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naijathings: [size=14pt]so? now she is a role model or what?
why are u guys tying to make it seem so EPIC.[/size]
somebody please summarize the story.
no time for long story.

Yes, she is a role model to single parents, Young struggling student parents/pregnate ones and an inspiration to women of all ages and work of life that, no obstacle is big enough in preventing you from attaining your goals in life.

davide470: When I just saw the many, many questionnaire and *essay writing* on the application, I vex close the browser..

Can't they just accept CV and data's? Haba.

Another lazy one screened out, making the selection process more easier for the serious one and increasing the percentage of people who got hired versus those who completed the application process.

OP, something is not right here....in this day and age of CBN's policy of 'know your customers', it is nearly impossible for a bank transaction to occur when the other party is 'unknown'.

I have done many online banking transfers within Nigeria and many physical deposits, in each case the identity of the person making the transaction is known. Ordinary, I will call you bluff and say you are lying your ass off.

If on a slim chance, you are telling the truth...then it could be as a result of bank error or someone that knows the in-and out of the bank trying to shuffle money fraudulently around and they are using your account as a pass through in order to cover their tracks or confuse whoever will want to trace the money in the future should they be busted.

It is really difficult to give you a sound advice here....if you leave the money there for weeks or months...and the person eventually show up, you would have paid some VAT and Commission and when they withdraw their N800K, you will be left holding the bags. If you remove the money and spend it, you might be prosecuted for theft, unless the money have been there for a considerable amount of time that is can be considered abandoned.....If you try to withdraw and transfer it to another bank account or to invest it, you never know if it is a trap and you might be lead out of the banking hall in handcuffs....if you report it to the bank manager, he might cash in on it and siphon the money out.......

If I were you, I will open a savings account (if I do not already have one) with the bank and transfer the money into that saving account and leave it there to collect interest over at least one year. Even by 9ja legal standard, 12 months is enough time to consider a property abandoned....you can look up the law to determine the exacting timing...

sexkillz: [color=#000030]All I see is a dumb woman deceiving another dumb(er) woman. Only dumb people believe that a human placing his/her hand over your crotch and muttering some incomprehensible gibberish will make an addiction stop. . . Deliverance my left butt cheek.

Nonsense and ingredients. [/color]

or it could be a wise woman in cohort with another wiser woman.

If the lady on the floor was rented to come receive her 'deliverance' from female or womanliness related possessions that is driving away suitors in exchange for a huge payout after giving testimony of the 'good things' the Lord have done since the 'deliverance' in tow with another rented male performer standing beside her as her newly minted suitor....will you still be calling them dumb?

After that powerful 'testimony' next Sunday Church go full now with females and offerings will also increase and as new females their newly store bought beauty start attending church, the preying eyes of the males will notice and traffic will increase, which means more offering collection.

If you have to start decoding some of these things from the Church business angle for you to understand them.

I think it would have been a more interesting reading, had you share the story about your 'horrible' date instead of this long boring monologue...

CROWÉ: lol. The FBI is basically federal police, last I checked Nigeria is not American soil, FBI cannot operate here.

Yes they can...they come to Nigeria to train the counter terrorism arm of the Nigerian Police and also accompany them them to raids, etc to bring home and demo the training with real life event.

As long as it is well cooked, roasted no shaking...

Any gem that was so unfortunate to follow the suya into the fire is now protein and a must eat delicacy.

Jokes apart, extreme temperatures on both ends of the scale kills every and any baterial, germ or disease...that is why well prepared Sushi are refrigerated over many days in high negative temperature and by the time they are served all germs are long dead but the fish remain fresh...same thing happen to suya on the other temperature extreme scale.

brownlord: Boss pls i need ur help and to all who can be of help too.

Pls how do i update my ios to 7.0.3, i can see the update on my software update, and where it says "download and instal" is not clickable, its telling me i need a wifi network to be able to update. Pls can you advice me how i wld be able to update my device i do not have a wifi network i used glo for my subscription. My device is ipad 3

Pls am waiting for ur response thanks.

You either need WiFi connection or access to a PC that have internet connection plus itune to update the software.

olowe2007: Please I need an expert opinion on this. Why are houses not painted black? Is anything wrong in painting a house black?

What made you to assume that, Houses are not painted black:




It is your house, do whatever pleases you with it...

Are people still dumb enough to sell existing iPhones without first resetting and deleting all its contents?....

By the way, I am selling one of my clean used iPhone 5, IOS 7.0.3...currently listed on eBay for $499.00 (chicken change)..sold the first one yesterday for the same price...interested buyers hit me up.

OP, you are putting the cart before the horse..we need leaders first, before we start indicating which of them can or cannot be bride.

All we get right now are bunch of Opportunist.

Fhemmmy: Nigeria is a country in a confused state.

We got a call recently from NDLEA in Nigeria that they have a parcel that belongs we sent to our representative in Nigeria.
The Parcel contains the BOL and other normal papers for the rides.

Now, the NDLEA Agents wanted to see my Tax clearance in the USA for the last 5 years.
My Pay stub

And i was shocked, cos i thought that ought to be a wahala that Customs ought to worry about, I thought NDLEA are all about drugs and chemical stuff.

However, Nigeria will grow one day.

You send ride and them come ask for US tax returns and Paystub you dey complain? My own na ordinary laptop and android phone I send go give my sister for Lagos via FedEx na him custom seize everything come to ask for my Tax returns and paystubs else they will not release the stuff.

I had no choice than to send them what they asked for, the funny thing is that, the laptop plus the phone were less than $2k.

Ladiva49: Take it or leave it,CU is already breaking grounds in nigeria and making waves over the world. A few years back when oyedepo stated his ministry he had a dream that his church would b found over the world,he had a dream that he would have an auditorium that would sit 50,000 people and overflow,well back then pple lafed and mocked but today it has happened right before our very eyes just like this one would be manifest,its just about hardwork,determination and GOD. My advice to all is that we should not let the fear of the unknown hold us back,this man sees a future ahead,lets do to,like ben carson would say dream big and try acomplish your dreams with God ahead of you, ALL THINGS ARE POSIBLE. Who ever toght a black man would rule the US? Who knows the power of dreams.......

Can you mention one ground that CU have broken? e.g a breakthrough research, a cure, an academic research that have added to knowledge, etc...seating 50k people in one auditorium in this age when the goal is to reduce teacher to student ratio per class is not an achievement.

The secondary school across the street in my neighborhood in Warri have the cake for that. The Classroom no dey contain students again self, many of the overflow students seats on windows, on the field, etc to receive lecture.

The Coach should field the second 11, since they have already qualified.

This way the most experience legs will rest for the next stage more so, this might be the only opportunity to field some of 2nd 11 players....

GustavoFring: I agree.

It's already Number 1 in Nigeria

No. 1 in what exactly? Even in the US, each of the Ivy League Universities are good in one area or another.

Cornell is an Ivy League College, but not for an Engineering degree, it is renowned for her law degrees....Harvard is Ivy League but specifically for business degrees just like MIT takes the cake for Engineering.

I do not think Covenant can compete with many public Universities like Ife, Uniben, UNN, Ibadan, etc.

If they keep the pace of progress, maybe they will be No. 1 sometime in the future, but they have a long way to go.

Have you seen recent Top University rankings in African? Some Nigeria Universities make that list and none of those names is Covenant University.

dominique: An anti-fungal drug to treat a viral infection? how come nobody thought about that An HIV cell does not have mitochondria except they're talking about the mitochondria of the host cell. Bogus research imo.

If you carefully retread the article, you will notice that it never stated that the drug attack the HIV cells themselves neither did it say that the drug kills the HIV cells...

The drug simply attacks and destroy the host cell aka mitochondria to which the parasite HIV attaches itself to, once the host cell is destroyed, the HIV cells will die naturally and be eliminated just like what happen in any parasite relationship, when the underlying host is gone!

dominique: An anti-fungal drug to treat a viral infection? how come nobody thought about that An HIV cell does not have mitochondria except they're talking about the mitochondria of the host cell. Bogus research imo.

This is the same article on Rutgers University site......
http://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/drug-found-eradicate-hiv-permanently-infected-cells/20130924#.UmVvpOe9KSM

You believe it now?

I c say dem just finish the pre-match practice....who know when the real match with Mexico wan start?

If you are in the US, ESPN 3 is showing the match live or you can goto...
http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player?id=1166809

Lionbite: Seem's as if he's not even sure of his deliverance sef

That response does not mean that he is not sure of his deliverance....

In John 9:25, when the Pharisees doubted the healing of a man by Jesus and indicated that Jesus is a Sinner, the man responded and I quote...

"Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see"

If you read to the end of his tweet, that is exactly what he was saying but in different words.

ajas baba: ... So I want to use this medium to reach anyone that knows anything about him. He calls himself honourable .... (removed and other details too). ...

You want people to assist you in tracking him...assuming to know him, but you withheld every single details about him...and all you can come up with is 'honorable'....are you for real?

kunlesehan: online banking beckons in this supposedly cashless society of ours.

How can he deposit cash via online banking? The best we can do here is deposit checks using our phones or Computers but not cash.

chinchek: The Titanic, in its heyday, represented the best maritime technology could innovate, so much so that it's motto was "Not even God can sink it"
It capsized, eventually, as we know.


Be it known to u that that 'motto' was a disrespect to God Almighty Who created the 'creator' of the Titanic.
Be it also known to u that it was THAT ignoble and BLASPHEMOUS motto that led to the inevitable sinking of Titanic in 1912.
But 101 yrs later, mankind still wil not learn any lesson from the story of the Titanic.
I rest my case.

As much as I will like to agree with you i.e. anyone that gives God a thumb down, should be visited by his wrath and fire just like in the days of Elijah....the truth is, the motto of the Titanic was not what sinked it.

The Titanic hit an iceberg, three hours later...the combining of cost cutting corner rivets, weather, optical illusions, human errors sink it with hundreds of people on board.

The Titanic motto was borned out of man's myopic knowledge then, that because the Titanic was made of water tight containers, it must be unsinkable, they never anticipated a big iceberg leaving a big hole underneath the ship. Even with that big hole and water gushing in, you will agree that that, staying afloat for three complete hours was a miracle and it was light years compare to the time they needed to evacuate all passengers.

jmoore: Try and educate yourself and don't quote the minister out of context.
In insurance "act of God" is referred to as inevitable events.

Anyway the investigation has not concluded to determine if the accident was inevitable or not.

You are incorrect, an Act of God is an event that is beyond human control and resulted from natural occurrence. In Insurance, these are usually things like Sudden storms, tornadoes, etc.

If you fly faulty plans and skim on their maintenance to save a buck, it is inevitable that accident will happen sooner or later and that is not an act of God.

If you jump into Bar beach during high tides, it is inevitable that you are going to drown, it does not make it an act of God.

My point is that...many inevitable events are set in motion by ignorance, negligence, human error, mechanical faults, etc....but that does not make them acts of God.

Since, she have concluded that Accidents are acts of God and not due to negligence, human errors or mechanical faults; it is fool-headed to then try fight against God, why not just allow God's acts to prevail?

If you not have anything important to say, it is always best to keep your mouth shut.

jerryben12: 3. Life is toughER for Immigrants in America. From not having a SSN to get jobs, to people simply discriminating for your "accent". You will LEARN that America is not the least bit tolerant for immigrants. Especially if you come to places that are predominantly white. Unfortunately what I end up seeing Nigerians adopt is the "akata" way. A LOT of them end up trying to speak ebonics and they just sound silly and ridiculous. "nigggaz is tryna hoop yo". No. Your azz never hooped before when did you become a "niggga tryna hoop"?
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Not totally true. Your confidence will see you through. If you don't mix with the right people and portray yourself for who you are, you will not progress. Accent is not a ground for discrimination. Nigerians speak better than Indians but you see more Indians in Corporate America. My humble message come advise here is 'raise your confidence, mix with the right crowd, break silence and start conversations'. We are smart but we get intimidated with what we see.

There are some element of truth in what you are saying, your accent in combination of other things will constitute a drag back...If you look closely, all those India you mentioned are 1. Legal migrates, 2. They have at least their Masters or PhD....they have been able to set themselves apart that, their accents no longer defines them.

But if they were among a lower pool eg Bachelor holds, with the competitive market and many qualified applicants at this level, you will find greater discrimination, but you should not give up.

I work with a lot of India, they do mostly research and many of them in my industries have patents that benefits & add value to the Company, but when they open their mouth, they speak so badly that, everyone will put extra efforts in order to understand them, their write-ups, always makeup for that....Also as they climb leadership ladder, they tend to bring in more of their own to join in.

If Nigerians adopt this method, come over, study hard, get higher degree or certification or if you want to do business, move with the right crowds that will show you how to bid and win government contracts, or setup your own business...etc....you will make it.

manny4life: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2012/february/19/hospitals-demand-payment-upfront-from-er-patients.aspx

This is directly from Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest insurance carriers

Next time you go to an emergency room, be prepared for this: If your problem isn't urgent, you may have to pay upfront.

Last year, about 80,000 emergency-room patients at hospitals owned by HCA, the nation's largest for-profit hospital chain, left without treatment after being told they would have to first pay $150 because they did not have a true emergency.

Led by the Nashville-based HCA, a growing number of hospitals have implemented the pay-first policy in an effort to divert patients with routine illnesses from the ER after they undergo a federally required screening. At least half of all hospitals nationwide now charge upfront ER fees, said Rick Gundling, vice president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, which represents health-care finance executives.

"It has been a successful part of helping to reduce crowding in emergency rooms and to encourage appropriate use of scarce resources," HCA spokesman Ed Fishbough said.

But emergency-room doctors and patient advocates blast the policy as potentially harmful to patients, and they say those with mild illnesses such as sore throats and ear infections do little to clog ERs and do not require CT scans or other pricey technologies.

Kim Bailey, research director for the consumer group Families USA, said the tactic lets hospitals turn away uninsured patients who often fail to pay their bills and are a drag on profits. While the uninsured pay upfront fees as high as $350, depending on the hospital, those with insurance pay their normal co-payment and deductible upfront.

"This is certainly a concern to us," Bailey said.

'A Real Problem'

Physicians worry that sick people will forgo treatment. There is no data on how many who leave the ER without treatment follow up with visits to doctors' offices or clinics.

"This is a real problem," said Dr. David Seaberg, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, who estimated that 2 to 7 percent of patients screened in ERs and found not to have serious problems are admitted to hospitals within 24 hours.

"After you've done the medical screening, it makes little sense to not go ahead and write a patient a prescription," said Dr. Michael Zappa, a Boca Raton, Fla., hospital consultant and former president of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians.

Patient advocates say the strategy could discourage patients from going to the ER for true emergencies.

Dude, you do not show up at the ER over a routine problem, you go see your PCP, that is what PCP are meant for....However, if you fake an emergency, that same Hospital will admit you and screen you up to the point when they determine that, you are not an emergency and they will do it without asking for your insurance according to Government laws here.

The key to that link you posted is the underlined portion above...they must perform a federally required screening of your ailment and conclude that it is not an emergency before they will decide to turn you away and God help them if they miss diagnose you and something bad happened eventually..or it become an emergency later...They will be sued and they will pay darely for that mistake despite their policies...Also note that Hospital policies, regulations, rules, bylaws, etc does not trump the act of Congress or the law of the land period! Their policies does not have standing in the face of the law...It is the law that all Hospitals in the US must attend to people in an emergency regardless of race, ability to pay of immigration status.

manny4life: Big fat lie, perhaps you haven't heard of the stories of folks who don't have access to hospitals even in emergencies. Why do you think Obamacare stepped in to give insurance to folks without it? You guess is good, so that to help people without it, because when u go to the hospital, before any doctor sees you, you must have "PROOF OF INSURANCE" or some hospitals will ask for a deposit. Please stay informed jor, I hate when people like you say incorrect stuff that isn't true.

FALSE!

The ACA was actually passed to offload the emergency room. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986, requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay and there are no reimbursement provisions.

I think you are the one who is less informed. The only place where you are required to present proof of insurance before anything is at your Primary Care Physician (PCP) office, Dentist, Eye Doctor Office and other Non Essential medical checkups.

If you have an emergency, you will be treated at the emergency room in the US, else you can sue the living day light out of that Hospital and they will beg you to settle the matter in order to prevent it from coming to trial.

Here...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/health/10grady.html?_r=3&scp=9&sq=Atlanta&st=cse&

An Atlanta Hospital reached an agreement to continue to treat illegal immigrate for free and they will even treat one of the illegal immigrate who have left the US, if she can manage to re-enter the US illegally.

There is another case in Miami, where an illegal immigrate on treatment in an Hospital, which he was not paying for, the Hospital had to arrange Plane tickets and care for him at his home Country and relocated him there...

Medicaid pays these Hospitals directly to helps to defray some of these Hospital bills for the very pool and for illegal immigrates....but in most cases the Hospitals take a lost and some Charities also step in to defray some cost.

Some of the comments here are representative of what parts of America is, but majority of the comments are painting an extreme and stereotypical picture.

Agreed, blacks leave in ghettos, but Whites also leave in ghetto as well. We have homeless Whites and also homeless Blacks in the US. You are right, if you say that are more homeless Blacks or more poor Blacks but you will be wrong if you say, it is because of racism or the oppression of the Whiteman.

Yes, racism still do exist in America, but that is not what is hindering the blackman's progress in the US. In many places here, the black guy is more favored over the White guy..eg we have Minority Small Business Association specifically talored to give contract to minorities and people of color...we have affirmative action in employment and college that are deliberately programmed to favor people of color against the White.

In the pictures you shown above, you failed to mentioned that the authority have boarded most of them up, meaning no one is living in those places legally, majority of them are home to homeless people, run aways, etc...but in Nigeria..some of those places will qualify for a bonafide residence.

Also, majority of the black dud you shown in those pictures, you also failed to mentioned that, they are also high school drop outs...they do not end up on the streets wearing $300 sneakers and no shifts because they are black or because of anything, that is the level of their knowledge. Most of those people do not have jobs, they wait on Government paycheck every week. We have people like that in Lagos, they are called Area boys, the only difference is that, they are not paid in Lagos, except maybe if they migrate to Rivers State and join the Bakassi boys.

My point is, the US still remains a land of opportunity, yes it is not easy here. Yes, your friend is not going to give you a ride to visit all the places in town, yes he is not going to allow you to leave rent free forever, yes nothing is free. I attended University in Nigeria, I know what we went through before graduating and I am 100% that if any of my classmates who are still in Nigeria come to the US implement that same dodged spirit they are known with in Nigeria, and if they leave in the part of town you have highlighted above, it will be for a very short period of time while they put themselves together.

Yes, you might face some accent is a problem here. You do not have to speak ebonic to be understand, you have to speak clearly and re-learn some basic English pronunciations....eg you have to know that the 'T' in butter is actually silent and have to be ignored when you pronounce the word and go ahead and pronounce the 'r' after the 'bu' sound...there are many youtube videos that will assist one in adjusting...plus you can get paid services to improve upon.

Are you going to be discriminated upon? Absolutely, but that is not want will hold you down, what will hold you down is inside you period!

nadia_SA: I was very late for church this morning so whlie waiting for transport I heard nice songs being sang by one church opposite my street I decided to go attend there for just this Sunday.

One brother ushered me inside (2nd row seat) ,when I just got in its like the whole congregation looked at me funny even the little kids sef. I knew I was lost

I was the only female wearing trousers ,earingson my numerous piercings and weave on felt like turning back but I just couldn't

To make matters worse when the pastor got in I think I changed his whole sermon cause I could feel like this sermon was dedicated to me.. Was like I'm the biggest sinner !!

I don't think I will go back there anytime soon coz I don't understand what's so wrong in females wearing trousers and looking good!..I couldn't even differentiate from the youth nd grannies cause they all were looking old

Can some1 help me understand! Abeggi

**happy Sunday

Chances are the Pastor wife is wearing earring and the Pastor is putting on nice silver or gold wrist watch....so if they preach

Deut 22:5, to you, response back with:Ex. 32:2-4. Deuteronomy only talk about women/men clothing, it did not mention trouser, gown, robe, suit or pants and as we know, they are men pants, trouser, suits, robe, etc...eg Jesus & his disciples wore men robes in his days and women like Mary, Marta, etc wore women robe.....more so, Exodus hit the nail on the head when it addresses jewelry, if they think that old testaments practice should be in vague today, they should not choose and pick what to endorse.

While you at it, also remind them that the scriptures in Gen. 1:28 said s3x is for pro-creature n as such, if they are doing it for pleasure is wrong and base on this scripture any woman who hear reached the age of menopause and still indulges in it, might be offending God as she is not using it as God originally intended....This by the way includes all men who because age shoots blanks or uses raincoat.

asco15: Lets say d truth, few centuries ago, who were knwn 4 wearing trousers? Men or women? Even d white women dn't wear trousers by den nt until freedom of everytin + lack of d fear of God dat made d white 2 start wearing trousers nd oda seductive cloths.
Is smoking good because its nt in d bible?
Be wise!

Not true, the first piece of clothing made to cover human's unclothedness was a piece of rag just like a wrapper, God did not made trouser for Adam.

Deuteronomy 22:5, did not forbid women from wearing pants? No, it doesn't.

It simply said "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God."

That is a "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God."

Like many of the statutes, this law had to do with pagan customs of the time, and The Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary went in dept on this and also the culture and tradition at that time.


In fact, even men in the Middle East through the history of the Old and New Testaments did not wear pants; they wore a robelike garment, Jesus and his disciples inclusive.

There is an underlying principle that applies today. Men should dress in an appropriately masculine manner and women should dress in an appropriately feminine manner. Clothing manufacturers make pants designed for men and pants designed for women.