₦airaland Forum

TheGuyFromHR:
Everywhere in the UK is predominantly white, including London.

Overlook the way it’s worded. I don’t mean predominant in a literal “headcount” sense. Withal, thanks for your feedback. I got it sorted already.

lightest:
Please seniors and juniors in the house, where can I buy good bulk UK used I phones and laptops in England.

And another question, which detergents are u people using to wash ur clothes as I used sunlight and our clothes are getting whiter as if we are in Naija.

Thanks and God bless

Facebook marketplace or gumtree but you’ll have to pick it up one phone at a time I guess.

On detergents, trial and error till you find one that works for ya. Currently using Sunlight and don’t notice any issues.

Which city has more blacks between Glasgow and Edinburgh? Maybe a healthy mixture of other races but not predominantly white

In a position to advice but I don’t have enough info to do so.

hustla:
Sign out and when trying to sign in, click on reset password

Thanks. Figured it out already.

hustla:
Got it on my Macbook too

Changed password

I believe its possible that your password is among those commonly found on dictionary attacks

.. Also if another website has recently been breached and your email /pw has been found in the dump, Apple will alert you

Naaa holmes, I rarely use same password on different accounts. Easier to know which account is vulnerable.

[s]Anyways, how did you go about changing the password on here?[/s]

Sorted

Considering I only use this password here, has there been a data dump recently?

Anyone else get this?


Is password change a thing on Nairaland @justwise ?

LagosismyHome:
I would leave others to respond. Mil did in sept 2020 but I am a bit rusty on the details.

It takes one day, you go to the embassy and they accept walk in and its done that day. However it not done everyday. It was Fridays I think. The cost was about 200 pound range (I think or maybe less) . 100 was in money order or so. There was money order for sure

We found some of the details on how to go about it on the website so best to start from there, just incase if there is a new process or change in fees(+ or -)

Thanks for the feedback. Was on the website and it’s saying ETC can only be issued if pp is lost and it’s for a one way travels. That got me concerned a bit.

Has anyone gone through the process of applying for Emergency Travel Certificate recently?

How much and how long did it take?

umarwy:
A word is enough for the wise

Met police have started picking people driving without a license/insurance. I believe they were a bit calm during the lock down but the rate at which they impound cars have now. My guy just got impounded last night. He got his car less than a month.

Nothing like people have been doing it for years.
When they come for you no argument is valid.

Those using international license, make sure you are within the permitted term of use, else OYO is your case.

It costs 500-1000£ to get your license.

Don't risk police records
Don't risk cancelled insurance
Don't risk your car.

Get theory test pro (the yellow app) for 5£ and pass your theory test.

Get a 10hr or 20hr block to practice driving. (Don't claim if I have driven in Lagos I can drive anywhere)

Watch Ashley Niel and dgn driving school on YouTube.

Pass your test and have peace of mind.

Invest in a full license even if you aren't planning to get a car soon.

The painful thing is this guy has had his test postponed severally due to covid. E don turn double wahala for dead body

Heard those that passed theory and haven’t taken the practical test due to covid will have to rewrite it again.

They’re gonna use all avenues possible to recoup lost funds post lockdown

LagosismyHome:
Hummm backlog of 18,000 and Dec 2019 ..(so even before covid, na wa na wa)..... that means it will take them almost 5 years to catch up because normally they are very slow and never in a hurry

18k, na so we many for UK ... truly nobody won stay naija again

How much is the ETC again? No option than to renew in Nigeria instead.

Lexusgs430:
Chai I remember those so called biscuits ó...... The chinchin cutters must be blind, they never measured up......

KD, when shall I see you again.........

Nostalgia........ I wish I could be 9 again (start all over)....

You remember òkin biscuit and green sands.........

Naa. I didn’t come across those; growing up.

Lexusgs430:
Remember the good old days, when we had toll gates in Nigeria...........

Buying those humongous loaves of bread, was a MUST.......

Grandma, Grandpa, mother, sisters, guests, friends, enemies etc etc always looked forward to my ibadan arrival.......

I would always look forward to the carton of Nasco biscuits my uncle would bring from Kano then. Those stone hardened chin chin too

Good old days meenh.

chrisj2:
Brioche is just one type - overrated in my view but it sweeten and soft white bread; so I can understand why someone want to take it to nja.

Just so we on the same page, it goes way beyond the actual product itself but the gesture behind it. I could give 2 f***s what she does with it.

I just wanna see her face lit up when I hand her these overrated bread and the joy in her heart when she knows her baby still remembered and got her one of the overrated bread from “ovas”.

Ighotago now? Dazzit

Irenenwaka:
I thought the breads we have back home are far better than the breads here lool....I would never have imagined that someone would ever want to purchase bread here to take home looool, i find that fascinating

No doubt, our breads are better tasting but I want grandma to taste this Brioche something from “abroad”. Somehow anything from abroad is believed “better” to some extent.

Bereallywise:
lol. You're better off buying at the airport before boarding. That way it gets minimal "rough handling".

Yeah. That’ll be the best option if they sell Brioche breads because that’s the one I want to get.

Lexusgs430:
Don't forget the water and fishes............ You shall be made fishers of men and women........

Bread is allowed..... How do you intend to preserve it's form and appearance........

The beauty of Hovis, is in the form factor..........

I don’t think my grandma will mind the rough handled bread. After all, it’s achicha bekee

The village man in me wants to buy bread and take it to naija when I’m travelling.

Has anyone attempted this feat? Will it be obtained from me at the security gate?

umarwy:
this table you are shaking. all forms of insurance work on the same principle.

and it wont be profitable for them to operate as sugestted. even the claims they always try to shift blame and avoid paying

Look at it this way.

If you drive well for like 5 years after getting your full license. Then you enter into the half and half group like I suggested.

While halving the something and you now go an bash somebody side mirror, you’ll go relegation and start paying full with normal tariff increases adjustments like for another 5 years or so until you’re eligible for the chop I chop group again.

I feel it’ll be a strong incentive to drive carefully.

nihilistjnr:
So what is the incentive for insurance companies to bear the risk of liability for your accidents?

They’ll manage. It’s the cost of doing business.

Lexusgs430:
So if you jam pesin, your premium was £899.00, your jam caused a damage of £7000..........

Does the insurance company, chase you for top up.......

Be kiaful wat u wish 4.......

They will adjust the something accordingly.

Imagine paying all that money for years on end without jamming anything.

Unpopular opinion:

We should get back half of our yearly amount of car insurance if we dinnor jam anybody that year.

Gracezola:
Please is there anyone in Northern Ireland currently,??

If you’ve got questions, I can help.

starboychan:
Everything time I open this particular thread,

Na so so fight, nawa oo

There’s no fight here. Not even an argument. Just an exchange of ideas.

Chreze:
Trust me bro, if you still believe our problem or challenges is caused by another (country or person) then you are listening to “them say”. Nigeria’s problem is Nigerians. Let me take you back to how things were in the old days. In a village, they combine resources (money n other stuff) to send a promising person in the village to school, he gets the knowledge and comes back to develop the village. A lot of communities in the past grew this way (I am sure some didn’t work out, but that’s not the point of the example). What I am saying or trying to say is that we need develop our self for the growth of our nation and not just the growth of ourself and family. Lately, the generation brewing is a selfish and self centered one. .

I do understand how easily one can get lost and get emotional with these discussions but hopefully it doesn’t get that hard on you.

I was gonna go way back in time with Africa as a whole in view. But for simplicity, I’ll keep it Nigerian niched. If you’ve noticed, this has gone way past parenting but on actual African underdevelopment.

Post colonial civil war showed the vested interests of these powers that wish to hold and exploit what Nigeria still has to offer. We clearly saw British, America and Frances hands in there. Not cause they were sympathetic with the onslaught of Nigerians by Nigerians (how dare they demand freedom. Let those savages kill each other for awhile) but of vested interests in the oil (shell, BP, Elf).

Then there was division after. A house divided against itself won’t prevail.

However, if we were left alone, do you think we’ll give two fks where the next man standing besides me in this huge oil refinery, Tech hub, Automobile company etc etc company, is from?

If we developed our society with everything working. Housing is easy to access, road, sea and air travels are easy and cheap. Credit so I get my own car. All these, like here won’t be a problem cause what is a car but a means of transportation.

Also, humans can be mean and wicked. So I won’t absolve the citizens somehow of having a hand in it as well but at the helm of things, there’s a disconnect and this has a profound effect on the common man. Push any animal to the corner and they’ll do anything to breakout.

Clear example of this is the IMF conditions of aide to Malawi at point in time. This condition insisted that the Malawian seed and grain reserves be sold off. Prompting the plunge into famine of the country and its citizens. Of course the IMF when called out denied it.

I’m in no way saying your beliefs are flawed, I’m just saying Africa would be better off without these meddlers. We as people also have a long way to recovery.

“We’re corrupt and selfish. We can’t ma manufacture our own vaccine. Take ours or die, we manufacture nothing” Yet, their installed puppet leaders will loot funds and bring them here to hide and they’ll keep mum about it.

Why not refuse it. Take the money back to Africa. Help your people you thief! Call them out and shame them but naaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Africa is where they want it to be. They won’t let go. If Africa unites and kicks against, they’ll come at it with everything they have.

wallg123:
If beating children was really effective then African kids would have been leading the world today

Disclaimer: I’m not “attacking you”. Just sharing knowledge and hoping to learn too.

Africa’s predicament has nothing to do with this. Maybe a negligible amount. Hear me out.

This Africa you see is truly the raw material of the world. Europe, Asia and North America depend heavily on it. They will never let it go. They will never let it have the right leaders. The ones that go against them will get toppled or worst, killed.

Then there’s the IMF debt strategy and the so called aide and “poverty alleviation”. Look at China and it’s low-key moves in Africa right now. They wouldn’t even use local manpower. They’ll import their workers too.

Look at our school curriculum and the entire educational infrastructure. How are we to compete?

The greatest trick was making use believe it’s our fault all along. “You are corrupt and stupid” Blame yourself. Divert your attention from the fact that for every barrel of crude oil, we get very little proceeds back. Tons of raw materials leave the shores of Africa for shikini money. They need it that cheap.

Major industrialisation will not be allowed, least our eyes open and we realise the potential of what we have. A nation can only rise above and meet today’s standards through industrialisation. Manufacturing what they use.

Well look around Africa na. Unrest, dictatorship and famine. Nothing tangible is working. Shey wen you have constant electricity, water, housing and good healthcare system then you’ll diversify more?

Then enters mass brain drain for greener climes. Leaving Africa worst off.

They install your leaders. Why was Charly in the north at the height of political tension between GEJ and PMB? Yaradua’s death was a huge loss to us because that man wasn’t having it. That was quickly closed off with tensions between Niger delta and the north.

There’s money in chaos. Everyone is out to grab for himself. Get into naija politics and it’ll be well revealed. Nobody dey run anything. It’s money to share they’re all after.

It’s not our fault. There’s powers preventing us from rising above. For a minute, imagine this was naija here. You realllllllly think I’ll up and leave when my naira is the highest currency in the world?

Disclaimer: I don’t have a kid yet. This is just my experience.

On the issue of spanking.

Kid’s will grow up and turn out how they’re destined to turn out. Whopped or not. No region has the monopoly to dredges in the community. This is sorely dependent on the environment. The poorer the society, the more crimes it breeds. If you like flog fire.

I was opportune to grow up in a yard. So I’ve seen first class what it effects are.
Papa KC is always quick to anger, so KC always got legendary whoop a***s. He developed a tough hind after years. So, it was natural he fought his father during one of those sessions. KC was a good kid, he just needed patience and understanding.

Me on the other hand, I never forgot my first WhoopA... my crime, I came 20 out of 39 one term like that. Let’s just say I’m always top five the rest of my academic life. However I was bugging that term. For some reason I felt and believed all my classmates were smarter and I couldn’t compete. I hated maths. I knew I needed something to pull me out that rot or tell me otherwise. My mum’s “agña” sure provided it.

Pops is not a fan of WA. He’ll rather have The Talk with you than lay his hands on you. I hated the talk. I never made the same mistake again after The Talk. Mum on the other side loves her assorted whoop weapons.

In summary, the two is essential to moulding a child’s behaviour from that young age. Above all, knowledge is key. Why you did something that was unacceptable and the impact it had on people around you. “Is this what you want your junior ones to copy” “this family has a reputation. Don’t drag it through the mud” etc etc etc.

We also had roles and responsibilities as kids. No one renegades on theirs. From head to last born. We understood responsibility and owning up to one’s shortfalls and asking for help were we struggling.

Also, we only ever get to see our parents morning before they left for work and at night when they returned. Then weekends some.

So the eldest done the cooking, someone done the laundry, another cleaned the house and last born washed plates.

We weren’t saints as kid’s but we turned out fine cause we knew to always think things through.


If I decide to have kids, I’ll whoop them, have the talk with them and keep them very busy and engaged. That’s the formula I hope to adopt.

Thanks for reading

LagosismyHome:
Passport for 5 years I think is cheaper than emergency travel certificate in the UK , so once the embassy is fully running then passport probably better to target

Oh thanks for this.

LagosismyHome:
Hummmm seems fraudulent if someone does biometric on your behalf so dont know if this possible

Used to think I’ll need only fingerprints but being clarified. I’ll just wait till it expires and apply for emergency travel one and renew in Naija.

RalphJean:
You didn’t seem to catch my humour and sarcasm.

Are you aware that during passport renewal, a phot is taken, and also fingerprints?

Oh, no idea. This my first time to renew. Done all that during registration initially.

Well thanks for the heads up sir.

Braket:
Amazing.
Was this shot with OnePlus? If yes with Gcam?

Nope. Sony Xperia 1ii

RalphJean:
Will you send your biometrics alongside?

Scan and send?

Gentlemen and ladies,

While we are on issue of expired passport; what will be the implications of sending off the expired or almost expiring passport to get renewed in Nigeria and get sent back without actually travelling?