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Dear Negro,
Am amazed at your shear inability to comprehend what this tread is all about. This also portends on the obvious lack of understanding somewhere.

Its very clear that this is a prose like analogy to portray Nigeria and a cry for help from the youths. Or is it where am coming from and where you are coming from. Lets take the issues, 'sleeping giant' is not Nigerias name, or is it. I would think anybody will know that if this is real and am trying to get volunteers then it wount be here.

This is a social networking forum and this thread is just to get youths to discuss the Nigerian problem and solutions. the language of the thread makes it obvious what the good intensions are. For you to take it the way you did means you are very negative. Nobody here is using Obama's name for wrong doing. Instead of people talking about unprofitable things, we can in this forum form a forbidable youth that will profer solutions to Nigerias problems which hitherto our leaders have not been able to achieve.

A piece of advise - see the good in all things and all people until proved bad.
THIS IS NOT AN ORGANISATION JUST PROSE TO GET PEOPLE DISUSSING NIGERIAS ISSUES.
Whatever is discussed here ends here - or maybe someone in the corridors of power will one day come and read this and use it to help solve the many sided problem of Nigeria.
Lawyer Negro, dont arrest me o!

ha,
If na that one you wan talk, its human nature. I used to think that it doesnt exist here, how wrong i was. I had issues when i just started working at a particular company because someone wanted to be lord and master of everyone. London is a leveler but that is within the working class, the upper class are just inpenetrable. I want to believe they are worse of because the divide is an established thing, its an institution. imagine saying some people are working class and some are middle class. I would think because am working, then i should be seen as better off than someone whos not working. in Nigeria, if you are hard working you can belong to any class but here no matter how hard working or rich you are, the colour of your skin makes you a second class citizen.

The program on BBC 4- 'the Royal Gigolo' or whatever about the black musician who tried to penetrate the british ruling house but couldnt is an eye opener. no matter what you do, you just dont belong. can you imagine that! Just because of a factor you have no ruling over- the colour of my skin, gimme a break here.

The america system has abolished the wide class divide. Institutional racism established in the UK can never allow a black prime Minister. I have stayed in the US b4 but never even thought of all the things that go through my head here.

i have widely digresses from the topic and am sorry but you know these are issues. if the reason for being in the UK is money, then well maybe some people try hard to save if they dont have family and children but its difficult. lastly for me, it is the quality of life am living that matters and also the state of my mind. i am passionate about leaving the world a better place than i met it and Damiso, can i truly do that here in london without institutional resistance?

damiso
I know someone will take me on on this that is why i said for the sake of argument. Can you tell me why life is so expensive in london even compared to the rest of the world. Being low paid, a driver (for the sake of the same argument) can afford to have a house no matter what in Nigeria. no one on the so called minimum wage can afford it in london. Listen to me, i am against the class disparity, the hype of the western world, the middle class and working class divides.

All human beings are equal even though some are more equal than the others but the disparity doesnt have to be so wide. let us take whatever we have gained here and go build our own Nigeria. Whatever be the case, we are strangers here, even the bible says 'how can we sing the Lords song in a strange land'. I am proud to be a Nigerian no matter what and i tell all my white colleagues at work, they know am not a thieve, they know am not a con man, they know am straight but they also know am Nigerian. i cant change that, NIGERIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY I CAN CALL MY OWN, so i have to stick by her no matter what, and i have to defend her no matter where.

Hallo everyone,
We have discovered a sleeping giant by the name Nigeria who has been sleeping for the past years. She is presently located on the coast of west africa. She used to be the giant of Africa but started sleeping some years back through bad leadership and corruption. We have employed people in time past to help wake her up but alas they sent her into coma.

The President of the United States - Barack Obama, a well respected stateman directed us to nairaland. We understand that there are vibral youths like Obama here who can help us wake Nigeria up and build the nation successfully, so we decided to advertise here. These are the qualifications of volunteers:

1. Love for Nigeria
2. Believe in Nigeria
3. Dedication to duty
4. Honesty
5. Steadfastness
6. Leadership qualities
7. Hope

and many more. Can you let us know in a few words why you think it has taken the giant Nigeria so long to sleep and what you will do to wake her from the coma if recruited as a volunteer.

All your contributions will be highly appreciated as Obama mentioned that there are more intelligent people than him on this forum.

Best Regards
Operation Awake the Sleeping Giant (ASG)

tos
Honestly i am quite confortable, i have hsmp and am sure thats what you have too. I did not start this thread because of myself, i am always looking at the larger picture maybe you are not. I want the misconception that people have about coming abroad to be discussed. I want people to offer honest opinions about their experiences outside the shores of Nigeria. I absolutely agree that it depends on individuals, but everyone should be discouraged from leaving Nigeria without work permit and even with work permit, if you are not finding it easy here, you have a father land where no one will reject you or treat you like a second citizen.

I did not start this thread for myself but to offer honest advise to those ive seen here and to others coming behind. If you go to hsmp forums you will think UK is heaven. Britons are even finding it difficult getting a job now. What are forums for if we cant tell ourselves the truth.

The truth is my standard of living in Nigeria is better than here. I can afford everything, light, water, car driver, gateman. Tos can you afford to have a driver in the UK? but am sure u had in Nigeria. (pls this is relative just for the sake of argument) Dont let us deceive ourselves with constant light and water illusions when you are paying for every bit of it. Even if PHCN likes let them not bring light for a week, my 1mth house rent here (£600) will buy a generator and fuel it in a month.

Another truth if we search deep into ourselves is we are in london so that people will say we live in london. I pray not that there be any unrest, then we will know that we are safer in Nigeria than any other place.

I am absolutely grateful to everyone that has taken time to contribute here. Someone asked me why i started the thread. I dont need any advise, i actually know what i want and need to do. i started this thread because i was alarmed at what people go through here and alarmed that destinys are wasting. Call me any name you want to call me, i am absolutely resolute to give back to the world before i leave - like Celine Dion said in immortality, i will not let anything stop me and not my colour. I believe firmly that everyone has a purpose in life. I get upset when i see people with great potentials losing it because of any reason whatsoever.

London or wherever is not enough to steal anyones self confidence and make them second class citizens. We need to let people know that it is not all rosy outside the country so they can make educated & informed decisions. I can count so many graduates here on odd jobs, believe me am not lying but when you are in nigeria nobody will tell you what they are doing. I dont always agree that the end justifies the means. If the means robbs you of the potential to enjoy the end or even kills you before the end comes then its not worth it. I want Nigerians to be people of dignity and pride and to keep it secure so they can envision a greater and better tomorrow.

My dears, it is incredibly unacceptable for someone who trained as a lawyer to be doing care job or a lecture to be doing carpentry or bricklaying all because you want to stay in london when you know that if you go back home to Nigeria, with your certificate, you will get a better job. It is not all about money of 'ori mama charley' it is protecting the dignity of man. i took a deep breadth because so many peoples pride has been taken away here.

i have a a friend who i fancied in school back in Nigeria you wount believe that when i met him in london, i wondered what went wrong because i just couldnt see that spark in him again. He is still very handsome but that spark that made all girls fall at his feet then in FUTA had gone. by the time he told me his 'london story' - everyone has, i knew that again, london has stolen something from him. i pray he gets it back
That uniqueness that wants to make you reach for the sky should never be allowed to be stolen from anyone.
I REST MY CASE

Am starting this because i think everyone should be informed. Information is really key and makes the difference. I have been outside the country for sometime and now wonder if i am better off in london than Nigeria. This is serious because most people don't want to tell the truth about the situation espcially in the UK. I keep asking myself if it is worth it and need other peoples honest opinion.

I had a good job in Nigeria and i got a good job here too. I never did any odd job and i work as a professional. The money i earn is times five of what i earn Nigeria. But at the end of the day after paying for accomodation and tax, am probably left with the same thing. I hold my personality and self in high regard, i don't want to loose that. But here, no matter what you are a second class citizen.

Bothering on what i see around. A lot of people have lost their destiny, live goals and personality just because they want to relocate abroad. They come to the UK and clean roads and train stations. People do odd jobs that will definitely degrade one. You see graduates come here and do carpentry jobs, bricklaying. Is it really worth it. can't they go back to Nigeria and achieve what God sent them to the world to achieve. Most people are in the Uk just because they want people back home to think they are in the UK. they are suffering and smiling, living from hand to mouth and no savings worth soever.

We have to come to a point that we will tell ourselves the truth. If living abroad will not favour you and you know you had a good job at home or potential of then don't waste your life because of what people will say. UK or US is not heaven. i repeat most people lost their destiny my moving abroad and they probably need to retrace their steps. i have seen so many examples of that here. In the Uk, nobody smiles unlike Nigeria. What is the meaning of life without smiles and happiness.