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Eagle07:Does this mean they are farmers? |
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Meanwhile me with 2hands and scholarship has no motivation ![]() |
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Nerogaming01:Well done oh World traveller 1 Like |
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Nerogaming01:Why? Are you planning to move to Russia? Do you know anyone who lives in Russia? If you were offered today a choice between 5 countries you could move to and asked to place them in order of preference (Canada, USA, UK, Australia, Russia), where would Russia rank for you on that list? So why are you lying to yourself and others? Why do you dislike my comment? 2 Likes |
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railone:Only God knows why you are so smart. All these mumus praising Russia, I don't see them hustling Russian visas. Every other country mentioned as contributing fighters is where all these bozos want to move to. They want to move there while idolising a despot and his murderous regime. Every bad thing you think GMB is, Putin is times infinity. My challenge is simple, which of you Russia praising bozos want to move there? |
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1-1 na Na draw ![]() 2 Likes |
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Bonesbreaker:Female and daughter are synonymous 1 Like |
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holsconcept:Bullshite |
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Fumiosasaki1:Hmmm... I used to think like you. But it's really not that hard to leave. If you can read and write, find a sch. Any school abroad. Apply for admissions, apply for scholarships, apply to everywhere, apply yourself. Don't pay anyone to do it, don't be scammed. That is all Nigerians are good for, scamming their fellow suffering citizens. Since I left Nigeria, I realised there are people worse than you from other countries who have made this move and succeeded. If they can, why can't you? 1 Like |
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Seun:You say probably, I say definitely. |
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Emmm... Just checking on all those who were encouraging this "oyibo" to come live in Nigeria that year. Feeding him/her delusional ideas and not facts about how hospitable Najeria was/is. The BIGGEST problems with Nigerians are 2 things 1. Disconnect with reality/facts 2. Lack of intuitive foresight 1. Disconnect with reality/facts Even in 2006 when this "oyibo" asked this question, Nigeria was bad. I had just left uni 2 years before. Fresh engineering graduate. Finished from a class of 186 engineers, as at 2006, Nigeria had not yet let me start NYSC 2 years post graduation. Young, ambitious, wasting away. But already, I could see the reality on ground. 3 years or so before that, MASSOB had declared Biafra. Niger/Delta militants had been formed. Plateau crisis was in its 3rd or 4th iteration and thousands had been killed by Christian/Muslims and Fulani herdsmen/farmer clashes. The first batch of corrupt Nigerian govs had been exposed. Alams in jail for Bayelsa, Dariye dressed like a woman escaped from the UK, Fayose run away from Ekiti after the infamous "your chicken no dey shit" scam. In the midst of that, there I was unemployed. Imagine if a dear/personal friend in the abroad posed this question to me about relocating to Nigeria, what should have been my honest reply? 2. Lack of foresight I eventually did get a job. And I stayed in touch with my graduating engineering cohort. Remember that 186 that I graduated among? As the years went by, less than 40 got jobs at all and less than 18 or so got really meaningful, good paying jobs. Among the 18 or so that did, gradually they lost their employment and fell into Nigeria, joining the 3/4 of the class that NEVER EVER got jobs in the first place. Nigeria happened to them. IPOB was created, fulani herdsmen graduated to fulani bandits. Election fuelled massacres started to happen in the north. Boko Haram was founded. None of these events came as a surprise to me. I had from around 2010 made it my life's ambition to leave Nigeria. I did eventually. I am a citizen of a 1st world country now. I just completed a 1300km solo drive through lonely roads in the middle of nowhere, stopping to rest and take photos, with not a care in the world for safety. And as I did that, I juxtaposed it with my 2 armed robbery experiences on Nigerian roads. I said a silent thank you to myself for seeing Nigeria has I expected it to evolve into, and planning a great escape. Then I compare my foresight/insight with these people who advised, nay, urged this "oyibo" to come to a country I was desperate to leave. And I wonder what became of them. Did Nigeria chew them up and spit them out as it had countless millions since they told "oyibo" to come too? Were they truly so short-sighted to not see that the saying that "sometimes everything that can go wrong, all happens simultaneously" was applicable to Nigeria? Or were they just from the "I cannot come and suffer alone" school of thought. Whichever it is, my disenchantment with Nigerians stemmed from the eternal optimism of the people there, with no work put in to change things, their low engagement with the political process and their faith in things they cannot control. A toxic cocktail I knew would kill me if I stayed. So I ran. Nigeria would only get worse. I knew this in 2006. Just as I know now that Nigeria isn't yet at rock bottom, it will get worse (adding before it will get better is a lie I won't add to the statement). Many Nigerians then and even now lack this foresight. Dear "oyibo". I hope to God you listened to Seun and stayed in the UK. If you came to Nigeria, then I have to ask you, HOW MARKET? ? You should be familiar with that saying by now 6 Likes 1 Share |
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Bestiee01:Ole ![]() |
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hmmm.. i bin no know say hanti Kemi carry frontal like dis oh ![]()
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A few ppl have reached out and I feel like I am on a path to resolving this now. Thanks all, this I believe is what Nairaland is for. I will close the tread for now. 1 Like |
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ecomalchemist: Tell ME About It ![]() |
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TarOrfeeek:fair enough |
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layzie:I have. They haven't been much help. |
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PepperSauce: How do i reach this program please? |
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Apus:loaned her 10m, she returned 10m. then later loaned her 15m, she returned all of it she did not return 5m as interest as you are suggesting. Modified in case it does not read well. 1 Like 1 Share |
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Roma10:Na your nails cause am ![]() |
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WEALTH304:https://www.nairaland.com/6801199/how-much-it-cost-building Dude is Lai Mo |
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where did the incident happen? |
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Awon "i had no shoe" polithiefcians ![]() 37 Likes 5 Shares |
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nawa oh. Where's is our blood of Jesus gang when you need em? Orangebasket's guy De's about to be gbola'ficated by his fellow man oh ![]() End of days stuff loading But i ain't gon log out. Waiting to see if Odumeje gets to him before Kachi's gbola. I will say a prayer to guarantee a good outcome "Merciful Father I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought, and have not thought; All we ought to have said, and have not said; All we ought to have done, and have not done; I pray thee God for forgiveness.” In the meantime. . . I cover myself with the blood of Genevieve Nnaji! ![]() |
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toobusy:lyf 4 too sweet by now mehn ![]() |
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