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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 12:49pm On Apr 26

Zeewirld:
Please does Alliance Francis has online option for beginners? Or can anyone recommend a good tutor that can teach a beginner to perfection?

Yes there are online classes. They take an a longer time compared to the intensive option.

The A1 classes take about 2.5 months, you study on the online platform and have 3 zoom meetings per week. You'd need a computer with webcam and microphone. It is cheaper than the regular intensive classes by nearly 50%.

For more information contact AF Lagos for class schedules.

Politics › Re: FG Introduces Green Tax On Vehicles From July 1, 2026 by Ghaliz: 12:45pm On Apr 26

A country with only 16 million registered vehicles most of it old and beat because the cost of a new vehicle is 25x the average annual income. Nigeria is governed by moɍons.

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Politics › Re: How Wale Edun Lost Out To The Chagourys And Finally Bit The Dust by Ghaliz: 1:56pm On Apr 22*

The only surefire way to tarnish all your hard-earned reputation is to serve in this truth challenged government. How can you claim to have met your revenue target for the year when there's a 30 Trillion naira shortfall you've not even met a quarter of your target.

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 8:16pm On Apr 21

Ghaliz2:
Let me state very clearly and quite succinctly, this is a scammer. Imagine coming on as a guest on a browser not signed in and you see someone posing as you, it is quite simply surreal . I couldn't see his post on my own profile. Imagine!

Let me state clearly, I have provided an exhaustive list of the resources and methods I used for my exams I simply have no further insight and nothing to add

I simply don't reply personal messages because the email attached to my account is my personal email with identifying details.

Every question I've been asked here I have gone above and beyond. I dissociate myself from that individual, I consider it foolhardy to trust someone you haven't met in person. Any online interaction should be treated with extreme scepticism.

Nairaland is facilitating scams with the block button.

justwise:
@Ghaliz

Ghal1z

Ghaliz2

Ghaliz

Which one is your account here?

Ghaliz and Ghaliz2 is my account. I opened the Ghaliz2 to quote an account that was impersonating me, a post I couldn't view from my account but could see in guest mode.

I reported the said post and raised alarm here.

Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 11:44am On Apr 21

Ghaliz2:
Let me state very clearly and quite succinctly, this is a scammer. Imagine coming on as a guest on a browser not signed in and you see someone posing as you, it is quite simply surreal . I couldn't see his post on my own profile. Imagine!

Let me state clearly, I have provided an exhaustive list of the resources and methods I used for my exams I simply have no further insight and nothing to add

I simply don't reply personal messages because the email attached to my account is my personal email with identifying details.

Every question I've been asked here I have gone above and beyond. I dissociate myself from that individual, I consider it foolhardy to trust someone you haven't met in person. Any online interaction should be treated with extreme scepticism.

Nairaland is facilitating scams with the block button.

Oluhgbengaa:
https://www.nairaland.com/4672912/all-tef-candidates-canada-immigration/200#138540350 explain this

It'd be like for example if I asked you to explain the 40Trn Naira missing at NNPC or something. It does not credit to your education and perhaps even your upbringing if basic reading eludes you before levelling allegations of criminality against me. Thankfully NL is anonymous.

I logged into NL on my work system where my account isn't logged in I read a post apparently impersonating me, this post was invisible to me when I logged into my own account.

I immediately created a new account to quote the post to raise an alarm and immediately reported the post and account. I have multiple personal messages in my account I do not reply them as I've stated repeatedly, this is an anonymous I have no wish to acquaint myself to anyone here.

While I don't blame the victim of scams, the decision of the guy to send money to people on anonymous website is at best ill-advised and very naive.

I answer every question posed to me here and here alone, the failure to permanently ban the account is on the moderators, the rushed block button which happens to be facilitating scam.

I expect an apology for your unearned grandstanding but if basic reading constitutes insurmountable odds for you. I won't be holding my breath

Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 10:48am On Apr 21

Oluhgbengaa:
You don come back with this your scam moniker back right

Justwise look into this please 🥺 🙏

Are you hard of reading , hard of sight , hearing , born under an inåuspicious star or just plain ùñfortunqte?

Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 10:05pm On Apr 20

donpata:
Pls how much does Alliance francaise training package costs?

There is no package as such, there are a lot of modules, Intensive, Weekends, evenings.

I was intensive that's 3 hours weekdays( Mon-Fri) costs average out about 200K per month. Sometimes you'd get a 5% discount here and there for registering consecutive classes.

Class grouping are according to the Common European Framework from A1-B2.

A1 is split into two for intensive, (A1.1 - A1.2) takes 2 months. It takes more time for people in extensive and weekends

A2 is split into two also takes 2 months.

B1 is split into 3 takes 3 months

B2 is split into 4 takes 4 months.

So the entire A1-B2 takes 11 months about an average of 200K per month thereabouts atelier( Methode de Francais et cahier d'activités) that's textbook and workbook inclusive.

The weekends is like around 2 years for the classes, it's much cheaper than 200K a month I don't know the price.

You'd probably need more resources in addition to your classes, tutors, premium subscriptions to Babel or Duolingo and others, the cost can add up. Tutors can cost up to 20K/hr. The costs add up but people's needs differ. Start anyway and get down to business from day 1. Best of luck.

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 3:24pm On Apr 20

azarenka:
Thanks for spotting it out, i appreciate. Like i earlier mentioned, i have already enrolled to write again

You awfully close but you're stuck in a popular trap, it's called the B1 trap, your EO is borderline and could have gone either way, your EE is insufficient, your CE is also quite low . Your CO is at a C1 level meaning you indeed took your time with RFI.

I understand the urge to rush into another one but your reading is a real problem and that's symptomatic of deeper issues with comprehension and ultimately writing, speaking is also lacklustre. You should not only be devising a study plan you should be planning to find opportunities to use your French more preferably with native speakers.

While you're close to the borderline at least 3 sections out of four still require serious work, rushing into another may see something like the previous one. Get a tutor preferably the teacher you vibe with the most at Alliance Française, get on premium Hello Talk practise with native speakers, travel if you can to a French city Abidjan and Dakar . Decompress rather than Immediately immersing yourself in another one which rarely ever work.

I wish you great success and excellent luck on the next one. Try Réussir TCF and join the Reddit TCF group. All the speaking and writing questions from previous tests are usually pooled there

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 3:02pm On Apr 20

azarenka:
I sat for mine early last month & painfully missed the cut-off mark by just 1 pt in Writing,
This was my result; CO - 524, CE - 446, EE - 9, EO - 10. Just 1pt in EE killed my result. So I'm rewriting.

It's not just one point in EE, you're seven points short in your CE too.

Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 2:59pm On Apr 20

azarenka:
Hello Fam, Please i need your advice,
This is my TCF result CO - 524, CE - 446, EE - 9, EO - 10, and this is my IELTS result L 7.5, S 7, W7, R 6.5.
With these results can i create an express entry profile for the French category? Although i have scheduled to rewrite TCF in 2 months time. i have already done ECA.
Please advice.

No you cannot. Your CE and your EE is low. It is insufficient for the French category, but you're very close. Take an extra month or two to solidify your preparation then try again

Politics › Re: NRS Joins Exodus From Unreliable National Electricity Grid by Ghaliz: 12:02pm On Apr 20

And they expect you to turn in your taxes and hard-earned money for the privilege of being kidnapped seemingly at random and being starved of power. I dare ask, what benefit does one derive from Nigerian citizenship besides wanton corruption, unending gaslighting and inexhaustible agony?

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 1:31am On Apr 19

ColdHunter:
Please, I need someone that can hold me by the hand and walk me through this entire process from scratch.

I'm willing to pay a token for this service.

Ma'am you'd benefit more by asking your questions openly no matter how ridiculous you think it is so that people with no financial incentive or stake in the matter can give you competent advice. Taking it offline on an anonymous site is asking for a world of trouble in my opinion.

Regardless let me offer some rudimentary guide through the entire process using mine as a quick example.

For the Federal Skilled Worker programme.
You typically need a degree, at least a year experience that fits a National Occupational Classification basically a list of professions they're looking for whose duties which must largely match the duties you performed during your employment.

For me I had a Master degree and previous employments, my last job I quit the month I started learning French full time, during the time I got my degree evaluated (literally a sheet of paper confirming your degree is equivalent to a Canadian one), I registered and took an English language test. After a year of learning French and a 2.5 Months exam prep, I wrote TCF (French IELTS for context) and thankfully passed.

I got a reference from one of my previous employers where I worked for only 2 years, I used this because it matched largely with a NOC. I didn't include my other employers because some were over a decade, I was freelance for a while I found out documenting freelance work or self employment is not quite easy neither is it straightforward, the business must be registered, you must present evidence of full time work 1560 hrs a year, references from your client, sometimes audited financial statements of your company and tax documents. I found it easier to just roll with an employer.

I waited to enter the pool because I was gathering documents, calculating how much is needed, selling property, documenting the sale, took a few trips to the land registry

I got into the pool, got an ITA in a French draw barely 4 days after. I gathered all my documents, it's pretty straightforward the system provides a checklist of documents you require. Whenever there are extenuating circumstances or the documents don't tell the full story attach a letter of explanation.

Pre-application

Familiarise yourself with the process, YouTube, ChatGPT is great help. You'd be an expert in no time, it is impossible to subcontract this process.

What you shouldn't do is pay for help, you're going to create a perverse incentive system where things are presented in an opaque, hard to understand manner to keep the gravy train moving.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 12:43am On Apr 19

saintv2:
Hi everyone,

I noticed a small mistake in my Letter of Explanation after preparing my application.

In the LOE, I mentioned my marriage year as 2023 instead of 2024. However, my official documents (marriage certificate and profile) all show the correct year (2024).

The LOE was only meant to clarify details because the certificate scan isn’t very clear.

Has anyone experienced something similar, and is this likely to cause any issues?

Thanks in advance.

If I were you I'd raise a web form and correct this said letter of application, I'd attach a superseding letter of explanation merged with the wedding certificate, if you have evidence of printed invitation, anything you think is relevant you can add.

I'm on Reddit and from all available evidence IRCC is moving funny this days .

Politics › Re: Tukur Buratai justifies Jilli airstrikes, insists market is terrorists hub by Ghaliz: 12:04pm On Apr 13*

Nigeria is seriously on the brink as a group of NGO's including Amnesty international, Budgit, SERAP etc described in a joint statement. Nigerians get no quarter from terrorists apparently they get none from their own government and army either. They'd rather bomb a market on the chance that some people there might be terrorist.

People living on the margins, in rural areas across the North West and North East where there's barely any state presence have to exist at the mercy of terrorist and they have found a way to coexist, this are known facts. That the government will be so cavalier about their lives show that the government isn't much better than the godforsaken terrorists they are fighting

Politics › Re: Boko Haram/Iswap Terrorists Invade Two Borno LGAs by Ghaliz: 5:58pm On Apr 09

Every single day man, but the president don't give two shits he's already in campaign mode. Being a Nigerian is one of the most profound, chronic and singular misfortune that can befall a person.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Americans Buying Fuel In Jerry Cans To Hoard And Resell by Ghaliz: 7:49pm On Mar 27

The first picture is a stock photo, and the second is the picture of a single gas station in Downtown Los Angeles famous for gouging price. The average price/ gallon(3.785 lifters) in the US is $3.978. in some states like Texas fuel is cheaper than Nigeria.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 10:50am On Mar 27

LoverOfLove:
You guys, I'm in some sort of trouble and I need advice.

I applied for a US student visa in both 2024 and 2025 but got denied on both attempts.

Now, the US has banned Nigeria and I don't know how long it will take so I've decided to try Canada PR pathway. The problem now is, during my US student visa application, in order to "package" my application, I wrote there that I work at an organization that I actually don't work in and inflated my salary. I didn't have a job but I was advised that declaring I didn't have a job would lead to an immediate denial. So I inflated everything.

Now, it's haunting me regarding my Canada PR application. I do not intend to claim points for the US work. I currently work as a corp member and the only payment I receive is from the government.

Let me even come out cleaner. I worked at my PPA from January and left this March due to the fact that I wasn't getting paid and transport cost was eating me up. So I got a rejection letter from the organization and currently looking for a new PPA.

I was hoping to use my old PPA to claim point in case I don't get a new PPA till I finish NYSC. I was thinking if I speak to the PPA man, he'll give me a reference letter and the necessary documents I need. But I don't have a payslip or tax slip. For bank statement, payment is only the 77k payment the government paid us.

Lastly, I should mention that the amount I wrote I earn on my US application is quite high 400k+.

I messed myself up. Experienced and knowledgeable people in the house should help me please.

You're going to mess around and get yourself hooked for misrepresentation, first your openness and eagerness to lying and misrepresentation does not bode well for you, all members of the five eyes alliance share immigration data. Don't tell so many lies that would require many more lies to cover up.

First you need to calm down, your NYSC work does not satisfy the full time for one year requirement because camping and terminal leave eats into almost 2 months of the scheme, unless again you keep working there after your NYSC has elapsed, so you simply don't have the requisite experience to qualify for the FSW programme.

So you need to get a job whose duties tie closely to the future NOC you will use for your application, make sure you are paid, document mode of payment, payslips, taxes, work ID.

You can simply include your "previous work" in personal history where you won't be required to provide any evidence for it.

Again next time you're offered a shortcut please hesitate and consider how it might affect your future opportunities, if you don't take anything else from me take this advice. Don't go and get another "arrangée" job to prove work experience you might be required to submit bank statements and tax records. Don't run the risk of misrepresentation, don't destroy your future.

Crime › Re: The King Of Ozoro Investigates Rape And Sexual Harassment In The Town by Ghaliz: 10:34am On Mar 22

Even the king should be arrested

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Politics › Re: A Surge In Victories Against Insurgents Under Ribadu’s Leadership - Anosike by Ghaliz: 5:16pm On Mar 19*

Dancing on the graves of innocent victims. It is a gross affront to ordinary Nigerians who bear the brunt of this widespread insecurity

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 9:14pm On Mar 18

iamoyindamola:
Hello
Please what does rank needed mean

Every candidate that qualifies for this draw is ranked by CRS score. So 4000 people were selected with CRS scores 393 and above.

In the case where candidates are tied by scores, the time they got into the pool is used as a tiebreaker, so anyone with 393 that got into the pool latest (December 29, 2025 at 12:47:31 UTC) is selected in this draw.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 8:30pm On Mar 18*

Mojixxee:
Good day everyone,

I need some clarification please from those who understand Canada PR pathways.

I graduated around 2024 and completed my NYSC from January 2025 to January 2026 (as stated on my certificate). During my NYSC, I worked as a teacher. I was not paid by the school, but I received the monthly allowance from the Federal Government.

I have applied to schools in Canada. One placed me on a waitlist, while the other (Sheridan College – Supply Chain Management, Logistics Automation) has offered me admission. If everything goes well with my visa, I should be in Canada by around August 2026.

My concern is this:

From the time I graduated up till when I move to Canada, the only work experience I have is my NYSC.

I plan to write CELPIP and also take a French test by January 2027 to improve my profile for Express Entry.

Please, I want to ask:

1. Can NYSC experience (as a teacher) be counted as valid work experience for Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) under Express Entry?
2. Does it matter that I was not paid directly by the school, but only received the Federal Government allowance?
3. Will this type of experience be accepted by IRCC?

I would really appreciate guidance from those who have gone through this or have accurate information.

In my own opinion but by every means double check, NYSC work experience counts as paid work experience but the only limiting factor is if you include camp and terminal leave you might come up a little short on the 1 year but generally NYSC is paid work experience and of course you speak to the school they can always help you out.

You can always state you were paid by the Government through a scheme.

For the French unless you've started learning it now writing it in Jan 2027 is very unrealistic except your are very brilliant and have an unmatched aptitude for languages.

NB I am unable to answer your DM's pls ask your questions here, I'd provide answers to the best of my rather limited knowledge. Pls also avoid DM's from people on this thread scammers are trawling this page.

Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Worker Program - Connect Here Part 11 by Ghaliz: 6:34pm On Mar 18

French-Language proficiency 2026-Version 2

Date and time: March 18, 2026
CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 393
Number of invitations issued: 4,000
Rank needed: 4,000 or above
Tie-breaking rule: December 29, 2025 at 12:47:31 UTC
If more than one candidate has the lowest score, the cut-off is based on the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profiles

I had 475 waiting for ITA! and so it begins. I'm happy and scared at the same time.

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Travel › Re: All TEF Candidates For Canada Immigration, Let's Meet Here! by Ghaliz: 3:39pm On Mar 18

Agnes22:
Hi everyone, please I am looking forward to applying for PR and I want to know the best time. I have a BSC and MBA, and my profession is in project management. I was hoping to apply before I clock 30 so my age will at least increase my points, and it seems I may not be able to meet up because I plan to use the French route. Someone reffered time to Alliance but their classes is 1 year for evening classes. Please, do I still go on with Alliance or get a private tutor that can help in six months, so I can enter the pool on time. I want to go with my husband. Should he also write French exam? I am the principal applicant though. Please what do you advise?
Please I’ll appreciate any resources that can help me pass the French language exam. Thank you

I'm going to hazard a guess, you're never going to learn French in 6 months never mind pass the language test. The only way you'd even be done with A2 in 6 months is if you enrol in intensive classes i.e 3 hours a day, 5 days a week . A1 is 120 hrs of study A2 is 120, B1 is 180hrs, B2 is 240hrs.

There is no realistic way you're done in 6 months, tutors are not a shortcut either, most tutors especially Nigerian ones you find randomly on the Internet couldn't pass the exam themselves it's just a money grab, your brain needs to not only adjust, it needs to override the English language and your natural reflexes to think in English. There's no way you're passing the French Exam if you think in English, translate to French. You're not overcoming decades of conditioning in 6 months. The exception been you're a genius or an unusual flair for languages.

If you truly need a working strategy to pass French if you're only attending evening classes not giving it your full attention, holding down a full time job you're going to need close to 2 years, the 6 Months has no basis in reality.

Best strategy, since you're married the lower earning spouse quits and devotes his/herself fully to the French attends the intensive class to B2 for a year, 2-3 months for exclusive exam prep you might be able to achieve it in 14 months.

General disclaimer I don't send DM's I don't read them either and there are scammers on the loose in this thread. I will answer questions here

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Foreign Affairs › Re: The Iran War By US & Israel Megathread by Ghaliz: 12:19am On Mar 16

Is this the Bulaba sanctioned thread, asking for a good friend o

Travel › Re: The Nigerian Network Behind Russia's Alabuga Start Program Recruitment by Ghaliz: 2:02pm On Mar 15

Ejike3:
Please stop. My best friend is presently at the front line in Ukraine fighting for Russia. He wish to return back.

Was your "best friend" tricked into signing a military contract? If he signed a contract, took the signing bonus, got training and regular military pay what did he think was going to happen, he signed up for war.

This contracts are for a year, unlike Ukraine they are not automatically extended by Russia, he has to stay or he could desert, surrender and take his chances with the Ukrainians, if he's lucky he'd be used for propaganda if he's not he'd be summarily executed .

Wars ain't games, Africans should sit at home and stay out of the geopolitical one-upmanship of world powers, we are nothing but pawns to the them

Travel › Re: The Nigerian Network Behind Russia's Alabuga Start Program Recruitment by Ghaliz: 1:52pm On Mar 15

Falseprofet2:
Nigerians have died in this foolish guy, Putin war

Lol Nigerians(or its past iterations) have been dying in wars that had nothing to do with them since the Second Boer War in 1899, this isn't strange or unprecedented.

I maintain that Nigerians being unwittingly coopted into military service rather than signing a military contract is Ukrainian agitprop, it is a post-hoc justification they make after being captured by the Ukranian military in the normal course of war.

Propaganda is a normal part of armed conflict, it's the quality of propaganda sent to Nigeria's way that's making me mad like what do they think the average IQ in this country is?

Travel › Re: The Nigerian Network Behind Russia's Alabuga Start Program Recruitment by Ghaliz: 12:38pm On Mar 15

Ukrainian propaganda is being disseminated here on NL with little push back or context, Nigerians are being legitimately recruited not to serve in the front lines but to work in legitimate companies that supply the military.

This is been twisted to sound dark and sinister by witting patties of Ukranian intelligence and being fed to Nigerians. The same people they denied transit, food, shelter and escape from war at the beginning of the Russian SMO.

Canada, US , Europe and Ukraine itself are now recruiting STEM, mechs, tooling, military, robotics and drone experts to man their factories for the coming world war they all seem to be preparing for.

Guess the continent that's high in supply of warm bodies and low in opportunities? Every single future combatant in the coming war would need Africans and South East Asians to man their factories. Ukraine cannot disrupt Russian personnel pipeline, this is not a judicious use of European resources because Ukraine itself has none.

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Politics › Re: We Will Deliver Tight Security For APC Convention, Says Defence Minister Musa by Ghaliz: 3:37pm On Mar 14

Nigerians on the other hand can sod off

Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Says Iran Had Plans To Completely Obliterate Israel. by Ghaliz: 9:24am On Mar 14

A non nuclear state had plans to completely "obliterate" a nuclear one with an even bigger nuclear sugar daddy. The excuses are not landing, Trump is spiralling, their hybrid has caught up with them.

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