NewStats: 3,264,173 , 8,182,864 topics. Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025 at 02:46 AM s304p

SmartPolician:
The UK has definitely run out of ideas on how to improve their earnings. That's why they are turning to taxing immigrants.

By the way, I was just studying how countries around the world tax their people. I realise that the UK should be the highest in the world.

Honestly, I hail Nigerians who live in the UK. How can someone cope in a country where you can pay income tax of about 45% coming from a country where you pay peanuts in taxes?

You don't pay 45% on all the money.

Is it feasible to use an hybrid TTR in Nigeria without much wahala? Pls I'd love to know

Fortissimo:


I've wondered about the speaking / confessing part. Cos I'm sure God doesn't preclude dumb people from salvation.

Good thoughts bro, I believe for them believing will be just enough as God in his mercies is a just God.

sunkieisland:
Salvation is just two steps.



Romans 10:9-10

believe in your heart and confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth.


#Lobatan

You are correct about the scripture, however it's still a single step, the believing in the heart and confessing with the mouth happens simultaneously as one step. In the Greek it's called "homologia" more like to say the same thing in two places.

In clearer it means when you say that God raised Christ from the dead and you really believe it, you are saved.

My interest is to discourage the man made "steps". The power of salvation is with the one who saves! Creating steps for people shifts the attention to the sinner and not the Savior.

There is just one step to salvation!

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Every other thing you have mentioned is good, but they are not steps to salvation.

xage:


Whatever the west feeds down ur throat is delicious without second thought

Has obama,cameron,and their counterpart been prosecuted for egypt collapse?

If I could stone at america british russia war plane to drop on second basis I will

Bush still roam d street after murdering millions in iraq

Stop one way mentality of slavery and gullibility,unfortunately this is perculia to xtians otherwise they won't lie down to be stepped upon by their pastors

Humans can be gullible, christians, moslems atheists alike. It's not proper to claim gullibility is peculiar to christians, except you don't see suicide bombers as being gullible also.

bmdflo:
I applied for 2 courses, processes of sustainable energetics and mechatronics, but the interview is scheduled for mechatronics by 3:00 2mao, I got positive evaluation for sustainable energetics too, @ Tobzy, when did u pay and which course did u apply u for?

You will be asked about your bachelors, most likely your undergraduate thesis, Prof Tamre may also like to ask about your knowledge of programming, control instrumentation and other related fields, he may want you to state the relationship between your current workplace and the course (Mechatronics). If you have any publications, he may want to know more about your research experience, and finally he may ask why estonia and ask if you are able to your study financially. Please be at rest, he is a nice person and very calm. I wish you all the best, enjoy your interview.

The Thing at Dambazau’s Feet is You!

By Pius Adesanmi

Nigerian, you have by now seen a viral video of Nigeria’s interior Minister, Abdulrahman Dambazau, turning “a DSS officer” into a sobata during a public function. If you do not know who or what a sobata is, it means you are too young and you came to adulthood on Facebook and Twitter. Sobata was the ambulant Ghanaian shoemaker, shoe repairer, or shoe shiner who took care of my “back to school” bata shoes during my primary and secondary school days. If you were an ajebutter whose hand writing was cursive, you called those shoes “cortiner”. A Ghanaian sobata is a significant element in the social history of Nigeria in the 1970s and the 1980s.
The dust of Kaduna was unfriendly to Dambazau’s loafers. He sits down and the world is treated to yet another tragic spectacle of the dehumanization of a Nigerian citizen by a member of Nigeria’s contemptible power elite. “The DSS officer” cleans one shoe, Dambazau stretches his second leg for the same cleaning operation to be performed on his second shoe. He does not spare even a glance for the “thing” bent at his feet, cleaning his shoe.
That thing at Dambazau’s feet, that thing wiping Dambazau’s shoes to a mirror shine in full public glare, has an identity. That thing is called the Nigerian citizen. Unfortunately, that is the only part of this sordid affair that has transcendental validity: the fact that the Nigerian is a thing, an inconsequential thing in the presence of the men and women of power we generally throw into the patriarchal category of the “big man” in Nigeria.
The dehumanizing power of this Nigerian big man was made evident when the mere evocation of his existence by a junior officer on national TV led to Nigeria’s most celebrated assault on cyber language: dawbliyu dawbliyu dawbliyu sneeze dot sneeze dot NSCDC dot sneeze dot dazzol.
To evoke the existence of your Oga at the top in Nigeria is to lose the capacity for speech and coherence and that is the first step to becoming a thing cleaning his or her shoes in public.
It bears repeating: the fact that the Nigerian is a thing thingified by Oga at the top is the only certain aspect of the Dambazau scenario. After this fact, every other thing is sadly and tragically…Nigerian!
Let me explain. You would have noticed that I am putting “DSS officer” in quote when describing the thing wiping Dambazau’s shoes. I am doing that because this is Nigeria. And the first thing to learn about Nigeria is that illegality, abnormality, or illogicality is never an only child. Nigeria is not one to sire illogicality in isolation. Illogicality is always born as one of quintuplets or sextuplets in Nigeria.
For instance, everyone thinks they see a DSS officer because the thing in suit wiping Dambazau’s shoes has a revolver bulging from his side pocket. But nothing confirms that the thing is a DSS officer. This is Nigeria. Any range of illegalities is possible.
He could be a DSS officer indeed.
He could be a police officer not in uniform
He could be an overzealous Dambazau aide carrying that weapon illegally.
He could be Dambazzau’s brother in-law carrying that weapon illegally.
He could be the nephew of Dambazau’s cousin’s uncle carrying that weapon illegally.
Whoever, sorry, whatever that thing is, it has opened our eyes to the trouble with you, Nigerian. We already know the trouble with Dambazau and his ilk – the Nigerian big man. It is true that Dambazau and people like him are arrogant jackasses. Their psychology is atrocious. They treat Nigerians like shit; their wives treat Nigerians like dung; their girlfriends, concubines, and assorted pre-pubescent mistresses treat Nigerians like garbage.
We know all of that already. What you often do not it is that Dambazau’s psychology of dehumanization is a function of your own psychology of self-abnegation. I have been laughing bitterly since I first encountered mass reactions to Dambazau’s savagery.
My first point of with it was on the wall of a brother who is a close aide to Ekitigate Governor, Ayo Fayose. Supremely blind to the irony of it all, this aide takes umbrage at the situation and condemns the sordid spectacle. An aide, who would gladly wipe Fayose’s anus in public, is condemning another aide for wiping the shoe of his principal in public? Which Nigerian serving a man of power as a political aide would consider such tasks undignifying and beyond the call of duty?
That Nigerian wiping Dambazau’s shoes is you. That is how you, Nigerian, behave in the presence of your men and women of power. Obscene self-nullification because of your men of power is second nature to you. Given the chance to wipe Dambazau’s shoes, practically all of you forming indignation in public will do it to gain access to “those who matter”. This is self-abnegation beyond compare.
More than our struggle against corruption, the most daunting struggle we have is the struggle to restore the human dignity of the Nigerian – with the said Nigerian in the driver’s seat of that process. You cannot restore human dignity to a man whose every instinct is to dehumanize himself in the presence of the big man. You cannot restore human dignity to a woman whose every instinct is to dehumanize herself in the presence of the big man.
If you have ever been in the company of a Governor, of a Minister, of Senator, etc, and see what Nigerians reduce themselves to – no matter how humble and humane the said man of power is – you will understand what I am talking about. I wince in pain all the time in such situations – to see what my countrymen and women reduce themselves to in the presence of His or Her Excellency.
The day I left Ake Festival, I couldn’t wait for Lola Shoneyin’s arrangements to get me to Lagos. I was in a hurry. I had appointments in Lagos before catching my flight back to Ottawa. Lola had wanted me to remain in Abeokuta to help her host a certain mutual friend who was on his way to Ake from Kaduna that day. I had other plans for Lagos.
As I tried to make arrangements to get to Lagos behind Lola’s back, my friend, Kadaria Ahmed, and I spoke back and forth about my trip to Lagos. Then Kadaria had a bright idea: “why don’t you kuku just wait and hitch a ride to Lagos with your friend?” I thought about it and we phoned “my friend’s” protocol people to let them know that I’d be hitching a ride back to Lagos with him. Arrangement concluded.
Then I thought about all I needed to do in Lagos and decided I couldn’t wait for “my friend” to finish his own session at Ake. I told Professor Rem Raj and Remy Binte Oge to drive me to the motor park in Abeokuta where I chartered a car to take me to Lagos.
I had just shunned a free ride to Lagos in the car of a Nigerian state Governor because our schedules were incompatible that day. When I got to Lagos and told the folks I had rushed to meet that I couldn’t afford to wait for the Governor’s lift because of the things we had to do, they all looked at me in horror, convinced that I needed urgent intervention by the combined deliverance offices of Pastors Enoch Adeboye, David Oyedepo, T.B. Joshua, and Chris Oyakhilome.
When he finally caught his breath, one of the friends I had rushed to meet – I had given them an airport appointment – screamed, “Pius I’ve always known that you’re crazy but I didn’t know that you crossed the market already! What is so important that you couldn’t wait for the ride of a state Governor? In Nigeria? Ori ogbeni yi ti daru o!” The consensus was that I would have served them better by “connecting them” than rushing to Lagos for my appointment with them.
I didn’t know where to start. I didn’t know how to start telling them that a state Governor’s human dignity is not more equal than their own human dignity. In fact, to the extent that they occupy the office of citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, they should consider their time more precious than the time of the public servant whose ride I did not wait to take. Do you think that if given the chance, those guys would not wipe Dambazau’s shoes in public?
I thought I was alone in this business of believing that my time as an ordinary citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is more important than the time of those elected to serve me as public servants; I thought I was alone in believing that President Buhari’s human dignity is not more equal than Forganaisa Lamidi’s human dignity; I thought I was alone in thinking that Forganaisa Lamidi should not be driven off the roadside just because President Buhari is in the neighbourhood until I encountered the ultimate teachable moment in the action of Citizen Tope Fasua.
Citizen Tope Fasua is a Nigerian patriot after my heart. I have been working with him on the pan-Nigerian project for a very long time. He is an exemplary citizen. Like many who ed President Buhari’s election, he also got an invitation to the dinner party that was said to have been organized by folks close to Mrs Aisha Buhari to thank social media ers of her husband.
When citizen Tope Fasua got to the designated pick-off venue where invitees had been instructed to assemble for the bus trip to the Villa, he discovered, as usual, that the Nigerian state had made arrangements that were beneath the dignity of a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Because of the Nigerian government’s irredeemable culture of contempt for the Nigerian citizen, they had provided only one bus to ferry the invitees, all important ordinary Nigerians, to the Villa. Tope would have none of that treatment – not even from the Presidency. He exchanged banter with those waiting for the single bus and drove away. In his of this incident, Tope Fasua also indicated that he had very important things to do.
My iration of this Nigerian shot through the roof. At every instance of your with power, you must always that your dignity is paramount. You human dignity as citizen is the number one reason Nigeria exists.
If the Villa can get away with it, she will ask hundreds of you to gather at a point and send just one bus several hours late to fetch you. That is the nature of power. You have to insist on your dignity so that she behaves better.
If Dambazau can get away with it, you will always clean his shoes. Let’s face it, one aide or a handful of aides will never be able to confront Dambazau and tell him to his face that he is the jackass I believe he is. He is probably using his domestic staff for duties that could make him a candidate for The Hague – violating their dignity and human rights. They will never be able to confront him.
Only a mass culture of hostility to their psychology of dehumanization will make the Dambazaus of this world wake up and smell the coffee. We have to grow such a mass culture in our daily encounters with the actors of the Nigerian state.
You and I know that Dambazau should be sacked from President Buhari’s cabinet immediately for that scandalous video. But you and I also know that no Nigerian Presidency has ever respected the Nigerian people enough to act on things like this unless it becomes a national scandal they can no longer ignore.
You and I know that Dambazau and the Villa will ignore this video for as long as they are able to ignore it.
Nigerian, the path to your dignity starts with making this issue impossible for President Buhari and Dambazau to ignore.
Until Dambazau is sacked, you, Nigerian, are the thing beneath his feet.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153518700941715&id=602736714

The only way anyone can carry a document as big as our budget from the National Assembly is to come dressed like this

gulfer:
Please what brand of paracetamol has the IL inscribed on it, the manufacturer should be reported to NAFDAC Asap.

I guess it's TL, if it is then it's Tuyil pharmaceutical Industry

Lol

Oro!

sobastical:



You can't use two s ke, it's either your or your sponsor's . anything from 300k and above will do for personal but for sponsor you know the rest....hehe

I think it's not forbidden to use two s, some people did, just that it's important to show income from a legal source and be sure it meets minimum requirement

jidesam168:
Pls, like how much do u think I must have in my for d ission and visa processing, and how much must be in my sponsors . Thanks

The emphasis for processing Estonian visa is not your balance, but the regularity of income from a legal source (eg salary) over the past six months. you should check the authority's Web page for adequate info

https://www.politsei.ee/en/teenused/residence-permit/tahtajaline-elamisluba/oppimiseks/oluline-info-oppimiseks-elamisloa-taotlejale.dot#legaalne

jidesam168:
Pls people that are already in estonia is it true the level of racism over there is high, and pls is there job for student to compliment there living expenses

It's easier to find a yoruba man or Igbo man making jest of a hausa man than to find an Estonian throwing racist remarks at a black man, there sure are issues around racism and stuffs like that, but they aren't frequent let alone high, you are safe if you wanna come. There are also jobs to compliment, if by Job you don't mean working for shell or chevron, if you just wanna start small and just 'compliment', then there are jobs. All the best

kenigbolo:


Totally up to you to Bro....... Wouldn't have hurt to update the house that you arrived Estonia safely or that you got your visa hassle free. I see it more like a testimony and an encouragement for the others who plan to embark on the long trip next year

I and uzhi and couple of other guys did that already bro

kenigbolo:
Almost everybody who came to India and are on this forum have collected thier visas and even left India, I wonder why none of them have said anything yet. The few who are left would get thiers between Monday and lastest by Tuesday. Anyways I've gotten mine but I'm in no rush to leave Delhi just yet :-) intending to leave on Sunday or Monday all things being equal. It was visa galore on Wednesday as over 10 of us were issued our visas

What else do you want us to say baba?

What's the temperature of the leg? How did you measure it? With what did you measure it? When and where did you measure it?

bolig:
@felix congrats sir, I am also going to share d same testimony by next week & so sha be 4 everyone on this tread

Amen oooo thanks bro!

sobastical:


Bro, am sorry for the misquoting.. apologies please... and congrats on your new visa see you soon in estonia though i still dey naija o

I understand Sobastical, it's all in the defence of our thread, I'm not crossed! Don't worry, I've been through it and I can assure you that with God it's easy, see you at Estonia!

Rubbers:
@sobastical i think you are misunderstanding him. He means thats the question he was asked by the VO

Thanks to you!

sobastical:



Oh goodness, am so sorry for the misunderstanding

It's fine, I wish you all the best, I got my schengen visa today. God has been faithful! To Him alone be all the praise and glory

sobastical:




What you mean by why estonia?

Why did you choose estonia for your studies?
Why not somewhere else?

bolig:
Hello people a big thank you as all your efforts will surely be rewarded IJN. Bro, were u asked any question concerning the trp as my interview is scheduled for the 10th of August also what s the living expense in India like? A quick review of that would help a lot

Just one question : why estonia

Cost of living, hotel should be around 1000 rupees for a decent one, u can get for 650 but I don't know how decent those ones are, transport is affordable too and food depends on u and what u eat. All the best.

Disclaimer : My experience may be different from yours! Thanks

Jidi:

I want ask you these questions concerning the long stay visa:
1. Cost of travelling and living during the applicant's stay is covered: How do I estimate this value?
2. Means of ? Any restrcition to the amount of cash that one can take to Estonia? Traveller's cheques?Prepaid accommodation?Prepaid transport?

Thanks for your response.

Please check the police website I gave earlier, the exact amount they require is stated there, I don't have the figures off hand

Jidi:


Hello Clefcentfelix, I congratulate you. I want to know how long the D-visa took before you were issued. God willingly I might be in New Delhi nextweek.

It will be issued next week Monday, I applied last week Friday.

nairaspace:



Hello,

If i can , uzhi stated the best to use is aiico insurance. That is what my cousin bought. #31800 for 1 yr and it covers 30,000euro per requirement.

Also, i will keep you all updated after his interview scheduled for this week.


for those of us that dont know about this - incase you have an expired annex 4, you can call you school and they will re-issue updated annex 4 in less than an hour after you call them.

Thank you.

Uzhi's advice was regarding travel insurance, not the one year insurance, Uzhi is also using Swiss care

Afeti:



Which insurance did you purchase and what was the mode of payment? Trying to buy one from Swiss Care, but my visa debit card is not being processed.

Swiss care, you probably need to activate your card for international transactions or online transactions ur bank will help, speak with them

omitobi:
Abeg oooo How many days Visa does Estonia Embassy give to People going to ESTONIA TO STUDY?

It depends on ur travel plans, all they are trying to do now is to give visa that lasts exactly to the point at which ur Trp will be ready. Take for instance I applied for Trp and visa on 24th of July, but I won't be going to Estonia until like 23rd of august, it usually takes about 2 months to process trp. So they will only give me like one month visa, as that's all I need my visa becomes needless once trp is out.

But their schengen visa is different from Indian visa, in that it has validity and duration, meaning that even though my duration maybe one month, the validity can be for instance 3rd of August till maybe sometimes in October so that my visa starts counting only on the day immigration stamps my port that I've entered estonia, this is done to allow flexible traveling plan.

In short you don't have to bother ur self about duration of visa they are giving you, they are smart people and they will give you just what you need. All the best brov

nairaspace:


Nice. were you offered recently or a while back. He is still on the wait list. Hopefully he gets a soon.

thanks and congrats!!

I was offered on 6th of July, thanks bro

nairaspace:



lol! Ok. Offer of accommodation? TTU didn't send any accommodation offer to my cousin! though he applied for it. Will just tell him to print the application.

If you are attending TTU, which of the houses did you apply to.
He applied for - Akadeemia tee 5 and Siidisaba 7

I applied for akadeemia tee5 I was offered a room

nairaspace:


Thank you Jolly Friend. How did you go about accommodation because that is the only thing needed/not clear enough. Is it hotel booking,hostel booking or what exactly.

Thank you.

Lol @ jolly friend
But actually
My school offered me hostel accommodation, all I just did was to print out the mail of the offer.