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lordcity:
How much is the Laptop, that make the custom duties to be 140k+

How are you able to access patreon in Nigeria? You use VPN?

IMAliyu2:
Good news to any Nigerian Patreon creators and aspiring creators.
Direct withdrawals from your Patreon account to your Nigerian Naira bank account, or to a USD account are now available.

I've been running and growing an Art Patreon account for the past 2 years, and one of the most frustrating things about it are the payout methods available to you as a Nigerian.
You were only given options to withdraw through PayPal or Payoneer.
Paypal is not exactly functional for Nigerians, as they do not officially allow Nigerians to receive payments using their platform. You could attempt to acquire a foreign Paypal account, but they are relatively expensive and you run the risk of having that account flagged, and you lose any money you had in said account.
So you are basically stuck with Payoneer, while payoneer works for Nigerians, I will say they are very predatory and unfriendly to small earners, for the following reasons:
•Every withdrawal from Patreon to your payoneer account costs 1USD
•Payoneer has an annual 30USD service fee, for earning less than 2KUSD in that year. (Feels like punishment for small earners)
•They have a minimum withdrawal amount of 50USD to a Nigerian account, and a minimum 25USD to a US account. (This means your money is stuck if it's below these thresholds)
•Another 3% charged for all withdrawals from payoneer wallet to a bank account.
•They also carry a risk of account flagging (I have not experienced this, but plenty of Nigerian users have reported their accounts being restricted for no reason and having to deal with their slow customer care).

The new direct bank withdrawals for non-US creators is unfortunately still being processed by Payoneer, however the pros outweigh the cons here.
You do not need a payoneer account, minimum payout amount is also lower with this method from previously 25USD to now 10USD, and lastly withdrawal fees are now significantly lower.
Fees for withdrawing to a Naira account are 0.25USD + 1.55% of payout amount. However you will be subject to payoneer's exchange rate which varies, and from recent experience it is roughly 30naira below official rates.

And Fees for withdrawals to a Geegpay US account for example is a flat 0.50USD, excluding the platform's own deposit fee.

Patreon has been my main source of income for a bit of time now, and this was something that has been bugging me, and now it has been better resolved, so I'm sharing the news.

How are you able to access patreon in Nigeria? You use VPN?

Custom charge was around one forty something k

Olamak1:
That's not new, as far as I know!

But If seller declared the item as laptop, then your chance of escaping charges is slim: Customs fit open am to check what's inside. By that, den go know the true worth of the Lapi.

Besides, items shipped by FedEx are generally liable to customs duty and taxes. Bear that in mind!

Yes. I finally received it like a week ago. Although i paid customs fee. Got a call from fedex for me to pay the money so it can be released from custom and i did. I thengot the package the next day

lordcity:
I'm having same experience with FedEx, have you received your package?

There is a way charges are usually escaped.
The seller quotes a lesser amount so as to defray the charges

Olamak1:
If you escape customs charges , you go dey lucky ó!

Its a laptop

genius43:
What did you buy that they are using FedEx to ship?

My order says shipment on the way since 3rd of April. When i input the tracking code on fedex, it says "label created" since that 3rd of April, with no further updates on both portal (Aliexpress and Fedex) since then.

Does "label created" even translate to fedex being already in possession of the package or already shipped at all?

How can one postpone a scheduled date please?

How can one postpone an already scheduled date? is it a possibility?

Amerengues2:
It is not difficult, just follow these steps I will show you.

1) The first thing is to get your documents ready which are;

a) International passport and any other means of identification.
b) Birth certificate or affidavits of your age
c) State of origin,
d) Marriage declaration (If already married) or bachelor/spinsterhood affidavits. You can get this at the federal high court only which is #200 bike from the registry to the court. It will cost you #1500 each.
e) Passport for each of you.

2) Visit ecitibiz.com, create an account, choose new marriage, choose Ikoyi registry, fill all the required information.

3) There are three sections there which are general info, husband details and wiife' details.

b) In the general details, you will fill the information there and choose your date. Two dates are compulsory; The oath date and Marriage date. The oath date is a Tuesday while the marriage date can be any other date. On the site, there is a day there that requires additional fee I think Saturday. Tuesday to Friday is fine but Thursday is the busiest day. So choose Tuesday for your oath and any other day. Oath date comes first. This date must be 21 days earlier ie if today is 1st of may, you can choose 22nd of may up ward.

c) Scan all the documents above in their respective designation. However, there is no designation for your international passport so you will upload it under additional documents, then title it as International Passport for Adekunle Ajasin.

d) Ensure you check once again before submitting.

e) You will be asked to make payment at the process of final submission.

4) You will be asked to download remita which contains your marriage application details and the amount of #15000. Proceed to the bank to pay 15150 (charges inclusive). An e-receipt will be sent to your email. You can print this receipt incase the bank network is bad. But the bank will give you.

5) The payment validates your application form. So download the receipt alongside the main application form.
Kindly note that it will show "Open" when it's successful done. It will show "Edit" if it's not concluded yet.

6) Proceed to the registry with copies of each. 3 copies of the receipt and 1 copy of the rest documents uploaded.

7) If there was any document you didn't upload and you've submitted, you will receive a message on your phone and email a day befor your oath to upload it. It doesn't come with any penalty.

On the day of your oath, just attend early. It doesn't take time. Bring along #500. On or before that day, you will have gotten an approval message. If you didn't get, kindly go to the account or admin session, they will attend to you. But it isn't any big deal at all because you will get.

9) On the day of marriage, get there early as the number at the gate will be used to usher you in. Afterwards, they will call you in and give you guidelines. Refer back to the article above.

10) That's all. If you face any difficulty, kindly reach out to me. Will advise you but most importantly, the online chat support is very helpful

When is Batch c 2022 camp starting please?

Same as me

mentor56:
I just got approved

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ok, thanks,
i would like to also add that even as a Nigerian, I'm quite fluent in the Zulu language, do you think that could be an added advantage for me there in terms of blending and finding my way there?

lymelyte:
I can only tell u about Capetown..I don't know much about living and schooling in kwa Zulu natal.

please what does schooling or leaving in Kwa zulu natal feels like? UKZN

lymelyte:
you are not yet ready to upgrade. Stay in ur comfort zone just because someone narrated his experience.What of millions of people that have had awesome and beautiful experience upon arrival and beyond like myself and others?
Like I reiterated earlier, be conscious of your environment regardless of wherever you are.. Nowhere is 100% safe.

The CBT for Engineer 1 position was hard to do because it was almost all calculations and the time wasn't enough for any concrete calculations to be done. I really think they need to look into this

DrTims:
The CBT 2 is based on your area of interest.

I think everyone that scored 20 upwards in the first test is going to receive the message

Abayomi12345:
Did anyone received test invites for CBT 2 today

Hi!
You have been shortlisted for the EKSCAT CBT2 scheduled for 24-25th July, 2020. An invite link will be sent to your email.

Above is the message

patricktoks:
Please I am still waiting for genuineness of this grant. Heard it will be closing on 31st of this month.

i don't think it's genuine

Still waiting for the scholarship

will those names be published eventually or messages will only be sent to shortlisted candidates?

DateMynd44:
I need an urgent loan of just 2k to refund in a week's time.
Which app can u recommend that will work

Branch

Branch

I'm surprised that people are experiencing that. I think i'm being treated differently by PayPal because I received fund directly into my Nigerian account very recently. Although it was a payment reversal

When is likely to be the next convention?