milehigh06:

work for cafe from 8 to 6 then for another cafe from 10 to 6am and u say i lazy,pssst.go abule go ask who start the thing,u think say i borrow money take fly come here or ask anyone?I pay with my own pepper after enuff hustling,omo wetin u no know make u no talk

You only suffered in naija because you chose a life of crime, doing yahoo yahoo in cybercafes. Only lazy people will channel their energies negatively while oppertunities stare them in the face. What will you teach your children when you get old? Maybe you teach them that "crime pays".

daywatcher:


If everybody in the diaspora came back it most probable that they will choose to resettle in Lagos, which doubt will able to cope with the volume of people

Why Lagos? I have never lived in Lagos and dont even like the hustle and bustle of that city, only go there for few days on business. There are cool cities in naija. Have you tried Calabar, Enugu, Abeokuta?

darozz:

Well, I have been trying to leave nigeria since 2002, i wish I had succeded or I hadnt tried at all. i had wasted so many resources and precious time.

Keep trying if thats what you really want. You may try the desert route, walking from Nigeria to Europe with a backpack for company. The determined always win.

sulad82i:

you must be in some country where blacks are treated like hell. In the US and some UK countries, pple like us have a decent job. If you are working in the groceries store with your master degree then u thef dumb than whats on your degree. At least here in the US and Maryland to be precise, the pple I know with degrees have good jobs even someone with a degree from yabatech was able to secure a good job in one of America's top companies. So, u might want to speak for yourself

There are no countries where Nigerians are not treated like lepers. Ask those in Cotonou, its not about the country where you stay, its about abandoning a fight because you think the battlefield is bloody and another battlefield will be easier. Thats the mentality I have problems with.

igbo boy:

I got plans to settle back in Naija in about 30years after I have retired, Definitely miss my friends, hood and all In Warri but hey I need to do me  for now and that includes taking care of my needs which Nigeria cant provide (I'ma do regular visits tho and see whatsup with y'all    )

See you in 39 years, something tells me you have not made enough money for flights. Holla if you need money to come back.

Crude Oil:

Still regretting that I was born Nigerian.

You will still regret even if you were born inside the white house.

milehigh06:

buzu,i dont drive a cab
look at my sig and see my coy,search on face book and see the kind of people on there.
in naija,i drank garri tire,here,i eat whatever i like not bragging but God/Allah has been really good but when dumb igoramus like you come on here after reading the sun and yahoo you think that is all you know.

Anybody drinking garri in naija is lazy. Your mates order beef burgers from US to naija.

amor4ce:

@kabukabu50, do you know of this quote:"If you love your life you will lose it"? But perhaps you forget or do not believe that when the flesh stops breathing life still continues. Better to do something, make a positive impact on another's life, rather than enjoy vanity and have one's name and efforts confined to the dustbin of history.

Are we not confusing worldly wisdom/sharpness with cowardice and laziness?

Sometimes I think about this, some people just think about themselves only. Some stay 19 years without seeing their mums and family, 'enjoying' the London cold instead of helping their mums who saw them through infancy and school.

kabukabu50:

how bout the next JFK?? , funny boy

Or even the innocent terror attack victims.

kabukabu50:


I will not be the next Dele Giwa or Ken Saro Wiwa, just to make Nigeria better, I like my life

Or the next Rafik Hariri or Lady Diana?

debosky:

@ Redman

Valid points, but full of assumptions. . . . not everyone went abroad to have big savings in their accounts. Some left because of threats to their lives, security concerns among others - only the individual concerned can decide whether he/she is fulfilled or not, based on their particular definition of fulfillment.

I think the number that left for economic reasons are overwhelmingly larger. Moreso, if you run from your house because of threats, wont you run again from outsiders when they threaten you over there.
Who born person who wey go threaten me here? Na area boys go settle im case!

Abroad is a huge mirage, those that made the mistake will rather pretend to their friends like a person who married the wrong person, but the truth is not far away.
The pictures with monuments they take is all they cling to.

justwise:

Seriously where did some of you get these figures u throw around anytime issues like this comes up? How many Nigerians living 'outside' Nigeria do you know? Yes Somalia is 'abroad' too

Let me use my neighborhood as an example, out of a hundred abroad people, only about 4 are doing very well and 3 are fraudsters.

@redman44, you are right, its not just about not regretting leaving naija, how many of them come back better than they were when they left? Its not right to say you dont regret yet you come back to naija and use my car here and squat in my BQ. Some even beg for flight ticket money to go back.
Your 85% stats is wrong, more like 95% are suffering there.

Horayce:

I wanted to leave when I was younger like everyone else. But as I aged, abroad lost its appeal to me. Call me what u will, I'm someone who cringes anytime I see black people abroad posing unabashedly infront of a landmark or impressive display a white man built with his brains, sweat and toil. I will live in Africa and will die in Africa. Lets roll up our sleeves and do what needs to be done to propel the black race. Africa is home

I will never leave naija, unless in a coffin. The type of opportunities I jam everyday is surprising. My tap root is digging deeper into naija and making it impossible to leave. For those outside, goodluck.

debosky:

Sharrap there. . . . . yeye boy that applied for visa to sample oyinbo kitty.  

debo, know what, I think oyibo girls cant lay a finger on our naija sisters. The one tumbling with me earlier today was da bomb! Never seen anything like it before.

justwise:

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Wake up from your nightmare

Am wide awake now, come and work in ma plantation?

190:

debosky is pissed because ive stayed abroad for 19yrs and hes only 19days old in london

19 years abroad? Congrats, have you started growing natural curly hair yet?

chiegemba:

enough 2 know dat i dont ave 2 reply 2 your post so I'll pretend I didnt c your post. . .  

Used to have an enugu state GF by name Chiegeonu Mbah, I pray it shouldnt be you.

gmyguy:

just a trick blog to get the i.d of nairalanders foreign-based!!!

Are they so important, or do you think its everyone that is foreign based that has any value?

chiegemba:

True talk!!! thumbs up. . . .  dere r some posts/ thread dat isnt worth replyin sef . . . . its just energy channeled 2wards d wrong direction majorly. . . .  hahahaha na true talk my broda. . .  i just remember now  btw wen i suppose visit sef

Isnt worth replying yet you replied? What wisdom you have.

Siena:

But how can you speak for others? You can only speak for yourself. Everyone will have different memories of Nigeria, and home means different things to different people.

Home will always mean many things to anyone, till the truth hits them in the face and they are forced to eat their words. Then they come back and face the real 'home'
ask those ibos who ran back during sharia riots or abiola riots.

Siena:

Hmmh, you sound so bitter, and full of bile. Not everyone will share your views.

Bitter? You are wrong there. Just pointing out the truth in fake living, a butterfly mistaking itself to be a bird should be told the truth.

buzugee:

come to think of it, technically i moved abroad (to nigeria) and now i am back home ?

Welcome back, dont come again.

See the pretenders, not regretting serving oyibo after your fathers have slaved for him and they bought and enslaved your grand parents. Continue the slavery, wonder why you even bother calling home or coming back.

Eemah:

[b][b]What do you mean by Sharrap ? when the dump journalist reported a lie to you didnt tell him to sharrrap now that am giving you an authentic version you are telling me to Sharrap. OLODO.[/b][/b]

Good to see you have woken up from the sleep I sent you to three days ago. Now sit down and read.

knotty:

Igbo names and its people are in constant denial. this is another proof that you guys are not to be taken seriously. you are not constant. you are iffy. one moment here, the next moment there.
i wonder how many times OBJ would have  by now changed his name/aliases given the vilification he had suffered in the hands of Ndiigbo.
i wonder how many handles IBB will have if he were a NLer, given the abuse he had received here.
but our Ogbuefi is chickening out because he had been identified for who he truly is: one ethnocentric mofo who sees nothing good in humanity except that humanity is rooted in Biafra.
good riddance, jare, to the worst rubbish ever spewed on these hallowed pages.

You are biased, you have more hatered in you than the known tribalists. Please settle issues rather than call names.

redsun:

Genetically altered seeds and incessant use of pesticides are hazardous to d environment and consumers,something oyinbo will never tell u but if u ve a bit of comon sense,u should know that.Nigeria doesn't those bulls-hit that is already backfiring on dem

You have not taken your drugs, I and your psychiatric nurse had been looking for you.

And they go there and continue to loot, steal, hack, dupe, cheat, lie, extort, bribe and sell their bodies? No they better stay here, the ones that ran away should be caught and boxed in containers and sent to Nigeria.

Sounds like good business to me, the imports should continue jare.

Aigbofa:


It's okay. Just the same folks who see you in their dreams with a big azz machete in hand and chasing them towards the Biafran border.

No biggie.

But, what about those huge mothafuxing Ibo boys who will willingly eat you for breakfast?

bk.babe97y:

I see the Ibos are voting for me en-masse. Say this was the Presidential Election, I'd have swept the Eastern Region!

Yes oo bros, only that nobody will be foolish enough to allow you rule, you will be worse than idi amin.