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Ubah1:
Cos am not the only one experiencing this issue. Go to the site, you will encounter same if you have been denied within the last 6 months

My friend was denied in January, and he has choosen date already

TWoods:
Let me just leave this here... if you’ve noticed, most serious students with good gpas andvwho end up in tier 1-2 schools have zero time for the disgusting bitter bile often spewed here. I understand... much of it is largely coming from folks who aren’t as good, have limited opportunities and are frankly frustrated.

First lesson you will learn, your lot in life is NOT the responsibility of anyone else but you.

Second lesson - bitterness gets you no where.

Third lesson - there is no substitute for hard work.

Fourth lesson - you are not special. You won’t go anywhere fast in life if you can’t handle criticism.

Fifth lesson - your “spirituality” is quite silly. the idea that you can curse someone from your cyber cafe in a dingy Lagos street and think it has any effect is an illustration of why you are where you are today...

Now curse away!

What is this one saying?

Its 18 days now that I wrote toefl @Jkk house ,Ilupeju Lagos, No result till now, what could be happening? Anyone here that wrote toefl there around same time?

TWoods:
The result of your next interview is likely going to be the same. The number 1 criteria to obtaining a non immigrant visa is that you demonstrate that you have ties that compel you to return to your home country. It’s harder for you to demonstrate that since you live and work in a foreign country. You’ve already shown a preference to emigrate.

Are you a citizen of Kuwait?

Welcome Twood, its been a while, I missed you sir #Respect

One of the dangerous things that can happen to man is for a cerebral and active mind to be limited in exposure or restricted to his local hamlet in Nigeria. A widely-travelled dunce will possess a more productive mind than such person

Truth is that some of us living in Nigeria have devised different techniques to maintain our sanity. It is a hard job to remain focused to the pursuit of personal goals in the midst of chaos. Getting worried daily over issues that one has no control is energy draining. I think the best one can do is to keep on enlightening the electorates (few reasonable ones) about their power at the next polls.

Do you know that Nigerian newspapers now dedicate two pages daily for crimes and vices in our society? They hardly promote innovation, intellectualism or ingenuity among the youths.

theamerican:
Watching Nigerian movies will make her realize Nigeria is better than what is projected on here? I beg to differ! On the contrary, it's going to show that what we say here is spot on and they still have a long way to go. Nollywood is a joke lmao.

You're right, @Mobilia. No matter what the plot is, you'll always see traces of worshipping money/the rich, looking down on the poor, equating happiness with riches, early marriages, women having to serve men, a woman's life is worthless if she doesn't have a husband, homophobia, any religion that's not Christianity or in some cases Islam is frowned upon, and everything is solved when the pastor intervenes. Your husband is drinking, cheating, womanizing? Just wait, the pastor will soon come and cast out the demon causing it. The list goes on.

Best way to learn about Nigeria will depend on what you really wanna know. You can talk to Nigerians who migrate, you can also talk to people who can speak without letting their emotions/patroitism cloud their good judgment. That's the only way you can learn. Also, remember you'll get a different treatment as a foreigner and may not get the real deal as to what the average Nigerian faces.

Don't get me wrong, Nigeria is still an interesting country. There's still a lot to catch your attention and so much to enjoy (depending on what you want). I lived over 3/4 of my life there yet I still learn about the country daily.

@theAmerican, you probably don't accept email, please do this for me , I sent you pm already

theamerican:
I'm proud of your preparation so far. You strike me as a guy who has taken time to really think about things to say and you made sense. Your interview is getting near so I believe you must be even better than when you posted this.

Additional advice: the "why this school?" part seems long. There's a big chance the VO would cut you short or lose interest midway, so... break it into sentences and start with the best 2 sentences that present the strongest case for you. Try to avoid vague answers too, deal with specifics.

Another thing, the part about what the Masters degree would do for you. Again, good job. Try to speak in money terms. Something like "The median salary for BSc. Econs grads in Lagos/Abuja is 200k per month. While that for Master's degree holders is 450k... a degree from a U.S. University will also look good on my CV which will mean more interviews for me...", don't you think? Also, more emphasis on particular skills you hope to transfer from your time in Kansas to the country.

I feel like you're a good student and with more preparation, you'll do well. I wish you all the best.

The best transcript review/analysis I have read in the recent time. I sent you email, please kindly accept

kodeya:
Good day folks.

I had my B.Tech in Chemistry and I want to apply for an MBA in VIU this fall.

I'm making arrangements of the necessary documents since the school has requested ALL documents be uploaded on my portal.

There is a problem though. I need to submit two recommendation letters alongside my application and from what i gathered, since it wont be sent tl the school by email, the letter better be in a letterhead.

I intend asking my project supervisor to write one on my behalf whilst I Need your help for the other one.

I would appreciate any suggestions.

If your VIU is virginia intl university, I'll advise you don't waste your money

[quote author=theamerican post=67570687.

Nigerian professors feel like gods. You can't even make a mistake. A professor will open mouth and say "Nobody can get anything more than a C in my course" and the sadist will ensure it happens. Once a Nigerian prof says "see me in my office", you know you're doomed. I fear for my baby sister right now who's in Nigeria and I can't even imagine what she's going through in school.

No missing scripts, strikes, unexplained failures, poor living conditions, hopeless curriculum, terrible laboratories, pervert professors, ogbanje classmates... the list is endless. Learning is fun here, you have all the resources available to you if you ever wanna study and succeed. At the end of a semester, students are asked to evaluate professors and give comments on how they can improve. A professor who can't help students get better isn't fit to have the job.

Smh.[/quote]I don't want to quote all, My dear "the American", your article will provoke thoughts in an any man with reasonable IQ, lemme add that here in naija, Somebody will give a lecture for 3hrs and all you wll be hearing is,
"The incidence in the US...."
"The approved FDA use is for the treatment of ...."
"In South East Asia, incidences have been...."
"In resistant strains in Brazil, epidemiological studies show that. .."
And this person is a university professor in Nigeria teaching in Nigeria for over 30yrs o! No local statistics, no local research findings, no records of even the basics... and to think they've been publishing papers, sending students on grueling project works, seminars and what not since forever. It goes to show that if one takes a record of all the so called theses, project works, seminar materials piled up in our universities one might come out with nothing but a collection of wasted trees, gum, threads, time and money. Every year these university dons force poor students from poor homes to buy rats, rabbits and other expensive materials for experiments with no bearing on solving the real time problems of locals, yet they take huge pays and go on strikes and frustrate hardworking kids with missing scripts, altered grades while their own kids get great education in the UK, Canada, Ukraine, Ghana, the Caribbean...

The mess that Nigeria is, when put in perspective should make any sane person sick. If the university is the hope of tech advancement for any people, then we can as well move back to Kenya's Rift Valley because we are still in some backward age. Our universities are no better than poultry farms. We all know this. The hostels are like prison yards and the students themselves live like rats. The class rooms? The labs? Yet we pretend we are doing great, we pretend we are making progress, or we will make progress. Who will tell us the truth? Who will tell us we have been treating symptoms instead of the real deal? Who will tell us that all naija presidents always come with gragra that won't do more than commission one train everybody will ah and oh about foolishly in an age where folks have long phased out such scraps? Who will tell us the truth that here, NOBODY in any position of responsibility thinks?

Ezedan1:
Good day pals,
I want to apply for a school in France or Spain but I need advice for the cheap schools which I can apply.
Pls let's share info together because I need to apply to the school soonest.
Thanks for your understanding.

Message me on shollykay2014@yahoo.com

As narrated to by a friend, he is a naturalized uk citizen

POWER CUT IN UK

When I moan, kick and curse, it’s because I believe we deserve better in Nigeria. We are not beneath oyinbo; they don’t have special brain � or more human than us. They are just better organised, serious, and love their country.

I woke up today at about 7.45am to discover that ‘NEPA’ had taken power. I checked everywhere, then the meter. The meter’s panel was blank. I knew it must be something serious. I was not sure if the neighbours had power.

Since there was no power, no WIFI. But I have mobile data on my phone. So I googled ‘Power Cut.’ I saw something about the U.K. power network. It says call 150 if there’s power cut. I did. The pleasant customer service apologised and checked their system after I gave her post code. She explained that it’s the second phone call from my area. She apologised again and told me engineers will be around the area around 8.30am. I gave my phone number and she promised to update me as progress is made.

Few minutes to 9, I got texts that the fault is from a substation and they are working at it. They promise to restore power by 10-11am.

11am, there was a knock on my door. “Sir, it’s a major fault, we don’t know if we would be able to finish today, though we are working had at it. It’s an underground cable problem; we need to dig the roads.”

“But, we shall be connecting you to a generator so you can have power while we sort out the problem.”

I didn’t bribe NEPA. They apologised profusely for invading my privacy and having to pass generator cables through my letter hole.

Am I impressed? Well, not really. I have lived here long enough to be conditioned to expect things like this.

It is all about conditioning. If you are conditioned in a shithole, your expectation is shithole. You become a mediocre. You hail idiots for giving you 3 hours power every other day. It’s not your fault. You are a product of crap �, your expectation is crap.

I was once like you. Ignore all the boasting. Before I saw a different way of life, I thought shithole is sweeter than strawberry �.��

My guy, when we tell you to raise your expectations, we are not mocking you. It’s because we also want you to experience living life. Your life in a shithole is not the best. We can make Nigeria better for all of us. We only need to crush the rogues and stop hailing them. They are your enemies. The hardship we face is down to every single one of them.

It’s 9.02pm, it has been raining all day and the engineers in front of my house are still working to fix my power. They worked in the rain all through.

And I’m still enjoying free power from their generator. ��

I am not even a Senator. I’m just a bloody Babaloja from Wakanda.

But every single citizen/resident, from the lowest to the highest enjoy the same privilege.

This is what I hope for in Nigeria. And we must work and fight for it.

It’s a war between us and those filthy supporters of crooks and rogues. We must crush them.

theamerican:
When did I ask anyone to tear their passports? I see you missed the point of the whole thread. All you picked is "someone is attacking Nigeria and asking us to tear our passports", may God bless your heart.

No need replying messages like this

SBG04:
By their fruits.....another Fayose supporter!
I'm sure you typed this post while queuing up to collect your daily N100 and akara from Fayose and Lere.

Brains aren't everything. In your case they're nothing. You are proof that evolution CAN go in reverse.

Quoran:
Well, people decide whether to share their transcript or not. So, if that is your basis for judgement, it may not paint the true picture.Besides,I think it is still early in the visa application season.

Read again sir, I am not judging, it's just an observation

blazer2018:
I don't know where you live or work but i beg to differ...He's not among the first four...He may be the most loved governor by the masses, but his achievements, both at his 1st coming and now is absolutely nothing when you compare it with Ambode's, Amosun's, Ajimobi's and Rauf's.

Ajimobi and rauf that grounded lautech to ground, what was their state positions in Waec and neco? Go and check aregbesola debt position and compare to his ekiti counterpart,

Who else noticed that approval transcripts aren't much as witnessed this time last year? Abi na only me dey reason am?

SBG04:
No my very intelligent madam, Dino doesn't enjoy any immunity. That's why he's in police custody now. Saraki's case at the CCT is still ongoing. He too doesn't enjoy any immunity.
Now i have a clear understanding of the kind of people that support Fayose thanks to you. You have opened my eyes. Thanks alot!

Ogbeni shut the Bleep up, are you an island?

Kemisolabadmus:
Immunity so Dino does not have immunity,Saraki nko am hundred percent sure that fayose his clean if efcc could not hold fayemi responsible for the embezzlement of fund is it fayose is going nowhere

Deola, Dino has no immunity covering him , only Governor , deputy ,President and Vp have, that said, ranking South west Governors in term of performance, Fayose would be among 1-3, only fools will argue this!!

Kemisolabadmus:
Shut up how many times have Ekiti people lined up in your presence to collect 100naira your nose like generator plug when other governors are busy distributing frying pan una no talk ooo is it a crime for a state governor to give rice to his people during festive period, I don't know your problem but I really want to know am not in any party but obviously fayose is far better than fayemi and Segun oni joined together, go to the news fayemi debt up till today all the bail out cannot even pay the debt, fayose came out analyze everything paper never forgets read thoroughly before you say trash

I lives in Ekiti, Fayose is an icon loved by many, let them continue to deceive themselves

peacengine:
My guy, insanity is when you keep holding unto past and making them your present problems. If light will make you call a country failed state then o boy that's your problem, my own is different. If you think we are a failed state then present something substantial to me like evidence of economic failure, uncontrallable rise in inflation, drastic fall in GDP, all round war and non functional federal govt parastatals. Present evidence of all round famine, disaster in IT, total breakdown of communication facilities (no more gsm), and so on. Our country lacks adequate supply of electricity is a fact but are you free to provide yours? Yes. Road infrastructure is not totally a write off, at least I travelled through the East by road recently and I saw good network all the way to Ogoja(ongoing in Ogoja), through Enugu. Much still needs to be done but average rating can be given.
Guy migrate Sir, myself I de find way to trade business with Nigerians abroad as I'm looking into farming. Go in peace sir

You even mention road!!!
Mediocrity seems to be eating deep into you

Are you aware of the recent shameful altercation between Lalung and Dalong, Governor and Minister of Sports respectively, both from Plateau State. Visiting the state, President Buhari had “commissioned” a bridge which, according to the minister, was built by Goodluck Jonathan. Unaware Buhari had been misled to that appropriation by the governor, says Dalung.

Look here bro, A bridge, in other words, a road. Roads are nothing, except in insane, pathetic nations. Roads occupy the bottom of civilization, achieved without a puff by the ancestors of serious nations. Animals build roads, little roads that serve their own mobility and economic designs—without fanfare of course. Roads! Nobody “commissions” roads anywhere among decent nations in 2018. At nearly 60 years of self-governance, sensible leadership would ordinarily build roads quietly and with utmost modesty, in order not to alert the world that we are still trying to cut tarred paths on the ground—not subways, not automated bridges. Sensible leadership, that is.

And look at that vain, empty coinage—“commission”. Grand, noisy, foolish. Grammatically wrong, it was looted from decent vocabulary to serve the vanity of Nigerian pompous officialdom. “Commission” has nothing to do with roads.

In 2018, two Nigerian leaders are fighting on top of shit. 100 years from now, we will still be building roads because, a year from now, that contested road will have gone bad while a thousand others are yet awaiting their turns at construction. 100 years from now, we will still be putting colourful tapes around “Round-Abouts”, clicking cameras to capture the pathetic smiles of dystopian leadership. 100 years from now, someone will call our children “Shithole” dwellers—and they will kick!

Meanwhile , look at this new beautiful highway constructed by a local government in Hubei Province , which opened to traffic on Sunday, is being hailed online as one of the most beautiful road in China. Around 4.4 kilometers of the 10.9-kilometer-long Guzhao Highway is built over water.

The local government spent nearly 440 million yuan (around 70 million US dollars) to build the highway, to connect remote villages with the outside world without damaging the natural environment,

When will this happen here?

peacengine:
Bro, writing long statement without any proper link to researched facts and analized data makes you seem like an illiterate. No one should argue based on feelings, put references to support your statements otherwise it seems like you are just a bitter nigger

If you need researched fact to confirm the hell you see in Nigeria everyday, then it seems your sense don't serve you right!

If you lives in Nija and still need an analyzed data to confirm there's absolutely nothing developing about Nigeria , then you need a serious help

Who lives here, watch bbc, Cnn ,aljazeera and still need link to confirm Nigeria is a hugely underdeveloped country?

'Developing' is simply a pleasant term made to make some zombies comfortable and agree that the country is moving forward while the reverse is the case

However, Nothing to add, except this article, which may lay your hope in Nigeria to rest.

CAUTION; read at your peril!!!!

https://www.thecable.ng/memories-midnight

justwise:
This is a typical case of misuse of information, these people are not renouncing their American citizenship because of hardship or insecurity, this is purely business decisions made by wealthy people and you are carelessly dropping it here.

It should be a crime to compare Nigeria to any developed country

@justwise, tell them again, That political correctness that lies to stagnating countries, calling them ‘developing countries’ when in truth they are stagnant and in some cases even retrogressing is just disingenuous. So Haiti is a developing country alongside The Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan? What is Brazil, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Thailand, Argentina, India, Egypt… if these sores of the earth are developing countries?

Folks, Tell yourselves the truth Nigerians and shame the Devil; a country whose health system is so none-existent that for 40yrs its leaders have gladly and continuously sought health solutions overseas cannot be said to be developing. A country is not developing because its citizens drive more cars or own bigger structures in its major cities or fly enough private jets to shame the Kenyans. A country that made and still makes trillions of naira not by any tasking revenue drives nor through sci-tech advancement but by hiring foreigners to dig up its oil, ship overseas for refining and import as finished products, and still cannot generate enough electricity for more than 5hrs/day for half of its population cannot claim to be developing, especially when you consider how long the charade of trying to generate electricity has taken.

A country that cannot supply drinking water to homes, clear domestic refuse from its cities; condemns its mentally challenged to roam its streets; flies presidents upon presidents, governors and senators overseas to treat knee issues (IBB), ear infections (Buhari), a mismanaged case of malaria!( Yar’adua) and miscellaneous trivia health issues and has a minister boldly announce how it will be making pencils in 4years would have been declared a failed nation had Somalia not refused to concede a few points. But when you take into consideration the resources at the disposal of Nigeria you just shove off the irredeemably recalcitrant, usurping Somalians.

Again, when you consider how most Nigerians are blissfully oblivious of the shame of having their president luxuriate in the UK for some undisclosed ailment while their country continuously allocates millions of dollars to a no-existent healthcare system; when you consider how the citizens keep mute over this grievous violation of their dignity and humanity; when you come to know that there are even citizens who don’t find this shameful and worthy of a call for impeachment, citizens who tongue-lash fellow compatriots for asking cogent questions about these bewildering oddities, you come to the realization that you are dealing with a country of failed citizens.

That Nigeria itself is not yet declared a failed state is partly because its reprobate buccaneers still want everything held together so they can continue using the pretense at nationhood to get richer and more influential. When they are rich enough, when the oil dries up, then Somalia will abdicate and Nigeria shall take its rightful place. Until then, let’s continue to play the ostrich, let’s continue to execute the injunctions of misinformed pastors when they ask us to “pray for our dear county, Nigeria”, let’s continue to wallow in the deceptive beauty of that tag, “developing nation”. But while at it, let those who seek to really move things beyond the lies and fallacies ask themselves again; what exactly qualifies a country as developing?- and afterwards proceed to study Brazil while reading Niyi Osundare’s Here Nothing Works to the accompaniment of Lagbaja’s 180million Mumus. When I get my visa pere!!! O-dabo in Aregbes voice

Hi famz, eshipglobal accept only wire transfer and pay pal for the shipment of form I20, they don't accept debit card, can anyone help with the payment?

My curiosity about the poster led me here, i am not disappointed, God bless you ma

jolowizzy11:
congrats .. I'm happy for you . my i-20 has arrived I need you guys to gimme some tips cause my interview is knocking @ the door......tanks

Do you have any scholarship?

jangal:
Thanks for the reply. is it the same as this https://hotels.ng/hotel/87529-new-world-inn-lagos ?

No, its around the NIPOST tower (beside overhead bridge) in Obalende

jangal:
Does anyone know of an affordable hotel that is not far to the us embassy in Lagos?

New world hotel @obalende

theamerican:
It's too late to take standardized tests if your interview is fast approaching. Did you take any standardized tests? Simple answer: NO. You won't be denied or approved SOLELY because you didn't or did take a standardized test. Don't let that bother you too much at this stage.

Don't let what you don't have or what you can't change weigh you down, let what you have cheer you up. Keep preparing and you'll be fine.

God knows I am in love with you, I particularly love the the way you usually articulate opinion and encourage people here, God bless you and many others doing same

theamerican:
This is exactly the mindset I criticized with my post. Saying you "disagree with the bolded" simply means you're saying having a creative arts/insurance background means you're sure to fail in the U.S if you don't change to Engineering, IT or Medicine. I will NEVER accept that. Changing to those things guarantee absolutely NOTHING! Again, not thinking outside the box is the reason people fail.

I'll simply remind you that at the time of VISA applications/interviews, everyone tells the VO they ONLY wanna go study and go back to their country. All the ideas about OPT/H1B visa etc plans after school (if we're strictly going by the book) ARE ILLEGAL. I'm sure you know that having/hiding an immigrant intent during a NON-IMMIGRANT visa application is illegal and that's already a reasonable ground for denial.

If you don't believe me, someone here should go for a visa interview and when asked why they chose the program/school, they should say: "because it's a STEM program, after graduation, good companies will hire me and I stand a better chance of getting H1B visa".

My point: people who sit on the moral high ground with the same IMMIGRANT INTENT, should not come here discouraging a section of people who wouldn't do things their way and encouraging anothers. There are other ways to become an immigrant and have a life in the U.S., it's not just for programmers/nurses/engineers and that's why I always say leave people to think outside the box and have a plan with their life.

Let's be consistent! If we wanna advise people to come here to study, let's do JUST that! Encourage them to study and go back to where they're coming from. If we wanna start advising people on how to achieve their American dreams (whatever the dreams are), let's level the playing field.

The American dream is NOT only for students on scholarship, first class graduates, engineering/IT/Medical majors. Anyone in life can be successful in anything they set their hearts on with good planning and a bit of luck.

1,000 likes fall on you ma

femi312:
In as much as I don't support the way he answers some questions because I believe there are better ways to pass the message accross. However, you guys are doing exactly what you are accusing him of. Calling someone 'ode' or 'boy' or 'waiter' is not rude to you? Because Nairaland is a faceless forum does not mean everyone here is a kid or fresh out of undergrad. Just to give you a perspective of who he is..this person you called waiter works in one of the largest oil company in the world. Him telling you to tell your friend to ask the question is not a big deal here. I don't think its hard to ignore some comments that are not telling you what you want to hear. Never burn bridges on your way up, you never know if you will need he/she's help later in life, nairaland is not that faceless. Never met or spoken to him in my life but if I see him in life, I can recognize him. Moving forward, try to practice what you preach, just ignore and get it going

Even if he works with Heaven Petroleum Plc, who cares !!, all we request is a little sense of respect for co-members , When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.