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Aystarz:
A scapegoat should take care of that. Someone on this forum needs to be taught a bitter lesson on libel and defamation, and then I bet many will learn to accord legitimate authority the respect it deserves.

lol

RaptorX:
What kind of work can you guide someone fresh from Nigeria with a green card that will guarantee them an income of a minimum $200,000 a year? I am really curious, cause I doubt if 5% of the total US working population make that kind of six figure income.

How come everybody on NL living abroad is some high earning six figure professionals while in reality the vast majority of Nigerians living abroad are far from being six figure salary earners, they might be comfortable but most are far from being rich. Most Nigerians in the US either male or female are nurses or in one of the auxiliary medical fields.

Pls don't misquote me, read the entirety of my comment. I never said someone who's "fresh" from Nigeria. Rather I said after earning an associate degree within 2-3yrs or bachelors within 4yrs or less, it all depends on your prior level of education and the course you studied in Nigeria. It is a 'catch-22' you can't sit comfortable at home watching The Kardashian Show and expect to make this kind of money, something has got to give. If you read my comment thoroughly, you will note that I said you must be hardworking and willing to work several overtime hours.
Everyone will pave their own path in life, however, if you are a determined Nigerian coming to the U.S with a green card and graduated secondary school or university in Nigeria already, I can direct you towards a career path that will make you a minimum of $200,000 a year if you achieve the following (1) You complete your associate degree in 2yrs. (2) Upon landing a job, you are determined to work several overtime hours. It's like many things in life, if you put in just a little more work or effort you can improve your current situation.
Moreover, many employers offer tuition reimbursements for employees trying to further their education in their field of work. While working with your associate, you may decide to go further to earn your bachelors/ masters or masters/doctorate all at the expense of your employer. You need not get stuck in student loan debt like many Nigerians I know. I know of folks who took huge sums of student loans to study accounting or media arts etc but can't find a decent paying job upon graduation. This may not be the case for all, but the point is, you should study a course that's in high demand, make money and then pursue your passion. If u r too passionate for your current field of study, pls stick to it.
And u r wrong in saying a vast majority of Nigerians are not 6 figure earners, according to the U.S Census Bureau, Nigerians have the highest number of doctors among all immigrant groups including Indians. Don't underestimate your people.

erico2k2:
ahah nah I wont be dat dafft especially when we got aliens on Niaraland cos where some people get their ideas from is way outta this world.world. Im an operations manager for one of the firms in the Uk

Ha, sharp guy... that's a nice job

erico2k2:
Let me give you an example, if I earn £3000 before tax, I might pay £350 in tax and £180 in national Insurance. that will leave me with £2470 after tax, u get me now,its even better when you have family as you get tax relief.

I get you, some states have a similar tax percentage as you described here. What do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking? I have a feeling the average salary for the same professional in the U.S would be higher even when converted to Euros. Also I hope that was just an example and not your real salary lol, don't divulge such infos online.

ttmacoy:
You don't say? $200k when ou mates are making 200 million in Nigerian

Your mates or juniors are also worth several billions of dollars ex Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Now do you see the fallacy in your comparison? The point I was trying to make was the average employee in the U.S makes more than his colleagues in Nigeria doing the same type of work. Ex the average salary of a professor in the U.S is more than that of one in Nigeria. Whatever else you do outside your place of employment, is your business.

erico2k2:
Hmmm I know, hence I was trying to tell someone on this forum, we earn more in the UK or rather let me rephrase it, we get to keep more of our salary than guys in the US.the tax in the US is way way to much, my tax kicks in from after £11000 ,and I do not pay up to %20,if i earn up to £41000 then my tax is %40, plus ofcos national insurance thats that.

How is it that you keep more of your income lol? I told you the tax rate of the state with the highest tax rate in the country which is New York. Texas and many other states don't have state tax, they only have federal tax rates of like 15%. Moreover, the average engineer in the U.S earns more money than one in the UK. Its the same for most career fields. Ex a fresh pharmacy school graduate in the U.S may have a starting base base pay of $160,000 per annum, can't compare that with the UK.

erico2k2:
let me remind you tax is %20,and there is a threshold,ie minimum you must earn B4 tax kicks in, so I employ you to re do your calculation.

Depends on your state, in New York, the local tax, state tax, federal tax, social security deductions, medicare deductions and disability deductions account for over 30%. If you are single and have no kids well bad luck, they will even deduct more! $200,000 also put you at a higher tax bracket, so you will pay even more! Texas however, has low taxes but their salaries are significantly lower.

knxpin:
The writer made some good points ,
White people don't give us a chance as long as you have
that black skin. Look at how they are trying to make caricature of President Obama. I know people with good Masters degrees here with experience that was laid off because a small white boy just graduated. You make $200000 a year and how much did you save at the end of the year? And I can confidently count how many times you sleep at home.so please don't start telling us what we know. It is better than Nigeria but people living in Nigeria enjoy more.

It may delight you to know that i personally think there are better opportunities in Nigeria than overseas. Read my comment again, I said the U.S is better than Europe in regards to opportunities to make more money. I didn't say I make $200,000, besides I clearly said "minimum" of $200,000 meaning you can easily make more than that. Unfortunately, the government will take its cut in taxes, but lets say you make $200,000 and pay tax of $60,000, you are left with $140,000. How many university graduates in Nigeria are taking home this much money every year? Sure you will have expenses like rent & bills to pay, but if you live within your means aren't you financially better off than your colleagues in Nigeria making N120,000 a month?
Now your quality of life may be somewhat poorer than your friends in Nigeria like you clearly said, you may be sleep deprived working all those overtime hours. If you are smart however, you would live below your means, save as much as you can, further your education and go back home to establish. You may not take home as much as you did in the U.S when you relocate but your quality of life will be better. No light? Get your own generator. No security? Get your own gate man. Bad water? Get your own borehole and water filtration. Life is what you make of it.

tonychristopher:
when they called Jonathan clueless u did not say this now Daura President is here

This isn't an issue about GEJ or Buhari!! You can call GEJ clueless or fisherman all you want, you can call Buhari snailbaba or President Buhari all you want, but be respectful of the Office of the President. Free speech has its limits

ellabooz:
Shut up there and hide your head in the cocoon of shame.

Hypocrite of highest order.

Please you can pass your points across as a civil adult, no need for the insults of name callings. There is no level of hypocrisy in what I wrote. The presidential office is the highest office of the land and it should be respected regardless of who's the president. I'm neither a fan of GEJ or Buhari. They are all politicians and I don't trust any of them.

Our educational system needs a major overhaul

tupem:
Hmn! just thinking! your moniker sounds like "yayi"!

What does yayi mean, or who is yayi?

All these scammers giving good men of God a bad rep, what a mess

OP please go and marry, all these "smallies" or prostitutes will only get u into trouble. I find it funny that you are warning your fellow johnnies on NL to beware of this scam tactic.

They already know whom they will 'fix' as the winner, just stop the charades. Or as Tuface would say "E be like say dem want to act another movie again o"

neocortex:
No chance those accused actually pocketed 8bn , they don't look like billionaires at all.
A more plausible scenario is that they are fronting for untouchable top executives.

Quite possibly

Money Talks

anytexy:
Are you a JJC? Or is it cos it is pmb? Where were you during GEJ?

I said "the president" meaning both present, past & future.

If he had a heart to steal billions, his heart should be strong enough to withstand prison. Please give him some blood pressure pills, he will be ok.

Its about time, well done.

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Electrostatic

It seems like no Nairaland comments section will be complete without somebody poking jokes at the president or depicting him in caricature. While this is indicative of our progress as a democratic society, sometimes however, it seems a bit much. Many of us may think we are just another username online so therefore we can post insensitive comments we wouldn't post if were to use our real names and real pictures. Don't run loose in this false sense of anonymity, these politicians have in their arsenals some of the best hackers and can fish out anyone if they are very determined to do so. I'm not saying you shouldn't exercise your freedom of speech, i'm all for that, but just be mindful of how you portray others online.

I'm glad OP made the distinction between obodo oyinbo and U.S. I'm not here to tell you that there's milk & honey flowing in the U.S or the streets are paved with gold, but I can confidently say you have better opportunities in the U.S than you do in Europe. Like anything in life, good information and the determination to make use of that information will make you very successful. Unfortunately, some Nigerians travel overseas and squander their opportunities. Or their so called relatives in the U.S never guide them because many of them made stupid mistakes by either studying the wrong courses in school or made poor choices ex fathering several babies and being tied to pay child support for many years to mention just a few.

Let me have this on record, if you happen to visit the U.S with a greencard, I can personally guide you towards earning an associate degree under 2-3yrs or bachelors within 4yrs all depends on how much credits you carry over. And if you are hardworking and live in the right state, willing to work overtime, you can easily start making a minimum of $200,000 a year. Look at my other posts, I don't sell ebook or give false hopes. Not every 'obodo oyinbo' is the same.

Your sexual orientation, your preference; some of them have a fetish for sex dolls, some of them have a fetish for animals, some even marry dead bodies. If you are straight, gay, transexual, bisexual, trisexual, or just confused pls show moral decorum when you are in public places. Perhaps the driver shouldn't have used a gay slur on them, westerners will call it 'discrimination' or 'hate crime', but still they shouldn't be smooching like that in his car haba!

ChelseaDr:
I dont think this will be a good advise for her. This may just be an isolated finding or observational studies but there is no randomized controlled trial to date to confirm this.

Again you know every drug (including paracetamol) is a potential poison. Haven said this, for how long will she continue taking the antiviral agent?

This may even pave way for resistance such that if she eventually becomes positive the anti-retroviral drugs may not be effective again thereby complicating her woes.

This is common practice, it is a prophylactic approach to starve off the spread of the virus. It's not an isolated approach; if you work in a hospital and you get stuck with a needle for example irregardless if the patient the needle was used on has HIV, hepatitis etc, you are immediately started on an antiviral regimen for several months.

This is really sad, its almost as if we are in a twilight zone watching this nation free fall into oblivion. Where do we even begin to turn things around?

Check it out

BKings:
My cousin's husband has been diagnosed with hiv. When I heard the news I put a call to her, asking her if she has it too but she said no. The man was first diagnosed +ve last november, after he became too weak and according to her, they took it as false because she was tested negative. March again this year, the man also tested positive but she negative. I then advised her to go for another test which she did few days ago and said it is negative. My question, is it possible for the man to have it and not pass it to her, or is she just lying in fear of stigmatization? She said she has stopped unprotected sex with him since last two months though, but how about other previous months they've been doing it raw. Doctors, experienced ones, please kindly say something. I'm really feeling bad

Believe it or not, it is very possible for someone to have intercourse with an HIV infected person and not contract the virus. There are very few people in this world whose genetic makeup prevents them from ever contracting HIV. There are also common cases of newborns of HIV infected women not carrying the virus. Also, I will advise your cousin to keep testing for the next 6 months, this may be a false negative. In other words, she might not have enough Viral Load for the test to detect right now, hence the false negative. She should also start taking antiviral medications right away, there have been studies that show this may help starve off the virulency of the virus in newly infected patients.

As always, prevention is better than cure, tell your cousin to continue with safe sex using condoms. No contraceptive is 100% fool proof except for abstinence of course, but condom provides a 98% prevention rate from contracting STDs if used properly. And if she finds out that she's infected, let her be at peace, HIV isn't the death sentence it used to be several years ago. Thanks to modern medicine, there are several antiviral medications she and her husband can take and still live a healthy lifestyle.

nice

God Bless Nigeria