shotster50:

@ Invisible

Sorry.
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Apology accepted.

shinaidowu:

Hahaha if US visa is hard to get,try a Canadian one lwkmd.Well I guess your stats about 85 percent is very wrong don't know where you got that from. At least the people I know abroad might not all have good jobs like myself but they are definitely not all crooks.Most of them work very hard to make ends meet.They would definitely come back if the situation is favourable.

ode remo:

dont get you gripe mr. Invinsible. Yor ascertion of 85 per.cent comes frm where.? Anyway whats is the big diff. Btw someone doing a ddecent job to keep his fam. Together abroad or lazing around nija jobless, which would you pref? concentrate on solving the amount of joblessness in 9ja first andwhile you are it try to understand y ppl are even ready to migrate to sudan of all places. Tank u.

9ja4eva:

LMAO @ Thread oooooo


@ Poster

I understand you perfectly well.I don't agree with the 85% rating.
Nigerians in Diaspora one thing i know they do is they lie a lot about what they do for a living.They never tell their people back home what their real status is.
Most Nigerians that work in club toilets for instance tell people back home that they are accountants,doctors e.t.c My thing is if you are proud of what you
do why hide it from people back home?

Kobojunkie:

uum . . . nets have been provided for decades. I remember getting my free net back in the 80's when I was in secondary school. Not certain why you are posting as if they are brand new WONDERS in the fight against malaria. ROFLMAO!
Actually, the government(yar adua) purchased millions worth of nets but that only goes so far and the nets are to be replaced each year. I am not certain Jonathan has any plans to continue that program as it was really expensive, to say the least. 
But no, the malaria situation is not really dying down. If anything, it is been discovered that mosquitoes now bite during the day and at night as well, and the parasite is becoming more and more resistant to drugs.
How old are you?  I get the sense I am chatting with someone who still clings to a myopic view of life there.

Kobojunkie:

I think rather than trying to excuse the situation, you would do better to get yourself a better understanding of what the situation really is.
No, it has actually not gotten better. It gets worse by the day and that is why organizations around the world are investing billions each year into research to help tackle the problem and bring down the death rate.
By the way, are you somehow suggesting that people have no right to escape Nigeria because of Malaria. I have a friend who had to do same for health reasons. Are you suggesting she is not allowed because you say so or that people cannot do it?

Kobojunkie:

So what? Why exactly is it your business? You didn't answer the questions asked. Is this particular man telling you that he is suffering? Is he crying that he wants to head back to Nigeria? Is it the case that he does not have money to travel back to Nigeria if he wanted to? Did he express to you that he hates working where he does out on the farms? I am trying to understand what your point is, if any? Why are you the arbiter for this particular man's case?

Kobojunkie:

Sigh . . . . the point is the Malaria situation in the developing world is nothing to make JOKES about/make light/ or attempt to compare with anything happening in the western world in the childish manner many are used to doing. What next will you do? Compare the number of disabled in Nigeria with that of those in developed countries? Please understand when something is bothering on silly and know to stop, even if your ego urges you continue. Thousands of children, many below the age of 5, die yearly from malaria, I am not certain you would be here trying to make this silly comparisons if your child has fallen victim to such.
This Nigeria vs developed world match is nothing but stupidity, and I refuse to get into it if that is what you are trying to drive this to. The topic here is one probably asked by someone looking to do something rational. I would rather continue we continue with that.

Kobojunkie:

So never mind that he SOLD the land(I am guessing he can't go back to the land anymore), you have an issue instead with him picking oranges for a white farmer? Has this man expressed interest in moving back home to his father or Nigeria? Or are you assuming that because he is, according to you, picking oranges for a white farmer, his condition is definitely a miserable one, and he( not sure if you read his mind or anything) would rather be back in Nigeria?

jabbok:

@Poster, You have not said anything. The subject of your post is as good as "The pope is a catholic"

@moderator, pls remove this thread, no matter how true this is, this is the media/information age and we shouldn't nail ourselves. This is NairaLand

Kobojunkie:

Whose Parents? Aren't you making a huge leap there in your assumption that their parents have farms somewhere?

Kobojunkie:

Please let us use our heads here. Even drug dealers here have access to healthcare --- You will be shocked that they do not drop dead like flies as you will assume. So, no, you cannot even compare that with Malaria deaths in most of the developing world. To attempt such will be to reveal ignorance. Please, get back to the topic

Kobojunkie:

ROFLMAO!!!

I am sorry but it turns out it is probably the case that the numbers are LOWER than they really ought to be. Sort of like the unemployment rate that is set at about 19.7% for Nigeria. I wholly believe it is at least double that number if anything. Only this week, it was discovered that the number of deaths attributed to Malaria in india is about 3( or was it 13) times higher than old estimates.

Drug related crimes in Nigeria? Why are we now jumping to drugs on this topic? It was weird enough that someone introduced disease without even using his head to reason on that one.

Kobojunkie:

Well, honestly, I don't know anyone like that. But I am guessing there are probably people who do not have the money to go back but I doubt they would want to go back penniless. I know I wouldn't. I mean who would want to land in Nigeria penniless?

hackney:

Im ok over here biko please.
i dont need that nonsense in nigeria.
last december period driving from ikoyi to only lekki took 3hrs.

id-ots doing a u-turn in the middle of the road.
let's not abeg.

Kobojunkie:

@Invisible, please research how many lives that disease claims in Nigeria, Africa and also India each year. compare that with FLu cases here or anywhere, and that might help you make a better case.

Kobojunkie:

Correction: Not everyone goes abroad with illusions. Matter of fact, most people actually know what to expect. There  are, however, the few who have their hands dirty with crime down in Nigeria, who feel they can continue the same abroad, but get disappointed when they realize they cannot get away with the same nonsense they have been able to back in Nigeria.

Honestly, not a lot of Nigerians move back dejected. I know people who have been here for at least a decade -- no valid papers, no criminal record and these people are hardworking and decent beings. We do not need to INSULT our own just so we can score a brownie point for the side we cling to in most of these emotion laden debates some cannot but get involved in on here.

hackney:

Relocate to a good job? fair enough but what about the people?
will you change them all?

If it was just about a good job (and a crappy environment) i would have relocated since.
The factors going against relocation are too much.

people over look the little details (like mosquitoes  ) and when they get back they are faced with the stark reality at every turn.

talkless of the african time nonsense.
NO, THANKS
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You stingy o. Just small blood wey mosquito will draw and you are complaining, does the mosquitoes use syringe?

Kobojunkie:


Not really. I have no plans to relocate.
Not everyone of us are immigrants here. Many have actually made their homes comfortable in whatever countries they have found themselves.  Well, Are you going to include Job security in the package as well? I say this because it is not simply the case that people do not know how to move back to Nigeria. It is more the case that they consider the risks higher for them down there than wherever it is they currently are. For instance, a man with a good job here, with no papers, would probably want to move back to Nigeria fulltime so he does not have to keep running up and down for papers. Problem however is this same man understands that should he move to Nigeria, there are no guarantees that he can continue the next to comfortable situation he has set up for himself here or can currently afford here. So he is hesitant to move back and probably ends up looking for visa wife or some other crooked way to continue to run function under radar.

Mai Suya:

While you're distributing your 'largesse', remember say AIDS no dey show for face. . .

atampakoeg:

Poster. You are heading for a ban. They will ban you for speaking like this.

mens dept:


If its American visa that's troubling you then just apply for the Canadian one.

Apparently you havent read that Diaspora persons have contributed over 1 billion dollars to Nigeria's economy/families last year, and more towards health equipment, community development projects, scholarships, and many more.

Meanwhile, in Naija, silly mallams and fake pastors are there collecting their share of the loot misleading Nigerians, and speaking to god in the process. Naija girls are aristoing their youth away and Governors of the SE/SS are collecting extra oil money from NDDC to buy property in Maryland.

So again, mind yoursef

9icest:

Another unemployed useless and brain-dead Nigerian asking me what im going to come do in the hell-hole, voted with the most happiest idiots oops inhabitants in the world.
Well, Nigerians are majorly idle minds, let the arguments begin

mens dept:


Dude, seems like you wrote this out of some quick emotion that monopolized your senses.
How about 85% of Nigerian current leaders (from Exec down to state assembly) are crooks.  Former rulers are even up to 95%. That's the root of the problem. Plus you think the Western World isnt part of the exploitation of Africa?

kcjazz:

I would, its not everyone that is willing to stay. I have a goal to bring change to my dear country (and it is not political) and after much contemplation, I feel I am ready to make it happen.

Nsiman:

H o u s e !!! Food for thought (fft) "Fools argue issues while intellects discuss facts". S-h-a-l-o-m

fyneguy:

lol Nsiman,

Do you really think Nex will give you any true feedback?

Trust me, he will harp his failure on EFFC's non-existent petition approval.

If Mobil did not feel obliged to disclaim this document, shouldn't the EFCC or the FG (with a document showing its involvement in the ''scam'') feel obliged to disclaim and even bring the ''scammers'' to book?

Nsiman, I was supposed to bring Mountain Dew soft drink's franchise to Nigeria but missed it as a result of lethargy on my part. If I show you the agreement documents, you would call it a scam. It was so ordinary and lacked the bells and whistles that one would expect of such.

We are waiting on Mobil, EFCC, The Police, The Federal Government to act as expected!