Hello guys, please can someone help me post the official website for Vietnamese visa from Nigeria, also if anyone has any information on cost of tourist visa and processing time please share. I have read some pages but I saw more about work and student and other issues discussed. I just want a tourist visa to visit Hanoi for like a week in december. Finally, will it be too early to apply now for a december trip?

Thank you

Write a cover letter and state that you have found a hotel and made a reservation but that you dont want to pay yet until you get your visa and are definite on your travel date. This was the exact words I used on my cover letter when i applied last year because I didnt want to pay for hotel without visa and my visa was approved.

djbaju:
Thanks for the reply, First I used a domiciliary dollar card, I checked the hotel again on booking.com & agoda but it says all rooms are out, I don’t know why they cancelled my initial reservation, I don’t know if I will need to cancel application again but if I cancel how sure my next booking will not face the same challenge

go there and check, my nephew did priority and waited 4 days and went back and his passport was there with his visa, no email no update.

djbaju:
E come be like say priority na scam now, 15th Dec till now, Abi holiday don too affect dem, I can’t wait

please did you use any hotel and flight reservation service? cos maybe they didnt do a legit reservation, just my on thinking

Slim234:
. I was given this too. I am trying to reapply again. I am applying for a study Visa. Right now I am just finding out way's to really convince them. Is blocked account important for France. Or do anyone on here know how I can get a blocked account for France?

you can start here https://visa.vfsglobal.com/nga/en/fra then follow the start now page and go to the link where you will fill form, its basically self guided and easy

Ola4040:
Good morning my people ,can someone put me through how I can apply France visa for my family we have all the documents required but I needed someone to put me through in all aspects of it ,they want to go for holiday thanks in advance .

earliest date for Abuja is end of September, is there a way to get an earlier date? does waiting to check back later help or will the date go even farther?

passport collected yesterday with visa
biometrics 9th June
transferred the following day
document ready for collection 5th August
collected 8th August
First time visitor 6 months visa
For supporting documents, I added my six months bank statement, my employment contract and print out of my work leave page showing my unused 20-day annual leave.
I didn't get introduction letter from work but I wrote a cover letter.
In my cover letter, I explained that the other bulk deposits were from real estate investments. my employment contract stated that I have a leave allowance so in my cover letter i mentioned that I intend to collect my leave allowance and put it towards the trip and then add some of my own personal funds. I dont have lease and I mentioned that too; that I live rent free in my family house. I explained my true situation in very simple terms because I didnt really have much supporting documents.
I didn't make any reservation (hotel or flight) but i added in my cover letter that I didnt make such reservation cos i didnt want my card to be charged since i'm not sure when they will approve the visa.
I started following this page after I had done biometrics so I didnt know I was suppose to include an Itinerary, and explain deposits in details with proof, I had already concluded that If I got denied I would be better prepared next time.
Took two months and my intended travel date have passed but I'm grateful to have received a positive response.
Please someone should link me up to scheghen visa discussion page if there is one here so I can learn more there before applying.
thanks everyone for your patient guidance, you're the reason I am dropping my own own experience so that someone else can gain from my it as I gained from yours.

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I will run Anambra on Biafran ideology -Offodile
— 8th August 2017
By Iheanacho Nwosu, Abuja

Chudi Offodile, a lawyer, is a governorship aspirant in Anambra State on the platform United Progressives Party (UPP). The former member of the House of Representatives who has been an ardent advocate of what he calls “Biafra brand” in this interview insisted that he would run a Biafra system, if elected.

You are a very successful lawyer? Why are you going into politics?

Well, the truth is, I have always been in politics. I was elected into the House of Representatives in 1999, I was elected in 2003. But after I tried to go to the senate in 2007 and 2011 unsuccessfully, I decided to quit. In between, I wrote the book ‘the politics of Biafra and the future of Nigeria.’ I was working on my second book too; which reveals the investigations I carried out as chairman of the Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives. And that was taking my time until I decided to redefine the politics of our area. Since the Anambra governorship election was the first one coming up I thought I should use it to give a new ideological direction for the politics of the eastern area.

You won the election to the House of Representatives on the platform of PDP, now you are going into the governorship on UPP’s platform. Why did you dump the PDP for UPP?

I actually dumped the party before the crisis. My leaving PDP had nothing to do with the current crisis. It actually got to do with the fact that I was tired of the kind of politics the political parties without ideological bearing were playing. All the parties were two sides of the same coin. It didn’t quite make sense, and I just felt that there was no need. And there was also a lingering crisis in the Anambra State chapter of the PDP, which began in 2003 up till today. At that point I decided, and I left before the current Makarfi, so it had nothing to do with the current crisis. I also mentioned that I quit politics and now I have gone back with UPP as my preferred destination.

Why UPP?

Oh, clearly because the UPP has taken a clear ideological position, which I believe is the best position that the Igbo people in Nigeria should follow. UPP has emphasized the right to self-determination; I mean these are revolutionary ideas within the Nigerian context, so it fits into my own personal conviction.

When you say it fits into your conviction, do you mean the party is sympathetic to IPOB?

The issue is really; I wrote a book on Biafra, that book dealt with the history of the struggles within the Biafra, then the prescriptions for the future. That is the difference between that book and other books on Biafra. So in the process, I analysed the recent agitations of the Biafra groups, and the customary government. So it gave me a clear understanding of what I believe in, I mean representing the general attitude of our people, particularly the younger generation.

What is that in the Anambra of today that you feel is missing in governance that you want to go and address?

The first fundamental thing is the idea of decentralization of power. In Nigeria, Igbo agitate for decentralization of power. It is not enough to seek for devolution of power from the federal government to the state whereas within the state, the state government has all the powers; including powers that ought to go to the local government. So in effect, there is no difference in the operation of the Anambra State government in the last 16 years. For instance, there is clearly no local administration in Anambra State. I think elected local government councils have only existed once in the last 16 years, it is always caretaker committee. So that is concentration of power, and what I seek is an anti-thesis; which I call the ‘Biafran Ideology’, which is an anti-thesis of the Nigerian system, which emphasizes decentralization of power and participatory democracy.

And you know it is not my original idea, it was already put together in the later years of Biafra by Prof. Chinua Achebe and other brilliant Igbo scholars. They emphasized participatory democracy and decentralisation of power. So my idea remains that we need to put it into practice, criticize centralisation of power in the centre; whereas that is what goes on there. We have had a party in power for at least 12 years, representing Igbo interest, but the question is how much of that Igboness have they represented, what is their view on restructuring, on Biafra; whether we are having a Biafran state, or sharing power to the regions. Nobody is clear. So I think they have been too silent on those key issues which deal with the protection of the Igbo interest in Nigeria. And I believe that is the foremost reason they were given the mandate. And I think they failed decisively. That is why it has become necessary to create an alternative platform to agitate and protect the interest of the Igbo people in Nigeria.

UPP is believed widely to be a party that IPOB and Biafra sympathisers have embraced, but ironically the same people are saying there should not be election in Anambra. How do you see the contradiction?

Is it truly a contradiction? I don’t know, but I will say Biafra is a great brand, a very great brand, and the reason is clear. The two and half years that Biafra existed, it was a successful state; Biafra was innovative, and of course it manifested technological abilities. Biafra was self-reliant, that is why it is a great brand; it had a great leader in Emeka Ojukwu. So today Nnamdi Kanu has taken up the battle, Nnamdi has shown that characteristics, he is resolute, he is audacious, he is bold; that is the Biafran brand. Now the Biafran idea is the idea of freedom and justice and the most important thing is if Biafra represents freedom, it means that different people will have different opinions and ideas on how the Biafran dreams should be realised or what the Biafran idea actually means.

So it needs not just be IPOB or Nnmadi Kanu or Uchenna or whoever, it is a free society. They can talk about boycott, I am interested in the idea and I am interested in the election, we just have different opinions, it doesn’t affect the brand. That brand is great like I mentioned, because the Igbo brand was not very successful in Nigeria. So the Biafran brand is what we should try and I think that should be the direction.

So you believe strongly that the best thing for the Igbo at the moment is to have Biafra as a country?



It is to have Biafran identity not the state. Some people want the state, I want the Biafran identity. That is the brand; the Igbo brand didn’t succeed in Nigeria. The Igbo man is not respected; they look down on him. But the Biafran brand, even those who don’t love it, those who don’t like it, at least respect it. That is where we should go; some people put it as separate state, others want it as part of Nigeria, which is a point of view. Some other people really feel it is an idea that can be implemented in any environment, which is a point of view. That is the essence of the Biafran idea itself, freedom. That is the basis of the innovation that occurred in Biafra; people are free to think and express themselves. That is what we should push for, a free society.

The UPP has Chidoka who is also aspiring to fly the party’s flag; do you think you have advantage over him?

I don’t think I have any advantage, I just know that come 19th of August; the delegates of the UPP will choose a candidate that will fly the flag of the party in the governorship election. Chidoka is a great candidate, but I think I will do a better job in pushing our people in the right direction.

Even when you win the party’s ticket, do you think it is enough to use the Biafran card to get elected?

I don’t know if that is enough, but I will certainly wave it. There is nothing wrong with using the Biafran card. Someone asked me before, ‘is this not opportunism?’ Everybody learns that if you read the Bible and live according to the injunctions of Christ, that you will make heaven; so is it opportunistic for people to seek to go to heaven? An opportunity that is open to everyone; it is a free society, but why is everyone afraid of asking that opportunity? They don’t want to take it, so they just keep quiet.

Just few days ago, the National Assembly shut down devolution of power in the on-going constitution amendment, how do you feel?

They have made themselves irrelevant, that is the end of the story, I don’t need to go further on that. Those of them that are reviving the idea are the ones that understand that they have removed themselves from the power equation in Nigeria. So if they are considering going back to it, then they are sensible; that is what I expect sensible people to do, but if they stick to that, then they will become irrelevant.

What will you do to change Anambra if you are elected?

The one important thing I would do is to decentralise power. If you think about local government as an administrative unit, where you employ a number of people doing nothing with huge recurrent expenditure, then you won’t appreciate the point I am making. But if you think about local government as a unit of administration, just like town unions, we have 177 town unions in Anambra State, each with an administration, but they are not even paid, but they function.

So we create 326 units that will be fully operational and funded by the government, and what we design is to have five persons to run those local governments of course with uniform limited salary. We intend to run a bottom-top approach, rather than a top-bottom approach. That is the Biafran ideology we preach, it is going to be an interesting revolutionary system, and it is going to work.

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I have always been against buhari probably because of the violent tendency of some of his supporters and the way they carry on like presidency is their birthright. But recently I had from a top politician from the south east that Nigerian elites are afraid of buhari cos they know he'll sanitize the system,that made me pause in my dismissal of the man. Despite this buhari again for 2015 will not sell....he will loose, mayb with a smaller margin this time but loose he will. If the new party think the flag bearer must be a northerner then they have the big job of sourcing out that Person now and throwing their whole weight behind him so that we' ll get used to the idea of the person by 2015. If the person must not be a northerner I will vote fashola any time any day.....oshiomole is out of the question, and pls don't think NIgeria will leave PDP, rochas will make a Gud vice but ofcourse we know the north and their born to rule mentality...dont be surprised if u hear they are pulling out next year if a northerner doesn't get the ticket. It's unfortunate cos while they r dragging on the tribal war.....we would look for a better alternative to Jonathan n we wouldn't see and den 2011 will repeat itself.......GOd help NIgeria

Too many players that's why....there are still virgins, I know quite a number so stop looking for dem to disvirgin them.....off to church now

Let's keep copying Hollywood, I hope when we finally get there, we will be able to live with it. Photoshoot in court.....smh, even if the guy was a beast u share in the blame for marrying a beast so stop flaunting divorce like its an achievement!

One day this pastors and their wife's will incure the wrath of God by spurning theories and deceiving innocent young couples......once they marry finish they'll all become saints, I shouldnt have sex as a single girl and den when am finally married I still shouldnt have sex cos some woman suggested it.....chapter what verse what pls?

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The Giants hav added yet anoda feather to their cap! Proudly a Giant!

On the other news the universities in ghana and kenya where Nigerians have been spending so much to get 'foreign' certificate all flunked out!

My dear its not a crime in any way, its just that we are in a follow follow generation where most ppl try too hard 2 belong...I don't have a bobo...therez nothing everybody does, to every rule there are exceptions, some not so close friends think am hiding something buh the close ones know betta. Just because this days ladies don't complete there personal data without their boyfriend doesn't mean u should get one. Set your own standard, make ur own rules and create your own brand..mdnt follow d band wagon...cheers!

Back in lawschool I had to share a room with 3 other ladies,I knew two of them from uni but one was a northerner and we were meeting for the ist time, then during nysc I shared a flat with 2 other people, a yoruba lady that went to babcock and another yoruba guy that went to unilag, this two people were total strangers when we all moved into the house. Now these two experiences where not the worst experirnce of my life, as a matter of fact one of those strangers I lived with ended up becoming one of my closest friends till date. All that matters to live with people is mutual respect and an acceptance of people...we are all coming from diff places and we all have diff orientation, what you can't share then place under lock and key but remain open minded cos there are angels out there in form of strangers

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My center is CBT center, university of ibadan scheduled for the 27th of feb by 12pm. Am in lagos so if therez anyone goin to ibadan from lag on dat day...
Ps: dis our govet are funny, inec dat I took time to apply for didn't even invite me for test its nimc dat I did half way n stoped wan make I come write test. Issorai

A new party dat wants to oust d ruling PDP wants to drafts a sitting PDP lesgistlation with a history of defecting from one party to anoda as its flag bearer?
Note dat tambuwal in d course of his career, started with ANPP, defected to DPP, den went bak 2 ANPP wen he cdnt get DPP ticket b4 finally defecting to PDP.
Religion and tribe are crucial as well...we are Nigerians, it will always count! Dats d fact.
Its not about merging, we want credible candidates with good track records, I don't see that in tambuwal sorry...fashola is a yes! I will vote him despite d religous and ethnic difference. D party shd keep searching n fast too odawise PDP will win again

Its a pity when men take d opposite direction from d truth just for cheap popularity! Cos dat is exactly wat kayode is doin, let me ask u all who think provocation is a defence to domestic violence...if a 6 ft 4" macho man calls u a dog and abuses u in d street, will u be provoked to punch him? Won't u quietly walk away like d proverbial dog with tails in bw his legs, because u know dat no matter how provoked u are, he'll still pound d living day lite out of u if u react....yet u pound ur spouse...even maim n kill dem n open your mouth to say she provoked u.....its not provokation, its wickedness n d fact ur so weak u think u can flex musscle on a weaker person!