BabaRamota1980:
In terms of resourcefullness, manpower and skills, Nigeria is ahead of Canada, man to man. Canada should be on the bottom list of countries Nigerians should go. Infact, until 15 or 20yrs ago Nigerians would turn down offer to migrate to Canada. So what changed, and now every fool wants to go to Canada? The influence of human traffickers/salesmen and Churches. These two factors have contributed massively to this point that Canada has earned high profile as a destination country.

The reality of harsh conditions in Canada is hidden. Blackman loves things that glitter. So when they see pictures of buildings and streets in their glittering lights, polished and gleaming they are instantly enamored, and begin to imagine themselves walking on that street, living in those homes and occupying a office desk in those skycrapers. So when a trafficker approaches with an offer to help with visa it is a easy sell.

Reality happen when they are taken from airport to a refugee tent like this one.

Those who are lucky to get work visa are no better. They must pay rent, pay for electricity, pay for heating, pay for water, pay parking, pay trash collection. Goes to store to purchase food and must pay tax on top. Pay tax on income, pay toll tax, pay car registration tax, inspection tax...and upon all this lives in a neighborhood opposite of the glamor and glitter of Canada in pictures. He works in the skyscraper buildings but in security uniform.

Canada is a very big country, almost half the size of Africa, if not more. Yet, they have less than five metropolitan cities. Vancouver, Ontario, Quebec, Toronto. Thats it! It is wrong to say Canada is cold. Canada is frigid! Six months of the year you will be in thick socks and boots, jackets and gloves. Streets are deserted. Dark even at 3:30pm because Sun will set at about 3pm. Everyone stays off the streets, so then loneliness sets in.

Those caught up in the ugliness of this drama are too dissapointed and ashamed to own up and say they wished they had stayed the fck out of this desolate land. If they dont cry, others dont know not to go in.

Canada needs to boost economy, it is using migration to uplift labor lifestyle for its citizens and also keep a high population of taxable earners.

You said in terms of resourcefulness, manpower and skills, Nigeria is ahead of Canada. Seriously, are you for real? Do you realize that Canada is a country of just 39m people but has the world's 8th largest economy?

So paying for services is now bad from your post. So you don't pay for electricity,rent,car registration,taxes etc in Nigeria abi? Anyway I'm not surprised. After all, is it not in Nigeria people bypass prepaid meters so that they don't pay for light, is it not in Nigeria where an employer can owe their workers salary for months cos nobody wants to pay for anything in Nigeria so I can clearly understand your wacky mentality.

You said that Canada has less than 5 metropolitan cities, seriously? From your post you don't even know the difference between a province and a city yet you are writing trash.

By the way sun does not set at 3pm during the winter, it sets at 5pm. You also did not mention that in the spring and summer period, the same sun sets at 10pm. This is nature, it is not created by man

You guys are masters of trashing countries better than yours but you can't channel that same energy to hold your own leaders who are responsible for this mess accountable.

Common sense should tell you that these increasing wave of asylum is as a result of Nigeria getting worse. If Nigeria was thriving, why would people take such a risk. Rather than attack the root cause, you will rather trash a country that tries to cater for her people to the extent that they have food banks where the poor can go and collect free food but your own government hoarded covid palliatives until citizens broke the warehouses and took it by force.

I don't know how Nigeria is breeding illiterates that sit in the corner of their villages and be writing trash online.

By the way, I'm not in anyway supporting japa by all means, that's stupidity. I have made my position on this clear in this forum

Jewessgratitud3:
The place that humbles Nigerian men.

Please come back and stop complaining. We know wetin make you dey complain cos no freedom to live anyhow.

Nobody who has lived in highbrow modern estates in the Island or Abuja will come abroad and be surprised about the quietness "isolation" of the place.

Who does he want to see on the road? People going to buy indomie or satchet milk or pure water on road side shops or Aboki kiosk? Does he think he is in Mushin?

By the way, some of these things are just to create content for views,shares and likes. If he was serious, he would have said the name of the road, the day of the week and time of the day he was making that video. At least that would have provided the appropriate context to make a better judgment of the situation.

What if it was a public holiday morning in a mostly business district, would that be a surprise?

Make dem dey deceive people wey never travel out of Nigeria before.

sukkot:
but brother if you deliver a shoddy job just to collect your money that means you are not hardworking lol

Oga Sukkot, I understand what you are saying. But I think you are not getting the context right in my opinion

I believe hardworking means someone who invests his time, energy,resources,convenience etc into a work. But whether he produces satisfactory output is a different matter.

For example, If a persons leaves home by 5am in order to get to work by 8am, closes by 5pm to get home by 10pm as most Lagosians do, then that's hardwork. That routine is not a child's play. However, half of his time at work might be used to chat instead of being productive so while he is depriving himself sleep to go to work, we can say he is working hard but unproductive.

The reason why lots of Nigerians are unproductive is because we don't see our work as a service but just a means to get money. It's like I put in the effort, you pay me my money. Whether the result is unsatisfactory or not that one no concern me,just pay me my money.

I think we are hardworking but unprofessional and unproductive

sukkot:
truth of the matter is that if you are a social animal and you hate working hard and you like awoof you will absolutely hate living in the west. Those 3 things I described is the typical naija person right ? Love to parrryyyyy and if you employ them they will spend half the time gisting or playing on the job and they like awoof like this is why naijas love 419 or olosho, it’s like awoof easy money. Ehn so this is why many get miserable in the west. The west there is no socializing, nobody has your time, the west there is no free money and finally if white man employs you to do 10 hours walahi you will do all 10 hours no slacking. And so this why Nigerians get miserable in the west but if you are a rare type of Nigerian who is a hermit and you are a loner who hates socializing and you hate awoof money and you just loveee working extremely hard, you will love oyinbo country

I agree with you except on 2 issues.
The west is not anti social as you portray it. Anyone who wants to be social will always find social things to do, the thing is there is time to work and time to play, we don't mix it up, it is an organized society

You are right when you say people don't have your time in the west but in Nigeria the reason why people have your time is not necessarily by choice but by design.


For instance, when you live in a flat and you don't have light on a Saturday evening with heat making your life miserable, what do you do? You will come out to receive fresh air, your neighbors experiencing the same thing will come out too before you know it you are chatting and laughing with your neighbors, getting to know them and forming some kind of bond. When you go across the street to buy something, you meet someone that lives across the street coming to the same shop and you start talking. If Nigeria is a country with 24/7 light, you have AC and cheap unlimited wifi internet and no street trading like we have here, do you think people will be coming out to chat with neighbors? The streets will be quieter as people will rather watch movies, chop kpomo etc than coming out to gossip and feel good. People will have less time for neighbors. For example, how many people do you see on the street in those beautiful estates in Lekki and Ikoyi compared to streets in Ogba,Ojota, Surulere etc?

Secondly Nigerians work hard. The only problem with Nigerians is lack of quality customer service orientation. He can work all the hard but deliver a shoddy job cos he cares less about quality but just the money. If his salary is guaranteed at the end of the month, he can leave his house by 5am and get to work by 7am and still play around without delivering any tangible output and come back by 10pm. If his pay is dependent on finishing the job, he can even work overnight without sleep but delivers a shoddy job just to collect his money. Our service level in Nigeria is too poor cos all we care about is money not necessarily that we don't work hard.

I can see some people making excuses for BAs. I'm not a fan of excuses or blame game cos if we dwell on that, it will end up pointing back to God and the question will be God, why did you create the world. Excuses and blame is the only thing everyone can do effortlessly without going to school to learn it.

I don't in anyway downplay the past terrible experiences of BAs, the same way I don't downplay that of black nations who suffered colonization and exploitation. Both BAs and black nations suffered in the past. However, this is 2023 and these excuses are now moot. If not, the question will be at what point P or time T or year Y or moment M are we going to break from the past? 50 years from now? 100 years? What has happened in the past despite how terrible it was can't be undone unfortunately so what happens next?

There is nothing wrong with failure. Failure is normal and part of life but you have to own it. If you fail, rather than excuses or blame game, own it and work harder to change the story. If not, in the next 100 years nothing will change after all you will have something to blame it on.

Japan is the only country that has been nuked. The 2nd world war brought Japan to her knees. But Japan rose from the ashes of the war to become the world's 2nd largest economy despite not having natural resources. China just overtook them last decade.

If Japan was a black nation, they would have used the nuclear attack as an excuse to fail. They will tell you that it will take 200 years to recover. If Japan was an Arab nation, they will use that excuse to birth many terror groups. In fact, they would have had more terror organizations than factories, they will use that unfortunate event as a rallying cry to not move forward

Like I said before, there is no need singling out BAs among other blacks. The reality is that collectively, every black group has failed whether BAs or Black African nations. The question now is what are we doing now to ensure that the future is better? If not, by 2080 this narrative will still be in play.

I rest my case.

@OP,

I understand what you are saying but you need to understand that it is not just a black American problem but the entire black race problem.

The unfortunate problem with our black race is that it seems like there are more idiots than sensible people unlike other races where it seems like there are more sensible people than idiots. This is why from Nigeria to Ghana to South Africa to Jamaica to Haiti etc, there is no black dominated nation that is up there, they are all in a mess. Even the non black countries that were also colonized have all left us behind.

Black Americans aren't immuned to this mess. The reason why African born blacks (Immigrants) are different and don't do like Black Americans in America is that we know where we are coming from and we have gotten sense by force.

Far majority of Black Americans haven't stepped their foot outside America so they don't even know that a lot of their black brothers in Africa don't even have the basics like electricity and running water. They don't know that those their ghettos they live in Chicago and Detroit are heaven compared to the Ghettos in Africa. They don't know that they have more oportunnities to become successful than their black brothers in Africa.

They only way to change their ways is to ship them to Africa to live for 6 months and experience life and come back to America, when they come back to America their eyes will be clear. They will begin to see oportunnities and readjust their lifestyle

This is the same thing with say majority of Nigerians in Nigeria. They were born into and have lived all their life in a flawed society so they can't differentiate right from wrong. They don't see the rot cos that's all they have been seeing so they are used to it.
During the last election for example, majority of Nigerians abroad wanted a change. In fact, Nigerians from all tribes were almost united in their choice of leader. Nobody was interested in tribe or religion, diasporans just wanted the best man for the job. Compare it to Nigeria where the focus was just my tribe my tribe. So why the difference in mentality? It is because diasporans have experienced both worlds and have become wiser and have seen the flaw that has kept the country down but majority of Nigerians in Nigeria will not see that as they haven't experienced the other world. Like I said about black Americans, if you ship majority of Nigerians in Nigeria to live abroad for 6 months, by the time they come back, they will begin to realize that sleeping in darkness, driving on bad roads, living in a unorganized society etc is actually bad and they are being cheated by their leaders, but right now majority don't even care cos that is the only world they have known and this affects their behavior.

Sorry guys for using the word "idiot". I hope you all understand what I'm trying to say.

justwise:


Its not that simple, you can't support Palestinians without indirectly supporting Hamas, Hamas runs the whole show.

I don't think so. There are lots of Palestinians who don't support Hamas. However, like repressive societies, they can't voice out else they get killed. Supporting Palestinians I mean, is trying to prevent them from being collateral damage for Hamas terrorism. Unfortunately Hamas doesn't care 1 bit for Gaza civilians. I'll agree it's a complicated situation

It's perfectly in order. They are not against people who are in support or protesting for Palestinians, those views are welcomed.
But to back Hamas? No naa. If you want to support terrorism then go to where it is allowed.

ednut1:
Lol. To me it’s disingenuous to blame Nigerians. If they don't collect the 1k votes will still be manufactured in their polling unit.
While you were in Nigeria did you protest or fight the government No. But you want people to go protest and fight so they can be killed like during end sars 🤔

I agree with you. It is actually not the fault of Nigerians. They don't have that luxury of removing a bad or unperfoming leader even if they want to.

So whether they vote or not vote, collect money or not, it doesn't matter,they are powerless to effect any real change.

Protest will not work cos even if they overcome police brutality, they will surely not overcome ethnic considerations so I think we just have to wait until God comes down from heaven to ...........

I agree with you. If you must japa, cross your I's and dot your T's .

Don't japa carelessly and leave everything to chance. Do a proper research and have a short, medium and long term plan on how to navigate the system.

If you japa anyhow, you will suffer and regret it, you will be like our own oga sukkot who japaed, suffered, failed and came back to Nigeria to assume the position of nairaland carrier and ambassador of bad news for Nigerians abroad

Japa responsibly, don't be like sukkot .
Abroad is not heaven, you are warned!!!!

The lie is obvious so he shouldn't blame the immigration officer or push this racism narrative.
You are going for vacation in November when winter is almost set with a heavily pregnant wife about to deliver. Haba naa. I think he should have just opened up

jieta:
Even if he did not tag the person as wicked, he will rush and open another thread that Nigerians in Canada are suffering, because a Nigerian in Canada could not meet his need. Unsatisfied phillinstians, go look for your help elsewhere.

He is not looking for any help. He is just trying to stir up their useless naija vs abroad debate.

Enculer2:
Abeg experts in the house help me out here. The time to get our Canadian mobile is here and I need your advice.

We have used our French data for a few months now (20 euros per month) but it is time to get a Canadian mobile plan.

We used textme plus our French mone but time to do a full switch.

What mobile data do you use. We are in the GTA. Does 50 dollars à month for 40 GB with Freedom mobile make sense?

Huge gulf in mobile communication between Canada and France by the way. The gulf is scary.

The best way to get the cheapest rate in Ontario is to play them at their own game. Sign up and after 2 days call them and tell them you want to cancel. They will ask you why, tell them you got a cheaper plan from another carrier, in other not to loose you, they will offer you a reduced price, take it and after 2 days, call them again that you want to cancel with the same reason, they will try again to keep you, take the new price and simultaneously do the same thing with other carriers, at the end you may end up paying $20 instead of the $50 quoted on their website. Once you get the best deal from any of them and the other carrier can't match it,you can now cancel one finally

I didn't know this till I was speaking with a colleague who was using the same plan with me but pay 50% cheaper price than me and that is when I knew the trick and swung into action. I played Roger's and Virgin till I got a deal too good to be true. You really need to understand the marketing tricks in this country else soap go enter ya eye

Modified: Make sure you read the fine print and play the game within the free cancellation period. I know Roger's allows for 30 days free cancellation without penalty

Raskimonojendor:

That's why I laugh when I see some idiot liberal yorubas pandering to the ibos. Ibos were claiming the last election was the source of bigotry asper GRV. They would avoid to tell you that Gov Adeleke's mum is Ibo too, and that it was GRV's tribal posts from the past that did him in.

The hatred has always been there from as far back as the civil war. It never went away. Even Peter Obi weaponized the hatred during his APGA days in Anambra by calling Ngige's party a Yoruba one.

I am glad all these posts are popping up everywhere on social media.. Lots of the so called liberal yorubas are cursing out ibos on twitters. it would make 2027 elections even more interesting

Brother, there are liberal Yorubas, liberal Igbos, Liberal Fulanis, Liberal Hausas, Liberal Ijaws etc. In fact, there are liberal people in every tribe. These are people who see beyond their tribe and treat people equally without bias and it is a very good thing.

The tribal hatred in Nigeria is universal, it is not one sided. This is why I don't near front page, politics and crime sections of nairaland. The kind of hatred I see there is so hot that it can boil beans. I restrict my association with nairaland just on romance,travel and properties. I don't want to be part of that nonsense. Yet we complain about racism and xenophobia which is even nothing compared to tribal hatred that exists amongst us in Nigeria.

Look at how people are triggered by an irrelevant post of an idiot on Twitter. Is he posting that on behalf of his tribe as the spokesman of his tribe or his personal stupidity? We have also had people insult Igbos, hausas etc on the same Twitter, should we now amplify our tribal wars because of the idiots among us spewing nonsense?

No tribe is better or superior than the other. If you believe in tribal supremacy then you have validated the notion that the other races are superior to the black race, we can't have it both ways.

By the way, you are talking about 2027 when we have not even survived 2023. If we continue to make our politics a tribal contest, then we will continue to fail as a country. The reason is because if you are a tribalist, you will see politics and leadership as a win-lose situation instead of a win-win. A politician sang " as e dey pain them, e dey sweet us, as e dey sweet us e dey pain them". This kind of mentality is counterproductive because to build a better society, you need to harness the strength of everyone otherwise it will be a lose-lose for everyone as hardship doesn't know tribe or religion, it weeps everyone.

Brother, let us all change our mentality not just for our sake but for our children cos if pass a hateful country to the next generation, it would catastrophic. One luv!

studyless123:



You're wrong. That piece which originally was from Bloomberg yesterday was talking about Newcomers.
"New research suggests more newcomers to Canada have chosen to leave in recent years" Newcomers cannot move to US. It's even difficult to get an appointment from US embassy in Canada compared to Nigeria and it has been so for many years. Maybe you didn't read the piece but the theory is that what they expected was different from what they saw.

For the professionals, that is well known that Canadian citizens move to the US for more remuneration, less taxes and better healthcare.

You are interpreting the article as is which is okay but as someone on ground I'm now telling you there is more to it.

First of all, immigration to the west is a 3rd world adventure. Citizens of first world countries hardly migrate. You hardly see someone from say Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, western Europe etc migrating to North America. Why would they do that when the standard of living in those countries are even better than ones in Canada or the US.

So who are those leaving? Is it the common man who migrated from India,China,Philippines,Pakistan,Nigeria etc? So they are going back to their country because all of a sudden, their country is now better than Canada? Why did they leave their country in the first place? Do you see Nigerians trooping back to Nigeria from Canada or are we not part of the newcomers?

I'm not saying people don't leave but not in any way like this article is trying to paint it. See, the opposition party has been critical of the current government immigration policy and has branded it a failure and they have a point. So it is not uncommon for someone who is angry with the government to push that narrative cos it is indirectly calling the government who is responsible for immigration a failure.

You can believe anything you want to believe sha.

rinzylee:
Would you sell lands and houses to japa through the Masters route?


Or


Would you rather invest back home and grow that business to a multimillion venture?


Given Canada, UK, Australia, USA, Germany .. which country is worth the risk?

madone:
I have not seen one Nigerian come back from Canada. People where do they run to. UK is bad no job no good housing, taxes are too much. US is bad gun violence, Russia is bad racism, North Korea is bad Kim jong Hong is there.
My brother where come good.

No where is 100% good. Every country, system, policy, anything in this life etc comes with both positive and negatives.

The problem is that a lot of people don't even know what they want out of life and a lot of people also don't know how to analyze and evaluate issues.

A place,policy,country in short anything is said to be good if the positive outweighs the negative. That means you have to list all the positive and negatives and weigh them to see which outweighs the other and match it to your aspirations and ambitions of your life not another person's aspirations.

What happens is that most of us don't know what we want or just want everything. You can't have it all,choose your battle. For example, someone doesn't want to pay tax but want 24/7 light, water, good roads, world class infrastructure, quality education,quality healthcare,security etc, that is not possible, so you either stay where you don't pay taxes and manage whatever service you get and don't complain or you pay the tax, get the services and don't complain.

In Canada, whether you are jobless, homeless,rich poor etc, as long as you are a citizen or PR, your healthcare treatment is free of charge. My wife had a medical procedure of recent that would have cost us $17k if we were to pay but we paid nothing. This is one of the reasons why our taxes are higher than say USA cos of the universal health care funded by tax payers.

If people can just define what they want and make proper analysis, all these useless threads and complains on this forum will disappear

ednut1:
the way some of you come here to talk rubbish ehn. I came to Canada as a pr in june 2020. I stayed outside canada for a total of 39 days. So by end of July I completely the 3 years. Applied for citizenship and will become a citizen this month. This is the email for my oath taking ceremony . Desist from putting mouth in things you don’t know 🤣

Congrats. I became a citizen 2 years ago. I hope you will not jump to the US in search of more money after you collect ya passport

Moving out of Canada to where? This should be the question. Immigrants are moving out of Canada but not back to the shithole or third world country they came from.

They are moving mostly to the US and the reason is obvious. You make more money in the US than Canada and the cost of living is slightly lower in the US than Canada. So once they get the Canadian passport which allows them to work in the US, they move to the US to earn better money. So Canada is losing a lot of talents to the US and unfortunately for Canada they can't compete with the US.

In my own circle of Nigerian professionals, 5 people I know have relocated to the US from Canada to get better money. I have been tempted to move to the US lately. In fact, 2 weeks ago, I turned down an offer to move at the dieing minute as my liver failed me. The reason why I don't want to live in the US is due to gun violence and their toxic politics in the age of Trump otherwise I would have joined that movement. I prefer Canada due to those reasons.

So when they say immigrants are leaving, they are leaving to the US using their Canadian citizenship. Canada bothering the US is both good and bad for them. The good thing is that because of trade with the US, they are 8th world largest economy despite being a country of 39million people but the bad thing is that Canadian citizens being able to work in the US means they will continue to lose talents to the US as the US presents a better option economically for immigrants

Voltron007:
1* is warm? Well, me I can’t come and go and die 😅
Despite wearing 3 sweaters plus a winter jacket looking like a terrorist, I’m still freezing.

Is this your first fall/winter? Don't worry you will adjust
My first and second fall/winter was bad. I wore thermal wear,sweaters,jacket and walked like person wey carry shit for yansh
But from my 3rd winter, it seems my body changed and I wasn't feeling that much cold anymore. Now, I only start wearing jacket in January and February, I only wear just thick sweater now till the end of the year, something i couldn't do in my first and second winter.

fullclub:
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can you boast of 25 million?

about 98% never had that full fees..
i have never seen any that have it.

if they have it not up to 50 Nigerians will travel for school abroad. but ask your self why over 58k Nigerians left last year and over 100k left this year.. are Nigerians that rich?

just type POF service on Google and see what i mean

You are right but that's gambling. So it becomes a 50/50 thing. Some are lucky to get job immediately the arrive and their permutations work for them while some won't be that lucky. I don't like taking stupid risks. If I did not have money to last me for 1 year when i migrated, i wouldn't have left Nigeria

I keep saying it, if you want to migrate whether through school, PR etc ensure you have enough money to last you at least 8 months to 1 year. If you don't, you will be under pressure from the day you land and you become desperate. Unfortunately things don't work out well for people who are desperate as they are prone to making mistakes upon mistakes.

I hope and pray it works out for you. Amen

Lexusgs430:


Supreme court would shock Atiku & Obi........ They already said Atiku should proof beyond reasonable doubt, that the certificate is fake........ So in essence, he (atiku), should provide the original for comparisons......... 🤣😁

Miracle no go tire Jesus.......... 😂🤣

Lexusgs430:


Anyone that does not like this submission..... Should go to court........ 😂

Hmmm. I don dey suspect you

Ebi like say you graduate from Chicago State University and na vendor issue you your certificate

AfahaAbia:


Selling off your properties to Japa is one of the most foolish things to do.

Wetin concern you? Do you know him? Do you know his story? Una go just dey chuck mouth dey yarn chochocho. Is it ya property?
Adviser , see ya head like Tinubu Chicago certificate

@op

Stop indirectly mocking Nigerians cos you have a British passport. It's not funny. Let the people breathe.

Gift7428:
Hello NL’s I need you to help me.

So I moved here for my masters with my daughter, she is 11 now, will be 12 in December.

Straight to the point, I leave her for some hours alone at home when I am working.
Sometimes I drop her off at a friend who doesn’t work.
If I am going out for the night and returning same day I leave her alone till I return. For example a friends birthday starting 8pm and finishing 12 am.
I have a camera in my flat that I monitor her with and prompt her on what to do like wee and go to bed.
She doesn’t cook when I am not around, she only microwaves cooked meals.
This is how we have lived our lives for about a year.
Now my neighbor on my right is a Nigerian family with two young kids while the flat on my left is sometimes used as Airbnb.
The camera is quite loud so I suppose the neighbors can hear me.
There is a CCTV in front of the apartment for safety reasons I believe is monitored by the letting agent.
The people who live downstairs don’t even know me.
So one night I went out with course-mates to have a drink around and got back same night.
On Monday of that week my letting agent said police came looking for me and asked if I was in any trouble.
I wasn’t home, my daughter was in school
I said everything was fine I believe.
The next day while I was home they came again, got into my flat and said they got an anonymous call that it seems I left my daughter alone at home. They checked my bathroom, my fridge, was asking what my daughter eats and how much I cook for her. So I told them the truth that I was out for few hours. They said I can only leave her alone when she is 14. They asked to speak with my daughter when she gets back from school. They came back later to speak with her in private and they asked that I excuse them.

After some minutes they came up to me saying my daughter seems happy and well looked after and she seems to have a good relationship with me. They asked that I shouldn’t leave her home alone and contact them if I needed help.
To be honest it’s not easy for me asking for help in a place I don’t have relatives.
So Sunday I was out for few hours and they checked in this Monday again saying they needed my details to pass it to social welfare. I asked the police if everything was okay they said yes but they have to refer to social services.

I really don’t understand or know what to do.
Is anyone monitoring my movements or am I been watched from the CCTV outside my apartment? I am thinking if this is what I cannot cope with then I might have to send her to my mum in December then she returns to the UK when she is 14 years ( if I am still in the UK)
I don’t have extra cash to pay for child minders, I have a minimum wage job and sometimes the people who help are not always available.

Thank you 😊

Oh no! I don't like reading about self inflicted problems. Why did you leave her alone again after escaping the first time with a warning? Just hope this wouldn't escalate.

150k in 2013 was around $900. If he stayed back and his career progressed and he is now earning 1m that means he is still earning around the same $900 today after 10 years.

If he had moved through school at that time, by now he would have had become a citizen of a first world country.

If he got tired of Canada and decides to come back to his fatherland, he would have been coming back to Nigeria with a foreign degree, International work experience and a Canadian passport as a plan B.

With a combination of both local and foreign education, local and foreign work experience, he would still be in a position to land a better job with multinational companies in Nigeria.

Multinational companies in Nigeria still prefer people with a blend of local and international experience so he wouldn't have lost anything at the end.

But many Nigerians are plagued with shortsightedness, lack of ability to see the big picture and instant gratification.

EmirOfNews:
My people in the UK, I'm ready to move in too. I will be applying for visa anytime from January or February but before I take the step, pls, I need this question; HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND WEEKLY OR MONTHLY?

Because as it is now, I'm thinking of killing the idea of moving to the UK due to what my guys (3 friends) there are telling me.

Make I no leave my "better" life here go enter stress that doesn't worth it (according to them).

PLS, HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND WEEKLY OR MONTHLY?

It's not too late for me to forget about it oo. Thanks!!

Do you want to travel or you want to generate another abroad vs Nigeria stupid debate?

What you are asking can be found online if you do your research, you don't need anyone in this forum to tell you, besides everyone case is different except your intention is to start another stupid debate or argument.

As for me, I'll jump and pass.

Please for someone who was supposed to start in September 2023 but had to defer to September 2024 due to delay in visa. Passport was stamped this October, is it compulsory to send IRCC the new September 2024 LOA that just arrived even after visa has already been stamped based on the initial LOA?

I expect that IRCC should know that by stamping the visa in October for a September 2023 program, the person will have to defer.

The Op is using you guys to catch cruise. Don't waste your time responding.

YourGFsnatcher:

I will not advise you to go to Canada. We just finished a webinar on relocation, ALL the participants from Canada are regretting ever going there especially at this moment. Canada was good, but they are undergoing a serious economic crisis, housing has sky rocketed. You need at least three jobs to stay put. On average salary u will spent almost 70% of it on rent. You need other jobs to take care of other bills. Something terrible is currently happening there. But if you want to relocate you can check other countries that are still okay, that are not undergoing any economy crisis. Cos it won't be good to go with your small change and have to spend it all without even fully settling. I will advice you take that job. Your life is set already. You can go to any country for vacation u like with that salary and you will live large in Nigeria. Before you can live large in Canada it ll tale years or the mighty grace of God... u ll only be working hard to keep up with the bills. If you have a car, car insurance alone is 500 dollars monthly. That's almost a small car in Nigeria. This means Before u finish paying your bills, buy a car and pay for everything to drive a car in Canada will not be Bean's. But in Nigeria all these are already made for you.

While there are issues currently, you just exaggerated a lot of things you wrote.
Insurance is not $500 monthly, I don't know where you got that info. Besides, 2 people can have exactly the same car but pay different insurance premiums due to their individual driving records,location and license.

Secondly you said he can go to vacation to any country he likes with that salary, are you for real? How can 500k naira or 1m salary take you to vacation to any country? Do you realize that 1m is less than 1k USD, have you checked flight tickets lately?

He is been advised not to go to Canada and instead take the job because he has a visit visa not cos of the reasons you stated above. The exaggerated reasons you stated above is not enough not to go if he had a PR and has factored in the big picture.

Now, every country has issues from time to time. The difference between first world and third world countries like Nigeria is the ability to confront and solve the issues. In 2008, there was an economic crash in the west, years after the recovered and started booming again. People who migrated in 2008 despite having it rough at that time are all balanced now. So having problems are not new but trust me, 2 to 3 years from now, these issues will become old story, that is the advantage of first world countries. If the current government can't solve it, we vote them out.

The same thing can't be said for Nigeria. The problems of 1999 have not been solved and has continue to pile up more problems every year and every administration. If you have noticed every past administration is always better than the current one since 1999. Unfortunately as a country, we can't even remove a nonperforming government so the chances of ever solving Nigeria problems is very low.

Inflation in Canada currently is around 4% and everyone is angry. You can feel the anger everywhere, the current government is sweating and under pressure, the opposition is currently leading in the polls and favored to win the next election. In Nigeria where inflation is up to 30% for only God knows when, I don't see the level of anger I see in Canada, the leaders are so comfortable, no pressure on them at all, I don't know how they will be serious in solving Nigeria problems.

In summary, the current economic climate in Canada is tough at the moment but we are happy it's going to be temporary as both ruling and opposition parties are trying to address the issues. If you want to migrate legally and you have crossed your i's and dotted your T's , don't be deterred. By the time this current issues are resolved, there may not be oportunnities to migrate again. They may reduce or change their immigration targets and make it harder for people to migrate. Immigration is not static, it can change at any time.