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if u have tried three flash drives with the same problem and have been trying to access those files on your PC, then maybe its ur PC that has a problem with adobe acrobat. Either you do not have it or you need to install updates.

Those people at the US embassy in Nigeria will continue to treat Nigerians like shit until the Nigeria government itself starts treating her citizens with dignity.
My cousin went for an interview at the embassy some weeks ago. Now, the visa fee is $100 payable in US currency ($100 note) or N14000. But apparently they have been refusing to take the $100 since the naira rose against the naira. They told everyone to bring N14000 effectively setting their own exchange rate at $1=N140 when the naira is now officially N129=$1
A better country than Nigeris would address this, ask them to either declare an increment in their fees or use the correct exchange rate

scondy:
what is wrong with us. we call ourselves intellectuals and we still behave as if we don't have what it takes to be called graduates.when landmark was talking he emphasized sentence construction and not typos. instead of giving it to the guy and reasoning along, y`all are fast to criticize him. what he says is absolutely true. if someone`s english is good,u`ld know by reading the write up and checkin out the way th grammar was constructed.not his typos. please lets grow up.

You mean you should worry about sentence construction and not typos. No, you should worry about the general presentation of your english. Nobody is going to overlook your typos in the professional world.

I was jobless enough yesternight to do a search on pubmed. So I typed in Nigeria and I got 15178 hits. I wanted to know if these were Nigerians in International universities so I downloaded to endnote and started checking the addresses. I must have run through about 2000 before I fell asleep but they were Nigerian researchers in Nigerian universities.

Nobody is saying anyone is un-intelligent but do we have to knock down everything so hard.

A Phd candidate in Nigeria does something that a high school student does somewhere else or improves on it, and we go like "is that what they can do?" Yet we say the country is not developing. Little beginnings make great things.

Jaynie:
Actually, I didn't hear it from City People, I heard it from someone who was close to their band, Synergy and this person had nothing to gain from telling tales. I believe there's no smoke without fire! Nigerians should shine their eyes well. But the babe fine sha and she's a great actress on (and off!) screen!

Doesn't make it any better. I have seen people tell tales about other people even when they had nothing to gain. The fact that someone was close to someone's family or band or anything does not make the person the absolute source.
Do you know where that person's loyalties lie.

krazysage:
No one is whinning and no one is foolish. we just have different views on how things should be done or proceed. 6million Nigerians have HIV, 1/3 of the worlds population have TB,3 million People die every year from TB, resistant strains of TB are popping up. And i am whinning when 70% of nigerians live in poverty and cannot afford a few luxuries including chocolate. I am sorry for whinning.
And for the research, how many publications on TB, Aids and malaria do nigerian universities produce each year in scientific journals?

So I guess everyone in Nigeria should be a scientist , looking for a cure for HIV/AIDS. My friend, a society is built through the contribution of many fields. Without the arts in Europe, do u think Europe would be that developed. Yes, we need these health interventions but does that mean the engineering profession, the banking industry etc should all stop working. Its not like the Nigerian govt gave them a grant to make this chocolate while they didnt give AIDS and malaria researchers anything. These guys, in their crappy lab, somewhere in Ibadan, Nsukka or somewhere did this themselves.

And did you ever search pubmed and discovered the thousands of publications by Nigerians on TB, AIDS, malaria. I bet not! No, you just whine in an un-intellectual manner.

Point is, you can have your opinion about how things should proceed in Nigeria but that is not the response to a post titled "Nigerian Scientists Create Unmeltable Chocolate".

Hellooooooooooooooo, all those dissing corn starch , whats the difference from high fructose corn syrup which is used in soooooooo many products to replace sugar; from your coca-cola to powerade to salad dressing to your pizza sauce to your salsa at Taco Bell to that cookie you buy at Subway to the potato salad from KFC to the croissant from ABP.

But then you wouldnt call that Akpu.  Right? since it was not created by Nigerian scientists who are sincerely trying their best to inprove the potentials of the country in their various fields.

"You heard" probably from city people, right?

Thats what spoils the world " I HEARD"

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

There are also some UK and US schools with campuses in Malaysia and Hong Kong.

eg http://www.unim.nottingham.ac.uk/
www.monash.edu.au

anabib,
can you pls give me the name of wireless providers in Nigeria. thanks

Nigerian College of Aviation Technology
P.M.B. 1039
Zaria
Tel: 234 (69) 322-021/2, 330-233; Fax: 234 (69) 334-756/869

I'm sorry. Why do you want to go to Japan to study. You have to learn Japanese for one year because the medium of instruction is Japanese. I dont think it will be a very good experience for you. Why dont u try Malaysia or HongKong.

You can find most of these texts at Obalende or Ikeja along Obafemi Awolowo road.

I'm sure u can get at a bookstore, at tejuosho or obalende

Try
- google scholar. I think scholar.google.com I use it a lot and it gives you stuff you dont get via google.com. try proper keywords e.g financial + institution + nigeria
- if u are in school, try your school's ejournals link or whatever, most schs have links to info sources on their library website. Some charitable schools dont require a password to use it.
- world bank website, they have lots of publications. you can search by country.

Hi,
I would like to visit Benin republic. Can anyone please give info on
1) how to get there from Lagos and average cost of transportation
2) how to change naira into francs
3) is it possible to go and come back in a day
4) what is there to see in Benin and which city is closest to Lagos

I am not going there to shop. I stay in the US, will be in Lagos and would just like to visit the place. Some of my friends from school went there for an internship last year and seemed to find it strange that I hadnt been there. You know, the way people regularly cross the border to mexico and canada or from france to Italy etc.
So I made up my mind to go there, sort of like a cultural experience.

Anyway, please reply if u can tell me how to get there. Thanks.

There is a good gym in Magodo. I just don't know the name. Magodo is an estate just after the former lagos toll gate. I'll try to find out the address.

Why be honest?
FAR BETTER TO BE RIGHT AND POOR THAN TO BE WRONG AND RICH. PROVERBS 16:8

After a week of special meetings, the guest preacher approached the airline desk to purchase a flight for home. Ticket in hand, he took a seat in the waiting area. Checking his credit card receipt, he realized the attendant had undercharged him almost fifty percent. 'It's wonderful how God provides,' he rationalized. The church hadn't paid him too well and the bills were piling up at home. For the next half hour he wrestled with himself, although, deep down he knew what he had to do. Finally he returned to the desk and said to the attendant, 'I think you made a mistake.' 'No,' she replied, 'you see, I was in church last night when you spoke on honesty, and I thought I'd put you to the test.'

Why be honest? Because people are watching. Your actions and attitudes, in even the smallest of details, are forming the opinions of people around you. There's a golden moment in the life of Samuel the prophet. It's his retirement. Standing before the nation he'd led for 40 years, he asks, ', Have I ever taken advantage of you or exploited you? Have I ever taken a bribe or played fast and loose with the law? Bring your complaint and I'll make it right. 'Oh no,' they said, 'never have you done any of that, ' (1 Samuel 12:3 TM). When those who've known you best for 4 decades can say that about you, you did it right. And that's as good as it gets!

you spelt "deficiency and writing" wrong in your heading
Maybe the solution is to always use spell check - that catches the typos and the non-typos.

Is Mountain of Fire (MFM) a praying fellowship or an endtime church?

What exactly is the question here? What's the meaning of a praying fellowship and what's the meaning of an endtime church? Sorry, the question is a bit pointless. My guess is you're just trying to stir up things.

out of 200 million plus nigerians!!!!!!!

Nobody is arguing that South Africa is developed and beautiful. It is, I know because I am in Johannesburg right now. Their xenophobia doesn't just extend to nigerians alone; common, you mean they see me on the street and automatically know i'm a nigerian.
Fact is that this country is a very tense one, and it's because of their history. For real, I really don't doubt the story (u can search on nairaland) that black SAs are planning to kill whites when Mandela dies. It is very possible with the way things are in this country.
Of course, it's also hard for them to identify with the rest of the african continent, because south africa is a very racially diverse place. Imagine sending some SA delegates(black, white or indian) to an AU meeting where the rest of the african continent is busy talking "black this, black that". It is this dynamics of things that make them kinda apart from the rest of black africa.
South Africa is very complex in ways that I can't even go into but , fact is - it is a very unfriendly place for foreigners living there.

Gosh, I read the piece with a feeling of deja vu. This is me coming to SA from the US to work for three months. It is so easy to tell a south african, they have this look on their face, this look of anger, resistance, aggression, you name it; something which was lacking in me.
I believe we Nigerians are lucky, even when the british were in nigeria, we were free not oppressed. We are so trusting and open and it shows in our face and in the way we greet.
So there I was in SA, having lived in the US where even where racism exists, it is veiled. Where I say hi to total strangers on the street, where I smile at the next person to me on the train, where strangers stop to pat another stranger's dog on the sidewalk. There I was in South Africa, saying hi to whites and blacks alike and being ignored.
The whites because you were in their territory and because the only blacks they interact with were their domestic servants and they are like "doesn't she know her place?". The blacks because they instinctively recognize by your sunny disposition and cheerfulness that you are not SAfrican and are like "you don't know what I have been through". Maybe some blacks do that in the US but I have never experienced it. instead I have a posse of black american friends who see you as a black sister not a black from Africa.
Anyway, the only great expeience I have had so far in SA is that I am working for this three months with a Canada based firm and most of the staff are canadian or american and the south african (3 whites, 2 blacks) have lost some of their bigotry through interaction with other people.
I stay in a guest house and the owners are white while the domestics are of course black. The white woman goes like "the people (insinuating blacks of course) are unfriendly, don't you think?" I'm like "no, the whites never reply if u greet them but the blacks reply if they think you are Safrican".

And the crime stories, they are so true. I read in the paper (SA not CNN) things like
- police are still looking for the rapists of an infant (they believe sleeping with a virgin cures aid)
- two people were thrown off a fast moving train this morning after being robbed
etc. The Tsosti movie didnt do any better in calming my fears either.
My conclusion is SOUTH AFRICA IS A VERY XENOPHOBIC COUNTRY!

The law has changed in Canada, intl students can now work off campus.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/press/03/0346-pre.html

Working off campus
The Off-Campus Work Permit Program allows foreign students at publicly-funded post-secondary educational institutions to work off campus while completing their studies.

Publicly-funded post-secondary educational institutions are:

public post-secondary institutions that have signed an off-campus work agreement with their provincial or territorial government; or
private post-secondary institutions that operate under the same rules and regulations as public institutions, receive at least 50 percent of their financing for their overall operations from government grants, and have signed an off campus work agreement with their provincial or territorial government (currently, only private college-level educational institutions in Quebec qualify).
Off-campus work is available for students studying at such institutions in provinces or territories that have signed agreements with CIC. Check the list of participating institutions. Participating institutions are eligible institutions that have signed an agreement for the Off-Campus Work Permit Program with their provincial or territorial government. (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-opps.html#offcampus)

common kokscity, even nigerians who were born in the US have nigerian passports. the most successful imigrants in the US where those who, yes, were glad to be US citizens but could anytime identify with their origins.
whats with the "should i burn it or whatever". pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
"amoye new US citizens ni alagbon" (singing)