mikeb52:

This is my story, this is my cry i will like to use this metium to send this message acrose to any young naija younth thinking traveling abraod is a garanee for a better future.

I left naija 8 years ago home to hustle for at least 2 to 3 year abraod before coming back home with mush money to suport my family but to my gratest suprise i have spent good 8 years of my life abroad not even europ but in an african country.

I left naija by all means in fact i took my uncles money without his notice to facilitate my trip hoping that when i get to my destination europ i will work and pay him back the money i took without his notice,

After i left my uncle got to know about the missing amount wish was 700 thousand naira that i took from where he kept it,he was really mad infact he said i will regret my actions but for me i turt by 2 to 3 years time i will be able to pay him back even if he want it dulble. Then as a young man of just 20 years i was eager to travel but dont really know it look like out there.

Before i left naija i got a contact to travel to libaria where i was told by a friend that in libaria to get an america visa or any europian visa is eassy as abc so i took that root but to my gratest suprise when i got to libaria i only fiund out that most of the embassies in libaria was close then because of the just ended war then in 2003 and will not open until the country is stable.

I bacame confuse that decided to move to another african coutry try my lucky and doring this process i miss use the money i have with me.Before i culd realise i got my self stranted in gambia i made all possible atempt to travel to europ by road or even by sea but all my efort was in vain and i decided to what other gys do outside naija wish is eather drug trafiking or yahoo yahoo but sucsess was far from achiving from my part.

And till today, am still out here wasting unable to realise my dream wile i was still away i lost my parients they where never in suport of my leaving naija with my uncles money wish they try all means to pay back but where un able to pay back.

Today my life is foll of regrets and i dont know what else to do and i cant come back home untill am able to rise the money i took from my uncle.

But i have vow not to come back untill i suceed am now working in a local bakry just to put food on my table.

Your advice can make a grate change in my life

ogaju007:

LOL now i know why you didnt get a job in canada its becaues you dont understand the system talkless of making use of it. If you die, there are various insurances to pass on to your family actually. There is home insurance incase something happens to the house, theres life insurance that pays of your mortgage once you die, theres content insurance if u get buggled perharps buy chance, lots lots lots . Problem is starting from the scratch for most people. You said your scots man manager is on 1400 Dolls a day. for me to come work in Nigeria as an expatriate for any company i will not settle for anything less than 200 Dollars a day. People make it in Naija but if you understand the naija system you will know its not progressively constant.

PStylish:

@All
Travelling abroad does not guarantee a better future.FACT.
I will like to place Nigerians living abroad in 4 categories and their percentages:
1. Those doing very well and legally: 10%
2. Those doing very well but illegally: 15%
3. Those barely managing to get by (mortgaged existence): 25%
4. Those who are in distress (sleeping on the streets) and cannot even afford a travel ticket to return home: 50%
From the above the odds are very high.
Don't ask me how I came up with those percentages!!! A top official of the Nigerian High Commission in the UK warned Nigerians against coming to the UK without a good job already beforehand.It was in the dailies.
Also, a documentary on African immigrants abroad and their shattered dreams of a better future was aired recently on Al-Jazeera.
So what else do you need?

PStylish:

@All
Travelling abroad does not guarantee a better future.FACT.
I will like to place Nigerians living abroad in 4 categories and their percentages:
1. Those doing very well and legally: 10%
2. Those doing very well but illegally: 15%
3. Those barely managing to get by (mortgaged existence): 25%
4. Those who are in distress (sleeping on the streets) and cannot even afford a travel ticket to return home: 50%
From the above the odds are very high.
Don't ask me how I came up with those percentages!!! A top official of the Nigerian High Commission in the UK warned Nigerians against coming to the UK without a good job already beforehand.It was in the dailies.
Also, a documentary on African immigrants abroad and their shattered dreams of a better future was aired recently on Al-Jazeera.
So what else do you need?

yodiyokun:

1. Its called Social Insurance Number in Canada -- you sure say you lived in Canada at all sha?

ogaju007:

LOL now i know why you didnt get a job in canada its becaues you dont understand the system talkless of making use of it.

coogar:

okija knoweth not how it worketh in the western world.

dayokanu:

Is it the 75% that are barely managing or sleeping on the streets that still send $5Billions home yearly? Remove this $5bn from the Nigerian economy and lets see what is left. See page 14

How much is the Nigerian budget sef?

http://www.euromed-migration.eu/e1152/e3411/e3427/e4457/e4499/OrozcoMillisNigeria.pdf

fili24:

@yodiyokun
Hmmm Nigeria suddenly become a Goldmine for Okija juju
Some of his post are wrong.
Also to be more realistic, everyone has a bad side about Nigeria,even the so called rich

AjanleKoko:

Weird, huh?
I did feel his posts were sorta naive. Sort of like 'My pay is 600k, I live on 100k and save 500k', and the one about solid stone houses

Nairaland no go kill pesin

Okija_juju:

And Yes sir!! I still do not understand how you would value a house built with wood over a house built with bricks?! Abi arent most of the houses abroad built with wood?! From you council houses in the U.K to the Condos in Canada. Or how someone would say property value in Nigeria depreciates with time and all that other stuff Coogar said. That was how I decided to attack that point so how does that make me naive. If them leave una, you would paint Nigeria to look like the set of the movie "the gods must be crazy".

mikeb52:

I have made all effort to plead with him but all he want his just his money and i don't have it.

He his not that kind of uncle that will 4give after i left he arested my father his own brother and my father spent 7 weeks in jail he was realise because he promise to pay the amount but for 4 latter he died my uncle as a very reach man have a happer hand in our family and he said my father will not be berried until i bring back his money.

My father was not berried on the day he was suppose to be berried until two days wile his cops was already brought home until the igwe of our town intervened.

The same thing happen when my mother died in 2007 he has been telling people i will never succeed in fact that he his responsible for my misfortunes i have sent lots of people to help me appeal to him on my behalf but he said all he want his the money so i decided not to come back until am able to rise the money

Am only regretting my actions

atasteve:
A chicken in Nigeria can't become an eagle abroad.
Take time to develop yourself and you will see that what doesn't come from above (God) CANNOT come from abroad!
Wealth flows in the direction of those that solve other people's problems.

coogar:


okija knoweth not how it worketh in the western world.