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How UK Embassy In Nigeria Duped My Students – S Lawal
March 22, 2016 – How UK Embassy In Nigeria Duped My Students – S Lawal
I will like to make a serious complain about the UK embassy.
A Muslim school I work for goes on international excursion every second term of the session.
In 2013, we were in Dubai, 2014, South Africa and 2015, we were in Saudi Arabia.
This year we plan to travel to the United Kingdom.
As usual, we applied and were interviewed.
We were asked for the purpose of our visit, we told them it’s for a 10-day excursion.
We were told to come the following week for a response and to our surprise, we were denied visa.
We appealed the decision was told to re-aaply..we did that and we were not granted again..
My question is this…why did they say we should re-apply when they know they are not going to grant us. Is it because we are Muslims?
This cost us over 3 million naira. These people are professional thieves.
[S Lawal writes from Lagos]
Funsho Odumakin
March 22, 2016 at 3:13 AM
I think it has to do with your travel history.
You said u visited Saudi, Dubai and South Africa.
The first 2 countries u visited are muslim countries, UK will not give u visa PERIOD
TOM
March 23, 2016 at 3:26 PM
Why will they not grant them visa? Meanwhile the Saudi and UAE Nationals have easy access to the UK? So, what is your point?
Pauline bruce
March 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM
Hmmmm,U said u applied for visas for Muslims students on escursion U k and denied. I smell a rat here in the sense that of all places for your so called escursion u were denied the visas. So tell me the benefit of the escursion and what your student would meant from such. How do they raised the fares when 90 percent of students in Nigeria schools got no chairs or tables to sit on. Am sure your are transportin those little ***** to go and study how to make ****. You silly ***!
Metu Nyetu
March 22, 2016 at 5:34 AM
Pauline Bruce you too vex. Haba! What kind of questions are you asking here as if you did not know that many schools in Nigeria today send their students on excursions every year? 90% from poor parents does not deny the remaining 10% from very rich parents anything.
Dan Lagos
March 22, 2016 at 9:53 AM
Mr. Pauline, let me educate you a little especially because you fall amongst those who live with hatred in your heart.Yourcresponse should have been more llogistical but the like of kids like you, you wonder if the country has a future.
1stly, International Tour for students, whose parent can afford it, provide that much needed exposure beyond the classroom, off the shores of the country. Such opportuny give students that lifelong memory and inspires a generation of global citizenship, brespect and tolerance for others. Students gain new perspectives of the world around them, appreciate differences in culture, language, communal settlement, transport system etc.
The end result is that these students come back with renewed enthusiasm for greatness, built confidence in themselves and sometimes create new interest in other professions. These are what makes a general of better leaders in the future.
The genuineness of their tour should have been looked at and not prejudices to the religion, this doesnt create friendship for the country but a confirmation of discrimination and great conspiracy. We understand that it is people like you that are behind such decision. We also have the likes of you in our higher institutions as lecturers who makes this difficult for students because they dont have exposure( local champions).
2ndly, local champions like you who does not see beyond their nose also back act of injustice with dirty filthy words like you asteric above. Whereas all you blacks are thesame to them, they will treat you like shit except you still have something to offer them and when you can no longer, you will know how they feel about you. Michael Jackson said “they dont really care about us”.
Finally, you dont take kids to UK to make bombs, they dont teach it there, its a police country, everywhere you are going would have been booked and train tickets secured. So next time, take your hatred someewhere in the forest and use it to hunt, at least that will benefit mankind, instead of fueling hatreds.
Lazy kids of now adays.
Danti
March 22, 2016 at 5:45 AM
Well, whatever the case, they shouldn’t be telling you to re- apply once they know the outcome. That is stealing!
Olanrewaju
March 22, 2016 at 7:00 AM
Does this mean UK didn’t grant them visa just because they are muslims or coz they’ve visited muslims countries before applying for UK visa????
Yinka
March 23, 2016 at 12:04 AM
That is correct. Right now it is not only the UK . The USA have done it to friend of my despite having a british passport.
The worst part of it is you will be allow to travel to the USA you will be deny entry and you will be put on the next available plane.
Yinka
March 23, 2016 at 12:10 AM
Sorry i should have mention the following
if you have a Muslin Name.
if you have visited countries like Iran,Irag,Afganistan and if you do not have any legitimate reason for visiting.
if you are ask why you are here just don’t say to visit . that answer is not enough.
Ms ERANKO
March 22, 2016 at 7:43 AM
DEAR MADAM MUGU IGANMUSHE ALASALATU AH AH AH
PUT ON MORE HIJAB AND WEAR MORE BLACK ROPE, THEN GO TO SEE YOUR ALAFA AND IMMAM PLEASE KEEP ON APPLYING FOR THE VIZA AGAIN AND AGAIN.
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO GAMBLE WITH YOUR MONEY, THEN VISA WILL BE YOURS IN NO TIME. BECAUSE IF YOU KEEP ON COMPLAININING THE ALLAH WILL NOT LET THEM GIVE YOU THE VISA
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW IS TO GO TO YOUR AALAFFA TO DO THE SAND PRAYER FOR YOU AND YOU SHOULD FAST FOR 1001 DAYS,WITHOUT COMING OUT OF HOUSE .
YOU WILL SEE THAT THE OOYINBO WILL BRING THE WISA TO YOUR HOUSE THE LAST DAY OF YOUR FASTING , AH AH MADA ALASALATU IGANMUSHE VISA.
sola olaniyi
March 22, 2016 at 8:08 AM
idontbelieveit
chyna
March 22, 2016 at 8:24 AM
i know how painful that can be i experienced something close to that
Maryf
March 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM
You want to go to UK and bomb everything you see there? Its impossible, that’s why your request is being denied.
John Emeka
March 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM
Why won’t pple be conscious of u muslim… U pple re a threat 2 any country so thorough care should be taken b4 offering u pple ur desire
John Emeka
March 22, 2016 at 9:42 AM
Muslims re a threat 2 any country, so thorough care should be taken b4 offering u pple ur desires…i don’t blame d embassy self
my lady
March 22, 2016 at 11:27 AM
odikwa egwu
Amazon
March 22, 2016 at 2:03 PM
Why won’t they deny u people visa when your tribe is known for serial killing
Muna
March 22, 2016 at 6:22 PM
I am glad your visa was denied. Students should stay in their country and study. I am a muslim girl but I see something fishy about this so call excursion. Of all the places in Nigeria, you have to be flying children to other countries – to see what? Does learning have to do with seeing south Africa, Saudi and Dubai. These are children of our fellow Nigerian thieves otherwise how can parents afford these expensive trips. These schools are design for thieves, and their children are spoil brats. They know nothing and yet millions are spent..NO UK VISA FOR YOU. YOU HAVE A MOTIVE AND IT IS NOT A SO CALL EXCURSION. Take them to Ghana, its close by, no visa require and there is history of slave trade there..where the white people kept our ancestors before they shipped them to America..if you want your student to learn, that is where you should take them – close to home. Even UK and America people come to see things in our country. FAKE EXCURSION. UK PLEASE DO NOT GRANT THE VISAS.
Dan Lagos
March 23, 2016 at 8:13 AM
Muna, unfortunate that you speak like this and still boastful that you are a Muslim. Learning is everywhere, exposure you cannot underestimate. For your information, the student have been exploring places within and they took it further for those who can afford. remember the hadith that says even if you have to go to china to seek knowledge?
But i can sense your kind of person in you language here, how vehemently sound. Imagine you saying you sense something fishy. I understand you, If you cant have something, or never had the opportunity to, nobody should.
Sorry dear!
Jakusko
March 22, 2016 at 8:33 PM
May be the other countries you visited are better than UK, that is why they deny you the visa. What you would have seen there would have been frustrated black men and women all over the place.
Metu Nyetu
March 22, 2016 at 9:50 PM
Dan Lagos, “take your hatred somewhere in the forest and use it to hunt.” Hahahah. You wan kill me with laughter.
ade eagle
March 23, 2016 at 12:36 AM
lets call a spade a spade why did uk embassy tell them to re-apply knowing they are not going to grant them visa ? UK and all other western countries are all thieves they are all designed to make money by denying people visa and tell them to apply again this is stealing by trick. if Nigerian embassy did this to uk citizens am sure it will be a big issue i have been living in the uk for over 15 years i know them very well