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UyaiIncomparabl:
No surprises here. Just like he is, is the way you are. I wonder who dates you people.

Bunch of walking, imbecilic narcissists.

A look at all your post topics tells it all. You are the imbecilic, unreal, fantasising freak that will hopefully wake up when it's already too late.

Lilbest3:
Why do American leftists have problems with calling this the Chinese virus?

Because Swine Flu originated from North America, ravaged the world and nobody called it American Virus.

Harrynight:


Is Possible, His existing cases of sickness killed him not necessarily COVID19

I laff and pity you

In time of scarcity do you consult anybody or ask questions b4 jacking up Ur prices?

babdap:
Like or Hate him,the welfare of US citizens has always been his priority since inauguration

You really don't know what you're saying. I don't even know where to start from but you're are being deceived.

Many people will wish their great grandfather stepped on that bridge. I have a friend who was angry with his great grandparents for eluding capture, according to him by now he would have been black American or European.

Yahman1:
I love Snow but this one too much o, kind of Scary sef

I thought I did too until I experienced it...in New York. Trust me, It's a very boring and depressing weather.

chival:
Found it. It's The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz. Yes, he specifically mentioned 2020.

I see, thank you. It seems to be a movie, that makes it fictitious.

chival:
Dean Koontz also mentions the virus in one of his novels. The title eludes me now, but in it he actually mentions that the virus will be engineered in the Wuhan province of China.

I wish you remember the title and was his timing as accurate?

myobjective:
The biggest problem here is that the population is exploding at 3% per annum without any effort to diversify away from crude or reduce the population to reflect our economic reality.

I don't consider what we are expressing as steady progress, more people are sliding into poverty annually. Agriculture and small scale industries which should be engine of growth is seriously ampere by current insecurity and economic policies of the government.

We the citizens also have a role to play, by investing more into our small scale, agro processing and small scale mining. We also need to reduce our birth rate considerably and our taste for foreign goods.

I agree with you, we definitely need to do more.

Sylvia Celeste Browne (Oct 19, 1936 – Nov 20, 2013) was an American author who claimed to be a medium with psychic abilities. She appeared regularly on television and radio, including on The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live, and hosted an hour-long radio show.

She rightly predicted the emergence of a new pneumonia like illness (COVID-19) around 2020. The main symptom of the COVID-19: Corona virus is known to attack the respiratory system.

nuti:
So because SouthAfrica slips into recession, APC is celebrating that buhari is working.
Ok

Yes, of course. Why not

Gten:
It took South Africa's recession to make Nigerian economy 1st. This does not in anyway indicate progress, cos our economy didn't get any better, South African economy just got bad. In other words, South Africa now have their own Buhari.
Sense will not kill me!

Remember Nigeria got into recession like South Africa and other countries. Nigeria has since come out of the recession and is making gradual but steady progress, South Africa has been limping.

Try to believe in your country

nameo:
Do you know that this is nothing to celebrate here, and infact that this indicts this Govt??

Clue: In 2014, Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa and valued at $509.9bn whilst South Africa was $370.3bn.

Today, Nigerian economy has according to your report in the OP declined to $472/402bn i.e a decline of about $38bn( it would even be more if you take into account inflation rate between then and now).

The only reason SA overtook us was that our growth since then has been very sluggish with us entering into a recession(successive "negative" growth). The reason why you just overtook SA again is that they just entered their 2nd recession within the period.

In real terms, none of the countries grew.

So quit that Buhari worship. On the economy, as with almost everything else, he has failed.

Before you go on to mislead people with your misguided analysis you missed to factor in the role slump in oil price played. In 2014 the price of crude oil was ~$93/barrel hence the robust $509bn economy, fast forward 2019 the price of crude is ~$50/barrel. If your salary was N93k and later dropped to N50k per month will your economy still be the same? Will you still be able to afford chicken everyday?

This is coming after the crash of oil price in 2016 which saw many oil dependent economies slip into recession including Nigeria. While other countries are still battling to survive the recession Nigeria has since come out of the recession and is making gradual steady progress.

Please, be guided.

This man seems to be decoding these loopholes fast. Who knows, maybe he has a Nigerian advicer

3. You are not good in bed

I will yawn over the rest

Ololanla:
He should be made to return the money. Simple!
But what happen to Obanikoro, Akpabio and other thieves now in APC??

If they are guilty what happened to Orji Uzor Kalu will happen to them.

ajl:
This may sound a bit harsh but it's an attempt to challenge you. You find yourself, a Master degree holder, working among mostly high school certificate holders. Now get your ass together no matter how challenging it is and aspire to a career that fits your academic qualifications and aspirations. In the 90s, I washed and cleaned toilets somewhere in the West, worked at Macdonalds cleaning kitchen, spent a summer doing demolition work and constructing railway line. But less than a decade later I was rubbing minds with academic elites somewhere in North America, and few more years I worked in a top energy company exclusively within a group of PhDs. Believe you deserve more and don't relent if you think and believe that. As interesting as this narrative sound, I have also stumbled in attempts to even go further into more financial independence as this is the ultimate. But you must never stop trying.

It's not harsh of you. Thank you for your opinion. I barely arrived here and am still trying to settle in. I know where I am going by God's grace. Meanwhile, unlike in Nigeria, many of the jobs here do not really need graduate degrees. Example, a job in any of the mobile carrier outlets (Sprint, AT&T, etc) doesn't requure graduate degree so u may find yourself working with High School graduates. Same applies to many Oil and Gas positions. Even in the banks in Nigeria, you find B.Sc. holders dragging teller jobs with OND holders.

When you find yourself in a strange land, most times, you start to crawl before walking and then running.

UyaiIncomparabl:
This one na Jew boy jor. Mr Integrity my ass.

Foolish news.

Trust me you are a big fool. To think that the devil will send one unfortunate man your way someday worries me...I hope he doesn't kill you.

So, my supervisor in a new place I work here in the United States asked me where I was from the other day and I replied him Nigeria and he said he never heard of the country and the conversation pretty much ended there.

So two days later he walked straight to my table and asked me directly what's your qualification? I told him I hold a Masters degree, he asked me in what area, and I told him. I saw the surprise in his eyes and he dragged a sit and sat in front of my desk and started to tell me how he decided to look up Nigeria the previous day and how he was surprised he never heard of such a country which recent local statistics has confirmed are the most educated immigrants in the US. And to think that most of the workers here are pretty much High school (Secondary school) graduates and here I was humbly doing my job as though we were mates academically.

What I don't know and I didn't ask him was if he also found out how corrupt my home country is and I really hoped he didnt read that part. Since then he has been relating with me with elevated regard.

Nbote:
Dis man dey shame person I swear

You dey shame us pass. The man is on point, you what is your beef.

Basically, the money one man stole can feed a nation for years.

Immigrant Visa is now banned, Non-immigrant Visa dem no kukuma dey give before. Na be ee done bee so.

Atikuorbuhari:
http://www.musictori.com/2020/01/google-launches-first-developer-space.html

And Trump is somewhere allegedly nursing travel ban on Nigeria. His plan will not work in Jesus Name, Amen.

Atikuorbuhari:
http://www.musictori.com/2020/01/google-launches-first-developer-space.html

And Trump is somewhere allegedly nursing travel ban on Nigeria. His plan will not work in Jesus Name, Amen

(CNN) - An upcoming change to State Department visa guidelines is expected to take aim at birth tourism, the practice of foreign nationals giving birth on US soil to ensure their children become American citizens, according to a State Department official.

The State Department official told CNN that the department is amending a regulation to ensure that visitor visas to the US are not used for birth tourism. The rule will be "published shortly," according to the official, who said it is intended to address the national security and law enforcement risks associated with the practice. Details about the change, how it will be enforced and the impact to travelers were not immediately available.

The Department of Homeland Security and White House referred CNN to the State Department for comment.

The expected announcement comes a week after a Hong Kong-based airline apologized for demanding that a passenger take a test to prove she was not pregnant before boarding a flight to the US Pacific island of Saipan -- part of the US commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, which has emerged as a favorite destination for "birth tourism."

The airline said in a statement that it was under pressure from authorities in Saipan to step up checks on passengers.

"We took actions on flights to Saipan from February 2019 to help ensure US immigration laws were not being undermined," the airline said. "Under our new management, we recognize the significant concerns this practice has caused. We have immediately suspended the practice while we review it."

It not immediately clear whether the incident was related to the US regulatory change.

In July, the commonwealth's House of Representatives passed a resolution seeking to limit birthright citizenship on the islands in the wake of the increased popularity of birth tourism in Saipan.

In July, the commonwealth's House of Representatives passed a resolution seeking to limit birthright citizenship on the islands in the wake of the increased popularity of birth tourism in Saipan.

The US has sought legal action against people thought to be capitalizing on the industry.

Last year, the Department of Justice charged three people with running "birth tourism" companies that catered to Chinese clients in Southern California -- the first time that criminal charges had been filed in a US federal court over the practice.

The charges stemmed from a 2015 raid of dozens of so-called "maternity hotels," often upscale apartments, where mothers-to-be paid between $15,000 and $50,000 to give birth in the US, according to a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement statement at the time.

In 2018, President Donald Trump vowed to end birthright citizenship by executive order, though lawmakers immediately pushed back against his comments.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/politics/trump-administration-birth-tourism-visa-guidelines/index.html

ABUJA —- GHANAIAN President Nana Akufo-Addo has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to expedite the process of reopening the closed borders because of its effect on the economy of Ghana.

President Akufo-Addo made the plea to Buhari during a bilateral discussion they had on the sidelines of the ongoing UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020 in London.

President Akufo-Addo, while showing understanding of the need for Nigeria to protect her citizens, pleaded for “an expedited process, because the Nigerian market is significant for certain categories of business people in Ghana.”

But the Nigerian President, Buhari said that the partial closure of the borders was to stop proliferation of arms, ammunition and hard drugs.

In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, President Buhari said he could not keep his eyes open and watch youths being destroyed through cheap hard drugs, and compromised security caused by unbridled influx of small arms.

According to him, “When most of the vehicles carrying rice and other food products through our land borders are intercepted, you find cheap hard drugs, and small arms, under the food products. This has terrible consequences for any country.

He said it was regrettable that the partial border closure was having “negative economic impact on our neighbours,” but added that “we cannot leave our country, particularly the youths, endangered.”


The President said the Sahel region was awash with small arms, which accounts for severe security challenges in Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria.

“We are in fact the biggest victims,” he lamented.

On time frame for reopening the borders, President Buhari said it would not happen till the final report of a committee set up on the matter was submitted and considered.

He said, “We will get things sorted out. Our farmers, especially those who grow rice, now have a market and are happy, and we are also concerned about hard drugs and weapons

“Once the committee comes up with its recommendations, we will sit and consider them.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/ghanaian-president-begs-buhari-to-open-border/amp/

helinues:
Responsible party you said.. Is that why they spend all their time in distracting Trump? Russia collusion lasted for how many years? How about Ukraine aid funds saga ?

Is that why Democrats media wings ( CNN) cant see anything good in Trump administration even though the economy of Usa is becoming more viable than before...

So also Fox News doesn't see anything wrong about Trump, not a single thing, and never saw anything right in Obama. Bros, leave that matter, I am not saying everything is wrong with him, cos there are areas I think he has done fine but here in the US the economy is bitting, the middle class are crying, the streets have never been this dry. The economy numbers you talk about features the elites like Trump and his likes.

Health care has become grossly inaccessible, the Obamacare that was benefitial to the low class was the first thing he repealed. If you don't know ask the people you know living here.

Lyydia:
There's this guy that we have been dating for 6 months, we love each other very well and we plan on marrying each other.

Here is the deal, we plan on no sex before marriage due to personal reasons. I don't ask for money also, we do cuddle and kiss sometimes. But not sex!

Of recent, he has been acting strange and wants to go beyond our normal cuddle level. I cautioned him about this and he promised to change! But he still does this.

Yesterday it happened again as I got furious and asked him to leave.

Did I overreact? I called, he has not picked up since yesterday.

Auntie, You already had sex with him

The kind of things that make front-page these days makes me wonder if the admins are fast running out of steam.

SteveOfu:
what's wrong in asking how much your earn?

Everything is

The travel measures taken against Nigeria by the United States last year are starting to have a clear and, potentially, long-term effect.

Data from the US travel and tourism office shows Nigeria recorded the largest global drop-off in visitors to the US. As of October 2019, 34,000 fewer Nigerians traveled to the US compared to the previous year—a 21% drop. After a sustained period of growth between 2011 and 2015, the number of Nigerian visitors to the US started to plateau in 2016 until the big drop-off last year.

The second largest drop was for visitors from Venezuela (17.7%). The South American country is in the midst of an economic and political crisis which has seen more than four million people flee the country and the US is restricting entry to Venezuelan migrants.

The dip in Nigerian visitors to the US followed a string of visa clampdown measures by the Trump administration targeting Africa’s largest economy.

After indefinitely suspending its visa interview waiver for Nigerian applicants (the waiver allowed frequent travelers renew their visa without going through in-person interviews each time), the Trump administration also raised visa application fees for Nigerians by including additional “reciprocity fees” ranging from $80 to $303 depending on the class of visa. And even though the Nigerian government immediately slashed visa application fees for American applicants in a bid to get the US to reverse its price increase, the reciprocity fees remain in place.

The measures followed reports that the Trump administration was looking to impose visa restrictions on countries whose citizens have a track record of overstaying beyond the validity of their short-term US visas. As it turns out, Nigerians were the highest ranked African country for US visa overstays in 2018.

Even though official data confirms the effects of the measures, there were already warning signs the administration’s policies were having an adverse impact on potential travelers. The policies also spawned fear-fueled rumors among locals as well: mid-last year, the United States embassy in Nigeria was forced to deny a widespread rumor that it had placed a ban on issuing student visas to Nigerians.

The tougher overall visa stance by the Trump administration comes at an inopportune time for middle class Nigerians who are increasingly emigrating amid fears of economic uncertainty back home. Nigeria’s once promising economy remains mired in sluggish growth since a 2016 recession while unemployment continues to climb. With many middle class professionals searching for alternatives, the number of Nigerians seeking legal immigration pathways to the US, UK and, increasingly, Canada, has risen sharply over the past half-decade.

But despite the Trump administration’s policies, the US remains a popular destination for Nigerian students seeking foreign degrees as the economic impact of spending by Nigerian students studying in the United States reached $514 million over the past academic year.

https://qz.com/africa/1778579/nigerian-visitors-to-us-drop-as-trump-visa-policies-hurt/