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worry357:
How are you going to travel?
You need the visa before you can leave.

I know i need a visa. I am asking how long the whole process takes, from resident labour market test to certificate of sponsorship and visa. Thanks for your contribution.

worry357:
If you have a job offer that meets the requirements then the company will advise you as they will have done this before.

Thanks but i want to know how long the process takes, I want to have some money with me before leaving....

Hello, Vicjustice. I want to find out how long the process takes for an accredited UK sponsoring company to get a Tier 2 visa for a non UK-based person from start to finish... Thanks

Realdeals:
Okay, I did N213 today, the mallam even told me it will hit 160 this month.

Dude, any idea of pound to Naira and where did you buy your dollars? Lag abi Abj?

Wt, hmmmm

No sir, Nigeria is not cursed. We have just refused to think and plan ahead. For example, there was a year I read about Nigeria having over 10,000 abandoned projects. Now if you check it, you will find that a lot of these projects weren't thoroughly thought out or pride (in the sense that the new govt doesn't want to finish what the previous govt started instead they started their own which won't be completed either)

Yungwizzzy:
Is Nigeria cursed?

As a power systems engineer, I hate it when politics is being drawn into my field. Please take note that the recent power gains is as a result of the past administration, as anything that deals with power takes years to see the result. Baba has not added 1kW to the power infrastructure, go and check. My only advice to him or his next power minister is to concentrate on Transmission, because Generation and Distribution have been privatized. Our grid is old and needs major and I mean major overhauling. Very soon new power plants will come on stream and we won't be able to evacuate the power because of over labored transmission lines, basically what am saying is that the loading on our transmission should be at most 75% of grid capacity.

BABSIN:
Buhari don over score Goal.

On a serious note, does it means that the Nigeria Power system has been configure to undergenerate the require MegawattS?

glimpse33:
your sauce is not convincing

Does this source convince you now? http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/07/female-suicide-bomber-kills-12-in-nigeria-mosque/

INTROVERT:
When

Apparently, it took place today.

A young female suicide bomber killed 12 worshippers when she blew herself up in a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a witness and a vigilante aiding the military against Boko Haram said Friday.
“The bomber was a girl aged around 15 who was seen around the mosque when worshippers were preparing for the afternoon prayers,” vigilante Danlami Ajaokuta said of Thursday’s attack in Malari village, adding 12 had died and seven were injured.
“People asked her to leave because she had no business there and they were not‎ comfortable with her in view of the spate of suicide attacks by female Boko Haram members.
“She made to leave‎ but while the people were inside the mosque for the prayers she ran from a distance into the mosque and blew herself up,” he added — an account corroborated by resident Gajimi Mala.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram has used both men and young women and girls as human bombs in the past, and Borno state where the attack took place has been the hardest hit by the insurgency.
The attack comes just a day after Boko Haram militants gunned down at least 145 people in three Borno villages, shooting Muslim worshippers during the holy month of Ramadan in the bloodiest day of attacks since new President Muhammadu Buhari came to power.


Source: http://linkis.com/www.vanguardngr.com/pjtBA

Cc Lalastica

APC lawmakers yesterday ended in a free for all fight over disagreement of positions...

Video can be seen below

An argument between two All Progressives Congress Senators, Kabiru Marafa and Tayo Alasoadura, degenerated into a physical combat on Tuesday as a last minute attempt by the party’s caucus in the Senate to select the principal officers ended in a stalemate.

The meeting of the caucus was convened in Abuja by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to unite members of his group, the Like Minds Senators and those loyal to Senator Ahmad Lawan, the Senate Unity Forum.

The meeting was also aimed at arriving at a common position on the selection of principal officers.

Trouble was said to have started immediately after Saraki had delivered his speech and urged his colleagues to dissolve into zonal caucuses to produce their representatives for the posts of Senate Leader, the Deputy Senate Leader, the Chief Whip and the Deputy Whip.

It was at that stage that Senator Suleiman Hunkunyi, got angry on hearing Saraki’s call on members to dissolve into zonal caucuses.

Hunkunyi disagreed openly with Saraki on the issue and insisted that the meeting should rather ratify the names already sent to his (Saraki) office by the APC leadership on Tuesday.

According to him, the party had forwarded a letter which recommended Senator Ahmad Lawan as Senate Leader; George Akume as deputy leader; Olusola Adeyeye as Chief Whip; and Abu Ibrahim as deputy whip.

The action of the Kaduna State-born senator infuriated some of his colleagues in the Saraki camp, who disagreed with the list allegedly sent by the APC Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun. They maintained that the Senate caucuses would determine their representatives.

During the commotion, Tayo Alasoadura, an APC senator faulted the choice of Adeyeye and wondered why the party did not choose Senator Ajayi Boroffice, who, according to him, is also qualified for the position.

It was at that stage that Marafa, who felt that the Like Minds senators were trying to scuttle the party’s position , reacted angrily to the opinion expressed by Alasoadura.

Marafa pushed Alasoadura.

It took the intervention of Senator Rafiu Ibrahim and others to prevent Marafa and Alasoadura from further fighting each other.

Both Marafa and Alasoadura could not be reached for their comments but Ibrahim who was one of the senators that settled the quarrel, confirmed that the altercation was fallout of the disagreement during the meeting.

He, however, said that the matter was being amicably resolved.

The meeting ended abruptly with the APC senators dissolving into their various zonal caucuses to perfect the selection process. This also ended in a stalemate as of the time of filing this report.

However, one of our correspondents learnt that the pro-Saraki senators had produced a list containing the names of Senator Ali Ndume as Senate Leader; Ahmed Sani – Yerima, as deputy leader; Olusola Adeyeye as Chief Whip; and Francis Alimikhena, as deputy whip.

Speaking with journalists, Senator Abu Ibrahim said the aim of the meeting was to reconcile the Unity Forum and the Like Minds groups whose members had not met since the inauguration of the Eighth Senate.

He said, “One should expect this misunderstanding because the two groups are meeting today(Tuesday). The meeting should have been allowed to ratify the party’s position and it is absolutely wrong for some people to say we are responsible for that.

“The party has always been responsible for that since I have been coming to the Senate; this is the first time, ..It is always the party that gives the other positions.

“What some of us are saying is that we have no power to zone in that meeting, it’s the party that should take that responsibility. As far as I am concerned, this was never done.

“I was a principal officer in the last Senate; the party gave our names and that’s how I became a principal officer.

“This issue will be sorted out in the next 24 hours. The party needs to wield the big stick against anybody who has gone against its directive.

Also, Hunkuyi, who allegedly caused the commotion maintained that the leadership of the party should decide on who occupied the four positions in the Senate.

He said, “An attempt here to do otherwise is the cause of this rancour. We were just coming from the national headquarters of the party and we were aware that the leadership of the APC is doing all it can do to curb part of what should not have happened in this chamber now.

“We were coming from the national headquarters of the party. They are not aware. The meeting broke up without achieving its desired objectives. There is no way it can achieve any result.”

Senator Ibrahim Danbaba said he did not hear exactly what Alasoadura said because “I just came around and met the rowdy situation.”

He said, “There were two groups before the election and we all agreed that now there should be no faction within the APC. You know we had the Like Minds and we had what you call the Unity Forum.

“Virtually most of us were around until around 11.30pm yesterday (Monday) when the former leader of the Unity Forum, Senator Barnabas Gemade came to say that there was need for the meeting to be postponed till today(Tuesday) and that was the reason why that meeting was put to 2pm today.

“On the floor of the Senate Chambers, the President of the Senate made an announcement to say that all the APC senators were supposed to meet at Room 301 by 2pm and in line with that arrangement that was made yesterday, and what was reinforced today on the floor of the Senate by the Senate President, we all assembled for the meeting.

“About 40 of us were around. Until towards the tail end of the meeting, when the likes of Senator (Hunkuyi), who just finished making statements came into the meeting.”

“ But the APC insisted on Lawan as the majority leader; George Akume as his deputy and Adeyeye as chief whip.

It was gathered that the problem was compounded when the party dropped Alimikhena for a senator from the North-West, Abu Ibrahim.

Investigations showed that the North-West caucus had rejected the post of deputy chief whip and the choice of Ibrahim.

A senator, who spoke to one of our correspondents, said, “Saraki’s proposal almost sail through, except for Lawan’s case.

“But the insistence of the party on having the principal officers from the Lawan group compounded the problem. The North-West has rejected chief whip.

“If Akume is picked as deputy senate leader, that means the senate president and deputy senate leaders are from the North-Central. The South-South has been dropped.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-senators-fight-as-truce-meeting-fails-again/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9OAknhIjY

See ehn, this life is just one big pot of beans. I can't even shout sef!! Sidon look na dog name.

Someone just posted the debt profiles of states in Nigeria including the F.C.T and FG, and i must say its not looking good at all. Some states borrowed so heavily, from the profile, that now i see why they can hardly pay salaries because they are busy servicing their debts. Looking at states like Osun and Ogun, hmmm there is God.

How did he come about this info? This is the same governor that refused to heed the warning from WAEC? Hmmmm

No chill

Ngasky:
Please filter out the NIPP Projects. All those thermal stations are Obj's 8 NIPP plants. They were stopped by the Yar'aduwa/Jonathan regime. So they were already contracted and paid for before 2007.
Infact the later government did a treasonal offence by stopping the contract under the disguise of investigation. After all who was prosecuted? How much has been recovered?
At the end of invertigation Nigeria had to pay the contractors 25% of the contract sum as damages incurred during investigation. That is we pay for 2 new plants to service our investigation

True they the NIPP started under OBJ, but if not for the push by GEJ nothing would have happened. Yar'adua made a mistake by stopping the project which cost us a lot but you have to give it to GEJ, at least he had the will to make the project work. Imagine if past administration commenced developing the power sector at say 4000MW per term, we wouldn't be in this deep shit.

netotse:
Hey...what part of the power sector are you involved with if you don't mind my asking...

Generation and to a lesser extent transmission. If you notice I have avoided talking about distribution because I haven't worked there. Why do you ask?

Nice

faceURfront:
Okay. I will do some reading on that to corroborate ur reply. Thanks

The approved power for grid connection by NERC is 20MW but due to the fragile nature of our grid and connection costs, i prefer 50MW to be on the safe side, but here is a link by NERC which regulates the power sector. Download the document for your information.

http://www.nercng.org/index.php/document-library/func-startdown/4/

faceURfront:
What do you mean by the above?

There are power generation capacities that are not grid worthy, so to speak because it's not worth connecting to the grid due to issues like cost etc. For example anything under 50MW is not worth connecting in Nigeria, although some power plants with higher capacities are also not grid connected. They are fit for what is called Embedded generation whereby they are fed to distribution substations. Eg Geometric power plant in Aba is not grid connected, the 8.5MW power plant in Lagos is also not grid connected.