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friend2Macron:
Hello everyone,
Please I want to clarify something. I heard the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada all share database. During my application for visiting visa to UK in 2017, I was wrongly advised to fill married (I was and still single) to aid the application.

Has anyone seen anyone who had this same issue before? The closest I've seen is someone who filled married while applying for US but at the point of applying for Canada PR, he was genuinely married, so that kinda sorted everything out.

What is the best and safest option to follow in my case? Single/never married or Separated/divorce?

Thanks for your response and the yabbing

Spousal Open Work Permit...
I believe the Author's spouse is currently schooling or working with a permit in Canada. You may google to get more information on it.

yemblaze:
Please whats SOWP for d sake of JJC like me...

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mikkyphp:
Very impressive.

If i may ask, do you also have plans of what you will be doing for money while you're studying hard to accomplish your ambition?
Any reason why you chose Calgary?

My 2 cents to you will be to focus on learning the core stats! As for python, focus only on the data related libraries -( Numpy, Scipy, Pandas,Matplotlib, Seaborn and of course Scikit learn) for python.

Your java skills will come in handy if you plan as a data scientist to convert your Analytics models into Data products.

Analytics is the ability to use quantitative data to glean actionable insights, shape decisions and outcome, as well as forecast future variables.

Remember: Data science is the process of formulating a quantitative question that can be answered with data, collecting and cleaning the data, analyzing the data and communicating the answer to the question to a relevant audience. This audience usually are business individuals who do not understand computer jargons. Hence, domain knowledge (e.g Financial service, Healthcare, telecoms etc) and soft skills are required because you would need to be able to understand the problem in order to tackle it and formulate the answer. The answer needs to be communicated using the industry/business parlance. Consider this when choosing your kaggle projects.

Good luck in your journey.

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Guitarlife:
Oh bro its nice to meet you, are you doing a diploma on an Msc ?
Are you in Canada ?

I have a background in Electrical Engineering (B.sc and M.sc) I am brushing up my statistics and probability/information theory knowledge.
I am looking at this path below, can you let me know how far you have gone and if I could learn a thing or 2 from you ?

Core Java for covering Basic Programming and OOP concepts (Concluded)
Java for Data structures and Algorithms(in Progress)
Statistics / Probability brush up(in Progress)
Intro to Data Science with Python

Do a Kaggle project at this point and document it on GIT hub

Machine learning for Data Science and Analytics
Deep Learning - www.deeplearningbook.org Part I and Part II

Do a second Kaggle project (Will start looking for junior Machine learning/ data science roles at this point)

SQL and Relational Database concepts (I Have a strong knowledge of this due to current work requirement)
NOSQL
Hadoop and Mapreduce

Do a third Kaggle project and blow from there.
Let me add this, I am self learning. I am teaching myself all these concepts with Udemy videos and text books .

The Banana Island of London you mean

mrMeen:
Still waiting for pictures of central London.

Do you know the definition of child support?

TroublemakerPro:
Omo ee no easy oooo
You will see a 15 year old girl looking like mercy Johnson ( Jamaicans, Ghanaians, Somalians and South Africans in church ) and since I'm 18 I Can't shine my teeth at them or na jail straight.

I think I may fulfill my dream of dating an Arabian or Indian .
everyone here are just too open about sex because the age of consent ( legal knacking age) is 16 years and most parents are not strict because believe it or not if you beat any child here na jail straight ooo.

Most people know me as a bad boy in Nigeria but since the people I grew up with were important members in church so I was taught good morals (thankful for that).

But if na here dem born me ehh, 2baba no reach waitin I go do oooo

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wasseynewest:
@josefuadjr: I totally agree with u but with a holistic view & from testimonies we've read, the assertions is very close to the truth.
@ifeoma: you're very right ma, in fact in my last exam with MOD, there is this guy who sat adjacent to me, I tell u he can't construct a simple sentence correctly & you know what, he came to the hall just to disturb others & cheat. I had to give him a bad face b4 he left me alone. For my mind, I smiled & said u go write IELTS tire. He contacted me after his result was released & he had LRWS: 5.5, 4, 4, 5.5. That said, I will never subscribe that some1 who ace the other three components "beautifully" cannot pass Writing. No no no!
Let me add this funny one too, during my 2nd attempt, I met a lady during speaking test and her hubby decided to give me a ride. On our way, I discovered the wifey is d only one writing the test, I inquired from the hubby why he's not writing and he answered "God forbid,
I had masters in Architecture and I know my worth, I cannot allow one IELTS be disgrace me cos I can't imagine myself writing it and in the end they told me I failed(lol)". He said his wife & kid shld go while he will be visiting them.

To whom it may concern, let me just drop this here

Ifeoma77:
Wish we had more time to gossip and plan coup against prof Snape it was awesome finally meeting you. Hope your flight home was smooth.

Guys, if you want to visualise Newmum, think of a Tyra Banks + Ashwarya Rai mashup. She is G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S!!
As beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside.

Hunku Nasiru, please go back to your screw driver, sound card & monitor, then face your work.
It's too early in the morning for you to start speaking gibberish.

Nasir123:
You're absolutely correct.

They prefer trekking through the sea to another man's remadeland,while they refuse to face and build their own.

Congratulations Sir, you've gotten our attention and you've won. Thanks for your great words of truth and wisdom.
Please can you let us rest now and stop derailing the thread?
Thank you.

@wonlasewonimi @fatima04 @lexusgs430, kindly ignore our Oga at the top.

thebosstrevor:
you dont like the truth. I guess i killed ur uk ego.

Many of you guys are poor and depends on govt social benefits. I think to you guys it is an achievement.

Lobatan!
I'm yet to register for another test so I actually don't have the listening materials for exchange; If I did, I would gladly do the needful.
I'm in dire need for the materials in order to practice and I would be glad if you can have a change of heart.
Thank You.

fidelism:
They are given on exchange basis. I just need log on details for listening and I give out the other three modules

Please I don't mind the other materials.
I've sent you a pm, pls respond.
Thank You.

fidelism:
If u registered with MOD, kindly activate the listening module. I will provide you with MOD Reading, Writing and Speaking (General) materials.

No problem. Thanks so much.

TheCongo2:
Pas de probleme. Merci beaucoup

In addition, I believe all official email addresses from Nigerian Universities end in "@uni.edu.ng".
Hence, the need to inform any contact we may have that correspondence to ICES should end as stated above.
Just my 2cents.

nomad26:
My people, let me gist you guys about my ECA journey with ICES so far:

Account created, all documents uploaded and payment made by 7th Sep. Got in touch with a contact at my university (in Nigeria) to send transcripts to ICES via email which ICES confirmed they received on 14th Sep.

Then the wait began...after 5 weeks elapsed, I sent an email to ICES for an update, they said they were still reviewing my application. By week 10 (19th Nov), I was already fed up because I was hoping to enter the pool latest 23rd Nov as my current IELTS (L9R9W7.5S7.5) will expire early Dec. I sent another email to ICES requesting for an update, they replied that they can't verify the email that my transcript was sent from even though it had the school's domain (eg. xxxx@uni.com.ng) so I should have the university send the transcript again through the regular email that they normally use. My people, at this point I was very upset because they could have told me about this issue weeks ago but instead they waited until week 10!!

Anyway, I got in touch with my contact at the school, turned out that the mumu guy sent my transcript from his own university account (he is a lecturer at the university) instead of going through the appropriate channel (Deputy Registrar). All because he wanted to chop money for little stress.

My advice to everyone is if you're going through a contact at your university, please confirm that they are going through the right channel to avoid delay. Because these ICES people will just abandon your application if there's any comma. Please learn from my experience.

I am now in the process of getting my transcripts sent via express courier to ICES. Also, I have now written another IELTS on 1st Dec and hopefully the result turns out favourable

From Ojota, if you are on the Kudirat Abiola Way side of the road, you would need to cross via the pedestrian bridge to the Ogudu Road side of Ojota.

Ogudu Road shares boundary with the Filling Station in between the two pedestrian bridges and the Biode Motor Park second gate.

Board a 50 naira cab going to Ogudu and drop at Ramat junction(Ogudu G.R.A. Estate gate).
The junction is just after Chicken Republic and opposite Coldstone Creamery when coming from Ojota.

Walk through the gate and down Rahmat crescent to the second turning to your right(Bola Ashiru street).
I believe MOD office building is the last house to your left on Bola Ashiru street sitting on a cornerpiece.

I hope this helps.

Grace135:
Please how do I get to Mod Idp office from Ojota or Ikeja underbridge?

Biko, french should not scatter my head jare.
I'm alright. Looking forward to the day I would land

Natalie27:
Hahahahah.... quoi de neuf ?

Hahahaha....
C'est bon. Bonjour Madmoiselle Natalie.

Natalie27:
L’homme beau bonjour ..j’habite à Lagos aussi

Madmoiselle tobore187, you're sighted ma'am...

tobore187:
rolls eyes****

Merci beaucoup.

TheCongo2:
Pas mal cuteguy201
Ca fait plaisir de faire votre connaissance

Seems french is the way now, let me do mine too

Je m'appelle Cuteguy201, je parle francais un petite peu et j'habite a Lagos. Je suis Nigerien aussi.


@Natalie27 @TheCongo2 @misscanada123

Well said, I totally agree.

Ifeoma77:
You are buying yourself a one way ticket to AVO
The laziness is not worth the hassle, carry yourselves to registry and make your life simpler.

One Word, Foresight!

ready4glory:
We have a landed property bought together, her National ID Card has our address, our last two rents are in our names, and also, her foreign Police clearance certificate has our address. We don try.

Lol
You really are ready4glory!

ready4glory:
Good people, well done o.
ITA fall for my side sef, CRS of 454, family of two (my fiancee abi fiancé and I). I have a CRS of 481 alone, and since that'll be over enough for the two of us, we decided she should save the money for her IELTS and ECA for something else lol.
Abeg, as I dey fill the form so, I go dey ask my seniors questions where necessary.
Thank you.

Wow!
Thanks for your response.

Claire40:
I did. I wrote in Abuja

I doubt you wrote in Nigeria

Claire40:
Well, I partly agreed in my essay and I scored 8.5 in writing. Overall, nice points.

Thank You

Bsbabe:
Hi guys,

I have received quite a number of emails in the last two days since I responded to @TheCongo2 about being a BA. I have tried to respond to some but since I can only share my own personal experience and I seem to be repeating myself in every email, I am posting my response (modified) to the OP here for anyone interested and also so that anyone who still has questions can ask it here and other BAs can respond and contribute more to the pool of knowledge.

Let’s start with companies that can work for you best. That will definitely depend on where you are planning to land and the opportunities in that city. I think a first start may be for you to go to sites like Indeed and Workopolis to get an idea of how prevalent BA jobs are on your side of town.

So for me, that’s where you should start from. Then when you see these job postings, review a good number of them to determine the skill requirement ask that is consistent across the different job postings and compare these skill requirements to what you currently have now. In doing that, I would advise you dig deep and think well about your experience because you may have a number of the skills but the way they are presented, you may think ‘oh no, I haven’t done that before’ simply because the work was not presented in the same format in Nigeria.

Now for the BA world, the most important skill I believe is your ability to communicate and analyze. And the way you present yourself starting from your resume is a skill in itself. As a BA, you will see them asking for experience and skills in the areas of requirements elicitation, requirements documentation, requirements analysis including the knowledge of BPMN and UML (which covers the development of Use Cases), as well as requirements specification and tracing. Also, knowledge of SDLC is very important – especially Agile/Waterfall and then skills in using Microsoft office tools and in a number of cases, SQL and/or Tableau for data analytics. Oh yes, also knowledge of developing test cases as well.

If you are not familiar with these terms, I would advise you go online to do some research. In my case, I bought some BA courses online from Udemy and learnt everything I needed to learn and familiarized myself with the BA terminology here as these terms may appear strange to you at first but after going through BA courses, you will realize they are experiences you have one way or the other but we didn’t use these terms in Nigeria. BA trainings are really expensive (but required if you want to become certified as a CBAP – Certified Business Analyst Professional). So I started with Udemy but still attended a BA training as I needed the units to register for CBAP. I also got myself certified in Agile software development process – so I got certified as a Scrum Master and a Scrum Product Owner. You will see some BA job postings also asking for some Agile or specifically Scrum knowledge. Now, the agile certifications are good to have as they may place you above another candidate if it comes down to a selection but is not a necessity straight away and I say this because honestly, they are not cheap. Each one will set you back at least about $1,200- $1,500 depending on the trainer (You can also research this). I also learnt SQL online and found that from the job postings I reviewed, there were a number of them asking for knowledge of JIRA (this is an issue tracking tool used by most companies now) so I learnt how to use JIRA too and also dabbled into a bit of Tableau.

Lastly, once you are familiar enough with BA terminology and all and you are confident, then go ahead and build your resume, tailoring it to each job posting. So first of all, build a master BA resume which will have your experience presented in light of all the BA terminology so e.g. “elicited requirements from customers and documented them for the development team to execute......”, “analyzed requirements, ensuring prioritization of needs according to business goals.......”… something like that (by the time you review and understand what a BA does, you would understand what I mean). Also, present your system skills – so for example “proficient in the use of Microsoft office (advanced Excel is a required skill)” etc. In my case, I added stuff like “working knowledge of SQL and JIRA (as I couldn’t claim to be an expert since I just learnt how to use it).

So, I guess that’s the summary of it for me. Your resume is the first contact they will have with you so that’s by far the most critical document you need to develop. And ensure you tailor the resume you submit to the job posting and its requirements. No embellishments though and of course no lies as you will need to defend what you write in an interview. Just try and present your experience in a relevant manner. I really hope I have covered everything from my experience but if you have any more questions or clarifications, let me know.

Bossman, Twale!
Did you happen to study Architecture?
Nice lettering Sir...

olajide21:
Hope this makes some sense. The shop is tucked in the middle of roll of shops. On the other hand, once you get to wuse market, ask for the guy that sells winter wears. You may also try this number: 08035041688 - Azubuike (got it from this thread)

Also. Usman - 08130987851
As for him, you would need to speak Hausa.

To be honest, I don't even know how to repond to this.
But please just for next time sake, if you have nothing reasonable to say, don't comment on this thread.
Thank you.

cocococo:
Must everybody go to Canada? The craze is becoming too much. Canada, Canada, Canada! Some people will be writing IELTS up to 10 times all in the name of I must leave this country! The ones that manage to pass will run here and be saying, ‘Thank God I finally made it!’. While those that finally get the PPR will not let us hear word, be quoting different dates of the stages, like I care!
You guys are the ones making these developed countries look down on us! IELTS is making the standard of exam more difficult day be day, WES is adding WAEC for ECA, IRCC is increasing minimum POF and cost of application fee! But we are still patronizing them, pumping the money into their economy! By the time you reach there with all the funds you are taking into Canada, you have pumped so much money into a foreign country, money that you cannot generate and send back into your own country Nigeria from where the funds came out from, thus depleting our country of resources.

Gbam!
Well said.

smslive2:
First... Congratulations on your PPR and COPR... May the land favour you
Second... I rarely respond to people's personal issue on this thread cos sometimes it might be very sensitive HOWEVER, when you come on public forum like this to ask for help, expect people to give you advice based on the information you provide to them. I am almost certain that if you had mentioned that your point is 467, most people would have advised accordingly. My advise is that if you dont want emotional commentators to comment emotionally, then either dont bring it to public forum or give full facts so as to be guided without emotion.

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Good day Guys, Pls does anyone have any idea of reliable IT recruitment agencies one can connect with from Naija?
Help a brother...

Nice 1!

kendulala:
Thank you.



For work experience,she is a biology instructor at one A level school.I submitted letter from the employer, company ID card, business card from the General Manager and payslip.
In addition to the above, i stated clearly the salary from the school is been paid with cash.

ADR came requesting for Additional proof of employment, including at least: pay slips and proof of payment of salary into account. I got letters from the Account department of the school stating again that salary is paid with cash and another letter from the Admin dept of the school. 6 month pay slips and LOE for the ADR.

Cheers.