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bawomolo:
na your papa dey dress like crazeman

See amala .
We dey talk important material this one he dey curse papa . Opposite people. Make i yab am ?

What you say is true but it doesnt really mean that every Nigerian here fall in that same boat. For as many Nigerians here struggling, there are equally others who doing extremely well.

my brother don't get me wrong , I have nothing against Nigerians working/living in UK . I still go to work there whenever I want and I know that we all work there because na condison make kerefis bend. meaning Iku lo m'eja ka ko.

I've got a lot of white British friends really and in fact I have more white British friends than I have Black Nigerian friends in UK . We get on quite well - they make jokes about Nigerian 419 and I respond with jokes about foolish white people , and they really don't mind . Most Nigerians living or intending to live in the UK tend to lose sight of the important fact that it's got as much filth and problems and hazards as the place you're coming from .
Sorry if I have offended any Nigerian Anglophiles ( abelejayans ) on this forum , the whites have really never minded.

@funkfaze
I believe in working hard to pay your bills , a lot of the British don't - that is why they tax guys like me 40% to pay their f***ing bills and make it appear as if they do you a favour.

As a matter of fact until mid-1980s Nigerians did not need visa to get into UK and up till early 1980s the Nigerians living abroad were struggling to come back home to enjoy. Even British, Americans, Europeans struggled to get visa to come and work in Nigeria because 70 kobo was equivalent to $1 .
So how did Nigeria/Nigerians become like this ? Ask Obasanjo and those foolish old men.

shotster50:
@ Pafun

You sure do have something against the UK. Mind sharing??

Nothing my brother. I just hate HYPOCRISY , and of all the places I have come across in this world , the UK has the highest density of it - and Nigerians who come here tend to acquire that lying habit too , and lie to everyone at home about how well they are doing . they even lie to THEIR SELVES about how well they are doing even when many are working like jackasses to pay their bills and living hand to mouth in a very unfriendly climate !! (when you start lying to yourself your life is quickly coming to an end ) My own opinion mind you.
Do you know what the Police/Government is called in Brixton ? BABYLON
Do you know how the bible describes Babylon ?

LOL
See you at group therapy tomorrow

Five minutes from Yaba left.
Okay I don sabi that place now. Them give you too pyjamas ?
Oga madam make you no vex

Under paragraph 57 rules covering students, amount of fees paid is not a pre-requisite to obtaining a visa. All you have to do is show the proof that you can afford your fees and your upkeep without recourse to public fund.

Sorry ma ema binu ma . I will obey the last order.
But you sabi this paragraph 57 well well sha o . How many times them refuse you .

LOL . Highly unlikely but if it truly happened praise Jesus (for not allowing you to lose your N25,000 visa processing fee) and whatever it is you have been doing right before God please intensify it. I can't think of a reason why the BHC will give you a visa though without confirming that you are able to pay your fees , and not become a liability to the government blah blah blah
Others do not try this at home (for it is easier for a rich man to get to heaven .)

Cash waiting for anyone who can give me a copy of Visual Studio CDs . Not non - functioning stuff from otigba . please SMS me 07028777368 with price

this Guy:
Like i said its some sort of general business. . .

I million student wrote jamb or is it waec and post jamb exams in nigeria for only 200,000 places
I don't think they get their money back!!

At least jamb allows you to take the exam and make the result public , and you know (deep within yourself) the reason why you failed . As a matter of fact the refusal letters are already in the computer, they just fill in your name , click the relevant reasons (why they think you should fail) and print. Chikena.
Good business. As we well know most of the visa officers are barely literate and are really not empowered or permitted to use their initiatives (even if they knew how ). I have worked with a lot of them for more than a decade (and I still do) so I know what I am saying.

Almost everywhere you turn na so so ashewo prostitutes you go dey see

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Full sex for as low as £10 now is current deal. Soon the ting go become buy one get one free because country hard. Then go even fisi [dash you] better shanker disease wey black man no dey get self for the rest of your life

A lady actually lost her baby that way Someone ran for the train just as the door was about to be closed and punched her in the stomach by mistake. She was seven months pregnant at the time. The baby died a short while later, but she had to carry the dead baby to full term

O ma se o . This no fit happen for molue sha. Conductor go don dey halla from 100 yards away make dem clear road for her " O loyun o ponmo o" . Up Naija !

Looks like everywhere you turn all you see is drunk people.

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And drunk kids too
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Ndipe:
I wonder why the British are so keen on supporting the Royal family for goodness sake!

The queen na their own orisa wey dem dey put oil give sacrifice for top every morning or everything go scatter (na so dem believe o)

This is how one of the scams works.
The British High Commission encourages a great number of their schools and education consultants including British Council to advertise in Nigeria newspapers for students.

When prospective students apply , they are led to pay a deposit of fees or full fees in pounds in exchange for letter of admission to take to embassy for visa, always with proviso that if your visa application is unsuccessful your money will be returned less "administrative costs" . Usually they know that your application has no hope of succeeding and all they are targeting is this administrative costs from thousands of applicants. Good business.

Hopeful prospective student goes to apply for visa with non refundable "processing fee" of N25,000 or more and are encouraged by British High Commission even though from onset they know that the application has no hope of succeeding. N25,000 from thousands of applicants daily. Good business.

Prospective students loses his "processing fee" and also pays school administrative charges and it is always a problem to recover the deposit (which meanwhile sits in a UK bank earning cool interests for the school). Foolish monkey Nigerian repeats the process the next year. Good business for UK.

As a matter of fact it is a lot more than that. If you feel so bad about this sign the petition at www.rateoga.com

Ol Boy if you no get job for this place yer life done finish be that o

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Jobless Romanians camping in the woods in NE London - If una dey go and job no dey make you carry your own camp bed because - NO PADDY FOR JUNGLE my brother

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In fact and to the credit of the British the queen and family are the only jobless people in this world wey people dey give plenty respect

Time don nearly reach to dey dress like crazeman / masquerade o . Winter don nearly come.


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Na like this suffer suffer Nigerians for UK go soon dey begin wear woollen cap like baba olode . Then them go nack jumper and (2) coats together like Aluwe . Cold go nearly kill them day and night ,and na so them teeth go dey chatter like baboon.

Shuffer Shuffer
Shuffering and Shmiling

You go think say rat no dey there. Na for London I see the biggest rat in my life
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This one no be okete o , na ordinary house rat wey them catch
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And Cockroach too
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Cockroach e dey; rat e dey , ikan dey , darkness dey
If una dey follow-follow make you open eye ; make you open sense.

From Financial Times

Money laundering exposes Nigeria's oppressors
By Trevor Johnson
10 November 2000

Use this version to print

The recent investigations by the Nigerian government into the laundering of over $4 billion by the former military regime of General Abacha—using banks in the UK, Switzerland, the US, Germany, Luxembourg and elsewhere—makes clear the vested interests that stood behind the dictatorship.

General Abacha was one of a long succession of military leaders in Nigeria, taking power in 1993. By the time of his death in June 1998, Nigeria had been impoverished, with the economy running at a fraction of its capacity. While the Western countries publicly distanced themselves from the regime, especially following the show trial and execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others, privately they kept it in power.

The oil multinational Shell is now the defendant facing a jury trial in New York accused of giving direct assistance to the regime's murderous assaults on Ogoni villages in the oil-rich Rivers State. Shell's attempts to have the case thrown out of court have been rejected.

While countries such as the US and the UK berate Nigeria today as “the most corrupt country in the world”, and use this alleged corruption to justify their refusal to ease the country's debt burden, there is no such determination to root out the corruption to be found nearer to home, involving billions of dollars taken from a relatively poor country.

The journal Africa Confidential explained in its October 27 edition: “Investigators pursuing some US$3 billion of funds stolen by the late General Sani Abacha's regime between 1993-98 have established that the cash was deposited in more than 30 major banks in Britain, Germany, Switzerland and the United States without any intervention from those countries' financial regulators,

"None of the banks named so far as accepting deposits from Abacha's family and associates—Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Bankers Trust, Barclays, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, National Westminster Bank and Paribas—have been formally investigated nor had any disciplinary action taken against them.”

It was not until the end of last month, more than two years after Abacha's death, that Britain's Financial Services Authority announced that it would begin an investigation into the laundering of stolen money from Nigeria through the City of London, several months after this was formally requested by Nigerian government investigators. Similar requests have been made to the German, US and Swiss authorities, but so far only the Swiss have responded by setting up their own investigation. The bulk of the $3bn. is reckoned to be in Switzerland, some of which has passed through the accounts of the Swiss affiliates of multinational companies.

Even the one country that responded positively, Switzerland, has tried to curtail the investigation before it could reveal too much. Africa Confidential notes that, “The 19-page [Swiss] report did not go into much detail, and tried to draw a line under the affair. Worried about the damage to Swiss banking, the federal government and the banking commission wanted to put the matter behind them.”

Far from admitting their role in keeping Abacha in power, or lessening the repayments on the huge debts run up at that time, the world's major banks, with the IMF at their head, have stepped up the pressure on Nigeria to gear its whole economy up to meeting their demands.

The Financial Times blithely stated, in its editorial of September 14, that although more than 70 percent of Nigeria's population subsisted on less than a dollar a day, the debt burden was “no longer the top priority” because of increasing oil prices. It claimed that the reason for the country's problems was “mismanagement” which was “crippling Nigeria”. The FT drew the conclusion that “Nigerians— not their creditors—are primarily responsible for the plight of their country.”

The historical record of Nigeria's exploitation, first as a source of slaves, then as a British colony, and finally as a nominally independent country, with military dictatorships kept in power with Western backing, tells a very different story. (The military has ruled Nigeria for 30 of its 40 years of independence). The fact that the billions of dollars taken by those dictators ended up back in the hands of European and US bankers puts the final piece of the jigsaw into place.

Right from the start, the British rulers set up a system of patronage, so as to keep a section of the African people (especially the elite) on their side, and minimise the need for stationing troops permanently in their colonial possessions. When independence was given in the 1960s, the British ensured that power stayed in the hands of the elite they had nurtured.

The end of the Cold War meant that regimes like Abacha's were no longer needed, and new rulers were sought who could be manipulated to do the bidding of the IMF and their other creditors. From Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) to the Ivory Coast, the old regimes have been dislodged, and replaced with new ones charged with privatising and opening up their economies to the world market.

Both the IMF and the Financial Times are calling for “faster implementation” of Nigeria's privatisation plans and cuts in social spending (which they refer to with the euphemism of “reforms”), as a precondition for any loans or aid. The changes made so far have lead to severe unemployment and dislocation of the economy.

With a debt of $30 billion, two thirds of which is to the banks belonging to the 'Paris Club', the Nigerian government is already spending three times the amount on debt service as it does on education. The number of Nigerians living below the poverty line hit the 70 million mark in 1990 and approached 80 million in January, this year. The result of this has been a drastic fall in life expectancy, from 52 to 49 years. This has been the real “democratic dividend” for the Nigerian people.

Due to Nigeria's ongoing crisis, Obasanjo was recently driven to dispensing with the usual protocol, asking US President Clinton and British Prime Minister Blair directly and publicly for funds to ease the debt burden. He was rebuffed equally as directly.

At home, Obasanjo has desperately tried to distance himself from the regimes of the past (in which he had been one of the generals) to counteract the disillusionment caused by his slavishness to the IMF and the banks. Taking a lead from South Africa he set up his own “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” as a means of letting off steam and airing grievances while never threatening to bring the criminals of the past to justice. The commission, set up in June 1999, started sitting in Abuja 23 October, under the chaimanship of a retired judge, Chukwudifu Oputa.

Oputa said the commission was set up to "promote forgiveness, restore harmony to the polity, foster unity and growth and proffer lasting solutions that will address the history of events in the last 30 years of draconian laws." Though more than 10,000 cases were presented to the commission, Oputa said only 150 would be heard “because they were the only ones adjudged of serious and grievous nature.”

Despite this myopic remit, however, which is tailored to suit the interests of those currently in power, the commission has begun to uncover a trail of corruption which has lead back to the real backers of the Abacha regime in the West. Towards the end of October, the Financial Times began a series of articles exposing the fact that much of the money stolen by the former military regimes ended up in British banks—without attempting to reconcile this with its earlier statement that Nigerians were to blame for the country's present plight.

On October 19, an article entitled “Money laundering probe targets London” said: “Banks in London played a key role in enabling former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha to launder more than $4bn (£2.76bn) looted from the country during his four and a half year rule, according to investigators employed by its civilian president.

“The trail has led to accounts at London offices of 15 banks. The UK government has been asked to help trace the money deposited in London, but has failed to respond more than four months after the request was made. UK officials say they lack the power to freeze accounts and seize documents until charges have been brought in Nigeria.” In addition to the banks named by Africa Confidential, the Financial Times named Standard Chartered, Citibank, and the German bank, Commerzbank as other prominent banks involved in the money-laundering.

The British Treasury was highlighted in Africa Confidential as being resistant to the investigation into money-laundering. Summing up the attitude of a sizeable section of the British establishment, another article in the Financial Times quoted Rowan Bosworth-Davies, a former Fraud Squad officer and now consultant with Unisys, the information technology group, saying “There are a lot of people in the City who say that if the legislation is applied too strongly, it will be bad for UK plc.”

- Ooops I spoke too soon.
Never mind , lots of work to do. catch up with you later.

I live by what I wrote in my siggie; However don't for one minute think that because of that I am going to sit back and take personal abuse for simply responding to a post because of what I state in my siggie.

Thank God you have deleted that signature at last. This makes you more believable from now on and Christ less maligned. The real game shall now begin.

@elosela

Sorry Madam for calling you sir but as you realise very many people register in forums like this under false names and gender so pardon me. I really never read long posts but from the little that I glean from yours it is clear that even though you are certainly not thick you still do not know what this thread is about or you really need to get a life. It is not about vendetta nor gratification, so I have a problem with your use of such phrases as

I am supposed to get some sort of pleasure out of a few pictures of crackheads and drug addicts in Britain in payback for showing the truth about Nigeria.

Dear Madam, nobody gives a freaky f*** about what gives you pleasure , and about "payback" and "counteract", they only exists in your mind and I am sure not in the mind of anyone else who has been reading this thread. So maybe the guy who suggested paranoia does have a point afterall.

If you have been reading Nigerian newspapers I am sure you will eat your words and need to drink plenty of tea with them. The papers ceaselessly show pictures of where things have gone wrong , and I am sure Yaradua together with his ministers may be some the most criticised people alive today , and he would have resigned if he thought that would solve the problem in Nigeria. But some funny Nigerians stay far away and make up situations in Nigeria in their head with assistance of the foreign Yellow press and come to their own misguided, conceited and prejudiced conclusion. As a matter of fact the UK has also for some years been facing a great exodus of their productive citizens (not sit-tight foreign low quality immigrant labour) to other countries like Australia, New Zealand,USA, Canada and other parts of Europe. It's a free world , and some of us travel worldwide to sell our services wherever we can get the most from it - I do.That is how to make progress with your life , and not by sitting in the cold and cursing your enemies.

Once again, the message of this thread is : poverty and suffering exists everywhere in the world and even in the richest countries, full stop.

Your mother is a twit you ignorant piece of shit! Take your bitter immature ass over there and shut the f*ck up. Uptight obnoxious bitch! In future keep your dirty sour diseased mouth out of anything I write on here and everything will be cool.

I wonder how this resonates with your "In Jesus' name, I love you!" signature . A lot of very fake , hypocritical foreign Christian Nigerians about, innit ?

See:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-182488.0.html

See this posting :
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-182372.0.html

Question : why should people pay millions of Naira to an embassy without getting anything out of them - no travel papers, no apology , no respect . We are quickly becoming the biggest country of fools in the whole wide world.

EloSela:
Britishland?, Nigerialand?, whatever just don't make an ass of yourself by trying to tell me which sites to visit on the internet.

The fact still remains that Nigeria is still light years behind the Uk and the rest of the developed world. Nigeria with other countries such as Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Good ol' USA among others were all colonies of Great Britain at some point, yet Nigeria is the only country that hasn't moved forward since 1960, with nearly half the population lining up outside foreign embassies as we speak trying to get visas.

Pitiful!


Ask yourself why instead of posting carefully selective pictures of the UK in a pitiful attempt to somehow prove that Nigeria's non-existent infrastructure can somehow match up to that in the UK, the first industrialised and developed nation in the world. comparing London's tube system, the first such transport system in the world to Lagos broken down bus system is a complete piss take!

Why are you taking this so personal sir ? There are hundreds of thousands of Nigerians in the UK and you alone chose to fight not only for them all but even for everybody in UK (without their permission) because someone showed unpleasant pictures about UK . When pictures of Nigeria (and any part of Africa) is shown in the UK media do they go to VI to take pictures ? No they go to Amukoko , swamps of Niger Delta and the places where people are dying of hunger and starvation in the deserts to take their photos . And the foolish Nigerians abroad keep their head down and agree so that they don't get thrown out . And when they show pictures of their own country it is always the nice places that they publicise , so that Africans can keep coming here to become slaves . How tragic ; in the past they brought our people here in chains ; these days they show us beautiful pictures and we struggle to purchase our way into slavery- with our own money. Kai !!. Black man , take stock of yourself.

Even if the real citizens (not those that borrowed British name) see these pictures they will just shake their head and laugh , but Nigerian slave go draw dagger begin kill everybody because them insult him master. I am sorry for you sir .

This photo album is not to "compare" UK with Nigeria . It is just meant to expose the lies that we Nigerians tell ourselves and our people at home. Did you read about D-ick Whittington when you were a child ? London has never been paved in gold and even the British recognise this and admonish their children about this. Peace.

PS : Ijebu ke ? God forbid bad thing. We no want this kind person for Yoruba area . We don't want people who use their left hand to describe their father's house. True true the man na British man.

Advanced fee fraud I think means obtaining money for payment of an item that you have no intention of giving.

From the many complaints on this site it looks like at least one person from every home in Naija has been refused a visa at least once . And according to the petition request on the website www.rateoga.com one seems to get the impression that foreign embassies in Naija are intentionally luring people to spend money on impossible visa applications and making millions from this "business" to solve unemployment problem in their countries.

If you have been refused would you have applied if you had sufficient information from the embassies (especially British and US ) on the chances of your application succeeding ? . What do Nairalanders think ?

landis:
10k per night in VI?

Even in OShodi, you will get rotten place for that much.

Cheapest in VI goes like N25K per night.

That's not true. Most guest houses on mainland still go for less than that. Why don't you call a few guest houses in VI and ask them. It works for me when I travel around UK though and I am visiting a new place where I don't know anyone.

Your applying for a student or other visa effectively cancels all existing visas . If you don't , and I repeat if you don't file an appeal considering the reason for refusal you may NEVER get another visa to the UK again.
Never mind ,there is nothing there anyway , only foolish ignorant conceited idiots. Good luck.

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Sorry wrong photo ; this is India (remember they were once supposed to come revamp our railways )



Have a nice weekend. We will resume again next week. , God Save Da Queen.


PS See something that I ran into : http://www.rateoga.com/?q=node/136

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SOME WORRYING ANNOUNCEMENTS I'VE HEARD AT THE TUBE STATIONS LATELY

1) 'Ladies and Gentlemen, I do apologize for the delay to your service. I know you're all dying to get home, unless, of course, you happen to be married to my ex-wife, in which case you'll want to cross over to the Westbound and go in the opposite direction.'

2) 'Do you want the good news first or the bad news? The good news is that last Friday was my birthday and I hit the town and had a great time. The bad news is that there is a points failure somewhere between Stratford and East Ham, which means we probably won't reach our destination.'( Okay I know there is no service between Stratford and Eastham , but that's the joke innit ?)

3) 'Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for the delay, but there is a security alert at Victoria station and we are therefore stuck here for the foreseeable future, so let's take our minds off it and pass some time together. All together now, 'Ten green bottles, hanging on a wall, '.'

4) 'Beggars are operating on this train. Please do NOT encourage these professional beggars. If you have any spare change, please give it to a registered charity. Failing that, give it to me.'

5) During an extremely hot rush hour on the Central Line, the driver announced in a broad West Indian accent: 'Step right this way for the sauna, ladies and gentleman, '

6) 'Let the passengers off the train FIRST!' (Pause .) 'Oh go on then, stuff yourselves in like sardines, see if I care - I'm going home, '

7) 'Please allow the doors to close. Try not to confuse this with 'Please hold the doors open.' The two are distinct and separate instructions.'

'Please note that the beeping noise coming from the doors means that the doors are about to close. It does not mean throw yourself or your bags into the doors.'

9) 'To the gentleman wearing the long grey coat trying to get on the second carriage - what part of 'stand clear of the doors' don't you understand?'

10) 'Please move all baggage away from the doors.' (Pause, ) 'Please move ALL belongings away from the doors.' (Pause, ) 'This is a personal message to the man in the brown suit wearing glasses at the rear of the train: Put the pie down, Four-eyes, and move your bl**dy golf clubs away from the door before I come down there and (the rest is censored!)'

11) 'May I remind all passengers that there is strictly no smoking allowed on any part of the Underground. However, if you are smoking a joint, it's only fair that you pass it round the rest of the carriage.'

EloSela:
@Poster

I don't see the point of this thread. If anyone wants to really see the ugly side of Britain then all they really need to do is to go onto the BBC and other UK sites such as The Sun and the Guardian. Nobody hides anything here in the UK rather the tendency of the press here is to expose all the uglies in society rather than hide it. The BBC have a whole section on their website dedicated to poverty in the UK. Why don't the Nigerian press or people do the same instead of trying to brush all under the carpet and going on the defensive when the foreign press reports on one of the many constant negative stories coming out of Nigeria.

Why doesn't a Nigerian website have a dedicate a section on the majority of individuals living below the breadline instead of crying fowl whenever such scenes are broadcast around the world. What are they trying to hide?

The question to be asked is why do Nigerians always go on the defensive when the ills of their society are exposed?
Why all the cries about foreign press only focusing on the ill's of Nigerian society when the Nigerian press themselves hardly ever report anything good about it themselves? I would like to add that if it weren't for the foreign press such as the BBC and CNN half of you guys would not even know what was going on in Nigeria.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2005/breadline_britain/default.stm

By the way that BBC page has not been updated for more than a year !! (shows how efficient and organised they are innit ? ) So we are really helping them out here and updating for them , free of charge ; with love from Naijah