AngelicBeing:
Going to start a farm in Nigeria 🍈? Huh, how and which Farm?

The farm surrounded by Fulani bandits and different terrorist groups in different parts of the country


Nigeria to me personally is beyond redemption until proper restructuring is done but the criminals in Abuja are not ready nor willing to effect that kind of change , so the country will likely remain in the wilderness for so long and might likely not get to her Canaanland., as for other things you pointed out in your post, l do agree but come to think of it what is 1 or 2 million naira when you have a life threatening sickness? What is 2 or 3 million naira and be living in fear of Robber's, kidnappers and terrorist?

What is 2 or 5 million naira when you are scared of driving from Lagos to Kano via road or Lagos to Onitsha via road simply because either bad roads/ robbers/ terrorist or bandits can end your life within a twinkle of an eye, anyway to each is own , l will continue to be a visitor to Nigeria from afar sipping my Starbucks coffee ☕ while l Wish Nigeria well

ariesbull:
unemployed person will raise 3 million plus to go and do these petty jobs

That person is basically daft trust me !

IbeOkehie:


I remember a thread in 2014 or so where a Nigerian resident was saying how he could earn the top salary of ₦800K/mo at his company in a few years and how that was a better prospect that migrating to the USA or UK be a 4th Class Slave Citizen for the White Man.

Then last month this Nigerian resident made my day with his confidence, maybe you should consult with him since you think 3 million isn't worth the enjoyment -





The juju is strong. I'm not laughing at anyone because me sef I fell for it and actually quit my job at one of the best institutions in THE WORLD to go live in Nigeria. Imagine

Like, there were these Igbo guys laughing at me on another thread for being a LOST MAN abroad and having life insurance and honestly what could I say to them? It's hard to grasp the overarching situation when you're in that Zoo.

Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria....We Hail Thee!

Good Luck to Nigerians.

ariesbull:
quote job blablabla

Can't you guys create jobs ..everyone will say quit jobs

Usefulsense:
Before I commence my story, I want to specifically thank those who advised me not to travel. Your advise was borne out of genuine love and concern. One stated clearly that I should not leave known for unknown.

However, taking the bold step to leave Nigeria at the time I did was the best decision I ever made in my life. In fact, given the same scenario and even if I am 52 and my salary was #2million per month, I will still leave Nigeria.

The first 2 months was very difficult. The mistake I made was my insistence on getting accounting job. I did over 60 applications and all of them were rejected. I have no Australian experience neither do I have Australian certification.

My wifey was indeed an angle in human form. She provided the needed support. She shouldered all the financial responsibilities all by herself. This is the part that almost pushed me into depression. As an Igboman, we consider it a taboo for our women to feed, house and cloth us.

After two months, I decided it was time to re-strategize. I enrolled for a forklift training and within two week, I obtained my forklift license.
Not satisfied with that, I took some courses and did some checks that will qualify me to go into disability support work. I obtained First aid certificate, Diploma in mental health, certificate in infection prevention and control, certificate in care for the aged and disabled, police check, working with children checks, NDIS worker check, NDIS orientation certificate and many more.

I started applying for warehouse jobs. In fact, I had to reject a lot of them. I settled for one of the warehouses and it has been awesome working for the organization.

I have not gotten what I am looking for yet. I am using the warehouse to keep body and soul together. In the warehouse where I work, you will see people of different ages. from 18 years to 65 years working and making a good living. in Australia, there is always something to do.

The only thing I miss, is the big man mentality we have in Nigeria. Where I will sit in my office, call one of my staff in intercom and ask for a cup of coffee; and it will be brought to me in seconds. You can't try that rubbish here.

The level of security here is top notch. I have no fear, i move about anytime of the day/night.

After one week in Australia, I concluded that Nigeria is a completely lawless country and an animal jungle. Here everything is ordered. I am yet to hear a driver blow his car horn while driving. There are no touts, there are no omoniles. Electricity has never blinked for one second. water is constant, gas is there. I have never seen two persons fighting in the street. I have never seen a mad man or woman on the road or street beggars. The air we breath here is different from the air we breath in Nigeria.

It was in Australia that I realized that the saying in Nigeria that Nigerian police is your friend is actually true. Break the law in Nigeria and police catches you, just give them #2,000 you are off the hook. And the circle of lawlessness continues. Here, it is a different ball game. Proposing bribe will be used as evidence against you. It doesn't matter who you are. Every one is civil.

While in Nigeria I suffered malaria every month. There is no month I don't treat malaria. Since I got to this country, I have never had headache let alone malaria.

Children are doing wonderfully well at school and are already speaking through their nose.

In conclusion, I made the best choice. Even though I have not really found the kind of job I want to do, the little I am doing now contributes in paying bills and I have savings more than my monthly gross per month in Nigeria.

If you are above 45 years and have your partner already in this country, and you are an employee of a company, it is in your best interest to leave Nigeria. Provided, of course, that you are healthy and you are not lazy.

One dark side to moving abroad is that you have more chances of being divorced by your wife. This is a story for another day as I have gathered enough reason on why families divorce and will create a thread on this someday.


I am open to any question you may have.

sunnymighty:


Congrats! Bro. My question is this....I have been working with a local NGO here in Nigeria that rehabilitates Children with disabilities, precisely Down Syndrome, I have attended series of Certified trainings here in Nigeria organized by Int'l Organizations and NGOs. I wish to continue in this line because it is my passion. What are my chances? Is it possible to apply for jobs over there from here? Even if I have to be trained when I get there, btw I will be Fifty this year and also occupy a top position where I work. Expecting your reply. Thanks!

Think9ja:


Lol
It doesn't work like that in obodo 9ja ooo
If you don't find your feet in the first two weeks, just know that you'll be gone by month end. A Nigerian company that gives you 4 months to find your feet really has your interest at heart.

I see companies advertise for the same position almost every month.

We are an evil bred of people and no human can fix us

VULCAN:
The person you are talking to hasn't travelled abroad before.

And by abroad, I'm referring to First World countries.

Otherwise he would have seen and experienced all these things you are mentioning.

AmuDimpka:


At 48yrs that you were at the top of your accounting career earning good money in Nigeria, you spent millions to travel to Australia only to go and be learning forklifting and mental health and care giving job at 48yrs when you should be planning retirement

I know say na your wife push you into this...most of the men na their wives dey


I wish you luck sir ....they way it is you will work till your 70s! How do you guys even take such decision

Iamblessed85:


If the wife was the one earning such in Nigeria, she would never leave to go and be a carton packer anywhere. Men are really stupid

ariesbull:
many of them women control them

Iamblessed85:


Soo sad and annoying. They cant see the game these women are playing.

If a woman gets a better paying job abroad, she wont mind her husband resigning from an oil and gas job in Nigeria to become a plumber abroad.

At the bottom of it, is exchange of power. She envies you for being more successful here and she baits you to relinquish that power to her

Usefulsense:


Some of you just come online to say nonsense.
You don't even know me.

Leaving Nigeria was the best thing that ever happened to me. I kid you not. It doesn't matter what I do for a living.

Life here is much better than anything you can think of in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, I am making giant strides already.

Bro. There are things you will never understand until you leave Nigeria.

Meanwhile, how are you enjoying the current situation of the country?

tensazangetsu20:

Beans Is 2000 naira per derica in Nigeria now. At this rate, he would be probably be eating grass

tensazangetsu20:

Beans Is 2000 naira per derica in Nigeria now. At this rate, he would be probably be eating grass

W0t0w0toman:


Aboby, rest... Cho cho cho everywhere

tensazangetsu20:


Come take dick chop. . Fool!!!!

W0t0w0toman:


This one dey jobless. E dey reply within 3 minutes .
Yamayama keep falling on your dirty bald head, till u get a serious job

tensazangetsu20:


I am jobless agreed. At least I aint eating garri alternatives . Kpokpo garri fall on your head.

lastkingsman:


Which one is kpokpo Garri again?

Karleb:
@Gerrard59

Did you see what I was talking to you about the other day about not giving up on your japa dreams no matter what.

This man emigrated at 48!

Usefulsense:


Some of you just come online to say nonsense.
You don't even know me.

Leaving Nigeria was the best thing that ever happened to me. I kid you not. It doesn't matter what I do for a living.
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Life here is much better than anything you can think of in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, I am making giant strides already.

Bro. There are things you will never understand until you leave Nigeria.

Meanwhile, how are you enjoying the current situation of the country?

tensazangetsu20:

Beans Is 2000 naira per derica in Nigeria now. At this rate, he would be probably be eating grass

Iamblessed85:


Didn’t want to engage you directly because i was angry. I know you (not in real terms). It’s you who needs to know himself more. Your inferiority complex is nauseating

Like you, i’m also an accountant and probably earn x2 of what you earned in Nigeria. I live in a gated estate, the commute from home to office is like 5 mins for me, i earn more USD in Nigeria than most people working corporate jobs abroad, let alone minimum wage jobs. Everything you’re enjoying abroad, i’m enjoying here plus i’m in my father land. I dont have to walk lightly for fear of my steps making too much noise.

A second passport is good especially in the area of global mobility but i will never leave a corporate job in Nigeria to work a blue collar job abroad no matter the pay. It’s not how i’m wired mentally. I have self respect and self pride.

Nigeria isn’t all that bad, it depends on who you are listening to. Be careful the advice you take online! You dont know who is on the end or what their motives are.

1. The whole emigration wave is more than likely a politically motivated phenomenon. There are paid agents everywhere pushing that narrative. I suspect these agents have may even have foreign sponsors as well. How else will they get people to do their lowly jobs?

2. There’s never been a time when Nigeria was rosy. The country has always been on the brink. Go and read threads on nairaland as far back as 2005, you would see expressions of thesame feelings of hopelessness. What changed now?

3. A never do well’s account of Nigeria would be different from that of a successful guy. When these set of people were in school, they squandered their time and graduated with bad grades. Today, they cant get jobs and their voices are the loudest in terms of demarketing of the country. They would gladly throw away their dignity to work lowly jobs abroad in order to catch up with their mates that have made strides in Nigeria. These are the people you listen to.

4. There are all sorts of agents that are against the unity of the country. Their version of the state of things would be different from that of a patriotic Nigerian. If you come across their own account, you would easily be misled if you aren’t an independent thinker.

5. Most high flyers abroad came from Nigeria. The ones succeding abroad are still the ones that succeded in Nigeria. If Nigeria were that bad, how would this possible? I know someone who left chevron and had gotten a job with Mckinsey in the USA. Many of the big 4 firms abroad are populated by ex big 4 in Nigeria. An average person here will still be an average person abroad.

6. Majority of people who are travelling now are driven by peer pressure, a distorted account of things they read online and the exchange rate. Dangote refinery is coming on stream plus lots of other good things, what then happens when the exchange rate is nolonger as bad?

7. You’re not all that different. A very good number of those travelling were led to that decision by their wives, directly or indirectly. These emasculated men canot even see the game. Their wives were not successful in Nigeria while the men were. I’m yet to see one successful woman in Nigeria earning millions who relocated to go and pick cartons. Women are smart and i must admit it.

8. I have never travelled abroad and I attended a state university. I have been in the room with all sorts of foreign trained graduates and none of them measured up to me in terms of academic exploits, diction and written english. Where is the disadvantage?

9. If your wife truly loved you, she won’t advise you to become a forklifter no matter the pay. Your dignity would matter to her atleast. Forget the hype about good road etc.How do you truly feel mentally? Do this experiment, tell your wife you would love to become a shit packer because you stand to earn a whole lot of money and hear her response. She would urge you on. You married a selfish woman who would not mind putting you through anything for her own survival.

10. Like you, i have all what it takes to travel. I can even sponsor myself and not wait for a raffle draw. If i travel today, by His grace, i would still get an esteemed job over there. I said all that to say that you aren’t talking to a disadvantaged fellow by any stretch of your imagination.

Gerrard59:


Good luck to him, but I would never do it or encourage a loved one in his position to do the same. This might change depending on how many children he has. But for me? I no do.

Karleb:


It was the alternative people gave to garri because it's now so expensive.

I have never heard about that thing in my life. The last garri my mum bought for me was 15k per basin and I'm sure it's more expensive than that now.

A time is coming when we will see the nutritional value in eating sand.

Usefulsense:


Well, we are two different individuals and our goals in life will never be the same.

As per the inferiority complex you mentioned up there, I still maintain you don't even know me.

It is easy for anyone to claim anything in a faceless forum like Nairaland.

You have exhibited the same mentality an average Nigerian has that have kept you guys were you are.

I still maintain that leaving Nigeria was the best decision that ever happened to me. A salary of 2 million Naira net per month can never bring me back to Nigera.

Bro, I use to have the same thinking as you until I left Nigeria.

Like I said, there are things you will never understand until you leave Nigeria.

But my advice is, don't come as an illegal immigrant.

Iamblessed85:


I don’t even believe your story to start with. Just know you did not fool me lol. You’re most likely one of the agents i spoke about. Just 3 months in and you know all about living abroad already. Cheers

Usefulsense:


Good luck to you bro.

Usefulsense:


Well, we are two different individuals and our goals in life will never be the same.

As per the inferiority complex you mentioned up there, I still maintain you don't even know me.

It is easy for anyone to claim anything in a faceless forum like Nairaland.

You have exhibited the same mentality an average Nigerian has that have kept you guys were you are.

I still maintain that leaving Nigeria was the best decision that ever happened to me. A salary of 2 million Naira net per month can never bring me back to Nigera.

Bro, I use to have the same thinking as you until I left Nigeria.

Like I said, there are things you will never understand until you leave Nigeria.

But my advice is, don't come as an illegal immigrant.

Iamblessed85:


I know exactly what you are. Just one last question, how much were you paid for this campaign against your own kinsmen