live on the bus in UK then live at banana island. It's well.

IpobAntidote:


By this time tomorrow I should be getting ready to board my Delta flight to Atlanta. By 10pm I should be in my Delta one seat, with my shoes off, jacket taking care of by by hostess while I'm sipping on a cold glass of mimosa before the plane even leaves the ground.
That's the life you can only dream of.
And guess what, I'm back to Nigeria in just about 3 to 4 days. That's the life I live, dream and work hard and pray for such life.

tot:


I tell you. Mental resilience. Not everyone has it unfortunately.

MOnkeyBabe:
Out where pls?

MOnkeyBabe:


Indeed, you must be the son of a very great politician/magician or have some serious connections. A lot of things you are not telling us. It's unfair to make it look like life is good in nigeria for the average man.

MOnkeyBabe:

FiRst, if he doesn't have Returning papers for re-entry into the u.k, he shouldn't Return because they would ban him permanently for over 10years and further till he sorts things out.
2.) He didn't or may not have established contacts to start up something in nigeria. He shouldn't return.
You don't just appear anywhere and things start working.
Look at you talking about him coming to sell gala, I wonder what kind of human being you are really

poseidon12:



I read the article you linked. The article is about a white nationalist group that are expressing anger that their European homeland is being taken over by blacks. These nationalists are in the minority and they are not new. They have been around since time immemorial. They are racists. In spite of the few racists, in all those European countries, blacks are still treated much better than the ethnic minorities are treated in a place like Nigeria.
In those countries, you see black members of parliament and Mayors. In the US, a black man whose father was Kenyan, became President.
Yet in Nigeria, some Nigerians will proudly announce that some ethnic groups should never become President. On the Nairaland Forum, you observe Nigerians proudly displaying hatred for other ethnic groups. You have a President Buhari who is openly and proudly tribalistic, widely supported by a lot of fellow Nigerian tribalists.
Right now, we are commemorating 50 years of Biafra. Since you are good at looking for links, you should search for, and watch the genocide that the mostly Hausa/Fulani ethnic group carried out on fellow human beings, the Igbo. Till date, 50 years after the Biafra war, most Nigerians are still persecuting the Igbos. But the same Nigerians like to be treated well when they travel outside Nigeria.
The Lebanese and the Indians have been living in Nigeria since before the independence. Yet we don't allow them to participate in our politics. I don't know of any of them that are in the Senate or House of Representatives or Local government Chairman or Governor.

I will take racism of the whites over the tribalism of Nigerians. You are the one that is not exposed.
In the US, you have China Towns, Little Italy, Jewish neighborhoods. There are many Nigerians living in the US right now. But we don't have Nigerian neighborhoods or Little Nigeria. Nigerians there generally like to live in predominantly white neighborhoods instead of among each other. I wonder why?

dederocs:

What is your status in the British society?
If you are not one of the start up guys, or business men there exporting Nigeria, but just hustling and living the mundane 9/5, then shut up. A lot of Nigerians don't need to wake up and go to work by 9am, and still make much more than you. Am sure you are a 9/5iver trying to catch up with the British rat race, enjoy it and leave us in peace. I take vacations to UK, Dubai etc, but still love it here, and live here. stop sounding like a local man that just got an opportunity to travel out. Yes, I do business. All the top African business men and mega stars reside here, so it depends on what you do in Nigeria, I really don't envy you Nigerians working your ass out in the UK just to survive, no reasonable person will envy that life. It's just toiling.

nextstep:


Please see this my reply on this thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/5627471/nigerian-asylum-seeker-spent-21/3#85737419

Basically, I gave examples of people starting companies to package dried fruit and kuli kuli. Most people didn't consider it as a viable business, but those that saw the opportunity are now smiling to the bank as their products are in stores, restaurants, and airlines. It's just an example of the different opportunities that abound.

The irony is the average Nigerian will say there are no jobs or opportunities, yet the average Chinese, Indian, Lebanese, comes here and exploits those same opportunities that we don't see - hiding in plain sight.

MOnkeyBabe:
the ones in cult abi?