As per the naija wey I know, I can bet it that there's going to be extension two times

dustydee:

The senate never said that and they have no power to say that. They only "appealed" to the CBN to extend the deadline. If the CBN refuses, there is very little the senate can do.

Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

sugarkemi:
Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

Impossible is nothing

Na wa oh. All these saving £3k monthly, this is the second time someone is mentioning that figure in the past couple of days. Seems FG is now setting savings targets for the japa gang in Nigeria .

sugarkemi:
Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

Everything depend on the reason you want to leave. I left Nigeria for one single reasons too because I could have stayed back since I make more money in Nigeria than Uk. Search for reasons and compare the future benefit then you will be able to finalize your decision.
To be realistic, unless you make more than 5k you and your wife will not be able to save 3k monthly in the Uk as the economy is becoming more unstable. Why giving yourself such target? Just live your life

sugarkemi:
Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

I think you should focus on asking questions that will give you a soft landing in the UK based on you and your wife’s skills and career trajectory, accomodation, managing bills, building a credit profile, investing, etc as opposed to looking at saving money that is unrealistic to save in the first few months of your arrival here as a student.

kode12:
Na wa oh. All these saving £3k monthly, this is the second time someone is mentioning that figure in the past couple of days. Seems FG is now setting savings targets for the japa gang in Nigeria .

Nothing like setting a target.As u can see I said I'm making 6 digits.I just want to have idea how much we can be saving considering how much am making in Nigeria. So that i won't regret my move. Thanks

Amarathripple0:

I think you should focus on asking questions that will give you a soft landing in the UK based on you and your wife’s skills and career trajectory, accomodation, managing bills, building a credit profile, investing, etc as opposed to looking at saving money that is unrealistic to save in the first few months of your arrival here as a student.

.Thanks for your feedback. Accommodation is already sorted out.Thanks for the advice

Chinlov:
Exactly....the way some pepo de drag this UK eh, meanwhile somebody holds the key to PARADISE


I thank God say man no be God sha.

The lady will not get it if she is not entitled to it...why not NOT be bitter that she had the desire for it?

Lol

You should have left your God back in Nigeria. These ppl no send if nah Jesus be your grandfather. No entitlement to public funds means exactly that, blind or not.

Whether God owned the earth prior or he sell part of am give devil over a whot game is also not the issue here

sugarkemi:
Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

Do you have kid(s) or planning to have anytime soon?

sugarkemi:
Happy new year. Please I need a sincere advice for my next move.I got admission to southwales for Feb intake . I'm making 6 digits monthly here in Nigeria.I have a wife.As a Student with dependent is it possible for both of us to be saving like 3k pounds in a month.

It is not possible for a student with a dependant to be saving that amount in a month, not when you can't work more than 20 hours as a student. Even if your spouse is taking £5k per month after tax and NI deduction, your rent, bills and accomodation will take large chunk of the earning. The good thing is things get better as journey on and don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself. Come and LIVE in the UK.

justwise:


Do you have kid(s) or planning to have anytime soon?

Planning to have soon. Just got married last year.

babajeje123:

It is not possible for a student with a dependant to be saving that amount in a month, not when you can't work more than 20 hours as a student. Even if your spouse is taking £5k per month after tax and NI deduction, your rent, bills and accomodation will take large chunk of the earning. The good thing is things get better as journey on and don't put unnecessary pressure on yourself. Come and LIVE in the UK.

Thanks

Chinlov:
Chaiiii

The earth is the Lords ooooo


Nobody own am...hmmm

Let’s be progressive thinkers please. All of these pity party comments of “Thank God say God no be man". Etc only sets us back as a people. The laws are the laws and she is not gatekeeping. She’s only stating facts to be honest. Maybe a little empathy would have been nice but still, we should not feel entitled to things that are clearly printed on our passports. So let’s leave this mindset in 2022, okay?

sugarkemi:


Nothing like setting a target.As u can see I said I'm making 6 digits.I just want to have idea how much we can be saving considering how much am making in Nigeria. So that i won't regret my move. Thanks

Let me tell u the real truth,if you making 6 figures in nigeria and living comfortable and you come to uk ,your first few month you will regret your actions.

Chikadibia21:
Your opinions are very valid. However, what is missing here is empathy. The lady is blind, and might genuinely feel her disability might count for something.
I honestly do not think she was feeling entitled, and it would be equally wrong for you to assume so...

Yes true but the blindness did not happy here and she was not given a visa because of her disability.

How will applying for council house help her condition? She should be asking for a guide dog and not council house.

jum33:

Let me tell u the real truth,if you making 6 figures in nigeria and living comfortable and you come to uk ,your first few month you will regret your actions.

Hmm. Thanks for the feedback.

sugarkemi:


Nothing like setting a target.As u can see I said I'm making 6 digits.I just want to have idea how much we can be saving considering how much am making in Nigeria. So that i won't regret my move. Thanks

Six digits is a wide range. N100,000 is 6d. N999,999 is also 6d so maybe if you go over/under a figure it might help others. However, speaking in general terms this system doesn't allow you to have that much disposable cash unless you're extremely frugal and earn way above average. Based on ONS stats median weekly pay is £640. That's before tax and NI, if you factor those in your weekly take home would amount to c. £512. Factor in your rent, utilities, council tax, childcare costs(if any),travel costs etc. and you'll have an idea what's going to be left.
Obviously if you're earning senior manager levels salary, you're a software developer, IT consultant or maybe a GP, you'd be far above the median pay, but just coming from Nigeria you're not going to earn near such figures. You have to look at UK with the "whole-package" perspective, to make it make sense i.e. better security, generally better standard of living, better prospects for your kids, ability to use the UK as a launchpad to move to other countries etc. If you make a like-like comparison solely on the basis of pay or savings I don't think many would make the move.

sugarkemi:


Planning to have soon. Just got married last year.

If both of you come here with a child or have one here you will be lucky to save even £300 a month.

You save that much if your wife works full time making around £4000-5000 a month while you work part time bringing in around £800-£1000 a month.

Its a good thing that you are asking this question now before leaving Nigeria though, it prepares you for journey ahead and not to have imaginary expectation

justwise:


If both of you come here with a child or have one here you will be lucky to save even £300 a month.

You save that much if your wife works full time making around £4000-5000 a month while you work part time bringing in around £800-£1000 a month.

Its a good thing that you are asking this question now before leaving Nigeria though, it prepares you for journey ahead and not to have imaginary expectation

Thanks for the feedback

kode12:


Six digits is a wide range. N100,000 is 6d. N999,999 is also 6d so maybe if you go over/under a figure it might help others. However, speaking in general terms this system doesn't allow you to have that much disposable cash unless you're extremely frugal and earn way above average. Based on ONS stats median weekly pay is £640. That's before tax and NI, if you factor those in your weekly take home would amount to c. £512. Factor in your rent, utilities, council tax, childcare costs(if any),travel costs etc. and you'll have an idea what's going to be left.
Obviously if you're earning senior manager levels salary, you're a software developer, IT consultant or maybe a GP, you'd be far above the median pay, but just coming from Nigeria you're not going to earn near such figures. You have to look at UK with the "whole-package" perspective, to make it make sense i.e. better security, generally better standard of living, better prospects for your kids, ability to use the UK as a launchpad to move to other countries etc. If you make a like-like comparison solely on the basis of pay or savings I don't think many would make the move.

Thanks

giselle237:
with no recourse to public funds? Her visa conditions are clear and that’s what Gemma was trying to say with a little more ‘salt’ ..

There are exceptions to even that rule.

The assumption that she entered the country and was immediately acting entitled is baseless.

This is someone she doesn't even know or have any idea of how she came to think she might have a shot at the housing aid, or why she is even considering it at all - what if she simply hasn't been able to secure housing that works given her disability?

The only entitlement is the entitlement some seem to have - that they can talk down at other people and assume the worst intentions merely because those people are migrants, and it's disgusting behaviour, not just "'salt'"

Unless what we're saying is that if we were the ones who were disabled and got a hint that we might be able to access public funds as a result, we would refuse to do so because we don't want to be 'entitled'. Can anyone say that?

People must learn to temper their words with empathy instead of jumping to the worst assumptions that people are acting mala fide.

Dear Seun, it’s 2023 oh. Give us the ability to pin certain posts on Nairaland, also give us the search button on threads. So questions that have been asked and answered can easily be seen by new people. I don tire to dey see the same questions every 3 Market days.

sugarkemi:


Planning to have soon. Just got married last year.

I will be very blunt with you. Since you are married, that's a very good combination, all you need to do is avoid having kids at the moment until you are no more a student and have secured a job here. The disadvantages of having kids in the UK whilst a student surpasses the advantage of which when looked at doe not even have any advantage to begin with. Having a baby here will not give that baby a British passport. It will be a whole lotta hassle. You will have to incorporate the baby's time in your time. Best bet, leave the baby thing and go for it when you can, for now, no.

dustydee:

Thanks, any address?

Most of the African shops will do it for you.

Phayie:
As per the naija wey I know, I can bet it that there's going to be extension two times

That's possible. But it does not mean the senate "ordered" it.

Igbamatigbi:
Good afternoon, please any idea how someone can change naira notes to pounds in U.K.? A student came in with naira and wants to change to pounds any ideas please thanks. Location is Coventry.

The African shops in Peckham will change it for you.

it sets you back as an individual my dear, for me, God ALWAYS sets me forward and I'm sure for many as well.#
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to each, His own

Amarathripple0:

Let’s be progressive thinkers please. All of these pity party comments of “Thank God say God no be man". Etc only sets us back as a people. The laws are the laws and she is not gatekeeping. She’s only stating facts to be honest. Maybe a little empathy would have been nice but still, we should not feel entitled to things that are clearly printed on our passports. So let’s leave this mindset in 2022, okay?

sugarkemi:


Nothing like setting a target.As u can see I said I'm making 6 digits.I just want to have idea how much we can be saving considering how much am making in Nigeria. So that i won't regret my move. Thanks

I think the issue here is that you're equating a 6 figure pay in Nigeria to jobs that'd allow you and your wife save £3000. Without knowing your exact figures, in Nigerian terms, that's like equating an entry civil service job to an oil and gas job.

On relative terms, I will largely equate a 500,000 job in Nigeria to a 1.8- 2.2k job in the UK that'd allow you save £500 - £750 per month after expenses.

£3k savings is good money. I doubt you'd hit that except your wife is into a high earning job + side income

jum33:

Let me tell u the real truth,if you making 6 figures in nigeria and living comfortable and you come to uk ,your first few month you will regret your actions.

Not true.

Many folks who were earning well into 6 figures in Nigeria knew they made the right choice the day they received their first UK paycheck. This includes myself.

As a student, it's quite different. He has to see the big picture and plan towards quick career growth.

jedisco:


Not true.

Many folks who were earning well into 6 figures in Nigeria knew they made the right choice the day they received their first UK paycheck. This includes myself.

As a student, it's quite different. He has to see the big picture and plan towards quick career growth.

.

But is the figure realistic after am done with school.?

sugarkemi:
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But is the figure realistic after am done with school.?

Very possible if both of you are in a bubble and just existing but not living life. By the time you factor in monthly mortgage payment of about £1,200 for a reasonable 3 bed house, childcare costs @ circa £1,200 per child for the first 5 years of their life, annual holiday costs £3,500, annual car insurance for a new comer in UK circa £1,200 etc, you will be hard pressed to find £1K savings let alone £3K at the end of the month.