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Hi guys ive been waiting for my goods to arrive before i made a comment. I ordered couple of pc tablets and phone batteries on 23/01/13 and it was collected today after a phone call from the post office. Many thanks to the originators of this thread.

I employed the services of a lawyer i met here on nairaland to do the conveyancing for a plot of land i bought and ive never met him in person but i was impressed with his work.

This lent ive given up alcohol and chocolates and i fast at least 2 days a week.

Just to let you guys know that you can get $5 coupon when you shop at Aliexpress with your mastercard.

fados4sure: What do you mean by force information? My friend graduated from Micro Biology in UNIBEN and was working in Government parastatals before he applied for highly skilled migrant visa to UK..
Check UKBA website and see for yourself though highly skilled migrant visa has been close since last year and that the UKBA said work permit is only available to residence in UK.
DO YOUR RESEARCH B/4 TALKING

You seemed to have missed the point here, we are not talking about visas here, we are talking about jobs. And your friend is working as a micrbiologist in the UK with his Nigerian degree? then he is one hell of a lucky dude and for your information i,m not in a habit of making coments without facts here. Anyone can get any type of visa to the uk, if you satisfy all the requirements.

Ive cancelled the order anyway.

I tried to order some stuff from Chinavasion, but they refused to ship to Chrisvicmall's office in china what a waste of my time surfing through their site. They insisted on doing the shipping themselves but their shipping cost are too high and the only payment option made available is by international bank transfer.
Has anybody here experienced same with them?

fados4sure: My brother, it is very possible but you will have work experience. My good friend graduated from UNIBEN and apply for highly skilled migrant visa and he got it and He is currently in UK working with his UNIBEN degree for the past 3years. Though, highly skilled visa is now close for UK now but, you can research on the country of your interested embassy in Nigeria and check the kind of visa available and go for it.
IT IS VERY POSSIBLE

May be you can enlighten us by telling us what degree you friend used to get a job directly in the UK , i know for a fact the certain degrees from some european countries are worth less than the paper they are written on when it comes to getting jobs in the current UK job market. Please do not give the OP false hope.

The problem withyour service is that it only has dollars conversion rates. What about other currencies like GBP?

Haven't you heard? it is difficult for Europeans to get a job in europe cos there is a recession.

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us, and lived in houses made of asbestos..

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We didn't have sprays/gels/wipes that got rid of 99.9% of germs

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Burger King.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy fruit Spangles and some bangers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day..,,and we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in streams with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no videogames at all, no 999 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms........... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Crossed Buns at Easter time....... really!

We were given Spud guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Footy had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather straps and bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and ' Brooklyn '

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

I googled the cost of building a house in Nigeria and was forwarded to Nairaland. in the process I discovered some nice, matured and sensible forums. Watched for a while before registering and i've used the services of a couple of Nairalanders.

There's always one. This has got to be one of the funniest things in a long time. I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired. This is a true story from the Word Perfect Helpline, which was transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department. Needless to say the Help Desk employee was fired; however, he/she is currently suing the Word Perfect organization for "Termination without Cause".
Actual dialogue of a former WordPerfect Customer Support employee. (Now I know why they record these conversations!):

Operator: "Ridge Hall, computer assistance; may I help you?"
Caller: "Yes, well, I'm having trouble with WordPerfect."
Operator: "What sort of trouble??"
Caller: "Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away."
Operator: "Went away?"
Caller: "They disappeared."
Operator: "Hmm So what does your screen look like now?"
Caller: "Nothing."
Operator: "Nothing??"
Caller: "It's blank; it won't accept anything when I type."
Operator: "Are you still in WordPerfect, or did you get out??"
Caller: "How do I tell?"
Operator: "Can you see the C: prompt on the screen??"
Caller: "What's a sea-prompt?"
Operator: "Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen?"
Caller: "There isn't any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type."
Operator: "Does your monitor have a power indicator??"
Caller: "What's a monitor?"
Operator: "It's the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you when it's on??"
Caller: "I don't know."
Operator: "Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that??"
Caller: "Yes, I think so."
Operator: "Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if it's plugged into the wall.
Caller: "Yes, it is."
Operator: "When you were behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one??"
Caller: "No."
Operator: "Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable."
Caller: "Okay, here it is."
Operator: "Follow it for me, and tell me if it's plugged securely into the back of your computer."
Caller: "I can't reach."
Operator: "Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is??"
Caller: "No."
Operator: "Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over??"
Caller: "Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle - it's because it's dark."
Operator: "Dark??"
Caller: "Yes - the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window.
" Operator: "Well, turn on the office light then."
Caller: "I can't."
Operator: "No? Why not??"
Caller: "Because there's a power failure."
Operator: "A power......... A power failure? Aha, Okay, we've got it licked now.
Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packing stuff your computer came in??"
Caller: "Well, yes, I keep them in the closet."
Operator: "Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store you bought it from."
Caller: "Really? Is it that bad?"
Operator: "Yes, I'm afraid it is."
Caller: "Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them??"
Operator: "Tell them you're too stupid to own a computer!!!!!"

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Hi i would like a rough guide estimate for a kitchen X4, i would prefer the worktops to be concrete acid stained, do you specialise in this kind of work?

This is good news for Nigerians

This is the 21st century, Ladies be yourself and dont pretend to be someone else.

Can i please see the pictures of the work you have done. Thanks

Welldone Brabus, your work is very neat. Keep it up

centje: you know women get scared easily...maybe he could convince her.

@ centje bushman has just given us even more worrying information, if i were to be in his shoes and my son had a blood transfusion, i would not circumcise him even if there was a 0.00001% risk. It is our duty as parents to protect our kids, i told him to go ahead with it earlier because i didnt know the circumstances surrounding the birth of his son. Now i know i would not advice him to. So I'm on the side of his wife a 100%

centje: every endeavour in this life is a risk. Even life itself is a risk. Your wife had to pass to near death to give birth to the same baby,them are all risky. Please don'k 'chicken out' 'cause of this singular incident. If you read the previous posts you undertand that its possible this kid has an illness possibly a bleeding disorder. The precaution you should undertake is to be sure your kid doesnt have such before going for the circumcision. So please go ahead with what you believe in.

This child has two parents, i think both of them have got to agree on this issue, if bushmans goes ahead, he could loose his marriage, son and even go to jail so it is not worth the risk.

@ bushman you didnt give much details earlier based on on this new info i would say forget about it, it is not the end of the world if you dont get it done and it is much better to save your marriage. Goodluck and move on.

BUSH MAN: honestly i dont intend to cut corners i will pay whatever money it takes, but after this sad story i am not comfortable doing it anymore plus his mother is treathning to take him away from me if i persist on doing it,i know its our beleive but its the beleive worth the risk?

@ bushman if his mum doesnt want it, then dont do it as you could get into a lot of trouble

Are you licensed by sage to sell their products?

BUSH MAN: now i am petrified my son is 7 weeks old and i ve been making arrangements to circumcise him even though his mother (white woman)refused
now this story got me thinking twice, over here in london its not available on the NHS how come it is in manchester, please people i am really worried about this as this is my first (mixed race)should if i dont circumcise him is a problem? is it necessarry? do i have to? is it really available on the NHS? sugestions please thanks

Hi @ bushman there is no need to worry as long as you do not cut corners, get it done by the Jewish who are experts in this field, you can either take your son to them or they can pay you a home visit for a premium. They are licensed and they have been doing this for centuries. Since you live in London the closest to you will be in Finsbury park or Golders green and the environs. Certain things happen in life, doesnt mean we should completely give up our beliefs, it just makes us more aware and to take precautions. GOOD LUCK

In the UK most Nigerians patronise the Jewish or Rabbis as they are the most experience for this kind of procedure and they have all the proper tools to carry out the job without causing too much stress to the baby. In most cases there is little or no bleeding. They maybe more expensive put it is worth it, i don't think they cut any skin off, all they do is push the fore skin backwards.

Well done sir, keep up the good work.

spyder880: these areas will carry 3 blocks, can anybody tell me why

Is it because you want the ceiling to be high?

Welldone spyder, you are doing a very good job here, keep it up.

I remember climbing the rails of an overhead tank and swinging upside down..i cringe thinking about it now.. but it was fun then.

My friend told me that she doesnt patronise the African shops in the Uk, especialy the ones run by Nigerians, because they can be too rude.
She went in there for a few african food items and the Nigerian lady was on the phone discussing about the party she went to night before, she waited at the till for about 2mins and this lady is still on the phone. In an attempt to make the lady hurry up a bit , she pointed to her wrist and this shop owner told the person at the other end of the line to hold on. Then in an almost loud voice said " cant you see that im on an international call" my friend left the items at the till and walked out and a long hiss was heard coming from the shop keeper.

This is not in Nigeria, so what excuse is there for this kind of treatment? The same reason why some Nigerian businesses do not do very well overseas because of their lazy, laid back and bad customer attitude. Most Nigerians tend to patronise the Assian and Turkish shops where they will receive a more welcoming reception.