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Rexymania(m): 1:31pm On Nov 27, 2024
If you're inviting me over, send me TF and send me the documents of the job I will be doing there and working website

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Eraddray(m): 2:08pm On Nov 27, 2024
Wallai, Nigeria don spoil...when did Morocco become greener pasture....


Well anywhere whr person fine good doing nahim be greener paster sha
Omoawoke(m): 2:10pm On Nov 27, 2024
Anybody making this trip doesn’t value happiness

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meobizy(f): 2:12pm On Nov 27, 2024
It was an adventure, nonetheless. Lessons are learned from every experience. You will look back on these with fond memories one day.

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Adakintroy: 2:14pm On Nov 27, 2024
If you get more than. A million and you travel out You no really too get brain. The twenty first century is so fascinating that you can adopt and manage any ideal right in front of your home if you are intelligent barely. Aside were is the fun in easy mode?


If you keep taking resource both human and capital out. You really part of the problem. Black mind struggle to reach enlightenment of independence because of lure of food in what they now call greener pasture.

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chatinent: 2:15pm On Nov 27, 2024
I personally cannot take loans or sell my property to travel to another African country, America or Europe to finally end up suffering again..

While I would like to be gentle on you, this was a pennywise pound most foolish decision you made.

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Franzinni: 2:16pm On Nov 27, 2024
That your relative that pushed you nko?... You suppose fetch better swear Bluetooth am! And how are you coping with repaying the loan people for your misadventures

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Zouzer: 2:16pm On Nov 27, 2024
cathodekazim:
My story isn’t one of triumph but of lessons learned in the hardest way possible. I left Nigeria with big dreams but returned with nothing but heartbreak and regret. This is my journey.

The Call to Adventure

It started in Ikorodu, Lagos, where I worked as a phone repair technician, barely earning enough to feed my family. One day, a relative who lived abroad called me with an opportunity I thought was heaven-sent. He claimed Morocco was a land of opportunities where I could earn in dollars working in construction or as a welder. “You can make ₦500,000 monthly,” he said.

The cost of the journey was steep—nearly ₦2 million—but he promised to connect me with agents who would handle everything. I thought about my wife and two kids and decided it was worth it. The goal was to leave Ikorodu with hope and return with success.

Another chapter in the book of Narratives of Things That Never Happened.

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Urgent1Million: 2:19pm On Nov 27, 2024
We are discouraged from leaving the country.
Message taken.
You helped girls to get help from a priest into an NGO but couldn't get help yourself.
Continue!

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DeepSight(m): 2:21pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:


Their minds where never made to cross over to Europe,
They just followed the bandwagon

It just beats me how you can in such a broad stroke categorize the zillions of people and zillions of different possible scenarios in these matters. That alone is sifficient to show you dont think deeply.

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DeepSight(m): 2:21pm On Nov 27, 2024
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MeaslesMumpsRub: 2:23pm On Nov 27, 2024
You go far reach Morocco. You for just rugged am enter Spain make you rest there.

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Ade3131: 2:23pm On Nov 27, 2024
OkanlawonB:
If you intend relocating from Nigeria, any other destination aside the western countries is not worth it.

Even the western countries sef...

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chatinent: 2:23pm On Nov 27, 2024
But why Maiduguri to Agadex when you came to Kano?

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efemena5050(m): 2:25pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,
shut up forming nairaland 50 cent .....in English there is something called threshold and everyone have his or her own threshold levels ......

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Empresa: 2:27pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,
The plan was working in morroco not going to Europe.

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Ade3131: 2:27pm On Nov 27, 2024
What a pity people still fall for this sort of bullsh!t promise of a better life in another African country.

Unless you're going there to establish your own business, I'm sorry there's no such thing as pasture green on the continent.

In the West, you need someone to give you a soft landing, else you'll suffer before gaining grounds.

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TableLeg(m): 2:27pm On Nov 27, 2024
cathodekazim:
My story isn’t one of triumph but of lessons learned in the hardest way possible. I left Nigeria with big dreams but returned with nothing but heartbreak and regret. This is my journey.
The Call to Adventure
It started in Ikorodu, Lagos, where I worked as a phone repair technician, barely earning enough to feed my family. One day, a relative who lived abroad called me with an opportunity I thought was heaven-sent. He claimed Morocco was a land of opportunities where I could earn in dollars working in construction or as a welder. “You can make ₦500,000 monthly,” he said.

The cost of the journey was steep—nearly ₦2 million—but he promised to connect me with agents who would handle everything. I thought about my wife and two kids and decided it was worth it. The goal was to leave Ikorodu with hope and return with success.



OK.
Tijani009: 2:28pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,
Lie story

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thinkaxis(m): 2:29pm On Nov 27, 2024
This story is so fake, this guy has not travelled outside ikorodu before. I wonder what you want to gain by this fabrication.

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DomPerignon: 2:31pm On Nov 27, 2024
This is why geography and map reading is a must.

You are going to Morocco that is to the extreme northwestern corner of Africa and you board a bus to Kano and then head east to Maiduguri only to head west by another 1,000km to Agadez in central Niger?

The best route would have been cradling the west African coastline from Lagos to Benin, Togo, Ghana , Ivory Coast then through Liberia , Serie Leone to Senegal and from there make your way north through Mauritania on to Western Sahara up to the border to Morroco.

Going through the route OP described nah one heavy Israelite waka.

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Pootle: 2:31pm On Nov 27, 2024
OkanlawonB:


Your assertion does'nt hold water, there are many nigerians stuck in many strange and hopeless destinations and will jumb at any slightest opportunity to return home, even empty handed.

put him in that position and see him jittering...e sweet for mouth but hard for real life

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favour32(m): 2:32pm On Nov 27, 2024
Never bothered to read all but summary of such journey is 50% chance to survive and 50% chance to die.
Does it worth it?
Only you can answer it.
Lithiumite: 2:32pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,

Was wondering same.....why would someone who is from Gambia end up in Niger to get to Morocco.....also,how can a man in distress be able to concern himself with the problems of not one but several ladies and you were able to help them all escape commando style.

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RodgersAkpafu: 2:33pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,

he has a wife and kids
When that is in the picture
Dying is not exactly an option to take

But a single young man
Those ones can risk it more

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RodgersAkpafu: 2:34pm On Nov 27, 2024
Adakintroy:
If you get more than. A million and you travel out You no really too get brain. The twenty first century is so fascinating that you can adopt and manage any ideal right in front of your home if you are intelligent barely. Aside were is the fun in easy mode?


If you keep taking resource both human and capital out. You really part of the problem. Black mind struggle to reach enlightenment of independence because of lure of food in what they now call greener pasture.

Funny

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kelvyn7: 2:34pm On Nov 27, 2024
OkanlawonB:


Your assertion does'nt hold water, there are many nigerians stuck in many strange and hopeless destinations and will jumb at any slightest opportunity to return home, even empty handed.

Bro but can't they go to the embassy and ask to be deported? Cos it's better than suffering beyond words.

I really want to know

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Liammm: 2:36pm On Nov 27, 2024
LandMann:
By now you should have guessed correctly that the op is either a mad person or a government propaganda agent, one of many who roam daily on Nairaland dishing out propaganda with written AI content to either whitewash Tinubu's government or discourage people from fleeing from the poverty inducing istration of Tinubu.

TLDR;

The story is fake and generated by AI
This was exactly my thought. you're smart. lol

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AliEzeOlu: 2:37pm On Nov 27, 2024
PapaNnamdi:
I don't believe this story,

Any man that has had a near death experience is not afraid of dying,


Getting to Morocco against all odds should further boost your zeal to cross to Europe, but you saying you returned back to Nigeria by yourself, makes me doubt this story,
It's either it's made up
Or you are not a fighter

We Get what we aim for or we die trying,
There is no grey area once the mind is made up,

Dear brother. Belleve what you wanna. Regards!!

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DomPerignon: 2:37pm On Nov 27, 2024
cathodekazim:
My story isn’t one of triumph but of lessons learned in the hardest way possible. I left Nigeria with big dreams but returned with nothing but heartbreak and regret. This is my journey.

The Call to Adventure

It started in Ikorodu, Lagos, where I worked as a phone repair technician, barely earning enough to feed my family. One day, a relative who lived abroad called me with an opportunity I thought was heaven-sent. He claimed Morocco was a land of opportunities where I could earn in dollars working in construction or as a welder. “You can make ₦500,000 monthly,” he said.

The cost of the journey was steep—nearly ₦2 million—but he promised to connect me with agents who would handle everything. I thought about my wife and two kids and decided it was worth it. The goal was to leave Ikorodu with hope and return with success.












An ECOWAS port which as a Nigerian and entitled to , would've taken you from Lagos all the way to Senegal with zero hassle.

From Senegal you are only 2 countries away from your destination.

You cross into Mauritania and then Western Sahara that is bordering Morocco.

This is the safest and cheapest route.

Ignorance is really a disease.

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mikkyangel3: 2:38pm On Nov 27, 2024
LandMann:
By now you should have guessed correctly that the op is either a mad person or a government propaganda agent, one of many who roam daily on Nairaland dishing out propaganda with written AI content to either whitewash Tinubu's government or discourage people from fleeing from the poverty inducing istration of Tinubu.

TLDR;

The story is fake and generated by AI

I am beginning to suspect too.

The written English is too good, and the writing style is too well put together to be that of some phone repairer in Ikorodu.

The funny thing about these government agents who go about online, spewing pro-government propaganda for a mere pittance,

Is that they don't know that the children of the people who send them on these fools' errands, don't even live in Nigeria

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