Why are Nigerians so poor?
Some people think it was due to the so many years of colonization, about unusually long.

Why there is no doubt that we have been heavily affected by this long years of enslavement, I believe we can or should have healed that wound. I don't understand what you're thinking. That is what I believe.

Some others think our poverty is due to bad political leaders. While I'd love to agree with that, I can help but disagree. Why? For what?


Because leaders of any given society, club or country are just the image of that society, club or country at large.

That's exactly what I mean. People are trained by the society. The value system of that given society is what teaches them what to believe, how to behave, what to pursue with their lives and how to lead their people. That is the reason why Joseph Maistre said, “every nation has the government it deserves.” You take for instance, an average American boy of age 16 may be happy to spend the rest of his life in the laboratory finding the cure for AIDS or Ebola. Why? Because he has been trained in a society that appreciates sacrifice for a better humanity.

Suggest a similar idea to a same-age Nigerian boy and you'll blame yourself if you're lucky not to see the anger of his parents.

If a society defines success as making the world a better place and another society defines success as building five houses, do you think that both of these will produce the same kinds of leaders? You know the reply. Yeah. In Nigeria an average political leader is a thief. But I have the reason not to blame them, I dare blame our values as a Country instead. Believe me, the president of your country will not change when he becomes a president.

The Presidency only gives him the opportunity to reveal his true self ... that from his age 3-40 our society built up in him.So if I think we should have overcome the pain of colonization, and I think our leaders aren't the reason for our poverty... instead, they are the real image of who we are, what are the causes of our poverty? Have you got it?

Who we are, how we live, what we believe, etc. Let me explain one after another.

7 Reasons why Nigerians are poor.
1. Most Nigerians are religious, but not spiritual.
Why I started here, I don't know, but let's move on anyway. Religion is a major part of Nigerians, but unfortunately average Nigerians don't really know how God works. Most Nigerians (blindly) believe if they pray enough, God can make them rich.

That is heretical and unbiblical. I love the way, a shepherd puts it, "God gives us no money. He gives us the ideas and strength for business to work out."

God gives no money to anyone and praying for money is as good as praying for corn. Yes, God is the one who gives us to eat the maize, but we are the one who plants it. Even though we may pray that it will rain at the appropriate time, we are responsible for going into the bush and getting dirty.

Are you going to the mountain for 21 days to pray, because you want God to give you the maize? You don't have to go to the mountain if you don't, to beg God to give you money. He is ready to give you the money.

He loves you and has, long before you were raised, arranged all the resources you need to live a good life.

Read Matthew 6:8 and see what Jesus says here; even before you ask, your Father (God) already knows what you need.


God loves you and he's willing to give you money, but you've got to understand how money is made. Just as there are principles of maize planting, growing and harvesting, so there are principles of making money.

2. Most Nigerians hate knowledge, including financial knowledge.
In the last point I made it known that farmers must understand the principles of maize planting, cultivation and harvesting. How are they to understand that? Well, it's not through praying or fasting but through learning.

My grandfather used to be a farmer. He was teaching my dad how to farm. My dad taught us how to farm. You can go and pray for 40 days without the knowledge of how to plant maize, grow it, protect it from animals and insects, and harvest it. You cannot have a good maize farm.

Money making has principles... that must be learned as someone who reads a book. Rich men of old have long discovered these principles, starting from Abraham. These men (not now Abraham) wrote so many books that would reveal their secrets.


Book is still the biggest revealer of secrets until now. But Nigerians won't read it. If something you want to hide from a Nigerian, they say, keep it in a book. I've got tears within my heart.

I cry and tell my fellow Country people that we can't be richer than others around us except we know what they don't know. Maybe I should do that again.

Unless you know what they don't know, you can't be richer than people around you. Abraham was not rich, because he was given money by God. Open and read Your Bible. Father Abraham was rich because he did not know what others knew.

While many people worked as labourers in his days (what you'll call employees today), Abraham was a businessman with hundreds of employees (more than 300 to be specific). Nigeria will be poor forever, until we start learning, reading and upgrading our minds.

3. Most Nigerians still love job.
When will Nigerians start hating work? Today we have to start hating work! We need to start telling our young kids from age 9 and above that job is not available again, and if it's available, it's no longer good like our fathers ' days. We're very poor, because we love working.

4. Most Nigerians are not business oriented.
There was a time when I was reading about the youngest female millionaire, Elizabeth Holmes, who started her business when she was 19 (just like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg) and later dropped out of school when her business required her to do so.

Because she (and millions of other young Americans) was rightly oriented that job is a mess and that becoming a business owner is highly rewarding. What do you think an average 19-year-old Nigerian guy and girl are doing?

Watching soccer matches, following trends in fashion or the best, getting busy with school to get good certificates. No one is out there to tell our young adults that they are the hope of this Country, that they are the ones who create jobs for themselves and others, that they must be entrepreneurs and not employees.

How can we be rich when we are not creating businesses?

5. Nigerians are poor because we run businesses like mere “buying and selling.”
While most Nigerians don't think about being business owners, those who think (or are forced to become business owners) don't run business like the business of the 21st century, rather they run business like the business of the 15th century.

You know, all you have to do in the 15th century is figure out a product or service to sell. If you can smile a little people will love you and your business will be patronized.

But business now requires more strategies and innovations than ever before, just as Seth Godin's book name, Purple Cow, sounds. If it's not the (unique) purple cow, no one sees or buys it. If you're sluggish and your product / service is stupid, no one will notice.

Most Nigerians are dull and their businesses are dumb. More of the reasons (should you care to know) lie on what I discussed with you in the second point above… knowledge!

6. Nigerians are poor because an average Nigerian is irresponsible.
I am your brother after all, so you won't say that I abuse Nigerians. Most Nigerians are so concerned about what they are getting, and not about what they are giving. I heard a man around the age of 30 complaining about his father not giving him money (or something like that) some years ago.

How dumb is that? Very dumb!!!
In many advanced countries around the world, an average 16-year-old boy has been planning how to get out of his father's home and create his own life. Most Nigerians aged 30 still see themselves as infants, needing help. We love getting a stress-free, ready-made achievement.

Unfortunately, maize does not come to life until a farmer becomes contaminated. Nigerians must (urgently) wake up and be held to account.

I started planning around the age of 20 how I'll be financially independent of my parents. I began to think, how could I make Nigeria (my country) a better place? How can I exert good influence on Nigerians?

It was time, when I was 21 and six months old, to forsake the mediocre and get busy in the world. I told my parents and family I'm going to the business world and I'm never going to need to collect my school certificate. It wasn't a smooth journey and I haven't become a millionaire yet (as when I wrote this), but I was fortunate to think differently.7. Nigerians are poor because we are still proud of school and certificate.
I can see the time to come when all of our so-called universities and polytechnics will be destroyed and our young people will be taught to embrace education in its true sense, but the situation is pathetic for now.

I've said it before, universities and polytechnics don't give the kinds of education that we need now and should therefore be killed. Poverty in Nigeria will always continue until people embrace education and not certificates. The best universities there are in the 21st century are library and google, for me.

Read. Read and read!!!.
Want to be rich and rich? Go and start reading the books on creating business and wealth. Want a better marriage? Visit a bookshop, and buy some good marriage books. Want to be more spiritual? Search google, download some great books written by the great Christians of old.

Read and read, then you're going to know how to be rich, how to get a great marriage, how to be more spiritual and how to do something worthwhile.

Does school teach you how to make yourself rich? Does school teach you how to marry great? Does school teach you spirituality? Then, what does school teaches us?

If we want to be rich, we Nigerians need to start loving education (not school). Lastly, I would like to thank you so much for reading this article and I would like to say that the above opinion is mine, and since I am a little boy, in my expression I may be wrong (or biased).

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Because the useless Tilinbu stole their money and during election he will bring some out in bullion vans to bribe some hopeless reprobates to be singing his praises
Tilinbu said that he is richer than some states in Nigeria.He singlehandedly sponsored and bankrolled Buhari's campaign both in 2015 and 2019 , where did he get the money from?. How did he make his money? Which business made him rich? Your guess is as good as mine.

Getat!

Nobody wants to go through the process... Nice writeup @op

Ibechris,you nailed it bro,am a graduate,just finished my nysc this year,what was xpected of me by the society is to get a job,then marriage,eversince i came back home people asking me about job,i read books and invest in my financial life cause i dont want to be illiterate in that aspect at all.am learning and implementing.

You made good points, ibechris. I have a lot to write on this topic from my wealth of experience but perhaps another day.

You have what it takes to become a millionaire soon, believe me. Reading books also changed my life. I have read many books, but the most impactful for me were the ones written by those who built their million/billion dollar businesses from ground up, who were just like You and I, saw opportunities along the line out of the necessity to survive or due to a strong desire to succeed, took chances at those, and a combination of other factors in life like the internet made them successful.

One advice I have for anyone out there reading this is, look around most rich people. What is it they have in common? Gratitude.

Build a heart of gratitude and your eyes will open up to more opportunities that the average person doesn't see. Be grateful that you were born in this age of limitless opportunities. If you have a healthy body, be grateful for it and nurture it with healthy food, exercise and all the care it deserves. If you have a supporting family, be grateful for them and make the best use of that relationship. If you have high IQ provided by nature, be very grateful and fill it with knowledge to make great impact.

Hard work is very important but it's not the only thing that will help you succeed, so build bridges and relationships, give something where you hope to receive something, develop your emotional intelligence, expand your knowledge by reading and learning from the experience of those who have been in your shoes, and most of all, develop a heart of gratitude.

So many words. Ended up making no point.

Cant you see there are no jobs? Even the available ones are not good enough.

No enabling ground and basic facilities for businesses to thrive and the little ones that don't require these amenities are oveflooded by competitors making it difficult for invenstors to break even.

Cant you see that the cost of living is higher than the income of the average and even the upper class citizens these days?

Abeg leave matter for Mattias.

You obviously write from a parochial point of view coupled with some good amount of inferiority complex.

Well, until you're privileged to own and operate corporations among developed, developing, and underdeveloped countries, you won't be able to realistically compare, realize, and agree that the ultimate cause of poverty among the majority of people in Nigeria, and its likes, is weak government institutions (poor leadership) rather than any other gibberish you stated. And that the values a country ought to hold - no country has citizens that have uniform values - don't define its leadership rather leadership shapes the values of the citizens through the constitution/order. Once more, a country can't have a uniform value system contrary to your unpronounced/indirect position.

When you run a corporation in a country that has a strong government institution, like the police for instance, one thing you will observe is that no matter how criminal-minded and highly placed someone you've a deal with is, he will always have the fear of the police, which, by extension, will be the most important factor that will strive to restrain him from taking advantage of you, knowing that once he does, all you need to do, regardless of your status, is make a simple entry with evidence that won't cost you money and graft, as obtainable in countries with weak government institutions, and within a few hours he will be panting in police confinement and reimbursing you with alacrity before it'll advance to a lawsuit.

With strong government institutions, an agency like the PHCN won't have an excuse not to provide satisfactory electricity to the citizens. That coupled with the fear of the police alone, as obtainable where strong government institutions exist, the revenue that has always been lost due to short daily business hours in the country can easily double the GDP within months - if only you knew that in most functioning economies of the world, between the hours of 8 PM -1 AM are the most booming business hours.

In summary, no matter how ethically poor the citizens of a country are; no matter the amount of aversion the citizens of a country have against reading; no matter the beliefs systems of the citizens of a country, once there are strong government institutions, poverty will be alleviated but definitely not eradicated because no country in the world can eradicate poverty. Poor leadership is the ultimate bane of progress and development in Nigeria. The good thing is that the country will overcome its challenges in a not distant time and take its rightful place among the comity of A Class league of countries where it belongs.

Blessedmercy8:
Cant you see there are no jobs? Even the available ones are not good enough.

No enabling ground and basic facilities for businesses to thrive and the little ones that don't require these amenities are oveflooded by competitors making it difficult for invenstors to break even.

Cant you see that the cost of living is higher than the income of the average and even the upper class citizens these days?

Abeg leave matter for Mattias.

While it is true that Nigeria has a deficit of infrastructure required for businesses to thrive, the fact remains that Nigeria (Africa in general) has the highest number of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures in the world.

Do not let anyone lie to you. It is easier to run a business in Nigeria than in a typical developed country. How many Nigerians have you seen leave this country to start a business in the UK, the US, or Germany? You practically wouldn't see anyone. The best you'll find is a few people making YouTube videos as side hustle.

While most of these (Nigerian-based) businesses are "mediocre" and micro-scale startups, the potential to grow even bigger is obviously undeniable but more often than not, people don't have the knowledge to grow a business in this part of the world. It is not always about infrastructural deficit. In fact, right now, electricity has improved in some parts of the country. At least, in my area, it is now 23-24 hrs/day.

Are you not surprised to know that despite the high number of entrepreneurial startups in Nigeria and Africa, majority of Nigerians (if not all) who travel abroad do not have the courage to start a business?? This includes people who closed their businesses here to fund their travel expense. One would expect that when they relocate, the same business would be replicated and even developed further in a saner clime but this is not always the case due to knowledge gap.

If infrastructural deficit is the problem, why are Nigerians in the UK, Germany, and Canada not growing businesses to employ other Nigerians? Why are Nigerians in the US not competing with Mark Zuckerberg? Do you still want to blame "NEPA" and "bad roads" after relocating to the UK?

The problem is knowledge gap.

Africa in general is still very poor. Though we do have resources to take us out of poverty within a blink of an eye, we don't know how to use them wisely.

One thing that most of our African leaders are good at is opening doors for the outsiders to come and exploit us.

Greed is slowly destroying the African continent.

Many Nigerians are poor because those in power messed the country up. Nigerians are resilient and hardworking but many still live below the poverty line. Poverty in Nigeria does not necessarily stem out from laziness. The system made it so.

Acidosis:


While it is true that Nigeria has a deficit of infrastructure required for businesses to thrive, the fact remains that Nigeria (Africa in general) has the highest number of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures in the world.

Do not let anyone lie to you. It is easier to run a business in Nigeria than in a typical developed country. How many Nigerians have you seen leave this country to start a business in the UK, the US, or Germany? You practically wouldn't see anyone. The best you'll find is a few people making YouTube videos as side hustle.

While most of these (Nigerian-based) businesses are "mediocre" and micro-scale startups, the potential to grow even bigger is obviously undeniable but more often than not, people don't have the knowledge to grow a business in this part of the world. It is not always about infrastructural deficit. In fact, right now, electricity has improved in some parts of the country. At least, in my area, it is now 23-24 hrs/day.

Are you not surprised to know that despite the high number of entrepreneurial startups in Nigeria and Africa, majority of Nigerians (if not all) who travel abroad do not have the courage to start a business?? This includes people who closed their businesses here to fund their travel expense. One would expect that when they relocate, the same business would be replicated and even developed further in a saner clime but this is not always the case due to knowledge gap.

If infrastructural deficit is the problem, why are Nigerians in the UK, Germany, and Canada not growing businesses to employ other Nigerians? Why are Nigerians in the US not competing with Mark Zuckerberg? Do you still want to blame "NEPA" and "bad roads" after relocating to the UK?

The problem is knowledge gap.

Gbam!!!!’n

Inspector Acid…. I salute you.
This is the reason I don’t want to relocate to abroad.
My wife has been pestering me that since it is business I like, I can continue it there but I know it is a big big big trap.
If I dear go there, I will be so hit with bills that I will throw away my business dream and be scrambling for menial jobs up and down. Before I will become steady, upgrade by going to school while still hustling, trying to pay off house mortgage etc. 10/15 years would have gone from my life if not 20 and that is totally game over.
Just to wait why I get closer and closer to my grave and panshy

emmaodet:


Gbam!!!!’n

Inspector Acid…. I salute you.
This is the reason I don’t want to relocate to abroad.
My wife has been pestering me that since it is business I like, I can continue it there but I know it is a big big big trap.
If I dear go there, I will be so hit with bills that I will throw away my business dream and be scrambling for menial jobs up and down. Before I will become steady, upgrade by going to school while still hustling, trying to pay off house mortgage etc. 10/15 years would have gone from my life if not 20 and that is totally game over.
Just to wait why I get closer and closer to my grave and panshy

I don’t like abroad too, I only do holidays and boom back to my country. I just can’t live my entire life there. People will think you are crazy and weird if you have opportunity to relocate and refused.

emmaodet:


Gbam!!!!’n

Inspector Acid…. I salute you.
This is the reason I don’t want to relocate to abroad.
My wife has been pestering me that since it is business I like, I can continue it there but I know it is a big big big trap.
If I dear go there, I will be so hit with bills that I will throw away my business dream and be scrambling for menial jobs up and down. Before I will become steady, upgrade by going to school while still hustling, trying to pay off house mortgage etc. 10/15 years would have gone from my life if not 20 and that is totally game over.
Just to wait why I get closer and closer to my grave and panshy

Hmm.. Entrepreneurship is largely about solving problems. So relocating to a developed country from a developing country to solve a problem is like trying to get a Ph.D. in a primary school. The problems you'll probably want to solve in those countries are either non-existent or the regulations required in such industries are way too much to handle, especially for a migrant. If you dislike the 9-5 idea or the idea of doing two to three jobs, it's definitely not a wise move to relocate. However, ideas as we all know are immaterial so it is also wise to study the Nigerian environment as many businesses don't survive the first 5 years.

By the way, your wife's insistence to relocate is not new oo. Women are always the set of humans doing the "pushing." Lol For people who are simply concerned about their kids, it may not be a bad move to let go of certain things. However, for those who are deeply vested in their entrepreneurial growth, my advice would be to THINK and...do your research, my brother.

Some of the businesses people do here like schools, day care, gas stations, hotels, beauty shops, etc., are impossible in many developed countries for the average Nigerian. The fees, regulations, and licensing procedures choke.

Rozross:
I don’t like abroad too, I only do holidays and boom back to my country. I just can’t live my entire life there. People will think you are crazy and weird if you have opportunity to relocate and refused.

You don’t blame them, the country is hard and they just want to escape it. So I understand their plight but for me, I don’t have the zeal to go again. Not in my 30’s anymore. Had that flare for it in my early 20’s but I am not stable in nigeria.
I have a wife and kids, have a house and work not bad. So why should I throw this stability away to go and start afresh?
Don’t have that strength and time again abeg.
People are very crazy with the japa stuff. I know friends and families who have sold everything to relocate.
One just told me last week he is going to UK for studies why wife defendant.
He has/had a Feedmill here. Producing animal feeds but he is selling all just to go and school and become an employee back. It’s crazy but it is what it is.
Nigerians from my experience are not good entrepreneurs as we think. All the we are born hustlers blah blah blah is just because of the hardship and no option.
Given an average option, the average nigeria will ditch business and jump for a job.

Acidosis:


Hmm.. Entrepreneurship is largely about solving problems. So relocating to a developed country from a developing country to solve a problem is like trying to get a Ph.D. in a primary school. The problems you'll probably want to solve in those countries are either non-existent or the regulations required in such industries are way too much to handle, especially for a migrant. If you dislike the 9-5 idea or the idea of doing two to three jobs, it's definitely not a wise move to relocate. However, ideas as we all know are immaterial so it is also wise to study the Nigerian environment as many businesses don't survive the first 5 years.

By the way, your wife's insistence to relocate is not new oo. Women are always the set of humans doing the "pushing." Lol For people who are simply concerned about their kids, it may not be a bad move to let go of certain things. However, for those who are deeply vested in their entrepreneurial growth, my advice would be to THINK and...do your research, my brother.

Thanks bro.
It is even far more than being an entrepreneur.
I just don’t like the stress that comes with working working and working. Abeg I am tired.
Have been running and hustling all my life and the small one wey remain na to enjoy am no matter how small it is.
I can’t use the remaining years in my life to pick up a fresh/new hustling again by going abroad.
Ti a ba fi ogun odun pinle were, ojo wo gan lo fe wo oja?
I started from the scratch with my parent, suffered with them, hawked bread, in the farm with them and many other things. I am not ready to hustle or suffer again abeg.
As we grow older, things must be getting better or soft not harder again.

emmaodet:


Thanks bro.
It is even far more than being an entrepreneur.
I just don’t like the stress that comes with working working and working. Abeg I am tired.
Have been running and hustling all my life and the small one wey remain na to enjoy am no matter how small it is.
I can’t use the remaining years in my life to pick up a fresh/new hustling again by going abroad.
Ti a ba fi ogun odun pinle were, ojo wo gan lo fe wo oja?
I started from the scratch with my parent, suffered with them, hawked bread, in the farm with them and many other things. I am not ready to hustle or suffer again abeg.
As we grow older, things must be getting better or soft not harder again.

LMAO Just stay back and enjoy your life.

Acidosis:


LMAO Just stay back and enjoy your life.

Acidosis:


Hmm.. Entrepreneurship is largely about solving problems. So relocating to a developed country from a developing country to solve a problem is like trying to get a Ph.D. in a primary school. The problems you'll probably want to solve in those countries are either non-existent or the regulations required in such industries are way too much to handle, especially for a migrant. If you dislike the 9-5 idea or the idea of doing two to three jobs, it's definitely not a wise move to relocate. However, ideas as we all know are immaterial so it is also wise to study the Nigerian environment as many businesses don't survive the first 5 years.

By the way, your wife's insistence to relocate is not new oo. Women are always the set of humans doing the "pushing." Lol For people who are simply concerned about their kids, it may not be a bad move to let go of certain things. However, for those who are deeply vested in their entrepreneurial growth, my advice would be to THINK and...do your research, my brother.

Some of the businesses people do here like schools, day care, gas stations, hotels, beauty shops, etc., are impossible in many developed countries for the average Nigerian. The fees, regulations, and licensing procedures choke.

I can guarantee you that the motivation behind the push has nothing to do with kids majority of the time. They just have this belief that life is easier & sweeter abroad, they also want to be in an environment where they can take pictures in the snow to pepper their friends who are still in Nigeria yet to travel. They also want to be able to tell other family members that they have made it & gone above them.

It's all for the glitz and glamour.

truthsayer009:


I can guarantee you that the motivation behind the push has nothing to do with kids majority of the time. They just have this belief that life is easier & sweeter abroad, they also want to be in an environment where they can take pictures in the snow to pepper their friends who are still in Nigeria yet to travel. They also want to be able to tell other family members that they have made it & gone above them.

It's all for the glitz and glamour.

lol, this man u too Sabi us. We also like to push our men to success, life is not suppose to be stagnated now

Rozross:
I don’t like abroad too, I only do holidays and boom back to my country. I just can’t live my entire life there. People will think you are crazy and weird if you have opportunity to relocate and refused.

Aunty, take it easy...

truthsayer009:


I can guarantee you that the motivation behind the push has nothing to do with kids majority of the time. They just have this belief that life is easier & sweeter abroad, they also want to be in an environment where they can take pictures in the snow to pepper their friends who are still in Nigeria yet to travel. They also want to be able to tell other family members that they have made it & gone above them.

It's all for the glitz and glamour.

Soooo sooo true.

crackhaus:

Aunty, take it easy...

See this one, the sub is seriously on you ooo

Rozross:
See this one, the sub is seriously on you ooo

Oizee:
lol, this man u too Sabi us. We also like to push our men to success, life is not suppose to be stagnated now

But that's also a problem too, pushing your spouse to make the immigration move can hurt the family savings & income, so you need to be sure all that glitz and glamour is worth sacrificing your livelihood. Also stagnation needs be defined in this context too, does stagnation mean not moving abroad like everyone else or not making enough money or not moving up in your career. For example, for a Doctor, moving abroad will be upping his/her career, he or she will benefit more, but for a business man with multiple streams like Obi Cubana, moving abroad is a regression.

1. A poorly managed economy led by people with no strategic plans for decades now.

2. The average Nigerian’s mindset is minuscule. They don’t see the bigger picture. False religion, tribal sentiments and ignorance is just too much.

3. At home or abroad, the average Nigerian hardly cooperate with one another except on religious matters maybe. Group economics is zero. What differentiates a successful and wealthy race (Chinese, Jews, Indians for example) is their ability to cooperate enmasse to achieve certain goals.

4. Again, at home or abroad, the average Nigerian by default prefers to spend on foreign products rather than Nigerian products (or business). Other races are easily enriched whilst we remain poor.

The average Indian or Chinese would rather patronise their own first, before they consider any outsiders. That way, money flows longer within their circle way longer before it goes out. Wealth is circulated. But Naija man or black man? Lmao.

truthsayer009:


But that's also a problem too, pushing your spouse to make the immigration move can hurt the family savings & income, so you need to be sure all that glitz and glamour is worth sacrificing your likelihood. Also stagnation needs be defined in this context too, does stagnation mean not moving abroad like everyone else or not making enough money or not moving up in your career. For example, for a Doctor, moving abroad will be upping his/her career, he or she will benefit more, but for a business man with multiple streams like Obi Cubana, moving abroad is a regression.

Also, there is more to life than career or making more money etc.
A quiet less stressful life even though lesser income is ideal for some people.
It is not all about earning more money, driving more fancy cars, building modern house in a choice area etc I just prefer the lesser life - an average tokunbo car, stays in average area in my town, closer to my extended family, less stress etc.

Ka ro aso mo idi, ka ro idi mo aso, koko nipe ki idi ma ti gbofo…….. either we tie a wrapper to the waste or will roll the waist to the wrapper, the most important thing is that we shouldn’t walk naked.
Whether you want to japa or stay back in nigeria, the bottom line is to be able to earn enough to feed our family so that we won’t be a burden to others and nuisance to the society at large.

emmaodet:


Also, there is more to life than career or making more money etc.
A quiet less stressful life even though lesser income is ideal for some people.
It is not all about earning more money, driving more fancy cars, building modern house in a choice area etc I just prefer the lesser life - an average tokunbo car, stays in average area in my town, closer to my extended family, less stress etc.

Ka ro aso mo idi, ka ro idi mo aso, koko nipe ki idi ma ti gbofo…….. either we tie a wrapper to the waste or will roll the waist to the wrapper, the most important thing is that we shouldn’t walk naked.
Whether you want to japa or stay back in nigeria, the bottom line is to be able to earn enough to feed our family so that we won’t be a burden to others and nuisance to the society at large.

Hmm true, but this lesser life is what Nigerian women don't want sha, in regards to the context of this convo. Na the koko be that.