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Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by zealog: 8:34am On May 06, 2025

Try Zuto. I just got mine from them with poor credit score.
They have specialty in helping those with not so good credit score

Regex:
Biko I need to buy a car for work, but my credit score ain't looking good. Where I go see car loan for poor credit?

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Travel › Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 23 by zealog: 6:56pm On Mar 11, 2025

Thank you so much

OllyM:
For mine, I used living expenses (on it c website) as room and board. While available fund is the total money you have (1 year tuition+living expenses+flight) if you 've paid some part of your fee, add it together in the available funds too.

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Travel › Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 23 by zealog: 4:36pm On Mar 11, 2025

Please someone to help me with this question. Please and please

zealog:
Please I need help in answering these questions on the study permit visa application.
There is a question on 'Room and board in Canadian dollars (food and lodging)' and another question is 'funds available for stay in Canada in Canadian dollars'.
Please what is the difference between these two questions and how much can I put in each of them?
Please help me out as I don't want to make mistakes in the application

Travel › Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 23 by zealog: 7:37am On Mar 11, 2025

Please I need help in answering these questions on the study permit visa application.
There is a question on 'Room and board in Canadian dollars (food and lodging)' and another question is 'funds available for stay in Canada in Canadian dollars'.
Please what is the difference between these two questions and how much can I put in each of them?
Please help me out as I don't want to make mistakes in the application

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by zealog: 2:28pm On Feb 06, 2024

Please people should not bring tribalism and hateful comments to this thread.
Mod please do something about this

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by zealog: 1:08pm On Oct 19, 2023

A student can start working full time after the course completion date and not after graduation. Your school immediately notifies the Home Office once you completed your course, which gives you the liberty to work full time.

Iruobe1987:
Hello everyone, please can a student work full time after the course completion date or it has to be after graduation date

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by zealog: 8:04am On Jan 12, 2023

Where do you live in the UK and which visa category are you holding

moauk:
Good day people. Been in UK for a month now. I’m a network engineer and hold a CCNA. Any one here who can show me which way to go please ?

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 2) by zealog: 9:17pm On Nov 17, 2022

Please just to be clear. Can someone on a student visa access the bootcamp programs? I mean students that have finished their academic programs.
Moreover, since the bootcamps are free, will they not be regarded as usage of public funds

Gemma11:
If you are just looking for a steady job to relax with a stable income but with little to no Job progression, the NHS is good.

However, my advise would be to just to use such jobs to wet your feet in the UK corporate world. Understand the technology and how it is applied to different sectors, take advantage of any free training available and use the NHS to pay for your professional certifications which will stand out on your CV. Then bounce after 3 years to go IT Contracting..up £500+ per day or apply for investment banking jobs with call for Data Architects, Data Analysts, Data Management, where you can earn around £100k+ base salary easily.

I posted a link to a UK Govt sponsored free skills bootcamp further. The requirements appear to be that one must have the legal right to work in the UK which I assume most in this thread do. If anyone has the brain power to take advantage of these boot camps then please do as they would be highly beneficial and put you in good standing when it comes to applying for Tech roles which pay very well when compared to others.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-a-skills-bootcamp

Foreign Affairs › Re: Prince Charles Pays Tribute To Mother, Becomes King by zealog: 7:44pm On Sep 08, 2022

You are very offensive. Try and be calming down

FERNANDEZISBACK:
Don't bring your petty imaginary creature into this...
Modified:as usual this religious extremist brought his imaginary creature into this lovely thread..how on Earth do they even relate..just throw your phone in the garbage so we gonna know you hate anything technology or development..

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Politics › Re: Who Among These Can You Trust With Your Money? by zealog: 9:34am On Jun 20, 2022

Only Tinubu

Politics › Re: Who Among These Can You Trust With Your Money? by zealog: 9:25am On Jun 20, 2022

Tinubu of course. Our next president is rich enough to ever steal your money. He's been proven to be a master strategist

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 8:50pm On Oct 09, 2021

You're welcome to do so.

pushy8:
Hi Zealog,
I would like to ask you some questions about Bradford. Can I contact you please?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 3:37pm On Oct 08, 2021

Write a very convincing personal statement, stating why you need a career change. Your personal statement is the key thing the admission Officer will use for his decision.

Ladylhee:
How did you mention it in your application for admission please? This is the email I got from Sunderland uni when I made enquiry about it.

Since you already hold a postgraduate degree and you would like to apply for a course at the same level, you would need to submit a personal statement to justify why you think this course will benefit you in the future in relation to your career goals and aspirations as the Home Office do not like this at all. They ideally want to see students progressing from undergrad, to postgrad, to doctorate level.

Which uni did you apply to please?

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 12:53pm On Oct 08, 2021

You have nothing to worry about. Go ahead and apply. It's not a problem at all. I've already gotten a master degree, I mentioned it in my application for admission. I'm now a student visa holder

Ladylhee:
Hello everyone! Can I apply for MBA after holding MSc? How do I go about it please? Do I apply afresh for a postgraduate without mentioning my MSc? Please help

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 12:45pm On Oct 06, 2021

DMC Means Decision Making Center

ocpaschal:
What does DMC mean pls?

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 3:42pm On Oct 05, 2021

There's no problem at all. Just send it to admissions@bradford.ac.uk. When you send it, they'll update your records.

ChisZom:
Hello, I'm worried.
I didn't upload my waec certificate while applying. I have my UB number and I've gotten my admission. Please do you think I can still send it to their mail?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 1:59pm On Oct 05, 2021

Bradford accepts WAEC certificate as substitute for IELTS provided the English is on a credit grade and above. Just upload the WAEC certificate and you're good to go

oluwaseunadebay:
Good afternoon All, for those going to Bradford for January 2022 Intake, part of the condition of offer that was given to my wife is IELTS. I read in the thread that some schools take Waec or Neco as substitute. Sent a mail to Bradford to confirm this but no response yet. Can anyone please help to answer this. Thank you

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 2:06pm On Oct 01, 2021

All you need to know about Bradford and University of Bradford are on the internet. If you however need other personal information, you're welcome to contact me

mescanayo:
Please can I send you mail. I need insight about bradford

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 2:02pm On Oct 01, 2021

Yes, you'll be notified well ahead, about 3 days before the interview day.

Oluwatosinliz:
thanks for the response. Am also going to the university of Bradford. I want to know pls, did they send mail to you regarding the date and time of the interview?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 1:02pm On Oct 01, 2021

The interview was done through Microsoft Team application. It was a virtual interview

Oluwatosinliz:
pls, was the interview on skype or phone call? Were you called?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 6 by zealog: 9:54am On Oct 01, 2021

[quote author=Mashaunola post=106327943][/quote]I've gotten my CAS from University of Bradford. I also did pre CAS interview. I'm awaiting my visa. Bradford will only issue you CAS after 28 days that your POF has matured. You need to send the evidence to them. It's after you've sent the evidence that a pre CAS interview will be conducted. Questions that may be asked include:
1. Why did you choose Bradford University?
2. Did you consider any other universities?
3. Why did you choose to study in the UK?
4. Why did you choose your course?
5. What was the last course you studied? How is it related to your present choice of course?
6. How do you think you can fit in in your present course?
7. What do you know about Bradford city?
8. What are your future plans, study and work, and how does your chosen course fit in to the plans?
9. How much are your tuition fees and living expenses, and who will be responsible for the payment?
10. How will you or the person responsible finance your study? Through work, savings or other means?
11. Where are you going to be living in Bradford? On campus or in private accommodation?
12. How far is the accommodation to the campus if it's a private residence?
13. Are your dependants coming with you?
14. Do you have family in the UK?
15. Have you ever been to the UK?
16. Have you ever been refused a visa to enter the UK?

These are the major questions you'll be asked. The interview takes about 30 minutes and it's virtual. I hope this helps. Best of luck.

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Travel › A Canadian Court Denies A Nigerian Policeman Asylum by zealog(op): 6:56am On Sep 14, 2021

A Federal Court in Ottawa, Canada says the Nigeria Police Force’s involvement in extrajudicial killings, torture, summary executions of suspects in custody, amongst other gruesome human rights abuses, is “overwhelming”.

The Court disclosed this while denying asylum to Charles Ukoniwe, a former operative of the notorious MOPOL unit.

The conclusion came after Ukoniwe sought a judicial review of the North American country’s immigration department that denied him asylum for his possible involvement in crimes while he served as a police officer in Nigeria, Peoples Gazette reports.

Judge Patrick Gleeson held that any Nigerian who willingly joins the Nigeria Police Force will be guilty by association before the Canadian judicial system and the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, notwithstanding whether or not the person committed gruesomes crimes often associated with the NPF.

The judge hinged his decision on the landmark 2013 case of former Congolese representative to UN Rachidi Ekanza Ezokola, in which the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that anyone who knowingly participates in an organisation or regime linked to crimes against humanity will not receive protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

The ruling came months after Nigerian soldiers opened fire on protesters who were participating in the #EndSARS campaign to end police brutality in Nigeria, killing at least nine civilians in an operation said to have been authorised by President Muhammadu Buhari. Days after the Lekki killings, some Nigerian soldiers were killed in a mysterious operation that the Nigerian Army has failed to publicly acknowledge or explain.

Ukoniwe joined the Nigeria Police in 2001 and served for 17 years before fleeing Nigeria in March 2018 on the grounds that he was being sought by members of a cult gang that he had investigated for homicide in 2016. He claimed to have received several phone calls and that his house was burnt in 2017.

Documents seen by the newspaper showed Ukoniwe left Nigeria for the United States on March 5, 2018. He arrived in Canada on June 6, 2018, and subsequently filed a claim for refugee protection.

Having conducted some findings about his service in the Nigeria Police Force, the Canadian immigration department denied him asylum for evidence showing his involvement in the crimes against humanity.

Although the former police sergeant contended that the decision was “unreasonable” and denied his complicity in the crimes, Canadian authorities noted that it was unlikely that he did not know of widespread crimes perpetrated by the Nigerian police.

“Documentary evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that the NPF and the MOPOL unit committed human rights violations during Mr. Ukoniwe’s service; and it was unlikely that he had no knowledge of these generalised violations despite the evidence that his awareness of criminal activity and human rights violations was limited to low-level corruption within the NPF,” the document said.

Evidence by the department also showed that the force’s crimes against humanity including extrajudicial killings and torture were “overwhelming,” citing the MOPOL unit as largely disposed to extrajudicial killings, torture and corruption.

In his ruling on July 16, Gleeson expressed his satisfaction with the immigration department’s decision and held that the application be dismissed.

“Having carefully considered the record and submissions of both parties, I have come to the conclusion that this application must be dismissed. For the reasons that follow, I am satisfied that the ID reasonably weighed the relevant factors in determining that Mr. Ukoniwe made a knowing and significant contribution to the crimes committed by the Nigeria Police Force [NPF],” the document said.

In April, another Canadian judge, Sébastien Grammond, also denied asylum to Olushola Popoola, a former member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) on the grounds of his association with the police unit.

Popoola had also requested for a judicial review of the decision of the immigration department which found him inadmissible into the country on the grounds of his membership of the Nigeria Police Force.

“I am dismissing his application because the decision-maker reasonably assessed the relevant factors for deciding whether Mr Popoola made a knowing and significant contribution to the crimes committed by the Nigerian Police Force,” Grammond ruled.

https://www.nationalpivot.com/2021/09/nigerian-police-are-killers-corrupt.html?m=1

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 5 by zealog: 7:38pm On Aug 13, 2021

hardae:
yes you are

Thank you.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 5 by zealog: 7:07pm On Aug 13, 2021

zealog:
Please someone should help me out.
My POF contains the tuition fee balance after deposit for CAS has been deducted + my maintenance amount of GBP9207. This is the POF I have been maintaining for 28 days. I just paid my tuition fee deposit today for CAS issuance but not from the POF I have maintaining for 28 days.
Am I on the right track? Or I should have maintained the total tuition for 28 days.
Please I need clarification.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 5 by zealog: 6:19pm On Aug 13, 2021

Please someone should help me out.
My POF contains the tuition fee balance after deposit for CAS has been deducted + my maintenance amount of GBP9207. This is the POF I have been maintaining for 28 days. I just paid my tuition fee deposit today for CAS issuance but not from the POF I have maintaining for 28 days.
Am I on the right track? Or I should have maintained the total tuition for 28 days.
Please I need clarification.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Coronavirus Will Not Catch You - Pastor Kumuyi Says (Video) by zealog: 6:48pm On Mar 04, 2020

This generation is a faithless and godless generation. Coronavirus is not greater than God. The man is reading the promises of God for those that believe in him and this faithless generation is abusing him. God is not partial, he will only do what you believe him for. Besides, everyone is a creature of God but not all are children of God.

Travel › Re: Canada Visit/tourist Visa Discussion. by zealog: 1:20pm On Mar 02, 2020

Echinedu1:
You are not reqiured to purchase any air ticket witnout visa...just state the ticket price in your letter and how you can afford it

Thank you

Travel › Re: Canada Visit/tourist Visa Discussion. by zealog: 10:20am On Mar 02, 2020

Please house, I'll like to ask a question. One of the docs being asked for is return air ticket. Am I to pay for the ticket without being given visa?
Please gurus in the house help me out. What am I to do.

Crime › Re: 3-Year-Old Boy Battered By His Dad And Stepmother In Ogbomoso [photo] by zealog: 7:51pm On Aug 18, 2019

This is a very wicked act

Politics › South Africans React To Zuma's Statue by zealog(op): 6:29pm On Oct 20, 2017

South Africans React To Zuma’s Statue By Imo State Governor, Okorocha.

South Africans have reacted to the erected statue of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa by Imo State governor, Rochas Owelle Okorocha.

They took to their social media to lash out their anger on the governor for honouring a man who is facing over 700 cases of corruption charges in his home country.

Most of them insinuated that Nigerians wanted a free pass to import drugs and illegal people into their country, hence the statue.

Below are some of the comments…

Papiki Noko Mphalaborwa: That is an awesome strategy by Nigeria to unveil the showerhead statue. They want a free pass to import drugs and illegal people into our country

Klass Happy Marobola: Even top criminials respect Zuma for his crooked ways.

Charles Ernest Doller: Too many drugs that killing our south Afruca and shame on Zuma for his honour with this corruption 782 or maybe more during 2017.

Lisa Shosha: Can they take him and make him a permanent resident.

Phiri James Gordon: The most corrupt country in the world honours one of their own.

Antonella Di Cicco: Stop wasting your money on Nonsence and feed your people.

Dudley wells: Isn’t that the state where all the drug dealers come from? They are honoring him for protecting the trade.

Leon Barries Bernard: Why don’t they just take Zuma , we will donate him to Nigeria with a years supply of pap en vleis.

Ehiscuttie Craig: He was not honoured by Nigeria, he was honoured by a state that are known for drugs dealings all over the world.

Muzi Nsibande: The most corrupt president in the African continent is honoured with a bronze statue in one of Africa’s most corrupt country Nigeria.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/16/south-africans-react-zumas-statue-imo-state-governor-okorocha/

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Travel › Re: Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Workers Program-Connect Here Part 2 by zealog: 9:49pm On Oct 10, 2017

Patterns18:
If she has done a change of name already and her international passport carries your surname, I will advice you register with the new name.

Thanks. But her school only know her by her maiden name. Actually the issue appears complicated. Anyone in the house that has encountered this kind of scenario? Your contribution will be highly appreciated.

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