₦airaland Forum

Pennyseo2:
Is it the Nigerians that won't like to tell you where they work or referee you so you don't come to drag shift with them?
Although it's normal, I understand anyone will do whatever possible to protect their job etc.
Here everyone minds their business and once they know you have nothing or always ask from them they stop picking your calls.


Many forums I was, I know how I often disturb this people. Including the admin about my lack of job. Most of them just ignore. Other just say keep applying. Have you gone to this place, have you gone to this agency while they themselves know those agencies don't recruit anymore.

The bottom line is that job are now like before. Previously employers do organise job fair,where they come to stadium every now and then to look for people to fill their vacant position.
But today all that is gone. I have a long list of agencies, plus some that are scrapped from Google.. Call them or send them a message they said no vacancy. Go to them in person they said if anything comes up they put it up on indeed and job sites..

The jobs they have or what they expect or require is not what an average new migrant possesses.

You might think it's only you, but by them time you spend time with your classmates who came same months with you then you realised all are just putting on smiling face with no shimgbi.. No job. They are in same shoe like you are.



Let's just accept the simple fact. That's why I am telling those coming or intending to come to please hold 80% of funds most especially their school fees.

Saying one should avoid fellow applicants... Well I found strength in them. When I feel like giving up, I pick my phone,call two to three persons from different cities, their determination gives me more energy to keep pushing that I am not alone. If not I for don return back to Nigeria teh teh.

Although now I got a 20hrs job forklift... I did the certification course.

Have you tried linkedin? I have done it before and so I can tell you it works.

In the search bar, type your desired profession+ a nigerian uni+ location

E.g for someone seeking to connect with an immigrant data analyst:

Data analyst university of lagos united kingdom

Nairaland has a toxic environment, so people are not keen on connecting offline. Linkedin is much different, people are happy to help with career and mentorship if you approach them correctly.

The Uk is an information driven environment, you'll likely go far and faster with the right information, and no, those looking for a job and having same gloomy outlook as you are unlikely to be able to help with this.

They won't be providing you a job but key information on how to best route into the sector.

For instance, if you want to apply for a job on my team, I'm probably able to to provide insights as to key words that should be on you CV and things they'll be looking out for in the interview

OmichaelO:
Guys please,

What can someone do if they suspect their current employer is bad mouthing them to prospective employers. Like whenever it gets to point of reference, the previous place employement is always sorted. However when it gets to current employer everything scatters it has happened with two people and with about 5 different prospective employers.

And this current employer is the one sponsoring them.

For such a place, I will advise you use a friendly supervisor rather then HR for reference.

Not here to argue with anyone here.

My advise that new and strrugling to break into the UK job market is that you engage with immigrants employed in the field and get advise and mentorship from them. Avoid or reduce the propensity to get this advise or mentorship from your fellow applicant who also is struggling to make headway or from someone who is disillusioned about the job market.

The UK still has a very high level of unfilled vancies and many employers will not mind employing an african immigrants who presents his/herself the right way. There may be some racial barrier, but I do not see the UK as a racist country. Also, location may also matter, but the uk is a small country, relocation should often not be a problem.

There is also good reason why the wage growth has been outstripping inflation even when inflation went as high as 6% - there's a big labour shortage here.

If you don't get here on nairaland, go on linkedin, using your nigerian uni or other nigerian unis, search for nigeria who migrated and ask them how they cracked it and what's the best way for you.

In my opinion, the most important barrier is your first job here (and it doesnt have to be your ideal employment but must have a clear relationship to where your going). Subsequent ones become much easier and in the country, you can switch jobs even 1 months after you join, employer will be fine.

Much like renting, your first rent in the open market may be hard, but when you decide to move , you find it much easier.

Peace

ShobayoEmma:
What of if he goes there to advise and speak the bitter truth to them? Don't judge a book by its cover. Note that there are somethings that are better left unsaid. Lord have mercy.




Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions.

Mtschew..after politicians, the big time pastors and imams are nigeria's problem.

Any good leader will do well to do away with them

Missowombo:
Dear Family landers. I am here to seek your advice on how to rescue my car from my neighbour.
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The good thing is he paid by instalment.

In the normal course of business, title is not transferred until full payment is made.

So even if you made a commitment to sell to him upon (full) payment, the fact that you rescinded the decision before he made full payment puts you in the green.

However, if he can prove he did borrow to make that purchase, you may owe him the interest on the loan as he took the loan because you gave him a legitimate expectation that the car could be his.

However, if he has made full payment, that becomes tricky as you are reneging on a verbal contract and should compensate him well for the inconvenience

Lagos should also ask companies to withhold taxes that Niger would benefit from

alezzy13:
Am not a fan of Tinubu, but y'all just opening your mouth and insulting with abandon.

Did any of you all read the above??

It is his idiocy in removing subsidy and floating the naira at same time without any plan in place that caught up with him.

Nigeria is probably paying more subsidy now than when petrol was N97 per liter on account on exchange rate.

Jagaban2012:
Any bad news about the present government some people in one region are here to push it to the front page....so it will seem the government is not. working.....
Some efforts have been made towards revamping the oil sector. You will hardly see this.....on the front page....all these saboteurs....keep working hard for your taskmasters....8 years is far for you to stop pushing nonsense news.....

Lemme quickly go. and drop bad news about this Tinubu government..on Twitter...I'm sure one of the fools who is part of the Seun Team from one region will still come to comply. and paste it on nairaland and it will make it. the front page...

Please open a thread and tell people the good news about this government.

Disability living seems fanciful in this country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-68178940

Basic123:
😆..stop judging other with your unknown father standard.

embrace productivity and shun joblessness, your life will be better and your parents will be proud to see you doing something useful with your life.

Don't forget it took your mother 9 months to carry you, she would expect better from you.

NB - working as a low-paid ethnic bigot and APC propagandist does not count as a job or productive use of your time.

Basic123:
Your joblessness is one of the reason Nigeria's economy is tanking.

Able-bodied man, continues marketing Peter Obi when the election has been concluded almost 1 year ago, leaving areas where he can try to be productive and lift himself out of poverty

I see why you are unemployed now or underemployed with tinubu's media r=team. Never mind

Basic123:
The campaign continues as long your stupid marketing of OBI and OBI PR continues

Your joblessness is one of the reason Nigeria's economy is tanking.

Able-bodied man, continues dragging Peter Obi when the election has been concluded almost 1 year ago, leaving areas where he can try to be productive and lift himself out of poverty.

Teedol:
Passed my UK practical driving test yesterday, first attempt[12/22/24] this day also happened to be my wedding anniversary, best anniversary gift so far.

Have got till march ending b4 i would have stayed for a yr in UK, can i keep using my NG drivers license for insurance purposes till then?

Congrats, Ideally, you should inform your insurance company anytime there is a change in your circumstance.

You probably will not make any claim sha, so ride on.

Basic123:
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The election is done, you're are still campaigning. Is it hunger or joblessness?

[quote author=Basic123 post=128434294][/quote]The election is done, you're are still campaigning. Is it hunger or joblessness?

Kukutenla:
They are being envisioned and written into the blueprint for the next administration to implement
That is the Lagos scam sorry template

Exactly, Tinubu rode on Fashola's performance claiming he drew then blueprint.

The only thing Tinubu did in Lagos was to increase IGR and he was forced to do it because OBJ withheld allocation for many months. Even at that, he made sure to give himself a hefty pension through Alphabeta slicing a bit of lagos igr into his pocket

joe10:
Please, is there anything I can do to remedy this situation? I' ve got a job with NHS and received my pay in January 2024. I sent my P45 to NHS after i received my first pay and it was taxed meanwhile, I did not pay taxes in my first employment except NI as I was told that I would not be taxed till my cumulative income reached a threshold. I have explained to my new employer and I was advised to contact HMRC. Please, how do I go about this or is it normal to start paying taxes due to change of employment eventhough i have not reached the required threshold?

Call hmrc and reconfirm your details. At times, hmrc assumes you've taken a second job rather than move jobs, also they estimate income.

I'll rather call to straighten it out, rather than wait to be in a refund or debt position

lanre9ja:
It's a good things but what's the effects to the economy

It will incentivice offshore conversion. As banks will naturally offer rates lower than the market rate, giving the black market more life

Oyi12:
Good evening elders, please if someone has already applied for PSW but a decision hasn't been made and they get a COS for healthcare, can they cancel the PSW visa and apply for the healthcare? Will the person be refunded please? Thank you.

If a decision is yet to be made, yes.

If a decision has been made, no

delkuf:
so I would manage japa, I go comeback for holidays, you dey wine. Wetin I won come do. My japa na japa for life. Nor dey play ooooooo

When you japa, you will still miss home..no matter what you faced here.

At the end of the day, there is a part of you that will always consider Nigeria home, even if it's just to retire at old age or visit

Ahmed0336:
Sorry for your loss.
It's unfortunate, same can happen irrespective if where one is.
May God grant her soul eternal rest.

This is the kind of mindset that took Nigeria to this level.

So you mean in useful country, accident victims requiring emergency stabilisation are turn away and left to writhe in pain till death?

We make excuses for politicals leaders, making them have little sense of accountability and reward incompetence

In a normal country, when something like this happens, it will make headline, people will talk a lot it, people will lose their jobs for it, politicians in the area will be forced to resign or be booted out of office, police investigation for negligence will be opened against a few people...........that is how you build accountability and competence.

Suggesting it was unavoidable or describing it as the will of God is what Nigerians use to destroy the country

Lexusgs430:
This FX quagmire, is only going to get worse........ We are very reliant on back to back foreign loans to shore up the naira, fund our budgets, payback current loans, infrastructural development, foreign trips for bola, health tourism for bola, pay wages, steal, loot ètc etc .......😄

Once we finish spending the amount we borrowed, we go shopping for more loans .........😂😜

Which reasonable investor, would bring $ to Nigeria to invest (with all the news hitting all headlines)........

It's all calm, bola is in france relaxing..... It's all well back home .......😜😁

Aptly said, his predecessor lived part-time in the UK, doing a lot of meaningless globe-trotting burning scare FX. Tinubu's children own several real estate abroad, his grand children school abroad, same with Buhari's children. Tinubu is one of Nigeria's rightest politician without any well known business, and I quite sure a sizeable portion of his wealth is stored in foreign currency. These two presidents are also the ones who raked up most of Nigeria's foreign loans.

Today someone is blaming dorm account holders, foreign currency speculators and Nigerians having foreign taste but exporting nothing for the poor state of the FX .

Yesterday, the official market rate went above the black market rate. Read an articule yesterday that tied it to Dangote sourcing forex to buy crude for his refinery. NNPC is currently unable to supply Dangote enough crude because it has traded future production for loans.....guess who is responsible ?

adekzy:
Why are you so bitter as if you are from the sadEast part of Nigeria.

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As at November last year, over $29billion is currently sitting idle in all domiciliary account across the country, yet we dey cry say no dollars. WHY?

Why should we dollarised our economy for non productive adverture at the expenses of our local economic drive and the mases who dont have the opportunity to edge thier naira to save in dollars.

If possible, the Govt should just "borrow" all those idle dollars temporary and return it when the economy is stable...but I doubt if they have "Political Will" as most of the politicians are also culprits.

So Mr Thread, your bitterness will only gives you HBP if you don't disect the real issue without sentiment and emotion.

You seem to have a weird fascination with draconian and heavy-handed tactics. I recall you were the one also justifying hamas and vilifying US.

Definitely at some point you benefited from the dorm account balances you were referring to fund your travels. Speculation exists the in every sector in a free market economy. Naira has shown a high level of instability since APC took power, and the current speculative activity reflects the poor handling of the foreign exchange situation by the current and past presidents. The current speculative activity is the result and not the cause of naira's instability.

Also, do not assume everyone operating a dorm account is doing so for speculative purposes. If businesses project that they will have to buy FX at a higher rate to fund their activities in the future, it gives them a high incentive to lock in prices by buying FX now so they can hedge against FX losses in the future.

Obj and GEJ managed to keep the exchange stable and speculators at bay, the chicago accountant may go to them to learn one or two.

adekzy:
Bloody liar, reechoing the false narrative the western media were pushing to justify genocide!.

There is no evidence that Hamas killed and raped women+children, the news has been debunked many times. Even in the concert where people were actually killed, The Israeli Defense force claimed responsibility as they mistakenly thought those people were clustered Hamas group or they deliberately bombed them to escalate their genocidal intention.

Therefore, how many Hamas Members have actually been killed post October 7th.... rather an entire cityscape was turned to rubbles.

The annoying thing is that after this bombing, the Isreali are planning to settle his citizen on the blood and home of the Palentine with the help of the puppet in the Merica govt.

Every injustice should be called out irrespective.!

This is the china that does not saddle other countries with loan.

Nigeria is also facing huge budgetary problems due to servicing chinese loans, a problem likely to get worse in the future.

You hate the west and western media but close to live in the same west.

You know, China, Russia, Iran, Lebanon all have embassies and issue visa

samtol4:
You don't need to go via desert. Study route easiest

How do you go to study in Austria or Italy with 3k usd via flight?

Hotice085:
Plz we need to truly celebrate the people who have done this , we can't only be celebrating Others while our own traditional medicines are not celebrated

Very impressive job done by the trado person

UrPapa:
Saw the previous thread
It’s truly a miracle
Post like that should have gone to front page but since it doesn’t have tribal tone, the mods then won’t push it

Also kudos to our trado practitioners. This could have led to an amputation in orthodox treatment

deept:
The money they are 'funding' Ukraine is being put back into the economy. Read that most of the military hardware will be built in the UK. Goodness knows all the T&Cs for the 'aid'.

Also if russia is allowed to conquer ukraine, they will keep marching west wards, eventually europe would start another war.

Lessons from world war 2 is still fresh in their mind

samtol4:
Italy or Austria

If you'll be going through the libyan desert

fullclub:
in this obodo onyibo. Who wan help you even in churches

When you are in need you go understand that the only people you have are your family... Blood relative and no one else
Even 10 pounds no one will dash you here.

I landed a 20 hours forklift job after I did a certification that cost me a much... That certification in that field prevented others who don't have same certificate from applying.
So you can see that the job market is responding to demand and supply.

People came to attack me saying lie, lazy this that... Someone that gathered 15m in Nigeria without fraud is lazy.

You're not lazy, you just don't seem to have the right mindset to succeed here. May be in Nigeria, your mindset works.

This person below is one the persons that entered uk recently and is already holding down 2 jobs.

Go to the uk immigrant thread and see people getting information and making moves, many of the recent immigrants.

Not sure you have taken time to connect with anyone there or asked questions there, rather stay here writing your book of lamentations.

The uk mortgage thread has awoken from dormancy and is now one of the top thread in the travel section. Check many of the active members, they are recent immigrants also.

You think they all had it far better than you?

Every aboki to his kettle, I leave you to continue in your ways

Ballzproblem2:
she never ready to invest ,all this one's no fit survive one week for forex/stock market/crypto


that's why people should not enter what td
hey have no knowledge of

January has not ended yet, it is already 1:1600.

Easy money, she only needed some patience

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If he wants to run, at least run properly.

Which one be to use tourist visa to Poland?

After 30 or 90 days, what's next? Abi him think say e easy to work and cross in 90 days?

I hope he takes Abike Dabiri's precious advice.

Stay here or go legitimately [/color]

https://www.nairaland.com/7920682/stop-travelling-abroad-without-proper

You waste time talking to that guy. Since the guy mentioned that no evidence of subsidy removal in spite of the obvious, I note he is not one that quarrels with common sense.

If after you supported Tinubu and likely Buhari, you are seeking to go to Poland as an illegal immigrant, common sense would tell him that something is wrong in his reasoning, but alas, he remains at war with common sense.

He continues to blame Peter Obi for his problem and claim tinubu is the best. Not a very smart fellow.