justwise:


No proper hotel in the UK for that amount. Maybe that is B&B and not a proper hotel.

Do a google search of that hotel to see if there is any review on it.

Okay. Thanks

ekpotek:


Okay then. You just need to include this hotel documentation in your application. Your previous immigration history will also count. Good luck.

Thanks for your time

ekpotek:


You do not need to submit the account detail of your husband since he is contributing to the trip. However, you will need to include your marriage certificate if this is your first application.

Flight ticket to the UK is almost N300K on the cheapest airline. You will need up to £1200 for this trip. With N1.2M you have enough fund to support yourself. Please be mindful that you will need to explain to the ECO any large deposit in your account.

Thanks a lot. I found a hotel one of my friends used for £12 a night. I'll be staying for 3 nights. The 4th day I'll be travelling back.
I've been to the UK before (2012) on a tier 4 student visa which is very staightforward. This is my 1st time of applying as for standard visitor.
Thanks once again.

justwise:


1. You need to submit your husband's account and payslips(to support his source of income) he doesn't need to have a lot of money on it since the money goes into family expenses and you have mentioned that in your application too. You need to state that the money for the trip will be coming solely from your account.

2. Make a budget of the trip that will answer your second question though i don't think £600 will hack it

Thanks for the advice. I plan to stay for 4 days as stated above. So hotel, return ticket and feeding has been budgeted for roughly that amount. I'll look into it as you advised. Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot

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Hello.
Pls I want to apply for 6 months UK visa for a professional exam. I'm stating that I'll stay for 4 days as it's a one day exam.

I'm married with 2 kids. I currently earn about 140k monthly...being transferred into my account everymonth by my company.
I've been working for the past 5 yrs and the last 2 of which has been in my present company.
I currently have about N1.2m in my account. I've been saving 80 to 100k from my salary monthly for the past 6 months. I also have a car in my name and some shares.
I stated that my husband is the main bread winner of the family and pays most of the bills....so I get to save a substantial amount of my salary over the past 4yrs.
But my husband doesn't have enough money in his account presently. But he has several land documents and a car in his name.
Do I have to submit his account details or can I just use my account since I'll be the main sponsor?
Do you also think I have enough funds to sponsor myself?

Total expenses for the trip (air plane ticket, hotel accommodation and feeding) is roughly £600 (N300k).

I stated that the exam is very important to me as it will help me advance my career. And I've been saving for it for a while.

Pls what's the meaning of 'OBIELUMANI'. How common is it as an Igbo name?

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ojubi: @ Beautiful Onyi, your post just summerised your wrong personality, arrogance, and ignorance. You claime it takes only 3 years to be a nurse, you lied. It takes another 2 years after general nursing to specialise, that is second qualification. Then it takes another 4 years to have a degree, do the maths let see between a doc and a Nurse who spend more years studying. You also claim a child and an untrain person can practice nursing, that is the hight of ignorance.
Finally you exornorated foreign nurses from your insult. That tells me how ignorant you are, because you
should know that the west african nursing corriculum is copied directly from the united kingdom.

Yes, I know a lot of u here percieve me as arrogant. The truth is that I'm fed up with the attitude of nigerian nurses. My dear, if u want to take specialization into consideration, then note that it takes at least 5 yrs for a doctor to specialize.
I'm exornorating the foreign nurses because I've worked both in the UK and nigeria. And though we may have the same curriculum, the difference btw the nurses in the 2 countries is clear! Nigerian nurses you need to update yourselves and upgrade if you want more respect from doctors. And more importantly, change your attitudes instead of bickering and always looking for a way to blame the doctor.

There are a number of good nurses esp the old matrons who got good training, but the young nurses, I just can't stand. They can never take instructions and are rude and ignorant, is it my fault that I read my through med school and became a doctor? While, most of them at my age are under me as nurses?
It is the nurses that have inferiority complex.

I love the idea of bsc nursing in nigeria, hopely it will produce better trained, better educated, more confident nurses.

While I appreciate nurses, I believe one can state their point without bringing down another profession. I'm a doctor and I can proudly say that:
1) Nurses do not work as hard as doctors. They work an average of 6-8hrs daily, because they run 3-4 shifts per day. Doctors on the other hand work an average of 10-24hrs daily. Doctors run 24hrs -72hrs calls.

2) Issue of strike: when doctors go on strike, they are more merciful. They may not admit new patients, but they still take care of the patients they admitted before the strike. Nurses are ruthless when it comes to strike. They don't show up at all. They leave doctors to do their work, which we do without much effort because truth be told, the work of a nurse requires little or no brain work, zero IQ. A primary school child can do a nurses work. No pun intended

3) Education: it takes 3yrs to be a nurse. It requires no university degree (bsc nursing is a recent development). It is not a profession for intelligent people. Really what do nurses do? Document, clean poo, make beds, hang IV fliuds, take instructions from doctors, shout on patients, nag nag nag, quarrel about 'days off'

Ps: the above concerns Nigerian nurses who should change their stupid attitudes and learn to accept and live with the fact that the doctor is the HEAD of the health team and always knows better.

Now, nurses abroad....a different ball game, pls nigerian nurses should learn from them.

This thing is becoming very rampant. A friend's brother contracted HIV through a similar incident. The young boy entered a 'one chance' bus on his way back from school at night. They took him to a garage and gang-raped him after robbing him.

He was so ashamed that he failed to report the incident until it was too late. If he had, at least he would have been given anti-retrovirals within 72hrs of the incident. The story still makes my blood curl. Let's all be careful and prayerful

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Babzilla:

IN UR DREAMS SHEY.

Beefer! It happened 2 days ago. Read the news.

Sorry to burst your bubble beefers! The national assembly has just thrown out the bill on change of name from unilag to maulag. Update yourselves!!

UNILAG for life!!!!!! Greatest akokites and idi-arabites! I hail thee

Wrong! Religion and politics Do mix!! Especially when the political leader goes to the religious leader for blessing. This shows the president has high regard for that particular religious leader and thus will most likely heed his advice. The religious leaders have a duty to publicly denounce any inhumane wrong doings in the political sector. Remember when the late pope john paul 2 came to nigeria in 1998. The late president abacha brought his family to receive blessings from the holy man. The pope did bless them, but he publicly admonished abacha and advised him to release the political prisoners he held. Abacha released obasanjo and co shortly after the pope left. I was a young girl then but I can never forget this. Religious leaders have a HUGE role to play, but most are swayed by money. Too sad!!!

Oliver twist by DBanj is a 2011 hit, it came out last year thus should not be on this list

Seun:
Maybe the things you do and the things you say do not suggest that you are not an airhead, so they just assume you are. Natalie Portman is taken seriously because she cares about things like politics, and she goes to school even though she doesn't have to, and when she talks she sounds like a person that thinks about serious things. I think Emma Watson is a younger version of her. Basically, you have to give people a reason to believe you are a deviation from the stereotype. Talk less about Brazilian hair, Nollywood, men, make-up, fashion, etc and talk more about things airheads never talk about. Spend less time in front of a mirror. Wear jeans once in a while. Be different! I don't know jor.

Seun, she's right. People don't expect pretty girls to be smart. For some reason, they do not expect that God could be soo kind to give beauty and brains to just one person. From my experience , people expect pretty girls to be dumb! How I love shocking them. As a beautiful girl, you have to prove your brilliance over and over again compared to less endowed sisters---people will want to believe you either slept with the lecturer or something.

Logicboy03: The UK has a christian history but it is now very much a secular state. The British were the ones that brought christianity to Nigeria and yet Nigerians are now even more christian than the British.


I want to ask honest people on Nairaland a simple question;


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The above bold question highlights a cognitive dissonance of many Nigerians. They carry their Christianity to Britain without realizing or asking why the British have mostly dropped the Christianity that they gave Nigeria. They dont even bother to ask why church attendance is so low in Britain and why over a third of the British are atheists/agnostics.


Here are some foolish rationalizations made by the average Nigerian christian;

-The British are less moral than us Christian Nigerians (Really? with your witch beating, tithe frauds, high level of corruption and embezzlement?)

-God is using us to bring religion to UK (Really? then why did God not bring christianity to Nigeria before the British and in more peaceful ways than slavery/colonization of Nigeria by the british?)

-Africans are more spiritual and sensible than the British/Europeans (Really? when you import many things from the British? When theBritish have a more stable and organised society? Has you spirituality helped Nigeria to achieve such?)


would like christians to comment on this topic, especially Mr Anony that lives in the UK. We both went to a debate about abortion in London, only to find that Anony was in the serious minority when talking about abortion from a christian religious/moral perspective

My dear, it is ERRONEOUS to say that christianity is a british religion, it is NOT. The british are converts just as we Africans are. They were pagans before being converted by the Romans.
Also, if you are really a Christian (I don't know if you are) you should be happy that the British brought salvation into our lives. A true christian would feel sorry for the british who have lost their faith and pray that they would find God once more, instead of wasting his/her precious time wondering why 'africans are more christian than the british'
As if it is a thing of shame to be called a christian.

Guys note, everywhere you go as a man and have intimate releases, your testicles will testify against you!

Lol . Testicles testifying- that's really cracked me up.

Nri priest, you are so ancient! Give it a rest, pls act civilized and stop giving Igbo men a bad name.

alj harem: You see igbos are just bitter people. The same people that see yorubas as dirty slaves are the ones asking for help when the north desended on them.

Before the war, they did all in their power to control and subdue these so call yaribas. Then they forgot yorubas were their brothers lol. Sh.it hit fan with their northern brother, then they remembered their dirty low yaribas for help. Even at that, these people still tried to play smart.

These bunch of ingrates still decided to invade, Molestation and do all sort of things to the so called yorubas they hate to love.

Any Nigerian that trust an Igbo man, goodluck to you. I personally don't trust anyone not to talk of an ethnic group. So play among yourselves, when you are ready to talk politics you know when to find the yorubas.

It's because of the war that igbos now respect the Niger-deltas and Yorubas now and we also respect them.

One last thing, it is nnamdi an Igbo man that sold igbos to Nigeria. So with this fact known, I can't be bothered. I just hope they stay out of yorubas way cuz if you decide to join any group to kill us off like nnamdi did before the war, you know the story. Just respect yourselves and stay out of our business and politics. Chikena last words on this thread. One day monkey will go to market and not return. One day your cups would be full. Fact.

I don't expect Yorubas to argue. Just be watching

Pls read your history books and while you are at it, pls polish your english
Nnamdi Azikiwe did not sell igbos to nigeria, he went to lagos to meet with the nigerian leaders to end the war because he knew his people could not win. Over 2 million igbo children were dying of kwashiokor and starvation. With the help of the devilish British ( all because of their greed for oil) nigeria was sure winning the war. Zik knew that if the war continued, his people would be wiped out, so he swallowed his pride and went to meet the enemy to end the war.

What's past is past, but I just want people of other tribes to accept that what the other nigerian tribes did to the Igbos, ibibios and efik (biafran people) was unjust and inhuman. Accept the fact that Awolowo was evil and Achebe is right. Don't try to justify and belittle the gross sufferings we went through because we biafrans chose to forget the past and move on with our lives.

Supporting Awolowo is like supporting Hitler, because what hitler did to the jews, Awolowo did to the igbos. Both the jews and igbos were innocent by-standers.

We are the future generation of Nigeria, let's learn from this and ensure that we don't make the same senseless mistakes our elders made.

Peace

2ru9jaman: Chinua achebe lost d respect i once had 4 him. I pity him for expressing his anguish and guilt over d role he and his compatriots played. What a great regret! He will live with it till he enter the grave. See how Zik n Ojukwu died suffered 4 long on sick bed. They passed away like coward n betrayal does. No wonder Achebe has been suffering on wheel chair. Oh what a terrible n shameful way of living a pre-HELL life. He can still repent n be delivered from d curse Awo placed on all enemies of Igbo race who peddled lie n still blackmailing him as achebe is doing today. If ojukwu can described Awo as the best president Nigeria( Igbo race especially) never had then achebe n his memoir shd be discarded as trash.

Arrant nonsense!!! Awolowo was a selfish tribalist. Zik was a pure nationalist. Igbos are the most accomodating tribe in nigeria, open-minded, selfless and accepting. It takes real christians to come back to a country that killed and brutalised them for no reason other than they wanted to be left alone. My people are strong and courageous....the jews of africa.

Sincere 9gerian: If what Achebe wrote is the TRUTH, then why shouldn't he tell the TRUTH? Why do some persons want him to hide the TRUTH? That someone says it as it is does not mean the person is still ANGRY or BITTER. The TRUTH is the TRUTH and the TRUTH can never be late in coming. So SORRY if it offended some Yoruba persons or any other person but the TRUTH should not be withheld because it will offend some persons. Again the TRUTH may be RIGHT or WRONG depending on your side of the divide or your understanding of issues. To some persons it is right to use starvation as weapon of war but to others it is an ATROCIOUS act. In the opinion of Achebe and some other persons, it is WRONG but in the opinion of others, including the Late Chief Awo, it is RIGHT. Such is life. But bottomline is was starvation used as weapon of war during the Nigerian civil war? Yes! Was Late Awo the driver of such policy? Yes! Was late Awo interested in becoming president of Nigeria after decimating the 'enemy'? Yes! Was Achebe right in documenting these TRUTHS in his book for posterity sake? I think yes. FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL, not ALL weapons of war are acceptable or 'fair'. That is the reason you have the red cross and UN to deliver food to the civillian population even in the period of war. Also it is unacceptable to use certain cluster bombs during war or bomb certain targets during war. Again Igbos did not declare war on Nig rather it was Nigeria that attacked Igbo homeland after the east seceded due to massacre of Igbos in the north

Exactly!!! Biko tell them by brother. When they were killing igbos like chicken in the north...why won't we secede? They should have let us be, why attack us when we did no harm. Ojukwu was our hero.
Awolowo was a big tribalist through and through (like most yorubas are), zik was a nationalist. No wonder awolowo died young, instead of living to ripe old age like zik, ojukwu and achebe.

shilling: Always thought her husband was white, which explains the bi-racial kids. The man in the pic is black. Anyways, her kids are cute.

She had her first daughter for a white man. Her AA husband is not the girl's dad

Tattooboy: Hausas call it ''B. Haram''. It clears scar immediately. You can get it @ Bornu, Kaduna, etc.

I'm sick & tired of this argument. Here is my 2 cents:
Let's face it, the igbos have the highest percentage of light-skinned people in southern nigeria. If u pick 10 light-skinned southern nigerians, 6 of them are igbos. Edo, efik\ibibio and rivers people also have a lot of light-skinned people, but they are a minority tribe so thus do not have a high populace.
There are a lot of dark-skinned igbo people too, but it is a fact in nigeria that once you are fair-skinned, you are assumed to be igbo until proven other-wise. This is a fact. It has nothing to do with pride, it is not a big deal to be fair, it does not mean you are more superior to others, that's just how we were created.

The typical appearance of an igbo girl is this: light-skinned, long hair (sometimes black, sometimes light-brown), pointed nose, some have hazel eyes, few have green/ grey eyes.

Let us look at the igbo beauty queens we've had in nigeria:

1) Bianca Onoh-Ojukwu- very light-skinned with european features but 100% igbo
2) Sabina Umeh- a little dark-skinned with european feature but 100% igbo
3) Chinenye Ochuba- medium light-skinned, european features 100% igbo
4) Nwando okwuosa- dark skinned
5) Munachi Abii- very light-skinned
6) Adaeze Igwe- very light-skinned
7) Glory chuku- a little dark-skinned
Fiona amuzie-light skinned
9) Sylvia Nduka- a little dark skinned

Out of 9, 5 are light-skinned. Infact, out of all the light-skinned non-mixed beauty queens we've had in nigeria, the only ones that are not igbo are: helen prest- delta, sylvia edem- efik, regina askia- efik, anita uwagbale- edo. The minority tribes I previously mentioned. Abiola bashorun being the only yoruba one.

Let's look @ nigerian actresses: the light skinned ones are: monalisa- igbo, oge okoye- igbo, omotola- yoruba, tonto dikeh- rivers igbo, stella damasus- rivers igbo, benita nzeribe- igbo, nse ikpe- efik, hilda dokubo- rivers, nuella njuigbo- igbo, rita dominic- igbo, nkiru sylvanus- igbo, rita nzelu- igbo, etc

I attended the university of lagos. In my class, we had about 44 girls: 25 yoruba, 10 igbo, 4 edo, 3 urhobo-isoko, 1 itshekiri, 1 kalabari (rivers). There are only 6 light-skinned yoruba girls out of the 25, 8 lightskinned igbo girls out of the 10, 3 of the edo girls are light-skinned out of the 4, and the only Kalabari girl in my class is light-skinned. Infact the 2 lightest skinned people in my class are igbo.

To avoid over-flogging the issue, I've come to the conclusion that, most igbo people may not be light-skinned, but most light-skinned southern nigerians are igbo.

I rest my case. Gbam!!!

It depends on your tribe. For igbos the man pays to the last cent. But in yoruba land, the girl's family sponsors the wedding.

ezeagu:

Put what meaning? I gave you the only translation on the internet for 'Chidebelu' and it was 'God willed it' the same as 'Chidelu', if you don't want to accept it then fine, don't start talking about putting meanings into anything.



All your translations are wrong, so why should I listen? You talked about most of the translations I made being wrong, yet you could only point one out, what sense does that make?

Chidelu- God wrote/willed/destined
Chidebelu- God kept
Stop checking the internet for igbo translations, ask your elders in the village Oby

ISIOMA- does not mean favour, it means - 'beautiful or good beginning'. It is usually given to first born females because in igbo land, having a female child as first born is considered lucky.

CHIKELUE: means 'God made me whole or complete'. [color=#000099][/color]