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Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 11:14pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Raiders: You need to learn to accept small truths. Meanwhile, the boundless opportunities before me here I can only see in dreams in Africa 2 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 11:19pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
black247: At least you agree with everything I said. Thank you. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by citizenY(m): 11:26pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
spectroscopic: Oho!!!! dem say antelope no go born pikin make pikin no jump. Enjoy!!! Feel free to come back when with the few dollars you can harvest and the yankee twang. |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Raiders: 11:30pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
spectroscopic:There is opportunity everywhere in the world. Not only in the US. No doubt, US is great country but it also have its problem. There are many Nigerians who once lived in the west but decided to relocate to Nigeria and became succesfull. People like Mike Adenuga, MI, Dbanj and many more. You can make it anywhere in the world. I just don't like people putting Nigeria. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Raiders: 11:30pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
spectroscopic:There is opportunity everywhere in the world. Not only in the US. No doubt, US is great country but it also have its problem. There are many Nigerians who once lived in the west but decided to relocate to Nigeria and became succesfull. People like Mike Adenuga, MI, Dbanj and many more. You can make it anywhere in the world. I just don't like people putting Nigeria down 2 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 11:32pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Raiders: You are the one reducing this to Nigeria. My focus was mainly on Africa. Point to me any thing I wrote there that's incorrect. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by oduastates: 11:33pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Welcome to the club. Got mine a few year ago but am back in odua states. I never shy away from flogging my friends whenever they paint an optimistic and rosy future for the animal called Nigeria. Nigeria is worse than a jungle. Jungles have rules. A country were banning Street trading is being elitist to the masses. A country where enforcing environmental laws is being heartless. I have travelled widely in my time. There is an innocence common to all the places I have been. That innocence is necessary to build an healthy nation. Nigeria has lost hers. The country is doomed to fail completely. 8 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 11:43pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
oduastates: I understand your position. I too, I have traversed the globe and seen first hand how countries are run. Still, I will not give up on motherland, I will not wish any African country ill. 1 Like |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Nobody: 11:43pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Congrats on your American P, i hope you find happiness with it . Some of us still love naija though. Green all day, everyday. E pain me say your piece is littered with truths but we won't give up. Naija go better. 6 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by davitogreat(m): 11:48pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
spectroscopic: Americans and other citizens of developed countries complain but at least they contribute their quota to the development of their country and when the situation arises they will defend their country's with their lives. Many africans on the other hand don't do shyt. they only know how to cry and complain and hide in foreign lands, but guess what... While africans are b.itching and hiding in foreign lands, foreigners like the chinesse, Indians, Europeans and Arabs are doing thier research and making inroads into the african continent and establishing businesses and acquiring wealth. Let me tell you. Forget the nigerian government for a minute. Right now there are so much opportunities in nigeria. If only privileged Nigerians like the thread starter could have thier eyes opened to it. After all the CEO and founder of interswitch Mitchell elegbe is someone who schooled and lived in America, but unlike thread starter he saw the opportunities in nigeria and decided to return to the country and with his limited business knowledge he established interswitch ltd which contributes to the nations economy and employs thousands of Nigerians. The truth is my anger is more focused towards the privileged Nigerians like the thread starter. If a poor nigerian man hawking on the street, or a market woman struggling to survive said this I would not blame them, but when someone who is privileged and educated like the thread starter begins to think like this considering the wealth of knowledge he has available then something is wrong. 6 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Raiders: 11:48pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
spectroscopic:maybe you should write about the problems your new country is facing like over 30,000 Americans are killed from Gun violence, the killing of unarmed black mens by the police, there are more black men in prison than in colleges and university. Black earn less than whites, the proverty and unemployment rate of blacks is twice that of whites because whites are more likely to be employed by a recruiter. The US justice system is biased to blacks than whites. Leave Africans to solve our problems because you are now a US citizen. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 11:55pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Raiders: Typical Nigerian, always seeking comfort from the truth. Okay! Go ahead with your childish comparison of Ame and Naija. But note that I only just became an American citizen today. Just yesterday, I was a Green Card holder, but with that card, I probably have done more for Nigerians in Nigeria than most people in Nigeria. Don't you forget that I am also a Nigerian citizen. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Raiders: 12:01am On Oct 31, 2014 |
spectroscopic:I didn't say Africa is better than US. Im just trying to say that US has problems just like Africa. Your article is onesided. Anyway, Congrats. 1 Like |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by zeongeon: 12:11am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Raiders:His article is not one sided his article is the truth...the whole world knows that US is better off than Nigeria in many ways...ur talking about guns killing pple in US..please do u know how many pple are killed by poor health system/facilities in nigeria; go to govt hospitals and see what is happening there eg giving birth to baby using lantern, bad roads, insecurit and environmental pollution all cos of government neglect what can be worse than a government killing its pple ...Talking about the US justice system what justice have been done to bring our corrupt leaders to book? how many corrupt leaders have gone to prison...let's stop deceiving ourselves that other countries have there problem and as such we should turn blind eyes to ours. The truth is that if a Nigerian citizen stands and a US citizen stands, the US citizens is likely to me more respected and feared WHY? because they have a working government...But as a Nigerian u can be molested and treated like crap WHY? Becos d whole world knows how crap our government is they know our government don't give a hoot about its citizens. 12 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Pangea: 12:50am On Oct 31, 2014 |
@ Op Why are you wasting your time , trying to educate the idiots? Reading almost all the response, I can deduce that, all hope is lost for the country if this is the mindset of an average Nigerian! For a change to happen, one must first agree, there is a problem. The people in the zoo called Nigeria has adapted to their problems instead of going out of their way to bring solution or a change! They are like the Cypher in the movie - The Matrix, who opined that "Ignorance is bliss" They prefer the illusion rather than the reality ! The OP has just painted the reality, but what do we get, the cyphers of Nigeria, throwing tantrums because once again they have been yanked out of their illusion! 11 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 1:12am On Oct 31, 2014 |
davitogreat: The Africans who ruined the continent are not those who ran away (according to you), but are among those who remain there to run it down. True or false? 5 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by millos: 1:19am On Oct 31, 2014 |
YungwizzzyPt7: And that's exactly what the writer is saying. Wake up from your slumber. Africans need help, expecially people like you who live in the past. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by millos: 1:22am On Oct 31, 2014 |
davitogreat: Seriously!!! there's no hope for this people. You guys need to visit other countries before engaging in an argument with the op. Indian's are everywhere yet their country is developing. Wake up morons 2 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 1:23am On Oct 31, 2014 |
millos: With the way he sounded, one is persuaded to ask if he even has a past. He is just floating around; no past, hardly any present, and of course, no future. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by millos: 1:25am On Oct 31, 2014 |
spectroscopic: God bless your heart!! There's light at the end of the tunnel with people like you. 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by millos: 1:27am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Raiders: What's this one saying 2 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by millos: 1:37am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Pangea: You couldn't have said it better. Thank you 3 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by brainpower(m): 1:41am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Congrats @OP for your new citizenship. But the reason why there are so many criticisms here is not because you made progress and they are hating, but cos it seems you deliberately waited till now to rub it on their faces and knowing Nigerians no mattter how stupid you claim we are, we always try to defend ourselves. All in all, you made some good points. These have always been our problems in Africa especially Nigeria. We are too conservative yet we want to be liberal. Tim Cook just came out to say he's gay but I expect Nigerians to stop using iphones since we have banned being gay. Not to get me wrong, I'm not gay at all and infact I don't see the sense in it but I'm talking about the hypocrisy where we want to be like America overnight but don't want to take the necessary steps. We want to move from 0 to 10 without going tru the other numbers that make them up. If we want to move forward then we must stop our "religious and ethnic bigotry". If we settle these two problems, then Nigeria will definitely move forward. We are hard working people and all we need is a level playing ground where you can go and invest at kano without fear. Imagine Ghana mapping out a particular part for Nigerian traders different from the normal market cos the Ghanians don't want us and we claim we are brothers. Anyway, I believe in "luck at home". Not that having what you have isn't good but this country has potentials and I intend tapping it from here. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by BUSHIDO5: 1:54am On Oct 31, 2014 |
black247: My man, your eyes are open. You are my kind of Nigerian. I school in England, I have been here for 5 years now and I can tell you that virtually not a day goes by without some caucasian idiot calling me a me or a friend of mine (a beautiful Ethiopian girl) a monkey. Spectroscopic will learn in America, don't worry. Over here in England, Africans possessing Masters and Doctorate degrees work as ordinary labourers in warehouses and are bossed around by oyibo secondary school leavers and even uneducated fellow warehouse labourers who are not their supervisors. O boy, black man is at the bottom of the totem pole over here o. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by tpia6: 1:57am On Oct 31, 2014 |
pix or it never happened. |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Nobody: 2:06am On Oct 31, 2014 |
EroticAngelina:He has dual citizenship. Can't you read abi na adult school you go |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Nobody: 2:12am On Oct 31, 2014 |
zeongeon:That's what i don't understand. The same people condemning the OP are the same active ones on nairaland travel section finding a means of jetting out to the US by queuing at the embassy as early as 3 am in the morning. Some even cry when they deny them ordinary non-immigrant visa. OP, congrats on your citizenship and for not also rejecting your nigerian nationality despite all the troubles and challenges in Nigeria. Do I need to say next to petrodollars, the second biggest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria is remittance from Nigerians from abroad. ''FOREIGN aids and Diaspora remittances are key relief to poor Africans. While foreign aides have stagnated in recent years, remittances become the financial lifeline, which, unlike the former, places money directly in the hands of those in need. But it is being threatened by extortionist fees charged by money transfer operators (MTOs). The planned tougher regulations of the channels, suspected to have been explored to fund terrorists, is now a source of nightmare to beneficiaries. In 2012, Africans received $32 billion from their sons and daughters abroad. The 17 million officially documented Nigerians in the Diaspora funneled a whopping sum of $21 billion to the country as against the $23 billion they sent in 2011. With growing Diaspora communities in Europe, America and Asia, the figure is growing tremendously.'' http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/business/177970-diaspora-remittance-africa-s-billion-dollar-loss-to-intermediation |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by Nobody: 2:23am On Oct 31, 2014 |
BUSHIDO5:You can lie. The same England I lived in for some years where I met Nigerian doctors, nurses, VP's in investment banks, Soldiers, Policemen, Lecturers, business owners, pharmacist, Engineers, Entertainers, labourers e.t.c Are you an illegal immigrant cos those are the ones i know white people of the BNP stock call monkeys. 2 Likes |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 2:35am On Oct 31, 2014 |
Duplicated |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by spectroscopic: 2:43am On Oct 31, 2014 |
BUSHIDO5: You have only been in The UK 5 years and you are talking about me learning? Before you get a US passport , you would have lived in the US at least 3-5 years with a green card and several years prior, with a visa, the number of years depending on your entry visa, family and educational status. And I'm not talking of visa lottery winners. Being discriminated on the basis of race depends on many cases, on your level, especially for new immigrants (different from the original Afr Ames who see race in everything). By God's grace, I came into this country already well qualified, academically and professionally, and so my job has always been at the top level. I have white people working under me. Just saying this to rebuff the notion of racism by default for all Africans. If you are an illegal immigrant or non-contributor to the development of their society, of course they will despise you. Note that the US is more welcoming and integrated than anywhere else in the world |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by black247: 2:53am On Oct 31, 2014 |
BUSHIDO5: You are my kind of Nigerian!! And you are my brother for sure - a wide awake man! You know a truth that is global - a truth that we will never escape...until we ALL come together, they will continue to destabilize us wherever we are..for surely there is no where to hide! They kill us in different ways, in different places..but they kill us all the same! So sorry to hear about the racial abuse you and your sister friend are experiencing! I am glad you were bold enough to speak the truth because it wont come as such a surprise - because it is a different type of poison ..racism..it really and truly is!! You stay strong my brother - and when you and your sister are ready to come back home, we will have the door open - ready for your new ideas! We will be waiting! I am trying to work on some thing now! We will rebuild Africa. |
Re: I Received My US Citizenship Today And I'm Unburdening My Heart About Africa by black247: 2:55am On Oct 31, 2014 |
spectroscopic: Racism exists my friend, you being able to employ whites at various stages in your stay there doesnt negate the very TEMPORARY grounds that you stand on in a white mans land. But, like Bushidos said - you will see. 1 Like |
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