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@poster, I guess you are based in Chiraq. lol. better be careful I heard Chicago is the murder capital of America. The murder rate is above 500 per year. while the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the States just below Detriot. A Nairalander was murder in Chicago in 2010 while he was been rop

stewie100: i will be leaving this site soon because i can't stand i.diots,i am american ,being on this nigerian forum is threatening my psyche ,sanity and sense of civility.my greatgrand father gave your greatgrandfather your little religion about 150yrs ago.you should listen to me when i speak because there are other historical facts that you do not now know about your religion .to cut a long story short you need to loose your ignorance and embrace common sense.

you be mugu. abi you think say you be the only person wey don live for America. You are very rude and a fake wanna-be American. abeg commot for this forum because no body want you for here. you are probably one of those homeless crack-heads living in the street of America begging for a dollar.

Lucasbalo: Chicago is one of the best cities in US. The only downside is the coldness during winter.

Chiraq ain't safe to raise a family

BushyA55.Banger:
check my profile baby

you look handsome o.

stewie100: I know that that not all whites are redneck and not all blacks are ghetto,there are numerous wealthy black towns. Atlanta is a successful black city.i was mainly referring to young nigerian immigrants who try to act like the black american stereotype

A young Nigeria immigrant would rather go to Houston or NY because that is where he can easily get job. most of those states you mention are mostly agricultural states and there are few industries or companies. how many young Nigerians would want to farm in America? Maybe you should relocate to Montana, Dakota or Alaska for a month then you will understand what I am trying to tell you.

stewie100: who told you all of that? thats the impression but its not reality.there are black people in Montana,Alaska,Oregon,Washington etc,if nigerians and other immigrants move to the aforementioned places the racist or whatever will get used to it and there are more opportunities.don't be a coward.always have a good attitude,be an upright patriotic citizen, dont throw african parties or hang nigerian flag on your porch.,dont behave like a gangster,no one likes gangsters.be humble and you will be fine.

The black population in some of those states is less than 3%. you hardly see blacks living in rural part of America. most blacks live in inner cities.please don't sterotype black people in America. I live in a predominately black city and not all black Americans are ghetto or gangsta. Just like not all white people are redneck or white trash living in trailer park.

making money is not by going to school to get a degree

so you want Nigerians in US to live redneck states like Mississippi, Alabama. Most of those small states are racist towards blacks. unlike liberal states like California, Texas, New York. you hardly see blacks in states like Alaska, North and South Dakota. I think most Nigerians settle in Texas, New York and California because they can easily network for jobs and get connections with fellow Nigerians.

gregg2: The schools CAN is raising issues with are schools the churches built with their sweat. Aregberascal should leave their property for them and go implement his Islamic policies in government schools. Alternatively, he could built new schools and implement his policies

but the schools now belongs to the state government. The state government is funding the schools and paying the teachers salaries

OPC.NAIRALAND:
How can a Youth, an educated one for that matter open mouth and say we separate politics from religion? Sir, you sound like Kanye West giving opinion on political partisanship.

The problem with our country is that we mix politics with religion and tribalism. Nigeria is a secular country with people of different religion and tribes. CAN and their Moslem counterpart should remain in the church or mosque and should not be involved with politics.

raytony: . I wan bold ur circular but I no sabi how dem dey do am. It is spelt as secular.

thanks for correcting my spelling

I throught Nigeria is a secular state. its high time we seperate religion from politics

I think fields like humanities and social sciences has the largest unemployed graduates. some of my friends that study engineering has good jobs.

orgasticdance: this chap was on another thread saying he applies discretion by buying condoms online to avoid doing it in public, now ur here offering an elegant but useless prayer on nairaland to skydaddy who is clearly against fornication. if i were God i'll spit on ur prayer

Thank God you are not him

Afam4eva: I suspect that Uduaghan will present his deputy if he wants to honour the governorship rotation. But i don't think that deputy governor is good enough. I've heard him speak and i don't think he's up to scratch. If Iweala decides to contest, she'll definitely have backing from Abuja and Uduaghan will have to respect that.

I don't think so. Uduaghan already has his men from Delta North like Senetor Ifeanyi Okowa and others eyeing the governor seat. I don't really think GEJ will want to be involved in Delta politics since he is interested in 2015. its not in GEJ interest to go against the wish of uduaghan because he has more to lose.

Afam4eva: Has she indicated interest in being the Governor of Delta state? I think she's more than qualified but could see the office as a demotion.

I doubt if uduaghan will allow her replace him. Politics is all about interest and I don't think it is in
uduaghan best interest for her to become governor.

It is because of people like him that made Nigeria to be illegible for visa lottery. I hope US immigrations deport him back to Nigeria after serving his prison sentence

A LeFrak City resident who police say looted mail boxes and stole more than $100,000 worth of rent checks from his fellow tenants in the Queens complex was arrested Tuesday, officials said.Cops said 45-year-old Olawale Akinnawonu — who won a lottery in Nigeria to apply for U.S. citizenship — used a key and stick to fish out rent checks intended for the complex’s management company from an outgoing mail drawer.


According to cops, Akinnawonu stole $100,000 worth of rent checks from his fellow LeFrak residents.

He would then use the checks to “overpay” credit card accounts he made in his victims’ names so he could receive reimbursement checks.Those checks — which ranged between $900 and $1,500 — were then deposited in a bank account he could pull money from, officials said.

Akinnawonu and his wife were arrested at their LeFrak City apartment.

Cops arrested Akinnawonu and his wife, whose name was not released, in their LeFrak City apartment at 7 a.m. as neighbors watched.“I’m shocked,” said Nubia Moreno, 67. “They didn’t seem to go to work. When we talked, he always said he was a Christian.”Queens prosecutors said they have video of Akinnawonu “basically taking a stick and shoving it into U.S. Mail outboxes.”“We have video of him removing the mail,” Queens Assistant DA Greg Pavlides told Judge Barry Kron at Akinnawonu’s arraignment.

source: http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1479617

There is nothing wrong with having abortion is the foetus is less than 20 weeks because it is not yet a child but a collection of cells

nikkypearl: congrats...but when will they start giving birth in nigeria general hospital huh

its like all our celebrities want their kids to be Americana.

Ashawo no be work

fittty: Young man, your thread is indirectly comparing the US and NIGERIA. You are asking nairalanders who intend migrating to the US if they really know where they are heading to, so that would leave them with weighing their opportunities in both countries. An average Nigerian would want to stick to migrating anyday anytime. Go take a look at the visa lottery thread/ Study Thread. If you're having a difficult time in the US then get on the next flight to Nigeria.

You obviously don't know what graduates face in Nigeria. After spending years of studying hard coupled with strikes and all, you end up in the labor market for years searching for jobs....

You are still 20 years, when you're all grown and face the challenges of life rather than checking google then you'll know what grown men are talking about



Use your initiatives, The topic boils down to comparing surviving in both countries

Just like in Nigeria, US also has a high rate of unemployment and underemployment for graduate too. I know many US graduates that are unemployed or underemployed working minimum wage job in Wal-mart,or waiting table in restaurant. Unless you are some kind of Genius with years of experience, getting a GOOD job in US now is all about Networking ( knowing the right people). it is not easy in both US or Nigeria and its all about hard work and some kind of luck to survive in both country. The US government recently shut down because of its debt and needs to borrow more money by raising the debt limit. This is an article on the present state of US economy..............................................................................................................



Stacey Kalivas should be celebrating her graduation from college later this week. Instead, the 22 year-old is getting ready to move back home with broken dreams and in debt. Kalivas is a member of the class of 2013, the fifth successive wave of students to enter into a stubbornly weak U.S. labor market—marked by high unemployment, a large number of part-time workers, and many who have given up the hunt for jobs. “It’s kind of tough to be graduating and not having anything,” said Kalivas. The finance major will graduate from Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, on May 18.

It has been nearly four years since the end of the worst U.S. economic downturn since the Great Depression, but the recovery has been too spotty to patch up the deep scars. Growth has struggled to rise much above two percent on a yearly basis, with quarters of relatively strong expansion typically followed by lulls. Employers have been reluctant to ramp-up hiring, leaving unemployment at 7.5 percent—nearly three percentage points above its pre-recession level. Employers plan to hire only 2.1 percent more new college graduates this year than in 2012, according to a survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Last fall they thought the increase would be 13 percent.
A separate survey by staffing firm Adecco found that about 58 percent of 500 hiring managers across the country have no plans to hire new graduates. Of those hiring, more than two thirds said they would take only one or two candidates. These grim statistics resonate with Kalivas. In her search for a job as a financial analyst, she has applied for seven positions. “It’s frustrating because I feel like I will be more than qualified for the job description, but I am not even making it past the first stage,” she said.
Similar tales are recounted by other students.

“Nobody is hiring or accepting interns,” said Brian Dobson, who recently graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in political science. The 29-year-old Iraq war veteran has submitted resumes to 15 companies hoping to find employment in either public affairs, marketing, or as a lobbyist. All have been met with rejections.
The Class of 2013 is competing with four other groups of graduates going back to 2009, many of whom are still struggling to get a job or find full-time work.

Brian Hackett graduated in 2010 with a political science and public policy degree. “I am working part-time at a research company, but it’s not enough hours, it’s not enough pay and it’s not my career path. That’s the type of rut a lot of people like myself are falling in,” said Hackett.
In April, unemployment among workers under the age of 25 was at 16.1 percent, more than double the national rate.
While the unemployment rate for young college graduates between the ages of 21-24 who are not enrolled in further schooling is 8.8 percent, the underemployment rate, a gauge of those only working part time or who want a job but have given up looking, is at 18.3 percent. The jobless rate for this group was 5.7 percent in 2007; the underemployment rate was 9.9 percent.

“In addition to the substantial share who are officially unemployed, a large swath of these young, highly educated workers have either a job but cannot attain the hours they need or want a job but have given up looking for work,” said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington. The tough labor market is forcing college graduates to settle for jobs that do not require a degree, a trend economists refer to as cyclical downgrading.

Lauren Hughes, a double major in theater and English, is heading in that direction. After graduating from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, she will work as a waitress in her home town of Huntley, Illinois. But she hopes it will be only for a few months. Hughes will make about $4.95 an hour, but with tips she figures she can take home between $45 and $110 a day—money she will save for a job hunt in New York’s theaters in the fall. Hughes is also looking at secretarial work, copy editing, and teaching as a back stop. “I am not very optimistic,” she said.
Emily Savage is looking to go the same route after a frustrating search for jobs in the fields of conservation biology, genetics, and molecular biology. “It’s kind of disappointing. I am probably going to get a job that’s not in my field to survive for the next six months and apply to grad school,” said the Penn State University biology major. “A minimum wage job might be my only option.”

Dobson, who did two tours in Iraq between 2003 and 2006, is not far behind. He and his wife moved in with his parents when he enrolled in college after four years of active duty in the Army. He has tried jobs that give veterans preference. “I need to get back into the workforce. My plan is to find any employment that is possible, whether it is at Applebee’s or Lowe’s, whoever is hiring,” he said.
A study by the EPI found that 52 percent of employed college graduates under the age of 24 were working in jobs that did not require a degree last year. That was up from 47 percent in 2007.
In the fight for jobs, the young graduates are also up against a large group of older Americans forced to work beyond their retirement age to rebuild nest eggs shattered during the recession. The share of Americans aged 65 years and older with either a job or looking for one is at a 51-year high.

LIFETIME OF LOW WAGES
The combination of unemployment and menial jobs puts young workers on course for a life of low wages and earnings. “For the young who are getting out of school, studies show a lot of their earnings growth comes in the first 10 years after they get out of school,” said Keith Hall, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

According to the EPI, young college graduates with full-time jobs earned an average hourly wage of $16.60 last year, roughly $34,500 a year. That is down 7.6 percent from 2007. Benefits are also a problem. Between 2000 and 2011, the share of young graduates whose jobs provide for retirement plans dropped to 27.2 percent from 41.5 percent, EPI said. The trend is troubling given that most students are graduating from college with huge debts.

Dobson is fortunate. The government took care of his tuition costs through the Post-9/11 GI-Bill, which provides financial support to service personnel. But Kalivas and Savage are not so lucky. Each owes about $30,000 in student debt. According to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the share of 25-year-olds with student loan debt has risen to more than 40 percent from about 25 percent in 2004. The non-profit Institute for College Access & Success says students who graduated last year had average debts of $26,600.
“The next generation will find it hard to buy their first home or finance other large purchases,” said Julia Coronado, chief North America economist at BNP Paribas in New York.

Kalivas, the would-be financial analyst, will take a break from her job search for a month after graduating. “A lot of companies have been telling us to look for positions opening up in the second and third quarter. They are starting to advertise some positions,” said Kalivas. “I am going to move back with my parents, unfortunately, but I do plan on getting out as quickly as possible,” she said, with a laugh.

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/economic-trouble-for-graduating-class-of-2013-57700/

I have never experience a blind date but I'd like to experience. So I need a blind date on Nairaland. send me a pm if you want a blind date.

The source is from kickoff Nigeria. I would probably believe the story if the source is either from goal.com or bbc sports. I don't believe Nigeria sport tabloid newspaper

wesley80: Every deluded mowron thinks so.

only deluded mowron think he really casted out demon from jim iyke

toby toks: Huh? 50

what 50

chukxie: How long have you been away from Nigeria? If you've been away for a long time, I'd suggest you stay put where you are. Adapting to the lifestyle and the way things are done in Nigeria is not easy for someone who's been away from the 'jungle' for a long time. The endless traffic jams, erratic power supply and absence of some basic and essential amenities can make one go bonkers. However, if you've not been away for a long time, adapting to the rugged life in Nigeria shouldn't be a problem. The decision is yours and yours alone to make. May God help you to make the right one.

You should not be discouraging the poster from relocating to Nigeria like there are people not making it in Nigeria. There are some prominent Nigerians that once lived in the states or Europe but decided make it in Nigeria. Nnamdi Azikwe was once hustling and schooling in America before coming to Nigeria to become a successful business man and later a president when we didn't even have NEPA, Roads or phones in Nigeria. Mike Adenuga was once a taxi driver in the states , MI use to wash toilet in the streets of Detriot. Dbanj and Don Jazzy were once in UK hustling before deciding to make it Nigeria. Even Dangote spend 2 years hustling and schooling in Egypt before relocating to Nigeria. if they had all remain in the West believing Nigeria is bad, don't have basic amenities and a 'Jungle', they probably would not have become successful and rich like they are. There are thousands of people that have relocated to Nigeria from Europe and America and are doing fine. The poster should follow his heart and do a lot of research about the job or business he plans invest in Nigeria. Glad you have been planning to relocate for the past 3 years and I hope you have done a lot of research too. Nigeria is a gold mine for people with foreign degree, foreign work experience, and capital because you don't have to worry about IRS and uncle Sam taxing you and cause of doing business is low.

everybody knows TB Joshua is a phony and fake pastor

@ poster, ego ole?

Nmeri17: Its not like i'll benefit anything if i know her but at least, out of curiosity i'll love to know her name. For a very very long time now she's been making appearances in the videos of top musicians; wizkid, EME, burna boy, ihe neme, just to mention but a few. Does anyone know her name or what her profession really is

rather than thinking and planning about your future. you are worried about Davido girlfriend.