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@ Poster
I dont understand you. What exactly are you saying or asking for now. Get to the point.

whao!

Well done! uncle Fash. Keep the good work.

May be there is hope for Nigeria after all.

Sorry, you have not told us why you want to move from where you are now (I guess is US Virgin Islands – St. Croix). And what exactly are you planning to come and do in Lagos or Cotonou. Give us some details, and then you may get some good advice. I guess a lot of Nigerians might not see the sence in your relocation.

Nice pics.

You never give up man! haba. This is your second thread of the same topic. Looks like you are very desperate.

Anyway, I am not interested, and nobody I know is.

I guess also that most people in nairaland know all the embassies addresses and their visa requirements. So if you have any better information that we don’t already have, or if there is any special service you want to give, tell us here otherwise, Waka!

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Guylan:
@ Poster

Can you post more airlines that fly this route? Once you have a Jamaican entrance visa, is South African and Brazilian transit visa a requirement to fly this route. Will appreciate your reply.

No, you don’t need transit visa to fly any of the routes. But you need to have your confirmed tickets all the way to your final destination- Jamaica. Please note that there is no direct flight from Brazil to Jamaica. If you must avoid US flights and go through route that are transit visa free, your best bet (shortest) is to travel from Brazil to Jamaica through Panama with Copa airline. My advice is. Get a good flight agent tell them about the routes and the airlines, they will confirm it for you. Also check all the routes online yourself.

Hey! I must tell you I didn’t come to Jamaica through this route (came in via UK), but some people have. It’s a long journey and might cost you a little more than going through Europe and US. But if you like adventure, you will enjoy it. One other thing, You must monitor your luggage at each transit point after you have already check it down to Jamaica while you are leaving Nigeria.


Again I want to say. Confirm from the airlines and reputable flight agents. Good luck.

Chuksab:
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here comes another scam advert!!!

at least its better than bellview.

Somehow it looks like a good option for us to divide, may be each region will develop quicker, that is if we have sound and patriotic leadership like Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, and Zik of Africa. But it might be worse if the same set of leadership we have now will be the same people leading each region.

Having said all this, I know for sure that NIGERIA WILL NEVER DIVIDE, no matter what anybody says or wish. For as long as there is crude oil in Niger Delta. No way! By the time the oil finish, there would be no reason to divide. Bottom line: The whole agitation for division /resource control is base on the petrol$.

I don’t think women should just be given a chance. Don’t get me wrong, I mean a woman president should emerge naturally, not just a figure head, or someone put in office as a result of sympathy for womanhood. I believe if we have an inspiring woman that can command the respect of all Nigerians (male and female) then Nigeria will vote for her.

For now, the big question is; how many women can command that respect? Dora? (Not sure, think I can still find a lot better men than her)

So women should step up their games if any of them want to be president

@ Poster
-Nigerian President Returns After Saudi Visit-

Who cares, if he comes back or not? Who sent him to Saudi in the first place? Weather he is in Nigeria or Saudi does it make any difference.
Ok, if what you want is for me to welcome him, help me give me my warmest (_{coldest actually}) greetings. E kabo.

Considering the complexity of Lagos and how difficult it is to please majority of Lagosians, then i will say Fasola scored above average.

What Ripples? Who is causing it? Are they not all the same in the presidency? They are just looking for ways to save their ugly faces because 2011 is around the corner. I beg lets talk about something else.

I hear all of you. I await the first legislator that will move the motion for its legalization. Am sure his name will be more disgusting than that of Abacha. I beg not in NIGERIA. The reason why I think it was legalize in the western countries is because most of their leaders are homosexual or bisexual.

@ topgun

I will see you there. Thanks.

@ poster

why not contact the Nigeria embassy there. They might help.

janykute:
You see,i was about telling you to move out from that place if you dont see a nigerian in the next couple of days but now that you have seen them that means its habitable.

Thanks Janykute. I kenew Nigerians will be here, just didnt know how to locate them. Beside I knew there are so many of us in the capital Kingston, was only looking for those in Montego Bay.

I think this piece by Mr Reuben Abati says it all.

At 49, The World Is Passing Us By
By Reuben Abati

By this time next week, Nigeria would have celebrated its 49th anniversary as an independent nation: there will be speeches, prayer sessions, the same old hollow rituals. Almost immediately after, you may expect talks about Nigeria at 50, the landmark, golden anniversary that is bound to come up in October 2010. When Ghana marked its golden jubilee in 2007, there was universal consensus that the country deserved to roll out the drums. But this year, ahead of Nigeria's 50th, what is there to celebrate? This is the same land that produced King Jaja of Opobo, Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, Othman Dan Fodio, Queen Amina, Queen Idia, Oduduwa, men and women of valour who stood for something and whose legacies have since become part of the historiography of a country that emerged long after they passed through here. But today, what have we the new generation done with the legacies of leaders past, and with all the opportunities for greatness that abound in our land? This is what should occupy our minds as we look forward to Nigeria's 49th independence anniversary, not the opportunity to award contracts, or to supply small chops at banquets, sew clothes for the emperors and their wives, not the holiday to sit at home and return to work later like our forgetful Federal Ministers after the recent Eid el Fitri holiday. The truth is that the world is passing us by. At 49, we are a nation of malcontents. When last did anyone tell a happy national story made on Nigerian soil?

I am not talking about the achievements of Nigerian-born children of other nationalities who are resident in other lands, or others who are recording breakthroughs because they are far away from this land, but something that is home-made. I can't immediately recall any striking example in the last two years. We mark the country's 49th birthday against the background of stories about rape, kidnapping, murder in broad daylight, election rigging, corruption, and general anarchy. The average Nigerian is despondent. The national mood is dour. Our country has been rebranded into a country of fraudulent bank CEOs and criminal debtors. The world used to talk about plain 419 scams, but we have now added political 419 and banking 419 to the national profile. Nothing describes our failure as a country better than the woeful performance of our national football teams in recent international tournaments.

The only thing that used to bring us joy: football: we have lost it! In 2010, the year of Nigeria's 50th anniversary, the World Cup will be held in Africa. Not in Nigeria. But in South Africa. And Nigeria may not even be there. How nice it would have been for Nigeria to win the World Cup in the year 2010. But we cannot. We cannot even host football tournaments anymore without causing other people heartaches. FIFA had to advise Nigeria to borrow a leaf from Egypt's current hosting of the U-20 youth tournament (Sept 24- Oct. 16) to learn what it needs to do to host the U-17 in October. Less than a month to that event, we are not ready. And to think that we wanted to host the 2010 World Cup, but as in everything else, we bungled that too and lost out to South Africa, obviously a better organised country.

Our representatives in Egypt played so badly on Friday, some persons felt like smashing up their television sets. Ball possession was 61%-39% in favour of Nigeria but still we lost the match 0-1 to Venezuela. We collected 4 yellow cards and one red card, Venezuela none. We may not go past the first round of the U-20 tournament. Our next match is against Spain which has trounced Tahiti 8-0. I am not too sure we can dent a hole in the Spanish defence. Other African countries in the tournament: Egypt, Cameroon, South Africa, and Ghana are likely to do better than Nigeria. The example of Ghana is particularly saddening. Nigerians used to laugh at Ghana as an inferior and small country. That was in the 70s and early 80s: the golden age of Nigerian nationhood. But today, Ghana is held up as an example that Nigeria should emulate. Ghana's democracy, education system, social infrastructure network are now pushed in our faces as representing the kind of standards we should have. Citizens and companies in Nigeria are relocating to Ghana. For us, the grass is greener on the other side, but while the neighbours watered theirs, we left ours to waste.

What happened on Friday in Egpyt says it all about Nigeria. Nigerians are very good as individuals. Each one of us can kick a ball and metaphorically, manoeuvre it but we lack team spirit. Everyone is a big man or big woman. When Chinyere Igwe, that rude member of the House of representatives told the security guard he assaulted: "Don't you know who I am?," he was voicing out a national pattern. In religion, business, the professions, and interpersonal relations, Nigerians are too ego-driven. One religious group thinks that it is better than the other, so there is a violent clash. One ethnic group resolves that it must have a better share of the national cake than others, and that leads to ethnic conflict. One political party thinks it has a divine right to hold on to power forever, and other political parties are furious, and in due course, the politicians go on a killing spree. This is why for 49 years the Nigerian conversation has been such a shouting match of egos that it ends up in violence, trickery, and the tyranny of a few privileged ones. Nonetheless, individuals have done much better than the country. Some of our people are among the best in the world: this is still the land of Olaudah Equiano, the land that produced Things Fall Apart and Chinua Achebe, the country of Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate in Literature, Benjamin Olukayode Osuntokun, a World Gold Medallist in Medicine, Philip Emeagwali, winner of global distinction in supercomputing, But we can no longer fully celebrate or appreciate individual achievements because as a nation we have for 49 years lived a lie.

When Fanny Amun once said that Nigeria in a particular football tournament will "fumble and wobble" to the final, we all laughed at the phrase and we have been quoting it ever since. But the man was defining our national characteristic. For 49 years we have been "fumbling and wobbling." That is why we may not be going to the World Cup in 2010. That is why the Flying Eagles will crash out of the U-20 tournament in Egypt. It is why our President is not in New York attending the most important meeting of world leaders in the year. That is why Nigerian public universities have been shut down for more than three months and government is not bothered. That is why our politicians rig elections and turn them into life and death matters, and they call that "home-grown democracy." Which African country is in the G20? It is not Nigeria, it is South Africa. What is the Nigerian ideology? What is our collective vision of the future? Vision 2010? Vision 20: 2020? Catch-phrases do not build nations. Human beings do. All our best moments are in the past, including the old National Anthem which is better than the current "hip hop hey" anthem that nobody takes seriously. We may have recorded some sucesses in the past through our strange mode of work, but the world has since moved on. There is no room for sheer luck anymore. Global competition is stiff. There is greater emphasis on hardwork and productivity. We simply slipped off as a country.

What the Manchester United- Manchester City local derby of the other week has shown with the former scoring an extended extra-time goal to run away with a controversial 4-3 victory, is that in any match it is the referee that determines when a match is over and a race does not end until it actually ends. In the world today, even in Africa, Nigeria is not one of the referees. We are at the mercy of other referees. We can't produce and distribute enough electricity to keep our industrial sector going. We are a nation of importers. We consume anything that is made abroad, and yet all our factories are shutting down. We lack basic infrastructure to make this country modern and liveable. For 49 years we have boasted that we are the world's sixth largest producer of crude oil and because of that the country stopped being productive as all our institutions chose to rely on petrol dollar. Now, that petrol dollar may be heading elsewhere. Oil multinationals have found fuel in Chad, Ghana, and somewhere off the coast of Sierra Leone and a more conducive environment in Angola. With all the crises in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's crude oil brings too much trouble. Crude oil that we can't even refine locally for the people's benefit.

Nigerians, as a collective, are also gradually slipping into the lazy mode. We worship money, no longer skills or intellect. And yet what the crisis in the banking sector has shown is that the Nigerian nouveaux riche do not necessarily work for their money. You don't have to be clever to be rich, just be smart. A nation of a few rich men and women whose area of expertise is in beating any system at all is bound to end up with the kind of contradictions that Nigeria is faced with. American security and law enforcement agencies are looking for hundreds of Nigerians who have compromised the American system criminally. In China, Nigerians are on the death row for similar reasons. Many communities in the country have been taken over by an ever-increasing population of young criminals. Inside Africa, other Africans now deride Nigeria and its people. So should we celebrate at 49, or should we engage in a serious re-think of our national processes ahead of Nigeria's 50th birthday in 2010?

In 1960 when Nigeria became independent, 17 other countries gained independence that year: Cameroon (January 1), Senegal (April 4), Togo (May 27), Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) (June 30), Somalia (July 1), Madagascar (July 26), Benin (August 1) , Niger (August 3), Burkina Faso (August 5), Cote d'Ivoire (August 7), Chad (August 11), Central African Republic (August 13), Congo (August 15), Cyprus (August 16), Gabon (August 17), Mali (September 22), Mauritania (November 28). October 1 is the day of Nigeria's independence, it is also a special day for the following countries: Cyprus and Tuvalu and more importantly, October 1 is China's National Day. The word independence simply means freedom. Are Nigerians free, 49 years after the British colonial masters lowered the Union Jack and the green-white-green flag was hoisted and the people danced all night long: Free at last, "thank God we are free at last?" This is the same country where journalists were once convicted and fined for daring to write during the colonial era that Nigeria will one day be a free country. Are we free? How free?

Look at all the countries with which we share the symbolism of 1960 and October 1. It can be said that most of them are better than Nigeria in terms of development indicators. On October 1 in China, the Chinese will be singing their country's national anthem and reviewing national progress and achievements, and the place of China in the world, many Nigerians will be busy frowning and hissing and wondering what independence means after all. Nigeria is rated among the poorest countries of the world. It is also regarded as one of the most corrupt. Its human devlopment index is low, given the frightening statistics on maternal mortality/morbidity, as well as infant mortality/morbidity and life expectancy ratios. We are, to borrow a phrase from Adebayo Williams, "a land of living ghosts." Cynics would say well it is not so bad, after all we are better than Somalia, Congo, and Gabon, and we are still the most populous and happiest country in Africa. Yeah, how about Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Cameroon, Senegal, Tuvalu, Togo where the quality of life is much better in comparison? And should we be comparing Nigeria with Mali and Mauritania? What has happened to the country of Ahmadu Bello, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Funlayo Ransome-Kuti, Fela, Ayodele Awojobi, Ben Okri, that at 49, we have to search for happy stories to tell in form of present realities and not as past achievements or untapped potentials?

In a situation such as this, a few Nigerians will ask: what should we do? We all know what is wrong with Nigeria but how do we move it forward? Quo vadis? These are stale questions. The problem with Nigeria is not about knowing what to do: the solutions are embedded in the identifiable problems, it is gettting the right people in the right positions who are willing to make a difference. Ours is, 49 years after independence, a country in search of patriots and citizens. The leaders are incompetent, the people are complex, the country itself is a question mark. The challenge is in all of us rediscovering the purpose of nationhood: Why Nigeria?

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article02/indexn3_html?pdate=270909&ptitle=At 49, The World Is Passing Us By&cpdate=270909

topgun:
theres an association of nigerians in jam there will be a gathering next week in mo bay @ westgate to celebrate independence, call this no and introduce urself +*********

Thanks Topgun. I called the number, guess what? the guy was actually around where am staying at the time of the call. We were able to meet almost immediately. infact there is a Nigerian living almost accross my house and I never knew. By the way, do you live around here?

Once again thanks.

anoda Ole, alapa ma sise. Have u finished moving all your families abroad? give your family members the papers. Ode.

Its people like Shadrach Momah that allow embassies and foreign immigrations to maltreat and harass us every time they see us carry Nigerian Passport.

Haba! 3 women in six months! Imagine him telling the immigration that in Nigeria you can receive 2 or 3 divorces in six months. Am sure those divorce papers must have been issued at “Oluwole” magistrate Court.

[center]Nigerian accused of multiple marriages[/center]

The Fraud Squad arrested a Nigerian man last week, accused of marrying three Jamaican women over a six-month period last year.

Shadrach Momah was arrested during an operation carried out by Fraud Squad detectives and officers from the immigration department.

Momah was reportedly suspected to be involved in a passport racket.

The police say they raided an office occupied by Momah on Ripon Road in St Andrew. While going through some documents, it was discovered that he had married three Jamaican women between last July and December.

One of the women was reportedly taken to Nigeria where they got married.

Investigators say documents were seized which show that Momah has been to a number of countries and has married numerous women.

Momah was then charged with bigamy and appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. He was remanded.



http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20090313/news/news7.html

My naija brother is @ it again!

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - A Nigerian man, who is said to have married three Jamaican women over a six-month period, remains in lawful custody following his appearance in a corporate area court on Thursday.

Shadrach Momah, who is facing bigamy charges, submitted divorce certificates to the court and argued that he was being wrongfully accused since t[b]he laws of his homeland allow for a divorce to be settled in a matter of weeks.[/b]
Momah was charged in March after members of the Fraud Squad and Immigration Department raided his offices and seized documents which showed that he had married three Jamaican women between July and December last year.

He reportedly took one of the women to Nigeria where they got married.

He has been remanded until June 11 to give police time to check with the Nigerian authorities on the divorce process in that country.

Momah, a former United States-based insurance agent, is also accused of preying on women in the US northwest for nearly a decade. He was deported to Nigeria in 1999 after he was arrested in the US.

It is not known when or how he entered Jamaica.



http://www.dominicanewsonline.com/all_news/caribbean/6074.html

By the way, where is he (Seun)? this one that he is not responding, i hope he has not been kidnapped. i beg o. my concern is that if them carry am all of us in nairaland might have to pay the ransome, else they start charging us in nairaland.

SEUN WHERE U DEY OOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I know he is a good and very intelligent lawyer and I love listening to him, If he is sincere, genuine and consistent over time he might just fit. Although he still has a long way to go to earn the trust and respect Papa Gani had. How many times have they imprisoned him for defending the truth and the masses? How many scholarships is he giving out? How many cases does he has in court against the anti people policies and abuse of power by the government? Too early to compare.

Not only african countries, the egunje thing they for europe and america too. afterall they taught african all the tricks.

Sine1:
is this not the guy looking for jamaican visa??

you are really a waste of time. what has your question got to do with the topic? (well if you want to know I am a Nigerian on official asssigment here in Jamaica). Dont have more time to waste with u. u r just too impossible to reason with. I have taken note of your name and i promise never to waste my time with u again.

Sine1:
We thank God for the internet Its sad because you have been complaining for 50 odd years. Well this is a new medium to let your grouses out. Strike was a thing of the past.ok o. the people demand more from behind their computer screens. Halleluyah!

Why are u on nairaland sine1? Well I will tell you why am here, to inform and be informed and share my opinion with others. Nobody is hiding behind computers. A lot of Nigerian are on this forum and they are potential force to enforce a change and transformation. I guess you see all these  exercises as a waste of time. Anyway I guess the people that will read this thread will be able to read in between the lines and pick out the facts. Just too bad that despite all you didn’t get the point of the thread i.e. why we call for Yar adua resignation