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Lol so much for saner climes, but to be honest UK don cast long time ago.

Albania, an European country is abroad too, so also Bulgaria, said to be one the poorest in EU.

QuinQQ:
Bottom line: No Place Is Heaven! There are always pros and cons.
But we in Nigeria refuse to believe that despite all the evidence. Abroad is all good, Nigeria all bad!

CommonSense1967:
People are going to Nigeria for medical services.
A friend just flew to Nigeria for dental services from the US.
He paid less than 100k for the same service that they were asking for 2k dollars.

If you go to Emergency dept in the US, that's when you will understand the situation.
Unless you are bleeding or dying from heart attack, you will be at the wailing area from night till morning.
Many times, people just get upset and leave. I have done that before.

And the air fare To and fro didn’t exceed the 2k dollars?

Nigerians abroad in need of fertility treatment are also going back to Nigeria for IVF, I know a Nigerian doctor who left Canada to open an IVF clinic in Nigeria and is making a killing.

uche87:
On the 30th of January, 2026, I fell ill while at work. After struggling through the rest of the day, I returned home to rest. When my condition worsened, I decided to visit the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit at my local hospital.

I arrived at exactly 10:13 pm. Within a minute, I was booked in by the receptionist and asked to wait. Shortly after, a nurse called me, took my details, and recorded my vital signs. I was then asked to return to the waiting area to see a doctor. That moment never came.

Instead, I was called twice more by nurses to repeat the same observations, each time urged to remain patient. A notice board nearby displayed the previous day’s estimated waiting time — seven hours. My ordeal lasted until 9:30 am the following morning. I never saw a doctor. Eventually, a specialist nurse briefly attended to me, offered verbal reassurance, handed me a leaflet, and asked me to leave. The A&E waiting area became a temporary shelter. People turned chairs into makeshift beds. Others left in frustration. The environment was chaotic. Police officers intermittently brought in injured suspects in handcuffs, adding to the tension and discomfort.

As I sat there, exhausted and unwell, my thoughts drifted back to Nigeria. I remembered a day in 2016 at a government hospital in FESTAC Town, Lagos, when my condition deteriorated so badly that the crowd insisted I jump the queue. I also recalled how, at the private hospital attached to the multinational firm I worked for, I could see a doctor within five to ten minutes.
Now, in the UK, seeing a doctor sometimes feels like winning a lottery. According to The Sun, 554,018 patients in England waited 12 hours or more in A&E in 2025. Data from the Nuffield Trust shows that during peak periods, over 61,000 patients per month experienced 12+ hour waits — around 11% of all emergency admissions. At a minimum of 12 hours per patient, this amounts to over 6.6 million hours lost annually.

Unsurprisingly, many Nigerians living in the UK now travel back home for major surgeries and treatments. It is often faster, cheaper, and far less stressful.

While the quality of healthcare in the UK and Nigeria may appear worlds apart, few imagined that Nigeria would one day serve as a medical lifeline for those living abroad.

Beyond healthcare, the economic reality is equally sobering. Many Nigerians sold land, cars, and family properties to relocate. Today, they struggle under hyper-inflated rents, rising energy bills, and high living costs, barely staying afloat.
Securing a white-collar job often feels like requiring divine intervention. The system appears structured to trap certain groups within physically demanding, low-paying roles. Warehouse work destroys the body. The care sector drains emotional and physical strength. Mental health support work, though meaningful, exposes workers to extreme violence and psychological trauma.

NHS England records over 100,000 violent incidents against healthcare staff annually — an average of 285 assaults every day. In June 2025, Irene Wanjiru Mbugua, a 48-year-old care worker originally from Kenya, was tragically killed by a patient in the West Midlands. While rare, such incidents reveal the severe dangers frontline healthcare workers face daily.

Social conditions are no less concerning. 21% of people in the UK — about 14.2 million individuals — live in poverty. Without social safety nets, this figure would skyrocket. Additionally, 24 million people receive at least one form of state benefit, including pensions, disability support, and working-age benefits, highlighting the scale of economic vulnerability.

In terms of safety, police recorded 53,047 knife-related offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025. While the UK remains safer than Nigeria overall, rising violent crime remains deeply troubling.

For parents seeking better opportunities for their children, another danger lurks — hard drugs. Government data shows 16,212 children aged 17 and below were in drug and alcohol treatment between April 2024 and March 2025, a 13% increase from the previous year. This underscores the growing exposure of young people to harmful substances.

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, social life thrives. Community bonds remain strong. Laughter is louder. Life feels fuller. In contrast, the UK work culture often reduces life to an endless cycle of work, bills, exhaustion, and survival. Tragically, between 2024 and 2025, several Nigerian students and workers collapsed and died in the UK due to stress and exhaustion, including cases in South Wales and Hertfordshire.

I’ll end on a lighter note. The stress levels here are so intense that almost everyone snores like old power generators. Many refuse to believe it — until shown video evidence. This was never the case back home.

The hustle has shifted gears. And this one runs at a dangerously high speed.


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An Agbado done drop update to deceive the brainless ones here
Ask him what is he still doing in the UK.
Why not return permanently to Nigeria

Elzazzi:
Sir you are in the UK too ?

No. US.

Are u whyning us?

Abi u dey use us play

RaptorX:
Lol so much for saner climes, but to be honest UK don cast long time ago.

Tell him to return to Nigeria let's see

OredoPikin2:
Tell him to return to Nigeria let's see

I don't need to tell him anything, UK don cast. Your believing it or not is your problem not mine.

Xammie001:
I sincerely understand your plight but wrong diagnosis happens everywhere, same way we have cheap hospitals here they have it there too and errors are there but they are managing it so as to protect there integrity unlike here where we feel everything na social media because we want to trend.
i wish you can have access to different boards that handle such cases and you will be shocked, but if you've not been there appreciate what we have here in Nigeria.
Anyday Anytime, to me Nigeria is the Best country in the World, we have our issues yes but my country is still the best to live in and grow, i trust with the right orientation and mentality we will get there, we all are involved.

Thump up for you.
We don't value what we have. I can relate with the writer above. Similar story where a patient has to wait for many months to see a doctor in many of the western countries

The rate of migration is way higher than normal, the older generation are still hanging on, budgets are not stretching far enough and the government have refused to build more hospitals, to compensate for the influx ......

Money, is in the mouth of the lion......... 😂🦁🤣

teepain:
Whoever the op is, I sympathize with him in advance as I expect that some people would insult him based on their limited knowledge of the subject.

Waiting time is one of the prime problems of NHS aside work overload for employees. This is understandable because health care was designed to be free in the UK, although there are some cases that require out-of-pocket expenses. This free access and limited NHS budget creates a situation where service users have to stay on the queue, sometimes for long period.

When you contrast it with the speed with which you can access medical care in Nigeria you begin to appreciate what you enjoy back home. However, the upside is that you can enjoy top-notch medical care at almost no cost at the point of access in the UK. So, I believe that it is a trade-off and one has to weigh the pro and cons based on one's peculiar situation.

Meanwhile Tinubu is running to France every 3days for same medicare🤣🤣
Keep deceiving yourselves and thinking u are deceiving others

I call BS. The OP was sent home to stop wasting hospital resources and asked chat gpt to write a moanathon in anger. The statistics, perfect English and em dashes give it away.

As usual the NL mods are picking only the best posts for the front page.....

Bengasyl2:
Thump up for you.
We don't value what we have. I can relate with the writer above. Similar story where a patient has to wait for many months to see a doctor in many of the western countries

Eyah
But why is Tinubu always running to France after every 3days

Euromillion200:
So why are leaders always run to UK for a simple headache? Bro stop talking nonsense abeg.

You are comparing leaders that have access to and can afford quality private medical care to an immigrant who can only afford the NHS, some of you people never cease to amaze me with such low quality thinking.

FriendsAndFans:
What happened to all the Indian Doctors they used to hype back then? Well maybe the health system is not in the best shape over there but the Nigerian health system can't match up with the UK.

In Nigeria, we treat ourselves 😆
Just enter pharmacy or chemist, tell them how you’re feeling, they mix up drugs for you.
Abroad, mba nu , you must go to the hospital.
That’s why they have long queues abroad.
Op be patient your turn go reach

A&E procedure when you walk in by yourself:
A nurse sees you within the first 5 minutes and evaluate the seriousness of your condition. They're trained to look out for anything life threatening - if it doesn't look like you could die in less than a day, you're low priority. Children, elderly and disabled people have higher priority too!
But if your symptoms become life threatening while in the waiting area, they'd attend to you immediately.
But OP waited like 12 hours, which means he didn't need to be at the A&E in the first place! Else he would have fainted during that wait - they knew that at the beginning. That's why the nurse sent him home at the end.

mctech:
The guy that was asking about going to the UK for masters and staying back yesterday, now you have your answers.

HighQue007:
There are lot of people that leave the Uk for medication in Nigeria. A lot
Uk is just a bad country with good PR.. with unbelievable taxes and uncontrollable knife crimes. Even the real brittons dey troop out of the Uk in thousands.

fijiano202:
There are lots of truth to this but many will insult you or tell you to come ....
People think what they watch in movies is real life

Father4all:
The OP is based here in Nigeria, and will die here. How can you compare health care system in the UK to that of Nigeria. Too much lies in Nairaland

Nor mind all these agbados
Na lies full their mouth
Same UK Buhari turned to second home throughout his 8yrs

CommonSense1967:
People are going to Nigeria for medical services.
A friend just flew to Nigeria for dental services from the US.
He paid less than 100k for the same service that they were asking for 2k dollars.

If you go to Emergency dept in the US, that's when you will understand the situation.
Unless you are bleeding or dying from heart attack, you will be at the wailing area from night till morning.
Many times, people just get upset and leave. I have done that before.

Spending more than $2k to save $2k makes common sense to you? Which ER are you talking about . I have never been more than 4 hours before I see the doctor at ER maybe you are living at those border tents close to Mexico hahahaha

Shezy001:
Same way friend brought his daughter for treatment here in nigeria and I hardly believe is reality.

Una too dey lie
Nawa oo

QuinQQ:
Bottom line: No Place Is Heaven! There are always pros and cons.
But we in Nigeria refuse to believe that despite all the evidence. Abroad is all good, Nigeria all bad!

Until people like buhari and Tinubu stop seeking medicare in the same abroad.
Keep deceiving yourselves

It's not always as it seems

There are private hospitals but can you afford it

Una wan kill nhs

ogelekpomgam:
My brother yarn fact here.If say economy good for Naija, There's no place like home joor..

Why is Tinubu always running to France?
Or is the naira economy also affecting him?🤣🤣
Abegiiii
U guys need to stop deceiving yourselves

OredoPikin2:
Meanwhile Tinubu is running to France every 3days for same medicare🤣🤣
Keep deceiving yourselves and thinking u are deceiving others

Did you read where I mentioned that the advantage of healthcare in UK is the quality access at almost no cost or not. Or are you just incapable of comprehending little things? If Tinubu goes to UK "every 3 days" that is because he is paying for private medical care at a premium cost that many ordinary citizens may not be able to afford!

If you didn't understand, the op and myself talked about public health services!

teepain:
Did you read where I mentioned that the advantage of healthcare in UK is the quality access at almost no cost or not. Or are you just incapable of comprehending little things? If Tinubu goes to UK "every 3 days" that is because he is paying for private medical care at a premium cost that many ordinary citizens may not be able to afford!

If you didn't understand, the op and myself talked about public health services!

Buhari spent almost half of his 8yrs in the UK seeking medicare
Tinubu is equally doing the same in France and beating Buhari record🤣🤣
Abeg who una think say una dey deceive self these APC people?😂

So, what's the essence of this write up? To discourage people from leaving the sh1thole or what? While there may be some challenges with the UK healthcare system due to the fact that not many people over there want to go through the stress of studying medicine and other healthcare courses due to the stress involved, that doesn't in away mean that the Nigerian system is any better!

All the UK government needs is to open up their borders to absorb more healthcare professionals from India and Africa. That way, they'll be able to solve the problem of inadequate health work force.

All the other problems you mentioned can be seen at a worst level here in Nigeria. Insecurity, bad economy etc are in multiple folds here in Nigeria compared to the UK.

No matter how bad people like this op make life in the UK appear, the evidence on ground would continue to expose the truth. We have relatives who left Nigeria out of frustration due to how bad things were for them in Nigeria. Yet today, those people are far better than they were in Nigeria. Many of them now have investments they never imagined having back in Nigeria. So, you can paint whatever bad pictures you want about the UK, evidences are always there to expose the truth.

RaptorX:
I don't need to tell him anything, UK don cast. Your believing it or not is your problem not mine.

UK cast but he is still there (that's if nor be ikorodu him dey dey post lies say him dey UK 😂)
Buhari, out of 8yrs as President spent almost half of it in the same UK seeking medicare 🤣
U guys nor really rate una selves
Imagine dishing out lies everyday thinking say na goat they read all these posts

OredoPikin2:
Buhari spent almost half of his 8yrs in the UK seeking medicare
Tinubu is equally doing the same in France and beating Buhari record🤣🤣
Abeg who una think say una dey deceive self these APC people?😂

I believe that the UK space is not forbidden for you. When next you catch malaria in any part of the world, please hop on an aeroplane and go for your treatment in UK just like late Buhari and Tinubu. Is anyone restraining you?

hegelian:
oya return home bro if you so much believe all you wrote.. una go dey where una escape too and be speaking grammar...we wey dey naija understand and hope you join us back home not writing epistle like a broken clock

Show some love nah!

teepain:
I believe that the UK space is not forbidden for you. When next you catch malaria in any part of the world, please hop on an aeroplane and go for your treatment in UK just like late Buhari and Tinubu. Is anyone restraining you?

Then stop coming out to dish lies.
Abi una think say na goats dey read una posts or comments abi?
U guys should be careful pls
this is not 1966 were all your lies goes unchallenged

Xammie001:
I sincerely understand your plight but wrong diagnosis happens everywhere, same way we have cheap hospitals here they have it there too and errors are there but they are managing it so as to protect there integrity unlike here where we feel everything na social media because we want to trend.
i wish you can have access to different boards that handle such cases and you will be shocked, but if you've not been there appreciate what we have here in Nigeria.
Anyday Anytime, to me Nigeria is the Best country in the World, we have our issues yes but my country is still the best to live in and grow, i trust with the right orientation and mentality we will get there, we all are involved.

Kudos. We stay here!