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Aerodynamically, the Russian planes have always be known to be more friendly to fly compared to their Western counter part! Just dunno why this is. Also, there was a photo recently of the nextGen Russian fighter being developed in one of those cold warehouses in Russia and it was said to be one step ahead of the F-35 with stealth technology! What do the russians do better that makes their fighter planes always a step ahead of that of the West?

Even the F-35 Joint strike force is already being seen by some partners as way to costly, over budget and would continual systems upgrade as it is almost completely reliant on Advanced Flight Control Systems in much of its capabilities!

So funny how despite the many sweet birds the US and UK has in the sky, each time the russian bird takes to the sky, all stations get a flag off!! . Remember the other time the Russian white bird (aka diplomatic bomber) took to the skys over the isles near the UK in 2006, some ass went kicking around the building!

For those of us in the flight physics domain, somehow it keeps our head spinning how those russian birds can achieve over 50% control without an AFCs while that of the US can barely achieve 40% and you MUST require an AFCs to keep them up there doing their thingy! .Who teaches them Russians them Euler's angles?

it is the government, stupid! At least that is the response I normally get from much of my British colleagues when this issue comes up in our chat!

PointB:
Lay off south-east leaders you blood sucking myopic clowns. They have taken their position while your leaders sit as usual on  the fence.

As usual, they take their position out of selfish political ambition and never that that concerns the ordinary man on the street! S/East leaders have shown by their actions in recent times that they really never care about their region but only their pockets!

Can you point out what the S/East leaders have been able to extract from the present regime for the region? All projects currently being completed/abandoned in that region were initiated by Obj and Yar'dua and these clowns who call themselves leaders have done nothing to mount perssure on the FG to get them completed in record time and begin new projects!


@Gbawe, Very well said!

How about these clowns coming out with a communique/lobby to urge the FG to fix the erosion ravaging the whole of the S/East?

How foolish are these S/East PDP members/hawks to think the First Niger bridge overhaul and the much needed second Niger bridge would see the light of the day following subsidy removal

Sometimes I really do not know what to make of the S/East and thier leaders!

What a shock , so sad, oh WALES! THOUGH OH COUNTRY OF THE DEATH VALLEY

May His soul rest ,

Abeg eyi! it is a case of dog chop dog Are Nigeria Police Force officers of thieves?

The UK has more obese women than any other country in Europe, according to European Union figures.

Data agency Eurostat, which looked at 19 countries, found nearly a quarter of UK women - 23.9% - were recorded as being obese in the year 2008 to 2009.

Just over 22% of UK men were classed as obese, coming second only to Malta.

A person is defined as obese if their body mass index (BMI), the result of a calculation involving weight and height, is above a certain level.

The BMI correlates fairly well with body fat.

Statisticians found the share of overweight and obese people increases with age in all of the 19 member states that data was available for.

The data come from the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) and was published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

After the UK, the countries with the highest levels of female obesity were Malta, with 21.1%, and Latvia, where 20.9% fulfilled that criteria.

Meanwhile, after Malta and the UK, the countries with the highest instances of male obesity were Hungary - where 21.4% fall into that category - and the Czech Republic, where 18.4% are classed as such.

The UK's high levels of obesity are in stark contrast to those in countries such as Romania, where just 8% of women were classed as obese along with 7.6% of men.

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How to work out your BMI
Work out your height in metres and multiply the figure by itself
Measure your weight in kilograms
Divide the weight by the height squared
For example, if you are 1.6m (5ft 3in) tall and weigh 65kg (10st 3lb), the calculation would then be: 65 ÷ (1.6 x 1.6 = 2.56) = 25.39
A BMI of less than 18.5 is underweight
A BMI of 18.5-25 is ideal
A BMI of 25-30 is overweight
A score of 30 or above is obese
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Obesity levels were also found to be low in Italy, Bulgaria and France.

In Italy, 9.3% of women were found to be obese and 11.3% men.

Meanwhile, in Bulgaria levels of obesity for women and men were found to be 11.3% and 11.6%, with levels of France identified as being 12.7% and 11.7% respectively.

The figures suggested that the proportion of women who are obese or overweight falls as the educational level rises.

Last month, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley launched a bid to reduce obesity levels in England by 2020.

The minister said people need to be honest with themselves about how much they eat and drink.

He said that, overall, Britons should be eating five billion fewer calories a day than at present.

Gbawe:
Indeed Ndume should face interrogation but why not ponder if it makes sense for Sheriff to remain free when he was mentioned directly as a sponsor by the same man who gave the testimony that led to the quick detention and arraignment of Ndume. Does it make sense to you that a possible sponsor of Boko Haram , identified and named publicly, is at large with the attendant consideration that he could abet more acts of terrorism?

Man mi, it makes no sense whatsoever. Let us put partisan support aside for a minute. This stinks of playing politics and you know it because nothing else can justify how the SSS is now choosing who to arrest and not arrest , from names revealed by the same source, over a serious issue such as terrorism.

While I get your drive, I think you need to understand that SSS is being careful because arresting Sheriff without any concrete evidence to charge him to court immediately. Remember the SSS have suffered several court rebukes more recently following their arrest of terror suspect, keeping the longer than necessary in the eyes of the law and having evidence that can not stand the scrutiny of a judge!

Whether Sheriff being free or not at this moment is not relevant. What really is of utmost importance is for the SSS to get evidence that can nail him in any court of law.

werepeLeri:
Bro -

The best bet for you is to take a cab from the airport - its only 4k, avoid those rickety Abuja green cabs.

Sorry mind me asking when last you took a cab from the Airport to Maitama for 4k?

justwise:
Which immigration rule please?

Which other UK immigration rules do you know of?

Unless you are planning to travel on Holidays this christmas, or you have an urgent need to trave lout of the UK, then go for same day application using premium service. Postal service application duration depends on a number of issues and how straight forward you package your application. Some have had their application processed within two weeks other four weeks!

Guess you are also aware that following the immigration rules, while your visa application is being considered, it is as though your previous visas is still valid, so you can go about your normal activity pending the outcome of your application.

As for the online forms not being available, UKBA are having technical issues and they are hoping to get it fixed over the weekend. So you may want to check back on Monday.

Public transport? Airport to Maitama where US embassy is based is abit far. Get out of the airport and get "green" taxi. Do not take taxi inside the airport else you wil pay heavily. Green taxi in Abuja cost anything from N250 to N1500 a drop.

Just use google earth to see how far it is and using public transport may not serve you well unless your interview is many hours away from your flight arrival.

Arik currently has offering LOS-LHR for N116,000 but my checks yesterday showed Emirates and BA are the cheapest you can get if you do not want to use Arik.

expert555:
This woman in inept the first time I saw her on television I nearly fell off the chair. She look and speaks slow, my 11 year old daughter walk and speaks more smarter. She look like a dead wood I would not even appoint her as a house maid. She is too slow. This is everything that is wrong about Nigeria, from the smart innovative and charismatic Ribadu to a dead-wood. One step forward, ten step backwards. Her time was a waisted time in the fight against corruption. I don't think she took anything to that position and I don't think add value to that position.

What has her physical expression got to do with her job? Yes Waziri was a monumental failure in EFCC but I think we seems to be making the mistake of not realizing what Ribadu and Waziri have highlighted to us all! The key to fighting corruption in Nigeria is not having an investigative body that can track corruption rather we need a Judiciary that can speedily dispense justice as equally deserved and equally an urgent review of our enabling laws that would prevent those wanting to use the technicalities of court proceedings to fuustrate their prosecution in court.

The current regime in power has shown no desire to address these two major issues, hence the fight against corruption will remain a talk talk affair until such a time a bold legislative framework is put in place to speed up court proceedings and jail those convicted with jail terms that would serve as not only a deterrant but make the act very much unattractive to say the least.

Shalomniyi:
Whatever the 'sins' of Waziri may be, the 'use them and dump them syndrome' in Nigeria should stop. That style is not encouraging, how would you give your best under the prevailing conditions in this country and you just wake up one morning to read about your sack news on the TV or Newspaper ? There should be a more civilized way of doing it. Our country must move forward & progress.

God bless you for this post! You beat me to it, but I guess we were thinking alike. Many are having a laugh forgeting that democracy has rules -some seemingly obvious while others aren't- and how we choose to obey and play by these rules will define our organized and orderly our society will be.

Yes, Waziri wasn't effective in her duty post, but must the President show the whole world that He is uncut by taking to the television to dismiss her?

Reading much of the comments in here, it is quite a pity that we as a nation have a long way to go! It is so so sad that so many appear ( from their post) to hold firm the believe that every 'wrong must be right with a wrong'

Before going further with my opinion, let me categorically say this: Waziri deserve to be sacked but my very serious concern is the lazyman approach with which the presidency went about her removal. For heaven and the good spirit of democracy sake, why can't we seek to do things right?

What is so difficult for the Office of President,(Presidency) through the Office of the Secretary to the Federal Government (SFG) writing Waziri an official dismissal letter, sent through the standard channel? Afterall as the EFCC acts (as amended) stands today, the President is empowered to hire and fire the Chairman of that agency - hence no biggy with GEJ's actions- so why did He not do it in the proper way?

For a smart President, it would have simple to invite Waziri to Aso Rock, have a meeting with her and tell her to her face how much you appreciated her service to the nation ( whether or not the service was good or bad, posterity would judge) then hand her the dismissal letter. With that, send your press man out to make the announcement to the whole world.

To relieve someone of His or Her position on tv or in a manner that suggest otherwise especially in agencies like the EFCC means our collective National Security is being erroded. The next we hear of what happens is that the US, UK,France and possibly Germany invites Waziri over for "Lectures" where they would extract more sensitive information so easily. Remember the Ribadu episode?

I hope Reuben Abati would not hear his own sack through Saharareporters?   Nigerian Politrickians are heartless you know

kalokalo:
HiTV is really owned by Bola Tinubu. Toyin Subair is just a front. The seed capital used to found HiTV came from a LASG account with Skye Bank. I got that from an impeccable source in Skye Bank. Even part of the funds wired to pay the EPL broadcasting rights came from a state government account.

Try ot use your head to think okay! Do you know how much First Nation airlines gulp compared to the the N7bn of hitv? Tinubu is not the owner of hitv, stop spreading false news!

[quote author=Sky-walker link=topic=809846.msg9623276#msg9623276 date=1322137354]Seems you forgot Tax and cost of living[/quote]I thought may post did say "TAKE HOME PAY" , meaning after tax!

chei! so PDP is now parading 'MMIS' aka Mad Men In Suite as governors? , Where is that beaf?

@OP,
The truth, unless you are very good in your computing stuff, the UK is so much saturated with IT guys that the salary is falling faster than a feather! Yes, doing MSc would be a huge bonus plus an opportunity for international exposure to standard practices in the industry but if I may ask, is there no way of keeping your current job with your employer, with an undertaking of 1year study leave ?

100K Naira a month for real is not upto the amount some of us pay for National Insurance contribution + Taxes for a month! MSc graduate in computing with previous industry work experience in related field attracts decent pay up 25,000pounds per year! Take home monthly pay around 2200pounds for entry graduate! Convert that to Naira

tcav:
Hi omo tier1, it me again i forgot to tell you that my tax revenue payment is self assessment, and i did pay about 18k, cuz i mostly do consultancy and supply of electronic and computers, will that not raise a eyebrow when the ECO are judging my application? Cuz am planning 2 reapply in case my review is not successful. Secondly in my first application i did add visiting my fiancee that is presently runing her ms.c in uk with her details evidence of studentship, will it be ok if i add it again if i may reapply? Please let me know what to do. I need brotherly advice. Thank you very much.

Tcav.

All tax revenue payment/receipts MUST be official and from either the Federal or State Revenue Agency/Board. This is 'cos ECO will forward such documents to their verification unit and those dudes there know what to expect in Nigeria as per tax clearance and anything to the contrary falls foul and t hey can't be bothered carrying out further investigation really. So save your application, get a state tax clearance or similar official documentation to forward with your application.

Yes, absolutely fine with that, So long as Her visas status is still legal. They can phone up the school just to confirm if she is still attending as claimed. I do not think this will have any adverse effect on your application. Try to present more evidence to suggest you intend to return back.

Let me also add that be very careful when you reapply to make sure ALL information provided in your previous applications are consistent. Please do not tell lies as this would save you in future applications.

Do not make the mistake most people do make, not knowing how important this is: A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION! Please do attach a cover letter of introduction to the ECO, detailing the purpose of your visit, how you have satisfied the relevant immigration rules, index of the documents you are providing, explaining what each is for, and conclude to that effect by making a bold statement that you are aware of the evident implication of using fake documents and as such ALL documents duly submitted by you in support of your application are original, genuine and from the official source with relevant contact details in line with the legitimate expectation of the United Kingdom Border Agency.

Hope this helps.

Can I just point out tht Lamorde is only ACTING as the chairman just like He did before and I am sure by the time GEJ the fisher comes back from Paris, we will get a new name sent to the Senate for Anoiting! Most likely another corrupt PDP prone chair!

Jiggi11:
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Hello Omo tier 1,
Please I would like to know , from previous experience on the forum, the duration it usually takes BHC to process a tier 2 dependant visa. Their website states 3 weeks but mine as been with BHC for over 20 working days. Thanks

Did help process a Tier 2(General ) two weeks ago. Submission was at Ikeja VFS office. Took 3.5 days! Submited on a Wednesday, got text alert like 4 in a day and Tuesday got confirmation was ready for collection! Pretty fast init?

Are you planning to apply for Tier 2 dependant visas?

Actually, I have already submitted my application for a dependant visa i.e. like 20 working days ago. I'm a bit worried its dragging for too long. May it be because of my immigration history as I studied a Pgd course in the UK and initially applied the dependant visa in the UK but was refused based on the grounds that dependant visas cannot be applied in-country but from the applicants home country. Thanks.

I think it is more to do with your documents and the authority they carry. Just wondering, have you gone to check the Deputy High Commission at Eleke crescent, Lagos to ask why your visas isn't ready? I ask because cases have arisen very recently of visas processed by the BHC but the applicants never got alerts from the VFS alert system and upon enquiry at DBHC, it was discovered their visas was ready and awaiting collection. Give them a try through phone call or a personal call in and they will give you feed back as to when to expect the visas to be processed if they haven't processed it yet.

Thanks for the response. I've called the VFS call center and was told the visa was undergoing verification. Do you suggest going a step further by calling BHC directly for a feed back.

I would still encourage you to contact the DBHC, Lagos. No crime in trying I guess. The VFS rep most likely are reading you information stored on your online internet profile no necessarily from a real-time database. So if your profile is not updated, they will also give you the information as contained therein.