Let's hope Emefiele will not defy IMF. He might continue to do what he wants to do.

During those days, the economy wasn't like this and people weren't this frustrated.

The timing for the current change is just wrong and is politically motivated in many people's opinions.

You can't hold 200m people's lives and livelihoods in ransom simply because of just a few politicians. The politicians that are being targeted are not feeling the heat, it's the masses that are being hurt.

That's why the masses are angry now - the timing, they weren't angry when the changes were done in the past.

If na me dey drive that Okada, I fit vex slap her. She's so fake and annoying.

woginid967:


Let me confess, i had no choice and its all because of new notes and fuel.

This bank MD at ketu axis, saw me online and slid into my DM, unfortunately it was my fake account that i was selling, so she told me she was married to one guy in nnpc, and we gisted all through December, her hubby didnt come for Christmas because they've been apart for two years due to lies and cheating, so she confided in me.

Since she has not had seggs in three years, i gifted her Love Machine and other assorted vibrators, for Christmas... She later requested video call, i had to run to a hotel(to form like a big boy) and watched her masturb8 into squiirtins for one hour then we gisted and she was really into me.

Now she ran to Lekki to see me last weekend, i borrowed money for shortlet before she came and hung my pics there like it was mine, she was impressed and i complained about money and fuel.... So she didnt pay attention at first, then after spicing her drink with spanishflyyy, omor in two hours we were grunting like goats and she had squirt everywhere and was thanking me for making her young again.

I sucked her till she farted and she jus gave herself to me. By morning she said she was coming and left to come back 4hours later with five 25ltrs of fuel and 750k new notes cash, to butter me up for my "services"

So without same I accepted to be her man.... She is married but separated for two years and has not had sex for three years, so dont judge me. Its an offer i cant resist. Which job for lasgidi go pay 750k+ per week on steady.

Do you think anyone believes this lie that's obviously a figment of an imagination?

anthonyuncle:
what are you then crushing on

Probably money, cars, flashy lifestyle...who knows.

seguno2:


What are you doing for the process of making a sane president (and other public office holders) emerge and take over sooner than later

Is that question intended for me?
I'm not into politics, never voted in Nigeria my entire life and can't even contribute to the electoral process in Nigeria since diaspora voting isn't allowed.

No diasporan wants to fly to Nigeria to get their PVC and fly back again to vote. The deputy Senate President already made it clear that Nigerians is diaspora have no voice in one of his statements and that melted many diasporans with good intentions.

Millions of Nigerians in diaspora can organize rallies, yell all day etc, but none of them can vote, unless they fly back to Nigeria with their PVC. I don't have a PVC cos no Nigerian in diaspora can have one from any of the Nigerian embassies in the world, they have to fly back to Nigeria to get it and many can't do that for various reasons.

So, whoever wins will be the handiwork of our brothers and sisters in Nigeria with PVCs. Nobody in Diaspora has PVCs unless they come to Nigeria to get one and return to vote. Trust me, many Nigerians in Diaspora and their families want to participate in the electoral process, but can't do much when the push for Diaspora voting failed, I guess the only option left for diasporans is to support whatever candidate they want, which differs, the candidate Mr A wants may be different for who Mr B wants.

Let's just hope Nigerians collectively choose the proper person that will fix the economy. Many people living overseas are tired and want to come back home.

Many already paid their dues in the various countries they live in and just want to be close to their families in Nigeria now, but the sad news everyone hears about is what is discouraging many people from returning. Some people here are ok enough to start different businesses in Nigeria that will employ some of our youths looking for jobs, but it's scary when these same people are scared they may get kidnapped and killed. We all read about stuff like that on nairaland. Not saying that's how everyone thinks, just saying insecurity needa to be fixed first for many diasporans with good intentions and plans to feel free to come back and help their individual communities in their little ways and help other families by supporting their families by providing jobs in the various capacities they can afford to do.

studyless123:


You've got a great profile. it's nice when individuals try to upskill themselves. I hope you've gotten your TS/SCI.

So now to the meat. Broadly roles in IT is either you're working as a developer or support. We've got a few roles in between but let's keep it simple. I know in everyone's mind IT support refers to the desktop support or entry level IT positions. But because of my background I have more respect for the support teams than developer teams. This is because support teams provides technical assistance by troubleshooting and resolving IT issues by IT experts. There are hundreds of unresolved IT issues today because we lack experts.

Let's take an aspect of cybersecurity. Packet analysis which is a branch of network forensics, requires deep knowledge of various IT domains, your tools can range from Wireshark to Splunk, Dynatrace and whatever ...but the work is troubleshooting.

In Cloud and Telecoms and some of the support teams requires minimum of 10 years industry experience. You can get paid as much as 50k for receiving a page. Some of the IT support consultants take away over 100k a month.

The IT space lacks specialized skills today. For example BGP is the most complex IP routing protocol and in the past many people worked all their lives studying BGP but today the interest is different. A 3-month course and everyone is claiming a specialist. The race for quick delivery has left security loopholes in many systems and applications, that's why security sells. From DevSecOps to SecDevOps to DevOpsSec to SecDevSecOpsSec shows the different challenges that security has in integrating into the software development lifecycle. It's going to get worse.

What's your role in the bank? cyber analy, Appsec, audit, Inc res, Pen tester, Net sec, architecture, admin. I just like learning.

I do Network Security and Application Security at the bank as a Cybersecurity Engineer, prior to that, I worked in the corporate network governance team as a Cybersecurity Engineer too, but my role there was different - I was enforcing the various policies like PCI-DSS, NIST standards etc, so every firewall and proxy requests passed through my team before they can be implemented - we review the policies, compared them to what violates the company policies and either approve or reject them.

Those rejected often lead to several meetings which can be annoying when you're tucked in meetings with various teams explaining what they're doing wrong and pointing them in the right direction.

studyless123:


You're correct. Many laid off are not tech workers.
I'm curious by what you mean by the bolded. If you're not in IT support, then what are you into?

As I said before, I'm beyond that level where anyone will even think of offering me an IT support role even here in the US, not to talk of Nigeria. If a firm can't pay me $150k PA and above, let them keep their job. I haven't earned less than that since the past 7 years and sometimes I do multiple jobs and clock about $600k PA.

So why would I want to settle for tech support job that only pays around $50k or just a bit more per annum?

I don't know how much they pay them in Nigeria, but it's God Forbid for me. Tech support audience is even totally different from my audience and I don't even expect going backwards.

I started as analyst - my Bachelor's here was in Information Technology and I majored in Systems Analysis. After I graduated here, I was immediately hired by NCR Corporation at their world headquarters here in Atlanta, Georgia. NCR exists in Nigeria too.

I resigned from NCR after 3 years and joined General Electric, stin in their IT space, I was an IT lead there in their Governance, Risks and Compliance space, I left and joined another firm as a developer, I then went into consulting - I wotker for at least 3 consulting firms that sent me anywhere in the world they want me to go for various project.

I got tired of all the traveling and I'm back in Atlanta where I live and work with a bank here as a Cybersecurity Engineer.

Does that answer your question?

FredLum:
You are truly a good man, this means a lot and have given me the direction I needed, thank you so much, you are far too kind. I and my friends will follow all you said diligently.
We are getting everything together to begin in March.
Kindly oblige me a response if I need further information if need be, in the future.
Thank you

That's what nairaland is for - we learn from one another. I learn from others here too.
Good luck my brother.

FredLum:


Boss, my friends and I are eager to get into Cyber security and I honestly need a mentor, can you help.
I sent you a message

I was trained in universities here in the US and have been doing it through most of my career. I don't train folks on it, I did in the past, but not anymore, but I have all the resources for anyone interested in Cybersecurity cos that's my space and can gladly share for free.

I don't think universities in Nigeria teach Cybersecurity yet, but my entire knowledge was from here in the US.

My advice to you will be to just take baby steps and know what area of Cybersecurity you like - Cybersecurity is very broad and you have to choose what areas you like, you will get confused if you start bouncing around various areas of Cybersecurity. For me, I focused on Network Security and Application security. I'm a certified ethical hacker too. Can I hack? Yes I can hack anyone or any system I'm interested in.

Do I hack? Not anymore, firms in the US hire folks like me to protect them from being hacked, so I don't consider myself a hacker, probably a white hat hacker that protects firms and not the black hats looking for whom to extort or ruin - we have same skills, one is just the thief and the other is like the "police".
So I know the onions when it comes to tech, especially from the security standpoint for any organization anywhere in the world.

There are free trainings on YouTube if you want to watch them just to get started.

I know of some Nigerian folks organizing some free trainings on Splunk, but I don't know if they accept folks from Nigeria cos some folks already messed it up for others by suddenly starting to beg for money from everyone in the Whatshap group or sending them fraudulent links to extort them. Not like people don't like to help, but they back out same folks suddenly make it a habit.

There are many free trainings on YouTube you can watch and see if the area is for you. I'd advise you get certified after knowing each area cos that makes you stand out amongst others that don't have your type of certifications.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrh0epPAC5w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hd8QJmZQUc

Log analysis is another booming area in IT, you can learn it on your own on YouTube, Udemy, Coursera etc. Just focus on Splunk.

Folks with Splunk skills can never lack jobs, here in the US you're aiming for a minimum of $130k per annum. You can make even up to $180k depending on your skills and bargaining power, not sure what they pay in Nigeria for such skills - I never worked in Nigeria, except the IT trainings I did there cos I attended polytechnics in Nigeria, not universities and there was discrimination back then, so I dipped out and attended universities here.

Just get an idea of what Splunk is about, learn it, get certified in it, add it to your resume and see how many global job opportunities are open to you even though you may be based in Nigeria. Firms are ready to bring vibrant and talented minds from anywhere to anywhere in the world as long as you can prove to them that's you are an asset.

I schooled in Nigeria too and I know there are too many brilliant people in Nigeria, the opportunities are just not there for many in Nigeria, but firms will gladly hire the proper skills as long as you can prove your skills to them.

If you're interested in learning Splunk to add to your resume, YouTube is free, watch asany videos as u want on it and find a course online to build up your skill. I'll share a link below which is just an intro. Within a few months, you'll be a pro and even train others as a side hustle if you want.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDcVBAr474

Free Splunk trainings for anyone interested
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/resources/videos.html

But it's better you participate in a guided class online so you don't get confused.

Good luck bro!

Instead of assuming it's chicken pox from your Google search, why not take him to the hospital to be properly diagnosed? There are talks about monkey pox and a few others that could spread like that. I'm sure there are treatments for it.

truthsayer009:


There are 4 categories of people I know.

- Most people whom I know has brought their brothers and other family members over to the US got married to someone to retain themselves.
- Some that I know worked their way with Work Sponsorships are living on the edge because they have to work to keep that status until they can apply for permanent residence & they have only 60 days to leave the country during job loss.
- Some got in through the Military some years ago, I'm not sure the programme is still running anymore.
- Others I knew got in by Visa lottery which is over.

So If you have been a US citizen for 20 years, I can assume you got it around the 90s which means you're in your late 40s.

Therefore, that was a long time ago when things were easier.

I got here through my family - everyone lived in the US forever and are all US citizens.
Yeah things were relatively easier when I left, it's somewhat more difficult now. Even some of my old friends that visited me several times from Nigeria said the US embassies started rejecting them visa, so I only see them whenever I'm in Nigeria. I was still with them for last Xmas and New Year and left again on New Year night.

There are several categories of visas beyond the ones you mentioned, some people just only know a few. Just go to the USCIS website and see the various immigrant visa available and the requirements.

Those you said have to marry someone came here with non-immigrant visas like visiting, student, tourist visa etc which doesn't allow them to work here until they adjust their status - except student visas that lets you work about 20 hours a week while studying. Immigrant visa means you will have freedom to work as many hours as you want for as many employers as you can handle because u will automatically have a green card and eventually citizenship if you meet the criteria.

Just check USCIS website out and see the various options.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/all-visa-categories.html

truthsayer009:


It looks to me that what you do is IT Support. Microsoft Support, SAP or something similar. Because you keep mentioning certifications. Tech is no just one field, a lot of fields in Tech don't need any certification.

Even a baby born today can see all the layoffs happening in the Tech space.

Also to get papers to live in the US requires that you marry a citizen, Work Visas lost by layoff means you leave the country in 60 days.

You need to update your information because thousands of Native Americans working in US tech companies who are top in their field got laid off, I dont know the news you are watching maybe you are living under a Rock.

I'm a Cybersecurity Engineer bro, I've been a US citizen for almost 20 years now. I schooled here too, got both my bachelor's and masters here in the IT space, my masters is in Cybersecurity.

Ofcourse people get IT jobs without having any certifications, but those with certifications stand a better chance. Some jobs advertised specifically ask for certifications or push employees to be certified after getting hired. Most of my certifications were paid for by employers as some of them are very expensive.

I'm aware of the layoffs, just saying it doesn't mean everyone laid off are IT folks working for the firm.

No one will offer me an IT support role as I'm much above that level in the tech world with experience and certs to show for it. I have consulted for many big forms here and understand the internals.

It's not true that everyone has to marry an American to be an American, people bring their kids, brothers and other family members over and there is a path to US citizenship for them without them having to marry anyone.

I'm just talking about what I've seen and I'm used to, it may be a different experience for others.

thebosstrevor1:


The layoffs affected every department in tech, lot of skilled tech workers were payed off

Tech companies competed heavily for talent, they hire at hugely inflated salaries in a time of massive growth, and radically increased the salaries of some veteran employees in an effort to not have them poached when they needed them the most.

That's why these layoffs can appear quite random and across the board. They're not going to tell an employee that their salary is out of the designated company range and that they'll have to accept a 20% or 30% pay cut. They're correcting the situation and are normalizing their pay ranges with large layoff rounds.

I guess the tech guys affected may be the old ones that refused to upgrade themselves to newer technologies.

Im a tech guy and have worked for many firms here in the US since over 12 years now and haven't seen anyone in my department laid off, may be fired for various reasons or resigned for better opportunities, but not outrightly laid off. Rather more skills are being scouted from everywhere, including universities for fresh brains.
IT space is pretty secure in my opinion unless the person is operating on expired technologies that a firm doesn't need anymore and can easily let him or her go without feeling any loss at all.

Tech requires constant learning, certifications and upgrades. Firms stick with employees that do that. I can leave any job now and pick up another in less than a month, so the rush for tech guys here in the US is huge as long as you have the required skills and certifications, recession or no recession, tech folks are always in demand here.

@OP, Your opinion may be wrong. That a company is labeled a tech firm doesn't mean everyone working there is a tech person - there are several business units in every major firm.

A company can lay off as many people in different units within it without even touching the tech unit. Why? Skilled tech folks are difficult to find and new hires need to go through trainings that could take a long time.

Osidazz19:
Easy one for Sanwo Olu.

Correct. I don't think Sanwo is scared of debates.

livenija:
Tell her sorry, make she find another greencard holder.

This is not a great comment for someone that just lost a spouse. What makes you think every marriage to someone based overseas is all about green card? Only starving people think like that.

Marley125:
there's nothing like that. It's spiritual. Mine usually come even during the day & it's very painful I returned back from villa two days later marks started coming out from my body even in the day time very painful it appears twice a day. This is what I did I added salt olive oil & little of & pee & bath with it three times & it stopped.

I guess your experience may be different. I had a similar wound on my arm years ago, it healed naturally but the mark is still there. I simply assumed I scratched myself while I was asleep.

Presis:
These ones are looking for settlement money

The crazy thing is no matter what they're paid, it never circulates - either themselves or another batch comes out for more money.

You may have accidentally scratched yourself with your finger nails while sleeping.

What exactly is the mission here? Wasting bullets just to sleep with ladies? How is that an achievement? I feel sorry for the only virgin that was raped sha.

twilliamx:
Which currency?

I think it's dollars, so he was scammed

LeoDeKing:
So what's the purpose of that symbol of a propagating EM wave in the pictures?

Is that its principle of curing whatever it cures?

That's the DNA.

Richy4:
I thought Texas is one of the warmest part of US.. -7° is not really warm
Just wondering what the temperature in some coldest part like Alaska will be registering..

The US uses Fahrenheits to measure temperature, not Centigrades. So -7 degrees Fahrenheits is around -21 degrees Centigrades which is cold for a place that normally keeps room temperature at around 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius).

Campaign funding can still be done via bank transfers, what withdrawal limit will cripple is vote buying, which is what most politicians depend on.

GreaterFuture:

Ahh
Ok, sorry it seems I touched a nerve, or hit a spot.

So one cannot come on nairaland to drop a topic or something anymore...
Monitor another person's family, sorry oh, they are intact, technically "my family"

Then the issue should have been discussed within your family. Nairalanders can't go to the UK to help them fix whatever u said is wrong with that family, rather you only 2ant them to make mockery of them, which isn't fair in my opinion.

How is what you wrote any of your problem? Have they ever asked you to help them with anything before? Why monitor someone else's famil

fadilaMaikiriki:
A friend of mine got me this perfume. He stays in Abuja. He just got into town from Abuja. I couldn't see him before he left for Abuja, so he decided to give the perfume to one of is friends to give to me. I just got the perfume yesterday.

So, I don't know if there's anyone here that has used or bought the perfume before. I want to know how much the perfume is being sold. I want to know the price of the perfume. So, if there's anyone here who knows the price of the perfume, please do let me know.

Thanks.


Attached below are pictures of the perfume;

You got a GIFT for FREE from a friend and you are desperate to know how much that friend bought it for to give it to you for free.

Pls, how many friends have you given free perfumes to this year and how much did you pay for them?

If the perfume is not too expensive, he's a bad friend, if it's expensive, he's a good friend. What about the thoughts of the gesture? Only ingrates think this way.

This policy will greatly affect politicians. How are they going to pay their urchins, supporters and hired crowds? Bank transfers?

Some people are already thinking of peppersoup with these fish in this US aquarium. Try it in America.

Revolution2022:
What does it take to become a qualify medical doctor?It may be he doesn't have a licensed to practice his profession or he is not registered with Lagos state government.We know how Lagos state government will pull down billboards that is not registered with LASAA.We also know how Lagos state local government will go about closing business premises that is not registered with them.Multiple taxation.

You're sounding like a relative of this "medical doc" with this comment, or are you him?

Do you know how many lives depend on doctors? For him to be declared fake means he is not able to prove he's a real doctor.

Doctors are trained to save lives and it involves a lengthy and intensive process. Some doctors spend 7 years upwards before they can legally practice as a doctor.

Unfortunately, one random person goes to sleep, wakes up, says he dreamt he's a doctor and starts treating people. That's a quack. Many lives are lost to people like that.