What is happening to Shevchenko?

Mikel will survive, he 's a naija born.
I believe with popular support he will be in thew olympics.

EFCC pls nail them oooooooh!

By notice of decision. This gives you the tribunal's decision and comes with a statement of the reasons for reaching this decision.It also confirms the information that the tribunal keep as a record of your appeal.

If am not mistaken you didn't finger print.
Then you can re-apply.
But if you gave all your details and it remains unchanged , then they have your every details.
So you gotta come out straight and face them.

@n0mi_89

The origin of your uncle's income are needed.
One of such is his bank statement, secondly his company registration,tax clearance .

Of all places. Algiers!

Looking for quick visa and less expensive European city to visit, then try North Cyprus.

@Promise

Your sponsor's bank statement might not be necessary if you can conveniently finance the tution fees, accomodation and living expenses.

Your closing balance of 800k is not interesting .You said its a professional exam, my question whats the duration of the course? is it accreditated by uk universitities?
perhaps you need to conform from the school authorities if you qualify to apply for a student visa.
Anyways if you still need a sponsor's bank statement, don't hesistate to contact me.
I will surely help.

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A person who makes a citizen's arrest could risk exposing himself to possible lawsuits or criminal charges (such as charges of impersonating police, false imprisonment, kidnapping, or wrongful arrest) if the wrong person is apprehended or a suspect's civil rights are violated.

Why do we need a statute like this? Why do we need a "citizen's arrest"? Well, as the crime rate goes up, it becomes more and more important that good citizens come to the aid of one another in distress. Without such a statute, only government agents, such as police, would have the authority to stop a felon in progress. By creating the "citizen's arrest" statute we give ordinary citizens the authority to hold another citizen without fear of being sued for false imprisonment. Without the statute, the citizen who interfered in criminal activity would risk such a lawsuit.

Even with such a statute, the citizen still risks being sued if he/she is wrong on his assessment of the situation. Notice that the statute requires that the "public offense" be in the citizen's presence, or that the person arrested have committed a "felony," that is, a crime punishable by one year or more in state prison. Do you know which crimes are punishable by one or more years in state prison? Can you be absolutely sure the person you are arresting is the one who committed the offense? What if there were three people involved? Can you be sure which one is the one you should arrest? At the very least, a defense lawyer is going to argue that the requirements for citizen's arrest were not met and that the arrest, and any consequent seizure of contraband, were illegal.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops….Henry Adams

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has stood its ground against what it perceives as unfair and cruel treatment by the Federal Government who has been preventing its members from having the same rights as other people have. NUT is pressing for the implementation of the Teachers Salary Structure which basically means more money. But the Federal Government is adamant saying, a teacher’s reward remains in heaven.

Minister of State for Education 2, Hajiya Aishatu Jibril Dukku, was reportedly said that even if the Federal Government were to implement the Teachers Salary Structure, not all teachers would benefit from it because “a bulk of them is not qualified to be called teachers”. Dukku, like Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has urged the aggrieved teachers to take their case to the National Assembly or state governments saying, the Federal Government has no powers to fix salaries for states.

According to Dukku, the issue is lingering because the NUT wants a centralised formula for the TSS whereas there is a clear cut of responsibility between the Federal, States and Local Governments. She wants us to believe that unqualified teachers are just hiding under a cover of NUT to push their demands. Brilliant thought! But what of those who are qualified? Or is Madam Dukku telling us that all teachers in Nigeria’s schools are not qualified? And whose fault it is if unqualified teachers remain in the establishment?

It seems to me that whichever arm of the government involved in this TSS is playing hanky-panky with the NUT. Otherwise the case should be so simple that there would not have been any argument over which establishment to be contacted. For the fact that the issue is ‘lingering’ just because the NUT is contacting the wrong arm of government says a lot about how things work in Nigeria. It seems there’s no clear cut policy; no effective communication; no preparation for emergency cases and so on.

Due to the sensitivity of their job, teachers must be prevented from going on strike under any circumstance. But who cares about the quality of education in today’s Nigeria? Who cares whether Ade or Chioma or Muhammad receives qualitative education or not? The situation has even reached a point where one is forced to think that various governments are killing education in disguise for the purpose known to them. Now you know why the late Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu had so many thugs to cater for.

Part of the problem facing teaching in the contemporary world, according to analysts, is that its status as a profession has been undermined by the contemptible view that only what makes money is desirable. When people lose sight of the invisible rewards on offer in different avocations, many kinds of work that make the world a better place suffer a loss of talent. I believe this statement to be true in Nigeria today. Successive governments have waged war against education system in Nigeria. No wonder many qualified teachers have left the country in search of better offers. Is it that difficult to regulate their living standard?

When teachers go on strike, it’s obvious who suffer. That is why a four-year course now runs for five to six years in Nigeria. That is why many employers are crying that Nigerian students lack necessary skills to integrate them into employment society. That is why most of them have found solace in cultism, armed robbery, prostitution and sugar daddy’s toys. An idle mind, they say, is the devil’s workshop. A serious government would prevent teachers going on strike by all means – at least for the sake of its children.

Gone are the days when Nigerian teachers were teachers; when they naively believed their rewards were in heaven. Today’s Nigerian teachers have woken up, aggressive as their counterparts in politics, police, and the media. Their demand for increase in salary is justified. After all, they don’t get brown envelope or N20. Well, those in the Higher Institutions have hand-outs to sell, but we are talking about primary and secondary schools for now. How could our teachers survive with the current salary structure? I believe the current situation whereby teachers can’t even eat three meals a day would hinder their performance.

It’s simply injustice if a local chairman or a governor or a senator who does nothing receives fat salary and allowances while a teacher receives meagre income. Teachers are not fools. They read everyday how much money their politician counterparts stole from the public treasury. They read how in spite of this act of robbery, politicians still receive honour here and there. They see and read how their counterparts in the media are building mansions. Do you then blame them for demanding their rewards here on earth? I don't.

Of course everyone knows that teaching has never been a highly paid profession despite its importance. Hence the coinage, “A teacher’s reward is in heaven”. Teaching, I strongly believe, is not for the undedicated mind. A teacher must be patient at all times. That’s why “it was once a highly respected (profession), and the status enjoyed by teachers helped compensate them for the dedication and difficulty involved in their vocation,” says one A. C. Grayling in his book, “The reason of Things”.

As for now, I don’t have any solution for the on-going strike. As in many other issues affecting Nigeria, there are plenty solutions but none of which the Federal Government is willing to implement. Maybe it’s a cause on the nation to have people like these at the helm of affairs. They are all pretenders masquerading as genuine and caring leaders. I ask: why do governments treat teachers as people who must be paupers?

The Niger Delta issue has gone beyond thuggery as most Nigerian newspaper columnists put it. It has gone beyond the grasp of the insincere and unimaginative Nigerian government. The flame has been ignited and it will continue to burn and as it burns would evolve into something bigger and more complicated to handle.

Over the years we have watched little problems metamorphose into unimaginable monsters all over the world. There was the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and today we have Al Qaeda, Tamil Tiger in Sri Lanka, the Kurdish movement in Turkey, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all those rebels you hear about in Colombia and all over South America, just to name a few. The Niger Delta militants are gradually taking that shape and form and there is no stopping them.

The blowing of Bonga oil platform operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company by the militants in the Niger Delta recently shows how this thing is becoming more and more complicated. Yes, there are elements of criminality but there is no doubting the fact that there is also that patriotic allegiance to the course, which they have reiterated as better life for the people of the Niger Delta. The militants would hide under the umbrella of emancipation of their people and win sympathy and support of the world.

The monster is growing very fast and as it continues to grow we will see no peace in the Niger Delta. It’s a little too late for peace. The Nigerian government lacks the savvy for now to solve the problem of the Niger Delta. Politicians care more about what gets into their private pockets than any other thing. The government cares more about politicking than solving any other problems.

When in future Hollywood comes down to Nigeria to make movies on the Niger Delta, which they would definitely do one day like the movie ‘Blood Diamond’, they would portray the militants as groups fighting for injustice against their people. An objective script writer, if there is such thing as objectivity, would show those criminal elements, but in the end the audience would be emphatic to the militants and not the Nigerian government. Everyone loves superhero(es).

But since as they say, "nature abhors a vacuum", and the stomach is a god that can only be propitiated with food, the courtiers of Adedibu's palace have had to go in search of a new patron who can take care of their needs. And it is to the home of Alhaji Azeez Arisekola-Alao, that they have turned their gaze. Arisekola is another prominent Ibadan citizen, a notable Nigerian businessman, the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland (the generalissimo of the islamic faith in Yorubaland), and in a much quieter way, also a philanthropist. Besides, the late Adedibu reportedly chose Arisekola as the administrator of his estate and executor of his will.

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As far as Public Relations is concern, the Niger Delta militants are winning the war against a Nigerian government battling with a very bad global image.

Using force as a tactics to subdue the militants is not going to work. From all indication it is clear that the militants are winning. No matter how you see it, the Niger Delta problem has come to stay and the thugs are now becoming freedom fighters, patriots, and heroes!

ONE of the challenges arising from the recent death of Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, the self-styled Godfather of Oyo State politics, speaks to the troubled dynamics of social and class relations in Nigeria as indicated by the present circumstances of the hordes of hangers-on who flocked to his home on a daily basis. Now with Adedibu dead, this strong army of poor people appears defeated. In his lifetime, Alhaji Adedibu provided free food for the masses: everyday, a cow was slaughtered in his compound, soup was prepared and yam flour delicacies were rolled off a busy kitchen line. Anyone who felt the pangs of hunger could stop by and have a meal.

The money that Adedibu had collected from his clients in positions of power and authority, he gave a part of it to the poor, to pay their children's school fees and to attend to their other needs. Even if this was a self-serving method of gaining political relevance and popularity at the grassroots level, Adedibu sustained this twice-a-day free meal programme till the end. And this was the source of his reputation as a philanthropist, his appelation as Alaafin Molete and the description of his brand of politics as "amala politics". Every day of the year, a crowd gathered at his doorstep.

But since his death on June 11, that crowd of hungry men and women looking for food as fuel, has thinned out. The hungry mouths kept converging for a few days after the burial, but when they noticed that Adedibu's 19 children had resolved to close the kitchen, tie up the bags of yam flour, and sanitise the compound and put an end to their father's politics of food, the crowd had to disperse. Indeed, one of Adedibu's children speaking for the family had declared, clearly, that there will be no more free food for the poor in Adedibu's household.

The people were advised to "find their level." The children are not willing to step into their father's shoes. Amala politics is over. It is finished. Its author and exponent is dead; that chapter is closed. And so today, Adedibu's once busy compound has become quiet: no more drummers waking up the Alaafin and serenading him with praise-chants, no more thugs hanging by the gate providing protection for the Godfather; the women who used to cook all day in the kitchen have folded their bulbous wrappers and have hit the road in search of new patrons

Adedibu may have opened his own gates for the hungry and the poor, but the scenario at Arisekola's house is closer to reality. There is a huge divide between the poor and the rich in Nigeria, standing within that divide are guards, gates, walls and barbed wires reaching the skies. In the home of every rich man, there is a crowd of beggars waiting to knock on the door, knocking on the gates, but the rich have learnt to keep the poor away. You can't barge in on them unless you have an appointment. They have guards, they have dogs that have been trained to keep intruders and poor - looking people away. Their homes are in isolated parts of the city not in open neighbourhoods like Adedibu's Molete. They have electronic surveillance, some of our rich men even have mini-police stations in their houses, complete with cells and uniformed police men who can charge you for tresspass and lock you up immediately. The only way the poor can gain entrance into those gilded cages where the rich live is as employees in the servants' quarters, or as armed robbers who break down the walls and force their way in with the help of guns. The reality is that the Nigerian rich are prisoners of their wealth. They cannot enjoy it because they are constantly afraid that the poor, looking for food and free money, may tear down the walls.

Can anybody blame Alhaji Arisekola-Alao for locking up his gates and instructing his guards to shut out uninvited and unwanted guests? The man may have been Adedibu's friend in his lifetime, but he is not a politician. He is a businessman. And he probably doesn't like the idea of poor people messing up his well-manicured lawns and polluting his abode with their body odour. Nobody should be surprised if Alhaji Arisekola recruits armed guards to beef up security at his home or if he seeks police protection, and puts up a sign: "Intruders and tresspassers will be shot on sight, Be warned." With their desperation since their patron died, the Amala crowd of Ibadan has now helped to advertise a seemingly positive value of Adedibu's peculiar mess. But this is a comment on the state of the Nigerian society.

The greater danger is that whoever provides that food can use the poor for any purpose at all, and this was the gap that a man like Adedibu took advantage of. He was in that sense as much a creation of the imperfections of the Nigerian state as those he fed were victims. Also in this plane are the boys turned militants in the Niger Delta who are being used by Adedibu-like figures to wage war against Nigeria; also here are the almajiris of the Northern parts who can be asked to go out and cause mayhem by an influential master, whose purposes may not be noble. Perhaps when the rich can no longer sleep in their homes, when their gates and guards and their bullet proof cars can no longer protect them, Nigeria will be forced to address the crisis of poverty not as effect, but as the root-cause of much that is wrong with our politics and society.

Nigerians also need a social security system that caters for both the vulnerable and the privileged and raises the quality of life. Because many hungry mouths exist, to be exploited and used for political purposes, that is why there has been so much unedifying talk about Adedibu's likely successors. Institutions of state would still have to be strengthened to provide succour for the helpless, and to check the resort to criminality for either ideological or existential reasons. Leaders must stop stealing money and votes and focus on the people's welfare. It is the failure to do this that will produce the next Adedibu, and the effect on society would just be as bad as the menace of armed robbery that the cleric fears.

Southern Ijaw is about the largest local govt area in Bayelsa state.

I made a visit there last Thursday.
From Lagos where i boarded an Agofure bus, it departed at 11am, we had stop overs at Ore, Warri, to eat.

At 8.30pm, i alighted at Mbiama junction , boarded a cab at the rate of 150 Naira to Yenagoa main town.
I lodged in an hotel with 2500 a night, the town was full of darkness.Okada i discovered doesn't operate after 7pm.

Friday Morning, i went to jetty at harbor Road to board a speed boat to a community in Southern ijaw.
The fare being charged is 1500, and i was asked if i could swim otherwise i should rent a live jacket.
Unknown to the man that i am "Fish" on water.
When the boat moved, not up to 20 Minutes, i saw a house boat full of Soldiers[Joint Military Task Force] asking the boat to stop. We were all searched, unfortunately for me i was a carrying a press id card.They were mad at me, asked me why i was going there and so many other questions.
I pleaded and was allowed to go.
Those soldiers i saw there are bent on killing any enemy, they are real soldiers, they look young, brave and energetic.

On the river at least i saw 3 military boats parading and checking incoming boats.

The waterways are no longer safe to communities in Souther ijaw.

Iwas reliably told that a factional militant leader was assasinated by another group on saturday.

My journey to Southern Ijaw was really eventful, but basically the areas lack government presence, there are no lights, drinkable water, hospitals etc
The area needs development.

I met a young man who identified himself as a militant to me, he pleaded with me to help get connection to travel abroad. He also told me how much he's being as a soldier working for a militant group.He said their group alone receives about 30 Million Naira .He told me the sophistication of their arms.

I am aware the Government is constructing a bridge to connect some of the riverine communities
I plead for quick and urgent attention in providing roads and a connecting bridge.
It took 1hour 30 minutes from Yenagoa to Southern Ijaw, whereas with a bridge would just be 15-20 Minutes.

The waterways are so dangerous considering the presence of JTF.

My worry is the manner at which Yar'adua is going about the whole show, Gambari is not the most qualified for the job.

If you can remember he was the same person that was deceiving the world to understand the rationale and justification for the Abacha govt to have crucified Saro Wiwa.

somewhere around Awolowo Road in ikoyi, you can get a german translator.

Tax receipts are given b4 the certificates comes out.
But some embassies are so crazy with certificates, even if you provide an original certificate they turn u down

@Alldruns

Thats the major issue, it must be your personal.

Professor Gambari is not the ideal man for the job.

There are notable Nigerians ;ike Soyinka, Anyaoku, Kukah, etc

As regards Swedish student visa application, i have received calls and emails where people are faced with the problem of presenting a personal bank statemnt.

Can somebody please tell mee why the swedish embassy doesn't accept sponsorship statement?

Well if you need assistance in processing Swedish student visa contact me for more details.

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Mobile Society refers to the emerging trends of the collective-life on earth driven by the technology of networked mobile phones and other mobile devices. These technologies and its fast and wide adoption is influencing the way we live in the society, we run businesses and the way we are as individuals.

The First International Conference on Mobile Society (mSociety 2008) aims to be a platform for presenting, exchanging and disseminating the newest developments, ideas, applications and services involving all aspects of practice and research in mSociety.

The mSociety 2008 organization invites all professionals having interest in how mobility influences the society: both positive and negative. Possible perspectives may include, but not limited to, technology diffusion and adoption; dissemination of mobile content, applications and services for business and entertainment; economical, sociological and psychological impact of mobility on society.

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Tax Clearance is very important when there is need to use it.It comes handy when you use a sponsor.
It must BE current.

Up Spain

I wish they can pass the Russians again.

@REALCOOL

With your secured hotel reservation you can apply for either a tourist or vacation visa to Paris.

@bomata

Paying full tuition fees is always a credit when applying for a student visa.
Irrespective of your father's retirement your chances are crystal.
With your sister's u.s account and your father's bank account as a co -sponsor , i believe the chances are bright.
Most importantly you must de- emphasize the fact that your father is retired.You must show his origin of funds as in where his incomes accrues from.
All the best.