Wednesday, 30 April 2014

150 S/African Vote In Nigeria.. Does It Mean We Have Only 150 S/Africans In Nigeria?

About 150 South Africans on Wednesday cast their votes in Nigeria ahead of their national and provincial elections slated for May 7.
“They voted in Lagos and Abuja like in other parts of the world. Out of these votes, 120 South Africans voted in Lagos while another 30 of them voted in Abuja.

That brings me to the question,"does it mean we have only 150 South Africans in Nigeria or? As of last count of legal Nigerians living in South Africa, it was 38,000 and we might still have more than 15,000 living illegally. No wonder they treat us anyhow.
With 320,000 legal Nigerians in USA, Britain having the highest number of Nigerians abroad at more than 500,000 legal residents. I think Malaysia comes second at more than 450,000 legal Nigerians.


If we combine these figures, we can authoritatively say that more than 17 million Nigerians live abroad according to thisdaylfe. We might as well say Nigeria is the country with  the highest number of foreign based citizens. We have Nigerians in Cambodia, Myanmar, Iraq and Pakistan. The unbelievable of all is that Nigerians live in Estonia and Mongolia, places adjudged to be one of the coldest places to live in the world.

When will Nigeria get better and bring home its people suffering around the world, its had to imagine that some Nigerians living in countries like Mongolia take up jobs under temperatures of -10, a job the ethnic Mongolians cant do. Its disheartening..

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