Before buying the wheelchair, are the roads from his house to the school passable? You will find out that the wheelchair will not even work unless he has paved access most of the way. Good idea but think of the infrastructure that supports the wheelchair.

Before buying the wheelchair, are the roads from his house to the school passable? You will find out that the wheelchair will not even work unless he has paved access most if the way. Good idea but think of the infrastructure that supports the wheelchair.

Drienzia:
Life sha. Some persons are just extremely rich while others barely have something to eat. Abi nor be same God create everybody? Some persons will say it’s hard work, so that mechanic in your street or that old carpenter isn’t hardworking? Some will say Grace, so some persons are not qualified for grace hence the reason for them being poor? Others will say you should draw nearer to God, so you mean Mayweather and co are closer to God than that old female evangelist in your street? This life sha, e get as e de go

Brother, be like say you dey inside my mind. Been thinking about this for weeks now because I just taya for the hustle.

pharrell8:
What about the guys, when meeting the ladies parents

Observe the same rules or very similar ones.

For those 'complaining' that she studied history and sociology, may I remind you that this is just her first degree. She will return to school to study for a law or economics degree and eventually end up as a legal or financial professional.

Funny enough, a lot of UK prime ministers studied history and philosophy in school and see where they ended up. As politicians. When you are from a prominent or rich family, what you study in school does not matter. Just get the degree.

BSc - Elect/Elect Engineering - Nigeria
MBA - UK
Post Grad Dip - Research Methods - UK
PhD - Strategic Management - UK

Yes sir i agree, but the signature is not the only thing that you had issues with, was it? Apart from that, other comments and opinions about the high commission necessitated my contribution.

If i have offended you, i apologize.

Pls permit this long message. . . .

In the last 3 years, with my last experience occurring just a few months ago, i have had cause to visit the Nigeria High Commission in London. Having gone through two different services (getting two new passports for my children at different times as well as renewing my old one on a third occassion) I have to say that my experience all those times was VERY VERY SMOOTH. I never had a problem with anyone esp after having followed the instructions on the website to the letter. All the staff i came across were polite, helpful and willing to assist especially if you came in with all the required documents which show that at least, you made an effort to follow the online procedure.

Lets all be honest with ourselves. Nigerians (and in fact, any other people) with strong pre-conceived ideas and solutions to their self made challenges are not the easiest people to deal with. While I was in the building, I noticed that a lot of people came into the building with the hope that they would be able ‘settle’ someone for one or two of the things they could not do online and continue with their passport applications. Others came into the building probably hoping that the staff in the High Commission would respect their haughtiness, abandon their stations and dance to their tunes to effect what I would call, a ‘personal or VIP service’. In other words, they came into the High Commission with the ‘abandon - your - daily - duties - and - come - and - walk - me - through - the - whole - process - because - I - cant navigate - the - website’ attitude.

My own contribution to this discussion is simple: First, settle down and patiently go through the online instructions. Honestly, from personal experience, you WILL NOT understand the process the first time you browse through all the tabs but lets face it, how many of us understand anything the very first time you try to? Like my academic subjects, I had to get a pen and paper and jot things down when I was reading through the site just to gather the more important instructions.

Second, after filling out the forms, the payment thing with credit or debit cards was a bit confusing and yes, the first time I had to call the help-desk number which is in the US I think. Believe it, someone answered this and took me through the process step by step ad even sent me an email to tell me that my payment had gone through. It was only after this payment that an appointment day could be booked.

Sometimes the site may be down so there is the need to visit the site on other days to see if the portals work, so the need to apply for passports early enough is sensible. As expected, when you are rushing and in a hurry, you will misunderstand some of the rules and directions and of course, will become irritable. Once you carry this attitude into the High Commission and the staff see that you are already irritable, do not have complete documents and are only our to either make trouble or prove a point, their own defenses go up and words are then traded.

Once again and lastly, the High Commission is not a difficult place to visit. On all three occasions, I was in and out in less than one hour.

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Kei144: Jobs in interest-seeking banks are for Christians. Muslims keep off!

. . . . my broda, even if you wan follow christianity, you are not supposed to charge interest from your brother, if you loan him any money.

I am not a muslim but this is an interesting thread. I don't want to judge anyone, but people like Fola Adeola, Kola Abiola, Sanusi (CBN Governor) and other high ranking muslims who own banks or have been top officials in banks comes to mind. It will be nice for someone who has links to them to ask them this kind of question. . . . esp someone like Sanusi. I hear he is an Islamic scholar of some sort so he should be able to provide a very good answer.

As for me, I am a bit amused myself. My own question will be for muslims (and even christians), if you decide to follow the Quran (or bible) to the letter, you will just end up sitting at home doing nothing. There are just too many rules to follow and if you really decide to follow them to the letter, it will be hard living in this world and doing business with anyone

I just started following this thread and my heart is in my mouth already. Pls, what car is this and where are the pictures. If inspired continues this kind of suspense, he needs to be warned o. some of us have high blood pressure issues

Nice. These are beautiful pictures

His being taken away by soldiers is still bad enough. They will use him for some torture practice and he may never be seen alive again.

I see no reason why we punish the 'small theives' and leave the big ones to get away. Why not enter the Delta State assembly, government house or better still, march to Abuja and do the same to ALL politicians?

Anyway, Animal Farm has taught us that all animals (people) are equal, but some are more equal that others.

Beautiful pictures. . . Lagos, Nigeria, no be poor country o!

nice read!

Insightful message.

Interesting stuff

Nice write up about an interesting man. Good or bad, he has left his mark for many years to come.

. . . But if BF wins and meets Naija in the finals, the match na die o. Maybe we should be hoping Ghana wins. The chances would be better for Naija. Lol

Lovely thread bro! Na this kin thing we supposed dey see for Nairaland . . . I have learned some new things today

I was heartbroken just reading this. Sad story that can happen to anybody. This is why i sometimes understand people when they fight with all they have in them, to acquire foreign citizenship for themselves or their kids.

Sisi_Kill: Being Babaginda's Butt boy...errr...man sure is a position (pun intended) that keeps on giving.

By the way, what's with the gold? Hasn't anyone told him how tacky it is? If not then he obviously needs to rethink the kinds of people he surrounds himself with.

Ever since this guy came into the limelight, he has been known as IBB's boy. True or not, I think its about time we give him some kudos, after all, even apprentices sometimes out do the master. After all these years, he has shown enough initiative to be given his freedom. Lol

I wonder whether there are no nigerian immigration lawyers on here who can answer your question because now, I am getting interested also!

To answer your question, based on all the episodes of that documentary i have watched, the UKBA cannot deport you unless they find some form of identification to point them to the right embassy to approach for travel papers. There are situations where the people that have been caught have NO IDENTIFICATION whatsoever and what the UKBA agents do is to 'free' these people. They often tell them to report to the UKBA maybe once a month or so, until some form of identification can be got from somewhere. Often times, these people 'disappear' again and end up not reporting to the UKBA once a month. Where they can get some form of identification for that person, they keep the person in detention and await the respective embassy to provide emergency travel documents. In some cases, e.g. for some Chinese or Asian people, the preparation of these emergency documents sometimes takes months to get so the illegal immigrants often spend those months behind bars.

That is as far as i know from these documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0YDA6s76c

I dont know if you have seen these already, but watch them on youtube. There are a lot more of them on there. They will give you some information on how the UKBA finds, prosecutes and deports people.

Also, google 'nothing to declare'. That is how it is done in Australia and its very similar to the way it is done in the UK.

@Poster. . . have you thought of the fact that maybe you are in the wrong place? I mean, if you are in Enugu, your choices are limited and your ability to attract the kind of people you want to be with or hang out with is virtually non-existent.

First of all, what kind of business is it you are supposed to be running? Why cant you run that business out of Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt and if need be, travel to Enugu once or twice a week? Better still, organize your days the way lots of pilots do. 10 days in Enugu and 10 days in Lagos/Abuja/Port. Probably, with the kind of money you are supposed to have, you can blend in easily with the upper echelon, and begin to feel at home.

I sorta understand what you are saying and how you feel because you cannot spend so much time abroad, mix and date your exotic girls and return to a village-like environment where you stick out like a sore thumb.