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I was expecting a more muscular and menace looking lady....

It is true that, dangers also come in small packages, guys don’t under rate the wrappings, trade cautiously at all times.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
If this is true, where were they when same US banned Tiktok for security reasons?
Seems it's increasingly clear to all and sundry that the response of FG is a masterstroke against those who have allowed bigotry and hatred to ruin their hearts.All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose.visit www.freestuffsng.com to hunt for free stuff in Nigeria.God bless Nigeria.

Trump’s Tiktok ban didn’t hold water, it was quickly invalidated by a Judge.

thebosstrevor1:
You will leave your national court and run to ecowas court and you expect people to take you serious.

This sarap should sharap. They are what i call saboteurs.

Anyway, the Nigeria constitution and laws is bigger than the ecowas court.

It is only in Nigeria, that a civil organization will take Nigeria to ecowas because the government of Nigeria banned an American company.

Can they do this if for instance, an American company ban a Nigeria app, will they take america to the ICC, United nations or WTO

Why will you sabotage your own country all because of an american app

Poor example, this is done everyday in the USA!

When Trump ban Tiktok, he was dragged to court and a Judge ordered an injunction against the ban.

The Nigeria constitution does not only contain Nigerian laws. When Nigeria sign treaties with ECOWAS, UN, ICC, those Articles are rectified by the Nigeria Legislature, just like any and all laws originated from within Nigeria and annexed into our Laws.

They therefore become part of our Laws & Constitution and can be enforced in any Court in Nigeria, ECOWAS or ICC just like any other laws in Nigeria.

IJEAGWO:
@linearity pls i will like to have your email.

PM me, though I don’t check the email as often as Nairaland, but I will surely get back to you.

Chloraseptic:
Really?? I thought as much.

linearity please come and comment oh

I have seen people uploading passport photos and normal photos and all getting accepted.

I have personally done more than 5 NVC submissions with the most recent submission which has been accepted and DQ last month and have never uploaded passport photo under ‘Photographs’.

The session for Passport BIO will already include the passport photo of the applicant and you will also go to the interview with passport photo, so I use this section to upload photos that show family ties.

If you are in doubts, you can add a passport photo to mix.... NVC did not provide any instructions on this in their FAQ....but a little hint! That section said “Photograph[b]s[/b]....note the plural and not just Photograph as in singular and in places when they need passport sized photographs, they have gone in great lengths to include the prefix “Passport”.

It is specifically said to take the two colored passport photographs to the interview with you, and no instructions to upload them to NVC, but you can also upload them as well.

Dialpad:
Your conclusion is filled with emotions and baseless claims, the figures on the site you quoted are mere assumptions. I can bet there is a disclaimer on their website.

Don't you think if we have our own Twitter, Facebook, Instagram we will be a better nation?

Thousands of advertisers from Nigeria spend millions of dollars on Twitter and Facebook ads annually, don't be surprised that many of them buy the dollars from black market to fund their account, does that in anyway make sense to you?

We should have many of nairalands where foreigners compete to advertise their products and services to reach the Nigeria audience... that will in no small way grow our economy.

We should stop all these baby crying that Nigeria lost 70billion in the last 24 hrs....

You have it entirely upside down!

Foreigner don’t need to compete to advertise their products and services to us.

We are the ones that seeks then out, little headache and ear pain, we are in UK for medical checkup, little surgery, we have bought a ticket to India.

For a country that produces almost nothing and rely essentially on imports, we need less imports now.

Rather, we need foreign media where we can advertise our goods and services, so as to reach foreigners, this way foreigners will Patronize Nigeria instead of Ghana or Togo or any other country —- that is where Twitter comes in, because they have the means to reach a wider audience.

All these security force outfits formed among states is a waste of time.

Each State’s Assembly show pass laws to form state police, as federating units of Nigeria, they have the right to do that.

How can a State have a House of Assembly andState Senators that write and pass laws for the State, then turn around and rely on the Federal Government to enforce and prosecute those laws.

Kano State and most States in the North have State Polices that answers to the States, why can’t other parts of the Country do the same.

Chloraseptic:
Firstly I can't even thank you enough

Firstly, I can't even thank you enough for the insight you've given me

I suppose by annotating you mean I should add a comment in the comment box signifying whoever is on the picture I'm about to upload.

Lastly, can I just snap these hardcopies pictures with my phone and upload??

Apologies if there's any questions that sound stupid..

Thanks

Yes, you can snap pictures, scan them or do whatever to them to convert them to digital versions, but remember to preserve the originals and take those with you to the interview in case they ask to see them.

If you are using a computer to prepare your documents, get the pictures into the PC and copy and past them into MS Paint, you can then use Paint to do the annotation at the bottom of the picture...you can place a numbering or lettering for the family members e.g. mom, dad, siblings, yourself on the picture and at the bottom callout names corresponding to your numbering or lettering. If they are not much, there may not be the need to number, just stare at the bottom something like:

“Left-to-Right: Mom(Petitioner), Chika (my eldest brother), Myself. At the wedding ceremony of my brother Chika in Lagos in May 1990.

Then save the MS Paint image as a file, then move on to annotate others. You can after everything collect all in the images into a single pdf document. There are many online tools that will help you to merge image files into a single pdf document, just do some google.

All in all, keep the originals with you and go to interview with them.

Chloraseptic:
I thought it's passport photograph. Na wa. Thank God for consulting you people.

I'm in a really hot soup as I only have 2 pictures of me and my mum together.. The rest are destroyed beyond recognizable state.

May God help me..

What if I upload a recent picture of me alone
If so can just use a picture taken by my phone

That is okay, also if you have picture of your mom and father or your mom and other siblings include those....as well as picture of you and your father, picture of you and those same siblings....group and family pictures are okay.

You can annotate the pictures to indicate who is who and since your application details already contain the names of all your siblings and father, annotating the pictures with these names, even you are not in the pictures, will show the family linkage and connection.

Also, you can include selection letters/emails between you and mom, especially the ones that dated back before filing of the petitions and some afterwards and recent....nothing really much, 5-7 of such emails are enough.

Remember, your goal is to show by all the evidences you are presenting to a third party that does not know anything about you that....your mom is your mom. Some people have also submitted proof of constant remittances from their sponsors/parents abroad....all these goes to show a relationship.

You should be okay though, even many without pictures and all these proof have scaled....las las, if there is no proof, it may just delay your application for a few months as they may just ask for a DNA test...but at the end of the day, you will pull through.

Pictures of you alone does not proof any relationship and truly of no value.

Chloraseptic:
Please house I'm currently uploading my documents. I just want to know if my sponsor's drivers license or tax papers can be uploaded as proof of domicile.

If not I'd like for you guys to suggest which other documents can used .

Secondly, can I upload pictures of me and my sponsor together or should I just wait to present it at the interview.

Lastly, in the picture below, is it passport photograph I'm to upload or normal picture

linearity
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IrepChrist
Nowhere

Driver license are okay, but not the best proof....utility bills with dates within the last months are better. In many cases, your driver license is valid for many years and sometimes when you move within states or even across states despite local law stating you update them, many people don’t it until the next renewal date.

So if they have sewer bill, water bill, gas bill, electric I’ll, phone bill, etc those are better.

Secondly, upload pictures with you and the sponsor, upload as many as you can....Remember that, in about 90% of cases, the interviewer have already made a decision about you case before you arrive and the only thing they will have will be what you have uploaded, so put your best foot forward now and give them everything that will make that decision on their part more easier, during your interview, they may not even ask you for anything.

You don’t upload passport pictures to USCIS, you take them with you to the medicals and to the interview; so they are asking for regular pictures that shows a tie or relationship with the sponsor. The older the pictures, the better.

plaindealer:
There's no proof or any documented or financial evidence to corroborate the fake story, it was somebody's imagination without rational facts.

We'll take you seriously when you are able to show us the Nigerians advertising on Twitter, how much they spent on Twitter per day and how many times they advertise on Twitter.

When you are done, show us the advert receipts the Nigerian businesses received from Twitter, then let us add them up together to arrive at your bogus 2 billion figure.

Was a poll conducted to determine the number of Nigerians advertising on the internet?

Was any financial data released by Twitter stating the number of Nigerians spending money on Twitter and how much they are spending?
The fact that many of you are so gullible that you swallow and drink whatever bogus and meaningless internet trash doesn't mean the rest of us must swallow the same rubbish.

...besides, not eerything is about moiney, your pride, your own country and dignity should come first.

Beats me how you ingested this random internet assumption without any official financial documentation and figures.

Again, you missed the point in your rush to gush out your preconceived opinion, without pausing to read or understand.

The value has nothing to do with Nigerians advertising in Twitter, rather the businesses & customers generated for Nigerian businesses as a result such advertising on Twitter, which is now lost.

When you are ready to learn, head down to Twitter to see feeds and Nigerians businesses that was previously full of activities but now dormant.

Then head to Fiverr and a focused search to see the number of independent startups in Nigeria that earn income by advertising services they can render for Nigeria businesses on Twitter, those revenue stream are on hold. That said, I doubt if anyone believes in the accuracy of those figures, but common sense will tell anyone that, there are business opportunity losses accruing to Nigeria entities that rely on Twitter to advertise their goods & services and those Nigerians that directly rely on work done on Twitter platform for income.

Going by your standard of proof, I doubt if you can even proof to us that you are a mammal, because I doubt if you can show us receipts and polls that proof that you are such....we will need the test and their accuracy ratings to determine the veracity of those test. Plus, the test that proof that the testing lab, receipts and polls are correct and authentic.

Your post is proof positive that, common sense is not common.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
So Twitter alone earns about N730 billion revenue from Nigeria, which is equivalent of approximately $2 billion yet the total global revenue of Twitter itself after increase 7% Y-o-Y from 2019 is $3.72 billion (2020) with a net loss of $1.14 billion https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2020-results-301225278.html#:~:text=2020%20revenue%20was%20%243.72%20billion,of%207%25%20year%20over%20year.

Twitter is actually in a financial mess and it was just reckless of Jack not to oversee the Nigerian operations. With a loss of $1.14 billion, the FG ban is a masterstroke against them. They deserve Ghana, Twitter is not a profitable company.

So when they say it's N2 billion daily, they are suggesting that Twitter generates equivalent of 50% of its revenue from Nigeria .Yet such a country is the one Twitter wants to throw into war.
I don't believe this.
This kind of report can only come from platforms with weak research team.

You didn’t understand the part ‘Nigeria is loosing about N2 billion daily due to the Twitter ban’.

There is nothing in the story that suggests that, that money was accruing to Twitter.

Twitter is mainly an advertisement platform, Nigerians and Nigeria companies just like others go to Twitter to advertise so to reach a wider audience through Twitter.

These reaches, in turn generate business leads, markets and customers for these Nigeria businesses. to which they can sell goods and services to in order to earn money.

There are also many Nigerians Youths who are jobless but earn income through Twitter.

These two source of in flow of revenue to Nigeria is now lost as a result of the ban, that is what is been tagged as N2 billion above, but I doubt those values, but the bottomline remains that, it is Nigeria that will loss revenue as a result of this ban in comparison to Twitter.

Rissamenti:
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BUHARI SAYS NO.

NIGERIA DECIDES WHO NIGERIA LETS IN ITS SPACE, NOT EU, NOT USA, NOT CANADA, NOT IRELAND, AND NOT UK.

OK?

THANK YOU.

BYE BYE.
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https://acegif.com/wp-content/gif/nigeria-flag-4.gif

If common UK ban PMB and all the Nigerian Politicians & their families from entering UK for common medical checkup, you will see how quickly Nigeria will reverse their ban and even start to beg.

For a Country who does not produce anything and rely essentially on imports to survive and loans from foreign Governments to complete her budget, we do not have any leverage, the Twitter ban is just IGG - Initial Gra Gra on the part of the FG, watch them fold in a few weeks.

DFOmobolla:
Your research is concise, but expensive to implement. I think ip spoofing is what you mean? VPN uses the same method but less stressful, unless twitter wants to battle FG.

Load balancing and Geo redundancy is not expensive to implement, it is the way of live for many internet facing companies to mitigate against DDOS attacks.

IP spoofing is a different technology and not the same. Load balancing and Geo redundancy as server and network-side implementations, while IP spoofing is a client side implementation and service providers, especially those hosting web pages do not spoof their IP addresses, because the TCP/IP protocol requires three handshake for the web site or app to be loaded on your browser or phone....if the service provider spoof their IP address, the reply for the 3-handshake will be sent to the spoofed address and not the service provider server that originated the request, this will result in the TCP packet been dropped.

VPN is a different concept, and for client to site VPNs....it is when another individual or service provider agree to route internet traffic on behalf of a client for a fee or some type of agreement. The traffic between the provider and the client is encrypted, why the path into the internet is not

DFOmobolla:
Thats right, made a mistake there. Twitters ip would be flagged.
Twitter can't float dynamic ips, thats like essentially living nowhere users won't be able to find it. Unless new technologies comes through that makes real-time ip ping possible.

Yes, most service providers use multiple IP addresses and some can be dynamic. There is a concept that even called IP aliasing that can be used to accomplish this as well as Network Load balancers, plus Geo redundancy.

Providers do this to defeat DDOS attacks, by not revealing their real IP addresses, but instead present floating IPs that the attackers will attack and which they can easily change to another IP on the flying to dwaft the attack.

Twitter have her own DNS server and all these floating IP resolves to the DNS name twitter.com, so users can also reach them. I just did a little experiment with google, I ping google by name, in real time and simultaneously from two different computers, see the result below, I mask some personal identifying info, you can try it yourself...



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And you can also reach google by using any of these IP addresses on your browser e.g...I found many during my little experiment, these are few, all resolving to google....you can do the same experiment using a single PC, just wait for some time, e.g. 10 minutes or so..



http://172..206
http://172.217.10.238
http://172.217.10.142
http://172..174

DFOmobolla:
You are able to browse nairaland because of your service provider ( mtn, glo ).
This companies are registered under the government, if FG decides to ban nairaland they simply instructe 'this providers' to flag your ip whenever you try to log on nairaland and block you from doing so. I think.

The provider is not going to flag your IP, your IP is essentially the provider’s IP that they are leasing to you to use temporary....they will flag or ban Nairaland or in this case Twitter’s IP address.

I even doubt if this is going to work, because if Twitter wants, they can defeat that ban by floating multiple IP addresses, including IPv6 addresses to DNS resolvers.

This will make the providers to be playing catch-up game of determining new IP addresses and adding them to their ban list.

Tobsam237:
On this, we can all agree Twitter fvked up... You don't have to like or hate Buhari to know they fvked up BIG TIME... You don't mess with a sitting president.... with 2 years to election... and except no consequences...

They just lost over 3million active subscribers... It will affect their stocks eventually cos it will affect their ads market in Africa...

Twitter stock went up today by 3.5% the the of the Nigeria ‘ban’ and this is about the most upward movement for the stock for some months now.

Even if implemented, the Nigeria ban will not make a dent on Twitter, it will not be noticed....and I doubt if it will be implemented.

The only thing it will do, is give fraudulent police officers one more Avenue to detain and extort money from innocent Nigerians.

Body shame dem on social media......

if dem get shame and any image left to protect, they will call you for a truce or may even intimidate you....either way, you will get their attention.

I think this is fake news, the AGN can not say that.

PMB derives his authority and powers from the constitution; there is no provision in the document that gives him the power to suspend it, rather he sworn an oath to protect it.

In an alternate universe, If it were possible for him to suspend the constitution, he himself becomes an illegitimate President as the document from which he derives his powers has been suspended.

joe4christ:
He is definitely gay. Can't u decipher that in his tone?

Though, this post is old....but, I will like to correct something, as many people confuses sexuality with gender.

Your gender has to do with who you are, and your sexuality has to do with who you are with.

E.g. the OP stated that she identifies as a female and is attracted to males, she is therefore not gay sexually but straight....because she is attracted to the opposite gender.

Had it been she is attracted to female, you will be right to call her gay or a lesbian.

We should also note that, just like some cis-gender individuals, there are some intersex that are asexual ie they do have a sexual feelings toward any of the sexes and does not indulge in sex.

I guess LASG does not want competition in the illegal practice of extorting drivers.

This is code-name.....”Operation get ride of all competitions!”

BigSarah:
The police are surprisingly quick in investigating and arresting assassins of high profile Nigerians...
Hope it's the real culprits that are always gotten

The situation in Nigeria and lax law regulations enables the police to be quick in getting to the root of crimes like these in Nigeria compare to the Western world.

All the Police need to do, is to go to the crime screen and arrest everyone within 100 km and throw them into jail, confiscate all video surveillance camera around the vicinity and before you know it, someone that know something or heard something will start singing like a nightingale.

In the Western world, the Police have to go to court and stand before a judge to get a warrant to even view a video surveillance camera and if they got it dubiously, that evidence can be throw out of court, even if it contain the actual crime....and they cannot just start arresting anyone, if you they know you saw something, you can refuse to talk to the Police and there is nothing they can do about it.

So, the Nigeria Police despite the low moral have lots of advantages and opportunities to quickly solve crimes, if they truly want to do it.

mbahdi:
Mumu kayemo.you are in our watch list.u will soon be eliminated like others.idiot

This is so careless and stupid....threatening someone is against the law.

You must be some juvenile who is making the mistake that, a keyboard and a screen gives you some type of anonymity.

Please, be guided don’t type online what you can not say in person, because when the chips are down, you can be located and held accountable for your online activities.

Do not allow your computer screen to fool you into thinking and behaving as if, you are invincible & untraceable, many have learnt a very bitter lesson and are now regretting every keyboard stroke they typed ‘anonymously’ online.

icon8:
Didn’t happen in the UK. ‘Gardai’ is the Irish name of the Irish Police, meaning that the accident definitely happened somewhere on the island of Ireland.

Happened in Cork, which was part of Northern Ireland until few decades ago.

The confusion is understandable, since North Ireland is part of UK....This happened in the Republic of Ireland, which is not currently part of UK in contrast to her Northern land-locked Neigbor, North Ireland.

OracleOfTheMost:
Who else opened the thread thinking it's Kenya, Uganda or Zimbabwe??

Not many people, because the title stated she is charged to court for it, then it is definitely not anywhere in African.

athaboi:
How I wish Nigeria has a good investigative and intelligent unit in our security system... this is pure political assassination! But no way, they will call it unknown gunmen. People are using this window of unknown gunmen to eliminate others. Even the ritual killing forest in port harcourt is still unknown gunmen.... If you are living around the area of this event..you better run away especially young guys. Our security agents are not trained.. anyone they see along that road is the killer of Ahmed gulak

You are asking for too much at a good....

Let’s first pray that, Nigeria should get an investigative unit.....then in like another 10 to 20 decade later, we start wishing and praying for an Intelligent Investigative Unit.

Then in about 50 to 100 decades, the prayer point will be a Good Intelligent Investigative Unit.

With the current crop of Nigeria leadership and the antecedent of those lining up to take over from the current leadership...let’s take baby steps first....let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.

helinues:


Old bank staffs.......Insider work

Not necessarily true, if it was a bank staff current or old, they will know your ATM card full digit.

If you browse the blackweb, there are many ATM data and your associated contact dats for sale, some complete others with either only the first few or last few digits.

Each time you use your card online or at a merchant, etc they capture your info, send it to inter-switch and Re-routed to your bank for verification. Most merchants store your card partial information on their database.

There are hackers who prowl the web 24/7 exploiting vulnerabilities on servers, this is their full time job; once they get one, they export the database and put all or some of it on the darkweb for sales.

They also will sell the same data-set to multiple people people, so you will be approached in a few days/weeks/months by someone else with that same scam or another version of it either via a phone call, text message or email, the ultimate goal is the same - for you to complete the missing info.

Not true though, the above three could also happen if the user changed their WhatsApp phone number and didn’t inform you of the new number.

Additional, there is a WhatsApp setting and if you know how to use it, you can prevent any or everyone from adding you to any group, without blocking them.

OriakuAmara:
The beads and the handfan?
Not necessary, the ishiagu and the red cap is OK.
Men don't wear bead or necklace in any official outing.
Oriaku dioranma congratulates him.

You mean, we were not attending ‘official outings’ before the Whiteman showed on our shores and introduced their mode of dressings to us?

Men were tying wrapped, wearing beads with parts of elephant tusk, ivory, traditional coweries, etc to meetings even to those meetings with the Whiteman in those days.

pavoda:

See how this one just expose her stupidly here. Cars are a deprecating assetss, smart people don't waste money on the latest one, that loses 15% value once it leaves the dealership.

Do your research well, not all cars depreciates once they leave the dealership!

JesseJo:
What privacy does your IMEI give away?

Silly us. These are people that want to go and stay in London. Where all your movement is captured and recorded on a CCTV, the length and breath of the city.

Same clowns who praise America and Canada where you cannot do anything tangible and legit with your life without submitting a Social Security number or a social insurance number.

Pls, what privacy does your IMEI reveal other than your location. And is that not what is obtainable in the West, with your social media accounts?

Just be complaining like deranged donkeys up and down.

I will agree with you partly.

In the West, the government does not have your IMEI or SIM card information; if they need it they can get it from the provider through a court order.

The government already have SIM information due to mandatory registrations in the Nigeria, so getting the IMEI of the phone does not give them the information or tracking capability they do not have before, moreso with SIM they can easily get the IMEI information from the providers.

SIM card info is all they need and it is far better because they can log the IMEI info all each and every phone that the SIM card is inserted into.

Lastly, asking for IMEI info is foolheaded, as the criminals they want to catch or intended on tracking can change their phone IMEI number, all you need is root access to the phone and viola! you can change your IMEI number, but it is more difficult if not near impossible to change your SIM info, moreso if you are able to change your SIM info, you lose access to your provider as they use your SIM to phone number mapping as a unique identifier for you.

I think NCC is running out of ideas or they are just trying to sensitize the public that, they are 'doing something' about the security situation in the country, otherwise I see no reason asking the general public to give you a piece of data piece-wise that you already have access to wholesale and in bulk and which access the laws of the land already gave you power to access....If NCC ask MTN or Globacom to give them access to all the active IMEI numbers and phone types in Nigeria, they will be delivered on a plate of gold and with immediate effective, so why make noise about it in the public domain?

deniyor:
I read it and I think you should read it also. Matrimonial home rights only apply if you or your spouse solely own the home. That’s not the case here.

According to the link , if youR spouse co-owns it with someone else, you don’t have any rights to it. It gets a lot more complicated.

In the story here, the wife and the husband do not OWN the house. It’s a rental. Listen again.

Home rights are also applicable if the residence is a rented property, the link I sent above only deal with mortgaged properties.

In this scenario, since the property is rented and the lease is in the name of the wife and they are still legally married, the husband have matrimonial home rights to the rented property unless a court order states otherwise.

This is another legal angle if the property is rented.
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/renting-your-rights-to-your-home-during-divorce-or-dissolution