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abeylevels:
Hello @justwise, @2n2k, @ askari, @whytegirl and nairalanders,
please there is a part in the visa form asking this question:

Tell us about work for the following types of organisation:
1)Armed Forces (including compulsory national or military service)
2)Government (including Public or Civil Administration and compulsory national service)
3)Media organisations
4)Security organisations (including police and private security companies)
5)Judiciary (including work as a judge or magistrate)

For most graduates who have done NYSC, does question No2 apply?

Please your answers.

To be frank, I found that question tricky also. In my first application years ago when we used to hand fill application, I put NYSC but since then, for no reason at all, I would just click NO. Graduate members of my family have been doing the same and no one has been denied visa.

By the way, where does a corper that served in a military school fall? Can someone who did his nysc in a bank claim government- public or civil administration?

Though I have not tried it, you may click yes and see whether a sub-window opens to give you room to explain in detail what nature of national service you did and where.

opomulero:
2n2k Thank you, better still i can book hotels that allows to payment at the hotel and allow cancellation like 2-3 dayy before arrival @ least with this confirmation by the hotel will still be ok and they wont charge the card until dt 2-3 days b4 arrival so i can cancel incase the decision on the visa came out the other way round.......... Am i making sense

Yes, though at a higher price than advance purchase option but less risky.

opomulero:
@2n2k THANK you and GOD Bless, so so informational.

Please do you have any idea on the following question:

(1) Is it a must i make hotel reservations and flight booking before i applying for UK standard Visitor Visa.

+++ Because i saw in the required documents that flight and hotel bookings should not be sent in with the application+++
....... so i am thinking that i dont need to book them, and i will tick the appropriate box that i havent made any accommodation
and flight bookings.........

The advisory by the UK visa office is that reservation should be made for hotel and flight but should not be paid for until you get the visa. This is an economic advice especially if your bookings are non-cancellable.

Well as for me and my households, for all the time that we have applied and got uk visa, we booked and paid for hotel (mostly through agoda and non-cancellable because of the discount) and the flight long before we even applied. We stated the hotel address as our address in uk in the visa form and attached the booking voucher. The same applied to the air ticket. There was never a time that the TLS official rejected the documents though I wouldnt know if the embassy took them into consideration in approving our applications.

opomulero:
@2n2k
assuming you are sponsuring your spouse, which document will be provided by your spouse if she is working (not a full house wife)

Note that my answers below are applicable if you are using the 'new service' on gov.uk not the 'old format' on visa4uk

According to the Guidelines on Supporting Documents published by the British visa authority, if the applicant being sponsored has his/her own source of income, it should be stated in the income section and supported by documents even where he/she will not be responsible for the trip expenses.

Then in the section for who is responsible for the trip, he/she will state that the trip is to be sponsored and state the particulars of the sponsor and answer the reason why the sponsor is responsible for the trip. He/she will still provide documents on financial capability of the sponsor.

Note that where the sponsor and the sponsored are applying together as a family, you won't provide separate set of the sponsor's documents for the sponsored. E.g. Your bank statements/title documents will be attached to your application while her own will be attached to hers even though she would have stated that you are her sponsor, she doesn't need to provide a separate set of your bank statements in that circumstance of same-time applications. Your documents cover her sponsorship claim but she must still provide her personal income documents if she has own source of income.

Under the 'new service', you don't technically apply as a family as such. Each of you will fill separate forms on gov.uk and pay individually and also get separate GWF. When choosing interview time on gov.uk, make sure each of you choose the same date and time.

After that, you are required to go to TLS website to create an account. This is where FAMILY comes in. The principal applicant will create one account for himself and will be required to enter the particulars of himself and other members of the family traveling and applying together with him including their GWFs. Fill and validate. From that time on, you are treated as a family and they will be putting all your documents in one jacket and processing your application as a group.

He surely lost heavily in 2008/2009 oil price crash and that made him drop off the list of Forbes billionaires then

What helped him bounce back rather quickly was his tight friendship with GEJ who by providence became president in 2010.
Otedola was one of the very few businessmen that publicly associated with GEJ while he was vice-president against politically-correct position of not being the friend of an 'enemy' of Turai and her cabal even while Yar-Adua was still alive.

GEJ rewarded the loyalty even after Otedola forfeited a chunk of his assets to AMCON

emmasege:
APC and their subtle Islamic agenda sha. Na so we for get numbers 1, 3, 4 & 5 citizens as all Muslims if not for the divine intervention that scuttled their plan and enthroned Dogara, a northern Christian as number 4 citizen. They will always hide their Muslim names & identity until a time as now when they would've got they wanted e.g. Femi Gbajabiamila & Abike Dabiri. I'm not against anyone's religion but always come out in your true colours so people can be well informed of their choice. Not many southerners knew Femi & Abike were Muslims until recently.

If you had known that they were Muslims, what would give?

nkemdave:
Thanks for ur comment.
I would like to be clarified the more on my question B.
As earlier stated by u, the National ID card last for 5 years afterwhich it is due for renewal. My question is, if after using National ID for 5 years (with the ATM functions activated on it), and u acquired a new card, are to go the bank a second time to reactivate the ATM functions on the new card?

Activation of ATM function is not a tedious task. As part of collection process, you would have part-activated the card in NIMC office by providing PIN (4 digits) of your choice on their machine. After that, you go to any access bank ATM (for now) to either change the pin and/or generate IPIN.

I think it is logical to expect the same process to be followed on renewal since the PAN of the card (the 16 digits on the card) will not be the same as the replaced one just like normal ATM card.

Also note that the ID card is not linked to your bank account unlike your ATM card. It is just a prepaid card. If you want to use it as ATM card, you must load it with the amount you want by going to Access bank and deposit desired amount into it using the PAN of the card as account number.

nkemdave:
OP, here are some questions I would like u to treat on.
(a) how long does NIMC card last before renewal.
(b) If Debit is being renewed on three years interval, does it mean that a person is to be visiting the bank on three year interval for renewal too.

A) National ID card last 5 years before renewal but your NIN is lifetime
B) Renewal of the national ID card every 5 years is done at NIMC offices not in a bank! The issue of bank activation comes in because the ID card has facility to be used as Atm card among other functions. This is optional not compulsory. If you want to use it just as ID without the Atm capability, you don't need to activate that function and the bank will therefore not be involved.

Viccur:
Ok. I used 'temporary' cos that was what they(the officials) called it when i was given. Sometimes when i am asked to present my ID card institutions like bank they vehemently turned down the paper maybe it's nt really recognised. That was why i tagged it 'useless'.

I understand. The officials misled me too. On the day I went to collect the ID card, I went with the paper but they said it wasn't needed. After collecting the ID, I tore the paper only to realize that the ID card has no NIN visibly written.

Now I don't even know my NIN. Last time I wanted to input my NIN in a form, I put the ID document number which was rejected by the computer as not being in NIN format

Viccur:
Having registered since 2013 yet i dnt have the card. I only have the temporary one which is useless. Nonsense pple

What you have is not temporary one but the paper containing your National Identification Number (NIN). Allocation and management of NIN is actually the core function of NIMC and it is a lifetime identification of a citizen like social security numbers abroad.

Identity card is self-explanatory. It is renewable every 5 years. However, note that NIN that is meant to identify you for life is not visibly written anywhere on the national identity card though embedded in the chip for data machine to read. Thus if you are asked to lawfully provide your NIN, the national ID card may be useless in such situation.

So keep that 'temporary' paper which you called useless very safe.

mccoy47:
Who snap dem?

You 'beated' me to the question.

Aspireahead:
let me inform you. The Hague judgement was advisory; OBJ just rushed to implement it because Bakassi is not his hometown. The Greentree agreement entered between Nigeria and Cameroon allows them to choose if they would stay in Nigeria, those who remained in Cameroon were haunted and killed by the Gendarmes the once in Nigeria had no home but hunger.

The judgement of Hague Court is not advisory. It is the duty of the UN Security Council to implement it and force compliance if necessary. It is in furtherance of that duty that the Security Council backed the France's initiative to peacefully implement the judgement through the Greentree treaty. Nigeria being non-aligned, was (and is still) not in a position to take on the world powers.

The Sun Nigeria newspaper too used to be creative in those days.

I remember when El-rufai reported that Mantu as deputy senate president demanded bribe for him to be confirmed as minister. The Sun headline was "DISMANTUED"

Pavore9:
The Appeal court delivering judgement on someone defaulting on a legally binding agreement since 2009 means operation crush all dissenting voice. If you have a property just make sure tenants defaulting on their rents are not shown the way out even through the court because if you do, you sure know what you are!

Don't mind them. The annoying part is the Thisday Dome is not even an office but a plot of land on which he erected a tent-like canopy which he uses as commercial event centre in the central business district. Because of its central location, it is well patronized for shows, conferences and launchings for which he charges millions. Yet he virtually had the place free since 2010.

Dammy112:
So are you saying its better to use the new service,I tried it and it seem totally different and straightforward from the old one.

Any suggestions.

As you said, it is more 'straightforward' as it removes confusing questions.
However, bear in mind that the UK authorities did not say it will confer special advantage on the applicants using the new service over the old one.

justwise:
That is just speculation, when you say that application made in that centre can not be handle outside Nigeria i thought you have a very strong evidence to back that up

You have evidence that applications submitted in VI are treated in UK while that of Ikeja are treated in Nigeria
I limited my intervention to general visit visas

FrontPageLawyer:
Yes you can, except you're doing the wrong thing.

Also note that all applicants applying for a visit visa who are aged under the age of 18 at the time of application should select the “Special Visitor – Child” category when making their visa application. They should not apply as a General Visitor or Family Visitor. Failure to comply with this may result in delays in processing their application.

This is applicable if you are using 'old' visa portal - www.visa4uk.fco.gov.uk

If you apply using the 'new service' - www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration, The Standard Visitor visa has replaced the following
Family Visitor visa
General Visitor visa
Child Visitor visa
Business Visitor visa, including visas for academics, doctors and dentists
Sports Visitor visa
Entertainer Visitor visa
Prospective Entrepreneur visa
Private Medical Treatment Visitor visa
Approved Destination Status (ADS) visa

I observed that most posters are still using the old service. That is why questions are asked about " How much do you have for this trip?" Or "What is your monthly income in pound sterling?". All these confusing questions have been removed from the form in the new service. Also, they removed questions about breakdown of the costs of vacation into flight, hotel etc. Just the total is required.

If you are using the new service (which gives drop down choices of pound or naira), it is advisable in the light of floating exchange rate to state your annual income (which is what is asked for) as well as monthly routine expenses in naira while the cost of your stay in UK is better stated in pound sterling after all that is what you are going to spend there. With this method, you won't bother if naira suddenly take a dive while you have used a particular forex rate.

It should be noted that under new service you cannot make multiple applications on one account (e.g. applying for members of family). What you will do is to make separate applications under separate accounts on www.gov.uk. After that, you go to Teleperformance website to create a single account and add all the other members of the group using the GWF generated from the gov.uk site. Infact it is a must that all members of a family traveling together must use the same account on Teleperformance if they are applying at the same time.

I used the new service for my family and I. Our visas came out within 5 days in Abuja- did biometrics on Monday, received decision mail on Thursday, collected passports on Friday. No priority added value service.

justwise:
Do you have any evidence to support that?

What evidence are you asking for? I gave the logic behind that statement immediately after the statement.

It was a response made in the context of the point raised by the person I quoted; that some agents believe that decision on visas submitted in VI is handled in the UK while those submitted in Ikeja are handled in Nigeria.

It surely does not mean that visa applications are not made in other countries outside Nigeria. Context matters

lexyj123:
Thank you bro, i have eventually been to the teleperformance office at ikeja, met with some agent , made some enquiry. tho they are things i can handle myself.

interestingly and funny, some of the agent believes ikeja collections are treated in lagos with assistance of some individuals who understand our country more , thereby the high success rate . And that the V/I centre collections are treated in UK where our African ways are not well understood. please how true are these statements?

Visa applications especially for general visit visa cannot be handled outside Nigeria. While you fill the form online, supporting documents are hard copies. So how will they take such physical documents to UK and return them within a week

Lagos especially VI get delayed because of many numbers of applicants. Note that over 70% of applicants get decisions within 5 working days if you apply in Abuja while less than that percentage get decisions within a whooping 10 working days in Lagos (Ikeja and VI)

Cameron has no choice, he had to resign as he just did. In parliamentary system of government bring practiced by UK, once the government is defeated on major policy issue, the government collapse. It doesn't even have to be by a referendum, a majority vote in the parliament against his major policy will see him out.

This is unlike presidential system in US or Nigeria. If obamacare had failed in the congress, it wouldn't require Obama to quit but such major policy defeat in UK will end the career of the prime minister. The same apply to the recent defeat of Obama immigration policy in the Supreme Court.

lexyj123:
Hello house, i have always been on canada thread.

Am about to build travel history by applying for UK visiting visa, my cousin invited me.

i just heard about Teleperformance and about 216 dollars application fees instead of the usuall 142 dollar.

i heard ikeja centre Gives Visas Generously than V/I, how true are these.

Again what and what should i be careful of? thank you in advance.

1. UK visit visa is $132 not $142
2. The extra $84 is because Ikeja is a pay-to-use centre which you can avoid if you choose V.I.
3. Teleperformance does not issue visa, it is just a customer-facing application processing centre like VFS for onward transfer to the consulate for decision. Therefore, Ikeja centre which is run by them cannot generously give visa because that is the responsibility of the UKBA.
4. It may appear that patrons of Ikeja centre succeed more because they are likely to be more qualified for visa in the first place because of the financial status of most of them
5. Given the sheer number of patrons of VI, it follows that number of failures there must also be more than that of Ikeja and Abuja.

Whichever centre you choose, don't panic. Just be truthful in your application. If you sincerely believe that you deserve being given the visa, the ECO will believe so too.

awa:
This is just a result of demand. The Abokis are currently on fasting exercise thereby dropping demand relatively.
Therefore price adjustment isn't an uhuru sign

Demand for foodstuffs in the north is higher during Ramadan than any other period

fados4sure:
Is Kano not Nigeria?

If you live in the north, you will know that all these banned goods are only complied with in the south, not in the north.
Be it furniture, rice, turkey, vehicles, etc, they come in regularly and easily through northern borders and openly displayed that you begin to wonder who the ban help

kenny987:
I always ask what the business of governance is with religious obligations that people who voluntarily fast for whatever reason have to be fed by the government!

Critical sectors are left to rot and decay yet Nigerians leaders, full of religious sentiments and hypocrisy come to display distasteful benevolence with public funds for totally unproductive purposes. These northern thieves always do this to keep their people perpetually subjugated and have a ready, brainwashed and ignorant army of illiterate almajiri miscreants to do their dirty jobs.

A developing country with purpose and direction which are in short supply here, should not have any business spending scarce resources on religion. Leave pilgrimage, ramadan, construction of mosques etc to private individuals. The role of government oght to be enactment n enforcement of laws that guarantee peace, tranquillity and absolute respect for human rights in the practice of any religion.

Just imagine this obscene picture and they are quick to tag it ramadan money just to whip up religious sentiments. 20 whole million down d drain! This is why regional autonomy and resource control is needed so as regions generate their revenue, they can decide to consume all on religion and stomach infrastructure!

Why won't NDA keep up their fight when they can see oil money being wasted on a terrorist religion!

What states in the south-south and south-east spend on state-organized Christmas carols (with live tv transmission) and Christmas trees far surpass this. It is the same oil money which Ebonyi, Anambra, Enugu and Cross-river don't currently officially derive that is spent on that.

The way states in south-south and south-east are mono-religious is the way many states in the north are. Your priority does not have to be their priority. You made a good point in your penultimate paragraph though.

Etinosajay:
So instead of enlightening me about what I don't understand, you preferred to court controversy.

Is that how you guys reason these days?

For your information, I asked a question to stimulate educative discuss, and not to argue tribe and religion with the op.

If you're not going to answer with reasonable tendencies, pls desist from quoting me. No be quarrel.

At first glance, I didn't see your initial post as questions rather I read (wrongly?) insinuations about the link between the religious injunction that the OP referred to and terrorism especially since some posters before you appeared to be more concerned about the religious reference than the outcome of the OP investigation.

Peace.

Etinosajay:
@rapcy

I'm curious about a certain line in your write up. The shaidar zuhr law.

So who carries out this severe punishments? Human or God?

Isn't this another case of giving impetus to zealots and fanatics to unleash mayhem on people they decide has flouted such law?

I'm writing this and imagining that Omar mateen (the Florida shooter) may have been motivated by a similar law.

Does Exodus 20 v16 (the 9th commandment) motivate terrorists to attack?

kolaaderin:
check the lady with camera in picture 4, she is also present in picture 9 wearing the same cloth. Hatred from that guy is second to non.

Ok. You are right with the link between the pics

Fedayeen02:
nonsense. Those 143 naira have a pump that will give you half of a litre

Not necessarily. Azman oil in Gwarinpa sell at N143 and they perhaps have the best pumps in FCT

blackpanda:
What the hell are u saying?? Or do u just derive pleasure in blabbing
The directive was given to NNPC filling stations only i.e only stations which are under the control of govt. Nobody reduced mobil or total's price.

The real issue the marketers are complaining is because people prefer to enter nnpc queue and buy for 140 than drive through other filling station and buy at 145. But the question is: is that what deregulation is all about. Everybody sells at a price that most convenient to u. its an open market, if u cant cope then close shop!

I am surprised about this alarm too. The Minister (speaking as the Managing Director of nnpc) was specific about why he ordered the NNPC mega stations that are inside the cities to sell at N143 while those located in rural areas should sell at lower price. He said that he noticed long queues in the city stations when they were selling at N135 because people were ready to save N10 per litre.

kolaaderin:
Compare the rug in the hall and make correction to ur list. It's all real

I actually share the same opinion with him though we may be wrong.

All the pictures are from the US Capitol quite alright but those two pictures are not necessarily from the same occasion of the ooni's visit.

igwegeorgiano:
is you laptop manufactured in ife? the all the ami on the alphabet is amazing. how did u achieved that feat

You can download Yoruba keyboard