How long does it take to get your passport back after the "Passport ready for collection email"? having paid for courier service.

Is there anyone traveling on the 16th of November to London via Qatar Airways. Please kindly reply if you don't mind.

Visa Alert!!!
6 months standard visitor visa
TLS Ikeja

Travel history - Ghana

Biometrics date-7th July 2022.
Transfer to DMC - 7th July 2022.
Received by DMC - 12th July 2022.
Collection mail -11th August 2022.
Collected - 12th August 2022.

I submitted 6 months bank statement (Salary Account) with a balance of 670,000 on the day statement was printed but my inflows and outflows were extremely good. My total credit was about 8m and my total debit was about 7.3m for the 6 months period. I added a one-pager breakdown of every heavy inflow into my account.

I also submitted the following;
a. Introduction letter from the organization I work for
b. Leave advice letter
d. Salary review letter (Because my salary was reviewed on the 3rd month of my statement, that will help them to understand the change in my salary figure)
e. Tax clearance
f. Letter of invitation from my brother
g. My brother's BPR
h. My marriage certificate
i. My son's birth certificate (H and I is to prove I have ties here in Nigeria)

I also declared the rejection I got in 2013.

From Biometrics to collection email it was exactly 5 weeks. I also just discovered this forum a week after I submitted my application

In all grace found me.

Hello All, I submitted a Visit Visa Application on the 6th March 2020. My passport was returned in December 2020 with a note that my application is still under review and my passport will be requested once that is done. Has anyone here gotten a visa approval within this time frame? Do I really need to follow up on the application? Are they still treating backlog as far back as last year Feb-Mar?

Really crazy
I'm paying for mine tomorrow and I guess it will be the same thing. After that you'll pay when submitting your passport if they request for it.

babs4all:
This is crazy. After paying 11k for courier. What kind of nonsense is this. Haba, after 9 months

My brother got his decision envelope today. He applied in February via paper route. A note was in the decision envelope that says something like “we are aware that you might need your passport for emergency travel, we have decided to return your passport but we are still processing your application. Once we need a passport we would request that you submit your passport at the VFS office”

Just be hopeful it will come through. I just got a mail yesterday from VFS that my decision envelope has been dispatched from the IRCC office, I applied 9 months ago. They are attending to these applications and from my source, they are trying to do everything possible to clear the backlogs they have.

krisykim:
Mine is more than four month! Still showing submitted. My friends is more than eight month!!!

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Senior pastors of Daystar Christian Centre have suspended physical gathering/worship at the church Main Auditorium at Oregun and all satellite centers at Lekki, Ikorodu dnd Badagry.

See official statement by the church below:

Good for him

Political clout ko, political cloud ni. Politics is local, the failure of PDP to have structures at ward levels is what has been costing them from getting this state since 2003. APC is present in every ward, the members of the communities are the member of the party at the ward level, so it becomes very easy for a party like APC to sell their candidate to even the man that has no TV or Radio. How many wards in Lagos state is PDP present, how many times a week do they meet. If you don't have a strong structure in Lagos you can't win elections. The best you get is sympathy vote from the populace that don't like the party in government. The earlier they wake up to this reality the better it is for them.

sosanova:

True talk
Sanwo-Olu has no political clout
Jimi Agbaje time is now

Nonsense, he has psychological problem and you appointed him to be DG of a government agency? He has been arrested in the US before and when you were going to appoint him that didn't matter. Oga Ambode your propaganda is not adding up. Go and recook your story.

E Pele o, Mr Rancid the Racoon. If you don't know anything about development keep your mouth shut.
What has your Mr Ambode done for health care, Education, Waste Management since he became governor not to talk of Judiciary and other things. Almost all the government agencies that Fashola set up to manage several development programs in Lagos state are as good as living dead.

Yet he went to bring a company to manage waste that can't even manage waste right in front of their office. Oshi radarada.

Racoon:
Ambode did far,far better than any other person in APC including the president.Infact the man is the only beacon of hope for prospective APC presidency in the future.
Here we are.Party members vehemently opposing him because a stalwart sees himself as a demigod who determines who be what.
It's obvious Lagos is not moved by the jolting & impending defeat APC is experiencing in Osun State. An awakening is sweeping Nigeria wherein the political class must now beginning to acknowledge that power truly belongs to the people.

Hotfreeze:


Apart from God denying him, since we're in rainy season, God can use 34kva thunder to strike him.

Chai!!! This is just too harsh ���

I won't still totally agree that even as the Accountant General that he had access to more money than the then Vice President and considering where Atiku was coming from before he became VP, Dankwambo can't match that dude. Even Atiku's investment is enough to finance the primary election alone

gaby:



I'm very sure he's got the financial clout. That's a former accountant general of the federation. With the Nigerian way, who audit him time?

He won't even go past the primary election of his party. The financial might of Atiku and Kwankwaso will dwarf his ambition.

There is nothing better than ponzi scheme not even shares. This what some people will be thinking right now.

olafunny:
I'm not in support of the forgery anyways, but I'm sure she's intellectually inclined more than so many with original NYSC certificate. Who NYSC epp

Fact. �

Argentina only postponed their day of defeat. ���

So make we dey cry?

Legal battles they will still face na hin dey dance go for their front so.

It happened to me too, all you need to do is to activate DND on that airtel line and all this Value Added Service will stop. Just send HELP to 2442

uglyafonja:


that is the more reason I used state instead of cities

Yes and Delta state is not on your list. By the way Ogun state have Shoprite outlet at Sango Ota.

Toecyn:
Delta have Shoprite malls in both Warri and Asaba

The one in Warri is called Delta Mall while the one in Asaba is called Asaba Mall

Delta have Shoprite malls in both Warri and Asaba

ODAROOMS:
Mushin
The most Arrogant area in Lagos
I fear that area like...
After that area na Oshodi
After Na Bariga
After na ojuelegba
Follow by Iyanapaja
Othes area for Lagos, Na small case.
Where all Omotas and Agberos Originated from
That area they dey always fear me whenever I'm going to Costain following that axis
I believe Ambode will do Something serious about that area, that place needs serious Attention

What of Isale Eko, Ijora Badia........ Ojuelegba shouldn't even be in top 5

I saw tickets at Slot outlets in Lagos, so I guess you can buy tickets for the events at slot outlets l. I've got mine for just 3k

All the see is 2 big fools. 2 pigs fighting in the mud

All I see is two big fools. 2 pigs fighting in the mud.

I don't think this is the end of the journey, the Ali Mode Sheriff faction might just take the case back to the Supreme Court.

Now I can affirm that Tinubu is truly funding Oke, I am in Lagos and know a lot about Lagos politics. Saheed Balogun (the actor in the second picture) is a card carrying member of APC in Lagos state and you will often see him at the Lagos state house of assembly complex or at APC events and outings, you will see him work with Tinubu allys as well, so for him to have attended this Oke rally, it's a confirmation that Tinubu is truly the sponsor of Oke.

“He who finds a wife finds a good thing…” – PROVERBS 18: 22

Fellow Nigerians, please forget the shakara of all men who try to act macho, most men are ultimately controlled by their wives, and sometimes girlfriends. Right from the Biblical Genesis, women had always known their enormous power and they’ve mastered how to use it. It does not matter if you are a king or a President, your wife is always your boss. You may be as big as an elephant outside but you are only a small rat at home. I always say this to my wife “how come a man can never be a superstar at home?” I am yet to find an answer to that conundrum.

Your wife is the one who knows you inside out. She has seen you in good times, when you were soaring like an eagle, and in bad times, when you were down and flat out. She’s witnessed when the ruthless hands of fate has dealt you some fatal blows and you are feeling less than a man. No matter who or what you become in life never matters again because she holds the copyright to your authentic story. She is the author of life who has seen you in your totality.



Women are generally intuitive and sometimes possess the gift of clairvoyance. As men we tend to ignore or dismiss the advice of our wives sometimes but they turn out to be right most times much to our chagrin and often, regret. That has been my personal experience with mine. I have learnt to accept her as my mum on earth since the departure of my biological mum in 2007. Whenever she tells me she doesn’t like a particular friend of mine, I may argue and struggle to defend my friend but something always happens to show she was right and I was wrong in my assessment.

I believe this is the situation our President, Muhammadu Buhari, and his beautiful wife, Aisha, have found themselves now. A lot of water must have passed under the bridge before the wife of a President would burst out openly and publicly on a global platform like the BBC, even if it is the Hausa version. It is a fact that Mrs Aisha Buhari brought elegance and panache to the campaign of her husband. She worked tirelessly and I believe she must have endured a lot during those days of her husband’s horrendous tribulations. I particularly love the way she has brought up their children as very responsible young people. We must always give credit to our wives because they are always the ones taking care of our kids when we have gone our different ways trying to make a living and bring bread to the table. The little I have seen of President Buhari’s children suggests a close-knit family and a well-educated one at that. This should make our President very proud and happy and grateful to Allah and his wife of nearly three agonizing decades.

If such a lady has chosen to speak out loud and clear about her frustration with the direction her husband’s government is going, President Buhari should please listen to her message and ignore the messenger. God has a way of reaching out and ministering unto people. Aisha is the guardian angel sent to our President in order to avert a cataclysmic fall a second time. History has an uncanny way of repeating itself and I’m sure Lady Aisha can see a lot of striking similarities between now and the past. In law this would be called similar facts. They do not bear repeating in full but it does not seem such a huge coincidence of history that President Buhari came to power in on the last day of 1983 in a military putsch, on the back of what was a seemingly corrupt and inept government on an anti-corruption and war on indiscipline platform. Eerily in 2015, the same conditions appear to have thrust the President back into power in what was a democratic coup that swept an inept and corrupt government away on the mantra of anti-corruption and change. Less than 18 months after the President came to power as a military dictator there was great disenchantment with his administration such that people were jubilant after his fall. Now the position appears to be the same less than 18 months after assuming power. The President is now being seeing as a maximum ruler who has lost the tremendous goodwill that greeted his ascension to power for a second stint at governing this unruly country.

Indeed, it was with trepidation and shock that I first read about the brave outburst of the Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari as to the dangerous state of things in so far as the President’s inner circle and his party, APC, are concerned.

I could not believe my eyes when I read that she had said the following in no particular order on a BBC Hausa Service interview:

“Whether he knows or he doesn’t know, those who voted for him know. There is nothing I will tell him.” ( With reference to those in his Government causing difficulties for the President).

“He can see. Among all the people he selected, if he is asked among 50 people, he doesn’t know 45. I don’t know them despite staying with him for 27 years.”

“This worries us a lot now. Because they believe they are the ones who suffered, but are nowhere today. Those who didn’t do anything who don’t even have voter’s card are the ones in position, ding everything.”

I’m almost certain she would have tried to communicate with her husband and the following could have happened. (a) She never got the audience required; (b) She got the audience she sought but was told to mind her own business or (c) she got her few minutes and was heard but was even insulted for daring to put her mouth in matters of state. She probably reached out to some members of the new mafia who she believes have virtually hypnotized and hijacked her husband and she met a brick-wall there too.

If truth must be told, there is nothing new or strange about what she has said in this apparently explosive interview. The only difference this time is that this is coming from the wife of the President. Even outsiders like us had raised these observations in the last few months; that it seems some people are misleading Buhari; that his team needs to be energized; that the ruling party has set fire on its own roof by engaging in a war of attrition and alienating their core members who fought tooth and nail to make a Buhari Presidency possible after so many attempts; that a cabal has ostensibly manifested itself in the Buhari administration; and so on.

Although Mrs Buhari categorically stated that her husband had not told her whether he he would contest the 2019 elections or not she may have unwittingly let the cat out of the bag and inadvertently exposed the plot of this cabal by saying she is not likely to campaign for her husband in 2019 thus suggesting that the idea of a bid for the Presidency in 2019 is already being contemplated. Tellingly she stated:

“He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote lije I did before. I will never do it again.”

Of all the imagined sins of Mrs Buhari in relation to this interview this may be the most injurious to the Cabal’s camp than the issue of poor or sluggish governance. It is a grave indictment when your wife who was such an avid and strong campaigner for you a few years earlier says earnestly that she is fed up and regrets her decision. This is obviously a view that Mrs Buhari believes resonates with a lot of people as she went further to say that “what I am afraid of is the rebellion of 15 million people” in apparent reference to those who elected the President into power this time around.

It is clear that the President must have been taken totally aback by the acidic and acerbic criticism of his administration by the person who should be his number one supporter. His attempt at a jocular sidestep of a tsunamic eruption from his wife has only served to ignite the debate and has somehow managed to portray the President as a person ruling past his time. Women continue to make great strides as world leaders, cue Angela Merkel of Germany, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Cristina De Kirchner of Argentina, Sheikh Hasina Wajed of Bangladesh, Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania, Park Geun-hye of South Korea, Erna Solberg of Norway, Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Marie-Louise Preca of Malta, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia, Theresa May of Great Britain and hopefully Hillary Clinton of the US, in the not too distant future. Closer to home, there have recently been appointed as Prime Minister and President respectively, Aminata Toure of Senegal and Catherine Samba-Panza of the Central African Republic although their terms have ended. It is therefore unfortunate that the President dismissed his wife as perfunctorily as he did. The President said “I don’t know what party she belongs to, but she belongs to my Kitchen and my living room and the other room.” In my view, the President lost a good opportunity to shore up his feminist credentials and deal with those of his critics who would say he was talking like a typical Islamic fundamentalist, which I believe the President is most assuredly not.

The President appears to be suggesting that there is even greater discord in his home by saying that he does not know what party his wife belongs to. It demonstrates a degree of paranoia reminiscent of the internet trolls and acolytes who support the President and who consider every critic, whether constructive or otherwise, as being anti-corruption or a member of the opposition.

But we must thank God for giving Nigeria such a good lady in our Presidential palace. It is sad that rather than being appreciated for her candour and uncommon courage, critics have unleashed a social media war on her. This is most unfortunate. One, she is a Nigerian. Two, she is the wife of our President. Three, rather she has done Nigeria a great service by screaming before it is too late. No matter what happens, I personally wish there are more of such visionary leaders around who do not see power as an end in itself. Now that her husband has come out to diss her before the whole world by saying she belongs in the kitchen and his “other” room, she deserves our prayers and support.

The President did not stop at the one attack on his wife. He effectively lumbered her with the tag of being part of the opposition when he said “So I claim superior knowledge over her and the rest of the opposition, because in the end, I have succeeded. It is not easy to satisfy the whole Nigerian opposition parties or to participate in the government”. The import of that statement is that President Buhari believes in the course he is pursuing and he thinks everything is on point. History will be his judge in this respect but I hasten to add that right now a lot of Nigerians would share his wife’s views about the state of the nation and not those of the President.

I pray Baba would hearken to the voice of reason that his wife represents and act in the best interest of Nigeria and by implication himself.


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