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finson:
Good day all,

I was working in Lagos as expatriate. I am married and she was fully aware at the beginning of the relationship.

I had sex with my gf on the 6th day and I pulled out.

I told her that month that my contract has been terminated by my company and I have to go back to my country.

On 27th day I met her (5 days before leaving the country) and she asked me if I am sure that I pulled out on time when we had sex last time and I told her yes and she told me that she is asking the question because she has not seen her period.

When I left the country 2 weeks later I chatted her and I asked if she is doing well. She told me that she is not fine. I asked "why ?" And she told me that she is pregnant. I was very surprised and I called her. That day she told me that she was just joking with me she is not pregrant and we talked about everything.

Last week she told me that she is pregnant. She shared with me a test results on a paper where the date of the pregnancy perfectly matches with the date we had sex.

She told me that if her family is aware of the situation they will disowned her and she immediately shared with me some requirements to apply for a job in UK where 2 million NGN are required and she asked me for support. She also deleted the image of the tests results.

When I asked her to share with me she told me that she does not want me to be in trouble if my wife see that document in my phone. I insisted to get a copy and I told her that she can be assured I will not keep it in my phone. She shared back the document after cropped the letterhead. I insisted to get the full copy and she sent another one after striketrhoughed on her name.

I told her that I don't think in Nigeria the only option available for a woman who gets pregnant is to travel to UK even if her family will disown her. I understand that the situation is not comfortable but there could be other options. Even this process to go to UK can be unsuccessful, and if it is the case, this amount of money would have been lost.

I am not from Nigeria and this story seems suspicious to me. I am currently abroad, there is no way I can verify what she is telling me. I don't also want to open it some of my friends there.

To be honest, I never planned after I left the country to cut communication with her or to support her. But I prefer to support her whenever I have the opportunity to do. I don't know now if this story about the pregnancy is true or not.

If you have any experience in this kind of situation please share with me. Any advice is also welcome.
Please don't judge me.

iguita:
Hi guys, I did my passport renewal today and in the spirit of sharing, especially since I got a lot of info from this page, I want to share my experience today.

I will share general experience and I will then my share specific experience.

When you go to Ikoyi for capturing, go to Servicom straight. They will verify your NIN, check your documents, open a folder for you. Then they will ask you to go upstairs to do some verifications and signatures before you go to capture.

For capturing, there are different rooms, there is general, VIP 1, 2 and 3.

Of all the VIPs, only VIP 1 is really VIP. VIP 2 is for paramilitary/ aged persons. VIP 3 is for pregnant women and babies. All the VIPs (or should I say VIP3 since that was the one I used since I had my 10 month old son with me) is beautiful, they had children drawings on the wall, ACed and nice staff. I peeped through general and it was general indeed.

When I arrived, I went into the GTBank waiting road and they started calling names of people with folders. Me that I arrived by 7:30am and was number 17, they called the first 20 and I was not part of them. Then one senior officer came in to ask if we had complaints na him I raise my hand, they have not called my name ooo. She asked for my folder and I said I did not have one so she attached an officer to take me to Servicom.

Now let me go to my specific issue.

My passport expired in Feb, and I wanted to do a fresh passport for my 10-month-old son. So I made payment on the 25th of Feb, and got Mar 31st as capture date for both of us. After filling the application (re-issue for me and fresh for my son), I realized that I had used a different middle name for the young man which is different from the middle name in his NIN. if you find yourself in this situation, go to your capture centre before your capture date. Go to Servicom, explain to them and they will take you to Helpdesk. Those ones will send an email to the company managing the passport data and they will change it for you. Unfortunately for us, we did not do this. So once we got to Servicom, i was cleared and my son was delayed. We were told to go complain at the helpdesk then come back for capturing my son. This is not a good idea as we are having a family trip in May and we cannot leave a 10 month old (he will be 1 then) alone in Naija. So my wife spoke with the Servicom guy who said he will help us, but it will be around 2pm before the name change can be possible.

One thing to note is that immigration is different from last year. Last year when my wife did her own renewal, even gateman will bill you just to enter the gate if you no stand well well. But now, anyone can enter. So we expected the Servicom guy to call some big money. I was willing to pay instead of missing the trip in May and coming back to the dreaded Immigrations office. The guy was telling us how difficult it will be but las las, he said he does not want money, that he just wants to help us. Matter of fact, nobody asked us for a dime,the money we spent was we appreciating people who helped us. Baby was crying so wifey went to feed him in the car. I carry folder begin follow Servicom bobo. he took me to helpdesk and the guy there started blaming me for making mistake. Sir, i have made the mistake, what is the correction. While he was complaining, he was already logging in my issue in the computer. By the time he finished blaming me for making the mistake, he said he was done.

So I moved on to complete my own capturing by going upstairs to do my verification. I do not know what they were checking but about 4 officers checked my application, asked for my expired passport, etc. One babe before me was even interviewed. I feel the officer wanted to collect number though because na only the babe him interview. The rest of us got a barking voice telling us to stay outside and wait till we can imagine him calling our names. I say so because he did not call my name. it was a nice guy who was his subordinate that helped me pick my folder from his desk.

By the time I finished this, my baby's name was confirmed so I was able to do both.

Next step was to go do payment verification. After this, I had to do vetting for the baby. For vetting, they have two desks. One for ages 0-6 and the other for I think 7-12. They asked for me and my wife, our IDs. My ID was my expired passport so it was rejected. Thankfully, since I was doing a renewal, my passport application was used as my ID. Else I would have done a photocopy of my drivers license.

After vetting, we went for capturing in VIP3 because we had a baby. Because we had name change issues, we had to go meet one officer who changed the name ( I wonder what the company did. maybe they activated the possibility for the officer to change the name). Wifey gave that one 2k. Capturing took almost an hour. So many people with children.

After capturing, I went back to Servicom to go confirm our details again. Govt is really taking this NIN thing seriously. The main guy that helped us in Servicom, we wanted to give 10k, but wifey gave him 5k, as sure ijebu babe. So we spent 7k out of pocket to grease DIY. If we did not have any issues with name, we would have not spent a dime and most importantly, nobody asked us or demanded for money from us, we gave with our church mind.

After capturing, they gave us a slip with a number, but no collection date was put there. The guy that helped us in Servicom said it will take 8 weeks. I tackled him that govt said 3 weeks and he smiled. I have tried to check the application portal but it shows that my application was not found. Please let me know how to check the application status if you know how to.

Also has anyone done their capturing in Ikoyi in recent days? How long did it take you to get your passport?

So this is my story today. We arrived Passport office by 7:30am, and left at 1:45pm. About 6 hours 15 minutes. Would have left at a few minutes to one pm if not for the generator going off and the guy that was to do the final verification was not able to connect to the server.

Hailleys:
Help! I am about to finish my 300L stage in one of Nigeria state polytechnics but I am losing many opportunities due to my inability to speak fluently in English language. Although, I am good in typing/writing and I can compose my self in good English in my brain but it is very difficult whenever I open my mouth.
Any suggestion for improvement are welcome.
Thanks Nairalanders.

Techsupport:
I guess this is what makes Nigerian men feel like men when the exercise dominance and control over their wives.
All the food that she has given you to eat, did you participate in cooking all of them.

Are u even in a marriage or a contract.

TheOldGods:
We have been dating for a while now. Been coming to my house and my parents knows her. Normally she visits and sleeps over and ofcourse because she is my guest ,I'll have to give her food etc.


So today I decided to be different. I told her I was hungry and if she was, ofcourse she hurried and said yes, dresses up and jumped in my lexus. I just smiled, and started the car and we drove to a restaurant.

Before we got down from the car, I told her that I don't want to spend more than 3k on the meal between the both of us, and I told her to handle it, which she said fine, and split the fees to 1500 each. She got her food and a huge chicken which everything was 1500 naira on her end, and I got swallow which was about 1050 naira on my end. And the total money was 2550 naira. Then suddenly my girlfriend told me she also wants plantain, that the money is not yet upto 3k. That it must reach 3k. I was shocked because, if we were married then she can't help me save money when I tell her let's cut down cost. I thought she would even be happy that she saved me money and now we didn't send upto that 3k. But wow.

The waiter wanted to take the food and add the plantation of 450, but I refused and told her to collect her payment as we were done ordering.

My so called girlfriend then got angry and decided to seat somewhere far away from me, and we didn't see each other till I was done eating, although she waited for me. To my surprise she didn't eat that food, she packaged it back in a takeaway bag, and kept it for me. I asked her why she didn't eat the food she ordered by herself which was already 1500, as we agreed, and she said she won't eat it, and I took the food back. I ate the food myself with the chicken.

Right now, I don't want to take this relationship serious. Did I do the wrong thing by not allowing her spend the remaining money and making it 3k? Which ofcourse was the remaining money from my own food.?

wifey1:
Thank you for your reply, I don't want to change it but I am just asking/wondering if my new passport would be made with temitope same as nin? Because i hear they must match.
I just heard its easier to change nin name than passport name.

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Whatever information you have on your NIN supersede all other information,fill the information you have on you NIN to you application form.
At the point of capturing they will still ask you to check if all information are correct.
This is the best opportunity you have to harmonize all your Data


What is wrong in going with Temitope? why do you have to go through the rigour of swearing affidavit and newspaper notification when you can easily go with what you have on your NIN,

Janina:
Have been a guest on this platform ... so I decided to open an account ...
Am a 20 years old lady ,

my parents exspecially my mom said that I shouldn't have a boyfriend..that if someone is coming for me it going to be Marriage anything apart from marriage should be cut off.
so I decided to stick with what she said... cos I love my parents parents very much I don't want to break their heart..
But has anyone have an experience like this

thebosstrevor1:
i agree that not paying unnecessary bills is good but me and you know that you are joker if you think a woman that you are dating or married to will share bills with you, i dont care what race the woman is but i can tell you that a woman who shares bills with you will never respect you.

WriterNig:
@Mr Kovalenko tweeted;

wifey1:
Good evening,my.middle name in my passport is 'temi' but in my nin its temitope. I want to renew and I heard all names must tally. Most of my documents have temitope. What's the way forward, do I change my nin to temi? If yes, do I have to change all my other documents to temi also or I can use one and same person for future reference. Thinks in advance.

ecomGY:
Has anyone received their passports from the Alausa office in the past week.

I went for my biometrics earlier this months with a passport pickup date of 21st March but I’m still yet to get any email or text from the passport office.

Truvelisback:
Good day, fellas. Why do some graduates find it difficult to speak good English? I mean, even to construct a simple sentence. Funny enough, most of these guys brag about their educational Degree and most of them tend to be very arrogant.

The funny part of it is that, they are even confident and proud with the blunders they make while speaking.

Has anyone met such graduate?

amorprincesa:
It is quite a terrible Image!
We talk too much. Sometime ago, can't really remember. Someone posted how a Nigerian during online lecture asked the lecturer why so many assignments, that when will he have time to work to pay the school fees. Forgetting during his visa application, he declared to UKVI that he had the school fees.

Very soon, they will request block account from Nigerian students. Strict rules will then follow.
They are hearing and watching.

I am using this platform to beg Nigerians abeg make una no spoil road for others. Stop the illegal acts, stop talking about what's suppose to be a secret online. They are reading those things. Look at the news on recycling funds now.
My fellow Nigerians, please let's be the change we want to see.

Greenhold:
It is not a matter of opinion here. There is a clear difference between having an opinion and having only negative comments and insults to offer. It is giving bad belle, learn to stop it. "Essential travel" maybe there is still covid-19 travel restrictions where you are, because I do not understand what you mean essential. So if I am travelling for a wedding, it is up to you or another person to deem it essential? Please don't comment on what you do not know next time and don't insult others. Thank you

laeffizy:
Hi @Greenhold, kindly ignore this fellow and his mentality. One of the biggest advice I've been given is to make use of my SA study visa and travel round the world, get my passport stamped. I am working on it. My friend here has been to at least 4 countries including the US and Europe on her SA study visa.
I am very sure that it's the normal visa backlog, and your visa will be out soon. Welcome to South Africa (in advance..lol)


Meanwhile, that daddy guy and pufframmy, is it impossible to ban them from this visa thread? They never have any help to render or any thing good to say, always insulting SA and mocking people with Visa troubles.

Lontrra:
Good morning everyone, please how do I know my collection date?
I captured yesterday and I wasn't given any date for collection.

suzzyrims:
Please am I supposed to choose standard or official passport when filling the form

AdeGbuyi20:
Pls I need an answer to this any body with knowledge should help pls

Greenhold:
Students travel all the time for a million reasons you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. It is unfair to spread misinformation with so much confidence.

Junketing around the globe and drug route. You must be joking. People like you should never be seen near any embassy looking for work.

Amazon2190:
What kind of mentality is this

Aostle:
I am married with one kid and another one on the way. I do two weeks in and two weeks out job and I earn 200k per month. We live in our own house and my wife runs a boutique business in a store owned by us so she doesn't pay rent for the business.

We have constant electricity free of charge so we cook with an electric cooker.

The problem here is I give her 50k monthly to take care of the house while I settle every other stuff including stocking the house with bag of rice, groundnut oil, palm oil, medical bills, cable subscription, school fee, clothing, etc and I also bring provisions and toiletries when I am coming back from work yet I get complains of the feeding allowance is not enough month in month out and I am getting fed up.

She knows I am doing a building project yet I keep getting complains.

Pls, advise me, is the feeding money not enough?

ifec92:
You just want to be noticed!!! Sounds like youve been wanting to use that line to sound savage oponu..Only a dimwit think needing clarification on an online form is out of place ....abeg gedifok

lindseykibler:
Pls I want to know if I can apply for passport renewal as my passport will expire July next year being 2023. I'm not in Nigeria at the moment and I want to make use of it to travel to a different country before the year runs out. I will be in Nigeria by august this year. I want to know if I can be able to renew it

ifec92:
Some people and there nonsense mentality! So what is wrong in me seeking clarification on a form that involves millions of naira.. so cos I need clarification now, I'm daft and not worthy to study abroad..if you're being insulted now, you'll start wailing...you had better ignored as you don't have any meaningful contribution or assistance than spewing trash all in the name of sounding learned..radarada


Ps..I got the help I needed already from a more reasonable fellow

Agatha250:
But I need it urgently like in 3days

Greenhold:
I had my flight ticket and hotel booked already which I attached with my application. I was also only planning to stay there for 4 days maximum and my bank statement showed that I had the means to pay for my trip and my stay there for that time. The lady at the embassy confirmed that this account balance was very okay.

By all means they can do a thorough research but I don’t believe finances should be the issue. How long can the research possibly take. They do say that people from Uk should have a balance of £600 at least and I had more than that.

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Agatha250:
Please who have an officer that can fast track in festac

yorke1:
Hey guys,

Please help me out. Can i go with cash to the bank and pay direct for renewal? I am not comfortable with other mode of payment mentioned.

The total amount via cash is N25,500.