₦airaland Forum

funkyy598:
Comparing an Uber delivery driver in Toronto, whose wages barely cover their bills—as evidenced by the recent protests by uber drivers in the city—to a doctor in another country is simply unfair. I’ve followed your posts for a while, and in one of them, you even compared a floor cleaner in Canada earning more than a bank manager in Nigeria without even comparing the cost of living . It’s clear that your perspective is heavily influenced by your experience of living in abject poverty in Nigeria. However, arriving in Canada, working as an Uber driver, and living on minimum wage doesn’t give you the right to criticize others who came here with professional qualifications, striving for better career opportunities, even if they’ve faced challenges or disappointment along the way.

You’ve also shared in your posts that you come from a "wicked" family that sabotaged your business back home. While that’s unfortunate, not everyone shares those experiences. Many of us come from decent, supportive families with different aspirations and expectations. Please stop projecting your childhood and adult trauma, pain, struggles, and the abject poverty you escaped onto every situation. Your past hardships shouldn’t become the standard by which you measure others’ success or ambitions in life.

Everyone’s journey is unique, and respecting that diversity is essential.

Well said 🤗

Opeyemi007:
Your number one worry should be explaining why your pastor is sponsoring your vacation with your kids.

Exactly

That story won't fly, not even now that Canada is shutting it door

Usefulsense:
Sir, it will and I will tell you why.

You have very good roads.

You have healthy water to drink.

You have constant electricity.

You will worry less of thieves, armed robbers etc.

If you buy one litre of fuel abroad, it is one litre.
You live I'm a clean and healthy environment.

You will worry less of malaria
No body will harass you on the road.

Above all, you will have peace of mind.

What other standard of living do you expect?

Lol

Comradealex1:
Please I have been so worried since I got the information about Canada putting a stop to 10 years visa and giving discretional visas this time around.. please may I know if it also affects those of us that has the 10 years multiple visa already cos i never go yet ?

No issue at all till after your renewal

Enjoy your 10yrs multiple visa

Someone is about to learn the hard way

Gavrelino123:
Hello all, Greetings,

I want to enquire if I'm the only one having this problems with GT BANK.

Normally, you can view all your treasury bill investment when you login to Gtbank online.
But it doesn't show anymore.

Now,It only shows me my bank balance!

I can't see all my treasury bill investments on the online platform.

Can someone kindly confirm if this is a new change?

Or am I the only one experiencing this?

Thanks in advance.

Same with my GTB online banking.

Seems like they are still working on that platform cos many fixture is still missing.

GTB is not back fully.

For the NTB your investment is very safe

affoncad:
Your response highlights a common issue in the way we talk about the immigrant experience, especially within the Nigerian community. Often, when one or two people find success, it can lead to victim-blaming of the thousands who are facing difficulties, as if they aren’t doing enough or aren’t smart enough. This attitude is all too common and dismisses the real challenges that many immigrants face.
It’s important to celebrate success stories, [b]but let’s not ignore the reality for the majority. [/b]The system can be unfair, and thousands of new immigrants genuinely struggle to find suitable jobs. But often, as Nigerians, we hide our struggles and celebrate small wins as though they reflect everyone’s experience in Canada. Your examples of a doctor or tech professional succeeding can feel like an insult to the many who are still struggling in silence and making huge effort and still could not get a much desire job or any level of financial freedom!

Deep

etrange:
Where are people not struggling/suffering? The problem is that we Africans (myself inclusive) keep moving from one West country to another thinking it’s always better on the other side until we realize the struggle is everywhere.

Truth

zinaunreal:
The canada sef no even sweet like before. People struggle there too

Struggle?

Many are suffering there

Predator188:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/end-student-direct-stream-nigeria-student-express.html

Canada does not deserve to be called a developed country.

As a first world with a very big country and large economy, why are they in mess? With just about 1m surge in population.

Canada is overrated abeg, nothing person wan tell me.


These people keep tightening up their door day by day hmmmm

Overrated country that can't accommodate just about 40million people....

Nawa for Canadian government o.

Canada is just a developing country, ordinary surge of about 1m people, it's noise everywhere

tppzzy01:
Hello house, please I want to move to Canada next year with my family. I contacted an agent, he told me 3m for one adult, 5m for two adult, 7m for family of 5(going with my kids), but am thinking of going first because of finance, then bring my family later when I secure a job or settle down well. I am currently living in Kuwait. Should I go ahead and use the agent or DIY?
Note that the agent intends to do a Visiting Visa for me. Or
If I am to DIY how do I go about it?

Is that your agent the Canadian consular?
Putting price on visa as if na him go issue am 😁.

Paying exorbitant money for ordinary visit visa, which can lead someone into depression after on.

Don't even try it, taking family of 5 to Canada with visit visa.

The agent just want to use your money flex because Canada visa is one of the hardest visa to get of recent, if you like show 200m pof

clayfounder:
Oga,l dnt know for you, as for me if l have a good job and business in nigeria ,am not going anyway to enslave myself working like a donkey abroad.l talk to my friend in london and he complain of how things be but he no get choice na to keep doing his factory job nd l pray he no drop dead due to high blood pressure but poor man no get alternative.GOd help us

Lol 🤣

People have different purpose with Japa but it's not a wise decision to leave a very good paying job and a decent life to go start afresh in the land of unknown.

Toyoakoms:
Ok will also see about this but he claimed the fuses on the ECU work perfectly

So you still believe that Olodo rewire?

Get another good Ecu for test first, I'm very sure that's the problem.

Do not allow these people to do more damages to your car

Jeboy:
That's you...the people japaaing most are top staff of Nigerian elites company.

There is a community of mtn Nigeria ex staff in Canada. Dey play.

If you don't have a very high profile they consider you a refugee seeking risk.

Not true.

Toyoakoms:
Good morning everyone, please I need help with my 2006 Honda Civic. I’m a first time car owner and barely have any knowledge on cars.

So I had gotten this car in September, it was inspected, everything worked perfect with no issues. More recently I noticed the AC was not cooling anymore and was blowing hot air. So an AC guy came to inspect and said there was a leak. The leak was fixed and AC refrigerant was added and the AC ran cold again.

However I immediately noted that the AC cuts off after very few minutes and would not come on again, so he said that it’s a rewire’s job that the rewire will need to check the fuses.

We drove the car to the rewire and he started checking the fuses, next thing we noted was not he was unable to start the car again. The car cranks but just won’t start. He spent the whole day trying to get the car looked through the sparks, fuses, fuel pump and called other professionals and none of them were able to get the car to start and we had to leave the car at the mechanic shop.

I’m so bothered cause literally nothing was wrong with the car before now. It ran perfectly and never had to fix anything on it. Please can anyone help

Also worthy to note was one of the other rewires took note that the car key light was not present on the dashboard.

Please help 🙏🏾

The rewire messed up with your Ecu brain box.

Let them stop messing up with your wiring, they should replace the brain box first and see

trium:
I don't want to be a pessimist but don't you think 2 weeks is too long. When they sent emails and texts about this upgrade, I was saying silently that I hope it doesn't turn out to be like last time. Alas!

What happen the last time?

NowisGod109:
Ok thanks so much, I will do just that. I will use my gt $card. I really appreciate you

I hope you have good travel history?

E get why 🤐

All the Nigerian bank will do the upgrade and customers will experience same with the other banks soon.

They are just doing the upgrade one after the other.

Once GTB is done with their upgrade, seems like Access bank is next, and that Access will be calamity, they too get customer base.

I trust GTB with their upgrade, surely they will stand out among others.

People should bear with them.

Not just think about fold up, that bank too strong abeg

ewedunamala:
Both. But come on, can women love without money?.

Help me ask them o

Shey babe no dey abroad ni?

99% of married will crash once a woman have little upper hand than her husband.

No love anywhere

TheBreastSucker:
Don't take your wide from Nigeria to the UK if you're not sure of the strength of your relationship.

Just leave her here and come back every 12 months to suck her breasts

Strength of which relationship?

Nigerian women are all opportunist that have nothing to offer in a relationship.

Pepi001:
In my head both cars. But l can only afford just one.

Both cars are very classy and comfy.

But Na senior man dey use ML

MarksmanD:
My SOP was 33 pages long. My essay alone in my SOP was 8 pages long. I was told to reduce it, but I didn't. There's not a specific rule book to this.

And you think VO will take their time reading 33 pages SOP?

SOP is not even a requirement, many students applied without it and still get their visas.

You already qualified for study permit, reason why you got it, forget SOP.

Meanwhile SOP is still very important o but not a requirement

JMG12:
You can appeal write a letter of explanation why you didn't declear the USA visa refusal. If the appeal is not considered then you can reapply

Someone made a mistake by ommiting a very vital information and you are advising of appeal?

Way forward is to reapply and give a good reason why he/she does not declare such information

resilience001:
the problem was all these were stated in the previous sop. may be it was too long. it was 29 pages. but everything was captured. Can I you advise who can help rewrite? or maybe i rewrite and point them to pages where those information are captured? also does this mean every other thing is fine? thank you so much

VO that have hundreds of application to treat will read 29 pages SOP by a single applicant?

Rewrite your SOP, make it short and be straightforward.

Those guys no get time abeg

Starboytwo:
pls sir, so you have an idea how much a brain box for Honda eod cost?

The ba3 charger said it should not be too expensive.. So I went online and saw 45-50k..
However, rewire said 140k

Ah no get any 140 Kan Kan.

140k bawo

That thing shouldn't cost more than 65k

Starboytwo:
the guy I brought said the same thing. Said my brain box is gone and I'd need to change it.

What baffles me is that, there's is no prior issue, just stopped on the road and this issue started.

Is that how brain box get spoiled?

Yes your brain box is gone

Get a replacement and see the magic

funkyy598:
Just like my lawyer friend said [[b]b]It's easy to stay in Africa and interpret the canadian law as a visa applicant via google engin[/b]e, [/b]like you are doing, because I'm 100% sure you're not even in Canada. But my advice to students coming to Canada, especially Nigerians, is to also consider Express Entry. If you plan to come to Canada via the student route, make sure you have your tuition fees and living expenses fully covered. The 20-hour work limit, which is now extremely difficult to secure, cannot cover your tuition fees and rent. Dropping out of school and claiming health issues or homosexuality/domestic violence is an outdated strategy that no longer works. Anyone can sit in their room in Africa and quote the law, but the reality sets in when you land in Canada. Many students are stressed, tired, and frustrated. I wish everyone the wisdom to plan accordingly.thank u

Point...

Honestly IRCC site is sweet and straightforward when reading through but in reality, na 💯 opposite.

Jeboy:
Wow such a touching story.

The mistake you did was to go for Asylum which is not your best bet. Even if you have the best lawyer, when facts are not convincing the Asylum case will be lost.

For others here, when you find yourself unable to pay school fees due to illness or fund (mind you if you are using fund you must explain what happened to your PoF because it was based on that you were given study permit), what you need to do is to apply for Open Work permit under distressed student. It is a provision by IRCC for International students with genuine reasons for not been able to continue there program maybe due to death of their sponsor or illness or some drastic events that can actually stall your study progression. You may be lucky to get two years Open Work Permit and its enough for you to forge your future in Canada. Asylum should not be your 1st option. A lot of people dont know about this option and I hope people will not start abusing it either, cos our people can abuse privileges.

I know the failed asylum records makes it a bad case especially among the 5 eyes countries that collaborates with Canada to share info yet I will advise this fellow to approach the service of an experienced Canadian Lawyer who can examine your situation and advise accordingly. Sorry for your experience.

https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=43&q=can+a+distress+student+apply+for+open+work+permit&cvid=b180956237b246fca323b360204d67d4&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTE1NDUyajBqMagCALACAA&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531

Easier said than done.....

That option you narrated is not easy either

Doublej805:
I'm not arguing it, I just want to confirm, because someone here also said he has access to his application portal, and that the tracker is saying application close, but from his portal he hasn't gotten any response yet...

Anyways
I wish you the best.

What I know and sure of is, once tracker says application closed, it's 💯 certain that decision has been made on the main application portal.

Logingist:
You get feedback from the people in Canada but you think they discouraging. You rushed to nairaland believing the narrative will change. Dey play 😆😆😆

Maybe we should sugar-coat am for him/her so confidence go set in to apply