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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Yarok(m): 7:33am On Sep 28, 2021
eedimo:
We have enough at home, some are even jobless.
Anybody were won japa, make him dey go.

MODIFIED
If this poeple qouting me are Nigerian nurses, then I understand why patients have phobia for Nigerian nurses.
This set of health workers aren't needed in a fragile system like ours(ROBOTS would be a preferable replacement)
THEY ARE DAMN TERRIBLE BEINGS!
Little wonder they remained unemployed and underpaid.


Fat lie many if not all Nigerian hospitals are short-staffed, take a walk to the nearest hospital to you and see wonders, a single nurse covering both male a female ward
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by sgtponzihater1(m): 7:33am On Sep 28, 2021
KosiGee:


Actually, the salary starts at just under £25k per annum for a band 5 nurse or any other band 5 Nhs staff, it’ll be a bit more if you’ve progressed through the band. London hospitals pay more.

Uk is a nice place and a really nice place to work as a medical staff. There is heavy investment on medical care. Lots of experienced professionals to learn from, medical equipment is top of the range and funding isn’t a constraint. You are encouraged to work hard and be the best you can.

Uk is GOLD. That Martyn of a guy who claim to have worked in the US, UK, UAE and SA is highly confused.
Of course, you’ll pay NI, tax and pension but if you work hard as you do in Nigeria, you’ll not regret it.

If you get sick, your Gp is there for you. In emergency, the wait can be terrible but you get seen by the best medical team. You’d be surprised that the A/E doctor is someone who graduated from University of Ibadan, Ilorin, Awka or UNN. The radiographer might be a graduate of UNEC.

Think first of the trainings, the opportunities, the equipment at your disposal, the experts to guide and support your growth. You’ll earn the money but be prepared to work hard.

Nhs is the best. I wish those guys the best and I hope they settle in well enough.

Btw, it’s like this in lots of Nhs hospitals. They recruit lots of Nigerian healthcare workers.

People think about life only in terms of money and make the biggest mistake. When the worst happens in Nigeria, most people are grounded. But in the UK From Cancer to stroke or even the most debilitating illness there is full health insurance. Good education, a largely lawful society where human dignity is preserved.

£1800 - £2000 is not small money, but with corruption that has eaten deep into our country, I have seen jobless youth saying 50million is chicken change.

Good luck to those migrating, they have taken the right decision

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by eedimo(m): 7:34am On Sep 28, 2021
Limassol:
"we have enough at home", is this a joke?
A realist hate jokes
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by eedimo(m): 7:36am On Sep 28, 2021
Yarok:



Fat lie many if not all Nigerian hospitals are short-staffed, take a walk to the nearest hospital to you and see wonders, a single nurse covering both male a female ward
The fact that they aren't employed doesn't mean they aren't sitting idle at home.
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by buragidi(m): 7:39am On Sep 28, 2021
God bless you. You know what you are saying. Not like our friend who has lived in all countriesintheworld, yet has poor knowledgeof how the system works.

KosiGee:


Actually, the salary starts at just under £25k per annum for a band 5 nurse or any other band 5 Nhs staff, it’ll be a bit more if you’ve progressed through the band. London hospitals pay more.

Uk is a nice place and a really nice place to work as a medical staff. There is heavy investment on medical care. Lots of experienced professionals to learn from, medical equipment is top of the range and funding isn’t a constraint. You are encouraged to work hard and be the best you can.

Uk is GOLD. That Martyn of a guy who claim to have worked in the US, UK, UAE and SA is highly confused.
Of course, you’ll pay NI, tax and pension but if you work hard as you do in Nigeria, you’ll not regret it.

If you get sick, your Gp is there for you. In emergency, the wait can be terrible but you get seen by the best medical team. You’d be surprised that the A/E doctor is someone who graduated from University of Ibadan, Ilorin, Awka or UNN. The radiographer might be a graduate of UNEC.

Think first of the trainings, the opportunities, the equipment at your disposal, the experts to guide and support your growth. You’ll earn the money but be prepared to work hard.

Nhs is the best. I wish those guys the best and I hope they settle in well enough.

Btw, it’s like this in lots of Nhs hospitals. They recruit lots of Nigerian healthcare workers.

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by tegrianonigltd(m): 7:41am On Sep 28, 2021
martyns303:
Let them go…. They will soon find out it’s not all roses �. Not even America or Canada but UK! UK that will tax everything back, they will earn the money, and spend it all on tax, accommodation, transportation, electricity, heating and many many expenses and at the end of the month, they will be left with nothing.

Nigeria is not a rich country when compared to the west, in Nigeria how many people actually take their health seriously and go to the hospital or willing to pay good money for medical services. Medical services are ridiculously high in the west, that’s how they are able to generate revenue to be able to pay better. As a country, yes there’s corruption, but we are making do with the best we have.

And before anybody comes for me, I am also a professional, I have lived in the UK, SA, UAE and recently US. I still will rather work in Nigeria.


Oya go back Nigeria... and stay 2 years then come back to type
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Yarok(m): 7:42am On Sep 28, 2021
eedimo:

The fact that they aren't employed doesn't mean they aren't sitting idle at home.


So the doctors leaving Nigeria are also sitting idle at home
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 7:43am On Sep 28, 2021
Goodvibes007:

Clown.

As funny as it sounds he is probably telling some truth

There are so many reasons some Nigerians who left Nigeria in the 70’s and 80’s barely want to return to Nigeria. Most cant even afford flights back home, most don’t have houses here, most don’t have cars to drive them around here either.

It’s funny after 30 years no investments in Nigeria whatsoever. It’s possible . These are the reasons you see the U.K. is a pseudo rich but heavily taxed in like sum and expensive country to live

The nurses would have on average thier £1500 per month salary no doubt ( £23-25k per year)

Now this is the problem
Out of that £1500 a month £800 would easily go on rent, bills such as gas transport to work, food at work, clothes, etc would easily take £300-400 a month

Now they are left with £300 right, they have two choices spend the remaining £300 back into the system that have them the £1500 or find a way to make it accumulate every month

99 percent of people would choose spend the £300 on shopping and just to get the feeling that finally you have Escaped Nigeria

Now this is what happens next, months become months and like play like play years go by. Nurses just like everyone earn exactly the same in the Uk for years meanwhile bills go up

Cost of living go up so the £300 left is barely anything again, years become years and the person decides to settle obviously in the Uk and no where else and thier kids give them more bills to pay

In the nursing profession just like other ones they get only 28 days holiday in a year so they are more less trapped in the nursing job or any other job they move to.


The summary above becomes just working to pay bills and living pay check to pay check

It takes extraordinary grace to escape the life of LIVING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK in the UK

SOME do Fraud to escape, some go into benefits fraud too or credit card fraud

Also apart from living paycheck to paycheck, the UK is extraordinary built on a credit system, the little that the nurses have left after the month starts going on credit card repayments

Mortgage repayments, car loan repayments meanwhile in the midst of this the cost of living in the UK keeps going up

This is not to discourage anyone, the UK is one of the hardest places to be in and you see a lot of money after the month that you don’t think you are using again

After about 10 years it’s possible the nurses were just about the same way they were 10 years before when they left Nigeria, it’s not bad belle, it’s just how rigid the structure in the UK is

No one can escape how the UK works

Only way to escape how the U.K. works is to have a second hustle or side hustle or FRAUD.

But again who will have the chance to escape Nigeria and not take it

But life is not a bed of roses on the other end due to the facts in my long epistle

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Mozegee: 7:44am On Sep 28, 2021
Plz I need the link how the japa.i can continue to collect peanut for a salary here
Mynd44:
As Posted pn twitter
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Odion2016(m): 7:48am On Sep 28, 2021
martyns303:
Let them go…. They will soon find out it’s not all roses �. Not even America or Canada but UK! UK that will tax everything back, they will earn the money, and spend it all on tax, accommodation, transportation, electricity, heating and many many expenses and at the end of the month, they will be left with nothing.

Nigeria is not a rich country when compared to the west, in Nigeria how many people actually take their health seriously and go to the hospital or willing to pay good money for medical services. Medical services are ridiculously high in the west, that’s how they are able to generate revenue to be able to pay better. As a country, yes there’s corruption, but we are making do with the best we have.

And before anybody comes for me, I am also a professional, I have lived in the UK, SA, UAE and recently US. I still will rather work in Nigeria.


Its not about the money bro...it is about sanity and peace of mind..

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 7:53am On Sep 28, 2021
KosiGee:


Actually, the salary starts at just under £25k per annum for a band 5 nurse or any other band 5 Nhs staff, it’ll be a bit more if you’ve progressed through the band. London hospitals pay more.

Uk is a nice place and a really nice place to work as a medical staff. There is heavy investment on medical care. Lots of experienced professionals to learn from, medical equipment is top of the range and funding isn’t a constraint. You are encouraged to work hard and be the best you can.

Uk is GOLD. That Martyn of a guy who claim to have worked in the US, UK, UAE and SA is highly confused.
Of course, you’ll pay NI, tax and pension but if you work hard as you do in Nigeria, you’ll not regret it.

If you get sick, your Gp is there for you. In emergency, the wait can be terrible but you get seen by the best medical team. You’d be surprised that the A/E doctor is someone who graduated from University of Ibadan, Ilorin, Awka or UNN. The radiographer might be a graduate of UNEC.

Think first of the trainings, the opportunities, the equipment at your disposal, the experts to guide and support your growth. You’ll earn the money but be prepared to work hard.

Nhs is the best. I wish those guys the best and I hope they settle in well enough.

Btw, it’s like this in lots of Nhs hospitals. They recruit lots of Nigerian healthcare workers.

You talk some truth about salary band but not the truth about how the U.K. works

No matter what salary you are in the UK, it takes extraordinary grace to avoid living from paycheck to paycheck

Even if you are on £100,000 which central London and business directors are on

After tax £100,000 per year is just £5,000 a month

It takes years for anyone in the medical field to start with to get to this stage

The point he was making was it isn’t that green on the other end

Only those who have lived and worked in the Uk for many years can understand

You can get trapped in a very very expensive system with the £1500 the nurses will start earning per month. After tax rent and all you could be left with little as £200 a month

And they no born you well get a side hustle as a nurse in the Uk. And changing careers would be too difficult

Meanwhile people that saw you leave Nigeria 10 years ago think you are balling and you are making big money

And the financial stage you are at before you give birth in the Uk is more or less the same financial stage you will be by the time your U.K. kids grow to 18

Come to London and see poverty within Nigeria households

People that left Nigeria as professionals 30 or 40 years ago, only mortgage they have because of the reasons above.

The Uk is an extremely expensive country that can trap you and give you a pseudo success story where you actually think you are making or have made it

I think this is the point the guy you replied to was making

Honestly come and see some people
In the Uk who left Nigeria in the same happy state 30 years after

I was even shocked some can’t afford flight tickets back home

Even some don’t have time from work back home cos all jobs in the Uk give you a 28 days holiday in one year

So you have to use the 28 days carefully

And the longer they stay in the Uk the worse it becomes and the more the years roll back and this is why you now have some British Nigerians who really want to come back to nigeria that most haven’t been too because of their parents always see it as a different country

I hope you get my points sha , but congrats to anyone leaving . Life is full of chances

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by SIRTee15: 7:56am On Sep 28, 2021
ednut1:
Uk wicked sha. Na 28k gbp salary per year. Should be 50k and above

They can make more by working for agency. It's around 30 to 40 pounds per hour.

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Drunkdick85(m): 7:56am On Sep 28, 2021
eedimo:
We have enough at home, some are even jobless.
Anybody were won japa, make him dey go.

MODIFIED
If this poeple qouting me are Nigerian nurses, then I understand why patients have phobia for Nigerian nurses.
This set of health workers aren't needed in a fragile system like ours(ROBOTS would be a preferable replacement)
THEY ARE DAMN TERRIBLE BEINGS!
Little wonder they remained unemployed and underpaid.


Majority of the one you meet in the hospital are not professional nurse. They are mostly auxiliary nurse.

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 8:01am On Sep 28, 2021
Odion2016:



Its not about the money bro...it is about sanity and peace of mind..

True the sanity and the peace of mind would come but at a price tho . After many many years due to how rigid the Uk works, only very few avoid living from paycheck to paycheck due to rent, food, car finance, gas , water etc

After many years of just working year in year out and just paying compulsory and mandatory bills every month, you forget about peace of mind or even the sanity

It’s just how funny how the U.K. works

This is why some Nigerians who unfortunately left Nigeria 20 or 30 years ago hardly want to ever come back to Nigeria

Most don’t even have anything to return to cos the UK has a very clever and compulsory and rigid way of offering you carrots and using the stick to take it from you

Some Nigerians do Fraud to escape the rigidity

But tbh I’m just speaking from experience and would never discourage anyone from wanting to escape Nigeria

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by malel1: 8:02am On Sep 28, 2021
eedimo:

Lol
ThankGod my comment hit you and yours real hard.
E go continue to pain you


Pain you kill u there is
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by bigpicture001: 8:04am On Sep 28, 2021
People tend to forget that making ur hair in the UK is over 45thousand naira for the average Briton, house rent for a flat is more than 150k monthly etc..... who does that here

Yes u will get money but u will still not be "very" comfortable! The better stuff about abroad is that infrastructure and emeergies services works...plus the serene environment... If na money.. yes u go get am pass Naija.. but Naija gain is dey more

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Bantu10: 8:05am On Sep 28, 2021
martyns303:


I can understand your frustration….

U mean frustrated like ur father? grin
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by arthurwillia(m): 8:06am On Sep 28, 2021
ednut1:
Uk wicked sha. Na 28k gbp salary per year. Should be 50k and above

Lol you wan collect 50k

Prime minister sef na 150 e Dey collect

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by KosiGee(m): 8:10am On Sep 28, 2021
adonainana:


As funny as it sounds he is probably telling some truth

There are so many reasons some Nigerians who left Nigeria in the 70’s and 80’s barely want to return to Nigeria. Most cant even afford flights back home, most don’t have houses here, most don’t have cars to drive them around here either.

It’s funny after 30 years no investments in Nigeria whatsoever. It’s possible . These are the reasons you see the U.K. is a pseudo rich but heavily taxed in like sum and expensive country to live

The nurses would have on average thier £1500 per month salary no doubt ( £23-25k per year)

Now this is the problem
Out of that £1500 a month £800 would easily go on rent, bills such as gas transport to work, food at work, clothes, etc would easily take £300-400 a month

Now they are left with £300 right, they have two choices spend the remaining £300 back into the system that have them the £1500 or find a way to make it accumulate every month

99 percent of people would choose spend the £300 on shopping and just to get the feeling that finally you have Escaped Nigeria

Now this is what happens next, months become months and like play like play years go by. Nurses just like everyone earn exactly the same in the Uk for years meanwhile bills go up

Cost of living go up so the £300 left is barely anything again, years become years and the person decides to settle obviously in the Uk and no where else and thier kids give them more bills to pay

In the nursing profession just like other ones they get only 28 days holiday in a year so they are more less trapped in the nursing job or any other job they move to.


The summary above becomes just working to pay bills and living pay check to pay check

It takes extraordinary grace to escape the life of LIVING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK in the UK

SOME do Fraud to escape, some go into benefits fraud too or credit card fraud

Also apart from living paycheck to paycheck, the UK is extraordinary built on a credit system, the little that the nurses have left after the month starts going on credit card repayments

Mortgage repayments, car loan repayments meanwhile in the midst of this the cost of living in the UK keeps going up

This is not to discourage anyone, the UK is one of the hardest places to be in and you see a lot of money after the month that you don’t think you are using again

After about 10 years it’s possible the nurses were just about the same way they were 10 years before when they left Nigeria, it’s not bad belle, it’s just how rigid the structure in the UK is

No one can escape how the UK works

Only way to escape how the U.K. works is to have a second hustle or side hustle or FRAUD.

But again who will have the chance to escape Nigeria and not take it

But life is not a bed of roses on the other end due to the facts in my long epistle

If you earn about £25k/year, you should be a newbie band 5 who just graduated from Uni or someone who has been a nurse/radiographer etc employed from maybe a commonwealth country like nigeria.

I will assume you are single as a newly qualified. Now why would you get an accommodation where you’d pay £800!!!. There are ways to cut cost. Except you are living in London or maybe Cambridge and working at say Kings college hospital or Addenbrookes…London btw will pay you more…
You can get a decent rent inclusive accommodation for £400-£450 or even less depending on location…if you live further north, the rent is cheaper and that includes your heating, electricity and water.
Clothes, most times you are given up to 4-5 uniforms free….except you are a doctor. They don’t wear uniform. Why and how would clothes cost that much?? A trip to TK MAXX, Next, marks and Spencer or even Sainsbury’s (TU clothing) will get you nice and quality wears and they are not very expensive. A good quality trousers at £10-20. Shoes at Clark’s at £40-70 depending on what you want. You don’t buy these every month.

You should be talking about food and transport. They don’t cost much if you buy, stock your fridge and freezer and cook for yourself and that includes making and packing your lunch to work.
In an all inclusive rent of that £400, you don’t pay council tax as your landlord sorts that.
If a salary of £1600 is tight, you have the opportunity of doing NHSP or working overtime, your overtime pay will take care of a lot of your extra bills….Except you also support some people back home in Nigeria.

If you are living in an accommodation that pays £800, I’ll assume that you are married and earning a bit more or a band 6 and above, let’s assume that you are not, your analysis is still not very true as your wife will most likely be working and earning.
You can save one persons salary and pay your bills with the other.

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Odion2016(m): 8:12am On Sep 28, 2021
adonainana:


As funny as it sounds he is probably telling some truth

There are so many reasons some Nigerians who left Nigeria in the 70’s and 80’s barely want to return to Nigeria. Most cant even afford flights back home, most don’t have houses here, most don’t have cars to drive them around here either.

It’s funny after 30 years no investments in Nigeria whatsoever. It’s possible . These are the reasons you see the U.K. is a pseudo rich but heavily taxed in like sum and expensive country to live

The nurses would have on average thier £1500 per month salary no doubt ( £23-25k per year)

Now this is the problem
Out of that £1500 a month £800 would easily go on rent, bills such as gas transport to work, food at work, clothes, etc would easily take £300-400 a month

Now they are left with £300 right, they have two choices spend the remaining £300 back into the system that have them the £1500 or find a way to make it accumulate every month

99 percent of people would choose spend the £300 on shopping and just to get the feeling that finally you have Escaped Nigeria

Now this is what happens next, months become months and like play like play years go by. Nurses just like everyone earn exactly the same in the Uk for years meanwhile bills go up

Cost of living go up so the £300 left is barely anything again, years become years and the person decides to settle obviously in the Uk and no where else and thier kids give them more bills to pay

In the nursing profession just like other ones they get only 28 days holiday in a year so they are more less trapped in the nursing job or any other job they move to.


The summary above becomes just working to pay bills and living pay check to pay check

It takes extraordinary grace to escape the life of LIVING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK in the UK

SOME do Fraud to escape, some go into benefits fraud too or credit card fraud

Also apart from living paycheck to paycheck, the UK is extraordinary built on a credit system, the little that the nurses have left after the month starts going on credit card repayments

Mortgage repayments, car loan repayments meanwhile in the midst of this the cost of living in the UK keeps going up

This is not to discourage anyone, the UK is one of the hardest places to be in and you see a lot of money after the month that you don’t think you are using again

After about 10 years it’s possible the nurses were just about the same way they were 10 years before when they left Nigeria, it’s not bad belle, it’s just how rigid the structure in the UK is

No one can escape how the UK works

Only way to escape how the U.K. works is to have a second hustle or side hustle or FRAUD.

But again who will have the chance to escape Nigeria and not take it

But life is not a bed of roses on the other end due to the facts in my long epistle



Their system does everything possible to make sure you dont get rich,,atleast not by legal means...

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Calitoscassius(m): 8:12am On Sep 28, 2021
ednut1:
Uk wicked sha. Na 28k gbp salary per year. Should be 50k and above
How much is nigeria paying them or owing them? That is if there are jobs for them in nigeria. Besides i didn't see where they were complaining.


How much do yourself earn a year?


Thanks to the UK for liberating them from that shithole.
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by htdot: 8:13am On Sep 28, 2021
eedimo:
We have enough at home, some are even jobless.
Anybody were won japa, make him dey go.

MODIFIED
If this poeple qouting me are Nigerian nurses, then I understand why patients have phobia for Nigerian nurses.
This set of health workers aren't needed in a fragile system like ours(ROBOTS would be a preferable replacement)
THEY ARE DAMN TERRIBLE BEINGS!
Little wonder they remained unemployed and underpaid.
Patient has phobia for nigeria doctor and not nurse..... you only know auxiliary nurses that are working in private hospital and not the real nurses... Nurses are in demand all over the world unlike doctors that only migrated to saudi arabia... even some of these dictators when they migrate to USA they ended up converting to nurse......
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Calitoscassius(m): 8:15am On Sep 28, 2021
Odion2016:




Their system does everything possible to make sure you dont get rich,,atleast not by legal means...

It isn't all about money besides they probarbly would have been poor in nigeria.
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Calitoscassius(m): 8:17am On Sep 28, 2021
adonainana:


As funny as it sounds he is probably telling some truth

There are so many reasons some Nigerians who left Nigeria in the 70’s and 80’s barely want to return to Nigeria. Most cant even afford flights back home, most don’t have houses here, most don’t have cars to drive them around here either.

It’s funny after 30 years no investments in Nigeria whatsoever. It’s possible . These are the reasons you see the U.K. is a pseudo rich but heavily taxed in like sum and expensive country to live

The nurses would have on average thier £1500 per month salary no doubt ( £23-25k per year)

Now this is the problem
Out of that £1500 a month £800 would easily go on rent, bills such as gas transport to work, food at work, clothes, etc would easily take £300-400 a month

Now they are left with £300 right, they have two choices spend the remaining £300 back into the system that have them the £1500 or find a way to make it accumulate every month

99 percent of people would choose spend the £300 on shopping and just to get the feeling that finally you have Escaped Nigeria

Now this is what happens next, months become months and like play like play years go by. Nurses just like everyone earn exactly the same in the Uk for years meanwhile bills go up

Cost of living go up so the £300 left is barely anything again, years become years and the person decides to settle obviously in the Uk and no where else and thier kids give them more bills to pay

In the nursing profession just like other ones they get only 28 days holiday in a year so they are more less trapped in the nursing job or any other job they move to.


The summary above becomes just working to pay bills and living pay check to pay check

It takes extraordinary grace to escape the life of LIVING FROM PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK in the UK

SOME do Fraud to escape, some go into benefits fraud too or credit card fraud

Also apart from living paycheck to paycheck, the UK is extraordinary built on a credit system, the little that the nurses have left after the month starts going on credit card repayments

Mortgage repayments, car loan repayments meanwhile in the midst of this the cost of living in the UK keeps going up

This is not to discourage anyone, the UK is one of the hardest places to be in and you see a lot of money after the month that you don’t think you are using again

After about 10 years it’s possible the nurses were just about the same way they were 10 years before when they left Nigeria, it’s not bad belle, it’s just how rigid the structure in the UK is

No one can escape how the UK works

Only way to escape how the U.K. works is to have a second hustle or side hustle or FRAUD.

But again who will have the chance to escape Nigeria and not take it

But life is not a bed of roses on the other end due to the facts in my long epistle
It isn't always about money!!
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by htdot: 8:17am On Sep 28, 2021
ednut1:
Uk wicked sha. Na 28k gbp salary per year. Should be 50k and above
I dont know where e goat like is getting info from.... THIS SALARY IS FOR THOSE WHO JUST MIGRATED AND HAVE NOT WRITTEN THE REGISTER NURSES EXAM...
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 8:20am On Sep 28, 2021
KosiGee:


If you earn about £25k/year, you should be a newbie band 5 who just graduated from Uni or someone who has been a nurse/radiographer etc employed from maybe a commonwealth country like nigeria.

I will assume you are single as a newly qualified. Now why would you get an accommodation where you’d pay £800!!!. There are ways to cut cost. Except you are living in London or maybe Cambridge and working at say Kings college hospital or Addenbrookes…London btw will pay you more…
You can get a decent rent inclusive accommodation for £400-£450 or even less depending on location…if you live further north, the rent is cheaper and that includes your heating, electricity and water.
Clothes, most times you are given up to 4-5 uniforms free….except you are a doctor. They don’t wear uniform. Why and how would clothes cost that much?? A trip to TK MAXX, Next, marks and Spencer or even Sainsbury’s (TU clothing) will get you nice and quality wears.

You should be talking about food and transport. They don’t cost much if you buy, stock your fridge and freezer and cook for yourself and that includes making and packing your lunch to work.
In an all inclusive rent of that £400, you don’t pay council tax as your landlord sorts that.
If a salary of £1600 is tight, you have the opportunity of doing NHSP or working overtime, your overtime pay will take care of a lot of your extra bills….Except you also support some people back home in Nigeria.

If you are living in an accommodation that pays £800, I’ll assume that you are married and earning a bit more or a band 6 and above, let’s assume that you are not, your analysis is still not very true as your wife will most likely be working and earning.
You can save one persons salary and pay your bills with the other.

Your last sentence is the best quote you used and I like, you can’t save one person salary and pay his bills with another

In the same way you can’t help someone manage thier bills with stock your freezer with this stock your freezer with that.

Wear uniform at work wear clothes at home go to TK. Max etc

Bro to find a good place to live ( rent, council tax, tv license) you would at least £800 a month

For someone like me, I have a place I stay for for £260 a month, but it’s me after 10 years I have too much experience about living spaces

No way you are telling someone who earns £1500-1600 a month to be looking for slightly inhabitable places for less than £800 a month
You can’t decide someone expenses for them remember

Again I repeat even people in the Uk on £100,000 can live from paycheck to paycheck so more less a nurse on £25 or £26k or this band or this band

You should focus on why and how to avoid living from paycheck to paycheck and find a way out

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by htdot: 8:21am On Sep 28, 2021
Yarok:



So the doctors leaving Nigeria are also sitting idle at home
Leave the bad belle people. If the thread was about doctors leaving to uk, you will see them here abusing the government but for nurses the reverse is the case...
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 8:24am On Sep 28, 2021
Calitoscassius:
It isn't all about money besides they probarbly would have been poor in nigeria.

Living paycheck to paycheck in the UN isn’t really a better choice to be very Honest . In fact it’s more rigid and more of a trappy system

Especially if the person was the type that forgot about Nigeria for like 10 years or 20 years

Some people never want to return to Nigeria not because it’s still a very bad country but because they don’t have nothing here, no house no car nothing whatsoever so in their end what are they coming to do

Right fully so what are they coming to do

If it’s not all about money what are you going to use to establish this investments

Or you just want to pay bills and die and when you die in the Uk your kids would be looking for another £7000 compulsory funeral costs to bury you

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Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by iamtardey: 8:25am On Sep 28, 2021
Hustlers
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by Rexnegro(m): 8:26am On Sep 28, 2021
Make they sha dey careful discharging their duties cos negligence wey they dey do here is not allowed over there o. Life is paramount there unlike here wey nobody will be held responsible for patients dying due to doctors and nurses negligence. Good luck to them.
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by adonainana: 8:27am On Sep 28, 2021
Calitoscassius:
It isn't always about money!!

It is about money cos it’s only money you can use for a better life so what is it about if not money

The only area of contention is the UK and with other developed countries have a rigid sysytem of giving you a carrot and using the stick to take it from you

Once you are trapped in the system
You just pay bills and just die like that and your kids born outside Nigeria continue the struggle from where you left it

The exception from the above is very very rare
Re: Six Nigerian Nurses Arrive At UK Hospital (Picture) by lexy2014: 8:30am On Sep 28, 2021
martyns303:
Let them go…. They will soon find out it’s not all roses �. Not even America or Canada but UK! UK that will tax everything back, they will earn the money, and spend it all on tax, accommodation, transportation, electricity, heating and many many expenses and at the end of the month, they will be left with nothing.

Nigeria is not a rich country when compared to the west, in Nigeria how many people actually take their health seriously and go to the hospital or willing to pay good money for medical services. Medical services are ridiculously high in the west, that’s how they are able to generate revenue to be able to pay better. As a country, yes there’s corruption, but we are making do with the best we have.

And before anybody comes for me, I am also a professional, I have lived in the UK, SA, UAE and recently US. I still will rather work in Nigeria.

When u say u "will rather work in Nigeria", I guess u saying that u aren't Nigeria. If u "will rather work in Nigeria", what is preventing u from relocating from wherever u are to Nigeria?

U have lived in UK, US, SA and UAE. Did u not see Nigeria before u went to those countries to live?

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