Bambillo:
Coming back with B.Sc and Master degrees from an American university with your bad and unstructured English grammar!!

Who are you to criticize? I've conveyed my message, and the people on the thread understand me. Your aggression is unnecessary.

Wow this thread has blown up. But I've already decided I will get my stay here in the states and fight for it as much as I can.

I will stay in the states and I will try to re-file for permanent residence again. Hopefully I will be successful this time around.

AngelicBeing:
1000 likes, I currently live outside Nigeria as well but I do visit from time to time, you have aptly captured the jungle called Nigeria, 2 of my friends have similar profile like the Op, one lived in Norway and the other one in the US, they both called me years back about their decision to move back to Nigeria because of lack of residency issue in their respective countries, l warned them not to go back to permanently live in Nigeria but to stay put in their respective countries, to cut my narrative short, they ignored my advice and relocated back to Nigeria, as I post this, they are suffering in Nigeria, they arrived Nigeria with enough cash, chains of degrees and professional certification but all the places they applied for jobs, none worked, is either they are offered slave wage or told they will get back to them, I feel for them but I warned them before they went back to Nigeria but they ignored, at Op, I will advise you to remain in the US because we have so many foreign trained Nigerians with your kind of profiles suffering due to lack of jobs, the job market is saturated, most companies prefer to employ ND or school certificate holders and pay them 30,000naira or less than a sound foreign trained Nigeria, although there is exemption to every rule.. I will not advice you to go back to that useless dead rotten jungle called Nigeria, l travel to Nigeria atleast once or twice yearly, no difference, it is the same bulshit all over the country, few people who are making it are either connected to the government or politicians, Nigeria is a dead country, l am only a visitor to the jungle because of my family members, I can never ever live in that useless jungle called Nigeria, the decision and choice is yours

I wanted to avoid falling into illegal status here in the states. But the description you've given is making me reconsider. I'm pained and at a loss of what to do, but it looks like staying here is the right thing to do for now.

DisGuy:
$2000 should be enough for a solo 1-2 months holiday to see and feel the pulse of the country business and employment

Coming back would be a one way trip. I don’t yet have permanent resident status.

The responses to this thread have been very negative. No I don’t have a green card. I’m working on one but the process has gotten very complicated that I’m just contemplating cutting my losses. The attitude on this thread is different from my high school friends who schooled here then went back. Most of them are positive, but some of them are more privileged than I do, so maybe they are not seeing the reality of the country.

Beautyaddy:


Lol!! Don't yet get discouraged from some of the negative responses you've gotten so far here.

Now the question that should have been asked is what did you intend to achieve when you get back to Nigeria...or maybe plans for the country?.

I plan on coming back with about 30000 USD and getting myself land/property to my name, complete NYSC, see what the job market is like as well as concurrently starting a one or two provisions stores. Slowly expand on that, with the end goal to become a distributor at the national level.

thesicilian:


Don't you have internet access where you are in the US?
Or you got your degrees from a US prison?

Of course I do, but I'm still asking, I want to get as much information as possible. I'm not trying to offend anyone, I just looking for know what people are feeling.

Greetings my fellow Nigerians. I'm facing the prospect of coming back to Nigeria after 8 years in the USA. I finished my post-graduate degree and I'm coming back with a Bsc, MBA and 2 years of work experience in the telecoms industry. I want to know from my people back home, how is the general national feeling, how they enjoy their lifestyle/quality of life and the hard-truths of what I'll be facing coming back as I've been so far removed from the national consciousness because I've been in the USA for almost a decade. I feel passion about my country and people but I need to know what too expect. So my people are you happy with life back home?