₦airaland Forum

EvergreenDiarie:
Thank you for the prompt comment, I have seen videos of people doing that off the sea and they are doing well. I am still researching how to get success on it without the connection to the sea water.

Hi, have you made progress with your shrimp farming plans. I'm interested too and have been researching. I have gone ahead to purchase a water tank to start the pilot process. Let me know how we can connect.

Cheers

@LagosNIV,

I received email and text notification to collect my Passport on the 28FEB2019.
I have been requested to provide itemized receipts of medical care provided for myself or my wife after applying for visa renewal through the drop box renewal system.
I have the requested documents ready but I am not sure if I should submit the requested documents to the same GSS document collection center or If I am required to present the documents via a physical interview. The instructions on the notice I received does not tell me if I should drop off the documents or bring them for a physical interview. Of the many boxes in the letter, only one box was checked leaving me without a clear direction.Please see the attached document and advise.

Hello AbujaNIV,

I completed the DS160 form to renew my US visa. I filled that my wife currently on vacation/childbirth along with our newborn are my immediate relative currently in the US. I think from your earlier advise to similar issues, this information could be seen as incorrect especially because we do not intend to stay in the US or overstay our visa limit.
I am eligible for dropbox and I will be submitting my passport for visa renewal soon.

QUESTION: Will this affect my visa application?


Best Regards,
Ufuoma

Nairalanders,

I and my wife are preparing to travel for vacation/birthing and our POE is HOUSTON.
I have the following documents with me.
Both of us are business people so we don't work for any company
Please kindly go through and adivse what we are missing.

1. Doctors Correspondence/Payment Receipt/Appointment Letter
2. Hospital Correspondence/Hospital Registration
3. Notification of Intent/Embassy Response
4. United Air Travel Policy for Pregnant Passengers
5. Medical Report including fit to fly report
6. Budget Sheet.
7. Accommodation Confirmation / Address
8. Cash - US Dollars (to be declared)
9. Statement of Account

Hello LagosNIV,

My wife and our two kids secured B1/b2 visa for vacation March 2015 and were scheduled to travel in August. This didn't happen because we started building our dream home and committed funds for that purpose in so much that we forgot to set aside funds for our vacation.
Around September 2015 my wife took in and I was angry because we had decided on having only two children. I let it go because I love her.
Now we plan to vacation around April because the house is almost completed.
We also want to have our baby during this time in the US. She I due around June. I have a b1/b2 visa myself.

Please advise if She needs to do a change of intent letter or notice considering the circumstance and her visa type.


Regards,
Ufuoma

Hello AbujaNIV,

My wife and our two kids secured B1/b2 visa for vacation March 2015 and were scheduled to travel in August. This didn't happen because we started building our dream home and committed funds for that purpose in so much that we forgot to set aside funds for our vacation.
Around September 2015 my wife took in and I was angry because we had decided on having only two children. I let it go because I love her.
Now we plan to vacation around April because the house is almost completed.
We also want to have our baby during this time in the US. She I due around June. I have a b1/b2 visa myself.

Please advise if She needs to do a change of intent letter or notice considering the circumstance and her visa type.


Regards,
Ufuoma

Does anyone know about expedited shipping? They are a cargo freight company that ship items from US to Nigeria

Thats nice. And note that there is no sacrifice too great to offer for your wife.
I will iron my wife's clothes anyday.
I am pretty sure you are newly weds. You will learn more as you progress in your marriage and God will help your marriage blossom.

Efficiently Inefficient

Sewe

Square

I also played hide and seek.

According to ThisDay report, President Jonathan observed at a meeting of PACP in Abuja that “demand for energy is far greater than available capacity,…” and further noted that “South Africa, a nation of some 47 million people generates about 50,000MW. For Nigeria, a nation of 150 million people to realize the ambition of becoming one of the 20 largest economies in the world by the year 2020, we should be thinking of producing some 80,000MW as soon as possible.”

Now, the question is, how feasible is it to bridge the gap in just 10 years, as this would require annual supplementary provision of about 7.700MW annually for the next 10 years to supplement the meager current capacity of 3000MW! Well, the Punch editorial of 22/4/2010 notes that “former President Obasanjo was believed to have spent $10bn to revive the sector through the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) without commensurate results. Under his successor, Umaru Yar’Adua, a special intervention fund of about $5.09bn (N7626.92bn) was disbursed in a futile bid to generate 6000MW by the end of 2009! …”

Thus, Nigeria expended about $15bn to increase power supply by about 3000MW to the projected 6000MW; in other words, each 1000MW cost about $5bn (with the target still elusive)! In view of President Jonathan’s expectation of 80000MW, a schedule of 7700MW annual capacity expansion will be needed at a cost of about $38.5bn; meanwhile, the total federal budget for 2010 for all government recurrent and projected capital expenses may be less than $27bn, about N4.5 trillion!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/05/why-adequate-power-will-remain-elusive-3/




As at 2006, Singapore had twice Nigeria's energy consumption while Belgium had six times Nigeria's consumption figure. Nigeria at 50 currently has 4,000 MW but needs, according to Nigeria Energy Commission, 50,000 MW of electricity to realise Vision 20:2020 goals. If it took us 50 years to achieve 4,000 MW, how is it feasible to achieve 50, 000 in 10 years? Added to all this, Lagos Nigeria's largest industrial conurbation currently has only 25 percent of the industries in operation and Kano 5 percent, research by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission reveals. How and when would the collapsed industries be revived to previous levels and new ones thrive.

Not having the art of looking into the crystal ball and without the extraordinary minds of Nostradamus and George Orwell, it will be futile for me as a commentator to predict what Nigeria would become in the next fifty years. Hopefully, Nigeria would prove the dooms day predictions wrong and remain a strong, united, virile and prosperous nation with well established democratic institutions which its citizens will all be proud of. Survivors should be able to look back with pride and rate the first 50 years of independence as the 'bad old days,' instead of assessing their time by describing the first five decades of independence as the 'good old days'.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/issues-in-our-independence-anniversary/81947/

What are the basic needs if i may ask?

Calabar is definitely nice to live in.

Or are there any objections?

Can you imagine?
Honestly, I think that this country is not heading in the right direction in addressing our basic needs - food, clothing and shelter and giving us the most basic infrastructure (aka - bread and butter responsibilities of any government) - power and good roads not to talk of good education and health services.

Well, Ive never been to Jos, so I cannot tell. I have only heard that the city is conducive for raising a family.

No they are being true to themselves.
Take Washington for example, it is not the most liveable city in the US yet it is the capital.
Abuja is only abuja because of federal presence there. it cannot sustain itself like Lagos.
I would prefer that they survey Calabar and Jos instead of Lagos.

The happiest people in the world by the current ranking is Denmark.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/19/country.comparisons.internet.use/index.html


I don't believe that with all the blackberries, modems, cafes etc that we have in this country this statistics is true.
What do you think?

If you want high quality of living, your best bet is going “Down Under” or the “Great White North.”

That’s according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of 140 cities worldwide that “quantifies the challenges that might be presented to an individual’s lifestyle,” according to the report.

At the bottom of the list:

130) Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
132) Tehran, Iran
133) Douala, Cameroon
134) Karachi, Pakistan
135) Tripoli, Libya
136) [size=16pt]Lagos, Nigeria[/size]
137) Algiers, Algeria
138) Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea *
138) Dhaka, Bangladesh *
139) Harare, Zimbabwe

The “Arab Spring” has hurt livability ratings of cities in the Middle East and North Africa, with Tripoli – which has unraveled into street fighting in recent weeks – ranking among the worst cities for the first time (the survey was done in July, before the rebel assault).

Source: http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/31/the-worlds-most-livable-city-is/

M M M:
pls
can some1 tell me what is happening here

Why the question?

1. Italian


Even when bathing in a fountain, a romance language is a romance language.


Famous tongues: Monica Bellucci, Alessandro Del Piero

Raw, unfiltered and as grabby to ears as its presidents is to rears, the Italian accent is a vowelgasm that reflects the spectrum of Italic experience: the fire of its bellicose beginnings … the romance of the Renaissance … the dysfunction of anything resembling a government since Caesar. Insatiable, predatory and possessive, this is sex as a second language.

Sounds like: A Ferrari saxophone

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/worlds-sexiest-accents-130333?page=0,0

5. Nigerian

Nigerian
Some Nigerians are actually worth giving your bank account information to.

Famous tongues: King Sunny Adé, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Dignified, with just a hint of willful naiveté, the deep, rich “oh’s” and “eh’s” of Naija bend the English language without breaking it, arousing tremors in places other languages can’t reach. Kinda makes the occasional phone scam worth the swindle.

Sounds like: The THX intro with teeth


4. Czech

Czech
Smoky eyes? Czech. Intrguing history? Czech. Meat-flavored accent? Czech.

Famous tongues: Petra Nemcova, Jaromír Jágr

Like Russian, without the nettlesome history of brutal, iron-fisted despotism, Czech is a smoky, full-bodied vocal style that goes well with most meats. Murky and mysterious, the Bohemian tone is equal parts carnal desire and carnival roustabout.

Sounds like: Count Dracula, secret agent


3. Spanish

spanish
"¿Número tres? ¿Qué clase de idiota eres?" Ah, no one rejects us so hotly.

Famous tongues: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz

Sensual and beckoning, but with the passion to unleash hell kept just barely restrained, Castilian is like a dialectic Hoover Dam. But then there’s the lisp. Tender, vulnerable and cute as a baby’s hangnail -- no one owns the “th” sound formed by tongue and teeth like those who speak the language of Cervantes.

Sounds Like: An outboard motor on Lake Paella

Best of CNNGo: World's coolest nationalities


2. French

French
Even when they pout it sounds good.


Famous tongues: Sophie Marceau, Jean Reno

The demotion of this perennial prizewinner of global brogues to second place may illustrate the declining sexuality of Old World petulance. Still, the come-hither condescension and fiery disinterest of the French tongue remains paradoxically erotic.

Sounds like: A 30-year-old teenager

9. Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian
She screams, she scores!

Famous tongues: Alice Braga, Anderson Silva

Perhaps owing to its freedom from French influence, the Brazilian Portuguese accent has a more colorful, puerile flair than its coarser European counterpart. The resulting yowl of drawn-out vowels reveals a flirty freedom of spirit that sounds like a permanent vacation.

Sounds like: The near, then far, then near again hum of a low-wattage vacuum cleaner that runs on dance sweat


8. U.S. Southern

cowgirl
Y'all, we love it when y'all call us y'all. Especially when y'all are wearing orange chaps.

Famous tongues: Matthew McConaughy, Britney Spears

There’s nothing sexy about being in a hurry, and you could clock the growth rate of grass with the honeyed drawl -- less Tea Party, more “True Blood” -- of a Southern beau or belle.

Sounds like: Molasses taking a smoking break


7. Oxford British

posh english
"Down to your last pair of socks then, what?"

Famous tongues: Hugh Laurie, Sienna Miller

Authoritative. Upright. Erudite. Scholarly. Few accents promise the upward nobility of the Queen’s English. It’s a take on the language that sets hearts devoted to James Bond and Hermione Granger aflutter. And, should the speaker fail to slake your most wanton desires, eh, at least you’ll learn something.

Sounds like: A crisply ironed shirt playing a harp


6. Irish

Irish
Just lay off the leprechaun jokes and you'll be fine.

Famous tongues: Colin Farrell, Andrea Corr

Valued slightly more in men than in women, the Irish brogue is a lilting, lyrical articulation that’s charming, if not exotic. Fluid and uplifting, it can swing from vulnerable to threatening over the course of a sentence, restoring your faith in the world again … right before it stabs you with a broken bottle top.

Sounds like: A marauding pixie

Also on CNNGo: 10 epic train journeys

12. Argentine

The bad news: she finds your bad breath and dirty elbows repulsive. The good news: it sounded totally hot when she told you.

Famous tongues: Fernando Lamas, Gabriela Sabatini

A historical refuge for Spaniards, Italians and Germans, the hyper-libidinous South Ameripean melting pot of Argentina has cultivated a proud, pouty tone. With its own pronunciation of Spanish letters (“ll” sounds like “shh”) and its own words (“you” is “vos”), this is a dialect that’s hard to get. (Or at least plays that way.)

Sounds like: A tightly tuned guitar of G-strings strummed by a lamb shank


11. Thai

Muay thai
He not only floats like a butterfly, he speaks like one, too.

Famous tongues: Tony Jaa, Tata Young

With five tones comprising their native speech, the traffickers of this often fragile accent turn any language into a song of seduction. Thai is largely monosyllabic, so multi-beat foreign words get extra emphases right up until the last letter, which is often left off, leaving the listener wanting more. (Or at least asking “Huh?” lustfully.)

Sounds like: R-rated karaoke


10. Trinidadian

Trinidad
If their accents don't seduce you, their mon bosoms will.

Famous tongues: Nikki Minaj, Billy Ocean

For fetishists of oddball sexuality, the Caribbean island of Trinidad offers an undulating, melodic gumbo of pan-African, French, Spanish, Creole and Hindi dialects that, when adapted for English, is sex on a pogo stick.

Sounds like: A rubber life raft bobbing on a sea of steel drums

Also on CNNGo: Asia's top 5 celeb sex scandals

@Day11 & Tabaknox,

Thanks a million.


Ufuoma.

Bros,

Please check this vin for me.

VIN:SALNY22234A295662

Thanks in advance.

Ufuoma.

Bros Day11,

Please check this vin for me.

VIN:SALNY22234A295662

Thanks in advance.

Ufuoma.

Delta State is soooo large that it will take 3 days to get the results out. What do i say when everyone knows its the largest state in West Africa with over 3000 LGA's.

I AM A DELTAN AND I VOTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE.
THE RESULTS HAVE AGAIN HAVE SET US 100YRS BEHIND THE WESTERN STATES OF NIGERIA.
BEFORE THEY MADE US BELIEVE THAT IT'S ONE MAN; ONE VOTE. NOW WE CLEARLY SEE THAT IT IS NO MAN; ONE VOTE.

WHEN PEOPLE RESIST CHANGE BY PEACEFUL MEANS; THEN ,

I AM FOR BUHARI OR RIBADU.

TO HELL WITH GEJ/JEGA

Kunle-A,
Please help with this VIN. WBACB21020AL73730.

Thank you very much.

Ufuoma.

Kunle-A

Please help with this VIN: WBACB21020AL73730


Thank you very much.

Ufuoma.

How much will this cost for building

1Million, 2million,3million, advise.