₦airaland Forum

Abeg my Lycamobile question still need answer O!
Na beg I beg O!

adaobi123:

All is well but you pay to have a seat ?

But as you can see you spent less money buying food instead of ordering takeaways all the time. Takeaways should be only once in a while. Just to save yourself a bit of money.

Nah no seat bookings
Just come in and have your meal or even call and have it delivered for like 2pounds extra
The essence of my post before I got accommodation spending and after accommodation spending was to abbakacici that its cheaper to cook than but takeaways or visit restaurants which I agree has to be once a while
After all they are out for profit and not save you money
As one of my Igbo brothers here talk, you go think say money dey when you dey live for hotel, wait make 2 weeks knack weda your eye no go clear

@ ozo_emeka, please let babyosisi have her own thread too seeing some of your replies on this thread’s front page
I followed your thread on America whilst in Nigeria and am following babyosisi's thread here in Europe and can say both threads show pessimistic and optimistic views of the same country
Let both run side by side and leave everyone make up their minds
Having been in Europe for under a month and seen how this land is so organized which I know is a reflection of the Western nations,heck why would I want to return to the organized chaos that currently prevails in Nigeria?
I now understand why many would prefer to die than be deported or why some who have lived here go through trauma when they return to Nigeria without achieving their dreams before returning
I will try my best to get my papers legitimately [many will not bat eyelids to get it by any means necessary] and God willingly be able to integrate myself in the Western world when I recall the past horrors I've faced in this life I've lived

please does anyone use Lycamobile?
i subscribed to their £5 100 minutes international plan which I've since exhausted
i cancelled the automatic resubscription but keep getting a Your request has been cancelled. You may have only one Lycamobile Favourites at any one time when I try to subscribe afresh
I guess its my prior subscription that is still reading but I see no hint on how to cancel it on Lyca's site
Please help

I know one is usually told to keep one's receipt when purchasing at most stores here
Totally alien concept to many parts of Nigeria except to show Naija men in black as evidence of wetin you carry
Very helpful I must say as I'm visiting a TKmaxx store today to return and change 3 garments or get my money back if I can't find my choice
So moral of this post is ,PLEASE KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS
Datz all

adaobi123: ^^^ but if you continue to spend that amount of money weekly, will you have any money at the end ?! Cooking for yourself is better.

So on point
There's a Naija restaurant I eat out at
Swallow meals i.e. pounded yam and Afang is £8 ,extra swallow without beef is £1. Add £1 table water and get £10 at a sitting
Rice and beaf without dodo is £6, peppersoup is £5, Star beer is £3.50 [the thing shack pass oyinbo water beer ...I leave you to do the math on how much a weekly spend will cost
All the above cos I had not moved in
Spent £300 for 8 nights in a bread and breakfast before getting accommodation

Went shopping at an African food store 2 days back and spent a little over £40 getting raw foodstuff [pepper, okra, onions, 2 moderately sized yam tubers, about 11 pieces of plantain [ripe and unripe],2 packs of dry fish and garri
Along with £3.60 diced beef [for stew sauce] ,£3.86 Tesco whole chicken, £0.29 salt, 1kg spaghetti for £0.98 and £3.50 olive oil I'm a little over £50 and doubt I can finish all the above within 2weeks save for maybe get extra beef and chicken
Now add another 1kg spaghetti and then buying rice and see the beauty in Ada's thinking
Far cheaper to cook for yourself

classyjummy: The sch resumed on 23rd asides the normal extension I had two weeks extension I have called them still saying my application is on the Queue

Hope this [two extra weeks extension] was stated in official correspondence between you and them e.g an email
Also that you included it in your application?
Cos such would help out.

The graft in Nigeria is benumbing
This is not about been Ibo or Ijaw or Hausa or Yoruba, its not about ethnicity
Its about accountability, simples!
Majority of our best hospitals [which the average man cannot afford] are at best clinics when compared to western standards
ASUU is on strike and the doctors yet Nigerian leaders keep pillaging and gorging themselves on the nation's resources yet the people keep praying to God that 'e go better' without stirring themselves to demand for what is rightfully theirs
Pathetic to say the least!

Let us see what the online ethnic FG militia will say about this call seeing many informed Nairalanders had shot holes in this minister's bag of achievements
How come the 'powerful' women [NOI, Deziani and Oduah] supposedly the pillars of the Ebele presidency have repeatedly been involved incompetence and in one scandal or another?
So much for fresh air

Deolu_1993: Hey guys do you know any good schools int the Uk that do January intake for engineering courses?this is because a friend got refused visa and would like to start in January not September. He has got good qualifications just that he was refused entry clearance.any advice about uk schools or perhaps other viable alternatives would be appreciated.thanks nlanders

Let him use http://www.educationuk.org/eduk/global/sr/course/postgraduate/engineering-and-technology/g/list.html to search out January courses or maybe April start dates because of the wintry weather in January.

Also http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/ and http://www.theguardian.com/education/universityguide to look up any potential schools rankings [though the rankings are basically geared toward undergrads]

Although most of the top schools recruit in September.

classyjummy: Please I need help,
I submitted my application on the 30th of sept and my deadline was for 14th I asked for further extension till 21st is there anything I can do I have called them and still the same answer on the queue I had friends that we submitted together and their own r bin processed already
Any advice on what to do asides to defer

What were you told when you called the BHC?
Your application was made on a rather tight time line knowing it takes minimum of 15 working days [could be less or more]
Personally, my application took 18-19 days to get back my passport though visa had been issued around 10 days
Typically, most schools give 2 weeks extension.........what were you told when you requested for 3 weeks?

Its crazy when you miss this buses mehn
And I ain't taking no taxi
Finally the bus is here

And so the decay continues

@ JideVince and Jen1,congrats on your visas
May your studies be bountiful in this kontri abi na island

@ adamsjosef,I was the chap who spoke and used the analogy of only one leper coming back to Christ to give thanks. I'm happy to see a poster as eminent as Justwise pointing out I wasn't far from the truth.
Yes it is true we are all busy here with our studies in the UK yet to shun this brook to dry up just because you've drank your fill (asked questions and recieved answers) is outright selfish and self serving (one thing Nigerians excel at).
Before I left Nigeria,I found out Justwise who for all intents and purposes is the principal rock of this thread has been aiding intending Tier 4 students since early 2011.
He could have been helping earlier than that (I know not seeing I was searching for stuff on BCIE and not on his person per se) yet he's sacrificing time, resources etc and he's not paid.
I know he might come across as overbearing at times but do you know how much we'd be paying to educational agencies if not for him!
Yet you see we (many) who he has helped start to form levels ,speak through our nose and shun others once we board LHR bound flights on our economy tickets.
Economy O!, no be even biz or first class
Abeg ,yeye dey smell

@ abbakacici,hope you dey regulate with the cold weather better now
Just to tip you before hand,that by the time winter start, your sweater go become your T-shirt.
Na so I hear

Choi
This thread don evaporate
Na wa O!
What came to my mind was the 10 lepers who came to Christ for well-being and only one returned to give thanks [read, return to help others]

fiscalcliff, Don Oms, azpunpin, awistle una congratulations
I wish the best in your endeavours
I also congrats myself
Me sef don get my visa and I o follow una rock for UK
Abeg na book we dey go read O!

Brb

winta2007: You can hardly get them on phone,and most of the journalist are selected and the questions also.

So on point
You are so on point
But what do you expect from a president who DEBATED WITH HIMSELF in the run up to the elections in 2011
Who sought expo (and was rejected) from NN24's debate and declined to show up with the excuse that NN24 was a foreign news station?
We see how well run nations conduct this sort of thing and how their people diligently follow it unlike the charade we'll see tonight

The president and his men should thread softly because history consumes those who fail to learn from it
What we see playing out today is a very similar parallel to our first republic politics where federal might was actively used to oppress and suppress the AG in the SW
Eventually 'Operation Wetie' led to 2 coups and the civil war
If GEJ dedicated half the energy used in hounding Amaechi to working, Nigeria would be a far better place.

When Pastor Tunde Bakare (God bless his soul)gave a prohesy after Buhari lost the elections, that GEJ's destiny was to BANKRUPT and BALKANISE Nigeria,I personally thought it was sour grapes from losing the elections
Fast forward 30 months and Nigeria is precariously perched on a precipice financially and inter-ethnically
Anyone who understands the celestial dynamics of power will know Goodluck will carry his 'luck' away from Aso Rock and Nigeria soon
His weak nature shines even in darkness
Jimmy Carter,Shagari Shehu and Ernest Shonekan are examples that readily spring to mind
Its just a matter of time

kayoflyf: So afta d long wait I received d message "processed visa applicatn ready fr collection....went der diz moornin and woow...ma visa wux granted

Congrats

Its not news that many a. Nigerian militant/kidnapper/Boko Haram have political godfathers
This home grown terrorists were planted as political thugs only to evolve and morph into the Frankensteins they have become
A point in example is Asari Dokubo who started from oil bunkering to ND militancy to ethnic warlord to amnesty largesse payoff now to one of GEJ's unofficial mouthpieces
LET NO ONE DECIEVE YOU THAT CRIME DOES NOT PAY IN PRESENT DAY NIGERIA
And then we wonder why many a nation tag Nigerians criminals

Billyonaire: That's a Federal Government /EcoWas Project Orile Mile 2 Environs, I got a little contract there on the CCECC part of the deal.

Stop lying please
Does this resemble the antique rail tracks and metal coffins the FG is pushing as divideds of democracy?
https://www.nairaland.com/1426341/train-experience is a nairalanders harrowing experience on one of tbem
This is an LASG project,stop claiming credit for the FG

abbakacici: Finally my passport is in transit, who is planing traveling on Friday,Saturday, or Sunday on klm,emirate or any other flight that will not cost more then 250 k return ticket , because I hate travelling alone especially the ones with long transit, my luggage will less then 30kg and I have no hand luggage so I will not mind helping him out ,

Emirates is cheaper for one way flights
For return,look to KLM, Air France and Luftansa
All 3 are cheaper than Emirates

fg17: Thanks for your response and advice Ochuko

You are welcome bro
That we never enter UK no mean say make we no plan to conquer that cold wet island even before we enter am
Even oyinbo sisi must still feel my long black limo in hin bumper
Abi na London bridge and Buckingham palace alone you wan go look?

yep,its true but note as the BBC reports that BB can choose to sell to another buyer who brings in a more favourable offer
The company said it has "signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has offered to acquire the company subject to due diligence".
The statement continued: "Diligence is expected to be complete by November 4, 2013. The parties' intention is to negotiate and execute a definitive transaction agreement by such date."
However, Blackberry said it was not in exclusive talks with Fairfax and would continue to "actively solicit, receive, evaluate and potentially enter into negotiations" with other potential buyers.

BlackBerry, the once-dominant maker of addictive smartphones that has fallen on hard times in recent years, has been sold for $4.7bn to a consortium led by Canadian firm Fairfax Financial. On Friday, the company revealed it was firing 4,500 of its staff, about 40% of its global workforce, after saying it expected to lose nearly $1bn in the three months to August on disappointing sales of new phones.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/23/blackberry-sold-fairfaix-financial

Struggling smartphone maker Blackberry has agreed in principle to be bought by a consortium led by Fairfax Financial for $4.7bn (£3bn).
Blackberry said in statement that Fairfax, its largest shareholder, had offered $9 a share in cash to buy the company.
Trading in Blackberry shares was temporarily halted in New York pending the announcement.
On Friday, Blackberry announced 4,500 jobs cuts in a bid to stem losses.
In August, the Canadian company said it was evaluating a possible sale.
The company said it has "signed a letter of intent agreement under which a consortium to be led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has offered to acquire the company subject to due diligence".
The statement continued: "Diligence is expected to be complete by November 4, 2013. The parties' intention is to negotiate and execute a definitive transaction agreement by such date."
However, Blackberry said it was not in exclusive talks with Fairfax and would continue to "actively solicit, receive, evaluate and potentially enter into negotiations" with other potential buyers.
Brian Colello, analyst at Morningstar, said that taking Blackberry private would allow the company to reorganise without being under the glare of Wall Street investors and was therefore probably a good option.
He said: "Based on the company's disastrous earnings warning on Friday, I think a deal had to happen and the sooner the better. This is probably the only out for investors and the most likely outcome.
"The benefit to this sort of takeover is the ability for Blackberry and the consortium to reinvent the company without public scrutiny. It appears that the end game is going to be whether Blackberry can emerge as a niche supplier of highly-secured phones to enterprise customers and governments."
Blackberry's financial problems came to a head this year following disappointing sales of its new Z10 model smartphone.
Released in January - after many delays - the phone has failed to enthuse consumers.
Over the summer, word trickled out the company had hired a series of advisors to help it explore options.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24214301

JideVince: Amen to that! Thanks

Amen to your Amen too

Dis Guy: in most cases you can use you NUS card as a form of I.D [ i think most uni cards are integrated with NUS logo nowadays]

you can use your NUS card to get discouts 10-20% in most shops!

Thanks for the reply
Seems its worth it going by your reply
I've noted that

Congratulations booqee on surviving your succide mission
What ever where you thinking girl
Seems you have been swallowing too much government propaganda of late
How can you mislabel what you took from Kaduna as a train?
Those metal coffins on rail tracks
If you love and value your life,PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE no repeat am O!
A word is enough for wise peeps

justwise: This will not be a problem, during your orientation you be advised to register with a GP, you do that after getting your student ID, and permanent address, all you need to do is to visit NHS center in your area and they will book appointment for you to see an optician who will tell you what to do.

Thank you Justwise, Peteafrik and others for your INVALUABLE insights
Also pete for the compliment
We (Nigerians) must jetison our fire brigade approach to succeed not only in our educational quest but in life in general
Insights supplied here help in that regard
Keep 'em coming
However can you all do please share your on the ground knowledge about the NUS
Does their NUS extra card confer extra benefits?

all4naija: That $10,000 a night hotel-room is not to expensive for a seating president. A poor bottom like me has paid $2,000 per night for two days before not to make mention of Nigerian president. The delegation is too large though.

How come is it that nations with decrepit infrastructure like Nigeria and many an African country seek out the poshest hotels whilst abroad?
Can we not have an official residence for our top brass like states have liason offices in Lagos
Many 'oyinbos' laugh at our silly attempts to impress them by our spending lavishly when those funds should have been building a road or providing healthcare
I saw a report once that queen of England owns about 20% of British land
Yet this monarch does not OWN a private jet like many Nigerian elite do but uses BA's planes to get about just like the British prime minister too (who even takes public transport to work at times)
Leaders in other nations e.g Sweden are seen patronizing shopping malls used by the common man
How come Ebele's delegations to gatherings of nations always makes headlines
Recall Rio, Addis Ababa and the commonwealth meeting in Australia
Afterwards we'll take our begging bowls to London, Washington, Paris, Beijing, Moscow,World Bank etc but never get that the joke is always on us
Shame

^^^
While I don't really know how to go about buying this gadgets in the UK,I can volunteer some sites. I've checked out e.g. clove.co.uk,amazon, ebay (please be careful to transact biz with ONLY those who have high ratings on this site until you understand how their process works),Argos, phones4U,carphonewarehouse, pcworld, laptopdirect etc
As you will see it is FAR cheaper to purchase gadgets like PC's and phones in Nigeria than the UK only that UK offers more ease and variety
Note that phones in UK as in many developed nations comes with contracts or are carrier locked unlike Nigeria which is typically unlocked and carrier free
Also from the little calculations I've done, you pay a VAT of about 20% on this items, though purchasing here in Naija will increaae your luggage weight
Please do your research well to make the best choices before leaving Naija

^^^^^^^
ABEG MAKE UNA HELP ANSWER MY QUESTION WEY DEY TOP

I use glasses and am thinking of seeing an Ophthalmologist MD to have a comprehensive look at my eyes when my boots are on UK soil
Way I figure, better facilities and a more accurate diagnosis awaits me there than here [remember the iconoclastic Gani's wrong diagnosis here]
Even thinking of doing corrective laser surgery rather than collecting glasses/spectacles if the cost isn't exorbitant
Can our UK brethren please enlighten more on Specsavers and Optical Express which I came across during my cyberspace journeys?

[size=13pt]Also can you help breakdown how our health needs [students] are taken care of over there?
Do you register with the NHS, their general hospital or what?
Please teach us out of Naija freshies

Also Justwise and those already in the system is an NUS extra card a benefit?
Please enlighten us[/size]
Thanks

njokusboy: Kai we have many waste as players in manchester united... YOUNG, valencia, kagawa, nani, anderson... They need to be flushed out before we can make progress

When the bolded 2 helped demolish Leverkusen in the champions League una no complain O!
Chei 4-nil and the match ain't yet over
Abi Fergie go come out of retirement