₦airaland Forum

theamerican:
For those who have never traveled before and are unsure about what life really is abroad, I may not be able to tell you a lot about other countries but I can speak for myself here and what my experience has been. See, you may not understand the little things that make life worth living until you actually live in (not just visit) a very developed country.

The deal breaker for me is the violation of rights. Some people don't even know their rights not to talk of fighting back when they've been violated. No amount of money I make can make up for that and that's the main reason living here is a win for me. I can't mistakenly hit a soldier's car and start praying for death.

You see me driving an expensive car. Without any proof, you assume the source of my wealth is fraudulent. You stop me and ask to provide my ID, I give it to you, you say "let's go to our station" for absolutely NO freaking reason? I try to call my lawyer, you seize my phone and prevent me from reaching out to people. I didn't break any law, my crime is just driving an expensive car? Lol... you're looking for trouble.

I can sue anybody's father here for any nonsense . I don't have to suffer because of anyone's incompetence, recklessness, or stupidity

bilulu:
don't u think dats y people find it difficult to settle down these days? how long will it take to ve such money in ur akant

EMMAACHILE:
Lol. I see a lot of angered filled Nigerians here.

orimahspence:
If you need researched fact to confirm the hell you see in Nigeria everyday, then it seems your sense don't serve you right!

If you lives in Nija and still need an analyzed data to confirm there's absolutely nothing developing about Nigeria , then you need a serious help

Who lives here, watch bbc, Cnn ,aljazeera and still need link to confirm Nigeria is a hugely underdeveloped country?

'Developing' is simply a pleasant term made to make some zombies comfortable and agree that the country is moving forward while the reverse is the case

However, Nothing to add, except this article, which may lay your hope in Nigeria to rest.

CAUTION; read at your peril!!!!

https://www.thecable.ng/memories-midnight

orimahspence:
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@justwise, tell them again, That political correctness that lies to stagnating countries, calling them ‘developing countries’ when in truth they are stagnant and in some cases even retrogressing is just disingenuous. So Haiti is a developing country alongside The Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan? What is Brazil, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Thailand, Argentina, India, Egypt… if these sores of the earth are developing countries?

Folks, Tell yourselves the truth Nigerians and shame the Devil; a country whose health system is so none-existent that for 40yrs its leaders have gladly and continuously sought health solutions overseas cannot be said to be developing. A country is not developing because its citizens drive more cars or own bigger structures in its major cities or fly enough private jets to shame the Kenyans. A country that made and still makes trillions of naira not by any tasking revenue drives nor through sci-tech advancement but by hiring foreigners to dig up its oil, ship overseas for refining and import as finished products, and still cannot generate enough electricity for more than 5hrs/day for half of its population cannot claim to be developing, especially when you consider how long the charade of trying to generate electricity has taken.

A country that cannot supply drinking water to homes, clear domestic refuse from its cities; condemns its mentally challenged to roam its streets; flies presidents upon presidents, governors and senators overseas to treat knee issues (IBB), ear infections (Buhari), a mismanaged case of malaria!( Yar’adua) and miscellaneous trivia health issues and has a minister boldly announce how it will be making pencils in 4years would have been declared a failed nation had Somalia not refused to concede a few points. But when you take into consideration the resources at the disposal of Nigeria you just shove off the irredeemably recalcitrant, usurping Somalians.

Again, when you consider how most Nigerians are blissfully oblivious of the shame of having their president luxuriate in the UK for some undisclosed ailment while their country continuously allocates millions of dollars to a no-existent healthcare system; when you consider how the citizens keep mute over this grievous violation of their dignity and humanity; when you come to know that there are even citizens who don’t find this shameful and worthy of a call for impeachment, citizens who tongue-lash fellow compatriots for asking cogent questions about these bewildering oddities, you come to the realization that you are dealing with a country of failed citizens.

That Nigeria itself is not yet declared a failed state is partly because its reprobate buccaneers still want everything held together so they can continue using the pretense at nationhood to get richer and more influential. When they are rich enough, when the oil dries up, then Somalia will abdicate and Nigeria shall take its rightful place. Until then, let’s continue to play the ostrich, let’s continue to execute the injunctions of misinformed pastors when they ask us to “pray for our dear county, Nigeria”, let’s continue to wallow in the deceptive beauty of that tag, “developing nation”. But while at it, let those who seek to really move things beyond the lies and fallacies ask themselves again; what exactly qualifies a country as developing?- and afterwards proceed to study Brazil while reading Niyi Osundare’s Here Nothing Works to the accompaniment of Lagbaja’s 180million Mumus. When I get my visa pere!!! O-dabo in Aregbes voice [/s]

greiboy:
in Nigeria that I grew up in

@Early


20s boy/men

Most can hardly get a girlfriend, most are broke with the exception of those from wealthy family, majority are in university. A huge number opt for the self service option.

Ladies
Most don't want to date their mates, most have high standards and believe they will end up with very rich prince charming. The majority of them hold great expectations for their futures

@Mid to late 20s

Men

Most are just getting laid now . Some are finding financial freedom. Majority are just having first relationships and first set of assets to call their own

Women

Most have now suffered countless heart breaks. Some are lucky to be married and won't stop flaunting their marriage status at the founts of the majority unmarried ones. Society and parents will begin to apply pressure on most to settle down. Some might start regretting actions they took in the their early 20s

Early 30s

Men

A huge number are now financially stable. Some might have settled down by now. Majority are feeling the pressure to settle down. Some are still reeling from heart breaks and feel they can't trust women again. Some have become playboys because of the relationship opportunities their new found financial status have afforded them.

Women
Some have become desperate to settle down as a consequence of societal pressures. Some have grown thick skin and have decided not to settle down again. Majority is now married but not all the married ones are glad.

sonofspada:
Im i the only one that is seeing, Linda Ikeji?

chukxie:
Why should he or any traveler for that matter tip immigration, custom officers or officers of any other agencies at the airport? Nigeria is terribly messed up because acts that would land people in other countries in jail are seen as normal here.

chicoMX:
Like you said sir, Nigeria is terribly messed up. Every Nigerian knows that

AngelicBeing:
[s]Hahaha, I am suffering with the goodies in the West, deal with it and enjoy your shithole jungle, it seems my post struck a nerve on your miserable life in your shithole, let me head to Starbucks and take a cup of coffee, I don't have your time, my last response to you zombie, a lazy, demented, frustrated and hopeless Nigerian youth [/s]

AngelicBeing:
[s]Spot on, this has always been my position always, Nigeria is beyond redemption, those who want to be patriotic can continue and they should enjoy the shithole it offers, nonsense [/s]

MackyNaija:
To all the incoming students for Fall 2018 - keep worrying the graduate school and department, in-state will likely drop for you.

Park your bags and get set to leave. Ensure you have enough for the first year, they don't harass you to pay up during the semester but your phone will blow up by the next week after the semester ends. How do I know this? Ask google

Your profile will be on hold until you pay to the last dollar, without the hold being lifted you can not register for the new semester. SO use your tongue to count your teeth.

"The streets" here are inactive - it's just you and your God. To get side hustle hard pass Dbanj winning a grammy but somehow, we keep pushing it till graduation.

In theory this is how it works, [s]pay the first two semesters, use internship money to sort the third, owe the fourth that I hear is handed over to a collection agency at 30% interest (not sure how this process works).[/s] Graduate and go find a job to sort yourself.

Make your dream a reality! Don't loose Hope! Tamuk is waiting, the US will reward you!


I have 3 rugged exams coming up, I'm out!

YoungDaNaval:
Naija my country!!

theamerican:
To @EMMAACHILE and @ugosample

"Being rich is success/happiness" and "success/happiness is being rich" are not the same.
"A rich man is a successful/happy man" and "a successful/happy man is a rich man" aren't the same too. Let's not confuse these two.

When we talk about migrating/staying in Nigeria, people are quick to say how much money you can make in Nigeria and the opportunities available. They tell you all the business ideas in the world that can make your life awesome. They keep missing the point! Not everyone travels just because they want to amass wealth. Being rich is good, money answers most of the problems in life, don't get me wrong.

Being rich wasn't the motivation for my coming here. I wanted to be in a working system. A system where accountability from everyone is paramount. A place where no professor is sleeping with me before giving me the grades I deserve. A place where cops/people won't justify or laugh at being raped because of what I wore to a party. A place where widows are protected by law and not kicked out by the family of their late husbands, I could go on and on.

These are things people take for granted... and that's fine for them. Not for me.

Nig4Greatness:
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Point of correction....I never discouraged people from leaving but the question is for what purpose??...because the country is bad??...hell no,its because we don't want to play by the rules.every country pass through a transition and I was glad you mentioned china.go and read China rise to freedom and learn more if we are never closer to what they did.
Yeah the advantage I got from.being an American is the freedom I get to travel anywhere in the world period.I run same business in nigeria and United States and I make bold to say I make more money in Nigeria than I do in the US.
Let me share this,every time I file my tax returns in nigeria,those Irs guys will ask me to manipulate the figures and tip them.so they can wipe it off for me in their system.....and many more like that....and you want the country to progress??.hear this sgain,the operating budget of Nigerian with close to 200million in population with less than 40% implementation is N8T (about $25b) which is less than that of poor state of Georgia with just 10million in population and you want rapid development??.a particular government introduced a mere land use charge and all hell broke loose and yet you want development??.this hypocrisy has to stop sooner.
My personal msg to the OP is not to castigate and run down her home country because her adopted country is doing better than the former.
The last time I check,there's are still places in the US without proper telephone and network services.

Ugosample:
When I hear stuff like second class citizen, I just laugh


Except you are among the political or business elite in Nigeria, you are a second class Nigerian citizen in Nigeria.

Cross their path, and your eye go clear.


The most important tho is to find fulfilment in Life, because one day you will die.

Nigeria is not ready for development, as much of the population still have tgeur mentality stuck in the stone age, And there is a price for development, a price must Nigerians are not willing to pay.

As for me o, th six months in Nigeria and six months outside that I have designed for myself suits me.
overtime it will be 3 months Nigeria anf 9 months outside

ultimately, when the stuff im working on is complete, i don move completely be that.


Those in Nigeriashould develop Nigeria, I'm okwith my second class status

deepwater:
kai

Tobi shut up.

Teddy has more bro code than you, he kpanshed his bitched....no regrets from him and his goons....people liked it, they talked about it, they watched the clip over and over again, it gave bloggers hits, clicks and money....

You, TOBI BAKARE was seen all over the house for about 90 days begging for toto, something Teddy and Miracle were getting on the regular....

Nobody should talk about what the show promotes, it is rated 18 for a reason, any wonder why the station was not flagged down when toto was been sacrificed life on air? Pray tell, people paid to view it, it is legit.... Explicit Content, not suitable for viewers younger than 18

Babaelemu:
i[s] said 97% I didn't say all Nigerians maybe or maybe not you speaks well I wouldn't know.

If your interview was a white person obviously he wouldn't say it to your face that your spoken english is poor but rather praise you cos it never in their culture to belittle or make you feel low. But secretly they will gossip about it.

I don't know you and I'm not disputing you don't speak well as presently I will stand on my ground that majority of Nigerians don't speak good English and I rate it high [/s].

Taofeekdboy:
uthor=Babaelemu post=67402073] lol[s] comparing Ugandans English to that of Nigerians it like comparing California City to Ajegunle City. Get lost dude like seriously the way some lecturer in Nigeria still pronounce TURN as TORN, BACK as BARK, CUT as COURT. Like seriously you have a prove?like you are even confusing yourself, you said it earlier that you like their English, bro your argument is baseless because you don’t generalize something you have problem with. The way an educated person will speak English will be different from the way uneducated fellow will....even illiterates in Nigeria still speak good English just that the accent and intonation of speaking. Talk for yourself bro, you are the reason why South Africans look down on us like we re not from the same continent..SMH [/s]

theamerican:
I can't count the number of times I have rolled my eyes, laughed, smiled and left my mouth open with surprise after reading a lot on this thread so far. It's been an eye opener.

This is why during visa interviews, they sometimes ask if the applicant has ever traveled out of the country and ask where. Blind patriotism will be out the window once a first-timer walks out of JFK airport in Newyork and sees the difference between a developed country and where they are coming from lol.

Despite being here for what seems like ages now, I still visit some parts of the country and get wowed like a first timer. Nigerians complain about paying taxes abroad, they never talk about what the tax payers' money have done to the level of development (infrastructure) or that at the start of the year, people get back some of their taxes to do whatever they want. I got $9k as my tax return in March.

When you hear "Million", you think it's a fortune lol. Well, I hope people's dreams come true and they survive wherever they choose to be. I'm glad fate smiled upon me and sent me here and made all my dreams come true. It remains the best thing to happen to me. God bless America.