MumofTwins2017:
Ontario, Mississauga to be precise.

salford1:

Fellow Nigerian not a white.

Whitehorse is not bad o. There are Nigerians on Iqaluit and YellowKnife too.

esterella:


Interesting!!!

19CannyMum:


Since one is a PR, one can move around freely in Canada. No restrictions. But one would keep these two things in mind

1. There is no equivalent of OSAP in Calgary. I believe you'll have more loan than grant in Alberta, compared to Ontario where I hear they have more grant than loan.

2. Part of the reason for schooling is to build a network. Hence is advisable to school where you want to work, for easier plugging into the labor market.

Just my unverified opinion.

MrTeeo:


I school in SAIT Alberta. My fees per semester is 3700. Loan I got was 6000 grant 4,600. They just also approved for my next semester a loan of 7k and grant of 6300...

kemkem30:


Hi, I (with my family) am moving to Mississauga on sunday, have you found a place yet?

Habbeys:
THE SHOCK OF DIFFERENCE (Musings of a Nigerian).
I am not one who is liberal in the usage of my tongue for the purposes of cursing, but I may have been tempted to so do lately. What has prompted this temptation you may want to ask, well, quite a few things. For one, the difference in the environment (Nigeria) which sired me and where I am now is the cultural difference that you see and it is more telling when you begin to see that difference and change in your children.
Culture I know is not a static phenomenon, it is organic in that it grows as society germinates but whether such growth is positive or otherwise is solely determined by the subscribers to that society. For Nigeria, a paradise, yet so far from righteousness, I am not exactly sure the growth of the country in the healthy sociological sense has been entirely positive. Nigeria’s story is one for another day, “make we face another tin”.
As I have observed here, the allowance for critical thinking in schools and in ordinarily mundane things such as sports and games impact your child and. When I say, “critical thinking”, I do not mean its isolation as a subject as we find in some Nigerian private schools but as a necessary condiment for the design of every subject/course children study in school. The ability to critically think makes the children begin to question everything around them. Their question is not geared towards uprooting our culture or religion which we think is dear to us but for them to understand why we hold it dear and convincing them on why they must have the same level of deference to those concepts and ideas. They question everything, questions you cannot possibly imagine from religion to homosexuality, racism, slavery, family and so forth and damn, you must be ready to answer these questions which should and must be convincing and logical. I think it is best to get ahead of some of these difficult questions by discussing them before you are asked by your children. In that way, it may be easier to discuss when these questions come up. The questions come in drips or torrents and it brings out the best or worst in you depending on how you respond to them. Even their jokes become cheeky and irreverent.
I told my last a few weeks ago when he was up to some mischief that he and I “will wear the same trouser”, he looked at me confused and retorted, “but we will fall Daddy”. Na so I quiet.
A few days ago, I went out with my second and last for a religious service at the end of which the second had to wait for me at the door away from a group of men. This made it challenging for her to find me among so many men. When the last and I eventually found her (or she found us) she said to me, “Daddy, I found you because of the reflection of the sun on your bald head”. Can you bloody imagine? Well, if she were in Nigeria, I am certain she would have exploded for simply having that thought cross her mind much less blurting it out. The other day, she told me to “always try to” take my plate to the kitchen after eating. I had to curse, IYA E!!! (YOUR MOTHER) and her mum was there laughing her head off without coming to my aid, mtsheeew, nonsense. Just thinking if I had said all these to my own father. Well…… first off, I won’t be alive to write about it or if I am lucky, I sure will have a few teeth missing.
I have always been a fiercely private person but being here has given privacy a whole new meaning. In Nigeria, my beloved, I can just stand in front of my house for no reason other than standing, I can sit with my Fulani guard to catch up on the neighbourhood gossip, I can do all sorts and anyhow but here, you mean nothing to anybody except for tax purposes. Simple things like clearing the snow path are a big deal and is determined by the survey lines of your property. Your neighbour can clearly tell you not to allow your kids play around his car or on his driveway and come to you the next day expecting you to be nice. The culture is different, everything is “one kind sha”. The other day in an office in which I interned, a Nigerian was absent from work and when she resumed, she was asked the reason for her absence and when she did not respond, the questioner said “were you ill?”, she responded “Alice, I was not ill”, “Alice, I am not ill”. They all wondered why she repeated her answer twice but as a Nigerian although she did not say it, I knew the emphasis meant “Alice, I am not sick in Jesus name”. In my mind, I was like “talk am naa”.
We are what we are, adapting to a new environment can be challenging and at the same time interesting. The success or otherwise of the transition from the comfortable to the unknown is dependent on the person. What I think is certain is that we as Nigerian immigrants can change without necessarily losing our core of respect, love and more importantly fraternity.

Adeniran Ajagbe.

stillini:
@ DatechMan, Abeg where in scaborough ,can a brother rent a decent cheap and affordable room oh

mbhs139:


Ontario, through osap, give 28k for each session of your course. My wife is getting twice that amount for the two years of her course at Sheridan College. 40k is grant and 16k is loan.

Exceedingfaith:
Hello,thanks for the information. Please I would like to know how soon after landing was the osap application made. Also was it easy to get.
Thanks

Chibudollar:
Please guys is it favorable to move to Canada and hope on getting a job when one arrives, please this question is a life and death question as of now. Please I need your replies urgently thanks all

damilola1978:
sometimes in life you have to make tough decisions and risk everything...besides no matter what suggestion you are given, you are the architect of the outcome...so put your faith in God (or whoever you believe in), make your decision and put in the work to achieve your desire...relocating is not so easy...its also not so hard...you just have to learn to adapt and remember one thing, "everyday above ground is a good day".

Chibudollar:
Please guys is it favorable to move to Canada and hope on getting a job when one arrives, please this question is a life and death question as of now. Please I need your replies urgently thanks all

MrTeeo:


I school in SAIT Alberta. My fees per semester is 3700. Loan I got was 6000 grant 4,600. They just also approved for my next semester a loan of 7k and grant of 6300...

bbpin:
Hi Mr Teeo, I sent you a pm

mbhs139:


Ontario, through osap, give 28k for each session of your course. My wife is getting twice that amount for the two years of her course at Sheridan College. 40k is grant and 16k is loan.

annawhite:
Goodmorning guys...sorry i am new here...ill appreciate if anyone can assist on how to travel out...i got 7.5 in ielts...

etrange:
Hello Everyone! My name is etrange

I'd like to share my landing gist even though it is coming way too late. I came under the weather after my arrival but I'm perfectly fine now!



It was another smooth flight from Egypt to Canada. On arrival, I queued with Non-Canadians. When it got to my turn, the officer asked how much I had with me, did the stamping and said congratulations. I was going to thank her when I noticed she stamped wrong arrival dates on both papers - 5th instead of 6th. I called her attention to it, she apologized and corrected them with a pen (I still don't know the implication of this error). I went ahead to do my SIN and afterwards, went to pick up my luggage and this was where I got the shocker of my life! I couldn't find one of my bags! I quickly reported this to an airport official who took me around the premises looking for the missing bag. We eventually found it on the floor isolated from the rest of the bags. I took a closer look and saw that it was torn at both ends; apparently, it was dropped on the floor. My beans container was also smashed. I gathered everything like that and moved on.
Thank you guys for everything!

Chibudollar:
man thanks for this because I usually read up on reviews from people already there and it always seems like the negative reviews outweighs the good, that's why I asked

NubianQueen87:


Congratulations!! Sorry about your health, glad it's restored now.
Just thinking out loud, weren't you entitled to some compensation by the airline for your damaged bag/goods? I can't imagine "settling out of court" at naija airport because of these precious food items, and end up having them destroyed 26hrs later in a strange land oo!

NubianQueen87:


Congratulations!! Sorry about your health, glad it's restored now.
Just thinking out loud, weren't you entitled to some compensation by the airline for your damaged bag/goods? I can't imagine "settling out of court" at naija airport because of these precious food items, and end up having them destroyed 26hrs later in a strange land oo!

etrange:
Hello Everyone! My name is etrange

I'd like to share my landing gist even though it is coming way too late. I came under the weather after my arrival but I'm perfectly fine now!


I opened a bank account and got my SIM card the same day - I did both in a mall a walking distance away from my Airbnb location. I could not get a phone cause the shops there don't take down payment; I had to got to Yorkdale the next day to buy one. I might still leave the province so I left drivers' license and health insurance card for now. As they say, it's really not difficult to settle in a developed city.

Thank you guys for everything!

omotayo333:
Hey guys been a minute since I’ve been here. So I have two rooms in a three-bedroom condo apartment in Mississauga available from the 1st of April. If you’re interested feel free to chat me up. Cheers!!

ninjalino:
Do i need to come with a letter from FRSC? When i show my Nigerian license what type pf Class 5 will i get?