Information from the British Council on Thursday noted that Nigerians will now pay the sum of N107,500 for academic International English Language Testing System examinations from September 2023, The PUNCH reports.

Originally, the United Kingdom requires the citizens of any country willing to relocate to the UK for work or study opportunities to take the IELTS.

The cost of the test, which currently stands between N80,000 and N90,000 in Nigeria, is almost three times the country’s minimum wage of N30,000.

But the council noted that the hike was necessary to sustain the high quality of standards for the “testing experience.”
“Dear valued Test Taker, We would like to inform you that effective from 1 September 2023, there will be a price increase for IELTS tests offered by the British Council.

“The new prices will be NGN 107,500 for IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training, NGN 116.000 for UK Visas and Immigration and NGN 104,000 for Life Skills.”

It added, “The new prices are necessary to sustain the high-quality of standards for your testing experience.”

“Thank you for choosing the British Council,” a terse message on the council’s statement read.

The PUNCH reports that the UK remains one of the choicest destinations for Nigerians seeking better learning opportunities and way of life in foreign countries, with many opting for the education visa route and also taking dependants along to the UK.

In the 2020-21 academic year, 21,305 Nigerian students were enrolled in UK universities. This represents an almost 64 per cent increase from the 2019-20 figure.

As of September 2021, only two other countries, China and India, were sending more students to the UK than Nigeria.

Enrolments from Nigeria spiked from 12,820 in 2016-17 to 21,305 in 2020-21 to 44,195 in 2021-22.

Among all nationalities, Nigerians represented the largest relative increase in sponsored study visa grants, which reached a record high of 65,929, a nearly 700 per cent increase from 2019 and a 222.8 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2021.

Data from the Home Office of the UK in May also revealed that 66,796 dependant visas were issued to families of Nigerian students who obtained study visas from March 2022 to March 2023.

Source: https://punchng.com/just-in-nigerians-to-pay-n107500-for-ielts-from-september-2023/

Africa my Africa
When will thou waketh from slumber?
When will thou be truly free from the shackles of slavery?
Could it be this is actually how God designed us to be?
Are we actually sub-humans as they claimed?
Could there ever be a day that the blacks would dictate tunes to the world?
Who shall reset our senses back to the precolonial era?

You colonized ppl, enforced your language on them, they adopted it as their official language, yet they have to pay for you to confirm if they can truly speak the language.

Yet they keep rushing in their thousands paying the slave master so as to be accessed if truly they understand the language. Not seeing anything wrong in this anomaly because the master says the slave must pay.

Congratulating one another on a successful migration to the colonial master's land, continuing the latest version of servicing that our fathers couldn't complete.

Only God knows when our forefathers would stop weeping for us in the life beyond.

jacobs2015:
Africa my Africa
When will thou waketh from slumber?
When will thou be truly free from the shackles of slavery?
Could it be this is actually how God designed us to be?
Are we actually sub-humans as they claimed?
Could there ever be a day that the blacks would dictate tunes to the world?
Who shall reset our senses back to the precolonial era?

You colonized ppl, enforced your language on them, they adopted it as their official language, yet they have to pay for you to confirm if they can truly speak the language.

Yet they keep rushing in their thousands paying the slave master so as to be accessed if truly they understand the language. Not seeing anything wrong in this anomaly because the master says the slave must pay.

Congratulating one another on a successful migration to the colonial master's land, continuing the latest version of servicing that our fathers couldn't complete.

Only God knows when our forefathers would stop weeping for us in the life beyond.

Sadly this will continue... I encourage any Nigerian planning to leave this country to do so.... Go out there to a place that values human life.

I have never seen a country that like to rip other like this British, very greed and corny folks.
Am beginning to dislike them.

Tufiakwa

We die here in Nigeria

Wahala dey o

Omo if I write this exam come fail
I fit commit suicide 😅

96500...i shaperly paid

Two years validity..sigh

Now you begin to wonder, why the use of english as a subject in both our primary, secondary and tertiary institutions....

I no blame lagos wey dey use their language now for HA....

I hate UK Die

Test wey boiz dey run for 75k then..nawa oo..if not that Canadian pr residence no dey accept academic wetin concern me with another ielts now i gats cough out 107×2

maybe its time nigerians start advocating to be taken out of this list of countries that require IELTS.

we are in the common wealth and still have to prove we speak english.