AgentXxx:
Thanks for this eye-opening post. But the difference in my own case is that I am his manager, he is also yet to pass probation(it is common for many to become lax after probation or spending over two years in an organisation) and he is trying to use the mental health card which I know vividly that isn’t the case but just as justwise mentioned and other mentioned, I would try to keep evidence and make sure to stay away from making it a personal grudge.

Ah, Okay, I am just a level 2 analyst, responsible for guiding and training the junior analysts.

Guess you have to share your panadol.

AgentXxx:
lol you guessed right. Young chap(25) been out of school for over three years, been collecting Universal credit and following a music passion where he gets 50£ for a gig that comes twice a month. First job and he seems not ready and prefers his unemployed life.

If na one of us Dey do this, na to carry am go for deliverance or ruqyah because he sure say na curse. 😂

Yesterday when @lavida001 quoted your post, I was so tempted to reply him., I didn’t want to say what I am abt saying as I recently started healing from my experience. I was hoping it will end yesterday, guess it needed to be shared.

I had similar experience too, but mine affected me because going by lavida’s term “he is one of us”. I tried everything to help the homie, did his work, cleaned his mess and all. To the detriment of my own health, as it started affecting my mental state.

Why it affected my mental state was cos I personally don’t believe in treating people specially simply cos we are from same country/region/state. I see it as the first stage of racism. I believe to treat everyone same as we are all one (my personal translations of being a Christian, or a “true Christian” as we call it in Naija). Guess what, I didn’t know when I started treating homie specially, he kept playing the race and my own country person card. I was always angry during and after work. It started with me feeling like an immigrant shouldn’t be like that, to cleaning up his tasks. whenever he was unable to do his task and people noticed, I felt even worse cos people would report to me and expect me to do something or raise it with our manager. Infact, there were couple of times our line manager called me and wanted me to validate some complains he got from other teams, my response was “I am sorry, my work here is to secure the companies assets and grow personally/professionally, I don’t involve in conversation like this in place of work and outside office, there are means for security teams to monitor things, those means should be used”.

This whole issue messed with me for months - close to a year. It was so bad that my conversation with my wife daily was about work. How did it come to an end? One day he said something that got me so so upset that I took some days off. While I was on my days off, I realized I was in a very bad place, my thoughts were more negative than positive, I was losing me. I had to press my reset button. Went back to work with the sole aim of doing my job and logging off. I even told my manager I was promoted cos of my work ethic/performance, not to baby sit anyone and that he should deal with his people management ish leaving me out of it.

That was it, now I go to work, do my shit and log off. I Openly provide materials for everyone to learn and grow. No special treatment to anyone, back to me again.

To summarize the story, there are immigrants too who behave that way, it’s not particular to indigenes, Yes, you may want to argue that the homie in question has lived here for a very very long time, but guess what, with all the years, his accent and diction didn’t change, so the long stay thing doesn’t count either, People will always be who they are “or truly are”, no matter the skin tone. Like everyone has said, just do your work and let him be himself, being in security gives us access to be able to prove if people are working or not, you don’t have to say anything, direct your manager to using security tools to gather his evidence.

No drink panadol for another person headache. Keep your panadol, you go need am after people from Naija don call you to complain Tinubu full everywhere. 😁

kumbhuru:

Traffic can make one miss the flight even if you leave early as 4am

I believe you quoted an old post. My wife visited Naija last month and she had lots of good thing to say about the renovation and process improvement at lagos international airport. She even went as far as comparing it to Glasgow international airport. I guess that means you’d be better off waiting at the airport.

@MrSoftlife

Is collection time for passport at TLS Ikeja now 9am - 4pm. I remember it use to be different. But I see the site was updated 2023.

Any idea the new collections time?

Anyone who recently collected their passport, can you please confirm collection time.

Thanks

MrSoftlife:


It doesn’t matter who is paying and no proof required as long as you made used of your email address, you will get a notification and receipt there.

Thanks and God bless

I need help.

Does it matter whose card is used on the TLS website? So if someone is paying for assisted services, can the person use a siblings card?

If they can, do they need to show any proof or anything?

Or it’s just pay for the service with a naira card and that’s all?

I need help.

Does it matter whose card is used on the TLS website? So if someone is paying for assisted services, can the person use a siblings card?

If they can, do they need to show any proof or anything?

Or it’s just pay for the service with a naira card and that’s all?

In the past it use to be a bit challenging when traveling with tickets booked (paid) by another person. Please is this still a thing?

I mean, can husband book and pay for flight for wife without any issue?

I believe then the issue is wanting flyer to provide the card used in payment and all that. Is this still a thing? Anyone travelled recently with their partners paying for flight without those show us card issue ( same last name but different card full name)

Abeg help, feeling a bit rusty.

080bjaked:
Virgin Atlantic

lol. Saw Air peace for Sunday. I am sure that will give madam joy cos she’s been singing Nigerians should come together to help Air peace succeed.

ReesheesuKnack:


Turkish airlines?
Ethiopian airlines?

There are flights from London, so I will do London to Lagos. Just get local flight to London.

Thanks

ReesheesuKnack:


Turkish airlines?
Ethiopian airlines?

Omo no flight from now to Tuesday on both airlines

emeraldoe:
Hi,did you eventually try Aveeno, was it good?

Don’t know what your question is tho, but we all use Aveeno in my house. Wife and son are light skin (close to Oyibo), me dark skin (light dark, not thick dark), works perfectly for everyone. Very good cream for everyone. Wife and son has dry skin. Works perfectly for them.

I will rate the cream 9/10. The remaining one is because nothing is perfect 😂.

Aside from British airways, any other airline de wey no de use transit visa? Our lovely airpeace no get seat.

Need to book urgent flight from Glasgow to Naija and air France and klm dem require transit visa. I no get time to waste.

Or is there any way to get transit visa in 48hrs?

Abeg I need help

Now to something different, what happens to 0% purchase and balance card after the free months period is over?

Is it to dump it or the company will offer something else?

I want to say thank you to everyone involved in the politics and war chat.

For the first time in my nairaland experience, I just went thru 4 - 6 pages in less than an hour. Simply because it had my least favorite convo.

Thank you guys.

Please can anyone who recently did any of the below help with an answer:

1. What’s the situation at visa office in ikeja an vi like, still crowded or lesser people these days.
2. Also what’s the situation with getting TB appointments, quicker now ?
3. Finally, recent visa wait time, anyone who recently applied/got visa decision.

Abeg, if you can help with any of the above. Specifically, situation at visa offices.

Thanks

Ayofemidara:
Hello everyone, please help me out. How do I bring someone from Nigeria because child care is killing my salary. Thank you

I believe you can use the general “grandparent want to come see grandchild” story that everyone else uses to get visit visa for parents. That should give you a minimum of 5months stay period on a visit. The grand parent one has been used by a lot of people and it almost always works.

Looking at the whole financial/ credit industry, won’t it be best to open/have account with top lenders like TSB, Tesco bank, Natwest and it’s like than this other banks that want your arm for a loan.

Cos I see you get better/higher offer if you are a customer and have spent some time with the top lenders.

This other ones like bank of Scotland and their siblings barely offer anything than cash back. Or are my mistaking something?

Lexusgs430:


That 30% usage, is simply a guide...... I personally, totally ignore that usage limit........😂

Rule of thumb : Don't over leverage yourself..... Use what you can easily and conveniently payback..... Simple.....😜😁

My credit score might drop a bit, but when it rises..... It goes up like the rod of Moses (I have never missed a payment + never gone over my limits)..... This 2 factors, are the koko.......😁

Cool. The highest I have used in a card is 50%. But that was cos the said card was £500 limit.

Ran an eligibility check, got approved by Natwest for 19months 0% purchase and balance transfer card. My question now is:

Does that our pattern of using around 30 - 35% credit limit still applies to this type of card??

Or one can use everything and pay within the time frame.

Want to know before I proceed with the application or make I just leave the thing and go my way. Cos if that credit card limit apply, then na bank loan go favour me.

Abeg who de awake make e help me answer this question.

Santa2:


The way I rationalize paying hefty immigration sums upon renewal is that, its my way of getting another passport while paying in instalments. lol. Back in 2015 -2017 a few friend were shelling out between $60,000 to $100,000 to get a second passport, I just dey look they ask "where una dey see this money"? So in order not to scatter my mental health I tell myself that na same thing I dey do but Home office just dey allow me do instalment payments. . What you wrote up there resonates with me. I have been looking at getting zero percent interest cards that one can pay over 2 years in readiness for the next renewal. One thing I have learnt from this thread is the importance of building a great credit profile and using using credit responsibly.

Nice one. I see AgentXxx just got one.

BouharryArtikou:
Thank you to all who responded to my post below.

Please ehn, I have another question.
Now that I have recourse to public funds, does anyone know some that I can get? All my money haff finish. ILR application for a family of 4 finished all my savings.
We currently have pretax household income of 75k (50k + 25k respectively).

What benefits can I claw from the system please?
Man wan maximise everything ‘lost’ in this last 5+ years.

PS: please don’t judge me. I too suffer.

I had to go search for the main post as I didn’t want to quote wrongly and start arguments afresh.

While we can debate all day about public fund, benefits and what one is entitled to, we can all agree that the conditions surrounding the government support shows it is meant for people finding it a bit challenging to meet up in some way and a good support will help them get back on their feet. We all have different views on this subject but I don’t think we should crucify each other for our beliefs.

I believe you didn’t actually use a good opportunity that you are/should be entitled to. LOAN. If I were in your shoes what I would have done would be, get a loan from the bank to pay for the ILR fees, and pay the bank back in their payment plan. That option would have kept your earthly confidence (money) intact. You would have had you £10k+ in your account while the bank get from part of your future earning. No be say you de run, you go de for the country for years, them don give you ILR them don give you.

One funny Nigerian saying: “I go pay no de go jail”

Yes, a lot of us hate loans and all that, but we can’t deny the economy we find ourself is a credit economy. Loan help you build more credit here, plus institutions would be happy to lend you more based on your credit worthiness.

To round up, I would say, just give 2 to 3 months, you will be fine when the salary alert comes in. And yes it’s annoying the amount we pay just to be here with our family. It’s even more annoying how much we contribute to the economy (tax), then still get to pay this crazy sum to be a member in the society. E go end one day.

Pele, Take heart. Let the joy of say you can now begin “do contract jobs, then go long vacation and come back to start another contract job” put smile on your face.

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I guess you will need a printer for this?

Goodenoch:


You need to. That's what they put on your license.

Go into a mall or post office and use one of those photo booths. Costs ~ 7 quid.

Thanks. Will do that in the morning. The full remote working won turn me to vampire.

deept:


I don't know o

😁

deept:
Wasting time since. Could have been back here ages ago if she followed the English channel route

I see you are awake, any idea if it is needed to add passport photograph to DVLa form. I want to believe it’s just BRP if you are using BRP and nothing more. Right?

Abeg make person help, this jagajaga wey DVLA write too much.

Sey person need add photo with the return form if person de use BRP?

Or na just BRP and send back with stamp. Abeg help make I send their form tomorrow.

fitzjerry:
Hi Guys,
I have a colleague who is currently doing his dissertation @ the University of Hull but he’s kinda worried cos he got compensated for one module which he scored 46, below 50 but because his results in other modules are very good, he got a compensation and got awarded a credit for the course instead of a re-sit.

However, he is worried if the compensation won’t affect him getting a PSW Visa when he’s done with school.
Or whether he should just apply for a re-sit?

Anyone has an idea?

His results are quite fair at the moment (Merit).

I believe the main condition for PSW is that your school sends a confirmation to HO that you have successfully completed your studies.

I doubt if how the school came to the conclusion is HO issue. They Trust the school do what’s right.

Viruses:


The children become illegal immigrants and all the issues associated with illegal immigrants apply to them regardless of their age. It will be difficult for them to come back to UK if they leave for any reason.

It will be in their immigration history and may affect their visa applications to other countries.

BRP is a residence permit, it is required to reside in the country regardless of your age, whether you work, school or do nothing is a different thing.

You should take them to Nigeria and apply for them to join you when you like.

I am not speaking from experience and have not heard such before, I'm only assuming based on general understanding.

The bolded is a very difficult pill to swallow. It’s the best decision if no other means to get the money, But very very difficult to swallow. It’s far better than having a dent on their young fresh travel history. it’s very very hard.

@farnet have you tried getting a loan here in the UK?

Zahra29:


It's 4 and above in England - for admission to reception

No mind us. We wey de Scotland, enjoyment no de let us remember say other parts of UK have different rules. Scotland is 3yr n above for nursery and school is from 5yr except you want to jump the child, which I think is allowed. Then the child can start before 5 for school.

Ayofemidara:

Please does it means that my children cannot start school before September, please help me

School is for 5 n above.
Nursery is for below 5.

I believe next entry is from August. So application for a spot for entry in August is on now. It’s on a first come first serve order. So applying for them now will be the only way, don’t know if they accept before then. But I think if your child is 5 and above now, then you can reach out to your council. Don’t know if there is another entry time, but you may never know unless you reach out to them.

Happy New year everyone. Thanks for making our stay in UK happier and worthwhile. Hope we are able to have something on the table to celebrate with, if not, reach out to people around you. Don’t hide anything, ASK.

We shall all achieve our aim for relocating.

A prosperous new year to all.