NewStats: 3,263,949 , 8,182,045 topics. Date: Monday, 09 June 2025 at 12:13 AM 4w5y

sylokobi:


Please how much did it cost from Edmonton to Lagos?

I can't specifically but I think it was a little over CAD100

Someone collected mine and sent it thru DHL, so I was keeping track of it until it got to my hands.

juicebox:
Hello guys

Please for those that did a soft landing and has their PR cards sent to them. Please what’s the best way to have ur PR card sent to Nigeria?

Ifeoma77:


This is interesting, I think the Ifeoma in your list is impersonating me
Tell her to sign into NL while you watch

Good girl Loud the disclaimer.

@etrange, we can see through that attempt at famzing and we are not buying it. "Ify" koor, Ifiam ni. But rest assured, we will help you lookout and pray for your own match.

Topsmamen:


Lol Estac . Now that @raphrulz is out of the way, what do we do about Mr. @etrange?

@Topsmamen, Don't worry bro, you know I gatchu

Bia @etrange, I understand you are attempting to embark on a FAILED MISSION. Even the attempt itself is dead on arrival. Henceforth, you and all peoplefolk ( (male and female alike cos these days, you never know ) are hereby warned to desist from harbouring any romantic thoughts or feelings, and from expressing such ill-advised notions of romance about @ifeoma77.

Proviso: This warning does not apply to @Topsmamen. Bro, you are free to harbour and express as much as you want. Ifeoma has been well-advised to receive and welcome them from you alone.

Congrats @ifeoma.77. I am so happy for you and you're one big inspiration on selflessness. You more than deserve this.

PS. You matchmakers should leave ifeoma for @Topsmam.men Biko. ( I did not fail to notice that "congratulations my darling" that Topsmam dropped earlier. My butterflies are still turniontheirown). That match has been signed sealed and delivered. No offence @prof raph, ur match still de front.

ladymarshall:
Seriously, this thing you just said crossed my mind o when Prof said he will slide in... I was like, cool, and they're both single... XOXO.

Chai!!! Canadian PPR Nairaland babies The story will be sweet.

"Mummy, daddy, how did you both meet?"

Prof: "It was in the aftermath of announcing our PPR on nairaland that fateful year that I decided to connect with your mother..."
...
Let me comman be going

Newmum0615:
What I did was buy the Onion/chicken flavor. For the ones that went in my luggage, I removed them from their packets and put them in ziploc bags. I then wrapped them well with newspaper and cellotape. The ones in cargo went with their packs. I didn't declare it though. If I correctly, it was only my dried fish and dried scent leaves I declared on the card. Indomie is not chicken or meat product per se. My bags were not searched in Nigeria or Canada either, so I can't say if they would have had a problem with it.

Thanks a lot

Newmum0615:
MY LANDING STORY…a long one.

Lovely place we got. I just enter kitchen arrange Indomie noodles with dry fish make man pikin chop hold

Thanks @Newmum0615. As usual expectations sured. God bless and prosper you and your loved ones indeed.
Biko, did you déclaré your indomie as per "chicken product" or chicken-d something sha. This matter has been giving me sleepless night

I see what you did there and I love your sense of humor. Please post it! Some of us have been waiting for it. #lemmegoandwearmychristmasclothandgrabachilledbottleofmalt

Newmum0615:
Is Oga number 13 around?

I want to post something.

blessings2017:


Note that:
1. No 2 cases are same as facts and circumstances of a case matter in arriving at a judgment.
2. Readers should not consider this as a legal advice but rather as a personal opinion.

The caveats... LawyerSpeak is not complete without these. Weldone sis/bro

sistaj:

Les congolais aussi . Je plaisante

j'étais sur le point de le dire

Your views sir, are representative of biblical headship and I have to say sir, that you are a representation of manhood.

If start to drop my two-two cents, POF go finish. But I will only add that "submission" or what is like to call respect (in its deepest and most profound form) comes naturally to a woman who is loved (sincerely, unconditionally and yes, sacrificially) and treated right. It is a natural bi-product of a loving and trusting relationship.

Submission, like respect cannot be "demanded" but earned. It's not something that is earned merely by acquiring the title "husband" or by having a phallus (borrowing the word from a poster). A woman will naturally submit to someone she trusts -- trust to understand, consider and more importantly, PROTECT her in all of his decisions/dealings. A woman will let down her guard for, and defer to any man she KNOWS will protect her, no matter what.

Sirs, I understand how important submission is to a man. But you also don't want forced or pretend "submission", the type that leads to marital collapse once the woman finds an escape route. You want the submission that is willingly given, from a place of a woman's trust.

DaddyTheFather:




Guy...your Mrs and my Mrs must have been made on the same day by the same able God. Woman that you know you can die today and your kids will be fine. I greet you sir.

Seriously though, the Bible talk say I be head and I see myself as the head. But the head of an organisation is the chief servant. A president answers to the people. A true head is not afraid of challenge, because it means you must be certain of the direction you want the ship to take, so that when that woman that is every bit as capable as you asks you to explain yourself, your answer will be something more articulate than "don't question the head".

Una wey dey form undisputed head, Sha that once you claim that title, you become the lowest servant of all. Maybe think about that before you start carrying chest and doing manly posture...

Obtay:


Congratulation..Realy don't know TBH.Trying to figure it out how it works

My PPR email also did not specify any visa office to submit to, I just took it to VFS and they shipped it to Accra. I think you and @onyeenyeh should do the same thing.

mimimum:
Can you help with details please? Jumia has shown me pepper one too many times, I don't want to go and buy rubbish.

This is my order detail

It's the white one with Jumia global on it. But I found some local listings for it too so I didn't buy it as Jumia global.

mimimum:
Beautiful story. We await your return. Do fast and come and give oga small heat abeg.

At the bolded: I need to buy the weighing scale too. Which of the ones in the attached Jumia pics below is the one you bought? I need to be sure I am buying a good one.

You mean several for the road

princesschuks:



Yes na.
One for the road

Oga Salford, you are right on both counts.

salford1:

Cough cough. Enjoying snow or "show"....Canadian baby loading...
Na joke i dey ooo

My stale landing gist. Plz pardon any typos cos I typed this out on my phone.

I've been meaning to write about my landing but work and Lagos traffic no give me time. Let me just rush this one here quick.

We're a family of 5 but hubby and I decided that he should go first without us and try and find his feet before the rest of us him. But as PA, I had to land with him. So we booked Ethiopian Airways for sat Nov 24. Him one-way and me return. I took just one week off work to make the trip.

The journey was long and uneventful. We had no excess luggage issues seeing as only one person was staying behind. Got to the airport at about 11am for a 1.40pm flight and went Straight to check-in our luggage. I had bought a small pocket size travel scale off Jumia the week before for about 3.5k and the scale was surprisingly accurate. Completed check-in formalities and soon after we started boarding.

The flight from nigeria to Addis Ababa was FULL.(Nigerians Una too like waka) About half of the engers were Dubai-bound. In-flight entertainment was OK (not great). The flight was for a little over 5hrs and we arrive Addis Ababa at about 9pm (7pm Nigerian time). Layover was about 2 hrs. Addis Ababa airport (and indeed all other airports I've been in) is an improvement from MMIA. Free Wi-Fi available and WORKING. (MMIA had free Wi-Fi too sha, I connected but it was not working.) spent my layover gisting with my kids and other family via whatsapp.

Shortly after, we boarded next aircraft to Toronto with a one hour stop in Dublin. This flight was about 30% full (thankfully ). We were like one enger to 3 seats so yours truly just converted the seats to bed and took off with wizkid in my ears to la-la land. We stopped at Dublin 7hrs later and the flight crew changed (maybe also refueled, I don't know ) but we didn't get off the plane.

We resumed the 8hr journey to Toronto afterwards. We were served meals at least 3x, maybe 4x on this flight by the time we got to Toronto. Arrived Toronto at about 7am Sunday (thanks to timezone), filled one landing card and went to the queue to submit our COPR. there were just 3 officers on duty at the time, 2 female and a male. An Indian family of 4 before us was grilled by one of the female officers and asked to show POF. Abeg make una keep una POF just in case. The male officer turned down an asylum seeker, an African lady but I don't know weda she naija babe. She cried and begged but Na lie. He felt bad about it afterwards and his female colleagues castigated him for being a softie and being moved by her tears. They firmly assured him that he did the right thing. I also witnessed airport security arrest one guy, it's like he presented false papers. Anyway enuf amebo.

Soon it got to our turn. I had prayed to be sent to the male officer as he seemed to have a "heart". I Kukuma got him. He looked at our copr,asked if we had kids (before then, I didn't realize that our kids were noted on our copr sef), I quickly said yes, he asked why they're not with us, I told him I still have commitments in Nigeria and will be returning. He asked when are they coming and I told him. He seemed satisfied and asked us to take a seat. 10mins later he called us to sign our copr and gave us a form for changing our address for PR card cos we told him we had a temporary address (airbnb ). He dinor now say Welcome to Canada (when his mates were receiving training on how to receive new immigrants, he was playing candy crush, nonsense). Spent about an hour and half here.

Anyways, we left him and proceeded to baggage claim. By this time, our bags were one of the very few left there. We picked them up and went to check them into our last flight to Edmonton which departs at 10am. Got to Edmonton and was picked up by a family friend who took us to her house and welcomed us with poundo yam and correct ogbono soup. She also prepared rice and stew for us as takeaway to our airbnb.

So we had booked an airbnb for 5 nights ahead of the trip. The location of the airbnb was just awesome, the host was great and helpful. It was a two bedroom flat shared with the host who is a bachelor. Our room was ensuite with a walk-in closet. The house was really clean with a great view of the city. The location of the airbnb was so good that we spent Monday to Wednesday walking everywhere to get stuff done. Got SIN, SIM, ed for health card, library card, discounted bus etc.

We were also house hunting for a one bedroom shared or bachelor apartment for hubby during this time knowing that we needed to exit our airbnb by Friday noon. The options were either too far from downtown or above our budget. On Thursday, we strolled to a new immigrant center located 10mins walk away from our airbnb. We were attended to by a nice Cameroonian who gave us lots of information and hooked hubby up with a at Breding. When we mentioned our house hunting challenges, he just put a call to a cousin of his who owns houses and rent rooms to people and just like that, problem solved. Viewed the available room that day, paid the landlord (he doesn't live there but comes around) and moved in the next day Friday.

My return flight was scheduled for 12.20am Saturday which meant I was to leave the house on Friday night. But ya girl carry Saturday for head as departure date and rocked Friday night away. Only to wake up on Saturday morning to google reminder of my trip. Trip that has since taken off while I was enjoying snow. I spent the whole of Saturday morning booking for another flight (Chai I suffered o). I finally secured a flight for Saturday evening but Na hubby survival money suffer am. That's how I lost my almost N300k becos Canada sweet me.

I arrived Lagos on Monday afternoon, instead of Sunday which was my original itinery. But thank God I arrived safely. I landed Lagos and somewhat regretted our decision to stagger our landing. After living the easy life for just one week, I no wan do Lagos again. I sat thru last night's episode of Lagos traffic for over 3 hours telling myself "you could have been in Edmonton now but just Lukatiu". Anyway, now I can't wait to go back home.

Did access bank give more than 4000 USD as PTA?

eclectic139:


Have tried getting PTA? Access Bank gave PTA for PR in June. You have to be about 2 weeks from your travel date or so. If its not too late that could also help.

Newmum0615:
That green building abi?

Yeah

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Yes you can. I know of someone who did exactly that with no problem

nanaghano:
Please can I pay for IOM medicals via internet banking to their standard chartered . Thinking of paying and ing my receipt as proof, as I am coming from outside Lagos and there's no standard chartered where I reside. Thanks.

Newmum0615:
Where in Yaba please? Can you help with location and phone number perhaps? Do they have for kids as well?

Yes, they have for kids. I didn't get the shoes sellers number, but if u call Amarachi Winter (I shared his earlier) he can take you to the shoe sellers. One of them is 2 shops away from Amarachi and the other is not too far from him either. They're all in a block of shops parallel to the railway tracks but upstairs.

jelmusboy:
Are there winter boots at Yaba?

yes. I got the coloured boots (female) for 5k each and the black ones (male) for 8k each. I saw much better ones on my first trip but didn't have enuf cash at the time.

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I will the bottoms when I have a minute. I couldn't get any thermal tops tho. Seems thermal tops are scarce at Yaba.

jelmusboy:
Could you please the picture of the thermal wear you got? Couldn't get it where I went to

Luce:


Is it possible to get a price range please. First time buyer, so I need a reference range to price from. Thanks.

I bought adult jackets between 2.5k -3.5k and kids jackets between 1.5-2k. Alot depends on your bargaining power and the grade and quality of the jacket.
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emeify:
@einsteino, pls can u share the of d person u bought d thermals and winter jackets from at yaba? Thanks

,U can also try this guy, Amarachi Winter +234 803 623 8196. I've made 2 trips to yaba and both times I ended up buying at his shop cos he has top grade items esp on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Great personality too.

He collects 6k. He usually hangs around Lagos Island but you can call him to come to your office or meet you somewhere. He will bring the form to you. He doesn't work at Alagbon but he is well known there.

Distinct777:
Thanks for this. Please how much does he charge and is he at alagbon too?

wasseynewest:
Pls kind avail me the inspector moshood's number abeg. My mail is [email protected]

You can also this guy, Mr. Patrick ( 0809 924 0129, 0803 474 1420). He did for me and my spouse and I already have COPR. He does vehicle papers for everyone in my office and does PCC for all of us EE folks and international students too.

Hobyno:
Please help a brother my wife is intending to evaluate her law degree via IQAS but need to know if it is viewed as 2 cert or more or does she need to also submit her law school cert too

It's not "2 or more certs" but it is assessed as a "first professional degree". This will give you the same points as masters degree.

Also, you can save at least 10k per ticket if you book through the Ethiopian airways app as opposed to booking via their website

rainazoe:

Make your reservation and obtain the code. Then pay online via GTB ticketing service.