Foreigners

Yeah, weird title for a post, but I couldn't think of anything else,

Anyway, let's get down to the nitty gritty: there are surprisingly a lot of people from outside of Nigeria in Nigeria. It's not like you're gonna see an American every day of the week or anything, but still, my Dad said that there used to be a lot less. Every once and a while you might see a man or woman from some country or the other and all that, but it never really hit me how many there actually were until we had visited IITA, which I have talked about in previous posts. There are so many of them there; I think there are probably as many foreigners or maybe more as there are Nigerians there. Some of them are businesspeople, and a lot of them came to this country because of money. Some others come to Nigeria and decide to stay because they believe that it's nicer or more convenient to live there. There are so many reasons why they come, but I think a lot of them come for business, because there are a lot of business opportunities here. For example, Nigerians want hamburgers, but there isn't really a McDonald's up the street, is there? So if one were to open up their own burger joint, they'd probably make a lot of money. That's why some foreigners have in places like Lagos and Abuja, the two most popular cities. But in places like Ibadan and our hometown in Nigeria, Ife, there are no malls or even movie theaters, so that opens up huge prospects for making money and opening up a service to Nigerians that wasn't there before. Now that's what I call smart!

Signing off,
The Traveler