RiyaGoddess:
The problem with people is that, they pray but don't believe that it has been answered. It is just like when the people prayed for peter to be released, they were the one that prayed for his release ooo. Peter was released and the same people said it's his ghost. So you see eh, people pray but don't believe it has been answered. Remember that the just shall live by Faith. Be it according to your faith. So when you have a problem, challenges, pray yourself and believe that it has been answered. That which you have asked for is on the way says the Lord.

Good Morning FAM. It's a new dawn day. Thank God for the gift of life. The Presence of the Lord will go before us today. God will Preserve our going out and coming in today. Psalm 121. Amin Jesu

Ryocaj:

only if u knew d meaning u would know u just described urself.. For putting Vector n dat list.. u should drop ur last name 4 Ignoramus..lol

ebonyggurl:
At least now all these haters of nigerian women will see that foreign women like rich guys too

ebonyggurl:
At least now all these haters of nigerian women will see that foreign women like rich guys too

freshMallam1122:
run along little girl stop pouring spits

Ryocaj:

u r high on ur bf's expired sperm for putting Vector on d list

freshMallam1122:
Oga naeto c has diversified... he is now a politician.. currently serving as P. A to IMO state governor.. an he was among national delegate who represented IMO state in PDP national 2019 conference in rivers...op u hear me

unapologetic147:
I get ur time misinformed WizKid fan

unapologetic147:
why you no give am $40 billion go Forbes .com and see I don't know why nairaland no let me post screenshots for you

blesskewe:
Suicide is never an option

SimSify:
Suicide is never an option..

Chrisbeks:

The op originally titled the post as a throwback pic of I go dye. He/she obviously edited later

gentlemayor:
Musician born in UK given 14 days to leave the country

Bumi Thomas has been told she is illegal despite being born in Glasgow and spending most of her life in the UK

A musician born in the UK faces being kicked out of her home because of a little-known change to Home Office legislation.

Bumi Thomas was given 14 days to leave after being told she is illegal despite living here most of her life. The rising jazz star grew up thinking she was British, attended university in the UK and has legally worked and paid taxes since graduation.

However because her parents are Nigerian, she now faces deportation and being separated from her family and friends. The situation bears a chilling resemblance to the Windrush scandal, which saw many people deported in error after decades of life in the UK.

Ms Thomas was born in Glasgow in June 1983 to parents who came over from Africa in the early 1970s. In January 1983, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government changed the British Nationality Act that removed the automatic right of citizenship for children of parents from former colonies.

The singer’s parents should have registered her but were unaware they needed to do so. In a twist of irony, Ms Thomas’ elder sister Kemi was born one year before the Act and has always had legal status.

The musician, 36, believes she is a victim of an increasingly hostile attitude by the Home Office to migrants in the UK. She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘My parents came here at the end of the Windrush era. ‘I had a National Insurance number, I had my birth certificate, I’d got a driving licence, a bank account, I went to college.

‘At no point during that process was there any indication I was doing anything incorrectly.’ Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she continued: ‘I have never had any question in my mind that I’m British and Scottish. ‘And that’s something I’m proud of. But according to a piece of paper, suddenly what I think about myself isn’t valid. It’s an illusion.’

At the age of three-and-a-half, Ms Thomas and her family returned to Nigeria. She came back to the UK as a teenager, thinking she automatically had dual British-Nigerian nationality.

After graduating with a degree in fine arts from Bath Spa University she began to work and moved to London, where she now lives with her sister.

It was only at the age of 25 when she went to apply for her UK passport that she was told she was never registered as British. The Home Office was told she had technically overstayed in an illegal capacity.

Ms Thomas said her case was classed as ‘complex’ and she was told to use human rights legislation rather than immigration laws to fight it. That marked the start of an ‘exhausting and expensive’ decade-long legal battle.

Two weeks ago she received a letter from the Home Office saying her application for permanent residency had been unsuccessful. She was given 14 days to appeal or face detention without notice.

Ms Thomas has since lodged an appeal and is awaiting a court hearing. The musician, who has performed at the Royal Festival Hall and London Palladium, continued: ‘My parents had no idea of the law change.

‘This was in an analogue age, where correspondence was written and there was no social media.’ She added: ‘When I was told I wasn’t British, I was shocked and devastated.

My soul and my spirit were screaming. ‘Nigeria is foreign to me and I am a foreigner there. I’ve been in the UK for 18 years.’ Ms Thomas’ grandfather came to the UK to study medicine and she said her parents were also given a warm welcome as part of the Windrush generation – when people from former colonies came to the UK to rebuild the country after the Second World War.

She said their treatment was in stark contrast to the way the Home Office was now treating her and thousands of others who ‘fall through the cracks of the system.’ She added: ‘There is a stigma attached to being an immigrant these days.

‘At no point did I ever think I was doing anything wrong. ‘When my parents came over they were welcomed but now it is different. There are people who have lived in the UK for 30/40/50 years facing hostility.’

Ms Thomas continued: ‘The Home Office right now has a hostile environment policy, a set of administrative and legislative measures that are designed to make staying in the UK as difficult as possible for people like me.’

The musician should be making her US debut at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles in October but the immigration issues mean that is now in doubt. She has launched a gofundme page to help towards legal costs, which are already at £7,000 and rising.

Ms Thomas’s lawyer, Fahad Ahmed, said she missed out on automatic citizenship by a matter of months and added: ‘Courts take a less harsh view than the Home Office, and if someone can prove their life is here, the courts will use their discretion.’

The British Nationality Act 1948 gave citizens of British colonies the right to settle in the UK. Since they had the legal right to come to the UK, they never needed nor were given any documents upon entry. In what later became known as the Windrush scandal, many were wrongly detained, denied legal rights or deported in administrative blunders.

The Home Office is set to pay up to £200 million in compensation to people whose lives were damaged by their mistaken classification as illegal immigrants. The Home Office has been contacted by Metro.co.uk about Ms Thomas’ case.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/26/musician-born-uk-given-14-days-leave-country-10074909/?ito=cbshare

saucelake231:
abi now one person net worth na another person internet subscription.....
like some of is here on nairaland our net worth na wizkid monthly electricty bill....

aIBHAGDADI:

Go and take those clothes off.


Deuteronomy 22:5 (KJV)
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

9jahotblog:
I don't think you are a woman, you are only disguising on nairaland which is very bad. You should pity this lady now.

9jahotblog:
Cc lalasticl ala cc mynd 44 cc Dom inique cc fynest boi cc OAM4 J

trapQ:
Are you always this foolish or is it only on Thursdays?

saucelake231:
$40m....that is just Beyonce birthday gift too jayz(I mean the private jet)..........

Chrisbeks:
This not throwback, he is still fresh here

Tolexander:
Don't mind him

Throwback ko, throwfront ni

Which phone go get camera wey go take picture as clean as this when he was still struggling in the village?
White sole Nike crisscross in the village when he was still struggling?
Clean white underwear in the village?

Some of these celebs (mostly comedians) will just wake up one day to post pictures to fool themselves, all in the name of “grass to grace” message.

martyns303:
I am here admiring her Luis Vuitton sandal/palms. Money is good.

Erediauwa:
Good one.

There's a street called "Buhari Street" in Abuja, all the people residing there are brain dead zombies.

Kindly avoid it.