Godogwu:

Yea definitely. A lot of people study in Nigeria and work in Nigeria. My point was just the exposure and experience you get in some schools abroad. You can't compare NYU to Unilag, same way an NYU graduate is believed to possess a better understanding of a particular case than a Unilag graduate. ( nevertheless, this may not be the case in all situations)

Jenny, you clearly have nothing else to do...

Dibiachukwu:
What utter rubbish. We should ban illiterate Nigerians from living the country. They cause us a lot of harm. This are people that would quickly become criminals or spy agents for foreign, hostile countries.

dahonestboss: Arrant Nonsense,

your write up is one sided, there are foreigners living in Nigeria as well, are they running from their fatherland?

and why would you just conclude on your own that NID are migrating and never going to come back?

And since its our choice, why are you ranting over it and frustrated?

Probably you have been denied visa many time, and this is your time to pretend like Naija is the best, so as to justify your choiceless reasons to stay back and feel better about yourself?

Once again, Arrant Nonsense.

jennykadry:

So in other words your father knew you stood a better chance studying overseas than NIGERIA?

roymary: @OP

Those American wannabes will do anything to criticize your post. Some of us that plies Lagos-America back and forth knows better than to sit back in foreign land hoping that really solves a thing. Tell them to enumerate their current jobs out there.

If the vagabondss in Aso rock will simply do us the favor; fix the damnn roads, improve our power supply, create more jobs, especially in Agriculture and Textile, improve National security and empower the youth as much as possible, implement the damnn laws and stop giving shameless privileges to those politicians!!!...There will be lesser reasons to leave this country for Chicago where cold weather will jeopardize your health big time.

See, 80% of Nigerians in Diaspora are still trying to get rich. When they do, the next thing they wanna do is come back home. Forget the hype and "gonna' wanna" They live in shoe boxes, menial jobs and shiit. They are extremely stingy( they call it being meticulous but i don't see it that way)
Thank you sir, very correct post, giving the chance most Nigerians in the diaspora will relocate back home in a heartbeat.

Nigeria will survive- We won't give up Cos America sef get her own problems to solve.

roymary: @OP

Those American wannabes will do anything to criticize your post. Some of us that plies Lagos-America back and forth knows better than to sit back in foreign land hoping that really solves a thing. Tell them to enumerate their current jobs out there.

If the vagabondss in Aso rock will simply do us the favor; fix the damnn roads, improve our power supply, create more jobs, especially in Agriculture and Textile, improve National security and empower the youth as much as possible, implement the damnn laws and stop giving shameless privileges to those politicians!!!...There will be lesser reasons to leave this country for Chicago where cold weather will jeopardize your health big time.

See, 80% of Nigerians in Diaspora are still trying to get rich. When they do, the next thing they wanna do is come back home. Forget the hype and "gonna' wanna" They live in shoe boxes, menial jobs and shiit. They are extremely stingy( they call it being meticulous but i don't see it that way)


Nigeria will survive- We won't give up Cos America sef get her own problems to solve.

femmyb: Thank you sir, very correct giving the chance most Nigerians in the diaspora will relocate back home in a heartbeat
no more riches in abroad even the oyinbos themselves are suffering.

Godogwu:

Because my my dad wanted i and my brother to study abroad but hey, I'll be right back after i graduate

kingoflag:

You do know that out here most kids your age dont depend on daddy or mommy to do anything for them, right? Take a wild guess why people become financially independent start from ages 16-18yrs old out here.....

Now, get a pen and paper and jot down what you think are the pros and cons of being responsible for self at such a young age and how it translates to a better future.

femmyb: Thank you sir, very correct giving the chance most Nigerians in the diaspora will relocate back home in a heartbeat
no more riches in abroad even the oyinbos themselves are suffering.

jennykadry:

Damnnn. I have become your fan

jennykadry:

Damnnn. I have become your fan

prince_onx:
Business must be real bad then! I see the reason behind your frustration! Tell your mom I said hi and that my knots still itch but I'll be fine. Seriously though, she should've swallowed like she did her other clients instead of having you! But all the same, $hit happen.

roymary:

Me no go abuse your mama...because even she sef no happy say u run comot for house. When be the last time you send dollars? Morafucker...You don even eat? You no get Social security...no food stamp for you until you wipe ass and cut grass. American wannabe...

whitecat007: I love Nigeria more than anywhere in the world but to be honest , most Nigerians at home are complacent while we abroad are too judgemental.

Let's tolerate each other, not everyone abroad wants to be here, some of us are economic refugees who are looking into reverse immigration.

The poster could also have written this out jelousy , frustration and visa refusal.

Nigeria is growing at its own pace. Every evil in Nigeria is here in the US, if not worse, even corruption.

Godogwu:

I dunno, I'm not my father....

Ileke-IdI:
The only thing that'd force me to migrate back to Nigeria must be very very (billionaire) rich with two legs and a pe nis.

Apart from that...........Nigeria has absolutely nothing to offer me. There's no real competition between Nigeria and my current location.

Truckpusher: ;DLmao...bros you seriously expect a truckpusher to go do oshobe?.....meanwhile i enjoyed arguing with you jare i need to go to bed...bye

prince_onx:
Suffering and smiling is what they call it!
It baffles me how in today's world with every improvement going on in similar third world countries like Ghana, SA, and adding China will be pushing it and someone will log on here from naija of all places to bash The US of A!

manny4life: Godogwu, is a 19yo kid whose father and mother are rich not an average Nigerian who's struggling. He thinks Nigerians living in the U.S. are hungry, he thinks mortgaging (financing) is poverty. The few recent threads(about 6months old) tell of his type. Anyway, the dude needs reality check.

apache77: Dear Nigerian in Diaspora,

Time and time again, you have justified your reason for leaving our fatherland. Or is it motherland? You said it is because you want to give your children a better life and opportunity than you had. We accepted your reason, as looking at the current state of our nation, we see every validity in your reason. And we did not trouble you or hassle you over that decision.

Just like we did not hassle you over this decision, we would like you to reciprocate this gesture by not hassling us over our decision to stay back.

Dear NID, I have noticed that the way you talk about issues pertaining to our country is far different from the way we here take it. Have you ever wondered why the tone of your comments about this country is far different from the tones of the Nigerians in Nigeria? Once there is a tragic event, you have a way of blowing it over the top, exaggerating, and wondering what our dear country is turning to. If only you reacted this way to every good thing that happened in our country, maybe the western world won’t always present a single story about us in their press.

Your comments of “I can never send my children to Nigeria on a holiday because they would either be robbed, kidnapped or used for rituals,” doesn’t really sound encouraging, especially as you have never suggested one solution to this problem we are facing. Please tell me, what percentage of the ones who came here during last holiday were subject to this cruel fate you imagine?

But Dear NID, I begin to wonder

Why are you always the ones to point out just how bad our country is to us, as if we are too blind to see it?

Why are you the ones that always hammer on the fact that we here are the stupidly religious ones? That we all follow our pastors like blind fools? Please, let the people that want to buy jets for their pastors do so. As you have tied your hope to the white man giving you a better life, they have also tied their hope to their pastors giving them miracles, since many of them would never have the opportunity to leave this side of the world. After all, they learnt it from the numerous pastors in America, who also bought private jets from money they got from televangelism and offerings too. Our pastors still have a long way to go when it comes to acquiring private jets.

Why are you always the first to mention how you don't see Nigeria ever getting better, how you lost hope in Nigeria a long time ago? We know about your lost hope, your exit already tells us that much.

Why are you the ones who dismiss songs of hope in Nigeria, such as Great Nation by Timi Dakolo, The Future is here by TY Bello, etc. as wishful thinking? Just because you have lost hope in our country doesn’t mean you should try to kill the hope of those left.

You have left, fine! Your children and grandchildren would probably never visit Nigeria in their life time, fine! We don’t have an issue with that, it’s your family, you can do whatever you like with them. You have said over and over again how you don’t care for Nigeria and her issues anymore. Yes, we get that. Since that is the case, we expect you to follow suit with your words, and really NOT care again, by forgetting that Nigeria exists in your dictionary. Or does the fact that you can’t stop talking and complaining about Nigeria despite the fact that you claim not to care really mean that your ‘care-less’ statements are not true? Selah

Dear NID, you should know that not all of us have the opportunity to leave like you, and even when some of us do, we just don't want to. We have chosen to stay. We were not forced to stay, we chose to. Live with your choice and let us live with ours.

Dear NID, even if you have stopped believing in Nigeria, and do not see yourself ever returning here, can you please stop asking us to do the same? Can you please, stop expecting us to stop hoping that we would get better, just because you stopped hoping? Cos unfortunately, some of us have nowhere else to go, and no matter how many people leave, some of us here still have to stay back, and make Nigeria good again.

Dear NID, you forget that when your family is bad, and you choose to run to another family because they are good, it won’t solve the problem of the ‘badness’ of your family. Your family will still be bad. Selah

Dear NID, why is it that whenever I ask you about the solution to this country you claim you do not care about, but can never stop talking about, you tell me the only solution is to split? Unity or splitting - which of the options would cost more? Are you ready to sacrifice the remaining family you left here to the unavoidable bloodshed that would happen if your splitting fantasies ever became a reality (no pun intended)? Wait no, you would move all of them out of the country and make them fellow NIDs like you - another fantasy that would never become a reality, thanks to the white man that would rather die than see that happen.

Nigeria is a big menace and it is like a time bomb waiting to explode, with the injustice, corruption, insecurities, and other negative nouns I would not even bother to mention, but rather leave for the political bloggers and writers to deal with. One thing we know is this, in no way would leaving the country ever solve all the migraine-genera­ting problems of our country. But as we have said before, we don’t have any problem with the choice you made. After all, there is the fight or flight approach to be taken in any battle. You chose the flight, while we chose the former.

It is okay that you have decided to have as little as possible to do with us, but please, live and let live. Don’t tell me to shut up when I say something good can still come out of Nigeria – I will still say it. Don’t try to take away the hope we have left with your comments of how failed and hopeless we are. Hoping in this k-leg country of ours is very difficult, and we should be encouraged and commended for doing so. In the face of the unexplainable nonsense our leaders put us through in this country, our hope is honestly the only thing we have. Take that away from us, and we had better started committing suicide because a hopeless person is a walking-dead.

And if you are a NID because your parents stole our commonwealth, sent you out to have a better life, and you in turn, pay us back by trying to kill our spirit with your hope-sucking statements, thereby making me spend time to write this letter which would most likely generate comments I would rather not deal with my way, well… since I have no power to do anything to you, I leave you for God to judge. That is not because I am meek like Moses, it is because I really have no power to do anything to you – at least, for now.

Dear NID, in spite of all the nonsense happening in every sector of the country, you can call me deluded, but I still say Nigeria has a great future. Okay, I said it come and flog me. Oh I forgot, you would have to come down to Nigeria to do that.

Dear NID, I think I should stop here for now, as I strongly suspect that I am beginning to ramble.

Yours sincerely,
Nigerian in Nigeria
Atilola Moronfolu

http://www.hattylolla.com/2013/01/dear-nigerian-in-diaspora.html

ifeness:

We all write in English which is not our first language,we practice the same system of govt which originally isn't ours. So we havent adjusted into the foreign system. We used to have kings,chiefs,Ezes,obas which is still in our leaders mentality. It will take time to correct that .