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Gracee101:
Noting like vexing there bro, when people try to move on to the next phase in life don't go back talking about the past.

Thanks anyways

The future does not occur in a vacuum, it is the end result of lessons learned from the past. You complain about people going back to your past, but you're still blaming your parents for actions THEY took in the past. It seems the past isn't your problem, it's that you're very sensitive to being shown up for not being as good as you think you should. If you are unable to take responsibility for anything then there is no advice to give you. Your GPA is likely too low to get into any serious school here. It's not like Nursing school in the United States is some piece of cake.

Now feel free to abuse me to your hearts content.

josiahese:
No, I would be visiting Statue of Liberty, at Liberty Island, then Times Square, central park, and the Niagara Falls.
before moving to Utah as a would be going to the National Park and some beautiful places.

Niagara falls is at least 7 hours from NYC by road, over 11 hours by train. Make sure you are aware of all these.

Also, it's sort of odd that you are going to Utah to see the National Parks in the off season when these areas are now cold and deserted.

Havre:
Option 1 - Pay for next semester, complete and move later. Need to convince my fam, chai!

Option 2-
Has anyone done F1 to J1 or J1 to F1 or you know someone who has, without leaving the US? Please pardon the questions, I know not much on visa rules

Option 1 is your safest bet. I think for a j1 visa you need a sponsor.

Xabibarbie63:
Thanks Please what's the minimum amount for a bank statement to tender to Bowie state university and Maryland university college park before you can be granted admission .cause it was stated that I need 23000usd to be in my statement and I don't have half of that amount ? If u have like 4000usd can I send that as a bank statement of account

You obviously cannot afford the cost of education in the United States, so why bother? There are better things in life than being illegal here. Americans are not Nigerians, if the school has asked to see a bank statement showing a minimum of $23000, a bank balance showing $22999 as bank balance is not accepted.

UBGG:
Bleh!

Genuine grievance for a man who was Vice President all those years ago because you're too much of a coward to criticise the current Government.

The same cowardice which precluded you from criticising the said Alex while he had life in him. Unless, you only figured he was no 'good' an hour ago when he had already died, which will only confirm what I already think of you...

You know, some of us are actually devoted to practical services to our country beyond coming on a convenient forum to fight dead men.

So, keep it at. You're doing great, champ.

lol the truth is you have no other choice. If the US granted all Nigerians a free pass to the US... how many of you would be left behind? You people are such hypocritical jokes.

josiahese:
I'm aware
I would be going to Central Park and Times Square they are about 5 mins walk from the hotel that's why I choosed it.
Yes I have to pay 86 dollars per night.
I have a good pay here of 350k monthly..
Would I be asked why I choosed the hotel or Manhattan?
I'm in my early 20s but am engaged an I live alone.. I do part time at the University and I'm graduating by February... I don't know if I stand a chance but am honest with all info I gave then in my DS 160... Just 8days vacation... I also have enough money in my bank.. Saved for years now.
My parents are also comfortable and am the only child.
Just want to tour New York.
Please can you help evaluate me..

That's all you're going to do? Ok, not sure how that's going to work but give it a try at least.

UBGG:
I can't get through all of the mess up there. What are you? 12?
Dude, get back to me when you've mustered enough intelligible thoughts.

Oh! The current Government really does have a page and it's the perfect platform to soothe your relevance seeeking soul.

You would have shocked me if you said anything different... you remind me of those folks supporting tithing. You are the quintessential Nigerian, full of emotional fury and nothing else. Good luck.

I'm sure you're aware that a government website has no platform to raise genuine grievance and that this is the reason forums like this exist... but of course, that would not square with your need to sound like you've got something oh so important to say.

UBGG:
The man's dead. The current Government has an online page, why not take your faux e-activism there, no?

And since you're so 'patriotic', you should come down here and fix the rots you won't stop whining about.

The problem with fixing Nigeria is that i'll have to deal with fools like you who think 7 academic degrees is evidence of "achievement", that being pan Nigerian is the best thing ever and who obviously support building statues of the president of Liberia in Imo state. That alone is enough to put a grown man into depression... the problem with Nigeria isn't the infrastructural or political rot, it is the intellectual rot inherent in its people. That you cannot fix.

eagleeye2:
In one breath you just accused him of looting pensions and now he didn't enrich himself?
I told you earlier that your Hatred will consume you.

In your blind idiocy, you didn't realize i was simply playing on the quote in my post.

eagleeye2:
Look at what you just spewed because of hatred. How, when and where was Alex Ekwueme ever associated with Pensions or looting? A man who left government over 33 years ago and has been out of government ever since. How in your dreams did he commit the crime of pension looting?

I live in a country where i am guaranteed millions of dollars in pensions when i retire. You can enjoy building the next statue in Imo state to Alex Ekwueme. By the way, what London hospital are you flying to when next you're sick?

sanpipita:
I haven't replied yet and you say I'm having a hard time, are you that quick to dismiss people, first and foremost Ekwueme is a Pan Nigerian a lacking attribute in today's Nigeria, he selfless fought for return of democracy in Nigeria against the dreaded Abacha even after in the end he was denied PDPs presidential ticket he didn't bother, Ekwueme never enriched himself while in office Buhari found him guilty of nothing after his military takeover, I rather have men who stay true to character than ones who play sly and form anti corruption fight, only few or none of our today's leaders can match Ekwueme's class

1. Saying someone is pan Nigerian is the same as saying that someone is breathing air. It is a meaningless statement that adds zero value to anyone.

2. He selflessly fought for return of democracy how? We only got democracy because Abacha died of natural causes, simple. I find it odd that you say he "didn't bother" after he lost the PDP presidential ticket. So was he "fighting for the return of democracy" because he cared for us or because he was more interested in achieving high office again so he could enrich himself? So it would be ok for him to not fight for democracy unless there is some political office he could gain? Strange.

3. Ekwueme may not have enriched himself, but he did nothing to fight for better living conditions for you either.

4. Staying true to character is another one of those empty statements that convey nothing of substance. True heroes are remembered for tangible achievements that impact the lives of others, not for "Staying true to character" as if the rest of us are staying false to character.

ottohan:
lol..pls
I dont talk to illiterates like you......
go and read your books and be like Dr.Ekwueme when you grow up...
and pls stop trying so hard to speak high grammar for me...

attention seeker!!!!!

lol a literate guy complaining that an illiterate is speaking "high grammar" to him. I doubt you could tell irony even if it slapped you in the face. This isn't "high grammar", it's just regular english language for me... perhaps you could learn it too if you had 7 degrees?

I pray never to be like Alex Ekwueme, a dishonorable thief whose only achievement in life is to hoodwink a people beaten down by poverty and hopelessness that they begin to hail building statues as a dividend of democracy.

ottohan:
look at this cunt!!
that I tell you that I was a civil servant??
did I tell you that I am poor..
how old are you btw??
your comments seem so childish...because you dont even know his achievements...
Alex Ekwueme is a legend the only Nigerian with seven academic degrees, an achievement that will take you a lifetime to accomplish

For such a "mature" person... your uncouth language betrays you.

Only the daft trot out "seven academic degrees" as an achievement. That isn't an achievement... that is a testament to someone who either had no direction in life or didn't have the cojones to go out in the world and make something out of his life, other than feeding at the public trough. How many degrees does Elon Musk have? He just built an electric semi capable of hauling over 4000 tons for 500 miles on a single charge... what has Ekwueme done with all his "academic degrees"? Nigerians are the thickest people i've ever seen.

platypelloid:
Respect Sir,
Baba i beg kindly recommend some of these schools that have these features to me.as in im also a doc looking out for such.

Your Supremacy Sir!!

That is your job to do.

ottohan:
why would you review someones life when he's dead??
you are just being a coward
you only pry on the memories of dead people like a vulture....
why dont u go and channel your reviewing
abilities on living politicians who are currently looting public funds.....

Ekueme is a Lengend, the only man from the east with Seven academic degrees, an achievement that you will nevee attain in your lifetime

and the 7 academic degrees have provided you good roads, jobs, security, light and water? How many degrees do you think Steve Jobs had? You're still using candles in 2017 and calling your leaders "legends"? Indeed they are legends, legends at fooling the most moronic people on earth.

sanpipita:
Most of our leaders might have failed us but leaders like Ekwueme were a rare breed, try read more about him.

A rare breed of what? If we have to "read about him" then he was probably just as inconsequential as the rest. I never saw him campaign for better pay for workers, i never saw him fight against corruption... all i saw was another charlatan happy to feed at the public trough, regardless of the plight of his people. Please educate me... most of you seem to have a hard time telling us what exactly he's done to deserve all the RIPs.

Jaideyone:
you like to derail. what does doctors running abroad have to do with the man's death? get a life pls

Your hospitals have become glorified morgues, which is why your leaders all run here when they have malaria... and you're busy wishing them RIP all day? What happens to you when you fall sick? Come on NL begging for funds to go for surgery in India? You all have no shame.

anjowaka510:
Another icon has gone

Can you please define "icon"? There is a dictionary on google.

ottohan:
bros....you are not to speak bad about the dead!!
have u no morals....tomorow might be ur turn and thats how people will critizize you wen u are gone.....
what powers has a vice president??
VPs are appointed not elected, so u cant expect them to be so powerful such as to make the changes you want

My brother, at what point do we start to learn our lessons and stop this superstitious nonsense? Speaking the truth isnt the same as speaking bad. Alex looted your pension so he can treat himself in london, only to die anyway. What happens when you fall sick? You start shopping around for miracles because you're too poor to afford common drugs?

egbabiekperemo1:
Please can you shut up, b4 a curse descends on you and your generations? You little kids just come online to talk anyhow without doing proper research. Silly thing

lol a curse will descend on me how? You superstitious but frankly blind bats make me laugh... the rest of the world is seeking to reach the moon, you're busy talking about curses. From where? Isn't your country under a curse itself? No light, no water, no money, no jobs, high crime, no hope, your fellow country women are floating in the mediteranean, your men are being sold like sheep in 2017... and you think i am the one under a curse? You're a joke.

eagleeye2:
This thread is about a man passing on. Some of us feels RIP is in order, but you saints believe that we should all hate the man and shun RIPs.
So lists the reasons why you think he is part of the rut in the system?

Oh so he has no legacy other than that he's died? Shame then... sorry, RIP is the most meaningless word of all time. It does zero to help the dead. It's simply a feel good piece of noise that people throw around then promptly forget.

eagleeye2:
Please lists Alex Ekwueme's sins as a second republic vice president?

Please list his legacies as VP. I'll wait... breaking glass ceilings does not count.

eagleeye2:
Are you also dead Channel your hatred to something that will benefit you in life. Leave the dead alone, who can do nothing for you again.

I think you're thick to be honest... you don't seem to have read the Rick Warren blurb that you quoted - let me explain to you... i don't hate you simply because i criticize your lack of integrity, incompetence, corruption and complete indifference to the plight of the common man.

eagleeye2:
Let your Hate consume you.

It isn't hate to call out the idiocy in your country. Where has your "love" taken you so far?

biafranrealson:
gone is a great legend, RIP SIR

What made him a legend? His white hair?

eagleeye2:
He is dead. Now channel that hatred to the elites who are still living and ruining this country.
People like Buhari, Osibanjo, OBJ, etc.

I live in the United States... absolutely nothing will convince me to live in the same country as those old fools. It's worse that there are people here who sing the praises of morons who collect mind boggling salaries to keep their people in poverty in the 21st century.

eagleeye2:
When it comes to Buhari being in London for months, we see people from somewhere justifying that wastage. But an old man who just passed away in the same London and not funded by the FG as it should have been, is being blamed because he is from a certain part of the country where it's normal to lay all the blame.

You don't want to hear what i have to say about Buhari... lets wait till he dies too.

eagleeye2:
How many vice presidents have you and your likes blamed for the rut in the country or you want to start with Alex?
He broke the glass ceiling placed on his tribe to become the number two man in this country. It is important to us. And he was a respected voice in Igbo land at least. So whatever hate you have in your heart, doesn't change the fact that it's your hatred and don't use it to infect this thread.

Oh please cut it with the incoherent blather. I have consistently called out the "political elite" of which Ekwueme was a key player. He happens to be the subject of this thread, which is why i mention his name... it could be anyone else. One would think you would be smart enough to have figured that out.

By the way, i am half-igbo and most of my close family is from there... unlike you though, i don't place a premium on a member of my tribe simply attaining a position. It is much more important that they execute that role (no matter how insignificant) with integrity, selflessness and putting the interests of their constituents first. Which of these can you say about Ekwueme? If all that is important to you is that an igbo man broke a glass ceiling to be named a ceremonial VP, then we are in deep trouble.

MrMakaveli20:
stop the blame game. you think he was VP when money was in politics? he had so much yet he had to rely on his brothers to rally round for funds before FG stepped in? he was a humble and selfless gentleman. you don't have to liken him to modern day politicians. respect old age so you may live long too.

Isn't that the same rote language we trot out when most of these folks kick the bucket? It's over-used... we should try another excuse.

Oh dear... the old "respect old age"... my living long has nothing to do with my opinion about Nigeria's generation of corrupt, inconsiderate and wicked political elite.

Amarabae:
Can you pls do humanity a favor by keeping quiet?

Like humanity cares about a people who either don't realize when they are being openly raped by a rapacious elite or don't care because they themselves have the same mindset. Keeping quiet is why you're being sold as slaves in Libya in 2017... and you're pretending that everything is ok.

I don't know what the world will look like 1000 years from now, but i know it won't have Nigeria in it or making any significant progress. We most likely would long have ceased to exist... destroyed by our own incompetence, rampant corruption and self-inflicted hunger.

eagleeye2:
He was just the VICE PRESIDENT. Please channel your anger to the President then Shehu Shagari.

If being the vice president is being a useless figurehead then why are we here pretending like he was anything consequential and that he did anything to advance our cause? Nigerians are bandwagon RIP greetings.