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customised87:
Nope,just hold ur marriage certificates and wedding pics

Thanks a bunch.
My bump is showing now though. As I am almost 20 weeks gone. I don't even know how to start the process as I feel that we should have tried getting the visa before even getting pregnant.

#sigh.

Any tips?

Good afternoon all,

I really want to have my baby in the US and I'm mid term now. Haven't even started processing anything yet but hoping to start this new week.

For starters, I still have my passport in my maiden name. Is it going to be an issue as I am filing with my husband? Thanks in anticipation....

londongal03:
I'm already tired of staying @home, I feel like getting married

Marriage doesn't provide escape ooo!!

I am only saying that the hospital should carry out a thorough investigation. I wish the law enforcements would pick interest too, with or without the family's consent to investigate.

That is what is done in sane societies. Every death is treated as suspicious as long as it wasn't due to natural causes.

This woman was very small and petite. She could have been pushed down that building.

You don't just rule something a suicide just because a woman turned up dead on the sidewalk. Irrespective of her medical history and old cuts to the wrists!
On her wedding day, she wore an armless gown. She definitely didn't have any cuts then....

dalu:
Just spoke with her unit members.. It seems it's confirmed that it's a suicide.. The family reached out in support to the husband and confirmed the previous history of depression and won't be taking anything up.. Boys heading to her home in ajao estate.. End

Does the family have to take things up before its taken up??
In civilized societies, suspicious injuries are investigated thoroughly. Na wa oooo.

cooldee:
.......I DONT HAVE TIME TO READ ALL THE FOOLISH AND STUPID COMMENTS HERE. BUT I AM ONLY HERE TO TELL YOU GUYS THAT HER HUSBAND HAS NEVER BEATEN HER AND HER HUSBAND IS NOT THE ONE THAT KILLED HER. ALL THE PEOPLE SAYING THE HUSBAND BEATS HER REGULARLY ARE LIES. THE HUSBAND IS A VERY GENTLE AND EASY GOING PERSON.....DR HESTIA STILL VISITED ME ABOUT 2MONTHS AGO AND I VISIT HER AND PLAY WITH HER CHILDREN REGULARLY. I KNOW THE HUSBAND VERY WELL TOO ...THEY ARE BOTH VERY COOL HEADED AND EASY GOING.ALL I WILL SAY FOR NOW IS THAT ...THE HUSBAND DID NOT KILL HER.

DR HESTIA'S MUM KNOWS HER DAUGHTER WELL AND SHE KNOWS THE HISTORY OF HER DAUGHTER WITH DEPRESSION AND SUCIDAL THOTS. ETC......GO AND ASK HER MUM ABOUT HER CHILD. THEN YOU WILL ALL KNOW THAT HER DEATH IS NOT A RESULT OF ANYTHING FROM HER HUSBAND AT ALL.

Thou doth protest much...
Suspicious!

emerich:
Reasons why ladies should place love above "STATUS" in choosing a life partner, sure she turned lots of prospective suitors for her professional colleague, a feat that is common amongst the Medical practitionals.

Rubbish!
Who told you that she didn't love the man? Or she chose him because of his status?

dalu:
No it's not a well known fact.. Hestia worked with me for years.. She came in in a pool of blood with a nylon bag over her head face smashed in chest and arms fractured.. Husband told us she had a history of depression and suicidal attempts and that her family know this.. For now we are working with that.. The family may or may not confirm this.. She's had a full body scan post mortem and is in the morgue.. Please don't speculate and cause unnecessary pain to her 2 kids

So she smashed in her own face and chest, then fractured both arms by herself.
Doc, just listen to yourself.

N.B-People who commit suicide do it in a fast, clean painless way i.e, a shot to the head, a jump from the bridge, running in front of a moving car, etcetera.
If she committed suicide, what was the weapon used. No suicide note for her husband and kids?

Kindly note I say all these respectfully. Just that I'm hurt at the demise of this woman....

Gloryblossom:
come and flaunt urs na.abi ur womb no de intact to concieve.Nonsense,instead of u to be happy for her so d@ urs will come u r looking for baby to flaunt.if u want to see her baby go to her house.always beefin

Hmmn.
If person no born, them go say she barren.
If she born, them go say she don be after 1.
She flaunt baby. them go say she dey expose innocent child.
She no flaunt, them go say she dey shame say the child ugly.

Humans are never satisfied and will always talk.

Sijo01:
Flaunt the face of your son. Not your wealth.

Live and let live, Sijo01. Ponder on that....

odizeey:
I've been following this thread . Nice comments so far. the truth always taste bitter. I'm currently studying banking and finance, wanted to be a banker right from childhood. But banking and finance opened my eyes to opportunities in the finance world. Pls bosses is there no department in the bank that focuses on finance like finance department. cos u ppl HV just benn talking operations,service,marketing etc . thank you

Of course there are. Just that its a head office thing and what are the odds of you being taken to head office??

lastpage:
Cool, is it something that can be done here or how do oyu want to go about it?

I just like to separate my NLand-Life from real life... You know we say a lot of naughty things here, just to unwind

Cheers.


Lastpage!

Noooo. Not here.
I completely understand your need for anonymity. I do keep my life desperate too. This is my banking monicker. I'll chat you up in any other thread as the email I use is different from what I registered with....

Deehvahrzz:
Please how do you go about getting a job in the bank as a permanent staff? Does it make sense to go drop your CV at some branch?

You can talk to some of the staff regarding how to apply. You might get lucky....

folafly:
Wow,i'm an aspiring banker,would resume TS soon with one of the top banks...I had better enjoy the leisure I have now,whilst it lasts......I have siblings and relatives that have been unemployed for some years now,and now that I have an opportunity almost immediately after my nysc,i'm jumping at it.its definitely better than staying at home.

Of course, definitely better than staying at home. Especially a fresher like you....

You can pick advice from this thread too. Plan your exit as soon as you resume...

olumite1234:
Nice one.
I resign november last year from Guaranty trust bank when I got a federal govt job.
My little advice to bankers in the house is that try not to limit yourself in banking job. You will be apraise when you are performing but when you make a single mistake,one might be sack. I have 6 years experience in banking industry. The connected ones will be getting promoted while the hardworking ones will be working for them.
Let me rest my case here so that I won't expose many banking secret.

How did you get the fed job, if I may ask. Did you get it through any of your connections in the banking industry?

scobaba:
Yea i worked there between 2007 and 2009. As an entry level officer, I was taking home 232k monthly. It was good cash for a 22yr old fresher den.

Wow.
I agree. Really good cash for a 22 year old and money had more value too. I'm happy for how far you've come....

lastpage:
I agree with you but l think the loan is being restricted to Middle/top level Mgt ... which is very unfair!

What l am saying is this: There will be situations where a Bank wants to retrench workers.
Let say one of these workers have spent three years and his/her severance package is worth #1mill but he has taken a loan of #3Mill.
The best they can do is to hold-on to his severance package but since they are the ones letting him go, where would they get the remaining 2Mill?
In such situations (and l have seen a few), the bank will postpone that staff for "future" retrenchment knowing that they would suffer a 'huge' loss if they include that staff in the exercise or write it off. They have to make a choice, its their move.
.... except in case of gross 'criminal' misbehaviour in which case the staff can be open to criminal prosecutions.



Lastpage!

Management has since learnt to curb that style by stopping staff loans. I've not heard of a tsunamied staff getting severance. I think at most they might get a month's pay.
In fact, they tsunami right before the quarterly upfront payment.
What happens though is that the sacked staff doesn't repay back the rent advance balance and the medical off the shelf allowance that was collected beginning of the year. Which a staff that wants to resign would have to pay back....

lastpage:

Bros, l be small Boyz just chilling around me corner o!
cant you see that l sometimes engage in abusing on nairaland .... which adult does that!
But if you have a question you want to share or discuss, l will oblige as long as you dont ask me to or try to "identify myself" in real life! :oMy My My Children think l am a truant and dont want others to know that it is their Dad playing truancy online at times!



Lastpage!

Looool.
i'd also like to discuss some issues with you, all under anonymity of course.

lastpage:
Bros, a STAFF LOAN at such ridiculously low rate should never be considered a TRAP!
Its what you did with the Loan that matters.
I used my first staff loan to acquire a piece of land (deposit fr two plots) which l built one and the current value of the other is over 25M now, l am still waiting to either build it for rent or sell when its like 35M!
And you wont believe the loan was 500K!

Some used theirs to buy luxuries like car or even marry wife and did a very expensive wedding!
If l see anybody that would give me a 100M loan today, at 2-5% interest, please contact me immediately, l will take it.

My advice: Collect as much "staff loan" as you can, from your bank. use it wisely afterall, its Capital that is the greatest hindrance to starting/expanding a business!
When they want to sack you, they will "think twice" ... or they have to write-off the loan!


Lastpage!

You took wise investment decisions....
But some banks no longer give loans to their staff for now and for existing loans, they don't write them off.
Its almost impossible to work in a bank for 10 years nowadays...without being frustrated or tsunamied out.

govefeoghene:
To be frank, marketing department of banks are the most challenging section to work as most times it requires luck and grace to meet targets.
When you have many banks selling same service with little variations which might appear insignificant to customers while making decisions.
In most cases, marketing gets successful with referral,proximity of the bank to customers and the level of attention paid customers.
I remember my days back then, that was the tool I used in winning many customers....
I told them you can assess anybody within banking hours and you get adequate attention as much as you seeked.
They tried it and twas true... The next thing was my customers referring me to others and doing the marketing on my behalf.
My own was just to open accounts or accept deposit.
I always met targets.

What was the totality of your target like?

isobayor:
Well, I worked in the banking sector for 6 years. specifically with defunct Bank PHB(Now keystone bank) and Stanbic IBTC Bank. I worked in ban banking operations for 5 years at different time Customer service person, Fund transfer Officer, Cash Officer, ATM custodian and my last 1 year in the sector was at the head office`s global market unit. While I was there, I have seen myself not going to be in that sector for long,therefore all my income was to develop myself academically and skill acquisition. Eventually, I became Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Practitioner while I was still in the sector. It was after this my achievements I experienced the greatest disappointment and frustration as several interview I attended always being turned down simply because they believe I don't really have good working experience being a banker.Everyone believe the banking experience is dogmatic and therefore I was not employable being an accountant by profession. Thanks to almighty God that I eventually broke the jinx and now working as a senior accountant with a top rated manufacturing company in the country. My advice to everyone is that ,don just stay too long in the sector no matter what your profession is. Always see the sector as a ladder to another opportunities.

That's nice. How long would you define as too long to remain in banking.

musco4me:
If I can see a non bankn/govt job that pay less of my current salary, i will quickly move!

Same here!

Icon4s:
I was with ACCESS Bank from 1-30 November 2005. It was a 1month contract. I landed an Oil Servicing job 1month after I left.

One month contract? What department was it and how was the experience then, though 2005 was a good year in banking....Before the credit crunch....

scobaba:
I was sacked then by oceanic bank on Dec 21st 2009. It was the first tsunami. I felt like i would die. Like all hope was lost. But then i picked myself up, wrote a couple of professional exams including ican. Also enrolled for masters. Life was not easy then i must tell you. But i had tym to try several tyns same tym. 6 months after i lost dat, i got a small job dat still gave me time to run all my programmes comfortably. However, i dint have spare money for grooves and chicks like i did then in oceanic.

Finally in 2013, i landed my current job( oil and gas). There was an advert for chatered accountant. I apllied and got it. Tuday, i don hammer........ Small.

My advice. If u r not business inclined, dat is if u still hope to work for somebody, whiile you are doin your bank job, upgrade yourself academically, it wunt be easy oo, but it will pay you someday when the chips are down. Best of staff have lost thier job in banking, so no superstar i must tell you.

I think the bankers of your era (05-09) were the ones who really enjoyed banking. They were not overworked, and money was so surplus. That was before the credit crunch, right?

Its not easy doing the degrees alongside banking. One has to give way for the other. To get sick leave now self is not a joke as some bankers would rather die than take a sick leave(pun intended). Not to talk of study leave....

GboyegaD:
I worked in 2 different banks during my time in the industry. I worked in e-banking operations and then moved to asset remedial management.
I left a little over 4years to pursue something I like i.e. graduate degree. I loved everything about banking particularly my days in asset remedial management.

Lol.
Rarely will you see a head office staff who doesn't enjoy the job. Ebiz and remedial management are offices situated in Head office, if I'm not mistaken.

So what are you up to now....

musco4me:
Hmmmm. Guy, if ur an atm custodian in ................... Bank of Nigeria, u will be fightn daily with ur oga because of atm issues and the monitoring. I dnt want to mention the banks name. In this particular bank, atms are strictly monitored and any cash jam or no netwk or cash out on the atm at the wromg hour, ur oga go battle seriously wit u as if ur the cause. I still maintain my stand. I hate bankn but unemployment pushed me to bankn.

I quite understand sha. There's no bank that jokes with ATM downtime...

moyinoluwabun:
never! U won't know especially if ur pay I ok until u're out. It's not all about money

Hmmn. I guess they knew what they were doing when they put the salaries quite high.
That's the only thing that keep a lot of people glued to the job....

I think those in ops have it better when it comes to banking. Especially when you're a struggling marketer, you wish you were in ops.

No monthly performance reviews, no insults for not bringing money....

brainiac007:
I'm an ex-banker. I resigned exactly a year ago after 5 years and I'm so so glad I did.

Working as a marketer at the bank was the most depressing, demeaning and frustrating experience I've ever had.

Today, I look back and think, "Why didn't I leave sooner?". Now I have peace of mind and in a job I absolutely enjoy when compared to the bank job and family life has never been better.

Once I was blind, now I can see!

Did you get your new job before leaving the banking industry? Or after leaving.
Did you get promoted in that 5 years you were in marketing?

cana882:
Currently at workforce 4 a bank interview & trust me, all dis comments are nt helping.

Mayb i'll jst go home

Nahhhh. Don't!
Workforce is contract ops, if I'm not mistaken.
As contract staff, you don't have to attend to ATMs or balance the bulk cash. You do your normal deposit, withdrawal, transfers, etc and you balance at the end of the day.

Once done, you wait for bulk room to balance, then you go home.

Maybe I've oversimplified things o. But contract staffs don't have access to a lot of the nitty-gritty in ops. For security reasons.

moyinoluwabun:
Was ones a banker (got cessation of appointment with Skye bank in year 2010) thank God for freedom now and I pray for those enslaved and ready to move out to gain their freedom too in Jesus name.

Just curious. Did you ever think like this before your appointment was terminated?