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Amen!!!!
Thanks, I appreciate!!!

tianadiva:
be optimistic bro u will get it @debohbaron

Is it possible to be invited for medicals, pass it and then be denied

Cos I've passed my medicals, I dont know if I should get my hopes high or not!?

My guy, na prayer dey work oo!!
I dint know anything about Biometric at all Untill my sister called me if I've done Biometric just one morning(Oct 9)
I was like which one is that again, I thought after submitting my application, that's all. And Actually it was going to invalid by October 13(Monday morning)

After submitting ur application, u exactly av a month till u do ur Biometric.

Na God save me!!!!

Mcjimmy:
What!! What happened between the space of September 12 to October 9. Wow I thought biometrics is being done at least 3 days after submission.. There is one drug I will advise you to buy 1000MG of chill pill.. Joking* just keep praying and have a very strong faith which will never fail u. Do not worry all is well and u TRV is already on its way.

Ok, thanks

tolaengr:
i think September but some think after Biometric

Oh, thats very good!!
You just gave me hope!
Anyway, my sponsor is my sister.

exbash:
This is my first tym... and by His Grace last through this means...really hard fears but prayed real hard... infact was scared of this 'not same surname stuff" so just hard to park enof proof that we are related...my sponsor is my maternal uncle

Please, where you ever rejected and did it again or is this ur 1st time doing it?
I'm asking cos most people I see are always given after the 2nd chance.

exbash:
Medical request! Submitted September 10th...Online MSc Regina.... What I submitted... Hmmmmm Almighty God....special thanks everybody for directions and guidance....Mentor ^realone and Oghos2k).. used maternal uncle as sponsor.... By His Grace once Trv is chopped, I ll. Submit myself to also direct and contribute accordingly.. Followed silently since... Thanks

Hello Everyone,
Please when do I start counting the weeks to hear back from the Canadian peeps on my CIC account?
Is it after I submit the application or after the Biometrics, I'm asking because I did the Biometric 3weeks after I submitted the online application.

Thanks for ur responses!

Submitted on Sept 12, did Biometric on October 9.
Wen should I be expecting a feedback!?

What's the importance of having a national award given to you by the president??
What's the main advantage of receiving the title of MON, CON etc...
Someone said you get paid annually, is that true??

macnwaobi2: This write up is a nuclear bomb!
You ar sound with fact

That's all I'm saying!!!!
Wagbayi!!

By George Kerley

I read, with keen interest, the opinion of Simon Kolawole published on September 14, 2014, tilted "My Grouse with President Jonathan". I found it very interesting, cheery and at the same time depressing. Those of us who read Kolawole regularly know that he does not join the mob in canvassing his opinions. He is usually even-handed and non-partisan. While this is a virtue in an environment polluted by politically biased columnists who have turned President Goodluck Jonathan into their favourite punching bag, I beg to defer with Kolawole on some of the issues he raised.


After accepting that the President has recorded remarkable achievements in aviation, agriculture, education, road infrastructure and even the power sector reform, Kolawole relapsed into the popular line that former President Olusegun Obasanjo fought corruption but President Jonathan is found wanting in this area. However, the truth be told, the same reason no President after Obasanjo has been acknowledged as fighting corruption is the same reason we have not been able to tackle corruption efficiently. Until a President engages in scape-goating and public execution, he is not seen as fighting corruption. I would not expect Kolawole, an expert in governance and development, to toe this line of argument.


Democracy is about institutions. That is what makes it strong and enduring. America's democracy is over 300 years old. Most of the things we celebrate about America today came about because institutions were built and allowed to function in the course of their history. The "strongman democracy" that Kolawole seems to favour is the same reason democracy is in fits and starts in many countries across Africa. But it is only democracies where state institutions are strong that can endure and flourish. To remove a minister for corruption is the least of the problems. Now, if removing ministers could solve the problem, why did Obasanjo have to be sacking ministers on a yearly basis?


There are various ways of fighting corruption. One is to resort to public spectacle. Remove ministers and shame them publicly. Put them in handcuffs for the cameras. Get the anti-graft agencies to blackmail lawmakers to impeach the governors. You can even get six lawmakers in a 24-member House of Assembly to remove the governor illegally in the name of fighting corruption. This public execution strategy will get you a resounding popular applause and you will win awards around the world. But, let's be honest about this, Kolawole, it cannot last. It cannot work in a democracy where people have a right to seek redress. This approach to anti-corruption can only be sustained by a dictator who cares little about the laws of the land.


By the way, President Jonathan has also demonstrated that he can fire ministers. He has done it again and again. Kolawole did not acknowledge this fact while heaping praises on Obasanjo for firing ministers at the slightest provocation. President Jonathan has demonstrated clearly that he too can fire ministers, even if not at the slightest provocation. However, it is not his style to engage in playing to the gallery. He believes things should be done orderly. When he declared his assets, he was being put under pressure to make it public. But he refused. The law does not stipulate that. He did not break any law. It is a public document that can be accessed through due process.


You can fight corruption by playing to the gallery. That is just one way. I'll show you a better way, Mr. Kolawole. You can decide to fight corruption sustainably by adopting administrative, policy, legal and moral suasion strategies. Administratively, some measures have been adopted by President Jonathan that have saved the country tonnes of money previously being pilfered. There are two ready examples here. The fertilizer subsidy cost Nigeria in excess of N800bn over a period of 30 years. Only about 10% of that actually got to the farmers. The President came and put a stop to the fraud. Farmers are getting their fertilizers today and their productivity is unprecedented in Nigeria's history. Billions of naira have been saved in fraudulent fertilizer transactions. It may interest Kolawole that no previous government has tackled this fraud like this administration. That is a way of fighting corruption. It will endure beyond the Jonathan administration.


Another administrative measure to combat corruption is on the payroll. There were thousands of ghost workers who were on the payroll of the Federal Government when President Jonathan came to power. For years, this issue had not been addressed. We all knew that some senior civil servants were milking the treasury mercilessly. Billions of naira were being stolen yearly. However, since President Jonathan's administration introduced the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), over 50,000 ghost workers have so far been identified. Indeed, over N139 billion has been saved. Now, you ask: is that not a neat and sustainable way of fighting corruption? This will endure, you can take a bet on that.


To fight corruption in a less glamorous but enduring way, the President has also adopted policy strategies. When the President sought to end the waste and fraud in the fuel subsidy regime, it was opposed by the same interests that are now saying the President is not fighting corruption. Because of this unfortunate opposition, we are still wasting hundreds of billions of naira on fuel subsidy that could have been better utilised in other areas of the economy. All studies and analyses have shown that the best way to tackle the subsidy fraud in the petroleum sector is to take away the subsidy itself. The money is too much and this creates perverse incentives for the beneficiaries to continue to corrupt the system.


For Kolawole, a journalist of no little standing, I would have loved him to talk about the Freedom of Information bill which was gathering dust on the shelf before President Jonathan came to power. If we are talking about transparency and anti-graft war, FoI Act is one of the most potent instruments to employ. If Jonathan was not interested in fighting corruption, he would certainly have avoided signing the bill into law. Obasanjo did not touch it in his eight years in office. Yet, all countries that we call developed today have this law in their statutes. The citizens use it to hold government accountable. FoI is a legal strategy that President Jonathan has adopted. It does not carry the glamour of handcuffing politicians in public, you can say that, but it is an institutionalised instrument that will outlive the Jonathan administration.


Space will not permit me to list all the measures the President has adopted to combat corruption. His own style is markedly democratic and a departure from the autocratic way some Nigerians want. These measures will surely outlive his administration. We should stop equating anti-graft with EFCC. We think it is when you are publicly executed that the government can be said to be fighting corruption. But it is more than that. Except something catastrophic happens, those ghost workers can no longer return to the payroll. The farmers will continue to get their subsidised seeds and fertilisers. Nigerians will continue to have the FoI to hold government accountable and transparent. These are the institutions that will last.


My grouse with Kolawole is that he refused to acknowledge the various steps the President has taken to combat corruption. He also failed to accept that the President is constrained by the rule of law. President Jonathan has no power over what governors do with their state resources. Even if he removes a minister, he has no power over the justice process. The judges are there. The smart lawyers are there. President Jonathan cannot go and sit in judgment over any accused person. So many cases in court are being frustrated by clever lawyers and those who know how to play the system. You cannot hold the President responsible for that, let's be fair. We make it look like the duty of fighting corruption starts and ends on the President's desk. Let's be careful what we pray for.


I know Kolawole is a fan of Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, having followed his column over the years. But he should be assured that even if Buhari becomes President, he cannot combat corruption the way he did as a military head of state. As a military head of state, he had executive, legislative and judicial powers. But in a democracy, he will discover that there is a National Assembly that he has to contend with. He will discover that he cannot fire a commissioner for corruption in any state. He cannot do anything to lawyers and judges who collude to frustrate cases. It looks easy on paper to combat corruption. But the reality is that there is a lot of work to be done if corruption is to be crushed. President Jonathan is on the right path. Time will vindicate him.


On the issue of Boko Haram, which Kolawole also listed among his "grudges", I think it is very glaring that the issue is very complicated. We want quick results, no doubt. It is a very present trouble that needs a quick solution. But President Jonathan met a lot of rot in the system. The military had been systematically decimated. The air force, which is the key military arm in war fare in modern times, had been systematically incapacitated for decades because of fears of coups. Our intelligence gathering had not stepped to the challenges in a democracy.


All these are enough impediments to confronting the monstrosity of terrorism. But the President also has to grapple with the politicisation of the war against terror. The military has been accused many times by President Jonathan's political opponents of committing genocide by those who would not as much as say a negative word against Boko Haram. The war against terror, as if it is not a major task already, has been compounded by the impression being created by power-hungry politicians who are making things worse by the day. Every step the President takes is being frustrated. If not that President Jonathan is a courageous man, he would have been overwhelmed by this attitude.


In all the mess, we have recorded progress. Many people think the simple solution is to unleash the military and destroy all the villages in the territories being tormented by Boko Haram. Military action alone will not solve the problem. That is why, even though he has authorised military action, President Jonathan has embarked on a major initiative to address the salient issues of lack of access to education, poor infrastructure, environmental devastation and several other negative preambles to the flourishing of insurgency in the North-East. He has launched the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to address these issues, and has scaled up investment in agriculture, infrastructure, education and health to achieve a long-term winning strategy.


I would like to conclude by emphasising that President Jonathan has delivered the goods. Let his opponents judge him on the basis of facts and figures and not sentiments. He certainly has not solved all Nigeria's problems (not even a magician can do that in four years) but Nigeria is clearly better than it was in 2011. Check all the facts and figures: infrastructural development, power sector reform, education, agriculture, water resources, economic management, etc. Let us compare the data before 2011 and in 2014. An honest opinion would be that he has done well.


*Kerley, a public affairs analyst, lives in Port Harcourt

Source. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/right-of-reply-my-grouse-with-simon-kolawole/189575/

Please how long does it take to get a reply/feedback on your cic account after sending ur student permit application via online??
Like how many weeks??

Holmes007: I think so cuz y would they take my urine sample! My advice to any addict, stay off cuz eventually if they detect hard drugs in ur system u might have to defer ur schooling for at least a yr since ur medics result is valuable to them (VO's) for a yr. I am just saying ........... Not so sure

How long does it take for them to get back to you after u send ur application online?

Please how long does it take for them to get back to you after sending ur application online for student permit??

And please for the Medicals, do they check for weed in the system??

Thanks.

This Amaechi guy would been better of in Nollywood. Or as a publicist.

Attention who*e!!!
He must be relevant by all cost/means.
I can't imagine this is guy some people want as Vice President nxt yr?!
O ga oo!!

My mum told me mine was "Fu*K".
Very sad shii...I guess it was because of my elder bros and sis in the house.

astana1: kano state fly-over longest in west africa.

Haba!! Nigerians!!
That 1st picture is the flyover in ibadan!!
I know cos I'm based in ibadan...o know the bridge too well...that's the new bridge built by Ajimobi.

I don't even trust anything on this thread again..but why do u guys lie sef??

MODIFIED :- why did the op removed the Ibadan bridge na!?? Now making me look stupid..but na u look stupid pass sha.

The Camerounian government on Monday said its soldiers had killed “more than 100″ Boko Haram fighters during an attempted incursion by the Islamistinsurgents into its territory.The Camerounian army has dealt “a severe setback” to Boko Haram, government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said in a statement read out on state radio, adding that the clashes took place in the north of the country on Saturday.

Source. http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/09/08/cameroun-kills-over-100-boko-haram-fighters/

He should be sacked!!
I think he's tired and has no new ideas...Sunday Oliseh should be brought in.

My honest opinion thou.

giles14: yes u are entitled to ur opinions. but y insult my family.cos does who do dat have none just like u.piece of shit

Exactly, why insult me wen I just stated my 'own' opinion.

giles14: bros may shame catch u.

Bro nah shame go catch u and ur family!!
You this big fool.
Pls I'm entitled to my opinion...a&s wipe!!

Please, what's the best way to remove weed from the body system before one goes for urine test. And how long does it take for weed to be in the system!?

The Cameroonian soldiers should train Nigerian soldiers or better still, a Cameroon top commander should come over and be in charge of ours!!!

Out top commanders are top of jokes!!

I've got some questions, what's the source of electricity, water, and where does all the poo goes to if he flushes?? How does he empty it

I need to bookmark this page for future insults needed

Imports down by 6.2%, India remains major trade partner

James Emejo

Nigeria’s total merchandise trade increased by 6.8 per cent to about N5.51 trillion in the first quarter of the year (Q1 2014) compared to about N5.16 trillion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2013 (Q1 2013), the value of the total merchandise trade also increased by N406 billion or 8.2 per cent, it added.

The NBS, in its Foreign Trade Statistics, Q1 2014, which was released Monday said there had been rising exports and declining imports which resulted into greater trade surplus for the country.

It said trade surplus increased by 34.3 per cent or N618.6 billion in Q1 2014 following a decline in imports by 6.2 per cent while exports increased by 15 per cent when compared to the Q1 2013 figures.
The report stated that total trade was dominated by crude oil exports which accounted for about N3.23 trillion, representing 81.5 percent of total exports while the non-crude oil accounted for N735.9 billion or 18.5 per cent of total exports.

Conversely, total imports in Q1 2014 was valued at about N1.54 trillion, representing a 8.3 per cent decline compared to about N1.68 trillion recorded in the preceding quarter.

When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2013, the value of imports dipped by N101.3billion or 6.2 percent, according to the NBS.

Source.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerias-foreign-trade-increases-to-n5-51tn-in-first-quarter/186053/?utm_medium=twitter

SavedbyYaweh: In the form, you fill ur IT and NYSC job experience the way u do in ur CV.
Job offer letter n payslips are for financial proof which is needed if u are for self sponsor or co-sponsor

My Guy, God will bless you!!
Thanks, I appreciate!!

SavedbyYaweh: You can fill what u did in ur NYSC and IT as your job experiences.

Buy what if I'm asked to submit my job offer letter and payslips??

I remember going for 3 interviews in one day and they were all about the fake drug marketing stuff.

I almost fainted.

I get like 3 SMSs from them every week.

cman4good: plz lovely people of NL,,,,,,I want TO know if statement of purpose is the some as LETTER OF EXPLANATION,,,,, plz i have been hearing SOP AND L O EXP.... I need urgent advise.. thanks

It's not the same, SOP is for the school while the letter of explanation is for the embassy reason why u chose Canada to go study.

Please, I really need you guys help here.
This is my 1st time on this page, so I hope you guys can help me.

In the study permit application form online, theres a section where I have to fill my job experiences but since I don't av any, apart from my NYSC. how am I going to fill the section with the dates required??

P.S - I can't leave the section blank or else I won't be able to submit it.

Lobatan!!

Which one is Ventura mall??
Never heard of that