₦airaland Forum

Everyone is rich online.
500 every month steady.
How easy can you even secure a 500k job in Nigeria for anyone close to you

Good morning

When you were 28 you would think, you still have time...now 10 years after it look like yesterday.

Another 10 years from now you'll be 48.

What i'd advice you is that, in whatever you set your mind to do. Do it fast. Achieve it. Don't procrastinate.

Time is our greatest leveler.

Same time is the enemy of human.

Let's be mindful of what we put out there in the name of content. This post could lead many 35 years old to depression and other societal vice like crime due to pressure, and after if they do you dirty you'll still come to the Government to shout insecurity.

Women generally are like this in real life

Good morning

The writer is promoting his vocational ministry.

The irony of Nigeria is that it affects everyone, including skill labourer, same for the unemployed graduates.

Nigeria system has rendered alot of artisan useless, most have resulted to Okadaman due to lack of electricity, lack customers in their trade.

My kids will follow their passion but they must get education first.

That's just my own standard.

I'll also enroll my kids in weekends and holiday technical school simultaneously.

P.S A 500million project cannot be handled by ordinary electrician.

Great job bro

Thanks for the call

Na fuel go humble you no worry. I spend 27k on fuel driving everyday to and fro

Wenonawde:
Good morning everyone,

Does anyone have any information about the route from Enugu to Lagos? I’m planning to travel from Enugu to Lagos to visit my family.

Is the road currently safe? I can’t afford to fly at the moment, sso I’ll be traveling by road.

To be honest, I’m quite scared because every time I open Nairaland, I keep seeing reports of kidnappings and bandit attacks in different parts of the country.

I would appreciate any recent updates or advice from people who have traveled that route lately. Thank you.

Travel nothing will happen, forget the online fear mongering. People are traveling everyday on Nigerian roads.

Travel at daytime

As for Nigeria, it's better they don't qualify at all than losing out at the group stage.

Says someone with 30 children and cannot even pass basic waec examination.

LK777:
If no be say some poor people carry school education for head, how you for take dey type wetin you just type for your post ?

Abi ALL your primary and secondary school teachers dem be from millionaire families?

A person's poverty is usually a factor MANY things working together — not simply about whether they are from poor background forcing themself to attend UNI.

Some people from poor family backgrounds made it in life EXACTLY by forcing themself to attend UNI.

Yet it may not work for other people due to some other factors caused by themselves or by other people or situations.

You talk about learning trade as if it's the AUTOMATIC passport to being financially ok. There are tons of financially struggling artisans in our country.

If I have a beef for university education I will address it straight up. I won't be judging people "carrying it for head" as if they're doing something wrong.

People just shouting skills, skills...

The reality is skill alone will not put food on your table, if you don't know how to market it to get customers that will pay you money.

That's why alot of Okada men today will tell you that they have a skill or trade but no patronage, they have to leave their shop and drive Okada.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
The emphasis in the Nigeria labour market is still on certificate rather than skill. The first ir even the only thing Nigerian employer require is certificate.

So don't blame them.

Again have you heard that saying, if education is expensive try ignorance?

Is just that the system in Nigeria right now is not working right, otherwise you won't be saying this thing.

People are striving and struggling to make a life and you are mocking them!!!

Also the mode of employment in Nigeria right now is based on who you know, based on relationship. So right now an employer can give a job meant for a PhD to a primary school cert holder based purely relationship such dear friend, likeness, appearance and attractiveness, it is that bad and appalling.

This is NOT entirely true.

In terms of connection, it might be true for say Government jobs, but private businesses and multinationals, your experience is what they need.

Jobs are scarce, and hard to comeby especially for fresh graduates, but as you progresses and gain experience opportunities get easier for you.

Taal17:
Na wa o lol
So you want them to remove immigrant visas but leave FMJ abi.
Let's hope they remove for ALL

They should oooh

I was passing through the US embassy yesterday at Walter Carrington, that place was empty Lol.

aybabz101:
People wey i pity most na the ones who converted their car from petrol to gas

Lol and those that converted their generator to gas

Nowadays, transportation cost will eat all the 150k salary.

Times have changed

May the soul of Buhari NEVER rest in peace. He was the patron

I see alot of people saying cult issue.

Nigerians don't think critically that's why we have bad leadership tossing us every four years.

What is the proof that he was a cultist?

It can even be a deal gone wrong.

It can be a woman issue.

It can be a mistaken identity.

Why take a life you can't create.

Nigeria is a dirty crime scene

Greed is that you?

I don't know why people are always greedy.

You have US citizenship already, and yet you can't make it legit in a place where everything is working.

Deport him back to Tinubu economy

What is the Alaafin of Oyo and the Aare onakakanfo Gani Adams doing about this? Aren't they the supreme leader of Yoruba race.

MadPolitician:
I stayed in Nigeria for four years after graduation and made no serious headway. I left Nigeria thereafter and after three years living outside the country, I was able to buy a house of over 80k USD in the same Nigeria.

What does that tell you?
It wasn't even a serious job that I was doing. It was basically me trying to leverage all the economic opportunities I met in those foreign lands. How commonly possible is such story in Nigeria?

Anyone who's trying to diminish the quantity and quality of opportunities outside the country for young Nigerian immigrants, is simply devilish in his ways..

Our leaders are devilish. They've stole the future of even the unborn generation

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Darkandhandsom:
How do you mean please?

I said you should enter STREET. What I meant was that look beyond white collar job, try your hands on different things and get going. Don't try and stay at home else you'll be depress. I'm speaking from experience.
Go out there and find anything legit doing even if it's part time teaching.

ariesbull:
Why do many young Nigerians believe the only way to succeed is to leave home?

Every day, thousands dream about Europe as the ultimate escape route — better roads, stable electricity, cleaner systems, stronger currency, and a more comfortable life. On social media, it often looks perfect. People post pictures in winter jackets, airports, clean streets, and foreign apartments, making it seem like life automatically becomes successful once you leave Nigeria.

But behind many of those pictures is another story nobody talks about enough.

The truth is that only a small percentage of Nigerians abroad are genuinely thriving financially and emotionally. Yes, some people have built successful careers, businesses, and stable lives overseas, and their success deserves respect. But for the overwhelming majority, life abroad is often a constant cycle of survival, bills, and pressure.

Many Nigerians abroad are living paycheck to paycheck. After rent, taxes, transportation, childcare, insurance, and endless expenses, there is little left. Some work exhausting shifts in warehouses, factories, care homes, or cleaning jobs for years with no real ownership or long-term security to show for it. Some are constantly anxious about visas, residency papers, documentation renewals, or immigration status. Behind the smiling pictures online are sleepless nights, loneliness, depression, and fear of uncertainty.

Some people spend ten or twenty years abroad and still cannot confidently say they have built a lasting foundation either there or back home in Nigeria. No land. No investment. No business. No real roots. Just survival from one month to another.

And as time passes, deeper worries begin to appear.

Many quietly wonder what old age will look like for them abroad. Will their children, raised fully in Western culture, still value family the same way Nigerians traditionally do? Will those children want to care for them personally when they grow old, or will they eventually end up alone in care homes, visited occasionally out of obligation rather than love and connection?

Some even worry about where they will finally be buried. Back home in Nigeria among their ancestors and family roots? Or in a foreign land where their children may feel more attached to than the country their parents came from?

These are painful conversations many people avoid having openly.

Meanwhile, back in Nigeria, despite all the frustration and hardship, there are people quietly building lives with purpose, ownership, and legacy.

Nigeria is still one of the biggest untapped markets in the world. In a country with over 200 million people, almost every problem is a business opportunity waiting for someone brave enough to solve it. While many people are focused on escaping, others are building companies, brands, farms, schools, tech startups, transport businesses, and real estate portfolios.

People behind companies in Nigeria that are unicorn, like fintechs, trading firms etc and did not wait for another country to hand them opportunities. They saw possibilities inside Nigeria and built around them.

Even in entertainment, we have seen many become global names while remaining deeply connected to their Nigerian identity and culture.

And beyond celebrities, there are ordinary Nigerians who may never trend online but are building quietly every day. The man who owns a growing supermarket chain in Aba. The woman running a successful fashion business in Lagos. The young developer earning remotely from Nigeria. The farmer expanding his land year after year. These people may not post foreign pictures online, but they are creating something solid and lasting.

Of course, this does not mean Europe is bad or that nobody should travel. There are Nigerians abroad doing incredibly well, building wealth, raising healthy families, and creating opportunities. Some people genuinely need to leave for education, healthcare, security, or a better quality of life.

But maybe the real question is this:

Should success only be measured by leaving Nigeria?

Because sometimes, the person staying back to build a business, create jobs, buy land, support family, preserve culture, and leave behind a legacy may actually be building a richer life than someone abroad living from shift to shift with nothing truly theirs.

At the end of the day, earning a paycheck is one thing. Building something that outlives you is another.

Keep building until bandit kidnap you or family and demand huge ransom,

Keep building until one useless government policy bring your capital to zero

Keep building until you have nothing left due to weak Naira.

We are being ruled by certificate fogers, cultist, nonetities and daft leaders in Nigeria

Redman44:
Europe is not the only place to travel to. New Zealand and Australia are there. These two faraway lands have lots of opportunities that you need to research on. And if it must be Europe, go to countries like Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland . Exposure matters a lot.

Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherland, Austria are also good European countries