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Hello Lagos NIV,

I just recently interviewed for a B1 B2 Medical VISA to give birth in the USA. The interviewer asked if I had been out of Nigeria- I did my MBA in UK, vacationed 4 times in uk, Netherlands, Dubai, Seychelles. Then he asked for my account statement and questioned a recent inflow of 10 million naira. I worked with an Oil and Gas IOC (he didn’t ask where I worled) I was denied. Could the account statement have been the problem. My husband also works with a OIl & Gas IOC and we can really afford to cover our medical expenses. I intend to reapply immediately. Please I am confused on what went wrong? Do I also add my husband’s account statement or was it because to inflow was on the date I printed to account statement. Kindly help advise what to do in a situation like this. Looking forward to your response. Thank you

Please my 2013 Honda is showing FCW failed and some lights on the dash board is on (abs) too. The car isn't driving smoothly too. What could be wrong and any Honda repair specialist in PHC

Please how much would it cost to clear a 2013 Honda accord coupe

This is so inspiring


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuIn-WT0pM

wow u are good! a real eye opener No wonder she responded

b0dnel: Linda Started this whole drama and I am surprised she is all defensive now. She reported in MARCH that the said man of God was in a hot divorce over Adultery charges. Up till date, there was no follow up to that story.

whoever wrote this is such an amazing writer! i really love this thread! it is amazing to see guys reach deep into thier softer sides and pull out such passionate words!

hopefully my future hubby wherever he is has one nicely written for me!

matthew briggs lovely writeup tooo

Jarus: One of my columnists did a good job of that recently:

Sola Fagorusi

http://jarushub.com/2013/05/01/letter-to-my-future-wife/

As it is now, I can submit that I have been graced beyond measures by a great family – one in which the principal thing (love) flows uninhibited. I was nursed in an atmosphere where the collective good remained the most important. My parents watched my back. They still do. My siblings, all boys do same and vice versa. What was bothersome to one was bothersome to all. The joy of one was the joy of all. Today 30th April, 2013, it dawned on me that the founders of that home, my parents, have spent 30 years together building an institution. It has been 3 decades of building a home in the house. There is a difference between the two!

I am happy at what this represents for them; I congratulate them and thought to spare a thought for you – my future wife. I am not exactly sure of where you are seated right now. I can’t tell what colour of attire you are adorning. I am in the dark as to what exactly would constitute real happiness for you. I am uncertain about the names you would want your children, our children, to bear. All I am definite of is your existence and your desire to also have a home to call yours some day.

Like every other straight thinking man, I hope to make a good husband, have children, be a good father and friend to them. I have aspirations and hope to be part of the national reconstruction of this edifice called Nigeria. My forte is not romance. I am as naive as they come. For those who know, I consistently retook that elective – Moz 101 throughout my five sessions in the university without success. I may have failed at that but I am certain not to fail in the discharge of my duties as a boyfriend, fiancé, husband and father when the time comes. Add grandfather to the list as well.

I still don’t appreciate music the way I think I should. Beyond using the sound to drown the silence of my environment, only few rhythms would cause me to shake my head. Maybe with you something will change. I am not likely to ask that we go see a musical show together. Nay! Maybe, you will and trust that like a lamb being led to the slaughter, I will follow you. But guess what, I am crazy about the stage. I love to see actors and actresses on the stage give live performances. I love the theatre. I derive visual excitement from this. Unlike a sizeable number of my friends, I am yet to come to terms with watching 22 adults run after a ball for 90 minutes. Athletics however give me the same measure of excitement. I caught myself during the last Olympics jumping, punching the air and cheering my favourite track athletes to victory several miles away from them.

My heart is racy with expectations. Dear future wife, I need ’us’ to promise ‘us’ that, God willing, 30 years from now, we would in each other’s arms armed with the appropriate dose of laughter read this. I may not fall within the imagery of your dream man. I don’t have bulging muscle neither do I the now legendary 6 packs. I have had the honour of several lovely female friends. I am still friends with them and their hubbies, for the married ones. I also have a large pool of male friends I can always rely on and a number of adults I run to for advice and counsel. I think you also deserve to know that I have a mentor who looks out for me as well. You should meet him soon. I promise to part ways often with Zara. Having to be with her is why I stay up most nights. Zara ensures letters like this come out. She is a dependable ally. My hands and eyes find comfort with her. I only wish she didn’t need electricity for daily survival. Dear future wife, I will love you beyond what you may have seen in Nollywood, Hollywood, Ghollywood, ‘Sollywood’ or Kannywood. As to Bollywood, I cannot promise since I have awful dance steps and can’t sing more than a few songs from beginning to the end.

Dear future wife, this is the second love note I would be writing in my years of existence. Remind me to tell you how the first one turned out. I promise it will crack you and we would together laugh for days about it. One more thing dear, I grew up knowing I didn’t like onions. I still can’t explain why. Everyone in my home loves it. I am the odd one out. I carefully pick them out of my meal or simply swallow then when I can’t do so. Maybe you have a solution for it or we will find one together.

I am not hoping to marry a cook, a laundry girl, a house cleaner and a domestic aid. No, that’s not the deal. I am not discounting that these will have to be done but your responsibility is more than that. I grew up watching my parents share roles at home and I hope to do same. There was a no-go area for my father and I can guess confidently that it must have been one of the reasons why they are still together. Dear future wife, I know you will have dreams and I promise to help you keep them alive. I am not going to be satisfied having people see me as the only successful of the two. I hope to also be introduced as the husband of a successful woman. Let me also chip in that if you desire to keep your maiden name, I will have no objection to that. It’s up to you. Now, this is the liberal me talking thanks to my socialisation process. Guess what, I once fiddled with the thought of me being the one to change my name to yours! Just some weird thought of mine. I thought it would be fun but then, this is still a deeply cultural society. Nevertheless, where your tribe, state of origin or dialect would not be a yardstick as long as you can speak English! And I also hope that like my parents, if need be, we would sacrifice part of our dreams so that those of our children can find wings.

One more important thing honey, I am a Christian and I believe the shortest distance between a problem and finding solution is the same as the distance between the knees and the ground. We would pray together to make sure things happen the way God desires it for us. I see my parents do this a lot and I hear them express the desires of their heart to a God who understand all things.

Congratulations Signor and Signora Fagorusi for three long decades of a happy and successful home. I will never forget that you introduced me to the magic of literature with those novels tucked in our bookshelves. Dear future wife, I hope you meet this wonderful duo soon, same way I long to be part of your own family.

Till me meet on the aisle and are declared husband and wife, it’s your future husband writing.

Govt officials withdraw support for OJB due to misinformation on funds raised


There have been speculations that some celebrities have been to see OJB and made some donations. While it's true that the likes of Don Jazzy, P-Square, Ruggedman, Mercy Johnson, Iyanya, Julius Aguw have contributed, the other names on the list that circulated today are 100% false. For instance, D'banj didn't give N7m, Wizkid didn't give N3m and 2face didn't give N1.5m.

Head of committee for the #SaveOJB fund, singer Nomoreloss, says the hype and misinformation is affecting efforts to raise the complete money OJB needs for his treatment. See more tweets after the cut...




Shey all those people peddling the false rumour on nairaland are finally happy clap for yourselves. Our prayer is that when u need help anonymous ignorant people would not become ur stumbling block.

and as for dbanj, wiz kid and tuface dat didnt come out and refute d rumour God is watching you with 3D

DJDOLA: Iyanya:1million
Dbanj:7m
Psquare:5m
Donjazy:1m
Wizkid:3m
Ice prince:500thousand
Vector:250thousand
Rugedman:500thusand
Djdola:2thousand
Some nairaland member at least 50 people each:1thousand
Ojb friends:don't no
Total:over 20million
And is lookin for 16million

How can u say this? are u aware nomoreloss gives update as money is coming in! u just seat down in front of your computer and fabricate rumors. when did dbanj, wiz kid donate.. may God help you. if dey even want to pull a scam dont you think dey would send him first for d surgery immediately the money is complete, then start asking for more

My vows
Princess: I promise to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on Dried peppered suya, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home

hopefully my future hubby can matchh this

I Think the first thing you should do is a self evaluation. What are your goals, your aspirations, where are you right now and what do you need to develop your self to accomplish them, then look at your friends do they want them same things, or do you need to change to attract better friends. like my mother would say your dont need 100's of friends to be happy but just that one that shares same* quality of goals with you that is if only if you know what you want from life.
When you have sorted your self and attracted the right type of friend..., then when the right guy comes you would know.
and you would never be attracted to any slowpoke who thinks he can date two friends.

please take sometime and work on yourself...

O! yes i don't have belly-fat and stretch marks! am blessed with a great figure and just because i like something doesn't make me copy copy. and i seriously doubt dami is the first person to take such a photograph. i said i loved the work of the photographer, the lighting and the angles with which he captured Dami is just perfect, and if i were to take a picture like this i would use a photographer like him/her.

Decryptor: As long as you are not flabby and have belly-fat + stretch marks! Naija girls and copy-copy

I think this is an absolutely amazing picture of Dami, i should contract the same photographer to take a picture like this...... it would look amazing on my bedroom wall

mikewills: I currently live in Malaysia. Guys the reputation of Nigerians is ZERO over here. I agree that an accident caused the fight and the Malay Indian guys/police over reacted. But I can assure you it's down to pent-up anger against Nigerians. This "Get Rich Or Die Trying" attitudes of Nigerians is really messing those of us who have legitimate business not just in Malaysia but everywhere in the world.
Like the owner of a favourite Nigerian restaurant in Cheras, outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, once said, "there are a minimum of 20 issues involving Nigerians everyday in the neighbourhood". It's just so crazy. Now they've even started forming Eiye, Black Acts and Mafia (seriously!!!)
I work for a multi-national oil firm and my first day in the office, once the local found out I was Nigerian, their question was, "when are you leaving Malaysia?". When I answered that I actually live in the USA and once I'm done I will be heading back to Texas, their question changed to "How long are you staying in Malaysia?".
The Malaysians are generally laid back people but so many of our guys just love taking advantage of them. And of course, our embassy, like every other Nigerian embassy abroad, is totally messed up and a reflection of the broken down civil service in Nigeria.
For those of you that don't know, Malaysia is the safest country that I've lived in(and I've lived in a lot of countries). Anyway, I live in KLCC, not too far from the former Prime Minister...what do I know.

KingPradas: First of all ask your self why is it always nigeria not other countries. because the Malaysia government dislike nigerians and keep an eye on us and used that opportunity to give nigeria a bad image.

Are you telling me that all malaysians doesn't engage in drugs dealing, they do but they wont get harsh punishment like nigerians will do.

its their country they can do as they please!

take you time to read the post, they mentioned south Americans too, but those ones have to sense to go and cool off in thier home country and not pack their "guys" there under the guise of schooling in Malaysia

playmode: [size=15pt]Just take a look at the responses here unf-u-c-kin.g believable! You guys (Rossikk,Burger01, val_dee,KingPradas) are supreme idiots and probably criminal minded.Our brothers and sisters are terrorizing their host countries and here you are insulting a Malaysian who is tired of our sh*T.

We destroyed our country (Nigeria) because of our low IQ ,greed ,stupidity,tribalism and inability to be a progressive nation then we move to other foreign countries and start destroying their countries too.Take a look around you,you bloody m0nkeys! Nobody likes us and nobody wants us.They don't dislike us because they are jealous but because Nigerians are f-u-c-ki.ng crime possessed m0r0ns.What good has ever come out of our regressive nation ,what GOOD i ask you?

Until we wake the f-u-c-k up and realize that we are parasites who infest other nations and try to spread our virus of destruction and mayhem ,we will never move forward.The only major export we are known for is Criminals.It is Nigerians like you who have made Nigeria what it is today.You fail to admit that you are wrong and accept correction.Instead you ignorantly contninue to claim to be to be a giant even though our country is one of the worst places to be on this planet.

At the rate at which we are going ,it is only a matter of time before foreign embassies stop issuing visas to Nigerians who are not employed by Government.
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you Know what God bless you playmode! it is the name you tell people to call u that they will call you, we have asked them to call us criminals so lets live with it.

The reason i put this post up, its so Nigerians understand the mind of a Malaysian, and its simple they would do anything within their power to chase you out of their country.

coupled with the fact that you have a nonsense government, that would not fight on your behalf ........... for those doing legit business i really feel sorry for you

mikewills: I currently live in Malaysia. Guys the reputation of Nigerians is ZERO over here. I agree that an accident caused the fight and the Malay Indian guys/police over reacted. But I can assure you it's down to pent-up anger against Nigerians. This "Get Rich Or Die Trying" attitudes of Nigerians is really messing those of us who have legitimate business not just in Malaysia but everywhere in the world.
Like the owner of a favourite Nigerian restaurant in Cheras, outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, once said, "there are a minimum of 20 issues involving Nigerians everyday in the neighbourhood". It's just so crazy. Now they've even started forming Eiye, Black Acts and Mafia (seriously!!!)
I work for a multi-national oil firm and my first day in the office, once the local found out I was Nigerian, their question was, "when are you leaving Malaysia?". When I answered that I actually live in the USA and once I'm done I will be heading back to Texas, their question changed to "How long are you staying in Malaysia?".
The Malaysians are generally laid back people but so many of our guys just love taking advantage of them. And of course, our embassy, like every other Nigerian embassy abroad, is totally messed up and a reflection of the broken down civil service in Nigeria.
For those of you that don't know, Malaysia is the safest country that I've lived in(and I've lived in a lot of countries). Anyway, I live in KLCC, not too far from the former Prime Minister...what do I know.

God blees you for this contribution please read my Thread on "let"s ban Nigerians from Malaysia" by a Malaysian> it sums up everything

This write up by this Malaysian goes a long way to tell us the perception they have of Nigerians........ and i strongly believe Nigerians are the cause of their problems.

The 28-year-old Nigerian leader of an international drug distribution ring was masquerading as a college student. He made easy money by luring lovestruck women into smuggling drugs. The man became a major player in the regional drug smuggling trade, but despite keeping a low-profile, his activities were noticed. He was nabbed after a six-month surveillance by police.

Are we still leaving the back door open for more foreign criminals to slip-in through in disguise of students?

Back to the original post

Read these first:-

The Blitzkrieg On Fake African Students
Spotlight On African Menace
Con Jobs
African Menace in Puchong

(The police’s press conference on the arrest the Nigerian drug baron, who soon will be facing the gallows. One has been caught, what about the rest? What about other crimes like internet scams and fraud?)

When will the authorities wake up and put their “foot down” (I mean with serious short & long term action and not just the usual talk cock) on this long nagging problem? Will the Home Minister able to do some serious “out-of-the-box” thinking to get rid of these persistent parasites from Africa for once and for all?

From theStar:-

A Nigerian living like a king in his little palace hideout in Lukut, Port Dickson, was nabbed by the police on suspicion of running a multi-million ringgit international drug syndicate. After six months of surveillance, police moved in on the 32-year-old Nigerian, who has been living a life of luxury in his bungalow house on Saturday and nabbed him and his 31-year-old live-in girlfriend whom he referred to as his wife.

Police investigations also revealed that the suspect, who had been operating in the country for less than a year, owns a hotel in his home country believed to be paid for with money gained from his illegal activities here.

Assets belonging to the man, his girlfriend and his right-hand man in Malaysia worth millions of ringgit have been frozen. The three have been remanded for seven days.

Noor Rashid revealed that in unrelated cases last week, six people from Zambia, Iran and Nigeria, including women aged between 25 and 38, were arrested in KLIA, Puchong and Damansara for drug smuggling. Drugs seized in these cases have a street value of RM7mil.

Kudos to the police in nabbing the criminal (are there others?) and in due time, this criminal and others like him will soon face the gallows (unless the prosecution screws up big time). And whilst the police and to some extent the Immigration Department have been going after the criminals from African (namely from Nigeria) who had overstayed and abused student visa, the more important check should come even before these criminals enter the country. And why we still have Nigerian criminals in this country despite all the hoo-haa in the past on the abuse of student visas by the politicians? Is it because we have been good is nabbing them; we have screwed up in punishing them and in making sure they never return after we had deported them? Are these criminals taking the advantage of the possible corruption or loopholes in the system?

Doesn’t the very fact that they are driving around in luxury cars (and act like morons on the road) and staying at high-end residential areas without a clear indication of their source of income draws one’s doubts? And considering we have yet to nail the South American criminals who did the ATM job in recent weeks (perhaps they have gone back to their own country to let things cool down and be back later), we need to re-look into the operational & review process & procedures in allowing foreigners (especially from dubious countries from Africa & South America and others “watch-list” countries like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Iran, Pakistan, India and Indonesia) into this country. What is happening to our border patrols? After all, if it is that easy for drug dealers to move in and out of this country, think of the consequences if we have terrorists doing the same.

Are we asking the right questions before we grant these foreigners access to our country? Are our people at these entry points alert enough to single out any suspicious characters for further investigations? Were the verification of documents and other information done extensively before access is granted? Have we checked their source of income? If a clown is coming to this country for Basic English classes, obviously questions need to be raised – why a class on Basic English, why this country (where English is not even the language of Science and Mathematics) and how this clown is going to pay for the classes? From some scholarship, money from parents or from drug money? Is the college registered and recognized by the Government to take in foreign students? Where this clown is going to stay for the duration of his “course”? Is there a guarantee somewhere for his good behaviour? For short term visits, does he has a valid return ticket?

What about his past record from his home country? And since we already deployed biometric registration for foreign workers, have we enforced the same on those who abuse their visas? And go step further with tying up with fingerprint database from the law enforcement agencies (it should not be that difficult considering the infrastructure that we have now) so that those with criminal records can be easily identified at the borders (even if they had changed their name and passport) and entry is strictly denied (or subject to even further questioning & checking).

And before anyone accuses Malaysia on doing selective prosecution or practice selective racism, let me say this upfront aloud – screw you. We have other foreigners as well and a number of them have been living and studying in this country for years without any problems but not the Nigerians and to some extent Iranians. Almost on a monthly basis, you see them in the news caught for illegal activities – if it is not on internet scams, then it is on drugs and other crimes:-

February 2012 – Customs officers have detained a 27-year-old Nigerian man for attempting to smuggle 75 pellets of drugs in a condom which he had swallowed. KLIA Customs deputy director Siti Baya Berahan said the man, suspected to be a drug mule, was held at the airport here at about 11pm Thursday after he had flown in from Lagos.

February 2012 – The High Court sentenced to death a Nigerian man after he was found guilty of drug trafficking two years ago. Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt against 34-year-old Oluigbo Eric Chimeze.

April 2012 – Meanwhile, a 27-year-old Nigerian registered as a student of a private college in Kuala Lumpur since June last year, was found with 0.85kg of methamphetamine concealed in a special compartment in his laptop bag, New Straits Times reported on Sunday. Malaysian custom chief Siti Baya said the man was detained by Customs when his laptop bag showed a suspicious image when it was scanned on his arrival from Lagos.

May 2012 – A Nigerian man was sentenced to death at the High Court here Monday for trafficking cannabis two years ago. James Kamara, a student at a private higher learning institution in Kuala Lumpur, was found guilty of trafficking 18,810gm of cannabis at about 9.05pm, at the Shahab Perdana bus terminal here, on Sept 13, 2010.

May 2012 – Following the arrest, police raided two houses in Kuala Lumpur and Kota Damansara on Monday and Tuesday where they nabbed 15 Nigerian men. “The syndicate has been active for more than two years and we believe more victims have been conned by its members,” he said yesterday. ACP Izany also said initial investigation revealed all the Nigerian suspects hold student visas and study at local colleges.

June 2012 – A Nigerian student was jailed for 15 months and ordered to be caned four times by a magistrate’s court for misappropriating RM4,850 from an Iranian student in an online banking scam.

July 2012 – A Nigerian drug mule was arrested with about 400gm of syabu in capsules that she swallowed. The 32-year-old woman, who arrived from Doha, was nabbed at around 7.30pm at the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal on June 16.

July 2012 – Five Africans have been arrested for trafficking about RM1mil worth of Syabu. Federal Narcotic Crimes Investigations Department (NCID) director Comm Datuk Noor Rashid Ibrahim said police arrested four Nigerians and a Ghanaian man in Kepong at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

July 2012 – Four Nigerian students were charged in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday with trafficking 977 grammes of syabu. The men were charged under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 which can be sentenced under Seksyen 39B(2) of the same Act and read with Section 34 of the Penal Code, which carries a mandatory death sentence upon conviction.

August 2012 – The High Court here on Sunday sentenced a Nigerian man to death after finding him guilty of trafficking drugs, last year.

August 2012 – A Nigerian cleaner was sentenced to 15 years in jail by the High Court after pleading guilty to an alternative charge of possessing 2.9kg of methamphetamines.

We can tolerate the nonsense from our politicians (which is getting insanely stupid by the minutes these days but it does not matter, we are Malaysians) but we can never tolerate the criminals who come to this country and abuse the entry privileges, take our hospitality for granted, use this country as transit point for all kind of illegal activities, rob & cheat Malaysians at the same time and gain millions of ringgit from their illegal activities whilst continuing to show their middle finger to the law of the country.

If you ask me, probably these criminals should be severely punished and any Malaysians who knowingly help these criminals should be charged with treason and should be charged with the same crime too. No second chance, no sweet talk, no mere threats and certainly no fear of losing influx of foreigners to this country.Yes, it may sound way too extreme but consider this – despite the fact that ultimate punishment for trafficking drugs in this country is the death penalty, the number of people caught with drugs (either as drug mules or drug dealers) does not seem to be reducing. These people are not dumb, they are simply greedy and ruthless.

At end of the day, we may lose some income here and there (some small colleges may have to close down for good but who cares, you never know, it may be run by Nigerians too) but overall this will send a clear message to those foreigners who intend to commit crime in this country. A strong message that says that Malaysians does not tolerate criminals and certainly do not want the good name of this country as being the transit country for criminal activities.

We are more than happy to welcome foreigners to this country for needs of education, business and pleasure but we must certainly must be prepared to kick out any foreign criminals from our doorsteps.

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richeyy: Hear yourself. Is he obligated to give her any money? It's obvious that she wanted him to sleep with her, if it wasn't, she wouldn't murmur when he chose to sleep on the sofa. It's about time ladies stop thinking that every guy wanna sleep with them.

@Op: you did well to disappoint her. It's funny cos every lady I meet thinks I wanna bleep 'em & when they start with their bleeping attitudes, I drop 'em like hot coal

@ Richey did i say he is under any obligation to give her any money! d dude is confused as to why she cut contact with him, and every one is thinking its about sex..... i beg to differ.... "the money phenomena" is quite common with undergraduates girls. A similar thing happened with my colleague, only for him to find out later she thot he was a stingy guy and she spent transport to come see him only to go back to school empty handed. so therefore there are many factors that cud attribute to her "lock up"

u might just be analyzing the wrong issue here! Guy did u give her money the next morning when she was leaving! shebi u said she came from school so she might have just been expecting you to dole out some cash. nothing turns a girl off more than a "presumed stingy guy". so if u didnt give her money that would be the main issue! any either way she aint worth your time!

Body hug- Monica ogah ( the song that would be played while I feed my husband on my wedding day)