Selfkontrol:
Good day Nairalanders. Pls I need some mature advice because I’ve been in a dilemma for a long time now concerning relocating abroad or staying back in Nigeria.
First of all I’m not a japa advocate. I believe if you’re doing well in Nigeria then there’s no point relocating abroad but I feel there’s so much uncertainty and I don’t know what the future holds for me in this country.

Now I’m a married man of 30 years. I will turn 31 by this September. We have no child yet but wife is preg now. I have a B.Eng in petroleum Engineering but have never worked in my life. My current business is crypto trading which I have been doing for years now. During the 2021 crypto bull run I made lot of money and acquired some properties that’s currently valued atleast 60-70m naira in total. bought my car same year and got married same year to my long time Gf, settled some family members etc . I don’t have any other investments or business aside my properties and crypto portfolio because crypto trading has taken all my time and I won’t complain because so far it has been good. Making money in dollars while in Nigeria is bliss. Even though we have been in bear season since 2022, I still make some money every now and then that’s sustainable for now until we hit another bull run which is likely to happen from next year 2024.

My fear lies here, on the long run crypto trading is not sustainable. If not for 2021 bull run I don’t think I would be in this position and even the projected bull run next year is not 100% certain

I plan on learning a programming skill which is very difficult, I tried learning it late last year but stopped along the line because it was distracting me from trading and missing some opportunities in crypto because making money is most important. Coding would probably take me a few years before I start earning even though it is sustainable long term but crypto trading can be life changing but not sustainable long term . It’s more like a gamble most times.

My plan A, is to gather enough money from now till 2025 which is the duration of the projected bull run if it happens and start investing in real estate development, Like building and selling and other businesses too but I don’t know how feasible that is in our present day Nigeria and if I don’t make my target amount, I might have to start with the available resources present.

plan B, gather some money, learn a skill then relocate to Canada with my family via study route since I don’t have any real work experience aside crypto trading but that would mean me going to study and starting afresh.

For my wife, she also has a degree in Human Resources with just nysc as working experience. She learnt wig making and installation and has been doing her online biz selling wigs etc.

Abroad folks, what are my chances abroad considering my current profile. Is it worth it coming over there to start afresh
And build? I have heard so many things how it’s hard getting a job and you have to rely on survival jobs for the first few years expecially for someone without any work experience.

I really don’t like joining the bandwagon cos everyone seems to be leaving, I love to weigh my options and hate taking unnecessary risk that might lead to regrets, at the same time don’t want to regret not leaving since I’m still young and have the opportunity that’s why I’m here asking these questions to learn from experienced and matured family men home and abroad the action they would take. We learn everyday,

For my unborn kids, if everything checks out, my plan is to give birth to them in either Canada or US for the passport and raise them in Nigeria and when they are grown, send them to study there and that is only if I’m not relocating. And if I’m relocating, what are the in-demand skills and professions I have to take since it’s clear I might be going to school because I hate survival jobs. What is your advice pls.
Mature advice pls. Thank you 🙏
@justwise @Disguy

Stay back in Nigeria. The crypto world will exist and will keep facing bear and bull cycles, just like any other financial market. I will advise you set up some kind of vocational school, like teaching people how to do industrial welding. When that business is well settled, you can be travelling and coming back at will. Even me who has tasted both worlds and currently outside, am returning this year now that Bubu's government is done with.

There is money in vocational education in Nigeria. I have clients that come from even other African countries. I am talking from experience.
If you look beyond all the political razzmatazz, there are already two government decisions that will become game changers in Nigeria's economy down the road.

a) Removal of fuel subsidy
b) The new electricity act that will now allow states to transmit their own generated power, which has been the impediment to improved power supply in Nigeria.

You can also see that the new finance act makes allowance for 10% tax on crypto transactions, which means that the Emefiele-era policy of banning such transactions from banks will soon be swept away with the man. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Consider what I have said carefully and seek God in prayers.

LeoDeKing:
Why is he always shuttling between Abuja and Lagos?

I understand he is always in Abuja searching for manhood, but Lagos nko? What happened to always being in Anambra where he developed?

Don't be silly mister. His primary base is Lagos. I am sure you never knew this.
Besides is there any law that says you must be in one place in Nigeria? The constitution guarantees the right of any Nigerian to live and go anywhere. Nigeria is not China where you need a special government permit to live in Beijing.

CodeTemplar:
Lol... N200/kwhr rate loading. By the time they do those their wuruwuru PPP and inflate cost, Lagosians will be lucky to get N200/unit.

Guy,
When I lived in Ghana, I was spending the equivalent of 50,000 a month on ECG units. But the power was regular. So regular, that my chicken suppliers have this huge log of wood they have to hit on the cutlass to cut up my chicken.

In Barbados, it is on another level.

Our people want to enjoy life, but they do not want to pay for it.

Fuel prices will not come down.

The only way forward is to embrace new technologies such as LPG/CNG usage for cars and generators. Also, use of micro-renewables. If you use fans in your house, use solar fans. Buy solar-powered TVs. Use solar lamps. Then when you have money, get a solar-powered system for your big appliances.

Delphi:
This scenario that is playing out in Nigeria now where every tom, dick and harry wants to cook and surpass Hilda's time is typical of Nigerians' mentality. No originality at all, just copy-cat ideology!. No one wants to create a niche for oneself but just wants to imitate. Once one does something extraordinaire every other person copies. This is so nauseating.

Truly nauseating. No originality. Just copy copy copy.

lite15:
I'm was considering buying for aboard and shipping it to Nigeria, so i call my friend for the cost of clearing & shipping, i was shocked ! I calculated it, it's more expensive.

It's better to buy in nigeria to avoid stories that touch!

That so-called extra cost is money you have used to acquire peace of mind down the road.

No odometer tampering, fake vehicle history, etc. You buy what you paid for. Many Naija car stands are selling salvage vehicles which have been reworked in Benin Republic and smuggled through land borders. If customs stops you on the road with such vehicles, you are done for.

I personally drove one of my cars bought from US myself from Lagos to Abuja. Customs stopped me at Okpella junction and after seeing the papers that showed I paid the customs duty, they were the ones asking me to show them some love. I gave them N500 and left.

If not, the car would have been seized and auctioned off.

I buy all my cars from Auctionexport.

Not one story. Got my cars intact. Last time I was in Nigeria after two years abroad, cranked them and they responded. The sweetest part was that the previous American owners even installed brand new tires for me on each occasion.

LP about to take over Enugu state.

That CBN man needs to taste the walls of Kirikiri.

Useless man.

So says a useless governor in whose state fake and non-existent schools were found on the nominal roll of schools benefitting from the school feeding program.

These politicians just lie with impunity. Meanwhile their domains stink of the highest corruption.

Benzema is a muslim and will fit into the Saudi society easily, unlike Ronaldo and his partner who seem to be at odds with the demands of living
in Saudi Arabia.

plaindealer:
As it stands, tens of thousands of Nigerians are employed by the Dangote refinery complex and over two hundred thousand Nigerian workers are st to be employed by the refinery complect when it's fully up and running, on top of the massive and positive economic collateral effects via the industrial end users of the ammonia and petrochemical raw materials, even the immense IGR sees nothing but his self induced and blurred partisan vision of monopoly.

Is it also a monopoly that Dangote is the largest employer of labor in the private sector, or this man is saying their paychecks won't put food on the table or the banks won't accept their paychecks because it's from a monopoly?

The NLC's number one concern is the welfare and well-being of Nigerian workers including hundreds of thousands of Dangote workers across the country.

This man and his labor party NLC sat comfortably and quietly during the CBN naira change, they did not say a word, they watch Nigerian workers groan in pain simply because it was all about denying Tinubu the presidency.

No, all of a sudden, they care about the Nigerian workers all because of the same subsidy removal that they saw coming months ago, the same subsidy removal that all the presidential candidates including their own Peter Obi promised to stop immediately.

Fortunately, this man and his destructing, unpatriotic elements and economic saboteurs are on their own, the Nigerian workers are not interested in his anti-Nigerian partisan nonsense.

Labour is not against subsidy removal. Labour is saying that there ought to be palliatives up and running, including the CNG that was promised everyone which I hear wont cost more than N90 per litre.

nairalanda1:
Well, considering that 20 other refining licences were issued the question is, why didn't the other refining licences start work?

The cold reason is because subsidy meant that there won't be profits made from selling the petrol refined at any refinery. It is the main reason why we lost all our NNPC refineries...because we were cutting corners to keep costs low....and by extension subsidy costs low.

Dangote was the only one who took a risk. And he got loans from the banks to do so...because the banks know that in case of failure, they would just take over his businesses and pay themselves their money back. Simple.

The cold fact is that keeping petrol at a cost below the production price is why most of the refinery licence owners...except for the one in Edo, the BUA refinery and a few others, did not start work,

Hopefully, things will change with the refinery coming up.

I am not sure you were born by 1988 when the 2nd PH refinery (catalytic cracking unit added to the 1965 Alesa Eleme refinery) was commissioned. I watched the documentaries on NTA PH back then with all the promises that were made.

I also don't know how old you were in 1998 when Abacha and Dan Etete killed all the refineries so Abacha's daughter could import fuel from her refinery in Brazil. Bad fuel that knocked a lot of engines that year.

All this subsidy talk is complete BS. NNPC is lying with numbers. Remember when they said Nigeria was using 60 million litres per day and Customs came forward to debunk those figures?

How much is Nigeria paying for imported fuel? What's the differential, if any? Who are the beneficiaries?

What is Saudi Aramco and China's SNEPCO doing that NNPC failed to do since 1972?

Ask the right questions and seek answers to them and stop regurgitating government propaganda used to cover up the trillions they and their cohorts have been milking from fake subsidy.

There is nothing like subsidy.

Jennyclay:
You must be calling your sisters fool and not me.

Broke suffer head men everywhere!!

Yes, I called you a fool. I have lived in 5 countries and I know what's up. I know what welders in oil, maritime and aviation earn. People like you are too daft to know things like this.

Jennyclay:
Oga welder!

Reason my future man must have more than 4 businesses that are bringing in millions every month. I can’t settle for a welder. It’s not my portion!!!

May God help you struggling men.

You are a fool. Do you know what subsea welders are paid by companies like Samsung?

Successonpoint:
I hope my story will motivate someone to take charge of their life.
I lost my job last year July, and so a friend of mine introduce me to a poultry farm where I am earning 22k per month.

A man with wife and two kids o, my wife was not happy with the job even though she has been supportive in her own little way. And then, she suggested that I should learn handwork, and so I decided to learn welder.

On getting to the man, he told me I will spend 2 years o, I will pay 70k to learn from him. Me way I no get even 20k, I begged him to collect 50k and he agreed.

Then he asked me to make part payment of 30k. I went home and told my wife, and then she gave me 20k to give to the man. I gave the man 20k and he collected it, to my greatest surprise within 2 months I started doing the welding job perfectly.

On my own, I have paid up the remaining 30k with small small repairs job he allowed me to be doing for people. And by God's grace, I have started saving up for my tools.

I really thank my wife for the advice and the welder too. The man has been a tremendous blessing to me in many way. He even told me yesterday that with the look of things I may be free from him in 2 months time except I decided to still remain with him for a while.

Please take charge of your life and stop depending on people for survival.

Great. Now get the international certification in welding and you are on your way to Canada or South Korea.

Community of Nigerians living in the UK have waded into the issue. That fellow will be lucky if he does not get slammed with a lawsuit.

The new policy has nothing to do with this fellow.

Rishi Sunak and his Interior Minister (Home Affairs Secretary), both children of Indian migrants, have been nursing this for a long time. So people should take a chill pill.

Nigeria is not the only country affected. You think the UK does not know what people come there for? This is the main reason for Brexit: to stop Eastern Europeans and Africans from coming to the UK and taking over all the jobs and opportunities.

When he beats the daylight out of her, that's when her eyes will clear.

There is no country where the government simply leaves the private sector to be unleashed on the populace.

You use government patronage or connections to make your money. Then you use the same money to buy up government companies so you use the facilities to rip off Nigerians.

Are AEDC and other GENCOs and DISCOs not private companies? What has been the story since government took their hands off these companies? Are they still not the ones approaching the CBN (government entity) for loans to run businesses they bought over via a crooked process when they had no capacity?

Now ask yourself: how is Saudi Aramco and its subsidiaries that are 100% owned by the SA government making billions in profit?

Does he know he can be sued for those comments?

Hatesin:


Please when is the right time to apply the fertilizer?

Again, what's the best fertilizer for maize? Thanks!

There is a technique I have been using. I do not use any herbicides.

I use a tractor to plough. After ploughing, I plant. Once the maize is 3-weeks post sprouting, I mix urea and mycorrhiza into my seed planter, and roll the planter beside the plants.

Mycorrhiza makes the maize develop a much more efficient root system for max utilization. It is a naturally occurring fungus, but is destroyed by herbicides.

The difference between my crop and those of other farmers is always amazing.

That's Ninjaman, Jamaican dancehall artiste currently serving a life sentence for murder.

He ain't having any more baby mamas anytime soon.

Razgas:
His surname Ani means land in Igbo. Anybody know what it means in calabar language?

Razgas:
His surname Ani means land in Igbo. Anybody know what it means in calabar language?

What language in Nigeria is called calabar language?

Cross River state has more than 10 languages, ranging from Efik to Ejagham to Bekwarra to Yakurr, Bahumono, Legbo, etc. There are even parts of the state that speak Igbo, Igala, etc.

Razgas:
His surname Ani means land in Igbo. Anybody know what it means in calabar language?

What language in Nigeria is called calabar language? Cross River state has more than 10 languages, ranging from Efik to Ejagham to Bekwarra to Yakurr, Bahumono, Legbo, etc. There are even parts of the state that speak Igbo, Igala, etc.

An outsourced staff. I think I know this bank.

MasterJayJay:
How to know your society is still living in dark age.
No one has mentioned anything about autopsy. They are now blaming 'village people' and enemy of progress.

Many people who had no plans to travel out also die. But you guys will make this case special because japa is involved.
C Ronaldo should have kept his move to play in Saudi Arabia a secret so enemies of progress won't attack him?

I laugh when I see these kinds of posts. It shows the poster is a child and a civilian in the realm of the spirit.

englishmart:
That man is not sane. It's definitely not okay at home. If he did that to my project, that would be the last time he would ever do something that unreasonable.

Story story.

You be like Ikechukwu who was bragging that if any SARS officer accosts him, it would be their last day on earth. The day it actually happened, the mumu kukuma took them to ATM to give them money.

Don't boast of what you cannot do.

Gaboon viper.

Docile snake, but venomous.

A gun license in Nigeria is only issued to those of a temperate mind. Those prone to acts of violence risk having their gun licenses revoked.

The reason Oscar Pistorius is in jail today is not because of the death of his girlfriend, as the court had ruled it accidental. It is because he had shown at least two previous instances of careless and negligent use of firearms, including discharging it in a crowded restaurant. The court found that a person with several instances of negligent firearms use was a danger to society and his initial 5-year sentence was increased. He has also been denied parole at least once. Seun Kuti has had at least one incident where he pulled the firearm on people.

What is happening to Seun Kuti is a cursory lesson for everyone. Do not allow yourself to be provoked to the point of using physical violence on a police officer. It hardly ends well. In Kenya and Australia, it carries a 5-year sentence. In the UK, 6 months/5000 pounds fine. In America, if you are a black, your chances of getting put down are nearly 100%.

Abojupupa:
funny you

Since you have rejected my advice, you are free to do as you will. Na you get goat.

saintrow1:


ibos are worst than fulani people, they are the reason Nigeria is where it is today. they just love turning anything good upside down. zik was the first to start tribalism politics, ironsi was the first to mess up our system by moving Nigeria from a prosperous regional system of government to a useless unilateral system, while ojukwu turned Nigeria to a war zone. Obi, another ibo is at it again trying to cause anarchy in Nigeria because he is bitter about losing election to the best candidate. this is why no reasonable Nigerians must accommodate Ibo people, anywhere they are, any where they go, they must turn the place upside down.

Your level of idiocy knows no bounds.