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DrCAA:
Hello everyone, there seems to be a DIY Part 1of this thread. I assume that's where basic information for beginners will be available. I cant find the DIY Part 1thread. Please can I be directed to the link, or, may I please have basic info and steps to follow to start the process of migrating to Australia. I am a graduate with a PhD in view, over 10yrs working experience and married with 4 children under 10yrs. Thanks already.

Check page 1 of this thread.

is the assessing authority of ur field an equivalent?
Thanks

YES!

Goodies1:
Hello everyone;
Urgent advise needed please.
Please I want to confirm which ielts is accepted for Aussie PR process: ielts academic or ielts general?

You can take any of them. They are both accepted.

Knight1:
IELTS: 9, 9, 8, 8.

Bros oh, how you take get this score?
no vex, abeg tell us the secret.

I raise my hat in salute!
Kindly share some salient tips from your experience especially as it concerns writing.

Thank you.

Opeyemiebun:
Evening guys, please I will like to seek people's opinion concerning this issue that I have in my home.

I am a married Man with a Kid. Before marriage, my wife has a federal job outside Lagos while I run my business in Lagos. Due to Nigeria's economy, I asked her not to resign as she keeps working while I also keep on with my hustle. I have to be fair to her as she has been giving her all in this marriage and I so envy her strength to make things work despite the distance.

We had our first child last year and she is going to a year.. We both contribute financially and bring something to the table as we run 2 different homes.

I know she goes through a lot taking care of the baby without a car and I know how tedious it is for her to manage.

We are both young (I am 30 while she is 28)
We got our first few properties this January and we planning to do other things as we both bring money together to get things done.

We have plans of getting our first car within a month and my wife suddenly demanded that she also needs a car where she is due to the stress she goes through daily picking my child from creche and managing that with her own job. I asked that I employ a helper for her but she doesn't want.

She plans on getting the car within the next 2months with her own money. My issue is that I am business oriented and see it as a waste of money buying 2 cars when we can buy one and invest the money for the other one.

I am a Civil Engineer and my Job requires I get a car for mobility.
I feel guilty by trying to stop her from getting the car while I get mine and at the same time, if she get one I will also need to get.

I have been cracking my head up trying to see how we can go about it without hurting her and be fair to her as she is the best woman I can ever ask for.

What should I do, should we both get cars and let other stuffs take it course?

What have you been using?
Please give her the car to ease her stress.
You are man and you have been managing.

My simple opinion.

Bodacious1:
Ok thank you. One thing I need to clarify is: who determines the points for (relevant) university qualification?

Your assessing body.

Obinnau:
I wonder why some people will decide to leave frying pan to fire.
Op why did you not do research on Dubai before applying for visa.
Dubai for the person without heavy certification and education is equals to slavery.
Better use that money and forge for your future here in Nigeria.

Good day.
Please are you talking of IT certifications? If yes, are there better prospects for people who possess such certifications (Cisco, Comptia, Microsoft etc) in Dubai?
Thanks.

u3fine:
Will BSc Botany Uniben 4 years course considered Bachelor or Associate degree?

Yes.
University of Benin is not a tier 1 university.

alimaa:
Please I need a piece of advice on how to handle this situation.

I have a very close friend and his wife has asked for financial assistance severally and I obliged. The problem I have here is what will my friend think if he should be seeing a bank alert from me on his wife's phone?

The woman has been calling my line since the beginning of this month which I have continued to ignore. She would later send text asking for financial help and this kind of situation is very confusing because you might report to her husband and they will both turn the whole thing against you.

Please what should I do?

In the first instance why is she asking you for money?

Mike4S:
I came back from the the church on Sunday only to see my apartment rummaged. My gas cylinder that I just filled, my new electric iron that is still intact in the packet, my new stainless vacuum cup, aso ebi 2 each 6 yards and Polish and brush were all carted away.

What really surprised me is my key being intact and no sign of break and enter from any part of the apartment.

Air of mystery still surrounds how my apartment was robbed.

I want to go and just drop statement with the police. Hope that one will be welcomed? Guys I need your contributions. I just packed in there. It's somewhere opposite Lagos Business School along Lekki Epe express way

Also consider that someone can get into your apartment through the ceiling. Especially if there is another flat attached to yours.

Recently, a young boy went with his friends (gang) to rob the flat attached to his aunt's own. he did this when both his aunt and her family and the neighbours had gone to church.

Olaideelect:
Same here bro..... I don't think the Ibadan centre still exists. I am considering Lagos now.

Had to travel over five hours from Warri to Lagos to sit the exam. The associated stress is becoming top much with the reduction in the spread of centres across Nigeria.

yungmin:
Are you sure about this? From the mail GTB sent to me after my naira card was rejected, they said it was a CBN policy stopping them from accepting the random forex exchange payment .

They sent me a similar mail too. It has to do with DCC.

You can pay with a Zenith card. I didn't even open a Zenith account, I simply transferred money to a colleagues card and did my payment.

Bodacious1:
Thank you. I've also read the ACS guidelines but needed to be doubly sure. Also, I've been searching for sometime now but want to confirm from those with more experience. Can I use IELTS academic or must it be general?

You can use either.

Bodacious1:
Please again, I need someone who has assessed with ACS. Also if I use statutory declaration must the person attesting it put their passport photo on the declaration?

Good morning.
Go to the ACS website and get first hand details for anything you need to submit to them. They have detailed guides for every transaction you will have with them.

No, you will not attach a passport photo to a declaration.

shugaboy6102:
This is my story and I will appreciate if the mods can push it to front page so that others can read and learn from me, and I also need your honest comments and advice because you could be saving a drowning man.

I Am 29 years of age, a civil engineer by profession and a sanguine by temperament. Before my youth service @ age 24 I got my girl friend pregnant and I was scared of abortion so we decided to keep the baby with the full support of my mother and she agreed because I was an only son. After that, we proceeded to see her people with my mum and relatives to my girl friends village and we paid something on her head but didn't complete the whole traditional right, but this was not even the traditional wedding proper.

After that we saw ourselves as husbands and wife and we were living fine for sometime. After sometime, the relationship took a different turn as we were always fighting and didn't agree on even the slightest matter. I remember vividly one occasion we fought over a female colleague @ work who sent me a whatsapp message and why we fought was that she came to my work place and fought the young lady openly embarrassing me in the process in front of everyone.

There were times I would try to reconcile but she would blatantly refused, sometimes she will tell me she is fed up of this thing we call marriage and that she's looking for someone that I too should look for someone else.

Fast-forward I met a lady and one thing led to another and I started picking interest in her. It was never my intention to be with another woman but I don't have peace of mind and I feel I am loosing my mind.

Note: I haven't wedded in a church before or done a full traditional marriage. Here comes the question: would it be considered a divorce if I quit this union and marry this new lady?

I am full of unhappiness and pain and I don't want to live a life of endurance and pity. Pls nobody should pressure you into getting married, marriage is not a license to live a happy life. If you are single, I envy you.

You do not have what it takes to get married, even at this moment, because you are really young and patience is not yet something you understand fully. I will advise that you do not leave your relationship/marriage because you want to get married to someone else.

If you don't want to be with your fiance/wife and mother of your child anymore, then say so. You have not really given a good reason why you should be apart though.

You also sound like you never wanted to marry this young lady, but only acted like you wanted to because of the pregnancy.

Take your time.
Forget this your new relationship. You are not being faithful to your fiance. You are breaking your promises to her.
Truthfully, you have a lot of the steering here.

You already know what is right for you. Going by all you have written, you both have no business being with one another.
I can't even imagine that a full grown adult is unable to restrain himself, commits an offence against you and then blames his temper.

Stop dating him.

Whoever said you must marry now, or marry at all.

This is really a painful experience especially so for a person already in pains.

Did you manage to get the doctor's name, top enable you call him out for his maltreatment, obvious insensitivity and lack of empathy?

Ghostfaze:
Kindly approve to the homepage, mods.


Hello everyone.
I have an unusual issue at hand and it's really giving me a headache.

I have a girlfriend I met in August this year when I traveled to my state from Abuja. She's beautiful, a graduate, and she's everything I have ever wished to have in a woman or so I once believed.

I loved her and our relationship was going to lead to marriage.

After we met in August I traveled back to Abuja and a few months later her NYSC call up came. She told me about it and we planned that she will serve in Abuja. I paid one NYSC man to work her posting but unfortunately, she was posted to another Northern state.

On her way to the state where she was posted she stopped over at my place in Abuja on the 3rd of November, That night we had sex without a condom and after the sex, I gave her a pregnancy prevention drug tablet I had collected from a doctor.

She refused to take the drugs not until after much persuasions. The next morning, some thick blood mixed with water started coming out of her and she was also having stomach pains so I called the doctor that gave me the drugs and he said we should come to his hospital.

We got to the hospital and after explaining to him what happened the doctor said she was already pregnant before taking the drugs that's why her body reacted that way to the drugs.

She denied that she's pregnant and eventually she had to undergo a pregnancy scan. The result came out negative but the doctor kept on insisting that she was pregnant and that the reason why the result came out negative is because of the drugs she took and how young the pregnancy is.

She left for home angrily that day and I had to beg her to forget whatever it is that happened.

A few days later she left for NYSC camp in the state where she was posted. After two weeks she started complaining to me that she's been feeling cold, hungry, and sleepy often than she used to.

I told her that it could be because of the change of weather and the approaching harmattan season. While she was in camp I was working for her to be reposted back to Abuja and somehow she didn't want to serve in Abuja again. She wasn't really open to me about that but she was subtly letting me know of her desires.

Finally, her reposting worked out and she came down to Abuja three days ago. Today she told me that she wants to go for a pregnancy test and I obliged and escorted her to another hospital different from the one we previously went to the first time she came to Abuja.

After the test and scan, the result said she's 6 weeks and 2 days pregnant. We went to another hospital and the result came out the same.

Remember that I first had sex with her on the 3rd of November. Tomorrow will make it a month I had sex with her but she's already 6 weeks and 2 days pregnant.

I could not understand why she should be 6 weeks pregnant when it's not been up to 4 weeks I had sex with her. I have asked her to tell me if she slept with someone else earlier before she came to Abuja but she has maintained that she did not.

I have equally asked the two doctors we met today plus a few other doctors I spoke with on the phone if they think that I'm responsible for the pregnancy but their answers are all contradicting.

Now I'm confused. She's in my house, with a child I'm certain does not belong to me. I don't know what to do. I'm really really confused. Please, any mature advice would be gladly appreciated.

Thank you!

I am sure the doctor explained to you that pregnancy is dated from the last monthly period.
Ultrasound scans usually take LMP into account.

AlexDeedat:
Please I want you to judge me but, while you do that, please be sincere. I will make it brief. Please dont mind the typo errors or any errors as we have many English teachers on board.

It all started about 3moths now, I works with an FMCG Multinational Company as a Field Sales Manager and I was newly transferred to one of the northern state from Lagos.

I arrived this state as a Johny Just Come (JJC) and I can barely speak ordinary 'Wa kin pa o' (come make I kill You), I am a Yoruba Man.
I met an existing Sales team which I inherited from the previous manager.
One of the Sales people is Mr X. Oh my God! This guy is just so exceptionally intelligent, smart, hardworking, dexterous and has the qualities to be a great Manager. He is still an Open Market Sales Rep despite the years he has put in the Business.

Mr X took me round the Territory, helped introduced me to existing distributors and we were able to recruited more. My line manager was so surprised that i was able to fit into the new environment easily and met 72% of my target for the first month within that shortest time. This particular Mr X has so much channels he can singlehandedly do 50% of the entire secondary sales while the remaining sales rep struggled with the rest.

Now this where I'll need your advise. There is a new vacant slots for the post of TSM, three (3)northern states and one(1) south eastern state. I have opportunity to sloth Mr X's CV so he can be called for exams and possibly interviews. I am more than sure this guy will get the job with my help and his effort.

The problem is "I CAN'T LET MR X GO NOW" I decided to work out ridiculous incentives for him to increase his pay and he was so happy about it this month. He received 2x of what he always received monthly for the last few years...but yet, my conscience wont let me rest till now as it is about 48 hours to the close of submission for CVs.

I need this guy on board so badly atleast for like 4 to 5 months when I'll find my feet on this ground..I have looked around the remaining sales team atleast for a replacement but the rest are just.......This environment still looks like I am being pushed here to suffer..If you have been to core north, you will understand.

**I know God pushed him to me and I am very grateful. I'm I being wivked or self centered by holding on from sending his CV?

**I'm I going to be so stupid for allowing him Go now.

Pls advise me on what to do..

Recommend him.
You didn't know you will meet him when you were going there.
Just the way God placed him there for you, you too may have been sent there for his sake.
Besides, before he is invited, then goes through the process, you may have had close to the time you envisage you need.

So you will end up with the best on two fronts.

[quote author=GAZZUZZ post=84542852][/quote]Good evening @GAZZUZZ, please I need a very good set of tyres for Toyota 4runner 2005.
Specs: 265/65R17
Kindly source these for me, as I see you don't stock them.
Price and recent manufacturing date.

Thanks.


sir, you didn't say anything about my request.

Good evening @GAZZUZZ, please I need a very good set of tyres for Toyota 4runner 2005.
Specs: 265/65R17
Kindly source these for me, as I see you don't stock them.
Price and recent manufacturing date.

Thanks.

upengineer:
How much did PTEA charged you on that card? Is the card zenith naira master card?

The charge was #46,370, yes it was a Zenith Bank MasterCard. This is the card they issue for normal accounts, so nothing special, it is just that Zenith allows DCC.

Thanks to @Bamz for the info, I paid for my PTE at the official price and with ease. If you want to make payments for PTE, just use a Zenith bank MasterCard. It was a seamless transaction.

For those who want to pay for PTE Academic at the official price in Nigeria, just use a Zenith Bank MasterCard. It is a seamless transaction.
Thanks to @Bamz who gave me the info.

Respect55:
This life is just a small place. You will think you are sharp but when the time is come, your sin will surely find you out.

Some weeks back, a guy saw my wares online and came around to pick some footwears since we are in same city. He kept on talking on phone with a particular girl (my girl) about the type of shoe she likes. Remember I just gave her a new pair when she requested for one. Not even up to a month.

So this guy selected 3 pairs of shoes - two males shoes and one female own. He just told me to packet them that he would call me when money comes in. Fast-forward to today, he called in the afternoon and gave me a location to bring the shoe that he went out with his girl and will be traveling in the morning.

I dressed up, picked up the shoes at the shop and dashed to the location only to meet him with my girlfriend.

I just pretended like nothing happened, passed the shoes to him. She was shocked to the marrow but the guy never noticed. He asked her to wear the shoe so as to see how it suits but she just told him that he shouldn't bother that it's OK.

He paid me and as I was about leaving, he called me back and introduced me to his girl. I told her my name like we just met and left.

That's just it. I'm out for good. I'm free

Chai.
See the way God just take make your life easy and simple for you.

alakara:
Pls,is there anything called seafarers Visa?

ACTUALLY, FOR AUSTRALIA, NO.

This is what is available in Australia
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/maritime-crew-988

Obyroli:
Helo house,
Please kindly help before i go ahead with ACS assessment ,between Web Developer or web Administrator which will be more favorable for 491 /190.I have experience in both and also little experience as a programmer.
Secondly which state will be a better option for nomination as some are demanding job offers.I am a bit confused and don't want to make mistakes,kindly assist
Thank you.

Your best bet is to check on the states and their requirements.

lilwetdick:
i am sure you will also see someone that will always say africans are primitive

in asia, there is caste systems, i guess it is alright

many europeans and americans are racists, i guess they are not primitive in thinking stupidly

suddenly as an african does similar stuff, all africans are primitive and think stupidly.

are these practices and attitudes not condemned the world over?

Janelle08:
Hi Nairalanders,

What is your opinion on this topic.

In a situation where a woman receives some inheritance from her father or a share of her late father's property, is she expected to hand over her inheritance (money) to her husband?

Married folks over to you. Women, how will you handle your inheritance? Men, how do you expect your wives to handle her inheritance?

I would expect and encourage her to pass it on to our children, just the way whatever property she has in her lifetime will go to them.
I don't see any complexity to the matter.

Obyroli:
Good morning ,I want to start assesment with ACS ,pls is my transcript meant to be uploaded by me or the university is meant to send it to ACS
Secondly pls can I make payment before uploading all the required documents,cos am i bit confused.Thank you

You will need to upload a copy of your transcript to your 'MYACS' page.
Yes, you can make payment before uploading your documents.


NB: Ensure your JD is closely related to what you are nominating.

What is going on with the PTE centres in Nigeria? It seems the number of centres have been reduced.
We now have centres only in Lagos and Abuja. This makes it quite difficult to assess the exams for many candidates.
Does anyone know what is going on?
There used to be a centre in Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Owerri and Kaduna.

PEARSON PLEASE HELP WITH MORE CENTRES.

Nedunwam:
Thanks for your response. The WAEC is GCE. And the CO specifically mentioned the WAEC certificate.

Then it should be easier in terms of timing. Try the WAEC headquarters at Yaba.