bolajibreeze:

same UG; bus admin; Niagara

congrats to your sis, i guess we met at IOM during medicals on August 13, the guy gisting with you. Yours is on the way.

tobbyosmond:

Hello All, I am new on this platform, I want to ask a question. Will embassy ask someone to make part payment bfor dey issue one's visa?

it's not compulsory, but to a fault it boosts your chances in showing you are capable financially, except if your school says its mandatory.

kennykentipsy:


I did mine at IOM also but it cic that do request for further test not the clinic

wow, i guess it all comes to luck then.

kennykentipsy:


congrats bro... you see the thing about BP it can go up within seconds but takes awhile to suppres.... waiting 3months for ur app to get approved that's alot of pressure to rise the BP.. My BP was160/100 and no further tests were required though.. but congratulations once again

The wait was really killing, i don't ever pray to experience this kind of mental torture again, but it was definitely worth the wait. As per the test, i don't know whether na IOM do oversabi, or it's really cic that requested it.

abbyyzino:

Congrats Bro, God will do mine as well. Did you submit your application online or offline??

i submitted through paper route

It’s a long story, please it’s worth the read.
I have been on this thread since part 7, and don’t go a day without reading posts here. Thanks to you guys for keeping things going on here, and from now I will try my best in helping people out, as I have enough experience to. This is my story guys.

School: Lambton College, Sarnia.
Course: International business management (PGD)
Applied on: 10th June, 2015.
Biometrics: 10th June, 2015.
Medical call up: 7th August, 2015.
Medical started: 13th August, 2015.
Medical completed: 19th August, 2015.
Approval Mail: 1st September, 2015.

Documents submitted
1. CIC Documents.
2. Sponsor (Dad) statement of account (Business): Balance= #4million, Inflow= #103million, Outflow= #99million.
3. Tuition fee receipt: 1st semester
4. Business documents, tax certificate, Land and assets.
5. Future employment letter as heir to the company.
6. S.O.P (3 pages), letter of sponsor, Birth certificate, NYSC certificate, B.sc Certificate.
• I took a big risk of not submitting police report, as I saw it as optional.
• I am the last child and my dad’s only dependant.

Important tips
For anyone called up for medical please;
• take your time out to check your blood pressure before going.
• make sure you relax and calm down your nerves when you get there, you can try out deep breathing techniques for calming down.
• Avoid salty foods and other food that increases blood pressure few days to medicals.

When I was having my medicals my BP was high (149mmhg 97mmhg) because I was very nervous, so after the whole test, I was told to come for further tests which include serum, ECG and cardio checks. To avoid unnecessary stress, hypertension and cost, its better you try and control your anxiety level. You won’t like to experience what I went through till when I got this approval mail.

NOTE: the acceptable blood pressure readings for Canadian standard is >140mmhg (systolic) >90mmhg (diastolic).
Never give up on your dreams, and remember with God and prayers all things are possible. I wish everyone all the best.

bolajibreeze:

Undergrad Niagara College. My mum, with quite some land docs, turn over docs, bank statements, half school fees receipt, admission letter, waec and birth cert, and all the usual things. I don't know what an SOA is tho. But I think and hoped the agent must have pointed it out.

bro, did you do your medical at IOM? cos this info is similar, with someone i met, though it was on thursday, august 13.

INTROVERT:
I am writing a thesis on "Energy consumption and Economic growth in Nigeria: An empirical analysis" and I currently stuck with my analysis of data. using the endogenous growth theory as my theoretical framework I have data from 1980-2013 on: GPD as the independent variable and; electricity consumption, coal consumption, natural gas consumption, petroleum consumption as my dependant variables together with Labour (L) and total fixed capital formation(TFCF) as my K.

I wonder if there is any genius here who is very good with EVIEWS to run the cointegration analysis and inteprete results robustly like the ADF, t stats, f stats, Rsquare, Rcap, hsaios GRANGER CASUALITY, Phillips Peron tests. Etc etc for a SMALL fee.


Thanks.


CC. Mods Lalasticlala

Am an economist, i should be able to help. Send me a PM

scored 58.5% and still got regret mail. Best of luck to those invited.

Nawa o

58.46%, i hope am safe? Though the network is very poor, and 65 questions is too much for the time frame

mulante:
$25000 and the winner ain't even smiling. Oh boy!

my brother, i think say na only me dey see am o. Dem suppose collect the cheque back from her, make dem see whether she go cry

Nice one

VolvoS60:


^^^^
I didn't want to comment further on this thread but I need to correct some errors in your post.

I did not say that nearly 100% of Ibadan people rely on pit latrines and do not have access to pipe borne water. Go through my posts again. My stats dealt with a sample drawn from LCDAs in Ibadan, albeit densely populated ones.

I wonder how you can claim my posts infer that most Ibadan people on this thread don't use toilets and do not have access to drinking water. Go through my posts again. That inference must have come from someone else. Not me.

You are right about the research sample being a purposive one - but contrary to your assumptions, the key criterion in sampling method choice was population density - for obvious reasons.

You claim that if projects similar to my assignment were to be carried out in Ebutte-Meta, Epe and the interior of Lagos, similar results would be obtained. That may well be true. But is that comforting to you? Does that solve the problems identified?

I didn't say Ibadan has the highest incidence of typhoid fever in Nigeria. I am very surprised at how defensive a lot of posters on this thread are. As far as I am aware I have not made any exaggerated claims. The households in communities we sampled - nearly 100% - did not have access to pipe borne water or modern toilet facilities. Anyone who has the time or the inclination can carry out a little survey of his/her own among Ibadan households (in the densely populated communities) to determine if I am peddling outright falsehood.

You confidently claim that my assignment does not depict up to 30% of Ibadan indigenes. How do you know that? Do you know the number of respondents and households sampled?

In conclusion: I posted on this thread because I felt there was a misplaced focus on intangibles and the more important issues affecting Ibadan were being sidelined. Obviously not everyone agrees with me - and that's fine. We can agree to disagree.

As you say: One love. And thanks for keeping it civil.

Like i said in the concluding part, i hope the government can do more to help people in those areas, and the people as well should reorientate themselves.
cheers.

VolvoS60:


^^^^
I agree with you on one thing: these problems cut across all Nigerian cities.

The project wasn't concentrated on Ibadan's 'slums' as you assume. It was carried out on an LCDA to LCDA basis with the most densely populated areas as the target samples - and for good reason too.

It is incorrect to assume that I saw Ibadan's social environment as dirty and poverty-ridden 'because I am an outsider'. No. Where I am from doesn't matter. For all you know, I could be an indigene of Ibadan. The important point here is that there were very severe health and environmental challenges in the project samples surveyed. I am simply telling it like it is. Those health and environmental problems I saw on the assignment have nothing to do with so called "brown roofs" or Ibadan's ancient history. There is nothing romantic or quaint about typhoid fever, gastro-enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea or malaria. There is no beauty in fecal contamination of drinking water - and these and other problems are the issues that the city and its people have to deal with today.

Yes - poverty is a pan-Nigerian problem but that shouldn't be a ready excuse to avoid local action. Unfortunately, some of those I have interacted with on this thread tend to think otherwise.

Anyway, as I said earlier - to each his own.

I get your points, but i beg to disagree, you quoted that nearly 100% of Ibadan people rely on pit latrine, and don't have access to pipe borne water. If going by what you said that means, most of us on from ibadan on this thread don't use toilets and we don't have access to healthy drinking water. Like i said before, your research was not a random sampling, rather a purposive one targeted at areas that are not developed. It's a big city, so your research sample was carried out on areas with high incidence, i won't be surprised hearing places like oja-oba, beere, kudeti et al. If you carry out similar studies in ebute metta, epe, and the interior parts of Lagos you get similar results, and please stop making it seem like ibadan has the highest rate of typhoid fever occurrence in naija. Though, all well and good, your research is very valid, but it doesn't depict close to 30% of all ibadan indigenes, and i as a person won't celebrate mediocrity, i think the state government can do more to help these people as they are citizens as well, no one deserves a low standard of living. One love bro.
God bless you.

VolvoS60:


^^^^


Now I have called you out on your BS, you accuse me of sermonizing.

The facts are there. Take them or leave them. I gave you facts on key Human Development Index stats in Ibadan - you may choose to ignore them but they will not go away.

I am definitely not living in a bubble and I do not expect perfection. I gave you stats in which nearly 100% of a sample of households in your beloved Ibadan depend on well water for basic needs - well water that is at high risk of contamination from septic tanks. Do you know the health costs (to these households and communities) of typhoid fever and other water borne diseases? Do you even have an idea? I challenge you to look for the results of published studies that are far more rigorous and comprehensive than mine - are the results similar or not?

I gave you stats on how nearly 100% of a sample of Ibadan households rely exclusively on pit latrines for their toilet needs. Those pit latrines were in very poor - I repeat - very poor shape, exposing users to deadly communicable diseases. Am i being idealistic for highlighting these truths? Or you are angry simply because these truths are inconvenient?

You would rather highlight the presence of KFC and shoprite as indicators of development, while the owners of these businesses repatriate their capital and profits at will. (By the way - let it be clear I bear no ill will toward these entrepreneurs.)

Focus on substance and not spin. Ibadan needs a lot of work. To deny this and focus on 'aesthetics' or 'celebrating the positives' is to do her people a disservice.

Bro, i get your facts and i am not in anyway denying what you just said is false, but this issue you raised is more or less a Nigerian problem and not just limited to ibadan, i have lived in ilorin, stayed in kano, visited ph, this problems are all there. I am as well a researcher, and the mere fact that you carried out your research in ibadan's slum, doesn't mean you can conclude that the city is that bad. I was born and bred in ib, yes we have ghettos more than most cities in naija and this places are ancestral homes of different people, buildings as old as Nigeria's history, so i would understand if as an outsider you see it as dirt and poverty, but we see it as our history and where we come from, so we are so proud of those brown roofs. The city is so big, and those slums are just where early civilization started from, that's the beauty of ibadan blending the old and new. This is such a wonderful thread, i believe op created it to show the beauty of ibadan, issues of poverty is a Nigerian thing. God bless ib, and Nigeria at large.

Olutola88:
I've been reading comments from some PDP nitwits. Comments like: “INEC is the only body that can announce results”. That is for final declaration ONLY. Who says we can't talk about results in our various polling units? Are you Educated at all? Have you ever voted in your life? In every polling unit, votes will be counted in front of everybody, party agents will record and send results to their party Leaders. You people will not leave your dirty homes and you will in one filthy corner of your bedroom shouting GEJ till 2019 without apply common sense and wisdom.

If you know anyone that voted in Ibadan, ask him or her who won in his or her polling unit. I'm waiting for you to tell me just ONE polling unit where GEJ won in Ibadan. Just one please.

I can beat my chest to that! At least, I know of Ibadan.

You are so on point bro, ibadan really thought pdp a lesson. I don't think they won at any polling unit.
Oluyole lga, abbey secondary school,
total votes
Apc 570
pdp 106.
Ibadan people have spoken,
sai baba, change!!!!!!!

reporting live from abbey technical college, odo ona elewe oluyole lga. The results of the presidential election is as follows;

1)
Void 3
Udp 1
Ncp 1
Ad 1
Cpp 1
Acpn 1
Pdp 42
Apc 172
Oluyole lga ibadan ward 02 unit 003.

2)
Void 7
Cpc 2
Acpn 3
Pdp 22
Apc 136
Ward 02 oluyole lga unit 002

3)
Void 4
Sdp 1
Cpp 1
Adc 1
Apa 1
Pdp 15
Apc 121
Ward 2 oluyole lga ibadan unit 001

4)

Kowa 1
Acpn 1
Pdp 27
Apc 141
ward 2 oluyole lga unit 004

ibadan and south west locked down for buhari

Void 7
Cpc 2
Acpn 3
Pdp 22
Apc 136
Ward 2 oluyole unit 002

Void 4
Sdp 1
Cpp 1
Adc 1
Apa 1
Pdp 15
Apc 121
Ward 2 oluyole lga ibadan unit 001

I guess she must be referring to Abia people and not the whole of Nigeria. Cos Nigerians have embraced buhari.

dopekush:
lol nice.... but d enemy na mumu oh.. y d guy dey shit for river?

head wey go chop slap, if he dey inside brt, he go put him head outside say he wan buy gala

A simple wish for my enemy.
lalasticlala front page pls

moral of the topic!!!!
No matter the situation you find yourself in, you are better off than some people.
proudtobeanigerian.

my own smile too follow o. Me wey be say if i smile girls dey cry say, if you no be my husband at least be my boyfriend.

bukkylink:

Not yet

were you able to take the test initially

bukkylink:
SALES EXECUTIVES TEST
You have been given the opportunity to retake the test. Please check your email for new details. Kindly disregard if you are not interested.

Pls how many people got this message just got it around 1 pm today

i just did too o. am very happy, i don dey think say dey don get me from my village yesterday, as my code dey tell me say, its been used on another system. I haven't gotten the mail sha. You?

Guys abeg o, have been trying to open the test link both on laptop and phone but its not opening, it only opens with opera and uc browser on phone, which i can't use to write the test. Anyone in my shoes? cos i dey think say they don get me ooo.

tosyne2much:
Nice write-up babate3e

Number 4 tho .

thanks bro

flove62:


I heard dat non corp member will be aving dere training on monday. were u at GSS dis morning cos some1 dat went dere in d morning told me dis

Yes i heard that, but how is it possible to paste a list of over 1000, without anyone seeing his name, asides corpers. well, keeping fingers crossed sha, but this one wey dem don postpone election now na bad market o.

Ilorin south inec, na big Bleep up, only corp members name are pasted for training. Its really mind bugling and doesn't make sense. Wondering if the corpers in the l.g numbers over a thousand, cos i am still baffled.

pwreshbawz:
make i sharpaly book space. ehen my type too. we fit chop 1 pounded yam 1 meat tens times we don't order at once. very annoying thing

lol, funny