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onyechez:
All this your long grammar there's nothing tangible in it, someone that want to talk to you would do so after the person has settled for some time. My cousin traveled to the UK for masters degree, at first I had to allow him settle for some time before I talked to him. I bet you, USA is even better, in the UK like England you would be forced to pay tax through your teeth.

What are you trying to arrive at? Referring to the bolded, settling takes a lot longer than just unpacking your bag and absorbing the "western breeze". And I assume they don't pay tax in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland but England? Finally what is tangible in your response?

"Mumuism" with new levels. What happened to living your lives regardless of what people think or say? I bet they've been watching too much nollywood nonsense. Nonsense and ingredients.

In a typical Nigerian environment, you meet people and make friends in most social construct; from school to religious gatherings, bars, and friends who became friends through other friends etc. Many are more of social acquaintances than friends but we categorise them under the "friend" umbrella. I have a few of these set of people.

When you leave Nigeria, you're left with your own devices in a new environment where you have to figure your way in finding your ground, this self actualisation process can be daunting and the last thing you want to do is chatting with people who are probably not even as close to you. I figured when these people finds out you've left Nigeria, they tend to want to tighten the connection with you a lot more.

During the first few months to a year of leaving Nigeria, my Facebook inbox was flooded with messages until I deleted my account on Facebook. I'm definitely not a snub by any stretch but where's the time to sit behind a laptop to chat with people when you're trying to actualise your strategic goal of leaving the country? It's a totally different climate here. I left Nigeria over 9 years ago and had to start University education all over and I'm not ashamed or shy to turn down any financial favours because I'm a student.

I still keep in touch with close friends and family and the relationship hasn't changed one bit but I guess the reasons why Nigerians in diaspora don't really connect with people back home may be partly or wholy relatable to my reasons. Although I'm not excusing the fact that some Nigerians in diaspora are plain snubs and arrogant.

I knew he was a black man even before I opened the thread

This guy doesn't look stable

Loyalqwin:
I came as usual to visit my bf only to meet my own best friend having sex with him.
Am devastated right now. How can I pay them back? I need to hurt him advice needed.

As a "Loyalqwin" join the film

My sincere condolences goes to the people who died in the crash and I wish the injured quick recovery. However, something doesn't seem to add up, how come the president, Tinubu, Sanwo Olu etc are condoling with the families of those affected, what about the families of the people that loses their lives to car, truck, motorbike crashes everyday? or am i missing something here?

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femeritus:
Is it true that education there is tuition free even for international students?

Yes it is free for home and international students. Home students get paid about $1000 dollars or so every month while studying.

This video is not from the FBI

What is wrong with 2020! I'm not buying 2021 calendar until I see a HD trailer.

Righteousness89:
I am not Suprised at All!

These are End of the Endtimes where you see all Sort of Manipulations and Confusion on Earth..

Put on the Whole Armor of God , So you Don't be a Spiritual or Physical Casualty...

You Don't need a witch , a Priest, ifa or Whatever..

What you Need is JESUS! He Alone Guarantees Eternal Life..

Brainwashed fellow

A guy attended a funeral where he noticed that the church had a wireless network.

Guy: Hey, what is the wifi password?

A sad relative: Respect the dead!

Guy: All in lowercase?

Does your uncle in the UK have kids under the age of 10? Just asking so I'll know how to propose one or two hypotheses.

The way that owl looked at the woman says it all. Magnificent bird by the way

Omg he's so cute I wanna hug him

Very poor attempt at photoshop

The global population is likely to shrink after the middle of this century, triggering shifts in economic power, a new report suggests.



There will be around 9.7 billion people on the planet by 2064, but that number will decrease to 8.8 billion by the year 2100, according to a new report in medical journal The Lancet.

The analysis says that improvements to modern contraceptive methods and the increasingly widespread education of women could be a catalyst for a decline in global fertility rates.

That, according to the report, means that populations will not be sustained at current levels without a more liberal immigration approach.

Populations in 23 countries, including Japan, Spain and Italy, are forecast to decline by more than half, according to the research, with another 34 countries, including China, seeing a drop of more than 25%. However, sub-Saharan Africa will buck the trend, and is set to see growth of more than three times its current population, thanks to falling death rates in the region and the rising number of women reaching child-bearing age.

Across the world, over-80s are set to outnumber under-fives by a factor of two-to-one by 2100, marking a shift in the working age population.

Countries such as China, Spain, the UK and Germany are all expected to see a dramatic drop in the size of their workforce, resulting in a slowing of economic growth that will open the way for African and Arab countries to take the lead economically.

"It offers a vision for radical shifts in geopolitical power, challenges myths about immigration, and underlines the importance of protecting and strengthening the sexual and reproductive rights of women. The 21st century will see a revolution in the story of our human civilisation.

Dr Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, said: "This important research charts a future we need to be planning for urgently.

Africa and the Arab World will shape our future, while Europe and Asia will recede in their influence. By the end of the century, the world will be multipolar, with India, Nigeria, China, and the US the dominant powers.

"This will truly be a new world, one we should be preparing for today."

African nations will lead the way in terms of total population growth.

Niger's population is forecast to grow by 765% by 2100, Chad's by 710%, South Sudan's by 594% and Mali's by 321%.

Meanwhile, Latvia is predicted to see the biggest fall in population, by 78%, with El Salvador's population forecast to drop by 77%.

As a result, it means that south and southeast Asia will concede their positions as the most populated regions of the world to Sub-Saharan Africa, which is projected to see an explosion in growth in the middle of the century.

Central Europe will move to the bottom of the table, with North America overtaking the region.

India, which currently has the second-highest population in the world, will rise to the number one spot by the year 2100, despite a fall in population of around 300 million people.

China will fall from top to third place in the table, with its population set to fall by more than 25%.

Nigeria, which currently has the seventh-highest population in the world, will rocket up to second place by 2100, while the Japanese population will plummet from the 10th to 38th.

The Lancet study also predicts a major shift in the way age is distributed throughout the global population.

By and large, age is currently structured as a pyramid with more young people than older people, with people in their mid-20s being an outlier.

However, the journal predicts that the population will become more middle-aged by 2100.

The Lancet report suggests that immigration could be a way to offset population decline.

Western countries that will have a lower birth rate by 2100, such as the US, Australia and Canada, will likely be able to maintain a working age population by liberalising their stance on immigration.

The report warns, however, that population decline should not compromise global progress made on women's rights and reproductive health.

Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, from University College London and the chair of Lancet Migration, said that if the predictions made in the Lancet "are even half accurate", then "migration will become a necessity for all nations and not an option".

He added: "The positive impacts of migration on health and economies are known globally. The choice that we face is whether we improve health and wealth by allowing planned population movement or if we end up with an underclass of imported labour and unstable societies."

Cc: Lalasticlala



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See what corona caused. There use to be a long traffic of people going to Knowsley, quite noticeable from Warrington towards the M57. But from those pictures you can actually count the cars on the road and the people in the safari park.

This is really bad but do they have to retract the seat backward, then push him over to the passenger side just to take pictures?

Glad they're protected. I lost hope thinking they've all been eaten

A network of giant internet-enabled balloons from Google's sister firm Loon is to provide internet access to remote areas of Kenya.

It will provide 4G coverage so people can make voice and video calls, browse the web, email, text and stream videos.

The project was announced two years ago but final sign-off from the Kenyan government has only just been given.

It is now being fast-tracked to help improve communications during the coronavirus pandemic.

The balloons' 4G internet service has been tested with 35,000 customers and will initially cover a region spanning 50,000 sq km (31,000 sq miles).

Eventually 35 solar-powered balloons will be in constant motion in the stratosphere above eastern Africa. They are launched in the US and make their way to Kenya using wind currents.

One field test of the service showed download speeds of 18.9Mbps (megabits per second) and upload speeds of 4.7Mbps.
Loon began as one of Google's so-called ''moonshot projects" in 2011.

In 2018, it teamed up with Telkom Kenya to provide a commercial service.
According to Loon's chief executive Alastair Westgarth, the spread of Covid-19 has meant both are "working as fast as we can to realise service deployment".

He added: "This is the culmination of years of work and collaboration between Loon, Telkom and the government."
Telkom Kenya's chief executive Mugo Kibati said it was "an exciting milestone for internet service provision in Africa".

"The internet-enabled balloons will be able to offer connectivity to the many Kenyans who live in remote regions that are underserved or totally unserved, and as such remain disadvantaged," he said.

Some critics said it would have been better in another African country because Kenya already has an estimated 39 million out of a population of 48 million people online.

Previously balloons from Loon have been used during an earthquake in Peru.

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Skymoore1004:
Change your second name to sorry if you want to study business in U.K.

It depends largely on what sphere of business related course. To illustrate, compare a Business analytics degree to Human Resource Management degree. Both a business related course but one will give you a competitive edge in a job market while the other is fast becoming obsolete even if you're a first class Phd holder in the subject. It's all about thinking strategically. Think of the relevance of the degree in the next 10 years and beyond, think of the digital and big data age we're in. I am currently writing my Msc dissertation in a business related course and there's absolutely no reason not to.

So I have a bit of time and I feel I should drop a point or two. As Nigerians, we have a problem that needs to be addressed, that problem is the sense of entitlement. When you apply for your UK visa in Nigeria, there’s a clear immigration rules pertaining to what your rights are as an international student visa. Reading some comments here, I’m disgusted by the number of Nigerians who believe that just by having a student visa and finishing a degree here, everything should be handed over to you on a silver platter; job, residence permit and whatnot. Making a transition from student visa to being able to get work placement, blend into the society and hopefully get a permanent residency might be a farfetched dream because they don’t expect you to stay here after your graduation. But we have this problem of thinking we have a degree, then UK should provide a job after spending a fortune in tuition fees, NO they won’t! Infact your student visa is like a contractual agreement between two parties. In this scenario, yourself and the British consular in Nigeria who you convinced to give you a visa.

You are allowed to work maybe 10 or 20 hours per week and it is no brainer that the UK put this filtering system in place to prevent the influx of international students in their labour market, they will give jobs to their citizens first and I will tell you this for free, international students will be at the very bottom end of the spectrum unless you have a desirable skillset or a STEM degree, a job you will be lucky to get anyway because work experience will probably be required which boils down to the main point that as soon as you finish your studies, UK expect you to get on the plane and jet back to Nigeria.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to knock anyone for wanting to get a better life and try their luck in the UK, but that sense of entitlement needs to stop. If you want to come to the UK, you’re within your right to do that but get your fact right, educate yourself, ignorance is not an excuse because otherwise you will be slapped in the face with reality when you get here without planning and weighing your pros and cons. On the issue of getting a permanent residence in the UK, I guess there are different ways to skin a cat but I can’t stress it enough, get rid of that sense of entitlement because UK don’t owe you anything, not a job after your degree, not a residence permit. Nothing!

justwise:
You are sending money to your friends and relatives living in the UK? Tell that to a day old baby

When you pay tax in the UK you pay for your health care, good road, police services, free education, child care, disability allowances, job seekers allownce... the list goes on.. even if you don't work you still get all i listed above as long as you are a citizen or a permanent resident.

I'm surprised you're giving this kids attention. They obviously don't know who you are and how you've helped people on this forum with your UK immigration knowledge.

When you die of Covid-19 and reborn thinking Corona would be over by now, then you hear bubonic plague has resurfaced and just about to kill millions of people.

Obviously he's a trump supporter. Hypothesis here is that he's trying to take African American's vote to give Trump the win come November.

My only regret was taking my fresher year for granted. I (and majority of freshers) believed in the myth that the first year in uni is a walk in the park and I was under that illusion for a long time. Club every other weekends with friends, booze is cheap as chips for students as long as you have your student ID. No chance I'll be on campus on Mondays because of weekend hangover, started missing uni to catch up on uni work.
Cracks started showing in the wall in my second year, failed two courses and had return to uni for summer resit twice while most students are home or on holiday enjoying summer worry free. I only managed to pass one of them which means my course mates will be in their third year while I spend that year resitting a single module. I adjusted my lifestyle for good in my resit year and it paid off. First year was great, full of fun but there's a lot I would've done differently.

Would love to visit Akwa Ibom some day. Hopefully soon

CrazyOptimist:
It's not about eating animals, majority of Nigerians have been infected with Strep pyogenes, but most people just have the mild sore throat. The guy must have been exposed to a more virulent strain.

Yes surely, animals can possibly be host of these bacteria

Looks like necrotising fasciitis. Stop killing and eating every animals on sight, but no they won't listen. RIP

Profprom:
Why blow your trumpet before leaving? Whether you leave or stay we have been surviving in this country and we will still survive with or without you. Better luck else where

I can't fathom why or how people think in a linear way like this. From a basic humane perspective, have you thought about the Nigerians who their means of livelihood depends on that company's branch in Nigeria? They will lose their job, that means more people looking for jobs that aren't there in the first place. Then from a broader outlook, if it takes a rocket scientist to convince you that international trade contributes to economic growth, then you my friend, have a real problem.