₦airaland Forum

Enice:
I dey keep quiet since, you no let person talk. Wetin self! Na ya papa get the crude! Nothing you go fit do even if Dongote come take oil for ya backyard. Your write up is rubbish, makes no sence and has no meaning. Is it a criteria for a state to have oil before a refinery is sited? Or are you pained because a man like you with two blokos is doing what ya papa cannot do! Wetin self! Ah. Even if Dangote construct pipeline pass ya yansh, nothing you go fit do. Rubbish.

Blonchilli:
None taken. Exactly, I was lucky to have a mom like mine. Women today are too lazy. My mom would foot the bill before my dad returned home, and my dad wasn't a bum. An average naija girl don't want to work or hustle. That's why a lot of women today want an already made man, so they can sit at home and do nothing. And even if they're working will still hoard their salary at the detriment of the home.

tsmith:
Yes, Some countries charge for visa on arrival, however this was different. Travellers had already paid for visas, the biometric was an additional charge (plus a $20 administration charge), neither were they pre-informed. Only animals in jungle implement changes like we do in Nigeria. Such shambles!!!

ttmacoy:
The issue isn't the fee, it's the manner in which it is being implemented with people caught unawares after arriving.

Such a policy should be properly communicated (if only we can maintain up to date government websites) so people know ahead and can decide if they still want to travel to Nigeria or not.

Some people will even think it's just immigration officials truing to shake them up and not believe it's a true government policy.

johnkent:
These folks are not paying for visa on arrival. They’ve already paid and obtained a Nigerian visa at a consulate overseas. Everywhere in the world, no one charges for biometrics at the point of entry. I’ve been pretty much all over the world and I”ve never had to pay for biometrics. I’ve paid for visa on arrival upon arrival in some Caribbean countries but that was because I didn’t have a visa and the fee is usually about $10-$20.

XX01:
After paying almost $200 for visa, you will land in Nigeria and be asked to pay a further $110? It's wrong. It should be strictly for those that need visa on arrival in Nigeria and should be based on what the home country charges not a blanket fee.

tiredoflife:
Oga this is not visa on arrival
Is after u have a valid visa
U land in Nigeria
They still want to do biometric on u
And u will be charged another $90

Sparky223:
The way it was explained to me was visa on arrival was only available to people doing business in Nigeria. I got a visitors visa before leaving for Nigeria. It was a pain in the ass. There are only 5 of these OIS Services in all of the US. I had to buy a plane ticket and fly to one of these offices. I spent an actual 10 minutes in their office just to pay $90 for them to take my fingerprints. It was ridiculous. Everything else was done online including paying for the visa. It almost cost me as much to get the visa as it did flying to Nigeria. Not a good way to increase tourism in Nigeria.

AreaFada2:
Guy visa on arrival is different. In this case of 9ja people already paid for visa and the processing fees in their country and have a visa in their passport before coming to Nigeria.

For a UK citizen coming to visit his Nigerian in-laws for example, immigration fee, embassy fee and processing fee of outsourcing company for a visa to just visit can be over £350 to £400! Enough to pay for 3 days holiday break in Morocco covering both flight and hotel. No visa needed. So how can that visitor persuade his friends to visit Nigeria (to see Eyo festival in Lagos, Igue festival in Benin, Argungu festival, Ofalla Festival in Onitsha, Osun Festival or to visit Obudu Cattle Ranch or Yankari G. R.) instead of Tunisia, Morocco or Balearic Islands?

Also remember that most foreigners coming to Nigeria have ties with Nigeria : spouse of a Nigerian, grandkid of a Nigerian, mother of a Nigerian, etc.

Many are even Nigerians but cannot get booklet at 9ja embassies/High Commissions that issue passport in their country of residence. Some may not know that they can get a TC instead.

There are many countries serious about tourism and attracting foreign dollars. Like Morocco and Tunisia. They let Westerners come in visa free even though such gesture is not reciprocated. They just want rich Westerners to come in and spend hard currency. Just show accommodation/hotel booking proof, enough money to cover stay, etc. Their citizens on average live a better and longer life than Nigerians. We need to be pragmatic, not dogmatic.

Lomprico2:
"Everybody is a criminal"

IMASTEX:
Welcome to Nigeria

thedondada:
Thief people.

Trying to collect from the little we have.


All the one they have generated what did they use it for.

cooltola:
Abegi marriage is for better or worse. People change

LukeSkywalker78:
man... I like this gal a lot that's why the relationship could last this long. To fumble in front of her friends could be Game Over for me. Her friends opinion about me could sway her attention away from me. It has happened to me. Twice.

LukeSkywalker78:
Like seriously. I've been dating a girl for sometime now (past a year) and we are getting pretty serious. Anyways yesterday I wanted to see her and I gave her a call. She asked me to come over to her house. I told her I wanted to take her out and she agreed. As I got there, her friends (besties?) Came over and said they wanted to drop by. As they understood what was going on, they said they wanted to tag along. We agreed and went to Captain cook. We ordered and these friends were ordering like ther was no tomorrow. Even my GF asked if what they were ordering wasn't too much but they ignored her and kept doing their thing. Afterwards, they asked me (again) to buy them takeaway. I didn't have much money on me to buy takeaway so I had to buy them Captain Cook bread for each of them. I was so drained that I'm still recovering. My GF has never done such. I was just saying " Shey awon elebi leleyi ni" ( Yoruba guys will understand ). I just wanted to know if all girl's friends are like this if they are taken out. I will never forget this. P.S: I'm not generalizing women o.

Triton1996:
+ OVER 1 BILLION NAIRA WEDDING CEREMONIES THAT GOT ALL SALIVATING GOES DOWN THE DRAIN!

Middle of last year May 11 and 13, 2017 to be more precise, in Lagos wouldn’t be forgotten in a hurry, as those were the 2 days when the families of Sir Kensington Adebutu and that of Chief Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo, GCFR were joined in holy matrimony!

The families had done the native law and custom and then sealed it with the church stamp of approval at The Methodist Church of the Trinity, Tinubu, Lagos, on the Saturday, which was the 13th. Maybe that date itself by virtue of hindsight now, being the 13th was a premonition of a sort, of what was to come, humiliation and disaster......

The 2 personalities involved in the marriage were, Sir Adebutu’s daughter by name Georgina Temitope Oyepero Adebutu, a brilliant magistrate in Ogun State, an alumni of the University of Lagos and the University College London for her Masters, which she got with distinction. Tope was apparently one of the best students in all the schools she has ever attended.

Her husband, the businessman son of Chief Obasanjo, in the person of Abraham Olujonwo Ajani Obasanjo, who very much is not known about, other than that, he schooled abroad and is a businessman/farmer, works for his dad. With how things went, especially the super expensive and lush wedding ceremonies which had all the who-is-who in Nigeria in attendance, many had expected a roller-coaster of a marriage, which at most a year after, would be welcoming and celebrating babies and celebrating some other milestones, but alas, barely just one year after, dark clouds have poured stormy rains on what was once thought to be a match made in heaven ....

....... All through they had to stay in Jonwo’s room at his dad’s palatial home in Abeokuta, with the promise that they would move to their own place which was undergoing thorough refurbishment, a promise never kept! Just imagine also that, Jonwo the supposed husband usually just disappears without a trace, most of the one year of the supposed wedding. Much so that, his wife didn’t even know his whereabouts and wasn’t even in any type of contact whatsoever with him for lengths of time.

...... So if one can just desert his supposed home for lengths of time without a care in the world and without letting anyone, especially his wife know where he was and how he was faring, how would that person have had time then, to consummate the union and by extension get his wife pregnant, so they could have kids So with him not consummating the marriage, maybe it was a deliberate action, from the get go as he had always known he wasn’t Interested, but only had the wedding for other reasons. Just imagine that Jonwo disappeared from where they were staying at a point, claiming to be going for prayers, only to return after days in fact 14 days after and upon enquiries about his whereabouts and not communicating at all, he got absolutely raving mad and threw away his wedding band & said he was done with the marriage!!!

A few days after this particular disappearance, wife asked husband to consumate marriage, to which he refused and then disappeared again for another 12 days! Imagine that from November 1, 2017 till 4 and half months afterwards, that’s in March of 2018, Tope never saw nor communicated with her husband, until he came to tell her that they weren’t compatible and everyone should find their levels and go their different ways!!!! Even when the wife discovered that she had Uterine fibroids and had to go have an operation to remove same, so she wouldn’t have issues getting pregnant and she tried informing her husband, he never responded at all, not to talk of wishing his wife well! Even after a successful operation to which he didn’t contribute a kobo to, he still never got in contact with his wife! So before, during and after her medical issues, no contact, no sympathy, no love whatsoever! What a human being! !!!

According to our findings, whenever Jonwo was around, it was like it was better that he wasn’t even around at all, for those were some of the most painful times for Tope, for it was abuse galore, without a stop. Just imagine a husband bad mouthing and referring to his own wife as fat, ugly, never do well, wouldn’t amount to anything, cancer and that you married her out of convenience! This is the same Jonwo who works for his father Chief Obasanjo and collects N100,000 (Hundred thousand Naira only) monthly.

oyatz:
Intelligent people learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others.
Violence, militancy, Kidnapping and bombing of oil infrastructure in the volatile Niger Delta hasn't solved the problems of the region .
It only enriched few individuals and inadvertently put the Niger Delta in negative positions.

The next phase in the development of the N/Delta should be devoid of violence and militancy and the youths of the region should be led by intellectuals who can use economic means to achieve substantial resource control.

There is no reasons why Asari-Dokubo, Tompolo, Edwin Clark, James Ibori etc can't establish their own refineries in their States and dominate the production of Nigeria's downstream oil sector.
They can even get free crude oil in the first year of operations.

Efewestern:
Yes I do agree with that the state is cursed with bad leaders, Because I see no reason why a state like Ondo can't be the richest state in SW, a state blessed with huge mineral and natural resources, I dare say no state in SW can't match her when it comes to God given resources.

But bad leaders are not limited to PDP alone, even the current governor who is an APC governor is doing nothing to develop the state.

CSTR1003:
lol
When did Lagos become a Niger delta state?

Do these people realize that the Niger delta terminology comes from the River Niger?

Even If we are to use the oil terminology how many bottles of oil does Lagos produce?

Blue3k:
You clowns also plan on destroying sub-sea pipeline from coastline aswell.

UncleJJ:
These are the states that are officially recognized as "niger-delta"

imo
anambra
abia
delta
edo
akwa ibom
lagos
ondo
bayelsa
crossriver
rivers

Which one of these states are you talking about when use say "Niger-Delta"? Do you mean the South-South?

If you refer to the SS, these are the states that constitute the SS;

edo/delta
akwa/cross
rivers/bayelsa

Do you refer to all the states in the SS or all the states in the Niger-Delta region?

I am confused, I am yet to meet a Nigerian who has ancestral roots in more than 3 states and it seems you have ancestral roots in 6 - 10. And, not only do you have roots, you give us the impression that you have influence over the very many oil producing ancestral territories in the ND or SS.

Is this a case of confusion or drug abuse?

Westbestside:
He is not from SS, he's from SE. SS people don't wail.

willibounce1:
as usual cursed ipods have shifted the blame to afonjas.... I guess the governor of ebonyi state is an afonja..

Ipod pigs, have you blamed afonjas today?

cooltola:
The 1st year of marriage is usually challenging for new couples, one must be patient.

skales67:


And the board of trustees are...

Follygunners
BlackPantherXxx
Shegra58
DeBrain045
ipobarecriminals
Jaideyone
Pearlstreet
NdiaraIgbo
alen4smith
Mouthgag
PigandIdiots
omoelerin1
diadem10
LaudableXX
AdolfHitlerxXx
Ejanla07
1stolax

This thread is dedicated to you Omoluabeasts of no nation!

I'd rather hawk gala on the streets of Lagos than lick a concoction mixed with human remains just to make N2.5m

Savages

Rossikki:
Are you minding these illiterates? He even got 82 likes showing widespread ignorance.

obailala:
If you weren't blind yourself, I'm sure you would have noted that the main point in your argument which I picked on was where you kept using the watery example about "hijab not making her a better lawyer" to drive yoir point.

Then returning to the main issue at hand, whether hijabs are permitted or not when she picked up the course is inconsequential here, my point and position is very simple; I don't see why it should be a big deal allowing anyone to exercise their personal beliefs by puting on a little head cover beneath their legal wig if that makes them more comfortable. Laws are made for men and not men for laws; laws can also be changed or adjusted with time.

Live and let others live, or have we become so bigoted and intolerant to the cultures of others in this country that we feel so disturbed and threatened over how a person far away chooses to wear their wig?... I would definitely have a problem if its a full covering hijab or the ninja type if you like, but what I see in that picture doesnt bother me one bit and I see no reason why that should bother anyone. Now if I must repeat your example, does it make her less of a lawyer if she has a head covering under her wig?

PHIPEX:
I hope you will maintain this stance if another "civilised" lady decides to wear bum shorts, after all it's also her choice and right to wear what she wants and your beliefs on mode of dressing is not better than hers. Why are there dress codes in the first place, let everyone dress as he/she pleases.

ybalogs:
if you can't converse in a civilise manner, it's better you get off my mention. She wore her cape hijab under wig and gown just to ensure her hairs are covered. What's wrong with that. That's how it is done even in developed countries so why not here. As long as she has her wig and gown on, she's on point.

okwabayi:
This is nairaland. Typing crap is the order of the day here.

A male older than the age of 18 is legally a man. You see yourself? You typed crap too.

I completely forgot. I remember both have a rocky father-daughter relationship.

obailala:
Your life does not start and end with being better at your profession, people have other things they do with their lives or things they commit to besides just their profession. So yeah, your statement assuming that her insistence must be about her being better in her profession is a poor attempt at ridiculing her and her beliefs; it remains a pointless question which has no bearing on the issue.

ybalogs:
Where was it written that hijab is not allowed in law practice? Have you taken your time to read about hijab? Don't mistaken hijabs for Niqabs please. No profession on earth can ban hijab has it hinders nothing whatsoever.

obailala:
Throughout the whole report and narrative, I haven't heard or read anywhere where it directly or indirectly claimed that wearing a hijab or anything at all will make her or anyone a better lawyer. You say you're just asking right?.. Could you be kind enough to tell us where you picked up that weird idea from to be asking this sort of pointless question?

People have personal lives and not everything we do in our lives is geared towards making us better in our profession. Like seriously, what sort of human doesn't know this?

mu2sa2:
After all the grammar they will still approve the "hair cover" alias "hijab". Look at the picture of Firdaus Amosa again and you will wonder what the noise is all about in the first place - is the black scarf underneath her lawyer's wig hijab? Hypocrites everywhere!

ybalogs:
it's the way of dressing for muslim women which is very compulsory. So it's about her believe not her virtue or efficiency.

ybalogs:
Far from it. And does not using hijab make her?

drlateef:
You are a Christian, that's why you spew out the nonsense. Even the virgin Mary wears hijab, it's stated clearly in your Bible. The fact that you don't practice what's written in your Bible should not blind your consciousness that others must be allowed to practice their religion as its written down for them. The wife of King James (of popular King James version of Bible) of Scotland wore far better hijab than most Muslim women of nowadays. Get some sense and borrow some brain if you have none.

basic23111:
that is her identity as a Muslim. she feels more comfortably