poseidon12:


A lot of Lebanese and Indians are doing very well here in Nigeria. Nigerians, like most blacks are not builders. They always run to where others have built. Even in US, they keep running to the white neighborhoods while the whites ( builders) keep running from them.

many just want to feel they have suppased their country men by moving to white man Land and be sending pictures of snow up and down after coming home from a warehouse shift at Amazon .

Primusinterpares:
15 million dollars don't come that easy o. Except you are into drugs, robbery, yahoo, or illegal stuffs

Or business. Legal business.

ednut1:
Selling your property to obtain student visa is a big gamble people are willing to take. Nigeria looks like it is nearing collapse. Immigration is also not certain 3 years ago canada permanent residency was easy today it is very hard. USA was easy to enter 10 years ago today you cant even get interview date. Uk is currently doing promo with student visa they may change policy one day and people have no where to go again. So people dey rush am now as he dey hot. Dont blame them.

Topic is now on fp make nobody quote me. I no dey mood

@bolded Why do you say so? Is getting Canadian PR really hard these days?

grandstar:


Recommend the person

Sent you a mail

Helpout12345:
Honestly, it's 100pct worth it if you are going with Permanent Residency. You get to settle on time economically in your destination.

If you are relocating through student route, it's largely going to worth it if you do your research very well and understand how to plan your way to permanent residency at your destination in the shortest possible time.

If you are going on a visit visa, to become illegal afterwards, it's not worth it at all except your life is not meaningful in Nigeria.

Whatever you decide, let me end it with my usual assertion. "A Cat in Nigeria cannot become a Lion overseas, and a Lion in Nigeria will not become a Cat either overseas.

You know yourself, capabilities etc. Research your destination and set your expectations accordingly.

Good luck !

@bolded It's not always true. A Cat in Nigeria can become a Lion overseas, and a Lion in Nigeria can become a Cat overseas. It really depends on the person and their strategy.

Munamoqel:
Hi business minded people of Nairaland. I am a diasporan Nigerian and to be honest am tired of this UK and am thinking home now. I have a plan to come and invest in pharmaceutical retail business.
Am not a pharmacist, my plan is to employ a pharmacist that will run it while I supervise the day to day activities. Am thinking of starting it next year after the election. Set it up and go back to UK to finalize my final exit by Dec next yr. Am looking for location along Lekki Epe Exp or Ibadan Oyo State for now. Am hoping to make it a chain of pharma Stores
in futur

Come to ogun state

dawnomike:
Just think about it, you can be wealthy in Nigeria and get kidnapped for ransom or get killed by a mumu police officer
That alone is worth leaving the country for

. Do you know how many blacks that have been killed in the USA in the last one month? America is not the safest. You and your kids can be killed by a random guy testing his gun

Mindlog:
I relocated in 2013 and not regretting it, especially considering Nigeria's present situation.

Even if you regret it you will never tell us

Although i agree with you on some point, that there is no place like home, but your argument on this topic about how you got the opportunity of freeing yourself from the claws of poverty is not relative. My intake is a lot of Nigerians like yourself are self centered ''Me Me Syndrom'' a functional society is not about individual progress like yours, but a collective one where everyone have the access to life basics . There are millions living in abject poverty and fear of insecurity due to non functional governmental institutions. Your mindset of a progressive Naija can the qualified to that of the ruling class, for them Nigeria is working just fine.

Munamoqel:
Nigeria is a very strange Nation .this year I made around 7m from been insurance agent . It started from a oil and gas firm that wanted to do GIT insurance and the owner contacted me ! I contacted some insurance firm I was familiar with and they agree to take underwrite the policy .I jokely ask if they are paying me commission .they said yes . a large insurance firm agree 15 percent .second 10 .na so e happen . 2 week later several oil and gas logistics firm contacted me via referrals from the first . Baam I have done 13 firm counting . It yearly and renewable and my commission will paid yearly too . This is Nigeria a land of magical opportunities . This just a side unplanned business . Don't let any body tell you it nearing collapse . Those Indians and Chinese will not be here . Lastly zero tax on this commission/income. Unlike Uk yeye tax people go they chase me.up.and down

Some people are saying that they want to give their kids a good life and I laugh in Chinese. Your kids that will become gays and drugs addict tomorrow in USA?
Look at the rate of lonely black parents in abroad who never saw this coming

amliftedhigher:

Even if you regret it you will never tell us

Why should I regret studying and working in the field I have aspired for, in a more conducive environment?

Gerrard59:


So how do Ndi foreign investors aka Lebanese, Chinese and Indians cope there?

But with that kind of mentality by those close to the elites, I am not surprised that Kogi is one of the poorest states in Nigeria.

A Lebanese or Chinese is a whiteman in Nigeria, how dare you compare ordinary black folks with almighty Chinese? These are the people that help the governor's take their money abroad so you want to compare us with them? Do you know how to buy hotel in another country and hide the identity of the owner like they recently did for yaya Bello in Saudi Arabia? You are blaming only Kogi in rivers can you run for LG chairman without permission from Wike? This is why Nigeria is f...cked for good. Everybody with little power is arrogant. I schooled in a university in the UK for 2 years and I never saw the VC till I finished, neither did I remember his name or know where the office is, you hardly see his name even in programs, and if he's at an event you are attending you won't hear he's there. But in Nigeria you will not only know him everyday of your life, but his wife, mother, children must all be forced down your throat. This is why any youth that fail to vote for Peter Obi is cursed along with their generation because Obi is the only modern leader among them all. Up till today I don't know his wife even when he was governor. Not Tinubu that wife, son, daughter are already mini emperors on their own and waiting to enter aso rock and rule their poor citizens. Africa will still be useless 1000 years to come

Wuppdex:
Although i agree with you on some point, that there is no place like home, but your argument on this topic about how you got the opportunity of freeing yourself from the claws of poverty is not relative. My intake is a lot of Nigerians like yourself are self centered ''Me Me Syndrom'' a functional society is not about individual progress like yours, but a collective one where everyone have the access to life basics . There are millions living in abject poverty and fear of insecurity due to non functional governmental institutions. Your mindset of a progressive Naija can the qualified to that of the ruling class, for them Nigeria is working just fine.

where did you read that it free me from poverty? .or your are using your personal circumstances to evaluate other . Read and comprehend and not read and relate. The insurance happened as a side business ....

My situation lol, typical Naija mentality, Comfortable people don't make noise or go about bragging ok.

Munamoqel:
where did you read that it free me from poverty? .or your are using your personal circumstances to evaluate other . Read and comprehend and not read and relate. The insurance happened as a side business ....

LastProphet:


A Lebanese or Chinese is a whiteman in Nigeria, how dare you compare ordinary black folks with almighty Chinese? These are the people that help the governor's take their money abroad so you want to compare us with them? Do you know how to buy hotel in another country and hide the identity of the owner like they recently did for yaya Bello in Saudi Arabia? You are blaming only Kogi in rivers can you run for LG chairman without permission from Wike? This is why Nigeria is f...cked for good. Everybody with little power is arrogant. I schooled in a university in the UK for 2 years and I never saw the VC till I finished, neither did I remember his name or know where the office is, you hardly see his name even in programs, and if he's at an event you are attending you won't hear he's there. But in Nigeria you will not only know him everyday of your life, but his wife, mother, children must all be forced down your throat. This is why any youth that fail to vote for Peter Obi is cursed along with their generation because Obi is the only modern leader among them all. Up till today I don't know his wife even when he was governor. Not Tinubu that wife, son, daughter are already mini emperors on their own and waiting to enter aso rock and rule their poor citizens. Africa will still be useless 1000 years to come

story .obi was also an emperor and single handed pick his successor from his bank against all other . So you a a contradicting yourself. The SDP candidate is far better than obi in term of capacity . ideas . brilliance .obi is dull and inchorent and not in like of soludu Sunusi Osinbajo

Wuppdex:
My situation lol, typical Naija mentality, Comfortable people don't make noise or go about bragging ok.

clown na 7 m Dem dey take brag ! If I wan brag na to talk urea distribution .

Fearyourcreator:

You sef join them do am

Show me proof

Fearyourcreator:

Because you no make am in Nigeria mean say another person won't bah

And because your relative abroad no make am means say others won't?

Munamoqel:
apply for Jobs with you native name .like bolaji or chukuwemeka and see auto regrets mail .but na care home and other dead end jobs you will receive interview mails.

Oga sir I've had no problems getting jobs.

Fresh Air you receive for body abroad is differ from this zoo called Africa

GeneralShepherd:


Oga sir I've had no problems getting jobs.

you be 0.0000001 very skill human resources from know multinational. Let one emeka with BSC from ojukwu University apply for job for UBS group Switzerland ...

Backpedal:

A big market means nothing when the MAJORITY of the people are impoverished and miserable

I'll rather do business in Switzerland with fewer people but with deep pockets
Than Nigeria breeding economically useless Homan beings left and right

Improverished! How? When you are buying basic thinhs like boxers and ordinary phone on credit while the people you say are Improverished are paying for theirs in cash

Abeg define Improverished again

Fearyourcreator:

Nigeria is untapped ooo

very untapped that is why Asians are flocking here while the clowns are running out to do 3 jobs

Fearyourcreator:

Lolzzzs...
Watch a movie about a war between French and England ... Nottingham to be precise... These guys don fight war ooo ... To enjoy what they are enjoying as a citizen today ... Nigerians na to dey find cool place everytime without thinking about their future and culture... Most of our musicians abroad then had to come back and blow here before getting recognized globally ...
My own be anyone that japa should enjoy his life as them dey see am... Same with those that decided to stay too... It's all choice sha... But for me ooo... I should only travel for business purpose ...

very shameless people... Thy can't contribute to humanity always to consume

Even to stay and develop their own home they will run out.. Only to shout racism... Why wouldn't the discriminated

poseidon12:


A lot of Lebanese and Indians are doing very well here in Nigeria. Nigerians, like most blacks are not builders. They always run to where others have built. Even in US, they keep running to the white neighborhoods while the whites ( builders) keep running from them.

The yellow sick Anglo Saxons who you call "white" are not builders....they are destroyers.... go and read the history of Africa.... I'm African and a builder and I've met sooo many sick western Europeans who are always trying to depend on me....

You hv internalized neo-colonial narratives and I feel sorry for you....

t2luv1:


You can build wealth depending on how you define wealth. I left Nigeria when I was 19 right after I finished high school and was waiting for my JAMB result. If you are willing to put in the work the sky is the limit to whatever you can achieve in this land of Milk and honey we call the USA. My house is fully paid for and I have been working from my own house going on over 5 years and making six figures. My two boys are all grown up and living on their own with their families. This summer went on a seven days cruise of the Mediterranean with my wife. So tell me again how you define wealth. No bad for someone from Odesa in Ijebu Ode. Eweso !!!!

You won't admit it, but I'm sure you went on that cruise using credit (debt). Nobody can afford anything in these developed countries without debt.

You went on a cruise but nobody wants to interact with you on the cruise because they think you're servants / waiters. Imagine living life at the bottom of society, despised, scorned and treated like trash, no matter how much money you have.

Your kids are grown up but probably act like Akatas and have no African culture again. They're probably into homosexuality, pornography (onlyfans), drugs and other degenerate behaviour accepted as normal in the West.

GeneralShepherd:


Oga you people should stop this cock and bull story. Majority of oyibo don't have 10000 USD in their bank account?

How do you know this? Tell me. You people talk all this nonsense about mortgage and loans, you think anybody can go to a bank and get any loan they want.

You dont know loans are means tested. When you see someone living in 2m dollar house, they put it in 20% of that money down to begin with which is 400k. Then what ever job they have must be able to cover three times the mortgage payment that is how mortgages are means tested. If you go to any major city in the world the majority of houses there are over 800K , from Melbourne, to Toronto, to New York and even Sydney.

Many Nigerian immigrants but houses that are at least 600K. 10% down is 60K which can build a house in most areas in Nigeria. After that down payment most of us pay a mortgage of nearly 3200 every month comfortably because banks will not give you a mortgage you can't pay comfortably. Again keep deceiving yourself but at least don't deceive people.


I don't have any issues with y'all saying these things to convince yourself you are better off in Nigeria but you are deceiving other Nigerians

I was being generous with the conversion, 7m is not up to 10000usd in the black market where majority of Nigerians buy dollars

no mind them... They feel we are stupid

hodari:


You won't admit it, but I'm sure you went on that cruise using credit (debt). Nobody can afford anything in these developed countries without debt.

You went on a cruise but nobody wants to interact with you on the cruise because they think you're servants / waiters. Imagine living life at the bottom of society, despised, scorned and treated like trash, no matter how much money you have.

Your kids are grown up but probably act like Akatas and have no African culture again. They're probably into homosexuality, pornography (onlyfans), drugs and other degenerate behaviour accepted as normal in the West.

He will want to come home when he is in his lat 60s but shame no go free am cos he has lost touch even if shame gree am... The children will never come home again... Trust me

That is if they don't end up in some rehabs for drug or changed sex! You can imagine such a picture for a late 60yr old man

I dolt want to talk about the piling up credit card debt

It started out innocent, right? Maybe when you were in high school, Mom and Dad gave you a credit card “for emergencies only” to help you build up your credit. But a few months into your new cardholder status, you realized that you held the term “emergency” a little too loosely. Yeah, those late-night pizza runs don’t seem as important when you’re paying triple just a few years later.

And what about cars, college degrees, expensive family vacations and even those ridiculously overpriced mom jeans you just bought to stay “on trend”? Let’s just say, you’ve discovered what’s killing the American Dream: your Discover card (and more debt than you know what to do with).

Since when did the American Dream involve piles of credit card bills, student loans and car payments? When did the American Dream turn into working so much you can’t see your family, owing more money than you make to Sallie Mae, and losing sleep over the mortgage payment? Has the American Dream become an illusion?

https://www.ramseysolutions.com/debt/debt-is-killing-the-american-dream

Munamoqel:
Hi business minded people of Nairaland. I am a diasporan Nigerian and to be honest am tired of this UK and am thinking home now. I have a plan to come and invest in pharmaceutical retail business.
Am not a pharmacist, my plan is to employ a pharmacist that will run it while I supervise the day to day activities. Am thinking of starting it next year after the election. Set it up and go back to UK to finalize my final exit by Dec next yr. Am looking for location along Lekki Epe Exp or Ibadan Oyo State for now. Am hoping to make it a chain of pharma Stores in futur

dude pharmacuetical is a big business.... You will make it and the market is huge in Nigeria....but establish it here and be here to manage it.... It is important!

You can avoid Lagos and look for tax free zones like Ogun, Anambra, Ekiti, Enugu etc.. These areas are good and they have the manpower


How did you survive that rat race in UK came to London was surprised at how Nigerians juggle jobs and manage life

You will live like king here with your investments in safe hands

Hybkay:
lol, why won't life be boring when all y'all do over there is work work work

You are right my brother, the place is just all about work, nothing else

Stay if you are okay with your situation leave if you feel it will better your life