₦airaland Forum

jidoex66:
Have you been able to make the transfer? If not DM

I haven't been able to and I PMed you to no avail.

wip7:
Try Stanbic IBTC, diamond and first bank. Via form A you don't need to open dorm account. You will only need dorm if you will be purchasing your FC YOURSELF and do the wiretransfer directly.

Also, if you have a bitcoin..I MAY BE ABLE to use that to pay for you. If you don't have bitcoin you may ask those selling to see how much u can buy...

Thanks Mr. Wip. I was at the banks today and was told Form A takes several weeks-if not months- to process. So I guess the only thing left now is to use a dorm account. Getting a referee is another hurdle.

wingeddove:
Sorry,I dont have knowledge about that.But try and go around banks to make enquiry

Alright. Thank you.

wingeddove:
Other alternative is to open a dorm account,buy the dollar or euro in the black market and transfer through your dorm account.Though,this could be expensive considering the fallen naira now.This is a festive season and I know people abroad use to send money into the country in a period like this.If you are very very close to your friend,tell him to help you look for trustworthy people around.However,please if you have your doubt,the dorm account is your best bet

The dorm account apart, Wip7 mentioned some banks that will charge you from your naira account with the bank rate. Please do you have any knowledge of this?

[quote author=crystalsoul post=51972926][/quote]I made enquiries about Form A and I was told it is not guaranteed. That I could apply for form A and it will take more than a month and might still be rejected. I called a friend abroad but he couldn't help. So I want to know how else I can do it today

wip7:
Some banks still allow naira to dollar from your account at bank rate. Wire transfer is possible if u have your FC or the bank agrees to convert your naira to FC. Documents for visa are stated already on this thread. Like some pages back or just click on my ID to search.

Please Mr Wip, do you know of any particular bank that does this? And do I need a dorm account? Please I want to pay this morning and I want to know how to start.

wingeddove:
@Wip 7,Godsong and fellow ogas in the house.Please I need your clarification on this section of the appointment form.
What circle should be ticked in the option of ""If you are traveling to a different final destination and transiting Turkey, do you have an entry permit for your final destination country? ""* If yes is ticked,what date should be put?

Please,I will love to hear from you all.

Please how did you pay from Nigeria, in the light of this forex ish and limitation on the amount one can send abroad?

Hello Mr WIP, I want to pay the deposit fee at EMU tomorrow. Is wire transfer possible inNigeria with the forex problem? After that, please tell me the documents I should be getting ready to take to the embassy because I read of someone who is already thinking of booking his visa application. I want to start Asap.

Hello Mr WIP and others here, please I am interested in knowing the rent payment format in Famagusta. Is rent paid on a monthly basis or on a yearly basis. Thank you for the anticipated reply.

wip7:
February (Spring) 2017 Admission Opens now in EMU

Admission process for Spring entry (Feb, 2017) is now open at Eastern Mediterranean University. Visit the University website to learn more and to apply. Send me the O level result, international passport page and photograph for undergraduate applicants. The graduate applicants will require university transcript. The earlier the best!

Dear Mr. Wip, I sent you an email. This is Mr. Damson Chibuzo. Please tell me when you receive it.

Hello wip7 and others, please I want to know if Form A is still issued to students for payment in Nigerian banks and any idea of the exchange rate applicable to Form A if it's still given. Thank you. Also I want to know if application has begun for winter intake at EMU.

Please where can I get the cheapest flight to North Cyprus. I really don't know any particular airlines and their current charges. I tried Google but the result was not encouraging. Thanks a lot.

Good morning Mr. Wip, please I'd like to know how much is needed for BTA for TRNC. Thanks in advance.

When the devil has romanced you but you don't even know self. LOL

A simple referendum and everyone will rest. If we decide to go, we go. If we decide to stay, we stay.

wip7:
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Have you asked your family in Nicosia about this?...the family have the answer!

Best wishes!

I'm undecided about staying with them. So I am probably trying to see if I can stand by any decision I decide to make.

worry359:
If you really have family there why are you asking strangers here for an answer?
Very curious that person does not believe family but will believe strangers on internet!

Having more views won't hurt none. Family is also one ambiguous word here. I hope you get.

jidoex66:
Its possible dude

Thanks bro.

Please house I have a very important question. Is it possible to live in Nicosia and School at Famagusta? I am planning on going for my master's at Famagusta but I have family in Nicosia who are willing to take me in. Please is it realistically feasible? Thanks all. Mr Wip, thank you for your assistance during my admission process. I need your help on this too.

Obijulius:
The Devil has finally taken his suicide bombers to his base on earth.

Saudi Arabia is the home of this demonic religion.

God should not allow the many innocents in Saudi to die without realizing that their is a right way to worship him.

What a Cursed Religion

Why are you slow like this? That you will ignore the good Muslims around and use a tiny fragment to judge Islam is wrong. Calling a religion you know little about demonic is wrong. Respect others ways of life. And if I may ask, what is the right way to worship a being whose existence you can never prove beyond every reasonable doubt?

At OP, the bomb blast in Turkey was at Ataturk Airport, not Istanbul. I doubt the authenticity of this news.

floragregs:
[i]This is for those who have phobia problems. This is for those who don't even know they have it. This is for those who are not too lazy to read.




It started when I was in 100level in the university. I was young and inexperienced. I went to church with a friend, it was palm Sunday in the school's catholic church. The church was crowded there was even crowd outside (late comers). My friend and I were with the late comers. With our cross shaped palm leaves in our hands we stood patiently and listened to the priest from a very loud speaker. After the gospel reading, the doors were opened and people started rushing in (you know how students behave). My friend was dragging my left hand, urging me to hurry along with her but I was feeling something. I knew I had felt it once before but not like this. The crowd pushed forward and my friend couldn't hold me anymore. I felt choked up and very dizzy and I was gasping for air with my heart beating very fast. I didn't know what was happening to me. My friend was already inside the church when she realised I wasn't with her so she came outside to look for me. My heart was beating really fast and I was glad to see her. I just told her "Chinel, make we dey go hostel", she asked why, I just dragged her and we went back to the hostel without even blessing our 'palm cross'.
When we got to the hostel, I explained what I felt to my Chinel. I told her I could hear my heartbeat. She just rushed to the cupboard and brought out a sachet of tiny white drugs and gave me one. She said her doctor in Lagos recommended them when she had slight asthma symptoms. I just swallowed it without thinking or asking her any further questions. I wanted the palpitations to stop. After about 10minutes, I slept off. I woke up about an hour later, thanked Chinel and went upstairs to my room. But I just couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong with me.
I have an elder brother who lived and worked in the same city where I schooled. I called him around 4pm and told him I was sick. He didn't even wait for me to finish, he just said "ok start to come my house now now". I packed somethings and left for his place. His kids were happy to see me but something was troubling my mind so I couldn't play with them. The next morning, he took me to the Federal medical centre. We had a Doctor cousin there so it was easy for me to see him. After telling him what happened to me the previous day, he just said "you are Agoraphobic. Stay away from crowded places and lecture halls". He then prescribed a drug to control the palpitation. I was happy to have identified my problem. I did as he said, I stayed away from crowded places and halls and even market. I didn't notice when it stopped. I quit the drug and started living my normal life.
My second panic attack came when I was in 300level. I went to my sister's house in another state during one ASSU strike. We went to church one Sunday. The pastor making alter call for people with one sickness or the other. He even mentioned palpitation but I didn't want to face a crowd and experience another panic so I kept to myself. Then he told a short story of how he and his friend went to church and a pastor called out people like this. His friend who was asthmatic refused to come out so he died the next day bla bla bla. I still didn't go.
That night at home, I couldn't shake off the pastor's short story off my head. I wondered if something would go wrong. I went to bed at about 10pm but I couldn't sleep. I was thinking and I was scared. Some minutes to 12, something in my head started saying "so you refused to go out for prayers, you will die by sharp 12". The familiar wave of panic crept in. I jumped out of my bed with my heart beating very fast and loud. I knocked on my sister's room door. She came out with her husband. When she saw the horrible look on my face, she got scared and started crying and praying at the same time. I felt shortness of breath, my palms were sweaty, then the palpitation. I was having a panic attack. Why did I go to church that day? I thought. I hated the pastor for his short story. After some seconds I felt better. We all went back to bed. I slept well till morning. I felt good when I woke up, I didn't die!
When I was ready to go back to school, my sister's husband gave me a 'Rhapsody of realities' bible which contained nice and inspirational articles written by pastor Chris and his wife. These articles where inserted in between bible chapters. My sister's husband also gave me some verses to read when ever I felt sick.
My third panic attack came when I was still in 300level. We had workshop practice that Thursday afternoon by 1pm. I was already at the school gate by 12:30pm. I walking down to where we were to have the practical when I suddenly felt dizzy. I couldn't go further. I felt like if I did, I would faint. My heart started beating fast again and I felt shortness of breath but nobody noticed so I just turned and went back to the hostel. When I got my room I just cried and thought to myself "abi people for my village no want make I finish school?". Then I rebuked the thought and called my mum.
She was sick at that time and was admitted in another state about 2hours' bus ride. She told me to come over. I just packed somethings, not forgetting my bible, and left for the park. When I got to the hospital, they ran a test or two and said I had malaria. I didn't even bother to tell the doctor anything because I felt she might think I was crazy. I just let the treat malaria. They wanted to finish me with injections.
On my bed that night, I went through my Rhapsody bible and discovered an article by pastor Chris (page 654) "A very present help". It was just talking about fears, I was so happy to have seen it. I started reading psalm 91 everyday! I stayed in the hospital for 5days. I missed practical, tests and assignments. It was really bad because it affected my grade.
My brother came to take my mum and I home. I felt very dizzy, aftermath of plenty injections. I said to myself "I don't just any doctor, I need a shrink". I started browsing about phobias. I studied phobias more than my physics books. I wanted to know everything about them. We had free WIFI as at that time in my school so I always went to school with my ipod touch to browse and read about phobias. I started noticing that I didn't like being locked up in a room or being in closed spaces. I hated going to the bank because of the security door. I would say to my friends "if this door wastes one more second I might pass out". I just avoided tight and closed places, then I realised it was actually claustrophobia and not agoraphobia! Thanks to my browsing. I am sure 'Google' got tired of my search that period. Through my research, I got to know that millions of people have the same problems home and abroad. That was how I was able to conquer my fear. I haven't had a panic attack since I identified my problem and started avoiding what will trigger it. I even thought I would have a panic attack in NYSC camp because it felt like prison. Lol. But it didn't happen.

There are so many people who go through panic attack due to phobias but they don't even know it. You are half cured when you identify your problem and know that you are not the only one who has it. I remember the immigration recruitment test last year and I shiver with the knowledge that so many of them would have been claustrophobic or agoraphobic but didn't know it!
Holly wood actress, Whoopy Goldberg doesn't like being on a plane because she is aviophobic. Pete Edochie of Nollywood hates to fly because he's claustrophobic and can't be in an enclosed place. As for me, i'm still wondering if i'll be able to fly someday. I don't use elevators. I stay out of trouble because I don't want to ever be in a cell or worse still, a Nigerian prison. It has really affected me because I prefer to take long bus rides instead of flights.
There are worse phobias. I have read about Tokophobia which is the fear of pregnancy! The thought of a child growing in them makes them panic. There is also Xenophobia which is the fear of strangers or foreigners! They just hate meeting new people. I opened this thread to create little awareness of these problems.

My name is Flora. I'm a physicist and i'm Claustrophobic. Thanks for reading.

Claustrophobia is a very very bad phobia. I don't know if it is hereditary. My two elder sisters and myself are claustrophobic. What keeps me going is identifying my triggers and avoiding them. I can't travel for long distances on a bus. I can't stay in a car or on a bus with the windows shut. The AC in a vehicle is my biggest trigger. I can't sit at the back of a bus, only if the bus is empty and all the windows closed. The moment I feel and see people sitting and blocking the exit, I get attacks. If I must travel by bus, I must sit in the front and I must open the the windows. I can manage the seat behind the driver's seat and I must have the windows open. Elevators are my worst nightmare. The very thought of flying sends to the pharmacist.

Last year Xmas, I travelled from Lagos to Asaba and it was the most horrible day of my life. The passengers would not have a bearded young man open the window while they enjoy their glorious AC. I had to buy an earpiece on the way and download jazz music to force myself to sleep most of the journey. I was going to my friend's village for a funeral last year and took an old bus to Owerri. We got stuck in traffic and I was doomed to sit at the back. I became hysterical. I was shouting and was about to faint. I jumped out of the bus right there and had to beg them to give me my bag that I wasn't traveling anymore. For some time now, I've not had any attacks and I never took any medication. I simply avoided crowded places else I have some distractions.

My annoyance with Mark is his selfishness. How would you wake up one day and decide to change the algorithm of Facebook and, then Instagram. Page owners cannot get quality organic reach. For you to thrive in social media marketing you must keep paying and paying thousands to Mark just so your genuine followers can see your posts. Instagram was a free market. Hash-tags worked like magic. Geo-tagging was superb. Now, you do not see the posts of everyone. Instagram and Facebook somehow think they have the right to select the ones they think you'd be interested in. Is this not madness?

I will take the EFCC seriously the day it stops bowing to the demands of the president. I will take the EFCC seriously the day they start fighting a general battle and not a one-sided warfare. I will take the EFCC seriously the day they gather all our politicians and lock them away, be they PDP or APC. The EFCC should be like a referee in a football match: even if you are from Liverpool, you cannot gift a Steven Gerard own goal as an actual goal for the red side of Merseyside.

CaptainEColeJnr:
NIGERIA
Nigeria: bad timing
Britain’s exit from the EU couldn’t have come at a worst time for Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy. At a time when the government is trying to fix an economy on the brink of a recession by removing strict currency controls and also liberalizing oil prices, the immediate effect of Brexit will test the nerves of Nigeria’s economic managers as global markets plummet.


Bilateral trade between Nigeria and the UK,currently valued at £6 billion(about $8.3 billion) and projected to reach £20 billion by 2020, will be disrupted as trade agreements made under the auspices of the EU have to be renegotiated.


“For Nigeria, global risk aversion as well as a softer oil price is likely to mean that new portfolio inflows are slow to materialize,” says Khan. “This may delay the normal functioning of the newly liberalized FX market.


”Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that the UK was Nigeria’s largest source of foreign investment in 2015.A slowing British economy and its reverberating effects could signal a drop in investment, trade, and also remittances from the Nigerian diaspora who sent home $21 billion in 2015.Reduced trade and investment from Britain willnot necessarily be plugged by the rest of the EU, say Lagos-based economist Tunji Andrews.

“The EU will be looking to strengthen it’s internal ties, plus there’s cheaper oil from Iran, cheaper labor from China and the eastern block.

There’s really nothing we have as a competitive advantage to them right now.”Brexit is already fueling other independence campaigns. Within hours of the vote, leaders in France and Holland, Italy and Denmark called for their own referendums on leaving the EU. This sentiment is shared in southeast Nigeria as well, where government forces have spent much of the past year quelling violent protests by activists advocating for the secession and establishment of an independent country called Biafra. Having already called for a referendum earlier in the year, pro-Biafra activists may now be further emboldened.

Violent protest, you say?

As much as I do not condone not paying your debt, I must also remind everyone here that every big business owes a loan. The lawyer has no business deriding Ben Bruce. This is insulting to the prided profession. Ben Bruce has to pay, no doubt, but this lawyer has to watch his utterances.

And in Nigeria we won't have a referendum. We will instead crush any group that wants to secede, right? Who said they civilized us?

Julisweety:
currently doing this as part of the course History of English.

UNIBEN?

OgidiOlu3:
Lemme add;

1.“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

2. A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language.
For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

3. There are “ghost words” that mean nothing.
Believe it or not, there are some words that appeared in the dictionary because of printing errors. The nonexistent word “dord” appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid-20th century. It became known as a “ghost word.”

4. There’s a name for words that we repeat often.
Words we always use even though they add no meaning or value to a sentence are called crutch words. For example, in the sentence “Then I was like, OMG, then like, he went there, and like…” it is pretty obvious that “like” is the crutch word. “Actually,” “honestly,” and “basically” are also commonly used as crutch words.

5. Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.
Such words are called ambigrams.

6. English is the language of the air.
This means that all pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while flying, regardless of their origin.

7. Girl used to mean small boy or girl.
The word “girl” was not initially used to refer to a specific gender. It used to mean “child” or “young person” regardless of the gender.

Source: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/10-interesting-english-facts-guest/

Nice one, although your 1st fact is wrong. The expression, "go!" is a complete sentence and is much shorter than "I am". Imperative sentences can come as single words.


@OP, your post is spot on except your heading. Saying facts we DON'T know is wrong. It is a generalization and it's fallacious. I studied English and I know the facts you mentioned. DON'T should have read MAY NOT.

DonMaxxy:
You see am...if to say this woman helped (at the request of the guy man's mama); abort this cute doctor then, where will she be working by now...

Lesson to ladies out there comtemplating abortion and their would be accomplices.

The baby you saved today may feed you tommorrow.
Say no to abortion...you may be aborting our future presido.

You may also be aborting the next Hitler or Idi Amin. It is relative.