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Very good questions. I guess it depends on who people move with. While there are Nigerians doing low-level jobs and getting by well. There are also tons of us that have worked in corporate America (IT for me) for donkey years! Right after college. There is hardly any of major company here in the USA tat does not have Nigerians there. I run into Nigerians daily when I was working in downtown Chicago. Pretty much majority of my own circle are all professionals, all working in Corporate America. So, I guess it depends on what people came to do here in the first case. If you've come here to go to college, you do your part, play your cards well, you will certainly be living the American dream. The opportunities are here, and one just has to go and grab it! It will not be handed to you.

TheKingIsHere:
How come all the years abroad you never knew any Nigerian that was a doctor, nurse, IT specialist, engineer, or teaching?

How come you only knew the ones working as cleaners, drivers or drug sellers?

Your story sounds silly to me

I concur. Vegas is extremely hot. I was there last September, and it was quite hot. It's actually quite uncomfortable in the afternoon. The good thing is there is a/c everywhere. And one is rarely outside. Except may be when hoping between casinos/hotels. And we complain here in Chicago when we get small heat.

lionlee216:
Lol. Nigeria is not hot, well South west Nigeria that I'm used to.

Las Vegas is hot. When the wind blows, it blows heat. You need extra light clothes in the the sin city

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It's one thing for the airports to open for international flights. However, it's another for the airlines to start commercial flights to Nigeria. Considering all the new protocols that will have to be followed once flights resume, it will be a long time before normalcy returns.

I downloaded it yesterday. This is a badly written app! Pretty much spitting out the wrong information, if it works at all. So do NOT waste your time, See posts in the other main thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/6056315/how-check-digital-id-number

My advice is that folks not use this app. Your information can be easily compromised it seems. As a software developer, I can tell you that this mixing of information, and showing someone else's information should not be happening. Just a BADLY written app it looks like!

I don't think anyone is even sure. First I heard it's October, then I heard that has not been confirmed yet. I had booked to travel last April. Had to get a refund from Delta. For now, I am planning for around Mid November. However, I will not purchase my ticket until I am sure flights have resumed.

September is just 5 weeks away. Not sure flights would have resumed by then.

AfonjaBoston:
I have a trip to naija in Sept when will the airports be opened?

No point recycling these same fools. The entire political system needs an overhaul. It is pretty much a laughing stock at this point!

Have to agree. This is primarily because of the amount of money they make from the tons of Visa applications they get. International Flights will likely not even resume till much later.

Adeniyi Jones WAS a high brow area. I definitely would not call it that now. For those of us that grew up in the eighties in this area and Allen Avenue...these areas are a shadow of what they used to be. It's all commercialized now. Parents had to seek a more quiet area donkey years ago. The plus though is that, properties there do generate good rental income.

Very unlikely. May be half of that.

bluefilm:
Nah.

He's getting nothing less than 20 years jail sentence.

I suspect it's your device. Try the sim in another phone.

uniqueuser:
I don't know whether anybody have experienced this but it has happened twice now.My MTN sim i have been using for almost 1 year just stop working like that; it will be showing "Insert Sim". I bought another MTN;after like six month last week it stopped working just like the first one. I have tried the sim on four different phones and it's still showing me insert sim i complained to MTN and they said the sim is damaged i should go for Welcome Back and this sim is still not even up to a year. I know it may sound weird but have anyone experienced this?

Man! This guy is all over the major networks. It's so unfortunate that these morons continue to give hard working Nigerians a bad name.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/us/nigerian-man-charged-money-laundering-conspiracy/index.html

It's due to the location of that property. That's a prime and very expensive area.

Sakamaje:
How can this be worth over a million dollars?? That's way overpriced.

For the most part I've had pretty good speeds with mtn. Stream movies and videos without issues. I was consistently getting about 100 Mbps during a visit. As I showed in this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/5358364/airtel-4g-lte-vs-mtn/1

Internet speed is usually showed in Mbps. So not sure what some are arguing about Mbps vs MBps. MBps shows how fast a file is being downloaded.

Is 4G/LTE enabled under network settings? If so, it may be your sim card is not provisioned for LTE, or your location.

synticate:
Guys oh,need help please. I can't seem to use 4g lte on my RN7 it only displays h+

5 Billion US dollars is a lot of money. I can't imagine that figure is correct.

2 years? Sim may have been recycled/reassigned.

Yemilad4real:
Hello, I need someone who can help in retrieve mtn sim by proxy. Going to 2 years that the sim has been lost in transit, efforts made to retrieved the sim from MTN walk-in center was aborted. I don't mind the çost in as much the Sim would be retrieved. You can reached or WhatsApp on : 08143271639. Thanks

Yes, this is a serious issue in Nigeria, and it's holding the country back. As someone who is in IT and primarily works remotely, I have tried it a couple of times when I visit Naija, and it was not the best experience. I am usually there for 2 weeks so I just buy so much data on my MTN/GLO lines, and using 4G/LTE btw. I have to join meetings in the US via webex on some days and it's usually a pain. I try not to do work related stuff that's data intensive due to the lag associated to mobile connection. Majority of the people still access the internet via data on their mobile phones, and there are no hard-wired connections, so Work from Home (WFH) options are very limited. On the entertainment side it's the same issue. Watching Netflix/YoutubeTV on your TV there is just painful! Here all the rooms are hard-wired cat5, so we just plug it into the TV or just go wirelsss if hard-wired is not possible. All these problems are really hampering Nigeria's development.

Deicide:
Am glad that people are beginning to realise how serious this issue is, I created a thread earlier about this Why should data be capped?

Unlimited is not unlimited and it's so annoying as a student I would have to wait till in the night before i can access the internet to get stuff done and it's really affecting me badly.

If MTN Glo Etisalat or Airtel could give us true unlimited I would be happy but they don't want to do it and I don't know why which is giving way for this smaller company to cheat us.....I swear am fed up who I offend way them born me for this country?


Even 60gb of data wouldn't be enough for a week, it would get exhausted because of the nature of the kind of stuff I do makes one less productive. We keep spending money on data everyday, this is day light robbery!

Cc:lalasticlala

Not just that figure. The whole thing is. No way in the world they served 1500 destinations. That's a whole lot of destinations...LOL! I don't even think they served 50 destinations. While I understand what the article is trying to say, all the figures mentioned are seriously exaggerated!! To give some perspective, Today Delta and British Airways fly to 242 and 170 destinations respectively. And these are 2 of the largest airlines in the world.

XANDERBOY85:
That figure of 150 billion per year is suspect considering the naira at that point was roughly equla to the dollar. Maybe they meant to say 150 million naira.

The story doesn't draw any tears from me! The elements running Nigeria today are the same ones that ran it back then and ran it aground! The rot wasn't showing that much then because they had just started their ruinous control of power, plus the fact there was plenty of petro-dollars to cover up their mistakes at the time!

I am guessing you have tried to contact the US embassy to see when the next one is. Not much info regarding that on their website. Just some general information.

https://ng.usembassy.gov/important-notice-for-u-s-citizens-2/

fkj950ax:
Lol... #IWish

It's actually the other way round.
Nigeria trying to go to the US.

Exactly! These are Nigerian residents that were visiting the UK and got stranded there. If they were UK residents with permanent residency, they will not be coming to Nigeria.

TruthDefender:
These are people who live in Nigeria that went to europe for vacation/ studies and got stranded due to Covik 1*9

Welcome home !

Those are LTE bands that are NOT used in Nigeria. Those are bands used primarily in North/South America.

I concur. It will be extended. However, they are doing it in a few weeks spurts to limit the resistance. As long as the number of new cases is going up, it makes sense for social distancing measures to continue. Hence, the lockdown will be extended.

monfizzy:
This lockdown will be further extended and last no later than end of May or early June. You people should brace yourself for it.

Nigeria is yet to hit it peak and can’t get better before Europe where lockdown is expected to last at least mid May.

May be some clarification is needed for OP regarding locked/unlocked. When a phone is unlocked it means it's networked unlocked, so you can just use any sim from any network in it. Hence it will be more expensive than a Network locked phone, which will only accept the sim from the network it was locked to, until it's unlocked. Obviously, the network locked phone will be cheaper since it's limited. And it will cost money to unlock it. Bottom line - a network locked phone will be cheaper than an unlocked one. I believe thr price disparity is worse for Iphones due to the difficulty of getting it unlocked.

Since OP said these are from the USA, my guess is that they are locked to one of our networks here. AT&T, Tmobile, etc.

Exactly! It's simple math. USA has tests 5,336 per million, on the other hand, Nigeria has tested only 19 per million. So, it makes sense that US will have more positive cases. I hope all the predictions are wrong and Nigeria does not experience what a lot of people are predicting. That would be awesome!

cocolacec:
USA is the headquarter of corona virus because they have tested over 1.7 million people.Nigeria only tested over 4,000 people.Do the maths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

GLO has LTE on bands 28, and now 3 in some areas. Specs here show the device has both bands.

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a30-9579.php

OgKelvin:
Please does the Samsung a30 support glo 4g?

Back on topic here: Bottom line is, the validity/grace period before Nigerian carriers cancel and recycle lines (90 days) is too short. It should be at least 180 days of non chargeable activity, before a line is marked for non-use, and then another 90 days of no topup after that before it's recycled.

I am not aware of any other country where the line is considered valid only 90 days. And one needs a chargeable activity every 90 days to keep it active. It's usually at least 180 days.

The lifetime of the SIM is dependent on a chargeable activity. Which can be a topup, out going call/text. Just anything that generates money for the carrier, Not just a topup alone.

ShenTeh:
Number (MSISDN) recycling is international best practice. No need calling out MTN, other telcos or NCC. It not only betrays our Ignorance but shows our poor grasp of the products we are using.

The lifespan of your MSISDN ownership is dependent on your recharge history. For most networks, the number of times you recharge (not denomination, just number of times) extends the validity of your ownership by 90 days. When this validity period expires, your line becomes inactive, upon which when you recharge you get 90 days, etc. This way people can get lifetime validity.

When you do not recharge in this inactive status, the line becomes deactivated 90 days from the inactive status date. A deactivated line can still be redeemed from your network provider with some basic requirements. It remains in this state for another 90 days. When you make no effort to redeem the deactivated SIM and tge 90 days elapse, the MSISDN (your number) is recycled and you forfeit ownership.

Fair enough. Otherwise telcos will just be selling numbers to claim largest subscriber base without bothering on quality and customer retention.

Yes, but NOT after 90 - 120 days of no activity. In most other countries, your SIM will stay active for at least 6 months of no use at all. And even 12 months in some cases. Then after the inactive period, there is usually a grace period of 3 months to re-activate the number by topping it up or. Then if that does not happen is the number recycled.

gentle007:
Recycling of inative line is a world wide industry standard

Unstable network is the exception here. Up time with my Xfinity is 99% at worst. Remote work is common for a lot of us here, and so many other things are dependent on the internet. And these will not be possible if the network is not guaranteed to be up.

henrygold100:
bro abeg this thing how e de work Does it skip when the network is not stable

I honestly do not believe this is feasible unless you have unlimited data. I use YoutubeTV instead cable. And as already mentioned, these services strictly use the internet to get you the same thing you get via cable. So for somewhere like Nigeria, where unlimited internet is not common, it's really not feasible. Also it's best if used via a wired connection, which is almost non existent in Nigeria. A lot of homes here are wired for Cat6 cable. And just about all TVs are internet ready (with Ethernet port in the back), so we just plug that into the wired cable. When I check my Xfinity account, we (family of 4) average about 800 - 900 GB monthly. Everything is internet here. So that's the entire monthly internet usage.

Can you even find a phone without 4G these days? It will be close to impossible on this side of the pond to find a phone that does not have 4G.