juliuscaesar:
I moved to America more than a decade ago, and I can tell you that it is almost impossible to make 100m naira at once abroad. At least l, not from just your salary alone.

When I got to America, I got into tech after working a few years as an office manager for a rehab Healthcare clinic. When I got into tech, my first salary was $125k with a sign on bonus of $20k.

I was not married then, so I was able to save more. A friend then advised me to trade stocks instead of letting my money sit in the bank and get only 1.5% interest in return for a year. I decided to trade stocks on the side while working full time. I got married and was making a decent amount on the side. One day, I fortunately caught on the GameStop boom a couple of years ago and made over $900k in one day as the stock skyrocket from just above $3 to $600 in 24hrs. The SEC had to put a hold on trading, but I had quickly sold.

I took that money and invested it in real estate.

Not many people are that fortunate. So, again , I say, if it is just salary, over time, you might be able to save up 100m naira, but you can NEVER do it at once.

Even without a black swan event like gamestop, the average person overseas is far much more better than someone in Nigeria.

How many Nigerians can afford three meals a day let alone 100 million?

Op is just trying to stir the pot

pol23:
90% of people that japa will never have that in cash till they died… They might have it in property in a long run.
They left the country to live a basic live, void of unnecessary stress and uncertainty .
People back home might make money more than the Japa people due to ease of doing business and less rules to collect half of their income for tax….
200 people of the same caliber.
100 Japa.
100 stayed back.
20 years later… they will both have regrets.
But the group that stayed back will have the most regret.
It’s had to become wealthy when you Japa, but your simple life no go hard.
Choose your difficulty wisely.
I already choose mine.
God help me.

99.999% of people that didn't japa will not make that money

He could have walked away like adult, not getting brow beat into spending an arm and a leg about his means to get married and then sulk like a teenager.

The guy needs to grow up. Go to your father-in-law and demand for some reimbursement

Zupay:


You are busy showing off ignorance while forming intellectual.

Compare it to the UK, where when you are age 23 or over you can't be paid less than the national minimum living wage of £10.42 per hour, for a 23 year old who lives and works in Coventry, 60 hrs per week earning £652, after necessary deductions he should be going home with at least £500 weekly and that is about £2,000 monthly. He pays the rent for his room, £500(bills inclusive), monthly health insurance of about £90, food for £150, Monthly bus pass for unlimited bus travel within West Midlands that covers Coventry, Birmingham etc for £55, clothing, footwear and toiletries £300, phone subscription £25, hanging out £150......Oya, now compare him with a Nigerian graduate earning the minimum wage of N30,000 monthly.

The truth of the matter is that globally the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. In the UK today, most young people earning minimum wage need flatmates and even sometimes roommates to afford rent.

However I agree with you that they are 100x better than someone earning minimum wage in Nigeria.

At minimum wage in Nigeria you can't spend more than 1000 naira on average per day. Yet

- Transport
- Iyana Ipaja to Oshodi was 150 in 2012
- Oshodi to VI 100
- both ways is 500 already half of your daily budget.

We haven't budgeted for feeding, toiletries, phone bills, utility bills.

So even as far back as 2012 when I was in Nigeria 30k minimum wage was a joke

Gbogbowa:
can you mention one Nigeria with 30 minimum wage that is living a better life but many nigerian in usa with that minimum wage are doing fine even owing good houses in Nigeria .you people should stop saying rubbish Tinubu has failed us

This goes even further than Tinubu, every single leader we have had since the British created Nigeria. Including the British have all failed us

JagabanBorgu:

Compare house rent in the USA to that in Nigeria, compare the various taxes u pay to that in Nigeria, compare medical bills, compare tuition fees for children too.
When u compare like that, you won't be screaming anyhow.
There are many many ways to demand improvement from the government not being hypôcrîtical

After you compare every comparable in the world. A minimum wage worker in New York of all.places is better than a minimum wage worker in Lagos.

Many Nigerians love to lie to themselves about what it feels like to be poor outside of Nigeria and somehow convince themselves that it is the same or worse than Nigeria.

Nothing can be further from the truth. Nigeria is a very very poor nation and her people are suffering. Stop spreading propaganda handed to you by the rich class in Nigeria that have benefitted the most in looting our commonwealth

This war will never end. We have spent more on this than fuel subsidy

N3TRAL:
Seun Kuti must rot in jail.

I despise him and Sowore.

They're a group of extreme Marxist believers of socialism trying to foist utopian welfarism on Nigerians. They're building a potential movement of insurrection underground called the "MOP".

Seun Kuti has insulted the Governor of Lagos State , Sanwo Olu, at an event like the Governor is his slave. It took the intervention of his elder brother for him to apologize. He nearly slapped Sanwo-olu that day.

Seun Kuti has pulled a gun and almost murdered his neighbours because they organized a party and he couldn't find his way into his compound after waiting for less than 10 minutes.

Seun Kuti is a drug addict. A degenerate and riffraff who believes actions have no consequences.

Only low thinking fanboys would even assume that Seun Kuti that insulted Tinubu, Atiku and Obi on his Instagram live supported Tinubu.

I've always anticipated this day.

Is Marxism not better than cleptocracy?

juman:
There are jobs in nigeria.
Look around you, you will see some that are doing wonderfully well.
Not everybody get their money from corruption.
Many get theirs from their sweat.
Open your eyes and learn from others way of doing things.
Hard work is necessary to be successful in your chosen path.

Your being presented with statistics on unemployment and you asking people to look around them?

daurys:
@Generalshepherd
Please I want to know what family life is like as my hubby got admission in Cranfield and we intend moving with him. Accommodation, job for dependant.
Thank you

It's been 8 years since I left Cranfield and England. Most of the things I remember and know are probably outdated.

martins2021:
Thank you for the replied. My fear is the immigration route to become citizenship which Canada gives such opportunity. I don't want to go back home after my studies. What do you think?

That is another important consideration, depending on your age you can still study in the USA and get your permanent residency in Canada.

That being said you are correct it is easier to stay back permanently in Canada

tarantino1000:



Hello Boss, sorry for my late response here. I don't even know what I did to these mods here that they literally banned me for a week for an offence I don't even understand.

I've thought about machine learning and from my research, it seems so academic and rigourous and I'm having doubts about it.


Distributed computing actually seems nice.

And about the coding, I'm currently building up my skill. Tbh, I didn't code for the past two years cos of hustling and no laptop. I picked it up this Jan and I'm progressing, I believe.

Thanks for the offer boss, I'll hit you up when the time is right. If I may ask, what is your field exactly?

I am a software engineer that focuses on building highly scalable distributed systems

martins2021:
Hello sir, I am into deep learning and natural language processing. Which one is bette Ph.d scholarship in USA or Canada?

The question is complicated and what conplicates it is, the comparison between the potential schools in both countries.

For example if you have a scholarship to study deep learning in University of Toronto vs University of Tennessee, I will choose UoT.

That being said even though I live in Canada, I will generally recommend USA all things being equal.

tarantino1000:


You're welcome chief..
I'm glad things worked out for you in the end. It certainly wasn't easy. About to embark on mine after my uncle based in the US told me his intention of sponsoring me for my Master's next year.

Studied computer science too

You can never go wrong with comp science. If there's option to do your research on machine learning, natural language processing etc do that.

Also distributed computing will be around for a while to come. Also when it's time for your internship hit me up.

Do you know how to code right now?

tarantino1000:


This is really inspiring.
How did you do it?

Went through your post and saw that you're a programmer. Also, Happy birthday!

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes. It's a story of tears ,blood and sweat. God also placed a lot of kind people in my path

Gerrard59:


No be lie sha. It is fairly OK if the person while in Nigeria moved from the lower middle class to upper middle class than being born in an upper middle class. Transitioning go hard.

Nigeria has no middle class, it is either you are poor or you are rich. Many folks working in Nigeria cannot boast of 1 million naira in their accounts.

Adakintroy:
If you have few millions buy lots of female goats and few males..in few months or a yr, you goats will double..thats ur money. See you don't need abroad just little smart to make money.

Many of you dont like knowledge or education. You just want to school to make better money..so there I skip the process for Una.

Okay once one buys goat they are set in Nigeria. I don't know if it's a copy strategy but the advice I see on nairaland is just so silly to be honest.

mployer:


Everyone isn't broke in Nigeria. Some people have such a rosy life here in naija that the Japa life you guys hype is more or less slavery to them.

If you are broke here, you have every reason to Japa

It is an objective fact that there are more poor people in Nigeria than in Canada.

It is not wise for the OP to start complaining as a student where in the world are students balling?

I went through the same process, you work hard, study hard and leave the rest to God.

Aboguede:

Let me help newbies to guess ur age

U are 55-60 plus

2. If men who has cash are counted in ur village today, u are not among them except for those who don't kmow

Hahahaha I no get time to reveal my age on the internet, go through my posts and you will get an idea of how old I am.

I am not worried about my ranking in my village, I am doing OK

Bigcoconut:
Hello, guys
I don't want to bore you guys with long epistle. Yes, as the title suggests.

I travelled to Canada through the study route this January but I can tell you for a fact that I'm already bored with this place.

I'm redoing a 2 year program that I have already concluded in Naija but just because I want japa, I redid it. But that's not the issue.

The issue is that I'm working in a company but the department I was posted to was a physical demanding one..

To the extent that if I work for a day, I feel pain all over my body for a week. And this is seriously affecting my education because anytime i go to work, i wouldn't have the energy to do anything again as i would be so weak. but i have to work because i have bills to pay.

Nobody send you for here except you want sleep for cold outside.

Even half of my salary goes in the form of settling bills.

The work makes me depressed. This is not what I bargained for. .

For me to raise money for my tuition fees and travel expenses, at least I wasn't doing bad in Nigeria before i left. In addition, I hardly have time for myself.

My situation is even better, most of people who we came same time haven't found jobs yet.

My thinking is if I should ask for refund of my remaining tuition fee and relocate back Naija, or go back Naija and take some courses online, as there seems to be an option for that.

Going back to Nigeria is a mistake. I went to England-> Australia -> Canada, went through everything you described and now I'm doing very well.

What are you studying?

NeoWanZaeed:


You don't live with them. You don't know the full story

My comment is based on what the OP wrote and even that paints the picture of a broken man that has potentially lost a son to his own stupidity

NeoWanZaeed:


You want him to do something to please his child and he can't afford to do it?

Like allowing the boy to study computer science? Why did he force him to study pharmacy? Pharmacist do not earn more than computer scientists. Wasted years of the boys life trying to force him to live his dream, with a father like him who needs enemies.

Imagine a father sending street thugs to kidnap his son for 2 weeks. The man is a monster, I won't be surprised if he abuses the OP as well

Is Reno seeking for a seat at Tinubus table?

Luukasz:
Is Otedola not among those who contributed to Nigeria's rot... I don't blame him.. I blame Nigerian's who hail him and other members of his class.

We know all of them and their kids made it off our national cake but most Nigerian's have been mentally enslaved to think otherwise.

Dangote, Adenuga, Otedola, Elumelu, Alakija, the Adeleke's and so many other Nigerian elites are who they are today as a result of the wealth they stole.

All these people wouldn't have had this much wealth in a country with a working system and where real capitalists exists.

You were correct until you ended with real capitalists. Capitalism will always seek to exploit and plunder. The system is built on greed and corruption, only difference is that in those countries you mentioned their decay is wayyyy slower than ours

Nigerians are hypocrites, why do you folks bring this same energy against your leaders.
Make una enjoy brothers

IbeOkehie:


Who and who are poor in Nigeria? Wealth is different from income. So you're very mistaken, the average Nigerian at home is wealthier than the vast majority of Nigerians abroad. At home a Nigerians has dignity, freedom and equality. Nigerians abroad immediately lose their dignity.

Nigeria is good, everybody is enjoying. The only people suffering are those who don't know the way, those who choose to sleep in the midst of vast opportunity. Look how Lebanese, Indians, Americans are trooping into Nigeria every week and investing and making money. Go to Idumota, Computer Village and see trailer loads of DOLLARS moving through there every day. Is it not in Nigeria that Linda Ikeji and others are making millions every week?

Nigeria is the place to be, jakpa is for losers!!!

Oga sir if you have nothing meaningful to say STFU. Nigerians overseas contributed $95b to the Nigerian economy in 2021. We all broke and yet we are a major source of income for Nigeria?

Nigerians go abroad and immediately loose their dignity? How so? The biggest problem is that yall can't reason

iHart:
If you keep this mindset, you will remain poor

Oga sir worry about yourself my money is alright where it is

All the suggestions in this thread will no improve the lives of majority of people. Nigeria n youths should peacefully demand a better nation.

mikebabs101:
Agreed, we should stop living in denial , submission of CV is starting to look like a waste of time. Most youth that seem doing well are living on scam proceeding. I fear for the future of Nigeria

100%

Ajehkpako4naija:
Bro I feel your pain, I was once in your shoes when I was job hunting in Lagos in 2014. Until I met a friend from the EAST who advised me to go into Biz. I went into agro biz and today, am a millionaire. Most of those guys that interviewed me then and turned me down @ UBA, UAC feel guilty when we meet in traffic's. Bro self entrepreneurship is Key to wealth. Salary peanuts is that form of enslavement that will blind your eyes to financial freedom. Drop that certificate and look for something doing. The labour market is saturated and the few juicy job offers have been hijacked by the ellites. Agro biz is like oil money.. Everyone must eat eggs/chicken, animals must eat and take vaccines and drugs, d

Let's us stop this silly anecdotal BS, you went to the east and started agro biz. How did you afford the startup cost?

judedwriter:


Exactly.....

In Nigeria, we are trained from school to be job seekers not entrepreneurs.

That's a major reason for the mass unemployment and poverty, many are seeking non existent jobs.

You folks just write rubbish, tell us what business do you do?
How much does it generate annually?

iHart:
Most Nigerians are not broke. Businesses are thriving oh.

It is an objective fact that more than 50% of Nigerians live in poverty, it's not matter of opinion. Your anecdotal evidence is living in denial. Look around wherever you live, do you think it is normal for underage kids to be hawking goods in traffic?