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I'm melancholic-choleric

vizkiz:
it was My ex who suddenly sent a message to me asking for cash...after all the "i love my boo" status and my boo's gat cash pictures she usually upload.

She wanna magatize my destiny...i just no even bother reply her message

Similar experience recently. I no dey mind her serf

phazotron:
God forbid

I have a friend who studies in Russia. When he got to Russia initially, he wasn't learning Russian-which was the language in which the course was thought in. He will translate the Russian into English, try and see what was important to study and "chew" the Russian equivalent of the answer he wants to keep. This continued until there was a presentation which he was expected to do in Russian.. He nearly failed. He was advices to stop that form of learning and learn the Russian.. After that experience, this friend of mine learned the Russian so well that, anytime he speaks English, it has a Russian accent.

Elypsis:
See dis one face like evil spirit sef......Hipless ...

Cognitive psychology and Clinical psychology both taught by the same lecturer

Calculus of Several Variables and Abstract
Algebra..

the problem was the way the lecturers thought the courses.

#PsychologyandMathematics

Cyber-theft prompts search for Nigerian bank IT worker



Mr Uyoyou is named in the wanted poster issued by Nigeria's financial police force
A Nigerian IT worker is being sought by police for his alleged role in co-ordinating a £25m ($40m) cyber-theft at a bank in Abuja where he worked.

Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou is being sought by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A wanted notice claims he helped conspirators dressed as maintenance staff get into the bank so they could use computers to transfer cash.

Local reports suggest the theft was spotted when stolen cash was withdrawn.

Although no members of the gang have been caught, several are being "tracked", Wilson Uwujaren, a spokesman for the EFCC, told News Nigeria.

Details of the robbery are scant but it is thought that Mr Uyoyou and conspirators entered the bank on a Saturday when it was closed and no other staff were working.

The IT staffer was key to the robbery, said the EFCC, because of the access he enjoyed to the computer systems at the bank. This was used to siphon 6.28bn Nigerian Naira into accounts of the conspirators, said the EFCC. So far, the bank at the centre of the theft has not been named.

The EFCC has issued a warrant for Mr Uyoyou's arrest and he is being actively sought in Nigeria.

John Hawes, a computer security researcher at Sophos, said the amount of cash stolen was "unusually large" but the method the gang chose was "all too common".

"Insider risk is a major problem for banks," he wrote on the firm's security blog, "they still have to rely on trusted employees to behave themselves, resist temptation and keep their hands off the huge amounts of funds they may find themselves dealing with every day."
http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-29221315?ocid=socialflow_facebook

Goldfish recovering after 'high-risk' tumour removal


15 September 2014 Last updated at 18:46
Vets said they had to be precise to minimise blood loss in the 80g fish
A goldfish in Australia is recovering from surgery after a life-threatening tumour was removed from its brain in a "high-risk" operation.

George, whose owner lives in Melbourne, was put under general anaesthetic for the $200 (£125) procedure.

Dr Tristan Rich, who carried out the operation, told Melbourne's 3AW radio station that the fish was now "up and about and swimming around".

Vets say the 10-year-old fish is now expected to live for another 20 years.

"George had a quite large tumour on the top of his head that was growing slowly, and it was beginning to affect his quality of life," Dr Rich from the Lort Smith Animal Hospital said.

George's owner was given the choice between an operation or having the fish put to sleep.

"She was dedicated enough to give it a go," he said.

He added that the fish was kept alive by pumping oxygenated pond water through its gills.

Dr Rich described the 45-minute operation as "fiddly".
http://m.bbc.com/news/29210991?OCID=fbasia&ocid=socialflow_facebook

Heard the news on BBC focus on Africa radio.. Hmmm

R.I.P to the dead

Vaccine gives monkeys Ebola immunity

The first patient was injected with the vaccine last week.
Vaccinated monkeys have developed "long-term" immunity to the Ebola virus, raising a prospect of successful human trials, say scientists.
The experiments by the US National Institutes of Health showed immunity could last at least 10 months.
Human trials of the vaccine started this week in the US and will extend to the UK and Africa.
The World Health Organization says more than 2,000 people have now died in the outbreak in West Africa.
Several experimental treatments are now being considered to help contain the spread of Ebola.
This includes a vaccine being developed by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.
It uses a genetically modified chimp virus containing components of two species of Ebola - Zaire, which is currently circulating in West Africa, and the common Sudan species.
The viral vaccine does not replicate inside the body, but it is hoped the immune system will react to the Ebola component of the vaccine and develop immunity.

Poor durability
Animal research, on which the decision to begin human trials was based, has now been published in the journal Nature Medicine.
It shows four crab-eating macaques all survived what would have been a fatal dose of Ebola virus five weeks later.
However, only half survived an infection 10 months after immunisation.
Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the BBC: "The good part of this vaccine is that at five weeks or earlier you get full protection.
"The sobering news is the durability isn't great, but if you give a boost, a second shot, you make it really durable."
"We knew this worked in the monkey months ago and based on this paper we started human trials."
For now this is the best evidence available on how successful such a vaccine would be in people.
Healthcare workers would be prioritised for a vaccine
The first patient, a 39-year-old woman, was given the vaccine last week as human trials got under way.
There will also be separate trials of the vaccine against just the Zaire Ebola species.
These will take place in the US, the University of Oxford in the UK as well as in Mali and Gambia.
The WHO said safety data would be ready by November 2014 and, if the vaccine proved safe, it would be used in West Africa immediately.
Healthcare workers and other frontline staff would be prioritised for vaccination.

'Really encouraging'
The number of doses currently available is between 400 - if a lot of vaccine is needed for immunity - and 4,000 if smaller amounts are sufficient.
As with all experimental therapies, the WHO has warned hopes of a vaccine must not detract from the proven methods of infection control which have defeated all previous outbreaks.
Prof Jonathan Ball, a virologist at the University of Nottingham, said: "This is really encouraging data.
"The degree of protection seen with the chimpanzee adenovirus alone - which will be used in one of the human clinical trials planned for the UK, Mali and the Gambia - was still pretty impressive, especially when the animals received Ebola virus within a few weeks of vaccination.
"This is important as it would keep the dosing regimen simple and could still provide good protection in the sort of outbreak that we are seeing in Western Africa at the moment."
Ebola virus disease (EVD)
■Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
■Spread by body fluids, such as blood and saliva
■Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 55%
■Incubation period is two to 21 days
■There is no proven vaccine or cure
■Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
■Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host

http://m.bbc.com/news/health-29076371?ocid=socialflow_facebook#

I saw the news on BBC focus on Africa this evening
http://m.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28922290

I saw the news on BBC focus on Africa this evening

Cesclxg: It's just that the name of the project is kinda funny... Picture this: u want to take vengeance on an enemy and u've made so much threats on how u were going to deal with the enemy. Come the day when the battle was supposed to take place, the enemy was expecting to see u come with destroyers, armoured tanks, black hawks and the likes. Buh instead u came with catapults to take VENGENCE ON THE ENEMY!!! The enemy was like 'what the fvck'...

On the whole, Christianity had tend to be better at depicting hell than heaven or any of the other places. The demons and the tortures of hell have an immediacy and richness of texture generally lacking in the corresponding descriptions of heaven, which is most often some vague and ethereal place where angels sit around on clouds playing harps and singing hosannas.
~Carol Neiman and Emily Goldman

On the whole, Christianity had tend to be better at depicting hell than heaven or any of the other places. The demons and the tortures of hell have an immediacy and richness of texture generally lacking in the corresponding descriptions of heaven, which is most often some vague and ethereal place where angels sit around on clouds playing harps and singing hosannas.
~Carol Neiman and Emily Goldman

On the whole, Christianity had tend to be better at depicting hell than heaven or any of the other places. The demons and the tortures of hell have an immediacy and richness of texture generally lacking in the corresponding descriptions of heaven, which is most often some vague and ethereal place where angels sit around on clouds playing harps and singing hosannas.
~Carol Neiman and Emily Goldman

Please this friend of mine need advice on this issue
" my name is Oko, I am 25. I have dis female friend who had issues in her relationship and she came to me for an advice. her guy was cheating on her and i always encouraged her to try and rekindle the luv..she tried her best for sometime but the guy was too blind to see..we started getting close because she would whatsapp or call me everyday talking about what the guy and his girlfriend did, a msg the girl sent her. blah blah blah. after some weeks of advising which went down the drain I strongly believe this girl has falling for me. I think I am also falling for her because of her constant attention she has been giving to me. but my problem is my previous relationship messed me up pretty bad and promised myself I wasn't going get into any relationship until I am settled in life. now my problem is. I am falling for her. And I know she already has, do I go forward to ask her or I should let it go. moreover if I ask her and she confesses that it's true I will be forced to ask her out, and what if her guy decides to come back because she really luved him and was committed. I am confused. need your help

I call it political suicide... I wonder how her life is going to be after this disgrace. I really pity her... Young lady, you haven't started a life yet and see what you've done to yourself..smh

US Navy Seals 'target al-Shabab leader in Somalia'

US special forces have carried out a raid on a senior leader of the al-Shabab Islamist group in Somalia, US officials say.
The unnamed officials said a US Navy Seals team had targeted the man after approaching a villa in the southern town of Barawe by sea.
There are conflicting reports about whether the raid was successful.
It was said to have been prompted by last month's deadly attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya.
In a separate development, US officials say that an al-Qaeda leader accused of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has been captured by US forces in Libya.
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai - better known as Anas al-Libi - was said to have been seized by US forces near Tripoli.
'White soldiers'
The New York Times and NBC both reported that the al-Shabab leader had been captured in Somalia, but the Times then said he was believed to have been killed in a pre-dawn firefight - and that the US troops were forced to withdraw before that could be confirmed.
However, the Associated Press news agency quoted unnamed sources as saying that the Seals failed to find the intended target.
"The Barawe raid was planned a week and a half ago," a US security official told the New York Times.
"It was prompted by the Westgate attack," added the official, who was speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Al-Shabab earlier told the BBC that "white soldiers" had arrived by boat in Barawe and rebels had repulsed them, losing a fighter.
Local group commander Mohamed Abu Suleiman said the raid had failed and the group remained in control of Barawe.
Separately, Reuters carried a statement by Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabab's military operations spokesman, which said that British and Turkish special forces were involved.
He said the commander of the British force was killed, and four SAS and a Turkish soldier were wounded.
Both Britain and Turkey said their forces had not been involved in the operation.
Barawe residents said say they were woken up by heavy fighting before dawn.
"Gunfire broke out for about 10-15 minutes," an eyewitness told AFP news agency.
Al-Shabab has said it carried out the attack in the Westgate shopping centre in Kenya's capital Nairobi which left at 67 people dead. Many more people were injured after militants stormed the centre on 21 September.
Western navies tasked with fighting piracy patrol the seas off Somalia, which has been beset by conflict for more than two decades.
In 2009, US Navy commandos attacked and killed an al-Qaeda leader, Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, in a daylight raid on Barawe.
Washington has also used drones in Somalia to support the government and African Union forces in their battle against al-Shabab.
France carried out an unsuccessful raid to free a French intelligence agent in January. Two French commandos were killed and al-Shabab later reported that it had killed the agent.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24417099

I think the intolerance only exist on nairaland.. Have a lot of Nigerian friends here the university and we have no problems.. Once in a while we make jokes about each others country, nothing serious.. But I guess nairaland is a different world on it on.... Nigerians are one group of interesting people and I learn a lot from them.... I believe things are being exaggerated on nairaland most times.

Nine African Internet Millionaires To Watch
Africa may not yet have an Internet billionaire, but there are a handful of savvy African entrepreneurs who’ve built 7- and 8-figure fortunes by identifying and taking advantage of the opportunities on the continent’s web space.
Here’s a basic truth: In the next five to seven years, there’ll be an unprecedented explosion of Internet millionaires. A billionaire or two may even crop up. You never know. The signs are there. Massive broadband fiber optic cables are being laid everywhere from the West cost to the East, North and the South. Hungry techies everywhere from Nigeria to Ghana, Kenya and South Africa are building web-based companies providing simple solutions for some of our most daunting challenges and inconveniences. Some of the world’s most important investors are taking notice, and making huge bets. New York-based hedge fund Tiger Global Management, Swedish investment firm Kinnevik and Australia’s Seek.com.au have each made multi-million dollar investments in the continent’s Internet space, reinforcing the notion that the next gold mine could be Africa’s tech space.
A few people have gotten an early jumpstart on this, and they’ve made millions in the process. Here are ten people you should watch closely:

1. Abasiama Idaresit, Nigerian
Source: digital marketing
Idaresit, a Nigerian-born digital marketing expert, is the founder and CEO of Wild Fusion, one of Africa’s leading digital marketing agencies. Idaresit founded Wild Fusion in 2010 with no external funding and with a bootstrapped budget, transforming the company into a $6 million (annual revenues) digital marketing firm offering Internet marketing and digital strategy solutions to some of the largest international corporations operating in in sub-Saharan Africa. Wild Fusion’s clients include Visa V -0.54%, Vodafone VOD +0.07%, Samsung and Unilever UN +0.28% as well as several large Pan-African corporations. Wild Fusion, which is on track to make $10 million in revenues this year, also has operations in Kenya and Ghana. Wild Fusion was also Google’s first Adwords certified partner in West Africa.

2. Justin Clarke & Carey Eaton, South African, Kenyan
Source: One Africa Media
Justin Clarke and Carey Eaton co-founded One Africa Media (OAM), Africa’s largest online classifieds group. OAM owns some of Africa’s most prestigious and lucrative online properties, including PrivateProperty.co.za, South Africa’s leading property website; , West Africa’s leading job website; Cheki.com,West and East Africa’s largest online auto marketplace; and SafariNow, South Africa’s leading travel and accommodation booking website. In June 2013, Seek, Australia’s largest recruitment portal, acquired a 25% stake in OAM for $20 million, valuing the company at $80 million. OAM’s three major shareholders are Justin Clarke, Carey Eaton and Tiger Global Management, a New York-based hedge fund.

3. Jason Njoku, Nigerian
Source: Nigerian movies
Jason Njoku is the founder of iRokoTV, the world’s largest distributor of Nigerian movies, which has been dubbed the ‘Netflix of Africa’. iRokoTV operates a service that streams Nigerian and Ghanaian movies online for free, while users who want to gain access to newer content have to pay a monthly subscription fee of $5. The service has been successful so far and iRoko has over 500,000 registered subscribers. iRokoTV has raised over $10 million in venture funding from Tiger Global Management, a New York-based private equity and hedge fund run by billionaire Chase Coleman, and $2 million from Swedish investment firm Kinnevik.

4. Herman Heunis, Namibian
Source: messaging services
Heunis was the original founder of MXit, Africa’s largest social network and the continent’s first mobile instant messenger. About 20 million people in more than 120 countries across the world now use MXit. The service runs on multiple mobile and computing platforms. In September 2011, World Of Avatar, an investment company founded by South African millionaire Alan Knott Graig Jr., acquired MXit from Herman Heunis for over $50 million.

5.Adii Pienaar, South African
Source: WordPress Themes
Adii Pienaar, 28, is the founder of Woothemes, a company that designs and develops customizable commercial themes and plugins for WordPress. Adii built the business with a bootstrap budget, and the company today generates over $3 million in annual revenues from the sale of its themes. Woothemes also develops and sells themes for other content management systems, including Tumblr. He is now working on PublicBeta, a service that allows very successful entrepreneurs to transfer knowledge to new startups.

6. Ronnie Apteker, South African
Source: Internet services
The 45 year-old South African entrepreneur founded Internet Solutions, South Africa’s first Internet service provider, in 1993 shortly after the end of apartheid. The company provides its services to more than 70% of the companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. In 1997, Apteker sold Internet Solutions to Dimension Data Holdings, an Internet, communications and telecom services provider, for roughly $65 million. Apteker is currently an investor in South African Internet startups such as Randgo.com, which offers benefits such as discounts, preferential treatment and access to stock offerings from South Africa’s leading brands. He is also a movie producer and writer.

7. Gary Levitt, South African

Source: Email marketing
In 2008, the South African-born entrepreneur founded Mad Mimi, an email service that allows users create, send, share and track simple, scalable communications such as branded emails and newsletters online. Mad Mimi boasts over 150,000 corporate users and sends over 1 billion messages every month. The company has over 20 employees and annual revenues of about $6 million. Levitt is the controlling shareholder of the company.

8. Ayisi Makatiani, Kenya
Source: Internet services
Makatiani made his first fortune by co-founding Africa Online, one of the earliest Internet service providers in Africa. He founded the company in 1994, and Africa Online provided dial-up, leased line and wireless connectivity services in Kenya and around East Africa. In 2000, Makatiani sold a significant chunk of his shareholding in the company to African Lakes Corporation PLC of Britain, retaining a minority stake reportedly valued at $10 million. He now runs Fanisi Capital, an African-focused private equity and venture capital fund.

9. Njeri Rionge, Kenyan
Source: Internet Services
Rionge now runs Ignite Consulting, a successful business consultancy based in Nairobi, but she earned her first fortune from co-founding Wananchi Online, an Internet service provider which is now East Africa’s leading cable, broadband and IP (internet-based) phone company. In 2011, Emerging Capital Partners, an American private equity firm, acquired a 50% stake in the company for $26 million.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2013/08/06/ten-african-internet-millionaires-to-watch/2/

madridsta007: I know this sounds somewhat harsh and unlike me, but 'good for you', from me.

Next time, concentrate on your studies, make the best grades, get the most of the opportunities you can get in school and leave ladies alone. There is time for everything. Up till your mid and late twenties, that time is to develop and improve yourself, spiritual-wise, family-wise, career-wise. Not woman-wise.

You will have them all over you at some good point in life. Then you would think, pray and choose a sincere one and not suffer a heartbreak.

thanks for your advice. Really appreciate it.

preshygal23: Yeah it is very painful,but trust me thats the best thing to have happend to you. She has bin datin d other Guy 4 a very long tym,she startd quarreln wit you so she can hav a reason to leave you. So, just let it go,a better person is on d way.

Thanks for your kind advice. I appreciate it a lot.

preshygal23: Yeah it is very painful,but trust me thats the best thing to have happend to you. She has bin datin d other Guy 4 a very long tym,she startd quarreln wit you so she can hav a reason to leave you. So, just let it go,a better person is on d way.

Thanks for your kind advice

Hello,
Am a guy who dated this lady for 3years. She just completed versity, while am in my final year. A month before she would complete, she started acting strangely. Getting angry at anything that happens. We had a serious quarrel on some issue. We were buying food when she had a call, i tapped her to concentrate on what she was buying, she got angry and shouted at me in public, i didn't react, later when we were going, she raised the topic again, rather blaming me, i also got angry and refuse to take the food. Only for me to realise that she started dating another guy the next day. I apologies and apologies for weeks unending, she said she won't come back anymore and that the guy is making her happy, but quite frankly i did all my best for her. She cheated in me several times and i forgave her. I try my best to please her. I dont know. It quite becoming very difficult to move on. The mum and siblings have talked to her but she won't listen. My mum talk to her she won't also listen. I gave her my all during her first year, financially, emotionally etc. Now, am the one in need of her support and she told me she can't and that she know she is being selfish.I wish her all the best though its painful.

safarigirl: bros you think say military offensive dey like a trip to the cinemas or amusement park wey you go dey snap picture up and down to post for Facebook and Instagram?

Abeg Nigerian military need to start up an Instagram account to give us photo evidence and maybe a twitter account too so we can follow them and see updates like "bombing tinz' and "chilling with Shekau's dead body" (with photographic evidence of course)

can't stop myself from laughing

All the above, except 5,6 and 9

i was surprise to see this hate between ghana and nigeria on niaraland. if i hadnt come to nairaland, i wouldnt have known that hate existed like that, between ghanaians and nigerians. i have five nigerian friends here in the university and had ine called Bassey back in secondary school. and was my paddy paddy. we learn together,play together and i dont remember the last time we said anything ill in reference to nigeria. we are so close to the extent that we sametime forget togo and benin divides us.

adesojiaderemi@:
Black lawmakers and civil rights groups are concerned by a proposal in the Senate's immigration reform bill that would do away with “diversity” visas that are often a pathway for African and Caribbean immigrants to enter the United States.

Advocates said they haven't seen evidence yet that a new merit-based program is an acceptable replacement for the diversity visas, which total 55,000 each year and are granted via a lottery.

Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP Washington bureau, said he is telling lawmakers not to eliminate the diversity program when comprehensive immigration reform moves forward.

“At this point, we are urging lawmakers not to eliminate the diversity visa program,” Shelton told The Hill. “This is one of the places in the bill that needs to be addressed. We will work with our friends in the Senate, and we have started working with our friends in the House as well.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), co-chairman of the immigration task force for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), called the Senate bill “a significant step in the right direction” but said his caucus is worried about the plan to eliminate diversity visas.

“With respect to the abolishment of the diversity visa lottery program, the CBC is extremely concerned that it might limit the future flow of immigration for people from certain parts of the world,” Jeffries said. “That’s troublesome, and we’re evaluating the merit-based visa proposal to determine if it's fair and balanced.”

The diversity program makes 55,000 visas available each year to countries with low immigration rates to the United States. Those awarded the visas are chosen by a lottery, with about half typically going to African immigrants.

Republican lawmakers have targeted the program in the past for elimination, arguing the program's lottery system can lead to fraud and undermine national security.

The Senate bill proposes ending the diversity visas in 2015 and creating a new, merit-based visa program. It would make 120,000 visas available per year, rising to a maximum of 250,000, depending on the need for them and the unemployment rate. Immigrants would earn points toward visas based on their education, employment, family ties and other criteria.

“The jury is still out on whether the merit-based visas will be sufficient to address the concerns we have identified with diversity visas,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “We are concerned but we are still looking, and we are still making a decision.”

Some groups are furious with lawmakers for putting the diversity program on the chopping block.

“This is not a zero-sum game where we take from one to give to another. That is not how comprehensive immigration reform should work,” said Bertha Lewis, president of The Black Institute. “We are really, really angry about this diversity visa business.”

Jeffries said it was “too early to say” whether he would support the Senate bill without changes. The CBC is in talks with lawmakers negotiating a House immigration overhaul, he said.

“The situation is still very much in flux, and we won’t know until the end of the month what that bill might ultimately look like,” Jeffries said.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), another co-chairman of the CBC's immigration task force, said the group met on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the diversity visa issue.

“We continue to be concerned about the discontinuation of the diversity waiver, and the fact that … African and Caribbean immigrants who are participating in the diversity visa [program] per year could lose that pathway,” Horsford said.

Horsford said CBC leaders have been in talks with immigration reform negotiators in both the House and the Senate. He suggested the merit-based replacement program was included in the Senate bill at the urging of the CBC.

“In large part, this alternative has been proposed because of our concerns with the diversity visa [discontinuation]. Meaning, we brought this issue up when we heard that it was being talked about [being] eliminated,” Horsford said. “And we said, ‘Look, without some meaningful alternative that ensures that all communities, including Caribbean and African immigrants, are protected, then, you know, we [the CBC] would have major concern.’”

Horsford said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), another leader of the CBC’s immigration task force, has been in talks with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate's "Gang of Eight," about diversity visas.

“And now that we have the language, and now that we can see the alternative specifically, we can, you know, begin to work on how it affects our communities,” Horsford said.

Horsford said he expected the House immigration reform bill would have similar language related to diversity visas and the merit-based replacement program.

Shelton of the NAACP said he was hoping for “a strengthening” of the diversity visa program in the immigration reform bill by increasing its numbers of visas and expediting their processing time.

“It has not been demonstrated yet that the merit-based visas that are being lifted up will solve the problems that diversity visas were intended to solve,” Shelton said. “There may be a need for an amendment to fix this problem in the future to help African and Caribbean immigrants

Some encouraging news there