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oluwalfa:
Read between the lines: the foreign company complained about its workers and wanted them gone. Errand boy Nigerian Immigration Service did it for them.

You are getting it wrong.

The two companies are in Nigeria, one company brought them to work here, they went on holiday and when they returned went to work with another company on the papers of the first company.

Please who can update me on where i can purchase PTA in Lagos.

First time i will be having problems getting PTA before my travel date

At the POE in the US you are stamped in for 6 months unlike in the UK where you just get stamped in

Whats the maximum months allowed at a time in the UK on a two years Visit visa?

boseko:
I need your advice.

My visa application was refused because the ECO didn't believe I was employed.

I provided the following:
Posting letter
Letter of introduction
Leave letter
Statement of account

What other evidence can I provide?

I suggest you RE-APPLY

Also include a copy of your staff ID and any old office document that bears your name.

I heard of someone that was refused for not providing Invitation Letter meanwhile Invitation Letter was in his application, he re-applied and got his visa.

Best of luck

Confirmed....good airline

I followed this tread from the beginning and feel so sad the way it ended because i was also getting interested in the business. I am not a victim but i keep reading this tread everyday hoping to hear this woman has been arrested.

Let me stare some hints that can be used

1. Her bank account: Denial her access to the fund in her account by reporting to the Inspection/Fraud dept of the bank HQ so they can place a No DEBIT INSTRUCTION on her debit card so she has to walk into a branch to withdraw and she can be arrested, thats if shes in Naija. Or they dont place a No debit instruction but monitor the account to see where the next transaction will be done.

2. Her mobile Numbers: Keep trying her numbers especially at midnight 1am, 2am etc you might be lucky the number will ring as she might switch on the phone to pick a number then contact the Network operator via the police for the location of the number. At least you have an idea of area or location and you can continue the search from there.

3.Her family: Since she disappeared, for one reason or the other she MUST have contacted her family....father, mother, sister, brother, uncle, lawyer for one thing of the other. I dont believe in making others suffer for the sins of someone else but family should be threatened to produce her otherwise......threat

4. IMMIGRATION STATUS: Everyone fills an Immigration form before Departure at the airport, if anyone has contact at MMIA Immigration who can assist in checking against the period she disappeared. She might even have pass through Seme/Idi roko into Benin Republic( you can pass through without a passport those days i dont know about now).

My little contribution to the search

LadyGuinivere:
@FPL I saw your submission on the other page about the refusal form being generic and the need to personalise it.
I also saw the otger guy's submission about us being treated in not so decent a fashion at the embassy.
Whilst I agree that the wait time should be less, the hall bigger and more seats provided I have a few things to note about us being Nigerians. (Caveat: this is my opinion o !)
People arw generally percieved the way they carry themselves. This country is filled with so many young and vibrant fellows with no jobs. In desperation they look outward. And as we have seen on this thread, people look for ways to Hoodwink the vos. The result? We all are percieved as crooks. As my people say , when one finger touches oil, it soils the whole hand.

On the other hand. Let's analyse our soverign and independent Nigeria. We exploy expats for reasons I'll never understand. The employers care less if their resident permits have expired. They use police escorts and sirens in our fine nation. When I land in the US, I stand in the longer queue for non citizens and I'm thoroughly frisked and questioned. No wahala. No be my pap land. However I land at MM highway to the hot arrival hall and guess what? I'm again in the long queue and the foreigners zoom past me.
I love Nigeria and I am so proud of this country. We need to change out image. We need to have pride in self and country. Only then can our passports carry weight.
Long live the FRN.

I concur

I was away in the UK and didn't use my GTB account but still got debited for DIFFERENT ACCOUNT TRANSACTION for the period i was away.

Since the banks have lost COT charges we are in really trouble with all kinds of other charges whether savings, current of corporate account.

Archangelhenrio:
Wonders they say shall never end!

I trully fear these God Greatly. Could you believe my pastor warned me about these when i invested 15 Bags of Onions worth N75000. When i told him about it that day he was very happy, But the next morning, he hurriedly called me over to his place immediately(cos he told me he was gonna pray about it to enquire from God about the biz).
When i got there, he started telling me all about these happenings, her future plan of disappearing with people's money and her taking a flight off from these country for good and if i know what to do now about these i should hurriedly do and get my money back as fast as i can even if it means selling below my cost price.
Despite the warning, i was still reluctantly waiting for the price to increase so i will tell her to sell it off for me. Weeks after weeks he was still asking me about it. It even came to a point i started avoiding him(i thought he wanted to spoil business for me by telling me to sell them off below cost price cos the price crashed then). Then the last time we met, he again asked if i have told her to send it, i told him i've done that (cos earlier on that day i called her and placed an order for her to resell them for me). He then promised me he was gonna pray seriously so she will sell and return my money and these disaster he saw coming will not come to me and if i should get my money, i must never do business with her the second time and forever.

So after everything, she sold and returned my money. Before the money even got to my account, it encountered several gallops, several calls been made to know what's still holding payment. If not for GOD and prayers, my money for hang.

Upon those warnings, see as i take no dey hear word:

Even after the deal, i was even planning to do more business deal with her these 2016 as i've never seen any disaster happen then. I was seriously planning Big on how i will diversify in other profitable agriproducts through her before i started seeing them all now manifest rapidly just as he said. These made me wonder and marvel how powerful our GOD is...IF NOT FOR GOD!

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Pavore9:
Read this article through the link posted by another Nairalander (wakes) in another strawberry related thread. Those who are interested in Strawberry farming can visit the community to understudy its cultivation and even smarter by buying up from them, sort them and have them packaged and preserved for onward shipment to the south.



Strawberry, an exotic fruit, which until now does not receive any serious attention as one of the fruits grown in the country, is now the most important produce that shapes the economic power of the people of Chaha community.

The community, located at the outskirt of Vom, Plateau State, gives the heart-shaped fruit the desired attention from the day they discovered it has the potentials to change their fortune and lift them from the shackles of poverty.

This reporter, prompted by the sale of the produce to motorists along Jos-Abuja Road in Jos, traced its origin to Chaha village where everybody seems to have a strawberry farm- although there are few other strawberry farmers in Jos, Plateau State capital.

A farmer does not need to buy the seed or seedlings every farming year. This is because the vines after production can be transferred as seedlings to another plot in the new farming season. This quality leaves farmers with no burden of looking for seed each planting season. Their major burden is manure, fertiliser and market.

Nuhu Samuel is a 29-year-old strawberry farmer. He told the reporter that he got into the farming after he saw his father making money from it. Although he said he cannot tell where his father got the seed from, he got the seedlings from him.

The father of two children stated that he plants in July and harvests in November. He sells in killogramme-N700 to N1, 000 per kilogramme.
Samuel gets 30 to 40 killogrammes from his farm twice a week, which helps him to pocket between N28, 000 to N40, 000. For him water supply to the farm is not much of a problem because some of the mining pods serve as mini irrigation dams that supply water to his farms.

The reporter seeks to know where he sells his produce or if he has challenges selling it, and he said: “We have one man who comes from Abuja to buy the produce from us. We normally take it to him in Vom. Apart from him, some women who sell the produce along the major roads in and around Jos come here to buy.”

On how much he makes from it in a season, he said: “It depends, there are seasons that we make between N300, 000 to N400, 000 while in some seasons, I make up to N1 million from my two plots alone.”

Isaac Michael is a 22-year-old strawberry farmer in the community. He was working in his farm when the reporter met him. He said that he was inspired to farm by Thomas Choji, who he said started the strawberry farming in the community.
Unlike Samuel who has been farming it for the past five years, Michael is a new comer into strawberry farming after seeing other young farmers of his age making money from it.

“I could not start earlier because I did not save enough money to buy the seedlings because it is too expensive. But July last year, I managed to save money from my cabbage and carrot farm to buy the strawberry seedlings which I planted in this farm.”
According to him, each seedling costs N200. He said he has no problem with water supply as his farm is located at the bank of a lake constructed by miners.

Michael is now harvesting four cartons worth of strawberry every week. Each of those cartons contains five killogrammes of the produce. But how much does he sell a killogramme?

“It depends on the forces that shape the market such as glut and scarcity. Between October and December, it is usually very expensive. So we sell for between N900 and N1, 000 a kilo. But now, the product is plenty as you can see. During the heat period-because it is heat that facilitates its growth, we sell for between N700 and N800 per kilogramme.”

“Before the season ends in April, I will make N400, 000, I could even make more if I get a better market,” the 22-year-old man said.
“But honestly, it is not easy for us to sell it here. If you harvest it and keep it, before tomorrow it will change its colour. You must get the person who wants to buy before you harvest it, if not you can’t harvest it and keep it. Unless you have a cooling system like the refrigerator before you can do that. This is a big challenge for us here.”

For Patrick Mancha, a 45 year-old-father of five, the idea of starting a strawberry farm came to him when, as a worker on other peoples’ farms, he saw how the farmers were making money from it.

With the money he realised from working for others, he established his own farm, which gives him money to feed his family and send his children to some of the expensive schools in Jos.

Mancha said he sells strawberry in cartons, which weigh 5.5 killogrammes at the price of N3, 600. The day the reporter visited the farm, he harvested 70 killogrammes from only one of the three strawberry farms, which he does twice a week.

Conducting the reporter round his farms, Patrick stressed that he will harvest 150 killogrammes if it reaches March which will give him approximately N105, 000 weekly if he sells at the least price of N700 per killogramme.

“Last year I realised N300, 000 from the small farmland I cultivated. This year, I have decided to expand the land to three plots. As you can see, the 70kg I harvested did not include the other farms. If I add those ones I may get 120kg and that will be twice a week.”

Choji Emmanuel is one of the biggest strawberry farmers in Chaha. In a chat with the reporter, he stressed that the major challenge of strawberry farmers in the community is lack of market for the produce in Jos.

He told the reporter that he has attended many workshops organised for strawberry farmers on the Plateau but nothing happened afterwards.
The 29-year-old lamented that the community produces strawberry enough to meet any buyer’s demand, yet they rely on few individuals and retailers to buy from them.

“We know how to farm strawberry here, but the market is our problem. We want people and companies to know that we have enough of this fruit here. What we need now is just the market.”

Emmanuel has been in strawberry production for over six years. He recalled one particular year when he couldn’t find buyers for the product, making them to record huge losses.

“We know there are people who need this product somewhere in Nigeria but we don’t know how to locate them. I hope one day, some of these people will find us here.”

According to him, even though they have Strawberry Farmers Association in the community, the leaders are not educated to help members locate where the markets for their produce lie in the country.

This reporter made effort to speak to the leaders of the association but failed because they were all out of the village trying to find buyers.
Speaking to many farmers in Chaha community it was discovered that they have the same challenge-market for their produce. They want to know where to meet buyers.

Even the government at the state and local levels do not seem to work for the interest of their famers who can make the state a hub for horticulture in Africa. Despite huge potentials created by its unique weather, the Plateau State and its local governments have failed its farmers. Even the federal government failed to see the billions of Naira lying untapped on the Plateau.

For the community, access to good road, link to bulk buyers and basic inputs such as water pumping machines and fertiliser continue to elude them.

Efforts to get the local government authorities and the state commissioner of agriculture to comment on these matters also failed.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/agriculture/47360-surplus-strawberry-in-plateau-few-buyers

Do you still have the strawberry for sale? if yes iblaw1@yahoo.com

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Jazzlite:
pls guys whats the rate used by banks for flight tickets?

N200/$ on airline website eg KLM

afolabibalogun:
My wife and kids went through JFK poe via Qatar airways, and the CBP was very soft with them..... They were stamped in for 6 months with no issue at the POE
However, she had issues with the immigration at DOHA claiming her passport didn't resemble her...... Very funny, but they sorted it
They are now sleeping sleeping sleeping, after about 15 hours in the air from Doha to NY

15 hours in the air!!!

6 hours seem so long for me not to talk of 15 hours, na to take sleeping tablets before boarding

overlord77:
Fidelity Bank has a good rate too.

Those anyone know how much the banks are selling USD now because they normally sell a bit above CBN rate and then charge 1%

lovettett:
Hello my fellow nairalanders,
My kids n I ve bn in america for some days now.it is our first in this country. We ve bn to london several times, same wt dubai but I think america is a must see for every one at least once in a life time. We spent some time in new york.we re in houston now. Intend going to florida by next week. Nigeria can attain a fraction of what I see here.I just pray for my country ooooo.

I have been to Dubai, Doha and UK and i ask myself "where did we miss it as a nation?"

Corruption, greed and selfishness is killing us as a nation. Imagine we can not have functional air condition in an International airport. The world has left us far behind.

yolemum:
@iblaw

Thanks for the response that my problem is at POE,won't they check n ask why am carrying garri and beans?

Twice i have carried garri ,beans etc without any wahala. After passing Immigration i pick my luggage from the belt and leave the airport, if customs had any issue with the garri and beans they will stop me for physical check after i pick my luggage because they see everything in your luggage before it comes out for pick up.

Your primary concern should be the officers who will deep their hands into every part of your luggage at MMIA and begin to tell you foodstuff is not allowed but when you give them "something" foodstuff suddenly become allowed.

yolemum:
@justwise and gurus,I am travelling on a tourist visa but my friends wants me to bring foodstuffs like beans and garri....it is possible for me to travel with stuffs like dat without being stopped at d airport
Thanks so much while awaiting ur reply

Last time i traveled i had plenty of garri, beans, elubo, honey etc in my two luggage. When it was my turn to be checked at MMIA as i placed my luggage on the desk the man just walked away(i guess he was tired),after waiting for some minutes another lady asked if i have been checked and i said no, she just opened my luggage and closed it back and said you can go. I was lucky o

No one stopped me at POE for carrying so much foodstuff so if you can escape the officers in MMIA you are good to go but please read what is allowed/quantity. I read on a UK website the quantity of honey etc i am allowed to take.

In summary....Salary is chop money while Business is prosperity money

esoorita:
I don't know the reason why you think it's necessary to give an explanation about your picture to a bunch of lunatics who can never see beyond their nose. I've given up on Nigeria because of the attitude of an average Nigerian to issues that affects their lives. The photograph of a primary school in the U.K is posted to see the reaction of the people on the forum but alas, the first comment was directed at the picture of the OP rather than reflecting on the reason why the majority of Nigerian kids are taught in buildings that are not fit to be used as a poultry in the developed countries of the world. Is it a crime to be born in Nigeria? I do know that there are decent private schools dotted all over Nigeria exclusively for the kids of the looters of the commonwealth of Nigeria but the fact is that the cost of these schools are beyond the legitimate income of the majority of the parents whose kids are students there. How can you justify a senior civil servant sending his or her kids to a private primary/secondary school with an annual school fees in excess of 1-2 Million Naira per annum and considering the fact that some of them has two or more kids at a time in these schools. The military/political elites have destroyed Nigeria beyond repair. Their solution for the decaying educational infrastructures is to send their kids to mega expensive private primary and secondary schools and send them to university abroad. The same goes for our healthcare system. The elites and their families will board the next available flight to Europe and America if they suffer from a slight headache. The ordinary citizens of Nigeria are consigned to the scrap heap while the few elites who are less than 10 percent of the population grabs about 80 percent of the revenue for themselves and their families. They are however getting away with the heinous crimes because most Nigerians can't even see what is wrong with the country and that is why the imbeciles on this thread is ignoring the serious issue raised by the OP while they are at ease to chastise his picture as they couldn't see the bigger picture. I was dismayed by the sorry state of the primary school I attended. I reckon that the school was built around 1960 and yet it was totally dilapidated as at 1985 whereas my kids' primary school here in the U.K was built in 1889 and it's still in a top notch condition because it has not suffered from lack of maintenance like mine in Nigeria. Meanwhile let us pray for Nigeria as that is always the solution that an average Nigerian believes in. Social security in any society is more powerful and effective than a million prayer sessions.

Its the first time i will have a write-up put up on the front page and was really surprised the way the main point was ignored...not bored about the abusive words.

I have been to Dubai, Doha and UK and feel SAD about the situation in Nigeria, i ask myself where have we missed it as a nation and why. I wish i could do something because sincerely the world has left us far behind.

I got back few days ago and Customs officer asking me at MMIA what did i bring for her, IMAGINE!!! I told her no one told me i have to bring something for someone at the airport, she said "ïs that so" and i said YES then she said i can go. In March when i also returned from UK, Custom officer at MMIA said to me "don't you have any left over dollar with you'', i just carried my luggage from his desk and walked away.

This people are a DISGRACE to this GREAT NATION.

mamagee3:
[color=deeppink]The trend was going great until the poster decided to make the biggest mistake in his life by uploading his toast-looking photo.

Poster, what were you thinking? [/color]

I had the background in mind and not my pix, the positioning of the selfie made me look dark but i feel sad that the main point of what corruption is doing to us has been ignored and my pix has become an issue.
Check page 4 for another of my pix in Manchester

bebe2:
Dat lobby looks like Manchester metropolitan university, All Saint campus?

No, that's inside ARNDALE SHOPPING MALL

missKiffy:
All of you talking about the op's pix are stupid, he's nt a dark person, it's most likely the camera, nitwit teenagers wey full nairaland, instead of them to reminisce on the fact that public schools is dying in naija in terms of infrastructure and the way forward for ourselves and our children in the future, it's the op's pix they choose to concentrate on. Slowpokes

I wonder ooo

Its the positioning of the selfie o

sukkot:
[b]and to all you low expectation having fools on the thread, this school is a substandard school. it is your low expectations of yourself coupled with colonial mentality that makes you think it is a good school. what is in it ? a big screen tv and some chairs ? and you are all shouting like the school is great. its substandard compared to other countries. having said that you black motherfokaz deserve everything you get because you are all thieves. your friends are thieves, your mothers are thieves, your fathers are thieves, your politicians are thieves, your pastors are thieves. you are all thieves. if someone put a big screen tv in a school in nigeria the students will steal it and sell it. point being a cursed people are endowed with cursed environments. you all need personal introspection and let the change you want to see in nigeria start with you. look at this thread for example ? about 50 brain dead zombies co-signing an idi-ot who is abusing the skin color of the OP ? do you see the black race is a cursed race ? you are all cursed. but you can take that curse off you by moving closer to the creator and being a better and decent and loving human being to your fellow man. stop stealing from people. stop abusing people. and the curse will slowly leave you and your generation[/b]

True talk

Bollinger:
True. The idiot.s focusing on his complexion are missing the message and they deserve the squalor of a country they have.

I really wonder why my pix has become an issue when we should look at the pictures and ask ourselves where we have missed it as a nation, we and our children are suffering because of bad leadership.

We need to WAKE UP AND MAKE OUR NATION BETTER FOR OURSELVES.

hisgrace090:
constant pocketing of money meant for development is what Nigeria is suffering. Our case is quit pathetic.

Real pathetic and this is what corruption denial ed our children

adonbilivit:
isn't it obvious he edited that particular pic? is everything else in the pic clear?

Why should i edit?

Its the selfie positioning that make me look dark, check page 4 for another pix of myself

rman:
It is disappointing the youths find the dark skin of OP the most important message that is worth pointing out instead of the underlying message of absolute failure of their leaders.

It is a shame.

Private schools that looks like this in Nigeria will cost 10times the minimum wage and we don't see that as re-colonization of the poor by the rich.

I bet there is not a single public primary school that looks like this in the whole country. We have failed ourselves.

I wonder why my pix is so important, its even the positioning while taking the selfie that make me look dark but i am proud to be black

damton:
The western world are far off in terms of development than we can imagine

Nevertheless, it's not a mystery that requires exceptional powers.

Simply good leadership and quality governance.

Nothing so special if we really want to do it but we need to KILL corruption first

Madeu:
What is the tuition fees?

No tuition fee

phantonce:
OP, you seriously need to bleach a little.
We are called black but not charcoal.

Anyone that says black is beauty has definitely not come across you.
i had to increase my screen brighteness to see your eye ball.
I cnt even see your face in the pic.

Its the positioning(selfie) that make me look dark but i am proud to be black
I have attached another pix of myself(page 4)