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More pictures please

ckenneths:
Very beautiful collection of buildings. ......

Please show us more pictures of Ngozika Estate Phase 2

ANSMEDIA:
Ngozika estates Phase-I Awka

This is a true Democratic nation. No bribing of anyone in order to favour either the defendant or the plaintiff.

Backfornow:
1pm

The trial started. Just like tv, prosecution opened the case with their opening statement, telling us what the person was accused of and what we would be hearing.

Prosecution called up their expert witnesses, cop, forensics, and lab. Prosecution would ask the witnesses questions and then defense would come and ask their own questions.

If we the jury had questions that we needed clarification, we would wrote them down and pass to the judge. The judge would then call both sides up review the questions. If they were legal questions, the judge allowed it and then the judge asked the witness the question. Several times the two sides argued back and forth with the judge and we were asked to leave the room several times. One fact that forensics said was that finger print analysis is at times unreliable becsuse it is very fragile. Fingerprints are only recovered 16% of the time.
5p. Closing statement
Defense called one 1 witness.
Prosecution made their final argument so did defense. Prosecution then got another chance to rebuttal the defense.
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Sent to deliberate the case.
We were given final instructions. Remember all had to agree on the same verdict. We took one vote to see where we were at. 7 guilty 5 not. Not a good sign.
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Arguing still.
5 guilty 7 not. Asked what to do if we can't agree. Told to work it out.
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Still arguing. Asked again what happens next if we can't agree.
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Called by the judge to the courtroom. Asked our representative what our verdict was, we couldnt agree. Did we all agree that we couldn't agree?Responded yes
She says," In this case I declare a mistrial. Prosecution you can retry if you wish. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Thank you for your service. You are free to go."
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We all left including the defendant.

It's been a week, you've not updated us on the payment details.

spyder880:
Good day my people. The plan to pay for this land is ongoing, so we are now ready to start taking payment from interested people from tomorrow. I will announce the account numbers for us to pay into by tomorrow, plus the payment plans, all payments will be announced here, and remaining plots will be updated.

Please, we need to understand that our intention is immediate development, not to buy and keep for years.

Thank you all.

Whereas in Nigeria, if you're not a graduate, you're a nobody. Young people bribe, sleep around and do all sorts in the university all in the name of sorting just to get certificate only to graduate to be unemployed because they pass through school but school didn't pass through them.

kroger:
Since i started working in america no one has actually asked me to present my certificate, what really count is your experience on the job.. As long as you can defend what you put on your resume the job is yours..

Not only Google got affected by their censorship policy, also Facebook giving rise to the likes of tencent and wechat.

Backfornow:
Part of your question was about Google and China. I'm saying China operates on censorship. Google is a US company, which one of the country's founding principles is freedom of speech. Google had a big problem with China demanding them to follow their censorship policy. Which prompted them to pull out the first time.

US government would have reciprocated what the Chinese government did to US tech companies by blocking services like Baidu, wechat, tencent, weibo and even Alibaba and aliexpress in US. I see no difference in Chinese censorship and that of North Korea.

Backfornow:
I agree. Google voluntarily pulled out of China years ago inititially over censorship and China's human rights issues. Public outcry, employees, and investors had a big part in this. Now that Google is trying to ease it's way back in China, there is renewed outcry. The thing is even though a company can do what they wish, a company as big as Google's public image means a lot to them and no company like that wants to be on the wrong side of social and ethical issues.

You can see that Google services were blocked in mainland China and moved to Hong Kong and their market share also declined after blocking Google in China.

radautoworks:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+China&oq=Google+China&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.13694j0j4&client=ms-android-essential&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

Lots of opinion pieces about that online.

Im sorry to agree on this one that Google works in China. Even using Virtual Private Network is a crime in China. I see no much difference in what China is doing and North Korea.

radautoworks:
It's not the intellectual property theft. It's the censorship. As it is Weibo, Baidu etc have to acquiesce to government demand and censorship. That's why Google isn't as active. They are there though.

I was reading online today and found out that Baidu, the equivalent of Google and the largest search engine company in China has its research facilities in Beijing, San Francisco and Seattle and yet Google doesn't operate in China. What does the US gain from Baidu doing business in Us when their own tech company can't operate in China and also considering intellectual property theft which is one the reasons for the trade wars between US and China.

Just imagine, becoming a manager with just o'level certificate whereas in Nigeria that can't be possible if one doesn't have an MBA. This shows that experience and integrity matters more than one's certificate in the US.

FrankNetter:
I recently went to one Burger King (at Matteson) to get some food and I ran into an old time manager who I worked with a few times. When I used to work at Burger King (at Chicago heights), she wasn’t traditionally working there too but she got transferred there a few times when we were short on managers. So they would call her to work a particular shift for that day.

When I walked into the store she was excited to see me, I was shocked and surprised. This lady is older than I am, so I was wondering what the ruckus was about. She then asked me if I’ve got some time to spare that she needs to talk to me. I only came to get a chocolate milkshake but I told her I got a few minutes. Long story short, she told me she was being transferred to “my store” (at Chicago heights) to work permanently as the general manager and that she would like me to come work for her as a shift manager .

I was excited at first but I didn’t give her an answer. I told her we would speak on the phone. She gave me her number.

After a few days, I called her and after the regular formalities, I asked her what the pay rate would be, she said $11.50/hour when I start, then $12/hour after 30 days. I tried to bargain with her to increase it, citing my reliability and work ethic. She refused to succumb. I then told her to give a few more days to think about it. But I never called her back.

I don’t think it’s a good deal cos when I used to work there,the managers at suffer a lot. If someone doesn’t show up to work, you have to help out fill in the space, if food or money gets missing, na you dem go hold, if a customer wants to be rude, na you dem go insult.

The major thing that made me reject the offer was the pay. I could waltz into any nursing home or hospital to work as a CNA (I’m still a Certified nursing assistant, remember?) and start getting paid $13/hour for much less work but to pay someone $11.50/hour for the workload at Burger King is unfair. Maybe that’s the reason they are short on managers

I could remember this is manager that called you to apologise after she f-up.

FrankNetter:
I recently went to one Burger King (at Matteson) to get some food and I ran into an old time manager who I worked with a few times. When I used to work at Burger King (at Chicago heights), she wasn’t traditionally working there too but she got transferred there a few times when we were short on managers. So they would call her to work a particular shift for that day.

When I walked into the store she was excited to see me, I was shocked and surprised. This lady is older than I am, so I was wondering what the ruckus was about. She then asked me if I’ve got some time to spare that she needs to talk to me. I only came to get a chocolate milkshake but I told her I got a few minutes. Long story short, she told me she was being transferred to “my store” (at Chicago heights) to work permanently as the general manager and that she would like me to come work for her as a shift manager .

I was excited at first but I didn’t give her an answer. I told her we would speak on the phone. She gave me her number.

After a few days, I called her and after the regular formalities, I asked her what the pay rate would be, she said $11.50/hour when I start, then $12/hour after 30 days. I tried to bargain with her to increase it, citing my reliability and work ethic. She refused to succumb. I then told her to give a few more days to think about it. But I never called her back.

I don’t think it’s a good deal cos when I used to work there,the managers at suffer a lot. If someone doesn’t show up to work, you have to help out fill in the space, if food or money gets missing, na you dem go hold, if a customer wants to be rude, na you dem go insult.

The major thing that made me reject the offer was the pay. I could waltz into any nursing home or hospital to work as a CNA (I’m still a Certified nursing assistant, remember?) and start getting paid $13/hour for much less work but to pay someone $11.50/hour for the workload at Burger King is unfair. Maybe that’s the reason they are short on managers

Yea and festive period is looming and which is always the peak period when our brothers in the diapora come back to invest.

whirlwind7:
Let's just say Buhari's wind of change is modifying everything, including spending powers
But those who have deep or semi deep pockets are making serious moves.
The wise know this periods are the time to acquire properties in the SE. Every time is the right time, but particularly for the SE, next year and beyond will mark periods of skyrocketing prices for lands.

Those with discernment understand what I'm talking about.

Thanks. I'm still going through it. I'm already feeling like an immigrant.

Backfornow:
I have uoloaded the Ammendnents/U S constitution 2 posts up above.

CC Nig4Greatness

What's the 14th ammendment all about

Nig4Greatness:
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But other developed countries don't operate this.
So why would the US remain ??

Also post to Spyder's thread to show Awka to the world.

omadeltason:
I'm in Awka now I'm going to upload some beautiful pictures about awka.

Is this also Udoka estate

raker300:
Somewhere in awka

Please where in Awka is this?

raker300:
Awka

This law is very bad, how can it be inhumane and against their will to keep people who are mentally unstable and need help in a facilty.

OyinbowithaTan:
Quasi political. People started saying that it is inhumane to keep crazy people in a facility. Also laws were changed that made it more difficult
to commit someone to a facility against their will. USA is loaded with these old hospital facilities that are vacant. They look like this,
[img]https://4girlsandaghost.files./2011/10/sunland-center-tallahassee-fl.jpg[/img]
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/stuffyoushouldknow-14-2013-10-Waverly7.jpg

Having three street should be a waste of money. Just two is okay to serve motorists.

ckenneths:
Now, the newest flyover in Abakaliki, this should be flyover number 3 in the city. .......

Not in use yet......

Why was the mental health residential facility ended

OyinbowithaTan:
Not all but a lot. Big opioid problem. Also there used to be large scale mental health residential facilities in the USA. That largely ended by 1980.
Patients now get drugs to offset the problems, then when they stop taking the drugs they can't function.

What a system that favours some class of people.

Babyvet:
No some people are homeless because of debt and individualism. If one has high levels of debt compared to income ,credit it propbaly poor which limits your access to housing . If you lose your job and can not afford to make rent or mortgage pavement after a certain period you may lose your home . Without family or friend support , you may lose you may end up homeless.

Your last line statement is unfortunately untrue. Most of those big businesses are one man corporation, other people people who are there as board of directors are there for employment sake not necessary for team work. The final decisions are always made by the sole owner.

stonemasonn:
lol, but the reason humans are the most successful and progressive species is because of their ability to work together for a common goal. Their is even a myth in the Bible about the Tower of Babel, God was so worried about the capacity of human achievements when working as a team, he decided to afflict them with different languages .

The American system like the Tower of Babel God encourages individualism, that’s why many Americans are laden with debts and some are homeless.

Nigerians in diaspora have a lot to learn from the Jews and Asians.
_{Although I see some of the traits among the Igbos.}

What could be the reason black don't trust themselves, could it be a moral problem

rinzaugustine:
Asians trust each other unlike we black people

I'm really appreciating your contributions to this thread because it will serve as a stepping stone for intending immigrants to get informed by those already there and not to be only influenced by the information gotten from main stream media.

I really concur with you. What am simply asking are for possibilities of getting seed funding for startup not funding for expansion. Could it mean that sourcing the seed funding is near impossible for an immigrant starting a business.

Nig4Greatness:
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This is where I question your knowledge about managing a business,if you ever being to a business school before I really wanna know what you were taught there.
You haven't heard the journey of a thousand miles starts with a step before ??.
Have you read how Microsoft and others even Jumia started business at all ??.
I doubt if you have started any business yet you are dreaming of getting million dollars funding (for ideas that are only existing in your head) from where exactly??.
Those multi million dollar businesses started as an ordinary or average business,the same little begining you despised so much.
Well it's good to dream but making those dreams a reality is another thing entirely.i wish you well.

Its unfortunate that many Nigerians in US won't form an investment community like the Asians are doing but rather will think of fellow Nigerians to dupe

radautoworks:
They're not getting government funding mostly. They form community groups that lend money to each other to set up (a lot of times interest-free). Same as the Asians in Texas and Muslims. Unlike Nigerians who try to take the JJC for what he has, these groups help you get a job, housing, transportation etc when you arrive and take care of each other. You hit the ground running. The wealth stays in the community. That's how they take over entire neighborhoods.

Yes, speaking from MANY experiences. unfortunately as someone else mentioned, I'm leery to deal with Nigerians overseas and a lot more cautious with them than other people.

This is exactly the answers am seeking. Are these situations intentional to make the black disadvantaged.

grandstar:
Black Americans are not as well educated as other races bar native Americans.

A good number don't finish high school which is their secondary school.

70% of black kids are born to single mothers and the men turn to crime in large numbers.

56% of black men in the city of Baltimore between the ages of 18-35years is either in jail, on parole, on probation or in prison at any point in time.

Jumia recently raised $700m funding from Goldman Sachs making it a unicorn valuing the company at $1.2B. This is an african company being funded by foreign financial company. I can tell you that foreign financial institutions are willing to invest in any viable idea in an emerging market even in the US. They are simply there to make money from ideas.

Nig4Greatness:
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In as much as I love your enthusiasm and your optimism about your dreams and aspirations,you should know that those expectations are not just easy to come by in reality.
There are stiff competitions everywhere for funding and some of the conditions attached to such would probably turn You to slave working for them indirectly.
Beside,how many venture capitalists as you called them are ready to throw their money on some untested ideas and do you expect Canada to throw open their borders just because you have an idea ??..if you think in that direction,then rude shock awaits you.
Even when we talk about how easy it is to get loans from banks in the US doesn't means they just throw open their vault for you just because you have a business idea that has not been put to use.
They are many tech startups in Nigeria that started with nothing but they are doing fine now and progressing with some attracting foreign investors.Typical example of such tech startup is PAYSTACK.google them.they are less than 2yrs old.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2016/12/19/nigerian-fintech-startup-paystack-raises-1-3-million/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjf_63s6ZLdAhWa3oMKHZYXAhUQFjAJegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw393G6kPQwsjXLc94ur6sYE&ampcf=1

How much stake do you think Bill gate has in Microsoft. Venture capitalist wouldn't earn dividend until after a break even period and the best thing that would happen to them is make exit or for the company to go public and sell IPO. I would rather have 10% stake in a multi billion dollar business than have 80% in an average business as a founder/shareholder

LUCAS99:
Venture Capitalist that will want 55% or more equity is that one a Venture Capitalist.

Some even want Perpetual Royalty for life.

God forbid if the business becomes successful then they can easily kick you out of a company you created through hard work.

You're better off requesting for a Business Line of Credit OR a Business Loan from the Big Banks.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. No substitute for success.

Nig4Greatness:
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Similar results but different approach.besides why don't you sign up for the one in Canada instead ?.

How many entrepreneurs has $500k and $1M to startup a business. Canada startup visa doesn't require you to have any money, just your idea and funding from venture capitalist grants someone the startup visa.

Nig4Greatness:
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Similar results but different approach.besides why don't you sign up for the one in Canada instead ?.