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It looks good

Hi everyone.

I want to invite a relative to the UK. The person has a small business paying herself N200k to N300k a month with a bit of savings. She also has £1,000 in a Nigerian domiciliary account which has been there for over 1 year.

Would it be better for me to invite and state I will sponsor her trip (with my bank statements etc) or should she say she will sponsor the trip herself?

Will the Visa officer want to see clear evidence of where funds in her domiciliary account have come from? She has visited before it was a long time ago.

Thanks

This sounds like carbon monoxide poisoning. Very sad.

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Hi Bizgold

My house in Anambra state needs roof changing. The timber / wood is also bad and would need replacing.

It's a 4 bedroom bungalow in the village with 2 bathrooms.

I don't have the accurate measurements.

Would you be able to assist and give a rough idea how much it would cost. I am based in Europe.

LONGSPAN Vs Metro copo. Is there a big difference.

I presume the Metro copo would last longer?

The black roofs look like they would make the house very hot in the day time. What is your opinion on that?

Thanks for your assistance

Artic

My house in Anambra is leaking and my friend has advised me to change the roof and timber supports as they are bad. The house has an old roof.

It's a 4 bedroom bungalow. I don't have the accurate roof size.

Any ideas how much it might cost?

This was a youth tournament where Nigeria probably fielded overage players as usual

This is not an achievement if you ask me. They should go and compete in adult handball tournament lets see how far they will go.

See the old men wey dey carry go sef


http://partillecup.com/eng/category/nyheter/

Arctic

any links for me to watch the match?

Na wa oh. No safety in Lagos anymore.

Naija don become kidnappers paradise.

Gunmen have kidnapped a British man in Nigeria after shooting the driver of the vehicle he was in, it has been reported.

The attack in Lagos happened on Tuesday evening soon after the four-wheel drive had left the international airport where the man had just arrived, Reuters news agency said, attributing the information to two security sources.

The Nigerian driver survived the attack, they said. The British high commission said in a statement simply that it was "working closely with others to secure the release of the hostage". The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London said: "We are aware of reports of a missing person and are liaising with Nigerian authorities."

In March, British construction worker Brendan Vaughan, 55, was killed weeks after being seized by the al-Qaida-affiliated Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru. He had been working in northern Nigeria for the Lebanese construction company Setraco when he and six colleagues were taken hostage on 16 February .

Last year, British construction worker Chris McManus and an Italian colleague were murdered by their kidnappers as a joint British-Nigerian rescue mission was launched on a compound in the city of Sokoto months after the pair had been seized by insurgents.

The son of a state legislator and four Chinese nationals in two different states all have been reported kidnapped this month. Some cases are not reported because of fears for hostages' safety.

Most are released after ransoms have been paid, though people have been injured and killed if they resist.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/19/nigerian-gunmen-kidnap-british-man-lagos

A British national has been kidnapped shortly after landing at Lagos International Airport in Nigeria, the British High Commission has revealed.

Gunmen targeted a four-wheel drive car at around 8.30pm on Tuesday after it left the airport's international terminal, seizing the British man who was returning to a residential area of Lagos, according to security sources.

The Nigerian driver of the vehicle was shot but survived.

In a statement, the British High Commission (BHM) said: "The BHM is working closely with others to secure the release of the hostage.

"Because of the nature of this incident, the BHM is not going into further detail about it."

Major companies with British connections operating in Nigeria include oil giant Royal Dutch Shell, British Airways, Unilever and PricewaterhouseCoopers. There was no indication of where the kidnapped man was employed.

Kidnapping of expatriates and Nigerians by armed gangs seeking ransom has been rife in Nigeria's oil producing southeast, but is rarer in Lagos were most foreigners live.

Four Chinese nationals and the three-year-old son of a state legislator have previously been reported kidnapped this month.

Risk analysts Drum Cussac have reported a "noticeable upsurge" in the number of kidnappings in the southwest of the country, including Lagos.

The consultancy said: "Foreign nationals were targeted in the affluent Lagos areas of Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Epe-Lekki, sparking speculation that organised criminal gangs have renewed their focus on the city's upscale districts given their relatively permissive security environments."


http://news.sky.com/story/1117961/nigeria-kidnapping-british-national-taken

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23381024

na wa oh

Arctic

Sky Sports understands four Premier League clubs have expressed an interest in West Bromwich Albion striker Peter Odemwingie.

The 31-year-old forward has been looking for a route out of The Hawthorns for some time, with a deadline day fiasco in January seeing him fail to secure a switch to Queens Park Rangers.

With there little chance of him being offered a clean slate with the Baggies, it is expected that the Nigeria international will be on the move this summer.

As a proven goalscorer at the highest level, it comes as no surprise to find that numerous clubs are readying an approach for his services.

It is understood that West Ham United, Hull City, Sunderland and Fulham would all welcome Odemwingie into their ranks - joining Crystal Palace in the chase for his services.

He still has a year left to run on his contract at West Brom, but reports suggest that a bid of around £1.5million could be enough to lure the Baggies to the negotiating table.


http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11681/8824227/Transfer-news-Four-Premier-League-clubs-keen-on-Peter-Odemwingie

Arctic

Jose wants Drogba return: Sensational news in the Sunday Mirror, which reports that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has set his heart on bringing Didier Drogba back to Stamford Bridge after the striker visited the club’s Cobham training ground last week for mystery talks with the Portuguese boss. Drogba may be 35 but Mourinho is keen to have him at his side once more and is even prepared to wait until next summer when his contract expires with Galatasaray.

Paper Round’s view: Mourinho and Drogba formed an incredibly strong bond during the former’s previous spell in charge of Chelsea and the club have failed to replace a player who scored 157 goals for the Blues before his departure in the summer of 2012. This story makes a lot of sense and could be a great move for all parties concerned - bar Galatasaray, of course.


http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/premier-league-paper-round-drogba-set-sensational-return-074737156.html


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-transfers-didier-drogba-return-2051356#ixzz2Yxp8pQBJ



Docman

Jose wants Drogba return: Sensational news in the Sunday Mirror, which reports that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has set his heart on bringing Didier Drogba back to Stamford Bridge after the striker visited the club’s Cobham training ground last week for mystery talks with the Portuguese boss. Drogba may be 35 but Mourinho is keen to have him at his side once more and is even prepared to wait until next summer when his contract expires with Galatasaray.

Paper Round’s view: Mourinho and Drogba formed an incredibly strong bond during the former’s previous spell in charge of Chelsea and the club have failed to replace a player who scored 157 goals for the Blues before his departure in the summer of 2012. This story makes a lot of sense and could be a great move for all parties concerned - bar Galatasaray, of course.


http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/premier-league-paper-round-drogba-set-sensational-return-074737156.html


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-transfers-didier-drogba-return-2051356#ixzz2Yxp8pQBJ



Docman

On the world Military rankins Nigeria is rated 36th in the world.


See the list here:

http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.asp


http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=Nigeria

Thanks

Arctic

CAPTURED. You can download the FBI document on him here by clicking on the link!

look at this drama about him.

http://vimeo.com/23664002

Dear webmasters please advise on how to embed videos on Nairaland. I have looked at a few older posts but no success. Thanks

Check out his twitter feed for his latest comments.

https://twitter.com/OdemwingieP

Hitv seems to have dissappeared off SKY cable UK channel list.

Anyone know why?

Abuja big men broke •Can’t find buyers for properties •Estate firms grumble


Written by Olawale Rasheed, Abuja Saturday, 13 October 2012 Saturday Tribune

THERE are good times and bad times too. Now, it is not only the poor that are crying; the rich are equally currently crying in the country, especially in the federal capital, Abuja.

One of the principal reasons for their lamentation is that the prices of their choice properties in highbrow parts of the federal capital, have crashed as cash-strapped members of the elite class have created a glut in the real estate sector.

Saturday Tribune findings during the week showed that many individuals, known across Abuja as ‘big men’, have gone broke due to a number of factors.

As a way of getting out of the cash crisis, it was discovered that many top individuals with significant real estate holdings are now flooding the real estate market with choice properties in high- brow areas. The situation, however, is compounded by the lack of prospective buyers for such properties that dot the landscape of the city with conspicuous “for sale” signs.

Some banks, it was gathered, are also offering some of their real estate holdings for sale to raise the level of their cash holding, a situation that is creating a new level of crisis for the real estate sector.

Investigations showed that many, who had hoped to simply ‘fling’ one or two of their properties to meet daily needs, were faced with very low level of demand, even after they had reduced the price to almost the lowest level. For example, Mike Omero, an auto dealer in Abuja narrated that for the past three months, he had been looking for buyers for his N10m land along airport road, adding “even when I reduced the price, no buyer has shown up yet. I have some fine cars here normally to be sold for nine to N10m but no market, my brother.”

A real estate firm operator, Adaka Henry, who had made a fortune in the business told our correspondent that he had never witnessed the current level of downturn in the Abuja real estate business as what he is experiencing now.

“I don’t understand what is happening. The market is simply very dull. People will come; check property and go, never to come back. Go round Maitama, Asokoro or those new districts, the sales are down. People are rich but they don’t have the cash,” he said.

Reminded of the many heavy-duty estate constructions ongoing all over the city, Adaka said “that is the irony of the situation” but added, “when you build, you must sell. People are not buying. That is the point,” he said.

Checks of prices of houses in some areas revealed that the crisis was generating a gradual collapse of the real estate sector as prices were crashing across board.

Investigations and interactions with many top figures within the city indicated spreading economic woes as many of them complained of biting cash crunch which they attributed to constant mopping up of cash from the system by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The harsh times is also reflected in the increasingly curtailed high profile lifestyle of many elite with reports from many hoteliers in Abuja showing that patronage had dropped by as much as 60 per cent, leading to laying off of workers in some hospitality firms in the federal capital.

A chief executive officer of a highbrow hotel and guest house in Maitama, Abuja told Saturday Tribune that in a month in the past, their turn-over always hovered around N34m but lamented that nowadays, the firm was struggling to clock half of that amount.

“Patronage has dropped. The fact is, cash flow is hard now. In fact, I had to lay off some of my workers. I don’t know what caused it but I think the elite are not spending,” the hotelier from a North-Central state noted.

The low cash availability has led to what Saturday Tribune discovered to be a sharp depletion of bank deposits and savings apart from the growing offering of choice properties for sale.

A check at some Abuja-domiciled banks indicated that the run-on bank deposit was even threatening the survival of one of the banks with high net-worth customers with fixed deposits said to be withdrawing their deposits at a rate that was putting the bank management on edge.

Saturday Tribune was told of a customer who had close to N700 million but had, under four months, withdrawn more than two thirds of the savings while others reported many big customers terminating their fix contract deals to gain access to their funds.

A top official of a bank in Abuja, who was leading to what he called near insolvency of Abuja branches of many banks.

“Withdrawal is too high now. Please, we don’t have to publicise this but I can tell you things are not okay with the banking system. Our customers are withdrawing more and saving less,” he said

Saturday Tribune can authoritatively report that a bank in the capital city had stopped granting loans to customers on account of run-on bank deposit.

While the management called the decision a temporary one to allow for audit, insiders said the bank was under pressure from excessive withdrawals and termination of fixed deposit deals.

Further checks showed that some banks are now raising their fixed deposit rates with a view to attracting deposits.

A banker told Saturday Tribune that the rate as high as 30 per cent was being offered for fixed deposits but complained that the offer was not attracting high response as was envisaged.

It was learnt that unscrupulous top civil servants, who fixed projects money to gain interest, could also not patronise the banks as before due to the tight fund release mechanism by the Federal Ministry of Finance and what a source called unusually tight monitoring of cash movement by CBN.

While deposits were being depleted, findings also showed that many elite who could repatriate funds from abroad, could not do so due to the high risk of being caught in money laundering web, as incoming fund must be properly declared. Many of such high net worth individuals are wary of being questioned about the sources of such foreign holdings and cash.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/front-page-articles/8831-abuja-big-men-broke-cant-find-buyers-for-properties-estate-firms-grumble.html

My advice would be:

1. Firmly apply your brakes. Make sure you don't swerve at this high speed as this may cause you to lose control of the car.

2. If there are cars behind me I would quickly put on my hazard lights at this point to alert those behind me that there is danger ahead. Otherwise they may not notice in time and may end up rear ending you.

3. If above 100 kph then swerving in an attempt to avoid the pothole could be even more dangerous as you could end up losing control of the car completely.

4. Take your feet off the brakes just before you enter the pothole. This is to try and see if your momentum at this point (remember your physics) will carry you across the pothole,

I guess the worst that could happen if you navigate it succesfully as above would be a damaged suspension and undercarriage.

However trying to avoid it at high speed could result in a nasty accident.


Artic

What time does Nigeria play Dominican Republic today.

If Nigeria win they go to Olympics!

Dbanj has done very well to be in the UK top 10. The guy has tried.

UK residents may not be that familiar with D'Banj yet, but in his hometown of Nigeria, he's roughly the equivalent of a Taio Cruz or Usher. What's more, his rags-to-riches ascent to fame has been steady but nonetheless stratospheric; ditching a life in the army and discovering a passion for music seven years ago that recently resulted in him signing with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label.

As such, his first release on these shores is a confident debut. "I have a confession," he admits over a hypnotic, afrobeat-meets-hip-hop riff, before reeling off a list of famous ladies he wouldn't mind getting better acquainted with - including Beyoncé, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj ("her yansh is bigger," after all). Given it's near-impossible to resist the hip-shaking melody and bum-wobbling hooks, we can't imagine he'll have much trouble winning them over.


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/singlesreviews/a381915/dbanj-oliver-twist-single-review.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles

give the woman kudos

http://www.didacourse.com/everywoman/Kate.html

Councellor Kate Anolue

Councillor Kate is a widow who singularly trained 4 children with a full time career as a qualified community/hospital midwife. During this period she completed a law degree and ran a nursing agency. Councillor Kate is the governor of 2 schools in Enfield. She is a panel member of health scrutiny, Women officer for Labour party Group and Executive member of Enfield racial equality council. She is also the royal college of midwives steward for north Middlesex university hospital midwives.

Is it still available?

Thanks

Samson Siaisa fired as Nigeria coach - BBC Sport


Breaking news Samson Siasia has been fired by Nigeria

Samson Siasia has been fired as Nigeria coach for failing to take the country to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, BBC Sport understands.

The executive committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) ratified the decision to sack the coach on Friday.

This comes after the NFF's technical committee recommended the dismissal of the former international.

Siasia came under huge pressure after the Super Eagles failed to qualify for the continent's flagship tournament.

Three weeks ago the Super Eagles had failed to qualify for a Nations Cup finals for the first time since the 1986 edition in Egypt.

More to follow soon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15492627.stm