₦airaland Forum

FarahAideed:
Hiring paid protesters and wasting more money is the route this useless govt opted for ? They think UK is a place that doesn't respect court verdicts ko ? Buhari go and pay your Gbese

You are not a good countryman. From all your posts, I see you wish the worst for Nigeria. US Trump wanted die sending about $1.5 Billion to Iran. That was a contract signed already between US Barack Obama and Iranian government. It was rescinded by Trump with so much disaffection. No matter worth, this is our commonwealth, The settlement is outrageous for a paltry $40 million expenses spend by P & ID if that is even true. Many African countries cannot even boost of $9B total wealth. What company even make $9B in 20 years as profit for consulting or contracting for business? This is unreasonable and a clear case of hand-twisting. It's sheer foolhardiness to talk trash to pamper your ego against your country right now

MrBrownJay1:
Look at their faces?!?!??! It's obvious that this is a miserable union... either for money or papers.

MrBrownJay1
How exactly sure this is for money or papers? Photograph just show one millisecond of the time and can not be the judge of one entire day. Are you insinuating that people on the bigger side do not deserve love? We are made to love

Olominira:
Correction: China is not a third world. Most of her cities at the moment have latest infrastructure with high tech that most cities in Europe and America may never dream of. Japan is more advanced than any country in the planet not only China.

Anyway China is no first world by what world socio-political & economic indices. They are second.

pickatyou:
We have moved from China to Japan , very soon its Vietnam that would be giving us money.
Buhari the begi begi president. Always moving with cap in hand like a typical aboki / almajiri

I don’t understand you. Japan is far more developed than China. Japan is first world while China still remain third world with lots of illegality in business processes. In fact Japan used to control China landscape.

PlayerMeji:
Oga Elumelu...

The youth you want to give these monies are still dancing Zanku and Gbé Bodie..

Everyone wants to make money on Music and Entertainment..

There is actually creative industry financing fund for aspiring music production and distribution up to 500 million Naira. So the government places premium on music my dear

Simplyleo:
For dunderheads who will soon start barking like rabbid dogs without the slimmest knowledge of this newly acquired equipment.

According to the report, the calibrating services of this equipment used to be contracted to SA at a whopping cost of $500k every 6 months, wtf.

And to think the thought of acquiring this equipment after over 2 decades of lacking same never occurred to previous successive administrations speaks volumes of how "they really cared" for the self sufficiency of this country. Of course they wouldn't since perhaps the aviation ministers criminally enrich themselves through those lapses. Imagine, $8.5m, they refused to buy despite the huge revenue and depleted foreign reserves. 

Sons of dogs whose future were being eaten up by those past leaders will still not hesitate to show buhari the full length of their tongues on this account. Smh. 

God bless President Muhammadu Buhari 
God bless Nigeria and Nigerians.

You can’t just conclude the buy is a good investment strategy without making all the monetary calculations around it. It is good for a sovereign country to have the type of aircraft based on security. You need to factor in money paid to staff manning the aircraft. The maintenance and the space taken. All of these are cost heavy and lastly the time value of money Firth’s investment made. It is under this consideration you make sound business judgement

You Nigerians hurt yourselves with the lies and abuses you peddle about each other online! You think you have sense? No! You are reducing your own reputations

This is good news but the scholarship amount is not worth $1.5m. The $1.5m is the endowment that would be invested so that the profit can be used to send 2 Nigeria students to Lebanon for MBA. This will be a continuous sponsorship for Nigerians

BafanaBafana:
If i were Emeka Nwajiuba, i will humbly decline the position and remain in house of rep. Timpriye sylva as petroleum minister sounds off, i also dont like that Abubakar Malami. I bliv he has one strong God father he works for and he keeps embarassing the government. some of the positions are good. the rest we can manage

What is better than be responsible for the education of your country? You are not looking at the significance of the position but the power associated with it. But no power surpasses education.

aolawale025:
Saw a church on that list. Churches are supposed tax exempt

some churches own business like bakery, schools, publishing houses and supermarkets. They need to pay taxes on their businesses.

TechCapon:
Lol. In the oil and gas industry there's what they call energy isolation. You don't rescue an electrocuted victim without turning off the power supply first. If you do it, even if you succeed in rescuing the victim you'll get sacked immediately

You can still get electrocuted if the power is off. The electrons can be discharged unto you from the electrocuted victim if you do not insulate yourself by wearing proper footwear

If Irish seize our asserts, we will also seize their asserts. They have some asserts here too. This is a deal struck in 2013. You cannot have all your profit for 20 years when it is only 6 years after! How does that make sense?

Nigeria should learn to study and negotiate foreign deals before proceeding to sign agreement. Every country has their country's interest above and beyond others. Yet they want to give Nigeria Aids but are secretly sucking Nigeria. Not until we have educated and strategic leadership, the 21st century technology and policy strategy would run our country over. No one is playing. The president must direct the country with energy, intelligence, education, hardwork, negotiation, question rational and policies. The president ought to be a voracious reader. Information can not pass you by in this age of information.

I feel sorry for Nigerians. You are arguing over two not too competent presidents. There is common enemy wanting to seize hold of our collective wealth. $9B is more than 3 trillion naira. That money can build 37 large companies in each of Nigeria state and one useless jugde is ordering seizure. That is how weak they found you and you are not protesting it. You are cursing which president is responsible!

koyyes:
Biggie should not have called frodd.

biggie should have allowed him force himself on Esther and get disqualified to teach animals out there that no means no.

Frodd doesn't know where to draw the line. He is an idiot! He didn't even notice Biggie helped him from disqualification. I thought men only get foolish when no one is watching

MrBrownJay1:
What on earth does what I wrote got to do with Americans or anyone having the best life?! The only sickness I see are women willing to be stepped on and used/abused because they are so desperate to be called "Mrs"... thats my opinion about a woman willing to stay with a cheating partner. Take it or leave it.



Stick to the issue at hand... or create another thread about swingers and I will gladly give you my view on the issue.

MrBrownJay1, I have known you on nairaland for more than 10 years. We are both intelligent. I know exactly what you are inferring immediately you mention African women. I wanted you to see the other side of reasons.

African women have ties to their husbands and find it strange to leave them. It is cultural. Don't tie it to esteem or economic woes.

MrBrownJay1:
Low self esteem African women...doing what they do best to stay married at ANY cost

You seem to believe Americans and others have the right and best attitude to life. They have the largest share of mental and emotional sickness and suicide rate even with all the support system available to them. It is degrading to call anyone low self-esteem for her choice. Don't wear people African garment to curse them out.

Let me give you an instant of difference in cultural attitude: There are many western women who bring younger lovers to bed while their husbands watch. or even pertake. I bet you don't say anything about low-self esteem there.

dangotesmummy:
Aunty Bose iya burna you're doing too much.we know he's your son,let him shine.youre too everywhere and overly attached to him.leave him and give him space

How many times have you seen her. Nor be her son dey show her? People of the world! Somebodi mama again!

pocohantas:
Forgive her.

Women are polygamous in nature.

Don't allow those men win, she is your wife...they are the intruders.

Just focus on your children, she'll definitely get tired and come back to you. They always do...

Always remember, God hates divorce.
I wish you strength.

I like this. hahaha. Typical advice from men to women. How witty!
But women give one another this sort of advice too.

tee59:
My advice is for you to go and learn how the beans he usually buys is cooked. Your husband likes beans, and as a woman, you must be able to prepare your hubby's favourite dish. May be, your own prepared beans is not as sweet like mama put, so, go and learn. Also improve on your cooking skills. For your husband to still prefers mama put food to yours, you need to step up your game as a woman.

Many people don't take time to learn how to cook. The only training they have is at best from their mothers. Assuming their mothers are wacky cook, they carry on the wackiness. Man and woman can go to catering school for a month to be a wonderful chef. Even Youtube can help too. If not for your partners, but for your personal joy. I learnt to be a chef. I detest bad food. I will vomit if I had one.

joe4christ:
Pls someone should first confirm if her claim has any atom of truth in it and not just criticize her without first finding out if her claim is true.

Of course this isn't a coincident and I feel bad Nigerians are quick to criticize themselves without proper verification. It might not be Cardi B but could be from Cardi B's designer. Designers are looking for ideas from other clime to bolster their uniqueness

bellexa22:
1. Yes, I know about IOM Ikeja and Qlife Victoria Island
2. You can get Police report from Alagbon, it's pretty straight forward, walk in and request for it or you could ask for Inspector Moshood.
3. I really don't know how long it takes these days, it really depends on workload and your school.

Thanks @Bellexa22

So my kids would go for medicals too! They are not here jor. I see you are familiar with Lagos places. Unfortunately I move between Abuja and Benin. Would you know where will I find list of approved medical centres in Nigeria

bellexa22:
IT’S PPR & COPR
He is God all by himself and I will trust in him.
Apologies for dropping the good news late.


ITA: April 3rd (457) FSW
AOR: May 20th,
MEP/BIL: July 2nd,
BIL Done: July 5th,
PPR: July 16th (57 days)
Passport submission: July 18th
COPR: August 6th
No ADR
No Ghosts (well I wasn’t checking though)
I don’t know my VO


PLACEHOLDERS

Education: BSC cert, MSC cert, ECA, IELTS (for PA & spouse)
Employment: Reference, Offer letter, Payslip, Commendation letter, Promotion letter (we had all the document so why not) For PA only
Change of Name: Marriage certificate, Affidavit, News paper publication, One and the same for PA.
POF: Summary page, Letter of consent from spouse (we used a joint account fixed deposit), Renmoney certificate, Renmoney letter of reference, Bank statement( this wasn’t necessary though as our fixed deposit had more than the required funds)
Police certificate: Inspector Moshood
Medicals: Qlife medical form (It's advisable to book before you get ITA if you're are sure of getting at the next draw, this delayed our application submission)
Digital Photo: The Passport app came in handy
Client Information: We filled Schedule A upfront, Visa refusal letters



POINTS TO NOTE
Please before submitting your application READ! READ!! READ!!!. While we were waiting for ICES I spent time going through nairaland thread, searching for answers online. There was really nothing peculiar about our application but I needed to be sure we had crossed all the ts. Some of the questions I had:
1. Using renmoney as POF. I have read a good number of PPR scripts and only found one person who used it, I tried contacting the moniker but got no response. Renmoney has one clause on their certificate that says “We can choose to approve or decline a liquidation request” I was really worried about it even though they always approve all liquidation requests. If you are in these shoes, you can request for a Letter of reference that says you have access to the funds in your account anytime. I had gotten a reference letter without this statement and requested they added that line to the reference letter, my relationship officer said he wasn’t sure they could add that line to my letter. He eventually came through with the letter but this was a day after we submitted. Well turns out it is not an issue but give yourself peace of mind by getting that letter.
2. We claimed points for only one role in PA’s previous workplace even though PA had 2 roles with different NOCs at the same company. We added the second role to personal history. The letter of reference had both roles.
Ladies and gentlemen, before submitting your application, make sure you spend time gathering info, ANY DOUBT you have before submitting is VALID. I’ve seen people asking questions about doubts they had after submitting their application. Don’t be like them oo. Ask all your questions now, google as well.


->Take screenshots of your application before submitting in case of an ADR.
->Please make sure your scanned documents are clear, people get rejected for illegibility.
->Create folders for every placeholder on your laptop and drop the necessary documents, this will help you mirror your application and also help you avoid silly mistakes like uploading a document in the wrong placeholder(please don’t be lazy about this).
->Take a day or 2 to compare the information on your documents with the information you filled especially the dates*. I know somebody that found a mistake with the dates on her reference after submitting.
->After receiving documents like ECA, IELTS, POF statements, Police report etc please check check check for mistakes before leaving the location if possible.
->Keep your application simple, if you must add unnecessary documents please add to Client information section.

After submitting, pleasssseeeee leave your application to God, stop looking for wetin no loss, Let Go and Let God. I see people going back to their application to give themselves a headache asking questions they should have asked before or questions they have already asked. No follow them oo that’s why I suggested using at least 2 days to check and recheck your application, I know it’s not easy but stressing yourself over things you can’t change isn’t worth it, trust me!.


Special thanks to @topsmamen & co for answering all my questions and to the nairaland community. I wish everyone all the best in their various stages.

This is for my safekeeping. Very valuable information here. Thank you so much for taking your time to go into details
I have one or two question though:

1. Is there a particular hospital one must go for medicals or just any find and must the PA in addition with spouse and children have their medicals?
2. How do I get a sample of a police report?
3. How long does WES Evaluation process take. I have attached what my current profile is with WES.

Starlight10:
The nipple is small now. To call your self Dimple Nipple you need huge ones that are eye catching.

Your name should be Braless Dimple... thank me later

I tire! Her nipple is too insignificant to earn that name. She needs to go out and see better nipple

Validated:
Please Rachel leave the TIBM for the owners ... They will exchange you for government patronage soon. If you doubt me, ask about MKO, Ojukwu and Nzeogwu. When the chips are down, tribalism. unbridled greed and selfishness will take pre-eminence.

S/He who has ears, let him/her hear!

You likes took us back the drain. You don’t stand for anything. You only whip sentiment

Danyoung:
Can someone with BSc Mathematics who want to become financial analyst also apply?

You have to try things out. Mathematics is the most related course to economics and finance. They both need quantitative models and calculus.

silverline22:
My God i��
Modified: I thought soldiers are hard and can withstand anyfin including emotional torture?

The people with the highest number of mental issues are soldiers.

Bluntguy:
Thank you visit. Okay O. Even when you can't sing ordinary national anthem.

Of all the nice suggestion he made, you are concerned about national anthem he was not given the chance to try! I fear you

A good dead husband would wish for his wife to remarry again but to a good man. Having someone else doesn't mean you have forgotten the past. Men move on in 3 months. Let's stand with grieving people. You're never in their shoes

princfred:
Europe needs America more and should respect the friendship not stab it in the back.
Btw he said Macrons foolishness not that Macron is foolish.

America taxes European country that serve Americans. Is Trump expecting that Facebook & others shouldn't be tax while they collect sales from another country? Other countries are waking up to the tech companies cheat of all times

Flaame:
Good morning NL family,please help me scrutinize my proposed transcript
@ Lagosismyhome, fairheart, sharwama, walspring....please seriously look into my matter.
School: St. Cloud State University
Course: Computer engineering
Level: undergraduate
Age: (1996)


Vo: Good morning, passport and I20
Me: (passed them)
Vo: Have you been here before?
Me: Yes, I have
Vo: So why was your visa not approved?
Me: I was denied because I failed to convince the visa officer that I was a genuine student and not an intending immigrant
Vo: So what's new from the last time you applied?
Me: Well, I have known so much more about my program, my confidence has improved, and I have even a better financial support
Vo: Are you trying to tell me you never knew about your course before?
Me: No, not at all. I am actually saying that I have known more about my program ... We learn new things everyday
Vo: OK.... Where are you going?
Me: Am going to St. Cloud State University for my undergraduate degree in computer engineering
Vo: Why this school?
Me: Apart from the fact that I got a generous in-state tuition waiver which am very grateful for, I also chose this wonderful school because it has a very committed focus on the academic excellence of her international students and a very diverse cultural community that helps international students feel settled. Like this is not enough, this wonderful school offers a lot at a very moderate rate.....
Vo: When did you graduate
Me: 2014
Vo: What have you been doing since then? It's been about 5 years now!
Me: Yes, it's been quite a while but after my graduation in July 2014, I started computer classes at Royals Computers Cybercafe where I was offered a management job after concluding my program, I chose to handle the job to get management tactics which would enable me run my own ICT firm in the long run. In 2016, I got admitted to Abia State University, but later realized it was fake admission so I dropped. Currently, am a freelancer and a blogger.
Vo: Why not just get this degree in Nigeria or some other country?
Me: When it comes to STEM courses, the U.S schools offers the best programs in this area. They have a well-structured educational system that maintains a balance in practical skills and theoretical knowledge. I need the best possible education for my career plans.
Vo: what will a degree in computer engineering do for you?
Me: A degree in this course will fortify me with the knowledge and skills required to directly secure a very good job in one of the top ranked innovative technical firms in Nigeria upon graduation. As Nigeria is at the dawn of what I'd call a "technological revolution ",where engineers with a degree in my field are highly sought for by top companies like: Andela, Flutterwave, Jumia, Globacom, MasterCard,etc,a degree in this course will be a one-way ticket to actualize one of my career plans in Nigeria. A degree in this course will also help me partake in this technological revolution coming from my very country, a revolution that will sky-rocket the economy of Nigeria, and at the same time have them ranked amongst the best technically advanced countries in the world.
Vo: Tell me about the course and the program?
Me: Computer engineering is a branch of engineering that integrated several fields of computer science and electronics engineering required to develop various computer software and hardware. This branch of engineering does not only focus on how computer systems work themselves but on how they integrate to larger pictures
About the course, am expected to take prerequisite courses before getting admitted to the major,graduate with a minimum GPA of 2.5,and 106 credits
Vo: Can you list some of the courses you'd be taking in your program?
Me: I'd have to take courses in General engineering,Physics,Maths and statistics, Calculus, Embedded systems, Engineering orientation
Vo: Do you know some of the professors you'd be working with?
Me: Yes, I already know and communicate with Prof. Ling Hou our head of department and Prof. Michael P. Glazos, the assistant professor
Vo: What will you do upon graduation?
Me: I'll come back to Nigeria after my undergraduate degree to have my compulsory nysc, then afterwards, hopefully secure a job in one of the top ranked ICT firms in Nigeria or go for a lecturing job in one of the Nigerian universities. In the long run.... I intend to own my own ICT firm.
Vo: Did you sit for any standardized test?
Me: Yes, I took SAT and had a score of 1030
Vo: That doesn't look like a very good score, how did you manage to get this scholarship?
Me: Yes, it's not that high but it still kept me in a position to qualify for the in-state tuition scholarship, plus I have a very good high school GPA of 3.46/4.
Vo: Do you think you qualify for this visa?
Me: Well, I believe I do: I have an admission from a good college, I havea good academic record, I have a genuine intent for traveling to the u.s,plus I have sufficient sponsorship,so in all ramification, I think I qualify for it
Vo: Who's your sponsor and what does he do?
Me: My maternal uncle. He's a lawyer by profession but has a lot of businesses he manages.He has a school here in Abuja, he is also into estate business, and has a couple of lodges here in Abuja too
Vo: Why would your uncle sponsor you and not your parents?
Me: since high school he has been the one sponsoring my education without stress, and is still willing to continue. It has never been an issue for him, he feels entitled to the responsibility.
Vo: Does he not have his own kids to take care of?
Me: His kids are all graduates and now independent.

You as a visa officer, decide my fate.

Drop this off. It will hurt your interview. You don't want to been seen as a fake kind-of-guy. And try to be specific about your intention.

Anyone know what number to call WES on. I need to remove my Bachelor credential from my evaluation since I have foreign master. I have filled out a form on their website but nothing from WES

Minister screening is not meant to witch hunt. This is someone you don't get to talk to in your house everyday. It provides an avenue to learn from the work they have done and what they plan to do next. It is a debate to create development across all spheres but Senate threw this opportunity away

Pumps can take out all the water. Pump is not that expensive