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FairlyUSEDpussy:
Kwam 1 no get sense true true........

He no go calm down laidis.......abi e go like start e own mohbad and naira Marley series .......

You should know that it is the handwork of overzealous fans as K1 can't order this because he knows very well the kind of negative publicity it would draw to him

Princedapace:
Thank god for tech, we dont need to go thru wahala! My best decision in life was switching to tech two years ago. We can even live in Namibia, SA, UK, US, Nigeria, anywhere and be fine.
I no get energy to do all these stresss when una dey do! I wish u all the best. My guy wey dey UK dey do Night shift. Lol, god forbid! Nigeria is bad shaa, but omo, there are things I cant do .

A brother in the hood moved abroad like 16 years ago, he's still doing night guard in addition to day jobs till now. The last time I did real work with my hands for money was 2018! Investment, not engaging in any form of scam.

BTW: how did you switch to tech? I want switch away from this transport biz in two years time, I have lost appetite

Usefulsense:
I want to sincerely thank everyone who had contributed one way or the other in this thread.

One point I didn't state here is that I sent my wifey more than two years ago on student visa.

We are currently being sponsored by her employers.

I wouldn't have embarked on this journey if I wasn't sure of having my papers.

Thus it was a lot easier for me because my partner was already here before I came with the children.

To make it fast here at my age, ensure you come with your wife. Both of you will together make it faster especially if none of you is selfish.

Wifey bought me car as soon as I landed here. This is because, to get a job here, you need a car. In fact, in some job adverts, it is an important requirement.

Don't come alone at my age especially if you have no pathway to getting your papers. It is very difficult to get papers except you are under sponsorship.

To come here, please do the following:

1. Learn how to barb. The importance of this cannot be over emphasised. If you are the type that visits barbing saloon every week like me, learn how to barb.

I barb myself and my son every week thereby saving over 160 dollars every month.

2. Learn how to drive. This one is also very important. Please it is in your best interest to do that.

3. Forget some of your cloths in Nigeria. The mistake I made is that I came with all my corporate wears. My suits, trousers, good shirts and ties etc. The are useless here. Come with enough jeans, chinos, pollos, canvas, winter wears, cardigans etc.

4. Come with food ingredients. Till today, I find it difficult to eat some of the sugary foods here. Thank God I came with loads and loads of egusi, ogbono, scent leave, crayfish, Maggi, ogiri, pumpkin leave, utazi, ukwa, ukpaka, pepper, etc.

My bag wasn't checked at the Sydney Airport.

5. Treat malaria before coming. There are no malaria here.

6. Go and learn a skill. Eg forklift driving (counterbalance and high reach). You will most likely start from a warehouse when you land here.

7. Have some money at hand for the first few weeks of your stay before you come in.

8. As soon as you get in here, please network and find other Nigerians. This is very important. Here in Australia, Nigerians behave like brothers in helping you to settle in. Note that nobody will give you money.

It was yorubas that helped me so much in finding a job through their contacts. My fellow igbo brothers were there for me too.

9. Finally, when everything has failed, hold on to God tightly. I am a living witness.

You carefully avoided many mistakes other travel aspirants usually make

TNORWAY:
you have been like that on every travel thread....... bitter old man.

So, trying to correct wrong notions makes him a bitter old man? Nigerians and this abroad mentality, chai!

jedisco:
My brother you don't need to convince folks. There are things experience teaches.

Folks in Nigeria used to lording it over the many poor would struggle to understand the concept of dignity in labour.

For example, in the UK, the salary of an MP (similar to a senator) is just about 4x that of a full-time minimum wage employee. For Nigeria to come close, that would mean our senators would be paid 120- 140k. Hehe..

Pay out there is largely due to what you bring to the table and if you provide a service others need. A plumber in the west would earn far higher that many folks with masters degree

This is also obtainable in Nigeria as well. Artisans in Nigeria won't accept salary jobs unless they will be allowed to continue doing their handwork

chidi4sam:
Australia, there is a training called first Aid and CPR you MUST undergo before you start work. This is to know what to do in cases of reptiles emergency. Even though Australia is a home of reptiles, it is very hard and difficult to see. People who have stayed here for over 20years keep say the only places they gave seen reptiles are in the zoo and on TV.

The case would be different in rural areas if there is anything like that

BrighterSyde:
Again you reason funny. I am not pro-Mohbad’s father. The man hurriedly buried the boy without an autopsy and in the middle of the night. He definitely has a case to answer for that which to me makes him a prime suspect too. And if he indeed wants a dna done he must approach the court. Infact if he doesn’t then he should be questioned even further.

You typed this after you said I reason funny, really? What funny is that because I'm confused now?

Some of us are neither on the side of the father or Wunmi but we can’t just sit and watch people draw foolish conclusions based on sentiments.

Thats what people like me are saying. Stop cyber intimidation and harassment, do the needful. Ask the man to exercise his right under the law. If you guys don't know the way to court, I do. Tell the old man to reach me, I will lead him to court

Dan18:
Rider was in plain cloths, but was the patrol bike not a police bike??

How would they know? We can't talk about that since we don't know how the bike looks like. The colour, the light and other things that could identify it

OKOATA:
Oga he sure me say na simp you be and you go surely train another man pikin , the same Mohbad that came on an interview that was doubting the paternity, or the same wunmi that was cheating while they were together and he made a song about it. Keep defending women. No worry he go soon clear for your eyes.

Are you married? Answer me before I engage you.
Defending women? No. I'm about common sense. Mohbad's father is a third party, he has no say whatsoever in this case. You guys should ask yourselves why he hasn't been able to approach any court to seek the order since Wumi has told him to do that. What you all don't understand is that his lawyers might have already told him that he has no authority to seek that

stanisbaratheon:
Your reasoning is why the justice system in Nigeria is this abysmal.

Thanks. But let me respond to the part two below.

Someone died of causes that are not natural and you are trying to say no one should bring up a petition? If the father suspect that his child was killed then there must be motive and if there is motive, everyone close to him is a suspect, including his wife.

Everyone close to him, you said? What about the dad himself? Lol.
Having said that, what is now preventing him from approaching the court? Definitely you don't think I'm or Wumi is responsible for that? He should go and disgrace himself before the judge now.
He's even more of a culprit in all these than any other family members because he was at the center of everything

shoodboi2:
I disagree with this. 65 year old Australians work because they have nothing to fall back on. Work isn't fun and doesn't enable them to exercise their bodies. Work is even more brutal over there.

These western nations -- US, Canada, France, Australia, and others -- are extremely capitalist. They want to take the last drop of your soul out of you and require you to keep working to pay bills after bills after bills for your daily survival.

The average Nigerian retires at 58 - 65 and is still able to live a decent life almost comparable to when they were working.

You can never compare that to Australia where they have to work into their 80s to keep body and soul together. And when they're no longer able to work anymore, they're thrown into an old people's home and the cycle continues.

You're new to the system, so it's still "freaking" you. You even hope to get your accounting job back someday. I hate to be the one to say this, but the possibility of you getting that job back is very low.

You've already been sucked into, and will continue to be sucked into, this forklifting/labouring career and the longer you stay in it, the harder it is to switch to accounting.

You guys are just freaking brutal. I'm really enjoying this thread, full of different perspectives

Usefulsense:
Who told you I started life afresh?

In Nigeria, I worked for a private company where you're treated like a slave and where people are sacked on daily basis.

I took the best decision to live Nigeria. Here, I am working. I am not begging.

My life here is even better than what it was back home in Nigeria.

You're shouting plan your retirement. Who told you I am not planning my retirement?

If I work here for the next 3 years, I will have a 3 story building of 8 flats somewhere in the East.

Can #2m net salary a month do that for me in Nigeria?

In Nigeria, my gross pay was about #1.3 million per month and my take home is #1.057m.

Here in Australia, despite the fact that I have not fully integrated into the system, I comfortably save 1,600 dollars per month out of the 4,000 dollars I make.

By the time I fully integrate into the system ( like getting Australian drivers license, there are jobs you cannot get without an Australian license) there is no way I won't earn more than that.

For your information, there is dignity of labour here. You don't talk down on people here.

I am not under any pressure. I didn't migrate at 48 to look for papers. Our papers are already coming this year through my wifey.

This makes it better for you to change residence at 48. Your case is totally different, some things (like wife) were already working in your favour even before you migrate

AmuDimpka:
At 48yrs that you were at the top of your accounting career earning good money in Nigeria, you spent millions to travel to Australia only to go and be learning forklifting and mental health and care giving job at 48yrs when you should be planning retirement

I know say na your wife push you into this...most of the men na their wives dey


I wish you luck sir ....they way it is you will work till your 70s! How do you guys even take such decision

Hmmm

TheBillyonaire:
Yes it is very humbling my brother. I can not imagine a man at almost 50 years decelerating from being a Boss to a Boy Boy for Oyibos. In exchange for clean 247 electricity and security. Definitely, they are better organized than us, right?

But it depends on where you lived in Nigeria. You mentioned being an Igbo man, so it could be that your city is not properly organized as opposed to other places with serene air and cleaner environments.

Alternatively, working as a warehouse handy-man is boy boy in your language. But congratulations for promoting yourself from big man to boy boy.

I promise you that we will build Nigeria, so your children can have a better place to return to, and hopefully you will be visiting often and not when you are too weak to be useful to Nigeria.

Another perspective, different from the herds mentality of I tap into your grace

Matheusmartin:
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The thing with these civilized countries be say there is dignity of labour..

More like there is money in labour

Usefulsense:
Australia really humbled me. Imagine a financial controller in Nigeria now picking and packing cartons in warehouses in Australia.

You made your choice after careful analysis, I don't think there is anything to discuss about that.

Good2go1:
See them from that envious tribe

You think non igbos are envious, specifically Yorubas tribe? You can do better than this

mysticwarrior:
Abeg just shut up jare, no be the family name the pikin dey answer, mohbad papa get every right to request for a DNA, before the man dey come out to boldly request for DNA the yoruba man go don go trow oracle for like 7 different place, na yoruba man you wan follow do that one, that lady is a jezebel and she will be exposed.

You people can guide him to the court now instead of wasting time harassing and intimidating Wumi. What's so difficult for you guys in this to do?

stanisbaratheon:
Then he must have probable cause to obtain a court order for that DNA to be carried out because he suspects his son was killed with the collusion of some people, which his son's wife could be part of.

The judge will even think that may be he's becoming insane. Because, however do you want to put all these together and present it to the judge without sounding insane?

donprinyo:
Anything that belongs to mohbad should go to the father

Hahahaha! In that case, the old man needs to provide DNA test result first before he can inherit his son.

Fiscus105:
Sit down there and be thinking like clown, before Sani went public to criticize Elrufai, whole lots of infighting has been going on underground.

For Elrufai to be going up and down romancing opposition party and political opponents of gov/president, is that not enough for you, though your reasoning shows you are still political neophyte.

Just look at the trash you put up.

BrighterSyde:
Leave am. Arguing without being factual just because he has issues with Mohbad’s father. I have no issues with whoever anybody supports but let it be with facts and not stupid sentiments

I actually stood with the old man when I learnt that Mohbad didn't take care of him. But him being a third party has no right to demand any test. And if he feels strongly about it, he should approach the court.
And stop using foul language, you're not the authority on this subject matter, so I don't know why you're getting frustrated

BrighterSyde:
What’s wrong if she does the dna?

Nothing is wrong. But if she chooses not to dance to your beats, nothing is wrong too. She doesn't give birth to the kid for anyone's entertainment

Obakoolex:
Why not keep kwayet and learn, you're the one wrong here

He's the one who is right. Why is Mohbad's father afraid of approaching the court since Wumi has told him what to do?

BrighterSyde:
He has a right to request for a court order. The court can decide to grant it or deny it.
I’m happy you are now reasoning with a brain instead of the sentimental rubbish you typed before. Saying the man should not request for one because his son didn’t question the paternity is simply talking like an illiterate or a market woman. You can say any other rubbish you want now. I just wanted to make sure you drop that daft line of reasoning.

I'm even surprised that you pro-mohbad's father are wasting your time and energy here and with Wumi instead of telling the old man to be on his way to court . Why is that? Because you all knew that he will just be wasting his time, that's why you all are intimidating the wife

BrighterSyde:
You are just ranting without making a point. I asked a simple question. I’m not interested in the intentions of Mohbad’s dad. I don’t even give a shyte about the family.
My simple question is this: that a man does not doubt the paternity of his child is enough reason to say it belongs to him? Is that what you are saying?



But since you are hell bent on broadening the issue then I’ll answer you. Mohbad’s father has every right to doubt the paternity of the child no matter what Mohbad said or did not say. And if he doubts he also has a right to request a dna test.
Now you might be bothered about his intentions and you may be right. It might be for selfish reasons but that does not hold water in the court of law or morality.

Let him go to court now to obtain the order or he doesn't know his way to court?
What is he waiting for o? The judge will chase the busybody of a man out of the court

If I accuse you of killing a man on a day you were not in this country just because I have the intention to rope you into something you didn’t do are you not supposed to prove your innocence by showing evidence of where you were especially if I have legally accused you? Are you now saying because of my intentions you are exempted from proving your innocence?
Reason with your brain and not with sentiments ok kid?

Your analogy is wrong. The problem here is that Mohbad's father is a third party. Why don't you get it? Third party no dey put mouth

BrighterSyde:
A man came to my place of work for routine tests with his family. We discovered he is not the father. He himself has never doubted the kids. They just came cos they all want to know their genotype. And you are here saying since a man never doubted then he is the father? You are getting worse with your reasoning

Is the man now the one demanding for DNA test? May be you need to take care of your own reasoning first.

otherway:
STOP writing trash.

In the absence of mohbad, his family can demand a DNA if there is any reason to doubt.

And what is the reason now? Because he told them that the kid wasn't his or he doubted the paternity of the kid when he was alive? Jobless lots

kpompey:
Na only slut can write this comment. They gave Mr A son to Mr B to raise .

When was that happened? Did Mohbad tell una before he died that the kid wasn't his?
I'm sure that you believed that you are a son of the man who your mother claim to be your dad, right? Was DNA done on you for your dad to accept you as his son? The answer is No. Why? Because your dad has no issue with your paternity. Did Mohbad has any issue whatsoever with the paternity of the kid? Amebos

Fiscus105:
I will advice you to go and study the case of a state in Nigeria called Anambra, how the immediate former Gov helped the incumbent gov to win and how he gives the incumbent gov complete free hand to govern.

And I'm asking you to tell us what you have read, heard or watched El-Rufai did to the incumbent gov since he assumed it office? We can start from how he has refused to give him complete free hand to govern.

immortalcrown:
Rational people know this. Sentimentalists are the ones nagging.

If you are rational and not selfish, you don't have to be a trader to understand that it is unfair to ask traders to reduce prices now.

You talk too much, abi na type too much. Read the quote below and tell us why. If the price still remains the same, we get can understand why is the price still increasing despite the fact that naira has appreciated against dollar by over N500?

[b]

Favour Uche, a foodstuff seller at EFAB market, told Sunday PUNCH, “The price of rice didn’t reduce even now that the dollar is down.”

Uche emphasised the challenges faced by traders, including the expenses incurred to maintain product quality amid infrastructural constraints.

“The price of rice didn’t decrease. Even now that the dollar is down, it still hasn’t reduced. For example, a carton of Titus fish cost N90,000 two weeks ago but today, the same carton of fish is sold at N95,000 as of March 29, 2024.

“Even with the fact that the dollar has reduced, but being in the system, I think I understand why. It is because they use one-third of their profit to buy diesel to cool these fish and keep them frozen. After all, there is no light. So, I understand their pain and why the prices are like that,” she added.

Another trader, Abdul Yusuf, who sells meat, asserted, “Price did not come down even with the dollar fall.

“Two weeks ago the price of one kilogramme of meat was selling at N4,800 but now, it is N5,000. So, the price did not come down even with the dollar falling.”

Yes, he's right. It is just an avenue to waste scarce resources, to allow some people to use it to embezzle, divert and steal.

Vinnie2000:
Very Yeye Opinion from him.

IgboMan travel go London and stays there for 10years and London Weather and food weakened his Immune system.

Meaning Kanu Nwankwo, Okocha and other Players that stayed in Europe for long have Weak immune system. 😒

They should have gone and stay in the villages immediately they returned from abroad now . One year in an entirely different weather is enough to change a lots in your body system