Nigerian Suicide Bomber- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Its all over the news, BBC, CNN, ABC, FOX, you name it's on there. I am Nigerian born and at first hearing about the attempted suicide attack I thought it was someone just born in Nigeria but was of Middle Eastern decent. As the investigations continued on his name began clearer especially to my dad. "That's the name of the former chairman of First Bank", and he was indeed. Supposedly he had informed the U.S. Embassy of this prior to the event but there was no evidence on his son which is why they did not put him on the no fly list.

I'll post a link below if you'll like to read more on it. Personally this a major shock for me, embarrassed? Not really, but I foresee that Nigerians will now be at the butt of all Terrorist jokes, that's easy to laugh off, I do not pay attention to things like that. What puzzles me was how he did it! The man had matches for goodness sake! Firstly as the son of a rich and very known man, I feel that he may had bribed the workers or the workers did not pay much attention to him because of his image. It is very easy to bribe people at the airport. I went to Nigeria this summer, similar route and all, using KLM from Nigeria to Amsterdam, and Delta Airlines from there to New York City. The Murtala Muhammed International Airport is very unorganized, at least as of early August of 2009, signs are hard to locate, malfunctions are ever so prominent, and on top of that bribing is far worse in the airport than under the desk of government officials. Which equals to easy slip ups. What just puzzles me is how Amsterdam was able to miss it.

The Story from Telegraph News UK

What are your concerns about this ever so developing story?

Inroads Internships

If you're a minority by race or gender, a business related major and you've never heard of Inroads, oh boy oh boy are you missing out! This organization gives minorities a chance to work with top business firms all around the United States. Through connections with such companies like Goldman Sachs, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and even Avon, they match their applicants to internships all the while training them on proper business ethics and intense mock interviews.

How did I hear about it? Through a friend, his brother got an internship through inroads and from there he has a great job right now. If I was not so close to him I would have not learned about it. I immediately signed up for it and was called several months later. I had passed the paper part of the process, next would be a telephone interview, a surprise one to be exact. I later learned this at the orientation. During that time I had a mock interview, this was last month by the way, it was a group interview and I've never been so nervous in my life. So you could probably guess I bombed it! Mostly because I was not prepared, after that the lady all asked for individual interviews and did she have something to tell me! Firstly my dress was not the best. I came in almost fashionista diva status, like where was I going in Wall Street with a suede blazer, tight dress pants, and drop earrings! She let me know my dress was inappropriate. Nonetheless she gave me another chance since they were making cuts, so January 13 would be my interview. Wish me luck on that!

Links:

Inroads

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Goldman Sachs

So what was the point of this blog…?

First and foremost I'd like to apologize to those who have subscribed to this blog and do read it. I have not written on my blog for how long now? Roughly I'd say four months. Would you be surprised to say I kept up my spending habits? Yes you can! Now I'm close to $800 in debt and I'm freaking out!

Alright not really. $800? Right. Pshhh! No problem, I could handle that! Or so I say. To others, that may seem light, but to a college kid, that is a lot, unless you have some sort of income. Which sadly I do. I work two jobs on campus which is unfortunately New York States minimum wage of $7.25. But I a side job for about two months which brought in $10/hr. Now that's – as my friends and I like to call it – Guap! Throughout the semester I made permanents of about $100 a month and then some. But I saw it as an opportunity to use my credit card again since I had the mentality that I could easily pay it off.

Nonetheless this is a new beginning just in time for the New Year.