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foodlum:
Whoa! Are you a mind reader?? I have been planning something similar for the past 1 year but with a slight twist....importing the Greyhound Bus models (used here in the US for Coast to Coast passenger transport) to Nigeria to ply the Lagos to Abidjan route. These buses are extremely rugged decades-tested and proven bad ass workhorses. Equipped with the unkillable V-8 Detroit Diesel engines mated with the rock solid 8-speed/10-speed Allison Transmissions, they are guaranteed to run almost 1 million miles before needing an engine overhaul.

I already purchased the first fully air conditioned 55 passenger coach bus and plan to incrementally buy more. But I have no clue where and how to get trustworthy, level headed, honest, well experienced and God-fearing drivers to drive the buses. So I have suspended plans until I can get drivers with these qualities. I concluded that getting these type of drivers is the cornerstone pillar to success of this venture. Any thing less is courting disaster from Day 1. My plan is to pay each driver N1 million a month as an inducement and encouragement to incentivize them to give their moral and professional best to the job.

If anyone has any idea how to execute this project, please reach out.

The ground clearance for those US buses is much lower than what Nigeria roads can accommodate. If you have observed well, the luxurious buses used for long distance travel in Nigeria Ike from east to Lagos have higher clearance from the ground. They are specifically made and most of them are from Brazil not US.
Put this into consideration.

Bulaba escaped this one during his undergraduate days. Oluwa mo dupe!

lexy2014:
what should be answered yes or no?

What were you responding to, according to you?

lexy2014:
According to you.

Is according to you , an intelligent answer? Answer, yes or no?

lexy2014:
3. If a person is qualified and licensed to diagnose and treat medical ailments, is that person not a medical doctor?

Is DPM a medical doctor? Answer, yes or no?

lexy2014:
If a person is qualified and licensed to diagnose and treat medical ailments, is that person not a medical doctor?

yes or no

Is DPM a medical doctor? Yes or no?

lexy2014:
If a person is qualified and licensed to diagnose and treat medical ailments, is that person not a medical doctor?

yes or no

Is DPM a medical doctor ? Yes or no?

Dreambeat:
No, sir. Abroad, there are advanced nurse practitioners who can diagnose and treat medical ailments but are not called medical doctors

It’s like you don’t know that moniker. He will bother you with questions from now till tomorrow without answering any of yours. That is his style.
I don’t understand why he is shy from making definite statements.

lexy2014:
what point did i make?

do you understand the question i asked?

If a person is qualified and licensed to diagnose and treat medical ailments, is that person not a medical doctor?

Is it only a medical doctor that is licensed and qualify to treat and diagnose ailment?

Only Igbos songs at the parade. Why not play something in English? And also not everyone of them is a Christian but they only play Igbo Christian songs.

Balabu no come play oo! Everybody must to collect. You do good , you collect good , you do bad you collect bad. Talk about being in the system for a long time. He must have learned this leadership style from IBB.

Dreambeat:
A lot use the title 'Dr' which is fine, but the public should know the difference between doctors by title and medical doctor

I have never heard of anyone address any mid level practitioners or a Medical doctor as say “ Good morning Medical Doctor Mike “
What everyone call them is “Doctor Mike” period.
As long as the written insignia on the coat and ID card show the right description of the tile as mandated by the board.

Dreambeat:
I practise abroad and I can tell you, for sure, no one condones calling for example, a nurse practitioner or physican assistant a 'medical doctor ' here

Why are raising this point? Does anyone call them medical doctor in the first place? . Even the licensing board specifies how they should write their tile if they hold a doctorate degree, to make that distinction.

Mabuggi88:
Podiatrists spend four years in school while medical Doctors spend minimum of 7 years to qualify as medical Doctors, more so I said medical Doctor not just doctor. Can you also say a pharmacist with PharmD who is also a doctor is a medical Doctor? DPM means doctor of podiatric medicine just like pharmD means doctor of pharmacy. You get the point now

They fours years you mentioned, is it straight from high school or post first degree?

lexy2014:
If a person is qualified and licensed to diagnose and treat medical ailments, is that person not a medical doctor?


Dreambeat

I am not saying DPMs are not doctors but just to clarify your point.
Nurse practitioners are as well licensed , even at the Masters level of education can also diagnose and treat medical ailments, yet they are not doctors.

Gentlesoul2021:
They're even calling that super falcon babe alozie a medical doctor, someone who's just a medical lab scientist.

Medical lab scientist is just? 5 years in the four walls of higher education.

There is something about the American spirit. Once your step your feet in that country, you act like an eagle. The fighting spirit, the winning spirit.
The land of the brave!

CoronaVirusPro:
What if he does not find interest in school and has passion for something else?

Some kids are not even allowed to study what they want to school. Nigerian parents decide everything for you.

A boy of 18 might already be selling petty stuffs and hoping to expand his business, the Nigerian culture does not support it.

I have seen mates who excelled in sports to National levels and their parents killed that opportunity when they wanted to go professional. All in the name of, you can do it while in the university or after university. it earned them nothing at the end of the day and never became the best in what they do now like they did in sports.

Education is good, but not for everybody.

Messi and Ronaldo would have been a Doctor and Engineer if they had Nigerian parents.

You have a point but that is not how small businesses work. You must have the skill or experience in that business. Also you must have other related soft skills pertaining to money management.
90% of 18-20 years who has never seen 500k in their account before will blow #10m is handed to them easily .

CoronaVirusPro:
Like you don’t know Nigeria parents.

Tell them to give you such funds that you don’t want to school and will like to venture into business and watch them call Amadioha and Ogun for you.

Sir , a young boy of 18 or even 20 years without any skill and not in school yet does not have any reason to ask for money for business investment. That is recklessness.

There must be public disclosure model for accountability in the higher education system. School departments must be required by law to publish publicly, their rate of graduate and the rate employed graduates from all departments after one year of graduation. .

Doing this will enable parents and their wards to make informed decisions regarding seeking admission and investing in such system.

Also, this statistic is needed as a matter of national security. Young adults cannot be left to waste away after graduation, while the schools smile to the bank. This is not how a society functions or progresses.
The government must be proactively involved in tackling this issue because a country with a large unemployed population would be deficient socially and economically.

Duplex90:
just yesterday a client asked me to come to his office so he can see and trust me. Its just 30minutes from me yet i billed him 20k for me to come. He started blowing grammer than is it not here to here, bro if u can’t pay then go!!! Never ever go to meet a client without the inspection fee, his transaction on record is an evidence should anything happen.

If actually the purpose of the transaction is to serve as evidence should anything happen, then #1 transfer is enough.
In fact what most companies do to verify clients account is a request for a deposit of $1. Then they refund a random amount like 0.73cents, and ask the client to confirm the exact amount refunded. Failure to get the exact amount means the client does not have access to the account they used for initial transfer.

aribisala0:
You are blocked no time

Don’t write what you are not sure of next time on a public forum.
You can hid,, for all I care!

aribisala0:
Is it possible to disagree politely?
You asked for a name I gave you one

Your mouth no big pass my own

Definitely there were a group of returnee slaves in Calabar calling themselves Black Englishmen

You started the insult. Go back and check your responds.
Also, it’s an insult to try to rewrite the history of a group you know nothing about.
Then I asked you a simple question, and your answer was “Freedman”

Have you ever seen or heard of any Calabar person with family name “Freedman” ?

Now you have come up with another one “ Black Englishman” If I ask you for a family name now, you will say it’s an insult.

aribisala0:
Freedman

Freedman is a Calabar family name? Your are a joke.

aribisala0:
obviously you are

If you don’t know a thing, it’s better to not say it, especially in a public discuss. Can you mention just one family name in Calabar that is a descendant of returnee slave?
Just one!

deltateam:
My first reaction was laughter.



Do Black Americans short circuit memory? They forgotten their black African ancestry and how their ancestors were bundled into ships as slaves chained in underground pits.

Oh Africa redeem yourselves from mental slavery. Instead of addressing the issue, they are shooting themselves in the legs.

How then can they expect better treatment from the whites?

But this exactly is the root cause of the hate. They blame your forefathers for conniving with the slave trader to sell their forefathers. It is considered an unforgettable act. So, the African immigrants are seen as offsprings of the perpetrators of that act.
The present mode is in retaliation to all of that. Just the way it is said In local parlance “ dem don finally catch you for their domot “ . So, you are expected to behave and act in a subordinate subservient manner. Don’t “show yourself for here “ kind of attitude. African immigrations are often being watched, you go to a place, everyone expects you to do the greetings first. Sometimes, they don’t even respond when you say hi or the greeting of the time of the day. It’s that bad!
You ask of anything , they turn it around and say you are being rude. Sometimes one would even wonder if it has something to do with the tone of voice .
Nothing you as an African immigrant impresses them. It’s even worse when you are in higher higher position of authority. You are being looked at in a condescending manner.
It’s more than a revenge, it’s a rage.

aribisala0:
It has absolutely nothing to do with caste unless you have that mindset before leaving home
Being educated at university does not mean you are bright. It often just requires focus hardworking and family programming
I literally do not know anyone in my secondary school that did not go to university the only 2 went to NDA not about being bright but who you grow up around. Nigerian in the US have graduates all around them and that is part of being the best export
We don't see that in Orile or Ilasamaja

Africans get on a lot better with Jamaicans and other so called slave descendants from Brazil Haiti etc Yoruba don't think like that
Liberia Sierra Leone and Lagos is populated by many slave families
Rhodes,Moloney, Cole,Smith,Williams Coker Savage Doherty,Da Silva George Randle, Crowther,Bucknor, Jones, Vera Cruz are well known Lagos Island slave descendants

The same is true in Calabar and Rivers State

Jamaicans have a lot in common with us and are less like African Americans
Truth is African Americans are now very westernised and individualistic with a very violent disposition
It is this violence that makes them unpredictable and makes many Africans avoid them
The average African has a plan or mission in America whilst the African American just wants to spend money and enjoy
There is a specific problem with African Americans especially those from the North and or ghetto
Slavery ended later in the South of the USA but many Africans report better relationships with people from the South

Back home there is class snobbery between elites and ghetto people based on money and status

There is no returnee descendants in calabar. Every Efik person can trace his or root to the 10th generation.
Be guided!

owobokiri:
Our Ronu brothers will soon manage to find a way to blame the igbos for this.. They are now most probably trying to measure the quantity of Igbo vs Ronu businesses that may be effected so as to know where to throw in their propaganda support..
Lol
Maybe Africans in America should learn to "respect their hosts" and stay wherever the Oba or Balle of Brooklyn tells them to stay.
America is not a "No mans land", you all should stop "developing' it.. Ndi African developers..
The irony..

How do we defend this comparison now?

My only problem is the incorrect grammar structure of title.

Mary Magdalene is one of the most known names today . God will give the directions and strength to fulfill your purpose on earth.