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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Jman06(m): 10:17pm On Oct 18, 2025

CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.

You people should stop this senseless talk about expenses abroad abeg! No matter how much one spends from his or her salary in the UK, he'll still save enough money to make investment back home! My sister who could barely make ends meet while in Nigeria is now well off in the UK. No matter how much she spends with her family over there she still saves to solve problems she couldn't solve back home while in Nigeria!

There's no comparison! Even the current economic reality in the country has further worsened the suffering in Nigeria! Not even ₦300k salary in Nigeria assures financial security in Nigeria today yet you guys want to compare black with white?

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by fxdee(m): 10:20pm On Oct 18, 2025

CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.

You are just making yourself to be happy. Nigeria is not bad for everybody but salary payment in naija is bad. You can't afford basic things of life as a salary earner in naija except you are supporting it with corrupt money somewhere. In abroad, with minimum wage you can afford basic things and leave well. Besides who are you to tell a mature man to know when his situation changes?.. Do you think is deceiving himself?

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 10:36pm On Oct 18, 2025

fxdee:
You are just making yourself to be happy. Nigeria is not bad for everybody but salary payment in naija is bad. You can't afford basic things of life as a salary earner in naija except you are supporting it with corrupt money somewhere. In abroad, with minimum wage you can afford basic things and leave well. Besides who are you to tell a mature man to know when his situation changes?.. Do you think is deceiving himself?

It is this their great levels of arrogance and insensitivity that is made some certain officers to reason c, detat.

Though it is not as if they will do a better job if they succeeded.

because this winner takes all blackman kind of politics is so foolish and archaic

One kingkong will seat on our Commonwealth, while the masses will be miserable doing bambiala, in extreme poverty.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by GUNITGuy: 10:45pm On Oct 18, 2025

Commentor:
You're talking nonsense.

Are there no people that sleep on the streets in UK?

Did they tell you you get instant medical attention?

What many people are saying is that this story is so lopsided without accounting for many factors, accommodation, transport, utilities, tax, council tax, etc.

Tell him to ask for a pay raise and you would get no...
The higher the pay the more the taxes ... They're not considering other factors like family, time cost of living, and being in a country as a foreigner it's not factored

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by oluwaahmed: 10:45pm On Oct 18, 2025

CoronaVirusPro:
Hello, the difference is not much! They can’t even afford the life a competent doctor is living in Nigeria.

Forget all those social media post that they use to brag to people have not left the country. It’s a rat race down there.

Boys in Nigeria that are doing far better than someone in Uk or US, cos they get value for that money here in Nigeria, what they won’t get in UK for same amount.

Bro I don't know about uk, but doctors in USA earn at least $120 per hour(& that's just GP) You can never compare it to a doctor in nigeria even with your wildest imagination

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by GUNITGuy: 10:50pm On Oct 18, 2025

DomPerignon:
Would he be able to get into Medical School in the UK in the first place and if so will he be able to afford the tuition?

Most of these ingrates don't know the FG and States actually subsidize Medical school in Nigeria .

Let him go to the US and see his mates still struggling to pay off their student loans.

Don't mind them ....
They think it's jamb score you use to study Medicine in Abroad or Waec...
It's money...their citizens can't afford therefore they sublet the jobs to Poorer Countries were Doctors are getting the education for free or less ...
Just studying in the Carribean cost a lot of money how much uk

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by RenoOkriTheGoat: 10:56pm On Oct 18, 2025

Commentor:
He fails to explain how much he spends on his studio flat.

E dey pepper you for body when you see young Nigerians achieving their dreams abroad.

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by jjparagon(m): 10:59pm On Oct 18, 2025

Doctors, Medical Laboratory Scientists and health workers whom this post is about are just reading comments and shaking their heads... There's a lot more involved than the money. If you really wanna develop in the career to where you can rub shoulders with colleagues at international levels, where do you think gives you that opportunity? Nigeria? Then you're wrong.. Surely we are trying o, but we've not gotten there yet. So let those who can go out there to develop do so, while we are here with crude techniques dated back to the 60's, the world had long moved on. Take robotic surgery for example, Take other emerging Med tech for example, take CRISPR gene editing for example and other Molecular techniques for example, we are not there yet and for practitioners who have passion and have foresight, they'd leave.

Now about the pay, it's funny how people compare, currently I work 3 jobs but my take home is not up to 500k, with terrible working conditions. No one is stupid, if the working environment, take home and savings is not meaningful, no one would leave. You don't expect him to come tell me you his take home but be rest assured that he can comfortably send up to a million Naira monthly to his parents back here in oja for their upkeep.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by RenoOkriTheGoat: 10:59pm On Oct 18, 2025

Commentor:
You're talking nonsense.

Are there no people that sleep on the streets in UK?

Did they tell you you get instant medical attention?

What many people are saying is that this story is so lopsided without accounting for many factors, accommodation, transport, utilities, tax, council tax, etc.

You can support anything just for peanuts thrown at you. Shame!

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by DrFunmisticGlow: 11:18pm On Oct 18, 2025

DyshApp:
A Nigerian medical doctor has stirred serious buzz online after comparing his earnings in Nigeria to what he now earns in the United Kingdom.

According to the doctor, identified as Dr. Tolu, he spent 7 years working in Nigeria without ever earning up to ₦185,000 monthly, even while juggling multiple jobs.

He revealed that after finishing medical school, he moved back in with his parents and lived with them till he was almost 30 years old — without owning a car.

However, after saving up to write the required exams and moving to the UK, his 6-month salary abroad reportedly surpassed his entire 7-year earnings in Nigeria.

Here’s what he wrote on X (formerly Twitter):

https://x.com/tolubinutu/status/1979021061573206219?t=Ug1tTovARqx5rkcb3tBEdQ&s=19

This revelation has sparked discussions about the state of healthcare salaries in Nigeria, brain drain, and why many Nigerian professionals are relocating abroad for better pay and work conditions.

Is the UK really that much better, or is it just hype?

he isn't lying. Because apart from being a doctor. That man had an art company.

Nigeria is not a friendly place at all.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Commentor: 11:33pm On Oct 18, 2025

RenoOkriTheGoat:
You can support anything just for peanuts thrown at you. Shame!

I'm not responsible for your hunger.

grin

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Smartguyboy(m): 11:33pm On Oct 18, 2025

DyshApp:
A Nigerian medical doctor has stirred serious buzz online after comparing his earnings in Nigeria to what he now earns in the United Kingdom.

According to the doctor, identified as Dr. Tolu, he spent 7 years working in Nigeria without ever earning up to ₦185,000 monthly, even while juggling multiple jobs.

He revealed that after finishing medical school, he moved back in with his parents and lived with them till he was almost 30 years old — without owning a car.

However, after saving up to write the required exams and moving to the UK, his 6-month salary abroad reportedly surpassed his entire 7-year earnings in Nigeria.

Here’s what he wrote on X (formerly Twitter):

https://x.com/tolubinutu/status/1979021061573206219?t=Ug1tTovARqx5rkcb3tBEdQ&s=19

This revelation has sparked discussions about the state of healthcare salaries in Nigeria, brain drain, and why many Nigerian professionals are relocating abroad for better pay and work conditions.

Is the UK really that much better, or is it just hype?

After tax and rent tell us how much is remaining please

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by PAQ(m): 12:10am On Oct 19, 2025

He didn't mention how much of that amount the UK government took back as taxes and bills, as opposed to here. It would have also been fair to compare the tax and bills too. Agreed, things are bad now, but it hasn't always been like this, and it's not always gonna be like this.

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by adonainana: 12:32am On Oct 19, 2025

tegrianonigltd:
Read my post, once they gain balance, have their visas sorted, you don’t expect that in 1 year.

And many have that in their investment portfolio

So many, so so many. Research again.

That’s reality man. You can’t have a proper visa and not save that.

I single-handedly sorted my dad cancer journey of over 30m plus, when he died, I took care of the burial as well, which job for Nigeria wan give me tha one ? Ask yourself.

If you have means to japa, my brother RUN.

Men Dey do things,

Those ones wey dey shout na one’s wey jus enter 1-12 months ago. Once they find balance, them go dey alright.

That 30m you had to hustle like your life depended on it abroad is someone else chicken change here in Nigeria

Go to the east and find out

That’s the irony of life

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by PepeXKermit: 12:36am On Oct 19, 2025

Jakarta:
Ogbeni close your dirty mouth and call a spade by its name. How can a medical doctor be earning 185k a month? Even if his tax bills are high at least he is enjoying what he paying for. Is the price of energy cheap here, I'm paying 209.50 for a unit on band A yet I've spent 175k fueling my generator. I once visited a general Hospital, and I saw people sleeping outside on tents, no power. Only 1 doctor attending to over 18 patients in a ward. Folks like you are taking this country backward due to your blinded support.

If they charge you a month's salary for just going to the doctor because you had a headache and you come out complaining, but someone told you, the doctors have to be paid handsomely because they are saving lives, how do you think that should feel?

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 1:08am On Oct 19, 2025

adonainana:
That 30m you had to hustle like your life depended on it abroad is someone else chicken change here in Nigeria

Go to the east and find out

That’s the irony of life

Someone out of 30,000,000 people
You now turn around and use that singular one person to judge everybody.

That is where we keep missing it.

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Cousin9999: 1:59am On Oct 19, 2025

CoronaVirusPro:
Sincerely!

They will be converting GBP to Naira as if they spend Naira in UK.

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by MasterTeeUSA: 2:41am On Oct 19, 2025

Nonsense comparison...how can you attend a very subsidized medical school degree in Nigeria that gave him the opportunity to work in the UK and then compare salaries ...The same UK, can be buy car with cash down or will buy on credit and is the rent the same or is he paying the same level of taxation? Nonsense comparison and lack of appreciation...instead of trying to give back to the country that made him and pay his own doctors in Nigeria half a million or 1 million Naira a month or whatever he wishes...

This is why school tuition should rise in Nigeria and salaries concurrently

DyshApp:
A Nigerian medical doctor has stirred serious buzz online after comparing his earnings in Nigeria to what he now earns in the United Kingdom.

According to the doctor, identified as Dr. Tolu, he spent 7 years working in Nigeria without ever earning up to ₦185,000 monthly, even while juggling multiple jobs.

He revealed that after finishing medical school, he moved back in with his parents and lived with them till he was almost 30 years old — without owning a car.

However, after saving up to write the required exams and moving to the UK, his 6-month salary abroad reportedly surpassed his entire 7-year earnings in Nigeria.

Here’s what he wrote on X (formerly Twitter):

https://x.com/tolubinutu/status/1979021061573206219?t=Ug1tTovARqx5rkcb3tBEdQ&s=19

This revelation has sparked discussions about the state of healthcare salaries in Nigeria, brain drain, and why many Nigerian professionals are relocating abroad for better pay and work conditions.

Is the UK really that much better, or is it just hype?

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by tegrianonigltd(m): 2:46am On Oct 19, 2025

adonainana:
That 30m you had to hustle like your life depended on it abroad is someone else chicken change here in Nigeria

Go to the east and find out

That’s the irony of life

I am a data engineer with a company here, I do not need to hustle like thief.

UK HAS 3m plus millionaires in dollars
Nigeria has 8100 millionaires in dollars (add all the illegal and thief politicians, crooked men of God) 50k or 100k

Not up to 10 percent of Uk

Uk has 177 billionaires and Nigeria 4

Uk population 60m+
Nigeria population 220m+

Do the maths.

If you like remain for Nigeria.

If you like dey hustle like thief for Nigeria, dey find one big man to connect you.

Over here, you can be somebody without knowing anybody.
Over here you do not need anyone to buy job
Over here they employ on merits.

Over here you can apply for loan to start your business from the comfort of your home, you can apply for a credit card to run your business, you can get products on loan and trade.

You don’t need to beg anyone, if you have good credit score, the sky is a starting point.

Men are doing numbers, You dey follow newcomers mouth. They enter system wey dey work, they need to adjust.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 2:49am On Oct 19, 2025

The reason why the UK can afford to pay premium salaries by Nigerian standards for it's doctors is because they spend 248bn pounds on healthcare, and a large.chunk of that money comes from taxation of almost every brit. And that's income tax.

As a Nigerian doc, I would love it if Nigeria paid me the kind of salary UK pays it's doctors, but I also have to be effing realistic. If Nigeria paid doctors 2-4 million naira monthly, the healthcare budget would need to either go up to something like 60 trillion or more naira , or hospital fees go up drastically.

The fact is , anyway, Nigerian doctors are getting ripped off because government, including this tinubu one, have not done what needs to be done to make pir economy as prosperous as the UK, and that is manufactured goods and services

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 2:53am On Oct 19, 2025

Outthemudbyvoke:
Please remove Ghana from that your list. Did you know the Ghanian cedis can be referred to as hard currency when compared to naira? Stop playing

Ghanaian currency is basically the naira with two zeros struck off.

It's just as bad economically there as it is in Nigeria.

I'm not excusing our government. We got more resources and people than Ghana so we should be more prosperous. But Ghana cedi is just as useless as Nigerian one. Dem just do redenomonation to hide that

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 2:59am On Oct 19, 2025

franchasofficia:
If Nigeria was a serious country with reasonable leaders and citizens, the minimum salary for the below professionals ought be as follows:

1.) Medical Doctors - starting salary 1million

2.) Nurses with BSN - starting salary 500k

3.) Teachers with BEd. - starting salary 250k

4.) Senators & Reps - part time job paid only sitting allowance

5.) Police with Bsc/HND - starting salary 250k

But unfortunately, Nigeria is not a normal country and the leaders too are not normal, so don't expect much

I'm glad you think highly of us in medicine but the problem is, our budget for healthcare is about 3 trillion naira

Paying doctors, who are about 40000 in Nigeria one million each would cost the treasury 40 billion naira monthly or 500 billion naira. annually.That's assuming you pay doctors regardless of rank 1millionnnaira. Nurses salary too would chop somewhere around 250 billion naira, assuming every nirse gets paid 500000 naira. Add increases in salaries due to promotion, and we could be spending 1.5-2 trillion naira on salaries for doctors and nurses. Let's not forget pharmacists, lab scientists, etc. That means that it could reach 7 trillion at most

Our budget for this year for health is 3 trillion.

The problem is our governments past and present have not built the kind of economy that Nigeria needs. Simple

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Gerrard59(m): 3:00am On Oct 19, 2025

EvilMerodack:
I used to think all medical doctors are smart, guess I'm wrong

Thank God I've never visited any hospital for medical attention in my entire life, but if I would have to now, I'd need to test the doctor's intelligence first.
This dude is prolly poor at Economics. You don't flatly compare earnings in diff countries with diff currencies, you consider purchasing power, tax and other factors that can influence potential savings at the end of each month/year

Most Nigerians out there, both at home and abroad, don't understand elementary economics.

So don't bother reading what they spew.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Gerrard59(m): 3:03am On Oct 19, 2025

Fine, salaries are lower in Nigeria due to low productivity levels and a high population. But comparing salaries band for band does not make sense. I don't really blame him, but those who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. Who knows he most likely did the same thing sef undecided

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by sinero: 3:06am On Oct 19, 2025

shox:
at least bandits won’t march him out into the bush at night.

Peace over tinubu

But gang members can stab him to death on the streets of London in broad day light. Nigeria is not the worst place on earth. Stop this nonsense. By the way, I live in d UK so I know what I am saying.

Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 3:07am On Oct 19, 2025

Gerrard59:
Most Nigerians out there, both at home and abroad, don't understand elementary economics.

So don't bother reading what they spew.

Most Nigerians want to live the good life of saner climes without realizing that you pay heavily on taxes for that good life

UK funds doctors salaries with national income tax . That's how they fund their NHS which employs most doctors there. If tinubu or anyone of our past leaders passed laws that charged UK tax rates in nigeria,there would be a coup and a popular revolution, which even his diehard supporters will support

Nigerians don't trust their government. Which they are right not to do so, because corruption and bad leadership. But as a result people are susceptible to flawed populist economics that promise goodies without an idea of how they would be paid for

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Gerrard59(m): 3:10am On Oct 19, 2025

Jeje247:
So who should bear the brunt? If the company can no longer pay staff adequate salary, they ought to declare bankruptcy so that the staff can go elsewhere where they can be paid their worth. You can't pay but you think by right they should keep working their future away with you

Their customer base is Nigeria, a poor country. So, how would they pay higher salaries when their customer base is poor?

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 3:10am On Oct 19, 2025

Gerrard59:
Fine, salaries are lower in Nigeria due to low productivity levels and a high population. But comparing salaries band for band does not make sense. I don't really blame him, but those who campaigned and voted for Buhari in 2015. Who knows he most likely did the same thing sef

Medical doctor salaries have been problematic even before buhari. Doctors were japaing even as far back as the army rule days..it got worse under Obasanjo.

Even under GEJ, doctors were still leaving the country.

It's been a long lasting problem simply because healthcare in Nigeria has never been well funded. And simply because government is too scared to charge high fees in hospitals or high tax rates.

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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by kennethesan(m): 4:17am On Oct 19, 2025

Tell us about the work load not just the money... Exchange rate is a current key factor

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