If you are relocating to Canada 🇨🇦 from Nigeria 🇳🇬 and don’t know which city to pick, let me save you the research.
🇨🇦 Toronto = 🇳🇬 Lagos. Same hustle. Same traffic on Don Valley Parkway. You didn’t relocate, you just changed currency.
🇨🇦 Ottawa = 🇳🇬 Abuja. Government jobs. Quiet life. People leave work at 5pm. Still can’t believe that’s legal.
🇨🇦 Vancouver = 🇳🇬 Port Harcourt. Beautiful. By the water. Everything is expensive and nobody is sorry about it.
🇨🇦 Calgary = 🇳🇬 Warri. Oil and gas. Tough people. No time for packaging. What you see is what you get.
🇨🇦 Brampton = 🇳🇬 Festac/Surulere. Every Nigerian knows someone there. The jollof, the churches, the hair salons. You will think you never left.
🇨🇦 Winnipeg = 🇳🇬 Kaduna. Overlooked. Affordable. Getting better quietly. Nobody talks about it enough.
🇨🇦 Montreal = 🇳🇬 Ibadan. Old soul. Rich culture. Speaks a different language and is very proud of that. You will adapt or struggle.
🇨🇦 Edmonton = 🇳🇬 Enugu. Solid. Underestimated. People work hard and say nothing about it.
Which one did I get right and which one did I miss? 👇
Deeply honored to be recognized in Barcelona, Spain, as the first African to receive the Lideramos Youth Award for Social Impact.
I used the moment to share one of my favorite stories of the little hummingbird against the great forest fire.
A guy asked on a tech group who was interested in playing tennis on a Saturday morning, I expressed interest & we played for the next 2yrs every Saturday we were both free without knowing each other’s names. We only contacted each other on Sat mornings or Fri nights 😅.
The endless need to want to prove you’re doing good in your own rights. This constant contest of ego and material gymnastics just to prove you’re “bigger”. SMH!
If you're still alive boss
I have come ot add a bit more
I'm one of the heads of the Nigerian community in Manitoba
I run a successful family Medicine + sports medicine practice
gathered a few more certification and fellowships
And I run a multimillion naira business
Udo di
There was a time my friend, who writes Rust, was earning $8k/month from Nigeria.
I said say less… I started learning Rust.
Two months later, they lost their job and couldn’t find another one for months.
Another time I heard people were making crazy money with Solidity.
I jumped on that too.
At some point I had a reason to switch to every language 😭
But then I stuck with and went deep with the language I chose and it has kept me busy for years.
The point is, you’ll get distracted, tempted, and see shiny things everywhere.
You better focus.
If you don’t, you’ll keep restarting your career every 6 months.
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The person who stops studying merely because they have finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what their calling is. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.