₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
Only littoral States of South-south and Southwest own the offshore oil by individual States. That's why Akwaibom is the biggest oil producer. Rivers State and Bayelsa are the only States in which every LGA has oil wells onshore. The rest are basically few LGAs and then offshore.

taa gbafo. no state own beyond ocean shores. do you even know distance of those oil field. some are far as 200km. go and read laws of international waters.

DuBLINGreenb:
Na lie if we share my oil we must share your cattle and gold and coal and everything else Una dey ment abi?

okpo I'm a bonafide enugu man. no region can claim international waters. Niger delta and north are cheating this country

Imsoblessed:
what is this one saying? typical aboki mentality. It's really difficult to love you guys. Always spewing foolishness.

you don't have brain. nah ur papa get Atlantic ocean.. agbami oil field and other numerous oil assets are in the deep ocean. do you also claim ocean as yours. we igbos we will benefit most . 70% of onshore belongs to igbos.

EM123:
i don't think you are an igbo man. No igbo man will reason this way.

your illiterate. how could you separate regions from assessing deep ocean assets. 80% of oil comes from inside Atlantic ocean. no region can claim ownership of ocean

as an igbo man I don't think breaking this country is realistic. Nigeria got most of its revenue from offshore oil fields. no reasonable person or region will ever forfeit such massive resources to other region.
what can work perfectly well here is restructuring. the offshore resources shares by component regions that make up Nigeria. other resources will be managed by region its domiciled

I am ashamed of Enugu state governor

as an igbo man I don't think breaking this country is realistic. Nigeria got most of its revenue from offshore oil fields. no reasonable person or region will ever forfeit such massive resources to other region.
what can work perfectly well here is restructuring. the offshore resources shares by component regions that make up Nigeria. or other resources will be managed by region its domiciled.

tactical withdrawer

Thinktwicemybro:
From1999 to 2019 why did he not make a single investment in Nigeria? Why build 15 story just because of election. When voted he will milk the state and recover his money back. Wise up

that man built a lot of things

what we need is viet cong war tactics of digging vast tunnel. this is one thing we lack in our fight against Nigeria. I will support ipob to start building tunnel thousands of miles

police and lies

how much

ugwuanyi onye wayo. people that were already dead . which one is injured. the station was completed burned. stop lying nwoke m

bishopkay:
I swear he doesn't! Who removed the pin from the grenade if it was indeed a grenade? Is the SE now a class A war zone where security personnel move around with grenades? Do Nigerian forces at the front even have access to grenades?

Very poor job at a cover up in my opinion

they thought we are fools. before a grenade will explode it will take some secs. don't mind umahi. he is trying to exonerate fulani

stanluiz:
I know it can't be a suicide bomb because the man body was not burn or tear to pieces. Even his face was still intact.

It may be a mistake by the security personnel. They should be very careful when handling such explosive device.

you don't know anything about explosive

hold umahi responsible if anything happen in ebonyi. what an audacity of lies

Minjim:
I'm waiting for Ipob propagandists to pin this on Fulanis, DSS or Buhari.

When Nnamdi Kanu had already called for voluntary suicide bombers

pls shut up . where were you when fulani vowed to attack south east.

at this rate unknown gun men may go into extinct

ImmaculateJOE:
You inputs are nice... But N10,000 per shop is too much for the average trader.

is even low. some shops are paying 50k per month in main market.

AlhajiNatty:
OP, you had better come back here with enough details and pictorials or alusi ndi Enugu-Ezike would pay you a visit with runny stomach and watery stool for the next seven market days.

you should know ezeagu is not a small masquerade you can threatened with una inferior juju. besides it happened early in the morning. .

They have carried their madness into my local government.

police station in ezeagu, Enugu state was attacked last night. 4 police men gunned down. station razed down.


https://m./umuezeagu/permalink/4062395250509147/?source=48

details shortly. ..

another one wasted.

waste of resources

Zooposki:
No. Na all your mama boyfriend.

you go soon join them. ndi nzuzu

Na nnamdi Kanu esn they packed like this chai. hahaha

Kingk47:
Bro, you never enter problem wey you need to protect yourself. You no go only buy gun, you will let your rivals know, you now have a gun

Bro. dey no dey play with Ak 47 ooo

Teci:
Sorry about your experience in Ghana. Those guys are ****. I'd advice every Nigerian to avoid that country. The only difference between them and South Africans is that they are yet to take up arms and start killing Nigerians (which I believe they'll not hesitate to do if given the permission).

For your questions,
1. & 2. I don't really have the full answers, but you can get a teaching job in some English schools here (some schools are set up by Nigerians to cater to Nigerian children who wish to learn based on Nigerian educational curriculum). I don't know how much they really pay, though I think it's the same standard private schools in Nigeria pay their teachers (same as you would expect to be paid based your qualification if you were in Nigeria).

3. Generally things are really expensive here. For the accomodation issue, you'd need a really good agent who can find a good place for you. Some of the areas you can start out are Adjame (Liberte, Paillet area), Deux Plateau (the lower end). Nigerians reside a lot in the Adjame Commune, especially Yorubas and a few Igbos and predominantly muslims; also, it's the business area of Abidjan (note, Abidjan is not a city but a state, Adjame is a local government in Abidjan - they are called communes here). Almost every Nigerian business person plies their trade in Adjame, and they are crushing it in business. That's the only way to really make it here in "Abidjan"; a job would not really help you in the long run. If you're coming here and hoping to reside here, just come with the mindset that you're here to do business, because that's the easiest way to meet up with the high standard of living here. Hopefully, once you're settled in Abidjan after say, a year and you're making some financial progress, you can relocate to other high brow areas like Cocody, Treichville, Bassam and the upper part of Deux Plateau. For the rent payments, it's somewhat confusing for a first timer, but here's how it works:

You can only get houses through an agent, who'll connect you to a caretaker. Those agents will charge you at least 5000 FCFA to go inspect the house and see if you like the area (that means, you'll be paying the person 5000 FCFA to show you all the houses he knows are vacant). If you like any house, (NOW PAY ATTENTION REALLY CAREFULLY SO YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS) he'll take you to the caretaker and after you agree on the rents, you'll pay an amount which is the equivalent of 3 months rent in that apartment. So, if the monthly rent of the house is 50,000 FCFA, you'll pay the caretaker 150,000 FCFA; this money is not the house rent, but the CAUTION FEE. The essence of paying this is that it is a sort of deposit. When you are about the leave the house (whether in 6 months time or in 10 years time) the caretaker will come to the house to inspect it and ensure that anything which was installed in the house before you parked in, was not damaged. If it was damaged and you did not replace it, the costs for doing that will be deducted from the Caution Fee; also, if you were owing any month's rent in arrears, the debt will be deducted from the Caution Fee and once it is exhausted, and you have not paid up, you'll be issued a notice to quit and evicted. Their evictions here don't take much time as we do in Nigeria (they can evict you under 2 weeks with the court order, and you'll still pay for any extra time you spent after staying over. They are strict with their laws here, especially when dealing with foreigners). It is your duty to ensure that you inspect the house along with your caretaker before parking in, to avoid arguments over the state of the property when you are about to move out at any point in the future. When you pay your caution fee, please collect your receipt for that one from the caretaker. The other payment you'll make is the main rent, and it is upfront for 3 months too. BUT, note that what you are actually paying for is 2 months, and here is why; out of that 3 months, one month's rent will be given to the agent who introduced you to the caretaker. That is his commission for sealing the deal. So, you'll start paying for the next rent from the 3rd month of your stay. If you park out of the house before the initial 3 months, you'll have to forfeit the payment for the remain months left (let's say you park out by the second month, you'll forfeit the rent you have paid for the 3rd month); this does not affect the caution fees you have paid, because those ones will be refunded to you, only the main rents are affected. However, if you park out after the first three months, then you'll not forfeit any rent. The final set of fees you pay regarding your rent are the caution fees for electricity and water utilities respectively. Let's say the usual fees being charged for your light and water bills are estimated around 5000 FCFA each (if you're living alone in a self contain - they call it studio apartments here), you may (DEPENDING on your negotiation with the caretaker) deposit 15000 FCFA as caution for electricity bill and 15000 FCFA as caution for water bill. Like the original rent caution fee, these will be refunded to you when you are about to leave, as long as you are not found to be in arrears of any payment. Note that, this is how it works and the Ivoiriens always apply the rules strictly to foreigners, especially Nigerians, but are somewhat biased in favour of their own people. So, if you are parking in to a new place, always inquire from the caretaker and get the past invoice for the light and water bills, to ensure that there is no debt that has been left by the previous occupant, else you'll have to pay for it or be disconnected from light and water access. I know a Nigerian guy here who inherited a debt of over 50000 FCFA for water bill. He has paid half and is yet to be reconnected until he completes the payment.
For the costs of rents, it varies and depends on the location. I currently stay at a middle class area of Adjame, and I'm still studying the situation. Self contains around my area costs around 45000 to 60000 FCFA monthly. Same around some parts of Deux Plateau. I heard you can also get same rents for self contains in some areas of the Yopougon commune, and cheaper rates at Abobo commune, which is where the lower class citizens live. At Cocody, Treichville, the high brow areas of Deux Plateau, self contains can be found from around 90,000 FCFA upwards. Plateau commune is the Wuse zone of Abidjan. You'll mostly see government institutions, foreign offices and the Ivoirien parliament there. For intending businessmen, I heard shop rents start from around 100,000 FCFA monthly (have not really confirmed this because I don't do business, just hearsay from a friend here who does), and if you're in open market stands where they pay for spaces, you may pay around 50000 FCFA monthly.

If you're coming over PLEASE master the French language before travelling. I know it has been said over and again, but it's important you do this, so you can blend in the environment with little hassles. Some of the Ivoiriens (few actually) who stay at Adjame are now becoming hostile to new Nigerians who speak English, because sadly, some of our young men migrating here recently, are now spoiling things and taking advantage of their goodwill and hospitality (Ivoiriens are actually really helpful people I must say, but some have encountered Nigerian fraudsters; even our Nigerian people who have established themselves here, are also wary of new comers because some try to be too smart and take others for fools based on their kindness). I encountered one angry Ivoirien pastor recently who I approached to ask for directions to a place and he answered me in a rude manner. It was only after one of his boys who speaks English discussed with me and I explained to him who I was and what I was looking for (told him I wasn't looking for money or a job, just directions to a school), the pastor had to explain to me that he was initially rude to me because he had been approached in the same way by Nigerians like me who would pretend to be seeking help and claim they were stranded, but would defraud him later on.

Finally, please if you can, by all means travel by flight. The land route is really not for the faint-hearted, especially at Ghana checkpoints where they harass and extort Nigerians ceaselessly.
In all, if you are looking to venture into business, Abidjan is the place for you, and like others have suggested, wares like second hand bale (okrika), electronic gadgets, footwears and motor spare parts are killing it. If you're here to look for a corporate job, I'd advise you to look for another country. There's not much opportunities (just really few) for persons here with English qualifications, except for teaching vacancies in Nigerian private schools. If you're also looking at building your football career like Mekus, you are highly welcome here. There's really opportunity for you. I think also the same for musical talents; these people love Nigerian songs, and as long as your music contains too much noise and vibes for dem to shake body wella, your song go sell

That's all for now...
Eid Mubarak to my Muslim brethren. Make I go chop the sallah food wey my Muslim neighbour give me

the house rent cost oo

Kingk47:
But Otorm said you people should defend yourselves.
But the best form of defence is attack. Attack those herdsmen. Kill them without provocation, capture some skin them alive and make videos. Cook some and eat them, it does not make you guys cannibals. Use there skulls to drink strong drink to show that you rugged and possessed. Use their bones to beat drums of war. This is the only way you can instill fear and bring order. For there to be peace, there must be war.

just like Nnamdi kanu, ortom is a fraudster. when talk about defending yourself without providing the equipments for them to defend themselves ur nothing but a fraudster.

scam

this is disheartening. how do you allow a man to brainwashed you. gave you pump action and without no bulletproof to go and face someone with ak47 and well body armored. umu igbo ka anyi nwekwanu uche for once. it's obvious this is suicide mission kanu is endangering our men to. rest in peace brothers in your next life don't follow that talkative kanu.

it's really a shame. how can normal human being face police with pump action. ndiara everywhere