sam2kenny:
Good day all, I got a mail from the Austrian embassy
the Embassy received the lawyer report.



If you only want your documents legalized, please come to the Embassy Mondays or Wednesdays between 08:00 and 10.30 a.m. to pay the following legalization fees:


5 x legalization a NGN 37.000, - total NGN 185.000,-- (please check the total amount again)


If you want to submit a residence permit application in addition to the legalization payment, please contact the Embassy via e-mail for a special appointment. Only ask for an appointment if you have all required documents. The cancellation/postponement of appointments causes unnecessary work and you also block appointments for people who already have all necessary papers.

The application fee is NGN 55.500,00 /adult and NGN 34.700,00 /minor.

Those that mean the 200k paid does not cover legalization

Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this thread, its been so educative and insightful...
I'll like to ask if this fees quoted here are the latest quotes from the Austrian Embassy...

Then (2), is it better to visit the website for a date or go to the embassy physically to get one?

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deomelo:
The write is sounds very shortsighted, myopic and grossly simplistic. RUGA is off the table even though the preferred plan is RUGA in theory and practice.

1. The government is not giving out loans for the program to be repaid by the benefactors of the program, they are talking about laying down the necessary infrastructure and creating enabling environment for comprehensive livestock, Animal husbandry and allied businesses so no need for any serious exception for ROI upfront, but the potential is there to generate revenue via taxes on businesses, goods and services and export products.

2. RUGA or the other variation is not going to be primarily a Fulani settlement because its a comprehensive plane designed to accommodate other animal farmers, tanneries, meat products processing and packaging plants. It's going to be a business location for anything and everything livestock, meat and meat processing.

3. At the moment, headers and their owners make generate billions in un-taxed revenue everyday because it's a mobile business with zero address to send tax bills to, but RUGA or the other plan means we know where to send our tax collect to to collect taxes.

4. It's always hard to locate and arrest criminal herders because of the mobile nature of herding, but with RUGA, it means no more clashes with local comm unites and God forbid in case of criminal activities, we know where to go and who to arrest because we've confined them to a physical location.

5. With RUGA and the other plan, we are killing many birds with one stone because we are eliminating violent confrontations with farmers and local communities, we are setting up a comprehensive livestock husbandry industry and businesses in Nigeria, something we should have done, but better late than never.


People need to be honest with their facts and understanding instead of peddling half baked and confusing info.

TAXATION IS IMPOSSIBLE HERE BECAUSE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES AND DERIVATIVES ARE TAX FREE.

RUGA BY FG IS TRYING TO GRANT AMNESTY TO A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS. IT IS NOT IDENTIFYING THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CLASHES AND ADDRESSING IT. OUTLAW OPEN LAND GRAZING AND ALLOCATE LANDS IN SAMBISA FOREST TO THEM.

WOULD FEDERAL GOVENMENT ALSO GO OUT OF ITS WAY TO ESTABLISH FISH TOWNS FOR THE POOR FISHERMEN OF THE NIGER DELTA WHOSE SOURCE OF INCOME AND LIVELIHOOD HAVE BEEN AFFECTED AS A RESULT OF OIL EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES AMONGST OTHERS?

Osgilliat:


We all know this country suppose surpass where en dey tey tey tey but that tantrum should be throw at our past leaders that left this country to rot while they take their loot overseas. Criticizing the little this current administration is doing will only take us back and stagnant. United Arab Emirates wasn’t built in a day or three years either.

And what exactly are these current leaders doing to be different from the past?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

In this same ant corruption admin, I've seen cases of victimization of business owners only go away when the companies paid hundreds of millions of naira to head of those government parastatals appointed by St PMB.

Is the so called leader of the APC a saint? How did PMB come into power?

Pls, this govt is same of same and as CORRUPT as they come. trying to change the narrative is pure deciet

Kudos bro, nice job you are doing here!

However, I think your costs of labour on this farm will be so high that your project might not be sustainable in the long run. Now, before you tag me a hater let me quickly tell you this. I know this terrain where you have your farms very well as I own several projects running into hundreds of acres within this area - ADO/ ODO OTA Local Government Area of Ogun State. I own a project in Igbesa and another in 100 acres close to the ALAPOTI area of the same terrain.

We used them for farms but had to run away because it was a wrong location for a farm operation especially the IGBESA area which is not far from ITEKUN where you have your farm. These areas especially IGBESA are no longer agrarian communities as the villages have embraced the Lagos Lifestyle and are so lazy to do any agricultural job.

They will rather work in factories for peanuts or cross over to Lagos to hustle and not forgetting that the proliferation of real estate development companies in this areas makes it a norm for the average farmer to sell his family lands for the millions he will never make from farming to these companies and feel alright.

The story is the same all over places like Okoafo, ILOGBO and environs. You'll hardly get cheap labour or competent labour to work on your farms from these communities as they given up farming to embrace other hustles and the white collar jobs. If you really want to make it in farming and be sustainable, you'll have to kill the notion of being as close as possible to Lagos and go further inwards Ogun State where you'll find Government designated agrarian areas and cheap labour and expertise you need to run your farm.

It doesn't pay to have your farms in isolation and away from Farming hubs like Owode, Isiun, Odeda, Illaro, Yewa North and several other renown towns in Ogun State where big farming projects are still on because your farm will be better off for it. We lost over N2.5M in farming to learn the lessons I am sharing with you here trying to set up a 25 Acre Cassava project in IGBESA.

Did you plough your land with any tractor? What are your plans for irrigation if the rain water fails to be consistent? Some of these difficulties you experience with clearing wont be an issue within those farming hubs. Even ADO ODO village is a great place to start though I doubt you can get lands easily there today.

Based on our experience, I fear your cost of operations and ease of getting access to competent hands to work with you on your project can derail your entire efforts if you don't watch it closely or set up in the right location

While it's true that you can make money in agriculture and with vegetables such as UGU, I will like to say it's not as straightforward as its been offered and said here on this platform. TRUST ME, my parents are URBAN farmers with farms in AGBARA, FESTAC and most swampy areas on the mainland.

And my mom till tomorrow is still doing this - our UGU farm for this season is massive. However, its a cycle. There are periods when the supply is always more than the supply and you begin to beg these market women to come and harvest your UGU leaves. You'll be at their mercy and they CRASH the prices such that if you're not STRONG, you can fall sick with their theatrics.

If you'll survive as a Farmer, you must master the art of Sales & Marketing and be a businessman or woman to the core. You should be able to look for places you can sell your produce or find ways to add values so these middlemen and market women don't hold you to ransom.

Thread carefully as there are no GUARANTEES!

Reference:
I find this all too wrong. I simply cannot understand why court orders are not obeyed and impunity continues to reign. If we donot support our institutions we will continue to be subject to the regressive limitations of a few and not the progressive wisdom of many.

A lot of folks here say, because the man in question, Pinnick is 'performing' so the vacationing of the order if the apex court is welcome. But once again we have set up and elevated individuals against institutions. What if tomorrow the same Pinnick having viewed himself indispensable begins to 'underperform', who will we blame. Then how do you remove him. Does he now appear like someone willing to steo down if he loses the next elections. Will he not bring the DSS to truncate again.

I understand the non interference statutes of FIFA and quite frankly it will have paid us wellifwe had taken any punishment including a ban if it would make us sit up and restructure the soccer space bit this action has only kicked the can further down the road and left us with no lessons to learn. This continues to be the bane of Nigeria's and Africa's development.

If things worked properly in this country and the rule of law was upheld, you and I could aspire to any office and do far better than those we sit and watch mess up themselves and the nation.

FIFA is an international organisation that has its own rules and conducts which every member of that union attests to. When there's an issue, the Court for Sports Arbitration - sports courts are there for these guys to go and lay their grievances. All over the world, football and politics don't mix. Football is a world of its own and all member nations of that union have attested and agreed to its statues before joining it.

So that is the CRUX of the matter and the case should have been thrown out for lack of jurisdiction. Who the hell is Chris Giwa and what has he done or achieved for Nigerian football to hold us to ransom? His only acclaim is being a member of the National House of Assembly and the proprietor of GIWA FC.

If he has so much to offer to Nigerian Football, why not bid his time and wait for the next elections? Why sacrifice the aspirations of a nation on his personal ambitions. Chris knows the popularity and influence of these current guys at the glass house is on the rise hence the need to snatch the leadership the way they do in Nigerian Politics.

We're so happy to see the end of this CHARADE

ednut1:
Wetin concern dss and football. God y u put me for this zoo na

Na wetin concern the COURTS and football? Person wan win election and he want use courts like politics? make he go contest when this man tenure expire - simple.

Baroba:
Ugwuanyi shats, front-page, he sneezes front-page; obviously he must be greasing someone's palm on Nairalander..Let us have some integrity and stop celebrating mediocrity, A WORKER IS ENTITLED TO HIS WAGES!!, You are not doing them any favours, is not as if his paying them from his pocket, sad to see what this country has descended to..

Please the reality in Nigeria is different. Go to the state and federal levels, jobs are being created and given out on political grounds without any meaning hence most jobs are just social obligations of the government to engage people.

They don't have the capacity to pay as they hardly generate revenues to pay hence the need for federal allocation and oil money sharing. One way to stop the corruption and get lazy politicians out of the system is to stop the reliance of states on federal allocation via oil money and make all states become self sustaining via restructuring, that way, these men will begin to think and create real jobs to sustain their people.

Rastamann:


Did Buhari or APC make the road bad? What about the People Deceiving People (PDP) that spent over 16 years in office mismanaging public funds?

Stop deceiving yourself, they are all the same. You want to give them 16 years to destroy this country after they have shown they have nothing to offer? Corruption just changed garb and names. Quit the deception and illusion. This government of change is a scam

It beats my imagination that someone would convert straight forward home based businesses like Information Marketing and the Mail Order Business to scams. It's so pathetic that people can't sit down to do real stuffs because its hard work. A lazier way would have been to ask Patrick to give you resell rights to all his products and services if you are to lazy to do it yourself. Many other people have done that!

You give people promises you can't fulfill at ridiculous prices in order to get them to patronize you and fail to deliver maybe because you couldn't get those products they paid you for at those prices and rather than give them their money to say you can't meet up, you bolt away because you've spent it and don't have any money to pay.

''SMH''

That's no way to run a business and its the easiest way to destroy yourself. A good name is better than riches. Honesty and integrity pays on the long run. I've seen people build multi million dollar empires without putting a dime from their pocket just because of their names and past relationships. Its good to be legit and stay legit even though it involves a whole lot of hard work and takes a longer time.

I have several Plots of Land in an estate located at Agbara - Avalange Cruise - for sale.

I need a car and would be willing to exchange one plot with anyone who can give me a car. Any clean car would do The products I,m interested in includes Nissan, Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota products.

So if you have what I need and would be interested in this exchange deal just call me up on 08026895535 so we can strike a deal.

I have several Plots of Land in an estate  located at Agbara - Avalange Cruise - for sale.

I need a car and would be willing to exchange one plot with anyone who can give me a car. Any clean car would do The products I,m interested in includes Nissan, Volkswagen, Honda, Toyota products.

So if you have what I need and would be interested in this exchange deal just call me up on 08026895535 so we can strike a deal.

Reading this thread, I cant but imagine what poverty has done to some Nigerians livingin the UK!

@all living in the UK
If the tax system in the UK is killing you and making you lose your human face and become heartless, please come back home cos with Naija you can always find a way around taxes.

I'm baffled by the type of tirades I often see on Nairaland. So many people just love to hate n be economical with truth , blind followers.

For several years, TINUBU has been depending on the legacies of AWo to play his politics. This all goes back to the AD days but TINUBU is no AWO. Their brand of politics is very different. While AWO was more interested in building lasting legacies and honest politics, TINUBU is more intrested in hiding under the camouflage of the opposition and looting the state.

That very thing Bola Ahmed TINUBU criticizes the PDP for, he's 100% guilty too. Tinubu is as corrupt as they come, he cant tell us he has not lined his pocket with the spoils of the state and come claiming Awo. Who is the head of the touts in Lagos? Who owns Oriential Hotels and at what point was it developed? What were the legacies TINUBU's eight year administration in Lagos had to show?

Why did Lagosians suddenly regard Fashola as a messih? Who owns OANDO? Who owns hypertek engr? So many,

It's an Abomination to equate Bola Ahmed TINUBU to an AWo. They are not the same and please Tinubu should create his own brand and stop trying to ursurp the memories of a goodman or insult his family. His three family - wife, daughter n son in law have been entrenched in the Senate, Federal House and Lagos House of Assemblies respectively, Were all this by merit?

TIME WILL TELL.

Lamido Sanusi is only pushing a northern agenda that started with Umaru Yar Adua. Remember how Soludo's policies at curbing inflation was countered and how he was directly humilated by the promotion of his vice president at the the CBN then, Shamshuideen to the portfolio of minister of finance.

My personal research indicated that at the end of OBJ's tenure and the height of Soludo's capitalisation, the north was never comfortable with the idea that the banking sector of the Nigerian economy was majorly controlled by the South except one bank - UNity bank which was only existing on sentimental grounds. And it was decided that power must change hands which was deliberatly kickstarted by Sanusi.

The issue of corporate abuse most of the bank MDs were involved in only empowered Sanusi to carry out that agenda with ease. There are lots of question marks in the present CBN reforms. Why is Sanusi in a haste to sell off the BANKS?

adeniyi334:

@yvy1
Well, I for one signed up on nairaland after I saw the nonsense making the rounds; with people being duped despite the fact that the solution to their worries is right in front of their noses. I'm just doing that which I feel is right, but really, If I should see another center that has the same level of professionalism that FNG has, I won't hesitate to post it here. I'm still making my research and will get a better list. But for now, I think they are still the best.

They are 2 expensive

I once had the same problem but used my urine to clean my bumps at the back of my head. Trust me , Urine works especially if they are just gathering at the back of your head.

@ Naijaking and @ Dede1

I feel irritated each time I see Biafra fanatics like you blaming the Ijaws for your misery. First and foremost, we are not your Igbo brothers as you guys keep claiming. Our dialects are not the same, our cultures are very different so what unites us? Oil/petro dolllars  abi?

For your info, its the oil and the access to the seas we had that was key to the Biafran project! Biafra without the Niger Delta is a landlocked country existing within the confines of the Nigerian state so the crook Ojukwu really needed the minorities at the time MORE than they needed him. You asking the Ijaw to support the Biafran state was like asking them to change slave masters.

Isaac Adaka Boro is a hero. Ojukwu is a coward. After killing thousands of innocent igbos especially women and children in his mad quest for power, Is it not the same man who wanted to split Nigeria that has been fighting to rule the very country (NIGERIA) he fought to split for years. And you call Boro a criminal, then OJUKWU is worse and desrves to be hanged.

The Ijaws were very clever and smarter than you guys folks, because they knew where their priorities lie and what they wanted. You guys keep talking about BIAFRA as if it would have been heaven. What the militants and Niger Deltan activists have been fighting for is VERY MUCH different to OJUKWU's philosophy till date. It might take years but we would get there.

I know it is people lyk you guys that have been foolishly lining Nwazuruike's pocket over the BIAFRA dream he hopes to project in recent times. That guy lives in my area and has lots of houses today in Lagos thanks to d BIAFRAN project. I get tired of seeing Igbos roam the street of Lagos shouting BIAFRA, BIAFRA yet they have no single business investments in their regions.

What the militants are preaching today is simply resource control. Stop the MILKING of the wealth of the NIGER DELTA region to feed the fat cow called NIGERIA. Let all states generate their incomes with the rsources they have and spend from it. This is simply different from the Politics of leadership that ojukwu decided to play by cooking up Biafra.

The Ijaws are not Igbos so please stop grouping us together. They are the 4th largest tribe in Nigeria today and are not looking for masters so ari beebe mene teri (simply means keep quiet in Ijaw).

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Afam:


N600,000.00 seems high for the average Nigerian or even the average Nigerian that would want to embrace inverter backup. I have clients that don't mind spending more than N1M but these clients are very far in between.

N150,000.00 to under N400,000.00 is typical and with a good energy efficiency program you can see backup up to 2 days.

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Guys, even N150, 000 - N400, 000 is not a chicken change to the average Nigerian. How many Nigerians can afford N150,000 talk less of N 600,000.  The solutions you guys are talking about are for a selected few who have very deep pockets and that's not the solution to our needs as a country. We need to come up with pocket friendly alternatives to the epileptic power situation. If anyone can come up with cheaper solar based products that can take the place of PHCN and still allow people to keep some money in their pockets, then such investors or innovators would smile to their banks.

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roshid:

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What kind of solar panels are we talking about here, rashid and are the materials to be used in building them locally available? How long would they last and what is the cost of setting them up? Can they be mass produced?

Have you done any solar panels yourself or you are just trying to sell the information. If you have proofs, I am highly  interested because I am presently working on a similar project that would require solar panels, you could be smiling all the way to the bank if you actually do this service for me and several other clients I would be showing you rather than selling the info,

I wud like to hear from you!

approach a microfinance bank with your business plan. They are your surest bets and I am talking from experience.

@ Finecat,

What exactly is your problem? What has Intercontinental Bank done to you to warrant this demarketing strategy? Can you stand by your words if you are taken to the court of law on this? What exactly is your interest? What joy would you deprive in seeing millions of account holders with IB losing their money or its employees being thrown out of work?

If IB Plc is not safe but bankrupt as you claim, then what about the horde of microdinance organizations and banks springing up despite the recession. I really dont understand your point. Every business has its ups and down period, every entreprenuer makes mistakes but you dont have to kill them for it cos its part of the learning processes they use in coming back better.

which bank in Nigeria didn't borrow money from outside? What you claim the bank is doing is only normal if they need to scale thru the recession and hard financial times we are facing at the moment. If these procedures are needed for them to steer tru the hard times then its ok and not for pessimists like you to take advantage and ruin the efforts people have put in over the years to get to this stage.

princewil:

It is really sad. what a humuliation once again - should I even decamp to Chelsea, no wahala sha! I still will neva work alone,

Abeg no decamp, we no need your type ohhhhhhhhhhh. Stay wiyth ur LillyLivered Pools ohh

Haba Bigmodo,

You no wan go norway again? Na unilag now? well nuttin do you.

Na Lag sef I finish. E good as u say u wan prepare early so u go fit make am. Shey na Engr u wan read? no play 4 der ohh? e beta make u hussle go norway or any of those free tuition skools for europe especiaally as u say naija don tire you.

Well, sha I no say even for Lag u fit get opportunities to run AWOL as som of my friends do but e fit affect ur studies well well especially if na crazy department like elect u go fall in for enginneering. No do mistake go engineering 4 lag ohh, but if na der u wan enter u beta get F/Maths and ready to shun social life so u fit read die. If u wan c play , e boku for Lag but na die if u be engr student ohh. If na Sciences u dey go for, carry go nuttin do u.