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Its a good initiative to keep the umemployed youth busy but uploading of certificates is quite unnecessary.

Hmmmm.. Very Educative and Insightful ..

chemenger:
No it wasn't addressed to saqa. It's just the transcript pages only and the certificate. Could that be a problem.
I scanned a certified copy of my transcript and certificate to someone in SA who printed them out and submit for me. Saqa didn't state any address for applicants to put on transcript or maybe I wasn't aware.

i will advice you to apply for a new transcript, make sure the transcript is addressed and sent to SAQA directly from your school.. That's what i did when my SAQA application was suspended ..

chemenger:
Good day everybody,
Its going to two months I have applied for Saqa now. my result was to be released on 27th of October before I received a suspension email from saqa. The reason being that further information is being sought for the confirmation of my certificate. On seeing the email I went to my school to find out what's happening but I was told they've not any email from saqa and was given the email address to give to saqa which I did since but no response till now.
House please kindly assist with any info that maybe of help. Someone in SA even went there and was told the same thing as I have in my email. Please what can I do again, what's the correct saqa email I send such complain to. Just help as I don't know what to do anymore.
Thank u.

is your transcript addressed to SAQA?

I Pray Almighty God in His infinite Mercies heal you of your sickness, May he provide for you, your financial needs... Ameen.. Get well soon.

Educative write up.. May Almighty Allah Help Us All.

You are madly in love. Your partner also claims to love you too. Yours looks like love made and delivered by Cupid. How lucky you are!

But wait a minute? Is it really true? Does your partner really love you?

Your mind tells you one thing; your heart tells you another. But you prefer to believe your heart, because you don’t want to face the reality. You are afraid of the consequences of accepting the truth.

But you can see some clear signs that show you are labouring to keep a one-sided relationship going. You are hoping against hope to make this work.

If you don’t call, you don’t get called. If you don’t visit your partner, you don’t get visited. If you offend your partner, you apologise; and if your partner offends you, you still apologise. Why? Because if you don’t apologise, the cold war will continue forever: your partner will use that as an excuse to do a Usain Bolt.

Sorry, you are on a long thing!

Love is extremely painful and frustrating if it is unrequited. Our people say that the he-goat placed on a she-goat does not mate.

Most times, ladies find it more difficult to get the message. Why? First, we live in a masculine society where it is still seen as a taboo for a woman to approach a man for a relationship. Secondly, and most importantly, a man can marry at 50 years or above and still father children, but not so for women. So, some women get desperate once they hit 30 years and close their eyes to all the warning signals, all in a bid to get married.

But can a one-sided relationship lead to a happy marriage? Most unlikely. When you are not loved, you are not loved. Forget the pretences.

Love is like pregnancy: it cannot be hidden. If someone loves you, you will know. Forget words. Kwukason is not mekason! Love is best displayed in action. Gbam!

When someone loves you, there are certain traits the person must display. Here they are:

 

Lovers cherish each other’s company
Those who are in love are eager to be in each other’s company. They never seem to have enough of each other. Whenever the time to part comes, they feel sad. And we are not talking about sex here.

Let’s draw a line between a true lover who wants companionship and a sex seeker who wants sex. A lover wants to share hours on end, while the sex seeker wants to attend to some other things once sex is served and done with.

Lovebirds are usually unproductive when together, because they savour each other’s company. They watch hours fly past like seconds. When they are apart, the distance is bridged with long phone calls, online chatting, and daydreaming. They don’t want to attend to assignments until they become late.

When your so-called sweetheart feels bored with you or is eager to dismiss you, then wahala dey! When your darling always finds excuses not to be with you, then all is not well. Let your alarm start ringing.

Love loosens the tongue
The most taciturn person on earth wants to chat with his or her sweetheart. The topic of discussion does not matter. It may even be on a topic like the sounds, styles and stench of fart! Yuk! What matters is that true lovers love to talk with each other as long as time permits: face-to-face, on phone, on the Internet, via Skype, through letters, anyhow, anyway, anywhere, any time! Time never seems to be enough.

When you find it hard to chat with the person you love, that should warn you that your future happiness is jeopardised.

What do lovers really discuss? Nothing. Isn’t that why it is called “sweet nothings”?

When you easily run out of what to say to each other, then know that all is not well with your relationship.

If your partner is too busy to call, to visit you, to send or reply an sms, to chat online, all is not well. Please, don’t even accept the I-am-busy line. Even an unmarried president of a country or the CEO of a multinational will never be too busy to talk with their lover.

If your partner does not call you – or only calls once in a blue moon – and you are the one always calling, please, wake up. Or, are you a learner?

Lovers respect each other
No matter the age gap, lovers have great respect for each other. No sensible person will do anything in public that will diminish the respect or self-esteem of their partner. Worse still, no one will accept to watch calmly their lover disrespected by someone else.

When your sweetheart treats you like “bitter-heart” by dishing out disrespect to you, or does not show righteous anger when someone else disrespects you, then the person feels little or nothing for you.

Love can’t exist without laughter
A love relationship should be filled with laughter and happiness. Even if you never laugh with anyone, you should be able to laugh with your loved one. If the sky is about to drop and you see your sweetheart, some measure of joy and calm should come into your heart.

If your “sweetheart” laughs when in other people’s company but does not laugh or feel happy in your company, then you are simply being tolerated.

Also, if your relationship is filled with quarrels and sadness, all is not well with it.

Are you in his/her future plans?
Here in Nigeria, most relationships are meant to end in a marriage. When you are thinking of marriage but your partner is thinking of something else, it is a danger signal. When your partner finds all the excuses in the world to avoid marriage discussions or plans, you have to be on your guard.

When your partner does not mind if you get married to someone else, that is a clear message to you.

If you are valuable or precious, your partner will want to have you for keeps.

Is he/she proud of you?
Except for teenagers who engage in secret relationships, mature people are keen to show off their partners. If your partner flaunts you at clubs and parties but hides you from family members, especially parents, then know that you are most likely a spare tyre.

If after many months of having a relationship, your partner still introduces you simply as “John,” “Jane” or “my friend,” please, wake up and smell the coffee, honey!

Never be a stand-by generator

When one is giving but not receiving, one feels terribly unappreciated and unworthy. One feels frustrated and unhappy. One-sided relationships sap energy. They sap time. They lead to depression. They deny each other better opportunities.

As said earlier, the fear of being alone “roasting” or unmarried is what makes many victims of one-sided relationships. When you are in a one-sided relationship, you will know. You need to re-assess the relationship. You need to know what the problem is, broach it with your partner and make efforts to solve it.

But if it is obvious that the problem cannot be solved – that you are not loved or wanted – then, you need to brace yourself up and give your partner some space. If you are important, your partner will look for you and start treating you right. But if your partner does not come for you, then thank your stars for saving you from a future marital prison.

Just move on. You are too precious to be someone’s sidekick; too priceless to be a standby generator. No, no, no! You are more precious than rubies, and more valuable than gold. You are wonderfully and fearfully made.

Someone who will love and cherish you will come along.

Culled from punch.
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/so-sad-to-love-and-not-be-loved-in-return/

Three years ago, Jonathan said he knew our pain, because he had been there and pledged to “demonstrate the leadership, statesmanship, vision, capacity and sacrifice, to transform our nation” in his May 29, 2011 inaugural address.  He said he would “give hope to the hopeless, strength to the weak and protection to the defenceless.” He regaled Nigerians with his “no shoes” childhood story, which animated the hopes of ordinary people. But for all the fine talk, he has achieved little. Those days have long been replaced with a glamorous lifestyle. Pray, how will the acquisition of another aircraft translate to jobs, good roads, and 18 hours of steady electricity supply that Jonathan promised on New Year’s Day?

The World Bank puts Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product per capita at $2,883.  It is an assault on logic that a country with such a paltry income and where about 70 per cent of its citizens survive on less than $2 per day could still manage to delve into the public till to fund such an obscene and reckless display of opulence. “I’m not the poorest president,” Mujica said. “The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.” He is dead right.

But this is not altogether surprising. When a government fails to get its priorities right, the result is often not different from what is currently being experienced in Nigeria. This is a country where the government only succeeded in getting university teachers back to the classrooms after close to six months of a strike over the appalling conditions in that sector of the education system. Doctors have also just ended a warning strike, promising to resume full scale if their demands for improved conditions of service are not fully met. It is a country where more than 11 million children, the largest in the whole world, roam the streets instead of being at school. Nigeria has the second highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the world.

Access to potable water here was put at 17 per cent three years ago by the United States State Department, while the British-based Economist Intelligence Unit rated the country last year as the worst place for a child to be born. The unemployment rate, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, stood at 23.9 per cent in May last year. The list is almost inexhaustible. While avoidable diseases ravage both adults and children, Nigeria’s political office holders rank among the highest paid in the world, higher than those of the United States, Britain and other wealthy democracies. In the face of competing demands for scarce resources, the government still manages to flaunt wealth to the extent of making itself the laughing stock of the world and a liability to the citizens.

But it is not too late to stop this presidential insensitivity and irresponsibility. The National Assembly, though yet to purge itself of the notoriety of padding up budgets, owes Nigerians this one duty of not passing the 2014 Appropriation Bill the way it is. There should be some painstaking efforts, at least this once, to ensure that Nigerians get the maximum benefits of the budget proposals by yanking off all the frivolous and self-serving contents.

Jonathan should free himself from the fantasy of presidential prestige and power.  Since the Presidency seems to have consistently shown that it has lost touch with Nigerians and cannot decide on behalf of the citizenry, there should be some constitutional means of directing it back to the path of sanity. In the event of the parliament also failing Nigerians, the populace should be able to make its voice heard by insisting that whatever is left of the oil wealth is put to better use for the benefit of the greater number of the people.

http://www.punchng.com/editorial/jonathans-wasteful-spending-on-presidential-aircraft-fleet/

SOME of the details contained in the 2014 budget proposals of the Federal Government currently awaiting the approval of the National Assembly are as outrageous as they are disquieting. Those details have, as usual, exposed the government’s propensity for frivolities and plush living.

Global trends however suggest that public officials should scale down the cost of governance and roll back casual luxuries in public office. But President Goodluck Jonathan is again making a public statement of opulence in a country where the majority of the people live below the United Nations poverty threshold. It is obvious that what the government has succeeded in doing with the budget, as usual, is to use it to promote the ostentatious and wasteful lifestyle of government officials, while further impoverishing the Nigerian citizenry. When the government is not budgeting N2.2 billion for a “befitting banqueting hall in Aso Rock Villa,” as was the case last year, it is proposing N34.5 million for the feeding of lions in the Aso Rock Zoo.

One particularly disgusting item in the 2014 budget is the provision of N1.6 billion as deposit for the purchase of a new aircraft for the presidential fleet that already boasts a record 10 planes and is ranked among the most luxurious worldwide. The profligate presidential fleet is complemented with an extravagant motorcade and glamorous lifestyle. Only two domestic airlines have that many aircraft. Nigerians need to know how much money goes into the maintenance of this large fleet of non-commercial aircraft. In 2011, N18 billion was reportedly budgeted to maintain the presidential aircraft.

Replenishing the ever-increasing fleet of aircraft has become a Jonathan obsession that must be checked. The government claimed that it booked slots for the purchase of two new aircraft in 2010, and another two in 2011 and 2012, in line with the decision to drop some of the eight aircraft discovered to be too expensive to maintain due to old age. In 2010, when three planes were added to the fleet, Jonathan had advised us to be “constructive in our criticisms so that we do not inadvertently encumber the rebuilding of our nation.”  He had said then, “The President of Nigeria must be transported safely at all times. The cost may seem exorbitant now, but it would be impossible to put a price tag on good governance and an efficiently run country, a promise that this administration is determined to deliver.” These excuses don’t wash again.

Eleven planes in the presidential fleet are too many for a country like Nigeria. There are countries and leaders that have learnt to live within their means by decrying excessive consumption, yet provide good governance and efficiency.  Uruguay’s President, José Mujica, for instance, lives in a humble cottage, drives himself to work in a Volkswagen Beetle car and flies economy class. But his government provides free computers and education for every child. In Britain, which boasts aircraft manufacturing companies, the Prime Minister and the Queen of England travel on commercial flights because the government’s aircraft for the PM lack transcontinental capability. Other civilised countries have learnt lessons in prudence. The President, Prime Minister and government officials in Singapore typically travel on regular scheduled commercial flights run by Singapore Airlines. Also, Hong Kong leaders travel on commercial aircraft. Each of these is a practical example of “good governance and efficiently run country.”

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it was unreasonable for the First Lady, Patience Jonathan to have decided to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in South Korea, even when the nation’s universities remain shutdown under the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this in a statement issued in Lagos. The statement asserted that if the First Lady and her advisers were reasonable enough, it would have been very obvious to them that embracing such an award when Nigerian students were lamenting over ASUU strike would affect the sensibility of Nigerian students.

The statement reads,”In their eagerness to gobble up one spurious award after another, they forgot that if the Hansei University in South Korea had been shut by a strike because the government there has repudiated an agreement it willingly signed with the teachers, the institution would not have been able to give any honorary degree to anyone.

”A government that is unwilling to spend the nation’s resources on the education of its youth has no qualms about wasting the same resources for a junket by the First Lady and her cheerleaders halfway around the world for what is nothing more than an ego-massaging award,” it said.


APC sarcastically said that the reasons behind the award of the Honorary Doctorate to the First Lady was particularly interesting, which is that, “she’s a humanitarian who has dedicated her life to working for the less privileged in Nigeria and Africa especially for women and children. Her vision as the defender of the poor in Nigeria fits into Hansei University’s motto of a practising Christian.”

”What the university forgot to add is that while the First Lady may have dedicated her life working for the less privileged in Nigeria, there is no indication that she and her husband are sparing any thought for the poor Nigerian students whose dreams for a better future have been put on hold by the long strike that has paralyzed academic activities in public universities,” the party said.

The statement further said that the First Lady should have used her humanitarian gesture to advocate for the suspension of ASUU strike instead of her acceptance of an award.

”It is instructive that the First Lady would rather corral some hapless women to the Eagle Square in Abuja to illegally campaign for her husband, in furtherance of her ‘humanitarian’ gesture, instead of leading a campaign of concerned mothers and ‘humanitarians’ to protest the deadlock in ending the strike in our public universities,” APC said

dailypost.com.ng/2013/10/16/apc-condemns-patience-jonathans-acceptance-of-honorary-doctorate-award/

alphizo: Am presently in South Africa, for sum weeks now and I changed my mind to work n mayb school later but I need to get a permit. Can anyone give me the list of required docs to apply for quota permit or work permit. Thank u

Check page 48.

alphizo: @Clickemmy n Collinsfbi.... Pls am a graduate from college of education n studied Computer Science, I want to teach in South Africa, do I need to be evaluated by SAQA before I register at SACE? Pls what do I need to do? Thank you

You need to evaluate your certificate with SAQA before you register with SACE.

ifizi: Guys is it possible to go through a visitin visa or tourist visa, with the purpose of schooling

Yeah its possible. You can come here with your admission letter and make sure you pay your repatriation fee in Nigeria before coming coz its kindda expensive here.

Horladortune: @Collinsfbi and all! How are you guys doing? I was wondering! Which close neighboring country to SA can I go with my valid SA visa just to stamp my out and in since SA said a visit not to exceed 30 days! And I no wan fumble! Or it does not matter?

Apply for either Swaziland or bostwana Tourist Visa using any trustworthy immigration lawyer, with this you can be stamped in and out of SA and that gives you the opportunity to stay another month in SA.

Exline101: Hi Nairalanders.......Am about to set out to SA next week........I want to know what and what i need ......I heard about Polio Vaccine (How do i go about it?) And is their any other thing required? Is just 3 months Visitors Visa

Am sure you don't need much since you have your visa, just have your valid yellow card with you, your BTA, confirmed hotel reservation if staying in hotel and don't deal with strangers.. If you have any issue you can ask any security officer around.. And how long are you staying? And where are you going in SA?

governing: God bless you. I just sent you an email though its kind of authomated. Waiting for your response so that I can give you more detail. Once again God bless you.

you welcome. have replied. Am do this coz have also been helped here by someone i never met before so i think i should also be to help others too and more so this is a month of blessing (Ramadan) and please keep the house informed.. Thanks.!

drake2: yea same bank, but in Rands (645) for a PhD in indegenous knowledge in kwazulu natal.
@ governing? what was d outcome of ur saqa evaluation?

Ohk its fine... I will help you then,
You can contact me by sending me a mail via nairaland.

governing: @drake2, I already did my evaluation. I used someone in SA to accomplish that but my problem with the guy is that he has little or no time to attend to my issues and at the same time am paying far higher than what the institution are asking for. So this time arroung am trying to do it myself or better still if I can get a good samaritan that can help me over there in SA.

Which bank are you paying into and how do you intend getting the payments slip.

Senate President, David Mark, reportedly gave this blazing orange/reddish Chevrolet Corvette to 2face and Annie Idibia as a wedding gift during their Dubai wedding – though he refuted the claims!

Annie Idibia and Isabel really look good, 2face is sure taking care of them…

Glory be unto Allah, the Lord of the worlds. We thank Him for His grace and mercy having to witness another Ramadan. Whosoever Allah guides cannot be misled and whoseoever Allah misleads cannot be guided.  I bear witness that there is no god except Allah with no associate and Muhammad is His prophet. May the peace and blessings continue to abide with Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w).
Allah has assigned to us the season of goodness in which the rewards for good deeds are not only in multiple folds but also the bad deeds are blooted out.  In it, there are opportunities for repentance and forgiveness.  Whoever uses the time to purify himself will be spiritually cleansed; he will attain success in this world and hereafter. That is one of the blessings of Allah in the month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is a pillar of Islam in which the Glorious Qur’an was revealed.  In the month, we have a night that is better than a thousand months. It means fasting in Ramadan is equvalent to fasting in 10 months. This is also not to mention the blooting out of sins of a repentant Muslim.
It is a period of worship during the day and better part of the night.  We were created to worship Him alone.  Obedience to His ordernances is as important as worshipping Him. One of the greatest act of worship is fasting in the month of Ramadan as He commanded us in Quran 2: 183-185.
But why do we have to fast?  According to the above verses of the Qur’an, Allah enjoined us to fast so that we can gain piety (taqwa).  Any one who is able to gain more taqwa will intensify in other acts of worship; will shun or think less of this material world; will always do what is good, kind to people irrespective of class or creed and will gain nearness to Allah.  That is the quintessence of fasting.  
In doing this, we also need to know what we should do and what we should refrain from in this glorious month.
Fasting is not only about abstinence from food and drink, but also going closer to Allah by doing what you are enjoined to do and shunning those things that will vitiate your fast and render the whole exercise useless. Come to think of it, what is the need to deny yourself from the food and pleasure of life, feeling the pangs of hunger and yet with the availability of food or the means to get same, you chose to fast only to be rendered useless on account of ignorance or sheer negligence.  
One of the virtues of fasting reported in an authentic  hadith is that Allah has chosen for Himself and will reward without measure is fasting.  “Except for fasting whihc is for my sake, I will reward greatly.”  Fasting is one of the greatest deed Allah required from us even with promise that the supplication of a fasting person will not go unanswered.
The fasting person will also have the privileged of intercession by his fast on the day of judgement. A sahee hadith says: “O’ Lord, I prevented him from his food and physical desires during the day, so, let me interceed for him.”
Fasting is also a strong protection and a fortress that keeps a person safe from hell fire.  One hadiths clearly says that whoever  fasts one day for the sake of Allah, Allah will move his face from a distance of seventy years from fire.

ekundayomi: Me and southy girls na one person go wound the other, but its a nice city though.. r you in pretoria..

Capetown.

lahnder: How much is repratration fee?

110000k

ekundayomi: south africa,,, my fellow brothers i have arrived in the city of pretoria.....

Welcome bro.. Just be careful and stay away from southy girls

ayoaces: @lahner, I applied on that same day in Abuja but I got a call yesterday to come and pay repatriation fees before 12th of july so na there I dey o. I still dey think am.

Has anybody here paid repatriation fees before?

If you have the money.. You can go ahead with the payment.. I think they gave you enough time coz deadline for repatriation payment don't exceed two - three days.. Your visa will be granted as soon as the payment is confirmed.. And your receipt will be enclosed with your visa. The money will be returned to you after you return to your home country.

obaxlove: Pls help a brother wit SA visa office at ikoyi.
Requirements for visitor's visa.
How and where to get yellow card. If got wen will it be used?

Thanks.

3rd Floor, 16 Billings Way
Oregun Industrial Area
Ikeja, Lagos, check the post above for the visitors visa requirements and whr to get your yellow card.

Allahu Akbar...!

“And when my slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them) I am indeed near. I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me. So let them obey Me and believe in Me, so that they may be led aright.” (2: 186)

And He, in His infinite Mercy, also says: “Who else is there that responds to the call of the one in distress when he calls out, and He removes evil from him? …Is there any other God besides Allah? Little is it that you remember!” (27:62)

Literally, dua means to call for something needed. The word is far more than what we conceive it to be. It is far more than how we observe it and that is why most Muslims do not fully grasp its importance. No Muslim will ever visit a marabout, or any other place to seek spiritual means of solving problems other than the way of Allah. The Prophet said that dua is the sword of every devoted Muslim to subdue his adversaries. It illuminates the heart and strengthen the faith.

In another hadith narrated by Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet (s.a.w) said, “In the court of Allah, there is no greater thing than Dua” (Ibn Majah)

Dua or supplication is sharper than the spear and arrow that the enemy could possess. It wards away calamities, it is the key to Allah’s blessings; it is the cure for all pains and aches. Prayer is one of the three things that protects an individual. This is followed by abstinence and repentance from sins and showing gratitude to Allah.

It is dua that stands between Almighty Allah and His humble servants. The power of the tongue is great, the power of the word is unimaginable. Allah created the world and everything therein with the word. He created man with His word including everything that is hidden and apparent.

Whenever He decides to make a thing, He just decrees (commands) with His word and it comes to be. The sun, the moon, stars, fire, etc are created by His word. The same way, Allah has made our tongue potent enough to cause something to happen via dua. He has empowered us to the limit of our relationship with Him to change our destinies with prayers.

No matter the need, once communication is established with Allah on a regular basis, there will be result and solution to a problem. Ahmad, Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi related in a hadith as follows: “Verily your Lord is Generous and Shy. If His servant raises his hands to Him (in supplication) He becomes shy to return them empty”

But how do we pray and what are the types of prayers that meets our desires and what are the pre-requisites of dua?

Kinds of prayers

A lot of people confuse one prayer with the other and at the end tend to think that their prayers are not answered. No prayer said in the right way, meeting all the prerequisites that is not accepted. Since Allah said call on Me, I will answer you, He will surely answer if you meet the conditions for dua.

Two kinds of dua

Prayer for the nearness of Allah – This is more or less observed by Ulamas. They use the prayer in getting closer to Allah. It is strictly adhered to such that it becomes a regular phenomenon. They don’t use it to seek materialism or any thing in the world, but mainly for nearness to Allah. The fact is that it is not only limited to the ulamas, every other person can observe it.

It is a prayer for those who believe that once a relationship is established with Allah, every other need becomes less important. The main condition for this prayer apart from other conditions that relate generally with prayers is that it must be sustained, it must be regular.

This, to a large extent informed the idea of Sufism. The act is not a bad idea, but some of the adherents of that philosophy have gone beyond their bounds to deify their leaders which is at variance to the principle of Islam. Without equivocation, the chanting of Allah’s name regularly to magnify Him without any other objective other than to gain nearness of Allah can endear the supplicant to Allah.

The second kind of dua is supplication for seeking heart desires. (Al-dua qodohul-Ajaati) These are meant to seek material things and other provisions from Allah. Human beings are created with insatiable wants, no matter our position good or bad, rich or poor, high or low class, we need something from Allah. Both kinds of prayers are necessary in the life of a Muslim.

When you get closer to Allah, all other material heart desires will become easy to reach. In fact, they will be at your command. If you regularly call on Allah, He will surely answer you. If you’ve tried calling during the day, beseech Him during the night, call on Him, chant His name, cry unto Him and He will surely answer you. It is a promise He made and He will never renege on it.

Conditions for dua

Although being a Muslim is not a condition for dua, Allah (SWT) accepts the dua of a kafir (disbeliever). Remember, he accepted the prayer of Iblis to be allowed to live until the last day of Qiyamah. But as Muslims, in establishing dua as a culture, three things must be present.

(i) At-toharrat – Allah is God of purification and cleanliness. We must purify ourselves at all times. This act of purification is further divided into three, these are outer, inner and place purification. The outer purification is the ghusl and ablution we make before our prayers. You cannot communicate with Allah in a state of impurity.

If you are required to take a bath (ghusl), endeavour to take it before making your dua just as we know that there is no salat without a valid ablution. The inner purification entails that you purge yourself from those things that lead to sins. Any one making dua regularly must endeavour to be conscious of his actions, gazes, sex life and other relationships as well as ensure purity of sustenance. He must eat from what is halal and detest what is harram.

Prophet Muhammad said “Oh you who believe! Eat from the pure and good foods We have given you” Then the Prophet mentioned a traveler on a long journey, who is disheveled and dusty, and he stretches forth his hands to the sky , saying “Oh my Lord! O my Lord!” – while his food is unlawful, his drink is unlawful, his clothing his unlawful, and he is nourished unlawfully; how can he be answered?” (Muslim, Ahmad).

The third part is also as important as the former and the latter. The place of worship or dua must be neat and free of impurities.

(ii) The second condition for a proper prayer is faith. The supplicant must show that he believes in the efficacy of prayer. He must pray from the depth of his heart and should have a conviction that Allah alone has the absolute power to fulfill his heart desires. The stronger the faith of the supplicant the better the chances of the prayer being answered.

(iii) The third condition is Sabr and Istiqaamat (Patience and Steadfastness) Any one calling on Allah in supplication must exercise patience and remain steadfast in prayer. You don’t say ‘I have done a prayer’ and fold your arms, you have to regularly and continuously establish communication with Allah, you’ve got to be persistent in knocking the doors of Allah. Also, in being steadfast, you must abstain from sins and shun what Allah asks us to refrain from.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/dua-can-change-destinies/

alphizo: I also have a 3 months visa but still in nigeria, am travelling soon but the thought of getting a work permit when i get there is really getting me worried, pls anyone can help out, what do i need to do and what documents do i need to go there with to process my work permit, i also wanna work and school. pls assist... thank you

Requirements for work permit in south Africa.
Go to your nearest Home Affairs office or South African representative if you are applying from abroad.
Complete form BI-1738.
Submit the following:
passport valid for at least 30 days after expiry of visit to South Africa
a vaccination certificate, if required
a medical report and radiological report 
cash deposit of equivalent value of your return ticket to your country of origin or residence
proof of financial means in the form of:
bank statements
cash available, or travellers’ cheques to cover living expenses until you receive a salary
a valid temporary residence permit, if applicable
a police clearance from all countries you lived in since the age of 18 for 12 months or longer
contract of employment signed by  you and  your employer
provide proof of the qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). If your qualifications are not in English, you must have them translated by a sworn translator 
proof of experience and skills in line with the job
your employer should submit:
certificate by Department of Labour or extract from the database of a benchmarking organisation stipulating the salary earned by  employees occupying similar positions in  South Africa
original advertisement in the national printed media, which must comply with regulation :
reflect  the full particulars of the relevant newspaper or magazine and the date on which the advertisement was published
stipulates the minimum qualifications and experience required to fill the position
clearly define the position and duties to be performed
state the closing date, the applications may not be older than 3 months at the time of application for work permit 
proof that all short-listed candidates have been interviewed in terms of regulation 
a letter of motivation accompanied by documentation of proof of efforts made to obtain the services of a citizen/residence 
undertaking to register with the professional body, board or council in  South Africa, where applicable
letter of registration, where required by a law, from the relevant professional body/board/council
full particulars of employer and proof of registration with the Registrar of Companies.

STENACO: People in SA wants to return to Nigeria. People in Nigeria wants to come to SA. What an irony of life.

You are very correct bro. Most Nigerians transit to SA thinking the pasture is greener there but turns out the other way round. The only option left is returning home.

Luck is inter-wooven in the corners of destiny or fate.

flowstar: Pls I need to know if there are job availability in sa like the uae

No job opportunities in SA. Except for skilled workers lik doctors, nurses and engineers.. Etc.