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If there is another room in the house, I'll go there and really try to sleep pretending I saw nothing and hoping to wake up to the realisation that I've got no sister afterall and am single n seriously searching

mandu20:
bolof,i dnt knw why u re overflogging d horse unnecessarily,u re wit your money while i am wit my postin.i told u am not forcin u 2influence your postin thru me.i told u i cant put my job into a risk just because i want to help,, as if u r doing it for free we hv thousands of cal up letters 2attend to.moreover there re many people dat hv contactd me whom am helpin even without dem seein me or callin except mail.i hv told u,if u ar nt convinced,look 4somebody else,simple!!

Mr Austin, the guy has not asked for too much by requesting for a proof of your claim. I think you are not a scammer but a thief, @ bolof2000, find something better to do with your money and go to anywhere your destiny's taking you for service.

Truly speaking, it baffles me why church universities should be as expensive as we have in Nigeria. We are not saying they should be free like what we had when the missionaries first came to Nigeria but they should atleast be made affordable to common men and women. I wonder whether they establish these universities to propagate the gospel or to make money.

The unfortunate thing is that the 'standard' is not even there to justify the high fees. If there is educational standard, there is no moral standard to a large extent (for example how can you call a place a university and tell the students that the use of handset is prohibited or tell a female university student not to cook on campus?).

Unconditional

davidylan:
this process takes about 5-6 yrs for applicants outside Canada and the US.

That was long time ago, now you can finish it within twelve calendar months

For now, no bank in Nigeria will issue you a bank draft in Canadian dollar. Your best bet if you must pay from Nigeria is to use a mastercard (preferably GTBank's). If you are not comfortable with mastercard, you only alternative is to get someone in EU, UK or US to help you with the bank draft.

Am talking from experience. My intercontinental bank mastercard was refused but a colleague was able to get his paid using GTBank's mastercard. I was at virtually all the Nigerian banks and some Ghanian banks for a bank draft in Canadian dollar but none was able to help. They can make in US dollars though but it is not acceptable. I eventually got someone to do it for me in the US.

All the best.

Petrel is a professional software used by Reservoir engineers Geoscientists.

Please does anyone know where I can get trained on how to use this software? Positive contributions will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

i can only hope jonathan has made a good choice and wish both of them success as they face the tough challenges ahead of them. God bless 9ja.

@brinesj , thanks for the enlightenment. Am middle level (9yrs experience) not sure how that will be interpreted in Canada though but I guess oil and gas experience (especially rig) is more or less the same world wide. I will read through the website. Are u in Canada?

Thanks.

Hello HS and Liss, pls do you have an idea about the job outlook for a geologist migrating from 9ja to canada and planning to settle in Alberta (Calgary to be specific). I know its a regulated occupation but some job adverts I saw online didn't request for the license, this kindda got me confused. Also what is the standard of living like in Calgary - like how much can one get a decent apartment (two bedroom flat) for rent? How's their schools like for kids (fees)?

I'm almost through with my PR processing, only waiting for their final decision. I'm trying to understand what to expect there as I know relocating has never been an easy thing. Still contemplating though, if its truly worth it.

Help pls.

Thanks.

Not all married men cheat.

I know a close frined who has never cheated, even as a bachelor. The funny thing however is that the wife believes he cheat! And that makes me wonder if the wife actually cheats and think the husband does the same.

The earlier we flush out the thoughts that married men always cheat, the better for the society.

Depends on what love really means. For me, you don't want to hurt the person you love and if cheating could hurt her/him then you don't cheat on him/her.

Thank God the boy MIRACLE was miraculously found. I wonder why the father would have the approval of his pastor before commenting on the lost child (some people worship their pastor and not their God).

What I really want to know is what the police did to the headmaster and proprietress that were detained after the boy was found.

Dear doc,

My sister had her third miscarriage two days ago. Could you please advise on what could be the probable cause these miscarriages? She's been married for three years now without any child due to miscarriage. She's been to gynea without any possible solution.

Your candid advise would be greatly appreciate.

Once again, thanks.

Dear doc,

Thank you for the advise. i will go to the hospital tomorrow for the MRI scan. i appreciate your assistance.

My sister (25yrs old) had her third miscarriage two days ago. Could you please advise on what could be the probable cause these miscarriages? She's been married for three years now without any child due to miscarriage. She's been to gynea without any possible solution.

Your candid advise would be greatly appreciate.

Once again, thanks.

Dear Doctor,

I would need you help.

I have been having a terrible back pain for more than a year now. I have used many types of drugs which I can't even remember any now. A number of pain killers too. Some said it is as a result of the nature of my job that requires me to sit for a minimum of 12 hrs a day, said maybe my chair is not good and I have changed this chair three times (orthopedic now) but the pain still remains. I have also used herbs of different types. One of the doctors said maybe its the bed I use but I don't think it is since I use an orthopedic foam.

Will appreciate it if you can tell me what is probably the cause of this and what can I use to get a permanent solution to it. Now I use Dewitt which was given to me as a temporary measure anytime it gets too serious.

I don't drink and I am very concern about how much sugar I take. I should add that I am a married man and a responsible one.

Thanks.

On my way to work,

Taken with Panasonic DMC-FX12

@Octus2008,
Thanks for your post. However you got me confusing with the third item (3.make sure your vehicle papers are in order like the papers issued at the immigration office ikoyi covering your car). My car is registered in Oshogbo where I am based. I brought it down from the US a couple of months ago and it came in through Lagos port. Is there any paper I need to get from Immigration Office in Ikoyi for this purpose? Thanks

Have you driven your car from Lagos to Ghana or vice versa before? Please share your experience. Is it advisable?

Thanks

Nice trend you've got here.

I would appreciate any contact to a mud engineering company. I got the fluid engineering training from Oklahoma mud school, OK, USA last year and also have more than seven years experience as a SLS data engineer but could not land a job as a mud engineer.

I will appreciate getting someone to link me.


Thanks.

Somehow, I will miss this woman. May her soul rest in peace

The origin of this man doesn't matter. Ha has made a name, he has made his money and he has power (Kwara state is his estate/compound atleast). Nigeria is too porous to argue anybody's nationality. Just leave this man alone and work on your own journey to the top.

I'd rather choose not to say anything for or against the ones we call men of God. Time will tell if they are truly from above or from the sea below. Guess we are experiencing some signs of the end.

If where to pay tithes matters, I would rather choose to pay it (fifty-fifty) to the church I was attending as a kid/adolescent (because that is where I got my foundation laid) and the church I worship now. If my foundation had not been strong, maybe i wouldn't be what I am now (It is not me but Christ). I have noticed that most people prefer to pay it to the church where they worship and totally forget where they came from. Yes it is the same God but I personally believe in paying it to my church in the village or take it to motherless homes/charity. Where I worship now has a central AC installed while back home, they can't afford a good keyboard/organ/piano.

Na now wey I truly taya for 9ja. Everything na police? Husband and wife dey fight, na police go settle am. Child abuse story, na police. Hol am wetin u carry, na police. Vehicle particulars, road worthiness, driver license, spare tyre etc still na police, house on fire, na police AND NOW BANK LOAN RECOVERY. me still never understand wetin police got to do with debt recovery sha.

God bless Nigeria (after the death of all the corrupt leaders and followers).

Wonder the type of job or business a man is doing that will not make him to know that he has lost 12million naira from his account over a period of one year. The account owner was probably busy stealing more. I think EFCC needs to find out how come he didn't know he was loosing an average of 1m per month.

EFCC has tried on this anyway. Hope they will be able to catch the real politicians thieves too. Keep up the good work.

I am not politically minded so wouldn't know if Sanusi is following any hidden agenda. I came across this write up and wonder if this is what is actually happening,


Group plots takeover of five top banks
Written by Omoh Gabriel & Emeka Mamah
Monday, March 23, 2009

LAGOS—ANTI-CONSOLIDATION forces have regrouped with the hope of dismantling the structures and forcing a takeover of the top five banks in the country, Vanguard can now reveal.

The grand plan by the group is to cause panic and uncertainty in the industry and make the target banks look unsafe for depositors.
Meantime, indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may announce the names of a new Governor of the Central Bank (CBN) and the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) in April just a few weeks before the tenure of the incumbents run out.
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to make public information on causes of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
Vanguard investigations revealed that the aim of the anti-consolidation forces is to cause loss of public confidence in the banking industry and compel the Federal Government to move in by injecting funds. Further, they ultimately plan to instigate government to take equity holdings in the targeted banks.
Vanguard gathered that the group at work is made up of former bank owners who lost out during the consolidation exercise, a powerful clique in the present government, and some aggrieved persons in three of the six geopolitical zones in the country who felt left out in the consolidation exercise.
Presidency sources disclosed that those who felt left out in the consolidation exercise are up in arms to recoup what they felt they lost during Obasanjo years.
Part of the plans hatched by the group is to ensure that the incumbent Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, does not get a second term. The plan is also to ensure that whatever gains consolidation recorded are discredited. This, it was learnt, was meant to force the President to act quickly in the matter of appointment of a successor to Soludo as they anticipate that the president’s slow move may scuttle their dreams and cause the renewal of Soludo’s re-appointment for a second term.
The group’s second game plan is to make Nigerian banks look unsafe in the eye of the banking public. Part of the game is to spread rumours that some banks are unsound and are on the verge of collapse. They send out text messages to individuals and account holders passing wrong information on their target banks. At the moment, the group’s target is one of the high-flying new generation banks where they have sent out several messages.
New CBN Gov, Auditor-General to emerge April
The tenure of the CBN Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. O. R. Ejenavi from Delta State will lapse in May 2009.
Naming nominees for the top jobs, according to a presidency source, will afford the Senate ample opportunity to work on them before they assume office.
While Soludo will complete his first term in office as CBN governor by May 29, Ejenavi will be due for retirement on age grounds on May 18.
However, among those being considered for the position of CBN governor include the Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman from Kano, who was a former Finance minister and deputy governor at the apex bank; another former CBN deputy governor, Obadiah Mailafia from Nassarawa, Mallam Isa Hayatudeen from Borno, a former managing director of FSB International Bank, incumbent Managing Director of First Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, also from Kano, and Mallam Falalu Bello from Kaduna, Managing Director, Unity Bank.
But the most touted name so far is that of Mallam Isa Yuguda, the Bauchi State governor who won election on the platform of the All Nigeria peoples Party, ANPP, but defected to the ruling PDP last week. Yuguda is also an in-law of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Yuguda was also a former Managing Director of Inland Bank, a legacy bank in post-consolidation FinBank.
Past CBN governors include late Dr. Clement Isong (Akwa-Ibom), Alhaji Adamu Ciroma (Yobe); Mr. Ola Vincent (Lagos), late Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed (Bauchi); Mr. Paul Ogwuma (Abia), Dr. Joseph Sanusi (Ondo) and the current Professor Charles Soludo (Anambra).
It was also gathered that strict obedience to civil service rules will be observed in the appointment of a new Auditor General for the Federation going by the constitutional provision.
Section 86 Subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution states: “the Auditor-General for the Federation shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Federal Civil Service Commission, subject to the confirmation of the Senate.” That of the CBN may be determined by other factors, mostly political considerations which are at the pleasure of the President without recourse to the commission.
The most senior director in the office of the Auditor-General currently is Mr. Ogunsina G.F from Ekiti State who may be appointed unless there is political maneuvering. Having been a director since 2004, it may not be smooth sailing for Ogunsina because, there is another senior civil servant Mr. Osonuga T. A. from Ogun State who was promoted a director in 2007 and is being propelled by other forces to occupy the office.
It’s unfortunate top 5 banks are targeted, says official
A CBN official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that it is unfortunate that top five banks are the target. The banks, he said, are sound. The CBN had mistaken in the past the ongoing move as de-marketing by competitors in the banking industry, saying it is unhealthy competition.
The group is using this means to make depositors panic and undertake massive withdrawal of funds from the targeted banks in an attempt to cause liquidity problem in the bank. In that state they hope to cause a take over by the government which may buy a stake in the bank and later sell to members of the privileged group who may be appointed in the interim into the board of the banks.
Arewa worries over liquidity problem
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to inform the people the cause of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
ACF said that the commercial banks must have obviously lent too much money to people who either invested them in buying stocks or in the importation of petroleum products in the country, but are unable to repay such loans.
A statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani however blamed the CBN for enquiring “into the volume of the so-called toxic assets of the commercial banks while refusing to tell Nigerians how or why in the first place, the banks found themselves in trouble.
The statement reads “The Working Committee of the National Executive Council of the Arewa Consultative
Forum (ACF) held its meeting at its national headquarters in Kaduna on Tuesday, the 17th of March 2009. In attendance were all National officers of the ACF drawn from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). General IBM Haruna, the Chairman presided.
“Among other things, the meeting reviewed and discussed a number of issues and other troubling developments in the country. At the end, it resolved to issue the following statement.
“The ACF deliberated on the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and observed that Nigerians are feeling increasingly frustrated by the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to disclose the true the true nature and the scale of the crisis.
“Even members of the National Assembly, despite their best efforts, have been unable to get to the truth of the matter.
According to Arewa consultative forum “All that seem obvious is that our commercial banks had lent out too much money to too many people who had invested them in stocks or petroleum importation but who are now unable to pay back. Beyond that, the public has no clear idea as how or why the loans were given and on what terms."

Thank you God for my yesterday, for my today and for my tomorrow. All are in your hands. Thank you for my beautiful wife and the wonderful kids you have given us. Thank you because you are always there for us. I praise your holy name.

dgreatrock:
It is good to say the truth - always. but if you say it in a stupid manner, you receive a corresponding response.

Is it possible to say a truth in a stupid manner? I think the truth sounds stupid to only those who don't like to hear it.

The earlier the better, look for the exit door and use it

I won't think anything is going on. Personally I prefer to use her name to save her number for security reasons

Lord, please teach me your ways. Enable me to know what to do in all situations I find myself. Give me the grace to do what you would have done in my shoes in Jesus name I pray (AMEN).