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superstar1:
woteva, rot in your sojourn and lamentation about working 25hrs and paying Mama Charlie's taxes and leave us with our blessing or curse called 9ja, we like am like dat,

we will do that - and when we get sick we will go to the doctors and not our pastor.

we will actually try and find out what is wrong with us instead of blame it on the juju.

its not even about how u live as well - exposure is also a wonderful thing and being able to travel the world and see and appreciate other cultures and countries is a good thing but u stay there and holiday in Ghana - to u naija is the greatest country on earth.

hackney:
No matter how much wey ppl back home wan paint the situation, Naija na rubbish.
Tell me one thing wey dey work for that country?

Na so una go dey there dey say 'it's not that bad' when other countries' citizens dey demand
for good standards in facilities and amenities una dey there dey wan cover rotten rubish.

That's why there's no light at the end of the tunnel in that country.

In the diaspora, hard work pays off 247 and if yor are a genius (high IQ) then your limit is beyond the sky.
some ethnic DBA guys sitting next to me in the office here dey collect £2k daily!!!!
(which is around £0.5M\yr ; wetin i dey talk sef? one  genius Mbaise programmer guy dey on £3m/yr)

But if na for Naija ; who be your uncle first.
If we talk revolution people go back-track come here dey talk manage-manage.

All that generator wey dey vibrate person brain with all that noise na better thing?
Oyibo just design that product stamp am 'third world market'.

Nonsense.

thanks jari
if there is a word that i hate is the word manage - which one is manage - in this day and age - i am seen as an agebo if i can't deal with the lack of electricity and get confused when water refuses to leave a tap. and i am told to manage. yes that gen biz gives me a bloody headache.

why are people on here talking about "i have gen, i have borehole" um let me look out of my window, hmmmmmmmmmmmm i can't hear the buzz of the gen next to my house and what do you know - my water is running.

which one is premier university? is it all these private unis that have sprung up since i left

i went to UNN back in the day.

superstar1:
@ Redsky1


Na wa for u ooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! Can u see u could have measure your so called BP with a wrist instrument of just 12500naira. When next u r coming, but one if hte place where u r staying is so  rosy. See, stop making 9ja look like Zimbabwe. We that are staying and coming over for our hols in UK and US are surviiving,

ok no nigeria is heaven my bad - o hold on having been to uni here and in nigeria and using the facilities in the hostels for students abeg for those that know what i'm talking about - am i making nigeria look bad or are student facilities up to scracth in naija - please if i'm wrong tell me.

sayso:
do people go to hospital this days to check blood pressure,I have two Oregon wrist blood pressure for I and Wife,it sells at 12,500 naira not expensive I guess,please buy one next time .

thanks for the heads up - i have my machine here with me - i was on holiday - blood pressure machine - not really something i carry in my suitcase when i'm travelling. just reguar travel insurance seems to be sufficient for other holiday destinations!!

i was ill so i guess when ur ill thats one of the things they check - am i making sense now - o another thing the upper arm band blood pressure machines are best.

mikkyphp:
bros redsky which level sef?
you know say na govt hospitals be all dat.

AFTER A recent visit to nigeria i went what was meant to be a good hospital in the east - trust me - i was not impressed - the blood pressure machine they used should be in a museum (in all my years alive on this earth I have never seen such a device - i came back and told my friends here theu could not stop laughing) and the nurse wanted to take my blood without gloves - when i complained she had the audacity to tell me is it cos i be oyinbo - WTF - woman its basic hygine i'm asking for.

anyway enough with my ranting is it not me moving there next year for a few years.

after reading the story below - i'm now packing my load and selling my house to come back to our wonderful land - chei who needs a well equipped hospital when u guys are enjoying tis back home.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/15102009/news/news14.html


We perform surgeries with torch - Doctors

Muda Oyeniran, Lagos - 15.10.2009

THE decay in the Nigerian health sector occasioned by the deplorable state of infrastructure was brought to the fore in Lagos, on Wednesday, when the chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State chapter, Dr. Adedamola Dada, disclosed to the amazement of the audience, that doctors had been performing surgeries using torch and administering drugs with the aid of telephone handsets.

The occasion was a symposium organised by the Lagos NMA, as part of activities to mark the 2009 Physicians’ Week. Dada, who lamented the working conditions of doctors in the country, said they were being confronted daily with problems of caring for the patients in difficult conditions, adding that emergency cases were handled with suctioning machines that were not functional due to blackout.

“I can boast that you can hardly find a practicing surgeon in Nigeria who has not operated a patient using torch as source of illumination,” he added. He, however, expressed regrets that doctors were always at the receiving end when adverse events occurred

“The Nigerian doctor is condemned, insulted and harassed by the people and the press. Thousands of patients, who are daily treated and discharged in good health, are never noted, but the whole world talks endlessly about any infarction,” he added.

Speaking on the bill on gunshot victims currently before the Senate, Dada said the new bill was unnecessary, since there was an existing national health bill already passed by the House of Representatives and awaiting the consideration of the Senate on the same issue.

some of us where born and breed here so we didn't all didn't come over.

not everyone came with student visa and is now running from border patrol.

yes money doesn't grow on trees in any country in the world it is just annoying when people ask for stuff they shouldn't be asking for.

i know a widow over here that used to get asked for money all the time by a woman whose husband was alive and working - now please even if the widow is abroad and doing well - why wouldn't someone use their brain and understand that one woman carrying 6 kids alone all under the age of 17 except one will be in a position to give u anything.

why will someone in the village be asking for brand new mobile phone when they are just sitting at home all day doing nothing - is a nokia e71 really a priority right now for an unemployed man?

mikkyphp:
i beg to wonder if living with Government support and the costly comfort abroad was what "they" set out to achieve with their lives, still a thought though,  

WHY DO NIGERIANS DO THIS - did anyone say anything about them in particular getting support from the government. Please tell me - u people in Nigeria - how much does it cost to have the basic things we have here and take for granted cost in Nigeria. u know things like water and electricity - u know things that a human being needs TO LIVE. if you have gen - is it not money to buy, it is not money for disel, u have drivers - are they free? u buy ur water - at least i know in this country it is actually against the law for the water coy to turn off ur water even if ur owning - highest they take u to court.

what is the level of unemployment in nigeria, how easy is it to live a comfortable life in nigeria - and u can't even enjoy it cos ur scared of getting kidnapped, raped , robbed or dying from stray bullet or a pot hole in the road. if naija is so good why do the rich not use the hospitals in nigeria - i thought EVERYONE IN NAIJA COULD AFFORD REDDINGTON.

please life is hard whereever you are. people are just plan lazy - even when i was schooling in nigeria i came over here during my hols worked and went back - so if i wanted to pose back then it was with my sweat - not stealing or asking some relative for cash - or being and aristo big girl.

i'm just so fed up with these people back home who claim to be better than those abroad but deck out their homes with foriegn goods.

no one is saying anywhere is better and not everyone is a cleaner, some of us are consultants, accountants, doctors, lawyers.

if nah only the sufferhead where dey for UK u dey know move with a diff crowd.

dappssee:
If its not easy for you guys over there, why not come home and do jobs that are dignifying instead of menial jobs that you can't confess you're doing here. A lot of you guys pose beside flashy cars and in friends apartments like you were the owners. The truth is the economy is picking up here in 9ja, people are getting more successful than ever and FYI I know someone who is abroad and asks for money from relatives in 9ja.

There's nothing to living abroad. A lot of them there are suffering

yeah we will do that - thats why i'm not allowed to go out alone whenever i'm in nigeria cos of kidnapping.

can u buy peice of mind - imagine me trying to plan a wedding in Nigeria and have security as a budgetd cost na wah o.

make we suffer here.

not all of us are suffering abeg.

chelseabmw:
Because money grow froom trees there, y are u there if not to hussle?Abeg make una send money come house

some of us are here cos its been our home for over 25 years (in my case) u do know that there is a generation of nigerian children now that have second homes. i have been fortunate enough to experience life in nigeria as well.

so not all of us are here to hussle - putting everyine in the same pot.

come chop abeg tell them

i think what a lot of our people suffer from is inferiority complex - why else will u be doing cleaning job, security or underground job then take loan to pose for naija once every 2 years. its all about posing fake life, what designers ur wearing what car ur driving.

chei i dey laugh - i don't believe in all that fake life and showing off - when i go to Nigeria highest i will get my nails done - as for dressing or posing what for. I live a comfortable life, i'm content with what i have so why the fake flossing.

if extended family want to hate me cos i don't send them money or expensive gifts that is their own. i work for everything I have so they should to - if they need to be asking me for ipod it means its not for them - afterall we all have to make sacrifices - i'm giving up a short break in the Mediterranean next month for a new laptop. or should i do what some lazy peeps do and ask someone to buy one for me.

u lot are so funny - i have told people countless times that if the only people u know that are doing well are into illegal things then find a new group of friends - i am lucky and my family is here so i don't get those calls but i do get the odd person ask for stupid stuff like laptop and ipod and phone.

so of us are doing very well thank you - and yes i always tell people how we pay bills here. at least i will not be scared of my sisters here in uni turning to aristos just to make ends meet or just out of pure greed like a lot of our fine young ladies back home.

for those that send - sorry o. for those that pretend that money grows on trees here - more fool u - but for those hating on those abroad - i pity u

hardbody:
I dont understand that ooo, I have 24 hours light and water (using my generator and solar panel, and for water i use borehole). I honestly do not need government for me to exist, and same goes for most of my brethren here. Now if you feel so strongly about the leadership of this country, why dont you come back and let us fight to effect the change. Sitting down in a country made sane by another man doesnt provide a solution to your problems. Sad thing is we, alongside other immigrants are beginning to screw up their own economy too. Bros Come back home make we rough am together.

how many people have this.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-337806.0.html

abi u dey enjoy right

hardbody:
Truth is life in Nigeria is better. I can understand it when those who do not have an experience of both worlds line up at the embassy to seek visas to enable them travel. They get out there and find out that you pay for every bit of utility and generally live in small apartment houses and suffer a level of second class 'citizenship' and in some cases with perpetual fright as to arrests and repatriation. I had long advised myself against even holidaying abroad for a long time to come (except my employer sends me on off-shore training in which case he pays). Having said that, you guys are always creating the impression that things are all rosy out there, when in truth all that works is the infrastructure and this works simply because you are fleeced of your earnings in the name of taxes. Now payment of tax is good, and you benefit from what they use the money for, but that is where it ends. I imagine how difficult it is to ask an average Londoner to spend a £100, an amount that is not enough for me and a pal or two to drink beer on our way out of the Island on a bad traffic day. Truth is quite  a few of the guys out there are doing well, the rest cannot come back because of the shame of having failed. BTW my company has recruited quite a number of these 'prodigal sons and daughters' who have come home in the wake of the recession and we could still employ more (except that the ones we employed are not even adding value self). In all, I for one do not ask people to send me anything ooo, in everyday terms i feel too good for that. And for those of you who are really feeling the pinch, please swallow your pride, climb down your high horse and come back home. THis is 9ja, this is Africa, we never reject our own, we will provide you succour. HARDBODY SAY SO,

who is fighting arrest abeg stop painting us with the same brush - some of us are legit ok.

no where is better than the other - but when the mentality of Nigerians change things will be better. if our leaders where not so bloody greedy and evil they would leave something in the treasury for basic infrastructure - how can in 2009 people still don't have light and water. na wah o

unix4real1:
Leave them make dem die there

@redsky1
I noticed you are just trying to make a point for yourself and that's not a bad idea but if its because of free NHS services that you are enjoying there that makes you think that average Nigerian can`t afford a jeep, fuel their gen and live a normal life then i suggest you find your way home and get the fact right

unix - for ur info i live here and Nigeria so i kind of know what I'm talking about - the life i live in Nigeria is not what the majority of the population can enjoy. in a population of approx 150 million - how many people can say they take annual holidays, how many people would be able to afford big hospital bills if they were seriously ill, how many people can comfortable put their kids thru a good school, how many people drive jeep and have a gen. justcos u happen to live in a posh area in Lagos or Abuja does not mean the majority of people in Nigeria are enjoying or else u wouldn't have hundreds of young men dying in the Sahara desert every year killing themselves to leave Nigeria.

how many young men and women in Nigeria have jobs - at least here u can get something to feed you. why do people fly their wives out of Nigeria to give birth - is it cos the hospitals in Nigeria are so much better. when i drive around Nigeria in my air conditioned car and driver i look out and feel like crying when i see how the "average" Nigerian lives.

is it healthy that rubbish is just dumped on the road for all and sundry to see and passer by to catch one kind illness - is it right i can turn the tap on in my house here and brush my teeth but have to use bottled water to brush in Nigeria,

not everyone does cleaning job in this London - as i have mentioned on this forum previously the people i know are qualified professionals who live comfortable lives. if the people u know do cleaning and still have housemates at this age then u need to find a new crew

yeah my family is here so i don't have to worry about people asking for anything

do what i do and don't give.

simple - now no one expects anything from me.

by the time i finish listing bills for them and telling them that life in nigeria is better self - they go begin pity me!! ha ha ha

anyway i haven't finished enjoying my holidays its for some lazy bum asking me for my hard earned dirty cash - nonsense!!

so in nigeria do you have house mates as well. U are comparing different levels of life with that of naija and the UK, why are u living in an area where jamo go mug u, thats says it all really.

where u driving jeep in london - does the average nigerian have money for gen and fuel for gen - does the average nigerian drive jeep.

does the average nigerian have access to goo healthcare in nigeria - i guess when u get really ill u will be one of those coming here to use the free NHS. nonsense

my bad make that 80%

but come on now - is it right that a country with the wealth Nigeria has still has people suffering from diseases that have all but been eradicated in the developed world - such as cholera

anyway we still have a long way to go and if its so great why are those people in the programme lying thru their nose to leave naija.

the poster is foolish - u live in London returned to London and then asked the question.

at least as a woman i can get up and go to tescos at 11pm or 3am without the fear of getting raped or kidnapped.

nonsense

if you don't have money in Nigeria do u think u can survive - or are u forgetting the NHS. get sick in naija without money - ur arse will be back at heathrow b4 u can turn ur head.

tunnytox:
you are very right, this oyinbo ppl will never show anything good about Africa but terrible areas

so the whole of nigeria looks like lekki and abuja abi - abeg go ad sit down.

why are we lying to ourselves. if you cut nigeria into 100 is it not still 95% bad.

yes there are run down areas in the west but at least people have a choice of living in the bad areas.

can someone please direct this man to pregnancy websites.


http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy

put your query in google and u will find as much info as u need.

bleeding doesn't indicate twins it usually means there could be a problem, i don tire

if the father of this girl doesn't kill this useless ignorant man then i will do it myself.

i am so fed up of these stories that i hear coming out of nigeria.

joxiri:
all these people asking what gives u the right to use uk health care system, justwise and others, I am sure you or some very close relative of you has abused that sytem at some point either having been here on holiday and seeking treatment or something every1 abuses the nhs, yes a few people pay high taxes, but i dnt mind if people abuse it cos u cannot put a price on health.

sorry i don't know such people in my life and when people like me are paying close to £1k in tax alone that excluding national insurance u get my annoyance at people who abuse the system and i am told to wait 4 hours in a&e and questioned about my status even thou i'm a citizen (guess they can't see past my colour) anyway my point is this if i left england today to live in nigeria for 6 months i would be entitiled to nothing even thou i have lived here over 25 years and pay over £11k tax and NI however, these fraudsters (yes that is what they are) come here use the system they have paid nothing towards and go and pose in naija claiming my child was born in london

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkx4lpjamGI&feature=PlayList&p=958E72A0A33E5417&index=4&playnext=5&playnext_from=PL

phuck_NL:
I hit a spot abi? Truth hurts.
True - I don't know what country you reside. I don't care and don't need to know.
The point is that your parent did exactly the same thing the poster wants to do.
If they delivered you in Nigeria, you would be a Nigerian citizen.

um point of correction - i was delivered in nigeria and have dual nationality so what are u sayig exactly.

what she is doing is wasting her money on visa, travel and accomodation here as giving birth in the UK gives your child nothing

no the poster plans to use the facilities and go - without contributing one penny to the system that will help her.

its not the same - after all she is not a citizen and giving birth in the Uk doesn't give ur child citzenship again (so know ur facts) ur kids can only be citizens if the parents are.

OAM4J:
I beg lets try help our sister. Even though we understand her desire.

@ Poster.

What country do you want to go? There are some embassies that will not bother to see your face if you submit all the right documents and they will not ask you in their application form if you are pregnant or not, nor ask you to do pregnancy test. At least I know UK for certain. My friend’s wife applied for UK visitor visa after she got pregnant (4 months), she went to UK 2 months to her delivery, delivered in UK and came back to Naija after the delivery.

DID this ur friends wife pay for this or was it my tax that picked up the bill. yes i have asked the question

what about foreign graduates - na wah o nigeria really does take the issue of time for granted.

but hey poster don't feel bad - God can only bless few men with a wife like my husbands,