Did you actually read through the articles you referenced for an understanding of the conditions involved? Or are you one of those who relies completely on Google's GPU for the processing of thoughts?
What you can be sure of is that the details will never say you'd be deported.
And you’re suffering from Biafra victim-mentality syndrome,caused by the excessive intake of Nnamdi Kanu’s Urine.
And try and be coherent in your replies Youtube links and news headlines won’t do much for you cos you were acting like a smarty pants earlier are you incapable of coherent and rational thoughts that you’ve got to resort to those to engage me?
Online champion?what’s that even supposed to mean you think everyone lives off SM or Nairaland validations ?lol I only engaged you cos you started misspeaking about my tribe I don’t give two Fvcks bout such trivialities you’re dwelling about.Keep it moving man!
The way you are talking about £40k as if it is a very big money. The deposit I have to pay for my 2nd home is way more than that and I still need to pay stamp duty as it is a second property. On the other hand, are good property cheap in Nigeria? To buy a land in choice location in Nigeria, the £40k will not be enough
You're going too far to make your point. NOBODY can buy choice property in Nigeria because NOBODY can own land in Nigeria. That's the LAW, your State Governor can take your land at any time, he can demolish your built property. This is one of the biggest reasons that investment into Nigeria is always running below potential. There's so many LEGAL reasons why Nigeria is a no-go area.
These Nigeria as paradise arguments are sooooo funnny!
sukkot: i lived in the state of Illinois for 10 years. thats still in america the last time i checked. Chicago to be exact. went to the same school jagaban went to
PoliteActivist: Abroad people: will you relocate back home if given $40k?
Home guys: $40k to stay in Naija OR $1k to enter any country of your choice without papers. Pick one
I would stay for even $10k.
I believe next year things will improve drastically for the economy with Buhari gone and the Naira made flexible again.
I just hope corporate tax can be reduced to 15%. I also hope the oil subsidy is gons for good.
With both measures, the economy could easily grow an average of 8% per annum for a decade. This will create lots of jobs and unemployment and underemployment rates would both plummet.
If commercial bank lending ratea can be in single digits, growth could easily hit 9-10% annually which is transformative.
This tells me you have limited experience. It is far better to enter with $1k and no papers than stay in Naija with $40k: Take the $1k, enter UK, US, Canada, ask for asylum. Play your cards right. Before long you'll have your papers. Guaranteed
As for the $40k. Depends on your circumstances abroad. There are Nigerians in US, UK, etc who'll happily go back home given $10k
@Abroad people: will you relocate back home if given $40k? � No. Thank you.
Well, that's you. Everybody is not you so don't laugh. There are people have never had $5k in their account since going abroad, plus they have all sorts of problems and bad record. Now you are offering such a person $40k plus a fresh clean start with no record, and you think they won't take it??
sukkot: bro you are living in fantasy land. go to germany you will see millions of african aduros seeking political asylum. after they frustrate you for 10 years while making you live inside camps, after 10 years you will be the one begging them to deport you home. i used to visit aduro camps in aachen bonn back in the day because i knew a few people there back in the day. you will live in makeshift camps with turks etc. this man you are the typical naija man wey go open mouth like say life dey very easyyyyyyyyyyy and rossyyyyyyyyyyy once you enter europe
Dey no wan hear word.
They say those telling them abroad no easy make dey come back to Naija come suffer if what they are saying is true
They say those telling them abroad no easy make dey come back to Naija come suffer if what they are saying is true
Nothing like they no wan hear word. OP said you can go anywhere, must it be Germany??There are places you'd be treasured as an immigrant worker, legal or not. And they'd grant you asylum on the flimsiest excuse.
Even in US you get smart phones and tablets that vast majority of Nigerians can't afford, 3 meals a day, snacks, luxury hotel stay, free education, free health care, etc. See below
I believe next year things will improve drastically for the economy with Buhari gone and the Naira made flexible again.
I just hope corporate tax can be reduced to 15%. I also hope the oil subsidy is gons for good.
With both measures, the economy could easily grow an average of 8% per annum for a decade. This will create lots of jobs and unemployment and underemployment rates would both plummet.
If commercial bank lending ratea can be in single digits, growth could easily hit 9-10% annually which is transformative.
If you are like most Nigerians, that $10 or 40k will quickly dissipate and you'd be back where you were!
Nothing like they no wan hear word. OP said you can go anywhere, must it be Germany??There are places you'd be treasured as an immigrant worker, legal or not. And they'd grant you asylum on the flimsiest excuse.
Even in US you get smart phones and tablets that vast majority of Nigerians can't afford, 3 meals a day, snacks, luxury hotel stay, free education, free health care, etc. See below
You have a point. Basically, choose your battles right!
sukkot: please understand that i am not a property agent or a scammer and neither do i want to sell you property ooooo. i just googled property under 25 milllion in ajah to give you an example of what i am talking about. i understand we have to be careful on these NL streets .
I wouldn’t buy property from NL anyway. Na who no know them dey fall victim like that
This tells me you have limited experience. It is far better to enter with $1k and no papers than stay in Naija with $40k: Take the $1k, enter UK, US, Canada, ask for asylum. Play your cards right. Before long you'll have your papers. Guaranteed
As for the $40k. Depends on your circumstances abroad. There are Nigerians in US, UK, etc who'll happily go back home given $10k
I hope you know it is one thing to have papers, it is another think to make money. There are many people with papers that are homeless. Having paper is not the end itself, it is a means to the end.
What!? Why such intense venom? Kí l'a gbé, kí lẹ jù?
I'm sure the person who asked the question expected each person to answer for himself. How will I know of others' situations or priorities? Why would I be laughing about others'
In my own case, it is laughable. So I laughed - Heartily too! And with my head thrown back.
*A little mutual respect of each other on this platform would be nice, please. Thank you.
Well, that's you. Everybody is not you so don't laugh. There are people have never had $5k in their account since going abroad, plus they have all sorts of problems and bad record. Now you are offering such a person $40k plus a fresh clean start with no record, and you think they won't take it??
I hope you know it is one thing to have papers, it is another think to make money. There are many people with papers that are homeless. Having paper is not the end itself, it is a means to the end.
Exactly. And I know someone WITHOUT papers in US who is quite rich
What!? Why such intense venom? Kí l'a gbé, kí lẹ jù?
I'm sure the person who asked the question expected each person to answer for himself. How will I know of others' situations or priorities? Why would I be laughing about others'
In my own case, it is laughable. So I laughed - Heartily too! And with my head thrown back.
*A little mutual respect of each other on this platform would be nice, please. Thank you.
Oh I misunderstood your laugh emoji. But I wasn't disrespectful
sukkot: i am always willing to learn but you are not teaching anything. you are simply fear mongering
And to talk about how rude you are.... No allow me change am for you oo.
Amongst both of us, whose more fearful, someone that has decided to live within the axis of his so called heaven estate...the one who has vowed he wouldn't dare visit or pass through some parts of the country, yet talking trash that security issues abroad is same as the one in Nigeria?
... If you wan talk true just say the reason you were jumping from country to country and yet remained a third class citizen before them, that's if you haven't been telling lies all through with just experience from those who have traveled. Those being elected in one political office or the other abroad including US, are they not blacks....abi your own colour dirty.
Please there's data about economic conditions in Nigeria, this isn't like 25 years ago. Let's quote some of them offhand - * Only about 0.5% of Nigerian workers earn over ₦200K per month, about 95% of bank accounts contain less than ₦500K. Only 7% of Lagosians have running water in their homes...imagine the rest of the country. Life expectancy in Nigeria is about 60 years for men. That last one has been hitting home for me recently because I personally know 5 relatively healthy acquittances who left the USA & UK to live in Nigeria in the last 4 years and died from one emergency health issue or another. One just happened in Lagos LAST WEEK, the man had a heart attack and was stuck in traffic for 6 hours and died inside the car taking him to the hospital. This is someone that many of his friends had repeatedly advised him to come back to the USA. It just makes concrete the reality that choosing between Nigeria & the UK can be a matter of life and death.
I used to be a hospital lab technician. There's something called platelet concentrate that is sometimes used for babies born with some sort of haemoatology problem. When I moved back to Nigeria in 2011, I was at the FMC Hospital in Owerri when a child was born. The doctor on duty determined that the baby needed platelet concentrate. It was not available ANYWHERE. And the baby died. This is a product we used to throw away like water at my USA workplace because it has an 8 hour shelf life. The standing procedure is to have it available at all times just in case of a neonatal crisis. But in Nigeria it was NOWHERE to be found. The doctor cried and I cried too. It's not that babies don't die in the USA or UK, it's that they don't die cheaply. By the way, the son of a serving Federal Minister also died of the same thing some years ago, he had a crisis and needed a blood product that wasn't available in Nigeria. He died in an air ambulance on the way to the UK. Unfortunately I can't put their grief out here in public, but it's a lesson on how precarious life has become that someone so highly placed can't even save themselves. So much for living the good life in Nigeria.
Simply put, your chances of staying alive are higher in the West, period.
Yes there are people earning millions of dollars in Nigeria, I know a few field engineers in the oil & gas industry or top bankers or people working remotely for big IT companies. Yes, they are there but the more important point is that the numbers of such people in Nigeria are so few as to be negligible. They're a statistically insignificant number and their situation is getting more precarious with each passing year.
I know TWO highly placed families in Nigeria where both parents and ADULT CHILDREN and spouses and grandchildren have moved from Nigeria into the town where I live. These are people who live in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Maitama, who work at major oil & gas companies, banks and are in politics. They pulled up EVERYTHING and abandoned Nigeria. I don't live in a major city so imagine the number that are migrating to London, New York or Houston. The last push for one of them was being REPEATEDLY robbed in Abuja after fleeing the same problem in Lagos years before. The woman told me this personally.
These are people who know what is going on in Nigeria and they're leaving! It's not always about MONEY, it's also about quality of life and peace of mind. The elites of Nigeria - the perm secs, federal directors, academic elites, business moguls, top politicians - are a disgrace to the Black Race. I like the way things are going now, many of them are being forced to flee the results of their own idiocy, now in the West they have to rub shoulders with their victims on an equal basis. And everything I see tells me it's going to get worse.
What is the deception? It's telling that ORDINARY LOWER MIDDLE CLASS life depicted on Facebook is viewed as exaggerated luxury by Nigerians. I know many Nigerians who have been working low wage jobs for over 25 years and they all own homes in good neighborhoods and MULTIPLE cars and their kids are university graduates working good jobs. Most if not all of them have scrimped and saved to build homes in Nigeria too. However much they spend in UK it's still enough to send plenty of money to their relatives in Nigeria.
This very topic is what brought me to Nairaland. I was SHOCKED to read people mocking the standard of living in the Anglo countries. I came to the USA with zero money, my plane ticket was bought with borrowed money. I started life working illegally in a restaurant. I know for a fact that even back then, working in that restaurant, I was better off than 99% of people in Nigeria. Summary - if I can live a good life in the West, most people can achieve it too.
I'm in the Nigerian community, I hear of people moving to UK all the time, I see people coming into my community every week, every month both illegally and legally, married with children and single, rich and poor. Even when they're starting from scratch, within a year or two they have fully paid off used car they couldn't dream of having in Nigeria, they live in apartments - maybe with a single roommate - with running water, flush toilet and 24 hour electricity. Breathing fresh air with no dust and generator fumes. They can walk the street with confidence, no police checkpoints, they can drive for hours on the highway with no fear of being waylaid by armed robbers or kidnapped. Those are things that are not guaranteed even in Lekki Phase Zero or VGC.
A Professor, a scion of one of the most prominent families in my ancestral village, was kidnapped right in front of his house in Nigeria. The kidnappers collected their 40million and still killed him.
Good thing too Nigerians going to the West now are learning to do manual work like landscaping, computer wiring/network setups, auto mechanics and mobile car wash, cooking food and selling from their homes, sewing clothes & shoe repair, so having papers is not even as much a problem as before. Honestly I wish I had such skills when I arrived here, life would have been a lot easier. There's a woman who sells Nigerian food that we patronize often, we buy like one week worth of food at a time. When you go to pick up at her home you can see they're VERY BUSY. There's one or two more people that have opened walk up - carry out restaurants. They cater parties too. A Nigerian mobile car washer cleaned my car last week, he came to the office and did it. Who needs Green Card to do that?
Nigeria today is not a good place to live for the VAST MAJORITY and it must be a terrible burden to even be rich in the midst of such misery. Hopefully it will get better but all this fakery about life in Nigeria must stop. Y'all know you're not real.
Quite informative. In other words, east or west, japa is best!
Nigeria Finally Happened To Me! I was attacked on Saturday night by bandits at Akwanga on my way to Abuja from Jos. One person was shot while another in my car Kidnapped, my driver managed to escape. Several other cars and buses were raided and people were kidnapped from them as well.
Few minutes after the kidnapping the polie came and towed the vehicle while we were still inside the bush, and on getting to the police station the next day they almost claimed the vehicle.
Online champion?what’s that even supposed to mean you think everyone lives off SM or Nairaland validations ?lol I only engaged you cos you started misspeaking about my tribe I don’t give two Fvcks bout such trivialities you’re dwelling about.Keep it moving man!
Nigerians students are paying 40k pounds to school in UK They got the money from Nigeria. 40k$ is not enough to come back to Nigeria. I came to Nigeria with 25k pounds fifteen years ago from UK to Nigeria. I spent the money within two months. So 40k is not enough at all to come back to Nigeria. Nigeria is expensive to live now.
As soon as you obtain a valid ID no record is almost as good as good record. Do your research. In some places illegals can get drivers license, open bank accounts, and even vote
No. Thank you.