Chetas81:
mentally sick people living in Nigeria, that is why, you guys prefer to be slave somewhere else around the globe 🌎 the Nigerian citizen like you are insult to the country called Nigeria

opicgif:
this is in response to this post that made front page today: https://www.nairaland.com/7834477/japa-fever-among-nigerian-youths


story 1:
i had an uncle who always complained about his job.
he worked in an oil company.
he told me to pursue my dreams (i used to be a music producer in the university) and how life is not all about making money
he complained he didn't have time for his family and how we wishes he could spend time with his children
he complained about how he's underpaid compared to expatriates
he complained so much, we (the family) actually had pity on him
long story short, we had an insider in the company (from our church) who told us,
my uncle was the person blocking my elder brother from getting a job in same company
he (the insider) was shocked we were related to him (my uncle)
he called our uncle in my fathers presence, who told him: do you want that small boy to overtake me in the family
my uncle didn't know the phone was on speaker!!!
this was 2008.


its easy for a beautiful girl with so many rich suitors to tell her 'not so fine' friends with only one suitor life is not about marriage
its easy for a rich person to tell a broke person life is not about money
its easy for someone in canada/US/europe to tell you in Nigeria the grass isn't greener abroad

someone who doesn't buy fuel for gen,
someone who doesn't sleep with multiple lecturers for marks in the university
someone who isn't slapped, abused and insulted in the hospital (like it happens in teaching hospitals in Nigeria)
SHOULD NOT TELL NIGERIANS ANYTHING ABOUT RELOCATING ABROAD

casualobserver:


Advising people to go is just as bad as advising people not to go. Everybody’s circumstance is different. Let people make up their own minds. I lived abroad for 2 decades, I had a fantastic job, I still have a house there, I am a citizen so I can go back if I want but I came back voluntarily and I will never go back. Nigeria is hard but for me there is peace, sense of belonging, I have in Nigeria I never had in the UK. Eventually you will realize these things matter.

Fahvvy:


Please go back and read what I wrote again and then look at your response ...

I'll give you an excerpts, "If you have what it takes AND YOU WANT TO..." ...

Fahvvy:
I thought I was the only one put off by that thread ...

If obodo oyibo was as bad as they painted it, why haven't they returned back to their country? ...

Fact is, every country out there has its downs, however, the downs of some countries can rival the ups of other countries ...

Look at your nation for instance...
Some military men have now become instruments of bullies for "big men" ...

Some police officers now require that you wet their palm heavily, before they can do the jobs that they've already been paid for ...

Being "bad" is hailed as smart and being "good" is frowned upon and seen as f.oolish ...

Having light for 3 hours per day in some areas is seen as something worth celebrating ...

There's almost no difference between some security personnel's and thugs on the streets, cause you could be shot for exercising your right ...

So it's seems insensitive to me that someone who doesn't have to go through all these would give such advice seeing that the circumstance of that country is no difference from that of the zoo ...

My advice to anyone reading this is simple...
If you have what it takes to leave this country and you want to do so, PLEASE LEAVE ASAP!

But do your research well before leaving...

onuman:
Europeans who escaped Europe to other countries during the World Wars made money and returned to Europe to build industries after the war.
But in Nigeria, Islamic extremists and the inept leaders that emerge from the fraudulent political structure of Nigeria would not allow for a peaceful and conducive environment for Nigeria to enable Nigerians who fled abroad to return to invest in Nigeria. The Nigerians left in Nigeria have been impoverished to the bone marrow by inept leadership and Islamic extremists.

Fahvvy:
I thought I was the only one put off by that thread ...

If obodo oyibo was as bad as they painted it, why haven't they returned back to their country? ...

Fact is, every country out there has its downs, however, the downs of some countries can rival the ups of other countries ...

Look at your nation for instance...
Some military men have now become instruments of bullies for "big men" ...

Some police officers now require that you wet their palm heavily, before they can do the jobs that they've already been paid for ...

Being "bad" is hailed as smart and being "good" is frowned upon and seen as f.oolish ...

Having light for 3 hours per day in some areas is seen as something worth celebrating ...

There's almost no difference between some security personnel's and thugs on the streets, cause you could be shot for exercising your right ...

So it's seems insensitive to me that someone who doesn't have to go through all these would give such advice seeing that the circumstance of that country is no difference from that of the zoo ...

My advice to anyone reading this is simple...
If you have what it takes to leave this country and you want to do so, PLEASE LEAVE ASAP!

But do your research well before leaving...

sulaak:


The number of new Nigerian immigrants complaining about hardship and difficulties has increased exponentially, One of the reasons is that Western economies are encountering severe economic hardship and new immigrants are finding it difficult to sustain affordable housing and income when working in professions such as care workers, nurses and junior doctors.

TongueTwista:


You who's not mentally challenged somehow managed to sit in your stuffy bedroom to determine other people's contribution to daily societal affairs abi?

You first need a proper education to polish your public communication skills before being in any mental space to determine what people should do with their freewill.

faoogoke:

I remember when I advised my younger brother from traveling out around 2005.

He wouldn't listen. This is someone who just got a good job after years of joblessness and just married too. He went and was deported.

When I reminded him of my counsel, he said I didn't say it loud enough.

As at today he has travelled on holiday twice outside Nigeria with his family. He will never relocate.

At the end of the day the choice is yours and you live with it and its consequences.

Hamachi:
My Auntie was NEVER going to leave Nigeria for anything, she later left for Canada after small pressure. The dad died and she fainted 5 times during the father's burial as a result of stress and heat. Immediately the father was buried she didn't spend 72hrs in a Nigeria. All the property the dad left for her she told them to sell as she's not interested in coming back.

Chetas81:
you guys almost comit suicide when trump called Nigeria shithole, you guys turn Nigeria to shithole, because of you the citizen with no modernization idea,chocroche citizen like you love to live in a country like heaven, but you failed to turn your country to heaven

Fahvvy:
Being "bad" is hailed as smart and being "good" is frowned upon and seen as f.oolish

zumbigbo:
You vote for nonsense and want to leave. Anyone who voted for Buhari and Tinubu should have their passport shredded.

Cineinfo:


Develop? As a developer they are. Right?
You can help develop...

franchasofficia:
How can any sensible Nigerian not want his or her kids trained abroad or have an abroad backup plan after watching Bola Tinubu a known criminal, a known Lagos state treasury looter that captured Lagos state politically using ill gotten wealth + high level rituals/occultism and then used the massive Lagos state treasury he has stolen for decades to sponsor the downfall of Goodluck Jonathan and made Buhari President and thereafter used same Lagos treasury he looted to buy every buyable person in Nigeria to become President against the wishes of majority of reasonable Nigerians and every Nigerian is shut down because Bola Tinubu has stolen so much of Lagos wealth for decades that have made him a demigod in Yoruba politics and gradually in Nigerian politics of some regions.




Yet some Nigerians think Nigeria have any hope of becoming a great country? A country where competence and merit doesn't count but rather criminality, fraud, thuggery, occultism, spiritism, juju worship and all manner of barbarism reign supreme.



God forbid!

TongueTwista:


I'm wasting my data on an illiterate who should be attending adult school classes.

Mtscheew!

kasim155:



Don't mind them, they will be complaining about abroad and be discouraging ppl over not to come while they dem self remain there and refuse to come bk.

opicgif:
if you are abroad
do your scholarship
pursue your PR
do what took you there
and STOP advising people about anything. just keep shut.

the hundreds of thousands of people crossing the sahara, crossing the seas, illegally (because they dont know any better) aren't stupid!

you are African in Europe/Americas, it means you relocated or someone in your lineage left Africa. SOMEONE LEFT!!!

Bankowner:
Why would anyone tell you not to japa and you will accept it? The decision is entirely yours to make and take not minding what you're told.

Being abroad is not eldorado but if you believe you can make a way for yourself, why let anyone stop you? Over here, you have to work for your pay. There's nothing like you miss work for a day or two but still get your full salary as it is in Nigeria. You don't work your hours, you don't get paid. Your landlord will not come to knock at your door for rent, you don't pay by the first day of the month, you stand the risk of being booted out. No long thing!

If you have the opportunity to japa, please take it but prepare yourself for the initial rough period you will pass through. Except of course you come with plenty cash from naija.

Peace.

doggedfighter:
If only abroad people will just stay their abroad and leave us to decide what's good for us.


All these unsolicited advices make it look like Nigerians are living in a cave and don't know what's obtainable out there.


Stop advising us from abroad.


Enough !!