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VTJN:
is Geography degree relevance in Canada and UK?

Any course is relevant and can take you anywhere in Canada, depending on your vision, your mentor and your hunger. In the UK, Naija education and experience mean nothing to them.

SocialJustice:
Thanks a lot. I guess I'll remove UK from my plans and focus on Canada.

Please can you be more detailed with the financial opportunities in numbers - potential earnings.

Entering into the UK is so much easier than Canada. The last time I tried Canada, they said I have no travel history after gaining admission into University of Regina.

The process of coming to Canada through schooling also takes almost a year, even skilled FedEx entry takes that long too. Maybe I'll try with the tourist visa too.

Yes, but you will get a Permanent Residence in Canada with the Express Entry from day one while it will take you 4-7 years to get its UK equivalent, Indefinite Leave.



Let me give you examples of earnings between the UK and Canada.

In the UK, qualified teachers earn between £27,000-34, 000. In Ontario, Canada, they earn $CAD 90-110, 000.

Nurses in Canada earn about two-three times more than their UK counterparts.

Doctors in many places in Canada earn over $350,000. In the UK, it’s less than £70,000.

New Lecturers in the UK earn £30-45,000. Starting rank for their counterparts in Canada is Assistant Professor and they start with $95,000-125,000 depending on the field or area of specialism.

Of course, these are median rates and salaries, and the £ is stronger than the CAD$. Both pay different taxes.

The most important thing is that it takes some time to settle into these societies depending on who is mentoring or guiding you.

Some of these jobs may require you to get licensed and will the process will depend on your dedication and how fast you can push.


Accountants who come to Canada from Nigeria can start AML Analyst and Business Analyst roles pending when they are licensed to go for full accounting jobs. These roles pay anywhere between $50-95,000, depending on your experience and who is guiding you.


In my years in the UK, many Naija UK graduates and students were happy working in ASDA, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s, doing security jobs, carer e.t.c. These include MSC, LLM and PhD holders from great UK universities.

Since, I came to Canada. I have watched tens of Nigerians come from banks and the streets in many local places in Naija to start bank jobs...I am yet to see ANY except those just coming in today and refugee claimants do the jobs that Naija people in the UK do and celebrate.

SocialJustice:
Hello, thanks for taking time out to write this post. You have done something I am considering doing but not sure and I also have another path in mind. The 2 are explained below.

Option 1
Relocating to England to do an accelerated LLB up to LLD in corporate law. I want to know the opportunities available in doing this.

Option 2
On the other hand, I want to come to England as a tourist, overstay and appeal not to return to Nigeria based on my mental and physical health while I focus on building my business in real estate and Amazon.

Option 1 could delay my ability to focus fully on my business, while option 2 allows me to focus fully on my business without any distractions.

Please advise on the path you feel is better.

Great plans.

Option 1 is doable but expensive. More importantly, with the benefits of hindsight, I will do LLB(JD) and an LLM in Canada. Doing it here will open unimaginable doors for you that the UK won’t open in 40 years.

Option 2-I can’t advice because of professional ethics. But I will say direct the plan to Canada. Will likely succeed and be far less challenging with proper guidance and information.

He has been around for awhile and paid his dues. Wishing him success!

I haven’t logged on to post for awhile but for the silly generalizations on this topic.

Art courses are relevant and useful in the West just like science courses. It depends on where you are, what you want, what you know and who is guiding you.

I have lived in the UK for 11 years, and Canada for some years. While I studied in the former to PhD level, I did art(law). It has served me well.

I know many who read art courses who are doing well in the financial, legal, healthcare, business and hospitality industries in Canada.

In short, they read these courses from places like Abia, Osun, Ebonyi, Delta, Ogun and Ekiti states.

I know science graduates too.

Through the Canadian NCA process, I have met and continue to interact with many Naija lawyers trying to practice here. Some work in courts, law firms and big professional services firms like PWC, Deloitte, Denton...while writing their licensing exams.

The licensing exams that Naija lawyers write are also written by American, British and Australian lawyers who want to practice law in Canada. It’s not peculiar to Naija lawyers.

Naija and other African doctors even face greater and tougher pathways to getting licensed here.

Engineers, nurses and teachers from across the world face licensing requirements and demands here too. Reason?

...Traditional professions are elitist and regulated to ensure credibility, control and compliance, and standardization.

In Canada, the UK, the US and co, all immigrants go through processes and seasons to settle in. Reason? We were not born here, didn’t study here and couldn’t have built the organic network for easy ascension.

It takes time to study, graduate and work in Naija where we were born and raised. It’s not abnormal and it is expected to take same, if not longer time, away from home in societies that are many decades, if not centuries, ahead of ours.

Over 30,000 Nigerians moved to Canada since 2015...The opportunities and areas of accomplishments and struggles are diverse across science and the arts.

Guys, do your research before you generalize.Stop listening to single and half stories of people who are determined to stay in their comfort zones on the sidelines of these societies.

I can speak confidently about the UK and Canada. Ask questions, if you have.

awhybliss:
.. , Sebi you have data?

Not social media data. I am a lawyer of about 10 years not far from where this guy is. Need more?

awhybliss:
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Lolzzz... He's the best lawyer bro.. maybe you should refer a lawyer that can be as good as him...
This one you are talking as if people who rated him the best defendant lawyer are not learned

Who rated him?

awhybliss:
If you want to scam, please make it a huge one, not the scam you won't be able to hire lawyer if you are caught...
I read hushpuppi lawyer profile, that man isn't a baby lawyer, he is the best in the world

What has he won? Forget the normal Naija false hypes. Go and read it again; no known cases. He has 4 victory testimonies on his website with no known names. C'mon, verify your claims before you post.

I am in Canada, and studied in the UK for 10 years to PhD level. Just follow this advice and you will thank God sooner. Your choice of country should be Australia and Canada first; then the USA; then Germany. All the best.

flyingpig:
Please do your masters abroad but don't choose UK. No job after you graduate there.

I will advise Canada or Australia. Msc in Germany especially if you're into engineering or IT. Lots of job in IT and engineering field in Germany after graduation.

Canada, Australia, Germany, USA. Leave UK.

That house, you can afford to finish it with a job after you graduate and work abroad, you can also be able to give your children a great privilege of being raised in a sane society that has immense future.

Nigeria is gone!

Op, sorry about the beating and hoping your marriage grows from the conflict, fight and clash.

Ignore many of these kids telling you the ideals you must hold your marriage to. They know little or nothing about marriage and life.

You tried dictating to hubby how he should dress. He grudgingly went in to change. Then came out with a changed top only. He was already angry that you will tell him how to dress for a visit to HIS FRIEND’s place.Possibly, you told him in a patronizing way.

Your error: you asked him to take a picture. The message he got is that you wanted him to change his clothes for you to take pictures to satisfy your social media audience.

If we dig in objectively, you will admit that he is not one who likes you posting pictures on social media, and possibly considers it a fake lifestyle.

For him, you pushed him to change his clothes to enable you take pictures for the audience you are determined to satisfy.

Sensitivity to mood and a very respectful approach in nudging a spouse to do what we want is crucial.

Pick the lessons as I know he will pick, and soldier on.

All married people will tell you it takes hard work, patience and high tolerance to make marriage work.

The slap is bad, but a very small thing compared to the huge crises that marriages go through. Soldier on.

garfield1:
That was a mistake.it is 8000 to 14000

Thanks.

Modaproducer:
Una never see anything, the registered voters is 142, 912.
Just wait for Dekina and Omala

Omala is out; PDP got about 1720 or so, while APC got 1340 or so.

Sorry to kill your wild enthusiasm!

garfield1:
They can afterall both ankpa and dekina has over 100k voters.i suspect that the igalas are trying to inflate it up to over 200k to meet up with ebira votes.with 3 igala lgas out already and wada leading there by 7,000,ibaji,igala mela,bassa and ofu will produce small votes and bello will win one here.i predict that bello will win ajaokuta with at least 30k to nuke igala votes.the decider may now come down to kogi west where he's leading slightly.thats if igalas wake up

It’s too late to counter the Ebira votes.

Anyigba was terrorized and only few units voted. That is the heartland of Dekina with over 30,000 voters.

nzeobi:
It happens because buhari is not interested in electoral reforms and not committed to improving our electoral process.

In the same Kogi, Audu ran down everywhere when we fought to push him out in 2003.

Ibro turned Kogi into a mafia hub that we had to obtain permission from thugs to hold birthday parties...

Was Buhari in-charge when Rivers was a war zone to impose Wike, and Sylva was pushed for treason to impose Dickson on Bayelsa?

Until 2019, have votes ever counted in the Niger-Delta?

What of OBJ and Maradona Iwu who declared election results while electoral materials were being transported?

NaijaTalkTown:
I don't believe total number of accredited voters in Ankpa will tank up to 50,000. 20,000 at most. The election is over. Bello won!

Of course, it’s over. Just painted a best case scenario.

garfield1:
His only problem is dekina and ankpa

He used violence to scatter Anyigba; that is the soul of Dekina gone. Some parts of Odu too.

Edward has some hardened supporters in the Ankpa area too. Bello re-did a road for them.

I expect high votes in Ankpa and Dekina LGAs to be less than 50,000 each, and Bello will get 19-28%, at worse.

Iamgrey5:
What of Ofu and co

Those places also have population

Voter turnout is the issue. I hope you know that there are many Ogugu people under Ofu too. They are around Aloma-Ogbonicha axis.

I don’t expect anything heavy from those areas or Igala-mela/Odolu LGA.

Iamgrey5:
Okehi is the second most populated Ebira city

This is poor

Bello is leading with over 210,000 votes so far. I think he is a settled victor.

I have seen the trends in the votes from Ankpa and Dekina LGAs, Bello will pull 17-25% from there. He used extreme violence to reduce the gap in Dekina.


I am a hardcore APC supporter, but Bello is an evil and demonic guy.

Okehi LGA Result

APC 36954

PDP 487

garfield1:
I knew lokoja and koton karfe are apc areas.he will add one okun lga and lose marginally in the rest

Will likely pick Mopa LGA and maybe Yagba East.

They haven’t declared Okehi in his base yet.

nzeobi:
How would he have countered rigging when he does not have the security architecture.

It’s called The Incumbency Advantage!

omenka:
My brother, the question no one seems to be asking as per pdp chances in 2023 is: where is the party gonna get the finances she needs to execute their plans.

Wike certainly wouldnt wanna bet that much on it. His current body language gives very clear signs. Except the situation changes such that he personally gets kn the ballot.

Atiku will certainly be a no show. Dude is reeling from the loses incurred in 2019.

Saraki has gone ghost mode.

Jonathan didn't play ball in Bayelsa in the current process, I predict he'd do even much less in 2023.

The situation isn't looking good at all.

Wike will sponsor and pair with Tambuwal. Atiku will run again but will be disgraced and humiliated by the governors who are now in their second terms and ready for national aspirations.

Kwankwaso will run again.

Yet, my APC will beat the shit out of them if they manage Tinubu well.

Staro:
Don't call 'win'.
Call it by it"s name 'rigging'

I have seen the figures coming out from Okene, Adavi and other Ebira LGAs.
112k in Okene alone? That's clear rigging. Buhari is Nigeria's worst leader!

I am from Odu, Wada rigged heavily too. The videos are on here.

The Ebiras have always been united against Igalas. I almost got killed in 2006/7 while returning through Okene when Senator Ohiare ran against Ibro and Audu. It was operation kill Igalas.

A great politician will envisage rigging plans and design strategies to counter it. A poor one won’t.

I wanted Bello to lose, but he is better at the game than all my people as at today.

I laughed earlier at the naive and largely ignorant analyses of the election by my friends and kinsmen from Kogi state, especially the Igalas.


I consider myself a vintage Igala man, and judge Bello as our worst since Kogi state was created.

But, he has the indices and machineries of power on his side.

He is likely to win, and win well.

If you disagree, bookmark this comment.

Ned Nwoko is not a Senator! He is a former member of the House of Representatives. He was in the House of Representatives from 1999-2003, over 16 years ago. He is an Hon., not Senator.

Op and moderators, many stories on this man promote the error that he is a senator, he has never been one.

Nairaland is becoming a pool of mediocrity and low intelligence.

Moderators, even if Nairaland is paid to promote and exaggerate the achievements of these guys, do basic research.

Saltoflife:
Abuja is one of the funiest place you meet some powerful and connected ones.
I have had more than 5 of such encounter.

Let me say a few cuz of time.

(1) A yoruba man i met at the enroute my flight from Lagos after around 15mins interaction told me he would tell me a simple secret that would make me a Billionaire if I did what he did that turned him. As if he read my mind? He said I would see evidence by myself before I drop off cuz he ordered uber for us. At last when he gave me his card I said wow like 15 times before I dotted all the i's.

He told me the secrets after sha. I'm grateful to him.

(2) My 3 months old casual friend said I should see her off. She drove and boom we were inside aso rock. That was my first time in there. Unknown to me she was one of the photographer of the first lady.

It's dinner time. My wife is calling. I may return to add more.

What is the secret he told you?

He lost the primaries.

Moderators should verify what they move to the front pages.

dokyOloye:
How many votes do the governors have?
The average Igbo man is progressive and will never support lifelessness

Your dubious concept of ‘progressives’ mean corruption lovers?

OkunrinOloro:
Actually they do complain, my dear stupid olosho. No man wants to work hard and make money only for a stupid ho to come out of nowhere and try to reap where she never sowed.

Even abroad where idiotic feminists are operating, they have things like pre-nuptial agreements which rich men use to minimise how much money they are obligated to give away to desperate gold diggers.
Keep deceiving yourself while your value keeps depreciating.
That pit latrine between your legs will NEVER entitle you to my money, you lazy ho.

No man wants to marry a liability who brings nothing to the table and wait for handouts. Maybe na that one brothers dey do am.

No mind those deluded expired bums.

This ugly one who sleeps with retired and senile dicks for money will be talking trash as always.

I guess she still can’t get over marrying and divorcing a broke ass because of her delusions and desperation for money.

Who brings all these idiots’ posts to this place?

Ekitibiased:
he was absent at the next level campaign launch. No excuse to miss such

I guess you didn’t see my preceding comment that he is in London for medical care. Read well.