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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Zahra29: 12:52pm On Dec 20, 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627e37v21eo

Brothers charged over airport fight with police:

Two men charged over Manchester Airport incident in July
The Crown Prosecution Service says no police officers will be charged in relation to the incident.


I don't think the gentlemen expected this twist of events when they presented as completely innocent victims of police brutality/racism.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Zahra29: 12:53pm On Dec 20, 2024
lavida001:
He should create a whatsapp group to mentor those interested so we can all grow together and become CEO.

Its not going to be easy but it is workable. i like his spirit he should keep it up.
Great idea, he's definitely very knowledgeable.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by WondaBeauty(f): 4:05pm On Dec 20, 2024
Good evening guys, any medical personnel living in the UK here?
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 7:46pm On Dec 20, 2024
Zahra29:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c627e37v21eo

Brothers charged over airport fight with police:

Two men charged over Manchester Airport incident in July
The Crown Prosecution Service says no police officers will be charged in relation to the incident.


I don't think the gentlemen expected this twist of events when they presented as completely innocent victims of police brutality/racism.
The beauty of CCTV evidence...... 😂😁
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 7:49pm On Dec 20, 2024
Omotaday:
Could someone please recommend a good/reliable financial estalishmnent/bank for Junior Cash ISA and Junior Stock and Share ISA?

Thank you.




CC: ukay2 jedisco
https://nutmeg.mention-me.com/m/ol/rg4ip-oye-jaiyeola
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lastkingsman: 7:52pm On Dec 20, 2024
tensazangetsu20:
You are very intelligent.
The guy don go far

I watched a YouTube interview where Yanis spoke on the issues with neo-capitalism.

I actually bought this book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism but haven't read it yet.

Hopefully, next year
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by descarado: 7:55pm On Dec 20, 2024
rock86:
Stay away from Credit card.
cheesy
A victim?
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lightnlife: 11:41pm On Dec 20, 2024
Check out the image below. It might help.

UrFears:
Hi Seniors, please does anyone have a guide on applying for NHS Jobs 🙏

Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lightnlife: 11:54pm On Dec 20, 2024
Wetin happen?

rock86:
Stay away from Credit card.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Cyberknight: 12:00am On Dec 21, 2024
lightnlife:
Check out the image below. It might help.
Azuka and Kayode.
Real slick.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by ukay2: 12:49am On Dec 21, 2024
Omotaday:
Could someone please recommend a good/reliable financial estalishmnent/bank for Junior Cash ISA and Junior Stock and Share ISA?

Thank you.




CC: ukay2 jedisco
I do not do any Junior cash ISA.....you can check Moneybox as it is very flexible
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Bwisewiturvote: 8:42am On Dec 21, 2024
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Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m): 11:48am On Dec 21, 2024
Chukwuka16:
The brevity of time and the ruthlessness of "good" statistics

I divert.

@jedisco, as per your question on raising money – let me offer this. If you have a product or service that you sell and can solve any problem a small software/hardware business like ours faces (excluding HR, accounting, communication, project management, etc.), if it is comparably priced and under £1.5k/year, I would purchase and get two of my network’s businesses to also purchase. Now, if you had a network of 5 people each selling something, it begins to make sense how such funds could be raised. The bottom line is this – if you don’t have anything to sell of some value (relative to people), you can’t make money.

To give you some context, our software stack is the usual – talentHR, Microsoft for Business, Slack, Click Up, Cliq, Notion, OrangeHR (another sub), etc. Nothing serious. What we need now are AI based tools to manage compliance – tracking and notifying PoC when checks are due, etc or other problems we don’t even know exist. If it is AI-powered then even better, you can add a premium.
My question was simple. Most Nigerians arrive on a visa- means for at least 5 yrs, they are tied to an employer. They would earn similarly to people in same roles and in line with the wider nation. After mandatory expenses, how do they raise £300k to 'take risk'?

Secondly, that exchange of value occurs by different means not only traditional buying and selling.

When you say 'make money', what do you mean?
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Chukwuka16: 1:32pm On Dec 21, 2024
jedisco:
My question was simple. Most Nigerians arrive on a visa- means for at least 5 yrs, they are tied to an employer. They would earn similarly to people in same roles and in line with the wider nation. After mandatory expenses, how do they raise £300k to 'take risk'?

Secondly, that exchange of value occurs by different means not only traditional buying and selling.

When you say 'make money', what do you mean?
@jedisco, I do appreciate what you pose as a question. My write up seeks to address three issues – temporally document my mindset, encourage Nigerian immigrants who can to actually take entrepreneurship seriously and build an ecosystem on the one hand, and encourage Nigerian Youths to seek every legitimate means possible in both leaving Nigeria (especially to the top 20 cities worldwide within the next 24 months) and building skillsets that can be traded/useful to the ecosystem built by those before them, on the other hand.

I have seen students here in the UK on 20-hrs contract earn £400/day in consulting and move on to £600/day during their post study – they are under 30 and some have relocated out of the UK. I employed some of them. They could do that because two things worked – there was an ecosystem known to them, and they had skillsets that could be traded within that ecosystem.

So, what you pose as a question from my perspective is a symptom that clears off when the ecosystem is in place. I am thus advocating for Nigerian immigrants who can actually take steps in actioning this, take those steps and urgently. For the students, learn problem solving and be able to transfer your learning. When both parties play their game right, raising such funds to take bigger risks within those students is no longer an impossible feat.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by missjekyll: 11:50pm On Dec 21, 2024
20 people died today in a stampede in my homestate of Anambra.

This week ,36 Children died in a stampede in Ibadan.

I feel rage towards Tinubu who has brought this calamity upon us and those that voted for him.

I don tire, mehn...
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Nobody: 1:19am On Dec 22, 2024
descarado:
cheesy
A victim?
It's a trap
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Nobody: 1:20am On Dec 22, 2024
lightnlife:
Wetin happen?
It's a gbese card
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:04am On Dec 22, 2024
rock86:
It's a gbese card
Not when you don’t go behind your means and you pay back when it’s due.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by lavida001: 2:04am On Dec 22, 2024
Chukwuka16:
@jedisco, I do appreciate what you pose as a question. My write up seeks to address three issues – temporally document my mindset, encourage Nigerian immigrants who can to actually take entrepreneurship seriously and build an ecosystem on the one hand, and encourage Nigerian Youths to seek every legitimate means possible in both leaving Nigeria (especially to the top 20 cities worldwide within the next 24 months) and building skillsets that can be traded/useful to the ecosystem built by those before them, on the other hand.

I have seen students here in the UK on 20-hrs contract earn £400/day in consulting and move on to £600/day during their post study – they are under 30 and some have relocated out of the UK. I employed some of them. They could do that because two things worked – there was an ecosystem known to them, and they had skillsets that could be traded within that ecosystem.

So, what you pose as a question from my perspective is a symptom that clears off when the ecosystem is in place. I am thus advocating for Nigerian immigrants who can actually take steps in actioning this, take those steps and urgently. For the students, learn problem solving and be able to transfer your learning. When both parties play their game right, raising such funds to take bigger risks within those students is no longer an impossible feat.
Give example of the skills we needed so others can learn.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m):
Omotaday:
Could someone please recommend a good/reliable financial estalishmnent/bank for Junior Cash ISA and Junior Stock and Share ISA?

Thank you.


CC: ukay2 jedisco
Don't have a junior ISA but if going down this route, I'd follow same ISA rules and pick one with the lowest fee that has the funds I want the money to be invested in. JISAs should also have an FSCS insurance and given the child is a distinct individual, the 85k protection limit should apply to their account separately (worth confirming)

P.S worth looking at the rules of access as I gather the child would have full access once they turn 18. Nothing stops them from using it as they see fit which to be honest, not an insignificant few would squander at that age. Personally, I'd first fill up my ISA and pension and consider investments before a JISA. That way, I can decide to gift the child a reasonable sum when the time is right.

If you're looking at big sums here, there should be other ways (e.g Trusts e.t.c) that give it to them at the right time in a tax-efficient manner
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Viruses: 8:06am On Dec 22, 2024
missjekyll:
20 people died today in a stampede in my homestate of Anambra.

This week ,36 Children died in a stampede in Ibadan.

I feel rage towards Tinubu who has brought this calamity upon us and those that voted for him.

I don tire, mehn...
Tinubu is not responsible for the death of these people, the organisers of the events are.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Lexusgs430: 9:37am On Dec 22, 2024
Viruses:
Tinubu is not responsible for the death of these people, the organisers of the events are.
But tinubu's harsh economic policies and inability to control the economic activities, directly lead to the hardship majority are facing......😎

I would not completely absolve responsibilities, but people should also have children, they can fully cater for.......🚸
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by missjekyll: 9:42am On Dec 22, 2024
Viruses:
Tinubu is not responsible for the death of these people, the organisers of the events are.
The underlying factor here is extreme hunger and deprivation.
For which tinubu is responsible.

I didn't think it was possible to be worse than buhari but ,by jove, he has managed it.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Fraih(f): 1:06pm On Dec 22, 2024
If a 2011 Vauxhall (manual) 76k mileage at 1,5k is a good buy, Pls DM for more pics and video. Location is Sheffield

Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by Omotaday(m): 1:21pm On Dec 22, 2024
jedisco:
Don't have a junior ISA but if going down this route, I'd follow same ISA rules and pick one with the lowest fee that has the funds I want the money to be invested in. JISAs should also have an FSCS insurance and given the child is a distict individual, the 85k protection limit should apply to their account separately (worth confirming)

P.S worth looking at the rules of access as I the child has full access once they turn 18. Nothing stops them from using it as they see fit which to be honest not an insignificant few would squander at that age. Personally, I'd first fill up my isa and pension and consider investments before a JISA. That way, I can decide to gift the child a reasonable sum when the time is right.

If you're looking at big sums here there should be other ways to give it to them at the right time in a tax-efficient manner
Good shout, thanks man
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m): 4:09pm On Dec 22, 2024
missjekyll:
Lol. Now you ve gotten me into trouble at the salon as I guffawed .

I believe the gentleman is very passionate about entrepreneurship. He uses this thread to bounce his ideas off us ...sort of like a stream of consciousness thing.
I do the same thing too with politics.

He is a net good to the thread, I believe.
I ve been advocating for us to form a network on here. Where we can access advice and insider information from experts in different fields.
One can be passionate without being derisive and understanding that any society is a complex mix of its moving parts. Certain grey areas wound be:

1. Not understanding the practical means by which most Nigerians here would build wealth. Business for most would initially be in the format we see advertised on local whatsapp groups from which they can build on.
Take IT for example thing with consumer/retail IT (unlike say pharmaceuticals) is that there is hardly ever one roundly superior option. There is a long list of software providers looking to sell their products to most large organisations e.g the NHS. When the decisions on procurement take place it's almost always a few people in the room making that decision. Humans would always have a subconscious bias and having folks who are open to give you a fair playing field is equally as important as whatever product you build or whatever communicative skills you carry.

Deriding the folks who by means of progressing in their career are able to sit and make those decisions just because they are not business people shows a complete lack of understanding about how the societies work. You see it everywhere whether is developers trying to pass through an approval. Even in 9ja, we know how a few folks at NNPC alsot tanked his refinery.

2. Secondly, the sums being touted are not in touch with the reality of many everyday folks in Britain. E.g '£300k to take risk', £1m to take one out of poverty. What percentage of people in Britain have that

3. Lastly- the extreme focus on money is a slippery slope. Money for most should be a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m): 4:31pm On Dec 22, 2024
lavida001:
How they still maintain 3rd largest economy globally is remarkable.
A few things worked in their favour.

1. They got to be an extremely wealthy nation before their decline started- like savings in the bank, this helped them buy time.

2. They had a good lead in robotics which helped boost/maintain productivity in certain areas even with less people.

3. Even though the U.S were a bit jealous on occasions, they were in the good books of the western powerhouse and the only Asian nation who were part of the inner caucus hence many macroeconomic decisions were in their favour or at least not engineered against them

4. They're popular for their long work hours and had to sweat out their youth to support the aging populace. I gather the common slang there is 'death by overwork'. The youth in many western nations have no business doing that.

5. They have borrowed to the extreme to support their economic numbers. Their debt recently sat at over 260% of gdp. By contrast, the UK is insistent on maintaining theirs below 100 and the U.S for all the shout is less than 130%

In all, their population has reduced significantly over the last decade but its not brought any benefit to the average Japanese.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m):
Cyberknight:
In other news...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/17/training-up-uk-workers-may-not-bring-down-net-migration-starmer-warned
missjekyll:
Ladies and gentlemen!

I present to you the 2024 report of the migration advisory committee.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisory-committee-annual-report-2024/migration-advisory-committee-mac-annual-report-2024-accessible
Interesting read moreso given that this is from an independent government funded agency. It all fits into the BBC article on why every govt over the last 2 decades has been unable to cut migration despite promising to do so.

Who would have thought that migrants despite paying in much more take out much less?

It's hard facts like this that the government have been aware of over time that makes them understand that though the average brit wants no/very low migration, they and the economy at large cannot afford it.

Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by gtassure: 5:17pm On Dec 22, 2024
jedisco:
Are you really saying that the millions of Nigerians living in Nigeria are useless to humanity except they move to a 'top 20 global city' within the next 24 months?

The stuff people say...
That guy writes like twitter influencer on crypto thread! Lol!
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by gtassure: 5:34pm On Dec 22, 2024
Goke7:
You’re trying to justify international readership for Nigerians not reading and that’s why I said it’s a comedy. Of course I know that Nigerian authors are patronised globally or you think am daft to know that or am one of those Nigerians that doesn’t read. Issorite 😂 whatever suits your fancy o!

After I gave examples of books widely read in Nigeria you’re saying something else 😂
Have you read NOI's book? The answer should be: yes or no! My bet is you haven't! I haven't either.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m): 6:02pm On Dec 22, 2024
Chukwuka16:
@jedisco, I do appreciate what you pose as a question. My write up seeks to address three issues – temporally document my mindset, encourage Nigerian immigrants who can to actually take entrepreneurship seriously and build an ecosystem on the one hand, and encourage Nigerian Youths to seek every legitimate means possible in both leaving Nigeria (especially to the top 20 cities worldwide within the next 24 months) and building skillsets that can be traded/useful to the ecosystem built by those before them, on the other hand.
I dont get. Are you saying Nigerians can mainly achieve the £1m target or £300k to take risk when others have built the ecosystem for them? How then do Nigerian in similar footing build that ecosystem?

Why top 20? Why not 10 of 15? Is 20 a magic number? Also, why 2 yrs?
Do you ever consider an individual, what they do and the realities on ground while saying these? I and many migrants I know do not live in a UK city talk more of top 20 global. Actually, doing so might be detrimental to us.

Its worth appreciting the constraints people face. For many, the business they can do would be a continental shop, restaurant, hair dressing, taxi drivers, home delivered meals, child minding e.t.c. all those all begin to make sense when we have the right numbers.

£600/day is decent but one is not getting to the '£300k to take risk' level by earning that anytime soon. I know as I earned that on a shift as far back as 2019. To be clear, I am not against entrepreneurship. I am the product of a family owned business.
Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by jedisco(m): 6:07pm On Dec 22, 2024
gtassure:
That guy writes like twitter influencer on crypto thread! Lol!
Hehe.. crypto influencer don do do you something

He has some interesting views.. I'm keen to learn how to make the money he's mentioning.
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