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miss bon: yea I get u, I think u shuld just use the pgd to get the visa and wen u get to canny, u can switch. It's safer dat way

[quote author=nrd_geek]Yeah ... guess I'd have to start looking for a new school pronto [/quote]On a second thought, I hope the Canadians don't use the UK system where you have to get sponsored by a school to get a visa. In this system, you can apply for a visa based on your sponsor and only attend the school that sponsors you. Interestingly, you're required to register with your sponsor school immediately you arrive the UK and both the school and the UKBA are 'expected' to keep tabs on you all through your studies. If this is the case, then your suggestion might get compromised.

miss bon: yea I get u, I think u shuld just use the pgd to get the visa and wen u get to canny, u can switch. It's safer dat way

Yeah ... guess I'd have to start looking for a new school pronto

canrelocate: In a literal context, it might be really difficult to get a study permit for an ordinary diploma after you've obtained a Masters degree because it just doesn't make a logical sense with reality. Besides, you're intending to take the diploma in a field that is completeley different from your previous area of experience/expertise. That being said, if you can create a logical relation of your past (possibly related work experience that could have motivated you to want to change your area of proficiency), a miracle can still happen. Also, these days, I am not too sure if the stringency in the application process at The Canadian Deputy High Commission in Lagos has not been compromised - so anything can still happen.

If your original intention is to immigrate and not necessarily for study, there might be other legitimate route that can still accommodate your circumstance - but I can only make suggestions after knowing some more details about your circumstance. I wish you very best.

You've got it bang on the money mate. Immigration is my genuine intention and I got a family in Calgary.

miss bon: i think you shuld try to get a pgd for better chances so there wont be problems

Thank you very kiindly
It's just that I'd love to be in Calgary because I got family there and the course content of the Energy Asset Management seems to suit me perfectly . On the other hand, I wouldn't like a Visa Officer asking why I'm going for an ordinary diploma when I already have a masters.

miss bon: whats the duration of the diploma?

It's a 2 year diploma only it's not a postgraduate diploma.

[quote author=nrd_geek]Please house I need your help urgently. I'm a graduate with a masters degree in law from UK. I intend to go for a diploma in Energy Asset Management at SAIT. I wouldn't know if this might cause a problem with Canadian High Commission getting visa from Nigeria because my diploma is not a postgraduate diploma.

Could there be a problem applying for visa for an ordinary diploma after having a masters?[/quote]Someone please help

Please house I need your help urgently. I'm a graduate with a masters degree in law from UK. I intend to go for a diploma in Energy Asset Management at SAIT. I wouldn't know if this might cause a problem with CDHC getting visa from Nigeria because my diploma is not a postgraduate diploma.

Could there be a problem applying for visa for an ordinary diploma after having a masters?

Hmm .. nice.
Picture of Trenchard hall looks very old though. One of the mandem might even be my old uncle .. #justsaying

To maintain your whites:

Make sure u soak them in hot boiled water with a good detergent. If you use a washing machine, you'll notice that the settings for whites takes the water temperature to 90 degrees, that's to effectively remove stains.

I know that detergents sold in the UK have enzymes that help break down stains. I think they are usually labeled 'Bio'. I wouldn't know if the Nigerian ones have them. I noticed that when I use these detergents, regardless of whether I washed with my hands or with the machine, my whites turn out spotless. Adverts for detergents categorically boast of their effectiveness to remove tough stains at "as low as 45 degrees". This means that, ordinarily, you need high temperatures to keep whites white.

Please, get yourself a coated or stainless steel steam iron as well.

Pile up the goals Liverpool

Yes mehn ... ! heres one more True Red signing in

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Some bloke walked up to me and told me I couldn't take pictures in here without permission from management. I simply asked if it was a private enterprise or built by government (I was getting pissed off), he says it's built by government but I'd require permission nonetheless. I there and then disagreed with him and had to school him that since the market was built by government, it was a public place and as a Nigerian citizen I need no permission to take pictures in public. I then told him I was a lawyer and he backed off. Although I had planned to use my big DSLR camera for a change, I resorted to use my phone as I didn't want to attract any more attention.

Chuksphil2go: The only city in SW is former capital of nigeria, Lagos and its bc of what federal govt,corporate bodies and international communities invested in the city.
The rest are shanties like Ibadan the only fine building there is Cocoa House anoda is UI community 90% of the buildings there are mud houses with rusted zincs,poor skyline,dirty residents,poor transportation system,poor housing...beggars outnumber givers,illiteracy is at its peak.
Akure try shaa but lack of urban renewal its the bane,for Abeokuta all the money stolen from the coffers of FG dat was invested there yet it still look like ancient ruins...Ado and Oshogbo are glorified villages,these 2 are regarded as old pple's home.

Kaduna is good,jos used to be good but Kano is the worst place in the world someone will ever tink of residing.

PHC lacks proper planning and traffic holdup is a perpetual nightmare with alot of cult activities and high cost of living.

Calabar,Enugu,Owerri,Uyo, are gud to raise kids and live a decent lifestyle but dough aint flowing there.

Onitsha,Aba,Nnewi are too busy but with best of accomodations.modern streets and beautiful housing system,biz opportunities,perfect competition,low cost of living but sparing crime rate in the first n second aint encouraging but still minimal.
Warri is too chaotic like PH wit the same cult activities and oda vices

Erm ... just asking, did you spend time in all these cities to have informed judgment?

In no particular order:

1. Kano (never been there)
2. Port Harcourt (lived there)
3. Ibadan (Spent time there with family)

Other impressive cities
* Benin (spent time there with family)
* Maiduguri before Boko Haram (spent time there, a well planned beautiful city with tree lined roads)
* Calabar (never been there but penciled it down)

OAU - Great(old) structures but mediocre landscaping
ABU - Okay structures with fantastic landscapining

She's fine but a lot of Igbo girls I see everyday on the streets are way finer.

In The State vs the Ivory Trumpet Publishing Coy Ltd and 3 ors, a newspaper called the Weekly Trumpet, that was allegedly associated with the National Party of Nigeria was accused of having published in its August 24 -September 7, 1980 edition a story entitled "Just Before the Battle" in which the former Anambra state Governor, Jim Nwobodo was described as "keeping and spending party money without account."
The presiding judge, Emmanuel Araka, then CJ of Anambra state, dismissed the charge and held that "sedition law does not punish someone who makes a publication that merely embarrasses the Government or the Governor". He further upheld the right of every individual to the freedom of expression as provided by Section 36(1) of the 1979 Constitution.

In Arthur Nwankwo vs The State, Chief Nwankwo, was charged for sedition for writing a book titled "How Jim Nwobodo Rules Anambra state" in which he allegedly accused Chief Nwobodo of tyranny and corruption. The Onitsha High Court presided over by Justice F. O. Nwokedi found Nwankwo guilty and sentenced him to 12 months imprisonment. When the case went on appeal, the Court of Appeal, Enugu, comprising Alfa Belgore, JCA (as he then was), Olajide Olatawura, JCA (as he then was) and Aikawa, JCA (as he then was) over-turned the ruling of the lower court, and made far-reaching pronouncements about the unconstitutionality of the law of sedition, to the extent of its inconsistency with Section 36 of the 1979 Constitution. This has since then been the position of the law, further upheld by Justice Musiliu Ope-Agbe of the Lagos High Court in Chief Gani Fawehinmi vs Inspector-General of Police and five others.

Culled from an article written by Reuben Abati in 2006
http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/columnists/who-is-afraid-of-sedition.html

Absolutely unnecessary. Sedition is only suitable for ancient monarchies. It is a redundant law in any democracy, although sedition is still part of our criminal laws: Sec 50(1)-(2) of the Criminal Code for Southern Nigeria and Sec 416 of the Penal Code for Northern Nigeria.

It was the colonialists that put these provisions in our Laws to curb the wave of nationalism in colonial Nigeria. Notwithstanding, progressive Judges had always taken the position that these Laws had no place in an independent Nigeria.

Top & Middle: Newly built NEPA market
Below: Highway Parking lot. One of the many parking lots built to accompany the road dualisation

Still Inner city.
Not much but not filthy either. Like how they planted trees on the side of the roads.

Inner City Akure
Somewhere after the High Court, I suppose.

Random pictures of some old buildings in the city

Top: Old Wema building.
There's a building beside this Wema building that was supposedly burnt down during the "wetie" palaver of the old western region.
Below: Oba market (Oja Oba)

Top: Back view of Oba market (Oja Oba)
Below: Akure townsfolk

Top: Pedestrian Bridge & Oba's Market reconstructed by the Agagu regime (to the right)
Below: Akure Central Mosque