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Notfogotten:
Please I have a question to ask.

I don't want to go into details so my partner doesn't trace this to me.

My partner came to UK before me, though still on student visa. I joined her with my 3 children one months ago.

I have noticed some red flags which never happened while we where in Nigeria and I was footing the bills alone.

Each red flag, I pretend nothing happened because I don't want to be thrown out like the man I read about on social media.

My visa is dependent on hers and we are still on student visa.

My question, in the event that we get papers to stay permanently in UK and one day she decides to send me packing or I decide move out, will I be asked to return to Nigeria because she is the main applicant?

Please I need urgent answers. I may not play the fool for long. We are very certain of getting papers next year.

In the UK, you can't be certain of getting papers next year. To get ILR, you must have been in the UK for 5 years. Have you been in the UK for 5 years?

My brother, don't rock the boat o, here in the UK, na women get upper hand o. Endure till you get ILR or go find one fat Oyinbo wey you go dey knack secretly and get ILR through her.

Give me your ears, no confront your wife o. That Kain woman for close eye throw you away.

PlayMaker14:
Using emojis to cover the pains.....

Remain that way.


Ire Oooo!!!!

O ma se o.

Pele!

Work harder for a better Christmas in 2024.

PlayMaker14:
This one is in pains.


Remain that way.


Ire Oooo!!!!

In pains?🤣

Oponu ma leleyi ke!🤣

Inu rirun nii pa'ko agilinti 🤣

Armaggedon:
The thread should be titled 'Christmas of an emilokan voter'

Inú rirun nii pa'ko agilinti

PlayMaker14:
When it's Eid Mubarak, Eid Malud, Small Salah or Big Salah, there won't be delay in salary payment, as a matter of fact, they pay 3 days before the celebration.


I urge the Civil Servants to endure this “Baby steps of pains” from Chief Tinubu, as he is trying to gather all that was spent during the elections and in the court.


Ire Oooo!!!

Amunkunmeko!

Iro lo maa pa'yin

Dubbed Nigeria's viral ballet dancer, 13-year-old Anthony Madu's life has changed beyond recognition over the last three years after his dance moves and internet fame catapulted him from his modest home in Lagos to one of the UK's most prestigious ballet schools.

It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.

Afterwards, he uploaded the video to social media where it caught the eye of Hollywood actress Viola Davis who shared it to her huge following on Twitter, now known as X - and the clip amassed 16 million views.

It led to Anthony being offered a scholarship at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre. However, Covid-19 restrictions at the time meant the training had to take place online.

It was then that Anthony was given a chance to study at Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham - which had seemed to him an unattainable dream.

"So when I got the scholarship, I was surprised but really happy," the teenager, who has now been at Elmhurst for just over a year, tells the BBC.

Sitting in one of the school's practice studios, he shyly admits it has not been an easy transition.

"For the first year, it felt really, really hard trying to adjust to like the weather compared to Nigeria and also missing home as well," he says.

However he has how settled down and enjoys the strictures of his new dance regime.

"I video call my mum every day and hang out with my friends. Here, we do more classical ballet. It has to be precise, like having the arms right."

Anthony grew up in a community with no dance schools, let alone classical ballet schools. Without the chance for formal training, he taught himself through watching videos and copying moves that fascinated him.

It was a hobby that surprised his family.

"When he was five years, I saw him dancing. I thought: 'What is wrong with you?'" Ifeoma Madu, Anthony's mother, who still lives in Lagos, tells the BBC.

"People were telling me that this type of dance is not for boys. But it's what he loves doing, so I let him go for it," she says.

As Anthony's interest developed, his family moved to a different neighbourhood of the city so he could attend the Lagos Leap Dance Academy.

"The day the video went viral, I wasn't meant to go for class that day. I was just doing the dance and then my dance teacher decided to film it," he remembers.

"When I came for a practice the next day, he told me that it's got over thousands of views."

But most aspiring ballet dancers across Africa do not have Anthony's luck or opportunities.

Mike Wamaya, a ballet teacher in Kibera - Africa's largest informal urban settlement - in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is impressed by Anthony's story.

"It is very rare to see young boys getting scholarships from Africa to go outside to dance," the 48-year-old, who has more than 250 children taking his classes, tells the BBC.

"Over the years, ballet has been linked to only the elite community and now slowly we are breaking it."

his mother, who says Anthony wants to become a professional dancer when he grows up.

His ambitions have also caught the attention of Calvin Royal III - the third African-American ballet dancer to rise to the rank of principal with the American Ballet Theatre - and Anthony's inspiration.

"I can't tell you how proud I am of you," Royal tells the BBC in a specially recorded message to the young dancer. "Keep going. Keep soaring."

Life in Birmingham is also broadening Antony's horizons, as there is more on offer academically at Elmhurst.

"When I was in Nigeria, I didn't do things like art. But now I love drawing. And learning other dances too. Aside from ballet, contemporary is my favourite," he says.

Though he admits his mother is less impressed by his changing accent, which now has an English lilt.

And as he absorbs Royal's words - his advice to other aspiring dancers is similar: do not lose your tenacity.

"There might be struggles along the way but remember it's just temporary and it will be worth it in the end.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67819857

AqualinaXYZ:
Wike you’ll die a shameful death




Touch Fubara and you’ll understand 90% of Rivers people are solidly behind him



That Godfatherism you’re looking for in Rivers state you’ll never have it



Go to Ekiti that’s where you can have that



Wike is fighting for his percentage Fubara is fighting for Rivers people



Fubara wey never do reach 6 months he don dash all civil servants 100k and still promises to increase their salaries by 30%



Fubara was a civil servant so he understands the struggle



And you’re telling me to listen and support one old decayed brown teeth cocaine sniffer who has enslaved his entire tribe


I no mention anybody name but if the description fits your oga then rugged you

Nwa ezi🤣

JealousCobra:
Ezi!

Mkpi Nwa ezi.🤣

AqualinaXYZ:
Sim don already hire Etche boys wey dedicate gyration song for you saying “ Dey your dey make i dey my dey, nobody worry nobody”




Nyesom Ezebunwo Wike you see this PH wey all of dey so? The day you killed the love many rivers people had for you was the day you sold all our votes meant for Obi to that maggot certificate forger



I challenge any APC member to point out one good thing Tinubu has improved in the society since May 29th


Don’t come here and quote written propagandas on the internet, tell me one good thing Tinubu did that is common man has felt it’s impact

The maggot certificate forger whose shoes your father is too dirty to clean🤣🤣🤣

onobire83:
I have 2 kids (boy and girl) with my wife in a marriage of 6 years , and I needed another child but my wife doesn’t (she went for family planning) what should I do?

Advice please

You don born boy, you don born girl! Wetin remain?

You wan born amaphrodite?

JealousCobra:
😎


Dammed bloody riggers, whom failed in their respective previous elective exercise!


Both the president and the governor failed in Lagos.


Weather I derailed thread or no, not my concern. . the one putting on the cap with infinite symbol should release Onyendu and better the lives of the common Nigerians.

Yinmu!

Onyendu ko, onyinosi ni.

Na stroke go end all of una laslas

Morbeta11:
Chai.....he should be adequately compensated.

No compensation can be adequate for an individual who lived his entire youth in prison and on the verge of death with liver cancer.

I repeat, no compensation can be adequate.

It's a shame really.

sreamsense:
Keep posting propagandas when almost all Hamas are dead with many surrendered to IDF. Go to their main website, it is out of exergeration

What are you saying really? You call an information from an Israeli soldier himself a propaganda.

Define propaganda.

Plus1234:
You are cursed,even to your 4th generations.

And the curse that's been on your lineage for decades is not going away too.

Fvck Israel.

By their heads, you shall know them.

danijesus:
That's the ACTUAL president talking

Yes, ACTUAL president of BIAFRA

Malroux:
Sharap.

CursedOsuPig

Malroux:
He is still far better than you that sleeps and wake up on nairaland everyday.

What makes you different? Monitoring spirit.

Agwotulumbe1:
Hamas are cowards hiding behind civilians
see how they cowardly hide in the midst of vulnerable civilians yet some useless bastards won't see the atrocities of these terrorists.
well thank God isreal no dey listen to those useless propaganda.
kill them all.
hahahahaha

Now mind those idiots. Israel should kill all of them kpatakpata.

Na so we go deal with IPOB terrorists too. Even if they hide among civilians, we we go take them do collateral damage. Kill them all kpatakpata hahahaha hahaha!

Isobug:
Wasiu the illiterate political jobber. Have you eaten today?

Sinedu! The child of hate and perdition, have you wailed today?

Isobug:
Only APC and their miscreants hate this guy's courage. They expect everyone to be delusional and agree to every evil policy of theirs. If journalists don't speak out, I wonder who else would

Only nyanmuri ipig terrorists love him

K

Athena6:
So Nigeria have finally happen to me, I thought if I save a little to the 5M I have, it would be able to leave this country by next year.

But right now, it is impossible, I saw on Twitter how a lady was begging money for flight ticket which was about 2.2M, just flight ticket o.

Months ago, a relative of mine told me someone is looking for a dependent and he will connect me to the person, he said the payment was 4M and I was not going to pay much after that and I will stay with the person in the UK before I settle on my own but I was forming big girl saying I will do my process by myself.

Now look, dollar have increased, the money is now worthless, anyway when there is life, there is hope.

Nairaland please help me think of a business to start with 2M, I can't just leave the money in the bank to keep on depreciating.

Thank you

You made a big mistake by not following what your cousin told you. It was the best alternative for you. It pays to be the dependant than being the main applicant. The main applicant cannot work full time for any other employer but you as a dependant can work anywhere.

In this scheme, it's even better to be an arranged dependant than the main applicant.

Ihategirls:
Is it safe putting my BVN on such sites ? Because I just went to one of them now and It asked for BVN as well as other details

Very safe.

I'm a banker.

KillIgbohoN0W:
Conduct pregnancy test for both of them.

Revelation according to an IPOB terrorist. Their modus operandi.

Ihategirls:
Jesu! Please can someone give me a clear guideline of how to check if a loan has been obtained with my name or with my details by unscrupulous bankers

This is the second time I’m hearing about this. First time was on Twitter

Someone please !

You can access credit reports.

CRC, CRS, XDS

You can visit their sites and obtain credit reports. They will charge you a token though.

Taylor94:
Why should instagram apologize?


Are palestines not terrorists?



They should add the tag to Shettima IG page

You're right. Because IPOB are terrorists, Igbos are also terrorists. In fact Nairaland should officially tag all Igbos terrorists.

What is good for Hamas/Palestinians is also good for IPOB/Igbos.

Ola9ja23:
Error of original entry 🤣🤣😀😀

Abi Error of Principle 🤣