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Interesting. So real estate investment is safer in USA than Nigeria eh.

I am glad a couple of you made a distinction of where to invest in Nigeria but falsely claim it is all safe abroad. I laugh laffu laffu so tey, ai becomu taya.

Be careful where you buy a house in the US. Even in "good" areas usually referred to as white areas, your white neighbors can desert the area until the value of houses in the area go down.

Luckily, Africans hardly buy in Black neighborhoods or in the ghetto as they call it. Despite whites flights when Blacks move in, there are some very good Black neighborhoods like Texas. If you do not cut your grass or keep the house up, your Black neighbors will visit you.

In short if you buy house in Nigeria where you know well and where you are known, you do not have issues with Omo Onile.

I can understand the fear about Port Harcourt from the days of the War.

Respect for Emeagwali's work in the Western world. There is no Black that achieved as much as he did abroad that has not been disputed. Including (by) some of his own people.

Right now at Harvard, the work of Black scholars are being scrutinized for frivolous plagiarism since former Harvard President that happened to be the First Black woman was brought down based on anti Israel demonstration by students.

Again you are wrong. Nigerians find justification for anything before they reason out the modalities.

If you have loads of Naira buried in the graveyard to take to bureau du change or the opportunity to corner an allocation, you may be right. This is not most Nigerians that Japa.

Decision whether to buy or rent depends or credit record, how much you are paying in rent, the down payment which deter many people, where you are buying and how small or big the house is.

This is why the children of home owners with very high incomes than their parents ever earned cannot move out of their parents' basement.


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Rapitex:
*** even if the house get repossessed as a result of not meeting up the payment.. your equity on the house is still guaranteed ** if you plan to stay in abroad for a long time and have the resources, go for mortgage first because in renting a house/ apartment abroad, u may be helping another person to offset his mortgage *** Rent money na dead money in abroad ***

This discussion reminds me of when we only had three or four universities in Nigeria until Obasanjo's reign.

Schools are fundamental to children's development. It is also a place to grow and socialize so that they are not recruited by nefarious groups as thugs and hooligans.

In spite of all the criticism about Western Religion Education that children from other regions benefited from, no region in Nigeria can equal the enlightenment provided by that initial advantage.

This is why Western Region remains the most attractive place for Nigerians, Africans and foreigners.

Some Nigerians are selling houses, cars and land they have no loans or mortgage on to buy tickets and visas. Is this being naive or gullible?

You then celebrate from abroad to Nigerians at home that you own a house in less than two years.

Fail to pay mortgage or taxes, you will find out who own your house.

Some Nigerians hate themselves so much, they are willing to justify apartheid in their own Country while other Africans lost their lives to overcome it.

His academic prowess extends beyond standardised tests. In the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with a score of 358, he ranked as the second best in Nigeria for the year 2023.

Who came first?

Each time I watch Jonathan and Obasanjo advocate what they refused to implement when they were in Power, I feel sorry for the Country. Even Danjuma advocate taking up arms to defend their communities.

When you guys were in Power, what were you smoking since you were blinded by fealty to the Fulani

Waiting to see a sensible comment.

So if a Yoruba man is denied entry into a Chinese store in Nigeria, an Igbo man would be allowed in.

Where is your brain?

Spraying money started with praise singers and drummers. They used to call musicians ALAGBE.

It went viral with spraying women and celebrants until it went haywire with monimissroad.

Good points but not entirely correct.

You do have the right to video anyone in a public place. What you do not have the right to do is publish it on the social media. Note the difference.

If you only have the right to video when something goes wrong, it kills the right to start it in the first place.

immortalcrown:
You can be sued for this nonsense.

Did you ask for their permissions before taking and posting their picture?

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Many have quoted me and said that the poster does not need the couple's permission. Ignorance is a disease. Many of you cannot escape (avoid) jail if you japa. Your right ends where another person's right begins.

You can secretly snap someone in public and get free if not caught. But releasing the picture to the public or using it in any manner against the person's wish is an offense if you are caught. There is a reason a public place with CCTV usually has a public notice for the camera.

The only time you have the right to snap someone without his or her consent in public or even in private is when the person does something that affects the right of another person. Examples are theft, fight and vandalism. But for someone just moving on his own without trespassing, you don't have the right to snap the person.

For the first time, Israeli have come to realize they are at the mercy of United States.

If Iran is as reckless as Israel, they would not have given warnings about their strike against Israel.

United States warned Israel about acting as a spoiled brat. Iran manufactures its weapons. Even Russia asked Iran for drones against Ukraine.

Israel must listen to those that installed it or perish. Even during the time of Trump as President, Iran struck US military base in the same Middle East after warning.

Iran's point is that no country is invisible to their strike.

Most of the ignoramus here claiming "in civilized climes" do not know it is a criminal offense to hit elderly in their worshipped countries abroad.

They have preference for elderly in lines, on busses and trains they reserve seats for the handicaps and elderly.

African cultures do not write it down, we practice it. This is how those who hit elders in public graduate to hitting their parents.

The video of a man who was tied to a tree and canned for hitting his mother went viral recently.

Oru, Eru or Osu are embarrassing cultures dropped in most part of Nigeria. But Almagiri still prevail in the North.

Yoruba culture denounced Eru. By the saying that Eru is born the same way a free child is born.

Where else in the countries of those who made you Christians and Muslims do we have weekly resurrections of the dead?

In Nigeria, pastors have the enfontry to claim criminal defamation against those who exposed or challenged them.

How low can we go with corruption of the mind and brain everywhere?

Indeed, colonial opportunists learned African languages and learned some of the cultures of the people they conquered in order to steal African natural resources and talents. They had to demonize African cultures in order to make theirs attractive as the better alternative. We are now at a stage where we use all our savings, sell properties to travel abroad for a fresh start at the bottom of the ladder. Enough to start a small business at home but not last a month abroad.

Gradual training of parents starts with parents clearing the dining table and washing their own dishes or clothes. A situation that cannot be husband's task in Nigeria. Within a family, the responsibilities of the youngest kid in the family to that of the father and mother are clear and indisputable. A recent case went viral on social media when the youngest kid in the family revolted against the brothers and sister, saying that he was not their slave.

The road to the breakdown of respect within climbs higher to the father in Diaspora. A childhood friend hated washing dishes so much, he swore that once he left home he would never wash dishes again. A couple of years after high school, he went abroad for college and later got married to a foreigner. He found himself washing dishes again until his children got older. He strictly enforced the training he got in Africa.

One of our moneybags visited one of his children that he had spent a fortune training abroad. He was shocked when his own grown child told him to clear and wash his own plate. Needless to say, he stopped paying the fees and boarding. In those days, students abroad worked to pay school fees and rent. Yet, we never asked our parents to wash their dishes or clothes when they visited us.

What changed is acculturation that has overtaken the African way of life. It is not about washing your own dishes or clothes, a simple action that can be performed by anyone. But respect and acceptance of one another to further amicable coexistence within social animals, not only humans. Once the simple task within families breaks down, it leads to domino's effect extending beyond families.

There are some powerful women that insisted on cooking for their husbands despite available househelps and cooks. Former British Prime, Margaret Thatcher enjoyed making breakfast for her husband. So did Dora Akunyili and the billionaire Folunrunsho Alakija until their recent separation. In Diaspora, her children might “train” her to stop cooking for her husband. Most husbands outside their homes are like a fish outside of water.

There is a certain respect we show one another out of courtesy, not because our elders are lame or infirm. A wife who enjoys cooking and serving her husband may not be happy if he refuses to eat. On our first day at one job, our boss told us there was no task he could not perform. But if he asked any of us to perform a task and we would not do it satisfactorily, he would do the task himself. The hint was enough for a wise employee.

Some of us were surprised that Europeans, Americans and Asians, unlike some Africans and African Americans in the Diaspora, respect the head of the families. This is why you rarely see the white women or Asians call the Police on their husbands as often as Black's in the Diaspora. The fact is, the only place Black men have as much respect at home as Europeans, white Americans and Asians; is in Africa!

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/332584/lost-children-to-good-education-alien-cultures-train-the.html

[center]LOST CHILDREN TO “GOOD” EDUCATION & ALIEN CULTURES TRAIN THEIR PARENTS
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There is nothing worse than losing your culture and your children at the same time to alien behavior that eviscerates whatever good is left in your way of life. It is so insidious, by the time rich parents realize what they have spent most, if not all the money they had from sweat, blood and tears, it is too late. No other Continent spends as much money selling out their cultures and children as Africans.

If you do not learn from your culture, your children will train you for others'. The first casualty of these children is their mothers that are the favorites willing to accommodate their tendencies in order to assimilate them into a new more “civilized” culture than those of Africa. It is not different from how we became the only Continent without widely accepted indigenous religion while we adopted Western and Eastern religions.

Mothers are very precious. They are our first call as little children in time of need and solace. So it is not surprising that they are the ones called overseas to take care of grandchildren or are sent tickets for vacation to see the outside world. Usually, the fathers are left at home because they are not as useful overseas for babysitting or helping with chores at home. The mothers cannot watch the hustling and bustling overseas and not pity their children.

When the fathers go on holiday with his own money, he is more relaxed. But not on the tickets of the children. The last time he saw the children could have been when they came home on vacation. Though he had spent most of his savings on the children, it is the mother that takes more credits. While out working for the family, the mother is bonding with the children. There is an awkward distance unless fathers spend quality time with their children while growing up.

The point here is that the father no longer commands the awe he did in his home or his country. When told that they saw his uncle shopping at the market alone, the father’s nephew would explain that his wife had gone abroad to take care of the grandchildren. After all, he sent his children abroad to get a “good” education, not him. Cutting his nose to spite his face. So who would help him out at home?

There is nothing wrong with learning new skills, language or culture but there is everything wrong with how we use them. Our earlier Activists and conscientious Independence fighters, learned how to fight the colonial opportunists with their own language, law and the Freedom they preach but deny others. Africans soldiers fought in World War I and II for the Freedom they were denied at home.

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You cannot get it through your thick skull that there are lazier and worse people in your country who have access to the Treasury through political and ethnic loyalty than African Americans in their country.

Kettle calling both pot and charcoal black.

They are brave enough to fight for Human Rights that are taken away from them again and again. You back and melt into a wall rather than fight your own ethnic corruption.

bishop212:
please relax, reread and try to understand what the guy is saying. they fought for the freedom, now theyve gotten it, why not utilize that freedom to d fullest? why now abuse that freedom by lazying around, not wanting to be corrected etc? hes not the first to mention this, many right thinking african americans condemn this behavior of their own people.Black are lazy and have entitlement mentality.you dare nit correct them.

This is the consequences of not teaching African History in schools. Even before dropping History in schools recently, the older Africans in Africa learn European and British history before African history was introduced in the 60s.

So we should not be surprised by the self denigrating arguments by African Youths against Africans and African Americans.

But note that the only place African Americans lag behind or stuck is in America. Once they cross the border either into Canada or Europe, you hardly find poor African Americans.

By the way African Americans do better in your backyard Nigeria where most Nigerians wallow in abject poverty.

Who cursed you or put you in Dark Continent for hundred years while they steal all your invections and discoveries as theirs?

Look at their rational for gay sucking of dick. It is not different from those of our girls going to Arab countries to open their mouths for men to shit inside. Just for one hundred US dollar bill.

aribisala0:
So what will we say about Dangote?
We should make a statue band worship it forever

Their Celebration, as usual, is too early but encouraging.

But you want a man that will protect your sister and her children

Spagi:
Dey play who wan turn me into a security man WTF.no THANKS

You cannot use baskets to fetch water.

If they tell you imports are not the problem of sinking Naira, they are only concerned about self-interest to the detriment of others and the country they bleed to death.

Women instinct is gear towards who will protect them and their children even if they can afford to invest in your prospect temporarily.

Tigers are not poachers, they can afford to pay younger or older men for sex.

Women are not long term lovers period. Get that into your head and know peace.

I did not see people rushing to China, India, Ethiopia and Somalia during their famine period.

If there is hunger in the West, why are other Nigerians rushing there daily?

Oh oh, I got it. To deliver food, clothes and other relief materials.

Did you jumped into the street with the writer in 2020 when the article was written?

naija4life247:
No, if you the OP jumped into the streets, you can be permanently sent to your creator

HUNGRY & ANGRY YOUTHS CAN ONLY BE TEMPORARILY SUBDUED OR SUPPRESSED

Oct 30, 2020

There are African countries breeding more hungry and angry Youths than any other Continent in the world. We already know they are the face of poverty that has moved from Asia to Africa and sadly increasing. What is obvious in most African countries is the impunity, indifference and arrogance of the minority Nouveau riche that are spiteful to the majority of poor people under them. Though most call themselves civil servants.

When masses are fed up, it only takes the last straw to break the camel's back as we saw in Morocco where one unemployed graduate sparked revolt. Recovery becomes hard and long resulting in the rich eating one another as the poverty stricken cold hands reach into privileged class and grip those that refuse to listen to the voices of reasonable masses. It happened in Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan before it got to Libya (made worse by imperialist opportunists). Yet, greed for loot and power, blind Nigeria’s stubborn Vagabonds in Power.

The sheer complacency that hunger, anger and spite can be suppressed by brutal force of the Police and the Army, is unsustainable to prop up civil peace, law and order. Maybe for a while, until it erupts out of the bottle when enough numbers of the Armed Forces revolt against the same people they are supposed to protect from the masses. You can never pay the Police or Army enough to kill large numbers of people before they put their own lives and that of their families

omoaresa1
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1039427/hungry-angry-youths-can-only-be-temporarily-subd.html

What is the point of conspicuous spenders other than to spite in the midst of abject poverty so that the poor can break their neck imitating you by any means: Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Rituals, 419, Drug peddling and any type of nefarious activities.

If you have too much money than you can spend in abject poverty, those you challenge will waylay you or those who cannot afford security.

May sound simplistic but this is the mentality of Nigerians.

Desperadoes would buy dollars at any rate, no matter the risk. It is not new but to use that as excuses to keep US dollars flowing in, no matter the consequences, is new.

Americans do not spend 100 or even 50 dollar bills. Most stores do not take them without crumbling. Yet, those bills are more abundant outside than inside America

Why? You can only exchange them among high rollers to boost American economy while you drain your own country.

Again, remember that what used to keep Naira at par with dollar was the punishment of smugglers of foreign currencies and foreign goods.

malcom1X:
The problem is lack of Nigeria's export.

But come to think of it, you no for like wear some nice jeans?

nairalanda1,

While I generally agree with you, I disagree that the ethnic champion in power benefits his people.

Let us agree that the cronies of his ethnic group benefit. As much as we cry against Northern domination when in power, it has not made any difference to the majority of Northerners or the conquered Hausa.

How did Obasanjo help his people when he gloats as the most detribalized Nigerian?

Even Jonathan as a Biafran with powerful Igbo cabinet left environmental degradation in Niger Delta worse than he met it.

Despite Peter Obi Pandora, his drug mule Chinenye in Peru prison and kicking out other Igbo from Anambra Civil Service, they still think he is a Messiah!