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justwise:
This is part 19

Part 18 here for reference purposes https://www.nairaland.com/6321900/canadian-student-visa-thread-part

Visit Canadian embassy website here http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/index.asp for more information and updates

Good luck to all TRV hopefuls and to many of you here helping out with answers and words of encouragement a massive thank you to everyone of you, your efforts here contribute to the success of this thread.

Please I sent you a DM

lionlee216:
Pls message me directly soyedele119@gmail.com

Done

lionlee216:
I'm on this table

I sent you a DM

Newboss:
lordkay10

Call this number 08139841391: Bedc customer care.

Ask them for key change token. The problem could be your unit has gone down very well. It's a problem in some meters.

Tell them you bought the token online through quickteller.

They will ask for meter number and tariff index number. Let them know that Quickteller does not give tariff index number. Within 24 hours you should get two 20-20 digit codes.

Thanks bro

Good day folks. It has been a turbulent period for me since BEDC installed their prepaid meter at my residence. The meter came with 100 units of electricity which the staff told me would be free of charge
However, when I made an attempt to top-up the units when it was running low from a vendor, I was told I have to pay for the "free" 100 units before I would be able to top up. I had no choice than to part with 11,000 naira to pay off the 'debt' and buy 5000 naira worth of units for the top-up.

I was told to proceed to the BEDC area office close to where I bought the units to obtain activation tokens being my first transaction on the meter. At the BEDC area office, the customer care agent gave me a series of code to enter on my meter when I get home for activation, and wait for another set of code from the BEDC headoffice via SMS, without which I wouldn't be able to load the top-up tokens I purchased.

After following these instructions, I waited in vain for the final code from BEDC which wasn't forthcoming. I placed several calls to their hotline with some below-par agents attending to me at different points, each with a different method of how to solve my problem. Well, I finally got a competent agent who promised to escalate my case, and wait for 24hrs to receive the code

I finally got the code the next two days but not after making series of threats to their hotline, and I was able to load my top-up tokens. But this is just the beginning

Almost a month passed and I would need to top-up again. This time, I opted to do it online via quickteller since my meter has been 'activated'.
I made payment but didn't get my tokens until after 24 hours. I proceeded to load the meter but I got an error message.

I proceeded to call their hotline as usual but no luck this time, my calls keep on getting rejected. I paused for a while and tried again after few hours and I was finally able to speak with agent who told me I need to fill a certain complaint form on their website, after which I would be sent another kind of token from their headoffice

I proceeded to fill the form on their website but the form wasn't submitted because "my meter number does not exist"
I tried to get across to the customer care agent again to notify them of the development but their hotline has been unreachable since my last call.
I proceeded to make a google search of their alternate complaint lines(if any) and I was shocked to see that the two other lines quoted on their website, each had 10 digits instead of 11, thereby making those numbers invalid.
I've been in total darkness since then, not because I didn't pay my bills, but for the inefficiency of Benin Electricity Distribution Company
Mods, kindly help me take this to frontpage for more views

kayjay69:
Bros, I don't subscribe to your solution sorry.

This issue is not political, you are implicitly asking us to vote for PDP and I have said it severally on Nairaland and for all who care to listen, anyone who makes this about APC vs PDP is an enemy of Nigeria and as bad as Buhari and Tinubu.

You want me to vote for the other useless political party that is simply lying in wait to continue what the present party is busy doing. I am not dumb bro.

Nigeria's problems are structural and we must push for restructuring not some BS about voting for some candidate who is as useless as the present government (maybe to a lesser degree). We are tired of empty rhetoric, it is time for real change not incremental negligible gains.

With people like you, there's hope. Say no to APC/PDP

Xisnin:
When police torture innocent, they confess to what they didn't do.
But the so-called #EndSars brutalizes a man this bad and we are expected to believe
his confession.
I am not gullible.

God bless you

Kingdemu:
I never had an encounter with members of police SARS, but I stood in solidarity with the agitators even though we slightly differ in terms of the fate of the unit.

While I am for it's reform, the protesters are for it's decommissioning. In the end, the protesters had their way, the government succumbed to their demand and decommissioned it.

At this juncture, having made the gov't to disband the unit and quickly rolled out modalities towards reforming the Nigerian police, what was expected of the protesters was the suspension of the protest and instead monitor the process of implementing the reforms to ensure that it is effected to the later.

Where they started losing it was when some of those supporting the protests began to insult, malign and even blackmail those who question why they continued with the protest after what was seen by all as an initial success.

Also, perhaps intoxicated by the euphoria, other Nigerians who complained that their lives were made miserable as a result of the blockade of the road by the protesters were not left out in the insults.

Soon the protesters started behaving like the SARS they were up against, asking people to live with the hardship, that they were fighting for their salvation. That was a wrong thing to do. You can't force people into supporting your movement, you make your movement appeal to them, and none of which is by denying them their freedom of movement and telling them to live with it.

Now the protesters are saying thugs have infiltrated them, pointing accusing fingers at the ruling party. Whether the accusation is true or not is not the issue, what is the issue is that they gave room for whoever drafted the thugs by not listening to the voice of reason.

If they had listened, and quickly announced the suspension of the protest to give the government the benefit of the doubt, whoever planned the said 'infiltration' of the thugs would have done that, and their protest would have been a complete success.

Now they are busy trying to dissociate themselves from the thugs which will be difficult. Whether they were brought in to disrupt the protest or not, they are using your umbrella and hashtag. At this point, learn to take responsibility of your mistakes and move on, otherwise your own call for government to take responsibility will be a hoax.

May your wisdom never go dry. These are the type of posts I love to interact with on this forum, thumbs up to you bro

kayjay69:
I have said this before and I am saying it again for all who care to listen.

What we should be agitating for is an end to bad governance and restructuring the country. The minute you make this about APC vs PDP or Buhari must go, you have alienating alot of people who you need to be on your side.

I dislike Buhari as much as the average Nigerian but Buhari did not cause all the problems we face today, he did amplify them no doubt. But if you like sack Buhari and put Atiku, even bring back Jonathan, the end results will still be the same.

The main cause of our problems is the ruling elite taking advantage of the rotten Nigeria system, restructuring or splitting Nigeria is the only real way out of the conundrum we face.

You've got so much wisdom. You just spoke my mind

Was there in 2017, wonderful place!
If not for the insurgency, the North is the best place to stay in this country!

Miracle2020:
mention one achievement of the 8th assembly.

Bro, never waste time on anyone who hails Saraki. Such people believe the greatest achievement of any politician is to antagonize or abuse Buhari. Once a politician is seen to be anti-Buhari, he becomes the greatest politician ever
Nairaland is full of comic individuals

Jones4190:
We prefer a dictator, who fixes Power, Roads, & Rail. Fights corruption & indiscipline to a stand still, to a rogue democract, who will divert our attention with freedom of speech, then loot our country to stupor, sell national assets to freinds, & family members.”

Hmmm....words on marble. Unfortunately, very few Nigerians think like you

More like a stray Brazilian

Like for like:
Wizkid - Messi
Davido - CR7
Burna Boy - Neymar

Who wouldn't score 99 goals when you're constantly drawn against the like likes of Andorra, Kosovo, Latvia and Faroe Islands year-in-year-out

kikero:
You cannot produce power at 53 naira per kwh and sell it at 31 naira per kWh

With government wasting 1 trillion naira, part of which comes from loans and grants to make up the 22 naira per kWh.

The power sector has been running at a loss since privatisation. It's the reason why we don't have sufficient light, because the sector is not earning sufficient money to fix things

Matters are made worse by discos not providing meters, and people not paying their bills.

You're a rare breed. 99.9% Nigerians don't think this way, they just want manna to fall from heaven. It's garbage in, garbage out.... there's no shortcut to success, u just have to pay a price

I'm a Ronaldo fan but truth be told, Messi is the real GOAT. We might not see this transfer record broken in our lifetime, and as a Ronaldo fan it really torments my soul

osazsky:
no serious club will agree this kind of salary with Ronaldo na.ronaldo is a kid..the best he can get will be 170m.no ambitious club will take this risk on a palm win tapin..anyone can score penalty na. we know he keeps moving cuz of sex. let me now see the premier league that they keep bragging abt..imagine someone mentioning manguire and bailly's as players na wah o wonders shall never end

LMAO @ bolded

As a Ronaldo fan, I'm in so much pains with this news. Now Messi will have the record of the world's most expensive signing and the most Ballon D'or in history. Time to dump CR7 for team Messi

As a Ronaldo fan I must admit Messi is the best player ever. How can a player cost so much at this age and clubs are falling over themselves to buy him. Nobody will pay even $200m for my CR7, this is too much pain for me to bear

Barca would need at least 3 players to replace a Lionel Messi, the greatest man that ever played the game

Even a baby monkey?

Osimhen > CR7

This is bad news for me as an Arsenal fan

Teewhy2:
To convince people he is the real GOAT, he should take a pay cut and move to arsenal.

Lol. He has nothing to prove, he already proved that with his 6th Ballon D'or which no other footballer, dead or alive has been able to accomplish. It's CR7 that needs to prove he's the GOAT by going to Sampdoria or any lesser known side in Italy

The greatest sportsman of his generation, we follow you anywhere you go

Iceberg3:
So you Striked it's its neck!!!!

Nobody sabi every

The greatest that ever played the game. Over-reliance on Messi killed Barca and is making Messi lose form as well. It's a win-win for both, as Barca will have an opportunity to rebuild while Messi gets those heavy burden off his shoulders

But it's still a dog

Asabe4:
Biggie should punish Leyrica abeg..

Shut up

Golan007:
To be fair, the Airforce should never have released the name.

Only court documents should have such from which investigative journalists may publish their findings.

The identity of the driver needs protection from unscrupulous people.

Nigeria is not a sane country. If NAF had not released the name, vultures like FFK and Reno Omokri will be on overdrive with all sorts of conspiracy theories

Asabe4:
#FriendsofSouthampton

Shut up and support ManYoo