I have a BVN from my Nigerian bank account but reside outside of Nigeria (USA). Is it possible to obtain an NIN whilst being over here? I need an NIN to get a new Nigerian passport as my previous one is completely damaged, thanks!

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I repeat, you have to be an evil person to support these guys.

Hi everyone, I am black American (29F) and recently got engaged to a British-Nigerian (32M). We are trying to decide where to have our wedding but can’t agree on a location. All of my friends and family live on the East Coast, USA while he has family and friends in London and Lagos. We want to have a traditional wedding and white wedding the same weekend back to back. I was thinking Europe could be a happy medium but he doesn’t believe you can throw a high quality, authentic traditional wedding in Europe. He wants to have it in Cape Town because it’s still in Africa and you could have a nice trad wedding and is beautiful and “safe” but I think that’s way too far to ask people to travel. We were thinking about having a traditional wedding in Nigeria and a white wedding in Europe but he doesn’t want to plan two weddings or ask 50+ white people to come to Lagos due to safety concerns, and I don’t want to ask people to travel twice.

Please help us find a location where we can throw an authentic traditional wedding. Budget is not a concern. Thank you in advance!

I've heard from someone that nigeria has the cheapest spotify price.
is it true and whats the price ?

How could i get a spotify account in nigeria tho.. it seems like difficult

Been going through some social media handles and all the newly wed couples hire independent contractors and not studios. Is it an out-of-fashion thing or is there a reason why?

I struggle everyday, no relationship, no job. Just suicidal thoughts and anxiety. I can’t even be in a relationship because my unhappiness bleeds into everything,my parents keep on telling me I’m getting older and need to get married, friends saying I’m too pretty to be single …. I can’t even do my certification courses cause I can’t focus, it’s almost like I’m running mad. I just hate it here… I want better for myself but I’m stuck in a constant mental loop.. I just miss being the woman I was, I miss being bold and courageous and happy. I don’t even recognize myself anymore and I hate myself every single day for becoming this person. So much potential just wasted.

I have to travel to Nigeria from the US in 2 weeks and I have no visa or passport. Is it possible to still apply and have it expedited? Or would it be better to reach out to a friend who has a successful business in Nigeria and ask them to write me a visa on arrival? I would appreciate all help.

so i heard africa was patriarchal

my mom is super obsessed with Yoruba peoples and culture but she’s Black & American, and she happens to be dating a Yoruba man (my now step-dad)

she wants me to claim Yoruba heritage because of my stepdad also but on my real dads side his paternal line traces back to a european slave owner even though we look very west african

is it inappropriate for me to claim yoruba heritage?

(i have majority yoruba ancestry on dna tests but i have 0 way of knowing if my great-great-great-grandfather was a yoruba slave lol)

Hello, I was just looking at the homicide statistics in Africa, according to wikipedia:

"Nigeria had a murder rate of 9.85 per 100,000 population in 2015.^([10]) In 2016, the homicide rate per 100.000 inhabitants was 34.5"

Why are the numbers so different for 2015 and 2016? Do you know where i can find reliable data about the homicide rate in Nigeria? Looking at the OurWorldinData map of homicides Nigeria has a homicide rate of 21.74 vs Cameroon with only 4.54. Why such a big difference, is Cameroon not reporting the real homicide rate? Other countries like Rwanda or Uganda also report 5-10, are these countries safer than Nigeria or are also underreporting homicide?

Thanks!

I'm traveling to Lagos to see my boyfriend. My flight leaves 11/7/24. I am still waiting on my visa. I went to the OIS office on 10/16/24 and went through everything, fingerprinting, application review,etc. Now I'm waiting, and my anxiety is through the roof! I can't get in contact with anyone at the Nigerian embassy in DC. I have been calling and sending emails with no response. Can anyone please provide any help or advice? Should I change my itinerary or wait? I really can't change my plans due to work approving certain days off. I need a miracle! 🙏

I’m seeking y’all opinions on this one.

Hello all! I am making this post to see who would be interested in chatting as friends and seing where the friendship can lead to. I live in the states and I am half Nigerian and Liberian. I do travel back, but not as often. If you are interested please reply or DM thanks.

Hello! I am trying to send some money to from my GTBank Dom account to my US bank account (a Capital One account) so I can just use my Capital One card for my purchases here in America, I can't always depend on the dom account card to be accepted at every store.

Is there any way to send the money to my US bank acc, preferably online?

Hi everyone, I am black American (33F) and recently got engaged to a British-Nigerian (36M). We are trying to decide where to have our wedding but can’t agree on a location. All of my friends and family live on the East Coast, USA while he has family and friends in London and Lagos. We want to have a traditional wedding and white wedding the same weekend back to back. I was thinking Europe could be a happy medium but he doesn’t believe you can throw a high quality, authentic traditional wedding in Europe. He wants to have it in Cape Town because it’s still in Africa and you could have a nice trad wedding and is beautiful and “safe” but I think that’s way too far to ask people to travel. We were thinking about having a traditional wedding in Nigeria and a white wedding in Europe but he doesn’t want to plan two weddings or ask 50+ white people to come to Lagos due to safety concerns, and I don’t want to ask people to travel twice.

Please help us find a location where we can throw an authentic traditional & white wedding. Budget is not a concern. Thank you in advance!

I’m always looking for new and upcoming artists. I just discovered this guy. He’s too good guy. Y’all gotta listen to this man.

TLDR

Have any of you considered trying to organise a National Convention in Nigeria, where states send delegations to try and produce a National Plan of Action for the Reduction of Inflation, Unemployment and Insecurity? In my view, this is the best option available for saving the country, but I am interested in whether anybody else agrees.

A lot of people are agitating for protests to force the political officials of the country to take action over the many issues within the country- insecurity, unemployment, inflation, etc. But while it is better than nothing, I think many of us also think protests alone will not save the country- our officials are to well protected and too distances from the people they govern to care about demands being made on the streets. If we are peaceful, we will be ignored, and if we are not we will be shot. Either way, no change is likely to come. Which then makes people even less likely to protest, because they feel there is no point.

So what is the response?

It may be time to think about something other than protesting. Or at least not just protesting alone.

Nigeria is in a severe crisis. Economically, yes, but politically, also, as people have less and less faith in our political system with every passing day. To avoid major political instability, or even potentially civil unrest or civil war, then something will need to change. But our communities do not agree how they can change the country. Worse than that, they are not even talking to each other in any sort of formal, organised way, which makes developing a solution even more difficult.

So my first proposal is to suggest that if we are going to solve the problems facing our country, we are going to need to accept that there are multiple national crises- crises affecting all of us, from every part of Nigeria- and that we will need to take action in order to resolve them- i.e. they are not going to resolve themselves. And my second proposal is to suggest that in order to start trying to resolve these issues, those of us who want change can start to divert our efforts from only organising protests, and also start to push for a National Convention within our country. More specifically, we start to push for a national meeting of specially elected representatives at the state/local level, with the express purpose of developing a National Plan of Action that can help us deal with our current economic and political issues (specifically, inflation, unemployment and insecurity).

Such a meeting is not a threat to current officials and elites- it is aimed at trying to build a national consensus that would make their work easier- and it is also in the interests of the general population of the country, in that a nationally-supported set of solutions to our current issues would lessen the suffering of many of our people. So it seems that there would at least be a chance that such an event could gain the necessary political support from the general population (and acceptance from political elites) to be allowed to occur. And if it were to occur, it is my view that this would be at the very least an opportunity to consider and potentially resolve our national issues.

Maybe it would fail, but it is hard to see how we would succeed by not bringing together all of the communities of the country to work out solutions to our issues, so I do not see a National Convention as hurting our chances, even if there is no guarantee of success. This is obviously only my view, but personally, I feel that a National Convention, composed of state-level delegations, and delivering a National Plan of Action for the Reduction of Inflation, Unemployment and Insecurity is the only way to produce a nationally viable political solution to the major issues currently plaguing our country.

But I am not able to speak for this community, let alone the whole country. Do any of you think the idea has potential? And if so, would any of you be interested in helping to promote it with me?

Made jollof today and it looks and smells perfectly fine. Tomato paste was kind burning a bit early but for the most part, everything was perfect. I know for a fact that nothing I used was soapy or had soap in it. What could have gone wrong?

Have you guys heard of schadenfreude? It’s when you get joy or satisfaction from the bad experience of others.

It’s a bad thing but I can’t help but feel it and laugh when I see Nigerians do what I’m about to describe.

Some Nigerians when they move abroad attempt to completely remove themselves from the Nigerian community. So in America they will outright refuse to go to Houston or Atlanta and want to go to Kansas or Iowa.

They are very smug when they’re doing this too. The men will say they don’t want to date Nigerian women and the women will say the same thing too.

I’ve wanted to date some girls when they first move here but they were always very mean and made it clear they were done with Nigerian men.

Guess what? They always come back. The ones that went to live among Americans will randomly call me saying they want to hear a Nigerian voice others will have serious economic problems and have no one to turn to.

People don’t understand that abroad things happen. You can get fired or be sexually or romantically lonely, in those cases you need people around you that understand you.

I know someone here in New York, we arranged a job for him when he came that paid over $100k in finance, that job is filled with Nigerians, we took him out had drinks and cracked jokes and he turned down the job because he thought it was too Nigerian.

He went with another job filled with Oyibo people, cut all of us off and thrived there for a few years. First he was calling me that he just wants to hang out with Nigerians again and that he’s bored and has nothing to do on weekends, then he started showing up uninvited to the bar we go to in Brooklyn trying to re establish contact but it felt off.

Then he got laid off and had no one to vouch for him, visa time was running out and the company we previously made him interview for didn’t want to touch him so he started staying here illegally.

There are many more stories like this so I will say this. You are a Nigerian, when you japa try and be known in the community. Don’t be rude and announce you are done with us because storms will happen and these people will never see you as “person” you are too different.

You need a community and being hostile to them when you get here will get you nowhere. Choosing to live in towns and cities that don’t have any Nigerians there will teach you why we avoid there.

For a beautiful woman to turn back and try and have contact with me after saying she is tired of Nigerians means a lot, I’m not the finest guy, God knows what they saw outside. Same for the men.

I've tried almost every popular way.

Wise being one, but they don't accept dollar cards issued here, the only way being a SWIFT transfer to them first, and then they send it to the person. However, the fees are too hefty for me to do this.

The second is a bank transfer which is possible, but fees and too much work for one transfer.

Skrill seems the only option that hasn't given me a problem, but what I'm seeing about them on their Reddit and overall reviews is terrible. You send the money and they lock the accounts, so much issues, etc.

PayPal, crypto don't work in Bangladesh, and I've tried most of the apps we use these days.

Any ideas?

Google brought news headlines for me and one of them was about the instruction of the House to the Aviation Minister directing the minister to revoke airstrip licenses granted to Oyedepo and others. And while scrolling down, I saw the above.

And I was just amazed by the things we tell ourselves in this country. You'd invite a supposedly successful businessman to an interview to give us pointers by explaining how he made his wealth, and all they'd end with is to ascribe everything to God.