₦airaland Forum

Zahra29:
Lol it's been this way since I started commenting in 2022. Some people are just not able to cope with anyone who has opposing views to theirs, facts that interrupt their comfortable emotions, especially when it comes from a woman.

Goodenoch:
LavidaLoca I thought you were going away to find your tribe.

Nobody wanted you àbí what happened?

ReesheesuKnack:
Anybody remember the debate last year when the (then) PM said Keir Starmer is clueless?

Anyone recall when Rishi Sunak said based on Starmer’s plans, the illegals immigrants will require BIGGER boats?

Here we are…/.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e1xkwd74wo

Viruses:
What do you mean by she's shown the most support for her country of heritage?

The bold is summarising your post, not me saying it, you're just playing daft because you've been boxed.

It's difficult to wake up someone that's not sleeping so you know what? You win

Goodenoch:
So, let me get this straight. You rail at everyone about the need to fix Nigeria but you won’t go home till you’re 60 nor will you do anything from abroad because you want a “simple minimal life”. So all your purpose will be to laugh at Nigeria and laugh at the UK as well like you’ve been doing.

Sounds awfully like you’re one of those “can’t be nothing can’t change nothing” people you keep railing about. Ehyah.

jedisco:
Hehe. You took that personal. The issue with you is that at every turn you exude inferiority - that together with similar proclitive narratives lead no where. You wouldn't get anyone with a working brain following you down that path

Let me ask, how do you intend to build Nigeria?

I came to the UK in 2019. I remember asking on this page then if I could use some credit available to me then (and could easily repay) to get some business venture I had in 9ja going. Oddly, I got alot of shout down. When I was supported with £20k for my training, I invested most of that money in Nigeria at the expense of arguably better reasoning to buy a house in the UK (pre-covid boom). In my first 18m of being in the UK, I had invested over 40m in Nigeria. I get about 500k pcm from that today. A colleague of mine who modernised his diagnostic centre nets 1-2m in profits pcm which he continues to plough back into the Nigerian economy.

I have, still am and should continue to invest back home in 9ja as I have in the UK. The bottomline is that thinking home and building in the UK (or ones place of abode) are not mutually exclusive and if you think seeing yourself as inferior is going to get anyone worth their salt to follow you, then you have to think again.

RodgersAkpafu:
My uncles are in their 80s here and they have disowned the country since they came here in the 70s

You think it's every Nigerian who yearns to go home in old age

A retired teacher I met in his 70s is here with his West Indian wife, kids and grand kids and that baba sef don disown Nigeria

I have met quite a few and thats more than enough references to show that one can indeed sever connections to Nigeria IF THEY WANT TO

BTW have you been to Bradford
Pakis have made there their home
Even the ones of 90 years
dem still dey

RodgersAkpafu:
as per the bolded
You are on your own on that one tbvh lol

No be me and you dey go "home"
Me don disown that failure and shame of a country

willyede:
Rishi Sunak was the head boy at Winchester.

He's more comfortable in his skin, because he's interacted with the upper class who dominate the Tory Party all his life.

In contrast, if you grew up in Lagos and attended FGGC Shagamu and ISIL, you'd never quite feel you "belong"

RodgersAkpafu:
But what she is saying IS THE TRUTH
We can argue to the effect that sometimes she refers to that when she doesn't have to

But Nigeria is a failed shiithole shame of a country that is still grappling with what others have solved at least a century ago

I mean, the world knows it so why are we pretending

We can argue and say that Kemi is being an opportunist, and all, but come on, a country that over half of its populace dont have access to proper toilet sanitation and also have the HIGHEST OUT OF SCHOOL KIDS on planet earth shouldn't be acting all "bougie"

If anything, the collective shame we feel now should spur us into doing something bout it

But alas
Is it not Africans?

Zahra29:
💯
It's a bit similar to when they labelled Tiamiyu a treasonous, treacherous, traitor 😂 for speaking simple truths about the student visa Japa route. No one could really say that what he said in the interview was a lie, but the fact that he said it openly was what made him public enemy #1. As if the British public is stupid and couldn't work out for themselves what was going on.

Kemi definitely says the wrong things sometimes, but I don't see what's wrong with her recent identity comments.

When Lavida, the brave towncrier lol, urges people not to forget their home country Nigeria, he is roundly jumped on, with some claiming that the UK is now their true home, having lived here for 2/3/4 years. No whahala.

But when Kemi says that her home, heart and identity is now in Britain having lived here for 30 years (two thirds of her life), plus being married to a Brit of Scottish heritage, there is plenty whahala - she is excoriated and called self-hating, mental and "failed by her parents".

Truly hilarious
🚶🚶

Fred2020:
omo ale lo n fowo osi juwe Ile baba re {it is the bastard child to points to her home using her left hand.

Her parents have failed her honestly.

We cannot change where we come from and must never despise it. We must only strive to become the best.

Her parents may have taught her the later but they failed to teach her the former.

She is on cause to be a very inconsequential leader of the party. No matter how much she digs dip into culture wars and disparaging her ancestry, it would not win her votes with the voting base she is chasing.

My shame is that Nigeria is blessed with some of the best and most talented population in Africa, thanks to its large & young population size.

It is a shame that in the one that rose to the pinnacle of british politics is not the brightest one in the pack.

DoDirtsLikeWorm:
No… my good sir.
Although Nairaland is the encourager of those that actually want to keep hope alive, that’s why I opts to give back in a way I know that I can.

It may surpass the figure I gave because whom U give my tell another; yeah, but let’s keep it that way until I return here to announce that I need those WIILLING to be Tradies….elect/plumb & must “reside in London”(I will tell them why).

They must be willing and may be sacrificing shifts for this particular purpose at some point, otherwise people tends to play with anything that is free.

The aim is to get people out of security jobs and into skill jobs.

DoDirtsLikeWorm:
And after 2yrs+ I am back again, but now as a Londoner.
User Names; is this account & StAugustineOf13

Primary Objective was Australia, but my CHI made the final decision.
My swears was that I will never die as just a Nigerian & it must come to pass.
I was banned by JustWise multiple times when I tried to help which made me to once abandoned the said account and was tagged as maybe fraudulent, but I understood.

Thanks to everyone that helped in keeping this forum alive, because reading here alone kept me going even when all hope was lost due to age wahala.

If I fit gather small time, I may share my journey as far as I could remember.
And help maybe one person to do a free Trade Course that costs about £7k; yes it came to me on a platter and I may have to help just 1 Londoner too who has the Zeal to become a Tradie.
If we loud that route, dem go close am too. So…. I go treat am as secret cult.

rock86:
Does it mean I am stucked with my employer? I want to change to another NHS trust but salary threshold is a hurdle

rock86:
Who wants to marry? Must be wife material and can cook and industrous

RodgersAkpafu:
Again, the government knows what to do to revitalise the British economy
But are too scared to do it, because they don't wanna offend rich people

RodgersAkpafu:
Care Visa people will be alright

RodgersAkpafu:
Better to pin it as that
.Because yall have nothing sensible to say.

If I didn't know women who have been at the short end of the stick on matters pertaining to this, I wouldn't be too pissed about it

Kemi own as much as I like her, her own is getting too MUCH BUT THE POINT SHE RAISED IS VALID

Goke7:
You think it’s harmless but others don’t see it like that. Try to be considerate it’s not that hard. I can decide to be posting here about davido and wizkid shebi it’s a Nigerian affair too but will it make sense here? That’s why nairaland has different sections for different things. Kindly post in the right section, that’s the polite request!

Goke7:
Just an advice, @willyede is right about you going to the politics section if you want to talk more about fixing naija, I go there to comment about naija politics as well so it’s nothing strange or personal. This thread is where folks come here to discuss primarily about life in the uk and ask questions to address issues concerning the uk, I don’t think if anyone comes and see things about fixing Nigeria on this thread that will make sense of any relevance. The politics section is wide enough to express all your views there and even the things we comment on here that relate to immigration views expressed by uk politicians, topics are opened there as well where you can use such opportunity to express the reason why fixing naija is important. Yes some of us may tolerate or accommodate such things here but looks like others may just see it as annoying especially when they feel the politics section is there to accommodate such so why not focus more on life pertaining to the uk which is the main subject of this thread. Thank you!

willyede:
Am not Una...I do not need to comment on post here i come here to learn how to survive in the uk of which that is what this thread is for. I have noticed that whenever there is a dig at immigrant you come here with your hypocritical Nationshaming dig at Nigerians ''to make Nigeria a better place''. I will speak for myself when i say whatever happens to Nigeria is Nigeria's business but you Nationshaming people here would be called out...If you do not see anything wrong in that Kemi's statement then its best you keep quiet and let those that are helping in the thread continue to do so...I am really out for you cos you have been doing this a lot and i am very surprised that the mods have not tamed this nationshaming attitude of yours.

willyede:
I don't want a better Nigeria. I no send the country...Know that and Know peac...Yet again the use of this thread is simoply for immigrant in the uk...You want a better Nigeria go to the politics section for that

AgentXxx:
Una? Are you not a Nigerian? Abeg go start the fixing, we go join you , Yeye Dey smell 😒

willyede:
You keep insisting that “we will fix the nation.” I have no expectation that Nigeria will be transformed within my lifetime and am not interested in pursuing that goal. If rebuilding the country is your priority, please do so on the ground in Nigeria.

This thread is for immigrants living in the United Kingdom, not for political debates. My focus here is on handling the challenges we face abroad, not on discussing national reform.

If you wish to campaign for Nigeria’s renewal, the political section of Nairaland is the proper venue. Remember that two Nigerian presidents: Abubakar and Buhari both treated in the United Kingdom and died had years to effect change and did not. Kindly spare us the rhetoric here.

Goke7:
This is how the falsehood of Nigeria granting US citizens only single entry visas spread like wildfire, but why is Nigeria becoming a target these days with blatant falsehood and propaganda by the west, Is there a gang up against the country, I know our sins are plenty but make dem take am easy with these lies na Omo na wa o!

If Madam kemi doesn’t want Nigerian citizenship for her children that’s fine but she doesn’t need to lie to incite hatred against Nigeria.

Hkana:
There's nothing remotely funny about that. Everyone is entitled to their reason for japa, shouldn't be something to mock about.