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Bulldogpuppy5:
Bros I dey envy you die ooo love in Russia abeg bros pls answer this questions do their women like money like our girls here in nigeria do they insult and look down on broke guys do they demand for things that their father can never afford or give them pls no disrespect to our girls just asking honest questions pls answer this questions very urgent

TheManOfTheYear:
When man go comot from this country?

LMay:
Whatever food you put in your MAIN LUGGAGE is your business and will get to your destination.

As long as it's not palm oil.

His Poundo was seized because he put it in his cabin luggage. It should be inside his main luggage.

cc: Inkredible

One crate of cold Orijin for you. You too much.

LMay:
Lucky you! E be like say you use jazz for them

No, you were only lucky. That's not the norm. They showed me pepper in October over a 24.3kg bag. Had to reduce some beans & locust beans

blank:
Its max of 23kg except you are flying business class then it's 32kg for most airlines.

You can get scales from the market or any reasonably large shop.

LMay:
23kg max not 25kg if Turkish Airlines. That is, 23kg each in two places. That's for your main luggage.

8kg max for your cabin luggage.

Total of 54kg!

UKMigrant has touched on food items to bring on. Let me help with luggage packing tips, you might need them.

Tips

You're not allowed to put food or sharp objects (cutlery, blade, pocket knife etc) in your cabin luggage or carry on (hand bag/laptop bag), so pack smartly.

Tightly pack all your clothes, shoes, books, or weaves (if female) into your cabin luggage. Instead of folding clothes passively or mindlessly like we do when arranging our closet, roll each tightly into a bunch.This will squeeze out air & give you more space in the box to squeeze more clothes into. You can watch YouTube videos to learn this technique.

Now you're left with food items, sharp objects, and any cream/perfume exceeding 50ml (Only liquid of less than 50ml per bottle is allowed in the cabin luggage). Now arrange all these carefully into your main luggage.

For food items, put into ziploc bags or transparent polythene bag like pure water bags. Put different food items into each and label appropriately...e.g Melon, Ogbono, Ugwu vegetable etc.

For ladies carrying weaves, discard the packs to make your luggage relatively lighter.

Palm oil is not allowed. Don't even bother!

You don't necessarily need an industrial scale to weigh your luggage. Buy a regular domestic scale. You know the ones "Check your weight" guys carry around? Yes, that one. It's less than 2k.

To weigh, first stand on it and check your weight. Write it down or memorise it. Now put your luggage on your head and check your combined weight. Subtracting your own weight from the combined weight will give you the weight of your luggage.

Your allowance per main luggage is 23kg but aim for 21kg or max 22kg at home. Why? The scale at Murtala Mohammed Int'l Airport is forward by about 2kg. You don't want to stress yourself with reshuffling at the airport or trashing stuffs you bought with your hard-earned money. Pack smartly from home!

Airport staffs are not smiling again. Before they allow you pass/check-in a 23.9kg bag, you'll beg tire. Anything above that, they'll tell you to go obtain a ticket of $150 per overweight bag upstairs! You don't need that wahala in your life.

What else?

Remember I asked you to stuff all your clothes & books plus shoes into your cabin luggage? Trust me, it would have exceeded 8kg by now. You know the box itself will add to the weight as well.

Let me give you orijo.

1. Your laptop bag is not weighed. That's an extra space to put clothes, books, laptop (of course), charger etc.

2. Your hand bag isn't weighed either. If you're a lady, that's a plus. You can carry a laptop bag + your handbag alongside the cabin bag.

3. If you're eleru town council like me & you've utilised all available spaces yet you're still not within allocated kg limits, fear not. There's still a way.

Leave your original cabin luggage with somebody (eg family/friend who followed you to the airport). Let them act like they own the bag while they simply stand by it.

Check in your laptop bag as your Cabin Luggage. They'll tag it and return it to you while the two main bags are passed to cargo. Now remove the tag and stickers on your laptop bag and place it on your original Cabin Luggage you kept with your escort. You're done!

With these tips, you'll have a smooth sail luggage wise.


Extras....

Depending on how light or fancy you want to travel, those silly Echolac boxes are not your friend. 1) They'll add to the overall weight 2) They're not durable. Most would be damaged (broken handles, broken wheels, torn surface areas, etc) before you arrive your destination. How would you even lift a damaged box? You'll place it on your head maybe

Invest in a quality box. Might be pricey but it will last for years and save you from embarrassing situations. I don't know if/where those are sold in Nigeria. I bought mine in the abroad. This is my 5th year of usage and I travel very frequently. It's still intact.

If you're low on cash, buy those very strong bagco ghana must go bags as main luggage. Not the usual ones. This one is a bit recent & it comes in one color - grey! More like a grainy white mixed with black. It costs about N1,500 per bag. Nothing to be ashamed of. You wont even see it until your final destination after you check it in at MMIA, so you can still form posh in transit with your cabin luggage. Regular travellers use it a lot. It's very light and durable. For your information, they sell it in the abroad too. So what? In fact, its a life saver for people whose boxes get damaged at the airport. Just that they'll pay a few extra thousands more to procure it at the airport.

No use am as cabin baggage oooo. You'll look like Osuofia in London. Hehehe. Joking. Use a correct small sized box as cabin/hand luggage.

Third option is to source for lightweight boxes (rare) or lightweight travelling bags with wheels (looks like a piece of cloth with wheels attached when empty. The box-shaped compact ones are heavy).


Wishing you a safe flight!

blank:
Its max of 23kg except you are flying business class then it's 32kg for most airlines.

You can get scales from the market or any reasonably large shop.

Moety:
Its rather warm (ish) in London at the moment, innit.

fatima04:
Also hope you have gotten ur winter jacket ready oo with headwarmer and scarves. You are going to need it.

wonlasewonimi:
Your misses should be amongst the few that passed first time then or not too bad a driver in naija.

My own bad habit was to drive with one hand on the steering and other on the gear denge posing, applying the clutch and accelerator together, not looking at the mirrors and so on.

the first test, I had not even driven for 5 minutes before the examiner matched the brake, he said i was going to hit the front car, about 2 minutes later, he matched it again saying I was going run the red lights. I almost gave him a backhand. In about 20 minutes later, he matched it again i wasnt even bothered, I was saying in my mind e be like say this guy get brake problem. At the end, he gave me a big fail.

Second test, I was prepared. I was in high spirit and really needed it badly cos I wasnt ready for stupiid lessons. Everything was going on fine for about 25 minutes until this morafucker took me to the most confusing set of traffic lights with double roundabouts and to turn right. You need to see the horns blasting from left and centre. I knew there and then that I gats to do this again.

the third time, it was a lady examiner, very nice. I was going at snail speed throughout at the end she just told me.... You cant be too slow cos its equally dangerous. She just gave me the pass. I almost jumped on her. It's a very stressful process I must confess.

laudate:
Yes o, check am nah!

laudate:
I no know say you sef, see am! The guy chop only the chips and peas, come leave the meat. No better taste inside their meat....e no fit be like our own seasoned meat for here!

UKmigrant:
Ideal weight not exceeding 25kg per luggage, remember not to put any food items in your hand luggage.

I wish l had brought more dried fish, more ogbono, egusi crayfish, nigerian maggi, poundo yam, elubo

There is plenty garri here and the price is reasonable.

LagosismyHome:
you need to check with the airline.......... Most airlines are 23kg per bag and 2 pags per passenger . If you want to upgrade from 23kg to a max of 32 that possible , cost you some £££ but the option there . But you have to check with the airline , for example Medview baggage allowance is more at 27kg , but Medview na one chance ... Today they fly tomorrow they are sleeping . So unreliable

UKmigrant:
Its my last weekend in naija before my exit. Some of my "yeye" friends have heard that I am leaving and are putting presure on me to take them out tonight for a farewell party. I wonder how they think I have money to blow with all these expenses ahead of me. I have already notified most of them that they should get ready to pick the bills in case we hang out.

Washed my old travel bags just this morning. I realised that cockroaches have been having a swell time in them, its game over today for the little "bagas". I need to get a weighing scale in a few days before my trip so I can organise my bags from home to avoid incurring excess luggage costs as I intend to travel with as much foodstuff as possible. These things I heard are expensive in the UK.

I am also meeting with some people today who want to buy some of my things, I hope I get a good deal.

Its breakfast time for me now, please join me!

LagosismyHome:
Nigerians can easily fail the driving test because the way they drive in Nigeria is different from UK .... here is more careful and you have to know the signs and ways

Also that one of failing people just for the fun of it.... that na story for tortoise. It doesn't happen . Nobody fails anyone here for the fun or it.

People fail in some cases because they are not delivering what the examiner is looking for . Once you fully understand what is expected then you can easily pass .

It like driving , if you drive with one hand like they do in nigeria , prepare from today till tomorrow that examiner will not pass you , not due to the fun of it but the examiner is expecting you drive with both hands on the wheel looking like 10am & 2pm clock . If you make turns without indicating expecting the driver behind to be a magician to know that you are turning left or right that na another fail

Geetrix:
You send in your BRP to the DVSA to get a provisional driver's license, cost is 36pounds. Then enrol for a theory test which is computer based and checks your highway code knowledge and hazard awareness. The latter involves a video clip with a first person driving view, where you click a mouse for every hazard you see during the entirety of a number of video clips. You can prepare for this by buying a highway code and traffic sign book as well as downloading a paid (optional) app, which you can practice the hazard awareness with.

After this, enrol in a good driving school and prepare to fail a couple of times, before you eventually pass...It's a normal something

neworbit:
Just the battery needs replacement

error4040:
Oshe oga censor pix
@op you should have censor the Parents at least.
but please leave Yours so that that ya ex who's probably fvcking ya hommie can see them & know you don't Give a Fvck!!!!

FrankNetter:
Lemme throw in a little suspense here

Spoiler: No, I didn't die.

TochiPhotos:
Thanks for all the wonderful advise and contributions, I really appreciate and it means a lot to me that you guys, take out time to try to set me on the right path so I don't lose focus or forget why I'm here. Trust me, I really appreciate.

Prettythicksmee:
We wey flat like handfan come ugly join nko?who go like us?lol