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There is nothing new in what he did. It is what every Nigerian elite has done. It is the quintessential Nigerian dream - study, work and obtain foreign residency then move back to Nigeria. As I stated here: https://www.nairaland.com/7482300/importance-acquiring-second-passport-young#119276976 Almost every Nigerian elite, whether public or private, has a second passport. They studied and worked abroad. You and I are no different.

It is a good thing he returned anyway, but he is not the first and won't be the last. More than ten years ago, Nigerians in the diaspora returned in large numbers - especially the UK and US. They set up businesses and were proud of "giving back to the country". Then in 2015, they conspired to campaign and vote for Buhari as he told them - so-called intellectwats - that he would phight kwarruption. Foolishly, they supported his bid. After his enthronement, they fled again. Now, they have to make do with the rise in far-right movements, eligibility advances on their children and nodding their kon kon heads to the white man. The same white man some of them were angry at.

Best wishes to the doc.

airsaylongcome:
Second Nigerian business. First business was Oil related and was doing very good. They decided to veer into health care as a secondary business. Primary income was coming from the Oil related business. Tried every "trick" in the book to keep costs and ultimately prices down. But even with "intelligent" pricing, demand was atrociously low. They had burnt through investor capital and had to call it a day. Business was located in Lekki which was supposed to be able to afford it. Still do dice

Thanks for your response. Since I was not involved and I believe he is better experienced than I am, I remain quiet.

A lesson though.

airsaylongcome:
He cannot. Unless he is establishing it as a conduit for money laundering. His eye go soon clear when he sees the reality on ground that many many Nigerians cannot afford good health care. A friend from the US tried this, setting up a Dialysis practice. He shutdown operations within 3 years. This is for dialysis that should have considerable demand in Nigeria. People could not afford two to three times a week of dialysis. Musculoskeletal/Orthopedics is even worse

Did your friend depend solely on the earnings from his businesses in Nigeria? Or was his capital not so patient?

bemeruca:
Goodluck did not remove everyone in positions and put his people. I don't know why you are blaming him. The people who promise to fix the issue and how bad he is are 20times worse than him.

Leave them to their shamelessness. They don't want to accept that they made a costly mistake. You see them claim so-called intellect, but their decisions ruined an entire generation.

Shameless set of miscreants!

Patriotic9ja:
I hope you don dey prepare to collect bride price as daddy oo? lol.. we many for here. How time flies! Boys are now MEN and Elders. But unfortunately some kids in this faceless forum go dey insult elders anyhow unto.....

So how come these MEN couldn't sustain economic growth for the upcoming kids?

id4sho:
Abuja-London was 150K that period

Ah! There was a country

Well, Nigerians campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. They shouldn't complain.

oz4real83:
I never thought anybody will outweigh Gej in failure, but subsequent presidents proved me wrong. In the midst of Buhari and Tinibu, Gej is an economic wizard

So you people are still blaming Jonathan? You people are ungrateful! Na why I like as Buhari dealt and Tinubu deals with you lots!

You people voted for a cattle rearer and expected economic prosperity

The Tribune doesn't come across as an unbiased media organisation. Maybe the Abeokuta axis made Ogun enter number five whereas it shouldn't have been in the top ten. Why should your economic zone (Ota and environs) have so many terrible and body disfiguring roads? Gombe and other parts of the North East have better roads and ought to be mentioned rather than Ogun State.

Well, Tinubu campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. I remembered we were called wailers and even now IPO.Bs and all sort of names. So the blame lies entirely on him and his cohorts.

BadBradley:
says the bold ignoramus who declared before the world that prostitution isn't a crime in southern Nigeria

https://www.pulse.ng/news/local/what-the-nigerian-constitution-says-about-prostitution/zpqjfk7
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/329180-arrest-of-women-in-abuja-what-nigerian-law-says-about-prostitution.html?tztc=1
https://unilaglawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SEX-WORK-IN-NIGERIA-REGULATION-NOT-CRIMINALIZATION.pdf
The Nigerian constitution does not explicitly prohibit prostitution. Sharia made that distinction, only in Northern Nigeria.

You think I am like you who says all black women are terrible? I don't make categorical statements without checking facts, not fats and figures, not figos.

jedisco:
Sad story his marriage was. I hope he didn't belong to the 'Ivorian girls are useless crew'.


Blokes on Nairaland who are quick to abuse Nigerian ladies should study his travails and understand that:

1. Humans worldover have same basic traits. For reasons of evolution and so populations can survive and get better with time, female species are generally hypergamous i.e attracted to mates with coveted characteristics in their community. In humans it could be finance, power, looks e.t.c. In lower species, it's even worse with sometimes the strongest male being the only one that mates after killing off competitors. That's where 'alpha male' was coined from.

2. There is no other country (aside Nigér or Chad perhaps) that has its female folks roling over to worship you. First ask yourself, what coveted traits do you possess in that society- That's the key.

3. Lastly, any human population with 'stvpid or.... women', would have a similar population of 'stvpid or ... men'. This is especially so in patriarchal societies like ours.

In summary, if your 'redpill' and 'alpha' is not about insulting your women in the foolish hope that other women would treat you any better. It's about being at the top of your food chain.

Hopefully BadBradley learns a thing or two.

LordAdam16:
I meant relocating his family office.

Dangote does not appear to have significant investment activity on a global scale to warrant a 3+ location FO in London, New York, and Dubai.

-Lord

BreconHills:
A family office location is chosen for tax and legal jurisdiction reasons. Danjuma's family office is in the UK. Aig Imoukhuede and his late co gounder have their family office in Lagos.The family office basically coordinates family member culture, values, goals and investments towards multigenerational prosperity. It can be composed of one to three staff or even a
hundred people. The real news is that family offices are moving away from the traditional locations of Cayman Islands, Seychelles, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland and into the ME. The news has absolutely nothing to do with Nigeria as an investment destination.

And Singapore. The growth in the Lion City has been terrific!

LordAdam16:
Nairametrics, quoting Bloomberg, reported he'd opened a family office in New York in 2020.
And that was his next location after he'd opened one in London.
https://nairametrics.com/2020/01/09/dangote-diversifies-his-wealth-by-opening-a-new-york-office/ It is very likely he is opening a third(?) location in Dubai.
Or perhaps he's relocating.
The UAE is a no-brainer for him.
-Lord

The UAE is a no-brainer for someone like him to live in due to cultural, taxation and religious reasons. But all the leisure pictures I have seen him in have been in Monaco rather than Dubai.

stagger:
I am surprised he has not established one since.

Many people here do not even know what a family office is.

He parked his financial assets sometime last year in the US. So, I am surprised he opened a family office in Dubai.

ALTERNATEID:
The Judge probably waited till after the election to give the judgement. Obaseki is finished so there is no point fearing him again.

Obaseki’s woes are even just starting. Once Monday Okpebolo takes over, the real shege will start. Everything he owns in Edo state will be demolished. He will be fed with the exact wickedness he fed to opposition members like Kabaka, Ize-Iyamu etc and he won’t get any public sympathy. His worst fears are about to become his reality.

That means he should go back to Lagos immediately after handover and preferably make amends with Tinubu. He was and I believe still is a big man in corporate Nigeria.

But was/is he so cruel to his opponents e.g. demolishing their properties willingly?

RodgersAkpafu:
@the bolded

seems like some Nigerian women, even in Nigeria have learnt from their cousins across the pond and have started disparaging their men too....

No wahala let us continue I just wish the whole conflicts within the community is not an actual thing

We know those at the forefront.

RodgersAkpafu:
I am laughing at both you and Bradley una talk dey make me laugh

However
While I will never disparage Black women openly or in private sef, I am THE LAST PERSON that walk defend Black women in matters like these cos according to many of them, "ni**ers ain't sheet". so everybody carry your load. the disdainful and condescending way a good number of Black women (especially AA) speak of Black men, make everybody carry their load abeg

I understand your point of view. AA's constant barrage towards their men is something else. However, I no dey like chook mouth for person's business.

ariesbull:
This is clearer picture according to region

One statistical mistake when unemployment is studied is including 15-year-olds in the survey. The same is done with China's and South Africa's unemployment. They look at 15 - 24 year olds. Isn't that the time those in that age range are learning their craft? They are not actively looking for jobs - the true nature of unemployment.

The methodology is imbalanced.

MasterShanghai:
You finally believe these stats because it favors your agenda, but when the same statisense (where Cableindex culled all these stats from) consistently revealed stats that showed the SE states leading in literacy percentile and other positive stats, idiots like you cried foul and called it an ipob bureau.

Una hypocrisy dey wear Versace walahi

That is the bane of research studies in an ethnically divided country. They side with the results based on ethnic preferences, which is very bad.

Beremx:
you haven't been to Abia State before so there's no point arguing with you. I just want to let you know Abia State isn't bad as some of you think. Yes, the state has experienced bad governance just like any other state but it doesn't mean the state is bad. You're attacking the state because it is governed by the opposition. If Abia State was governed by APC, you wouldn't be attacking it. I never see una attack Imo state before o!!

I beg to object. With the praises and comments I see regarding Otti's developmental strides, I say Abians were suffering or have suffered for too long.

You want him, an APC supporter, to criticise Imo. Did you do the same when you were Berem when you furiously attacked Jonathan while shying away from attacking Amaechi's Rivers and Osun? You should have known APC antics by now. Were you a slow learner?

Why Australia (New Zealand is a no as jobs are scarcer)? What route does he intend to take to enter Australia that he cannot utilise while in Nigeria? Why does he think another West African country will be an easier option? He cannot speak French but he is interested in a way to make quick money. lol

Kaczynski:
Not every asian women likes yt men

I have witnessed too many situations and read countless research papers conducted in racially diverse societies to believe that the majority (exceptions always exist) of Asian women, especially East Asians, LOVE white men.

Wickedfact:
In Indonesia, there is a video of law enforcement officers calling Igbos poison and cancer.

In China, the Eze Ndigbo was jailed and died in prison. Go and ask how Peter Obi's own father died. You can Google it. Or, have you forgotten how Igbos chased themselves down to Ozubulu from South Africa, only to be shooting themselves in church.

Some of you lie so terribly and disgustingly. No information from a reputable source exists of such a nature. In Asia, they don't care about the ethnicity, but passports. So your tale is a lie. Maybe South Africa would now be classifying Nigerians based on the tribal bigotry they observed on Twitter. But in Asia? It is your passport. They don't give a hoot about the ethnic groups amongst Africans, especially West Africans who they don't have any historical relationship with.

Nigerians seem to have abused the immigration policies in Vietnam. A popular NLder residing there wrote how Cambodia cancelled the visa free status for Nigerian passport holders because of yahoo yahoo, cultism and drugs. Tomorrow, when I say countries should be hard on Nigerian migrants, dem go say I be Uncle Tom and have inferiority complex. They will claim to be masculine and loved by foreign women only to run helter-skelter in another man's country causing problems here and there. Money dem no get, so we can't be compared to the Chinese who also have gangs in some of these countries. Most times, the Chinese have huge businesses as well and these countries' economies are dependent on selling to China.

BadBradley:
hate black women ?
When I was idle like you in 2016, I usually find time to quote a single post into several sections, breaking it down to fill that haunting void and insecurity.

Some of us have writing as a hobby and Nairaland is a great place to hone one's writing skills. Also, I have benefitted immensely from the information I gleaned from Nairaland, so I spend more time here than on any other social media platform. It is my way of giving back. Additionally, Nairaland is a written interactive FORUM, just like Reddit. So breaking down posts into sections enables readers and writers to understand the points discussed. If you have low attention span, that is your problem.

Now there's no time, I'm saving the world and I see my past in you, the way you partitioned my post in your quote into several sections to gain a pointless point and make your life better only on the digital pages on Nairaland.

blah blah blah. This prevailing belief that every Nairalander is poor or unemployed is mendacious. I have been fortunate to have parents who provided more than basics. I don ask you before for money? Abi I tell you to give me work?

The rest are ineffectual words from a man who loathes and downgrades black women on the Internet all in the name of black men are masculine. How can a masculine man degrade the woman he comes from and looks like him? Only ret@rded black men like you. In all my years of surfing the Internet, the men who lampoon their women publicly tend to be black men. I don't know why. African Americans and Black South Africans included.

AbamOnyerubi:
Dear Travel Experts,

I trust you are doing well.
Given the current situation in the country, I find it necessary to rethink my plans and would greatly appreciate your advice.

I am currently a second-year undergraduate student, and up until now, my goal has been to complete my degree and then pursue a master’s program abroad. However, recent developments indicate that things may become more challenging before I am ready to leave. I have a few questions and would appreciate your guidance:
1. Besides a study visa, what other visa options are available for someone with tech work experience who wishes to work abroad?

There would always be the standard work visa path regardless of immigration policies. It would only get tighter and stricter. Also, I strongly advise you gauge your interest in why you want to work abroad. That is, why do you want to live abroad in the meantime? What could be the alternatives to that?

2. Is the UK a viable option for this path, considering I can continue my studies remotely from anywhere?

No idea. Better ask those living in the UK their experiences and what they think of the job market for foreign tech job seekers.

Akwa Ibom State has fallen off the top ten. Rivers state still stand gidigba. Intriguing. Imo being in the top ten is good for the plans I've regarding that state, ditto Abia. Not surprised about Delta.

I need to check the methodology used in creating this research.

If he is asked to mention two non-Yoruba prominent persons who have uttered that statement within the past year, he would enter voicemail. It is not even 2025 let alone 2027, the statement rears its head again.

Nigeria's elites are too useless for my liking!