Callotti: I agree!
I am one of them!

Who say 'ashawo' nor be work?

Mu he he he he he he

abeg shut up jooor. with all ur degree, u no fit book simple appointment even though i'm a VIP customer? is that how to make money in the ashawo business? u shldn't be treating VIP customers the same way u treat regular customers!!

igbo2011: @Shymemex and @cap28
Hotep my fellow Pan African brothers. I se you guys know your history. Frantz Fanon, Diop, Ivan Sertima, Drusilla Houston, JA Rogers, Basil Davidson, Martin Bernal, all Africans need to read their books to rid ourselves from the inferioirty complex that the race has. We must also control the TV and not let any negative images of blacks onTV. We must also control the image of God and not let a white jesus in any church around Africa. We must ban the white image of Jesus and change it to a black Jesus or we should rid the religion in total and go back to spirituality (withou the ritual stuff).

The physical slavery is over now it is the mental slavery. Most of the black race is enslaved in the mind. We goto Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford and we can't even solve Africa's problems. It doesn't matter what we do in America or Europe, as long as Africa is he way it is then it is still bad. We need to WAKE UP!!! We need to rpresent Africa well. Buy Nigerian products clothes and when we are abroad weneed to be proud of where we came from. I started this site for a reason. www.nigerianedp.com so more people can use their money to build Nigeria. Like us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nigerian-Economic-Development-Plan/278164788911610

Ngozi Okonjo is a harvard educated but that means NOTHING unless she builds Nigeria. Her style of economics fits the world Bank and serves the west NOT Africa. THe harvards and Cambridges serve European style and teach about EUROPE!! Read the book miseducation of a negro by Carter G WOodson it is a MASTER PIECE. Negros are miseducated worldwide not just America.

@Shymmex I know many people put you down for trying to be proud of where you are but you should still keep trying to convince Africans to unite. We need to before it is too late and we are exterminated. THis century is te most important in our history. THe EUropeans may exterminate us when they need to rebuild their ciites after LA, CIcago, NY Londn and Paris get nuked by RUssi or China. Beijing and Shanghai can get nuked as well and the Chinese might come for our land. Look what they did to TIbet, they can do it to us as well. We need to WAKE UP! in the next 15 years or it will be our end.

@Cap28 You know alot about international politics, you neeed to tell more people not just on the internet. It is very important that people have nowledge of what is going on it Africa. Man people think that Obama is good for Africa even though he supports a puppet Joseph Kabila, he destroyed Libya and he helped to oust Gbagbo and put a pupet called Outtara Africas think because he is African then he is with them.

This was posted on a facebook page that I like: When Kofi Anan became the UN sec Gen,Africa was full of hope.When El baradie heads the IAEA,Africa was full of hope.When Obama won Africa was full of Hope.A Gambian to head the ICC,Afica started Hoping.When Okonjo became the world Bank MD,Africa hoped nd hoped.The new hope is the hope thet when she becomes the world Bank President Africa will be hopefull.My humble advice to all Africans is to end illusive dreams and take a cue from India,China,Brazil,Singapore,Malaysia,South Korea by only hoping on themselves and work hard to develop their countries..Africans must stop hope in western pupet!! drove out the west in Africa then start using your brain to develop yourself is not too late now #wake up Africa.

We must WAKE UP!!!

As usual u r on point bro I've been typing frm my fone as I cnt log on frm my pc since this new format was introduced thts why my posts r short and disjointed each time I try to log on I get this mssge saying 411 do u knw hw I cn resolve this bro?

cap28:
As usual u r on point bro I've been typing frm my fone as I cnt log on frm my pc since this new format was introduced thts why my posts r short and disjointed each time I try to log on I get this mssge saying 411 do u knw hw I cn resolve this bro?

Your IP address has been blocked. You can use anonymous IP, or login from a different IP.

I agree because,my hubby s doin his PHD there.....and i am into bizness 2

There are two sides to the article published herein. There is a difference between having an education and being educated. First and foremost, studying abroad is maybe the easiest route to obtain a visa to the US. once most people are in, they try everything possible to stay put, I am not trying to generalise here but a lot prefer to stay under the guise of acquiring more degrees. So people keep piling up certificates.
thus you come across Nigerians with pockets of degrees without any coherence in the sequence that such degrees are obtained.
Education is a profitable sector in the West and they have so structured it that most end up with a catch 22 situation. I ran into a fellow Nigerian whose taxi I boarded enroute work in NY,he is a Phd student who has delayed the submission of his final thesis just to remain in the US. When I asked him about his post Phd plans he simply relied thus Bros na to go for another qualification because na the only way to remain here be that. God bless Nigeria!

cap28:
As usual u r on point bro I've been typing frm my fone as I cnt log on frm my pc since this new format was introduced thts why my posts r short and disjointed each time I try to log on I get this mssge saying 411 do u knw hw I cn resolve this bro?

Seun miight have blocked yoiur ip as shymmex said. Ask him to unblock. Also try going on a different iip address. Maybe your friend or family member computer and see if it works there. Maybe even try to make. A new account to see if that works.

Often for the wrong reasons....
Thank God I'm following my passion. With my single bachelors, because I believe in achievements rather than wasting time stockpiling degrees, I have never been held back.
I've even been invited to work for RIM (in their prime) and Amazon. Real life experience in your career, especially in my field, beats "degrees" anyday.

I don't see the wisdom in giving schools more of my money, something I could use to do SERIOUS down payment on another house.
If I go for a post-grad degree, it would be for something I really want to do.

igbo2011:
Seun miight have blocked yoiur ip as shymmex said. Ask him to unblock. Also try going on a different iip address. Maybe your friend or family member computer and see if it works there. Maybe even try to make. A new account to see if that works.

Really though, the whole concept of blocking IP addresses is just stupid.
It's not like people browse the internet with static IPs. These things change.

@Shymexx, if you weren't explicilty banned, It's likely on the last IP reshuffle you were granted an IP address that previously belonged to someone that was banned.

Africans from Nigeria (89.1 percent), Ghana (85.9 percent), Botswana (84.7 percent), and Malawi (83 percent) were the most likely to report having a high school degree or higher. Those born in Cape Verde (44.8 percent) and Mauritania (60.8 percent) were the least likely to report having completed a high school education.

Nobody should gloat about it. Firstly, they constitute a very small segment of the population making it statistically insignificant. Secondly, most Africans here are children of elites who can afford to send their wards abroad while they close their eyes to the chronic educational problems at home. Still, I want to say, BRAVO Nigeria!!!!!!! Yes, you are far better than the perception accorded to you.

4 Foreign Science and Engineering Students in the United States
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TABLE 3. Foreign science and engineering students in U.S. higher education institutions, by region and selected
country/economy: Fall 2006–fall 2009
Region/country/economy Overall enrollment New enrollment
of citizenship 2006 2007 2008 2009 2006 2007 2008 2009
All regions/countries/economies 232,780 240,130 248,260 258,950 54,520 59,220 63,490 63,620
Asia 157,170 164,750 173,780 183,440 38,190 42,660 46,500 46,100
Bangladesh 1,390 1,320 1,370 1,560 250 290 390 450
China 38,960 41,450 45,620 53,740 8,440 10,670 12,960 16,200
Hong Kong 2,410 2,240 2,090 2,170 520 520 600 600
India 56,280 61,430 65,960 67,800 15,860 17,860 18,280 15,130
Indonesia 2,580 2,330 2,200 2,090 470 460 520 520
Japan 8,570 7,560 6,340 5,370 1,640 1,400 1,200 1,030
Malaysia 2,840 2,840 2,950 3,100 520 580 590 770
Nepal 4,060 4,830 6,050 6,080 1,390 1,500 2,080 1,350
Pakistan 2,430 2,200 1,980 1,910 480 430 390 410
Philippines 970 1,010 1,020 940 190 210 210 150
Singapore 1,480 1,410 1,360 1,410 350 360 340 380
South Korea 18,660 19,410 19,900 19,850 4,250 4,620 4,950 4,940
Sri Lanka 1,480 1,640 1,820 1,880 350 390 440 360
Taiwan 9,000 8,630 8,220 8,120 1,990 1,790 1,780 1,920
Thailand 2,390 2,280 2,140 2,130 410 450 490 490
Vietnam 1,850 2,260 2,770 3,150 560 660 770 820
Middle East 14,430 15,890 16,780 18,550 3,160 3,800 3,750 4,320
Iran 1,630 1,850 2,210 3,160 390 460 550 970
Israel 850 760 700 660 170 120 170 130
Jordan 870 890 920 930 170 200 200 190
Lebanon 1,010 910 850 780 210 180 190 160
Saudi Arabia 3,150 4,550 5,230 6,080 790 1,380 1,120 1,340
Turkey 5,430 5,400 5,160 5,010 1,110 1,120 1,090 1,080
Europe 20,700 19,650 18,630 17,900 4,530 4,360 4,480 4,300
Bulgaria 1,350 1,220 1,040 900 240 200 170 160
France 1,740 1,690 1,630 1,600 460 460 470 510
Germany 2,030 2,080 2,070 1,980 620 580 600 520
Greece 980 890 850 840 180 160 180 190
Italy 1,100 1,120 1,150 1,210 240 250 300 280
Poland 910 870 790 690 160 160 160 110
Romania 1,430 1,260 1,080 950 200 190 170 120
Russia 1,620 1,500 1,410 1,370 300 280 280 290
SSpai pain
Ukraine 700 660 600 570 90 110 100 120
United Kingdom 1,970 1,860 1,800 1,790 470 470 440 470
Africa 13,290 13,060 13,070 13,670 2,740 2,790 3,020 3,280
Egypt 710 730 730 790 170 150 160 170
Ethiopia 590 620 760 830 100 180 220 200
Ghana 1,260 1,210 1,260 1,210 220 290 320 270
Kenya 2,310 2,050 1,930 1,770 520 390 450 360
Nigeria 2,780 2,750 2,680 2,830 520 540 600 700
Central and South America 18,970 18,610 18,070 17,560 3,980 3,660 3,700 3,700
Argentina 880 780 690 590 160 90 110 110
Bahamas 790 740 760 760 180 180 210 190
Brazil 1,540 1,600 1,710 1,780 340 340 410 410
Colombia 2,140 2,130 2,080 2,060 400 430 400 420
Ecuador 710 670 650 620 160 130 130 130
Jamaica 1,520 1,480 1,380 1,270 330 290 270 250
Mexico 3,190 3,270 3,280 3,260 780 690 730 700
Peru 1,110 1,070 1,000 910 200 190 170 170
Trinidad and Tobago 1,380 1,260 1,120 990 280 220 210 190
Venezuela 1,270 1,190 1,150 1,150 230 230 220 230
North America 7,130 7,010 6,890 6,820 1,700 1,660 1,790 1,690
Canada 6,960 6,860 6,740 6,690 1,660 1,630 1,750 1,650
Oceania 1,060 1,070 1,010 990 210 240 240 240
Australia 600 620 600 610 130 170 160 170
Unknown 30 80 30 20 0 60 0 0

How has it bettered Our country? #Justsaying

This is a good news to hear.

ekt_bear: Hehe

The nature/nurture direction was kind of fun and interesting, but this "black power" turn...I always wonder why the must virulent pan-Africanist, black power types are preaching from London. Kind of cracks me up.

If you believe your message so much, quit your job in London and go teach in my town!

Talk is cheap bruh

if you have to wonder about this, then you may need some gingko biloba to amp your brain up . seriously though, if you live in nigeria, you are sort of in a vacuum. you dont see the whole picture. you tend to see the world from a half baked point of view and this point of view is what makes you (as most people in nigeria do) worship white people, have images of white jesus in your church, bow down to white expatriates in nigeria and treat them better than you treat your fellow nigerians. living in nigeria breeds a virulent form of self hate that is only manifested as soon as someone of a different race steps on the scene (could even be a lebanese or an indian or a chinese )and then you start seeing the coonery and buffoonery and subservience pop out.

however once you step out of nigeria, for once in your life, you get the full picture, you actually get to see people for what they really are. you see the caucsians and asians and whomever for what they really are. and any right minded person will develop a bit of militancy after that. all that coonery and shucking and jiving and subservience flies out the window. any man who loves a man who doesnt love him has to be mentally retarded on some level. even the bible says in ecclesiastes 7 vs 7 -OPPRESSION MAKES A WISE MAN MAD. who is oppressing the world ? the caucasians. so you are supposed to be mad. it is biblical.

Sooo? After all the gra-gra I see the educated Nigerians bettering their homeland don't they? Whatever abeg, people go just dey trip say dem carry diamond way nobody fit chop!

dridowu: Ds will surely increase by 2013 because i dy enta USA by january 2013

you will not make it. USA is about to eat russian and chinese missile. USA is about to be wiped off the map. prophesy.

buzugee: you will not make it. USA is about to eat russian and chinese missile. USA is about to be wiped off the map. prophesy.

You wan give me MAT with all these predictions of yours. You sabi cure am?

strangerf:

You wan give me MAT with all these predictions of yours. You sabi cure am?

wetin be MAT ? the thing that people sit on in nigeria ? can the prophesy be cured ? nah. this thing is being stirred by the lord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZSutX7c1Xc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHCG12xJXTc&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxep6sF8M0c

ISAIAH 13 VS 17 Behold, I will stir up the[b] Medes [/b]against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medes

notice how medes in the bible is iran in wikipedia. yeah we on the edge of world war 3

^
Alaagba Wooli Buzugee! W'sup bro

Obiagu1: A beg make we hear word. Na only book we sabi, after PhD we go end up in another man's company whereas Asians are creating business empires in North America.
Which one is more important? Employer or employee?

Nyc point!

Big ups naija!

Kilode?!:
^
Alaagba Wooli Buzugee! W'sup bro

Field Marshall Kilode. we dey ooooo. eku igbadun Sir

.....and see how that statistics reflects in our country's highly developed economy and modern infrastructure.

Cheap Talk.

37% of 100 = 37

9% OF 1000 = 90.

Why are we all jubilating. Have they told you the population of Nigerians compared to Americans. Abi are we saying Nigerians are now more than Americans in their own country? Percentage without a number attached to it is no value.

Pips take note.

"Being Black, you are already at a disadvantage," Oluyinka Olutoye, an associate professor of pediatric surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, told the Houston Chronicle. "You really need to excel far above if you want to be considered for anything in this country."

That's the big issue in Yankee, you end up with all the education working as professional laborer if you are even lucky, otherwise you end up as taxi driver.

i ll like to believe people with the negative comments are not Nigerians..

SEFAGO

If they are willing to accept International students who are African then discriminate against those who are british just because of tuition does not make sense at all.

^^Education and admission into the UK( higher Education) is far more complex[/b]than meets the cursory immigrant eyes lacking the sophistication and awareness of the inherent history/sociology of the place. Most Africans(Nigerians) lack basic understanding of the societies they find themselves hence we bumble along because we do not have the national cultural base or foundation for a cohesive worldview that guides our informed or uninformed actions anywhere we find ourselves.

Education in the UK has become a very big business [b]racket for the British government. If you have the 'dough' as a foreign/international student you're very welcomed if you can pay the very extortionate "overseas" fees upfront. Education in the UK has always been very economically based, elitist/class based and highly politicised. It's truly "OLD" Europe
Most local(British) students these days are abandoning higher education because of the "market" forces governing tuition fees and living expenses for the local British prospective student desiring college or university education. It has become a luxury for most local students hence choices are very limited especially for the poorer immigrant community of the UK(Nigerians) included. As a matter of fact British(White) students are now seeking admissions into universities abroad in countries like Poland, Czech republic, the rest of Europe etc because of the "politics" of education in Britain. Education policy in Scotland is very different from England and it is cheaper or subsidised for Nationals only.
British Education has always been elitist and was designed as such originally before it was expanded to appear "inclusive" to the uninformed/uneducated eye and mind. Please we should not outrightly condemn or malign their system. It's a product of a very powerful Imperial Nation and people who know their "Purpose and Mission" in life/ the "world" where the sun never sets for King and country(Empire). The history and purpose of British education makes for interesting reading indeed . Immigrants were never intended to be part and parcel of the equation of[b] real [/b]British society. America would be relatively open and inclusive but we know the history, size and the social dynamics of the place hence it's very futile to compare the Uk to the USA.
Nigerians have excelled in practically every sphere of "Academia" or "education" but are we not getting over ourselves by thinking that "literacy", "education"(highly-certificated persons)etc is the same as being a truly Educated person?. Perhaps this is where much of our so called 'national' problems lye. Education to the Nigerian is basically another "consumer" item or accessory or truthfully a "Meal" ticket for survival and nothing more, hence we are very static or underdeveloped because our understanding of what Education really means is lost to us unlike the Chinese, Indian or Arab. Education is beyond mere "Meal" ticket. The British like the rest of the West and the Asians understand the full concept and importance of "proper" national education for sustainability of their civilisation/nation. Education is actually about warfare in its true sense not just about meal tickets hence Africans never really excel or transform anything but job hunters more than any other group anywhere home or abroad. We do not yet understand that the world is in competition(War) and we are not yet a nation let alone planning or thinking about proper Education for self/nationhood either. We are just mere lone rangers bumbling along in the world full of hyenas.

The analysis of the Nigerian system by StrangerF, PhysicsQED and Kilode?! are very on point.

Nebeuwa: This brought a smile to my face, because I am included in this survey.

We are the true "Model Minority" in the United States, but we never get credit. Asian Americans are always considered the "Model Minority," but Nigerian Americans are consistently achieving degrees at a higher rate than any other group in the United States.

I think race may play a role, because the media always want to portray black people as not valuing education.

the whole of you including yourself in such survey and getting proud about it are all fools...soon it will be dawned on you to realise that where ever you are as long as its not your home, you will always take what they give to you...and for you to be complaining about been credited like the asians, then u are a bigger fool...cos even a blind deaf and dumb man knows how the asians have been impacting developments in their countries and communities. who will give you respect when all u do is to study there and at the end refuse to go back home..or even if u are staying there make the best of it...but instead u prefer staying to fight for menial jobs and be wanting them to respect you just like that...and when u go back to nigeria, u wont try to calm down but be bragging all out as if you own the poor country u left nothing good for not even a reputation. Stop all these rubbish about being credited over there and make the best of urself and for people around you...first u should see how the asians have been setting up companies and be employing themselves out there. For u,...u'll want to have all to yourself, big names, titles etc and at the end level zero

A few points to note

I think it will be proper to respect the choice of people to decide whether they want to come back to Nigeria or migrate to resettle in another part of the world. There are consequences for either actions.

So much for the Afrocentrism, however, many have fought from within only to be eliminated by their own people. Sometimes the doctrines of afrocentrism and socialism are so muddled up while western imperialism is so demonized whereas history has it that many if not most socialist experiments have failed its proponents the world over, whereas the west was imperializing asia in the 50s/60s/70s only for the tide to be turned on the West now.

Much beyond e-rhetoric, we need to admit that there is something that Africans are getting wrong. And we cannot keep blaming every other race except ourselves. Nobody will treat you as an inferior except you allow him/her.... And this is for both the black leader and follower to ponder on....

shymmex:

Your IP address has been blocked. You can use anonymous IP, or login from a different IP.

igbo2011:

Seun miight have blocked yoiur ip as shymmex said. Ask him to unblock. Also try going on a different iip address. Maybe your friend or family member computer and see if it works there. Maybe even try to make. A new account to see if that works.

Thanx guys how do u email seun direct to get him to unblock?
All I have access to r these nl email addresses that nevr respond to ur queries