wiseone28:
And here in Nigeria it is a waste or some goat eat it.



How was the taste? 🤣🤣

I felt like a goat eating it 😁

miketayo:


Why are we always looking for jobs in another Man's country

Gerrard59:
The issue with relocating to start a business anywhere in the world is that:

- you are going to spend more than what you have on setting up a business
- you have to search for business opportunities, but how would you do it when you are not in the country, and all you have is about 10K dollars? You no go chop? Na under bridge you wan stay?
- Now, you are moving to a country where the language spoken is not English. How do you intend to navigate through the documentation of your business? Hire translators? Good idea. But you have only 5M naira. Remember, feeding, transport and rent money follow dey inside

Someone mentioned some Nigerians being there, but check it very well; when they entered, they had people to guide them. They partnered with people who have been on the ground for a long time before starting their own thing. They did not just enter Angola, start a business and boom! People who are in that category either have PLENTY money or investors who are willing to burn cash in a bid to establish a new business or a thriving company aka MNC looking for a new market to expand into. So, you might have found an Indian there, but he is opening the branch of his company he probably started in Cairo. He is willing to burn cash through because the Egyptian market is well established to provide funding.

This cannot be achieved with just 5M naira. The best alternative would be to set up a business in Nigeria and expand it into Angola if you insist OR look for partners in Angola and work together while learning the language and ropes or look for a job in Angola that provides you with visa proceedings and a salary to live on.

Our unemployment rate is higher than Namibia. They might not be extremely rich like the 5% of Nigeria but majority aren't living in poverty like we are in Nigeria.
Tell me how Nigeria is better?

Please read up about Namibia. It seems you have not done your research about it. I have and even asked them questions on forums. Theirs is even worse as the people with money are whites and increasingly Chinese. The average Namibian who is not connected has fewer economic opportunities than a Nigerian.

Countries with single language or ethnicity are usually better off in terms of development than those with multiple languages and ethnicities 😔

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

Gerrard59:






Please read up about Namibia. It seems you have not done your research about it. I have and even asked them questions on forums. Theirs is even worse as the people with money are whites and increasingly Chinese. The average Namibian who is not connected has fewer economic opportunities than a Nigerian.

I have been there and you need to check stats.
Same thing can be said about south African and Botswana.

Just tell me why you think Nigeria the poverty capital of the world is better than a working Namibia country?
I have been to Namibia have you? Why not just use Google and compare both counties.

tensazangetsu20:

Nigeria better pass Namibia. Job no dey that country. I no consider those north African countries as African nations na. I have been to Morocco and everything about it felt and looked European down to the most basic Infrastructure. When I talk Africa, na black man countries for Africa I dey talk.

Yeah true ..all these north African countries especially Morocco has European root in history, it was onced known as "the Spanish Sahara"

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

You will never know how messed up that stinking gutter that call itself Giant is until you travel out. Very useless country cursed with demons as leaders. Sometimes I wonder on what criteria do they pride themselves as giant; bastards

balingaonline:

Nothing bad in traveling, there's difference between traveling and relocating, why wouldn't you want to feeding your eye with sighting of the beautiful thing (nature and man made) in the other side when you are not in Northern Korea.

You must be a lady.

aboyaji:


Gambia is a very good place to be. If you have the cash.

Going to ivory Coast should take up to 80k. But you must factor hotel bills and normal itinerary too

N80k by road?

I think travelling to other countries makes you more exposed in terms of their culture and traditions.

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

THIS IS AN EVIDENCE THAT NIGERIA IS CURSED AND OUR LEADERS ARE THE TOOLS OF THE CURSE AND CAUSE IS FROM THE BLOOD OF THE INNOCENT SHED IN NIGERIA OVER THE YEARS AND PRESENTLY TOO .

Evolutionlove:


Tenza, E be like you don Smoke Weed this Night😂

Algeria?
Tunisia?
Morroco?
Egypt?
Seychelles?
Namibia?

Even benin republic

Benwallt:


You must be a lady.

Lady? No. Na man I be.

No need for this info. Agbadorians love suffering that's why they voted and defend APC who put them in suffering and another sick traveling president to govern them. Nigerians and suffering is like butter and bread. 😂 😂

Gerrard59:


That is not true anywhere in the world. Being colonised by the French is synonymous with poverty. Check Asia, Africa and South America - Anglophone countries prosper. The English language is the greatest gift offered by the British to all her colonies.

I am talking about standard of living, you are talking about English language. Will language put food on your table?

Gerrard59:


C'mon! Check the top economies in sub-Saharan Africa, ALL are Anglophone countries. Francophone countries are terribly poor. It is the reason many people outside Africa don't learn French (except those aiming at Canada Express Entry). The language is economically useless as the majority of its speakers are in Africa. Due to Nigeria's population, she has plenty poor people. But when you factor in Burundi, Niger Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, DRC, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Chad, Mauritania etc. Damn! Terribly poor!

As for UK visa, even a donkey in Nigeria can be issued the visa, Absolutely anyone in Nigeria can be issued a UK visa.

Nigeria population is not an excuse for her poverty. Is Nigeria bigger than US?

Make your objective comments on the experience of the Nigeria in Ivory Coast.

If this is what you describe as poverty, I think I like that poverty.

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

What is Ivory coast bottom line economy level compared to Nigeria? How many population are they taking care of compare to Nigeria? That is how to check country that is doing better not all you wrote here alone.

Orfankwagh:
Every country good,na only NIGERIA my country no good. Yet some people with all the OP write up here,them still they support that cartel man make e come add fuel ontop the small damages wey we dey fight against.

Another misyarn so na obi wey turned anambra into a slum during his 8 years iron fist rule as governor go do am baa and could not do it or showcase it in small state like Anambra baa? U beta keep quiet.

We are talking about Ivory Coast now ok if you have nothing good to say pls keep quiet.

Akano5:



Damn, ahh, I'm speechless bro

Use sir, not bro

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

Nice review

Umegoejiofor:
please I want to relocate to Abidjan to sell London used (fairly used) laptops,how lucrative is the business that side?

I need a laptop o

Everything you said were 100% correct, I stayed there for 2years.

aboyaji:
I'll go first...

1. Cooking gas: Cooking gas is very cheap in ivory Coast. It costs an average of #330/kg of gas. So refilling a 12.5 kg cylinder should cost you #4125 at most.

2. Kerosene: kerosene costs relatively about #650/ litre in the fuel station, where the black market sells for #800/ litre.

Note : This country's oil production is very poor o. They're not even anywhere close to Naija's production.

3. Organisation: Ivory coast is very well organized that you can barely run into unorganized environment. Many areas are safely guarded by their local police officers stationed almost everywhere. You can as well make friends with the officers easily without any form of threat from them. They're very welcoming.

4. Very low violent place: People can move around as late as 10pm till dawn without the fear of harassment or violence. In fact, children play in the tarred road as late as 10pm. They have already come to terms about how safe they are in the country. People can stay up late wherever they went to without rushing back home due to nightfall. Night movements was my best !

5. Good Road network: I spent close to 7 months in ivory Coast and could barely see a road untarred. Almost every road I used was smoothly done and stretched to various cities and States. The only place my leg touched Sandy soil was in my compound because the landlord was still constructing more buildings in the site. So our compound was sandy at the moment.
Tarred road stretched into all compounds in ivory Coast. It's not the responsibility of the government to do your compound, it's yours. I was marvelled by such development though I spent most of my time in the rural area.

6. Security: Police is your friend is the Moto in ivory Coast. Really nice people. I guess I've said it somewhere before now.

6a. Theft is ALMOST uncertainty. The prepaid meter of every individual house is stationed outside the main building without burglary or iron shield. Anybody can touch it. It wasn't even stationed very high from the ground level. It went only as far as 3-4 feets high. A child of 10 can touch it too.

Our apartment is in a 2 storey building comprising of almost 33 units of one bedroom apartments. The building was built like a shopping complex. All of the prepaid meters used in this apartments are stationed outside where everyone can see and feel it. But no one steals it, likewise every other houses there.

6b. Once there was a particular theft in my ivorian friend's shop that I know of. There were 5 boys who was involved in burgling his computer and phone shop one night. But before 5am, the boys were all caught with the complete stolen items retrieved. Funny enough, my friend didn't know. He was woken up by the police to come to his shop and see the guys. And he didn't have to SETTLE THE POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS .

7. There is constant electricity in that country. CONSTANT.
I only observed a few nightouts and those periods were understandable. They all know when the lights would go off in the week or month and have come to terms with it. Light doesn't go off intermittently as obtained in Nigeria. And throughout my stay there, I didn't pay for light bill or water. My caretaker didn't mention it to me too. I was surprised. Steady light

8. Economy: Their economy is very good. It's almost equaling to the Naira at the time I left. So, if you hear 500 CFA there, it's almost equivalent to 500 Naira. So don't do too much calculation.

8a. Minimum wage is very much respected and applied. A POS attendant over their is living a good standard life. A bar attendant earns about 20,000 CFA weekly... WEEKLY o. I mean a local bar attendant. How much more a corporate hotel or bar attendant or waiter.

8b. The money you earn can fetch you a standard living. Their money is easily made and spent too.

9. FOOD : Our area of specialty.

Food is over cheap compared to what's obtained in Naija. You can see someone who earns little but could afford chicken or any frozen food. Food is not part of their problems for now. Banana can go as low as 50 CFA or 50 Naira and it is not the small quantity we're talking about.

A bunch of Bananas that you can get from a roadside vendor in Naija for 800 could be gotten for 150 CFA. So you see it. Once I bought 2 Bunches of banana for 50 each, I couldn't finish them for 3 days.

9a. So sorry, vegetables can be scarcely found there my dear. I made most of my soup without vegetables. That part I didn't enjoy

That's for now. Anybody can add.

tensazangetsu20:
LoL ivory coast. The same one I know. Continue to cap. As horrible as Nigeria is, the only African country better than Nigeria is south Africa.

but his writeup didn't say ivory coast is better than nigeria but he said those amenities are there

IN NIGERIA WE TOO SABI. WE DESTROYED THE COUNTRY WITH OUR HANDS THEN TURN AROUND TO LOOK FOR WHO TO BLAME. VERY RELIGIOUS YET MOST UNGODLY SOULS ON EARTH. NIGERIANS ARE HATEFUL PEOPLE. VERY TRIBALISTIC

tensazangetsu20:


Really nice of you to assume that I haven't visited any of these African shithole countries before .

But of course that assertion is correct. Visiting countries while onboard a ship doesn't allow you experience it. It's like me saying I have visited France and Ethiopia because I transit through them frequently in my trips and spent hours there per trip. But do I know or experienced the country, definitely no.
The Op opened a thread for people to give their experience about things in countries they visited but lacking in Nigeria and he opened the floor giving examples from his experience. Jumping to say he's Capping/ lies is silly especially without giving your own on the ground experience then we can see how yours differs. Reeling out LinkedIn statistics which is skewed is never a substitute for in-person experience. Like you think all the Jobs people pick in the UK appear on the Job bank how much more LinkedIn.

In response to Op, I would say from Bénin Republic to South Africa, England (even rural parts not just London) to New York same things I experienced that lack in Nigeria are:
-Absence of Police harrasment (though in New York if you are a young person of colour driving an expensive car like mercedes, you can expect to be stopped by a Police patrol to see if you deal in drugs. But not like been slapped for not opening your phone as in dear own Nigeria)
- Constant Electricity, No Generator noise
- Traffic orderliness, no one-way driving by Police, Army and Touts who have settled police
- Ease of doing Business. You can do your street trading without harrasment just pay whatever operations permit to City council and you are good to go. There's all sorts of Street trading in Brooklyn, USA to London. But you can't try same in Nigeria without stories of occasional loss of your goods to agents of government.
-Clean environment. If Cotonou can do it, why not Port-Harcourt. Need not mention the stench of urine all-over Lagos. You need to pay N200 to use the urinary at the Oshodi BRT terminal. So now you know why you can't breathe while you walk through Oshodi.
-Security. Of course you can sleep with your two eyes closed unlike in Nigeria. That's not to say there are no pockets of crime in Jo'burg or London but crazy Kidnapping and Herdsmen, gush and you still think you have a country.
-Nightlife culture. Great for businesses, still thrives in these countries but try at your imminent risk in Nigeria. Even in Lagos besides around Ikoyi, I am not sure I would be outside beyond 11pm. But upto 2006 in Port-Harcourt 12 midnight is the earliest I would leave the bar. Nice memories from D-line to Evo. Ànd same for Abuja (Otako, Lugbe). Go try am now!

Antell95:
I need a laptop o

your location and the type of laptop you need??

Greatness09:
Same thing someone visiting Nigeria and stayed only in Lekki will say Nigeria is a very beautiful and organized place…..LMAO 😂😂😂

Take keke go Ikorodu first

😂😂😂😂

Holywizard:
I felt like a goat eating it 😁

in Liberia it's their best vegetable,I remember always taunting them that back in Nigeria only goats eat such.i did eat it ,and it was good with their dry rice .

Wonderful.
I was in Benin republic few months back. I can say they are very organized. I love the place. Other Africa countries are advancing, Most countries like Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and even Rwanda are taking the opportunity to build tourism in a way to attract investors and create revenue. Buhari own na to send our resources to Miger republic to develop other countries. Buhari has turned Giant of Africa when don turn to dwarf.

tensazangetsu20:
LoL ivory coast. The same one I know. Continue to cap. As horrible as Nigeria is, the only African country better than Nigeria is south Africa.

I doubt OP's tales based on the number of Ivorians that I met in Accra.

I seriously doubt things are cheaper in Abidjan than Lagos based on what I've heard.

But I can believe the security situation to be better.

The other thing OP did not mention is telecommunications. I'm assuming it's worse, again based on my experiences in other parts of west Africa.

Umegoejiofor:
your location and the type of laptop you need??

Uyo. Any good laptop to learn programming below 100k. Atleast 4gb ram. 2.50ghz dual processor minimum.

Op didn't talk about language barrier

DearGorgeous:
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Thanks for the info.

Yes, I will like to visit the Gambia. And now that Ivory Coast is in the offing, I will try visiting there too.

Prosperity4All:


But of course that assertion is correct. Visiting countries while onboard a ship doesn't allow you experience it. It's like me saying I have visited France and Ethiopia because I transit through them frequently in my trips and spent hours there per trip. But do I know or experienced the country, definitely no.
The Op opened a thread for people to give their experience about things in countries they visited but lacking in Nigeria and he opened the floor giving examples from his experience. Jumping to say he's Capping/ lies is silly especially without giving your own on the ground experience then we can see how yours differs. Reeling out LinkedIn statistics which is skewed is never a substitute for in-person experience. Like you think all the Jobs people pick in the UK appear on the Job bank how much more LinkedIn.

In response to Op, I would say from Bénin Republic to South Africa, England (even rural parts not just London) to New York same things I experienced that lack in Nigeria are:
-Absence of Police harrasment (though in New York if you are a young person of colour driving an expensive car like mercedes, you can expect to be stopped by a Police patrol to see if you deal in drugs. But not like been slapped for not opening your phone as in dear own Nigeria)
- Constant Electricity, No Generator noise
- Traffic orderliness, no one-way driving by Police, Army and Touts who have settled police
- Ease of doing Business. You can do your street trading without harrasment just pay whatever operations permit to City council and you are good to go. There's all sorts of Street trading in Brooklyn, USA to London. But you can't try same in Nigeria without stories of occasional loss of your goods to agents of government.
-Clean environment. If Cotonou can do it, why not Port-Harcourt. Need not mention the stench of urine all-over Lagos. You need to pay N200 to use the urinary at the Oshodi BRT terminal. So now you know why you can't breathe while you walk through Oshodi.
-Security. Of course you can sleep with your two eyes closed unlike in Nigeria. That's not to say there are no pockets of crime in Jo'burg or London but crazy Kidnapping and Herdsmen, gush and you still think you have a country.
-Nightlife culture. Great for businesses, still thrives in these countries but try at your imminent risk in Nigeria. Even in Lagos besides around Ikoyi, I am not sure I would be outside beyond 11pm. But upto 2006 in Port-Harcourt 12 midnight is the earliest I would leave the bar. Nice memories from D-line to Evo. Ànd same for Abuja (Otako, Lugbe). Go try am now!

You can't just trade anywhere in London or New York. That's a lie. The problem in Nigeria is that anyone thinks that they can set up and start trading anything they want, anywhere that they want. In the aforementioned cities you need a license to be a street trader, a license to trade in the market and the areas are clearly delineated. In Nigeria someone post up outside of your home to be selling market.

Cotonou is much smaller than Lagos and thus easier to manage but you're right, it's possibly but it's a question of priorities. Nigerians put money over everything, including health and physical welfare which is why the country is the way that it is. New York is similar which is why it is so much filthier than London or even other American cities.

People said that OP is lying because of conversations some of us have had with Ivorians who are plenty in Accra. They don't paint the same rosy picture as someone who just got there.