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FL Gators:
mo n so fun e pe ko "w/e". . . . o fe lo fail idanwo nitori pe awon Igbo ati Yoruba n fe ara won. Ki lo n se e?

No chic2pimp is Yoruba to me, he's my younger brother as far as I'm concerned

Ahh mo ti gbo.

@SEFAGO
W/e dude, w/e

Ki lon so?

chic2pimp is not yoruba is part of the love-vendor tribe. Dont insult him

FL Gators:
It is, it really is. Oya start wahala, make I get my popcorn and enjoy.
Or you can start studying for your finals, loser

LOL, U underestimate me. I scattered all my midterms so even if I fail my finals I will still get all As you should go and study.

I will start trouble, but I need a catalyst (fellow trouble starter). I cannot find some of the usual suspects like mekusxxx, aloy_emeka and sjeezy.

006:
Warning!
Inter tribal marriage is dangerous.
Think before you jump into it.

Really??

hahah . . . just playing with y'all, I dont think much is going to happen- NL is now boring though sadly haha

I would dodge them like Neo in The Matrix.

FL Gators:
You don reach here abi?

yeah I have- when I read the topic I vex.  . Also beaf and the Amaka always perpetuate ignorance a lot. I think some correcting is in order my fair lady.

This is very disturbing news . . .

THE AMAKA:
i didnt say it signified that but im saying you act like having a big nose is so wrong.
and thats the same thing the slaves owners aka white trash used against us as a way to make fun and degrade us.
nothing is wrong with his nose, if its big, SO WHAT!

hmm never knew big nose was a stereotype for black people . . . I thougt it was more for those people who dominated high finance and law lol

The guy has a wide nose is what both beaf & the Amaka NL illiterates are trying to get across

I have to admit he does have a wide nose but thats a typical African feature.

FL Gators:
@chikwezudinmaogo

If you no like am, I fit stop for you.
When did he grow an extra 3inch?

Thats my morning height.

Not like you have a reason to be, what, with your pot-belly and 4'11 self?
LOL don't insult me, I get my partying on. . .can't say the same for you.

Hmm . . . I dont go out much- I cannot do those keg stands, and alcohol abuse when I am slightly under 5 ft

FL Gators:
Me too, dont worry already got a lease. 2 more weeks in this freaky dorm shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Dude, shut up and stop talking like your rich, ajepako looking sef Pesin go see you, dem go ask if you just ran thru a lion;s cage

The clicky noise was soooo middle school. Those retards still asks that?

Haha yeah they do. Gotta love them. I never deny anything. See no reason why. They also complain that Nigerian music is not as African as they want- they expect something straight out of lion king. I agree a bit though

chiogo:
LOL clicky noise, this girl in high school used to do that thing so well, she's Trini. I can't even do that thing. So funny when she did it.  
All in your head.

I missed your conceited a/s/s sha. You praising yourself just made my night. Oloshi  

LOl, I am not really conceited though- I just come off that way. I hope you are doing well and studying sha. And of course partying hard (not likely)

FL Gators:
They're both white. 3 of us in one crappy room, imagine.

Are you serious? Well, when we have the likes of Nollywood industry encouraging crappy English, what do you expect them to think? If your rommy is [b]rich [/b]and sexy, put in a good work or two for me

HA u live in a triple lol. Pele dear, lots of girl on girl action, I wish I was there . I hope u are surviving sha. There is a limit to how much I can live with people since I am very independent. I live in an apartment- the last time I lived in a dorm was 3 years ago. My roommate is not rich ooh, infact he is a change from the pervasive preppy culture surrounding me.  

Yeah well, most people think Africans make clicky noises. I get asked that a lot- and guess what I click for them straight away to humor them lolz.

In your mind. . .

lol plus add more mature, experienced e.t.c and all the good adjectives

lol- is she oyibo or african american

One of my roommate reads Nairaland though and he finds it hilarious that we speak english so well . . .

Yea sure, small boy.

Lol, I am older than you. Show respect oooh before I come and discipline you. It was actually a joke-I would never claim another country- except I did not feel like talking much. The problem is that if I am at chatting to a chick, and I tell a girl that I am from Nigeria- she wants to spend half the time talking about Nigeria. So most times I avoid mentioning where I am from when talking to other people. Also most of them want to seem knowledgeable about Nigeria's affairs and that pisses me off.

Lies, you siad she doesnt like ekiti because your grandma or dad is ekiti.

Even more lie, we're known to be the nicest group of peeps and we tolerate crap. Has a limit tho Grin I'm serious tho

Who is asking you marry them. . . . as if we want you, shior,mtchewww.

LOL, I was just being nice to you , Nigerian women never get along with their inlaws sha - so when we marry that would continue the tradition.

Even more lie, we're known to be the nicest group of peeps and we tolerate crap. Has a limit tho Grin I'm serious tho

Ask Germans, Russians, and they would say the same . . .

FL Gators:
I know that Ekiti is not part of your "everywhere", slugga.

You should ask him. You might even be Ekiti 

That one is even bigger bush to me. LOL, I dont really care what I am- I am African, then Nigerian, then Yoruba and then it stops.

My mum does not like ekiti though she said I should not marry them. That they are not really nice people hehe

chiogo:
Whoa! SEFAGO, didn't you say you claimed to be Jamaican when you went to some church down south for community service(or something like that)?

Hmm, I need to go find that thread.

Look at you appear from nowhere small girl. It was actually a joke, you should have figured out that easily lol. I dont sound jamaican at all. Maybe some Nigerians do. Infact I enunciate my Nigerian accent because girls like it (For some stupid reason I cannot pin lol)

FL Gators:
You're really from Lagos or did your family migrate? Omo ilu wo ni e ?

I dont doubt sjeezy's part. Dude is so somehow somehow, sneaky.

LOL, I am like from lagos. I have never been outside lagos- Infact I think everywhere outside lagos is a bush 

My dad must have left for lagos- I never asked him much of his personal history.

I am sure sjeezy and ezeuche would call themselves such names though. As for me I am 100% African straight from the lagos bush

FL Gators:
Nah, I see you , Sjeezy and EzeUche as the agbero kind that would claim Jamaican

Emi ke? Jamaican? Nigerias rep is not that bad yet. And at the worst, I would call myself black british or black brazilian before I even go all the way to Jamo

Didnt expect this from you, actually.

What did you expect? To declare myself as Yoruba- thats like so silly. Or to say I wanna run away from naija. 100% proudly Nigerian lol.

Well except when I am in the airport and being harassed.

Lol 006

Nigerian Occupied Territory.

Who is occupying who? The mass number of igbo in western states

Of course they stated it clearly what they can afford. lol.

Yeah true. I actually never saw that.

I'm sure it might take you several sleepless nights to make your final decision (Except, of course, if you consider it extremely expedient to earn a PhD as a young man - Kidding).

Not really, i made my decision a long time ago. I would only go to the best tech school in the world or nothing else hehe.

Cambridge's research offerings are a too limited compared to what I am looking for, and the research area is not what I want to do. While I was at another school for an interview, I stumbled across a research are that really interested me. If I could work in this research area, I think it would be the greatest things especially if I can create a patent from it.

Two acceptances out of at least 15 schools you appllied to. But acceptances are great ones anyway.

Fundings becoming stringent everywhere. I have been discussing with people at Ivies and top research programs and things are not looking that great. Harvard's endowment basically got screwed up. I heard a lot of interesting things during my interviews

AjanleKoko:
^^
I think it's some kind of professional immaturity.
Whether at home or abroad, Nigerians should have been banding together, creating informal networks, and using these networks to leverage some sort of advantage. Somehow, due to our individualistic outlook, we haven't been able to close ranks.
I am wondering if we would be this enlightened as individuals if we banded together like the Indians or Chinese. I think the soldier-ant mentality those guys have is not really sustainable, as they don't really have so many guys who can function as an individual, at top level.

yeah I know, I am planning to create my own business card in a couple of weeks hehe. I do try in my own little way to help fellow Nigerians even going as far as doing everything for them lol.

I think the soldier-ant mentality those guys have is not really sustainable, as they don't really have so many guys who can function as an individual, at top level.

Depends- yes you have examples like Ban Ki Moon, Vikram Pandit and a host of inept of others- but then you still have brilliant Asians especially south asians such as Indian people. Actually the economist ran an article on themanagement Gurus of the world and there was only one white guy- the rest where Indians. All PhD holders in management strategy/finance who had done ground breaking research.

I have seen the way Europeans in Nigerian MNCs surreptiously band together and somehow establish an informal network. Hire a South African chap to head up an MNC in Nigeria, and all of a sudden you begin to see a silent proliferation of South African personnel in key positions, as well as South African service providers/vendors. Sometimes, it is even maybe a bunch of ex-alumni of a certain MNC that show up to head a company in Nigeria, and they begin to summon their old colleagues and service providers. This happens all the time in Nigeria, and all of a sudden you begin to see Nigerians marginalized in their own country.

Not just Europeans everyone. I noticed something in the US- your best help- sadly would come from your country man than someone else.

Take for example Vikram Pandit- brilliant man, but its likely he would never have headed Citigroup if not for the support of fellow indians in teh company. Indians too have a very strong network, because a lot of them work in the financial industry especially wall street and they give themselves a lot of support. Chinese- same stuff, give themselves a lot of support- they are famous for that.

Nigerians always ready to stab themselves in the back or feel they dont really have to help anyone, since they reached the top themselves. I dont see a lot of Nigerian networking going on- maybe I am probably oblivious to it.

This is something that happens everywhere in the world.
In NY, the Columbia, Yale or Harvard IB scions dominate the world of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan. Likewise for the Ivy League lawyers, they are usually set for a career at some of the most prestigious law firms in the US, mostly founded by some ex-alumni.
Most people know about Stanford/Caltech/UCB and the Silicon Valley connection. In fact, Sun Microsystems is basically owned by ex-Stanford comp sci grads.

My question is, do we have anything like that in Nigeria? Is there really an 'old boys network'? Do we have firms primarily dominated by ex-alumni of some certain institutions? In my early job-seeking days, I came up a number of times against an 'Ife clique', in places like Telnet, Spar Aerospace (later GS Telecom), Philips Projects Center, and even Resourcery. These days, I hardly hear of such things among the fresh guys coming up. Though I hear Renaissance Capital is dominated by Ife people, that's just about it. All the places that I have worked, and indeed most organizations these days, people join from just about anywhere.

I think it's not so bad to have an old boys network. The only thing I have not seen in Nigeria, is what I consider to be the next level: old boys actually going on to set up their own outfit, and taking it up there. With all the Ife domination of Telnet and GS Telecom, I haven't still heard of any homegrown outfit founded by a bunch of Ife guys competing with those chaps. Pretty disappointing if you ask me.

What do you guys think?

This was actually a topic I was thinking about for weeks and discussing with one of my classmates. In Nigeria there is actually an old boys network and a very very strong but invisible one. I lived In VI/Ikoyi annex for most of my life and what I noticed was that everyone knew each other closely. There children went to the same primary/secondary school (assuming thy even went to school in naija). Also I learned that there are really some type of Old money in Nigeria- especially Nigerians whose families were one of the first to be educated. I would not want to go into the dynamics but lets just say Nigeria is quite an interesting place. Infact, I have observed that certain rich people's kids tend to know each other a lot.

Its going to be interesting, from my perspective, the future of Nigeria concentrated under a select class of people who did not get where they are through hard work.

Lol, dont forget that Stanford Grads also found Google, Paypal, and BEA systems. Hehe Nigerian scammers owe a lot to those geeks in Palo Alto. By the way Old School networks are not a good thing but I would leave that argument for another day.

Some secondary schools in 9ja has got a thing with moving 2geda decades after school. Abeokuta Grammar school Abeokuta (AGSOBA), Military schools, Kings and Queens Colleges, St Finbarrs, Loyola Jesuit Ibadan, GCI, Christ School Ado, some military schools in 9ja and some schools are good at rolling 2geda many years after graduating from school.

That's because most of them meet at university in Nigeria. Christ School Ado-ekiti used to produce brilliant minds before- Erastus Akingbola (hey brilliance is subjective), segun aganga and a host of thers but I think the quality has declined so much . However mostly Lagos schools move with Lagos schools though. When I schooled in lagos, I never met a single person from outside lagos in my life lol. Coming to college, I was shocked to meet people from like Ife, Edo and places I thought were villages lol