₦airaland Forum

thebosstrevor:
so prisoners come to Nigeria and make it more than people with Bsc and Masters. what an irony,

Apply as a contractor for a job with a Chinese company to Nigeria government and see who the government will give the job?

justwise:
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They have the money to bribe corrupt officials and they know that Nigerians can sell their souls for money.

That is what they saw.

The owner of Indomie is a Chinese man. Hope you know when he started that company? I was still a kid but I could remember (2 Minutes Noodles)

NONNYG:
During my NYSC in Nigeria I was earning 19,800 monthly, with that I feed myself, pay for accommodation, transportation to PPA, flex small etc; but after my NYSC I moved to Dubai and I’m earning above what I earned in a whole year just in one month, with free accommodation, free food, free transportation to workplace, free medical, 24 hours uninterrupted power supply etc.

U wan make I come back to Nigeria abi? Unless if I’m offered a job in oil company

congratulations!!!

yemi15:
Stupid thinking SMH. A lecturer mentor who had a well paying job at Unilag left this country for the sake of the children. I guess he has "poverty mentality" too Abi? Smh

u guys r just over emotional..u still don't get the point..everyone just joining the bandwagon to travel as if when u travel u r automatically guaranteed success.

naunasabi:
Why do you people think that every Nigerian abroad is hustling? Granted most people did menial jobs while schooling those without scholarship happens to be the majority. Bros am not flaunting after graduation me and my friends we all have good jobs. Researchers in notable institution here in EU. Bro if na money matter none of my guys back home earns as much we do a month. Not to talk of the exposure and experiences and quality of life.

Not everyone abroad is doing blue collar jobs. I just didn't want to take that route while doing my write ups because it doesn't matter. My approach to live is simply whatever a non-illegal job a man does to put food on his table should be respected.

So I am too old to be casting aspersions on the type of job someone does. I came from a humble background because God has smiled on me doesn't mean I am better off that those who are not fortunate enough to have white collar job no matter where they are in the world.

That's is why out here everyone is treated with dignity people don't care the kind of job you have as long as you have a job and you are able to pay your bills. The law is for everyone!

So please my brother don't look at life from that angle look at it from the angle that as human we all deserve some form of dignity and that which other people do to cater ( that is not illegal ) for their families should not be used in mocking them but rather they should be encouraged because they are doing their best.

Bro I get u clearly well..I am just trying to corect people''s notion that when u r out of the country u r automatically made,all because they see people taking nice pictures over dia dosent mean everything is rosy over dia.people work their ass** off to make ends meet, they are not lazy etc. May God help us all.

naunasabi:
@op why do Nigerians think it is all about money?

What about quality of life? Last time I checked the life expectancy in that shit-hole is around 50 years. Moving to country like Germany automatically increases your life expectancy by about 30 years on the average.

What about opportunity? Yes you can make money in Nigeria but then how much are we talking about? Being a middle class doesn't spare your children the horror of everyday life in Nigerian or how uncertain the future look. Unless you are among the top earners in Nigeria which will afford you the means to ship your children abroad for a better life. Which brings me back to the question if Nigeria is that great after making the money since that is your sole indicator of a wonderful life why don't you leave your kids in Nigeria instead of carting them away?

To the average man on the street, Nigeria is one of the worse place to be born and to live in. Go to the west the average man on the street has a prospect if they work towards it. In Nigeria working hard towards your goal doesn't cut it, you have to be very lucky and know people. I know that there are group of people that will counter this point but my question to those people is to compare the number of those that did it without knowing anyone with those that knew someone. While when you look at the west the element of luck and knowing someone is insignificant on how your life turns out.

@op you won't know the quality of life until you get home from work, flip the switch and there is power. Step into your tube and take a warm bath thereafter relax in your sofa without any worries of whether the power will be on when you wake up in the morning or if the tap will be running in the morning. You wont known the quality of life or what it really means to make it until you have emergency medical condition and all you need to do is dial emergency services and their will be medical personnel right there at your home to save your life.

Even in your so called money haven- even if you managed to amass a lot of money when you have medical emergency the service you will get is a far cry from a decent one. I forgot all your billionaires are still running abroad for medical checkup.

As for the poor man he is on his own!

Yes to me making it, is living in a society where everyone has equal or at least near equal opportunity of charting the course of their lives.

Making it to me is living in a society where I don't have to worry about the mundane things of life like security, health , education, human right, job security etc. You can be making money but mine and I can speak for most people is living in a decent society.

To us that is what making it is all about!

for the past 3 months now in our area we havent had electricity.the light they jus restored is bleepin low and it goes on and off.for the past 3 months we have renting a big generator in our compound to pump water.u can imagine the amount of money we spend to buy fuel.some areas who cant afford to buy fuel everyday now trek long distance with jerrycans to buy water and someone over there is saying nigeria is better.ask them ooo...what is the essense of ur money if u cant get a good quality health.

naunasabi:
Why do you people think that every Nigerian abroad is hustling? Granted most people did menial jobs while schooling those without scholarship happens to be the majority. Bros am not flaunting after graduation me and my friends we all have good jobs. Researchers in notable institution here in EU. Bro if na money matter none of my guys back home earns as much we do a month. Not to talk of the exposure and experiences and quality of life.

Not everyone abroad is doing blue collar jobs. I just didn't want to take that route while doing my write ups because it doesn't matter. My approach to live is simply whatever a non-illegal job a man does to put food on his table should be respected.

So I am too old to be casting aspersions on the type of job someone does. I came from a humble background because God has smiled on me doesn't mean I am better off that those who are not fortunate enough to have white collar job no matter where they are in the world.

That's is why out here everyone is treated with dignity people don't care the kind of job you have as long as you have a job and you are able to pay your bills. The law is for everyone!

So please my brother don't look at life from that angle look at it from the angle that as human we all deserve some form of dignity and that which other people do to cater ( that is not illegal ) for their families should not be used in mocking them but rather they should be encouraged because they are doing their best.

Bro I get u clearly well..I am just trying to corect people''s notion that when u r out of the country u r automatically made,all because they see people taking nice pictures over dia dosent mean everything is rosy over dia.people work their ass** off to make ends meet, they are not lazy etc. May God help us all.

CocoaOla:
Why do Nigerians government family and relative have dual ciitizenship that unpatriotic most of them buy big mansions abroad and move their families there Op Nigeria is not a country no justice nothing.

no mind am

Some people are saying nigerians immigrate because of the quality of life.
But is the quality of life in those countries free of charge?
So you think once you arrive you will start enjoying good quality of life.

Many of you will never travel out. Continue living in ur grand delusion.
Start building ur country now so that you and your children wont suffer.

MY guy that's in US..when he was in Nigeria there are many times he complains about hunger..since he has been in the US he has never for once mentioned food as a problem..if u never eat how u wan take reason forward..before u sort out ur belle evening don reach..inside ur own country o..u now asking question again..smh

mayze:
Bro I get u clearly well..I am just trying to corect people''s notion that when u r out of the country u r automatically made,all because they see people taking nice pictures over dia dosent mean everything is rosy over dia.people work their ass** off to make ends meet, they are not lazy etc. May God help us all.

You are right to a large extend. But also in Nigerian many people who want to work their ass** off but the bitter truth is no job. Even when they can they can't live a decent life out of it. Abroad if you no work no food for you ooh. . Even your brother no fit feed you.

But back home people are more liberal when it comes to assisting others maybe because they understand that opportunity is limited and the pay that comes with it is small.

thebosstrevor:
The reality is that this abroad ,many of you will not go there, if you like apply for visa till you die

you just have to face your reality and start building your life and country.

when you are young, you feel abroad is the place to succeed, the stress, the money and the energy, if you have used it in learning a very sell-able skills by age 30, you would have become very comfortable in Nigeria

but you guys use the energy in queuing for visas,patronizing agents( why are the agents not applying for visas) and not even getting the visas, then hopelessness and despair troop in,you start running from church to church, you became broke and desperate and then reality comes through by that time you are already 38,nothing to show for. that is the reality of many wanna be immigrant.

cool down, get your skills, work hard, sell your self and increase your bank account and you will be able to travel for holidays in that abroad.

hmmmmmm...


interesting


it's all about the money for you still

thebosstrevor:
Many of you will never travel out. Continue living in ur grand delusion.

Start building ur country now so that you and your children wont suffer.

the truth is that 180m Nigerians cannot all run out at the same time

but the way things are going, more and more will run out


Where I live, Nigerians keep coming EVERY WEEK

And the multitude wanting to leave are not all stupid at the same time

The country as it is id done for and finished

the best one can do in that $hithole is to make money anyhow anyway

but then, that will be it

just money

hmmm

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
It's just easier to make over there. I know of 3 brothers that traveled to the USA like ten years ago, now their quality of life is fuckng higher than mine, I ain't their mate anymore. We taking about an engineer, drummer and a model. These dudes got their own houses and cars.

Nigeria Issa hellhole pls, u gotta struggle and sweat to make it. Mtcheeew

if you are not "connected" in Nigeria, sorry is your name

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Education comes with success no doubt but please you would agree it's a cruise over there. The system works, like you schooling and earning 5k dollars per month to be paid every 2 weeks. My dear do you think anyone would wanna leave Nigeria if we had such system?

I know many married graduates surviving on less than 200 dollars per month in this country.

Everybody knows you can easier follow your dreams over there biko.

yea

Ugosample:
hmmmmmm...


interesting


it's all about the money for you still

it is all about money. So you think electricity, housing is free in those country. You have to work for it.Many will continuing working till dey drop and wont enjoy anything.it will just be a circle of working of shifts.

1kingwriter:
I laugh in Swahili!

A friend of mine, a nurse moved to USA 5 months ago. She got her first pay check last week having worked for a month. As a starter in nursing, she earns $15 hourly and works on the average 16 hours : 15×16 = 240
Daily earning - $240
Monthly earnings - $6000
$6000 × N365 = N2,190, 000.00

Here in Nigeria she earns about N48, 000 monthly as a nurse here before moving to US.

If you divide her monthly earning in the US with what she earned monthly while here in Nigeria, that will be about 4 years earnings.

With the above picture, going abroad has it.

CaseSensitive:
Different strokes for different folks. I was in my early twenties when my life got filled with a lot of uncertainties as to where I'm gearing towards in life. I didn't think I was going to make it abroad, I just didn't see any prospect in sight back home in Nigeria. Dropped out of Uni because I was studying a course I had no ounce of interest in, which I had to or stay at home under my parents roof. Opportunity arrived to move to the UK and I didn't give it a second thought.

I came with dreams and hopes which is paying off. Now in my final year in University and course of choice while working part time for a mobile phone retailer company with a good chance of moving up the ladder.
I have friends who are happy with their security jobs and also have friends who have masters degree working in notable firms, from multinational engineering company to the NHS. I'm not here to tell a success story but considering I am literally a "nobody" back home where favouritism and nepotism has eaten deep into the system. I have no chance of attaining this achievements if I'm still in Nigeria.
Bottom line is, the system works here and everyone is given a fair chance. The system simply doesn't work in Nigeria. (If we have one in the first place)

sweetmelanin:
Who mentioned jealousy?
Aint my fault you parade the hot sun looking for jobs. People doing odd jobs abroad live a better life than you do.
Hold your head up. E go better!

Jman06:
Many of the people who travel abroad ain't just looking for where to make money, rather they seek sane societies where things work properly. Where they can apply for a job and be considered based on what they have to offer and not based on political connection. They also seek quality healthcare at affordable cost, constant power supply, good transport system, security of lives and property, good education etc. Those are the things Nigeria has failed to offer them and that is why they are leaving!

Some would want them to come home and build their country, and I ask; how do you build a country governed by selfish, wicked and demonic leaders who are in no way interested in seeing the country change for good Watch the kind of machinations the evil men in power today are trying to employ to manipulate the upcoming election in their favour, how do you expect the common man to build the country under such political atmosphere

Spygadgets19:
You need to understand one thing, not everyone is travelling for the sake of money. Some are travelling for comfort. Imagine paying for NEPA bill and yet you are not given the required service. Its annoying. People want a working society. Personally i just want a country were everything is working, 24 hrs power, good education with no strikes.

litdutchboy:
I am a Dutch boy. I choose security over money. What is the point of making it when you live in fear of armed robbers,trigger happy policemen,ritualists,kidnappers,rapists and bad Nigerian drivers.
Every single Nigerian family I know has been a victim of one of the above.

sweetmelanin:
Ignorance at its finest!

I'm so sick of people assuming that nigerians abroad are doing odd jobs. Please if your own family members dont have papers and are suffering abroad, advice them to return back to Nigeria and suffer there with you.

..but please, STOP GENERALISING. Many of us Nigerian youths are doing exceptionally well abroad. Our parents paid the price and suffered so we can have our stay and live decent lives!

NONNYG:
During my NYSC in Nigeria I was earning 19,800 monthly, with that I feed myself, pay for accommodation, transportation to PPA, flex small etc; but after my NYSC I moved to Dubai and I’m earning above what I earned in a whole year just in one month, with free accommodation, free food, free transportation to workplace, free medical, 24 hours uninterrupted power supply etc.

U wan make I come back to Nigeria abi? Unless if I’m offered a job in oil company

naunasabi:
@op why do Nigerians think it is all about money?

What about quality of life? Last time I checked the life expectancy in that shit-hole is around 50 years. Moving to country like Germany automatically increases your life expectancy by about 30 years on the average.

What about opportunity? Yes you can make money in Nigeria but then how much are we talking about? Being a middle class doesn't spare your children the horror of everyday life in Nigerian or how uncertain the future look. Unless you are among the top earners in Nigeria which will afford you the means to ship your children abroad for a better life. Which brings me back to the question if Nigeria is that great after making the money since that is your sole indicator of a wonderful life why don't you leave your kids in Nigeria instead of carting them away?

To the average man on the street, Nigeria is one of the worse place to be born and to live in. Go to the west the average man on the street has a prospect if they work towards it. In Nigeria working hard towards your goal doesn't cut it, you have to be very lucky and know people. I know that there are group of people that will counter this point but my question to those people is to compare the number of those that did it without knowing anyone with those that knew someone. While when you look at the west the element of luck and knowing someone is insignificant on how your life turns out.

@op you won't know the quality of life until you get home from work, flip the switch and there is power. Step into your tube and take a warm bath thereafter relax in your sofa without any worries of whether the power will be on when you wake up in the morning or if the tap will be running in the morning. You wont known the quality of life or what it really means to make it until you have emergency medical condition and all you need to do is dial emergency services and their will be medical personnel right there at your home to save your life.

Even in your so called money haven- even if you managed to amass a lot of money when you have medical emergency the service you will get is a far cry from a decent one. I forgot all your billionaires are still running abroad for medical checkup.

As for the poor man he is on his own!

Yes to me making it, is living in a society where everyone has equal or at least near equal opportunity of charting the course of their lives.

Making it to me is living in a society where I don't have to worry about the mundane things of life like security, health , education, human right, job security etc. You can be making money but mine and I can speak for most people is living in a decent society.

To us that is what making it is all about!

It's shameful and disgusting for an African to boast of a better life in a white man's land. Why can't you guys fix your country and quit running to the white man's land? The same white man you accuse of being devils, racists and enslaving Africa. You are also responsible for the rot in your country cos you are among those making no effort to change things. Instead you all want a shortcut to a comfortable life. The white man fixed his country so why not fix yours? You talk like this because the white man allowed you into his country. What if he never allowed you in? I repeat it's disgraceful and shameful for an African to boast of a better life in a white man's land.

Ugosample:
if you are not "connected" in Nigeria, sorry is your name

not only connected people get jobs in nigeria. All these are just lazy comments and excuses not to work hard

thebosstrevor:
Some people are saying nigerians immigrate because of the quality of life.

But is the quality of life in those countries free of charge?

So you think once you arrive you will start enjoying good quality of life.

Why is this your problem?

lefulefu:
at least nau u get charged for the power u consume but in our wonderful kantry nigeria u get charged for power that u never consume.abi u never hear of estimated billing.nigeria is the only country in the world where nepa wont give u light for good three weeks but they will bring u bill of 50k even when u livin in,a single room with no fridge and jus a table and chair.thats nigeria for u o.u must pay for services not rendered and if u talk they will bring soldiers to beat u up.i know u might be rolling with the richer classes and ignorant of the things occuring in nigeria but take ur time to ask some of the poor ppl close to ur neighbourhood and rhey will tell u.

exactly so

the country is filled with wicked and soulless people

God cannot bless such country

that's just the truth

Delivar:
Why can't you guys fix your country and quit running to the white man's land? The same white man you accuse of being devils, racists and enslaving Africa. You are also responsible for the rot in your country cos you are among those making no effort to change things. It's disgraceful and shameful for an African to boast of a better life in a white man's land.

Why can't Nigerians vote out APC and PDP?

thebosstrevor:
Many of you will never travel out. Continue living in ur grand delusion.

Start building ur country now so that you and your children wont suffer.

There is no country.

thebosstrevor:
so what is wrong if once you finish studying you come back home without over staying your student visa and becoming an illegal immigrant.

must every body who study abroad stay or live there forever?

Oga life don better for u dats y u are feeling relaxed gabbaging rubbish


Advice ur family members to stay put in nigeria

By d way how many Nigerians can afford a local flight.....i just pity u

thebosstrevor:
not only connected people get jobs in nigeria. All these are just lazy comments and excuses not to work hard

Look at this nigga

you never see anything

MOST of the good jobs in Nigeria are gotten not via merit, but via connection, man know man

The unconnected ones have to struggle with the scrap jobs they see

Some have got good jobs without connection, but exception does not make the rule

is it not Nigeria that I grew up again

I know the country very well....

Go to Abuja and see who are getting all those govt jobs

Even in these private companies that outsources recruitment, the HR company ends up filling the slots with theur cronies

My cousin who just finished from Covenant last two years is a beneficiary of such "favour"

The day he comes out to say other Nigerians are lazy and are not trying enough, and that they should be like him, bla bla bla

I would have to restrain myself from knocking his coconut head

Me I know how these things go, and I feel so so sorry for the downtrodden who will have no chance to leave that wicked, cursed godforsaken $hithole to experience life elsewhere and see what they are missing

So sad.

I still spend some months in Nigeria tho (like I'm here ATM) And I can see clearly that instead of things changing, they are worse.

Lagos filled with filth, trucks parked on the road blocking the road and causing agonizing traffic, ASUU is on strike, idiots are still shouting sai baba, robbery and ritual killing is on the sharp increase


Abeg go and sit down somewhere Mr Fix Nigeria

thebosstrevor:
pls stop lying asians and whites create businesses and employ their own. Nigerians want to wash toilet abroad. We have plenty of dirty toilet in nigeria, why is there no dignity in labour in washing our own toilet first.

Employ me to wash the same toilet in Nigeria and pay me equivalent of what someone abroad is earning doing same job and I will support all your views.

ontarioissauga:
There is no country.

That was exactly wat my grandfather told my father not to also travel dat nigeria will change but did it change NO (my grandfather is dead)

My father is also getting old has nigeria change NO

And u are repeating d same tin..........e kw go better for u walllieeeeeeeee [color=#990000][/color]

That was exactly wat my grandfather told my father not to also travel dat nigeria will change but did it change NO (my grandfather is dead)

My father is also getting old has nigeria change NO

And u are repeating d same tin..........e kw go better for u walllieeeeeeeee

mogbojaiye:
Oga life don better for u dats y u are feeling relaxed gabbaging rubbish


Advice ur family members to stay put in nigeria

By d way how many Nigerians can afford a local flight.....i just pity u

Life is good for many of us...


But in my own case, I cannot pretend that because life is good for me, and I can afford certain things, that is the case for most of the citizens in Nigeria

it's HELL

Children that should br in school are out there hawking with theur parents to make ends meet.
they have to do that everyday so that they can get by with the daily margins that they make from hawking
One medical emergency, and they are In big shit

A new hotel opened up somewhere and I saw the massive crowd outside the gate looking for employment there, I can bet the hotel cannot hire more than 100 of them, but the crowd no be here

Look at the industrial estate, moribund

Look at the so called roads that they are saying "Ambode is working"

ASUU is currently on strike, and the longer the strike drags on, the more the students will b in trouble becsuse NIGERIA is the only $hithole I know that discriminates employment based on age

Zoo country


I will be here for a little while, before running away again
I can t deal with so much foolishness anymore

Ugosample:
exactly so

the country is filled with wicked and soulless people

God cannot bless such country

that's just the truth

why will God bless this country with the black hearts wey many ppl dey carry here. Na by church?. Its only in nigeria if nepa give u estimated bills for power not supplied and u complain dem go bring soldiers to beat u up and pull off ur wires. Its only in nigeria that a bleeding accident victim will be placed on a cold cement floor in the emergency ward in our hospitals like cow and nurses will be chewing gum and acting unconcerned. Its only in nigeria if u rush a robbery victim to the hospital and the victim unfortunately dies then police go arrest u and accuse u of murdering the victim.na only nigeria if u report to police about some criminal suspects the same police will go to those criminal suspects and tell them that it was u who ratted them out. Only in nigeria na im these wonderful things dey happpen oo and some ppl are saying we are developing. We are developin and our healthcare system and education system is in a complete mess.

Ugosample:
Life is good for many of us...


But in my own case, I cannot pretend that because life is good for me, and I can afford certain things, that is the case for most of the citizens in Nigeria

it's HELL

Children that should br in school are out there hawking with theur parents to make ends meet.
they have to do that everyday so that they can get by with the daily margins that they make from hawking
One medical emergency, and they are In big shit

A new hotel opened up somewhere and I saw the massive crowd outside the gate looking for employment there, I can bet the hotel cannot hire more than 100 of them, but the crowd no be here

Look at the industrial estate, moribund

Look at the so called roads that they are saying "Ambode is working"

ASUU is currently on strike, and the longer the strike drags on, the more the students will b in trouble becsuse NIGERIA is the only $hithole I know that discriminates employment based on age

Zoo country


I will be here for a little while, before running away again
I can t deal with so much foolishness anymore

Bro tell dat degraded fool

It's so annoying
Imagine life in Syria and one idiot is asking u y do u want to leave syria?

Bro am not sure dis op is alright