bigfrancis21:


Yea, I'm telling you. Nigerians here are doing well. My boss at work (IT company) is Nigerian and you need to see how smart and intelligent he is, and commands respect from his oyibo subordinates. I have utmost respect for him. I attended the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference in Anaheim, California (flew to Los Angeles International Airport) 2 weeks ago. This is an event that is held once every year during which top companies such as Ford Motors, General Electric, Shell, Chevron, Chevrolet, Northrup Grummann, Intel, Cisco etc attend to recruit intelligent black engineers, and is attended by thousands, of students from all over US. I went there and the number of Nigerians I found there was stifling. Nigerians (Igbo, Yoruba, Urhobo, Ibibio) everywhere. O gini na-afio? Approximately 45% of the people there were Nigerians, including the recruiters/HR personnel representing the companies and the students. You would walk up to a recruiter to talk to him only to read his name tag and see 'onyekachi dike' or 'olaide tony' or 'dubem nwobu'. Or you would jump in line waiting to talk to a particular company and read the name tags of everyone standing in line and ALL are Nigerians. WTF Even one of the recruiters happened to be my village guy, same village same ogbe (quarter)! Nna, quickly we exchanged contacts o. I met a couple of students who graduated from my UG school, UNN. People were just landing job offers on the spot. Interviews taking place here and there on the spot. One naija guy landed 3 offers from 3 different companies and was confused as to which one to choose. We (a collection of 5 nigerian students at the event ) advised him to go for Johnson & Johnson seeing that it has more job benefits than the others.

Towards the ending of the event on the second day, na em my fellow yoruba students begin blow yoruba anyhow. Yoruba dey represent anywhere dem go. I hail una.

Or is it confidence and composure? Give it up to the Nigerians. They were walking around like they own the entire building complex.

And confidence is one trait most recruiters look out for in potential candidates, even if you don't know what you're saying, just act like you know what you're saying.

You can most times tell a Nigerian from his walking gait and the confidence he exudes while walking, or in other words, his 'i no send you' waka.

It goes a long way to show the huge presence of Nigerians in engineering in US. Nigerians rarely go for ajebo courses like english literature, social work, biological biology or however they want to tus.h it up to sound appealing , but the tough ones such as engineering, medicine, etc where the money is.

bigfrancis21:


Yea, I'm telling you. Nigerians here are doing well. My boss at work (IT company) is Nigerian and you need to see how smart and intelligent he is, and commands respect from his oyibo subordinates. I have utmost respect for him. I attended the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference in Anaheim, California (flew to Los Angeles International Airport) 2 weeks ago. This is an event that is held once every year during which top companies such as Ford Motors, General Electric, Shell, Chevron, Chevrolet, Northrup Grummann, Intel, Cisco etc attend to recruit intelligent black engineers, and is attended by thousands, of students from all over US. I went there and the number of Nigerians I found there was stifling. Nigerians (Igbo, Yoruba, Urhobo, Ibibio) everywhere. O gini na-afio? Approximately 45% of the people there were Nigerians, including the recruiters/HR personnel representing the companies and the students. You would walk up to a recruiter to talk to him only to read his name tag and see 'onyekachi dike' or 'olaide tony' or 'dubem nwobu'. Or you would jump in line waiting to talk to a particular company and read the name tags of everyone standing in line and ALL are Nigerians. WTF Even one of the recruiters happened to be my village guy, same village same ogbe (quarter)! Nna, quickly we exchanged contacts o. I met a couple of students who graduated from my UG school, UNN. People were just landing job offers on the spot. Interviews taking place here and there on the spot. One naija guy landed 3 offers from 3 different companies and was confused as to which one to choose. We (a collection of 5 nigerian students at the event ) advised him to go for Johnson & Johnson seeing that it has more job benefits than the others.

Towards the ending of the event on the second day, na em my fellow yoruba students begin blow yoruba anyhow. Yoruba dey represent anywhere dem go. I hail una.

Or is it confidence and composure? Give it up to the Nigerians. They were walking around like they own the entire building complex.

And confidence is one trait most recruiters look out for in potential candidates, even if you don't know what you're saying, just act like you know what you're saying.

You can most times tell a Nigerian from his walking gait and the confidence he exudes while walking, or in other words, his 'i no send you' waka.

It goes a long way to show the huge presence of Nigerians in engineering in US. Nigerians rarely go for ajebo courses like english literature, social work, biological biology or however they want to tus.h it up to sound appealing , but the tough ones such as engineering, medicine, etc where the money is.

AAinEqGuinea:


NSBE - good to know my funds are going to good use. Please tell me my fellow AA's werent busy using the conference as partying escapade.

Natural sciences, gotta love and hate em. I knew a smart nigerian who majored in Economics, hope that was satisfying and hard enough for her.

alabi484:
who says Nigerians are dullards...?

bigfrancis21:


LOL. Parties and discos were held but not in the career fair booth but somewhere else in the building in the evening. I met some quite smart and hardworking AAs at the event too.

AAs made the United States a conducive and thriving environment that black immigrants enjoy today! Gotta give it up to you guys!

CyberWolf:
Igbos are going places ....Keep it up bro. Let them shove both the presidency and senate presidency up their anvs. It will never keep us from moving higher..

knightsTempler:


http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/04/pf/college/immigrant-accepted-all-ivy-league-schools-harold-ekeh/

dhtml18:
How I wish most igbos are like this, and not. . . . .

armadeo:
God one. Keep the flag flying.


[size=18pt]Anyone noticed the title was Nigerian not Yoruba, Hausa ijaw or IBO. That's how the world sees us until we see ourselves as such ain't no point in the marriage[/size].

UGLYS:
Why are Nigerians aversed to remarkable achievements like this?

If its ten signs she wants to have sex; professors, savants and dons will flood the topic to register their thoughts, shameful.

softapple:
wow thats good, this is why its good to be rich becaus things are just going to be easy for you and u can give your children the best education in a developed country.

CyberWolf:
Igbos are going places ....Keep it up bro. Let them shove both the presidency and senate presidency up their anvs. It will never keep us from moving higher..

asala1:


Are you still bitter?

CyberWolf:
Igbos are going places ....Keep it up bro. Let them shove both the presidency and senate presidency up their anvs. It will never keep us from moving higher..

christopher123:


You don't understand ..the case is that they expect igbo to be down but to their dismay igbo keep suprising them ..tour correct they will envy instaed of congratulate



That's nigerian for u

christopher123:


You don't understand ..the case is that they expect igbo to be down but to their dismay igbo keep suprising them ..tour correct they will envy instaed of congratulate



That's nigerian for u