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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Gentew(m): 8:14pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:
cool


Village people cookings

While growing up something similar happened to a friend's father.. he worked as FG worker, resigned and travelled in the early 1990s, he was sending in cars and all, after a while he secretly tried to marry another wife and relocate her... That was when his wife got him back home without anything


Again I remember my own first Japa experience, Got a Job a 5 star hotel in UAE, Free food, free accomodation average salary, and I was just fresh out of the university, Travel agent wants me to have travel experience so I paid good money

I worked 3months straight nightshift, no sleeping

3months straight no off days Mondays to Monday no break

Indian Boss yelling at you, Arab boss fighting you

8 to 12 hours standing on your feet

No friends as everyone are busy working

At a point I completely zombified, and blacked out, my mind was completely off

Apart for Vacation abroad, Nigeria remains the best country ever if you get good source of income..

I totally agree with you



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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by theamazonguru(m): 8:14pm On Aug 02, 2023
OneCandleAway:


For a while he couldn't travel to UK. They later sorted it out somehow though

Oh I see
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Majesty7: 8:17pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
So this is a very strange story which I think about till this day.

It was October 1st 2019 and I am coming to Nigeria with Lufthansa from Manchester and the stopover is Frankfurt. And so we get to Frankfurt and we had to ride this trolley tram bus thingy to our terminal.

That’s where I saw this character. He was sat in front of me clutching a small handbag. That’s all he had On him. His eyes looked cold and dead like someone who has seen everything there is to see in life and he had checked out of humanity. He had like a long Islam goatee. Young guy, maybe early thirties. He sat there and clutched his bag and stared with that dead empty look. He wasn’t being deported. He was on a voluntary journey of his own. I watched him for a little while but then we got to the terminal and alighted and I never saw him again.

I took the flight to naija. Got the cab at the airport and started the journey to the Airbnb I had booked in magodo. It was an evening and up in the sky were stork birds and eagles and the atmosphere was dusty looking as the sun was setting. So as I was in the car on the express about 3 miles away from the airport I saw someone climbing the dividers of the express way and trying to cross over to the other side to the bus stop to catch a bus , I adjusted my eyes very well and guess who it was? It was the strange guy who sat in front of me on the tram-bus in Frankfurt. He had absolutely no luggage with him. He had just the same small bag I saw him with and he was in the same clothes

Till today I always wonder what that guys story is . Did he actually walk out voluntarily on his own out of Frankfurt with a tiny bag and walk into the streets of ojota with nothing but the same bag and dangerously crossing the expressway ? Was he remote controlled into Nigeria ? It’s a very strange episode. I think of that guy to this day

You expect him to carry all the luggage in the world or he should be forming like an illiterate?

People travel daily. When you are also matured in traveling, you won't see it as any big deal

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Exmilitant(m): 8:19pm On Aug 02, 2023
sacajawea:

I've literally never heard of this one
I feel no way, you are making it up, absolutely no way, except older retired people
It does happen. Here in PH there were men and women who were very addicted to farm and hard living when suddenly, civilization or whatever we call civilization in the name of industries, roads and gigantic buildings started taking the place of the farmlands and forests they were used to these people literally became zombies and some started dying off. Till today, some of them are yet to get use to civilization.
Thank God for the little exposure you have!

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by SailorUgo(m): 8:20pm On Aug 02, 2023
Almost exactly what happened to me when I was in Sec school.

We were to wear a particular uniform to match pass on independence at Umuahia stadium, but I wore a different cloth so I was told to go home as the school bus will not take me.

My school was far from the stadium and if you’re not familiar with the road you might miss the stadium.

But I be stadium boy cuz my house was not far from the place and I knew all the short cuts grin

It was like juju grin I was trekking but every junction they got to, I was there already grin
I even got to the stadium before people who were in a bus grin

The next day I was a celebrity in school. Some people called me a ghost, some said I was a spirit, some said I used juju. The teachers were speechless sad

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by sukkot: 8:22pm On Aug 02, 2023
Majesty7:


You expect him to carry all the luggage in the world or he should be forming like an illiterate?

People travel daily. When you are also matured in traveling, you won't see it as any big deal
I guess one of the fascination for me is that people looking at him in the streets would not know he was in Frankfurt Germany a few hours ago. He looked just like a regular guy in Lagos coming back from work. It’s just weird and fascinating seeing the same specimen in two totally different habitats thousands of miles apart

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Kyase(m): 8:23pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
So this is a very strange story which I think about till this day.

It was October 1st 2019 and I am coming to Nigeria with Lufthansa from Manchester and the stopover is Frankfurt. And so we get to Frankfurt and we had to ride this trolley tram bus thingy to our terminal.

That’s where I saw this character. He was sat in front of me clutching a small handbag. That’s all he had On him. His eyes looked cold and dead like someone who has seen everything there is to see in life and he had checked out of humanity. He had like a long Islam goatee. Young guy, maybe early thirties. He sat there and clutched his bag and stared with that dead empty look. He wasn’t being deported. He was on a voluntary journey of his own. I watched him for a little while but then we got to the terminal and alighted and I never saw him again.

I took the flight to naija. Got the cab at the airport and started the journey to the Airbnb I had booked in magodo. It was an evening and up in the sky were stork birds and eagles and the atmosphere was dusty looking as the sun was setting. So as I was in the car on the express about 3 miles away from the airport I saw someone climbing the dividers of the express way and trying to cross over to the other side to the bus stop to catch a bus , I adjusted my eyes very well and guess who it was? It was the strange guy who sat in front of me on the tram-bus in Frankfurt. He had absolutely no luggage with him. He had just the same small bag I saw him with and he was in the same clothes

Till today I always wonder what that guys story is . Did he actually walk out voluntarily on his own out of Frankfurt with a tiny bag and walk into the streets of ojota with nothing but the same bag and dangerously crossing the expressway ? Was he remote controlled into Nigeria ? It’s a very strange episode. I think of that guy to this day

You too read novels bro
Only person wey dey read novels fit give this kind description

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by sukkot: 8:24pm On Aug 02, 2023
Kyase:


You too read novels bro
Only person wey dey read novels fit give this kind description

lmaoo 😄
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by emperor4love(m): 8:25pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:
cool


Village people cookings

While growing up something similar happened to a friend's father.. he worked as FG worker, resigned and travelled in the early 1990s, he was sending in cars and all, after a while he secretly tried to marry another wife and relocate her... That was when his wife got him back home without anything


Again I remember my own first Japa experience, Got a Job a 5 star hotel in UAE, Free food, free accomodation average salary, and I was just fresh out of the university, Travel agent wants me to have travel experience so I paid good money

I worked 3months straight nightshift, no sleeping

3months straight no off days Mondays to Monday no break

Indian Boss yelling at you, Arab boss fighting you

8 to 12 hours standing on your feet

No friends as everyone are busy working

At a point I completely zombified, and blacked out, my mind was completely off

Apart for Vacation abroad, Nigeria remains the best country ever if you get good source of income..




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u suppose de save up to 2k Durham so mo monthly
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by FutureFocus: 8:26pm On Aug 02, 2023
This piece got me entertained tonight, I like the way you were wandering in your imagination and the comments that follows , this is a creative topic , everything must not have to do with politics, thanks for this piece..

That individual may just be alone in his own world at that very time in his life.

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Kyase(m): 8:26pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
lmaoo 😄
I no lie Abi?
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Curse777: 8:27pm On Aug 02, 2023
emperor4love:
u suppose de save up to 2k Durham so mo monthly

Money was not the motivation... I was running visa for people and also work permit and making good Dirham

Just talking about the stress
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by sukkot: 8:29pm On Aug 02, 2023
Kyase:

I no lie Abi?
lmao not from novels but from living a few years with this white girl who was obsessed with birds and the weather . She infected me with her madness grin

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by millionboi2: 8:33pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:
cool


Village people cookings

While growing up something similar happened to a friend's father.. he worked as FG worker, resigned and travelled in the early 1990s, he was sending in cars and all, after a while he secretly tried to marry another wife and relocate her... That was when his wife got him back home without anything


Again I remember my own first Japa experience, Got a Job a 5 star hotel in UAE, Free food, free accomodation average salary, and I was just fresh out of the university, Travel agent wants me to have travel experience so I paid good money

I worked 3months straight nightshift, no sleeping

3months straight no off days Mondays to Monday no break

Indian Boss yelling at you, Arab boss fighting you

8 to 12 hours standing on your feet

No friends as everyone are busy working

At a point I completely zombified, and blacked out, my mind was completely off

Apart for Vacation abroad, Nigeria remains the best country ever if you get good source of income..




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Naija4life you are right.

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Ofemmanu1: 8:34pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:


Nope , quite my job and paid for an independent residency on a freezone.. that way I wasn't on work permit
Eh?! Sorry o..
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Carcholce: 8:38pm On Aug 02, 2023
Dzzzz:
Which one is ‘as the sun was setting and The sky was blue’..Right there I knew your story was trash.


The sky was blue, stork fish were flying, the eagles were crossing the road grin grin

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by achimendy(m): 8:39pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:
cool


Village people cookings

While growing up something similar happened to a friend's father.. he worked as FG worker, resigned and travelled in the early 1990s, he was sending in cars and all, after a while he secretly tried to marry another wife and relocate her... That was when his wife got him back home without anything


Again I remember my own first Japa experience, Got a Job a 5 star hotel in UAE, Free food, free accomodation average salary, and I was just fresh out of the university, Travel agent wants me to have travel experience so I paid good money

I worked 3months straight nightshift, no sleeping

3months straight no off days Mondays to Monday no break

Indian Boss yelling at you, Arab boss fighting you

8 to 12 hours standing on your feet

No friends as everyone are busy working

At a point I completely zombified, and blacked out, my mind was completely off

Apart for Vacation abroad, Nigeria remains the best country ever if you get good source of income..




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Hmmmm it's not easy out there. But how you leave matters a lot, my brother is also there too, and he's also complaining of thesame thing too.


I plan to travel out too but not Arab countries, is either Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, France or Finland. That's my target.
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by FutureFocus: 8:39pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
I guess one of the fascination for me is that people looking at him in the streets would not know he was in Frankfurt Germany a few hours ago. He looked just like a regular guy in Lagos coming back from work. It’s just weird and fascinating seeing the same specimen in two totally different habitats thousands of miles apart
He probably planned it, I do it whenever I want to cross the border in those days, I’ll just wear a short or a Jean with simple footwear like I was just taking a walk, whereas, I was going to Cotonou to buy a car, even the immigration or customs usually think “Oh this one is going to his shop across the road, simplicity for a purpose .

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Majesty7: 8:40pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
I guess one of the fascination for me is that people looking at him in the streets would not know he was in Frankfurt Germany a few hours ago. He looked just like a regular guy in Lagos coming back from work. It’s just weird and fascinating seeing the same specimen in two totally different habitats thousands of miles apart

Him boarding a commercial bus should tell you he knows his way around perfectly and he sees nothing different from home and wherever he might be coming from. Him boarding a bus doesn't mean he doesn't have fleet of cars in his garage. Also him not smiling and blushing around doesn't mean he is not happy. When you are way above so many things, you won't find it fascinating.

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by juman(m): 8:40pm On Aug 02, 2023
From the description of the guy, it look like he was deported.
Something like voluntary deportation.

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Curse777: 8:41pm On Aug 02, 2023
achimendy:




Hmmmm it's not easy out there. But how you leave matters a lot, my brother is also there too, and he's also complaining of thesame thing too.


I plan to travel out too but not Arab countries, is either Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, France or Finland. That's my target.

Good luck, I think everyone Man should leave home and travel out, work hard before coming back..

It helps build mindset

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by okerekingsley90: 8:42pm On Aug 02, 2023
theamazonguru:


Hmmmmmmnnn.
Truth.
That abroad thing is one thing that has been giving me a hell of headache in making decision.
You know what I mean, when u live in your own house here, earn 7 figures. Now going abroad to start all over again. What's the probability you won't work your ass out to live well and equally have good savings ... My big concern.

It is well

I am happy for you jare.
Nice to know you are doing well abroad. Cheers


Guy grin grin grin
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by emperor4love(m): 8:45pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:


Money was not the motivation... I was running visa for people and also work permit and making good Dirham

Just talking about the stress
which year and what de average for receptionist on most hotels
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Offpointng: 8:45pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:
cool




Apart for Vacation abroad, Nigeria remains the best country ever if you get good source of income..




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You've said it all boss. Travelling abroad don't fancy me at all

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Curse777: 8:47pm On Aug 02, 2023
emperor4love:
which year and what de average for receptionist on most hotels

That's back in 2014 to 2016

receptionist got about 3k AED with feeding and accomodation
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by PaulH07: 8:49pm On Aug 02, 2023
Mindlog:
Just reminded me a case of young man in his early 20s, left his hostel in Birmingham (UK). took a bus to Birmingham international airport with just his wallet, international passport and a flight ticket he printed in his room. His fellow students who saw him leave the hostel, thought he was going to get groceries.....11hrs later, he was knocking at his parents gate past midnight. His family was shocked, he requested a room should be prepared for him that he was feeling sleeping, he locked himself in that room for 4 days without coming out though en-suite but he didn't eat nor communicated with anyone.

The family being an influential one, had to be hush about it. It was the consultant psychiatrist where I worked, that was called in and got him to open the door and the guy looked like something else, it took so much experience to get him come over to our facility to be admitted. It was a very complicated diagnosis and he was established to be struggling with schizoaffective disorder and the 4 months he was in the facility was hair-raising. sad sad sad

Schizoaffective disorder!!!

The diagnosis most Psychiatrist fear to make, except one is an authority like a Consultant. Even some Consul still dey fear to make am sef.

Na the baba nla of all diagnosis be that, no be small tin...
Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Curse777: 8:49pm On Aug 02, 2023
Offpointng:


You've said it all boss. Travelling abroad don't fancy me at all

But it's fun boss... You go to a place where they don't rate or send you... This gives humility. Person go just humble, even out politicians dey humble abroad

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Edusouls(m): 8:50pm On Aug 02, 2023
Jovialjune1:
So many things that happen in this world will shock you, the will and zeal to continue to exist after terrible experiences can only be from God.
yeah only God’s grace

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by Kyase(m): 8:51pm On Aug 02, 2023
sukkot:
lmao not from novels but from living a few years with this white girl who was obsessed with birds and the weather . She infected me with her madness grin

Oh I see, that's nice though

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by finallybusy: 8:53pm On Aug 02, 2023
Ijaya123:


Your number 4 point doesn’t add up. A struggling guy to spend millions on tickets just to come home and do nothing and go back after one month?

Not adding up bro
Change of environment. If you experience harsh winter, you’ll reminisce of sunny Nigerian days. Deep freezer dey learn where oyibo cold dey.

Yeah, do nothing but rest. Offshore workers know what I speak of.

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Re: Very Strange Nigerian Guy I Saw In Germany Who Japa Back To Naija by emperor4love(m): 8:54pm On Aug 02, 2023
Curse777:


That's back in 2014 to 2016

receptionist got about 3k AED with feeding and accomodation
I think such salary won't be current pay in dubai as so many Bangladesh nd other lower country is been filled in dubai nd no jobs for blacks

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