Congratulations!!

seunpinky:
Hi guys,

Please I got a mail from IRCC, checked my profile and saw counterfoil number with August 2021 as expiry date and my profile had updated to approved Feb 23rd. Accra VO

Does this mean that my passport has been stamped? I am confused because I have been reading stories of passport being returned without stamp

Exactly my only concern with the protest.
We're fast turning into the terror we're fighting against.
Ambulances were kept in traffic for close to 10hrs while miscreants took over the roads Friday night outwards Lagos.

tesppidd:
When you protest and block the roads thereby violating the rights of other citizens by denying them access to go to hospitals, markets, interviews, schools, journeys and so on;

Does this still amount to a peaceful protest?

I just want to know.

Hello House,

Please does anyone know anyone whose expired COPR (issued before March 18) has been extended and authorised to travel?

I'm aware Canada is prioritising International Students and Family right now but just thought to ask..

Thank you

Canny19:


Send a pm

I have, kindly check your mail.

Thank you.

Good day people.

1. Please has anyone had his / her expired PR validated or extended? Is there a clear process or timeline for renewal? Do we have to redo medicals?
PS: This information isnt on their website and even though we'll notify as instructed via webform, I just want to be prepared.

2. Can anyone point me in the direction of any Whatsapp group arranging flights out of Nigeria to Canada?

Thank you.

I have been silently following all the discussions here and I am keeping faith...I intend landing in Winterpeg Winnipeg first quarter of 2020. Please do we have Winnipegans who can shed light on average accommodation / living expenses and what to expect? I know the weather is extremely cold and the rest (Also been scouring Kijiji for updates btw) but additional specific information wrt living and life in Winnipeg will be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

It is a tough one!

Let me tell you a little story.

I am a #sicklestar -one of two in my family, a 'churchious' girl but I knew better than to gamble with an issue as grave as this when I started thinking of settling down. I gave up a 'perfect' man on account of this and if you were around me or my sister during any of our 'crises' growing up, you would do the same.

On the other hand, there is nothing, absolutely nothing that God cannot do, you need to seek His face in all of this but be sure He would expect you to make use of the resources He has deposited in and around you.

Last week Friday, a cherished client succumbed to complications that arose from just a few hours of crisis!

It is definitely not an issue to toy with, on the altar of love.

Having noted that, you can go ahead and get married BUT PLEASE DO NOT THINK OF BRINGING BIOLOGICAL children into this world on account of permutations!

It is not impossible to get married and NOT have SS kids BUT it is goign to be one hell of a gamble which you definitely do not want to dabble into. What sickle celled humans go through during crises is better imagined than felt!

So I'd say, Get married AND tow the adoption route OR DO NOT DO IT.

God be with both of you through this 'trying' period BUT, this too shall pass.
PEACE!

BroAchival:
Greetings to this great house,

As I type this message, my heart is heavy.

Up till today, I have never known my genotype till I went to do medical fitness test for my job/employment process.

I've being dating by girlfriend for about two years and seven months now, and I've always seen her as a perfect match to me, not because she's perfect, but because she's very loyal, reserved and calm, respectful, teachable, willing to learn, beautiful and very supportive to say a few.

Kai, the thought of losing her is killing and unexplainable. She had been a BLESSING to me all these while.
We've really worked on ourselves and helped each other to overcome our weaknesses.

With the challenges of my new and better job, will I really have that time to woo women and start the process of working on a woman to blend and suit me?

And this is a girl I'm planning to settle down with by the middle of next year, after I must have gotten used to my new job.

I have always believed that my genotype would be AA, but I was wrong!

Somebody told me that there's nothing God can not do, that he has seen people giving testimonies about change of genotypes. I didn't doubt him, it's just that i'm not the "churchious" type who easily believe all those stories.

Now, my questions are:

1.) Is it possible to have just two children without an SS child?

2.) How do I relate this sad news to her (after she has turned down several serious marriage proposals because of me)?

3.) Please, what do I do?

Please, help me and send this to front page for greater views and advice.

Matured and very serious advice needed.

Thanks.

Villagegirl:



Summary of it all
Timeline: ITA: Novermber 2018, AOR January 2019, PPR August 2019
NOC: 4035? (sha secondary school teacher noc)
ECA: Wes, 2 Bs.c and one Master (5 months duration)

IELTS: First attempt: Me LRWS 8, 9, 8, 8.5 Hubby 8.5, 8.5, 7, 8.5.
I'm a Copywriter who studied English and communications. I have also worked with plenty Oyibo people and young Nigerian writers who make up my team...there really is a problem with our Nigerian writing. The most common I've dealt with are sentence ambiguity (mainly syntactical ambiguity, please look it up) Second is use of tenses then mechanical accuracy. If you can master these 3, you'd be fantastically fine.
Disclaimer: My grammar isn't that great.

Medicals: Qlife (Took a few hours)
PCC: Inspector Moshood
POF: Dorm Account
Proof of work experience: NYSC
Post-AOR/Waiting time: 6 Months 26 days?
COPR Pickup: September 9th

Otito.

Phew!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Truly enjoyed reading that...Villagegirl is now Canadianbabe..see you in Canny. #Winterishere

Okay...Many thanks.

ladymarshall:
Email Ralph or raise CSE

Please is there any way of ascertaining visa offices (AVO, OVO...) from 'Ready for Visa' (PPR) emails?

Your response will be very much appreciated.

If you did not do so previously, you can try forwarding the 'Ready for Visa' email to both clinics with an explanation of the urgency and also follow up with calls. That should work, hopefully.

All the best.

yodiyokun:
Please I need anyone that can offer insight on how best to proceed.

Early this morning we received an email for medical for my mum. She applied for PR on the Parent Sponsorship class. The medical form said she has 30 days to complete medical.

Today also, we received another email saying her VISA is ready and she should send her passport, medical results and police certificate within 15 days from today.

We have been calling all the two clinics that do the medical and also emailed a request for an appointment but the VI one says they are only booking in October. IOM is yet to respond, although I just sent the email like an hour ago.

Please my people, my mama want come Canada ooo and its like she won the lottery, please how can we get a medical appointment with 1- 2 weeks. Any suggestions?

Is it normal to receive request for VISA and medical the same day. I did my immigration over a decade ago so I don't know the current system.

‘Mummy, why do parents get angry when their children become pregnant?’

‘And where did you see parents getting angry at their pregnant children, Mr. young man?’

On Africa magic.

That Africa magic again.

Of course, this opened up a line of discussion on getting pregnant or impregnating someone out of wedlock, while still under ‘parental control’ and what the bible says, etc etc.

We really do have to milk it for all its worth but you and I know that line of action is bound to lead to other stuffs, especially if you have a bunch of curious chatter boxes as children.

‘‘So why did Mary (the mother of Jesus) become pregnant without even getting married in the bible if God doesn’t want people to do that?”

Mighty big question, that one.

”Was that ‘even’ a miracle?”

Yeah…yeah. It really was a miracle which transcends all human understanding and a part of the grand design to save mankind from sin and death.

On and on it went as I warmed up to the session, enjoying myself tremendously until he said…

”Thank God I don’t even know how to get anybody pregnant”

Huh?

Come again…Pardon?

I don’t know where that came from, I still don’t know. I never know.

Despite writing letters to my daughter in laws, I had never really thought seriously of the day my little boys would grow away from me and start doing the ‘act’…leading to some tiny patters of feet…and answering million questions from their version of mini chatter boxes.

These boys that I impulsively sweep off their feet for cuddles and kisses are growing and will grow out of these arms into the arms of some others, one day. But I do not want to think of that day yet. Not now.

To say I was numbed is an understatement.

Hello…young man…you are seven!!!

And. I. Don’t. Want. You. Getting. Anybody. Pregnant.

As much as I do not want to think about my boy doing the act before he is ripe, it got me thinking about sex education and when those awkward conversations are going to start.

I mean all those discussions about eggs, sperm, fertilization, etc. which I alluded to in this post.

When is the right / appropriate time to initiate the talk about sex with young children?

How early is early for sex education a la birds & bees?

I know I am going to be very embarrassed when they start asking more pointed questions which I have to answer but I’ve got to prevent that by initiating the talk before they even think of asking.

I do not want to allow their curiosity run wild or push them to other sources for information. They make them ultra curious now…more than our times…and with all the scary stuffs out there…

Really have to start talking the talk now. And not in the ‘whew..I got that out of the way’ fashion. At least I hope to make it a continuous line of discussion once initiated.

I say it’s time (for me) to simply brace up and grip the bull by the horn. Like we eventually did with the privates talk.

Child educators suggest having the talk in early childhood and I also believe now, that no age is really too early to start the real ‘adultsy’ talk about sex. Sex education is better initiated before they start asking out of curiosity.

Truth is, the message of sex is everywhere and one thing is certain:

i[b]f we don't talk to our kids about sex early, someone[/b] else will.

They will definitely get the information, good, bad and ugly from other sources. The media. Their friends / peers. Information that could be flawed or harmful.

It is our responsibility as parents to give our kids accurate information about sex.

SEX EDUCATION: 10 (Hopefully) Useful Ideas for Passing on a Healthy View to Our Kids

-Be practical, positive and honest – let them know what God’s intentions for sex are,
-Present the facts to them in love -biblically and biologically,
-Be a good role model, practice what you preach,
-Be accessible and approachable, do not be too busy to listen and talk,
-Make information available, always,
-Find out about the sex education program in your kids school (even though I did not set out to find out because my kids are still ‘young’ but it just happened that I popped the ‘sex education’ question at a meeting to discuss an entirely different issue at the school),
-Allow your children express themselves while you express your opinions and expectations,
-Let them know that sex is good and hormones are bound to act up when they least expect, let them know how to deal with it when the time comes,
-Never avoid the subject, it won’t go away,
-Trust them to listen, obey and do the right thing…and let them know you do.

If you have additional tips, please feel free to share.

www.biolaleye.com

talktonase:
Yes i have and it hurt me so badly.My aunt was an epitome of what womanhood represented.I always prayed God to give me a wife with such qualities until the careless and negligent acts of some lousy doctors in Abuja sniffed life out of her

So sorry about your loss, it is always very painful (it's only the 'victim's families that truly understands how it feels).

But we cannot all continue to fold our arms without doing anything. I really look forward to the day all these needless deaths would stop and people would visit Nigeria for health tourism.

Impossible is nothing.

September 5, 2015 was a black Saturday...because I lost a sister, 6 weeks after childbirth (to avoidable causes -infections arising from mis-management of the C-Section performed on her). She fought for six whole weeks while we spent hugely, praying and hoping that she pulls through.

But it was not to be.

Her child lives and will grow up without truly experiencing a mother's love, her mother's touch...like thousands of other children, in Nigeria.

Today, 1 in 13 women (if not more) still lose their lives during / after childbirth while 1 in 5 children would never live to celebrate their 5th birthday!

The outlook is bleak.

The very system meant to protect our mothers are letting us down, every second with each new case of avoidable death.

Today, the privileged (super-rich) few invests massively in medical tourism. They fly out of the country in their private jets to treat the commonest of ailments because they can well afford it.

They leave the country in droves because the Nigerian health sector is crippled, brought to her knees by the same few who focussed on enriching their purses to the detriment of over 173 million citizens.

Maybe you have never lost someone.
But...are you a lady / woman?
Are you a man who has a wife, daughter, sister, cousin, etc who you love very much?
Are you a citizen of Nigeria?
Do you have cause to visit the hospital at least once in a year?

Think of the poor masses who have no means to procure the cheapest of drugs or who are unable to afford even the transport fare to take them to the nearest health-center.

Think of the mothers who are condemned to death just because there are no blood packs available at the blood banks for life-saving transfusions. I experienced this, first hand.

Think of the mothers who arrive at the doors of the hospitals to deliver their babies but are left unattended to for hours because Doctors are on STRIKE or because there are shortage of doctors and the few available are busy at the theatre.

Think of the mothers who have no option than to deliver their babies at home or at the popular mission houses with no skilled health worker attending their births just because they could not afford the cost of ante-natal care or childbirth.

I could go on.

They die, daily. Needlessly.

I cannot build hospitals or provide money for all the women in Nigeria and nothing I do can bring the dead back. The hands of time cannot be turned back but if I can prevent one more family from suffering the fate we suffered, if I can save just one more mother from dying, then I will.

But I cannot do this alone. I need you.

I need you because it is a general plight and our collective fight...our right...to demand for our rights.

My lone voice will not go far but it is my hope that our collective voices will create a defeaning sound that will propel our leaders to action.

PLEASE join me and call on the Nigerian Government to do us right. To do our mothers and children right and:

-Invest rightly in the health sector,
-Put resources in place to save the lives of our pregnant women and young children,
-Build new properly-equipped hospitals to support the existing units,
-Equip the existing hospitals with functioning medical equipment,
-Employ properly trained / skilled medical workers to take charge.

No mother deserves to lose her life while trying to give life to another. No parent deserve to lose their child(ren).

Save our Mothers. Save our Children.

I am Abiola Olaleye, a Nigerian and I urge you for the love of all you hold dear to please sign the petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/688/728/202/demand-an-end-to-maternal-and-child-deaths-in-nigeria-now/#sign