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This rebuttal is full of lies.

Someone comes to your office and locks you in....and all your other staff were looking and did not stop him??

Oga lawyer, you can lie o.

LadyGuinivere:
Sorry about the refusal.
However, the embassy makes it clear one should not incur any expenses before getting a visa.
Truth is, the chances of getting them to change their decision at this point is very low, in my opinion.
I do not believe that they are still issuing visas based on logic, rather on a policy we don't seem to know about.
If your circumstances are the same and the purpose still the same, why would the next vo change the Desicion?
Attend other conferences else where and reapply maybe after the 6 months. That's my take

I hear.....that there is a policy to deny visa applications as much as possible, except for medical and highly important situations.

This is because Nigerians have been abusing their visas lately and a lot absconding to Canada.

Na wa o.

Please we need transcripts of visa interviews. That's the only thing I look forward to on this thread.

TWoods and his defender ti take over. See attack and defence manifesting here.

justwise:
You still haven't answered my question which is ..what is the basis of this demand for him to explain how his brother got citizenship?

Did he mention it here or is this an allegation because of his views here?
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I believe the issue is really about the way TWoods accuses almost everyone of being fraudulent without proof.

The way he disappeared when someone made an unfounded allegation about his brother added some credibility to that allegation, which may actually not be true.

He is simply being judged using the same yardstick he judges others.

TWoods:
Such silliness isn't worth my time. It is unclear to me why you think I owe you or anyone any response to the nonsense faceless frauds like to perpetrate here out of frustration. Thanks.

He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

You can't go about judging people without proof when people have reasons to judge you too without proof.

Except you are okay with being referred to as a fraud too. Something like a yahoo turned legit.

monchat:
Dear friends my advice to people applying for visiting visa. Ps be very careful on how u fill your form. For family ties USA people take it very serious. Family ties are having kids, spouse, a good job. For the job ps note that VO are very strict about it. For your job make sure u av stayed in the job for years than months. Years can be 5years up ward. That is my advice. I was denial visa yesterday depect my travel history. I have worked in my new office for 9months and got my leave and applied for USA visiting visa, so I was denial beacuse of it.

Not true. I got my visa last November after spending just 5 months at my place of work.

I knew it might be a weakness so when she asked how long I had worked there I told her 5 months but also mentioned I had spent almost 10 years in my immediate past employment.

Meanwhile, I was getting the visa for a work related training program.

OmoBendel24:
But wakanow is also not free from all these na.... Been using them both sha, contemplating falling back to using the airlines direct by all means possible. Really hate being referred to these two by the airlines each time I got stuff to straighten out, I have succeeded correcting issues directly with the airlines previously, but it seems the airlines are now much more hellbent on pushing us back to "our" agent and to all the evil tide therein than even the agents themselves!

Try wontra.com

Very reliable. Always booked my tickets with them and i have never had any issues.

This is a similar position held in the book 'The Midas Touch: A Balanced Approach to Biblical Prosperity' by Kenneth E. Hagin.

It was published in 1999 and i read it around year 2000.

I still pay tithe but i don't do it out of fear of being cursed or going to hell.

I give because i believe in what the church is doing and i know that it is God that sustains me.

Lorayne:
my cgpa is kinda low(2.59) after 200l, and its getting me depressed. I don't really know what I'm doing wrong. I read a lot but i still get bad grades and CO's and it's really killing me mentally.
can you help me with any good advice?
have you ever been in my shoes? how did you cope with the depression?

1. Don't ever miss any class.
2. Always sit on the front row in class and take notes in class.
3. Start preparing for exams NOW (1st day of lectures). Do not wait till exam period to start studying. (Please note: I am not asking that you read 24/7, just start your reading early and be consistent)
4. Make sure you finish the syllabus pali to pali (back to back)
5. Have a reading timetable and allocate EQUAL reading time to your courses. Follow it religiously.
6. Get past exam questions from older students and practice the questions like mad. The more past questions you get, the better.
7. When you have studied, look for someone to teach...it enhances your own understanding.

Wish you all the best.

seyewest:
Congrats please which of the embassy.

Abuja.

So.....i should have posted this since November 2017 but sorry i am posting it now.

Before going for my visa interview in November, i read this thread like i was preparing for an exam and i must say it was very useful so i guess i have to share mine. Big thank you to all the gurus in the house.

As a background, i am single (widowed actually), i have a child (I was not required to fill any info about him in my visa application and i still don't understand why), I just changed my job when i applied and i was going for a 1 week training in a university. My only travel history is UAE (honeymoon) and an African country (work related). Almost everyone before me (over 15) was denied except a young lady seeking a student visa (her application was on hold as the VO told her they would verify the bank statement she presented), so i was afraid. That morning made sure i was well dressed. Sharp suit, crisp shirt but i did not wear a tie so as not to overdress. The VO was an African American lady.

My interview transcript.

Me: Good morning
VO: Can I have your passport (passed my passport)
VO: Where are you going
Me: xxxx university
VO: DC?
Me: Yes, Washington DC
VO: What are you travelling for?
Me: For xxxxx training
VO: What is the training about
Me: I explained
VO: How long are you staying:
Me: 8 days
VO: What do you do?
Me: I work as xxxx in xxxx consulting firm
VO: What does your firm do?
Me: *surprised at the question* i answered CONSULTING
VO: Obviously, what consulting?
Me: HR, Finance, Tech (i sha mention all the areas we consult in)
VO: Who are your clients?
Me: I start to mention name of clients and she cuts in.....
VO: I mean your own clients that you work on (she probably assumed i was a consultant or she was testing me as i already mentioned my role which is not a consulting role)
Me: I am not a consultant. I am xxxxx in the firm
VO: How long have you worked there?
Me: I just joined x months ago BUT i had worked in xxxxx Limited for almost 10 years before joining.
VO: Who is paying for the trip?
Me: My firm
VO: Who is your MD ( i guess she googled my company's name)
Me: Mentions the name of the md (i think the name i mentioned was not what came up in the search)
VO: Who is your chairman?
Me: Mentions name (at that point i knew she was checking google...cos the chaiman's name was what she wanted to hear)
VO: Have you travelled before:
Me: Yes. UAE for my honeymoon and Ghana for work.
VO: Do you have any family in the US?
Me: Nope
VO: Do you have any friend?
Me: Without thinking....i answered NO. (after saying NO, i remembered i had some friends in the US. I wanted to raise that but i sha kept quite)
VO: After what seemed like a long typing on her keyboard....she says....your visa is approved....bla bla bla.....i was not hearing anything again.
Me: Thank you.....with a smile.

No documents checked, no questions about my child or marital status. I collected my white paper and bounced out like a star.

This was my first attempt at getting a US visa. I had tried Canada for a conference about 5 years ago but was denied on the basis of no travel history.

AAUperfection:
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watch night services hold there


photo credit
Thompson Timothy

MAD traffic about to begin in Gbagada......

KaptainAfrika:
I think this VO is wondering how you studied business admin. in university, but work as an accountant. He/she asked you if you learn on the job, an opportunity to explain how a business admin. graduate is able to work as an accountant. Re-apply.

Or maybe the salary he stated on his interview form is not a lot.

aod1:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/breaking-dss-allegedly-attempts-failed-arrest-reno-omokri-nnamdi-azikiwe-airport/

FAKEnews.com

The guy wants to sell his book that is full of lies.

Big ups to the writer.

I am no doctor but i have cared for a sick family for long before death.

People can become very sentimental when a loved one dies and then try to blame everyone else including the medical personal involved in the treatment of the patient for the death.

When i saw the story, i concluded that it was not 100% the case of what really happened.

We need to be more understanding even when we lose our loved ones.

ebusfav:
A Nigerian Twitter user, Dolapo, has taken to the social media platform to share a story of how one of University of Ibadan's best graduating students inherited a royal curse. According to Dolapo, the graduate struggled to get a job even as a cleaner after graduating, and had to fall back to a Prophet, who told him where his problem was coming from.

Dolapo disclosed that the curse was from the guy's ex-girlfriend, who slept with a promiscuous Yoruba King. Here's his story;

"I'm gonna share this story real quick. Y'al should be veeeeeery careful!
So there is this one very brilliant dude. Graduated at UI top 5% of his class and struggled to get even a job as a cleaner.

After 5 years he went to see a prophet who told him he is carrying a 'royal' curse. Dude is not even royalty so he was confused.
They later found out his ex gf slept with a yahoo boy . But the curse wasn't from him. It was from a runs girl the yahoo boy slept with.

So apparently the runs girl slept with a very promiscuous Yoruba king. And each time this girls sleep with the king, they leave with sumtin.

Sleeping with young girls gives the king some sort of power. And anybody that sleeps with them carries that same curse. Keeps spreading.
So many people are struggling in life and don't know where it's coming from. Make God just dey protect us oooo."


http://www.lailasblog.com/2017/04/heres-how-university-of-ibadan-best.html

Absolute nonsense!

dragonking3:
Post the tweet were they mentioned GEJ name.

Which kind wahala be this? you can't read

Go through the first post.

plaetton:
The problem with most of you is that reading and comprehension are your basic problems.

Read the British Newspaper article again.
This time, try to remember all the reading and comprehension skills you were taught in school.

1. Dan Etete , through his Malibu Oil, Acquired the said oil block when he was petroleum minister under Abacha.
How is GEJ responsible for that ?

2. Fastforwad to 2011, Shell wants to buy the said oil block from Etete's Malibu Oil in a PRIVATE, Legitimate business transaction.
How does that concern GEJ?

3. Internal BP emails show that top brass discussed and expressed concern about Dan Etete's past as a convict and that he MIGHT use part of the sale proceeds for political settlements or bribes of government officials THAT MIGHT INCLUDE the then president GEJ.
This is nothing but an innocent gossip, a CONJECTURE based on innuendo.

4. BP reiterates that non of its staff bribed or committed any wrongdoing regarding the Malibu deal, nor are they aware that any Nigerian government officials were bribed.
Again, how did GEJ's do any wrong ?

Unfortunately, you are actually the one that needs to take comprehension lessons.

Here are some quotes from the bbc article:

'Shell also had good reason to suspect that hundreds of millions would end up in the pockets of Nigerian politicians including the former President Goodluck Jonathan.'

'In an email from July, the same Shell employee says Etete's negotiating strategy is "clearly an attempt to deliver significant revenues to GLJ [Goodluck Jonathan] as part of any transaction." '

'Italian prosecutors allege that $466m were laundered through a network of Nigerian bureaux de change to facilitate payments to President Jonathan and other politicians. '

How does these statements amount to 'an innocent gossip, a CONJECTURE based on innuendo' according to you.

Now take note:

'OPL 245 is an oilfield off the coast of Nigeria whose estimated nine billion barrels of oil are worth nearly half a trillion dollars at today's prices. Shell has been active in Nigeria for nearly 60 years and was keen to acquire the field. '

An oil field valued at about $500b but was acquired by paying the NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT (headed by who??) $1.3b in 2011......and you claim there were no kick backs?? Innocent gossip??

'Shell and the Italian oil company ENI eventually acquired OPL 245 in 2011 - by paying $1.3bn to the Nigerian government. '

Guy, you need serious comprehension lessons.

dragonking3:
Was this mentioned in the tweet or in the BMC blog the op posted? Go and check the original write up by the guy who tweeted it

LOL. It was mentioned in the tweet. same writer tweeted.

By the way, i am the OP.

plaetton:
This particular scandal goes back to the Abacha days, when Dan Etete was petroleum minister, at a time most the above posters were probably not born.
Jonathan was probably still in the university by then.

To now attempt to Link it to Jonathan is nothing but calculated mischief .

And to correct the OP, it is Buhari who is linked to the biggest oil scandal in Nigerian history,$2b in 1978 $.

Oil block worth $500b sold for $1.5b.

How is that smaller that $2b?

GEJ has the award of being linked to the biggest oil corruption scandal ever.

Mariory:
Shell corruption probe: New evidence on oil payments - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39544761

Very bad publicity for Nigeria....

dragonking3:
Where is the mention of GEJ in the tweet?

GEJ the hero of democracy

Below is where GEJ was mentioned.

That money was then divvied up in personal accounts of Nigerian pres Goodluck Jonathan, the attorney general, petroleum & defense ministers.

plaetton:
This particular scandal goes back to the Abacha days, when Dan Etete was petroleum minister, at a time most the above posters were probably not born.
Jonathan was probably still in the university by then.

To now attempt to Link it to Jonathan is nothing but calculated mischief .

And to correct the OP, it is Buhari who is linked to the biggest oil scandal in Nigerian history,$2b in 1978 $.

You should watch this video.

Did you hear 2011?? Who was president then??

https://www.facebook.com/apc.london.7/videos/1862793903964227/

SuperS1Panther:
Anything GEJ must be corruption tainted.

I hope his name is a corrupt version of his original name -- the Looting Lord of Otuoke and Corruption Generalismo of Naijaland.

As in....

engrfcuksmtin:
So was OBJ, Abdulsalami, IBB, Atiku and others were linked to Haliburton scandal!

So .......Jonathan decided to do likewise.

No wonder he said stealing is not corruption.

A report on foreignpolicy.com by Robbie Gramer has linked the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to one of the biggest oil corruption scandals in history.

See his tweets below.

Leaked records show Shell's complicity in one of the biggest oil corruption scandals in history.

Shell denied any complicity/role in $1billion of Nigerian public funds disappearing. New leaked docs prove otherwise.

One leaked email from Shell employee: “Etete can smell the money...I think he knows its his for the taking.

One Nigerian businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, withdrew $54,418,000 in cash after Shell/Eni deal on oil field was struck.

According to Milan prosecutors office, another $466,065,965.44 was withdrawn in cash -- IN CASH -- after Shell/Eni Nigerian oil deal struck.


That money was then divvied up in personal accounts of Nigerian pres Goodluck Jonathan, the attorney general, petroleum & defense ministers.


This is one of, if not the,biggest corruption scandals in oil industry's history. Shell denied any role, but new leaked emails prove otherwise.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/11/emails-show-shells-complicity-in-biggest-oil-corruption-scandal-in-history-nigeria-resource-curse-etete-eni/

dunkem21:
Dogara, the ball is in your court ..

Did you see N2.6b for logistics?

You meant this?

d. In addition, N2.6bn (two billion and six hundred million naira) is allocated in 2017 to support the network of federal Security Agencies in Kaduna with communications, logistics and material.

hoodmenconcept:
I don't wanna yabb ppl, do you know what I have achieved through nairaland ? you must be joking comparing social media like nairaland with nonsenses called bbnaija.

And you don't know how much people have made or achieved from BBN??

hoodmenconcept:
This is has been really disturbing my mind. Please, can somebody tell me the main purpose and aim of Bigbrother Naija ? How does it affect Nigeria Economic positvely ? How does it affect a common Nigerian in a positive way ? what is the main koko gan gan of this nonsense called bigbrother naija? I need a reasonable answer, please.

ENTERTAINMENT!!! Simple as ABC.

The aim is to entertain the viewers, which they have been doing successfully.

They entertain viewers, more people watch DSTV leading to more revenue from subscriptions. They are able to pay staff salary in Nigeria and then make profit for the owners. Companies advertise their products which lead to brand visibility. More customers buy these products so the companies are more successful. It all helps the Nigerian economy.

Meanwhile, what is the aim of boxing, soccer, commedy shows, Nairaland. How does your commenting on Nairaland help the economy??

Some peeps can ask silly questions.

JeffreyJamez:
Why do you think it's a wild goose chase?

What she did was illegal on all levels.Shes lucky he's only asking for 100million. If it's in saner climes this is enough to wreck her and no publishing company would have published that book without seeing a signed document of consent from Maje. Either that or they'll change the names.

If ALL what she wrote is the TRUTH, nothing illegal has been done.

He will get nothing if she can prove it happened to her......AND she does not need his consent to publish the truth.

As long as what she published is true and she has proof.

He should go back to his home state / village to farm or help develop the state instead of turning himself to a nuisance in Lagos.