₦airaland Forum

Nigerian team should be more disciplined

A close shave there from America's corner,

12 minutes.,., yet no clear formation from the Eagles

Corner for Eagles, 8. minute
Uhh Offside,

The American guy gave okoronkwo an elbow , it was an off the ball incident,

But i am yet to see the advantage taken though

RED card for US player, 3rd minute

presido1:
Yet you are condemning Russia for Invading Georgia but you want Nigerian forces to invade ND,if not why are you not in support of Amnesty

No basis for comparison sir

biggy08:
I work in hatfield biz park also there are few nigerians here not even few we've got quite a lot of them mostly students the best place is the local paper like funke said but since u leave in scotland i don't know how u can get that and since u would be staying for a month i don't think that would be easy since most landlords always want to let out their rooms for a minimum of 6 months. The option i would suggest to u is to call the University in hatfield they rent out rooms during the holiday u can contact them on 01707284000 and ask for the accomodations office i hope that helps

Thanks for your help. I will give a call to the UNI accomodations office

yeah, I guess the one month thing is the problem, no wahala but i'll keep trying

No.,. I am far away in Scotland.

I can imagine the rush especially in a university town in October.

Thanks funkybaby

I am resident in UK, Called a couple of guys on gumtree but did not get good responce

Dear Nairalanders,

I need to rent a room for a month in Hatfield from 1st of October 2008, currently i am based in the North east. I know there is a university in the area, and i am sure there would be Nigerians there.

I will be in town for one month ONLY and i don't mind if anybody knows who can Let a room for just one month .

I will be working at the Hatfield Business Park , Hertfordshire. AL10 9BW, so ideally i wouldn't mind a place that is a walking distance

Thanks for your anticipated help.

My email address is deor03@yahoo.com

jimrite:
I met my husband through this forum,the marriage is blessed with a baby boy.Mothers and fathers on nairaland please tell me how you felt when you saw your first photocopy.

How come you have only 4 posts. or did you change ID ( _{Don't mind my aproko})

Congrats to you.

Why all this shouts about a boy just going though puberty phase.
Can you recall what you did at this age with the privilege you had at that time.

This has nothing to do with governance ( though it should not be encouraged). it's just a little boy at play

Despite all the grooming Prince Harry has from birth and the history of the Nazi/ British he still wore a Nazi costume. It's all youthful exuberance people . Abeg move on

Can all this western media allow us to enjoy this Olympics?

Every station you turn to it's China this, China that.

What about the women and children being killed everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan
What about people detained for upwards of 5 years without trial in Guantanamo bay
Was it not recently that Brown wanted to send weapon to Yaradua to Kill Niger deltan because he want oil by all means
They keep shouting nuclear weapon and you wonder which country is the only in the world that have abused nuclear weapon.

Visa is Not a right , it's a privilege. Would they have Not done the same

Abeg, don't allow the western biased media to confuse you

It annoys me to my bone, when people mention Military take over in Nigeria.

Peeps it was less than a decade ago that we were fasting and praying to GOD for the elusive Democracy.

Or do you think there would have been Nairaland, among other thing we enjoy , if the military were on ground?

Please stop it oh

I don't know when people will start to realise that Oyinbo people only see us for what they can take from us.

Check out in the 18th centuries, it was slavery
19th Century, It was conquest by waging war with us on our land
20th Century, Granting us "independence" and taking all our resources
21st century, We begging them to take our money through, HSMP, Visa lottery, Schooling abroad, Blindly being Fans of Clubs that have NO regard for you;Imagine paying £1.5 million for a 90minutes show; Investing hard earned Naira to buy a nylon cloth in the name of CLUB jersey.

I know i will not live beyond 21st century but I wish 22nd century Africans are lot wiser.

Go to the discussion forums on their site and see how "your" fellow club compatriots are dizzing Nigeria

I guess this is the trend now, A lot of Nigerians are leaving the comfort zone and heading home.

A lot of Nigerians are realising that, loads and load of complaints and criticism from abroad will not turn Nigeria to a country of our dreams. Dipping their hands in the dirty mud to build a vibrant nation is the only way out.

Yes, No NEPA, No Road, No Security, No Transportation,.,.,.,.,.But this means only one thing, opportunities are abound. There are problems to be solved.

No matter the colour of passport anybody carries, a Nigerian will always be a Nigerian.

Reverse brain drain as ambitious Nigerians come home

By Nick Tattersall Reuters - Wednesday, August 6 01:12 amLAGOS (Reuters) - From cocktails with hip-hop stars to sushi with smooth-suited bankers, it's no wonder Nigerians moving back after decades in New York or London feel right at home among the high-rolling elite of Lagos.


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This urban sprawl of 14 million people, the chaotic hub of Africa's most populous nation, may epitomise what many foreigners fear most about megacities in the developing world: violent crime, corrupt police and crumbling infrastructure.

Yet legions of young Nigerians, educated at English public schools and U.S. Ivy League universities, are leaving highly paid careers with Wall Street banks and City of London consultancies to return to the Lagos hustle.

The draw?

Not just a pay package that approaches or matches what is on offer in the United States or Europe, but a dash of patriotism -- a chance to help fulfil an ambition of building world-class Nigerian businesses as an example to the rest of Africa.

"In the States, it's an established economy. You can't create another Apple, you can't create another Microsoft, you can't really create another Disney," said Michael Akindele, who left U.S. consultancy firm Accenture to set up his own business investing in Nigerian media and entertainment.

"I'm stepping away from that salary, that comfortable, stable environment where you have power all the time, you have water all the time. But here I can create the lifestyle I want."

Nigeria is the world's eighth biggest oil exporter but its economy has been hobbled by decades of endemic corruption and unemployment is high. A power sector crisis, which means much of the country can go without electricity for weeks or months, has closed hundreds of factories and cut thousands of jobs in sub-Saharan Africa's largest economy after South Africa.

Many wealthy Nigerians of Akindele's generation were sent to boarding schools in England or the United States in the late 1980s and 1990s, when Nigeria was a military dictatorship with little foreign investment and a disintegrating education system.

They watched with cautious optimism as it began to return to democracy in 1999 with the election of Olusegun Obasanjo after three decades of military rule, and welcomed the reforms he started to push through after winning a second term in 2003.

When Nigeria used $12 billion (6.1 billion pounds) of oil savings to pay back debts owed to the Paris Club of rich creditor nations in 2005, and won the write-off of a further $18 billion in return, foreign investors and diaspora Nigerians sat up and took note.

"I was following all this from London and started to believe now was the time to start planning to come back," said Kayode Akindele, 28, no relation to Michael, who returned to work for United Bank for Africa's (UBA) investment banking arm, UBA Global Markets.

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

Kayode Akindele, an Oxford graduate who lived in Britain for more than 16 years, was working on structured derivatives for Lloyds TSB in London when he was introduced to Tony Elumelu, chief executive of UBA, two years ago.

Elumelu was looking to build a world-class investment bank in Nigeria and Akindele's skills were exactly what he needed.

"There was a sense of patriotism. I have always regarded myself as Nigerian and planned to return to Nigeria eventually," said Akindele, now a vice president at UBA Global Markets.

Financial sector reforms in 2005 forced Nigeria's banks to consolidate, creating multibillion-dollar institutions with the capacity to branch out into sophisticated new markets and pay salaries on a par with some of their Western peers.

Banks have also seen explosive growth on the back of record oil prices and a growing middle class among Nigeria's 140 million people, and have been aggressively raising capital and increasing their capacity to lend.

Diaspora Nigerians -- with experience in banking but also the cultural knowledge to navigate the complexities of doing business in Nigeria -- have been in high demand ever since.

"I think there's a window that will be there for maybe another 18 months to two years," said Chuka Mordi, head of business development at First City Monument Bank.

"That's the view at the moment, that people moving back understand exotic products , but it will percolate to the local sector and people will learn these things and there won't be any need to drag investment bankers from New York or London."

Nigeria's $95 billion stock market was one of the best performing emerging markets in the world last year, attracting private equity and hedge fund investors from Europe, Asia and the United States.

THE LAGOS HUSTLE

The world of vanilla interest rate swaps may seem a million miles from the realities of life on the streets of Lagos, where hawkers selling everything from phone charge cards to electric irons ply their trade among belching minibuses and moped taxis.

But bankers hope that building strong financial institutions will help open credit lines to millions of would-be entrepreneurs, allowing them to develop small businesses and lift themselves out of the informal sector, which accounts for a major part of the active workforce.

"When you see the hustle on the streets of Lagos, all those traders selling all those products, you know the street works," said Obi Asika, an Eton-educated entrepreneur whose own record label sells albums through market traders and street sellers.

"You formalise distribution in Nigeria today, it's a billion dollar business. Because everybody needs distribution. Everybody's got products," he said.

The idea of making money as a businessman in Nigeria -- long spurned by some of the elite as inferior to a high-powered job in the public sector -- is catching the popular imagination, demonstrating to an ambitious young generation that you don't have to be in the pay of government to get rich.

It is a point hammered home by "The Apprentice Africa", a reality TV show co-produced by Michael Akindele's Executive Group and Asika's Storm Media based on the hit U.S. series, in which aspiring entrepreneurs compete for a job with a top businessman.

"You get up in the morning and you see all of Lagos on the move, young boys trying to make ends meet. It's an eye-opener," said Isaac Dankyi-Koranteng, winner of the first series, aired on free-to-view TV in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

The government is still the largest official single employer in Nigeria, and the vast majority of people still live on less than $2 a day, but the new private sector elite hope that if they avoid the mistakes of their kleptocratic predecessors, Nigeria may haul itself out of poverty and corruption.

"There are issues. It's not Valhalla. We're not in Milton's Paradise yet," said Asika. "But I believe in Nigeria, I'm positive about this country."

(For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/ )

(Editing by Clar Ni Chonghaile)



source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080806/twl-uk-africa-diaspora-nigeria-bd5ae06.html

If this guy should have a dinner with the Queen of England, I am sure she would not understand him

@ poster

Just wondering why you are so passionate about "Asian" schools

Also, you need to realise the reason why most Nigerians want to school in the UK and US. Especially if you have plans of going back home to work.

shawn123:
to my fellow mr miracle and wonders and advocates of white juju
this is how cris angel walked on water, its been explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkMKuG52DQg&feature=related

Please let me know if you want more tricks revealed, trust me we have pastors who adopt these technics

This Chris Angel is NOT real, No problem Americans can beleive but I can't just admit that any Nigerian could beleive this film trick .

No wonder yahoo yahoo dey sell.

lucabrasi:
now arent we stretching it a bit, remember we r talking of nigeria now o not csi;miamitheres no need of that,if u are in nigeria i can give u our driver's son s number and tell him you don't believe in jazz and for him to take you to their village and try it on you with your webcam,then report your findings back, u can even tell him to make it snappy as in a couple of hours so they wont waste your time

Why not tell your driver's son to make jazz that will make his father rich enough, to be a car owner instead of being a poor ass driver.

I wouldn't mind to have lunch with your driver's son too, since he can use jazz to meet me where i am, without obtaining visa and buying expensive flight tickets just like you travelled to manchester with the jazz. abi?.

Get real bro,

n.b.
I grew up in a village, so those 419 cannot work for me

Trust Nigerian politicians, they will adjust effectively. They will coin another phrase or create another office for "her excellency"
In fact the govt will regret bringing out this directive.

With all due respect, I think we should do our own bit before asking GOD to do everything for us.

There we go again, Ignoring the message and concentrating on the messanger.

It is only fools that will believe on this type of fallacy. A lot of people have lost their precious lives because of this foolish fallacy of transformation. Even Charles Darwin theory of evolution sounds more credible than what we think of this century in our modern Lagos.

Some years back, a boy was burnt to death in Lagos, another boy was burnt to death in Benin just because of some people stupidity and beliefs.

Why do you think someone will think ,that, cutting a person head for sacrifice will make him an instant millionaire?

It amuses me the way Nigerian f this generation think,    As if our problems as a group of people will automatically stop when/if we disintegrate. In the 1800s ( before Nigeria ) there had been war within the major tribes ( that is Ijebu vs Oyo ) ( Hausa vs Fulani ) and some other tribes.

In the late 1990s, there was Ife vs Modakeke , Umuleri vs Uguleri , there was Urhobo vs Itshekiri vs Ijaw , there was intra tribal war in Benue, Can't we then see that our problems goes beyond just breaking up?

I think it is complete ignorance to say the North is not contributing, Muslims all over rush to the market to buy Cows during celebrations , where do they come from? Mile12 market and markets all over the country receive daily deliveries of Tomatoes and pepper, where do they come from?

Instead of discovering ways of working together and amplifying our unique gifts, we are talking like educated illiterates? I think this generation of Nigerians should just not repeat the mistakes of the past 50 years.

We should think as a group of people that have privilege of living on This earth for about 80 years, let make the most of it instead f spending a better part of it fighting each other.

[size=13pt]Pastor Jide is a 419. Look at his Face, he is one desperate guy looking for the American attention.

With this CNN report , you can be sure that so many gullible Westerners will be willing to "help" him financially.[/size]

Follow the CHINA way

Enough Nigerians with Masters degree, praying and fasting to get security, cleaning Jobs in UK, US.

EFCC had better look for Criminals .

This guy should just be advised and allowed to do his business Legally.