₦airaland Forum

spookie: Hello nairalanders.The information made on this forum as really been helpful.I will be in California in August to commence an MBA programme.my school is in Orange county ,fullerton.I want to find how life is like there for international students,especially Nigerians.what kind of job should I look for on campus?.finally,I have been able to make part deposit of 5500 dollars of my tuition.the total tuition is 22,000.will I be able to work part time to pay the balance of my tuition?.holla back @ your boy!

iluvnaija: [b]I pray she doesnt get the world bank job [/b]because this will mean more looting from her associates. Do you think this woman can oppose PDP top men looting our treasury?

cophild: @ impe baba i feel u...I knw I cant work with the SSN but let ur guys feel U in on the SSN if U got any of dem in d U.S and u ll realise how important it is...Try roll with the right crowd bro and dont dull in Yankee o... D use of a SSN is enormous...Open ur eyes bro...Cheers

dannywest01:
@dr.slip and the house, thank you very much for the advice, Please i want to apply for the fall semester, can you please give me list of universities who doesnt require SAT/TOEFL for admission, i dont mind the state, Thank you very much.

phy:
Let your brother request for expedited interview if dates before his resumption aren't available.

Kobojunkie:
@Poster, Long list! The list should comprise of all those who sold their votes for shi-shi kobo, and those who blindly voted along ethnical and sentimental lines to maintain the status quo, since 1999.

BizBooks:
It is not enough to say the prices I quoted are outrageous. You should have given your own estimate of what it costs to replace an airbag[b]. Remember, the $1000 estimate I gave is per airbag. So if the driver and passenger airbags deployed, you are looking at around $2000 to replace both.[/b]

An airbag is not something a roadside mechanic can replace. It requires a highly trained technician. A friend of mine was recently given a $2000 estimate to replace the airbag for a 2006 Infiniti FX35.

The larger point I'm trying to make is this: when an insurance company declares a car as salvage, they usually have very good reasons for doing so. So there is nothing like a minor salvage.

BizBooks:
The longer I stay on Nairaland, the clearer it becomes that a lot of Nigerians do not realize what they are getting when they buy a tokunbo car from an un-reputable dealer. We have talked at length about rampant odometer roll backs and other shady activities. Today, I will like to talk about non-working air bags.

It is a well known fact that a majority of tokunbo cars brought into Nigeria are salvage or “accidented cars”. Since air bags are designed to deploy even in minor accidents, we can safely assume that all those “accidented” cars brought into Nigeria had deployed air bags at the time of accident. The question now is this: do the shippers of “accidented” cars repair the air bags before selling them to un-suspecting buyers? The short answer is “No” in most cases. As I said earlier, I thought everybody knew this. But since that appears not to be the case, let me explain further.

It is very expensive to repair a deployed air bag[b]. It can cost anywhere from $1000 to $1500 depending on the model of your car (luxury cars cost much more)[/b]. Since dealers of salvage cars are extremely profit-conscious, you can see why it is not in their interest to fix the air bags despite it’s crucial importance to the safety and well-being of the driver. They will rather repair the cosmetic damages only. Air bags by their very nature are hardly re-usable as they work just once. During deployment, a lot of chemical processes take place. So it requires a trained technician to re-activate the chemical processes and inflation mechanism.

Usually when an air bag is defective for one reason or the other, the air bag light stays on. If you are wondering why the salvage tokunbo cars you see in Nigeria do not have their air bag lights on, the answer is simple: they are manually turned off by the dealers so buyers will not know. In the US, it is illegal to turn off an air bag light and no reputable mechanic will do so for fear of losing his license. But in Nigeria, anything goes.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to tell whether your air bag is working or not. To be on the safe side, assume it is not and drive accordingly. Don’t drive at high speeds hoping that your air bag will save you in an accident, it may not, even if you believe your car is not a salvage. If you have been involved in an accident at speeds as low as 30 mp/h (around 50 km/h) and your air bag did not deploy, have it checked. It may not be working in the first place.

References:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag
2. http://www.carsdirect.com/car-safety/airbag-repair-costs-prices-for-common-problems

strict:
pls everyone, i am the luckiest, my story start like this, i got my visa approved on the 12th of jan which was my appointment date and it was a day before the deadline on my i-20, now i managed to get to the us feb 10 but my visa was issue 18th of january,

the big problem now is i want to defer my course till may which means i will fall out of status, so i can work illegally cos i have a cousin that can give me his pali to work, abeg i dey open here, now that i am here, can u tell me what do do in terms of re-instatement, my school is a community college in texas and cheap tho i just need advice help. since i am already here, i want to study but i came from a very poor family,

ak47mann:
Black American should be thanking Africans for giving them the first black president,if not the Kenya student by now they will still be slaves in America,

phreakabit:
THANK GOODNESS!!!!! Why go for Black? I thought NIGGER would have fitted seamlessly. Just in case you haven't noticed, these black americans are the ones giving "Africans (in reference to dark skinned people in general)" a bad name.

They are naturally LAZY ! Laziness is embedded in their DNA

Dirty!

Mannerless!

And would rather die than read a book.

All they ever do is sit at home, wait for the welfare cheques, eat fried chicken, drink Kool-Aid, watch some hip-hop video / p0rn, come up with some silly dance routine, play video games, talk about girls of different races and which one has the biggest azz, pick up their gun - which btw is a must have for every NIGGER, go out and shoot someone A "black" man preferably, return home sleep. . . . . and then repeat the cycle the next day. Little reason they are the poorest race in the USA today, despite the endless opportunities available there. Yes the job opportunities are not as much as it used to be, but tell me how are the Latinos, Asians, Indians and Pakistanis finding/getting jobs.

shymmex:
The guy was a BUSINESS MAN, period

I don't even know claim he was great man, or that he added anything special to humanity

He was a shrewd business man, and APPLE equipments are freaking to expensive for the services they render

Take away the glamour from APPLE PRODUCTS, and you will see MICROSOFT is way ahead of apple,

He's dead now, let's move on

Steve Jobs ain't no Gandhi, MLK, John Lenon, Nelson Mandela or Malcolm X

He's not different from other shrewd billionaires out there

imperiouxx:
@djunit1,

The general statistics part of your statement were all Pure Bullshiit. Does living expenses and school fee same from state to state that one can't survive with GA? I got my GA position right from Nigeria since last year June and I have already knew how the allowance will go since then. Out of the allowance, 70% goes for dorms of which food plan is included, 30% goes for my school fee, though this doesn't completely solve my school fee because I have few of it to pay, I don't need ride to class because I only need to walk less than 3 mins to class. Therefore, getting GA in affordable schools and states can solve most school fee problems. I just walked to the student account office and told them I want my allowance going towards my tuition and I was told I'm good and clearance was placed on my student ID card. So ask me, if I have paid all my school fee. ADEBYTE, explanation is proven right in this country. This is US, many Americans don't buy cloths for fashion like in Nigeria, most times they get cloths good enough to shield the cold wind. Ask most of them to remove those jackets/hoodies, all you see is T-Shirt not even polo shirt, how much is T-Shirts in Nigeria?

AjanleKoko:
Well . . . it is a tough one. what she is doing is illegal, and the repercussions I think would be more for her, than for your child. If she's found out, it could be classified as a tax fraud, which people sometimes go to jail for, or pay a fine. I think you should just state your objections and concerns. It's never good to do anything illegal.

ceah:
Kobo, are you teling me that you believe this story. The real SNG has never for ones disown Bakare, those 2 guys possibly have their own SNG, anything that is not on The SNG Facebook page are basically lies, these are plots by The likes of beaf to have a situation of "Napoleon is always right" and "all Animals are equal but some are more equal than others", The real SNG is going back to Freedom Square, Gani park at ojota this Saturday for Victory Rally and it's still being convene by Bakare, Those 2 guys mentioned are probably just some embittered members that fall out of The Group,


Beaf escaped from Yaba, we will get him soon and take him back,

Kobojunkie:
Well, that is SNG problem now, not yours. You coming here to claim that he has no right to say what he said is what I am opposing. SNG is well known for backing out when the seat gets hot. The man made all these statements so many days ago, but they waited so many days later to distance themselves? Come on!!! I know you have a brain on you there.

Also, let SNG iron it out with him as always. I mean the group, honestly . . . it's like trying to get in between two lovers really . . . they have dropped him so many times and every single time they keep taking him back, only to turn around and complain again when he does exactly what he is known to do. ROFLMAO!!

Back to the issue questions. Where were you all when this same man called for impeachment of Yar adua and helped install Jonathan, even against the Constitution? Were you asking this same question back then? Cause the whole nation heard him call out numerous times for impeachment of the president. And he shouted all that from the SNG podium back then too. So, what the frell are you on about?

Kobojunkie:
^^Who does he need permission from to request that the regime be removed? I mean I am shocked that someone whose location says Los Angeles even makes such a declaration? Where you not here to see the many thousands match for the impeachment of Bush only some years ago? Who gave them the permission to do that? Wasn't it there right to free speech and all? 


Jeezzz  . . .

pcicero:
Hmmmmm, why are they just coming out? My guess is they have succeeded in breaking their ranks. With the way this guys wrote this letter, 'e be like say water don enter mouth.'
Where were this 'authentic members' when Bakare was the rallying point of their group? I guess Yinka Odumakin too is no
longer a member of the SNG? I am a fan of the SNG's official Facebook page. So, why were Bakare's comments and positions during the strike being posted on the website of a group that he doesn't belong to? Smh

Less than a week after the strike over removal of oil subsidy, the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), one of the civil society organizations that partnered with labour to fight the Federal Government may be heading for crisis.

The group yesterday dissociated itself from its Convener, Pastor Tunde Bakare, saying that the cleric’s views during the weeklong strike were his and not that of the SNG.
In a statement by its National Coordinator, Benedict Ezeagu and Public Relations Officer, Olabode Francis, the group regretted rumour in the media and government circle that SNG called for ‘regime change’ during protests against hike in fuel prices.

The group said it respects the rights of Bakare to express his political views within the ambit of the law but that whatever views he (Bakare) may had expressed on the fuel price hike controversy were his and had nothing to do with the SNG.

“Pastor Bakare was suspended as a member of SNG in June, 2010 when he tried to railroad the organization into partisan politics without the consent of its founding members and has not been re-admitted since then.
“So, it is very wrong and a disservice to SNG for the government, the media or any member of the public to insinuate or hold that the views of Pastor Tunde Bakare who is an opposition politician, a card-carrying/active member of CPC and the running mate to its presidential candidate are those of SNG,” it said.

It recalled that SNG and Lawyers of Conscience as harbingers and defenders of democracy led Nigerians to the streets in January 2010 to enforce constitutionalism by successfully demanding for the swearing-in of President Goodluck Jonathan as the acting president of Nigeria during the crisis that followed the late President Umaru Yar’Adua’s sickness. The group also noted that while condemning the unwarranted harassment and murder of innocent Nigerians by Boko Haram and overzealous security agents during the anti-fuel hike protests, SNG re-affirms its solidarity with the people and their fundamental human rights.

“The SNG also laments the increasing deployment of religious bigotry, ethnic prejudices and partisan sentiments as instruments for resolving the National Question and therefore warns that such actions represent nothing but an invitation to and recipe for fratricidal war in the country, which is an ill-wind that blows no one any good. It is a threat to the corperate existence of the country, and a disservice to Africa and the impoverished Nigerians who may eventually be murdered if this brewing national turmoil is not immediately nipped in the bud,” the group said