A country with diverse culture, one of the key attractions beyond the beaches is the towering skyscrapers looking down upon wooden houses built on stilts and five star hotels meters away from the ancient reefs. Kaula Lumpur, the capital city is well known to be a place of all round entertainment where people love to socialize and celebrate. With a population of 28 million, Malaysia has of lately become the ideal place for young Nigerians seeking greener pastures.
On a daily basis hundreds of Nigerians relocates to Malaysia and to a lay man the question has always been what’s so special about Malaysia that a lot of young Nigerians prefer that place to Europe and America. We gathered that the reason many people are going to Malaysia is because it is easier to make money there than Europe and America whose economy recently suffered setback due to the global economy crunch. At the moment there are over 500,000 Nigerians living in Malaysia including children of rich Nigerians who are schooling in Malaysia. The children of rich Nigerians (mostly Hausa) live large in Nilai an outskirts of Kuala Lumpur and attend Lagenda College of the best schools while other Nigerians live in Kepong.

Why many Nigerians are relocating to Malaysia has recently become a subject of discussion in the society. We gathered that most of the guys in Malaysia are either into drug business or internet fraud. While the ladies are into prostitution. For the ladies, they mostly enter the country with a student Visa and after they are granted their one year residential permit, they ply the trade which earns them an income of nothing less than $10,000 monthly. Countries like Bostwana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzanian dominate the prostitution business but Nigerians play at the highest level and rather than hang out at clubs for customers, they have agents that love-vendor them for rich foreigners who visit Malaysia for business or Holiday.

Sources disclosed that the recent influx of young Nigerian girls into Malaysia is alarming and this is because they make good money there.

Besides the internet fraud another way Nigerians make money in Malaysia is drug trafficking. Despite the fact that there is death penalty on whoever is caught with drugs in Malaysia Nigerians still take the risk of engaging themselves in drug business. Quite a lot of Nigerians are in Malaysia prison awaiting trial while some have been sentenced to death through hanging. An instance is a Nigerian mother of 5 sentenced to death in 2005 after refusing to overturn her drug trafficking conviction. Also is a 29 years old Nigerian was arrested in march 2010 for trafficking drugs worth RM230,000 ($60,000) and recently was the case of a young Igbo man arrested for drug trafficking worth $40,000.

Sources disclosed that, “Drug is the most lucrative business in Malaysia. “Some people export it from here but that is quite dangerous but for those that can do that they are either very desperate or have spiritual backing they believe will always work for them. You don’t have to take drugs to Malaysia, all you have to do is have the right connection and be at the right place at the right time. If things work out right one can make as much as $30000 per deal.

Right now, so many Yahoo boys who got broke during the recession have since relocated to Malaysia.

We learnt that securing a visa to Malaysia used to be very easy until lately when the Government of the country put an embargo on the number of Nigerians that should be allowed into the country on a daily basis. Apparently, there are two kinds of visa to Malaysia and they are student and social visa. The student visa is the easiest to get but takes about 2 months to finalize the documents. To secure a student visa, all one needs is a medical report , photocopy of passport pages and O’level result which will be sent to the school of choice. The school will then forward the documents to Immigration office for approval and after being approved the immigration approval and letter of offer will be sent back to the applicant after a sum of $800 must have been paid. The applicant will now go to the embassy in Abuja, pay a sum women.com.ng000 and being given a social visa with an indication below that he/she is billed to study in his her university of choice. A maximum of 3 months visa will be issued and if not used within the period admission is forfeited. On arrival at the point of entry only the school authority can clear the applicant in and this is strictly based on the fact that he/she has the school fee with him/her. The applicant will then be stamped to remain in the country for 2 weeks after which the applicant will submit his/her passport to the school authority which will then process a cover letter that will guaranty one year residential permit. The popular schools Nigerians attend there are Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Islamic College, Segi University Rima University and City University of Science and Technology.

Based on the fact that the student visa takes about 8 weeks, many Nigerians prefer to go for the social visa which takes less than 7 days. To secure the social visa few documents are needed and at the point of entry one must have a BTA of nothing less than $2500. The BTA used to be $1000 but based on the high number of Nigerians that storm the country on a daily basis it was increased. Many Nigerians who enter with a social visa later go to one of the schools with necessary documents to secure an admission and with that they get a cover letter to remain in the country for one year.”