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TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 10:07am On Jun 08, 2021
LagosismyHome:
Oga or madam you are part of the problem we talked about recently. "pull down syndrome ". That is why Nigerians cannot collectively rise and be great together. You only been in UK barely 5 mins you are here forming Olokpa of Nairaland.

Aunty Priti Patel quietly signed a deal with India and Britain to agrees to accept more students and talented young immigrants into Uk in exchange for increased deportations ..... imagine this nonsense. Why is India special, most people if they catch you here illegally they deport you straight. Why does Indian have to have this special agreement. You can be sure the first part of taking in thousands will happen and the later part will be radio silence. But its their quiet way of raising their people

Secondly they quietly added occupation chefs in visa categories so that once they graduate and no job. They can quietly package themselves with visa for 5 years as a chef in an Indian restaurant. At least after 5 years it ILR for them that way they get to stay here.

Left right they are quietly putting policies to favour them and their strength will become in their numbers. Sadiq Khan it going to be hard to unseat him even as he doing rubbish here.... because of numbers of voters .

These are few examples...instead what do we have here. Mamatukwas minding her lane, never posted anything illegal apart from making me salivate with her mention of fish, egusi but you are forming officer of Nairaland

Welldone and continue watching .....
When I read his initial post, I didn't think it had any malice or intent to pull down her business. I didn't also think he accused her of illegal dealings. What I understood was him giving insider information that we should all be careful when importing things as the government is planning to scrutinise it more. That is what I understood.
TravelRe: Urgent. Fast Reply Pls. 1.9 Million For Canadian Visa by dustydee: 9:10am On Jun 08, 2021
You will lose your money and also be banned as well.
Agent and visa is usually a recipe for disaster in Nigeria.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 12:57pm On Jun 07, 2021
babajeje123:
First of all, you can air your opinion without direct and indirect insults. Doing that shows maturity and ones ability to engage others intelligently.
Second of all, I disagree that the traditional outfit of Igbos is a short skirt and tube. I hope the Igbos on this platform will correct me if I'm wrong.
Thirdly, wearing skimpy dresses in Nigeria is a problem because it is not part of our culture to dress scantily. Our culture encourages decency and covering of private parts which these skimpy dresses reveal.
It is so wrong of you to say that I harassed women with my post. I don't support harassment of women in any form or shade and it is wrong of you to accuse me of such. If you're in the UK, you can be sued for wrong accusation.
I don't think she was trying to insult you. Our cultural way of dressing was "indecent". Our women wore scanty clothes or none at all until the white people came. Till date some cultures, like the ibos, still wear those types of clothes. I agree that some of the clothes worn by some here are grossly indecent but it's a free world.
TravelRe: I Want To Return Back To Nigeria. The Weather Over Here Is So Cold. (photos) by dustydee: 4:08pm On Jun 05, 2021
mytime24:
which future, who go pay d debts wey naija dey owe chine cheesy
Naija people will pay. We the people of UAR did not collect any debt and so not liable to pay any debt. tongue
TravelRe: I Want To Return Back To Nigeria. The Weather Over Here Is So Cold. (photos) by dustydee: 3:02pm On Jun 05, 2021
sapphiere:
I'm missing my dear country Nigeria. I just can't wait to go back to Nigeria.

I'm currently in Ajuma City in UAR. The weather here is so cold.
The future is UAR. grin
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Applied For 188 Jobs On Linkedin, No One Clicked. I'm Done Searching! by dustydee: 9:41am On Jun 02, 2021
Barbiturate:
Within a year, I've applied for 188 jobs on LinkedIn. Some I was called for test and interviews, some I was never called. None of them gave me a job. There are some I applied via mail, not LinkedIn "easy apply"......so it should be over 200.

The last one was with a Yoruba company in Lagos. I applied via LinkedIn. I passed through 3 interview processes. The 4th was with the MD/CEO( Yoruba aged and titled man). He practically told me I am omo ibo(ibo man) and that I don't have the passport.

I'm officially done searching for jobs!!!
I'm throwing in the towel!
200 in a year is not too much. If it's in a month then I can say that figure is ok. Keep your head up and keep trying. You are getting interviews so that's a good sign. Learn from the ones you didn't get and keep trying to get better. I wish you the best.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 3:39pm On Jun 01, 2021
fatima04:
Chai, catching up on the pages since March. Na wa oo, just few days away and before you know it, talk and gist don plenty grin grin.
Good to see you back, Ma'am.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: This Is What N-Power Fmard-pace Paid Me by dustydee: 7:22pm On May 28, 2021
thesolutions:
Npower volunteer under N-Agro for Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development PACE program.

This is the settlement I'm receiving for partaking in the program.
Volunteering is free unless there is an agreed payment prior.
CareerRe: Woman Caught Having Sex During Zoom Meeting: Pics & Video by dustydee: 8:37pm On May 27, 2021
film3four:
Woman Caught Making Love During Zoom Meeting After She Forgot To Turn Off Her Camera.


https://www.facebook.com/108337990742383/posts/303410141235166/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwUWglQ_t44
I don't think this is real. Looks like an advert or skit.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 12:57pm On May 26, 2021
LagosismyHome:
There has always been only one....however there is another office where foreigners go to get Nigerian visa in Fleet Street london . That not really for we people cheesy
And NIN.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 12:35pm On May 25, 2021
Aphrodite007:
I’ve missed you people too kiss

Laajiblik texted me with a screenshot of this message, you needed to have seen how I was blushing. Thank you Dustydee

Got some personal issues to sort out that’s why. I just lost interest in life, and went MIA haha. But I’m fine now.
Thank God and good to hear from you. Stay strong and hope to have you here soon.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 10:40pm On May 24, 2021
Has anyone heard from Aphrodite007 and Fatima? It's been a while I saw them here.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 10:37pm On May 24, 2021
wallg123:
Some evening entertainment...
When the Hunter becomes the hunted grin grin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq8cKjdNpCo
Thanks for this. I enjoyed watching their videos.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 1:25pm On May 21, 2021
Chukwuka16:
Preparing for the CRASH!

Disclaimer: This is not a financial advice. Please always seek professional advice from qualified financial advisors.

I love the abroad!

If you as a black immigrant thought you were going to have an opportunity to regularly engage in bouts of sober reflection where you can take out extensive time to think about your life and strategize for upward mobility, the abroad with its structure and demand will by now have shown you its ugly side. It’s greatest invention - The rat race ensures you are kept perpetually in a form of rotational motion yet without achieving significant linear displacement! The rat race is fantastically built into the workplace culture here in the abroad and summed up perfectly as “title without entitlement.”

I think one of the things I would have regretted doing in life was having a PhD! The saving grace was that it was done under 2 years, so not really a waste of time and of course it was fully funded. Today, I look around and see many PhDs of black decent being managed by folks without PhDs and even younger and I laugh uncontrollably at first, and then pause, relapse into deep thoughts and weep profusely.

Chief Igbinedion doesn’t hold an academic qualification but owns a university. Bishop Oyedepo who is a graduate of Kwara Poly is chancellor of 2 universities. Pastor Asimolowo and a host of others who do not necessarily have doctorates own universities. They sit on the boards of their universities and can determine who becomes a professor or not. Knowing this, therefore, why should I willingly enter a race (as an academic) and set out to aspire to become something (say a professor or some other fancy title) that someone without my qualifications can fast track or delay based on his/her feeling. Here in the UK, we now have folks at senior levels in universities (I mean at DVC and PVC and AVC roles) who have no PhDs and are managing professors with PhDs! Life is full of oddities.

The aim of this ranting isn’t to disparage anyone or cast aspersions on above-named folks but to highlight how adaptability and self-discovery especially when backed with focus can help folks anticipate regime changes and plan appropriately for them to prevent being eroded or caught unawares.

Setting the pace
To properly situate my musings (or should I say ranting) this morning, I’ll start off by reflecting on a recent piece by Bloomberg – How London’s Property Boom Left Black Britons with Nothing (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-18/uk-property-wealth-data-2021-show-big-gap-between-black-and-white-homeowners). Quoting copiously from the article – “The inheritance a British person is likely to receive depends on their ethnicity. Data from the Resolution Foundation show that for White British families, the figure is 3,068 pounds whereas for Black Caribbeans, it’s 778 pounds. For Black Africans, meanwhile, the average is a pound.” Continuing, the article reveals that – “People describing themselves as Black or mixed and Black make up about 4% of the population in England and Wales. The median property wealth of zero for a Black family comes once subtracting the debts or mortgages held against those assets. The ONS says the median is generally a better measure because it is less affected by very wealthy outliers included in the data.”

In a post I made some time ago on this platform, I received a lot of heat when I posited that “we live average lives mostly.” Folks asked me where I got my information from and questioned my sensibility. I never responded because living in denial is a major problem associated with a black man. How could I argue when the facts were all around me and clearly visible to anyone with eyes? Blacks make up the majority of low-income earners in the country, work longer hours than any race and have less privileges than any other race. As a matter of fact, the term BAME actually means Asians and others? That we sometimes get to see 1 or 2 outliers is by no means relevant in influencing the true state of the black community.

The illusion of good times
In recent times however, there appears to be an illusion of some positive news. The advent of the help to buy scheme and the low deposits have seen an upsurge in blacks getting onto the property ladder. Like people hypnotised, the avalanche of cheap credit has seen blacks getting houses, cars and other “assets”. I mean what should we use these cheap and readily available money for? Afterall, it isn’t uncommon to hear folks talk of house flipping owing to the supposed illusion that the property market is booming.

The issue with all these is the fact that we are unknowingly getting locked into long term debts and have no alternative way of paying outside of our current jobs. Additionally, the so-called rise/boom in the property market is a fluke that will soon crash. The unimaginable printing of fiat (money) that has flooded the world’s economies in the name of quantitative easing (QE) or MMT has led to an artificial over valuation of financial assets and the property market. The fact that people are now paying 20-50% over the asking prices of houses is a very strong indicator that money is in excess supply and when growth saturates, the bubble will burst and its 2007/2008 or 2000-2002 again.

What happens if you lose your job, and the market price of your house drops 20-30% and you are locked into a fixed interest rate? How do you cope with your bills if that should happen? Do you have savings that can ride you through the storm for up to a year? Do you have other side businesses that can contribute to your living expenses? What are you doing to ensure that you do not get taken unawares? It’s always harder surviving market crashes abroad than back home. Back home you have access to land and other factors of production easily and with less bureaucracy than in the abroad. What assets have you acquired today that can be of value tomorrow (easily traded, divisible, non-diminishing etc.)?

The rate of MMT/QE witnessed between 2020-2021 has been unprecedented. In the US alone, over 55% of GDP has been printed into the economy so far. Here in the UK its over 100% of GDP. All that money has to be recovered in some way. With a lot of confusion over how the economy will collapse or to what extent or what role digital currencies will play, anticipating and hedging become best bets.

The hard truth
A residential house especially on mortgage will always be a liability because it takes money out of your pocket. The idea that you are building equity is illogical since it only becomes realisable after a sale for which you have to pay CGT. However, buying to rent through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) means you earn income taxed at company rate after all expenses! You can even use part of the income to defray some of your rental costs if your house serves as some office space for your SPV. Not only does your equity in the house get preserved through inflation but you earn dividend through rent. In a crisis or downturn, rents can be lowered, forbearance can be gotten from the banks (for the SPV and not yourself thus protecting your credit worthiness), you could even live there (at some costs) and other things.

The developed world and China are aging. China is estimated to have peaked in terms of work force and is in decline. The US, UK, Europe etc. are all having an increasing aging population. This implies that productivity and growth will have to shift to countries with a younger workforce. However, there will need to be a whole new development of support structure for the elderly – care homes, logistics, operations etc. This is being posited to be a significant market for the developed countries. What role do you see yourself playing in there?

The crypto market is the new internet 2.0 – the democratization of financial assets. Think about this, years ago, it was unheard of that ordinary folks could just from the comfort of their homes and with £100 pick up stocks of Berkshire Hathaway or Tesla or Amazon without seeing a broker and paying huge commissions. Today, I can buy fractions of top performing stocks either on DOW or NASDAQ or FTSE or CAC or DAX from the comfort of my home using specific apps. I can even trade futures and derivatives of gold, silver, oil, natural gas at home and make and lose money! Today from the comfort of my home, I can move my Naira in Nigeria to my bank account here in the abroad using P2P on Binance without needing to trouble any folk here (though at higher price). In fact, I can do the reverse and send Naira directly to beneficiary accounts bypassing the CBNs directive using P2P on Binance and get very good rates that beat abokifx! This is the power of cryptocurrency and getting knowledgeable about how the blockchain industry works for future leveraging becomes key.

In Conclusion
As I conclude, I’m reminded of a conversation I had with a folk years ago. As a young guy in UI, I invested heavily in knowledge and so every fortnight I was always at Premier Hotel to get Newsweek and Time Magazine (one from them and the other from a local stand). That was a significant part of my monthly upkeep. Fast forward to 2009/10 in a church camp meeting and I was reading one of the magazines talking about the reconstruction work going on in either Iraq or Afghanistan (can’t recall which) during break. This decent folk stumbled on me and asked what I was reading. I told him “Oh, I’m reading about the post-war reconstruction efforts in Iraq/Afghanistan”. His response has left me in perpetual shock till date. He responded “Imagine, so there was a war? This is really signs of the end times and we as Christians need to start preparing because Jesus is coming anytime now.” It’s been 10 years after, and Jesus has still not come. Will He come – definitely. Is the timing of His coming my business – No. What can I do for His coming – live prepared! However, in the 10 years after, life as continued, bills have had to be paid, humanity has continued to advance and move on. If he didn’t take time out to prepare for life, well I can’t imagine his current state.

Take time out of the rat race here in the abroad to read, seek knowledge (freely and abundantly available on the internet) and plan for your future. We live in strange times and only prepared people will end up better on the other side of the crisis when the dust settles.
Thank you for this insightful piece.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 4:13pm On May 17, 2021
lynniebabes:
Hello can anyone tell me if I get a compassion from a 4 star hotel in London. After getting critically ill and rushed to emergency from allergies I got in there.
What do you mean by compassion?
EducationRe: Why Do Some Nigerians Think Being A Male Nursing Student Is An Abomination???!!! by dustydee: 10:14am On May 17, 2021
JBRichard:
I am a student studying nursing in Nigeria. I got a lot of recommendations and commendations when I settled down for this course. I was bred up to be a Medicine and Surgery student. I was advised to choose this because it's professional and not lengthier and can end up with a good job abroad or even here by God's grace. Plus as it stands now, I don't want to waste so much time in school in order to settle down and get a good job and do something for myself.

But when people hear of my course the somehow fumble. I get belittled. I am a guy.... Is there something wrong with studying this or should I change??
I wanted to study Biochem but I was chastised against it huh

Because I'm starting to wonder why I don't see male nurseshuh..... I met one man and he eyed me from top to bottom. Another individual said I don't know what I want to become.
Another shouted ABOMINATION!!!!! grin
I've already gained admission oooo....
I'm bewildered....
Haven't seen male nurses in Naija before....
Chineke!!! �
Decent career choice. Watch and see how those people will come begging you for assistance with your "abomination" salary.
You can make it your mission to address the misconception about male nurses.
BusinessRe: In Defense Of Aliko Dangote By Oluwole Dada by dustydee: 8:27am On May 16, 2021
lalasticlala:
As written by Oluwole Dada, a Sales and Marketing Professional, Teacher, Counsellor, Administrator and Preacher.



https://twitter.com/oluwole_dada/status/1393663472446148609
Which one is ALUKO Dangote again?
PropertiesRe: Quit Notice To A Tenant by dustydee: 7:07am On May 11, 2021
Solatium:
Still on it,no landlord can serve you a notice when you are still having a running contract.
As a matter of fact some landlords will allow you up to a year without paying a kobo as rent,all other bills for utilities and maintenance MUST BE PAID FOR BUT NOT RENT,at the expiration of that notice he/ she can act appropriately.

The essence of giving up to 6 months from the expiration of your rent is

(1) to get you prepared Psychologically and physically for eviction.

(2) To give you enough time to look for suitable accomodations

a lot of you don't know that it is practically possible for you to keep searching for a suitable accomodations up to 6 months,most especially in lagos where rate of decent accomodations always skyrocket,but bulk of you arguing here felt the aim of that 6 months is to live freely in another person House, though so many tenants always take advantage of the house owner hiding under that provision.

There is human face to every law and each law tends to protect the vulnerable People in every situation.
Enjoy your ignorance.
PropertiesRe: Quit Notice To A Tenant by dustydee: 10:26pm On May 10, 2021
Solatium:
I will wait for such a landlord and we will trash it out,You guy's always think a tenant is always at the mercy of the landlord?
If you give me a notice when you are not suppose to i won't even take it from you,if you paste it on my wall thinking that you can use that to stamped me out,you have just shot yourself on the leg.
i will ask my lawyer to write you and the process of eviction will start when we are both done replying those letters.
No be everyone be mumu ooo.
if you want me out of your house,there is no wahala,do it when my contract expires with you,not when I have a running contract.
A landlord can give you notice (and indeed should) before your rent expires. The notice should ideally kick in on or after the expiry of your rent. I wonder where you got the idea that a landlord cannot issue you a quict notice until after your rent expires. That's illogical. If you contend that you will not leave until your rent expires, that's fair depending on the circumstance else he/she should compensate you for terminating the contract early. But 6 months into your 1 year tenancy, a landlord can issue you a 6-month notice. Learn this, you may need it in future either as a tenant or landlord.
CrimeRe: I Want To Report My Landlord For Bypassing Our Electricity Meter by dustydee: 10:42am On May 10, 2021
sammymax:
So I discovered that my landlord bypassed his meter because our light git spoilt and I was trying to fix it. This is the same man that you cannot owe light bill. I had a disagreement with him so he already gave me quit notice. So now that I know that all the money I have ever paid him has been pocketed I want to report him but my friend said it's not necessary that I am already leaving the house. I'm I totally wronghuh
Report him for the following reasons:
1. It is right thing to do
2. He and his likes are the major contributor to our bad electricity supply issue in Nigeria
3. Innocent people tend to make up the difference, by way of estimated billing and higher tariff charges, for the loss of electricity to bypass.
4. If you don't, that makes you an accomplice and although you might not be charged, you have no moral right to demand accountability from public officials or complain about epileptic power supply.
PropertiesRe: Quit Notice To A Tenant by dustydee: 6:35pm On May 09, 2021
Solatium:
The use of photography as evidence must have been after several unsuccessful attempt to serve in person or the person has been avoiding the notice,your legal team will then go back to the court and state the same to the judge,it is then the judge will order that he can be serve through substituted means,i.e photographs and Newspaper Advertorial.

Learn to read and apply things in totality,no be everything be gragra.
Na people like you i dey like to transact with,sebi you know law? we go both dey apply am
I think you are missing the point. A notice can be issued to you 6 months to the end of your yearly tenancy. This notice will expire on the anniversary of your tenancy. That way you have exhausted your rent and also had ample time to find an alternate accommodation. If you refuse to leave (Say notice was given on June 30 for your rent that will expire on December 31st 2021), the landlord can commence eviction proceedings against you. If your eventually leave say June 30th 2022 you will be liable to pay 6 months rent (January 2022 after your rent expired till June 2022 when you finally left). The fact that your former landlady did not pursue you for the rent does not make it law. If you meet a principled and learned landlord, they will get that rent from you (and there are legal tools to do that) except you are bankrupt or untraceable. I hope this clarifies the point the other person was trying to make to you.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 1:11pm On May 07, 2021
STENON:
Look for another responsible man either African or British and enjoy full happiness in Marriage. Stop thinking about the man that does not have any sympathy for you.
Or woman. wink
Jobs/VacanciesRe: When Are We Going To Talk About These Lebanese And Chinese Companies by dustydee: 10:26pm On May 06, 2021
lavylilly:
When are we going to talk about these Lebanese and Chinese companies running a modern slavery in Nigeria?


This Chinese company of a thing is total slavery o. Come to igbesa ogun state, you will see lots of Chinese company. Lemme start with viju milk company, their staff work 7am-7pm everyday and get 18k at the end of the month. There are lots of Chinese companies with low. Nigerians in those companies enabled them! It wasn’t always like this
This is what the NLC, National assembly and the ministry of Labour should address.
HealthRe: Can A Delayed Ejaculation Actually Father A Child? by dustydee: 1:34pm On May 04, 2021
Mainlymanof:
Please come to my rescue, I am dying with depression. How can I be happy ? I'm not enjoying my sexual life. People say it is an advantage that I have delayed ejaculation condition. That so many older ladies love long lasting men on bed. Yes it's true but at my age I am not up to the level to mate with older ladies that do really love delayed ajaculation. At my age some of my age mate opposite sex can't be able to take pe.n.is not to talk more of long lasting sex . No matter the time we trust I will not cum, until I will get tired. And can't even thrust again. How can I father a child when I can't pur sperm inside my wife. How will she be able to get pregnant na. It is so painful . Help me out please. I need your advice now pls

Updated
YES, YES, absolutely YES. You can father a child even with delayed ejaculation.
ProgrammingRe: Facebook Is Suing Me For This by dustydee: 11:13am On May 04, 2021
Smartixy:
I am a developer, I have Instagram saver which uses sessions to get data and also Facebook story saver on play store. I monetize using Facebook Audience Network, that's where they got my information because I do receive payments with them, they have disabled my Facebook and Instagram plus my FAN accounts with some funds and are threatening to sue me if I don't stop my apps and also give them information about the apps I have created.

I need help on what to do and what kind of action can they take upon me.

Below is the pdf the sent to me.

Mod please move it to the appropriate section
Guy you got something here. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR COLDE. Your major breach was data protection, which facebook has been under fire for the past few years. Address that concern and desist but do not dash them your technology. they can buy it if the price is right.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 4:42pm On May 02, 2021
Chukwuka16:
Internal Contestations and life’s absurdities – an appeal to let empathy prevail

A brief on my past musings
It was some months back and, on this platform, I passionately denounced Nigeria. Having been pissed off with the continuous policy capitulations of the government and the mass and shameless display of crass mediocrity at the helms of affairs never before seen in Nigeria’s history, I thought it necessary to divest my interests from Nigeria and focus elsewhere – after all I can’t come and go and kill myself. This was no empty statement for I did begin the process after having a long call with my main portfolio manager.

Recent happenings and the need for empathy
I have recently returned from a four-week trip to Nigeria to conclude a cycle of one of my business interests and facilitate some changes for the next cycle. This trip saw me spending 2 weeks in the North and in the bush/forests sorting out land leases and concluding pre-planting operations including sorting out security and oversight.

My time in the North was worthwhile as I visited major markets in the two cities I stayed. While it was fantastic to enjoy the pleasures of Nigeria – akara, masa, roasted corn/plantain (with groundnut), okpa (even though it caused me stomach upset), molue (public transport), keke, motorcycle, mama put etc., it was also painful to observe first-hand “a wasting generation”.

Youth in no age is well served unless it has a new dream to unfold, a clean block of paper to write on, a chance to create an original product and set a brand on it, a job in which to become wholly absorbed. Nor is the nation well served which does not provide a frontier of some sort for each succeeding generation of youth.” (Clark, 1938).

It was ghastly beholding a huge population of young people aimlessly wandering from morning till night-time without engaging in any productive activity. It was shocking to observe major markets having the same massive population at 10am and at 4pm on a working day! I deliberately took out time to use the public transport system (against my farm supervisor’s warning) and observe what was typical. Looking around me in those strange buses and on the streets was the picture of frustration. Yes, the sun was really at its peak but then even at cooler temperatures in the evening/night-time, the look of pain, anguish, frustration and hopelessness was in abundance around me; what was worse, the majority of these folks were young people (30 and below).

One week into my stay up North, my business and accountability partner joined me, and we began assessing our decision to divest. Our (animal) farm up north has 10 staff (2 of which are graduates) with the (plant) farm employing quite a number of casual workers (though on contract terms). When we decided here in the UK to divest, we had taken that decision as engineers (that we are). There was no empathy or feeling involved. We had always dealt with variables and machines and so it was basically a financial decision we were making. However, when we included the gory sights of jobless youths and the uncertain future of our staff were we to close shop, it became certain that divesting was never going to be an option.

We didn’t get to where we are today because of our pedigree – No. We were sponsored from Nigeria for PG studies abroad – our parents could never have afforded it. We attended Nigeria’s premier university for pittance. Nigeria had given us a platform. Yes, it could have been better but damn, Nigeria had been fair to us. We can’t in our lifetime imagine being where we are today considering our very humble backgrounds. What is more, we were not the best or brightest, we were just fortunate. In retrospect, we concluded that every of such opportunities enjoyed must have setback some very talented and resourceful persons more deserving of such privileges.

While we are very interested in the numbers and RoI, we have decided to let empathy prevail. I will not be divesting anymore from Nigeria. Yes, I will continue to rant and vent from time to time, but if that business gives Audu a chance to get his life sorted and move on to better opportunities then damned be exchange rate – Lord, I have just checked abokifx and it is approaching N700/£1. I will continue to diversify and attempt to hedge losses from currency devaluation and trust God for mercies since at this point logic can’t cut it.

Hope for a better Nigeria
Having followed hopefully the frantic attempts at tracking #FindHinyUmoren, it is painful to learn that she didn’t make it. Her only crime was that she was looking for a job, that’s all. That was perhaps a future commissioner or captain of industry or another Ngozi Iweala. Alas, she was cut down in her prime with her hopes and vision dashed. Every day in Nigeria, hundreds and thousands of “Umorens” meet their end without having an opportunity at life. They are victims of Nigeria’s failure. Of course, it isn’t uncommon to adopt the sidon look approach – since e no affect me, e no concern me until it concerns me.

As we settle down to life in the abroad, lets from time to time go beyond pondering to doing. That simple gesture or help or assistance will go a long way in changing someone’s destiny. Let us in our own corners find and save one “Umoren”. In all we do, let’s ensure empathy prevails.
I commend you for this. Nigeria was good to me too, even though I come from a lowly background. I shall return the favour too someday.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 7:36pm On Apr 30, 2021
Fuckeveryday2:
Good evening everyone, please my sis has a UK visa due to expire in June, but due to Covid she hasn't been able to go.

Now the issue is, can she extend the visa before it expires? Or she has to go by force.

And if she doesn't go, would it affect her next visa chances, cus she plans applying for US next year.

Someone should help abeg
It should not affect her future applications. I wonder where Nigerians got the information "that if you don't use your visa, it will affect future applications". There has to a reason why the visa was not used.
TravelRe: Just Got My Visa To Travel To Germany For Work, I Am Having Cold Feet. by dustydee: 1:50pm On Apr 29, 2021
Hmmmn, see format.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 12:43pm On Apr 27, 2021
LagosismyHome:
This what a friend told me and how she went about it for her MIL.

Visitors are not charged and allowed to take either the test and vaccine for free. However for vaccine the NHS number was required.... so what she did was call her gp and explained that her MIL needs the vaccine and is a visitor. The MIL was register in that gp with no check on I'd or address. The NHS number came shortly after and they were able to book the vaccine

However the write up below makes it seems you don't even need NHS number so maybe she could have just gone to the website and book the vaccine without gp registration. Because it says
vaccination against coronavirus
No immigration checks are needed.


https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/visiting-or-moving-to-england/visitors-from-outside-the-european-economic-area-eea/
Thanks. We stopped when they asked for the NHS number. I will ring the GP. Thank you.
TravelRe: Living In The Uk/life As A UK Immigrant by dustydee: 12:30pm On Apr 27, 2021
Please are visitors to the UK eligible to take the vaccine? If so how do they go about it?
RomanceRe: Update! How I Finally Left This Single Mother And Learnt Lessons by dustydee: 12:41pm On Apr 24, 2021
HappyCanadian:
Hey Guys,

I created this thread to thank and update you guys how my strong closeness with the single mother ended after receiving advice here....
Previous thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6477303/how-leave-single-mother-without

Before I start I want to correct the negative impression a lot of you had thinking I was chatting with her in Nigeria> FYI me and her live in the same city in Canada but I met her through a popular dating site.

[/b] grin

#Respect to the Mods & Nairalanders
You met her though a dating site and you were not expecting a relationship? You should have backed out from day 1.

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