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Good luck Lagosians!

Come on! Give us proper african food!

NIgerian citezenship: http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/ConstitutionalMatters/1999Constitution/ChapterThree.html

I would love to be paying tax at these rates: http://www.citn.org/taxrates.php

I don't know of any secondary schools in Nigeria where students are being taught in Pidgin. Definitely not in the southwest.

I can imagine a teacher trying to deliver a chemistry lesson using only pidgin! I am happy for my kids to pick up pidgin in the community, not in school.

I find it funny that some people think it is compulsory to take your husband's name. In this age and time?

Change your name to 'Shukurat Matthews', 'Ngozi Okusanya', 'Michelle Obama' or whatever name catches your fancy. It's a free world and it is not illegal to answer any name you choose, whether your husband's, your father's or your neighbour's. LOL!

Who cares?

I know someone who was ripped off by them in 2004! She was directed to a paint manufacturing company in Ikeja. Turned there was no jobs there at all! She went back to ebreakthrough and was basically told to F, off!

I don't see my self paying money upfront to get a job! You end up being ripped off!

@Hurtin

It's up to you to what you decide. Whatever anyone says on here will not make up your mind for you. Your heart knows what it wants to do!

However, I am concerned about 'we seem to spend a lot of our hard earn money on family in Nigeria'

If you part ways in 5 years time, how would you feel about having spent a lot of your money taking care of 'his family in Nigeria'?

I hope your marriage works but please love this man with your head screwed on! Let him take care of his family in Nigeria with what is left of what he earns after you have both taken care of your living expenses!

'Loving you, cheating on you and leaving you' hurts a lot less than 'loving you, cheating on you, spending all your money on his family and then leaving you'!

Don't give up! There is always the opportunity to better yourself!

Can you defend what you've got, be it 1st or 3rd class? Can you perform better than what your certificate says?

If you feel your 3rd class degree does not reflect your true capabilities, go back to school! Give it another try, maybe part-time or online with another course!

For a better Nigeria, we all need to change our attitude!

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I get supid emails like that from time to time, from banks I don't even have anything to do with. Most of them are so real that the links takes you to an exact copy of the original website.

I get this one from 'INTERSWITCH NIGERIA' everyday sent to 'undisclosed recipients' courtesy of some bastard who has got nothing better to do with his life.

If you have got good protection on your computer, and you are not sure if the email is fake, click on the link and wait a few seconds. Your browser should warn you that you are proceeding to a fruadulent website.

Virginity is a virtue!

While growing up, I had virgin friends and acquaintances that I would never have wished to marry my brothers. Yes, they were virgins(or so they claimed), but they were horrible, horrible people. Looking back now, I think their current husbands would realise a few years after de-flowering them that they made the biggest mistake of their lives!

And there were those that were good. Beautiful inside and out!

To men: Don't marry 'hymens'!
To women: Make yourself the best thing that can happen to your man!

By the way, sha, my own man likes it to be like ' putting omorogun inside a bucket'. LOL! Can you beat that!

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@Poster,

Please, where is Flourish Park?

She could have left the ethnicity box blank.
If she suspects that the main reason why she didn't get the job is because of her nationality then my advice for her is to ask for her interview notes under the FOI act (assuming the interview is still within 6 months and the company is a public organisation). You never know what might turn up in their.
I once had an interview with tubelines (for a senior engineering position), felt the interview went well (answered all the technical questions correctly, got good reviews from the interviewers for answers given to the competency based questions)and was made to feel i was going to start working with them ASAP only to get the dreaded news.

I ask them for my interview notes under the FOI act and they sort of ignored me until i threatened them about me taking the case to the employment tribunal.

I received a call from their HR manager sort of offering me the job after which i happily declined as i only wanted to prove to myself at the time that i didn't get the job because of other reasons (probably they had someone else in mind but still went on an advertised the role so as to satisfy the employment policies and rules) and definitely not my incompetence.

I am aware of a case about a police force (north of England) secretly discriminated against mail applicants because of their drive to recruit more women. Someone actually snitched after they purposely shredded applications from male applicants. All the male applicants actually received well over 200K as compensation

Thanks for the above contribution.

If you genuinely feel you have been discriminated aginst, do something about it! Don't just let it go! Give it a try, at least you'll know you tried your best!

Our Naija attitude of 'siddon-look', 'god go judge' has not taken us anywhere in Nigeria. If you want something to change, you must do something!

I will vote for him. At least, the man get conscience!

Oh my God!

I think IWU meant the US should 'wise up' and learn from Nigeria's RIGGING/ SELECTORAL process!

Whilst I might agree that britain is the least racist country in Europe, I do not agree with Trevor Phillips latest 'pack of lies'.

Racism is still rife, especially with the increasing numbers of 'BNP followers'. Trevor Phillips should try looking for a job with an 'african accent' plus a CV with all his educational background in Africa.

A recent survey showed that some estate agents and employment agencies agreed with clients who asked that 'people who are not white' should not be shown round properties or have their job applications passed on to them. One of the responses by a female employment agent when the prospective employer told her he didn't want coloured people was 'normal people, right'.

@brownbonno

For example, The UK already has a good system and they have data on 'legal' Nigerians in the country 'temporarily' or 'long term'. !

My point was any significant difference in the number of votes and the data held will not go unnoticed.

You see, I don't exactly trust the 'political appointees' at the helm of affairs at the embassies/ high commissions to give a true account of 'Nigerian votes in the post' when they know their 'appointments' depend on their 'ogas' or 'ogas' appointees' remaining in power.

Nigeria can afford to pay. There will be international support, there has always been. e.g. UN JOINT BASKET DONOR FUND in 2007! Funny you say Naija can't afford it. We can afford to keep and fund the extravagant lifestyles of all our 'polithievians' though! LOL!

Just an idea anyway.

Whatever happened to freedom of speech!( +Expression)

It'd be fantastic if such plans as this come to fruition! Can't somebody in this country plan to do something and just fucking dooooooooooooooooo it?(don't cite private sector examples in response at all).

I think Nigerians in diaspora voting in their respective countries of residency should not be a problem.

For example, The UK already has a good system and they have data on 'legal' Nigerians in the country 'temporarily' or 'long term'. If Nigerians are allowed to vote on Nigeria's election day in their respective local councils (eradicating the need to travel to london from scotland or wherever), with UN observers present at all possible locations, Votes counted at the end of the exercise, figures released to INEC and all Nigerians, INEC puts all the figures together(unrigged hopefully).

All INEC needs to do is collaborate with the respective countries and use the facilities those countries already have in place!

Voila!We are almost there!

I am looking forward to being able to support someone who deserves it with my vote in 2011. Go INEC! Go Nigerians!

Discrimination in the employment context on the grounds of race or ethnic or national origins is permissible where being of a particular race or ethnic or national origin is a genuine and determining occupational requirement, and it is proportionate to apply that requirement in a particular case. Discrimination on the grounds of colour and nationality is also permissible where being of a particular racial group is a genuine occupational qualification for the job. The circumstances in which this would apply are identified in the Act.

@poster

You are right. There are exceptions. In those cases, it is usually made clear in the job advertisement. Particular jobs to do with national security are reserved for 'UK citizens and nationals'. Exceptions or exemptions are usually made clear at the time of advertisement.

I am not sure about 'having to tick a box if you're Nigerian' on that application form. If you feel you were discriminated against, ask the party involved to give you feedback on why you have been unsucessful.

@Hesperus

For every legal action taken against a discriminating party, they will think twice before doing again. Even if it is an RR65(Race Relations Questionnaire), send it to them, ask questions and let them explain their actions. If they don't respond, get in touch with the CRE OR start a claim in the courts(with advice), they will realise you are serious about taking it up with them.

The matter of reclaiming bank charges started with one person taking his bank to court for unfair charges that he believed did not reflect the true cost to his bank. He won and millions of pounds have been reclaimed by others who followed suit. Many more are following suit.

We need to take action. A lot of emotional distress comes with discrimination. It is unfair.

What a shame! What a loss!

In addition to my earlier post:

[b]Case study: On the road to equality


John wanted to hire a van to travel from the North East to Liverpool, so he telephoned a local hire firm to enquire about their rates.
The following day he called to accept the price and booked a van, on the condition that he pay a deposit and produce a full clean driving licence. Ten minutes later he went to the hire centre. He introduced himself to one of the staff and stated that he had come to collect a Luton van. He was taken into the office and informed that he would not be able to hire a vehicle as he planned to take it outside a 25 mile radius. He informed them that he had overheard staff in the yard talking about a customer who was taking a van to Scotland, but the company replied that the customer had booked in advance. John explained that he had also pre-booked by telephone but the company said there was nothing they could do.

At this point John suspected that the firm had refused to hire him the van because of his ethnicity, which is Afro-Caribbean. He decided to test out the situation and asked Mike, a white friend, to try to hire a van for a long distance journey. His feeling was confirmed when the company agreed to hire a van to his friend to travel to Sheffield that same day.

John went to the CRE to ask for advice and assistance. We advised him that under the 1976 Race Relations Act it is illegal for companies to refuse to serve customers on the grounds of their race. We served him with a race relations questionnaire, which is a standard tool used to investigate a case.

It is a good opportunity for an organisation to explain their side of the story, but the van hire firm did not complete the form. Their only response was to send a letter denying that they were operating a 'colour bar', and stating that only one Luton van could be taken outside a 25 mile radius each day.

We applied to the county court who allocated the case to the small claims track. John, his friend Mike, and the managing director of the van hire firm gave evidence. The firm were unable to provide evidence as to why the van was unavailable on the day.

The conclusion of the court was that John had received less favourable treatment than his Mike, on the grounds of race. The court found that the firm's policy of hiring vans outside a 25 mile radius was not consistent. They said that the firm's failure to fill in the questionnaire and absence of another explanation led them to draw the conclusion that race was reason why they refused to hire a van to John. They ordered the firm to pay him £3,000 in damages.

Names have been changed to protect the identity of our clients.[/b]

Case study: Face didn't fit
[b]

Claire was working as a full time cashier at a petrol station run by a multinational firm, when the garage was sold to another company. The contract stated that all nine staff members would be transferred to the new employer.

One day, when she arrived at work for her usual shift, Claire and her colleagues were not given any work to do as their new boss had brought in two new staff. Another staff member turned up for work to find that someone else appeared to have been given her job, so she left. A few days later, a meeting was arranged to resolve the matter, but their employer told them that they would not be paid as he could not afford it. Eventually he agreed to pay some of the wages and they went home, not knowing whether or not the garage would re-open. Two staff found work elsewhere.

Claire called the petrol station and was told to come back to work the next day, but five of the original staff were never contacted again. They felt they had been mistreated. When she returned to work she found out that her boss had hired a new manager and two new staff, all of whom were Asian. Although she got on well with her new colleagues, she felt it was unacceptable that the company had replaced the original white staff with new Asian staff. She was eventually told that she was no longer needed at the garage, and went to her local race equality service for advice.

The CRE later took up her case and her employer could not explain why he dismissed the white staff to employ family members, or only those from his ethnic group. An employment tribunal ruled that she had been racially discriminated against, and ordered the firm to pay a four figure sum to compensate for her lost earnings.

Names have been changed to protect the identity of our clients.[/b]



(Commission for Racial Equality archives, 2007.)

The race relations act 1976 is there to protect you. Discrimination still happens though despite the act. If you feel you have been discriminated against, and don't mind going through all the time and paperwork involved, all you need to do is take it up with the party/parties involved. It is not all about monetary compensation, its also about trying to get those discriminating to stop doing it!

When I first came to the UK, there was situations that I had to let go, but I tell, if anything like that happens now, I will see it to the very end.

If your friend felt she was discriminated against because of her nationality, she should take it up. The proof of burden in racial discrimination cases is on the defendants. The defendants have to proof that they did not discriminate against you.