subcbouy:
Nope! Canada is safer to live in than in the US for now.

BigDawsNet:


Absolutely more opportunity in the US than canada... But some people just wanna explorer and when it comes to benefits canada will give you more than the US

Yuceeluv:
I don't understand.

humilitypays:
I love your response and your references, you made some valid points I quite agree.


Leave Dangote out of this, his case is different. His family was among the richest West African families as far back as 1950s. Stop using Dangote to encourage average Nigerians, he was never an average Nigerian. Dangote was a highly privileged Nigerian, his success had little or nothing to do with his personal effort and hardwork. His family background and tribe in Nigeria made him who he is today, so leave him out of this.


Wizkid was talented. Seun Osewa was talented, and also privileged to know about computer and programming early enough. He wasn't born poor pls, go and find out. Now ask yourself how many Nigerians are naturally talented like Wizkid?


In sane countries with working system, you must not be highly talented or privileged to succeed and live a good and fulfilling life.


The effort you are putting in Nigeria, if you put half of it in a sane nation, you will go global.


Do you know if Seun Osewa happen to have been born in the US, maybe he would have been one of the founders of top 10 global tech firms like Google, Paypal, etc rather than a locally famous forum?


Nigeria have murdered so many dreams and talents, and still doing the same today.


If you check the efforts you have put in as a Nigerian living in Nigeria, if you put half of it abroad, you will do exploits

Guruwerkcanada:
If you have never left the shore of Nigeria, you can never understand why people relocate. I used to be a core patriotic Nigerian and most people were shocked after I relocated. People relocate just to regain sanity. The truth about Canada is, no matter how 'lazy' you are, there is something for you. Heck you don't even pay for education if you come in as permanent resident. You get a grant instead. Education is free for kids till end of high school. You get well compensated for your skills. I have a whole lots of reasons but cant possibly say it all. Be wise and Japa if you can. I still love my country. I want a brighter future for my kids though.

Eriokanmi:
Come back 15 years later and share your Canada experience with us young man . But when you come back, hope you'd not hide when you see your friends and mates you left behind Progress .

Nigeria is a land of opportunities to only those who have the inner eyes to see one. Nothing can ever make me take such a decision of relocating. If you want to go, bye-bye but you'd spot the difference in later years if you choose to remain there . Why not apply same spirit on developing yourself here? Go there for studies and come back with opportunities. I'd like to cite a few examples below on some of us who came back, against all odds.

1- I've been around the globe, even acquired certificates, up to 4 different ones and some training skills in amazing facilities. I came back with an opportunity which is seriously proferring solutions to our problems in Nigeria. No manager in the leading oil and gas company in Nigeria can match my worth...no be bragging matter. I don hobnob with world leaders, including Barack Obama. I'd have regretted it, had I stayed back.

2-Anyone who goes to one of the old generation banks would see an inverter with battery banks on one side of their banking hall, powering their atms... its as a result of an innovation brought home by my uncle. He left union bank for Atlanta in the 90s, got employed at Walmart as stores officer. One day, as he was going home branched at a newspaper vendor( a mexican) booth to read papers as usual and there he spotted an Inverter company located in Arlington. I'm mentioning it as it is so people could check it out. Its called Trace Engineering, later changed their name to Xantrex. He applied to them to be their rep in Nigeria to solve the epileptic power supply in critical sectors but they refused his application for 3 reasons. One, that the product was new to Africa and 2ndly, that being black, it would be impossible to convince his people on adopting the technology. 3rdly, that they weren't ready to expand beyond the shores of America as at that time. He felt disappointed. 2 months later, they called and told him they had reconsidered his application and invited him for 2 weeks training after which he was asked to come to Nigeria with demos to show to his prospects.

Long story cut short, his friends of Nigerian decent blasted him, they said his village people had come calling. He summoned courage and left America with almost nothing. On getting home, he started from his 1-room apartment he left behind. He went to companies, the CBN and other places in government too. CBN told him they had constant power supply with 3 standby automatic switch generators so, they'd not need his ideas. He told them but its free, they now allowed him to install one at their IT dept. 6 months later they had issues with their generators as there were a major power outage from national grid so they over fired the generators. They all packed up within same time. They had to order parts from abroad but then they needed to keep their IT dept running to prevent loss of files. The moment the 3rd gen stopped , all the directors were panicking, rushed to the IT room only to find out that the staff were working as normal with lights on. The called my uncle over, thanked him for saving them a major disaster and gave him a contract to install the inverter on all the CBN branches nationwide. Shortly after that, the atm revolution came and CBN recommended this man to all banks starting from the old generation banks...this man won a global distributor of the year 4 times and was invited with family to the USA for an award each time. His colleagues back then can't even near him in anything. Rather he gives them money on each visit. If you want to go...go and school or you spend a little time and while you're there, study the environment, study our challenges back home and you'd not regret leaving for home ultimately.

A friend is talking with sanwoolu on ocean transport from ikorodu to lagos Island now and discussion is at advanced stage . He's worked with a similar company abroad for some years now and now he wants to tap into the opportunity and the company is ready to fund this project 100%. When you see his private jets or copter hovering ahead of you tomorrow you see him on forbes list, don't say money why...while working in the biting cold over there.

Kenny and D1 would have stayed put and remained stagnated. See the duos balling today. Their contribution to the entertainment industry is invaluable. These are the people we know. There are several other successful guys out there who took a similar decision.

My 50cents had been given...

quickly:


He’s not discouraging, just saying the truth. Abroad is not home even if u have all the passports. You are still a 2nd class citizen

To a Nigerian life is all about money but trust me 2 secs before you die you will know there is more to life.

My uncle among first ppl who went to Canada in the 80s , relocating to badagry

The money they give you . Will be used for taxes, rent and bills.

No input no output . No be every work Dey pay all your bills. Some will pay half of ur house rent some will pay all.

As abroad fine reach many homeless.

Last time I traveled I went to fast food joint before I even throw the food into garbage. One homeless guy grab and eat my left over.

Some ppl Dey abroad but na naija dem destiny Dey but no patience.

Them for make an for naija with more focus, application and patience

By the time u reach 70 u will see some in naija are more well of with zero debt.


The west is designed to keep u in debt . You cannot get some jobs without credit score.


But ppl no go hear. It’s good but in the long run u might regret

Histrings08:
how much does a person need to relocate to a country like Canada or USA?

int0x80:
Why should anybody leave US for Canada, unless the person is an illegal immigrant in the US? There are more opportunities in US than Canada and better salaries as well.

ethicallyright:


How old are you?

haryorbarmie83:
My time will also come.

Kingosytex:
Living in Nigeria is comparable to staying in hell.

Leaving Naija is a big achievement...Having stayed for almost nine months in both Ghana and Thailand, I came to realise that Naija is a big jungle.

sharpwriter:


Ha, Bros, I didn't know you were the one I quoted. Oya, wey ma Xmas and new year give away

And as regards my post, I understand you. What I meant is that it's not normal to abandon our lands while we go and forget ourselves there without remembering our origin. Very soon, these bastard leaders shall be uprooted, not without a terrible and blood squeezing struggle though.

Oluwaseun2020:

What you see determines who you are...
The guy that sold Gokada saw something. .
The guy that bought it saw another. ...


Just like what happens when you converts dollars to naira...
When you covert foreign brain to Nigeria
You will move fast as a black man...
Because nomatter how intelligent you are..you will be employed when you get abroad. ..

If seun osewa goes abroad. ..he will build this forum for a white man with money to promote it and the white man will give him chicken change at the end of the day...

The most brilliant black man in tech was reduced to nothing. .
Philip Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell supercomputing prize in 1989 for applying the power of networked computers to analysis of oil field reserves. The award came with a $1000 prize. The child of a poor Nigerian family, Philip Emeagwali received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977.

Imagine the prize...he got...
No black man will ever be among the top tech guys in America. ..
They will merely be used and dumped
The man who had built the fastest computer ended up coming back to Nigeria to build his reputation but it was too late...he was too old and far behind. .
Ordinary people like seun had more money and fame and credibility than he did...
he went back to be collecting his salary. ..peanuts

If you dont make it here..forget it...
We have rich Nigerians abroad but Dangote is still the richest black man on earth. ..

chijokz:

I enjoyed your write up and I do agree with your assumptions.
Opportunities abound everywhere and I also know similar success stories of guys that relocated to Nigeria and making it big time.

Kriss216:
If I eventually find myself in Canada, I’ll first go and barb Kodo, so that Canada breeze go comot all the nonsense Nigeria suffering from my head.

Eriokanmi:
Come back 15 years later and share your Canada experience with us young man . But when you come back, hope you'd not hide when you see your friends and mates you left behind Progress .

Nigeria is a land of opportunities to only those who have the inner eyes to see one. Nothing can ever make me take such a decision of relocating. If you want to go, bye-bye but you'd spot the difference in later years if you choose to remain there . Why not apply same spirit on developing yourself here? Go there for studies and come back with opportunities. I'd like to cite a few examples below on some of us who came back, against all odds.

1- I've been around the globe, even acquired certificates, up to 4 different ones and some training skills in amazing facilities. I came back with an opportunity which is seriously proferring solutions to our problems in Nigeria. No manager in the leading oil and gas company in Nigeria can match my worth...no be bragging matter. I don hobnob with world leaders, including Barack Obama. I'd have regretted it, had I stayed back.

2-Anyone who goes to one of the old generation banks would see an inverter with battery banks on one side of their banking hall, powering their atms... its as a result of an innovation brought home by my uncle. He left union bank for Atlanta in the 90s, got employed at Walmart as stores officer. One day, as he was going home branched at a newspaper vendor( a mexican) booth to read papers as usual and there he spotted an Inverter company located in Arlington. I'm mentioning it as it is so people could check it out. Its called Trace Engineering, later changed their name to Xantrex. He applied to them to be their rep in Nigeria to solve the epileptic power supply in critical sectors but they refused his application for 3 reasons. One, that the product was new to Africa and 2ndly, that being black, it would be impossible to convince his people on adopting the technology. 3rdly, that they weren't ready to expand beyond the shores of America as at that time. He felt disappointed. 2 months later, they called and told him they had reconsidered his application and invited him for 2 weeks training after which he was asked to come to Nigeria with demos to show to his prospects.

Long story cut short, his friends of Nigerian decent blasted him, they said his village people had come calling. He summoned courage and left America with almost nothing. On getting home, he started from his 1-room apartment he left behind. He went to companies, the CBN and other places in government too. CBN told him they had constant power supply with 3 standby automatic switch generators so, they'd not need his ideas. He told them but its free, they now allowed him to install one at their IT dept. 6 months later they had issues with their generators as there were a major power outage from national grid so they over fired the generators. They all packed up within same time. They had to order parts from abroad but then they needed to keep their IT dept running to prevent loss of files. The moment the 3rd gen stopped , all the directors were panicking, rushed to the IT room only to find out that the staff were working as normal with lights on. The called my uncle over, thanked him for saving them a major disaster and gave him a contract to install the inverter on all the CBN branches nationwide. Shortly after that, the atm revolution came and CBN recommended this man to all banks starting from the old generation banks...this man won a global distributor of the year 4 times and was invited with family to the USA for an award each time. His colleagues back then can't even near him in anything. Rather he gives them money on each visit. If you want to go...go and school or you spend a little time and while you're there, study the environment, study our challenges back home and you'd not regret leaving for home ultimately.

A friend is talking with sanwoolu on ocean transport from ikorodu to lagos Island now and discussion is at advanced stage . He's worked with a similar company abroad for some years now and now he wants to tap into the opportunity and the company is ready to fund this project 100%. When you see his private jets or copter hovering ahead of you tomorrow you see him on forbes list, don't say money why...while working in the biting cold over there.

Kenny and D1 would have stayed put and remained stagnated. See the duos balling today. Their contribution to the entertainment industry is invaluable. These are the people we know. There are several other successful guys out there who took a similar decision.

My 50cents had been given...

salford1:

The Carribean is not a cheap option too Sha. Circa $25,000 per semester. Then if you intend to move to the US to practice. It can be incredibly tough to get matched to a residency program. Life is all about taking risk and chances. If you have faith and put your heart to it, the lines would fall in pleasant places.

int0x80:
That's true but the differences in wages and currencies could make up for those benefits.

Eriokanmi:
Come back 15 years later and share your Canada experience with us young man . But when you come back, hope you'd not hide when you see your friends and mates you left behind Progress .

Nigeria is a land of opportunities to only those who have the inner eyes to see one. Nothing can ever make me take such a decision of relocating. If you want to go, bye-bye but you'd spot the difference in later years if you choose to remain there . Why not apply same spirit on developing yourself here? Go there for studies and come back with opportunities. I'd like to cite a few examples below on some of us who came back, against all odds.

1- I've been around the globe, even acquired certificates, up to 4 different ones and some training skills in amazing facilities. I came back with an opportunity which is seriously proferring solutions to our problems in Nigeria. No manager in the leading oil and gas company in Nigeria can match my worth...no be bragging matter. I don hobnob with world leaders, including Barack Obama. I'd have regretted it, had I stayed back.

2-Anyone who goes to one of the old generation banks would see an inverter with battery banks on one side of their banking hall, powering their atms... its as a result of an innovation brought home by my uncle. He left union bank for Atlanta in the 90s, got employed at Walmart as stores officer. One day, as he was going home branched at a newspaper vendor( a mexican) booth to read papers as usual and there he spotted an Inverter company located in Arlington. I'm mentioning it as it is so people could check it out. Its called Trace Engineering, later changed their name to Xantrex. He applied to them to be their rep in Nigeria to solve the epileptic power supply in critical sectors but they refused his application for 3 reasons. One, that the product was new to Africa and 2ndly, that being black, it would be impossible to convince his people on adopting the technology. 3rdly, that they weren't ready to expand beyond the shores of America as at that time. He felt disappointed. 2 months later, they called and told him they had reconsidered his application and invited him for 2 weeks training after which he was asked to come to Nigeria with demos to show to his prospects.

Long story cut short, his friends of Nigerian decent blasted him, they said his village people had come calling. He summoned courage and left America with almost nothing. On getting home, he started from his 1-room apartment he left behind. He went to companies, the CBN and other places in government too. CBN told him they had constant power supply with 3 standby automatic switch generators so, they'd not need his ideas. He told them but its free, they now allowed him to install one at their IT dept. 6 months later they had issues with their generators as there were a major power outage from national grid so they over fired the generators. They all packed up within same time. They had to order parts from abroad but then they needed to keep their IT dept running to prevent loss of files. The moment the 3rd gen stopped , all the directors were panicking, rushed to the IT room only to find out that the staff were working as normal with lights on. The called my uncle over, thanked him for saving them a major disaster and gave him a contract to install the inverter on all the CBN branches nationwide. Shortly after that, the atm revolution came and CBN recommended this man to all banks starting from the old generation banks...this man won a global distributor of the year 4 times and was invited with family to the USA for an award each time. His colleagues back then can't even near him in anything. Rather he gives them money on each visit. If you want to go...go and school or you spend a little time and while you're there, study the environment, study our challenges back home and you'd not regret leaving for home ultimately.

A friend is talking with sanwoolu on ocean transport from ikorodu to lagos Island now and discussion is at advanced stage . He's worked with a similar company abroad for some years now and now he wants to tap into the opportunity and the company is ready to fund this project 100%. When you see his private jets or copter hovering ahead of you tomorrow you see him on forbes list, don't say money why...while working in the biting cold over there.

Kenny and D1 would have stayed put and remained stagnated. See the duos balling today. Their contribution to the entertainment industry is invaluable. These are the people we know. There are several other successful guys out there who took a similar decision.

My 50cents had been given...

hakeem4:
Actually relocating out of Nigeria is a big achievement especially if you’re not privileged.

I followed the thread on twitter yesterday and I don’t know why people were insulting the guy for relocating

79733139:
You first have to get either visitor or tourist visa to Canada or USA first... and those two countries make it very difficult for Nigerians below a certain income level to get them.

sweetmelanin:
As of recent, many Nigerians can be seen on Twitter celebrating their escape from Nigeria as some acknowledged relocation as a 'great achievement':



https://mobile.twitter.com/MrFrancisWhyte/status/1344328332557471744

Thattallgirl:
25...don't yab me o