In general, life is challenging everywhere but it is more difficult, frustrating, harder, miserable and challenging in Nigeria. In the UK, some talk about accommodation challenge, if you have your money, there are accomodations. Even if you are relocating from Lagos to Abuja, you will face accommodation issue and it will take like 3 months before one can settle down properly. This is same thing any where in the world. Although, it is more challenging in aboard especially when you don't have your relatives there but with your money, you can get accommodation. Exchange rate conversion is not helping Nigerians who intend to travel. If all things being equal and exchange rate is very low between naira to other foreign currencies, such challenge won't be there.

Those who are staying in abroad and discouraging Nigerians not to Japa or travel, they should first and foremost return to Nigeria. They won't dare it to return to Nigeria because they know how deteriorating things are in Nigeria even security challenges. The other day, I meant a lady through one of the social platforms, saying she wants to relocate to Africa/Nigeria and that better life is in Nigeria/Africa than anywhere in the world. When I checked her profile, she had lived almost all her life in the United States of America and she is a citizen. She has a lot of investments and other social benefits at old age as a US Citizen. Her children are US Citizens already. She doesn't pay school fees not in all cases. Such person can relocate or return to Nigeria. If you find yourself in such category, please don't discourage others not to Japa since you want to relocate/return home, Nigeria at old age because you had invested and had other benefits some people out there don't have.

There is another set of people who are staying in abroad, they will tell you abroad is hard and difficult, please don't come or don't travel now. When you check very well, you will discover that they are already working for their family members to relocate or to Japa already or relocated their relatives. Some have taken the parents out of Nigeria yet they will keep telling others not to Japa. I don't know why they are doing this. We need to change our mindset rather than to discourage others not to Japa. Let us build a healthy community where prosperity, peace and love will reign among us.

Lastly, please show support and stop discouraging anyone not to Japa. The Indians don't discourage fellow Indians not to Japa or travel.

If you want to Japa, please Japa through genuine means either Work Visa, study route or visit visa. Stay away from crimes.

If abroad is bad, why is it that our leaders and politicians always traveling to abroad through visiting and medical tourism to enjoy good life? Good life is in abroad than in Nigeria. Nigeria lacks basic amenities. (Afghanistan, Sudan, Niger, Mali, etc excluded)

Target UK, US, Australia, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Finland, Netherlands etc if you want to Japa.

Before you have a contrary opinion if you are staying in abroad already, please return to Nigeria, then, we can discuss.

In all, life in abroad is better.

EdoBoy90:
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Gbammm

They need to stop discouraging people from making a move for whatever reasons best known to them.

Just tell people the pros, cons, and how best to navigate the waters without engaging in crime.

Let them know how to prepare themselves and if you are unable to house anyone be upfront about it and don't hide under "it's not easy here" to discourage them.

We all have our paths and destiny in life. That it was tough for Mr A. doesn't mean it must be tough for Mr. B particularly where Mr. A gets selfless and human enough to share the lessons of his experience so as to help Mr. B have an easier navigation. But jealousy and evil mind no go let them.

They always want everyone to suffer like they did...come on.

It's a mental thing called Inferiority complex.

The same Afghanistan wey Taliban dey flog one Japa from Nigeria for drug crime.

You can't talk me out of japaing, if you like advice me from 12:30pm to 11:30pm i go just dey nod my head say i dey hear you.....5:15am the other day i don dey mmia waiting for my flight to yankee

Pls mod, take it to Front Page. Thanks

Stubborn head dey worry OP. Nobody discourages Japa. It is Japa with carelessness that's being strongly discouraged here. What skill do you posses. Do you have trusted plan B? Can you cope with whether conditions of six or more months of severe cold?
What is your targeted lifestyle there? Is it to be washing bodies or be wiping daipers or driving trucks and cabs?

CodeTemplar:
Stubborn head dey worry OP. Nobody discourages Japa. It is Japa with carelessness that's being strongly discouraged here. What skill do you posses. Do you have trusted plan B? Can you cope with whether conditions of six or more months of severe cold?
What is your targeted lifestyle there? Is it to be washing bodies or be wiping daipers or driving trucks and cabs?

It is devilish and wicked people like you I referred.

Driving trucks and cabs here are not bad venture.

Zxcvbnmghtr:
It's a mental thing called Inferiority complex.

The same Afghanistan wey Taliban dey flog one Japa from Nigeria for drug crime.

I believe one of them is your cousin.

EdoBoy90:



It is devilish and wicked people like you I referred.

Driving trucks and cabs here are not bad venture.

no be everybody fit to change car tyre talkless of truck tyre. Good luck with you subsahara journey Bros.

Zupay:


I believe one of them is your cousin.

You people get mind o. Using Yorubas Muslim names to get your way. Chai your desperation for material things is a fact as said by Chinua Achebe.

Japa with solid plans.

My personal route: I moved to Nairobi. Kenya in late 2016, got a bedsitter (self-contained) and was earning income through my freelancing gigs and receiving my pay through Paypal. January 2017 I got admitted into a degree program in a Kenya University, the University had morning lectures, afternoon lectures then evening lectures that runs from 5.30p.m to 9.00p.m, so I opted for evening lectures. Got the Kenyan student visa (very difficult to get) which gave me legal resident status but once given, life don better for you as a foreigner,

I arrived campus every weekday morning with my laptop and head straight to my usual corner in the library, do my assignments then face freelancing jobs that paid for my education.. In the afternoons, I call one igbo woman that run a restaurant not too far from the campus and order for Nigerian dishes, one of her delivery boys bring the meal to me. In the 9 trimesters I spent in that school, I attended Saturday lectures because I wanted to graduate quick in 3 years though I had the liberty to graduate in 5 years.

I finished April 2020, had my graduation in October 2020 after which I entered full hustling mode. Applied for UK masters admission in June 2021, applied for my UK visa in Nairobi and was issued a student visa. Arrived London Heathrow in September 2021 and moved straight to Coventry to start my life in the UK as a student, continuing my freelancing gigs and shifts as a part time worker and was lucky to get a FREE 5 years UK skill worker visa before finishing school then graduated in November 2022.

Pray hard, Plan well and Work smart.

No difference