Any response to these questions, please!

studyexec:

Hey guys,
Looking to move to Calgary with my family this August. Have a few questions

(1) Do I need to obtain the International Drivers Permit from Nigeria before travelling? Someone advised me it should help. Or is the FRSC letter adequate for processing the Canadian license - Alberta.

(2) I read about a rule / law that a child(ren) of opposite sex older than 5 years should not share rooms...or something like that. My kids are 5.5 and 2.5 years old. What is the rule / law and implications for us? Can the kids share rooms? Do we need to rent a 3 bedroom to cater for these rule / law?

(3) Whats with the ranking of elementary and secondary school rankings. Do we have to look for those ranked like 7 and above? Or it does not really matter much in terms of e.g. quality of teaching, background of children as per neighborhood, etc?

Thanks in advance!

Mavor:
Please I need help verifying my NOC classification. What official email can I make inquiries from? I have sent to the following emails and it bounces back. Thanks.

noc@workingincanada.gc.ca
NC-NOC-CNP-GD@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

Same experience when I used them last month.
Use the contact form below and you should get a response within 48 hours:

http://www1.canada.ca/en/contact/noc.html

femzo:


Nice one, I tried checking my PM but couldnt read the message. How do I get your number so I can add you to the group.

You need to respond the the email Nairaland will send to your email address.

ENOCHEUNICE:
@femzo, some did theirs in March last yr n we did ours in May last yr.As I write now now,we just finished the basic training stage n still expect advance one,then biz plan. Were u asked to write iz plan?

I applied for a Performance Grant, so I was asked to submit a business plan immediately, without going through training or advisory sessions. I think folks that selected Matching Grant are going through advisory sessions before being asked to submit business plans.

femzo:


Where you shortlisted for biz plan or training?

@femzo, I sent you a PM.
I got the email for successful performance grant 2 weeks ago.

Congrats to the March 25th candidates who just received their IELTS results.
I'm still in panic mode here as the results page is still showing me 'No Results Found'!

Reasonabledoubt:
Hello House,

Writing IELTS May 18, I think I should start evaluating my credentials now.

Please can someone paste the link to IQAS's website. I am thinking of evaluating with them, because they seem to work faster than WES.

Please what are your opinions?

Seriously, can't you just type 'IQAS' on google or any other search engine?
https://www.alberta.ca/iqas-immigration.aspx

Folks here have had varying experiences using either of them.

saintkash:



Bros ur rice too cost jor... will get it cheaper at kura, kwanar dangora even yankaba.. clean local rice without stones.. a mudu for 750 Naira. ..

Don't forget we can get foreign rice for 18k in same kano oo..

Bring good price and let's buy in bulk

About 38 mudus make a 50kg bag of rice. Buying 1 mudu at N750 as you stated is equivalent to N28,500 for 50kg bag!!

alajimeche:
@Op first let's do a little maths. A ton is equivalent to 1000kg, meaning you can get 20 bags of 50kg of rice. At your N180 per ton it translates to N9k per bag of 50kg. How much will cost for the harvesting, transporting and processing into finished and polished rice ready for the final market sale? These will help to determine if it is a good bargain.

1,000kg of harvested paddy rice will get you average of 600 - 650kg of milled rice. That's 12 to 13 bags of 50kg rice. You then need to add cost of processing: parboiling, drying, milling and bagging, as well as cost of harvesting and transporting to the mill.
It could very well be worse if not properly harvested or processed.

A cottage Rice Mill Factory located in Ilorin, Kwara State is looking to recruit an Operations Officer to oversee the production and sales activities at the factory.

The ideal person should:

☑Currently reside in Ilorin and be very knowledgeable about the city.

☑Have experience and knowledge of production, marketing and sale activities for an agribusiness, especially in the rice value chain.

☑ Have a degree in Business Administration, Agric Economics or related subjects.

☑ Be dynamic, computer literate, IT savvy, able to manage people and work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets.

Renumeration will be based on agreed production and sales targets.

Please send application letter and CV to RecruitmentsInNigeria@gmail.com, with subject title as "Application for Operations Officer position - full name' "

Enquiries should be sent to same email address. Applications should be submitted on or before 5.00pm, 11th January 2017.

Aky247venture:
Paddy Rice from adamawa state is 90,000 per ton (faru 44)

Hello Aky, I am interested in the paddy. I just sent you a PM. Please respond ASAP.

Please send the plan to ibrahym@mail.com
Thanks

At the MSME Summit in Abuja now.
The Vice Peesident talked off script.
He mentioned YouWIN as one of the existing programmes for SME....as well as CBN 220bn fund.

Other things he has said.
He has attended or aware of up to 12 programmes on SME funding in last 3-4yrs, but it's mostly all talk and no results.
Funds are available (many financial windows) and there are MSMEs requiring funds.
But there is lack of connection btw the two. There needs to be better connection btw funds and businesses.
At times funds have been provided but, it is difficult to know who it has been provided to.
Noted there needs to be better monitoring and evaluation generally on businesses funds have been provided to.
The Govt will do all it can to support MSMEs and keep focus.is need to curb corruption, bribing in all these.
They will endeavor to curb corruption related to funding MSMEs.

Got an SMS from Youwin! notifying of workshop for awardees in the next two weeks.
Anyone else?

Finally, I have just been paid Tranche 2 by GTB.

This is biased journalism.The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs did not mention any names.

It's Premium Times that has assumed the PDP members comments and this is wrong and sending the wrong message!

Even worse most commentators on Nairaland here have failed to see or mention this!, but ready to make judgements. SMH

chukwuka12:


I dont think uwin will visit all, i think its a random visit by uwin...

Every single Awardee will be (or should be) visited by the Monitors.
Two different monitors: one from SMEDAN and the other a consultant.

Jega: Who wrote it?

Prof: I did, under special conditions?


lolz

yemaldo:
ALL Progressive Congress (APC) has won all the three Senators seats contested during the last saturday general election in Jigawa state.

The APC’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari also has the won the presidential election in the state.

Declaring the presidential election result, the returning officer Professor James Ayatsa who is the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Katsina, announced that Gen Buhari scored 885,988 while President Goodluck Jonathan scored 143.
Thenation

I think its
APC = 885,988

PDP = 142,897

Adewumi2888:
Final results for Kwara presidential
Buhari 211,513 (69%) Jonathan 90,826 (30%)
All the three senatorial districts won by APC

If that's the result, total votes is about 302,339.
- Compared to total PVC collected (889,067), that's about 34%.
- Compared to total registered voters in the state (1,142,267), that's about 26%.

Really low turnout!

From my observation,
1. The ballot papers are not genuine for 2015 elections. The papers used for elections yesterday had colored borders for d different positions being contested. Those in the video above do not!

In fact, freeze at 25 seconds, the paper has CPC on it. Meaning it was for 2011 elections!
Mr OP, pls clarify where you got this and not cause confusion of false alarm in 2015.

2. However, in Nigeria the papers they can still be dumped into the ballot boxes, counted and placed in INEC archives, which I think are hardly checked. I recall the issues in parties getting access to inspect ballot papers in previous elections.
3. The video may not be adequate in a tribunal becos it does not tell us the location, polling unit the ballots will be used for.
4. What investigators can do is to identify the culprits, place them on wanted list and prosecute. From there you can get confessions on who ordered this despicable act whether in 2011 or 2015.

stagger:
However, the export market is an elite market. If you cannot speak Hausa or you have no Hausa-speaking partner to break into this market for you, sorry!

So what is the point I am making here?

Don't just blunder into a business without getting access to market research. Companies spend a lot of money on market research because that is what separates the profitable ones from the losers.

Cassava is profitable. You just have to know where the profits really are.

Just read this. On point!

Good thread. I have learnt a lot from the contributions so far.

Jethro, from your OP, you ventured into the business on the premise that cassava cost per tonne was about N18,000.
But the rates in your area is like N5,000 to say N10,000 per tonne depending on the variety, quality, etc

Would you say:
(a) The initial forecast of N18,000 was just wrong

(b) It was reasonable, but you did not factor that over-supply of Cassava in recent times forced a reduction in price

(c) It was reasonable, but you did not factor that practices of buyers delaying purchase now frustrates sellers to reduce prices
(vice versa, this is common in the rice value chain as paddy rice sellers try to hoard and delay sales to when there is scarcity in the market).

(d) It was reasonable, but you did not factor that selling price depends (i) the seller's cassava quality and bargaining power plus (ii) the type of buyer and what they use cassava for, e.g. garri, starch, etc.

Generally, I think for anyone going into business, you have to carry out thorough research based on your location, ensuring you have potential off-takers (buyers) and a fall back plan.

Ultimately, as others have also said, one will also have to invest in the Cassava value chain, i.e. start processing into starch, gari, ethanol, etc
Only then can you be the master of your own game and business.

I understand it is capital intensive, but one must find a way: either by starting small, getting loans, using cooperative, etc.

justayo:
I WAS AT BOA IBADAN ON MON.THE FOLLOWING ARE MY FINDINGS:
1.U NEED TO OPEN AND OPERATE AN ACCOUNT WITH THEM FOR 3 MONTHS AND THE HOLDER MUST HAVE 20% OF THE LOAN REQUIRED IN HIS/HER ACCT.
2.START OFF LOAN IS 250K WITH 2 GUARANTORS (1 CIVIL SERVANT AND ANY OTHER PERSON)LOAN PAYABLE IN 18 MONTHS WITH 12% INTEREST FOR AGRIC AND 20% FOR BIZ.
3.ACCT OPENING IS 3K WITH 4 PASSPORT PHOTO.
4.ANY LOAN ABOVE 250K IE MAYBE 1 - 100M NEEDS A COLLATERAL WITH C of O.
5.LOAN IS GIVEN TO ON GOING BUSINESS.

Thanks.
When I went to a BOA sometime last year, I got similar info.
In fact, I was told that for 250K and above loan, the collateral has to be a building with C of O (either the farmhouse or other building for the business). In other words, land itself cannot stand as collateral. I forgot to ask if stocks in the capital market can be used, but I doubt it.

The only other problem I have with BOA is that I cannot access loan as a startup.

emiye:
Survey conducted btw Jan. 15 -Jan. 20 .

A lot has happened, 3 weeks after, if there was no election shift, PVC collection will still be ongoing till tomorrow, trainings will be concluded, after the survey over 140,000 card readers had been delivered, the only outstanding card readers awaiting delivery as at ladt week were redundant card readers in the event a card reader fails in a polling unit.

TANoids should not justify rubbish

Exactly. The survey was conducted in mid January and lots of things had changed.
But overall, I think it was ok to postpone due to d lots of residual issues.

Mohammed83:
Hi Guys,

Denn,Ibrahim and co this question is directed to you guys. A Youwin 4 applicant has been bothering with a question which I've no answer to - He said he updated his profile several times,by changing his business location and other information before submitting his concept note. Now his fear is that he may be disqualified because of that. Please make una help me with answer.

I don't think changing of profile should be a problem.
I recall changing my location before submitting for stage 1 back then.

mkmyers45:
which state ?

Kwara

Mohammed83:
I've been credited wit my 1st tranche. Anyone credited too? @Abhaks have u bn credited?

Received alert this evening too.

Mohammed83:
Ibrahim, how u dey now? Thought I'd hear from you yesterday, via email I mean. I was just going 2 email u 2 update u on d latest, incase u weren't aware when I realised u had commented here. So what was d response u got 2 ur email?

2nd batch.

Then, it was mentioned during Boot Camp that 2nd batch will be paid in 1 or 2 weeks.

Mohammed83:
@flex2000, I also was not called or texted 2 forward my account details, but @mkmyers45 was so kind to call 2 inform me. Since d no - 08095941711 is one of d contact nos listed on d YOUWIN website, I figure dat dere's no harm texting ur acct details even if u weren't contacted. @ABHAKS, I hope u're aware of d latest? I've provided d no 4 d benefit of those dat were not contacted.

Success to us all!

Guys, I humbly emailed 'youwin_three' this morning requesting to know if I was in the 2nd or 3rd batch for Tranche 1 payment. I also provided my bank account details in case they did not have it yet. I did got a response later.
You may consider doing the same.
Regards