₦airaland Forum

Obidikeatuegwu:
I was refused Visa for Exactly same reasons too. I know of two other guys that had theirs refused for same reasons too. Still recovering from the shock. I suppose that's the politest way of saying "we don't want you guys from the shithole no more"

yea

they have a trump wannabe in govt in Australia too

Goldaccumulator:
i said why cant he do his phd in uniport

why should he do a PhD in Port Harcourt
Nigerian schools that you will not learn anything

MyAmericandream:
i am using Lagos as a case study. Or do you want me to talk about port Harcourt and Abuja?

rents in these places are equally expensive o

especially in decent areas

Goldaccumulator:
why cant you do your phd i uniport?

what is this one saying too

naijacann:
This is so ridiculous. Racism at its worst! The guys at the embassy are so uncomfortable with a black person getting funding from Australia for doctoral study. I have never been this angry and disappointed at an embassy....its an obvious case of racism and discrimination.
They wouldn't refuse an American or any other white person visa based on such ridiculous reasons.
I wish I knew the schools, I would have applied from here in Canada(I'm a Canadian citizen of Nigerian descent), get the admission and funding, and of course easy study visa, and then I will decline the visa after issuance, with a strongly worded letter to the Australian immigration here, in solid solidarity with the OP.
So sick of these embassies.

actually, the embassies are sick of Nigerians flooding their gates

mubaking:
y u sef no sit ur yansh for one place?

what is this one saying?

MyAmericandream:
Thank you my brother, 650k is even too small for some part of Lagos. Let's not go as far as lekki, you need to checkout some places at festac and GRA Ikeja The prices there are so exorbitant, you'll begin to wonder if you're in Nigeria. Let's talk about the roads, means of transportation, electricity, standard of education etc. The dude did not include all these.

And to think that after paying so much, you still get sub standard services

Running gen for just 8 hours a day will dig a hole

Paying out of pocket for sub standard medical service will dig another hole

How about the indirect cost to vehicle maintenance you pay due to terrible roads

What about the cost of sub standard school

Malakh:
ok when Amerca is on the verge of becoming a third world country,i'll make a topic on it mind you it's gonna happen in the Fall season, i know your so-called wisdom gat you thinking you gat a handle on things but I know what i'm talking about and the precedence for it will be war

America can NEVER be a third world country

The foundation is solid

The economy is on a solid footing
recession or not

The world thrives on its tech, and it's the world reserve currency


Saying this country will be a third world country is a joke

ADRIAN88:
Retired fraudsters be taking over all these entertainment hunies these days! It Is well.

na so we see am o

naijaman3:
Hmmn, I don’t know how you are doing your math. It looks to me that 7M Naira (or about CAD $25,000) per annum in Nigeria will be equivalent to maximum CAD $50,000 (or 14M Naira) in Canada taking tax and cost of living into consideration.





Your math is off because you did not take into consideration a lot of other things that you will spend money on while living in Nigeria but you don’t spend money on them in Canada. Some of the other things are:

Elementary and Secondary Education: In Canada, world class quality education is free from kindergarten to the end of high school. However, in Nigeria you know what you have to pay per term for schools that are not even as good as the free ones here in Canada.

Health and Medical: In Canada, you get this for free. However, in Nigeria you know what you have to pay for medical treatment at all the death center you call hospital. It is so bad that your yeyebrity (celebrity) that are believed to be making more than 7M Naira per annum run to social medial looking for help to cover hospital bills when they are sick.

Unemployment Benefit: If you lose your job in Canada due to no fault of yours you are entitled to government paid employment payment for between 14 weeks to 45 weeks. This is in additional to whatever severance pay that your company will pay you. What do you get from government in Nigeria if you lose your job due to no fault of yours? Nothing.

Government Pension: In additional to pension you get from your employer when you retire; you also get government paid pension monthly in Canada when you retire (You don’t need to work for the government to get this). What do you get from government in Nigeria when you retire? Nothing.

Old Age Security Payment: In Canada if you are 65 years and above you get paid Old Age Security payment irrespective of whether you have worked or never worked all your life. What do you get from government in Nigeria when you are old? Nothing.

You can argue that all of the above are not free because the government uses our tax to cover for these expenses. This is why our tax is a little high. But in Nigeria since you do not pay high taxes like we pay and you still need all of the above basic needs you have to pay for them or plan for them by yourself from your 7M Naira annual income. So, if you add high tax to your Canadian expenses, you also need to add the cost of all of the above to your Nigerian expenses.

Apart from the above items covered by our taxes, there are a couple of other items below that are extremely expensive in Nigeria compared to Canada:

Generator Running Expenses: Despite paying your NEPA bill, your power is not stable or not available at all. Hence you run your generator. In Canada, I don’t have to run a generator to live so the cost is zero. What is the cost of this per month or per year in Nigeria?

Tokunbo Car: The tokunbo car that you buy for about 2.24M Naira (CAD $8,000) in Nigeria will only cost me about CAD $2000 (N560,000 Naira) in Canada.

University and College Education: In Canada my kids have the following options available tom then in financing their education without me as a parent paying anything (government tuition grant not to be paid back, academic scholarship, part time work while schooling etc). In addition, they also get tax refund from tution and books etc but in Nigeria parents have to spend their live savings sending kids to the university.

There are more but I stop here for now!

Taking all of the above, all other cost of living and taxes into consideration, I would say that 7M Naira (or about CAD $25,000) per annum in Nigeria will be equivalent to maximum CAD $50,000 (or 14M Naira) in Canada.

this is a good analysis

MyAmericandream:
350k for Egbeda or VI?

no mind the guy

I have a friend back in Nigeria who has a basic place but pays 640k /yr in Lagos o


I hear they charge over a million in that expensive skin called Lekki per annum

Niggeria my country


To live a good quality of life commensurate to what is obtainable in the west, even 7million per annum will be swallowed up....

but then, mediocrity is the way in Nigeria

Jabo1000:
Why would somebody want to go inside cold when he’s living comfortably in Nigeria.
7m per year is more than 500k monthly that’s like earning cad $150k per annum in Canada taking consideration of cost of living and tax.

it's not a bad idea if you look at the bigger picture

ahiboilandgas:
This for persons in Canada or ireland if u earn 7m in nigeria per anum would have move to Canada or if u have a 7 m offer back home will u relocate to Nigeria...a colleague is about to resign ooh he got pr

it's a no brainer

moving to Canada will pay in the long term

Nigeria is now like a rudderless ship

As long as he is ready to start from the scratch and work his way up, Canada is better abeg

Daboomb:
Once again, it is a show of stupidity borne out of inflated Ego!

No one is asking how and where he got the money, all l am hearing is "Big Boy"?
If this offer is a trap to use people for ritual, maybe that is what his ritualist told him to do (get 8 people and use their destiny for more money), no one knows!


Let us even assume it is 'clean money' he laboured for, in a legitimate manner.
Are there not better things he can do for hi Umu Hometown?
Can he not build schools?
Can henot offe paid Scholarship to his neighbours, in his own clan (I am not even talking aboutother Nigerians)?
Can he not come and build 100 2-Bed Bungalows and distribut eit for free, to all the widows and homeless in his town?
Can he not tar or construct an express road to his own village?


But the idiot money-miss-road prefer to be making stupid and outlandish offers on the internet.
Financial Poverty is a crime but POVERTY OF THE MIND is a worse EVIL

what is this one saying?


Apart from the question of his source of income

All you wrote is not applicable

It's his money and has the right to do whatever with it.

Entitlement mentality towards the rich is a big disease in Nigeria

Nnaabros:

interesting

InansBobo:
a student of babcock a slum? You are dumb to think she was a pauper-do paupers even have d chance to meet celebrities? I know davido has made her but that doesn't mean she was a poor girl hitherto

you dey mind that goat?

Humger and poverty mixed with entitlement has killed Nigerian youths out there
Beg beg Upandan instead of them to go and get a job
begging the same celebs they hate and bad mouth all the time
what a country

tgmservice:
This life sha

When davido helped your life by picking you up from the slum to transform you to the queen you are without u doing anything.

Now someone is begging you for little change and you what to disgrace.

Really money corrupts the mind
When Davido dumps you you will start singing chiamaka why

someone who attended Babcock comes from the slum? ?

guy do you have sense at all?

Why woukd people be flowing her dms to be begging for money in the first place?

Atigba:
Why were you enslaved?

Why are you not the one enslaving people

Why didn't you defend your continent militarily when they invaded, even the Arab enslave Africa with their sword. Of cause they were the first people that enslave Africa.

Why don't you have good roads.. looking at nairaland front page everyday, you can see recurrent accident almost on daily basis.

Why don't you have light in your country

What happened to your hospitals, your useless president is presently in UK receiving treatment.

It all boils down to the inability to run things

Or do you think you will beable to know there is a liquid called oil in Oloibiri if they didn't tell you.

sadly
you have a point

quickly:
Not just Nigerians.

The truth is in America when you are non white you are second class.

Too many Nigerians

And he is going to cancel birth citizenship which is part of his manifesto

That last paragraph is mission impossible

topdee:
Really? First and foremost, America is literally a "no man's land": a significant majority of people in the US have been foreigners at some point (referring to the lineage). The infrastructure you talked about was built by foreigners.

In fact, many top tech companies in the US was founded/cofounded by foreigners who were once enrolled in school; in Silicon Valley majority of the people there are foreigners who were once on visas, some are still on visas. The booming real estates and housing is as a result of foreigners. Many of these same foreigners have better credibility than some US citizens (with reference to background checks, credit scores, criminal records, etc.).

Generally, Americans don't study past a bachelor's degree, many don't study past high school. Most of the professors in schools were once foreigners, and a large number of students in the top tier universities are even foreigners. Most people studying masters, MBA or PhD are foreigners. Without foreigners most university endowment in the US will be very low.

Most foreigners are even more law abiding than its citizens. Without foreigners US economy will be merely like that of Mexico.

Yes, I know many people abuse the visa, but a majority of Nigerians who attend school in the US with student visa excel academically, and whether you like it or not, these same students add value to the US economy when they get jobs (I'm referring to students enrolled in STEM programs). I know many people who got jobs in the US after school, worked for a while and after gaining valuable experience returned to Nigeria to setup their business.

Have you ever reasoned that some times in order to critically examine something, one needs a different exposure to cultivate a different mindset: corruption is looming in Nigeria, to the extent that the average Nigerian, who haven't probably left the shores of Nigeria, with the wit to boycott corruption might fail at it. International exposure could play a major role in tackling corruption in Nigeria.

The "hardship" you mentioned isn't anyone's choice (referring to the youth), but the foundation of which the economy was built on is the problem. At times, one may need to breathe a different air to see things from different perspective in order to solve problems.

you got that right

Originalsly:
Bro...open your eyes and stop being foolish. What does he mean by taking our country back?.... back from whom?..or back to what? Do you even have a clue that taking our country back is coded?...taking our country back to Jim Crow days....White Supremacy days ...I can see you on your knees begging to join the Ku Klux Klan. Even Whites openly call out and label Trump a racist...and here you are...saying he is a good man.... I wouldn't be suprised to learn you were found dangling on one of those trees that bear Strange Fruits.

no mind that guy

cooltola:
This is very Irony, 200 years ago our ancestors will not even dream or even want to come to USA. Today is the complete opposite

I tell you

Pakistan and Myanmar

Interesting

APC govt is full of scammers

akdjr:
I wonder why people keep wasting money on wedding. I did mine with less than 100k had a reception of less than 20 guest both family and friends.

nice one


you know a lot of Nigerians are cowards who can't stand up to their parents and family in general (cultural bondage)

but then wetin concern me?

everyone should do as they like

Fellydonis:
You know this is why Africans never build any company that lasted centuries (Sit-tight mindset/syndrome)? Even Zuck will put his company's success ahead of his position. By the way, the investors are not coming for his stake in FB, neither will he ever grow poor. They just need a better and more transparent executive to pilot Facebook to greater heights. With Zuck in power thus far, FB shares have lost much value this year...

exactly

That mentality has made us not to have a long lasting brand in Nigeria (well except dangote group sha)

HendrixAya:
confidently spewing thrash. Amazon?

don't mind him

DonFreshmoney:
I have my businesses. But, I want to go International, and being he Facebook chairman would boost my business brand, global popularity and international recognition.

I like the way you talk

WritePal:
His interest in the Rohinga people crisis in Myanmar is purely fueled by the fact that the supposedly persecuted group there are Muslims. If he hadn't been a soldier or politician, Buhari probably would have been an imam. He's so religiously and ethnically shortsighted it colors everything he says and does. That's why his advisers tell him to talk less so he doesn't spill his intolerance every time.

No matter how his paid promoters here hail him, these parts of him will always betray him and make him consistently unattractive to broadminded people like us. History will remember him more for his acute, unhidden ethnic and religious biases more than anything. It was grave error electing a bigot in the first place.

His electoral appeal is mainly to close-minded people who are mainly moved by ethnic and religious sentiments plus financial gains (like the paid BMC crowd) rather than clear ideology and development plans. And they are masses of them everywhere. If we had a more educated, enlightened populace with independent minds, Buhari can never come even third in a presidential election.

exactly

CuTTiieAngeL:
Am certainly waiting for two things, for buhari to crawl from that seat, and for davido and chioma to breakup, we will start seeing #i miss him/her face# then i will rejoice like a lion that is about to devour a sheep

why will you even wait for the relationship to break in the first place, then rejoice about it

na wa

IamD18:
Nigerians waiting for them to break up be like...............

I tell you...

so much hateful people in that shithole called Nigeria