Over thinking no fit solve problem.

Fake life no good at all.

Most probably that Airforce attacked innocent people because they insinuated that they were attacked by Helicopter. This is too �

Haahaahhahhahha. We can't go back to same deceit any more. Empty lies, empty promise.
Na bubu promised us oh.

Let's be watchful about desperate politicians.

We can't fall deeper into calamity anymore.

"I will continue from where Buhari stopped"

Please what do you want us to advice you now?
To go ahead and be disowned by your family because you refused to be wise or to do what?

If you can't see the hand writing on the wall, then you don't deserve anybody's advise.

Use your tongue to count your teeth.

Why are you lying with such a sensitive situation?
My church members are part of the victims and I can name 4 of them.

They have not released any victim for a while now.

We the masses have the say in this coming elections.
Don't forget that for a second.

I don't believe in PYO. Sharing raw cash to some market women. It means he is void of.strategy to grow our economy.
Under his nose, Our economy has plunge so deep into a carnal of recession.

We should not believe all this bunch of wicked people, that don't like our country.

Wishful thinking/speech

That's called average in statistics but in real life. There is nothing like average, so it may not apply to humans or leadership selection.

Humans are so dynamic.

tyosho:
It will be nice if this thread is restricted to info about life in australia.Not questions on how to secure visa or gain admission.

My family and I made use of IOM to secure our travel tickets.We went with emirates and had a stopover in Dubai.Nothing special about the travel experience.We were entitled to 40kg per adult,40kg for a child and 23kg for infant.We also paid for 2 extra bags of 32kg each but i hear prices have gone up so cargoing is cheaper.You can cargo through certain airlines like saa,emirates and etihad.
All in all we had like 12 luggages.
I went with ALL kinds of food stuffs except beans(becos of weavils).With my food items,i put them individually in transparent bags and labelled them.Fish,egusi,dry pepper,garri,amala etc.
Got to melbourne,declared i had food items but was not searched and was allowed to go through.

We opened accts with NAB and commonwealth bank but didnt transfer any money from nigera.We went with some cash and left the remaining in a GT dom acct and transferred from there to our OZzy acct when we arrived.We also opened a dom acct in OZ(commonwealth bank was seamless) for ease of transfer.There might be a cheaper way to transfer funds but this is what we did.

We stayed with family in Northern suburbs initially but got our own place in the Eastern suburbs,somewhere not far from Dandenong.We settled for the East because its quite busy,more factories and industries in these areas.If i dont live in the East,I will go for the North and West in that order.West is cheapest but people say it has a history of crime.I however have friends who have lived in the West over 10years and have never had any incidents.Anyhow,wherever you decide to stay is fine.Just get somewhere close to the train station and mall.

In melbourne,you can use your naija license for 6months.My husband passed his victoria drivers test on first attempt,i havnt tried yet for my drivers license.People say though that it can be quite tough cos i know someone who failed 5times!I was able to start driving within 2months of getting here.Just remember,you drive on the left always.

No ideas on how mortgages work but when choosing a neighborhood,also consider ones with good schools if you have kids.If your kids are still of daycare age(below 5),use careforkids.com.au to compare prices,reviews etc.

Settling in was not bad for me cos i had friends and family here already.My kids settled fine as well.

Upon arrival;
Get a mobile sim(i use lebara)
Apply for TFN(tax file no)
Open a bank account or go and activate the one you opened from Nigeria
Go to centerlink and medicare for registration
Get a travel card(MYki card if in melbourne).

Update your linkedin profile and make it very appealing to recruiters.You can also search for recruiters on Linkedin.

With regards to work,there is always something to do.It might not be want you want initially but there is work.Some people start off working at factories,aged care homes,disability and support centres etc until they eventually get what they want.Some people also end up going into nursing,community welfare,policing etc.But like i said,if you dont mind chopping humble pie to start somewhere earning money with these blue collar jobs,you will be okay.I know people who have houses with money earned from these blue collar professions.
There is dignity of labour here so people dont care what job you do to earn money.

For transportation,if you can afford it,pls plan to buy a car asap(carsales.com.au,gumtreee.com.au).please buy cars with roadworthiness and valid registration(at least 6months).If no car,you can use the metro system until you can afford to get a car here.

For housing,a friend referred us to her agent who leased us an apartment even though we didnt have jobs at the time.She accepted our bank statements as proof of income.We pay just a little below 2k monthly as rent.

Then i also just found out about NRAS housing scheme from a colleague days back.Its for families who fall within a certain income threshold.IF your rent was like 350,you would pay like 260 and the govt will pay the balance.I dont have much info as i dont qualify anymore since hubby and I both work now.But im certain most freshbies would qualify.

With furnishing the house,we went across gumtree.com(for people who were selling their furniture due relocation or other reasons),kmart stores( for kitchen items),bestbuy.com(this is a company that sells new electronics at reduced prices because they have scratches or marks on them;there are plenty stores like that but this is the one i patronised) and ikea stores(for kitchen and beddings)

For people that dont mind as well,in order to save costs,you can patronise Salvos stores(its a charity shop that all kinds of household items in great condition).

To get the best energy providers,internet providers,insurance etc,you can make use of iselect.com.au

During cold weather,you wear jacket and use heater(we paid almost 200 a month for heating during this past winter)

I do most of my shopping at Dandenong Market as food stuffs there is cheaper than everyother place I know.There is also Marmara market at Dandenong(all kinds of food items including shaki,cowleg,cow tongue etc) and an African store not far from the market(cant rememeber the name).At noble park is SUR african shop where i get dry fish,palm oil,egusi and stuff like that.

With departmental stores,woolworths is most expensive and aldi is cheapest.Coles is in between.
I know of only one nigerian restaurant that recently opened in the city and i have never been there before.
There is also another popular naija shop in the West called Fatimoh"s shop

With centerlink link claims,we were paid family tax benefit part A and B,family rebate and child care assistance.This all sumed up to $621 forthnightly for the first 4months,it came down to 550 and then now sits at $89 fortnightly.It reduces with every income increase.
Childcare rates was $113 for two kids initially (5days a week) and now is $370 a week.

We also got a concession card which has now been cancelled since we both have jobs.With the concession card,we paid discounted electricity and waterbills,half price for transportation,free ambulance cover,susbsizied fees if we had done any studies at the time and my first kid who is in kinder got 15hours free of daycare weekly .

With jobs,for me,it was just God.I got a job in the Tier 1 team of an IT company with no technical knowledge whatsover.It was my 3rd video interview and i got the job two months after arrival.I commute 54mins by train to the CBD which is quite a distance by OZ standard.But i dont mind really.I got the job through indeed.com which i prefer to seek.com
There a couple of recruitment agencies i know and i will list as i remember.

Strategy one(blue collar)
Adecco
Hoban
Ozstaff(blue collar)
Randstad
Sharp &carter
Hays
Smaart



cc Bellong,vinsmuft,funkjo,oknee,hordunayo,incemay,abeg you guys should come and add o

Thank you a million bunch. I will be relocating to Sydney in a few weeks time. I will make proper use of this piece of information greatly.

What brought Obi to this topic?

I can't still relate. Let's try to be rational and see beyond selves into the national interest.

We should not package criminals in the name of politics and forget that we all will pay dearly for it collectively.

Unfortunately, political parties often present similar criminals for us to choose. Just imagine the sort of shameful primaries our major political parties conducted last week.

So shameful.

I didn't see any key point. They are empty words.
How can he do all that he has listed out?

Buhari promised us more than this and we can tell where he landed us.

Why do we reward failures in this country?

Aify3000:
When we started the relationship, I was satisfying my girlfriend. She always praised me and said that I am better than her ex.

But at a time, when we are having sex my joystick will just fall down. It happened for one week and she got angry and told me if my joystick keeps falling she is definitely gonna break up our relationship.

What should i do now?
She said since i dont have money and i cant give her sex, what is she doing in the relationship?

What you should do is to stop fornicating.

Werey. Kogi no get good schools, accessible road networks, hospitals etc and yet, this man is promising giving to others what he did not give his house hold.
Charity begins at home. Mbok

Stupid talk. This is not 2015 when one general promised us that, " I will handle security and Osibanjo will handle the economy'
Solve the problem in your state first before promising what you know nothing about.

End time children.

I passed that road this afternoon. I am one of the majority God protected.
I pray safe return to all the abductees and wish our security agencies would be permitted to do their jobs as it should.

Urheadmaster:
Are they not the same women that gave birth to the girls without proper upbringing

Wisdom! You're such a wise guy.

pegix:
rubbish
Either mass comm.or law i see no different

Waste Brain in what sense

So those studying mass comm.doesn have it upstairs or law students are better

Lols.... kid's reasoning

Okay, next!

mlpnko:
I just checked my jamb result and i scored 283. Initially, my choice of course was law, but my parents insisted that l chose mass comm but my choice is law. What can l do, l need advices pls.

Please don't waste this brain studying mass communication.
Go for law, you can master later in mass communication if you wish.

Our father, Abraham come and see wahala for the earth your descendants inherited.

What is religion in the first place? It's simply your believe system.

If you believe yours is superior, ofcourse that's why you believed in the first place and if I do believe mine is superior, it's up to me because that's why I believe and commit to it.

So why all this hatred?

goldtube:
This is old na, Africa always late to the party

As in eh. Very very late. Over 6 years ago that this thing started.

I remember the day I was to lead a special number and I forgot the lyrics.

It was a horrible experience for me.

This is so shocking to me as well after one of my close Muslim school mates (High institution) posted that he was happy how the mob murdered the young lady (Deborah).

I dislike the wickedness in the teachings of Islam.
They valued paper more than human live.
They valued the name of their prophet to human lives and they can even kill just for saying what they perceived derogatory.

I can't remember anyone that has been killed for making derogatory utterances about Jesus Christ or other religion's leader.

Abeg, avoid any Muslim as a friend otherwise, one day, you would pay dearly with your life.

Imagine our once booming economy that entered comatose under the nose of this man.

Now, he has bared his mind. Let Nigerians have heart attack, he doesn't care.

Nigerians, I present to you, your economic leader.

Rotten eggs in government. Shameless faces

soberdrunk:
If nah my people nah blood of...... blood of..... them 4 dey shout......

Retirement home for our Governors.
Evil people that have kept this nation on her knees and now on her neck, and still wouldn't give up until the country is dead.

Where are you?

Malori:
Imagine Wike as the president of Nigeria? I don't need to say anything further

My brother. I can't even imagine that.
Am sure he can't even get close to winning in the first place.

Get good Samsung. It's still my preferred choice anyday, and anytime.