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[quote author=Aloy.Emeka link=topic=208845.msg3264026#msg3264026 date=1230083921]Most people that come home from abroad are retirees. Most of them receive social security from US. I have an uncle like that, they returned in 2006.

Assuming there are 20 couples that returned home in your village because that is where they usually reside. If each couple receive about $3k per month both from social security benefits, 401k and their children, do you know what it means in the economy of that village?. That means about $60K  new funds are pumped into the village per month and it will also mean that the woman selling akara by the road side will have increase in her sales; the auto mechanics will get more jobs; the plumbers, electricians etc will notice a wage difference. Guys, it's more beneficial than harmful. Come home.[/quote]Even with the plummeting value of stocks on Wall Street, and 3k a month in social security? Dude, where in America do you live in?

Woodlawn, MD, is credited as the city with the most Nigerians in America, that is when you factor in the size of other cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn,_Prince_George%27s_County,_Maryland

It's also common in Ibibio land, that a man, according to the tradition of the land, can't claim ownership of his child if he/she was a product of an illicit relationship. It may have been watered down with modernism, but there are still consequences for the man to pay in that regard.

slimfine:
why would anyone compare a MD in Nigeria vs Cab driver in UK?

that is to show you how low nigeria economy has become

I highly doubt the economy has gone so bad in Nigeria that one may assume that a cab driver in UK is better off than an MD in Nigeria. No comparison at all. People sometimes neglect to, when factoring in the 'quality of life' to ask about personal happiness. Would you assume that the cab driver, who is struggling to make ends meet is happier than the MD in Nigeria, who is happy to be in the profession that he went to school for, instead of eking a living doing menial job abroad. Think about it.

Kobojunkie:
A dollar is worth more in Nigerian than in America? 

Absolutely. One dollar in America cant get me a value meal at Mickey Dees? but it's equivalent in Nigeria (120 Naira) can get me a solid eba with egusi soup at "Food is Ready." Stop being sentimental abut the worth of the dollar in America and its equivalency with Naira in Nigeria.

diasporian:
@Kobo

These people who live below $1 a day, may end up eating and living a more happy life than people in the west who live on $100 a day.

that people live on $1 a day in Nigeria - say 120 Naira - does not necessarily interprete to "abuject poverty" which you are dwelling upon here - don't you get it?

In the so called rural places, 120Naira is a lot of money, beleive it or not, they can sustain their lifes happily without needing to resort to empty and bufonery life styles like in the west - which obviously you look upon and use as a yardstick to measure the poverty indices or index in Nigeria.

Gbam!. 120 Naira is of greater value in Nigeria than 1 dollar in the USA.

Jakumo:
[b]In comparison to a medical doctor living in Nigeria, an African immigrant who works in the UK or Holland as a traffic warden or cab driver would enjoy [b]a far better standard of life, in terms of the availability of affordable medical care and education, constant electricicy, clean water, well-maintained roads, freedom of movement, safe mass transit systems, effective law enforcement and state unemployment benefits, to name but a few key indices of civilized life.[/b][/b]
Notwithstanding the wild theories of the beer-hall statisticians who have clearly mistaken the annual VISITS by Nigerian citizens to their homeland as being indicative of a mass, permanent relocation back to Nigeria by former emigrants, the only Nigerians who would seriously consider residing permanently in today's nihilistic Nigeria, after having tasted life in The West, would be those who are lured to Nigeria with promises of making Big Money from inflated government contracts, or those who are on the run from the law in a land where the police don't take bribes.

You may be right, but to be frank, but honestly, I'd rather be an MD in Nigerian than be a cab driver in UK.

[quote author=Zion_Queen link=topic=203422.msg3250803#msg3250803 date=1229814707]This is a very good topic,  Actually, I thought I was alone in this predicament.
I just graduated from a very reputable school in the UK, but it has been terrible (almost impossible) getting a job in my field (oil and gas) being that I have no work experience, and work permit.  I have been turned down by over 30 companies (no kidding!) 

However, I got two temporary jobs- not related to my field in anyway, one is actually a job as a sales assistant in 'Next'. But I am very confused! I don't know if it is worth doing while waiting to get the job I desire,  Or to fly back to Nigeria and try my luck.
What do you guys think?  [/quote]Expand your horizon, who knows, you could strike it in Nigeria. For me, honestly, if I am blessed with a job in Naija making over 7 million Naira, plus remuneration packages aka fringe benefits, I am heading home immediately.

Well, I dont know if the magazine has a presence online, so I cant cull up the article. But just read the information on yoga that I researched on wikipedia. Shouldnt that be enough?

Yoga is the rave at the gym, with some men and women, ignorantly and innocently signing up to practise yoga. One may allude to its popularity to another lifestyle to help you lose weight or balance your life. But do they actually know the origins of yoga? I read an article in a Christian Magazine that encourages believers to stay away from yoga, with reasonable explanations. Prior to the article, I was never ever a fan of it, due to its entrenchment in hinduism.

Here are the facts about Yoga.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini

Archangel Michael is NOT Jesus Christ. All angels were created by Jesus Christ. JW? Please stay away from them, I wonder why they persist in denying the eternity of Jesus Christ which goes contrary to the Word of God.

ikman52000:
Its a good news to here that UBA has thought it wise to review its pay upwards. At least an Executive Trainee is now entitled  to 1 Million Naira per annum. This is in place of the 720,000 Naira per annum before. Translating to 49,000 Naira Monthly after all deductions. They can now smile home with about 70,000 Naira after deductions. Kudos Elumelu.
We should not just be hearing that the bank is the biggest but with less financial impact on the staff.

Although, the bank has not measured with its colleagues in terms of pay to staff, but this recent step is a good one in the right direction.

That's slightly over 40% in taxes, which is higher than the tax bracket in America for the highest wage earners.

Take your degree and run home! 7 million Naira, compared to 24 thousand pounds per annum. Nna, I will be on the next flight to Naija. Mine be say, I dont even desire to live in Lagos, but my hometown, Uyo.

Na una give them time now.

It symbolizes humility.

tpia:
Deep Vein Thrombosis Causes


Three factors may lead to formation of a clot inside a blood vessel.

Damage to the inside of a blood vessel due to trauma or other conditions


Changes in normal blood flow, including unusual turbulence, or partial or complete blockage of blood flow


Hypercoagulability, a rare state in which the blood is more likely than usual to clot





Any component that contributes to one or more of these three criteria can cause deep vein thrombosis. The more common risk factors are as follows:

Prolonged sitting, such as during a long plane or car ride


Prolonged bed rest or immobility, such as after injury or during illness (stroke)


Recent surgery, particularly orthopedic, gynecologic, or heart surgery


Recent trauma to the lower body, such as fractures of the bones of the hip, thigh, or lower leg




http://www.emedicinehealth.com/blood_clot_in_the_legs/page2_em.htm

My people, the Ibibios say, "Nsu anem ke ikomakara". which means "Lies are easily glossed over in English Language. I still ask you this, why didnt this symptom manifest itself prior to the fellow kicking the juju pot?

davidylan:
Why would demons "attack" people that are already on their side?
The devil is pretty smart too.

They do, by 'convincing' them to be atheists.

[quote author=A-town link=topic=207243.msg3223793#msg3223793 date=1229284341][b]This doesn't prove anything
He probaly had P.A.D or a clot in his veins after kicking the object.[/b]Medical doctors don't know everything. They eliminate options one by one till they figure out what your problem is.
The fact that medical doctors didn't know what his problem was does not indicate it was spiritual.

The internet has made life easier and a lot of people should utilize it.
Back in the days, people referred to anyone that had a hernia as being under a spell. Same thing goes for elephantiasis.[/quote]And why would he have a P.A.D or a clot in his veins soon after kicking the object? It's too much of a coincidence that he developed an ailment shortly afterwards.

Abiodun92:
I live in Finland, i was born here, and i have lived among these people for all my life. Finland is an European high-tech country(Nokia), and most of the people are Lutheran christians(83%). Finnish people who label themselves as christians, are mostly non-believers, even if they take part in the church events. They are mostly atheists, and some of them openly say that God is dead. Why don't they suffer any attacks from evil spirits, or Demons? THEY DO SUFFER, BUT THEY DON'T SEE IT! Many people here in finland have some sort of a Depression. They don't really know why they are so depressed and want to kill themselves, so they try to shake off the depression by taking drugs(Anti-Depressants, Amphetamine, Alcohol etc.) Taking those drugs will only make them addicted to em', and in that way they are exposed to even more of a different mental illnesses, like Schizophrenia. Then some people may find themselves living rest of their lives in a mental hospital.

Atheists do suffer too, i've seen it happening. So it's not only Christians or Moslems who suffer from Demonic influences.  

Gbam!

Psychiatry cant treat the causes of witchcraft. Lets be real, and not be in denial, these evil forces exist.

Interesting.

http://texasdarlin./2008/06/08/in-which-hospital-was-obama-born/

Witchcraft is real. can't be denied at all. At times, I wonder if the heinous activities of witchcraft is co-related to the ancestral worship in the olden days. Probably so.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location
Alan Keyes lawsuit warns America may see 'usurper' in Oval Office

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Posted: November 14, 2008
8:40 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily



Alan Keyes
The California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until President-elect Barack Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office, alleges a California court petition filed on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and others.

The legal action today is just the latest is a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen," a requirement set by the U.S. Constitution.

WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.

The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists, simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors.

The governor's office in Hawaii said there is a valid certificate but rejected requests for access and left ambiguous its origin: Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii?

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born, while a video posted on YouTube features Obama's Kenyan grandmother Sarah claiming to have witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya.

The California action was filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation on behalf of Alan Keyes, the presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, along with Wiley S. Drake and Markham Robinson, both California electors.

"Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal," the action challenges.


California Secretary of State Debra Bowen

The petition is a request for the Superior Court of California in Sacramento County to issue a peremptory writ barring Secretary of State Debra Bowen "from both certifying to the governor the names of the California Electors, and from transmitting to each presidential Elector a Certificate of Election, until such documentary proof is produced and verified showing that Senator Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of the United States and does not hold citizenship of Indonesia, Kenya or Great Britain."

It continues with a request for a writ barring California's electors from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof is produced.

An Obama spokesperson interviewed by WND described such lawsuits as "garbage."

The popular vote Nov. 4 favored Obama over Sen. John McCain by several percentage points. But because of the distribution of the votes, Obama is projected to take the Electoral College vote, when it is held in December, by a 2-to-1 margin.

Named as defendants in the action are Bowen, Obama, vice president elect Joe Biden and the long list of California party electors.

Citing the constitutional requirement that a president be a "natural born" citizen, the case discusses other state and federal court cases regarding "aspects of lost or dual citizenship concerning Senator Obama. Those challenges, in and of themselves, demonstrate Petitioners' argument that reasonable doubt exists as to the eligibility of the Democratic Party’s nominee for President," the case said.

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"There is a reasonable and common expectation by the voters that to qualify for the ballot, the individuals running for office must meet minimum qualifications as outlined in the federal and state Constitutions and statutes, and that compliance with those minimum qualifications has been confirmed by the officials overseeing the election process," the complaint said, when in fact the only documentation currently required is a signed statement from the candidate attesting to those qualifications.

"Since [the Secretary of State] has, as its core, the mission of certifying and establishing the validity of the election process, this writ seeks a Court Order barring SOS from certifying the California Electors until documentary proof that Senator Obama is a 'natural born' citizen of the United States of America is received by her," the document said.

"This proof could include items such as his original birth certificate, showing the name of the hospital and the name and the signature of the doctor, all of his passports with immigration stamps, and verification from the governments where the candidate has resided, verifying that he did not, and does not, hold citizenship of these countries, and any other documents that certify an individual’s citizenship and/or qualification for office.

"To this date, in this regard, SOS has not carried out that fundamental duty."

The case said a simple attestation from the candidate or his party isn't sufficient.

"Historically, California Secretaries of State have exercised their due diligence by reviewing necessary background documents, verifying that the candidates that were submitted by the respective political parties as eligible for the ballot were indeed eligible. In 1968, the Peace and Freedom Party submitted the name of Eldridge Cleaver as a qualified candidate for President of the United States. The then SOS, Mr. Frank Jordan, found that, according to Mr. Cleaver's birth certificate, he was only 34 years old, one year shy of the 35 years of age needed to be on the ballot as a candidate for President. Using his administrative powers, Mr. Jordan removed Mr. Cleaver from the ballot. Mr. Cleaver unsuccessfully challenged this decision to the Supreme Court of the State of California, and, later, to the Supreme Court of the United States."

Similarly, in 1984, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate Larry Holmes was removed from the ballot.

The "certificate of live birth" posted by the Obama campaign cannot be viewed as authoritative, the case alleges.

"Hawaii Revised Statute 338-178 allows registration of birth in Hawaii for a child that was born outside of Hawaii to parents who, for a year preceding the child’s birth, claimed Hawaii as their place of residence," the document said. "The only way to know where Senator Obama was actually born is to view Senator Obama's original birth certificate from 1961 that shows the name of the hospital and the name and signature of the doctor that delivered him."

The case also raises the circumstances of Obama's time during his youth in Indonesia, where he was listed as having Indonesian citizenship. Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, raising the possibility of Obama's mother having given up his U.S. citizenship.

Any subsequent U.S. citizenship then, the case claims, would be "naturalized," not "natural-born."

"Based on all of the above, it is the duty of the SOS to obtain proper documentation of Senator Obama's citizenship to confirm his eligibility for the office or the President of the United States," the case said.

Just this week, WND has reported on more than half a dozen other legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.

Among the states where cases are being tracked are Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii, and there were reports of other cases being developed in Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia.

www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80931

At times, people just dont have any conscience, or "human milk of kindness". Amidst the ravaging poverty in the nation, this man and his family are 'enjoying' the fruits of his ill-gotten wealth. Sha, God dey.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=202985.msg3194589#msg3194589

Click on the above link. Sort of addresses the question though mine was on the exclusivity of the practise of witchcraft in Africa.

[quote author=*Hauwa* link=topic=206151.msg3215210#msg3215210 date=1229091761]Ndipe, i actually read that copy. i was shocked. . . because those involved in the domestic violence in PG are rich (Ebony mag). who knows they are nigerians you know most don't have anger management and they are aggressive when it's money issue 

Osisi, true  PG was among the top 10 Forbes listed sometime recently. Many wealthy blacks buy homes there.[/quote]Domestic violence transcends all social classes and race. Infact, there was this article in a magazine that details the horrifying abuse that high profile women go through in the hands of their husband. And unfortunately, they are embarrased to file charges because of the attendant publicity that might ensue.

My aunt who lived in Silver Spring until her demise recently was totally against moving to PG county, amidst the affordable real estate in the area. While PG county was mentioned in a positive light in Ebony magazine a while back, that same month or thereabout, the county received negative publicity from Essence magazine with regards to domestic violence.

ayomifull:
Came accross this somewhere, what could possibly be the best way out?


Good Morning Steve and the Morning show family, I actually do not know where to start with my letter. I guess I will start will saying I have been in tears everyday for the last 4 months. I guess I will also start by giving you a little history. First of all, my husband and I have been married for almost 2 years. We met in college when I was a freshman and he was a junior. When we met, we realized we had a lot in common. We both grew up in the same city just on different sides of town. So we didn't know each other.We were raised by strong single black women that made sure we had the best, we were raised in the church, and we both wanted to get legal degrees. We got married shortly after I graduated college and we relocated to Chicago in hopes of attending law school. When we got to Chicago, I became a nurse instead and my husband got a position at a legal firm (long story short, we didn't make it to law school). We both are devout Christians and we have been for most of our life. We decided that in order to really move foward in our spiritual life, that we needed to forgive all the people we had problems with includeing our fathers. We didn't realize how much that unforgiveness impacted our own lives. I made it a point to forgive my father in my heart because I knew it would be difficult to find him. My husband, however, got in touch with his father and made arrangements to meet up with him when we went home for our family reunion. They decided to meet up at the park where the reunion was to be held because they felt that was a neutral spot. We went home for the family reunion in May,  To my surprise, my father was there. Even though I hadn't seen him in almost 16 years, I knew it was him. I remembered the goal me and my husband had set for ourselves so I agreed to go somewhere and talk with him as long as we remained in the park. After about 45 minutes of catching up, I finally asked him what he was doing at the park on that day of all days. He mentioned that he was there to meet someone special in his life. I figured it was probably just another women. Just then, my husband walked up and said, I see you met my father. At that point, I did pass out (literally). I woke up in the hospital a couple of hours later. After a week, my husband went back to Chicago. I remained in our hometown with my mother. I was not ready to face all the issues on my plate and I couldn't just go back to Chicago with my husband/brother. After 3 mons, I am absolutely confused about what to do. Even though we have only been married for 2 years, we have been together for almost 5. I can't imagine my life without him. However, I get sick to my stomach when I think about the fact that I have been sleeping with my brother for so long. I know deep down it isn't really our fault. I mean we did everything right. I know the obvious thing to do is divorce him. But that is easier said than done. I am not torn between divorce and my religious beliefs because we got married under false pretenses. My problem is, I am torn between doing the obvious thing and dealing with all these emotions at the same time. Please tell me what to do. I don't think I have anymore tears left to cry.

Redundant!

http://www.globalpolitician.com/22569-africa

I culled the above link from the internet. My comment on colonialism is the sheer abundance of materialism, instant gratification and greed in our society. Our forefathers lifestyles were simple and contented.