sweetmelanin:



Scariest part is Nigeria will still get worse than it currently is.

Omezif:
But hardle to hear citizens from other country are buying citizenship in nigeria.

Offpoint1:
imagine there was free visa and airlift to any country for a week... Nigeria will deserted.

Abagworo:


Our problem stems more from population explosion than what you mentioned. Our source of income has increased little over the years whereas our population has increased astronomically. India is our partner while China controlled theirs for 3 decades with child bearing limit. You can see the difference when you compare China, India and Nigeria.

pacespot:
Hmm, everybody is running fast out of this country. Imagine, people will spend their hard time working to make money in this country only to use the same money to run out of this country. That should tell you a lot. Even those who are making money in this country are not happy with the system, everybody is just suffering and smiling.

mathong:
Its well, but if everyone run away who will build the spoil?

Hope when we correct the nation to become what others emulates in future, they won't come back to claim "I'm from Nigeria"??

It's still out nation take #resposibily!

bigfish3k:

Quote me any day

Abagworo:


Our problem stems more from population explosion than what you mentioned. Our source of income has increased little over the years whereas our population has increased astronomically. India is our partner while China controlled theirs for 3 decades with child bearing limit. You can see the difference when you compare China, India and Nigeria.

Plut01:
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London-based Henley & Partners


The day I learnt Henley & partners open another of their office in Lagos (one of the few in Africa) was the day I believed investment Visas are very much applied for by Nigerians.


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bestman09:
Nigerians spend over $1 billion buying foreign citizenship, golden visas – report
By Agencies -December 13, 2020

Some Nigerians have spent over $1billion this year, 2020, buying themselves citizenship of other countries or golden visas as they plan ahead for safe haven should Nigeria collapse as a nation.

The $1billion is a conservative estimate, given the number of applications processed by the citizenship advisory firms.

According to a report published by Al Jazeera, more Nigerians paid for citizenship or golden visas in 2020 more than any other year.

At London-based Henley & Partners, one of the world’s largest citizenship advisory firms, applications by Nigerians increased by 185% during the eight months to September 2020; making them the second-largest nationality to apply for such schemes after Indians.

More than 1,000 Nigerians have enquired about the citizenship of another country through Henley & Partners this year alone, which Paddy Blewer, Head of Marketing, said “is unheard of.”

“We’ve never had this many people contacting us”, Blewer said.

Arton Capital, a citizenship advisory group, said “demand from Nigerian families for Antigua and Barbuda citizenship is up 15% in 2020 compared with the last.”

St Lucia has also seen a record number of Nigerians applying in 2020. “It’s more than it’s ever been over the past four years,” says Nestor Alfred, CEO of the St Lucia Citizenship-by-Investment Unit.

The rush to escape from Nigeria reached the apogee in July, with the coronavirus epidemic raging.

Another propelling factor has been the recent #EndSARS protest, according to the report.

A Nigerian interviewed in the report, cited the escalation of COVID-19 cases as a reason wealthy Nigerians started looking more seriously at citizenship abroad.

“Those with medical conditions that could not fly out – a lot of them are buying passports just because if there is any problem they can fly out,” said Olusegun Paul Andrew, 56, a Nigerian entrepreneur and investor who spends much of the year in the Netherlands.



“Flying out” of Nigeria is hard and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic. Just 26 countries allow Nigerian passport holders visa-free entry, many of them part of West Africa’s ECOWAS arrangement. Both the United Kingdom and Europe’s Schengen zone require Nigerians to obtain visas ahead of travelling.

For the wealthy, this is too much hassle. “They don’t want to be queueing for visas for any EU country or whatever”, says Andrew. Instead, why not purchase the citizenship of a country with visa-free access to Europe?

According to the report, the destinations of Nigerians seeking citizenship or golden visas are Malta and many Caribbean nations.

In Malta, all they need to do for citizenship is to have an investment of between $100,000 to $800,000 in the country.

In St Kitts and Nevis, a passport can cost as much as $400,000.

The passport opens doors to Europe and America, where they do not to get visas anymore.

Bimpe, a wealthy Nigerian who was interviewed for the report said she has three passports. One Nigerian, which she says she never uses, and two from Caribbean nations: St Kitts and Nevis; and Grenada.

The St. Kitts and Nevis passport, which cost her $400,000 via a real estate investment programme, was useful when she travelled between London and New York on business as it allows for visa-free travel to the UK and Europe.

But now that she has retired in Abuja, Bimpe, whose husband has passed away, wants her three adult sons to have the same opportunities to travel and live abroad.

“My kids were interested in visa-free travel. They are young graduates, wanting to explore the world. So that was the reason for my investment”, she explains.

Her investment to gain a Grenada passport for herself and her sons took the form of a $300,000 stake in the Six Senses La Sagesse hotel on the Caribbean island, which she bought in 2015.


https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/nigerians-spend-1-billion-buying-foreign-citizenship-golden-visas-report-332750

Fahdiga1:
Buhari has turned the whole of Nigeria to IDP that everyone is trying hard to escape from it

Exactly!
Even his Sai Baba chanters are all over the place shouting l have to leave this Nigerian by all means possible, bu ttheir BMC chnage cannot buy them any foreign Passport, hence they sleep at the Embassy while chanting Sai Baba.

My prayer is that no one ever make this kind of mistake some of us made in 2015, ever again.
We jumped from fry pan, rub ourselves with petrol and into a gas fire.
May the wrath of God never depart from the household of those who made Nigerians 'IDPs' in small-small countries like St Kitts and Grenada.

CSTRR:
Failed state syndrome.

The day we investigate the amount of dollars Nigerians in Nigeria are investing in US stocks, we will be shock.

Everybody is divesting from NIgeria.
Even Me i am already buying American stocks.

Nigeria is so far gone.

And when Some people try to protest, fellow Nigerians will tell them not to rock the boat.

And then I start wondering if we are all in the same Nigeria.

ednut1:
Even me wey no get money i wrote ielts 7 times. Because i knew i had to japa. Make my unborn no con dey curse me. God bless Canada

lindareep:
Ah Buhari sef no go carry last