Bowwow11:
That is because is not easy to settle down in abroad

Revolution2022:
Most of What he stated were true.It is not every negative things someone said is jealousy.

sulaak:


It is not true and he is very jealous, Nigerians in the diaspora are now one of the largest contributors to the country's GDP. Say thank you and stop being jealous.

GeneralShepherd:


$8K is if you are single. For a family of 4 you are looking at least $20K.

SergeantTitus:
Why do nigerians living abroad fail to come back to Nigeria even for Important things like their parents death, burial, brother's wedding etc? I also find it weird some remain there for 15, 20, 30 years without ever visiting home even if na just once.

CaptainZubi:
Most of them no get money. No let anybody deceive you, obodo oyinbo no easy. The system is designed to make you work your black ass like a slave for someone, get paid with one hand then the government use another hand to collect am. Some people have lived abroad for 20 years but can't even boast of $15000 as savings. People who go there and make it big with riches they start building mansions back in nigeria are into one shady deal or the other. No let them deceive you, the money no legit. Usually wire wire, BEC, drugs, robbery and all forms of fraud.

wwwihy:
Looking for Breakthrough in terms of

1.Decent Job

2. Marriage

3. Children

5. Papers

6. Wanting to be comparable to People/family in Nigeria who are doing well or even better

7. Transportation Money to come home


Home is always better...

Have your paradigm

Align your dreams with the paradigm

Set goals to meet your dreams

Identify your focus

Start small with the resources you have

Be good at what you do

Stay on the Focus

Be determined

Be Consistent

Forget about distractions

Don't deviate


YOU WILL SURELY BE SUCCESSFUL


GOD BLESS INCOMING PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU
GOD BLESS FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Eriokanmi:
Paali is the reason. During my school days, some guys who refused to come back had no paali( green card) . They attended the first interview with their arrangee wife, they couldn't pass. They attended the second one, they couldn't pass and once this happens, just be prayerful cos its nearly mission impossible. You can't come home when you've got no papers and if they try it, they'd only be telling stories about how they once lived in America to their children cos they'd never smell there again except they won lottery.

That said, there's no better place like Nigeria. I always say this. Even those bragging with am American today know deep down their minds that Nigeria is a better place to live. As you're japaing, Indians, Chinese, etc are thronging Nigeria for opportunities.

In early 1990s, my uncle left walmart job and came back home. He wrote to a solar company in america to be their agent in Nigeria. That time, no atm, no GSM. The company first rejected his application but invited him 2 weeks after, to take their training and reconsidered him but told him he must come to Nigeria and install demos of their solar inverter. He approached the CBN on arrival but they didn't allow him. They said they had 3 standby generators but he told them....but its free and he'd remove it later, just for them to try it out. Reluctantly they permitted him.

Months later, all the 3 generators at the cbn packed up due to extensive usage. One of the grids collapsed and affected cbn HQ for wks. The day the 3rd gen collapsed, the directors were panicking, rushed to the IT dept only to find staff working. The solar inverter saved their system from crashing cbn now recommended their solar inverter called Trace inverter to all commercial banks when atm came to Nigeria, trace later changed to Xantrex, anyone can Google xantrex engineering.

My uncle today is a multi billionaire. Cbn also installed the products at all cbn branches nationwide. Those mocking him back then in America are still struggling with life and living.

Gsentme:
The reading was going smoothly untill you mention (Agbado). Op You no go see better thing.

kunkelhanspeter:

Your weekly wages abroad really?
After paying bills how much is left with you be honest?
And After bills can your 2 -5 months salary be enough for flight back to Nigeria to and fro?

SergeantTitus:

Nobody is asking you to come back. Just try see your family and go back . Some of them won't even come for their parents burial . I find it weird dissociating yourself from your family for 25 30 40 years.

GREATIGBOMAN:
Because it actually takes several years to make money abroad.

If you went there to make money legitimately, it somehow impossible to be financially stable there in a year or 2.... Especially if you went empty handed.


We're will u get money to travel back and forth.... plus your people will be expecting you to show up back richer than Dangote.



They don't care how long you've spent.


They believe once you arrive abroad u should stand in line to Pluck your own money from the imaginary Money tree.

iwaeda:


If I were you, if you escape Buhari economy like that man that entered Canada, will you come back

Revolution2022:
His opinion.Your opinion.Case closed.

Quintopia:


Stay there talking rubbish. You people take NIgeria for granted. You don't know what you are enjoying in Nigeria until you leave Nigeria.

In Nigeria you can wake up tomorrow and start a full-blown business, and become your own boss.

Within a short period period you're employing people!

I mean, this is something you just cannot do in the USA or UK. Their business environment is locked in to the elite class there, and is hugged and sewn up by those who were there before you.

hustla:


No papers

Maybe they aren't financially buoyant yet

Also, a lot of people visit home codedly, they just don't tell you

sulaak:


Another ignorant Nigerian. A society where you can set up a business and be in profit in a short time is a dysfunctional society without a foundation.

Paying bills and tax is the reason why a country has infrastructures to sustain development.

Oduduwa707:


Meaning... $240K annually, right? C'ommon... e no hard reach dat na

Oduduwa707:


Meaning... $240K annually, right? C'ommon... e no hard reach dat na

CaptainZubi:
Most of them no get money. No let anybody deceive you, obodo oyinbo no easy. The system is designed to make you work your black ass like a slave for someone, get paid with one hand then the government use another hand to collect am. Some people have lived abroad for 20 years but can't even boast of $15000 as savings. People who go there and make it big with riches they start building mansions back in nigeria are into one shady deal or the other. No let them deceive you, the money no legit. Usually wire wire, BEC, drugs, robbery and all forms of fraud.

CaptainZubi:
Most of them no get money. No let anybody deceive you, obodo oyinbo no easy. The system is designed to make you work your black ass like a slave for someone, get paid with one hand then the government use another hand to collect am. Some people have lived abroad for 20 years but can't even boast of $15000 as savings. People who go there and make it big with riches they start building mansions back in nigeria are into one shady deal or the other. No let them deceive you, the money no legit. Usually wire wire, BEC, drugs, robbery and all forms of fraud.

Quintopia:


Stay there talking rubbish. You people take NIgeria for granted. You don't know what you are enjoying in Nigeria until you leave Nigeria.

In Nigeria you can wake up tomorrow and start a full-blown business, and become your own boss.

Within a short period period you're employing people!

I mean, this is something you just cannot do in the USA or UK. Their business environment is locked in to the elite class there, and is hugged and sewn up by those who were there before you.

The market for everything there is saturated, and with the various taxes and overheads you'll pay to run your business, plus the heavy competition you'll face, you'll be lucky to be in profit after 3 years of running the company.

In NIGERIA you can start a business today, and by the following week you're in profit.

Sit there talking rubbish about Buhari and Nigeria.

That western word where I lived for decades, by the time you're there 2 months, you're missing Nigerian food, Nigerian freedom, and general Nigerian vibes that you're used to, where there's always something going down, be it a party, a business deal, a new babe.

You will even miss that your gen.

That warm breeze that you collect when you go outside to start your gen wearing your singlet and shorts. Maybe having a short conversation with your neighbour or your gateman.

Or the one that you'll come out of your house and see one small boy and send him to buy you akara from the next street.

It sounds crazy, but you will miss all those things after a few months (not to mention years) of being in the strict, monitored confines of western living.

You want akara? Nobody to send. You go there by your damn self and buy it.

All the 'constant light', 'good roads', etc that made you to japa will just seem like no biggie after a while.

You will come to realise that there is more to life than those things. And if someone offers you a ticket to Lagos, say for a week, you will dobale for the person, gba o!

Ah!

In fact Lagos or wherever you were based in Naija would seem like heaven after a while, and even more so due to the high cost of getting there (thousands of dollars).

Meanwhile, as you struggle to pay your bills in your small apartment, while answering yes sir to your oyinbo boss - whom you are more educated than, but under him because you are a black foreigner - you will be hearing news on your Whatsapp about this or that one of your old pals in Naija that has just completed his 6 bedroom mansion.

Suddenly, the whole japa thing starts to feel like a bad joke.

But by then it's too late. Those back home think you are 'enjoying abroad', and so you'll need to have a damn good reason to have surrendered all that 'enjoyment' to return home and be 'struggling' with them.

Elxandre:

You people keep saying there are opportunities in Nigeria, yet the bulk of successful people in Nigeria are always linked to one shady means or another.

Quintopia:


What a load of ignorant rubbish.

Every nation will BEG to have a business environment that guarantees swift profits for investors.

I'm actually an economist by training, so I can school you all day on this if required.

In the west, 80% of new businesses fail in the first 3 years, mostly due to cash flow issues and the exorbitant cost of running a business.

Is that what you're recommending for Nigeria? Businesses in Nigeria pay bills and taxes, and even provide their own back-up power supply, water etc. YET ARE STILL PROFITABLE IN NO TIME AT ALL.

The reason they are profitable is not because of any ''dysfunction'' in society. It's a simple issue of demand and supply, a huge buying market and the relative absence of monopolies.

Nigeria’s revenue to GDP ratio lowest in the world, says World Bank
https://www.thecable.ng/nigerias-revenue-to-gdp-ratio-lowest-in-the-world-says-world-bank

SergeantTitus:
Why do nigerians living abroad fail to come back to Nigeria even for Important things like their parents death, burial, brother's wedding etc? I also find it weird some remain there for 15, 20, 30 years without ever visiting home even if na just once.

Quintopia:


Stay there talking rubbish. You people take NIgeria for granted. You don't know what you are enjoying in Nigeria until you leave Nigeria.

In Nigeria you can wake up tomorrow and start a full-blown business, and become your own boss.

Within a short period period you're employing people!

I mean, this is something you just cannot do in the USA or UK. Their business environment is locked in to the elite class there, and is hugged and sewn up by those who were there before you.

The market for everything there is saturated, and with the various taxes and overheads you'll pay to run your business, plus the heavy competition you'll face, you'll be lucky to be in profit after 3 years of running the company.

In NIGERIA you can start a business today, and by the following week you're in profit.

Sit there talking rubbish about Buhari and Nigeria.

That western word where I lived for decades, by the time you're there 2 months, you're missing Nigerian food, Nigerian freedom, and general Nigerian vibes that you're used to, where there's always something going down, be it a party, a business deal, a new babe.

You will even miss that your gen.

That warm breeze that you collect when you go outside to start your gen wearing your singlet and shorts. Maybe having a short conversation with your neighbour or your gateman.

Or the one that you'll come out of your house and see one small boy and send him to buy you akara from the next street.

It sounds crazy, but you will miss all those things after a few months (not to mention years) of being in the strict, monitored confines of western living.

You want akara? Nobody to send. You go there by your damn self and buy it.

All the 'constant light', 'good roads', etc that made you to japa will just seem like no biggie after a while.

You will come to realise that there is more to life than those things. And if someone offers you a ticket to Lagos, say for a week, you will dobale for the person, gba o!

Ah!

In fact Lagos or wherever you were based in Naija would seem like heaven after a while, and even more so due to the high cost of getting there (thousands of dollars).

Meanwhile, as you struggle to pay your bills in your small apartment, while answering yes sir to your oyinbo boss - whom you are more educated than, but under him because you are a black foreigner - you will be hearing news on your Whatsapp about this or that one of your old pals in Naija that has just completed his 6 bedroom mansion.

Suddenly, the whole japa thing starts to feel like a bad joke.

But by then it's too late. Those back home think you are 'enjoying abroad', and so you'll need to have a damn good reason to have surrendered all that 'enjoyment' to return home and be 'struggling' with them.

Eriokanmi:
That's for those doing shady business. They'd face their comeuppance one day, leave those ones. There are many legit business you couid do and you'd be fine. I was picked up by a taxi driver at Thamesmead in 2026, a day after Donald trump won the US election. I was returning home from the UK. The taxi guy, a yorubaman like me but I didn't notice until we got to the central area of London. He just turned on his car cd player and I started hearing Barri wonder's song. I smiled and said, egbon( meaning brother) so you're yoruba but speaking phonę and looking like jamo( Jamaican). He was surprised too cos i didn't speak a word when he arrived. He knew where I was going after booking the taxi online so i just entered his car and he zoomed off.

In short, we started talking. He asked me same question you're asking when I asked him to consider coming back home to invest. He said...what business can one invest in sef, cos he's not been home for decades and he has no relations in Nigeria anymore, not even parents. I told him the business my friend was into. He had auto garage in lagos and soon to open the abuja office. He was so happy to hear that. I also told him he could come , do a kind of feasibility studies employ, stay a while and go back. He doesn't have to stay put here. He heeded my advice. He has 3 auto garage outlets today. One in lagos, one in phc and another one in abuja. See those oil and gas guys throng his garage in phc. I don't want to mention a popular politician here, a senator who is also among his customers he's a lover of cars. He had porch cars, very expensive. He can only trust his computerised auto garage for his fleet of cars. The sharp man included a baking station in those garages where cars can be painted and baked. He also added car paint lines to it. The last time we spoke, he's considering relocating here, to face it squarely cos he's doing well. He told me he'd include tyre business to it also, cos there are some expensive cars that can't use anyhow tyre. He's also considering automatic self care car wash. Imagine.

Elxandre:

On a serious note isn't auto garage a mechanic workshop?
Was the man a mechanic before you met him?

NwaliE01:

My weekly expenses is averagely $350-400 including feeding, rent and transport. Sometimes, it goes below $350 depending on my activities ie if I use my car all through the week, it gets to that but if not, it's around $270. My rent is #140 per week, food is the cheapest thing anyone can afford. With $60 - $80, you will be fine for the week. Transport to work on public TP is $5 per day bringing it to $25 per week. Then few dollars for miscellaneous. So I can save more around 3-4 days of my earning.
You get it?