₦airaland Forum

EloSela:
You are aware that they take DNA samples now of everyone travelling into the UK?

Can you clarify this. I am aware that fingerprint information is now taken from all applicants. but DNA?, i don't think this is the case.

O boy no try going to study in the uk and hoping to pay your living expenses with 20hrs per week work. You must have some savings to cover at least expenses for the first 6 months or better still have enough to cover at least half of your annual living expenses.

The going rate for most student jobs is about 5.50 to 6.0 per hour. If you're living in london, you'll be paying house rent (about 80 per week for a room in a shared house), feeding (15/30 per week), phone (15-30 per month), transport (at least 10/week depending on where u living and schooling), misc (15/30 week). Do the maths and you'll see that you could be in serious trouble and would have to violate your visa terms (as per the 20hrs rule) to make ends. Your best bet is to come with most of your living expenses. Even the 20hr/week job is not guaranteed. I bet you know how many eastern european guys have now flooded the uk and boy can those guys work. No try am o, just save up before coming and in the worst case, come with at least your accomdation money on standby.

@Poster
This shows you have not been on Nairaland long enough. If you have, you would know that there is one and only one that can make this possible. Speak to Baba_Dibia asap. You go reach London faster than you can say ABC.

No need to take personal jibes with all your comments. I sure do read and well before I post. Most of my comments are general remarks directed at ongoing linux-windows raves rather than your person. I'm beyond that outlook. When you are using UNIX and Linux interchangeably, don't assume that's obvious. There's a big difference between Solaris, HP-UX and Ubuntu especially in enterprise environments.

And i can see you are yet to provide your source on Linux having the biggest share of the server market. And what's wrong with your caps-lock?

Why do people always naively assume that just  because you use linux, that automatically makes you a techie? And that just because you use windows, you are never one.

Changing your desktop layout, display preferences, switching between desktops from gnome to kde to whatever, running some 3rd party apps to give you a 3d desktop doesn't exactly makes one a techie. Please get it right, using linux does not automatically confers the techie status no more than using windows.

bigrovar:
already linux has taken over the server market,it has taken over the embedded market,it has taken over the animation market , most businesses now are moving their systems to linux, even in Nigeria most banks are starting to use linux , atm machines,flight entertainment systems,mobile fones, it is predicted that by 2012 60% of mobile platform would run linux hope

Please do remember to back up claims like these with credible sources. IDC or Gartner if you know what I mean.

I really don't want to be drawn up into a windows-linux-mac-unix argument here. I've used and supported windows, linux and unix for a while now and it really beats me when so called armchair techies won't let us hear word about linux. Right here in the UK at least in all the places i've been contracting for the past 8 years (and believe me I've gone round most of the big guns - EDS, Accenture, CSC, Serco, Fujistu, IBM Global, Steria, HP Technical, Siemens on massive enterprise projects) linux still falls far behind Unix and Windows in terms of deployment.

If you can change your linux desktop to look like something from outta space or a theme from matrix, good for you. Be happy and live with it. Doesn't always have to be a my-linux-is-better-than-your-windows thing, that's getting real boring and seriously played out.

what's the point ? I'd rather get a vista than trying to pass off my ubuntu for one. Same goes other way round. Sort of reminds you of volks-royce back then.

This has been my line of thoughts right from the onset when it was reported. I'm glad this is being taken in some quarters,


, Planes goes missing from radar, It might have crashed, Who owns plane, Ibori, Ibori !!!, yes Ibori, same Ibori with EFCC and Scotland yard palaver?, yes same Ibori, Hmmm, did the plane really crashed, I no know oh, that one I no fit talk.

bigmodo:
I got an invitation visa to travel to germany as an aupair.

Did you mean you got an invitation letter to work as an au pair?

Besides - a Nigerian male going to work as an au pair in Germany !!!!. Except your employers are your relatives, even with that I doubt your chance of success at the embassy. However, nothing is impossible. Goodluck.

Guys I need your thoughts on this.

A relation of mine with 2 years left on her nigerian passport wishes to apply for a 5-year multiple visitors visa to the UK.

Does she necessarily need to get a new passport to accomodate the 5-year visa she is applying for or would BHC issue the visa on the current passport and allow her to transfer this to a new passport at 2010 when the current passport expires.

Your responses are appreciated.

Thanks man for this consolatory piece of info. I was beginning to get tired of the IPO stuff really. I'll make enquiries from the wema registrars.

Do anyone have any info on the share certificates for this IPO yet. Cmon Access Bank, you can at least put some information on your website about this. This doesn't have to be rocket science. I'm running out of patience.

Did any of the respondents consider that the poster is requesting an invitation letter to Iceland rather than Ireland?

I bet there are Nigerians in Iceland willing to send him such letter.

Ol' boy dress warm o.

@Delta007

Well said. However I think the issue down here in Nigeria is when car dealers go over to the US, buy accident damaged salvage cars and repair, ship it back home and try to pass this off as new or one that has never been accident damaged before. I think if the car dealers gives a honest picture of the car history that would be fine, but a situation where in the quest to make ridiculous profits, they engage in trying to pass of an accident damaged car as new is nothing but fraud.

I enjoin anyone in naija buying tokunbo to shine their eyes and carry out this check. Could save you some $$$ on the long run.

Still hanging over in the lighter mood - How many travel section posters does it take to change a lightbulb?



AlmondJoy
Depends on if it's a naija or yankee lightbulb. If na naija lightbulb, abeg don't waste your time, nepa conspiracy would make sure it always burns out in no time, that country has nothing good to offer in terms of light bulbs.  But if na american lightbulb, hmmm - best lightbulb you can get anywhere on planet earth. Say what you wish but I'm buying a yankee bulb. All hail the great yankee lightbulb manufacturers.


Viviko
There's a lightbulb conference organised for summer 2009,
Please don't contact me, contact the bulb manufacturers directly, only contact me if you need a papers to procure a ladder to faciliate your lightbulb change.


Funkybaby
*Hiss* *Rolleyes* Lightbulb ko atupa ni *Hiss again* *Walks out*


Paribus
Please pay attention while I narrate in details the procedure required to change the lightbulb. It might be up to about 54 pages long so your patience is required:

Step 1, page 1 - xxxxxxxxx
.
.
.
.
Step 75, page 369 - make sure you have all the required,


Importance
Change lightbulb ke?! There's no need for that o jare, the decision of the lightbulb to have burn out must be appealed. Send an appeal directly to the lightbulb manufacturers, this is better than trying to re-fix a fresh lightbulb.


Dantcemu
All these people shouting bulb this, bulb that. I have just returned from 3 lighbulb manufacturing concerns located in 4 countries across 3 continents - all in 5 days, if you think it's not true, drop your phone number and i'll call your ar*e from a local payphone in your hood. NA BIG DEAL TO GO ABROAD GO CHANGE LIGHTBULBS?


Siena
*Too gentlemanly to change the lightbulb alone*. *Rang for some help*   *Dashes back to Audi B4 RS project*


VicJustice
Fellow nigerians, don't bother going to eastern europe with the intention to changing lightbulbs nna, no jobs there, not even ordinary lightbulb changer jobs. My trip to all the eastern Europeans lightbulb manufacturers (27 of them in the baltic, 8 of them in the old USSR region) confirms that nigerians (without papers) tops the list of people employed as lightbulb changers. Don't add to the statistics.


****Not to be taken too personal, add to the list if you can****

MC Usman:
Don God somebody should reply me back. i invested 100:00 grd to buy Access Bank Plc shares Mid 2007. Yet notting has been said regarding the certificate not to talk of the anticipated dividents. Anybody with ideals.

I am in the same boat as you. Bought 20,000 units and have not heard anything about allotment or certificate. This IPO stuff is taking more of 419 colour as I don't understand the big deal in completing in time the paperwork required to have share certificates sent out. There was a list posted on nairaland sometime ago about returned allotment but nothing further has been heard after that. Access Bank - get your game up. Even their website does not say anything on current IPO status - can you imagine.

That's a really long time to wait for share certificates. I hope the Access bank certs don't take that long. Really this IPO thing is now turning to daylight robbery by these banks. How could something that involves just paperwork takes that long, aren't these operations meant to be computerised. I'm glad SEC is looking into these IPOs cases now, hope they wield the big stick as threatnened and not just barking without biting.

Has anyone that subscribed to this IPO received any share certificate yet. I am anxious to hear on this.

Same here

ologini t'ajo de ekute ile para mo   

good times of sound advice are here again

d1twista:
please i need colleges, i want to know there fee, i have my money , all i need is your help and the right link,God will bless you abundantly if you really wants to help me, you can give me your private email address or you can call me on this number +2347038413391 i will call you back as soon as i know you are in Uk and really wants to help, God bless u ma/sir

hmm Mr Twista - you and this your 'i have my money'. Better hold on to your money well well o as many sharp guys dey around. Anyway, they say the man with the money always ends up with the experience, and the man with the experience ends up with the money !

Wherever you are, stay there if you are happy and ok. If you are not, there's no harm in migrating but do this legally. It's human nature to emigrate, man has been doing from ages past. What's good for the goose not necessarily good for the gander, examine your own situation, do your due diligence to find out hard facts as they apply to your situation (i repeat your situation and not every other stereotyped situation), then make your decision whether to migrate or not and live with your choice - for good or bad.

The same thing you do with your certs and every other piece of document - keep it. I'm sure it is no greater effort to keep it just like any other documents you'll never know when you'll need.

Funny !.

Different strokes for different folks. I take my kids to naija almost every year with no issues. They love the change of environment. Not that they would live there though. But naija is not that bad.

In a lighter mood,   

a i sinle ologini, ile d'ile ekute[color=#990000][/color]

where is MrPataki, Akolawole, Funkybaby, Vicjustice, LondonCool, VOR. This thread or the whole travel section is not the same without you guys. Vicjustice, see who has now become the defacto on immigration matters.

@poster !!!!!!!!!!1

Putting a phone or anything metallic in a microwave is really asking for trouble and a very very dangerous thing to do. Lives has been lost because of this. Please tell your sister to properly educate her daughter on the proper usage of a microwave. I need not say more.

@Siena.

I guessed as much that it might not be what you intended (another downside of online translators, especially when their output are quoted verbatim in a public domain). We need not flog this issue any longer.

On generalisation, i seem to have developed a thick skin to worst-case scenarios and i'm not much moved by then. However it's always a tough (albeit not impossible) one to swallow when coming from seemingly reasonable fellows. Remember the alleged Oprah Winfrey one about all Nigerians? That's a story for another day.

@poster

I think a lot people don't understand that migrating from Russia to Western Europe is no less difficult than migrating from Nigeria.

If I had to make that choice, I'll prefer to stay in Nigeria than going to Russia. I have quite a few of mixed Nigerian-Russian friends that travels once in a while to Russia and none of them really wants to relocate there and would prefer slugging it out in Nigeria.

@Siena - reading through the other thread you referenced.

*****************************
Пожалуйста, очень осторожно, очень общие для африканских мужчин жениться белых женщин, только чтобы получить иммиграционные документы. {meaning, please be careful about all African men because they only marry white women for immigration status} reeks of generalisation and an insurmountable level of ignorance, do you think that Russia is Britain or America, even at that your statement does not apply to everyone.


Did you really write that about all African men. (My emphasis on All).  If you did i'll say quite unfortunate - very much unlike you. Does one bad apple spoil the whole bunch?

If tables were turned and you took a look in the mirror, would the same apply. (Referring to your profile picture you had some time ago of you and your white girlfriend - remember when someone asked naively if she was your mum?).

Generalisation like this are unfortunate and i'm sure the world would be a better place without this stereotyping. However if that wasn't what you wrote - or what it meant - then no issues really.

@Man Jiro

Thanks for your response. I will check this up.

Did anyone buy the Access Bank IPO that ended sometimes late september this year. I subscribe to about 20,000 units and i'm yet to get my share certificates. Does anyone have any idea when the share certificates are normally sent out. Is it too early to be worried. Appreciate your response.

Carlosein:
very nice one snugle

did you write it yourself?

I doubt.

@poster

When you post an unoriginal piece of work, cite your sources. Subtle disguising a literary piece as one's work. by any name it is plagiarism.

Take note.