₦airaland Forum

Angelfrost:
She isn't wrong!

Most Nigerians just like begging, and they do it with so much entitlement and guilt-tripping.

The day I learnt to be hardened and ignore beggars was the day I felt reborn!

I have so many loved ones and close pals doing very well abroad (different nations), but I have never and will never ask them for a dime!... They respect me for that, and never hesitate to offer help when they sense the need.

Young men and women, hustle hard and well... Leave abroad people to drink water and drop cup. E no easy as una think for their side.

People travel abroad because they are tired of Nigeria.
But they will still carry phone and be phoning Nigeria again?
Ehen?
Ok you want to show us that you are better than us Abi?
Since you are better bring the money and give us Na. Otherwise shut up and face whitemen and their society and stop phoning back home.

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Dialpad:
Nigerians love this give me give me mentality.

Even if you try help them set up a business, they will ruin it because they prefer the free money you send to them on a regular basis.

Many of you guys need a change of mindset.

My company in Nigeria here, is the goodest company in the world. Now, some of my bosses went and put their profile on LinkedIn. As per, advertise yourself Na Abi?
That's how LIRS (Lagos State tax revenue) saw the profile and came to attack our office, Pay-pay-pay tax. Shebi you said you are MD of so and so company, Oya you must be earning millions and your tax must be so-so amount. And it's not so. But Lagos State tax will not believe. Our accountant has to be battling with them every single month, to show the receipts and invoices of EVERYTHING that comes into that office (even if you buy chewing gum sef)...But each time they will find fault and ask for settlement and brown envelope.
Tomorrow, they will say that that have not done any tax clearance at all, that we should start again. We have done 2015 tax clearance 5 times. But they will never close the case.

All this is for our company that decided to the doing goody-goody.

Tell me why any other Nigerian business will ever want too follow straight way again.

If Nigerians can get free money from you in UK, they will instead gladly disturb you to get that free money instead of all this Nigerian stress.

salbis:
From what you put forward, they look like tip of an iceberg compared to what we face in our father's land Nigeria. So, if e no favour, just comeback home please.

The truth is that abroad is opposite of Nigeria.
Every problem you have in Nigeria, you will see and enjoy the solution abroad. (Light, fuel, good road).
Every solution you have in Nigeria, you will suffer the problem in abroad.
(Respecting elders, laughing/settlng police, supportive family, warm weather....)
You won't know all of them until you reach there

kabukabu50:
You are wearing too much bro.

After a while you get used to the cold.

When I first arrived for a couple of years it was harsh.

Now its much better.

Earlier today it was a little cold here,about 15 C and I was out in shorts,sneakers and 1 hoodie.

Well, I guess you have stayed (too) long. I never got used to it. 15C was still my complete long sleeve and jacket weather. And I never sweated.
It means you will collapse of heat exhaustion if you come back to Nigeria.
It took me 1 year to readjust back to Nigerian weather.

Gipre:
I'm coming back to ask my questions but first, why do people abroad always mention these 2 things as if we in Nigeria don't pay for them

1) PHONE BILLS

2) INTERNET BILLS.

,,,,,experienced abroadians

Internet abroad comes in 2 mandatory flavours.
1. Home internet
2. Mobile phone internet
-
The home internet comes from the modem
The modem is connected to the land line. The land line is connected to the home land phone.
You may not use the home land phone to call, but it's working very well and you must pay a base fee of £20 ~ 30 each month to keep the service active.
Then pay for home internet that is running on top of the home phone line £20 ~ 40 etc for unlimited internet but with very fast speeds like 20 Mbps, 40 or 100 Mbps.
(your Nigerian phone data speed is roughly like 5-10 Mbps on a good day in Lagos. In the East 1kbps (WhatsApp dey hang for there).
That settles home phone and internet every month.

Now for mobile phone, you will typically take out a contract of 12, 18 or 24 months.
They give you latest phone free, but you must pay £20, 30, 40 per month for unlimited calling and texting (SMS). But you must use data for WhatsApp and Twitter, so add small amount on top for data plan it can be 20 GB per month. But remember that once you reach your house, you immediately switch over to your unlimited WiFi internet at home.

So basically abroad people have unlimited internet that is not favouring them. They just force themselves to be doing YouTube and video calls so they will know that at least they are using the internet for something and not wasting it.

But that useless landline phone is there chopping its own steady £30 each month for nothing. And you can't save that money or stop the service otherwise all your internet will just end like that.

£30 + £40 + £30 = £100
£100 x ~N650 = N65,000 per month for phone and internet.

Nna, me sef I go complain O.

ednut1:
one would think its cold for 11 months

I lived in UK once. Compared to Nigeria, it is cold for 12 months. In their so called summer, when the whites where going about without shirt, and licking ice cream, I was still very comfortable in full long sleeve shirt, trouser and inner vest, without any sweat on my face, or armpit.
For the other months, I put on another heavy jacket untop of this base. And for winter gan-gan, I wore:
2 x inner vest
2 x long sleeve shirt
1 x winter jacket
1 x wool scarf around the neck.
1 x boxer shorts
1 x long Johns (trouser form of singlet)
1 x trouser
2 x wool socks (double socks)
Thick leather shoes/boots with thick rubber soles.
1 x head warmer (wool cap)
1 x felt/wool gloves

This is the complete set everyday for winter, otherwise you just catch pneumonia, cough and die.
Nigerias temperature is 20 to 35 C year round in the South.
UK temperature is - 10 to 25 C year round .
So it will always be cold and terrible for a tropical African like us.
I only opened my room window like 3 or 4 times thoughout the year.

Nawttiboi007:
How about people that don’t have parents?..

Don't mind the stupid woman.
Giving useless excuses for ashawoism.

To padlock gate, na im una dey talk all this long English?
Make una no finish this internet O. I go still browse tomorrow.

owobokiri:
But who impregnates all these mad an semi mad people?

Men
Men do it.

CodeTemplar:
Exactly. Instead of subsidizing education for fields saturated in labour market, more medical schools should be built and faculties increased to help produce more medical practitioners.
Very visionless leaders we have.

There's no money = There's no money.
If you go around building schools, the money for salaries and teaching equipment is more than the money for building the school.
So after building the school, there will still be no money for salaries and medical equipment.
Of what use is the school then?

Fiscus105:
At ur bolded, who caused it? I guess white too!


Meanwhile, at ur analysis, so wanted to be where you were in 1960 before?

You should compare Indonesia, Singapore.

That started with Nigeria almost together and almost same level, where are they in term of infrastructure and others and where are you now?

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-democracy-not-good-for-Africans

Nigerian problem no dey finish.

oshozondii:
This one no follow abeg

Na just to make sure people bring out all their hidden money back into circulation to change.

lansile:
Many times you don't want trouble but there are times trouble wants you. This is one of those times. . Let me tell you how this ends, it's either you give her what she wants in which case she wants more and with time, it finally exposed to your boss who then treat your fcked up and send you back to square 1 or you refused to yield to her desires and she use woman's power to make your boss kick you out. Either way, you will need to add distribution job to your working experience on your CV soon or you can try another option FAST call her and tell her how much she discomfort you with being to closed especially when your boss is not around and pray she understands you and call herself to order otherwise, this would only make her use woman's power to get you replaced asap.

As a simple word of moral advice, avoid being alone in the same room with opposite sex person in the first place.
Marry your wife and you can be alone with her in same room anytime

Jones4190:
I called a married lady who was
owing me money, but she didn't pick
my calls.
I called 10 times more, still no
answer. Knowing that her husband
was not at home, I decided to send
her this message:
"Hello Sisy, I'm not calling for the
money. I just wanted to tell you that
2 girls were fighting over your
husband in town today. It was a big
fight and he was just there watching,
until one of the girl managed to
escape into his car and they drove
off".
After some minutes, she called me but
I ignored her. She kept calling and I
found 21 missed calls from her and a
message which read:
"Where was the fight?
Where did they go?
Did you notice those girls? Please tell
me, I am falling apart."
I just read and didn't respond. She
called again, 5 times and I didn't
answer, then another message from
her:
"I have your money, please can we
meet, so you tell me more?"
Then i replied, "Okay, you can Send it
through eWallet so that when I pass
by the filling station to refuel, then I
will pick you and drive you to one of
the Girl's House because I know
them."
After 2 mins, I checked my account
balance, my money was fully paid.
I then switched off my phone and
slept like a baby... you need to be
smart this year
•
Wisdom will kill me.

Tha lady is married.
Why did you let her owe you in the first place?
You were thinking that such would lead to pant activities?
She's married. Leave her alone.
If she can't pay for your business thing, tell her SORRY. You don't do credit business.
Simple.
Instead of all this long nonsense story .

LordErrk:
It's very easy to escape from hotels na. Just say you want to buy something, nobody stops anyone from going out

So he ran away with their key, or he didn't pay for the room.
And they were so stupid not to go and check the room since.

COMPENGRFRANK:
God have mercy.

If you are the owner of the hotel, checking in the guests by yourself, one by one, you will be weeping when you see the type of people coming there.
One old man and one small girl.
Is it father and daughter?
Is it boyfriend girlfriend
Is it kidnapper and kidnappee?
Should you put your mouth and talk abi just collect their money and check them in?
You will just be seeing the hipocricy of Nigerians checking into your hotel..

bjtinz:
The article clearly says the man 'checked out the following day', which means the staff likely knew when he left.

Since hes the one who likely paid for he room, that is where it ends. It's only if the girl was the one trying to leave that I know some hotels would call the room to be sure the occupant is aware.

So the only lead here will be if there are CCTVs as well as the details given by the man (which could be fake, BTW)

Sheybe if the man came with her, they will both write their names in register.
When he is leaving, he will pay for his room and then they should ask him about the girl that came with him.
The staff should make sure, he go and bring the girl before checking out.

Omihanifa:
The question is how did the guests escape without the knowledge of the hotel staffs

Hotel is a useless and unsafe place filled with highly unprofessional people.
One morning around 6:30am, I branched by a hotel because I was feeling sick. I went straight to the lounge to sit, rest and eat. I only wanted to eat. So no registration or anything. 3 hrs later, about 9am, I ate fine and decided to leave.
By then the receptionist had resumed. She was asking me, if I was "Checking out",
WTH??
I didn't even Check In before.
Infact, she doesn't even know who is and isn't inside that hotel. Any alien from space can reproduce inside that building without their knowledge..

dazzlingd:
Will they order the commercial banks to pay for the Saturday work.
Those banks exploit wokers

Very brutal order without considering the life of the staff

All bank workers nationwide should simply go on strike .
But will they?
Greed for money will not allow them

ghiloman28:
I hope the banks will pay overtime to their staffs haa and no owambe for the rest of the year to them again. Sorry to the teller guys

But of course
They will all be paid....
..
...with the old Naira notes, after it becomes useless..

Sleekfingers:
Crushing is the best.....

I really hate the destruction of machines and property.
The main point is that bikes are not to be used inside of Lagos state.
If only the riders can just take the bikes outside of Lagos state instead to avoid all this destruction.
But I guess the government just has to proceed with the destruction to maintain the point.

Medianna:
If a lady is a friend she can equally take care of his bills too. Its simple

This particular lady in question is a TOTAL stranger.
She and OP met on dating site.
She then asked OP on date (Because of long-throat). Probably, OP has not manned up enough yet to ASK her FIRST.
The BLEACHED, washed out lady, now thought it was a good opportunity to get OP indebted.
She's stupid.
But OP should have picked up this signal right from his phone/computer and just declined the date instead of wasting his time with a girl he does not even like. OP don't even like bleached girls.
They both wasted their time.

brandsoncharlie:
So if you ask for a date to meet any of your friends then they can eat whatever they like with out considerations on the side of your pocket.

Nigeria is a funny country.
The Bleached lady asked him out, let her pay for all their food.
Because on a very normal day, the man should ask the woman first and then prepare himself and pay.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnj0CoZJ0Nc

EmmyDJourno:
Stop taking Hungry girls out, the signs are always there
Chase working class independent babes, na there honey dey

Don't mind th stupid OP.
Him and the girl were busy talking nonsense on Facebook, then he still expects a person that talks nonsense to behave like a normal person.

Sweetvie:
I don't know what op is expecting... An applause? I just laughed reading all that, is that what you call alpha male? Pele o
Before you take a girl out on date if you know you're not man enough to pay tell her she is gonna be the one to pay her bills not take her out to disgrace her... That's nonsense
Nxt time when you go on a date, take the tap and order. Don't go out and be disgracing yourself thinking you're an alpha male... Waiting for Nlanders to hail you

OP intended to disgrace her from the very first sight of her bleached skin.
Which makes me wonder, after hookup on Facebook, did they not share pictures or do video call to even see each other?
What if it's that beared girl that came to the date?
Him for sh1t for pant.

brandsoncharlie:
Someone he met first day, you're not serious you are just a hungry girl.

The person that asked for date should pay.

COMPAQ:
Its also because in Nigeria in most cases we use normal paint. Whereas abroad they use thermo plastic paint that it hard and stays on the road for much longer. Its only JB and a few other bigger road construction companies that use the proper thing.

However, when it eventually fades off, they renew regularly. Also they drive in the lanes a lot more over there, so the tyres don't rub against it as much, compared to here where we drive anyhow. Our weather is harsher as well.

Ah, I did driving lessons over there for about 6 to 8 months.
I was using the instructor's lesson car.
The guy didn't want me to go for driving test. He just kept on prolonging the lessons.
Because if I use his lesson car, and fail the test, it will be a bad mark on their driving school.
He said that's how it is in UK. He also wanted to DELETE all my Nigerian driving skills very well.
People must read the driving lessons book cover-to-cover and pass all the lessons 100%, before even going for driving test.
... all that before you can even have driving license.
And they don't have under-bridge boys to arrange fake license for somebody.
Police will arrest you if you even attempt to go on the road without licenses.
Everybody driving on the road are all properly trained and passed drivers.
They don't drive anyhow in that country.
(I later passed sha and got proper UK driving license 2 weeks after the test)

Some older people I asked, said that when they failed driving test, they just gave up and continued to use public transport for the rest of their lives. Driving car is not by force.

hopefulLandlord:
I didn't know roads expire. the more you know

There was a time I studied in the UK. One day, I got into a car with some friends, (church things), and we went on the expressway. I noticed all the painted lines, with very thick paint. And I asked them, how come their own paint is still on their road? Our own Nigerian paint don clean comot tey-tey. They just replied that road lines are there, because it's regularly painted there.
Though this image is google maps, it is exactly as I saw it back then.

TinubuDeDrugLor:
Wait till after Christmas.

Be patient bro, don't rush to sell and never rush to buy.

Bad people.
You will not go to church.
That dollar will drop very very well. $1=N1.
Nigeria must work

tamdun:
U can go and get urs from aboki, we nigwlike doing things the wrong way, with valid documents you'll get dollars from bank

But people get this dollars from bank and still give aboki to sell for them again.

Realist12:
All of these boils down to patriotism, some people have lost faith in Nigeria and the naira. We see people promoting saving in dollar ,preaching fall for the naira.
But the CBN governor is doing a good job . Kudos

People stop being patriotic to the nation when the government starts to cheat them.
Eg, government officials having uncountable allowances, or travelling overseas for medical treatment, or using foreign goods instead of local ones.
These are the things that piss the people off.
As you can see then, it has been very long people stopped being patriotic.

imagrg:
Try to rehabilitate him. He is your brother and still has that youthful exuberance in him. I believe you can change him for good!
I had one like that too but today, he is abroad and a Pastor too!

Ehen and so what?
He is abroad and a Pastor too
Is that supposed to make him a good person or what?

Pastor abroad cannot be drug addicts, liars and criminals again or what are you saying?