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@ poster

I'm pretty surprised you live in the UK yet you don't know where to go for help. Please visit the homeoffice site below. Tells you all you need to know about bringing/ sponsoring someone to the UK

http://ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/

@poster

Visit the following to find out: www.ucas.co.uk  www.whatuni.com

what uni gives you complete university information

@ poster

I don't see anything wrong in sending a child to the boarding school.

Just wondering if this private universities do deliver the goods.

If you guys are having trouble during the clearance registration, why not visit the FAQ or contact the site admin? Sure they must have some form of contact on the website.

All the best!

@ poster,

Not one to support any argument, but what i understand is that when you book online (most airlines), you get fares at reduced rates. You may just have been unlucky coming across an ignorant Arik staff.

only in lagos.

Not looking for trouble but can most of you ladies mentioning Akpu, Edikaikong, Pounded yam, Ofe Nsala, actually cook this delicacy for their husbands or its Mamacass  take away to the rescue? 

@poster

The Odd jobs you mentioned are being carried out by those who may have entered the country through clandestine means.
Nothing stops those who have entered legally from aspiring to be the prime minister.

Talking from what i see around.

As long as you are still here, you'll hear and be invited to one someday.

Either travel down to Nigeria together if you are both in the US, or invite her to Nigeria if she is the one in the US.

Take note! I heard Ikoyi registry is the only marriage registry recognized by the US embassy.

Guys for recent information on changes to UK Visa applications (students) etc
See link below

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/studyingintheuk/

You don't need a reply to farewell email to assure you that it's finally over.

I suggest you have a section for general or others category as what you have now (job, autos, etc) is limited.

Police in Nigeria have arrested scores of motorcycle taxi riders with dried fruit shells, paint pots or pieces of rubber tyre tied to their heads with string to avoid a new law requiring them to wear helmets. Skip related content
Related photos / videos People ride on a motorcycle taxi in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos Enlarge photo The regulations have caused chaos around Africa's most populous nation, with motorcyclists complaining helmets are too expensive and some passengers refusing to wear them fearing they will catch skin disease or be put under a black magic spell.

The law, which came into force on January 1, pits two factions equally feared by the common motorist against one another: erratic motorcycle taxis known as "Okadas," whose owners are notorious for road-rage, and the bribe-hungry traffic police.

Some bikers have used calabashes -- dried shells of pumpkin-sized fruit usually used as a bowl -- or pots and pans tied to their heads with string to try to dodge the rules.

Construction workers have set up a lucrative trade renting out their safety helmets for around 500 naira (2.42 pounds) a day.

"They use pots, plates, calabashes, rubber and plastic as makeshift helmets," said Yusuf Garba, commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission in the northern town of Kano.

"We will not tolerate this. We gave them enough time to purchase helmets. Six months ago the price of helmets was below 800 naira so complaints about non-availability and high prices are no excuse," he told Reuters.

Helmet prices have since risen sharply as sellers cash in on demand.

BIKES IMPOUNDED

He said 28 arrests had been made in Kano. Newspapers have reported more arrests in other cities. Those detained are fined and their bikes impounded until they buy helmets.

There are tens of thousands of Okadas buzzing around Lagos, a chaotic city of 14 million people, many of them given to unemployed and illiterate youths as part of poverty reduction programmes or on hire-purchase schemes run by businessmen.

Most have never been taught traffic rules.

Newspapers quoted passengers as saying they feared the helmets could be laced with magic spells so as to knock the wearer unconscious and make them easier to rob, while others feared they would pick up an infection.

One columnist said transportation can already carry a health risk, and recounted how he had picked up a bedbug while sitting on a bus.

"The story is that people who have scabies, craw-craw, ringworm, dandruff and all other such diseases would easily infect others with them through the helmets," Steve Nwosu wrote in the Daily Sun.

"They ironically forget that the same diseases are also deposited on, and generously transferred from, car seats and their headrests."

- yahoo

Tendency for Abuja to be like Lagos than the other way round.

Whatever you do, enter legally.

Never go abroad to hustle cos you will be frustrated 10 times over. Better to go as a student, then you can raise your head and be counted.

All the best to you guys

Sure Google will give you all the answers you need.

Broke up and expecting a reply to farewell email?

I guess you been reading too much Mills and Boon.

Wonder why this topic made it to the headlines.

Unilag

The FRSC helmet law has come to stay _{though it may die after a while like the reflective sticker one}
If you are a constant okada rider, i don't think anyone will frown at you if you have your own personal helmet. That way you wouldn't need to be wearing nylon bags over your head or be afraid of disappearing when you ride an okada

Guys, wish you all the best in 2009

Wish you all the best in 2009

Guys, wish u all the best in 2009.

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Wish you all the best.