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US Embassy Blocks Out All Visa Interview Dates In Nigeria Until Further Notice
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Nigerians applying for visas to the United States are currently in a fix as they cannot seem to get appointment dates for interviews, The PUNCH understands.
This is despite the payment of visa fees and other charges which range from N58,000 to N200,000.
The United States Embassy has yet to respond to our enquiries. .

Depending on the class of visa, the cost ranges between $160, $190 and $265; while the exchange rate published on the US Embassy website is N370 to the dollar, which is higher than the Central Bank of Nigeria’s rate of N306/$1, and the black market rate of N363/$1. .

Student visa applicants are also made to pay a separate $350 “service fee.”
A visit to the website of the US embassy by The PUNCH on Tuesday revealed that applicants who wish to apply for business/tourist visas were informed that there are no available dates before November 19, 2019 at the point of filling Form DS160. .

However, after payment is made in full and an applicant attempts to make an appointment, one is informed through its consultant website hosted by CGI INC afterwards that there are no available dates for visa appointments. .


Also, there is no mechanism put in place for a refund.
A message on its portal, which can only be accessed after payment of visa fees, reads in part, “There are currently no appointment dates available.”

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Qatar Unveils New Photos of World Cup 2022 Stadium That Some Think Resembles Female Anatomy

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Qatar has officially unveiled new photos of the World Cup 2022 stadium that fans famously said looked like a particular female body part when the renderings of the almost-completed venue hit the internet back in 2018.

The Al Wakrah grand stadium — which can seat up to 40,000 World Cup fans — was designed by the late British-Iraqi architect, Dame Zaha Hadid, who died in 2016 of a sudden heart attack at the age of 65.

The venue was one of the last designs by the famed architect, who also designed the Aquatics Centre at the 2012 London Olympics, and was reportedly inspired by the shape of an old-fashioned, pearl diving dhow boat. The plans for the stadium design were first presented in 2013 and Hadid topped her unique structure with a roof design meant to mimic that of the boat’s sails.

Aecom, the American engineering company that worked with Zaha Hadid Architects on the stadium construction and design, confirmed the architect’s vision and said, “Inspired by the dhow boat that carried generations of local fishermen and pearl divers, the stadium weaves together Qatar’s past with its progressive vision for the future.”

But when the first photos of the almost-completed stadium surfaced on the internet last year, fans didn’t quite see the image of boat sails, but that of a female body part.

People used Twitter to share their sentiments about the stadium’s design.

“I thought the Georgia O’Keeffe paintings were a nice touch,” wrote one user wrote in 2018, referencing the iconic artist who famously painted flowers that resembled the female anatomy.

Another said, “So Qatar is naming a stadium ‘The Vagina stadium,’ SMH.”

Despite the critiques over the venue’s design, the stadium is sure to become revolutionary with its new-wave air-conditioning technology that is said to help the fans and players beat the Qatar heat, lowering the temperature to a perfect 72 degrees.

In addition to the Al Wakar stadium, Qatar will produce a total of eight venues for the 32 World Cup teams competing in the international tournament. Khalifa International Stadium, an original Qatar venue that was built in 1976, was redeveloped and has also been unveiled for the World Cup matches.

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Doha (AFP) - Almost a decade in the making, three years late and at an estimated cost of $434 million, Qatar's vast national museum, built in the shape of a desert rose, opens this week.

A glittering ceremony, expected to include Qatar's ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, takes place on Wednesday, with the doors opening to the public the next day.

"Architecture to give a voice to heritage whilst celebrating (the) future," tweeted the museum's renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, also responsible for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

The pale, futuristic 52,000-square metre structure located on Doha's waterfront corniche will be the first notable building visitors to Qatar see as they make their way from the airport to the city centre.

Even in a country which is being built, rebuilt and utterly transformed for the 2022 football World Cup, the national museum could be the single most eye-catching design of all Qatar's new buildings.

The entrance includes 114 fountain sculptures in a 900-metre long lagoon and the museum's multi-curved roof, which resembles a giant jigsaw puzzle, is made up of 76,000 panels in 3,600 different shapes and sizes.

Inside, there is more than 1,500 metres (yards) of gallery space.

Among the exhibits is a 19th century carpet embroidered with 1.5 million Gulf pearls and the oldest Koran yet discovered in Qatar, also dating back to the 1800s.

"This is a museum that narrates the story of the people of Qatar," Sheikha Amna bint Abdulaziz bin Jassim al-Thani, the museum's director, has stated.

The National Museum of Qatar also stands on the site of the former palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim al-Thani -- son of the founder of modern Qatar.The palace has been restored as part of the massive project.

The museum, which officials say celebrates Qatar's Bedouin past and energy-rich present, also reflects the country's massive wealth and ambition.

- 'Post-blockade identity' -

And as well as an architectural and cultural statement, the new museum is also a political one by the Qataris.

It is among a growing list of spectacular buildings in Qatar, including the recently opened national library and Museum of Islamic Art further along the corniche.

The national museum is also the latest in the cultural "arms race" and soft power course among Gulf nations, which includes Nouvel's Louvre in Abu Dhabi opened to huge fanfare in 2017, designed to show-off the progressive aspects of the various competing emirate states.

And for Qatar, the museum's delayed opening -- originally scheduled for 2016 -- has given it a chance to reinforce its national identity from other Gulf states, say experts.

Since June 2017, Qatar has been diplomatically and economically blockaded by neighbouring former allies, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, accused among other things of supporting terrorism.

Qatar rejects all charges and says the blockade is an attack on its sovereignty.

The bitter dispute has fractured long-standing Gulf alliances and the new museum will allow Qatar to reinforce its separateness from its rivals, says Sigurd Neubauer, a Middle East analyst based in Washington.

"On the basic level the museum represents Qatari identity which has really accelerated in the post-blockade environment," he said.

At the same time as the reputation of Doha's rivals appear "inward-looking and regressive", because of incidents like the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Qatar's standing is the "opposite", adds Neubauer.

"It's really not about the building, Qatar is trying to create an environment and national identity that provides a space towards independent thinking.

"It is doubling down on its own progressive reforms."

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[quote author=Aifedayo post=76877134]7. WE SHOULD NEITHER WEAKEN NOR SLACKEN:
Allah says :

قَدۡ خَلَتۡ مِن قَبۡلِكُمۡ سُنَنٞ فَسِيرُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَٱنظُرُواْ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ

Many similar ways (and mishaps of life) were faced by nations (believers and disbelievers) that have passed away before you (as you have faced in the battle of Uhud), so travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who disbelieved (in the Oneness of Allah, and disobeyed Him and His Messengers).
-Surah Aal-E-Imran, Ayah 137

هَٰذَا بَيَانٞ لِّلنَّاسِ وَهُدٗى وَمَوۡعِظَةٞ لِّلۡمُتَّقِينَ

This (the Quran) is a plain statement for mankind, a guidance and instruction to those who are Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V. 2:2).
-Sura Aal-E-Imran, Ayah 138

وَلَا تَهِنُواْ وَلَا تَحۡزَنُواْ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلۡأَعۡلَوۡنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ

So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be superior (in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers.
-Sura Aal-E-Imran, Ayah 139

إِن يَمۡسَسۡكُمۡ قَرۡحٞ فَقَدۡ مَسَّ ٱلۡقَوۡمَ قَرۡحٞ مِّثۡلُهُۥۚ وَتِلۡكَ ٱلۡأَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيۡنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَلِيَعۡلَمَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنكُمۡ شُهَدَآءَۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

If a wound (and killing) has touched you, be sure a similar wound (and killing) has touched the others. And so are the days (good and not so good), We give to men by turns, that Allah may test those who believe, and that He may take martyrs from among you. And Allah likes not the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers).
-Sura Aal-E-Imran, Ayah 140

Do not be downtrodden, do not slacken in your acts of worship. Allah will give victory to His people and grant them way out of every difficulty.

8. WE HAVE A MAULAH:
It is important that we learn that Allah turns event and that does not in any way mean that Allah has abandoned us. We have a maulah and they have no maulah.

ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَوۡلَى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَأَنَّ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ لَا مَوۡلَىٰ لَهُمۡ

That is because Allah is the Maula (Lord, Master, Helper, Protector, etc.) of those who believe, and the disbelievers have no Maula (lord, master, helper, protector, etc.).
-Surah Muhammad, Ayah 11

9. WE SHOULD RETURN BACK TO ALLAH:

Islam will be victorious but our victory and success will come only if we do not engage in the sins committed by the disbelievers. Umar bn khattab said to the soldiers that:

“You must know that our victory came not because of our strength or numbers but because we do not commit sins that they disbelievers perpetrate, for if we were to commit it, we will not have upper hand over them.


We ask Allah to not make our generation like us, pardon our misdeeds and grant us a way out of every difficulty.

Jazakallahu khayran
Wa salaamun alaykum,
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source: www.lifeelementsng.com

Jazahka Allah Khaira.

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The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max flight desperately scoured a handbook to find out why the jet was plummeting downwards but ran out of time before it crashed into the Java Sea, killing everyone on board.

According to three people who have heard a cockpit voice recording from the aircraft, the captain and first officer on board the ill-fated flight JT610 searched through checklists in a race against time after the jet warned them it was in a stall and pushed the nose down in response.

It has also emerged that an off-duty pilot riding along in the aircraft just a day earlier helped another crew save the plane from the same issue.

The investigation into the crash in Indonesia in October 2018, which killed all 189 people on board, has taken on new relevance since the model was grounded last week after a second deadly accident in Ethiopia on 10 March.

According to a preliminary report issued in November, the first officer on board the Lion Air flight last year reported a “flight control problem” to air traffic control just two minutes after take-off and said the pilots intended to maintain an altitude of 5,000 feet.

The captain, who was at the controls, asked the first officer to check the quick reference handbook, which contains checklists for abnormal events, the first source with knowledge of the cockpit recording said.

For the next nine minutes, the jet warned the pilots it was in a stall and pushed the nose down in response.

The captain fought to climb, but the computer, still incorrectly sensing a stall, continued to push the nose down using the plane’s trim system, which usually ensures the aircraft flies straight and level.

The third source said: “They didn’t seem to know the trim was moving down. They thought only about airspeed and altitude. That was the only thing they talked about.”

The pilots of JT610 remained calm for most of the flight, the three sources told Reuters, and near the end the captain asked the first officer to fly while he checked the manual for a solution.

As the 31-year-old captain tried in vain to find the right procedure in the handbook, the 41-year-old first officer was unable to control the plane, two of the sources said.

“It is like a test where there are 100 questions and when the time is up you have only answered 75,” one of the sources said. “So you panic. It is a time-out condition.”

The Indian-born captain was said to be silent at the end before the plane hit the water, while the Indonesian first officer said “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”, a common Arabic phrase in the majority-Muslim country that can be used to express shock or distress.


Forensics investigators and recovery teams at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 on 12 March 2019 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. (Getty Images)
The cause of the crash has not been determined, but a preliminary report mentioned the Boeing system, a faulty, recently replaced sensor, and the airline’s maintenance and training.

Boeing Co declined to comment while the investigation is ongoing, but the manufacturer said there was a documented procedure to handle the situation.

A different crew on the same plane the evening before encountered the same problem but solved it after running through three checklists.

However they did not pass on all of the information about the problems they encountered to the next crew, the November report said.

Two of the sources said a captain at Lion Air’s full-service sister carrier, Batik Air, was riding along in the cockpit and told the crew how to disable the malfunctioning flight-control system and save the plane.

His presence on that flight, first reported by Bloomberg, was not disclosed in the preliminary report.

The report also did not include data from the cockpit voice recorder, which was not recovered from the ocean floor until January.

French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Tuesday the flight data recorder in the Ethiopian crash that killed 157 people earlier this month showed “clear similarities” to the Lion Air disaster.

Since the Lion Air crash, Boeing has been pursuing a software upgrade to change how much authority is given to the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS – a new anti-stall system developed for the 737 MAX.

Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesian investigation agency KNKT, said the report could be released in July or August as authorities attempted to speed up the inquiry in the wake of the Ethiopian crash.

On Wednesday, he declined to comment on the cockpit voice recorder contents, saying they had not been made public.

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The new Koenigsegg Jesko is presented during the press day at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show Credit: Martial Trezzini/Keystone
The dying years of the internal combustion age will be remembered as a power and speed-crazed celebration of excess, with car makers competing to build the fastest and most powerful cars: the quickest around the Nurburgring test track in Germany; the first to lap Silverstone as fast as an F1 car; and, in Christian von Koenigsegg’s case, the first to pass the 300mph mark.

Born in Stockholm in 1972, von Koenigsegg succeeded where many have failed: he built his own supercar company to rival the big players. Founded in 1994, the first Koenigsegg was delivered in 2002 and the company has continued to independently develop clever and beautifully made cars ever since. Clever and beautifully made and very fast.

There will be 125 of the new Jesko made (price tag, a cool $3m), 85 of which have already been sold, according to the company. The car is reportedly capable of reaching 300mph - unimaginably fast when you consider F1 cars reach around 210mph and Le Mans sports cars around 240mph.


The new super car is the first to lap Silverstone as fast as an F1 car and the first to pass the 300mph mark Credit: Stefan Wermuth/ Bloomberg
Then again, they are set up to go fast all the way around a track, the corners included, hence all the upside-down aeroplane wings that push them on the track, but generate enormous ‘drag’ also, which holds them back on the straights.

What you need are wings that pop themselves out of the way when you no longer need them, but ‘moveable aerodynamic aids’ are banned in racing. Not on road cars like the Jesko, however.

Since the 1980s, the speed record for a production car has crept up over 200mph. Christian von Koenigsegg’s cars have held the record twice; in 2004 with the CCR model at 241mph and since 2017 with the Agera RS at 277mph.

Nobody seems especially keen to beat that mark, but that’s not stopping von Koenigsegg wanting to put it beyond anyone with the Jesko.


There will be 125 of the new Jesko made (price tag, a cool $3m), 85 of which have already been sold, according to the company Credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Like any Koenigsegg, the Jesko is impressive, given the comparative scale of the company — especially if that comparison is with top-speed rival Bugatti which is a division of Volkswagen and was allowed to run at a staggering loss in its early days, just so long as VW had bragging rights.

Not that Bugatti/VW have had them in a while; they appear to be happy to let Koenigsegg fight it out with other independents for the title of world’s fastest car. The latest Bugatti is actually slower than some versions of its predecessor.

So what does the Jesko have that will allow it to keep accelerating where the Agera ran out? Two things; less drag and more power. The energy required to overcome drag increases to the power of three, the faster a car goes.

There are then two Jeskos; one that’s biased towards track use with more down force (and so more drag) and one that’s aimed at 300mph with less down force and less drag. And lots and lots of power.


Born in Stockholm in 1972, von Koenigsegg succeeded where many have failed: he built his own supercar company to rival the big players Credit: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg
In a world of expensive and complex hybrid engines — like in the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari, Porsche 918 and the recently announced Aston Martin Valkyrie — where an internal combustion engine is assisted by an electric motor, the engine in the Jesko is superficially old-school.

The engine block is from a Ford, but has been developed beyond recognition by von Koenigsegg and his engineers. Twin-turbocharged, it produces 1262bhp on standard super-unleaded.

That’s probably not enough for 300mph, but flush that out and refill with petrol/ethanol blend E85 and the Jesko’s output increases to 1578bhp and that might be. But take note, that’s more than two and a half times the output of the famous McLaren F1 which reached 221bhp in 1993.

Will the Jesko do it? Well if there’s one trait that has differentiated Koenigsegg from other supercar building wannabes is that when its 46-year-old founder says he’s going to do something, he usually does it.

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