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kkonsults:
Lekki- Ajah axis
Surulere
Ikeja
Are great options.
You could also consider to Buy then use for Short Let Apartments.

Thank you. One more question, between commercial & residential properties, which do you consider a better investment?

& what do you think about shomolu, bariga, akoka, palmgrove axis?

Can someone with a good knowkledge of the Nigeria advise on a good location to buy buy-to-let properties in Nigeria? Preferably Lagos

Bigchris01:
these ones choose to fight dem nor force them nau, or did you hear any place where he says they force them to fight?

You know nothing about Russia. Research the word "kompromat".

The Russians are skilled at influencing people's actions with the information they possess.

A country is pulling its citizens out of school and forcing them to the frontline in Ukraine. You think they will leave you to go to school and complete it in peace at their own expense...very naive or you are here to spread propaganda

https://punchng.com/ukrainian-forces-capture-nigerian-fighting-for-russia-in-exchange-for-reduced-jail-term/

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251011-pawns-in-putin-war-game-african-women-lured-drone-factories-russia-alabuga

SSpeter:
Encourage your siblings, and other family members to apply

dont mind the guy. Loads of africans & indians are now being caught/killed by Ukraine on the battlefield. Loads of videos on X.

Bigchris01:
I read through the comment section and see some people talking about being lured into military to fight against Ukraine, that’s a big lie, there are over 70,000 population of Africans living in Russia 🇷🇺 and 30,000 are Nigerians according to Nigeria embassy in Moscow they’ve not lured those ones into fighting or maybe their citizens why on earth would you think they will bother themselves to fund university education for 5,000? I understand everyone is scared of Russia but the US y’all feel is the messiah the govt usually make policies to stop black Africans from coming to their country most especially Nigeria to be precise, just today I saw news where Trump is making policy to allow white South Africans to come to the US and boycotted the blacks y’all should better know who mean well for you instead of attaching yourselves to a country where the government is finding every means to stop you from coming to their country

True. Like the ones below performing their university T placement with AK47 on the frontline of Ukraine.

Better dont send people to their death

bigtt76:
Good advise. Many people get stuck in London because they think opportunities abound there. True enough there are a thousand and one opportunities there but you go sweat taya to grab one. Gone are they days person de hustle Cannary Wharf, now na up North, you go flex taya 😂

Current SWV salary threshold is above the country's median rate. Not many employers in places outside london, the south east or the big cities can sponsor.

Those who find sponsorship outside the big higher income cities are often those on jobs where the home office allows discounted salaries.

How many employers in Wales will cover the cost of sponsorship and pay over £40k pa?

Raalsalghul:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/10/prisons-face-staff-shortage-foreign-officers-forced-go-home/

Interestingly, the Prison service is one of the few sponsoring graduates. Why dont they just upgrade the exisiting staff rather than take on new sponsorship

At what point will the impasse on AIRTELAFRICA be broken? No point in having listed shares with no trading volume.

On an unrelated note, UBA paid dividend on Friday.

INTENEGINS is back from suspension!

Jamesclooney:
Ok, I hear you. Let me play along and please humour me.

I currently have about £20k cash saved up.
Family of four( husband, wife, and 2 kids)
If my SWV/ILR gets pulled from under my feet, what are my options?

Where can I move to with my cash reserves?

NB - I’m not in the medical/healthcare field.

If you lend me this £20K , I can start my journey earlier than planned and give you live updates.

Mattswaggz:
If they are a big embarrassment then those that couldn't defeat mere Taliban should be called what?.

In case you havent heard, Russia not only got beaten by the taliban, they also got broken by it.

WriteerNg:
Don't use your internet, sit there and wait for me. I don't have time for that.

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ok. drive your lamborghini to X and continue spreading your propaganda there.

Nairaland is not a great place to speak if you have no evidence

WriteerNg:
Wiseass.. X is international, nairaland is local. You're more likely to be fact checked by an actual military analyst on X than here.

Stop the comparison.

It's like comparing a Lamborghini to a Kia.

You have Google, don't you? Don't wait for me.

Lamborgini driver, show your proof or drive your Lamborghini to X. You will find many customers there.

WriteerNg:
That is the recent one. The recent Prisoner exchange format agreed in Instabul last year.

They agreed to exchange 1000-1000 prisoners.

[b]Before that it was 5000 to 230 or 1800 to 74.[ /b]

cho cho everywhere ....show proof? this is not X where you talk and it gets retweeted without question.

I told you it is 1-1 and showed you proof using a Russian platform, you show your proof.

Prisoner exchanges are done through intermediaries, so the information is easily found online. Cannot be hidden by Russia or Ukraine.

WriteerNg:
Of course X is better. There are more inteligent and internationally exposed people there. Not du11 Nigerians such as yourself. I feel like my IQ reduces whenever I argue with folks here.

So Russia hides their casualties count but Ukraine doesn't? Tell us again, who keeps asking for more troops? Who keeps mobilizing and abducting men off the streets? Who keeps asking for more air defense systems, more this, more that? The one winning right?

Russia regularly targets troop deployment housing of Ukranian and foreign troops. I can't count the number of confirmed strikes of such gatherings, even training grounds, Russia strikes all. Even Ukranians confirm it. Casualties are usually in their hundreds. I posted one last month.

Ukraine has never matched Russia 1-1 in living Prisoners.

All the prisoner exchange was in this format 5000 Ukrainains for 230 Russians.

Even dead bodies swap is usually 1000 Ukrainains for 19 Russians.

Google it and don't quote me again.

I just showed you evidence from a government backed Russian platform that living troops are exhanged 1-1 between Russia and Ukraine.

This is not X, where you speak without good proof and talk loads of propaganda about Russia winning yet being stuck in the same regions in Ukraine for 3 years.

Show me proof from any news media that living troops are exchanged 5-1 between Russia and Ukraine. Even show me 2-1

WriterrNg:
They had 1 million casualties but the bodies exchange deal tell a different story. 1000 dead Ukranian soldiers returned in exchange for 20 dead Russian soldiers. This exchange has happened more than 30 times in that ratio margin.

Even prisoner swap is usually 5000 Ukrainains vs 400 Russians.

So where did you keep those dead 1 million people? Did you eat them all?

You should be worried about America that is on the brink of a civil war. One wrong move from Trump is all it'll take.

This is why X is a better platform for you. You will find people to will reason the way you reason without questioning what you say.

Ukraine & Russia have always swapped living prisoner on a one-to-one basis. These things are done through intermediaries so the numbers are publicly available.

Dead troops, though are useless in the conflict and for an autocracy like Russia is considered classified information as it can easily be a lightning rod for discontent. So it is very much in Russia's interest to receive less corpses and return more...serves for propaganda, reduces the chances of a revolt and reduces payout to the familities of the decease.

However, common sense would indicate that if Ukraine can match Russia 1-1 for living prisioners, it can also do the same for corpses. You dont have to think much to figure this out.,

Go and X and see how loads are of the famout Russian meat-waves are being picked off by Ukraine

WriterrNg:
😂 🤣 😭 🤣 😂 🤣 😭 🤣 😂.


Not if Russia turns Ukraine as silent as a graveyard. Then that'll be the absolute end.

Well they had over 3 years and over 1 million Russian casualties and that hasnt happen. They haven't even managed to go beyond the donbas.

It's common sense to know when to call it quit.

WriterrNg:
Roundly beaten? 😂 😂 😂 😂

You mean say person wey lose $4 trillion, hundreds of thousands of troops (both NATO troops and theirs) and 20 whole years. Then finally fled shamefully, even leaving thousands of equipment behind. Trump is even threatening Taliban to return those equipments till this day.

You mean that one is better than Russia that lost one quarter of that? And spent less than 10 years there?

Stay hear spewing cheap propaganda.

Soviet defeat in Afghanistan's broke the soviet Union to pieces.

Ukraine will grind the larger piece into smaller pieces with time. Prigozhin almost did it on behalf of Ukraine, another will rise and complete it as the embrassing stalement continue to make people wary.

The fly that doesnt leave the dead body follows it to the grave.

Jamesclooney:
What are the actual alternatives bro? Not some vague aspire to perspire speech. Should I go to Canada? On what visa? USA…again on what visa? Etc. I’m actually being open to hearing other ideas. I know a lot of people are in my boat, so doesn’t have to be specific to me.

Sit tight bro....

WriterrNg:
Yeah just like Afghanistan would have battled inside US.

A ragtag barefooted goat herders decimated the US and sent them running after 20 years.

Even though the US had the financial and military backing of the entire NATO and Japan and Co. They all sent troops and weapons to help the US.

Afghanistan received no single support yet they won the US.

The US is so cunning that they like to pick wars far away from their homeland so as not to have their cities destroyed. Knowing fully well that Afghanistan is 2 oceans away from the US, so they can't strike back.

The Taliban who barely had any tank or aircraft had no missile that could strike US mainland.

It's easy to call yourself powerful when you go out making trouble and the people you fight don't know where you live or how to get to where you live.

If they're truly powerful they should start a war with their next door neighbor Mexico and see how it ends for them.

Better than Russia that was not only roundly beaten in Afghanistan, also broke the russina empire to pieces, reeling from outright defeat by Afghan forces.

Today, Putin is embrassing himself by trying to gather the broken pieces of the soviet empire...none of the ex-soviet states want to return to the russian world...its ovious.

Putin is like a toxic ex that does not understand a relationship is over.

Kaliningrad:
Cockroach that made 32 grown men (NATO) to shit their pants. Till date the US/NATO is still obeying the order of a Cockroach to not step foot inside Ukraine.

Why does the US need 32 grown men to fight a Cockroach??

Ukraine isn't decimated but Zelensky comes online to cry every 2 days? Have you seen him lately, he's looking older than my grandpa.

Let the US try decimating ragtag goat herders Taliban or the Houthis then we can talk.

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

Russia is a big embarassment.

Nuclear weapon aside, Ukraine would have batted Russia aside. Even with the restrictions to weapons Ukraine is allowed to use in Russia and Russia receiving North Korean, chinese and iranian gadgets plus 10s of thousands of troops from North Korea, the frontline is largely a stalemate.

Take this your propaganda to X. You will find people dull enough to believe it.

Jamesclooney:
Ok, I hear you. Let me play along and please humour me.

I currently have about £20k cash saved up.
Family of four( husband, wife, and 2 kids)
If my SWV/ILR gets pulled from under my feet, what are my options?

Where can I move to with my cash reserves?

NB - I’m not in the medical/healthcare field.

I am not in either field either, but facing the prospect of being locked in a 10-year restrictive visa (during which there is likely to be more changes before the 10 years is up) and being on a temporal visa that would need to be renewed every few years, for me it is a wakeup call to seriously consider the alternatives.

You also need to consider the fact that on the balance of probabilities you are more likely to have a breakdown in a relationship with your employer or a more servitude-like conditions once your employer realises they have to put up with you for 10 years and not many other other employers can offer you a SWV on a high salary band.

I also dont intend to renounce my Nigerian citizenship.

You can sit tight and be slow-boiled, or you can smell the coffee and seek out what your alternatives are as a back up plan at least

Goke7:
Omo na 20 yrs ilr loading o! My sympathy to the victims of the attack ! chai

ILR reform has promised to scrap!

The way the UK is now, spend less, stockpile on cash to give yourself the possibility to explore an alternative course of action. Avoid any long term investment that cannot be salvaged or easily exited.

Very cruel and little sense in locking people into a restrictive SWV for 10years & that is not even the worse thoughts out there. They are threatening more restrictions!

Last, last many of their changes will push many of the tax paying migrants who are not dependent on benefits away and leave then stuck with the one they house and pay a stipend to from day 1.

Since they have been aggressively pushing these policies, legal migration has declined rapidly while illegal migration has increase sharply. Common sense should have prevailed that the approach isnt right, but not here.

bigtt76:
Before you know, UK go stat another visa scheme for these women and they reach here go begin drag land with awon onile Na all these things de cos wahala for legal migrants

Not just that.

Most of them are brought on humanitarian or asylum visas are immediately settle on benefits as they do have a strong grasps of the language or market skill set.

Rather than Zia Yusuf to call out his people, he would rather create the impression that migrants in general are benefit scroungers.

Someone who supports women wearing burqa, claim recent migrants are unitegrated and benefits scroungers?

Is any of the burqa wearing women he supports integrated or working ?

tensazangetsu20:
Per capita income doesnt mean anything if the money isn’t entering your pocket. The UK’s per capita income is 60000 dollars. How many Nigerians in the uk earn up to 30000 dollars a year. My first job in chile with a chilean company was paying me more than that. I still maintain my stance though. What I have achieved in chile in two years on a student visa with the restrictions on my visa I wont achieve it in any European country in 10 years with permanent residency maybe except Switzerland cause it’s the only country in Europe with high salaries and low taxes.

You've been blessed by God in Chile, there are many blessed by God in the UK and other European...leave the noise they make on nairaland about everybody doing minimum wage jobs, same way there are those doing minimum wage jobs in Chile.

Regardless, using an objective metric of wealth per head as capital income adjusted by PPP or Human Development Index, Chile falls well behind any Western European country.

Its good you are updating us on Chile. If the UK become too tiring, we will come join you in Chile.

tensazangetsu20:
Yes by one million times. Let’s even remove my remote job. I have worked here in chile with a local Chilean company and what I was earning after tax I can’t earn that in Europe. My first job here in Chile was for a Spanish company and I rejected it to stay here in Chile. In my own opinion, the only countries better than Chile are Switzerland and the USA. What I achieved here in Chile it will takes me 10 years or more in any European country to achieve what I have achieved in Chile in two years with the same knowledge and skills.

It's good you caveated it....Chile is not in the top twenty of per capita income or the human development index.

Igbamatigbi:
Hello, please is it possible to get mortage with less than 8 months on visa? My visa will be renewed in another 8 months but I want to start the process now for a old build house thanks

Tricky but not impossible, especially in the current climate..bank may require a high deposit to hedge against the risk that your visa is not extended.

If you can get a cosigner with a longer duration or confirmation that the extension is very likely, it may help.

Goke7:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/29/stop-blaming-migrants-and-tackle-uks-real-problems-100-charities-tell-home-secretary

I wonder when they will get tired and start getting serious

Expect Reform to clap back at Labour by targeting another "minority" or "vulnerable" group.

There is not much milk left in the immigration thing.

They need to pick another issue that can evoke strong opinion to keep the polling high.

NosyNursy:
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

And I buy fuel to go for these shifts oh
In the end, how much is one making?

I don tire.

Do you have 2 jobs or irregular earnings from another source?...it looks like you are being assessed to the higher tax rate without any tax-free allowance

If HMRC is unsure about what you're total income would be due to an extra income, they may assess it to the higher tax rate without tax-free allowance.

Contact them if your total annual income will fall below this band or else leave it.

Zocalite:
Overexaggeration!

How can just say writing ican change your life and writing is the best investment

You haven't seen people who have ican and are not better

The country is hard oga, if you are lucky to work in a good place thank you maker

Do you know how many international companies have left nigeria or cut operation and their once doing well financial ok staffs are now doing bad

Oga think deep before you conclude

No exaggeration here. All my mates who passed the exam about 10 years back are senior managers and directors in top companies across the world today. Most were already managers in well-respected companies in 4-6 years...and we all came from very humble backgrounds and did not have any connections.

If you are hardworking, studious and resilient. Add ICAN to your portfolio of skills and certificates, and it will unlock doors you never knew existed.

I am talking from experience...not theory.

Forget the few ICAN members that you may have seen and that you were not impressed with. Also, it takes a bit of time something to unlock the full potential the certificate affords you.

I wont be arguing this on NL. I am just telling you hard facts.

thorpido:
She didn't need this at all.
Having I CAN certificate is good but you don't need to get it through fraud especially you being a commissioner.

It was likely on her bucket list and she considered it could be bought with money and influence.

To be fair, in the finance world, ICAN is more highly regarded than ANAN.

That said, she could have gone for ACCA which is also well respected, but more flexible.