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Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 3:44pm On Feb 13, 2016 |
bhanjjie: It's not complicated at all, you just go through the process online, so long as you meet the requirement for continued stay - in my case, I enrolled for another programme of study. |
Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 9:01am On Feb 13, 2016 |
erictack203: Sorry, I guess I got carried away since I just completed my visa renewal from within Australia. Yes, you're quite right, its paper applications through Teleperformance. Then again, I think you should have an immiaccount because I had one opened for me by my agent, then. |
Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 4:43am On Feb 13, 2016 |
Nony1: Please peruse this page: http://www.studyandscholarships.com/search/label/australia Kind Regards nrd_geek |
Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 4:35am On Feb 13, 2016 |
Franzeez: It is better to upload any further particulars through your immiaccount. Do you have an immiaccount? or did you apply through paper application? |
Culture / Re: Yoruba Obas: I Stand By My Ranking — Alake by nrdgeek: 1:00pm On Feb 10, 2016 |
9jacrip: Your analogy does not stand when challenged by accurate facts. The Oooni does not even come close to the place of a 'father' in this supposed 'family analogy'. When Oranyan left Ife in an expedition against Mecca, he left all his treasures in Ife and made the High priest, Adimu 'caretaker' of the throne and the royal charms. Note that the Ooni is not even of the bloodline of Oduduwa or Oranmiyan, for that matter. Here's an excerpt from Samuel Johnson, History of the Yorubas, one of the earliest and forthright accounts of Yoruba history: When Oranmiyan was sufficiently strong, he set off for an expedition against "Mecca" to which he summoned his brothers, to avenge the death of their great-grand- father, and the expulsion of his party from that city. He left Adimu one of his father's trusty servants in charge of the royal treasures and the charms, with a strict injunction to observe the customary worship of the national gods Idi and Orisa Osi. This is an office of the greatest importance pertaining to the King himself • but how slaves or high servants are often entrusted with the duties of the master himself is well-known in this country as we shall see in the course of this history. We don't want any revisionist history, please. |
Celebrities / Re: TY Bello Photographs An Agege Bread Seller Into Fame by nrdgeek: 2:25am On Feb 01, 2016 |
Moneyweborn: Kinda, sorta ... He's got his own record and fashion label 'Disturbing London'. That's why TY captioned most of the shoots 'Disturbing Lagos' |
Celebrities / Re: TY Bello Photographs An Agege Bread Seller Into Fame by nrdgeek: 2:16am On Feb 01, 2016 |
Moneyweborn: And do you honestly think Tinie Tempah is a model or don't you recognize he's a star British Nigerian musician visiting Lagos? At least you must have heard his popular song 'written in the stars', or haven't you? |
Politics / Mind Blowing: How Most Of Colonial Europe Financially Raped Their Colonies by nrdgeek: 7:31am On Nov 30, 2015 |
Colonialism is one of those things you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company – at least not north of the Mediterranean. Most people feel uncomfortable about it, and would rather pretend it didn’t happen. In fact, that appears to be the official position. In the mainstream narrative of international development peddled by institutions from the World Bank to the UK’s Department of International Development, the history of colonialism is routinely erased. According to the official story, developing countries are poor because of their own internal problems, while western countries are rich because they worked hard, and upheld the right values and policies. And because the west happens to be further ahead, its countries generously reach out across the chasm to give “aid” to the rest – just a little something to help them along. If colonialism is ever acknowledged, it’s to say that it was not a crime, but rather a benefit to the colonised – a leg up the development ladder. But the historical record tells a very different story, and that opens up difficult questions about another topic that Europeans prefer to avoid: reparations. No matter how much they try, however, this topic resurfaces over and over again. Recently, after a debate at the Oxford Union, Indian MP Shashi Tharoor’s powerful case for reparations went viral, attracting more than 3 million views on YouTube. Clearly the issue is hitting a nerve. The reparations debate is threatening because it completely upends the usual narrative of development. It suggests that poverty in the global south is not a natural phenomenon, but has been actively created. And it casts western countries in the role not of benefactors, but of plunderers. When it comes to the colonial legacy, some of the facts are almost too shocking to comprehend. When Europeans arrived in what is now Latin America in 1492, the region may have been inhabited by between 50 million and 100 million indigenous people. By the mid 1600s, their population was slashed to about 3.5 million. The vast majority succumbed to foreign disease and many were slaughtered, died of slavery or starved to death after being kicked off their land. It was like the holocaust seven times over. What were the Europeans after? Silver was a big part of it. Between 1503 and 1660, 16m kilograms of silver were shipped to Europe, amounting to three times the total European reserves of the metal. By the early 1800s, a total of 100m kg of silver had been drained from the veins of Latin America and pumped into the European economy, providing much of the capital for the industrial revolution. To get a sense for the scale of this wealth, consider this thought experiment: if 100m kg of silver was invested in 1800 at 5% interest – the historical average – it would amount to £110trn ($165trn) today. An unimaginable sum. Europeans slaked their need for labour in the colonies – in the mines and on the plantations – not only by enslaving indigenous Americans but also by shipping slaves across the Atlantic from Africa. Up to 15 million of them. In the North American colonies alone, Europeans extracted an estimated 222,505,049 hours of forced labour from African slaves between 1619 and 1865. Valued at the US minimum wage, with a modest rate of interest, that’s worth $97trn – more than the entire global GDP. Right now, 14 Caribbean nations are in the process of suing Britain for slavery reparations. They point out that when Britain abolished slavery in 1834 it compensated not the slaves but rather the owners of slaves, to the tune of £20m, the equivalent of £200bn today. Perhaps they will demand reparations equivalent to this figure, but it is conservative: it reflects only the price of the slaves, and tells us nothing of the total value they produced during their lifetimes, nor of the trauma they endured, nor of the hundreds of thousands of slaves who worked and died during the centuries before 1834. These numbers tell only a small part of the story, but they do help us imagine the scale of the value that flowed from the Americas and Africa into European coffers after 1492. Then there is India. When the British seized control of India, they completely reorganised the agricultural system, destroying traditional subsistence practices to make way for cash crops for export to Europe. As a result of British interventions, up to 29 million Indians died of famine during the last few decades of the 19th century in what historian Mike Davis calls the “late Victorian holocaust”. Laid head to foot, their corpses would stretch the length of England 85 times over. And this happened while India was exporting an unprecedented amount of food, up to 10m tonnes per year. British colonisers also set out to transform India into a captive market for British goods. To do that, they had to destroy India’s impressive indigenous industries. Before the British arrived, India commanded 27% of the world economy, according to economist Angus Maddison. By the time they left, India’s share had been cut to just 3%. The same thing happened to China. After the Opium Wars, when Britain invaded China and forced open its borders to British goods on unequal terms, China’s share of the world economy dwindled from 35% to an all-time low of 7%. Meanwhile, Europeans increased their share of global GDP from 20% to 60% during the colonial period. Europe didn’t develop the colonies. The colonies developed Europe. And we haven’t even begun to touch the scramble for Africa. In the Congo, to cite just one brief example, as historian Adam Hochschild recounts in his haunting book King Leopold’s Ghost, Belgium’s lust for ivory and rubber killed some 10 million Congolese – roughly half the country’s population. The wealth gleaned from that plunder was siphoned back to Belgium to fund beautiful stately architecture and impressive public works, including arches and parks and railway stations – all the markers of development that adorn Brussels today, the bejewelled headquarters of the European Union. We could go on. It is tempting to see this as just a list of crimes, but it is much more than that. These snippets hint at the contours of a world economic system that was designed over hundreds of years to enrich a small portion of humanity at the expense of the vast majority. This history makes the narrative of international development seem a bit absurd, and even outright false. Frankie Boyle got it right: “Even our charity is essentially patronising. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod and he can feed himself. Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish.” We can’t put a price on the suffering wrought by colonialism. And there is not enough money in the world to compensate for the damage it inflicted. We can, however, stop talking about charity, and instead acknowledge the debt that the west owes to the rest of the world. Even more importantly, we can work to quash the colonial instinct whenever it rears its ugly head, as it is doing right now in the form of land grabs, illicit financial extraction, and unfair trade deals. Shashi Tharoor argued for a reparations payment of only £1 – a token acknowledgement of historical fact. That might not do much to assuage the continued suffering of those whose countries have been ravaged by the colonial encounter. But at least it would set the story straight, and put us on a path towards rebalancing the global economy. Jason Hickel http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/27/enough-of-aid-lets-talk-reparations#comments 1 Like |
Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 1:01am On Nov 30, 2015 |
omooba2015: Let me just do a big favour: if you, or any other person intends to study Law to get a PR in Australia, please do yourself a favour and apply for a Juris Doctor (JD) instead of a Masters. A Masters will not qualify you to be admitted into any Supreme Court in Australia but a JD will. You need to be admitted to practice as a lawyer in Australia before you can be issued a 'Skilled Migration Letter' by any State Legal Admission Authority (SLAA). I and a few other people made the mistake of coming here for a Masters. Some changed to JD midway and others just got discouraged. Anyway, the JD is also a postgraduate course, it is for a 3 year duration, but you can apply for a credit transfer from your intended university. If successful, this may reduce the duration to 2 years. Whatever the case, please always call the school and have a chat with someone or, at least, send them an email. Believe me, you are better off getting all relevant info from university program representatives themselves. In the alternative, you can simply apply for academic, and Legal Practice Course, exemptions directly from Nigeria. That way, the SLAA of the State or territory you desire will advise you on the number and kind of course you must complete to be admitted to the Supreme court. Once advised, you may proceed to complete the courses in any of the accredited universities listed by the SLAA or, like in the case of the New South Wales Legal Practitioners Admission Board (LPAB) in Sydney, you may complete the required courses by enrolling and studying for the Board's own Diploma in Law course. I guarantee you that the Board's Diploma course is way cheaper but it doesn't qualify you for a visa. This means you will have to study as a correspondence and fly over to Sydney to complete your exams. Any which way, it will cost quite some cheddars. Please don't mind my replying here even though you have sent me a private mail. By so doing, I hope to fore warn any other person contemplating studying a Masters in Law for PR. You see, most education agents fail to let candidates know this fact. Whether it is intentional or an oversight, by God who made me, I do not know. But what I can tell you is that those of us here down-under have since stumbled on the knowledge that universities in Australia pay agents a commission - out of the very expensive fees paid by each student they recommend to their university. So you see, the more students they direct there, or even better, the more expensive your fees, the better for your agents. My mistake has cost me some $37,000 (AUD) in tuition fee for a 1yr Masters at UNSW. But it's all good, I've applied for the JD and got the whole 1yr of Master subtracted from JD years. Bye and large, this advice is worth $37,000 (AUD) in mistake! Now, how about that for some candid reflection. By the way, I will still reply your mail as I have LadyGuinivere's. God speed with your aspirations and all you lay your hands on. Peace, love and light 12 Likes 1 Share |
Celebrities / Re: Davido Buys 9th Car For Christmas & See Photos Of His Exotic Cars by nrdgeek: 1:59am On Nov 28, 2015 |
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Celebrities / Re: Chris Brown's Ex, Karrueche Tran Spotted In Abuja by nrdgeek: 7:01am On Nov 16, 2015 |
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Travel / Re: Photos: The Beautiful African City Of Windhoek, Capital Of Namibia by nrdgeek: 4:28am On Nov 05, 2015 |
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Travel / Photos: The Beautiful African City Of Windhoek, Capital Of Namibia by nrdgeek: 3:25am On Nov 05, 2015 |
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. The heart of Namibia, Windhoek possesses a unique charm due to its harmonious blend of African and European cultures and the friendliness of its people (Quoted from cityofwindhoek.org.na/). Central Windhoek is a 'surprisingly modern, well-groomed city' where office workers lounge around Zoo Park at lunchtime, tourists funnel through Post St Mall admiring African curios and taxis whizz around honking at potential customers. In fact, first impressions confirm that the city wouldn’t look out of place in the West. (Quoted from lonelyplanet.com). https://www.facebook.com/Africbook/posts/846478508802729 Please enjoy the pictures below: Cc: lalasticlala Ishilove Semid4lyfe Obinoscopy Justwise 1 Like 1 Share
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Politics / Re: Steer Clear Of My Charity, Kingsley Kuku Tells EFCC by nrdgeek: 11:10am On Sep 07, 2015 |
ArodewilliamsT: Johniyke2flex: Kuku is an Ijaw man from Ondo State. I will have you know that there is a significant population of Ijaws in the South West, in general, and Ondo State in particular. So now you know get how he became a powerful SA to Jonathan, don't you? |
Travel / Re: General Australian student Visa Enquiries Part 2 by nrdgeek: 1:00pm On Jul 10, 2015 |
ashioba: You will have to really do your homework very well if you want to immigrate to Australia as a lawyer - by that I mean you should read a lot on the topic. Believe me, it is quite tedious and may cost you a lot of money but besides that, it is possible. The following excerpt, from the link posted by NNBB2012, summarily explains the process as it applies to foreign lawyers (Please note that it was addressed to a UK qualified lawyer): As a lawyer you will of course be able to read the applicable Migration Regulations from which you will note that what is required is a positive skills assessment. The legislation does not explicitly require you to be admitted as a lawyer in Australia before you can be granted a 189 visa, but does require you to have a positive skills assessment, amongst other things. So, really the question is whether you can get a positive skills assessment without having been admitted as a lawyer in Australia. You have mentioned that you intend to apply for a skills assessment from either Queensland or New South Wales. On the Legal Profession Admission Board of NSW website,it says:http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/211160-solicitor-applying-visa-189-skills-assessment.html A colleague of mine just got his qualifications assessed by NSW LPAB, he is required to sit for 13 courses! When you consider it, it is similar to studying for the 3yr JD program. UTS is however arranging a boutique 2yr Masters course that will encompass these subjects. After he is done in two years, he will then be able to sit for the Practical Legal Training Course (PLT) - that's like going to the Law School all over again. I'm not too thrilled to apply for my assessment as it is - I will be doing so anyway as soon as I have the money. I'm not saying this to scare you. You see, the agents who encouraged us to apply for Masters here didn't warn us that the road to PR for lawyers, unlike the other professions, was going to be long and expensive. But what can I say, I have laid my hands on the plow, there is no looking back now. Best wishes in your quest for PR. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Gabriel Suswam, Segun Aganga And PDP Chieftain Tony Anenih Flee Nigeria by nrdgeek: 7:35am On May 30, 2015 |
If the bolded part is true, which I find kinda corny, then Buhari must be a mean MOFO. |
Politics / Gabriel Suswam, Segun Aganga And PDP Chieftain Tony Anenih Flee Nigeria by nrdgeek: 4:26am On May 30, 2015 |
A Nigerian minister, Segun Aganga, PDP chieftain, Tony Anenih and the Governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam today departed Nigeria on a British Airways flight out of the Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport apparently to avoid getting caught. The three were last seen boarding the BA flight scheduled for an 8:00am departure to London. Sahara Reporters Media http://saharareporters.com/2015/05/29/benue-governor-gabriel-suswam-segun-aganga-and-pdp-chieftain-tony-anenih-flee-nigeria |
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