I stand to say most of this write up are not founded as I currently live here; you just over exaggerated things just like the trending news making rounds. Taxi cost is less as twice as you mentioned sir and accommodation fee are charged per session and not per semester as claimed by the writer which is about 1800-1900$ per session and a session is for 10 months. Other claims also spoke about electric bill and the likes; depending on your consumption you pay an average of 70-120 Turkish lira for electric bill. Travel within two state used to cost 10 tl before the pandemic and within a state bus fare is about 4tl and taxi is 20tl. Yes Cyprus is an educational friendly island and I concur and it’s not the government that lured you with a lucrative job waiting for you. Stop been a peddler of fake news all in the name of earring your view. The same island you complain about it’s still the same some few are making it without adding Sheddy deals. The island is safe though not under EU yet cos of the break away they had with the south but it might interest you to know that Uk has an embassy here and they boast of having tourist come in from different part of Europe on yearly basis.
Their citizens also attend their universities as I have some as friends, even foreigners aside from third world nations have few nationals here cos their tuition is cheaper as compared most part in Europe. Accommodation is cheap if compared with European nations. Please get your facts and acts right and don’t be a rumor monger

Well as long as its not Northern cyprus , this is the issue with Nigerians not checking the history of a country before travelling there becuase they think as long as it's abroad it's better than Nigeria.

wink2015:


IT IS HIGH TIME THE UNITED NATION SOLVE THE "CYPRUS QUESTION"

Turkey is dragging the northern part of Cyprus and calling it TRNC

Greek is dragging the south cyprus that is recognised by the European Union.

WITH ALL THIS PRESSURE ON NORTH CYPRUS by both Greece, Turkey, and EU all fighting for the soul of Cyprus.

How do one think that is a good environment for peaceful study?

Agreed Cyprus has nice beach, sunny weather infact beautiful sunshine.

But beyond all this lies the EVIL OF CYPRUS !

Educational agencies in Nigeria have brainwashed many unsuspecting Nigerian students including their parent to think Cyprus is a place to get good, affordable and qualitative eduation that is european standard.

I hope Cyprus have offered them their dreamed expectation.

Please if you read it kindly brief it to me
Thanks

IamPlato:
North Korea, North Nigeria, North Cyprus or What Ever... Why North Just Evil Like This?

You forgot to add North Africa

dwilliams:
I have always wanted to warn Nigerian students seeking prospects in Europe or abroad generally to remove the option of TRNC from their list but l lacked the motivation, that time to sit down and pen a lengthy post discouraged me, but in lieu of the recent headlines on the news, I will say my bit and warn anyone who probably has been nursing that idea to desist from going there!

I felt the agents who processed my admission for me were not fair to me as they ought to have warned me enough but anyway, it's a dog eat dog world. They were only interested in loning their pockets.

Though, the news going round on social media that hundreds of Nigerian students have been killed there is grossly over exaggerated, there have been some killings but Northern Cyprus still remains safer than most part of Nigeria to be candid!

The TRNC is a country which is not recognized by any country in the world aside from Turkey, they have no natural resources or industries to generate revenue from, so they built some universities all over the country and they branded the Island as A STUDENT FRIENDLY ISLAND, may God punish them for that deceit!

The only source of revenue for the Northern Cyprus government is Education, their own citizens dont attend their universities, they mostly school in the UK,Turkey or the southern part of the island which is under the EU zone, to further enhance the scheme of luring unsuspecting students to the island, the TRNC is one of the easiest countries you can travel to as a prospective student, I bet it is not one of the easiest but the easiest!

A prospective student can apply and get admission in 3 days and you dont need a Visa to go there ,you only need your admission letter and your original school documents to go there, a process called OK to BOARD so most Nigerians who have been denied admission or have been denied Visa in other countries have no choice than to jump at that offer, A prospective student who applied Today can be in TRNC in less than 2 weeks to show how fast it is!

All this is to encourage students to come to the island and help their economy, the TRNC is a very expensive country to survive in,it costs about 300 pounds on the average to get a decent 2 bedroom flat and the hostel fees on the average cost about 3000 euros per semester aside from school fees, let me break it down further, 3k euros in Naira is equivalent to 1.5m per semester and we have 2 major semester in an academic year which means an average of 3m on accommodation alone, The tuition fees here starts from 2500 Euros per semester on the average! Which is roughly 2.7m in Naira.

Now that's not the worse part, the worse part is the day to day living on the island, it costs about 40 turkish lira to take a taxi to any location and that's about 2,400 naira and 4800 in total,for a to and fro journey though there are school buses which the government claims to be free but they are not entirely free as the cost of transportation has been deducted from your school fees.

The TRNC government lures student to the island to boost sectors such as housing as accommodation is very expensive, even the locals here dont pay what foreigners pay for housing they pay lesser, students come in to boost the tourism sector, the hospitals and pharmacies benefits from it, the transportation sector benefits from it and ofcourse it creates that multiplier effect that propels their economy.

Any household item or commodity whatsoever that you desire to purchase here is over 7 times the rate in naira, let me give examples, it costs over 2500 naira to buy a pain killer like panadol which cost around 200 naira, it costs about 15k to buy a charger for your phone, electricity bills can be as high as 60000 naira in a month during the summer and winter months when the air condition and heater has to be used, yes I said 60000 naira, Gas and water bill is something else entirely, the price of everything there is Jaw dropping as the prices are inflated to leach every penny from foreigners, they believe that every student especially Nigerians are rich!

When you register as a new student here,their universities will seize your original certificates to trap you so you wont leave and if you decide to leave the school you will be asked to pay termination fees in addition to whatever debt you probably owe the school!

Is it not crazy that a friend had to drop out on financial reasons and he was asked to pay over 2800 euros with the fees he owed the school before he will get his original certificates which he submitted while registering as a fresher!

Some of the institutions here fail students deliberately so that they can keep paying this school fees and trap them in the system to keep boosting their economy.

To crown it all, their are no jobs there coupled with the harsh and expensive living conditions many students have no options than to engage in petty vices.

95 percent of the universities there, the degrees are not Recognized by several international bodies, what the agents mostly do in Nigeria is to tell Nigerians that they are going to Cyprus and they will think they are going to the Southern part of the island which is an EU zone but on getting to Cyprus they are taken to the North. In fact the temporary residence permit wont take you to any country and since the country is not recognized most countries dont have embassies there which means to relocate you probably have to get a Tourist visa from here to Turkey which is not so difficult to apply to any country of your choice.

No b all abroad b abroad, and na small the north Cyprus take fine pass Nigeria sef, the roads are not so good and the houses are not so rushed.

According to the last NANS report there are approximately 30000 Nigerian students on this island and we have Zimbabweans, Congolese and other countries from other developing nations both in the middle east and Asia here.

My advice to all prospective students, if you are nurturing the idea of coming here to work while schooling please jettison those ideas. In fact dead it!

North Cyprus is not worth it ,one bit! I have spoken and its finally out of my conscience, who get ear make e hear!

And as for the grammar police wey go wan check my post for spelling errors and punctuations, this post is to share my experience there and warn prospective students against going to that expensive island.

So today is "day against northern Cyprus". It seems it's today u guys realised that d place is a no-go area

A trial will convince me. It's not as scary as staying in Northern Naija, na North be this too. One will compare the too. Either Boko haram encounter or Northern Cyprus , I got to choose one.

Anybody wey go that country no wan go school before. The plan na to jump enter the eu zone...

Thank you OP..

able88:
You just blacklisted a beautiful country. How long have you lived there to know all these?
Or is it hearsays?

Someone is giving you an information you asking irrelevant questions....

able88:
You just blacklisted a beautiful country. How long have you lived there to know all these?
Or is it hearsays?

I am convinced that you are one of the wicked agents deceiving unsuspecting Nigerians to the that hell of a place called Northern Cyprus.

Some of these countries are terrible places. Nigeria is bad but we can be far better than some of these places.

I have a few frnds that skoled there and I never got the impression that it’s a dangerous place unless Smtn just changed or started.

Bt I also didn’t get the impression it was so expensive to skol there infact I heard it’s the cheapest.

AmnotMe:
with the way i am positioned; there is no way am
goin to be able to afford an android phone. Am earning o, but not enough. Its just to put
food on the table.
Am Currently using nokie5 symbian phone, one
kind man gifted me that last yr after i sold my
phone to raise money for stuffs. With the trend of new smartphone looks now;
some of you will hv old android phone u r not
using cos of the outdated look and all. Brother,
sister, i will gladly accept anyone u throw at me as
long it can do whatsapp. and i will go on to say a
heart deep prayer for you(i know u r blessed already) just to appreciate. Yes; am begging i know.

go and look for a job ok

But I have a friend who went to Dubai to work immediately after our youth service and when talking about living conditions and the contract job offers they had to work he said he will not advice even his enemies to take his certificates and go there for work.. I have also had some friends doing normal in nigeria but thought the live n work in UAE is a better opportunity and greener pasture but ended up regretting.

FrLukas:


Not totally true. The UAE is relatively easy for Nigerians as long as you have your money.

Lal Las na Papua NewGuinea I go enter

sync:
Well said
Well written
I schooled in the Southern part of Cyprus and there’s no much difference except the fact that the South is under the EU. Since I came back, I’ve been a strong ambassador preaching against going to Cyprus generally but a lot of people would not listen, they want to go “abroad”. Experience is the best teacher. I only survived that island just by the grace of God.

Write about your own experience too and open a thread for it or post on Twitter or something.


People need to start speaking up now before more Nigerians die.

Your article corroborated what Mrs Abike Dabiri Erewa told Nigerians about Northern Cyprus, thank you for sharing. A word is enough for the wise.

Am always telling my clients about this North Cyprus . Thank you so much!!!

FreeSpirited:


Why not travel there, and live or school there to confirm. Since it's ya beautiful dream country.

Lol and probably be the 101 dead victim

when u try to cut corner to become a country,this is wat u get. turkey should just buy off the territory from Cyprus and make it a state in its caliphate

Slynation:
Chai...... Victor ooO!!
I haven't heard from him since oO and Baba has refused to graduate and come back ever since

Lol most of them after falling into this trap in north Cyprus and can't get their original certificate back they submitted as freshers. Just know say na yahoo be the next thing for them.

Agents in this country have no conscience at all. Same agents that would coax you into paying for accommodation in a flood prone parts of Lagos and disappear when its flooded ....same thing they are doing with the Northern Cyprus thing. They'll be telling you 'nor bi people de school there'? collect their commission and disappear.

dwilliams:
I have always wanted to warn Nigerian students seeking prospects in Europe or abroad generally to remove the option of TRNC from their list but l lacked the motivation, that time to sit down and pen a lengthy post discouraged me, but in lieu of the recent headlines on the news, I will say my bit and warn anyone who probably has been nursing that idea to desist from going there!

I felt the agents who processed my admission for me were not fair to me as they ought to have warned me enough but anyway, it's a dog eat dog world. They were only interested in loning their pockets.

Though, the news going round on social media that hundreds of Nigerian students have been killed there is grossly over exaggerated, there have been some killings but Northern Cyprus still remains safer than most part of Nigeria to be candid!

The TRNC is a country which is not recognized by any country in the world aside from Turkey, they have no natural resources or industries to generate revenue from, so they built some universities all over the country and they branded the Island as A STUDENT FRIENDLY ISLAND, may God punish them for that deceit!

The only source of revenue for the Northern Cyprus government is Education, their own citizens dont attend their universities, they mostly school in the UK,Turkey or the southern part of the island which is under the EU zone, to further enhance the scheme of luring unsuspecting students to the island, the TRNC is one of the easiest countries you can travel to as a prospective student, I bet it is not one of the easiest but the easiest!

A prospective student can apply and get admission in 3 days and you dont need a Visa to go there ,you only need your admission letter and your original school documents to go there, a process called OK to BOARD so most Nigerians who have been denied admission or have been denied Visa in other countries have no choice than to jump at that offer, A prospective student who applied Today can be in TRNC in less than 2 weeks to show how fast it is!

All this is to encourage students to come to the island and help their economy, the TRNC is a very expensive country to survive in,it costs about 300 pounds on the average to get a decent 2 bedroom flat and the hostel fees on the average cost about 3000 euros per semester aside from school fees, let me break it down further, 3k euros in Naira is equivalent to 1.5m per semester and we have 2 major semester in an academic year which means an average of 3m on accommodation alone, The tuition fees here starts from 2500 Euros per semester on the average! Which is roughly 2.7m in Naira.

Now that's not the worse part, the worse part is the day to day living on the island, it costs about 40 turkish lira to take a taxi to any location and that's about 2,400 naira and 4800 in total,for a to and fro journey though there are school buses which the government claims to be free but they are not entirely free as the cost of transportation has been deducted from your school fees.

The TRNC government lures student to the island to boost sectors such as housing as accommodation is very expensive, even the locals here dont pay what foreigners pay for housing they pay lesser, students come in to boost the tourism sector, the hospitals and pharmacies benefits from it, the transportation sector benefits from it and ofcourse it creates that multiplier effect that propels their economy.

Any household item or commodity whatsoever that you desire to purchase here is over 7 times the rate in naira, let me give examples, it costs over 2500 naira to buy a pain killer like panadol which cost around 200 naira, it costs about 15k to buy a charger for your phone, electricity bills can be as high as 60000 naira in a month during the summer and winter months when the air condition and heater has to be used, yes I said 60000 naira, Gas and water bill is something else entirely, the price of everything there is Jaw dropping as the prices are inflated to leach every penny from foreigners, they believe that every student especially Nigerians are rich!

When you register as a new student here,their universities will seize your original certificates to trap you so you wont leave and if you decide to leave the school you will be asked to pay termination fees in addition to whatever debt you probably owe the school!

Is it not crazy that a friend had to drop out on financial reasons and he was asked to pay over 2800 euros with the fees he owed the school before he will get his original certificates which he submitted while registering as a fresher!

Some of the institutions here fail students deliberately so that they can keep paying this school fees and trap them in the system to keep boosting their economy.

To crown it all, their are no jobs there coupled with the harsh and expensive living conditions many students have no options than to engage in petty vices.

95 percent of the universities there, the degrees are not Recognized by several international bodies, what the agents mostly do in Nigeria is to tell Nigerians that they are going to Cyprus and they will think they are going to the Southern part of the island which is an EU zone but on getting to Cyprus they are taken to the North. In fact the temporary residence permit wont take you to any country and since the country is not recognized most countries dont have embassies there which means to relocate you probably have to get a Tourist visa from here to Turkey which is not so difficult to apply to any country of your choice.

No b all abroad b abroad, and na small the north Cyprus take fine pass Nigeria sef, the roads are not so good and the houses are not so rushed.

According to the last NANS report there are approximately 30000 Nigerian students on this island and we have Zimbabweans, Congolese and other countries from other developing nations both in the middle east and Asia here.

My advice to all prospective students, if you are nurturing the idea of coming here to work while schooling please jettison those ideas. In fact dead it!

North Cyprus is not worth it ,one bit! I have spoken and its finally out of my conscience, who get ear make e hear!

And as for the grammar police wey go wan check my post for spelling errors and punctuations, this post is to share my experience there and warn prospective students against going to that expensive island.

I now understand why my cousin come back without certificate after spending over 4 years in Cyprus.

we warn him but he refuse to listen , he abandon his course , he was in year 2 here in Nigeria

benflow7:
I stand to say most of this write up are not founded as I currently live here; you just over exaggerated things just like the trending news making rounds. Taxi cost is less as twice as you mentioned sir and accommodation fee are charged per session and not per semester as claimed by the writer which is about 1800-1900$ per session and a session is for 10 months. Other claims also spoke about electric bill and the likes; depending on your consumption you pay an average of 70-120 Turkish lira for electric bill. Travel within two state used to cost 10 tl before the pandemic and within a state bus fare is about 4tl and taxi is 20tl. Yes Cyprus is an educational friendly island and I concur and it’s not the government that lured you with a lucrative job waiting for you. Stop been a peddler of fake news all in the name of earring your view. The same island you complain about it’s still the same some few are making it without adding Sheddy deals. The island is safe though not under EU yet cos of the break away they had with the south but it might interest you to know that Uk has an embassy here and they boast of having tourist come in from different part of Europe on yearly basis.
Their citizens also attend their universities as I have some as friends, even foreigners aside from third world nations have few nationals here cos their tuition is cheaper as compared most part in Europe. Accommodation is cheap if compared with European nations. Please get your facts and acts right and don’t be a rumor monger

What are you doing there, are you an agent or student.

The part you said "TODAY WE DON'T KNOW WHAT LEVEL HE IS" really got me laughing�

maoolakanm:
EXPERIENCE THEY SAY,IS THE BEST TEACHER.ONE OF MY BROTHER IN-LAW HAS BEEN THERE FOR OVER FOUR YEARS AS I AM TYPING THIS REPLY NOW HE HAS GONE INCOMMUNICADO .
AFTER THE WHOLE FAMILY DONATED MONEY FOR HIS JOURNEY,WHICH WAS ARRANGED BY UNSCRUPULOUS AGENTS,THE BURDEN OF KEEPING HIM THERE HAS MADE EVERYONE TO BACK OUT.
JUST AS YOU SAID AT A TIME HE NURSED IDEA OF LEAVING THERE FOR FINLAND BUT THE AMOUNT THEY WANT HIM TO PAY TO GET HIS CERTIFICATE BACK IS ENOUGH TO SEE HIM THROUGH COVENANT UNIVERSITY IN NIGERIA.
TODAY WE DON'T KNOW WHAT LEVEL HE IS AND HOW HE IS SURVIVING IN THAT ISLAND.
A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.

Darkerberry:
But I have a friend who went to Dubai to work immediately after our youth service and when talking about living conditions and the contract job offers they had to work he said he will not advice even his enemies to take his certificates and go there for work.. I have also had some friends doing normal in nigeria but thought the live n work in UAE is a better opportunity and greener pasture but ended up regretting.

There are Nigerians doing quite well there, you know.


I don't know the kinda job your friend got but they do have strict labour laws over there.

Maybe he is one of the said agents, cos many people have already confirmed what the OP said on this thread with their personal experiences or that of close relatives and this Mr just came to debunk it all..

Agugbadin:


What are you doing there, are you an agent or student.

Anything related to Turkey or hard core Islamic countries are highly questionable. They are bad ill omen. Sure.

IamPlato:
North Korea, North Nigeria, North Cyprus or What Ever... Why North Just Evil Like This?

you forgot North America (USA and Canada), you may need to rephrase your judgement

FrLukas:


There are Nigerians doing quite well there, you know.


I don't know the kinda job your friend got but they do have strict labour laws over there.

I re read your initial comment and saw that you indicated "if you have your money"
Thats true cos i know it's not as easy for people that went their for a 2 yeas contract jobs living in an overcrowded room as those who went their to HUSTLE or at least have a side hustle.

or you mean 'disheartening?

OtemAtum:
Quite enlightening.

able88:
You just blacklisted a beautiful country. How long have you lived there to know all these?
Or is it hearsays?

you shut up there. Are you an ambassador there or are you those dubious traveling agents.