Viruses:


She's already overstaying her visa and surviving. It's just to continue.

lavida001:


That’s your natural skin colour coming out. Embrace your dark skin. Make Africa proud na wetin LL Lugard dey explain be this….

hustla:



As a collective, as a FREAKING collective

How are you deliberately missing the point of this?!!

I will not speak on this matter again. It was the same deliberate missing of point thing Nigerians did on twitter a few months ago when something similar came uo

I no do again abeg

Happy Easter

EJIOGBENIMI:

I don’t bleach. I don’t enjoy seeing my face dry and peeling irrespective of what Lugard said. And by the way, I was specific on what I want.

missjekyll:
Tax year ends in 8 days.
If self employed, have you filed your taxes?
Have you maxed out your 4k Lisa yearly allowance,if you have it?
Have

Any Tax specialists here? Anything else we need to know? Any new tax relief schemes from the government that we don't know about?
Please share it with us 😁

Peerielass:



You can only file your tax after the end of the tax year I.e after 5th April 2024. The deadline for filing your self assessment for year ended 5th April 2024 is 31sr January 2025.

EJIOGBENIMI:
Is there any one who sells original body creams imported from Nigeria?
I’ve tried EBay but what was sold to me was an expensive fake cream. I use FAIR and WHITE. The one that comes in blue plastic. My skin is now becoming darker and dry. I’ve tried several products locally but none seem to be working on my skin.
Any suggestion? And if someone is coming from Nigeria can help me buy some, I’m happy to pay for the cream and luggage space. Thank you

Viruses:


Hastings Direct.

But this should be applicable to other insurance providers because some people here have said their prices remained the same when they updated their licences. Just that they didn't mention the provider.

profemebee:
Lovely conversations going on... and trust we are enjoying the long weekend..

Twist/turn/Ignore facts won't change the truth.......

There is something wrong somewhere.. and you can't keep giving excuses or ignoring it.. it doesn't change the truth

Even if you mention slavery as an excuse for why the black communities haven't prospered, who sold their own people ? We did.. our ancestors sold their own people for mirrors, tobacco, jewelries, commission from both buyers and sellers, etc

What excuse do you give for a country blessed with natural resources not excelling when countries without a single natural resource have excelled tremendously (Switzerland and Japan as examples)

What excuse do you give for House of Reps member empowering his people with shoe shining kits in the north?

What excuse do you give for an oil rich country of over 200m people that has grown poverty rate from generation to generation and from government to government across different political parties?

What excuse do you have for a country that the Senate approved N82.5bn to construct 427 boreholes?

I can go on and on..

I saw Vision 20:20

The real example of having a vision and following it up with a strategy is Dubai, UAE for example... it was just bare sand.. desert... but they had leadership that cared and had ambition to prosper its' people.. selfless leadership.. to serve and not to just be served

There are documentaries on how they achieved it... you will shed some tears.. something must drop down your cheeks

Excuses excuses and more excuses

I don't care about LL or whoever..

lastkingsman:


If this is the best Tinubu can do, then we are finished.

Have you checked Nigeria recent debt servicing to revenue ratio? Just check it and get back to me.

CBN rate is 1400/$ but they are selling $$$ at 1260/$ to BDC. Isn't that madness? Is using FX reserves to defend currency value sustainable? That's my concern

deept:
abeg enter the matter make we know whatsapp

Poanan:

Lol peopke collect loans from Japan by using Japanese men to front collect loan at a low rate bring it in earn a high amount on Tb. Return it and it continues. All those people u will just hear "e go japan" go do business next thing the japanese man may viskt naija if need be. Now foreigners are entering the market any how especially hedge funds. That is why we hear increase in forex turnover everyday.

deept:


I was talking to somebody recently and said if the naira was stable, someone could just import capital and do this tb thing.

There is a lot going on out there and if you don't know, you don't know.

Poanan:


Yes we are getting there. Another thing people do is thay they enter forward contracts this gives them cover against any instability. But banks will want you to come with a ground breaking amount for them to want to enter a forwant contract

LORETA:
Good morning guys,
Any latest review on royal air maroc from uk to lagos here?
They have the best rate for now and short time 9 hrs in total.

Gift7428:

What happened to Nivea?
I am surprised you are getting dark when you are meant to be lighter

Anyway order original fair and white from Paris

https://eu.fwparis.com/en/

ReesheesuKnack:


Thank you dupyshoo.
It’s a misconception to assume that the term ‘benefits’ is for poor and underprivileged people. Far from it!
30 hour childcare is definitely not for ‘people who want to receive rather than give’.
Refusing to receive the benefits that rightly belongs to you is like refusing a £200 John Lewis voucher from your landlord (on the anniversary of your annual rent contract renewal). Oga landlord is already screwing you badly (with rent hikes etc). You now refuse the ‘gift’ from the landlord, because you believe gifts from landlord is only for underprivileged people?
Nah… not at all.


See what I found on my commute this morning:

Viruses:


We are talking about benefits, you are using gift as example. Looking at the criteria to be qualified for some benefits, would you rather receive them than give?

Incase you still want to use the childcare benefit to counter my point, I didn't mean absolutely all benefits, just most.

dupyshoo:
I would have said the same thing but I got 1 year 30hr free childcare. I also did free Data science bootcamp.

For those that have access to public fund and are interested in cybersecurity, there is this government funded bootcamp that can give you 2 sans certifications (GFACT and GSEC).
Both training will cost about $12,000 if you are paying yourself. So, it is worth it. It is also widely recognised.

hustla:



As a collective, as a FREAKING collective

How are you deliberately missing the point of this?!!

I will not speak on this matter again. It was the same deliberate missing of point thing Nigerians did on twitter a few months ago when something similar came uo

I no do again abeg

Happy Easter

TomatoSauce1:


I first heard about Express Entry in 2015, but i didn't take it serious. I had just finished my masters in the UK and I was back in Naija looking for work (no post work visa then, so I had to go back).

In 2016, a friend who we did masters together, told me he was moving to canada through EE. He did a paid internship for a year and that was the experience he used.
I became interested again because, I had been looking for a job to no avail. I started reading about EE on the Canada website and I did some research. I knew I needed at least 1 year experience, but the worse thing was, I didn't even know I could use NYSC experience (smh).

In 2017, I finally got a Job as an Engineer, then I began to process my WES. I knew I needed only my masters assessed but I just wanted to be done with Uniben in terms of transcript. They had almost frustrated me and prevented me from gaining admissions to some Canadian schools because they couldn't send my transcript. In fact, it was one of the reasons I went to the UK to study instead. They claimed not to find my file, so I had to start sending all my documents to them to create another file and process my transcript. I Don't even want to mention how long it took.

In 2018, I finally got my ECA and I Wrote my IELTS. Every part was okay, but got 6.5 in writing. Then I stumbled on this thread and I became a silent reader, read page 1 and followed the thread back to back. Then you'll read stories of people writting IELTS 5 to 10 times before they got ITA. So I wrote IELTS again and still got 6.5 in writing. Did remarking and it came back 6.5, it was so annoying. At this point I was planning my wedding and i wanted to add my husband post AOR. So you can imagine my frustration and I was also turning 30 in 2019. I got married and kept the Canada Waka on hold for some time. Meanwhile, my sister was on post graduate work visa in Canada.

In 2020, I wanted to write IELTS again, but COVID came. In 2021, I wrote IELTS and I scored 7 in writing. Imagine the jubilation!! I went into the pool straight away. Meanwhile, prior to this time, my husband was working on his ECA with WES. Abraka wan frustrate the guy too with transcript, but God big pass them. He got his ECA and added it to my profile. My score was 446 and the scores receiving ITA then was above 500. My sister in Canada had not gotten her PR yet, so I couldn't even get points for sibling. It was like no hope, but I saw people on this thread learning French and I began to contemplate doing same. However, I never knew what would come next, will eventually help me in the PR journey.

In late 2021, I got an opportunity for a care assistant job in the UK with sponsorship. I did not want to go because, in my mind I was like "a whole me Engineer, with masters cannot do care work". My husband wasn't doing badly and I was fine too.

After much deliberation, we decided to relocate to the UK in 2022. My sister got PR, so I was hoping at least Alberta will send me NOI. I didn't get NOI and my profile became ineligible in January 2023 because I didn't update proof of fund. I almost gave up on this EE and I didn't create a new profile until one fateful day.

A friend called and asked, "you no dey come Canada again?". I was like "I no know, besides I'm settling in the UK" and I was also about to switch jobs too. At this point, we had Canadian visitors visa and we've visited. Then he told me about the category based draws. I went to the Canada website and saw the Healthcare category. Lo and behold there was NOC 33102- Nurse Aide, which was similar to the Healthcare Assistant job I was doing. They had even done 1 or 2 draws at the time and the scores were not high. I quickly created another profile in August 2023 and made NOC 33102 my primary NOC. 2 days after, Alberta sent me NOI, you need to see celebration. However,there was a small problem. My IELTS and ECA were expiring September 2023. The ECA was easy to renew, but I was wondering how to pull off IELTS before September because there was no available test whithin the time frame and i didn't want to be out of the pool.

Then I discovered that IELTS now had CBT and the results are usually out within 3 days or so. Did some research to compare it to the paper based test and I was ready risk it. Did the test end of August and they didnt release my result within the said time frame. I was like, "which kind wahala be this one". They finally released it more than a week after. My husband said I too blast, na em make them hold the result (LOL). I scored 9 9 8 7.5 (LRSW) and quickly updated profile.

In October, I was preparing to submit my Alberta application when I received ITA from Federal, under the Healthcare Occupations category. I Stopped the PNP application immediately and began to gather my documents. I easily got reference from former employer in Nigeria, added my bank statement showing salary paid ( got this from my mobile app). But my former UK employer (where I got the Healthcare experience), refused the give me reference. Did some research on Canadavisa forum and this thread. I got a former colleague of mine to write the letter, signed and attached her ID card. I also attached the email exchange showing their refusal to give me reference and my payslips. Thanks again to @GraciousWords who helped to vet my job description to ensure it matched with the NOC.

From my research, I really wanted to notarize the letter. However, to notarize documents here in the UK is completely different from Nigeria. They would have to witness the person signing the letter, with their identification. The price again was expensive. For same reason I didn't get my gift deed notarized. Also, we were running out of time to submit our application. The total funds we had was in our joint account and the gift we got, was paid into that same account. I got a letter from the bank and bank statements showing the transfer of the gift. I didn't pay the RPRF at the time because we needed all the funds we could get for POF.

I decided to put in the application like that and the rest they say is history. I aslo want to add that, I have some travel history too, I've been to the US and Canada. The only ADR we got was to pay the RPRF fees and got PPR 2 days after we made payment.

If you really would love to relocate to Canada, you have do a lot of research like it's encouraged here, read page 1 and digest it. Keep pushing and it will end in praise. I wish everyone expecting ITA and PPR all the best.

jedisco:


I saw your initial post and don't agree with it.

You're conflating two things- which is using a snapshot in of human history to make a general statement about a race.
We've seen dynasties and civilisations rise and fall and each power would have made same statement about others. Where were the Europeans when ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, mastared astronomy e.t.c. The Pharaohs would have called europeans eternal savages e.t.c

The only difference today is the rise of the west coincided with a period of human tech and communication advancement that has brought us close together which makes brainwashing and neo-colonialism persist. Ask yourself, why does the average Nigerian chorus the statement that Chinese loans are bad while they worry not about the over 10x more we have taken from western agencies with nothing to show.

Also, I have huge interest in policy and macroeconomics. Many of the drivers of trade today were put in place by the west and serves to perpetuate their feudalism by subverting others. How many nations were there when the decision was made to make the dollar the world reserve currency or the institute the IMF was made. Wouldn't the makeup and outcome of that conference be very different if it held today? The IMF exists to debase and devalue developing nations so western powers have access to cheap resources. How many non-western nations has interraction with the IMF brought longterm gains? Now, its moved from material to human resources.
Today, due to those decisions, the US prints dollars out of thin air, while many African nations have to lend same paper money at rates of over 10%. Rates that even the everyday American wouldn't lend for. How can Djibouti afford to lend money at a higher rate than Germany?

The UK forcefully enforced opium on the Chinese amlost reducing them to savages and oversaw the death of millions of Indians via famine so Britain's food reserves could remain full. The general economic slowdown in the west today is not unconnected to the rise of the Asians esp China. China has shown same can be done on a large scale within a generation. WHEN same occurs in Africa, certain things would give.

ReesheesuKnack:


Slowly but surely, you will move the goalposts.
Thank you for agreeing (after your initial wrong presumption) that benefits are not an exclusive reserve of the ‘underprivileged’.
If I was you, I would save the bits about investing the child benefits for your children. If I was you, I will thank contributors who have enlightened you because your idea of Benefits (initially) was conflated with Universal credit (or similar schemes).

No more debate (arguments) with you. I am sure hundreds of people have learned from the conversation. When you (finally) obtain your ILR or citizenship, if you like, don’t claim the Benefits that are rightfully yours - your choice.

jedisco:
Just stumbled upon the rumour that King Charles has pancreatic cancer. Hope its not true. But if true, I feel sad about it. My thoughts are with him.

Cancer is a b**ch but pancreatic ca is a different beast. Due to the location of the pancreas its many times only diagnosed late and for same reason, if not caught very early it's mostly not ammenable to active treatment. The dying process is also terrible characterised by intractable pain.

Taal17:


It's prostrate cancer

ReesheesuKnack:



Is it the much maligned ‘West’ that is responsible for Nigeria using NGN 90,000,000,000:00 to ‘subsidise’ people going on excursion to Saudi Arabia?

Is it the IMF that made the FGN to use billions to buy cars for MPs?

Kontinu speaking grammar & blaming the ‘West’.

Viruses:


The way you guys understand things sometimes though is baffling...you've quickly used the phrase exclusive reserve, who said it was exclusively reserved?

If you would rather be at the receiving end of benefits no problem. Everyone will be alright.

ReesheesuKnack:



Bro.. please, stop this posturing. Learn. Please, learn.
You may not realise, but your use of certain phrases betrays a lot of … poor understanding.
What do you mean ‘receiving end’?
You say it as if the term ‘Benefits’ is some sort of reserved for cup-in-hand situations.

“…receiving end…”
No. Please. Learn.