Comments on: Why The Nigerian Diaspora Won’t Return Home

By: james

james — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:06:00 +0000

Idiots don’t want to come back home? You are all in foreign land and you are not ashamed? Shame on you monkeys!! Shame on you! Come back to see for yourselves how fast your country is moving. Infact you shameless pigs are lucky am not the president of Nigeria, i would chase you back when you finally come rip where you did not sow! Remain in exile Pigs!

By: Ugo

Ugo — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:49:00 +0000

I think we have all made cogent reasons
for why it is yet unsafe and unwise to return to today’s Nigeria. But here come
the answer and the right pointer in the direction we should see the need for a
return back home. As you all will agree with me, and just like Sayo and most of
us have already pointed out correctly, no one can ever claim ownership of a
land he/she has not built, no matter the number of years you live there. Now,
how can we build and make our home comfortable for ourselves, and even for
others to desire joining us? It is by developing the unrelenting desire/passion
to fix it. We have also commented on corruption and all kinds of ills being
endemic in our country. I tell you, no country was born without ills, but the
issue is that those countries’ citizens where resolute and set out to fight and
eradicate those ills that impede or keep them from growing. What am I driving
at? We quite understand that the political system is the steering to our
societal fate – it drives everyone to a certain societal status (i.e., healthy
or unhealthy), depending on the driver(s). So, if i may add vividly and
concisely, it is time for us to understand that until the steering, which
provides the platform on which every other good expectations spring, is handled
by the right set of people, we might just remain analyzers and philosophers of
our problem. Straight to the point, we all have to come back and say, ”enough
is enough – we must see the right people in the right places!”. I tell you,
there have never been a time where the few ”wrongs” are more powerful than
the much more massive ”rights”. It’s just that those ”rights”, most times,
are pitiably unaware of their collective strength. I put it to all of us that
immediately this area and fact is recognized and addressed, there will be an
unimaginable outburst of great development in that our exceedingly blessed
nation. Otherwise, we will keep revolving and lamenting in a problem we all are
contributors to. Take it or leave it, I have said it!

By: Sayo

Sayo — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:26:00 +0000

Why don’t we see the positive side of everything?

By: Sayo

Sayo — Thu, 30 May 2013 08:20:00 +0000

Okay,people say negative things but there is surely a positive story.if all Nigerians do not work move this nation forward I am afraid it will remain this way and future generation will blame us just the same way we are blaming our fathers. If the people in whose country we all stay didn’t work hard to take their countrys to greater height you won’t be there now! Nothing good comes easy.outsiders come to Nigeria to invest and they are making it,while the land owners are there in another man’s land struggling! Just have it in mind that a home you did not Arrange can never be yours.

By: Riot50000

Riot50000 — Tue, 28 May 2013 21:44:00 +0000

You forgot something or I missed it.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE ROBED, KIDNAPPED and MURDERED like a Bush Dog

By: Christian Chinedu Emezi

Christian Chinedu Emezi — Tue, 28 May 2013 14:07:00 +0000

MY BROTHER ALMOST ALL OF US ARE VICTIMS TO THIS NONSENSE .THE WORST THAT THERE ARE CHURCHES EVERY YET THE PEOPLE THERE MANY ARE WORSE ENEMY THAN SATAN INCLUDING SOME OF THE PASTORS WHO THEIR OFFICE TO ROB PEOPLE WHO HAD TRUSTED THEM. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE COS’S A VERY SERIOUS AND PAINFUL SITUATION.

By: bas

bas — Tue, 28 May 2013 05:24:00 +0000

Are you kidding me?You want us to back home and do what?The public education system is a mess, children are not learning the simplest concepts…Corruption is endemic and the economy is in chaos.

By: Ola

Ola — Mon, 27 May 2013 10:02:00 +0000

Same here brother….

By: MrBasabose

MrBasabose — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:04:00 +0000

“The political climate in Nigeria is one of the top reasons why the Nigerian Diaspora refuse to go back to Nigeria.” GO HOME & CHANGE IT smh

When some in that so called diaspora say “political instability, lack of infrastructure, blah blah” are reasons they cant go back I just LOL

So Africans in the West cant go home because it’s a mess. Do they know PEOPLE WORKED to create conditions they ENJOY in the West? #Stoopeed

“I cant go home because there are no McDonald’s there” This is pretty much the summary of this article.

Some Africans can be so lazy and weirdly they take pride in it. SMH

By: CJ Lagos

CJ Lagos — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:06:00 +0000

You know, I think this article hightlights a lot thinking in the average Nigerian in diaspora. I have lived in the U.S for almost 25 years of my life. I have been reading and paying attention to what has been happening in Nigeria. You see some of us have tried in the past to do business in Nigeria, unfortunately those businesses have been with family members, and many of us have been “419ed” by them. I can speak from personal experience. This experience really drives home the point that most people in Nigeria can’t seem to see beyond what they can get “now”, instead of looking at how they would benefit once the business succeeds in the long run, they would rather lie, cheat and run the business down, collect whatever they can at that moment, and beg you to send some more “dollars” to another business with them. I’m sure many Nigerians who read this, knows what I am talking about. This experience and all the ones you listed in your article makes most of us who have good intentions to come home and set up businesses very reluctant to make that venture, at least for now. I would like to ask one question to the people in this fora, who or what group would you trust upon coming to Nigeria to do business with? We all know about the 419 problems plaguing the country. Please don’t pretend you are not concerned about that.