₦airaland Forum

blackprowler:
Nigerian capacity for inanity is bottomless. Please what great breakthrough in improving mankind has been attributed to a Nigerian yet? You people are drowning in your academic titles. Only one Nigerian Army doctor did anything I know of. What academic title did Edison have? Right now Ebola and Malaria are being solved by people who don't have the diseases in their continent while dumb Nigerians are nowhere to be found; they're busy accumulating PhD and MSc. Why haven't you won a Nobel in real productive fields? Mumu
PS: Most of these academic qualifications come from your ability to learn what someone else has created. What have you created for the rest of us to learn to make the world better? God, black man is a disgrace to human beings

masterp204:
There's a saying " people perish for lack of understanding or knowledge".
That's what you get when You board a plane from Nigeria and land your ass in London.
What happened to Manchester, Newcastle and other cities ?
I've been to the uk and am talking from experience.
I've met so many Nigerians who summoned courage to leave London and settle in other cities in the uk and are making more money while paying very little for rent .
I stayed in Sunderland And visited friends in Newcastle and Bradford. These guys (students)do part time jobs , pay their tuition fees and accommodation themselves and still send money home while some folks work their ass off and end up spending their money alone on rents in London.
If you want to make it in the UK please stay away from London. It has been messed up my ur fellow country men that's why the police stops and ask you for documents . They don't try that shit* anywhere in the uk except London.
Also, living in the uk as an illegal immigrant is something you wouldn't want to do because you won't be able to do anything with your life.
As for the taxi matter, I and a friend paid £50 from heathrow to our hotel the last time I visited there. And who says that guy can't make £300 (90,000 naira) everyday. FYI , he owns the car. So while some ppl rant about staying in naija and drinking garri just like I read earlier when you havent traveled and seen things first hand is absolutely your choice, because it's a case of "who no go, no know". You don't judge by the posts & comments you read here. Do your research. Lastly, You'll enjoy your stay in diaspora if you live there legally.
My 2 cents.

EgunMogaji:
Thank you for this.

They can't pick on his turf, but he can pick on the US.

If UKs free healthcare is so great how come Brits are the brunt of bad dental hygiene jokes?

I recognize UK and her contribution to the world, the sun never sets on the British empire, my hobby is restoring classic little British cars (mg, Austin, triumph) but I would never put the UK above the US in anything today.

londoner:
I have spent a great deal of time in the US. I have seen veterans begging on the highway in Texas as well as the dirt poor who can not afford necessary medications let alone dental care. If the US healthcare was great there would have been a push for Obama care. Sorry but it is actually the US that is not all that. Go to Santa Monica beach and see the rich on one side but the beaches filled with homeless at night. The rich in the US live well just as anywhere else in this world the rest is just hype from what I've seen with my own eyes. Let me not even get started with the police
killing black's like its a sport.
For most black people the US is still a plantation.

ayodele234:
Stop converting currencies. You guys know nothing about economics. Poverty is defined by where you live. It is very clear most Nigerians are clueless because you always convert currencies then think how how you will be spending back in Nigeria. Your 35k pounds should be defined by UK. standard which is nothing. It will take someone making 35k pounds over 10 years to save for a 20% down payment for a average 200k pounds house in London. Someone making just 200k monthly in Nigeria will build his house in less than 7 years. In America if you earn 12,000 dollars a year you are living in extreme poverty but some clueless Nairaland poster will see 12,000 dollars and think that's like 2.5 million. Married couple who make 25k usd are consider to be living in poverty in America. Do you guys know someone making $150,000 can't afford to pay for a private college for their kids? People who make 150k take loans to send their kids to school. You guys need to learn how the western world works