kenevision:


Nice info bro.

One of my favorite YouTube travel channels are Gabriel The Traveller and Vaga Brothers. They are really good and command great followership.

I hope you add me to this list soon

frickyjohn:


I greet everyone here.

please am I want to know if I can apply and get a USA visa from UAE. I have been in UAE since 2016 on an employment Visa, I don't see the need of travelling back to Nigeria just for an interview only. I intend spending my annual leave in the USA
You advise is needed please.

Like someone already mentioned, there is only one advise . If you’re entered UAE legally please apply for the visa from there. I am advising you from experience so you don’t waste your hard earned money.

mamuzoOMAH:
nice topic. I intend making a living out of travelling. I love travelling. I've been to a good number of places and tourist centers in Nigeria and hopefully soon, I intend touring foreign countries. any idea how one can make a living out of travelling?

I also want to make a living from traveling . These are the few ways I think one can make a living off traveling.

1. Promoting your personal travel experiences on social media and then getting contracts as ambassadors to travel agencies

2. Having a blog or YouTube channel (the channel has to be big though)

These two ways are quite tasking and expensive to achieve


Anyone with other suggestions should please help out

butch411:
Hello, i intend to make a trip to Hungary sometime in march as well, maybe touch some other shenghen countries.You could actually get cheap hotels at www.Bookings.com... could u please tell me how much u have budgeted for the hungary trip? Maybe cost estimate including flight?

Thank you.

So guys if you know people who travel you can tag them to this thread so they can share experience and make the thread lively.

Let me start by tagging my travel buddy @olujastro


My Hungary trip coming up this week guys so WATCH THIS SPACE!!

I’m traveling to Hungary from Oslo where I am currently. My flight to and fro was about 120$(between 40 and 50k naira).

As for accommodation I usually make use of Airbnb because u not only get good deals but you have a host who can direct you on what, where, how and when to do things in that country/city which might help save you from trouble or wasteful spendings.

For example In Budapest I booked a whole serviced flat (bedroom,kitchen,sofa,double mattress, everything) for less than 30$ per night whereas that Money can’t get me an above average hotel. Since I booked my host has been checking up on me wanting to know how she can help, she sent me a long email detailing all I need to do how I don’t need to enter airport taxi(20eur) instead there are direct trains into town (less than 3euro).

I hope this helps.

prettyesther20:
Nice thread op... Travelling is one of the best hobbies, getting to meet different people and interact is all shades lovely.


P.s, u look good op

Yes, traveling is the best hobby I know and it’s at the same time very very educative.

Aww, thanks for the compliment ����

ladylco:


Nice thread. I love travelling too infact my other hobby apart from making money .

Currently on biz/pleasure trip in Canada.

Wow. That’s nice. That makes two of us. Please stick around, your expertise would be required here

Feel free to share any experiences with us.

seyewest:

May God help us... This country image is in tatters but we can make it work if we want...
How many years was on the visa? Also if majority of your ties are where you reside please apply in that country.

which of the visas ? Schengen or USA ?

olumidazz:
oga you mean you had your passport stamped when you entered and exited Benin Ghana and Togo even when you went by road?

yes , it was stamped at every entry and exit point.

lexzyy:
Lolzzz...this is so funny, checking someones phone all because I want to travel to go and spend...

That was what kept going through my mind, like America was heaven . I wanted to tell them I wasn’t interested anymore they should forget it but I just kept calm explaining and proving myself.


It was annoying !

nattybanta:



You made some points but never heard about this kind of scrutiny ever from applicants unless you exaggerated more than i could process.

I swear I even watered down the scrutiny, it was more than I explained here. They went as far as questioning the stamps I had on my passport from Ghana , Togo and Benin when I went to Ghana by road in 2014. They questioned my entrance and exit stamps in and out of Oslo . They doubted everything my dear. It was annoying when you’re being accused of forgery but you’re too innocent .☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

KaptainAfrika:
Looooooooooooool sorry about that. It is usually advisable to apply in the place where you have a strong tie in.

That’s what made me choose Nigeria but I guess I was wrong.

My Experience at two USA embassies (Abuja and Oslo)

I currently reside in Norway but booked a USA visa appointment for Abuja in December since I was traveling home for the Christmas holiday. I didn’t know I was making a very big mistake.below is a summary of my experience at the embassy of USA in Abuja and then in Oslo.

I must say that USA sees Nigerians as criminals. Miles away before you get to Abuja Embassy you’ll see all sorts of armors ,a crowd of security personnel like they are expecting a war. they checked us almost 5 times before we got to the real interview. Yet they still denied more than 90 % (including me )

While in this place (Oslo) you won’t even see a human being until you are close enough to touch the entrance door. And the one person you see isn’t armed (even a knife). Yet they approved more than 90% of visas including mine.


In Nigerian the consulars are hostile and behaving like they are giving you the key to heaven while here in Oslo they would even assist you to make sure you get the Visa.

I can’t just explain enough. I didn’t even say one tenth of what I said in Abuja yet it was approved.

Below is the most hilarious part of my experience in Abuja. I spent more than an hour trying to prove to the consular that my norway Visa and resident permit were legit. There was no method I didn’t use. He first took me to a special investigation room, asked me to tell him about norway and where I resides in Norway, the name of the airport in Oslo, how much a bottle of beer costs, the name of my school and the location of the different campuses, asked me to show him some of my results, my Norwegian bank card,my school ID, asked for my school email,he went as far as asking the security people to escort me outside to get my phone so he would see pictures I took in norway, he checked the plate numbers of the cars in the pictures to confirm if they were norway number plate, he went further to send a mail to my school email and asked me to reply. In fact there was no other way I didn’t prove beyond doubt that I resides in Norway.
You wouldn’t believe I was still denied after all.(I was later granted when I reapplied in Oslo in January when I returned from Nigeria)

Later, after I was granted in Oslo I understood the plight of the guys in Abuja. They must have been wondering why someone who would be granted USA Visa almost automatically in Oslo come down to Nigeria to apply for a Visa.

The moral of the story is that you stand a better chance of getting a USA Visa from outside Nigeria than in Nigeria.


Please if you’re a tourist/Traveler or aspiring tourist or you just like travel stories please follow this new tourism thread. Lest share our stories and experiences in different cities of the world. Let’s show them that Nigerians travel too!

https://www.nairaland.com/4328301/tourists-travelers-let-meet-here

IME1:
... and Uchboggy your pictures are lite really nice

Thanks

lindseystarc:
nice post, thanks for the share. I really like to travel to new places & explore new exotic locations.

Thank you.

So guys if you know people who travel you can tag them to this thread so they can share experience and make the thread lively.

Let me start by tagging my travel buddy @olujastro


My Hungary trip coming up this week guys so WATCH THIS SPACE!!

The bolded are very very valid points i can relate to all,

-To me Poland has been the cheapest destination i have been to. both flight and tor activities where quite cheaper than that of Italy France and Norway, although France was more fun,

-As for where to lay head, most times i use Airbnb dot com for accommodation. very affordable and you get to meet a host who can double as your tour guide as well.

- Food is my number one issue as i am very picky with foods, i hardly try out new local foods(which is bad for a tourist), i end up eating McDonald/burger-king for the most times during my trips. although in global cities like paris, google could help one locate a good African restaurants but mind you that their prices would be on the high side.

- As for the 4th point (you seem to be writing these points from my head) i can relate 100%. it is very common to experience this in France where there is an invisible battle of supremacy between french and English. i had a bitter experience in France which made me miss my return flight(long story for another day)

- The returns is a very important part of a tour too, personally when i go on tour i just want to see new places, learn their culture, the way they do things but of course if i can make income from traveling that would be perfect!

Photo: #somewhereInPoland

IME1:
Present sir

We come behind you.
For me 5 things are important with 'pleasure travels' not work or school which are more rewarding and focused.
1. Money (transport fare by road, air, train, or boat)
2. Where to lay the head without fear of thief or disturbance
3. Food (will you be compatible with the food available where you go?)
4. Language barrier (op traveling Europe outside England can be frustrating when you meet who speak English up refuse to because it's not their language. PS: Welcome to some parts of Nigeria, I did not mention anywhere oh!)
Lastly,
5. Returns (what do you stand to gain from your trip? Experience, sight seeing, new knowledge, financial benefit, relaxation, lasting friendship, better health, etc) if not stay for you house watch cable. Me i don go Antarctica courtesy of TV >:



Please permit me to ask, is it possible to hitch hike in Nigeria?

Those who constantly go to Lagos from Ibadan
Or
Enugu from Awka
Or
Auchi to Abuja
Or
Kaduna to Abuja
Or
Benin to Asaba

How can they connect with private car owners who are also looking for travel companions or extra money to buy fuel from travelling with these people?

I've been on both ends and it's frustrating. I've had to travel long hours and journey alone and it's not safe or encouraging.
I've also needed to travel speedily to places where direct transport is unavailable where I am and I wished I knew someone going my way.
Funny enough there is always someone going our way... with free space for us!

IME1:
Present sir

you have any travel experience you wanna share?

I was going through the travel session of nairaland and i found out there is no thread for travelers or tourists(at least none that i know, if you know one please drop link) where we can share our tour experiences or exchange ideas of destinations or fun things to do in some cities.

I am a real travel lover and travel is my new hobby. i wish to share my experiences with like minds, learn about new destinations and even the economic importance of being a tourist. so if you are a tourist, you love tourism or just love talking/hearing about tourism LETS MEET HERE,

I made my first major trip out of Nigeria in august 2017(i had been to Cotonou and Ghana on some occasions before then) and since then i have been to 9 countries(France, Italy,Turkey,Poland...) already(all thanks to my schengen visa), i plan to visit more countries this year starting next week with Norway, Hungary and Austria....then later in the summer,Russia (world cup), USA and more European countries.

please drop your experiences/advice/suggestions/questions/inquires lets make tourism fun.

I have dropped few pictures from previous trips, i will also drop more pictures next week from my hungary/Austria trip. please feel free to do same.

LETS HAVE SOME TOURIST FUN.

Please dont leave without saying something

If you are reading this you probably are in a relationship, about to enter one or just came out of one. Whichever is your case this article has one or two things to teach you. As the title of this article suggests, the content is open to users discretion.it could be accepted or rejected. You might also want to give this article an alternate name ‘One reason why relationships break prematurely’. Most of the content of this article are drawn from my personal relationships experiences in the past 10 years.

I’ll try to be as straight-forward and straight-to-the-point as possible.


The reason why relationships nowadays break up prematurely is simply because either one or both parties involved in the relationship have during the course of entering into the relationship raised too many banners ,sign boards or love indicators that when these banners, sign posts or love indicators begin to go down or disappear it becomes obvious that the love is either no longer present or is fading away.in a layman’s language we can say they have started what they can’t finish.as you read through this article try thinking of any failed relationship(s) and you will find out that the reason it failed is tied around this singular point directly or indirectly.


Take for example, A girl just gets into a relationship with this new guy and the next thing she does is to change her phone and laptop wallpapers to a picture of this guy, hangs his picture/portrait by her mirror, change her blackberry name to his name (e.g. Tony’s Baby), change her passwords to his name, just to mention a few. Some people will even go as far as sending routine text messages.
I’m not trying to condemn such acts or saying they are wrong, but they should be done to moderation. The question is how long can you keep that picture of him/her on your wallpaper/screensaver? what if you went home then you had to temporarily remove his/her picture because of your parents then you forget to put them back when leaving the house and he or she sees that you removed their pictures as your wallpaper? How long can you keep sending those texts to him every morning and night? How long can his picture be your twitter avatar? In most cases (if not every), the guy or girl this is been done for never asked for it as a prove of your love for him or her(someone who really loves you would hardly tell you to do such things to prove your love), most time we just do it out of our own over excitement about the newly found love/relationship.

This feeling is normal for people entering into new relationships but it is good to try to curtail it so you don’t start something you can’t finish because the very day you stop any of these things maybe not intentional but due to tiredness, being too busy, illness etc. that’s the same day your relationship begins to crumble.


In conclusion, the best way to maintain a good, healthy and long-lasting relationship is to act matured right from the onset. Don’t start things you can’t finish, you could use his/her pictures as your whatsapp profile picture or twitter or Instagram avatar but not permanently, you could send a text or two but it shouldn’t be a routine and lastly I would advise (especially ladies) that you don’t use his name as your snapchat instagram or twitter names just yet.

Like I said earlier this is an open letter from a concerned Nigerian young man. You could choose to heed to the advice or not.my joy would be to know that you found the content of this article useful.

If this article was educative or helpful you could send me a feedback at uchmanpro@yahoo.com. thanks for devoting your precious time to read this and feel free to publish on website, blogs and other social networks.

@Admin i'll appreciate if this post can make the front page so more Nigerians can learn.

Thank you

mazinoweb:
I will rather be jobless than to work in a bank

God bless you.

Narldon:




Mr Uchboggy


I was washing plates in the kitchen before I was interrupted by your comment


Why are you complaining on our behalf?


Me that has not fallen into any trap since I Graduated


I would gladly fall into this Trap!

Good luck,

Your last statement is a Nigerian mentality that never takes anyone far in life. It keep one at a mediocre level

you would remember I said it later in life if you fall into these trap

Banking is a trap that most young graduates fall into...I advise you not to fall for it, don't even give it a try.

Those who have ears should hear

Banking is a trap that most young graduates fall into...I advise you not to fall for it, don't even give it a try.

Those who have ears should hear

Arigold007:
Please I would like to ask if I were to transfer the living expenses fees 103950NOK, as I have gotten admission to study satellite Engineering in UiT, how do I verify that the account is authentic as I was asked to pay into danske bank
Bank account number :9731 05 35307
Bank account owner:Norges arktiske studentsamskipnad
Address: Teorifagbygget Hus 2, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
Please has anyone gotten admission in this school. I need to verify as there is a lot of fraud now, and if so what's best means to pay this, do I use dollar account or DIAMOND PTA transfer.

Use form A, ask the bank to send the dollar equivalent directly to the School. I advise not to use diamond bank as they were among the banks who had fx issues with CBN.

amInigerian:
I want to venture into selling ethereum to Nigerians.

More Nigerians are getting interested in ethereum but the demand at this time is still low.

I would love you to comment here if you would love to buy ether conveniently from an ether exchange in Nigeria.

The number of comments/the number of views I see will inform my eventual position.

Please leave an opinion. Thank you.

.


I would patronize you full time. I need a lot of ethereum as we speak now. Pm me

GoldenBoy21:
I have ethereum (ETH) and litecoin (LTC) for sale. Quote me your offer.

I wanna buy, pm me

Guys who has observed that the amount required to be sent to the school has increased from 109k nok to 111600 nok on UDI site? Conflicting figures. What do the gurus advise?

sexyjob:
This will surely help. It's your post of Jan 31st, 2016.

That's a long time to determine how serious an employer is or not.

You can keep hoping sha after all you've been hoping for over 3 years.

Good luck

NPComplete:
Una still dey on top this matter? After wetin una eye see last year? I bow for una. Some people's faith will not just move mountains. It will move the earth out of its orbit.

as in I taya o. People still waiting for closure? I heard from a semi-reliable source they have picked who they want and moved on o. You people should forget NLNG.

Those that hated their jobs should love it again.

Those that quited should dust their CV.

Life goes on!

Hi guys, I just got admitted into USN(university college of south east Norway) to study process technology MSc.

Anyone in the school? Any extra thing I need to know that is peculiar to the school?

Guys good day,

Am new here but I have enjoyed reading this thread as it is very informative.

I would like to ask the gurus here some questions.

My passport was supposed to expire by DEC so I wanted to travel to out for holiday this year before it's expiration so I chose Canada. Presently a trusted consultant is doing the application on my behalf so its almost confirmed I would be given the visa but the problem is


I just got admitted in a school I applied for MSC in Norway to resume in August so I won't be going to Canada anymore for now.

I want to know if there is any very negative implications in the future of not using the Canadian visa if and when granted.

Guys please am new to this group.

I want to spend my holiday in Dubai this year ,say August.

I only have an Intl passport.

Please I need guidance n how to go about it

All process and possible total cost.