₦airaland Forum

Cyberknight:
If the motherland still exists in returnable form, it might be an option. I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.

Together we can make it a better place.

Cyberknight:
Lol - prepare to collect your much reduced state pension in your 70th decade or thereabouts. If the thing lasts that long. For me who just came to this country in my 40s with children, living and working in the south-east, my roughly outlined plan is to retire when my last employer throws me out and nobody else wants to employ me, then live off whatever occupational pension I will have accumulated, then, if there is no state pension, book a free NHS assisted death and a Co-op cremation when the workplace pension is finished.

How about retiring and returning to your motherland?

ReesheesuKnack:
Based on your previous postings here, you only arrived the UK a few moons ago.
Yet, you have amassed a good enough sample size to reach a conclusion about Zimbabwe’s women’s hips.

As a woman, I find this an utter disgrace. Make no mistake, MissJekyll was absolutely spot on to call both you, and that lavida being out. Shame!

Rishi I’m gripping it 🤣

Goodenoch:
Given your crass response, I don't expect this will change anything but I'll still point out that it's not tyranny to tell you that talking adolescent nonsense doesn't reflect well on you or other people on this thread.

So what are you going to do about it ?

Sue me?

Like I said I can say whatever I want. I know my right.

missjekyll:
And I m trying to point out that this is beer parlour talk . And we don't want to hear it.
You can exchange numbers and chat all you want . But it's probably best not to say stuff like this on the thread.

Glad the tyrant in you is coming out clear as day light. Talking about we don’t want to hear it. I have freedom of speech and I can say tf I want. You go dey alright.

rock86:
Please go and warm hot eba or find shift to pick. You just had to tag me along

Give her extra eba.

missjekyll:
I find this thread of discussion rather disrespectful to all the women on this thread. (It sounds alarmingly close to beer parlour talk)

You wouldn't like it if I reduced men to their parts and started a discussion on that here now,would you?

I m sorry if it feels like I m picking on you. I m not. I thought it would just be the 1 aberrant comment but it seems to be dragging on and on.

@rock86 it's bigoted to apply a broad brush to all the members of a group. If the British had applied that to Nigerians you wouldn't be here. You have to relate to people one on one to make a judgement.

What’s wrong about me saying a woman has ukwu ?

Just to be clear i am on this thread to network, vibes and let go of worries. You can take my comment whichever way you want that’s on you.

Lexusgs430:
Let's get the UK government to leverage some pressure, on this incompetent Nigerian government to deal with terrorism, mass abductions and genocide in Nigeria.......

Let's sign this petition....... 😁

www.stopnigeriagenocide.com

Insurgency in Nigeria is an advantage to the west.

rock86:
Please, advice in getting wives.
It's all these people that divorced their husbands that are running after me. They're older than me fgs.

What's your view about Zimbabwe women? They're so lovely and kind to me

And dem dey get ukwu

Zahra29:
It's fine to start your practical lessons while studying to retake your theory. In fact the practical lessons should help with the hazard perception and other elements you might be struggling on as a good instructor should be teaching you to identify hazards along the way. It's personal preference, the only legal requirement is that you pass your theory before you take your practical test.

Is the vehicle electric? I think £40ph is an average/ good price at the moment.

However I would recommend you do a trial lesson with him before committing to 10 lessons, so you get a feel for his teaching technique and you can also ask him to estimate how many lessons he thinks you might need after he's assessed your driving.

Also ask him about his availability - ideally you want to take lessons during daylight hours and also when it's dark so that you are comfortable driving at night.

I agree with this rhetoric. Most trainers are out there for your money especially “our people”. He should book a 10hrs slot and see if he/ she is a good trainer.

ehizario2012:
Those tables I guess, but I passed through that. It's the CSJT that's proving terribly difficult. Wish you luck.

What’s csjt?

Zahra29:
"Vile, evil, idiot, stupid woman".....wow.

If anyone believes that Kemi's comments have crossed the line and that she is deliberately making disparaging and discriminatory comments against Nigeria(ns), then they should make an official complaint about her conduct which might lead to a formal investigation:

https://www.theipsa.org.uk/making-a-complaint

Or write to your MP and explain your grievances.

This is the UK. Your politicians work for you and not the other way round. Don't suffer in silence hate.

E never reach this level na. She is still our beloved sister but she dey get touch sometimes.

jedisco:
Rent money is... (I no tok anything).

Getting on the housing ladder in an appropriate manner does provide good stability. This is not to demonise landlords providing good service.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/sep/30/uk-house-prices-hit-highest-annual-growth-since-2022

Where I go see 20k bayi ?

ehizario2012:
This EO Civil Service Judgement Test CSJT can be so frustrating. Which day will I pass like this??

The time base question is where usually come up short.

ehizario2012:
Oil and gas Nurse, reminds me of that Senior Mental health nurse with sponsorship, free accomodation and all those perks

Where is komburu 😂😂

giselle237:
You are allowed to have your thoughts most assuredly. If I got 5m naira monthly in Nigeria I would not come here.
Rent is once a year. She pays her 7million out of 60million and is sorted. Rent is monthly here, this already makes both unequal to compare.
Iphone will not be bought every month. School fees is also not paid in Nigeria every month for 12 months.
Little or no tax in Nigeria. What is better about the Uk in terms of her starting salary? Nothing. Other luxuries would come easy and cheap.
Can she afford a driver, child minder, nanny and cook on the NHS starting salary as a nurse and still pay rent, council tax, water, electricity and cost of living in the UK from roughly £2300? NO! She can easily afford her luxuries every month in Nigeria and still be ok and have her family support childcare with a net of 5 million and no sweat. Her husband would also be working and bringing in his own income.
Only the childcare issues alone in the UK with children aged 5 years and 7 years and her shifts… she will start her cries..
yes there is insecurity in Nigeria but most people here still have majority of their families living in Nigeria, let me assume they dont care about their families—> most still have their biological parents living in Nigeria with the insecurity, what makes her different from your parents that are still living in the midst of this very drowning insecurity even though it breaks our hearts but we can not do anything ? Why is her own the highlight?
@nursegrace if the 5 million naira job is certain, take it!!!! It is a good sum to come in monthly for a WOMAN living in a low income, low taxed country like Nigeria. I am talking real life situation here, not internet. Your husband would easily be able to financially support his home.
Your workload in Nigeria can never be compared to the workload of an NHS nurse who still needs to go back home and be a wife and a mother. The burnout is real from all fronts.
For me, I can not compare a monthly take home of £2300 in the UK to that of 5 million naira in Nigeria and choose UK. I would be telling lies to you as I have earned way more than twice your NHS starting salary in here while going to work every single day completely burnt out but still showing up and in hindsight I would take a 5m option to live in Nigeria with my luxuries if I could. Easily affordable and accessible childcare for starters!!! . At least I would enjoy this 5m for the next one year first
Leave no room for regrets. This typing space is too small for me to write everything.

You forgot to add the part where she and her family can be kidnapped for living in affluence or driving a nice car. Hanty uk is better than that hell home for now.

jedisco:
Lol... we need to up those numbers.

10k kwa? Might go far in some parts of the north for 'room and parlour' property except you're going for 95% mortgage. Double it and targets get more interesting

Na wa oo 😭😭

jedisco:
Stumbled upon these and decided to share. Deferential attainment and its drivers always fascinate me. Good thing the UK has reasonable data on this.

We are a bit above average when it comes to GCSEs but lag quite a bit with housing.

With GCSEs, good grades are nice but also important are mentoring (i.e what couse/uni/apprenticeship), exposure, links and soft skills

Housing OTOH is good baseline for wealth in this country. Without this, other levels of attainment are more difficult. We lag quite well in this. Granted, we did not arrive as early as Caribbeans and some Asians hence did not benefit as much from council houses buyout cheaper housing 20yrs + ago. Over that period, lots of wealth was built in housing. Difficult to say where future wealth would be built but like with most life issues especially finance, he who already has is more likely to have more.

Going forward, if few Asian countries continue compounding at such rate, it'd be more difficult to argue discrimination as a reason for affirmative action.

Na 10k for deposit be my target as we speak. Rent money is truly dead body money 🤣

Lex2023:
Hi guys,
I don't know if some of you still remember my issue with my Landlord that pull my room door off and also change the keys to enter the house on November last year.

Well the woman is still withholding my properties since then o..
After she changed the house keys, I couldn't get into the house so I have to look for any accommodation I can find as soon as possible and thankfully for me I found one which I quickly took and have been staying there since then. The woman do not only change the keys but instead she went ahead and block me from calling her both on WhatsApp and direct calls..
Going to a year now I have been managing myself as much as I can..

The council referred me to an agency that can help me to take legal actions against the landlord but since then nothing have been done , though 3 months ago he wrote me to come and sign the statement which I did but till now nothing..
Though when I went to sign the documents they ask me if she has release my properties I told him NO, and he sent me a link I can use to contact *justice for tenants * which I have already contacted them and they wrote to the council to get details of the house to know if the landlord got HMO licence, still haven't had anything from them yet for a month now..(they said the landlord will pay me 1 year of the rent I paid if she has no HMO licence)

Am just wondering if there are any other way I might be able to get help as soon as possible,
She's holding my deposit, also my properties plus forcefully evicted me from the property, not to mention all the harassment and mental stress I went through in the hand of this yoruba woman witch...

The one wey her daughter wan beat you 🤣

ehizario2012:
Hi fam, been a while here. My former agent has been posting me for over 6 weeks now, he refused to return my deposit. Just promises. I've heard from people that he never willingly returns deposits. It's £675 and I feel that money can do something good somewhere. And worse still, I found out he didn't even protect the deposit.

I've read some procedures online, including court fees etc. it's discouraging, considering the relatively small amount of £675. I'll appreciate any help from experienced members here. Cheers.

Some Naija guys just dey fall hand anyhow. Too bad.

You go dey pity dem by not wanting to take legal actions, but them no get conscience at all.

Abeg sue dem if you know you are in the right.

NEW: A key Labour advisor has said those with long-term illnesses should be forced into work in order to "wean" Britain off the "easy solution" of immigration.

Alan Milburn, an ally of Wes Streeting, called for conditions to be imposed on sickness benefits.

(Via @TheTimes)

jedisco:
Aid goes beyond the desire to help and manytimes is used to achieve soft power, regime change and mostly brings more benefit to the giver than the receiver. There'd always be some focused, tokenised projects used as a wallpaper to sell it. Aid is like giving someone just enough to keep them alive and see you as their saviour but never enough to do anything useful. There is a reason why virtually no country in the global south has made any progress with aid received. Most are structured in a way to make looting them back to lending nations the end goal. American help to the Europe and Japan after the world wars was structured very differently. Caveat: this is not absolving developing nations of certain responsibilities.

Another question is to ask what happens when the West stop giving aid? Recipient nations begin to seek options elsewhere prompting the West to come running back. Good example are with recent Chinese loans which the EU and the US are now mimicking after years of criticising them.

A good example is the recent cocoa wars between West African nations and global beverage or chocolate companies. Despite rising prices of end goods, only a tiny sumof money in the sector (5% or less) of money in the sector got to the farmers and growing nations. Their governments had been pushing to raise the floor produce of the beans so farmers and local economies could benefit. Nestle e.t.c though being able to afford this were vehemently opposed to this. They instead opted to give aid and plaster the pictures of hapless African children over the Internet.
Most of our recent major infrastructure have been thanks to Chinese loans. Ask yourself how much the UK has done to support former colonies like Nigeria to achieve economy-changing infrastructure projects over the last few decades. Rather, it's about tokenised bits called aid.

P.s, the term 'third world' can be many times be considered derogatory. I'd rather global south.

In summary they are giving these aid to show their poor people that, look you are better than this people we are giving aids 🤣

Some politicians rhetoric is they give these aid so Africans can in turn buy what the west sells.

Still don’t make sense to me. If we don’t wake up as Africans we will continue be toss around by the west.

jedisco:
Hehe... the dynamics behind aid is far reaching. The US does not have universal healthcare but give billions in aid. China has its domestic challenges but do same. There's a reason for aid and it goes beyond the surface

Can you give a reason why these wealthy countries send billions of £ aids to third world nations, when they know the moneys will be looted.

jedisco:
I'm a GP

Make sense. What’s your take about banning of cigarettes

Lexusgs430:
Nah so o ...... You would almost feel like you're legally shoplifting......😜😁

Drastic measure needs to be taken to deal with shoplifters.

Lexusgs430:
I hope we're all ready for Keir's speech today, informing us of tax rises....... 😁😊

I always said, I remained hopeful, but not delusional about this regime change....... 😜

People wey no serious they send billions of £ in to sub Sahara Africa in aid but can afford to keep pensioners winter credit ongoing.

Trying so hard to prove to the world you are a wealthy nation while your elderly die in cold winter.

Will never make sense to me.

Gurus please recommend a good MacBook Air for me to buy. 🙏🏿

justwise:
This is the most gangster way of leaving a church, i did it quietly after telling few family members my reasons for stopping anything organised religious activity, they understood my reasons but still think i should keep attending church services.

Stockholm syndrome

ReesheesuKnack:
Actually, she has a couple of options:
a. Go to Kings Cross, take the Eurostar to France. Navigate to Calais. Get on a dinghy ⛵️ and return to Dover. Throw away her passport. Claim asylum.

b. Remain where she is. Identify as ABCQRT+++. Remind the authorities that she can’t go back to her home country because she will be killed or imprisoned (by virtue of her new-found real self. Done.
So, you see. She has lots of options.

PS: While typing this reply, I couldn’t find my taste organ. Just when I was about to click ‘submit’, I found the cheeky organ snugly hidden in a corner of my buccal cavity.

You need yoyo bitters to clear your taste bud 😂

jedisco:
Madam Zahra... not today.

It is not the first time you have accused me of abusing Brits. The last time I asked to show evidence, it was a game of dotted circles. So I would indulge you this time.

On the second bolded part, I have not come across anyone particularly not on this thread who has advocated an open door policy. So no need belabouring it.

The crux of the matter is that while repeatedly insulting our very intelligence on a Nigerian fora, you take good objection when the slightest non-favourable thing is said about Brits. I understand that a number of immigrating Africans sadly have esteem issues ingrained over the decades which is evident on this thread by a few folks who have described themselves as second-class humans, but ultimately, that characterisation of oneself can and does change with exposure and most importantly, doesn't include all.

My issue here is the absolute lack of responsibility by previous governments on immigration. They cannot purposefully ramp up migration, and then demonise us giving room to rifrafs to start throwing aspersions. If people are annoyed with migration, they should not take it on me-
They should blame their government who made the pathway available in the first place and told me on arrival that I am needed.
Same government who gave me 20k grant to take up a chosen pathway
Same government who allowed me work unlimited hours when covid hit
Same government who paid my visa fee on renewal plus my employer who advised I apply via the more expensive priority visa (as it would be refunded) so I can start early
Same government who when faced with the prospect of long health worker strikes went back again to relax the 20hr rule so migrants could support the NHS during striking periods.
Same government who when faced with the prospect of my colleagues leaving the country after training due to visa technicalities, had to practically remake the rules to allow them work freely for 4 months while making a choice
Same government who gave me the option of a 10k or 20k grant depending on the way I wanted to work after training
Or my employer who offered to help with my ILR cost if I stay with them.

While being grateful, it's disheartening to see the length the govt and employers go to retain the talent the British public need all for some rifrafs to cast aspersions. Good thing is that there are loads of vacancies in my sector for rioters willing to apply

Finally, on Reform, remember I said I hoped they win. Some lessons need to be learned twice.

Just curious. What is it you actually do ?

You can choose not to answer.

jedisco:
The archived page to circumvent the paywall: https://archive.is/qHCIB

I'd like to see how this tallies with those receiving benefits. The graphs are quite telling.
Obviously it's an economic issue - one exacerbated by the fact that a good chunk of these 9.5m demand pristine NHS and public services. I fully support this demand only that such well-oiled services need to be manned by people and they need to be funded by taxes. So ultimately good chunk of people have to work for us to have a functional society

Interesting quote- I wonder how it tallies with other data: Splitting that figure up by place of birth, UK-born people account for 833,000 of the increase, with 230,000 people born in other countries. That is to say, the overwhelming rise in worklessness has been driven by those born in the UK.

They integrated so well, don’t they?
😂

Question:
Can a dependant apply for IHS refund months after the MA has gotten his Tier 2 visa?

How does she go about it?