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Napata77:
This is in Spain
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Osewa03:
The government pay for your energy consumption in where? US or Canada? If it's in these two countries then you're part of the problem. You're part of the people that always sugarcoat this abroad thing for people back home. For The month of October, I paid nothing less than $150 For electricity. And Government don't pay for your tuition. I don't know if you're talking about elementary school or graduate degree or undergrad. People work their ass off to go to school here. The possibility of you going to school as a poor man here is zero unless you take a government loan, but in Nigeria, you all went to school free of charge

Talking about health care service, a friend paid almost $1700 cuz he had his kneel broken in field. That's probably more than his monthly salary

And again, I don't know what Part of the abroad you dey

tensazangetsu20:
I am talking of sub saharan Africa so that excludes the first 3. Senegal is a shithole and also very expensive to live in. Kenya might be doing okay but cant still be compared to Nigeria. I have been to morocco. Solid european level infrastructure but I didnt live long enough to see how good the economy is.

sukkot:
haha gypsys etc. na gypsys full moldova. those people can steal. now did you know that the average moldovan has only one kidney ? its because the country is so poor that they all donate and sell one kidney so as to put food on the table. the place is more wretched than nigeria. shocking horrible place. so na dem full birmingham ? lol

ednut1:
we know ya type. Keep consoling yourself . People living pay check to pay check sent 20 billion home in 2021. Guy reduce the weed abeg

Within the first four months of 2018, seven youths have been murdered in the United Kingdom. Heres why.

Years after gang violence in the city of London subsided, teenagers in England’s capital city have begun a new wave of stabbings that some on the front-line of the killings claim is motivated by a new game and ranking system called ‘Scores’.
According to Daily Mail, Scotland Yard has launched 55 investigations into suspected murders in London this year already.

At least 35 of those killed were stabbed to death.

On Thursday, April 5, 2018, the city saw six stabbings within the space of 90 minutes. One of them left a 13-year-old left fighting for his life after an attack in Newham, east London.

The rising wave of stabbings has all of England and most of the world worried, partly because all of this has happened before.

The Nigerian side to this story is not lost on us.

Within the first four months of 2018, seven Nigerian youths have been murdered in the United Kingdom.

The first of those came hours before the celebration of New Year’s day on January 1, 2018, when two days before his 21st birthday, Taofeek Lamidi was murdered in East London after being stabbed repeatedly.

Harry Uzoka's death hit a harder note among young Nigerians social media.

The 25-year-old Nigerian who had been making his name as a model on the world stage was murdered, just over two weeks later on January 19, 2018, in what the Police described as “a robbery gone wrong” after he was found on a pavement suffering a knife wound to his chest.

London's black boys

On April 4, 2018, another Nigerian teenager, Israel Ogunsola was killed on the streets of the United Kingdom.

The 18-year-old died about half an hour after being stabbed and despite the efforts of police officers, paramedics and a trauma doctor from London’s air ambulance.

The rising wave of stabbings has all of England and most of the world worried, partly because all of this has happened before.

ALSO READ: London police investigate killing of Nigerian teenager, Oluwadamilola Odeyingbo

The number of deaths brings back a fearful apprehension and sour memories of November 2000, when a gang of teenagers stabbed Damilola Taylor to death, a stabbing that was followed by the Nigerian media.

Just 15 minutes after leaving Peckham library, the 11-year old was stabbed in the leg with a piece of broken glass.

British-Nigerian Actor, John Boyega and his sister, Grace, were two of the last people to be seen with Damilola as they followed him for part of his way home.

The Boyegas would help babysit Damilola and were family friends.

After Damilola’s death, Nigerians, home and abroad looked on with dismay as it took 6 years before his killers, Danny and Ricky Preddie were identified and convicted

Counting Scores

Someone who is on the front-lines of the stabbings, and has been for a while, blames a new game or ranking system known as “Scores” for the new wave of crime.

Chris, is a cousin of Danny and Ricky Preddie, the teens who killed Damilola Taylor.

He grew up surrounded by London’s gangs, teenage crimes and drugs.

But the inglorious spectacle of the recent spate of killings, which has drawn comparisons to New York’s Bronx in the 1970s.

ALSO READ: Model John Koh is charged with the death of Harry Uzoka

“It’s so much more serious than you think. This score system is real, and people are losing their lives.”

Speaking to the Sun Online, Chris claimed: “Basically, the points system has been running for many, many years now.

“When I was growing up, you would get stripes like in the army, there has always been a ranking system.

“Nowadays, it’s a score system, who’s the bravest. It’s all about competing.”

All of this is based on what has been called the "Postcode Wars", a system of gang-based division where young people from certain residential areas or 'postcodes' have territorial wars with other postcodes.

The scores system, though, might be familiar to anyone who has been around the epicenter of Nigeria's notorious campus cult wars.

In what are battles for supremacy, the cults often declare war on each other, counting successful kills in scores, the way you would count goals in a football match.

After losing his half-brother Andrew in a gang incident in south London, Chris decided to right what wrongs he could, working with troubled young people in the city.

In that time, he has made a lot of progress, culminating in being awarded the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of England.

But the audacity of these killings and the system that has been built and is growing around it has him worried.

“If I create a video saying I don’t like you and send it out — it’s not just the person who has seen it, it’s dozens.”, he told the Sun.

“How do you feel knowing that so many people have heard that you’re an idiot? You feel like you have to retaliate. It’s a battle over who has the most kudos and respect.”

Chris warned that the ranking system would become more brazen in London’s streets.

He said: “People aren’t talking about it yet, they’re too scared.

“Everyone will soon hear about it.”

But it’s not that simple.

Busy streets and disengaged youth

Damilola Taylor’s death was part of a wave of knife and gang crime in the early 2000s.

To combat the menace and engage the youth who had taken to carrying their own knives, the government created empowerment programs and schemes as well as youth centres to take the teens and knives off the street.

Along with other programs, it worked... for a while.

ALSO READ: Abike Dabiri is worried over the death of young Nigerians in the UK

A report into youth service provision showed that 30 youth centres had closed across London since 2011–2012.

Funding to voluntary sector youth services had gone down by 35%. These were programs which addressed youth crime and substance abuse, supporting youth clubs and projects.

It's easy to blame the local councils for this, but most of them have had to deal with their budget cuts from the central government.

Austerity measures, the state of the world economy and subtle finance-based preparations for Brexit have reversed whatever progressed was made.

It feels like normal London communities are now living in a state of emergency, a consequence of failed domestic policies, lack of funding, and institutional indifference.

The result is showing up not in the rooms where these decisions are made, or on spreadsheets where shirking a few councils can take little more than two clicks of a keyboard.

It is yielding fruit on London’s streets, in dark alleyways, in the Nigerian homes where hardworking parents treat each day with optimism and hope for a new generation of kids who they hope will have the opportunities they could never enjoy.

For a generation of London youth, the crime is hitting too close to home. Nigerians at home will be somewhat familiar with similar teenage gangs who commit audacious acts of crime with little care for the consequences.

There are a few too many parallels between these groups and the street gangs who swear by their streets like Ajegunle's "One Billion Boys"

What begs the bigger question, is that the solutions are obvious on one side of the divide, and they’ve been used before to considerable success.

It lays bare the failure of our systems, the universality of these problems and why youth, all over the world, deserve, no, need, more attention and resources than societies are willing to give them.

pansophist:
African countries I would like to relocate to? Honestly, I don't know. But if I will describe what the country will look like, then it has to be stable politically, Speaks English, with a huge population. My brain thinks in terms of business, so I need a huge market for my services. So probably Kenya, South Africa, Ethiopia, and of course, Nigeria.

ednut1:
you are making absolute statements. Sure these things exist. But are people not still breaking in despite these barriers. Are there not Nigerians in kpmg, EY, pwc uk or Canada Are there not Nigerians in banks in those countries Are Nigerians not in tech companies there Nigerians are not in nhs

ednut1:
false. Go on LinkedIn and see where Nigerians in Usa , Canada and other European countries dey work . They have labour shortages and have no choice than to hire immigrants.I work for an American bank in Canada with only my Nigerian bsc and work experience. Over 30% of people in my unit are also Nigerian. There are tech people i used to work with there are now in Europe ,Asia America with only Nigerian qualifications. So make una rest.

ednut1:
what skills did she have in Nigeria Was she getting promoted based on man know man What has she done in the uk to improve herself Maybe she isn’t ambitious like most of the civil servants in Nigeria too. If she was in usa or Canada she would have gotten an admin role at least in a govt institution if she really sabi work.

atutupoyoyo2211:
How do you guys come up with all these nonsense. Please, not everyone living abroad, lives on credit. I don't even own a credit card anymore. Only loan i have is my student loan and i have only $5850 left. And i have a good job. I am coming back to Naija to bury my father in law, and i am spending almost 8k on flights and much more on the burial. I didn't take a single loan, or use credit or borrow from anyone. And i still have almost 4 times that in savings.

t2luv1:
You can build wealth depending on how you define wealth. I left Nigeria when I was 19 right after I finished high school and was waiting for my JAMB result. If you are willing to put in the work the sky is the limit to whatever you can achieve in this land of Milk and honey we call the USA. My house is fully paid for and I have been working from my own house going on over 5 years and making six figures. My two boys are all grown up and living on their own with their families. This summer went on a seven days cruise of the Mediterranean with my wife. So tell me again how you define wealth. No bad for someone from Odesa in Ijebu Ode. Eweso !!!!

Litmus:
Please explain, with a few examples, how South Africa is courageous and Nigeria weak when dealing with issues involving Western powers.

Sixfiguresmart:
First question, have you ever lived in UAE?

Secondly, the ban includes Kenya, Ghana, senegal, Sudan, Congo etc and not Nigerians only. If your logic were plausible, What crimes did other nationals commit?

orion7:
that’s nothing. Nigerians re not the only ones going there. UAE depends on the labour from other countries without it it is nothing. That’s not gaining

orion7:
Nigeria as a country gains nothing from UAE. NO SINGLE THING. On the contrary Nigerians have invested heavily there. Look at atiku he even lives there. Nigeria should cut all diplomatic relations with them. If you feel this is crime related then u don’t know what’s up. Was it crime related that made them stop our carriers from landing in Dubai while emirates air operated freely in Nigeria ? This is racism from those uncircumcised mongrels

okeysoninv:
at what rate pls

jUeLiZ:
Hello nairalanders, please I need your professional advice. Apart from IT related skills, what other selling skills would you advise some one to acquire before traveling abroad. Note: skills to acquire and perfected within one year.

Thanks for your meaningful contributions.