lilspiceyy:

Did u get a notification of appication receipt? Cos two pple I knw that applied. On thursday and Friday got theirs immediately. Refresh yur mail too if possible

yes ooo i got confirmation and also receipt those are the 2 msgs in my inbox but biometric? no. im kinda worried

Jengbetiele:

Bro same here o......only God knows what is happening o!

only God knows oo.... God ain't sleeping I kuku know ......

CIC is yet to update on biometric since Monday. What's goin on? Someone shld pls tell me

olamonsor2:

Ah... Well, I am praying for you, before this time tomorrow, you will get your letter for biometric.

amen IJN.

Thanks bro

olamonsor2:

Ur biometric letter is in ur cic portal bro. Check very well. U will see 3 messages , d middle one is biometric letter

bro I have checked ooo it's only 2msgs

Haustraliah:
GOOD DAY.
I applied for Masters program at UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD.
An application submitted online on the 23rd of February 2015, up to this moment have never been updated with biometric.
What can i do ?

same with my jr brother. Submitted 23rd no biometric letter till now

@ Opesyy, Thanks alot

Opesyy:
From previous response givien to this your question...experienced guru are always like you should still chill, it will come.

please someone with who has experience this should please for God sake respond to my question. My jr brother who submitted his application online on monday 23rd february 2015 has not yet receive letter for Biometric. Please is this ok?

how many days does it take cic to request for biometric review. my brother who submitted his application online yesterday has yet to receive his biometric letter.

Good people in the house. My jr brother just submitted his application online route yesterday but is yet to be updated on biometric. Has this occur to anyone yet?

My brother submitted his application online yesterday but cic has yet to update his cic Acct for biometric. Is this normal?

hello peeps.... please how long does it takes cic to send letter for biometrics after transmission of docs?

Nigeria's then central bank governor Lamido Sanusi wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan claiming that the state oil company had failed to remit tens of billions of oil revenues it owed the state.

After the letter was leaked to Reuters and a local news site, Jonathan publicly dismissed the claim and replaced Sanusi, saying the banker had mismanaged the central bank's budget. A Senate committee later found Sanusi’s account lacked substance.

Sanusi has since become Emir of Kano, the country's second highest Islamic authority, and has smoothed over relations with the president. He declined to discuss his earlier assertions. Before he was sacked, though, the central banker submitted to Nigeria’s parliament more than 300 pages of documentation in support of his claim. Reuters has reviewed that dossier, which offers one of the most comprehensive studies of waste, mismanagement and what Sanusi called “leakages” of cash in Nigeria’s oil industry. Detailed here, the dossier includes oil contracts, confidential government letters, private presidential correspondence and legal opinions.

Sanusi’s letter and documents do not state whether he thinks the money was stolen or lost through mismanagement. Nor did he make allegations of illegal acts against any specific individuals or entities. Both corruption and bad governance are perennial problems in Africa’s most populous nation, and central issues in elections due on Feb. 14.

Nigeria’s oil industry accounts for around 95 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings. If Nigeria continued to leak cash at the rate described in his letter to the president, Sanusi said at the time, the consequences for the economy would be disastrous. Specifically, the failure of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation “to remit foreign exchange to the Federation Account in a period of rising oil prices has made our management of exchange rates and price stability ... extremely difficult," he wrote. "The central bank of Nigeria is always blamed for high rates of interest,” but “given these leakages, the alternative is a devalued currency ... and financial instability."

That is exactly what has happened. As oil prices have plummeted to around $55 a barrel, half their level at the beginning of 2014, Sanusi’s successor Godwin Emefiele has devalued the naira, Nigeria’s currency, by 8 percent, and raised interest rates for the first time in more than two years.

Nigerian foreign exchange reserves are down around 20 percent on a year ago, while the balance in the country's oil savings account has fallen from $9 billion in December 2012 to $2.5 billion at the start of this year, even though oil prices were buoyant over much of that period. Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters at a press conference in November that a significant portion of that money was distributed to the powerful governors of Nigeria’s 36 states instead of being saved for a rainy day.

Nigerians are rarely shocked by stories of billions going unaccounted for, or ending up with politically powerful individuals. Africa’s largest oil producer has for years consistently ranked towards the bottom of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.

Sanusi handed his documents to a parliamentary inquiry set up last February to investigate the assertion in his letter that billions of dollars in oil revenue had not reached the central bank. He told the inquiry that state oil group NNPC had made $67 billion worth of oil sales in the previous 19 months. Of that, he said, between $10.8 billion and $20 billion was unaccounted for.

A spokesman for the president declined to comment on the specific contents of Sanusi’s dossier. He referred to a statement made at the time the banker was pushed out. It said the government “remains committed to ensuring integrity and accountability and discipline in every sector of the economy ... And indeed we look forward to a situation whereby Mr. Sanusi will continue to assist the legislature in their investigations.”

Those investigations include a “forensic audit” of the oil industry set up by Okonjo-Iweala. The audit was given to Jonathan on Feb. 2 and he said he would hand it on to Nigeria’s auditor general. NNPC said on Feb. 5 it had received a copy of the audit, before it was made public. The firm said the audit cleared it of wrongdoing, although it found NNPC owed the government $1.48 billion for a separate shortfall.

A spokesman for NNPC rejected Sanusi's allegations and referred Reuters to last August’s Senate inquiry. The inquiry expressed satisfaction that most of the money not remitted was withheld for legitimate reasons. But it urged the NNPC to remit $700 million that the committee said it could not account for.

Diezani Alison-Madueke, the oil minister who oversees NNPC, did not respond to a request for comment. She told the inquiry at the time that the correct sum for money not remitted was $10.8 billion, which was to pay for subsidies.

The NNPC has consistently said it did nothing wrong. The oil company said last year that Sanusi’s allegations came from his "misunderstanding" of how the oil industry works. The central bank is “a banking outfit ... how will they understand petroleum engineering issues?" then managing director Andrew Yakubu asked journalists. "They are not auditors."

Sanusi’s claims were seen by some Nigerians as part of the historic tensions between the country’s wealthy, Christian south and poorer Muslim north. Jonathan and oil minister Alison-Madueke are Christians from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south. Sanusi is a Muslim from the country’s north, as is Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler of Nigeria who is the main presidential candidate running against Jonathan. The two regions have historically taken it in turns to hold the presidency. Since 2009, though, Jonathan has broken with this tradition.

Sanusi has said any notion there were religious or ethnic politics behind his allegations is absurd. He has declined to be interviewed since becoming the Emir of Kano.

But last April, two months after he was sacked but before he took on his new role, Sanusi told Reuters he worried that the sheer quantities of cash going missing were “unsustainable.”

“You are taking what doesn’t belong to you and transferring it to private hands,” he told Reuters. “The state is captive to vested interests.”

NO-BID CONTRACTS

Sanusi’s documents identify three key mechanisms through which Nigeria has allegedly allowed middlemen to channel oil funds away from the central bank. Among the recipients, Sanusi alleges, are government officials and high-flying society figures.

The three mechanisms are: contracts awarded non-competitively to two companies that did not supply services but sub-contracted the work; a kerosene subsidy that doesn’t help the people it is meant to; and a series of complex, opaque "swap deals" that might be short-changing the state.

Sanusi’s concerns around the first of these mechanisms centre on the 2011 sale by Royal Dutch Shell of its interests in five oil fields. The blocks were majority-owned by NNPC. The government, keen to end the domination of the oil industry by foreign oil majors, had been encouraging Shell and others to sell to local firms.

Shell sold its interest in the fields to companies in Poland and Britain. But the new owners did not get the same rights Shell had. To promote local control, the NNPC gave the right to operate the fields to its own subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).

Without soliciting bids, the NPDC signed "strategic partnership agreements" worth around $6.6 billion with two other local firms to manage them.

One firm, Seven Energy, signed for three fields; another, Atlantic Energy, for two.

Seven Energy was co-founded in 2004 by Kola Aluko, an oil trader and Christian southerner. Aluko also co-owned Atlantic with another southerner, former oil trader Jide Omokore. Atlantic was incorporated the day before it signed the deals.

Geneva-based Aluko is a high-profile member of Nigeria's elite. He owns a fleet of supercars, including a Ferrari 458 GT2 that he races with Swiss team Kessel Racing. He also owns a $50 million yacht, according to Forbes magazine, and divides his time between a $40 million home in Los Angeles, an $8.6 million duplex on Fifth Avenue in New York, and homes in Abuja and Geneva. A colleague describes him as a "work hard, play harder kind of guy. He’s extravagant. That’s just his style.”

Aluko, whose stake in Seven is now minimal, did not respond to emailed questions.

Omokore has also become rich from oil and gas. Forbes has estimated annual revenue at another of his companies, Energy Resources Group, at $400 million. His jet-setting lifestyle is a regular feature in the local press. Omokore could not be reached for comment.

Reuters has reviewed the contracts the firms signed with NPDC. They give Seven Energy 10 percent of profits in the three oil blocks it operates, while Atlantic gets 30 percent of profits in its two blocks. The contracts also show that, unlike Shell, neither firm pays royalties, profit tax or duties to the state.

Both companies quickly sub-contracted production work to other operators, according to Sanusi's submission to parliament and several market sources. The companies did not disclose terms of these contracts.

Atlantic does not publish accounts, but Seven’s 2013 annual report shows its deal with NPDC helped its revenue more than triple to $345 million.

In May 2013, Nigeria’s parliament threatened to investigate the NPDC contracts because they were not issued through competitive tender. But the NNPC argued no tender was needed because the contracts involved no sale of equity in the oil fields; the probe did not go ahead.

Sanusi did not accuse Seven and Atlantic of any illegalities, but he did question why the NPDC chose those companies. His report said the deals’ only purpose seemed to be “acquiring assets belonging to the federation (state) and transferring the income to private hands."

Asked about this, NNPC referred to the Senate report, which found that no-bid partnership agreements are not new. It also said that "it may be good policy to encourage indigenous players by giving them greater participation," but called for such deals "to be conducted in a transparent and competitive manner."

Seven did not comment. It says on its website its agreement with NPDC pre-dated the Jonathan administration and included an allowance for taxes. The company says it has invested more than $500 million, more than doubled production from its three blocks, and paid $48.8 million in taxes in 2013. Atlantic did not comment.

KEROSENE SUBSIDIES

The second mechanism Sanusi’s report identifies as problematic is a decades-old state subsidy provided to retailers of kerosene, the fuel most Nigerians use for cooking.

Nigeria lacks the refining capacity to make kerosene, so imports it instead. The government then sells the kerosene to retailers at a cheaper price than the import price. This subsidy is meant to make kerosene affordable for the poor. In reality, though, retailers have long hiked prices so consumers pay much more than official levels.

In June 2009, Jonathan’s predecessor, Umaru Yar'Adua, ordered a halt to the scheme on the grounds that it was not working. But the subsidies carried on regardless. The NNPC told parliament last February that it still deducts billions of dollars a year from its earnings to cover it.

In his report, Sanusi called the kerosene subsidy a "racket" that lines the pockets of private kerosene retailers and NNPC staff. The report estimated the cost of the subsidy at $100 million a month. It said kerosene retailers – there are hundreds of them around the country – routinely charged customers much higher prices than the government pays to import the fuel.

Sanusi’s report included an analysis of kerosene prices across Nigeria’s 36 states over two years. It found that the government buys kerosene at 150 naira per litre from importers and then sells it to retailers at just 40 naira per litre. Sanusi’s analysis found consumers pay an average of 170-200 naira per litre, and sometimes as much as 270 naira.

“The margin of 300 percent to 500 percent over purchase price is economic rent, which never got to the man on the street,” Sanusi wrote.

NNPC said in a statement last year that it can't force retailers to sell kerosene at the subsidised price.

SWAP DEALS

The third mechanism Sanusi identified involves other types of refined petroleum products, such as gasoline. Like kerosene, these are also imported. Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil producer but it depends on imports for 80 percent of its fuel needs because its refining capacity is tiny.

To pay for the imported products, Nigeria barters its crude oil. Sanusi’s dossier focuses on these barter exchanges, which are known as "swap deals." The idea is that importers who bring in refined fuel worth a given amount receive an “equivalent value” in crude oil.

How that equivalent value is determined is unclear. Sanusi said he was uncertain how much, if anything, is lost in these deals. But he expressed concern at the sheer value of oil that changes hands and the lack of oversight. His report estimated that between 2010 and 2011, traders involved in swap deals effectively bartered 200,000 barrels of crude a day – worth nearly $20 million at average crude prices over the period - for a loosely determined equivalent value in refined products. It is impossible to tell, he said, if all the refined products were delivered, let alone if the terms were fair.

“It was clear to us that these transactions ... were not properly structured, monitored and audited,” he wrote.

Sanusi wrote in his report that mismanagement and “leakages” of cash in the industry cost Nigeria billions of dollars a year.

Since the price of oil has fallen by around half since the start of 2014, such losses are even more significant. As it approaches elections, Nigeria faces plummeting oil revenues and a lack of buffers to shield the economy. Construction projects are on hold and the government is struggling to pay its sizeable workforce.

Multiple scandals in the oil sector since Jonathan took power have boosted the popularity of his rival, former military leader Muhammadu Buhari. Remembered by some for deposing a civilian government in a 1983 coup and trampling on civil liberties, the sandal-wearing general often promises to "free Nigeria from corruption."

Jonathan, too, says he will “clean up” Nigeria. By using technology and strengthening institutions, “I will solve the problem of corruption in this country,” he told a crowd in Ibadan in January.

hello guys, I've uploaded my documents online and about to make payment with my cards but network sucks so when network eventually come up and I sign back to my CICacct I couldnt' continue to the payment page but my application is not yet submitted. Please how do I get back to the payment page?

Thanks

Hello my good people in the house. I have been delay and trying to reapply. Please can I change both course and school because my college is not responding to my request for deferral and I have admission in another college

Since your SOP is addressed to the VO it is normal for the VO to retain it. Since you have the copy you don't need to panick just refire. Good luck

kennybravo1:
Please my brothers and sisters can you please tell me why my SOP was removed from my file thou I was delayed but I'm not still cleared why it was removed, your urgent reply is highly appreciated .thanks
Merry xmas and prosperous new year in advance .

@ Anugoson,

thanks alot for your concern. I submitted police clearance cert. i just got a new job few weeks ago, should I add the new job info? though I didnt notarise my sponsor's letter, is this important? Also please do you have idea about any college offering 2yrs PG program?

Anugoson:
Sorry about the delay...Notarize ur sponsor's letter when next u re submitting,add ur employment details which includes,employment letter,payslips and Leave letter,U need to top up ur sponsor's naira account,for clarity u can add a family picture u had with ur uncle,if any is available,finally, add police character report...i believe u will be fine.

App form
NYSC CERT
NSC CERT
TRANSCRIPT
BIRTH CERT
WAEC
MY LANDED DOC
LETTER OF SPONSOR (my uncle)
SPONSOR BC
MOTHER BC
SPONSORT BIZ REG
SPONSOR DOM ACCT (Bal $78,500)
SPONSOR NAIRA ACCT (N3.7m
SPONSOR LAND DOC
SPONSOR SHARES CERT
LETTER FROM LAWYER
LETTER FROM PARENTS
MY SOP
LOA
RECEIPT OF TUITION FEE DEPOSIT ($4k)

Anugoson:
List the documents u submitted so we can make an input...

Congrats bro. I will defer my admission and refire..... i pray for success this time

Holu26:


Yes I got my TRV. I did not included my SOA however I included 4 months pay slip because am being paid in cash by my employer

@ Holu26

Thanks bro. Did you get your TRV at your second attempt also did you include your personal SOA?

Holu26:


That was d same reasons I was delayed in my first application. Your SOP should cover purpose of visit and length of stay. Your landed property document can serve as home-tie/asset. If you have not travel out before, then ignore the travel history reason

Hello Good people in the house. Please how do i tackle this delayed? reasons:
1, purpose of travel
2, length of stay
3, asset and financial status
4, travel history
5, employment

I applied using my uncle's SOA. I recently concluded my NYSC program. I have a landed property in which I included the agreement but I didnt include my personal SOA because I didnt have enough balance in it. I paid first semester tuition fee.
Please guys how do I tackle this delay in my refire?

Thank you.

Hmmm..... I'm tired abt this delay here n there lately ... My ppu we need to pray well oooo. God will help us.

kennybravo1:
Hello my people pls I submitted my visa application on Oct 20 and some days ago when I tracked it I don't understand the English. The status reads that : your processed passport has been dispatched from the Canada visa office accra on 02/12/2014 to the Canada application center. Pls what does that means pls is it acceptance or rejection. Thanks I will appreciate a quick response

Sorry bro it is delayed not rejection..... You have to refire don't give up. It is well.

Hi good peeps in the house. just a quick question, a friend has an admission for Sept 2015. can he apply for TRV now?

My good people in the house! I will like to ask if it is possible to obtain TRV with vocational training course.

Hi, does anyone have an idea which of these colleges makes a quick admission decision? Fanshawe College, Seneca College, Humber College, George Brown College, Centennial College

Habeeb521:
yeah! Someone should respond cus that question is related to me now

the VO believe money in the companys Acct is meant for business and not for personal purpose. My Thot tho...

My lil bro just submit his application. George Brown College, paper route, Winter semester 2015. God it's up to u oooo

eddy20:
After ur medicals it takes 2 to 3 weeks for u to GTxet ur TRV....

thanks

Hello Guys, please am having difficulties in uploading my form. Each time I try to upload its given me validated error also how do I reduce the size of my documents to 4MB because most of my documents seems to be in larger size.
Thanks

Hello my people! Please can someone pls send a sample SOP on advance diploma in mechanical -technician to my email; western_cross@yahoo.com
thanks alot.