baylor:

I am really loving this trend but please I would be glad if anyone in Nigeria could please let me know what I can earn in Nigeria and how it will be spent using the fomat below.i am a normal guy who wants to relocate and continue living my life in Nigeria happily.

I am not looking to forward to 2M per month and I'm not really bordered about bad roads or poor power supply as I have only lived in the Uk for just 6 years, all I am worried about is my career and earnings  in about 5 years to this time .

Below is a snapshot of my present situation and as u can see it's not looking very  great and I am not ready to be involved in any illegit activity.


I would  also appreciate comments from naira land members in the Uk who might know a better way of addressing this issue rather than relocating.

Thanks


Qualifications:uk degree  Bsc Accouting (2:1)+ ACCA

40 hrs A week Job                       £                   *NGN

Gross Annual Income                    25,000                6,000,000

Net Montly Income (After tax)    1,600                  384,000

[b]Monthly Expenses

House Rent (1 Bedroom Flat)     600                   144,000

Council Tax                             110                  26,400

Gas & Electricity Bill                     70                   16,800

Water bill                                      35                     8,400

Mobile Phone (1000 munites)      30                     7,200

Land phone +  Broadband Internet    30                     7,200

Calling Card (Nigeria)                      15                      3,600

Television Licence                       12                       2,880

Sky Tv                                       30                      7,200

Economist + Financial time
Suscription                               14                       3,360

Professional Body membeship
subscripton (Mandatory)  £190 PA 16                        3,840

Road Tax @ £125 PA                     10                        2,400

Car Insurance                                100                     24,000

Fuel                                                60                        14,400

Hair cut @ £8 3 times a month           24                         5,760

Grocery @ £60 per week               240                        57,600

Fast food/ Takeaway /beer/
wine/cinema                               40                          9,600

Bank Current Account fee               6                          1,440

Health care                               0                             0

FamilyAssistance                       40                          9,600

Personal Savings                       100                     24,000


Total monthly Expenses               1,582           379,680

notcorrupt:

Thanks to all and sundry for the invaluable advice given.

For all those Mumus who think that we are all abroad washing dishes or cleaning streets, it actually strikes me as backward thinking because there is dignity of labour in the UK.

This is one of the experiences I hope to bring back home. Be proud of whatever you find yourself doing , and do it well with integrity and honour. This is how genuine employees get promoted to higher positions.

Obviously the likes of invisible would rather be employed in yahoo activities rather than earning a proper income. Sad to say the least.

As for me, I refuse to go into details, but I am confident that Nigeria is the place for me in the interim. If perhaps the elections go well, then there is no doubt that I will be relocating on a permanent basis with family.

I have spent my time here in the UK, gained good qualifications but most importantly acquired a vast amount of experience, primarily on soft skills and work ethic that I know will be an invaluable asset to contribute my own quota while at the same time making a little more $$$$$$ 

By the way I mean it when I say the greedy are never satisfied , lol.

notcorrupt:


If there is any sign of violence after the elections I will vanish into thin air ,  

Shagari2:

thats the point exactly 'your experience' I've lived in UK for 15yrs, don't know anyone with a menial job, have family here, none have menial jobs, have friends here, non have menial jobs, when we 1st came it was different, we all had menial jobs! but as u progress through life things change so as u rightly said it's all about who u know and what pt in their life u know them.

silentc:

Well prince, let me put it this way since i am "in a dream".

I come across Nigerians who do well and those who dont in the UK. There isnt a bias to any direction.

They say birds of the same feather flock together. Maybe you need to review the people you hang out with or the areas you move around. If you dont know anyone in the UK who is doing well, then please you need to review your situation as you are moving with the wrong crowd.

My post highlighted 2 sides of a situation and you choose to only focus on a single line? It means you have some personal issues you are battling with. Maybe you feel inferior and oppressed?

Maybe you arent a Nigerian at home who is doing well. I have friends who live in Nigeria and have a wonderful lifestyle and can afford all luxuries people who live in the UK can afford or have access to. These guys dont have a complex like you seem to have.

Dis Guy:

Another McDonalds employee just relocated back home- burger flipping was his expertise
why didn't he start his own business instead of 'stealing' local job from us?

Proshare NG


Same with the other cleaner Mustapha Chike-Obi, why cant these cleaners stay abroad

bidemi12:

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Holy crap!!! I swear I did not know this. Can you imagine, I have been slaving away all these years for nothing. I’d better hang my SGT stripes and begin a new life. Yahoo, you said right? Thanks so much.

marvel10:

Blige, I don't live in Peckham, mix with ppl who rob others for a living. You really need to get some help for your trust and anger issues. You read like an angry, embittered person. I visited Peckham a few months ago after about 10 years. I do not have friends who live there nor aspire to live there. In Nigeria, I don't know anybody who lives in Ajegunle nor aspires to live there. Does that mean I am a millionaire? No! That said, I am aware that Ajegunle is responsible for a high percentage of talent in the Nigerian media, music and creative industries. Try and be happy. Life is not that bad.

blacksta:

Page 11

U don relocate yet.

frosbel:

What utter rubbish.

There are IT Telecom Jobs in the UK that pay between £55k to £70k for senior engineering/project positions before tax , and these are permanent positions  not contracting.

When you add the benefits, plus salary and bonuses , can you imagine how much it all translates to in Naira.

Moreover the OP might be returning as a Nigerian Expat with dual nationality,  and so will demand a higher wage based on the conveniences of life.

Who in his right mind will return 'home' without adequate accommodation, security and water. Madness if they do.

As   cou-gar rightly said, the security in Nigeria is in shambles, there is absolutely none, except of course you can pay for personal protection.

And what about school fees if the OP is married for instance ? In the UK it is free, in Nigeria it costs millions of Naira a year. Should this not be taken into account ?

Summary is this, do not expect a Nigerian expat who earns lets say £30,000 a year in the UK to ask for the same in Nigeria, he MUST obviously ask for more because the risks, stress and inconveniences are just too many.

hackney:

As for me, just as someone is from say imo state but working in lagos or abuja,
that is exactly the same way i am from there but working in London.

I dont see what the fuss is about relocating especially if you visit home regularly.
I actually travel to the east more often than people living in lagos.

Without going into the pros and cons of living where ever, i'd say each to his own.
If you are obsessed with moving back then give it a go, if not try your best to eck out a good living where ever you are.

I'd say that there are quite a lot of factors that interfere with trying to live a normal life in nigeria.
it simply takes way too much effort to make the simplest things to work in nigeria, but then that could be just me. . . .

lonewolf:

At least they turn up. Also, they don't make incomprehensible excuses about them not having petrol. Why are you acting like Nigerian police and British police are in the same league?
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Nigerian police dont go after burglars anymore, that work has been ceded to the neighborhood watch groups, and God help you if they catch you, you will be begging them to hand your battered head over to the police.

frosbel:

If that is your mentality , then I sincerely pity your backward mentality. A shame to say the least.

Maybe you need some exposure and lessons on how to treat human beings. F00L!

cou-gar:

there's something wrong with it. your friend might have graduated from yale but if he didn't work while abroad, he wouldn't know how employees should be treated. if you compare the 2 situations, nigerian employers are a disgrace. don't they sexually-harass their female employees too? sleep with me if you want to work here!! randy goats they call employers.

for other countries, home will always be home. for nigeria, home is hell.

notcorrupt:

Just a hint.

No professional coming from the UK or USA and who is not adequately qualified will be looking for that sort of money.

Common there is money in Nigeria, stop hoarding it ,

Ileke-IdI:

Plz if you find any employer willing to give his/her employees N3m/yr and UP, let us know.

And this is on a serious note.

Musiwa,:

invisible come here. read this.

GAR3TH:

@ viewlekan

some good points,

but in my opinion many of nigeria's problems can be solve without splitting. it just seems crazy to me that splitting will be the answer.

@ topic  if you ask me splitting nigeria is ones personal motive. okay tell if you split nigeria what would you do next. you will go after the problems that your new country has such as infrastructure, education, violences etc. so why cant you do that with nigeria right now? why not just go after nigeria's problems and fix them. basically splitting is unnessasary.

Kobojunkie:

Nigeria is not working because it is not working at the bottom level and what keeps bubbling up to the top is all that crud that didn't work at grassroots level.  Splitting will only make this even more obvious to those who cannot see what is right in front of their eyes today.

At the community level, you get about the same thing as you get on the national levels. . . . leaders selfishly plundering and leaving the community without. There has never really been a time in our history when this was not really the case. It only becomes more and more pronounced when you move up to the national level. I am sorry, the idea of sharing a country with some of those community morons promoted to national leaders. ***shudders***

GAR3TH:

how is that threats?

GAR3TH:

wtf  You are just like KOBO, i've already gave you all many answers but yet you say i didnt.

whats next you want me to start spamming the thread with articles and data.