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MISTAICEY02288:
Prepared small stew and rice. Here are some of the ingredients used for the stew

sledjama:
very short comment but riddled with ignorance, you are right by saying you are a village boy.

you just picked on/disrespected your country of birth by tagging her stupid.
Charity they say begins at home, if you can't show some respect to your country, how will you respect another man's

Nigeria is not the best country in the world, and sure isn't the worst.
"wherever" you think Nigeria is at the moment, It will one day get out of it.
Buhari may not be getting it right, but he is making efforts to and in the next 2 years
we may try another hand and someday, Trust me, we will get things right.
This i know because Rome or America wasn't built in a day.

If you Nigerian-Americans have any useful pictures to post, please post them and stop the boring stories already.
you are not the first to travel abroad sirs.

Bossman:
With all the pictures that have already been uploaded, someone is still complaining. What a joke!

sledjama:
this thread derailed because FrankNetter will rather talk than upload pictures.
thought it was yankee through the eyes and not mouth of a village boy

Priceless25:
Lol... Bro they flooded ur wonderful topic and turned it into something else. Urs looked like this in the beginning.

Priceless25:
Thanks Originalsly.. this is a breathe of fresh air away from the "yankee" thread created by FrankNetter that sadistic and unfulfilled NL filled with their spiteful opinions. Keep more pics coming.

Teddywhiz1:
You are right bro...... I just wonder what people gain having like 7 accounts on nairaland, they start up arguments and start using their different monikers to support their motion NA wa o

Teddywhiz1:
You are very silly and your type of also a problem to Nigeria... Why complain about migration? Indians, Britons and even Americans also do leave their countries in search of greener pasture! Honestly there is no point in ur argument are you trying to discourage migration or something?
If you are so in love with Nigeria and your passion is to make it right then come down and do something.. Ranting on nairaland is now the solution.... I believe everyone should work with passion some people have passion to migrate then leave them and don't criticize their choice

Shalom!

lolawilliams:
Thank you! There are alot of good ppl in Nigeria but what is happening in Nigeria is a justice problem, Nothing works in Nigeria. The citizen can protest and do all sort of thing, Not until there's a justice system,every effort is invain. Some monikers here just sentimentalize and won't talk about the bad aspect.

A country that pays Trey songz, Chris brown, Kim kardashian thousand of dollars for a concert but won't come together and provide free education for the young ones. Nigeria has one of the fastest growing population in the world but has no plans for the next generation

Now if i'm asked why i left ,let's assume there are 170M ppl in Nigeria. and 20M travelled to seek greener pastures abroad. Why don't the 150M make a change, My presence shouldn't make big change, i don't have to be the 150,000,001 to make any change happen. But noo, it wont; even if there are 500M ppl there, if there's no justice system, there wont be a change.

If there's anything i regret, I regret not moving early to the US.

CFCman:
^^^
It's a nice-looking public library. I don't think the one here looks as nice.

sirRiddy:
which library is that @op?

Teeboy22:
Bro.....how that way na.....hope say the cold no too much... How Una dey cope as per time zone (sleeping) 10pm Nigeria time might be 2pm america time....


.really enjoying the pics...wud also love to see more pics @ night

TWoods:
What system? I've lived here 12 years and have not felt trapped by the system.

I often feel that the Nigerians who live here and yet rail against the "system" here are mostly those who either did not fully assimilate into the country, allow their inferiority complex to marginalize them or simply were not able to succeed in the system. My brother, cousins and i are making it quite well in corporate America and not a single one of us will contemplate spending one night in Nigeria if it can be helped. No system is perfect, but you cannot convince me that Nigeria holds any value to anyone who appreciates real living (as against merely existing).

Its easy to speak from your perch. You will always have an American passport to allow you to escape back to the "trap" you despise once things get bent out of shape for you in Nigeria. For what its worth, will you give up your US citizenship? If not, why not?

I was thinking about the tit for tat here as i drove home from work. I thought a lot about what home meant. Then it hit me - home is where i have peace, security, justice. Home is where i know i can drive at night, alone, on impulse, and have zero fear of armed robbers or area boys or bad roads. Home is going back to my abode, knowing i won't have to struggle to find kerosine to cook, that i won't need candles as my source of light, that i will turn on the tap and water will flow and that my biggest problem would be what to cook rather than if i will get to eat or not. Yes, there is racism here... but so what, its not like my black Nigerian brother did any better for me. The average 18-year old American kid can take a backpack, pick a ticket to anywhere in Europe and fly out... with nothing but a few dollars in their pocket. In Nigeria, successful middle class adults have to provide tax forms, letters from employer, return tickets home, bank account information, invitation letters, cram visa interview questions and answer + 7 day fasting and prayer, just to spend a few days in South Africa of all places. My brother... America isn't perfect, but i'm sure glad i live here not in Lagos.

Originalsly:
Nice pix! ... lots of high rises bunched together. Now see why they say Chicago is like NYC. But hardly see people...guess it's freeeezing.

austino677:
why frank own come different u sure na usa be that