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DaddyCoool:
You don't understand that Bobrisky was asked POINT BLANK in a most candid interview (mind you, he didn't have to answer). His EXACT answer: "the truth is, Bobrisky is not gay".
See survey of crossdressers below: do you think he's likely to belong to the 87% or the 13%??

Well this person said he knew he was a lesbian because he knew he was a woman but sexually attracted to women. He likes to do everything a man would do with a woman, except that after everything he wanted the woman to fụck him with strap-on instead of him fucking her!

Brother, do you expect Bobrisky who is still living in Nigeria to publicly say he is gaybriel?

Which Nigerian man has ever done that?
Look at his actions and not just his words, it tells you everything.
As at today, there is no law against crossdressing but there is a law against homosexuality. So he can use his crossdressing antics to disguise and maintain a plausible deniability

BowaleShow:
Hello everyone,

Please I am landing next week in YZ Pearson as a PR with my wife and kid.

Would I need to show the proof of funds again on our arrival ?

They asked me oooo. Before then I thought they don't ask cos I haven't heard or seen anybody asked. However, I had more than enough money both in cash and bank account so I showed them. Don't know what would have happened if I didn't have the money.

My advice to you is go with the complete money, don't take chances. Canada is becoming aggressive on immigration lately.

Treadway:
illagal Mexicans look like me and you?

They are in the same group as you in Trump's world because they are not white caucasian people. Can you please stop this childish argument, it is not funny. So of everything I wrote, this is all you could interpret in defense of Trump? You don't know the difference between white and non white? Mtshewwwww

Treadway:
Jedisco

Blacks, if you don't vote for me you ain't black enough - Biden 2020. How's that for divisiveness? Apologised a year later, but hypocritical much ain't it?

Someone up there is basically rehashing the same divisive rhetoric, and he certainly won't apologize, cos he wouldn't know a wrong thing if it hit him in the face.

If you don't vote for Dems or Kamala,you ain't Christian enough is his message.

I can just imagine the bile and rhetoric about racial and religious divisiveness if Trump had made these two statements. Lol

So much for the hypocritical hate on the evil called divisiveness.😁💯👏

To be calming down na good thing aswear🤣..cos when person hyperventilate too much, esp about things im no dey knowleageble on, by the time e rope himself in sef or shoot himself in the foot, him no go know.

Lol

So this single Biden quote in which he apologized compares to the hate venom Trump has been dishing out not once but back to back to back since 2016 and hasn't apologized for even once? Instead of apologizing, he doubles down on it. Are you for real?

Trump said "Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country" echoing the words from Nazi Germany before the holocaust. Do you realize the amount of concentrated hatred that would reside in someone's heart before he can voice that dangerous rhetoric in public?

In case you don't know, immigrants he is talking about is people that look like you and me. He is saying you carry poison that is destroying his white country. What do you do with a poisonous creature when they are near you? You kill them before they attack you.

So what Trump is doing is to give cover and justification for his base to attack immigrants should a UK style anti immigrant riot happen in America which will happen very soon as
" Haitian immigrants start eating pets and dogs" according to him and his base

There is a valid argument to be made about the amount of immigration pouring into a country but Trump and his base issue is not whether immigration is high or legal, it is they dislike non white people are coming in. A white boy tried to assassinate him, white guys are king of school shootings that have killed many American kids, he doesn't bring that up even on campaign train. Imagine if they perpetrators of these crimes were black and immigrants, the whole black community and immigrants would have been recieving it wotowoto from him

I'm going to assume that people like you who are immigrants and make kindergarten arguments in defense of Trump have not really known him well and what he and the entire MAGA movement represents. Otherwise, I will say you guys are too naive.

Treadway:
I know/realise that he was trying to stay on point with regards to the top two things Americans consider the focal issues:

Immigration/The border crisis
Inflation/State of the economy

But I still think he had a lot of opportunities to really call Kamala out on her self righteous BS by putting her on the spot, which the mods clearly had no interest in doing. Look at how he put her on the spot on the border, when Kamala blamed Trump (talk about passing the buck), a former president for the Biden/Harris failure to secure the border, claiming that they were unable to pass a supposed bill that could have solved that, and Trump told her that they have executive powers to close the border and asked her why they haven't done that. That was a good one. Also the one on the tarrifs he (Trump) imposed on China, which they (Biden) didn't remove and still benefit from till today but she supposedly and deceptively tried to twist it as a con/negative. He should have done a lot more of that, and there were opportunities to do so, which he missed. If he had, that would have been glorious. The last question also, all these so called promises you're talking about, how come you haven't delivered on just one of them all through a full four year term? He should have unravelled her on national TV, and even put the mods on the spot too, rather than needless ineffective comments like migrants are eating pets, and all that BS.

Anyway, I agree that Harris benefitted more from the debate in terms of being who is likely winning some new people to her side...can't say the same for Trump, cos not many are as knowledgeable or objective about the nuances playing out here as I am, for example. Only thing I've seen Harris contribute in 4 years is junketing around the world being a champ for lgbtqrstuvw and all that BS. She can champion and strengthen that group specifically, but no such initiatives for the black community for example.

Bringing up things that happened before she was born, cos they can't find anything recent to label him a racist... same Kamala that called Biden racist too before she became Vp due to shit he had done also before she was born, same Kamala that got into politics on the back of being a side chick to a married political big-wig..talk about breaking a black home. She ain't no saint, and doesn't have me fooled, not in the least.

Let's see how it all plays out in November.

I am even disappointed in Kamala for not putting Trump in his place on those issues you mentioned.
First, Trump failed to solve the border issues as president. Remember " I will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it" he said in 2016. So he campaigned on the border, but didn't solve the issues as president.
Go and check the data for US illegal border crossings from 2000 till date, you will see that millions of " rapists and criminals " in his own words crossed the border under his watch. In fact, in 2019 alone, about a million people crossed that border. Yes, more people have crossed under Biden but then Biden has also deported more people than Trump. So where was the outrage from Trump when millions crossed under his watch? Immediately he was out of power, all of a sudden the border became an existential issue again. If he didn't solve it as commander in chief, what moral authority does he have to blame Kamala who is just a mere VP?

On Economy, that is simple, he left the economy worse than he met it and that is a fact. Obama did a good job in reviving an economy battered by the worst financial crisis in 2008, handed it over to Trump and he left it worse than he met it. Ok that's because of the pandemic abi? If he can be excused cos of the pandemic, why shouldn't Biden who inherited the pandemic riddled economy not be excused also? Did Trump hand over a booming economy like he inherited from Obama to Biden, and Kamala crashed it? Trump is running like he wasn't in power 4 years ago.

I struggle to understand why some of us immigrants support a con man like Trump. Have you guys listened to his MAGA base like Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and other of his surrogates and see the kind of venom that comes out of their mouth? MAGA is not about policy, it is about " white grievances " and you guys are being used without knowing.

Trump had the opportunity to pick Tim Scott or Vivek as VP but his racist mindset can't accept the idea a non white man being next in line to the presidency. He has not recovered from the fact that Obama was allowed to be president or the fact that a black woman is tryingto be president. Those 2 people debased themselves supporting Trump more than anyone yet he forgave someone who called him unprintable names just years ago to be his VP. How is JD Vance better than those 2 people? Non white men don't qualify for those positions, they are product of DEI.

Make no mistake, I don't like liberals. My preference for leadership are moderate conservatives who don't subscribe to hate of other people and apply common sense in governance something liberals lack. But I will take any liberal over Trump any day. He will still likely win as there is a silent " white grievance" powering his campaign. He has used it before and it worked for him, it can still work this time especially since there are many naive people out there who think MAGA is just about policy.

Nigeria has made people become monsters against their will. Imagine if you are in a situation where you can help save an accident victim and you couldn't cos you are afraid of your own life and that person dies, imagine the trauma and guilt you will genuinely feel.

Imagine if you were the victim and people also can't help cos they are afraid and you see yourself dying slowly.

In Nigeria, your "good life" can take a turn for the worst in a twinkle of an eye, all it just takes is being at the right place at the wrong time. God help you that you are just an ordinary person without big money and connections then you are finished. A lot of lives have been ruined due to circumstances like this.

I'm sorry to say this but I can't live in a 3rd world country again no matter how much is on the table except I don't have a choice. The risk is to high for my liking

Ge0grapher:
You all sound weird when you ask these kinda questions .. Do you know the n0 of Americans already in China?? Exploring without any problems? Go on Facebook and search for foreigners in China.. Don't let western media cloud your thought.

I think you are right. Looking at it critically, Chinese don't seem to target Americans for diplomatic extortion. However, US allies are mostly targets maybe they believe they are weaker. So in a way, Americans will be safer in China than citizens of US allied countries like Canada and Australia in particular.

However, the reverse is the case for Russia, North Korea and Iran. Those ones target Americans all the time. This does not mean that they hold every American that enters their country just that you could be unlucky on a day Putin is angry at America and decide to use one American as a bargaining chip to get what he wants.

MachoMontana:
I am American (with a Nigerian dad) and love to travel the world. Been to many Middle Eastern and European countries but never been to Far East Asia or Eastern Europe. Now I am planning to do so....starting with China and Russia. Naturally, as an American, I am a lil apprehensive about visiting America's 2 biggest and most powerful global adversaries.
So I got questions:
1) Do anyone know how Americans are treated in China and Russia?
2) Is it advisable for an American to visit Russia and China now considering that the US is an adversary of China and Russia in the Ukraine conflict?
3) Are there any Chinese speaking and Russian speaking Nigerians or Nigerian-Americans living in China and Russia that I can connect with when I get there?

PS: I hope to be in China by end of this month.
Thanks yawl for yawl's useful inputs!

Regards from ur nigga, Macho

My humble advice to you is to perish that thought. Since you are an American, avoid China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.

It is not that they will grab you immediately you land there but there could be a diplomatic wahala between America and them when you are there and they will just grab any American they see and label him a spy or national security threat in other to use you as a bargaining chip. You could be the unlucky one they catch so why take the risk?

The US government will come for you but it may take years to get you out but before then you could have chopped enough beans and beating in their hands.

Those countries don't have independent judiciary unlike the west where you can sue the government and win so it won't be about whether you are innocent or guilty.

If you must go to those countries, then drop your US passport and go as a Nigerian if you can get the visa, it is even safer for you.

As a Canadian citizen myself, I can't go to those countries even if you dash me money to go there for one day not to talk of being an American citizen which is even worse in this case. In my opinion, go to Japan and South Korea instead and have peace.

DaddyCoool:
But gives u food for thought. Despite having citizenship and knowing both countries well, she chose Nigeria. Don't you wonder there must be something chasing her?
Guy below summarizes it well:

You guys are blowing this out of proportion. There is nothing new here, it happens all the time.

On one sunny Sunday afternoon years back, one of my older cousins who grew up in Houston Texas sent a message that he is returning to Nigeria finally. Reason? He is fed up with life in the US and feels at home in Nigeria.

He carried his load back to Nigeria and started working with Chevron. I don't know if he got that job from the US or he got it in Nigeria. He lived and worked in Nigeria for 2 years 8 months and on one faithful day, he resigned his job and relocated back to the US till today. Even his wedding was done in the US. In fact, his case was one of the main motivating factors for me to chase dual citizenship cos the idea that you can easily switch around between countries was appealing to me.

Let me tell you, it is easier to love Nigeria and be patriotic when you have a citizenship of a first world country. The reason is simple. You begin to feel that the nonsense in Nigeria does not limit you and you are not stuck. That alone makes you feel better than someone in Nigeria who does not have any other country to call his own. When he queues and fight to buy fuel for his generator, he is more angry and bitter as there is no where else to run to and his is stuck, he becomes less patriotic and start hating the country out of frustration.

Since I became a dual citizen, I am happier to travel to Nigeria than before. So to take people like this serious, let them denounce their foreign citizenship and have Nigeria as their one and only country so that they cannot escape when their mind changes like my cousin did. Otherwise, all they are doing is to make you guys feel good that Nigeria is the best thing after slice bread and you guys are falling for it

Mom007:
Bro, it's actually not. Ours is actually better... if you actually want your children to learn anything. Who no go no go know. These people don't teach kids anything in school. They just play and color and have a good time and play with tab. It's quite maddening! They hardly hold pen to write anything, the hand writing terrible, attention span zero! No discipline, highly entitled, see I no fit talk abeg. Living in abroad but your children still doing online lessons from Nigeria because they don't learn much here..

Don't just argue for arguments sake, we were sold a big lie!

I don't want to chuk my mouth in these over flogged japa topics but this your assertion shock me.

What is the essence of education? It is to use it and make things happen. If you can't create things and make things happen, that educational system is as good as bullshit.

If our system is better as you are saying, then we should be exporters of technology. We should be making things happen. Even our oil is being extracted with foreign technology and systems. Without them, our oil will rot in the ground and these are product of their own system not ours.

Education is not cram and pour, this is what our system is about. Those coloring and play play things you think are useless serve a purpose. I used to think they are useless too but they are not. These guys are systematic, they spend early years developing a child's non academic traits like curiosity, team building, thought process,creativity etc but in Nigeria, we are in a hurry to have our children graduate at 18 so we have no time for non academic capacity building, we want a child to become a prof at age 5. We want him to cram multiplication table at 4 etc. This is why we produce first class graduates lacking in basic analytical thinking.

So judging the system as a whole, ours is not better, if it was, then Nigeria will not be where it is today

If a spouse is already in Canada studying and the husband wants to join with an SOWP, will the husband require a POF in his application? If yes, how much is required? Who is supposed to show the POF, the spouse already in Canada or the husband?

I'm not finding this specific info online.
Thanks

I think the op is trying to find something that isn't lost.

Having a British passport makes you a British citizen and not British. Everyone knows that. People just want to be citizens to get the privilege associated with it, who cares about being British ?

The only place on earth you have that sort of heritage is your own village not even your state capital except your state capital is your village.

Every town or city has indigenes that own that land. For example, if you live in Ibadan as someone from oyo state but not an indigene of Ibadan, it is not impossible for indigenes of Ibadan to chase out non indigenes even if they are from neighboring communities of the same state when there is an issue. So the only place where you are a king is only your village, you are a stranger everywhere else even in probably 90% of your own state.

So having a foreign passport just makes you a citizen but not an indigene. People just want to be citizens and not indigene cos you can't be one even if you want to

Nigeria already has this policy naa. The western countries require a visa to come to Nigeria.

Namibia is just displaying pride wey nobody send. If they think that by doing that, top countries will wave visa for them, they are joking. They are the ones who will loose. Money coming from tourism will dry up.

A western passport holder still has over 170 other countries without Namibia to choose from. In fact, Kenya and Tanzania will be the most beneficiaries of this as would be Namibian tourists will divert to those countries increasing their tourism revenue.

This is simply pride over economics and based on Namibia's economy, it doesn't make sense for them.

legionISproteus:
my question now is, was government dashing each person enough money to buy a house that all of a sudden, everyone wanted to buy house? so now the government has stopped dashing money, why have prices not returned to nearly pre-pandemic levels?

also, Nigeria where the government did not give anybody one kobo instead some of them were sharing COVID-19 palliatives to people that attended their birthday party, why did the prices spiral out of control there?

I appreciate your effort in explaining this but I still don't understand.

Like I said earlier, it is a combination of different factors in which government palliatives was part of. Housing demand skyrocketed mostly due to very low interest rates. For example, prime rate as at March 30, 2020 was just 2.45% which was the lowest in a decade. I bought a house around that period and my interest rate was prime minus 1.2% bringing it to just 1.25%, what a sweet rate.

This made a lot of people jump into the housing market creating too much demand that pushed the prices higher. The high interest rate was to depress demand so that house prices and other prices don't keep rising.

As for Nigeria, as far as I'm concerned, Nigeria does not have a real economy. I don't know what they are doing there. For example, CBN benchmark interest rate is 24.75% where as prime rate in Canada despite all the noise is 6.95% today. How can an economy function with 24.75% rate? It goes to show that Nigeria's economy is not a real economy as it doesn't follow basic economics principles like the rest of the world.

How long have you been in Canada? It will be difficult to understand if you are not in the system.

seuntohbad:
Hello OGs,
please i have a question
i submitted my application July 4th, and i haven’t gotten a reply yet. however, my POF will be due tomorrow and they will removed the money from my account. i was advised to renew it for about 2 weeks more, also a friend said it wasn’t needed that when she did hers (she has gotten her visa approved last month) she said immediately she did the MYBANKSTATEMENT she return the pof money back to the people that deposited the money into her account. now i am stuck thinking should i renew or not . i aslo did the MYBANKSTATEMENT.
please kindly advise the money is quite expensive and also i don’t want to risk anything.
please kindly advice base on your experience about this whole thing i really need advice because i am stuck and i do not know what to do next.

I hope you know what you are getting yourself into? You are trying to go to a country without the required funds. I hope you know it is no longer certain you will get a job and even if you get, it might not be enough to cater for your needs.

I'm sick and tired of Nigerians coming to Canada and complaining Canada this Canada that when they are the ones at fault. A lot of Nigerian students in Canada now are stranded and suffering oooo.

Better evaluate your situation very well before you step out.

ednut1 no be so?

legionISproteus:
but the cost of many things are tied directly to high interest rates. people are paying more for their houses today because interest rates went up. how did it bring inflation under control? I don't understand

You are correct but you are viewing it wrongly. Inflation is normal in an economy. It is better than deflation. However, year on year inflation is not expected to be above 2% to maintain a healthy economy.

After the pandemic, we had what economists call a Demand-pull inflation which happens when there is a over supply of money and credit that simulates the overall demand of goods and services beyond the economy production capacity.

Don't forget that during the pandemic, government was dashing people money while we were on lockdown. Interest rate was very very low giving people incentives to borrow money. Money piled up in the system and people spent less. No travel, no activities so people spent less and people's savings rose to am all time high.

After the pandemic, these whole situation created a demand-pull inflation where these piled up money needs to be spent coupled with very low interest rate. In economics, when demand outstrip supply, inflation happen as more money chase fewer goods.

If you recall, house prices were rising at an alarming rate after the pandemic. People were over bidding more than the asking price cos there was so much money to spend.

What the bank did was to kill demand or slow it down drastically so as to bring demand and supply to an equilibrium. The only way to do that through monetary policy instruments is to hike the interest rate to make things expensive. When things become expensive, you no longer have the incentive to buy buy buy so the supply would start catching up with demand. This is why house prices rise have cooled down and the prices of other goods and services have also cooled down.

Since the bank has succeeded in halting the unsustainable prices rises, the next thing will be to start bringing down the rates gradually as they have started doing. Those pandemics piled up cash is gone so there won't be a spike in demand as rates come down.

legionISproteus:
if the banks did not mess with our interest rates the first time, what would the economy look like?

It is not the problem of the bank, if the bank didn't hike interest rates, inflation would have been worse. The bank had to do it's job to bring inflation under control.

tensazangetsu20:
I have a friend here from Canada and she said she's moving to the US immediately she's done with what she's doing in Chile. She speaks about Canada like the way we Nigerians speak of Nigeria. If a white blonde girl with blue eyes is speaking this way hmmm

She is likely going to be disappointed. Americans are also complaining. If you go to American social media space, you will think US is now a third world country. This is why Trump is making a comeback. Incumbents all over the west are facing intense heat due to economic situations.

This is the first time in a very long while western citizens are facing a jump in cost of living and unfortunately for them they are not resilient. With that anger, they are throwing incumbents under the bus. UK has done it, France is still in Limbo, Biden is a goner by November, Trudeau is a goner next year. Citizens no dey joke.

The reality of the matter is that the high interest rates is the reason for the high cost of living. Inflation that started after the pandemic forced the central banks to jack up interest rates across the west. For the first time in more than 40 years, interest rates rose up to 8%. This means mortgages rose. If rates cost rise, it means rents will go up, business cost will go up which means companies will not expand instead they will scale down and reduce hiring meaning less jobs available, food will go up, everything will go up. The west runs a credit based economy so any bump in interest rate will reverberate in the economy and affect everyone.

The good news is that the inflation which the western central banks is fighting that made them jack up rates to decades high to kill demand is coming down. Inflation is down below 3% from high of 8% for the first time in 3 years. With this, the banks are now projected to start reducing interest rates. In fact, Bank of Canada reduced interest rates last month by 25bp. This immediately reduced mortgage payments for some people. While this is small reduction, it is the first step towards more rate decreases to getting back the rates to pre pandemic levels. Once this happens cost of living will go down as expected and things will normalize.

The bad news is that what I just explained will not happen overnight. It will take around 2 more years to bring things back to pre pandemic situation.

Canada is faring worse because the government allowed in more people at a time when they shouldn't have. This is why I keep saying if you don't have money stay back in Nigeria and wait till situation improve. The only thing is that by the time things will normalize there will be a new government which will change Canada's immigration system.

lastkingsman:
You mean finding professional work or all types of work?

I am here thinking with PR one can grab 'menial' jobs first use am hold body until the desired jobs are secured. It looks like Canada is the worst hit oh with this migration struggle.

Things are rough right now due to population. However, some people are not helping themselves.
For example, I was talking with a Nigerian HR who talked about a Nigerian babe who is PR and has been looking for job for almost one year.
She sent her a job post to apply but instructed her to send her resume for her to review before she sends her application.

Do you know that the Resume was poorly written? Even the main keywords in the job posting were absent in the Resume. Unfortunately that Resume wouldn't have passed ATS for a human to even see it. She said that is what she has been using to apply for jobs.

A lot of people applying for jobs are just wasting their time. If your resume can't pass the company's ATS, it's just a waste of time. Some people use 1 resume to apply for many jobs, that's waste of application. I don't know if it is laziness or what why someone will use one resume to apply for multiple jobs

Looking for a job is a job on it's own and you have to be very intentional about it especially now there is too much competition. You have to tailor your resume for each job posting by making sure that the main keywords in the job posting appears strategically in your resume otherwise it won't even get past the computer program.

It is stressful to always tweak your resume to match each job application but that is the only way to stand a chance otherwise someone might apply to 100 different jobs and none of the application will be seen by a human being.

Another mistake people make especially those applying for survival jobs is to showcase their high education and experience. If you are applying for low skill jobs to survive, remove your masters degree and your big professional experience from your resume. Create a low key resume Otherwise you will be seen as overqualified and it is not in the company's interest to hire overqualified person cos they believe such a person will be angry at the job and it will affect their productivity.

walenden:
Canada is an overrated hell of a place!. Some people in Nigeria eat better than they do after moving to Canada, but the truth is often hidden as people tend to criticize Nigeria while covering up the realities of life in a place like Canada. My brother had to sleep at a train station in Toronto for two days before finding a temporary place to stay. Even their so-called homeless shelters are filled up and no space . It's a terrible place for any hustler looking to work and study because currently no work and many are jobless . Money wasted on worthless education there is better invested elsewhere! if you go online you will see thousand of job but it all liars and deceivers! . many of you Nigerians aboard please make you guys dey tell people coming the truth and not creating all this fake paradise credit lifestyle online to deceive people back home !!

My brother it is overrated for people who don't have money. If your brother had money, he would have stayed in a hotel, Airbnb,guesthouse while he sorts out his accommodation. Even if you are relocating to Abuja from Lagos and you don't know anyone in Abuja, are you going to sleep in the park for days before you sort out your accommodation? What are hotels for?

If you no get money, stay back in Nigeria, abroad is not for everyone but una no go listen.

I was advising someone who asked for my opinion about the harsh reality of coming to Canada as a broke person, he flipped it back to me asking me why haven't me and my siblings in Canada relocated back to Nigeria. He asked why am I allowing my only sibling remaining in Nigeria and my wife sibling to come to Canada this year and discouraging him.
First of all, I and my siblings here are citizens and well established here. My wife also has a sibling here that is well established. We don tay for Canada. We have advanced in our careers and now high earners. Our siblings are going to live in my house or any of our siblings house and eat free food as they go to school. We have completely paid their school fees and they don't even need to work to survive. Luckily for them, their case is different from many others who don't have these opportunities. But this guy I was advising was making me look like a bad person as if my sibling situation and his own are the same. This is someone who is runsing his POF and is going to come here without money oooo. The good thing is that his school is far from my city so I will be far away from him

The one that pained me is him saying we want only our family to be in Canada. Whaattt!!! Am I the prime minister? He concluded by saying if he survived in Nigeria, he will survive in Canada. By the time he comes here and starts suffering, he will join the Canada is bad and overrated WhatsApp group.

Even though I have been critical of the government contributing to this mess in the last 2 years the onus still fall on the intending immigrants to research and evaluate the worst case scenario before making decisions of that magnitude. But will Nigerians and Indians hear? The answer is NO.

tensazangetsu20:
Honestly I am surprised how bad canada has become. Someone in canada was asking me to lend him money and hes been there for a year as PR holder o yet nothing reasonable coming.

The problem is the government that became very stupid. What happened is that before the pandemic, for example, they let in 1000 people into the country and the available jobs were like 900 to 950. So new comers were more likely to get a job than not get.
The pandemic happened and everything changed and inflation started which led to interest rate rises to cool the economy and bring it under control. This reduced the jobs from say 900 to 850. Instead of the government to keep the immigration numbers the same before the pandemic or even reduce it from say 1000 to 900 to match the labor market problems, they did the opposite by doubling it from 1000 to 2000.

Now, new comers are now more likely not to get a job than to get one due to the sheer numbers of people chasing the jobs.

The good thing is that Trudeau is going to be kicked out next year, in this part of the world, we don't reward a failed government and party with another term. As it happened in the UK recently so it will happen in Canada next year.

It depends on what you care more about. Let's put this this way, you are a citizen of both countries or you have the ability to live and work in the 2 countries

Want more opportunities and make more money as your number 1 priority then US is your better option. There is no rival in the world

Want a more secured and peaceful environment as your number 1 priority then Canada is your better option.

I hope they can finish what they are about to start. People will start doing weddings and occassions there and you wouldn't tell them not to since you have permitted one. Trust Nigerians

wallg123:
Maybe 2028 if he is even lucky to win the nomination… as for 2024 the harm has been done already.

Not yet late. Democratic convention is in August. Biden can drop out and get his delegates vote for Newsom in an open convention as some Democrats are floating.
He is already a known figure, he has appeared in national debate with Ron Desantis.

However, I don't think he can even win Trump. He is perceived to be far left and the mess in California can be used against him.

If Democrats had sense, they would have nominated one of their centrist governors especially one from a red state like Kentucky. He would have flung Trump away as he would win over moderate republicans and independents easily but their mumu never do.

My advice to people who read some of these craps thrown out here by people who claim to know especially the ones that claim to reside abroad is that they should ask the person what their own profile is.

The question should be: how old were you when you migrated? What visa do you have? What is your academic background? What is your work experience? What indemand skill do you have? Where do you reside? How long have you migrated? Etc.

Before you start talking nonsense we should know the details and make our known judgment.

Some people don't have what it takes to get to some certain level but instead of acknowledging it and try to work hard, they try to make it look like everyone failed, to make themselves feel good.

I was at Apple headquarters in California last December for their end of year party on the invitation from my cousin who works there. I saw a sizable number of Nigerians that work there and I was so impressed in a place dominated by Asians. All the Nigerians I met there had one thing in common. They were all PHD holders in software engineering, computer science, electronics, nanotechnology and other hard core fields from top schools in US and Canada. Some of them have bought houses in San Jose and living well.

The story is the same for Amazon, Google, Facebook and many other silicon valley giants. There are Nigerians there doing their thing in the same America the @op is ranting about.

All of us come aboard but no be all of us come the same way, no be all of us get the same profile and skills, no be all of us get the same mentality and ambition so no be all of us go find am easy or difficult. Know this and know peace.

If you don't have what it takes to get to some level due to circumstances beyond your control, it is not the end of the world. Manage the one wey you get and thank God. Stop trying to paint everyone with the same brush, no be all of us de pass through wetin you dey pass through.

bullstriker:
Using ‘URGENT” on the first line, resend the webform and email IRCC. You must travel with a copy of the medical if you have not received an updated Letter of Intro. I recommend a copy of the medical sent to you about 10 days after the medical , not the one you received on the day of the medical.

Thanks.
Are you saying he can go back to the hospital and get a copy of the medical? If I'm not mistaken,he was given the normal slip on the day of medical when he did it months ago.
As per webform, do you mean upload the upfront medical again?

Someone got his visa late last year and deferred his start date to this September. His Letter of Introduction is valid till next year but medical date in the Letter of Introduction expired last December. He did another medical 3 months ago and uploaded through webform but IRCC has not yet reissued another letter of introduction to reflect the new valid medical.
He is traveling in the next 3 weeks. Can he show his upfront medical slip at the border since IRCC didn't issue him a fresh Letter of Introduction? Will that be enough?
Any idea how things work in this situation?

JessicaRabbit:
This post is a perfect illustration of how prejudice masquerades as concern, and I'll demonstrate how shortly. But first, I'll address your little rant about my stance on incest.

While I couldn't care less about your opinions about my personal beliefs, and find them to be ultimately inconsequential, I'll simply point out the fact that it's well known that many/most people find incest to be intuitively morally wrong, rather than deducing it from careful thought. This is studied by presenting an incest scenario where none of the rational objections, like inbreeding issues, apply. Participants will still say that it is wrong, even though they have no argument for why. This, along with the trolley problem, is often used as evidence that people's intuitive moral judgments are flawed. But if you really want to go down that rabbit hole, then we can discuss it on another thread. But for now, let's stick to the main topic.

Now, you lot casually throw around the word "unnatural", but you don't realize that you are using a loaded term that has been used throughout history to justify discrimination against marginalized groups, including racial and religious minorities. It's a vague, subjective judgment that has no basis in fact or reason. Also, by framing sexual orientation and gender identity as "unnatural," you're implying that they're somehow less than human, less deserving of dignity and respect. This is the very essence of dehumanization. The notion that individuals need "help" because of their sexual orientation or gender identity is a harmful trope that has led to countless attempts at conversion therapy, a practice widely discredited by medical professionals and deemed inhumane by human rights organizations. Minimizing the harm caused by discriminatory beliefs doesn't make them any less harmful.

So please, spare me the false pretense. It's okay if you feel disgusted by LGBTQ+, but at least be honest: accept and embrace your bigotry for what it really is.

Is incest right or wrong? You can't answer Yes or No instead you are speaking grammar because you have boxed yourself into a situation where you can't accept one immoral behavior and reject another, you have to either accept all or reject all otherwise it will puncture all your argument. I feel for you sha.

Let me repeat again. Any feeling or lifestyle that is unnatural or abnormal is WRONG. These include gaybriel, incest, peadophile, trans shit, human/animal shit etc. You can't tell us to accept these shit as natural and right.
It may not be the fault of the people in that category but they need to know that it is wrong and possibly seek help and not to encourage and justify it as normal. If we don't say the truth, we risk having an out of control society where everyone will use the same template to justify their abnormal cravings and want it validated. It's already happening

For example, what will you say if nudists start coming to office stark naked and say it is normal and everyone should accept it after all we were all born naked? Then put the burden on you to remove your eyes away from their nude bodies. since they are not technically hurting anyone and it is their right to live their authentic life and be accepted as gaybriels use to argue, will it be okay to allow them to go everywhere naked? If we don't allow them, aren't we now Bigots?

It is one thing to do wrong things but it another thing to justify it and claim it is right. This is the crux of my argument. I am not a saint but I will not do is to justify my bad behavior or claim it is right. I'll rather ask for help to overcome that bad behavior.

You have talked about gaybriels raising successful families. This is the most selfish thing i've seen. Why will gaybriels adopt a child born from the combination of a sperm and woman egg? If what they are doing is normal as you claim, why can't sperm + sperm or egg + egg produce a baby? Why should they adopt an innocent child to live under the same sex parenting? Did the child give them consent to live that way? Why will they use an innocent child to fulfill their own disgusting abnormal cravings? Have they thought about the possible mental and psychological health of the child as he/she grow up to find 2 men or 2 women masquerading as father and mother? What If the child feels disgusted about that and falls into depression or even commit suicide ? They don't care cos it is all about them fulfilling their own abnormal cravings, the child feelings can go to hell. What a selfish set of people otherwise they would have only adopted children 18 years and above who already understand this issue and given their consent to it.

This will be my last post on this issue. You can call me a bigot if you want, I don't care. I will always subscribe to common sense. Thank you.

JessicaRabbit:
It's quite simple, actually. All you need is empathy and reason. The only way we can truly promote inclusivity is by understanding the experiences and perspectives of other people, as well as critically evaluating the impact of actions and behaviors, separating the harmful from the harmless. As for how I determine when a behavior crosses the line, I posit that these are the most important questions to answer: (1) Does the behavior cause significant harm to individuals or groups, either physically, emotionally, or psychologically? (2) Are all the parties involved in the behavior consenting adults, capable of making informed decisions about their own lives and bodies?, and (3) Is there any way in which this behavior violates the unwritten rules of social cooperation, undermining trust, respect, and the common good?



Do you propose that we must condemn every natural phenomenon that doesn't fit our narrow moral mold? Should we start "curing" people of their tendency towards anger or greed, since those are natural human emotions that can lead to harmful behavior? The only defect that exists here is the one in our understanding and acceptance of human diversity. Homosexuality has been a natural part of human experience since forever, so I don't see how it's reasonable to term it as a defect.



You've only just come out to repeat the same question the other guy asked, so I will invite you to go back and read my previous post more carefully. But for what it is worth, I support whatever consenting adults choose to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others. Ultimately, it's none of my business. Although, incest is one of those situations where there can be complications, both emotionally and genetically if there is a child.



Detestable is a telling choice of words, and it implies a moral judgment, or a value statement. And that's exactly the issue here. While individuals are free to hold their own personal beliefs and values, we must distinguish between personal opinions and objective human rights. The fact that many people may find homosexuality detestable does not justify discrimination, prejudice, or denial of fundamental rights. We've been down this road before, and history has shown us that moral condemnation and persecution of minority groups is a dangerous and harmful path.

What did I just read? You support incest. I'm not surprised, it will be hypocritical of you not to support it. The same logic you used to support homo applies to every unnatural nonsense out there. I hope you will be very proud when your own brothers marry each other or when your father and sister have sexual relationship after all they are not harming anyone. In your world, there is no boundary to human morality, everything goes as long as you are not hurting anyone

It used to be LGB, before you know it they added T and then Q then 2S etc. In fact, the community is growing at alarming pace. In the next 20 years man and animal relationships etc will be officially added and recognized and you will have to support it because there is no boundary to morality anymore.

Btw, I'm not advocating for harming or discriminating against them after all, it may not be their fault that they are that way. However, we all need to acknowledge that this is unnatural and wrong and people in that category need help instead of supporting nonsense. Now, see how you ended up supporting incest. Deep down in your mind, you know it's wrong but you have to support it in other to justify support for homosexuality. You can't accept one and not accept another

How can I unread what I just read? I feel like vomiting right now.

@JessicaRabbit,

I don't like discussing this topic, it's very disgusting to me. However, I want to ask you a question.

Since you are vigorously defending homosexuality, will you also defend incest? Will you defend a man and his adult daughter having a consensual sexual relationship openly and telling us to accept it? after all, all the argument you are making for homosexuality can also apply to them too. It is the same "human experience" and they deserve to be accepted too according to your argument. Mind you if you don't accept and celebrate these ones you are also a hater too.

At what point are we going to draw the line on moral decency? If you accept one unnatural nonsense in the name of human experience and human right, you also have to accept everything no matter how ridiculous it is. So where does that leave the society?

StOla:
You are still making the same mistake.

You saved £5000 in a year in UK and you say you have made it?

Money that will not pay for 5months of Nanny care if you have kids.

Meanwhile N500k that is not even the equivalent of the pound amount, will pay for nanny care for 8months.

Whatever you have saved in US or UK, is for later expenditure where you are. Stop comparing it to what a Nigerian saved for later expenditure in Nigeria.

As you do not earn the same, you do not save the same, and you will never later consume the savings the same.

They are 2 separate economies, and they do not meet at the point of savings expenditure.

What a mindset chai.
5k pounds in the UK won't pay for nanny as you said cos a nanny in the UK is considered a human being who deserves to also live a quality life. The nanny in the UK does not exist solely to serve the interest of the rich to maintain their big man status.

You said 500k will pay for a nanny in Nigeria for 8 months. That's about 62k a month. How much is a bag of rice? So the nanny in Nigeria is worth a bag of rice? And you are not ashamed or feel bad to bring that up to win an argument? So the purpose of the nanny and other low end workers in Nigeria is just to serve rich people like you so that the rich exploit them to maintain their high living standards in Nigeria abi?

You guys have the effrontery to berate low end workers in the UK who by the way have higher living standards than those same workers in Nigeria cos you exploit them and pay them equivalent of one bag of rice a month and then come online to gloat how Nigeria is better abi?

May God forgive you all

I am helping filling an application on IRCC portal for a mother SP and child 3 yrs old VV as a group application. For the child, if I say the mother is applying on his behalf, it will require me to upload Use of Representive form even for the mum even though the mum is not being represented. It looks like if the mother is applying in the same application with a child then Use of Representative wouldn't apply to the child. Is this correct?