FreeStuffsNG:
Why I regret relocating abroad – Femi Brainard opens up on being Uber driver [VIDEO]

Nigerian film actor Femi Brainard has opened up about life while living abroad. The thespian granted an interview with Teju Oyelakin, aka, Teju Babyface on his podcast.

Speaking on the perks as well as the disadvantages attached to relocating abroad, especially being a celebrity, Femi Brainard said it is better to be celebrated and be a prince in Nigeria than to move abroad and be a nobody. He also noted that his wife does not love it at all.

While speaking with the comedian, Brainard noted that anytime he is driving, his Nigerian passengers in particular can’t help but stare at him in disbelief and wonder if he is the star they know.


The actor added that the curious ones would approach him to be sure he was the famous actor they knew in Nigeria.

Femi Brainard said the bills are a lot and he has things like rent to think about. The actor who celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary in May of 2023 explained that he was so broke to an extent once that he went to the parking lot and burst into tears.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXUpqrIpx4?si=eFP_4Z69BPoX88iP

https://www.reubenabati.com.ng/feature/yankee-no-know-star-o-i-regret-relocating-abroad-femi-brainard-opens-up-on-being-uber-driver

gaby:
I knew that the true content of this interview will be way different from what's reported here.

Misery does indeed love company..

ideatoprince18:


Are u just hearing of Negev desert for the first time?

Stephench:


Only a person who is deluded or have ties with politicians or certain ways of making illicit funds and protected by Nigeria that will love Nigeria. Which of these categories do you belong in?

OgaTheTop2:
I have NEVER regretted relocating abroad! I mean, what it would've taken me twenty years to achieve in naija... it took me five years. If you know, you know.

BigDawsNet:
Hmm... japa works with destiny

Some will japa and make lots of money and achievements

Some will japa and regrets the decision..

Always pray before you make that move

Bultwo:
My fellow Nigerians, no place like home. Nigeria is our Country, running away from it, is not going to be the best option. Lets try to fix our Country. May Almighty GOD helps us.

Asonaijaaso:
Abroad is a business and the JAPA person is the Mugu/Client.

Housing: $2000
Bills:$1000 (light, water, internet, TV, Gas, car registration, petrol etc)
Credit card Debt: $300
Food: $1000
Transportation: $250
Healthcare: $350
Clothing: $100
Personal Care: $100
Entertainment: $200
Federal and state tax: 2500
Total: Approximately $7550 per month.

To give you an example, if you drive UBER 24hours without sleeping, you can afford the above.
If you drive 12hours you can afford half of the above. The tax is 30% of your gross.
JAPA is not worth it, you are coming to grow USA/UK economy. Not yourself !

psalmsjob:


Construction site labour job dey o, farming labour job dey o, daycare uncle/aunty job dey o, salesmen/marketer job dey o, uber job dey o, barman job dey o, delivery boy job dey o, cleaner job dey o and you fit even open your petty shop for any corner with patako for Naija so which work you say dey over available for yanki and jando again

The money wey una dey take travel sef na hin Shamsu dey take run foodstuff business dey build house, marry 2, 3 wives with many kids ... na only mumus dey relocate abroad to go make ham instead of jollicating abroad after you don make ham for Naija the land blessed by God who or what can make it not so for me as a son of the soil? NADA

LucemFerre:


If you remove shame you'd "survive" anywhere in the world. Una go just open mouth dey talk anyhow.
If you go come dey cook for me dey sweep my house I promise you that survival would be the least of your worries

Natbrowny:


This is the comment..👍

We cannot compete with Chinese and Mexicans abroad. They are industrious and rugged in all aspect.

Lets be truthful

Boogyman557:
Holly Gram EBIN PAWA ooo!!





LITE UP my WEED in peace

WTF MAN!

kelvindj98:

You are looking at it from your own impoverish view. People like you may like abroad because you are already hungry in Nigeria with zero prospects. But folks who already have good things going for them in Nigeria like Femi had may not like it.

Richfan:
Can you do this same uber driving in Nigeria? The answer is no....So the abroad is still better...uber drivers abroad have guaranteed security but uber drivers in Nigeria are not safe, many are killed, kidnapped and vehicle snatched...

You said Nigeria is better, what govt policy now is encouraging businesses to grow in Nigeria? The answer is non....

Yiu said Nigeria is better, What is Nigerian minimum wage? Zero cant take care of one person even before this satanic inflation recently started....etc

So, when people say Nigeria is better than abroad, I see it as deception from such person, he/she just wants to discourage others from going there..

I believe no matter how plenty the bills abroad are, the truth is that, you get value for the bills and taxes you pay for unlike Nigeria where you pay taxes and bill and never get to benefit from the govt you pay to..e.g you pay light bill but get only 7 days of light in a month like where i live .. .

Abroad and Nigeria nor be mate, let's stop comparing the two...even you that wrote this post, if your parents have been treating you bad from child birth till now, will you love and be patrotic to such parents? Oga talk truth make devil still shame..

tabaralph:

Words of wisdom on the marble… eni awifun obajekogbo

Scholace:
tell this your gliberish to millions of unemployed graduates roaming the streets daily, tell it to 95% of Nigerians that are poor and had less than 500k in their bank account, tell this to an average Nigerians that struggle to get a square meal daily in your emilokan government, you can also pass this useless message to those few Nigerians that got employed but whose take home hardly take them home, you can also pass this message to your useless government that placed Nigerians on 30k minimum wage while your leaders are one of the highest paid in the world, tell that to those Nigerians that will be kidnapped tomorrow or next or that will be killed by bandits or bokoharam. I can always go on and on

psalmsjob:


If you calm down you'll see that all these things you mentioned are found overseas too...painment and bitterness will only drive you insane because all those Nigerias you mentioned still love their country more than another and that is the point of the comment I made not whether Nigeria is the best nation in the world but that NIGERIA IS THE BEST NATION FOR ANY NIGERIAN TO LIVE IN if you cannot comprehend that then keep up your hatred and anger against Nigeria and it will never be better for you in Nigeria or anywhere else ypu run to in as much as you ever drank the water and walk on the sand of this country.

Scholace:
Tell me which overseas country where their citizens are on 30k monthly minimum wage, while their leaders are one of the highest paid in the world. I have so many to ask but let me start with you from here.

psalmsjob:


You don't have to tell me you have plenty to ask because from the fastness with which you replied me I already know you didn't even read(listen) to what I wrote that AS A NIGERIAN, NIGERIA IS THE BEST COUNTRY FOR YOU EVEN AS IS

What have you ever done for Nigeria? Have you even ever paid income tax?

How many country does their civil servants resume work at 10am and close at 2pm instead of 8a to 4pm?
How many country does their civil servants go about their personal businesses even at the duty post?
How many country does their civil servants collect payments from fellow citizens to carry out offical duties?

People like you like to compare the good things you see in other nations but are not ready to put in the Personal effort, patriotism and integrity that citizens of those nations put in to get at the results you like so much now....and mind you it's not a onetime input it is a continuous input to keep getting the good results...stop kicking your foot against the rock(Nigeria)

Obakoolex:
The guy for impersonate former imo state governor wey be senator now.

FreeStuffsNG:
Why I regret relocating abroad – Femi Brainard opens up on being Uber driver [VIDEO]

Nigerian film actor Femi Brainard has opened up about life while living abroad. The thespian granted an interview with Teju Oyelakin, aka, Teju Babyface on his podcast.

Speaking on the perks as well as the disadvantages attached to relocating abroad, especially being a celebrity, Femi Brainard said it is better to be celebrated and be a prince in Nigeria than to move abroad and be a nobody. He also noted that his wife does not love it at all.

While speaking with the comedian, Brainard noted that anytime he is driving, his Nigerian passengers in particular can’t help but stare at him in disbelief and wonder if he is the star they know.


The actor added that the curious ones would approach him to be sure he was the famous actor they knew in Nigeria.

Femi Brainard said the bills are a lot and he has things like rent to think about. The actor who celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary in May of 2023 explained that he was so broke to an extent once that he went to the parking lot and burst into tears.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXUpqrIpx4?si=eFP_4Z69BPoX88iP

https://www.reubenabati.com.ng/feature/yankee-no-know-star-o-i-regret-relocating-abroad-femi-brainard-opens-up-on-being-uber-driver

Scholace:
Most Nigerians poor or rich pay tax either direct or indirect. Those working with government pay tax from their meagre monthly take home, those working with private pay tax from their take home, drivers, market women/men, petty traders all pay tax to AGBERO, expecially in Lagos that was established by your emilokan suffer head government.

Nigeria is a shit hole country, it is known even to the blind. Your useless corrupt leaders and families all has dual citizenship of those countries you hate hearing or seeing people going, is it the same to the leaders of those countries? Do American, Canadian, Australian leaders has Nigerian passport as a dual citizenship? Are they running to Nigeria like your useless corrupt leaders does? Your leaders and their families school abroad, healthcare, vacation all abroad. They even have properties and businesses abroad with our stolen money. Your leaders improvised Nigerians to their own benefit. An average Nigerians now cannot afford 2 square meal daily. Can your useless leaders move about the country without dozens of excort? Can they use public transportation like other leaders in developed countries? They can't because they know the masses will kill them in a second. I can't talk much to people like you. I just want you to know that Nigeria is a useless country, and it is known to the whole world

FreeStuffsNG:
Speaking on the perks as well as the disadvantages attached to relocating abroad, especially being a celebrity, Femi Brainard said it is better to be celebrated and be a prince in Nigeria than to move abroad and be a nobody. He also noted that his wife does not love it at all.

Eni awifun Oba je o gbo.

Many of them are so stuck now that they can't even be as sincere to themselves as he is.

It's nothing but a wrong mindset to think that you will resent your own land/ country and expect that you will prosper on that land or overseas, it's impossible!

When you are not blessed in Nigeria, it's not because others are not doing well here in Nigeria, for most of you, you were horribly raised with the wrong mindset and indoctrinated to hate Nigeria by some of your parents who were part of those behind the multiple problems now facing the nation so you ended up and continued your life in a circle of negative minded unpatriotic people. You curse Nigeria, the land curses you back in multiple folds and nothing you sow in the land will prosper but if you bless Nigeria, the land blesses you back in multiples.

Until you wish Nigeria well and do your best in patriotism, you will never be blessed by this land and if you carry your resentment and hatred for Nigeria overseas, the rejection by Nigeria will follow you like your shadow.

The grass is always greener on the other side until you get there. What you are doing here in Nigeria is so valuable that if you nurture it well, you will one day be going overseas for business/ professional travels and enjoy vacations with your family and friends. And even if you still don't go overseas, you will be happy, safe, fulfilled and blessed here in Nigeria.

God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

psalmsjob:


After my questions about minimum wage to workers who fall short of what a worker is you change your painment to leaders did this didn't do that....I hope you have eaten your second and last meal of the day as you wish it to be for you so it shall be....me I no dey get time for obi-idiots ooo wetin I wan tell pesin wey dey reason from yansh up.

Scholace:
i olodo agbalagba. check my profile history and see if i am supporting any useless politicians. i am a supporter of the masses not corrupt politicians. a sensible patriotic Nigerian will be more concerned about the masses not those thieves that called themselves politicians. Anyway, your children and grandchildren will continue from where you stopped as their father and grandfather. They will also worship and asslick those politicians children too. it will be from generation to generation. they will also be calling it patriotic like their father is currently calling it

babzo:
Uber? In America?
Is he in America?
I did Uber in America .
If you do it full time, you can make more than degree holders.
Anyone doing it 8 to 12 hours a day, can easily make $8000 to $10,000 a month. The average for full timers is $6000 a month.

Definitely, a driver is a driver anywhere in the world , especially a taxi driver ( uber etc) so by societal standards its low on the tandem pole; but 75k annual income in the US for a household puts one at a middle class. Talk less of one spouse making 75k to 100k , add it to your wife's income and that's over 150k a year; that's upper middle class in America and rich.

Maybe he did it part time.

psalmsjob:


This is how people like you end your painment talks when you realise your " I love the people more than the people" lies are not impressing.

Mind you, me and my children and generation do not depend on Nigeria economic situation....and stating the obvious is not asslicking but pushing a hypocrite and failed politician like Peter Obi to leadership of this country is the true ass-licking ....do you know how many times you mentioned emilokan etc in all you reply....Tinubu is obviously giving you obi-idiot people sleepless nights.

biafranrealson:
Regional celebrity
Not known in my region