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RomanceRe: Marriage Is An Investment, Be Strategic... by SSpeter(op): 7:16pm On May 14, 2024
ogashman:
Nice exposé.....but I think this only applies to a lady u re compatible with...one who believes that running the family is a joint business and she would not hesitate to contribute financially to meet family goals.

In a society where majority of women believe that their money is theirs and the husband's money is for both of them, it will hard apply this principal in reality...... Though, it can work with the few who did not grow up with this mentality.
most ladies who work and earn honestly know what it takes to run a home, hence you don't need to convince them. It is ladies from poor homes and bannies who have no legitimate means of livelihood that thinks her money is hers
TravelRe: No Evidence Foreign Students Are Abusing UK Graduate Visa by SSpeter(op): 3:08pm On May 14, 2024
Fellow Nigerians that wants to Japa, the door is still open grin cheesy
TravelNo Evidence Foreign Students Are Abusing UK Graduate Visa by SSpeter(op):
RomanceRe: Marriage Is An Investment, Be Strategic... by SSpeter(op): 3:00pm On May 14, 2024
Obierika:
I completely agree, if you are doing well as a man make sure you marry from your social class!
wink
EducationRe: No Evidence Foreign Students Are Abusing UK Graduate Visas, Review Finds by SSpeter(op): 2:58pm On May 14, 2024
Fellow Nigerians grin, the door is still open 👐, go and fulfill your destinies cheesy grin
EducationNo Evidence Foreign Students Are Abusing UK Graduate Visas, Review Finds by SSpeter(op): 2:56pm On May 14, 2024
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) said the graduate visa entitlement – allowing international students to work for two or three years after graduating – should remain in place. Members said the risks of abuse were relatively low and were “not undermining” the integrity and quality of the higher education system.

The report’s release has stoked an internal Conservative party row over net migration, with senior rightwing MPs describing it as a “whitewash”.

Robert Jenrick, a former immigration minister, wrote that the committee’s inquiries were tightly controlled by the commission from James Cleverly, the home secretary.

“The MAC’s conclusions have clearly been constrained by the narrow terms of reference deliberately set by the government. If you order white paint, you get a whitewash,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Neil O’Brien, a Tory MP who is an ally of Jenrick, described the report as a “whitewash” on Substack: “We are pursuing an arbitrary target, and the expansion of universities for their own sake.”

Another Conservative MP said backbenchers were “piling pressure” on Rishi Sunak to ignore the committee’s conclusions.
The government has so far declined to say whether it will accept the MAC recommendations. A source close to the home secretary said he would read the review thoroughly and listen to Prof Brian Bell, the committee’s chair, carefully before he makes any decision. They were due to meet on Tuesday afternoon.

The committee’s decision was greeted with relief by university vice-chancellors, who have warned that abolishing the graduate visa would spell financial turmoil for the sector. But higher education leaders said they still feared No 10 could cherrypick elements of the report to justify a further crackdown.

University leaders had been told to expect the government’s response in the middle of next week, alongside the publication of the ONS’s net migration figures. But the MAC report in favour of retaining graduate visas may have scuppered plans by ministers to use it as the centrepiece of a fresh crackdown.
Cleverly commissioned the review amid a growing clamour in Tory circles that graduate visas were being abused to gain access to employment.

Last week, Jenrick published a report with the Centre for Policy Studies thinktank that called for the graduate visa to be abolished, claiming it “allowed people to come and work in the gig economy and on very low wages”.

In a forthright response, Bell said: “Our review recommends the graduate route should remain as it is, and is not undermining the quality and integrity of the UK’s higher education system.

“The graduate route is a key part of the offer that we make to international students to come and study in the UK. The fees that these students pay helps universities to cover the losses they make in teaching British students and doing research. Without those students, many universities would need to shrink and less research would be done.”

The committee said:

There is no evidence of widespread abuse specifically for the graduate route. The risks of abuse are relatively low due to the limited number of conditions the route imposes.

There is concern about potential exploitation of both student and graduate visa holders due to poor practices by certain agents who recruit students on to courses and may be mis-selling UK higher education, but this is a separate issue from abuse of the rules of the graduate route.

114,000 graduate route visas were granted for main applicants in 2023 with a further 30,000 granted for dependants.

The use of the graduate route is concentrated among four nationalities: the top four – India, Nigeria, China and Pakistan – account for 70% of all graduate visas with India accounting for more than 40%.

Most of those on the graduate route completed postgraduate taught courses.
Graduate visa holders are initially “overrepresented in lower-paid work” but their outcomes improve over time, the report said.

The MAC review was unable to assess the risk of overstaying due to a lack of Home Office data.

Alex Proudfoot, the chief executive of the representative body Independent Higher Education, said: “We urge the government to swiftly confirm they will follow their experts’ recommendation that the graduate visa be retained in its current form, and commit afresh to working with the education sector to maximise the benefits that international students bring.”

Tim Bradshaw, the chief executive of the Russell Group of leading research universities, said: “The overall message from the MAC is that the graduate route is achieving its objectives as set out by the government. We would therefore urge ministers to end the uncertainty and confirm as soon as possible that the route will continue in its entirety.”

In February, Universities UK (UUK) said it would review international student admissions processes after the allegations of “bad practice” by agents recruiting overseas students.

The MAC has recommended the government should establish a mandatory registration system for international recruitment agents, and universities should be required to publish data on their use of agents to “help protect the integrity” of the UK higher education system.

The review was launched in March after Cleverly instructed the committee, which gives independent advice to the government, to investigate “any evidence of abuse” of the graduate route, “including the route not being fit for purpose”, and to look at which universities were producing graduates who used the route.

Vivienne Stern, the chief executive of UUK, said: “The MAC’s recommendation that the graduate route should remain on its current terms is extremely important and welcome.

“The uncertainty caused by the decision to review the visa has been toxic,” she said. “We hope and expect that government now listens to the advice they have been given and provides categorical reassurance that the graduate visa is here to stay.”

A government spokesperson said: “We are committed to attracting the best and brightest to study at our world-class universities, whilst preventing abuse of our immigration system, which is why the home secretary commissioned an independent review of the graduate route.

“We have already taken decisive action to address unsustainable levels of migration and our plans are working, with a 24% drop in visa applications across key routes in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year.

“We are considering the review’s findings very closely and we will respond fully in due course.”


https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/14/no-evidence-foreign-students-abusing-uk-graduate-visas-review
BusinessRe: Naira Slumps, Exchanges At Over ₦‎1,500 Against Dollar by SSpeter(m): 8:47am On May 14, 2024
Donaldoni:
With full local production of petroleum products, this won't matter anymore.

Some months ago, the price of diesel was NGN1,700 per liter with similar exchange rate.

Today it has remained NGN1,100 or thereabout.

With CNG usage and local PMS production underway, better days are ahead. smiley

FG does not care about the dollar again.

Piiigggs can continue to grunt in vain wild ecstasy cheesy FG is smarter. cheesy
Dullardo
Foreign AffairsPutin Sacks Sergei Shoigu As Defense Minister, Names Successor by SSpeter(op): 7:27am On May 13, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose military has been criticized at home for a perceived lack of progress and heavy losses during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, announced that he was replacing longtime ally Sergei Shoigu as defense minister.

demotion for Shoigu, who not only received an important position as secretary of the Security Council but also will retain oversight of domestic and foreign defense issues, taking that from the new minister of defense,” he wrote.

The actions must be approved by the Federation Council, but both houses of Russia’s parliaments are considered rubber-stamp bodies for Putin’s wishes. The council said that “senators will hold consultations on the candidates proposed by the president at meetings of the committees on May 13 and at a meeting of the Federation Council on May 14.”

The moves come after the Russian government officially resigned following Putin’s inauguration on May 7 for the fifth time in a ceremony to kick off a new six-year term that was boycotted by most Western countries over his war in Ukraine and an election victory they rejected as being orchestrated to provide him a landslide result.

Russian lawmakers on May 10 approved Mikhail Mishustin as prime minister on May 10, hours after Putin nominated him for reappointment.

Shoigu's future as defense minister had been closely watched over the past year following the struggles of the military in Ukraine and other issues.

Although not directly implicated, Shoigu's Defense Ministry came under scrutiny after it was reported that Russian law enforcement officials had detained Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov on suspicion of taking a bribe.

The next day, the Basmanny district court in Moscow sent him to pretrial detention until June 23 after charging him with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.

Shoigu is considered close to Putin, with whom he has taken hunting trips in the past. He is one of the founders of the United Russia party, which was the main pro-Putin force in parliament in the first two terms of his presidency.

Peskov said the Kremlin wanted to appoint an economic expert to head the Defense Ministry in the face of rising costs related to Russian security measures.

“This demands special attention,” he told reporters. "The Defense Ministry should absolutely be open to innovation, to the introduction of all advanced ideas.

"At this stage, the president has decided that a civilian should run the defense ministry,” he added.

Anatoly Serdyukov, who preceded Shoigu as defense minister from 2007-12, also had a background in economics and had served as head of the Federal Tax Service from 2004-07
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/russia-shoigu-putin-belousov-defense-minister/32943289.html

BusinessRe: Naira Declines To N1,510, N1,466.31 At Parallel, Official Markets by SSpeter(m): 7:18am On May 12, 2024
stuffs2002:
Nigeria is going through a challenging time and OBIDIENTS are happy.

I have never voted in Nigeria but that is going to change with the way OBIDIENTS have been attacking Nigeria, I will vigorously campaign against Peter Obi in any elections he presents himself. You can not be enemy of Nigeria and still want to rule Nigeria.


That Is a promise I have made
Obidients are the cause of the misfortune? Obidients have political power? You simply lack sense
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 4:06pm On May 11, 2024
Ogeneigbo1:
you have raised a very vital point. everyone is watching..

Nigerian Customs cannot be collecting duties and levies in dollars, its a big crime ..

but with this directive ,lets see what happens.
...and oil companies in Nigeria Should also remit Naira?
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 3:59pm On May 11, 2024
Navalsadiq:
They should flow the Russia china agreement

You see in life when you prove stoebornnand try to be storborn,the challenges of life will compel you to do what is right when things get out of hand
is it the China that has the largest dollar reserve or another China?
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 3:58pm On May 11, 2024
[quote author=Ogeneigbo1 post=129897131]This is a great move if sustained.

Anyone against this decision don't actually know what he or she wants for Nigeria.

Another one should be mandate banks to start serving their customers with foreign transaction needs without asking them to buy dollar from BDC .

Open up all blocked channels so that customers can pay equivalent with their naira cards.
quote]What about Nigeria Customs that charges in dollars? Should oil coys also remit Naira
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 3:56pm On May 11, 2024
Idaytesj29:
They should also stop. That's double standard. All reciept within the borders of Nigeria should be in Naira.
and the oil companies too, should all remit in Naira? grin
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 3:53pm On May 11, 2024
Idaytesj29:
Thanks jare.
And if any business chargs me with dollar, I will just take all info I needed and head to EFCC straight. We cannot continue like this and not everyone go Japa. We need to fix outlr country ourselves. Even if we Japa, we go still come back home at some point and meet the mess
What about Nigeria Customs that charges in dollars?
PoliticsRe: EFCC Stops Dollar Transactions, Asks Embassies To Charge In Naira by SSpeter(m): 3:49pm On May 11, 2024
Mjshexy:
All businesses or institutions transacting in dollars should be immediately stopped, we can't continue this way
What about Nigeria Customs that charges in dollars?
Foreign AffairsRe: UN General Assembly Backs Palestinian Bid For Full Membership by SSpeter(m): 9:13am On May 11, 2024
Emeskhalifa:
Let me ask you, why does Isreal not want Palestinians to have a country of theirs?
Palestine is presently controlled by a terrorist group. Would you want a terrorist infested country close to you? Israel will become like Lebanon over night.
Foreign AffairsRe: UN General Assembly Backs Palestinian Bid For Full Membership by SSpeter(m): 9:09am On May 11, 2024
God1000:
This is unprecedented, Israel has been dealt another blow
if the US does not recognize a country, it is just an illusion
BusinessRe: American Express (AMEX) Launches First Business Credit Card In Nigeria by SSpeter(m): 8:08am On May 10, 2024
Cindypresh:
Straight outta WhatsApp group 😂
well-done for bursting that loser...you can drop your accnt if don't mind let me credit a token for investigating that loser
BusinessRe: American Express (AMEX) Launches First Business Credit Card In Nigeria by SSpeter(m): 7:56am On May 10, 2024
LegendHero:
lol, the joke is on bitter Obi.
what is the name of the business and where is it domiciled, that is all...
BusinessRe: American Express (AMEX) Launches First Business Credit Card In Nigeria by SSpeter(m): 7:54am On May 10, 2024
LegendHero:
What is an investment?

If as a small business, I have access to $10k credit card that I can spend easily abroad and repay back within some certain time frame or at least pay the monthly minimum interest, is that not an investment?

The money AMEX is bringing to the Nigerian market to service that, is that not investment?

I know you have never used a credit card before, so you won’t understand. It’s only poor people that sees access to credit as a disadvantage.
You are lying where is your business domiciled? You put up fake cards to prove what point? Loser
BusinessRe: American Express (AMEX) Launches First Business Credit Card In Nigeria by SSpeter(m): 7:53am On May 10, 2024
Cindypresh:
Untop this poor photoshopping😂
wow so the guy did Photoshop? loool, he wanted to play smart. If you check, that guy has never traveled abroad grin
BusinessRe: American Express (AMEX) Launches First Business Credit Card In Nigeria by SSpeter(m): 7:51am On May 10, 2024
LegendHero:
Company bringing investment and you are still very bitter. Bitterness and bitter Obi supporters are like 5&6.

Below is my two Amex card (both corporate and personal). Bringing this to Naija and giving business the luxury to have $10k limit for starters is a good step. You don’t need to be bitter about every news like Obi.
Dude you went to do Photoshop of cards, Jesus! You guys are a bunch of losers 😡
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Appoints Emeka Woke As The CEO Of Ogun-Osun River Basin by SSpeter(m): 10:14pm On May 09, 2024
Ebubu:
ChukwuEmeka Woke is not an Igbo mangrin
Ronu people will say he is a South-South man
TravelRe: My Experience Getting My NIN In Poland by SSpeter(m): 6:06pm On May 09, 2024
If you have a transparent country you will freely state the price.
RomanceRe: Marriage Is An Investment, Be Strategic... by SSpeter(op): 11:28am On May 09, 2024
Fahvvy:
This was an insightful read undecided...

I tell men, never marry a broke woman undecided...
If she doesn't have value with evidence, not potentials, then she's not worth marrying undecided...

Forget all of this, "marry from the slums and then build her", ideology it's f.oolishness! undecided...

If her father couldn't do it, then allow her hustle and do it herself! undecided...
You grow with the speed of light if you marry a woman with similar income. There is a large room for you to start investing and building wealth early. Imagine getting married and you guys already have about 3-4 cars, you can imagine things and bring it to fruition without stress. You are not bothered with the prices of basic commodities which gives you enough room to focus on wealth generating assets
RomanceMarriage Is An Investment, Be Strategic... by SSpeter(op):
I will focus on the male gender because, most women by default are strategic about marriage.

Firstly, if your income did not improve when you got married, it is either you were not strategic or you entered a forward contract ( the risks in the later are higher). As a young man it is very foolish grin to marry because of infatuation ( which most people call love). As a man, marry because you need a companion that will improve the quality of your life, while you also improve the quality of her life. Marriage should be mutualistic not parasitic or commensal.

It is very foolish for a young man cheesy to make 250k and marry a woman that makes 60k angry, don't do that, as a rule, do not marry anyone that does not earn at least 60% of your total monthly pay, this should be the minimum, hence, aim higher. A man should cultivate a standard, and create a union that will uplift that standard.

...so how about the attitude? definitely you should do your enhanced due diligence before getting close and ask very important questions. Guide your marriage like you would monitor your portfolio hence devout time and energy to make things work. Avoid marrying 'potentials' as much as possible due to unknown risks ( people change and surprises are common in marriage).

Be strategic about this investment and do not let niceties cloud your reasoning. Limit to the barest minimum gifts from ladies that do not meet the criteria ( I nearly fell for this 😭 ), to overcome this temptation, always return the favour so that you don't feel indebted. Remember this investment may lead to success or failure of other investments, therefore, do not marry out of pity 😔 or guilt, set clear boundaries.

Finally, like my early banking days taught me not to extend facilities to people without morals even if I had it all figured out...so I am advising do not begin a relationship with someone that does not meet the criteria even if you tell yourself you just want to tap in and tap out... oftentimes you get stuck.
Foreign AffairsRe: Israeli Tanks And Troops Enter Rafah As Ceasefire Talks Collapse by SSpeter(m): 12:31pm On May 07, 2024
michlins:
Israel don fk up this time. They're now seen as the aggressor and not defending themselves. This is election year for Biden and he wouldn't want to be seen as a war protagonist.

Several people and nations are currently siding with people of Palestine. There's something about human emotions, it's not stable and just few tick and tweak will change it completely
Funny thing is, it is either Biden or Trump and Trump has stated that he will deal with the protesters and deport them if need be. Netanhayu prefers a Trump government
PoliticsRe: Lagos Admits Dumping 371 Residents In Osun, Labels Them Miscreants, Beggars by SSpeter(m): 11:16am On May 07, 2024
Wickedfacts:
Anambra, get ready.
Deport Yorubas there because we are packing all Igbo miscreants in Yorubaland back to Onitsha Head Bridge.
Relax, we have not gotten to Kwara
PoliticsRe: Lagos Admits Dumping 371 Residents In Osun, Labels Them Miscreants, Beggars by SSpeter(m): 11:15am On May 07, 2024
KashApp:
I still don't believe this sha
E shock you, grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Spain, Ireland Discuss Recognizing Palestinian State Amid Rafah Evacuation Order by SSpeter(m): 5:03pm On May 06, 2024
Krismas:
Christian no get time for terrorism? grin grin grin indeed.
the Phalanges, a right-wing Christian political party in Lebanon founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936. were responsible for the massacre of civilians mostly women and children in refugee camps of Sabra and shatilla. where over 800 women and children and old people were killed.
why is it that wen jihadist terrorists are captured, they turn out to be either Jews or Christians disguising themselves with false identity?
then israel is just a worthless colonial enterprise of britain, france and america in the middle east. they facilitated, funded and uphold it till this day. its survival, has nothing to do with the ingenuity of the zionists demsefs
Propagandist grin, Bachir Gemayel, was a sweet military leader, a honourable man whom the LNM was trying to blackmail. He dealt with extremists both Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim extremist. He was a good man, and the Muslim terrorist assassinated him. Israel is saving the world from terrorism, God help them.
Foreign AffairsRe: Spain, Ireland Discuss Recognizing Palestinian State Amid Rafah Evacuation Order by SSpeter(m): 4:24pm On May 06, 2024
Krismas:
grin a country dat has no airport or sea port is no country. YOU can also be third person plural. i mean all the christains in nigeria, can relocate to vatican city to disposes the nominal italian christians or atheists in the vatican city. since its a christain country
The Christians in Nigeria are not complaining, it is the Muslims who are shedding tears for Palestinians. Go to Abuja and see Muslims carrying placards for Palestinians grin. Christians no get time for terrorism. If you say the Vatican is not a country, that's fine, wether it is Italy or Rome or Vatican, Christians love it that way. Imagine only one Jewish state, I mean one small Jewish state is facilitating and expediting actions for the Jihadist and muhammadist to get their virgins! Allahu Akbar grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Spain, Ireland Discuss Recognizing Palestinian State Amid Rafah Evacuation Order by SSpeter(m): 3:45pm On May 06, 2024
Krismas:
The Vatican City has no airport and no sea borders, so the only way to enter is from Italy. so much for independence from italy. grin grin why dont u want to go and live in a pure Christian country? i tot Vatican city is for Christians?
go there first to claim it, only then will u find out, it belongs to italy.
Hezbollah drove Israel out of Lebanon in 2000, after 10yrs of occupation.
they defeated Israel in the 2006 war.
and since oct7 they have fired more than 4thousand rockets at Israel and all Israel can do, is beg and beg and beg for ceasefire grin
I don't get? the Ciampino Airport is about 15km from the Vatican city itself and the Vatican is very small why would it need an Airport? Over 85% of Italians are Catholics and about 87-90% are Christians. The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, and the Italian government pays the Catholic priests so I don't get your point. Should I leave my job and relocate to Italy? Why should I do that? You can join Hamas or Hezbollah to fight Isreal if you wish. grin

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