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Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

richgang:
Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

justwise

Lock 🔒 this topic or ban the moniker please 🙏

Only if u are in the medical field if not,oboy come invest here.


Many guys in that UK are not finding it easy at all.

I will be working in a care home when I get to the UK .

richgang:
I will be working in a care home when I get to the UK .

So you would rather prefer to spend 30 millions to travel just to go and be working in a care home cleaning the nyash of old white people?!

SamuraiXXX:
So you would rather prefer to spend 30 millions to travel just to go and be working in a care home cleaning the nyash of old white people?!

That’s why I’m seeking others advice and suggestions.

richgang:
Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

Bros it's better to be in Nigeria oh, you will just burn your money moving to UK, Use 20 million naira to buy Treasury bill and compound it, with 10 million naira start a business that is scalable, if you make the right moves you can do 50 m upwards in a year. If you need detailed explanation chat me up on 08089456258

Oga, things in Nigeria don't improve. They go from worse to worser.
Seize this opportunity to save yourself and your generation. Don't say you were not told.

There are no straight ways to it. Weigh your options and pick the best.

What investment do u wish to do in Nigeria? Do you understand it, what ROI do you wish to get? Don’t forget the effects of exchange rate.

On the other hand, what do you stand to get/become on getting to the UK? Check and compare the options.

richgang:
Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

This thing no get one answer o. Relocating abroad is not beans, but investing in Nigeria also comes with plenty wahala. It all depends on what you really want out of life.

If you decide to stay, ₦30m is enough to start building long-term wealth if you play it wisely. Not everything has to be business, you can split it. Some in safe instruments like T-bills or dollar savings, and some into assets that appreciate like real estate. These days you don’t even need to start buying full plots outright; platforms like Keble allow you to co-own properties and earn steady income from it. That way, your money is tied to something tangible and not just sitting in the bank losing value.

If you choose Japa, just know the money will finish fast, and you’ll be starting from scratch doing odd jobs till you find your footing (if you do). Nothing wrong with that, but you need to be sure that’s the life you want.

Rexie59:
This thing no get one answer o. Relocating abroad is not beans, but investing in Nigeria also comes with plenty wahala. It all depends on what you really want out of life.

If you decide to stay, ₦30m is enough to start building long-term wealth if you play it wisely. Not everything has to be business, you can split it. Some in safe instruments like T-bills or dollar savings, and some into assets that appreciate like real estate. These days you don’t even need to start buying full plots outright; platforms like Keble allow you to co-own properties and earn steady income from it. That way, your money is tied to something tangible and not just sitting in the bank losing value.

If you choose Japa, just know the money will finish fast, and you’ll be starting from scratch doing odd jobs till you find your footing (if you do). Nothing wrong with that, but you need to be sure that’s the life you want.

kebble

Invest in Nigeria please

You can go into agriculture.

Like Pepper or plantain plantation

Get or rent like 3 plot of land and plant this red Peper thats hot that a kilo goes for 5k. Every week u go de cash out.

For plantain. If u have access to land like an acre of land u can as well plant plantain then thank me leta.

richgang:
Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

Nothing like relocate to the UK. U are going to school and there is higher chances of coming back since immigration issues is right globally now

Nigeria that has been destroyed by the clueless master.

I should be able to double that money in 18 months here in Nigeria

richgang:
Hello everyone, if you have the opportunity to choose between using 30 Million naira to relocate to UK or to stay back in Nigeria and invest the 30 Million Naira . Which would be your preferred option?

30 million Naira will last you months in the UK living a lower income life (not poverty).
But it can make you a wealthy person in Nigeria if you have sense.

*There’s no one-size-fits-all answer — it depends on whether you’re buying stability or buying upside.*

Let’s break it down with ₦30m as of May 2026:

*Option 1: Relocate to the UK with ₦30m*
*What ₦30m gets you:* Roughly £15,000-£18,000 at current rates. That’s barely enough for a UK skilled worker visa route — you’d need a job offer with a licensed sponsor first, and that money would cover initial accommodation, visa fees, NHS surcharge, and 2-3 months living expenses for a small family.

*The upside:*
- *Stability & safety*: Predictable power, healthcare, education, rule of law. No generator, no kidnapping risk, no sudden policy flip-flops.
- *Long-term residency path*: If you secure a job and meet requirements, you can get ILR after 5 years, then citizenship.
- *Currency & income*: You earn in pounds. Even at minimum wage, £2,000/month is ~₦4m, which stretches further than ₦4m in Nigeria right now due to inflation.

*The downside:*
- *₦30m doesn’t go far in the UK*. You’re starting from zero — no house, no car, probably renting. It takes 3-5 years to really settle financially.
- *No guarantee of success*: If you don’t land a good job, that ₦30m burns out fast and you’re stuck.

*Option 2: Stay in Nigeria and invest ₦30m*
*What ₦30m can do here:*
- *Real estate*: You can buy 2-3 plots in growing areas of Lagos, Abuja, or Port Harcourt, or build 2-3 units for rental income.
- *Business*: Start a logistics company, agro-processing, fintech agency banking, or import-export with decent scale. Monthly returns of 5-15% are possible if you know the space.
- *Diversified portfolio*: Split between treasury bills at ∼18-20%, money market funds, USD assets, and a small business for hedging against naira depreciation.

*The upside:*
- *Higher potential returns*: A successful ₦30m business in Nigeria can generate ₦3m-₦5m/month within 2-3 years. That’s hard to do in the UK at the start.
- *You’re already plugged in*: You understand the market, culture, and network. That’s an asset you don’t have in the UK on day one.

*The downside:*
- *Risk & volatility*: Power, insecurity, FX fluctuation, policy uncertainty. Your ₦30m can lose 40% value in a year if the naira tanks again.
- *Opportunity cost*: If you’re in a sector with no infrastructure or constant government interference, growth is frustrating.

*The Real Question You Should Ask Yourself*
- *If your goal is safety, education for kids, healthcare, peace of mind* → UK wins, even if you take a financial step back for 5 years.
- *If your goal is wealth creation and you have a solid business plan + network* → Stay in Nigeria and invest. The risk is higher but the reward ceiling is higher too.
- *Hybrid option*: Some people use ₦20m to invest here for cashflow, and ₦10m as relocation buffer for later if things go south.

*One more thing*: ₦30m isn’t enough to “japa” comfortably to the UK and not work. It’s enough to relocate _if_ you already have a job lined up. If you don’t, you’ll be forced into low-wage jobs just to survive.

*Bottom line*: Choose UK for quality of life and certainty. Choose Nigeria for wealth-building and control — if you can stomach the risk.

What’s your current situation — do you already have a UK job offer or a business idea in Nigeria? That changes the answer a lot.

Would you rather have kwashiorkor potbelly due to drinking water from shitty boreholes, or have a healthy life due to drinking water from piped supply to buildings

InvertedHammer:
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It is by far better than Enugu.

500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.

But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.

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fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

I will invest it on money market and buy 1 acre here in epe 2m each and start pig farm.. if everything goes well even you wey run go UK i go dey dash you money

Washing the Nyash of old white people is far better than waking up by 5:30am trying to catch a bus to Vi and Closing by 6pm max with your Opeke Tie on your neck

SamuraiXXX:
So you would rather prefer to spend 30 millions to travel just to go and be working in a care home cleaning the nyash of old white people?!

OldBeer:
Oga, things in Nigeria don't improve. They go from worse to worser.
Seize this opportunity to save yourself and your generation. Don't say you were not told.

You are not saving any generation by relocating to the UK, make una stop deceiving yourselves. The streets of the UK are littered with wayward Nigerian young men born in the UK, in gangs, dying and going in and out of jail.

I will be a fool to have such money and think about traveling, with something like that, people will be trooping into my village in their numbers to purchase diff species of catfish.

planetx:
You are not saving any generation by relocating to the UK, make una stop deceiving yourselves. The streets of the UK are littered with wayward Nigerian young men born in the UK, in gangs, dying and going in and out of jail.

And the streets of Nigeria is filled with well-bred, fresh, educated and financially stable young men bubbling with life, abi?

If I have 30 Million, I am not travelling to any Gaddamn Country

If you have 100m in Nigeria and you don’t have any skill you have learnt…just go and be cleaning yansh jeje

Tilumbu will be eating your profit while you keep working hard like a bee

Lol must I even invest in any business I will push my money in TBills and be guiding with the money wey TBills dey give me...




I will not goan use 30meter to sign up for Premium Modern slavee trade...

Invest in Nigeria.

Investing in Nigeria requires you to have good knowledge of what you're about to venture o.
Many businesses dies out because the owners didn't plan well before investing.

I think it depends, why not find other route that you wont have to spend the whole 30m on relocation, most countries will give you visa as long as you can prove that the 30m belongs to you.

You will only spend about 5m on relocation while you can keep 25m in Nigeria investing more on what made up the 30m in the first place except the money was a gift. Then use 5 to 10m to relocate and double the income.

With 25m in Nigeria , if you understand the street very well, you can double that money in 1year but it might be very hard to make 50m in one year abroad except you are top tier tech expect(not html css oo) or a medical professional who is already internationally acredited if not, taking abroad exam to fully integrate as a medical person could take up to 2years.

So way your options bro

30 million is even too much

I will invest 5 million and stay put in Naija

With 30 million an intelligent person should know what to do with the money... It's only clowns that use the money to travel and he doing warehouse or care jobs ....I don't know why people sell themselves to slavery doing shift day and night and living paycheck to paycheck


You have lots of business to do with even 10 million ... You will be rich! In a country of over 220 million and imagine if these people spend just N1,000 daily you can imagine the value of the economy and you are leaving this huge market to go and be slaving away


People no get sense shaaa


Just look around your area and states and show me how many people abroad that are rich.... They live just average live and when they come they manage to buy one tokunbo, drone it for a month and sells it off when they want to go back and they have just one house they manage to build


You can't be rich doing shift jobs

if people can move from zero to hero in Nigeria without fraud ....30m is damn too big for a serious minded fellow to live their dream .

UK my ass !