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Johnolukolade:
Please who has the link to the GRE materials

Pm me

Odunayo007:
Check and be sure there are no white spaces before and in between the numbers

Thanks odunayo I have sorted it out.

ProfOjah1234:
Chill bro.. Clear the history Or change your browser.. I had the same issue, but later completed it using chrome after some hours..

Thanks a lot

Pls gurus in the house. Happy Sunday to u all. Pls am having issues with my DS 160. I entered the phone number of the person paying for my trip and it's displaying an error message saying :telephone number accepts only digits 0-9. I have been trying it since last night. I have also tried 23480...,234080.... It's still not accepting it. Pls who do I enter the number cos I have tried different ways. Thanks. Lagosismyhome abeg help out

Pls gurus in the house. Happy Sunday to u all. Pls am having issues with my DS 160. I entered the phone number of the person paying for my trip and it's displaying an error message saying :telephone number accepts only digits 0-9. I have been trying it since last night. I have also tried 23480...,234080.... It's still not accepting it. Pls how do I enter the number cos I have tried different ways to no avail. Thanks

Pls gurus in the house. Happy Sunday to u all. Pls am having issues with my DS 160. I entered the phone number of the person paying for my trip and it's displaying an error message saying :telephone number accepts only digits 0-9. I have been trying it since last night. I have also tried 23480...,234080.... It's still not accepting it. Pls who do I enter the number cos I have tried different ways. Thanks

Congrats bro.

mjksho:
You are welcome sir. The pleasure is all mine.

Pls my gud ppl does it matter if someone n his child bears different surname? Asin the child having his grand father's name as prefix and a hyphen before his father's surname. For example if the father's surname is Obi, and the grand father's name is tunde. Now the child's surname is tunde-obi. Does it matter?

Paschal my man, u were such a gentle and peace loving guy. Remembering those days of our aluta struggle. Wot more can I say, RIP bro . But ur killer will surely get his own dose of what he did to u a hundred folds either in this life or in the life after.

Make them appoint me cos I need am. U dey appoint somebody wey her Papa don accumulate so much money for. Nonsense. If na ministerial appointment u for like am abi even without ur consent.

Thunder fire u der. But ur Muslim brothers can hit their head on the floor n shout alahuakuba. Nonsense foooollsssss

See mumu dem insult u yet u get mouth to talk

Pls my fellow Nlanders must u share the same surname with ur sponsor?
Pls I need ur ans. Thanks all

See dis ode ooo. Say the seat na him Papa own abi. Pray make him dey alive till den u dey talk beyond 2019.make amadioha bend ur neck

My fellow nairalanders I v just been offered admission Please what documents do I need to go to the embassy with.? And what are the likely questions to be asked. Thanks

U never chi chonchi.. Hahaha e dey pain u, wen una use lie fill the media come use am pursue gej u no know. Di is just the beginning, chai so na y u na wan pass social media bill that time so we no go fit talk. Hahaha

Gej said the truth.. Was Obama not in support of pmb? We knew all dis. How cud u conduct election wen only 40% have gotten their pvc and u say gej has no point der. He just allowed peace to reign for the interest of u n I. They should answer his question on how in kano accredited voters was 800,000 and pmb got 1.8 million votes. Pls justify that. Till tomorrow he remains a hero cos pmb never won an election period

I love the law of kama so much. This is the same pmb that said late ya'dua should resign since he is not fit to rule, now what is happening to him? Don't talk trash.. Cos u think u can talk always remember tomorrow. Lai Mohammed we have had enough, when u said he wud be working from home did u tell us that it would be for only today? Why now change ur statement.? Oga we know u. U n lie na 5&6. APC is all about scam n lies.

989900:
How about all the families corruption has sent to their early grave or pauperised?

Your wife owns millions of dollars as a perm. sec earning $4,500/ month.

You are indicted in multiple multi billion dollar fraud cases.

Your untouchable minister Diezani along with Kola and Jide looted the country dry to the tune of billions . . . Just to mention a few.

Dasuki, Oke, Fayose, Obanikoro, Omisore, etc. sharing billions of blood dollars while BH decimates the country.

Millions of SS people impoverished while your cronies of the same kin enjoy life in immoral opulence.

Many businesses capsized, suicide cases, our girls turned into prostitutes both home and abroad, even the one in schools are nothing more than glorified 'oloshos' who will gladly pant-off for less than $10 yet your cousins now own millions of dollars from no where.

I know your starved st00pid supporters will say how about others, and I will gladly agree with them when they've showed me how much they remonstrated and asked same question when the iPhone stealer was sentenced to 7 years or the other 'Peak milk' thief was lynched to death.

GEJ is actually dumber than he looks.

It's only gullible people like u that could buy such a lie. Which law is taking it's place? So the law can't take its place in the case of amaechi, rochas, fashola? Wot about the report wike sent to the president and EFCC have that acted on it? Adams oshomole nko are they all Saints? Call a name in apcshit that's not more corrupt than Jonathan. Are tinubu, amaechi, oshomole, rochas, kwankwaso Saints? Oga don't be fooled by this selective fight against corruption OK.

AntiWailer:
How will u be a free man with not more 10 people condition.

All these conditions are they meant for human being? A crowned prince of his kingdom? So he can't welcome his kinsmen to his Palace or when they come to greet him he wud run inside.? Justice Binta Nyako place ur corrupt husband under those conditions I think he deserves them. The truth shall prevail no matter how much time it wud take..

No worry joe na ur ti e but soon we shall know if u r a biafran or Nigerian.. Ass licking bonfool.... Tell ur pay master to hold a referendum if una no dey fear.

JayJohnson:
He is crying because he knows cownu can never meet the bail conditions

He is crying because he has seen how stvpid he was asking for bail

Crying because no sensible Jew will stand surety for Kanu

Crying for dilecto because no more runz babe for a long time

Crying when he saw Fayose without any prominent or illustrious Biafrauud man to pay solidarity with dilecto

Oga close mouth if u no know watin to talk. He wud meet the bail conditions soon. It's only in nija that tins like dis can happen. Let pmp conduct a referendum if him no dey fear make we know watin go become of nija.

And amaechi didn't loot rivers state dry abi? Wot of oshomole? The case of pot calling kettle black.. Wen wud the EFCC investigate the white paper sent to it by wike? This is an attempt to make nija one part system, it will never work... Pmp who funded his campaign? Make I hear word abeg with this fight against corruption wen the corrupt ones are in the government.

He shouldn't be seen in a group of more than 10 people? This judge is kidding me. So he won't go to church abi? As a crowned prince he can't be seen with his subjects? Justice Binta God is watching. Some day we shall remind you of today.. Keep carrying out ur pay master's wish ok

•Kogi highest indebted with 15 months unpaid salaries
•FG owes workers N290bn promotion arrears
No fewer than 12 states are still owing their workers a backlog of salaries and allowances, despite double bailout funds from the Federal Government, with Kogi State owing as many as 15 months, Vanguard investigations have revealed.

Also on the list of heavily indebted states are Osun, 12 months; Kwara, 11; Bayelsa, 7; Ondo, 7; Ekiti, 6; and Oyo, 6. Others are Benue State, 4 months; Nasarawa State, 2; Abia, 2; Imo, 2; as well as several months of unpaid allowances and Ogun State, which owes over six months of unremitted deductions from workers’ salaries for cooperatives, union dues, among others.

This revelation came as Organised Labour accused the Federal Government of owing civil servants a whopping N290 billion promotion arrears, lamenting that all efforts at making the government pay had not yielded any positive result. Giving an overview of the salary situations across the states, Secretary-General of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, Bashir Alade Lawal, told Vanguard that some states were still defaulting in payment, in spite of the huge bailout received from the Federal Government. He said: “Osun State is owing one year, Ekiti is owing six months, Oyo is owing six months, Ondo is owing seven months; Beyelsa is owing seven months; Abia, two months; Benue four months; Kogi 15 months; Nasarawa three months. ‘’Ogun can claim it is not owing but it is not paying deductions from workers’ salaries in some cases, six, seven, eight months.

They are only paying net, not gross. So, if you have paid net and you have not paid all deductions, you have not paid full salaries. ‘’As at today, Anambra is not owing, likewise Borno, Delta, Edo, Ebonyi, Cross River, Rivers, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Plateau, Taraba, Zamfara and Sokoto. “Anywhere in the world, you pay workers’ salaries first before doing anything else. For example, in Osun State, some senior staff are being owed over two years allowances. In order words, you can simply say they are being owed one year salaries. What are the explanations? ‘’Bailout has been given about three times and the last one with clear directive from the Federal Government for the states to focus on salaries and pensions, but Osun State government claimed that government was not instructed to use the entire bailout to pay workers’ salaries.” In Kwara State, Vanguard gathered that the government has not paid staff in the parastatals in the state up to March, 2017 and that the last time workers were paid was February 2017.

It was also learned that the local government workers are worse off as they are being owed as many as 11 months, with the exemption of Barutin Local Government which had paid up to date because of its low personnel staff and the remote location. Reacting to the development, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of kwara State on Media and Communications, Dr Muideen Akorede, told Vanguard that the state government had paid workers in state parastatals , their salaries He said: “We are up to date, so we are not owing any of our staff. If anyone has not been paid, such staff will be paid before the close of this week. Though I don’t have all the details, you may please contact Commissioner for Finance, Demola Banu, for more information.” Vanguard checks, however, confirmed that staff of state-owned Kwara TV; Herald Newspapers, Radio Kwara, were paid their March salaries last week. In Ondo State, Vanguard also gathered that the state government was owing six month salaries- August to December 2016 and January 2017, though the new governor, Rotimi Akeredolu paid salaries of August, 2016 as well as February and March 2017. in is reaction, Chief Press Secretary to the governor , Segun Ajiboye, said the immediate past government owed workers six months ( August 2016 to January 2017) salaries but noted that the present administration under Rotimi Akeredolu, had paid February and March 2017 to workers on assumption of office.

He added that during the Easter period, Governor Akeredolu also paid the arrears of August 2016 to workers to celebrate the festivity In Oyo State, investigations revealed that none of the workers, both at the core civil service and local government, had been paid their salaries up to March 2017, while some of the workers are yet to be paid since December, last year. Similarly, in Kogi State, workers have not been paid for many months, as the staff screening embarked upon by the state government since March, last year, has continued to hinder many of the workers from receiving their salaries. It was learned that aside from those who were on the cleared list from the screening report released in December 2016, and had received their salary up till February, over 40 per cent of both local government and state workers have not received their salaries since September, last year. Reacting, yesterday, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kogi State Governor, Petra Anyegbule said the state government does not owe workers except those whose genuine status as state workers are still in doubt and under verification as workers by the screening appeal committee.

She said when their status is verified, all genuine workers will be paid, urging them to exercise patience till when the screening appeal committee will have concluded their assignment. She said the civil service reform embarked on by the governor must be total, adding that 96 per cent of those who had been cleared have received their salaries to date. Imo State workers have for long, been receiving varying percentages of emoluments, against the approved wages. Civil servants contacted, confirmed that salaries for the month of March and April 2017, were outstanding. They also affirmed that government only paid 80 per cent of legitimate salary to the senior staff and 100 per cent to the junior ranks. Benue State government blamed its inability to regularly pay the wages of workers in the state on the sharp drop in the allocation from the Federation Account. Speaking to Vanguard in a telephone interview in Makurdi, the Chief Press Secretary, CPS, to the Governor, Mr. Terver Akaase, said despite the decline from the Federation Allocation, the Samuel Ortom-led administration had been able to reduce the backlog from about six months which the government inherited from the last administration to three months. Akaase said: “The fact of the matter is that before the advent of the present administration, Benue was getting an average of N6 billion monthly from the Federation Allocation. “Unfortunately, since the coming to power of the present administration, the government has been receiving an average of N2 billion monthly while our monthly wage bill is over N4.1 billion. “What it meant is that what we receive monthly cannot in any way match our monthly wage bill, let alone having anything to embark on developmental projects, so we are left with the option of alternating salary payments by using two or three allocations to offset a month’s salary. “The situation today is that we are owing three months unpaid salaries and we are hoping that the Paris Club debt refund will help us clear at least two months of the backlog and from there, we will be making progress.” Meanwhile, ASCSN has said the Federal Government was owing civil servants N290 billion promotion arrears, lamenting all efforts to make government pay have not yielded any positive result.

According to ASCSN’s scribe, the federal government is busy bailing out states and local governments without its own workers. He said: “You promote somebody from grade level 9 to 10, from 10 to 12, 12 to 13 and in some cases, from 13, to 14 and he or she is still earning the salary of level 9. All these arrears of promotions have accumulated to almost N290 billion. ‘’We have engaged this government from day one and up till now, it has not paid. This is very callous and wicked. The sad thing about it is that some are entitled to N50,000, N500,000 and things like that, depending on the grade level. Some have retired now. “We are not even asking the government to pay everything at once. You can say, alright, let us start paying N70 billion and before you know what is happening, you have cleared this bill. It is like the government is not interested until you take to the streets. When you go to the streets that is when you now see the highest office in the land calling the Finance Minister to pay. ‘’You know you are owing and you are bailing out others, bailing out the state and local governments, you are not bailing out yourself. “We have made noise, but government is not listening. So, we are preparing and very shortly, we will do something to at least, compel the government to look at our side. This indebtedness to workers at the federal level dates back to 2007 and we are talking about 2017. ‘’That is over 10 years. It is a precarious situation, but we are hopeful that some of the actions we intend to take will compel government to address the issue.” Efforts to reach the Ministry of Finance for comments, last night, proved abortive as no one was ready to speak for the ministry.

A National ex-officio of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Yekini Nabena, has described as immoral the continued stay of Sen. Bukola Saraki as President of the Senate, despite various allegations of graft against him.

Nabena, who spoke against the backdrop of the suspension of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, over allegations of corruption, called for Saraki’s immediate resignation as Senate President, if the Senate is to regain its deserved status. According to him, the Senate has completely lost its legitimacy, with Saraki as president. In a statement issued, yesterday, in Abuja, Nabena said in the history of the Nigerian Senate, “no Senate President has brought disrepute to the exalted position like the current occupier.” He urged Nigerians, Civil Society Organizations, former and serving senators and all lovers of democracy to remain steadfast in their quest to kick Saraki out of office, if the current fight against corruption was to have any tangible effect. He said: “Senator Saraki cannot continue to preside over a lawmaking organ of a government that is vigorously fighting corruption in Nigeria when he has a load of corruption allegations hanging on his neck. “As it is today, the case of his alleged false assets declaration is ongoing. There are revelations about his ties to offshore businesses in tax havens as contained in the Panama Papers. “For Saraki and his docile senator friends to leave their houses and head straight to court, sit in the accused box on criminal charges, this is enough an indictment. Yet, they will come back to the upper house and take charge of lawmaking for the country.” ‘’This manner of impunity is killing every sane citizen and also rubbishing our democracy in the eyes of other nations. “It has also been reported how Saraki’s name was prominently mentioned in an investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on the N19 billion London-Paris Club loan refund.’’ While calling on Saraki to step down until his innocence was established, the APC chieftain asked the party leadership not to succumb to blackmail “by blindly supporting Saraki’s Senate Presidency against President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war.”

But without funding is it advisable to proceed with the admission probably go there and work or retake the exam while over there and reapply for admission. Thanks for ur opinion

ponpon:
Yes you can and even 320 and above doesn't determine funding. It's dependent on its availability, what you are bringing to the department and many other stuff. Departmental funding is competitive and you sometimes need a competitive profile to get it or luckily a prof is interested in having you. Outside the department you can hustle to get other admin GA.

Thanks a lot

Thanks @femi321

Pls can I get admission into utep with a GRE score of 286 for an MSc programme.? Secondly I also applied at Stevens Institute of Technology but am yet to send my official GRE scores to them, would this by any means affect my chance of being admitted?

Pls I have two questions to ask.
1. Can I get admission and GA into utep or Stevens Institute of Technology wit a GRE score of 286 for MSc in statistics and stochastic system and optimization process respectively in the two schools.
2. I have sent my official GRE scores to utep but am yet to send my official GRE scores to Stevens Institute of Technology. I was planning on sending it to them if offered admission, does it affect my application?.
Thanks

Pls can I be admitted into any school in US wit a GRE score of 286: verbal 141 and quantitative 145. I have applied to utep and Stevens Institute of Technology. Is there hope with this score?