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sukkot:
well you do know garri has lots of acids and dangerous stuffs in it if not processed correctly. but that aside, what you think about the beatdown that brother recieved ? that man aint no student. thats someone who went to malaysia to hussle. see how he ran ? thats the run of an old man and not a student lol

all4naija:
I have only seen garri once! I don't think the flour is so much different from corn flour though. I read the way it is prepared in Nigeria is very dirty and it sometime smells very bad. I can see the reason why it blinds people. The government needs to ban it before most Nigerians go blind.

sukkot:
really ? you have only seen garri once ? what country you from ?

I don't know! I have told you what I know already.

all4naija:
I don't know! I have told you what I know already.

holatin:
haa
No be their fault, if education sector is good here with no strike today and tomorrow. wetin wan make someone go Malaysia to study.
Anyway I just pray justice prevail for mansur

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tonychristopher:
Although Nigerians have now claimed London, as the 37th state of Nigeria, as a result of the population of Nigerians living in London, and also because of the ease with which Nigerians commute from Lagos/Abuja to London, as if they were commuting from Surulere to Ikoyi, it must be however said, that beneath the façade and the false-image of living the London good life which Nigerians living in London portray to their families and friends back home, the reality actually shows the opposite.

The problem starts with coming into London as a visitor or tourist, Nigerians are always in a hurry to ‘check out’ of Nigeria just like Andrew in the famed federal government patriotism TV advertisements, in doing so, they fail to take advantage of other legitimate routes of emigrating to the UK as professionals, Information on such UK migration schemes such as the highly skilled migrant programme and the working holiday maker visas are readily available on the internet but some of us don’t see it because of our mad rush and impatience. Also some have failed to explore other opportunities such as simply applying as health care or educational (teachers/lecturers) professionals, acute shortages of staff in the UK health and educational sectors have opened up this option and nationals from other countries are exploiting the opportunity, but Nigerians have not, preferring rather the short-term route of coming as visitors.

It used to be that in the past, it was a bit easier for Nigerians to ‘do what they had to do’ in London in order to obtain their residence permits, but now the EU expansion, and the influx of eastern Europeans into the UK has meant that residency laws have been toughened, on this front, things are no longer as they used to be. Inability to obtain official residency papers is what condemns Nigerians to the low life they live in London as illegal immigrants, without any state or social entitlements. In the long term, it is not a lifestyle that one would wish on even his enemies; as a result, people are stuck ‘in’, and can’t get ‘out’, as they wouldn’t be able to come back in if they venture out. This has ensured that some Nigerians have not been able to visit their country of birth in a long while, and this adds to their alienation and frustration.

And so once they find themselves in London, they are stuck with the lowly-paid jobs, such as flipping burgers at McDonalds or cleaning other people’s ‘shit’. Life becomes a bore and a drag as they jump from one bus to the other on their way to start the next shift; a sad and hectic life that they must live in order to afford London’s very exorbitant living expenses.

There are always people out to make a fast buck from you in London, the town is almost becoming a soul-less city like Lagos, for those stuck in the poverty cycle and living below the bread line (22% of the UK population live in poverty, 1 out of 5 of the population), this type of living surely can’t be good, from the £70 weekly room rents in shared flats and houses, to the over £5 day travel cards, there is also the utility bills (gas and electricity), which is operated on a pay- as- you -use basis, there is no NEPA or NITEL in London to bribe their officials, if your meter credit runs out, then it is between you and your God to save you from freezing in the cold winter.

It is at this stage that those who abandoned their lives and career back home, for a ‘rosy’ life in London begin to regret their decisions, they have no one to complain to, else they will be considered failures. As calls are made to family and friends back home, the moods are saddened the more by the news of career progressions and promotions of colleagues the person has left behind.

Some Nigerians living in the London always have this false assumption that those they have left behind in Nigeria won’t be climbing the social and economic ladders as well, that they will be waiting for them to come back to Nigeria in their flashy cars, fancy clothes and fake accents to ‘oppress’ them. Sadly this is not the case. By my own estimates, at least 2 out of every 3 Nigerians living in London will gladly swap places for a settled life and career in Nigeria, no wonder the careers in Africa recruitment event and many of such ‘return to Africa’ schemes are proving to be big hits.

It is always the case that most Nigerians immigrating to the UK always come when they are in their late twenties or early thirties, for both the men and women; this is the time that marriage dreams become imperative, but where does one find a potential husband or wife in London? If there was a place like that, then those ‘over-ripe’ brides and grooms before them would have since exhaled and replied with ‘I do’ to the pastor’s ‘Do you take xyz to be your lawfully wedded wife/husband…?’

In a recent conversation with a thirty something year old Nigerian lady, she vented out her frustration in these words ‘Nigerian men in London are dry, and stingy, after using you, they will dump you and go to their village to marry a village mgbeke’, on the other hand, Tochukwu Modebelu, a London based lawyer readily comes to the defence of Nigerian men living in London, according to him ‘Nigerian girls in London are still into their ways of regarding relationships as commercial ventures, also their wahala is too much, so I don’t blame guys who go to Nigeria to look for wives’.

As a result of the scarcity of men, and women or the difficulties in finding the perfect and willing partner, Nigerians have now resorted to having brides and grooms packaged and sent to them from home, but obviously such arrangements come with their own problems, usually revolving around differences in cultural values, unfulfilled expectations, and UK’s gender politics that is largely on the side of women, having brewed a disaster recipe for themselves, it is no surprise when divorce lawyers are called in at a rate faster than that which saw the couple coming together in the first place.

Some Pentecostal churches are happily exploiting this situation, Nigerians haven’t forgotten their ways at all in Nigeria, they seem to have carried the Pentecostal culture with them to London, as there now seems to be one on every other street, in areas of London with large immigrant population. Don’t be surprised to find these churches packed full on any given Sunday with expectant and hopeful worshippers, mostly young women whose main heart desire is for men to rain down from where ever.

However, there are Nigerians living in the London who have made good, and are already living the good life, some of them work as professionals while others have their own businesses, but such success stories do not even reflect the true situation of the real life of an average Nigerian in London, a sad reality, and a reality that bites.

ArtanK:
I think there is more to this story. According to a relative who studies in Malaysia, they hate and discriminate against the Chinese and Filipinos the most.

kaywhynoni:
So bad.

lockupman:
So of all countries like US, UK, Germany, Finland, Australia etc na Malaysia person see say na there him wan school.

all4naija:
The same can be said of Nigerians in Nigeria. Indeed, it is worse there because there is no human rights in the country. Your leaders refused to put the necessary mechanism in place to usher in better development. And, you expect foreign countries to treat your criminals with good hands. Please, go and speak to those who live in your forest village. The same people you are making scorn of working hard in the west are not willing to return back to the hell hole you bragging about. Fix Boko Haram problem and provide good infrastructure first before you can have the audacity to talk down on the west.

livinbygrace:
God bless u my brother.You don't need to advise those Niger go better people ,as I had same orientation 14yrs ago,but can tell u it was a big illusion.
It's better for me to work like slave in oyinbo man land and make money than for me to stay in this country.
The rich re getting richer while poor re getting poorier.
You can imagine after Privatisation paying exorbitant bill but we are not getting ther services of what u re paying for,while the owners of the new Phcn smiles to the bank every month .
Make una dey deceive una self.

gbodimowo:
Thunder fire u

tonychristopher:
I know you will say that, but do not tell me that, you can tell that to people that have not travelled, is UK not developed nation, Is Turkey, Italy not developed nation, is Dubai not developed, these places I hv been to and i have seen how Nigerians work like slaves in cold to make a living, I hvaer seen how they are treated scornfully by whites, Mind you, you cant be a full citizen with full priviladges as a white English or European ...so you can tell that to others not me because I have seen all these, I visit all these places

Exactly,dnt mind her.She shuld tell that to wretches that feel living outta d shores of this dear country is the surest route to better living.Its ridiculous that after centuries of slave trade & race discrimination,these oyibo lands are now into neo-mental colonialism & our 'people 'are loving it.I jst hate their racist' blood streams & yet to rily find out what rily makes them tick.Is it inventions,creativity or developmental know-how?I blame all these on our leadership cos we have the ideals here to make all these happen,but the power brokers of this nation wuld'nt give way,they'll rather keep wallowing in the oyibo man imposed mental slavery of looking up to them as superiors.SMH.

majority are suffering

tonychristopher:
at least here no racism nobody calls u a monkey here atleast u can di stuff rather than running from metpol

tonychristopher:
Although Nigerians have now claimed London, as the 37th state of Nigeria, as a result of the population of Nigerians living in London, and also because of the ease with which Nigerians commute from Lagos/Abuja to London, as if they were commuting from Surulere to Ikoyi, it must be however said, that beneath the façade and the false-image of living the London good life which Nigerians living in London portray to their families and friends back home, the reality actually shows the opposite.

The problem starts with coming into London as a visitor or tourist, Nigerians are always in a hurry to ‘check out’ of Nigeria just like Andrew in the famed federal government patriotism TV advertisements, in doing so, they fail to take advantage of other legitimate routes of emigrating to the UK as professionals, Information on such UK migration schemes such as the highly skilled migrant programme and the working holiday maker visas are readily available on the internet but some of us don’t see it because of our mad rush and impatience. Also some have failed to explore other opportunities such as simply applying as health care or educational (teachers/lecturers) professionals, acute shortages of staff in the UK health and educational sectors have opened up this option and nationals from other countries are exploiting the opportunity, but Nigerians have not, preferring rather the short-term route of coming as visitors.

It used to be that in the past, it was a bit easier for Nigerians to ‘do what they had to do’ in London in order to obtain their residence permits, but now the EU expansion, and the influx of eastern Europeans into the UK has meant that residency laws have been toughened, on this front, things are no longer as they used to be. Inability to obtain official residency papers is what condemns Nigerians to the low life they live in London as illegal immigrants, without any state or social entitlements. In the long term, it is not a lifestyle that one would wish on even his enemies; as a result, people are stuck ‘in’, and can’t get ‘out’, as they wouldn’t be able to come back in if they venture out. This has ensured that some Nigerians have not been able to visit their country of birth in a long while, and this adds to their alienation and frustration.

And so once they find themselves in London, they are stuck with the lowly-paid jobs, such as flipping burgers at McDonalds or cleaning other people’s ‘shit’. Life becomes a bore and a drag as they jump from one bus to the other on their way to start the next shift; a sad and hectic life that they must live in order to afford London’s very exorbitant living expenses.

There are always people out to make a fast buck from you in London, the town is almost becoming a soul-less city like Lagos, for those stuck in the poverty cycle and living below the bread line (22% of the UK population live in poverty, 1 out of 5 of the population), this type of living surely can’t be good, from the £70 weekly room rents in shared flats and houses, to the over £5 day travel cards, there is also the utility bills (gas and electricity), which is operated on a pay- as- you -use basis, there is no NEPA or NITEL in London to bribe their officials, if your meter credit runs out, then it is between you and your God to save you from freezing in the cold winter.

It is at this stage that those who abandoned their lives and career back home, for a ‘rosy’ life in London begin to regret their decisions, they have no one to complain to, else they will be considered failures. As calls are made to family and friends back home, the moods are saddened the more by the news of career progressions and promotions of colleagues the person has left behind.

Some Nigerians living in the London always have this false assumption that those they have left behind in Nigeria won’t be climbing the social and economic ladders as well, that they will be waiting for them to come back to Nigeria in their flashy cars, fancy clothes and fake accents to ‘oppress’ them. Sadly this is not the case. By my own estimates, at least 2 out of every 3 Nigerians living in London will gladly swap places for a settled life and career in Nigeria, no wonder the careers in Africa recruitment event and many of such ‘return to Africa’ schemes are proving to be big hits.

It is always the case that most Nigerians immigrating to the UK always come when they are in their late twenties or early thirties, for both the men and women; this is the time that marriage dreams become imperative, but where does one find a potential husband or wife in London? If there was a place like that, then those ‘over-ripe’ brides and grooms before them would have since exhaled and replied with ‘I do’ to the pastor’s ‘Do you take xyz to be your lawfully wedded wife/husband…?’

In a recent conversation with a thirty something year old Nigerian lady, she vented out her frustration in these words ‘Nigerian men in London are dry, and stingy, after using you, they will dump you and go to their village to marry a village mgbeke’, on the other hand, Tochukwu Modebelu, a London based lawyer readily comes to the defence of Nigerian men living in London, according to him ‘Nigerian girls in London are still into their ways of regarding relationships as commercial ventures, also their wahala is too much, so I don’t blame guys who go to Nigeria to look for wives’.

As a result of the scarcity of men, and women or the difficulties in finding the perfect and willing partner, Nigerians have now resorted to having brides and grooms packaged and sent to them from home, but obviously such arrangements come with their own problems, usually revolving around differences in cultural values, unfulfilled expectations, and UK’s gender politics that is largely on the side of women, having brewed a disaster recipe for themselves, it is no surprise when divorce lawyers are called in at a rate faster than that which saw the couple coming together in the first place.

Some Pentecostal churches are happily exploiting this situation, Nigerians haven’t forgotten their ways at all in Nigeria, they seem to have carried the Pentecostal culture with them to London, as there now seems to be one on every other street, in areas of London with large immigrant population. Don’t be surprised to find these churches packed full on any given Sunday with expectant and hopeful worshippers, mostly young women whose main heart desire is for men to rain down from where ever.

However, there are Nigerians living in the London who have made good, and are already living the good life, some of them work as professionals while others have their own businesses, but such success stories do not even reflect the true situation of the real life of an average Nigerian in London, a sad reality, and a reality that bites.

otiigba1:
I don't know were you get your information from perharps you have been hanging around the wrong people, you claim you have travelled all over the world, next time you come to England contact me I will show you that some nigerians are living very well and there Is no racism not aleast were I am, if any body calls you a monkey and you did nothing your own fault no one calls me monkey here and gets away with it, as for work every body including white english people goes to work wether cleaning or otherwise , so get your facts right and you are not the only one who have travelled

otiigba1:
I don't know were you get your information from perharps you have been hanging around the wrong people, you claim you have travelled all over the world, next time you come to England contact me I will show you that some nigerians are living very well and there Is no racism not aleast were I am, if any body calls you a monkey and you did nothing your own fault no one calls me monkey here and gets away with it, as for work every body including white english people goes to work wether cleaning or otherwise , so get your facts right and you are not the only one who have travelled

tonychristopher:
You might not know that, I just dont get it how people feel complacent over there, even Black Americans gets some bits of racism ....There is no way you will be as free as white English, let us tell ourselves the truth
MAYBE MAKING MONKEY SOUNDS AND THROWING BANANAS AINT RACISM THOUGH

tonychristopher:
Bro, not all Nigerians are failures, please dont misquote me, but 90% of them over there are stranded, the last time I was at Kent, it was disgracing I must say, but we still have some few of them doing some good stuffs like Doctors etc, but majority are just not it it up
OUR YOUTHS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT IT AINT EASY OVER THERE

otiigba1:
I agree, just that in your previous post you made it sound like Nigeria's are living in hell, I am of Nigerian (igbo) origin i know, I been to other countries also its no different

otiigba1:
I wasnt suggesting there is no racism I expeprience it myself some times, though I was born here in the UK, am just saying its not as bad as you have been insinuating, and yes sometimes things are hard,but not just for only Nigerians, including people who are born here and all immigrants also

tonychristopher:
Now we are saying the truth,but the impression some youths have here is that the average white dude love the immigrant african for taking their jobs, choking them and comming in with nasty attitudes like drug peddling and terrorism, I know how the treat mullatos there not to talk of black, Eastern EU and slavs are worst, now Moscow is head of racism ....i tell you the facts

tonychristopher:
I am a Nigeria Igbo origin and I know I have been around other countries, Just that I keep telling people that it is pretty hard there as it is here, I see bankers and professionals here that resign and sell off the stuffs to go overseas and end up been a security personnel and washing old folks out there....
But not all atleast we have few of em doing well though

tonychristopher:
at least here no racism nobody calls u a monkey here atleast u can di stuff rather than running from metpol

all4naija:
There are term more demeaning terms used on people in Nigeria than calling you black in the West. Please, stop acting as though it is better in Nigeria while millions are suffering in the squalor of Maroko with great abuse by the elites. Go and figure that out first while you lie down flat in the smelling environment for one of the primitive leaders to walk over you. Sh*ts are happening in that country. A place where pastor walked over people in his church without nothing done about it you claim to be better. You need to be cured of your insanity!

tonychristopher:
but dont you have shame....look at thr way you take pride in another man land and castigate your father land.......tooo bad



its only a basta.rd that point to his fathers house with a level hand


ibo adage

Did you say my motherland is another man's land? You must be out of your mind. That expired crack you are using in the ghetto is really damaging to your reasoning falculty. What is wrong in telling the truth here? Jeez! It is a shame you think along the line of skin color like those you blame on racism.