Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OgbeniOptional(m): 2:58pm On Mar 04, 2025 |
You will be surprised not many even know they can apply for a signed bank statement on their bank App, you can in Wema for #50 i the think. davodyguy: 😂..
This thread funny so tey, everyone becomes adviser, once they're successful from visa application 😊
There's more to this traveling thing and what works for Mr. A may not work for Mr. B and all circumstances differs.
Bank statements whether generated from Your mobile app, combined monthly statements from email or directly from the banking hall, will amount to same thing.
It's the content that the VO is interested in |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:22pm On Feb 27, 2025 |
How is that racist boss? What do we call what Kemi said? Goke7: That was a coded racist jab from the prime minister, and for the first time, I felt some sympathy for her, but I hope she got the message to stay in her lane but what do I know sef make I mechonu! |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 2:22am On Feb 21, 2025 |
NHS give u COS, u dey doubt am🫤 Nelsmannnnnnnnn: Hello Seniors,
I'm in a bit of dilemma, I have been working with one of the NHS Trust as an Accountant for a year now under my graduate visa.
Recently, I requested for a tier 2 visa from my department Director with the deadline that if I don't get it, I will be leaving the Trust. Though I still have one year left in my graduate visa but just need to switch quickly. But due to the salary threshold of 38,700 and 30,960 for new entrant which I'm eligible for, I requested I be moved from band 5 to band 6 so I can match the pay.
Due to funding issue within the NHS, my Boss couldn't take me up the band, and In other for me not to leave, my Boss made contacts with both HR and the Trust immigration team responsible for visa and to my surprise, they said my salary of 29kas a Finance Officer can go for a tier 2 visa being that I work in Healthcare.
Truth is, I'm very sceptical about that but the Trust keep assuring me that it will fly with home office. Today, I have received my COS but I'm scared of spending money to apply and losing the money if my application gets rejected.
Has anyone working in NHS in an occupation other than clinical recently gotten a visa as a band 5? What do you guys think about this? |
Politics › Re: Jonathan: Politicians Will Act Better When Nigerians Reject Bad Behaviour by OgbeniOptional(m): 8:27pm On Feb 18, 2025 |
True and when they stop collecting money to vote and bank stop offering them loans their salaries can't cover. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 1:43pm On Feb 06, 2025 |
This can unsettle hardworking legal immigrants. jedisco: Our Anchor baby speaks again. Appears she's in need of redemption- thowing everything at the wall to see what sticks. I had spoken in respect of her attributes but it appears she is more interested in digging holes With the way Starmer has been dressing her up and how her party is polling, its seems like it's only a matter of time before her peers demand her head.
The Conservatives say the period before someone can apply for ILR should be extended from five to 10 years and people should then have to wait a further five years before seeking citizenship.
The party wants the government to adopt the changes, backdated to 2021, by amending its Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill due to be debated in Parliament next week. |
Politics › Re: Most Lawyers Don’t Read Judgment Before Attacking Judiciary – Wole Olanipekun by OgbeniOptional(m): 8:32pm On Dec 23, 2024 |
Lol, if lawyers in Nigeria lose in court nowadays. They use social media to make their clients belief they have been cheated out. |
Politics › Re: Edo Assembly Increases 2025 Budget By ₦71 Billion, Passes Bill by OgbeniOptional(m): 6:01pm On Dec 23, 2024 |
Loan of course, they are not that creative nedu666: Dem no even ask governor where him go see the extra 71 billion from  |
Politics › Re: Edo Assembly Increases 2025 Budget By ₦71 Billion, Passes Bill by OgbeniOptional(m): 5:59pm On Dec 23, 2024 |
Lol, that really a small budget for a state, the problem is dishonest leaders. They can’t and will never justify it. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 6:49am On Dec 15, 2024 |
All those things may be true but it will come back to hunt her soon. They will use it to campaign against her when it comes to general election. She ain’t that wise. This is politics and opposition will use it to their own advantage as a divisive person. missjekyll: My lips are sealed on the topic of Ms Badenoch. It seems all her supporters on here have taken emergency leave? Make una come o. .. e don happen |
Politics › Re: Ohanaeze Joins Southwest, South-south, Northcentral In Backing Tinubu Tax Bills by OgbeniOptional(m): 2:45am On Dec 03, 2024 |
NaijaGoBetter2: Tax reform is likely to bring additional challenges. Perhaps I need to learn more about it. How can the North generate revenue when it relies primarily on agricultural produce, which is not subject to VAT? Additionally, the presence of Boko Haram and banditry hinders industrialization in the region.... Watch how the North will come to their senses and fix their sort their security problems. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:43pm On Nov 30, 2024*. Modified: 3:04am On Dec 02, 2024 |
@Lexusgs430, thank you so much sir for helping me to sort this out over the phone free of charge, I was going to pay a guy £150 to come set it up before contacting you. Now seeing channels I haven’t seen in ages  even the other room films dey there OgbeniOptional: Hello all, please I need help with the TV thing to watch all football matches. I came across it here long time ago. Thanks please help my life. Tired of discover+ |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 8:23am On Nov 30, 2024 |
Hello all, please I need help with the TV thing to watch all football matches. I came across it here long time ago. Thanks please help my life. Tired of discover+ |
Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by OgbeniOptional(m): 6:33am On Nov 27, 2024 |
Yes you can. You can have your train ticket handy though. You can book anytime train ticket. Train not cheap either, over 100 quid without rail card. No significant difference in flight cost from Heathrow to Glasgow. Jamieabi: I have a question ,
Scotland is the main destination
But due to the flight from here to Glasgow is cost
Can I book a flight to Heathrow then from then enter a train or a bus to come do Glasgow ( Scotland )
Has anyone ever tried this before |
Politics › Re: Oyo State Hitman Confesses, Reveals Shocking Details Of 70 Political Killings by OgbeniOptional(m): 9:46am On Nov 04, 2024 |
Imagine |
Romance › Re: Couple's Traditional Marriage Pictures Go Viral by OgbeniOptional(m): 1:08pm On Oct 22, 2024 |
Unhappy people mocking happy people. 🤦 |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 2:24am On Oct 05, 2024 |
If you have Hard water in your area, Let her stop drinking tap water or boil and let it cool before drinking. Also, you can buy Epsom salt(sooth and sleep) for night shower once or twice a week. When I moved to UK, I don’t know where this itching came from, worse after shower. Those two things helped me and my dry skin as I didn’t want to continue using portion for the rest of my life. I tried hospital here, nothing works until I saw another person in same shoe. All these started when I moved to UK, I don’t experience any of that whenever I go to Nigeria. Schoolhike: Morning all, could someone please suggest a cure for eczema and itchy skin for a 3-year-old girl based on past experience, please?
She's had eczema since she was 1 year old, initially appearing only on both knees. We've been using Aveeno cream since then, but it got worse this year when it started appearing all over her body. We took her to the GP, and she prescribed a steroid. It clears it away temporarily, but it comes back even more after withdrawing the steroids.
She keeps waking up during the night due to itching and can sometimes take 1 to 2 hours before she falls back asleep. As a result of the scratching, we also can't sleep until she sleeps.
She's not always in a good mood during the day as she spends lots of time scratching all over her body.
She's been sent back home a couple of times from nursery due to that.
List of stuff we've used: Aveeno, Zerobase, Hydromol, Epimax, Dermol lotion for bathing, steroid cream, Piriton for itching (this makes her too sleepy). |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 1:54am On Oct 05, 2024 |
What’s wrong with those who divorce their husbands? What if their husbands na chocomilo? Age is not a barrier if u serious. Zim women I know are the definition of feminist. Strong, independent, family and career oriented. They don’t know how to talk sha. Would have marry one but I personally don’t like when someone speak to their family in language I don’t understand 😏 that has to do with my trust issues sha 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 |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 2:00am On Sep 19, 2024 |
NurseGrace: Please I need to make an important decision in my life and I need opinions expecially from people in the Uk. I am a Nurse in Nigeria who just got 2 job offers, the 1st is with an oil company in Nigeria with a monthly pay of 5million monthly and the second is a job in UK with the NHS. Please I need suggestions please, if you were in my shoes which will u choose. This decision is very important to me. And by the way I am 35yrs with a husband who is a civil servant here and 2 children (5years and 7years). I hope i get to see this kind of offer one day. I will leave Uk straight up. You want to be happy or you want to work like horse? |
Travel › Re: How A Man Helped An Accident Victim And Ended Up Regretting by OgbeniOptional(m): 5:05pm On Sep 10, 2024 |
So unfortunate but people should call ambulance or police next time and leave the scene. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 7:33am On Jul 11, 2024 |
While in Nigeria? Wow. Hard to believe kumbhuru: That's what you were told but you don't need all those. Apply, if you are qualified, you will be selected for interview and if you ace it, you will be selected. I had over 20 interview invites for band 6 roles and got more than 3 offers. All fully sponsored down to OSCE. Even people in UK will argue that it's not possible but I and a host of others did it. Band 4 pre OSCE and band 6 post OSCE pay. If you don't apply, you wouldn't know. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 6:39pm On Jul 10, 2024 |
I am only asking a question and I clearly said forgive my ignorance. I always thought you need little bit of UK experience from band 6 upward when it comes to mental health nursing. Mental health code of practice, laws and etc in UK is not same in Nigeria. How did the person get past having pin, preceptorship and experience? Enlighten me please. I am strictly on about mental health nursing. kumbhuru: How possible to get a band 5 job from Nigeria? |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 1:05pm On Jul 10, 2024 |
How possible to get band 6 role from Nigeria as a mental health nurse? Forgive my ignorance kumbhuru: Grow sense |
Politics › Re: Health Minister Commissions Maternity Ward Built By Gov Oyebanji by OgbeniOptional(m): 3:35pm On Jul 06, 2024 |
Lol |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:48pm On Jul 05, 2024 |
I do advise anyone on dom care to start looking for more permanent role that comes with sponsorship in NHs or other stable company with or without having problems at work. Dom CoS is not reliable anyways. One company had to close down on grounds of bankruptcy(what they tell us then) or so and put all his staffs in jeopardy. The dodgy company had to open again under another name, so it is not reliable employment. I knew someone who started working again 3 weeks after giving birth in this same Dom care, husband stop working and would sit in car with the baby cuz she gotta survive. No maternity pay or nothing so she gotta work. Truly, Dom contract is not really stable with employers, it takes one serious complain from client to council/contractors/social workers to get their contract revoked. When it comes to private healthcare company in UK and HCAs, it is hard(not impossible) to win your employers. Unions are rubbish even with people in NHS, I stop paying the dues when my colleagues got issues and they really didn’t help. The person you r are looking after or even their carers will be smiling at you like this but digging your grave behind. Get onNHs jobs, indeed, go to Trac jobs, may you find something. Experience folks will help out. Noworries11: Dear Elders,
I couldn't quote my post from the Part 2 thread, but in summary, it was about the threats I received from my boss for being pregnant. He said, I concealed the pregnancy before receiving my Certificate of Sponsorship (COS) from the company. I tried explaining that it was a coincidence, as I became pregnant the same month I got employed. My child's birth should have proven my innocence and vindicated me.
After the threat to withdraw my COS or report to the Home Office for concealing the pregnancy, I felt discriminated, as soon as I commenced my maternity leave
I was immediately removed from the WhatsApp group, unlike another colleague currently on maternity leave but still in the group. Fast forward to my return to work after a year: I was moved to a new client with fewer hours. I didn’t complain and continued working diligently. This was Barely a month after my resumption, my boss said that due to a shortage of clients in this service area i am moved to, I wouldn’t be getting enough shifts. He advised me to start searching for other sponsorship opportunities, stating that the company doesn’t know when they will secure more clients and they wouldn’t want the Home Office to question why I’m not getting enough shifts.
I asked politely about the client I was working with before my maternity leave (this is the client on my employment contract), but I was shocked when he said that the client no longer wanted a female carer. This surprised me, as I had no issues with that client before. Although I felt like contacting the client myself but it is against company policy.
My boss, the Managing Director, suggested he would send links to NHS and construction company opportunities for me to explore.
Elders, I know for sure that this is planned discrimination due to my pregnancy. I don’t know what to do or where to start. Before my maternity leave, there were rumors about “let’s see how they would survive.” We did survive without maternity pay or government assistance, hence the current COS withdrawal threat. I need advice on how to overcome this hurdle. I am barely two years into my five-year COS.
Is it not the Home Office's duty to withdraw a COS or request that one should look for another sponsor? I am still working and managing the few hours I have, but I am preparing for what seems inevitable.
Part of me wants to fight, especially questioning why I was removed from my primary assignment on my return from maternity leave. However, another part of me is hesitant, knowing that fighting a company, especially one that sponsors you, is challenging.
I am feeling very depressed about this situation. I don’t want to burden you with all the details, but it is clear that this is discrimination, and I have done nothing wrong. I have been a good staff member.
Thank you for your guidance and support. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:20pm On Jul 05, 2024 |
Lol, I remember when some colleagues were(some still) driving with their expired international license, was tempted and even bought a car after I have spent a year in UK and wanted to start driving with expired international driving license. Friends and colleagues said I’m not bold when I couldn’t drive the said car knowing the consequence and I’m one person that values peace of mind a lot. Sold the car, got 8 hours lessons from instructor cuz I had issues with roundabouts, pass my test months later and I drove to my shift that day even without physical license with great peace of mind and my certificate handy just in case. I was still advised to do insurance with bloody brokers, to pay 300 quid as broker fee then I’d be paying 30 quid month. That was when I told them folks that if I could go through the pain of passing test for me to drive legally, what makes u think I will go broker route? Paid £200 a month for first year with Admiral and now paying £98 with 1st central in my second year with no claim discount well protected. Admiral renewal was £138. In conclusion, do the right thing for peace of mind, when you get caught, the people advising you will blame your luck, they will not give you lift to work, your choice will deny your kids, family the comfort that comes with having a car and you will blame yourself in the end then you will call it “such little error”. It is not little error, you are a disaster waiting to happen to another person and you will pay for it. AgentXxx: Another mistake sighted “such little error “. Those two things aren’t little errors oo, stop using Nigerian reality to look at it. |
Health › Re: Oyebanji Commissions Mammogram Machine At EKSUTH by OgbeniOptional(m): 6:10pm On Jul 05, 2024 |
Nonsense, the habit of commissioning basic things should really stop in this country. Waste of time and shows they don’t have important things to do. Any small thing, commission which is another waste of money. |
Business › Re: Tolaram Group To Acquire 58.02% Shares In Guinness Nigeria by OgbeniOptional(m): 1:24pm On Jun 11, 2024 |
Lol, like my lawyer told me, there are new ways to clean looted money. Politicians are winning in every country |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:52pm On May 28, 2024 |
Then care home 😁 Zahra29: Pressure on the NHS comes from it having to cater for a larger population than it was planned for, which is due to increased life expectancies as well as immigration.
All the focus is always on the NHS but the bigger ticking time bomb is actually the growing unaffordability of pensions, not just in the UK but in the west.
Neither party has a detailed strategy to address this issue e.g. by tweaking the triple lock, so as not to alienate older voters; however pensions are a huge and growing cost to the state. The pension age is already 66 and is set to rise even higher - soon the expectation will be to work well into your 70s and then what? |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:50pm On May 13, 2024 |
Apt!!! jedisco: I see your point. Fact is that any free service left long enough would be abused. Couple that with the rising entitlement and dwindling fortunes of the UK and you get the reason the NHS is where it is.
The NHS as currently structured can deal with most health concerns. What it'd struggle to deal with is the expectation.
Take 111/GP and ED attendances for instance, if a £10 token was billed on each episode of care, I can assure you the need coming through would fall by a chunk. The issue becomes how to protect vulnerable groups who without causing a situation similar to the 'sick note culture'.
I am a proponent of free healthcare at the point of service and appreciate the NHS but there are drawbacks to such a system which can be difficult deal with. |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 11:42pm On May 13, 2024 |
As a man living in a small town where there is no hospital and where the doctors and nurses would be the ones to book appointments for me without waiting. I’d say the NHS is near perfect. As NHS staff, I’d say it is not perfect. Different experience. The biggest problem in this UK in my personal opinion is all their laws have many loopholes, the citizens fully understand that loopholes. People abuse too many things in this country. When I first came to this country, I wondered how cigarettes kill people, and my grandpa died at 102 and smoked till that age. Then I had a 60+ year-old colleague who stopped smoking recently because he's been diagnosed with one lung disease and was offered every alternative but still went back to smoking cigarettes. My grandpa never smoked 5 a day, but my colleague was smoking 2 bloody packs and recently a pack after he was diagnosed with lung disease. You hardly see people in the UK who smoke less than one pack a day. All of these people are heading to the NHS. Back home, if you get drunk, you are probably taking a week off drinking. These people are in pubs every day, and when shit happens, it is NHS. I may be wrong, but personally, I feel there are more alcohol- and drug-related road accidents in the UK than in Nigeria. All these people are running to the NHS; who are these drunkards? You will find out that it is mostly people with one form of free money from the government. Just more to say and no time. Another thing is, I was eating out for two weeks (it's burgers and shit) and added massive weight. That was when I knew it’s easier to add weight than to lose it. My point is, this country is full of people who should be living healthy but refuse to, and they know their health care is free. Before, I used to say that if I were the prime minister, I’d actually make those who choose an unhealthy lifestyle pay for their own care. Until I see people sue each other for inhaling third-party smoking that leads to asthma, I laugh at myself. Working in healthcare is just a significant mistake from losing everything. People living unhealthy are making it difficult for people who needs genuine care. Why would a patient on oxygen nipped out for a faaaag? It is just crazy here |
Politics › Re: No more verification exercise: Abia NLC dares Otti over 7 months unpaid salaries by OgbeniOptional(m): 9:23pm On May 12, 2024 |
Lol |
Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by OgbeniOptional(m): 12:26am On Apr 21, 2024 |
Benefits is costing government more bro. A guy was stripped of his benefits cuz he was caught clubbing and getting involved with police consistently, he was sent out of his apartment sef. Bro if you can club you can work. Those selfish people are the ones make the real disabled a target. Many homeless people have bitten more than they can chew and that’s why they homeless. They either find their way to prison or mental especially if they have gotten used to the free money and too lazy to work. UK is a really nice country but some of the citizens understand the system and take full advantage of it. aragbaboy: It is not the benefit system that is bankrupting council or the government. Let the rich and the non-doms pay their fair share of tax. Let the government claw back all the fraudulent pay outs for PPEs. This is a target on the sick and disable. The Tories are out of touch. |