₦airaland Forum

Love800:
Atleast good health care will be administered to you with the delay.
Naija doctors might diagnosed you wrongly.

I see profits of my hustle with the neck pain+high bills.
An average nigga back home is being exploited from communities, councils, lawmakers, law enforcers and the civil service.

Wrong diagnosis from the UK hospital countering diagnosis by UNTH hospital in Enugu killed Dora AKunyinli

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

Omo, Naija is better if you have a good business. Abroad is for the poor. The rich people stay in Nigeria.

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

Relocation has never been easy. Even in Nigeria there are people finding things so difficult in cities but find it difficult to relocate to their villages.

Love800:
Atleast good health care will be administered to you with the delay.
Naija doctors might diagnosed you wrongly.

I see profits of my hustle with the neck pain+high bills.
An average nigga back home is being exploited from communities, councils, lawmakers, law enforcers and the civil service.

You read and I know that it's true that Nigerians there sometimes come back home for medical treatment. It's faster and sometimes cheaper.

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.

Those that have not experienced it will not understand.

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.

So your friend don't have 250 dollars per month for health insurance but can blow over 5000 dollars flight ticket just to fix his teeth in naija.
If he has health insurance, he will see his dentist within a week.

And most standard hospital that will give him satisfactory service in naija are private and don't come cheap. For dental extraction he may be paying upward a million naira, which is rightly 1 thousand dollars.
CS in Reddington is 5-10 million and kidney transplant is over 20 million.
So what exactly is the penny wise, pound foolish trip your friend embarked on.

completeskills:
We all know the NHS is understaffed and the influx of immigrants into the UK in the last 6 to 8 years added pressure to the already existent problems. If you want prompt attention..they have private practices which you can register with . This is not to say the NHS problems is okay..it surely is not but I will take it over the Nigeria system anyday.
By the way..What's ops exact point with this narrative?? That Nigeria is better?
No country is perfect but you have to choose your poison carefully.

The OP is painting the picture to point out that Nigeria is not as terrible as people here that have not traveled think and abroad is not as green as they think.

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

They go to expensive private hospitals that ordinary people can't go. Sometimes it's class thing.

RaptorX:
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.

Anybody can afford private care in UK, it's not that expensive. It's all about priority.
Anytime my parents come to UK, I take them to private hospitals and I don't have to break any bank. It's the same quality of care and same consultants and same procedure seen in NHS.

The problem with NHS is waiting time, priority is now over emphasized which sometimes could be annoying. But if u are triaged and your case in serious, u will definitely skip the queue. The quality is still top notch.
If u are diagnosed of cancer today, within 1-2 weeks u will start treatment in NHS.

When Boris Johnson had COVID and he deteriorated, he was admitted into Guy and Thomas NHS hospital ICU in London and was attended to by normal NHS staff. He recovered and was discharged. That's the level of confidence they have in their NHS system

Is accessibility an issue in NHS? Yes but quality of care and regulation remain same with other private hospitals. I've used both so I'm talking from experience.

And I repeat it's not expensive, get medical insurance as low as 80 pounds per month and u can access a GP in a private hospital within 1-2 days in UK.

UK don cast UK don cast, no be naija mate for another 100 years.

Thewrath:
Yes,no law mandates him to return,but his opinion,if misleading can alter the intentions or progress made so far by those intending to go…..if it’s so bad that you one has to travel back to Nigeria for major surgeries or medical issues,what exactly is he still doing there? Let him come back.

Relocation of any type is not an easy decision. He didn't tell anyone not to go.

FatimaAbubakar:
If you believe all these APC sponsored posts, then I pity you.

No one is stopping you from traveling. What has politics got to do with this?

ufotunang:
..do not mind him..they will be complaining that abroad is not good that Nigeria is better..but let them return back to Nigeria they will not want to return or come back

If you sell off everything that you have? and relocated abroad with high expectations would it be easy for you to come back if you find things so difficult and not as you expected? When you come back you become worse than what you were before you relocated. The only option is to stay there while hoping for the best. It doesn't remove the fact that you are disappointed.

FatimaAbubakar:
You can sway people who aren't familiar with your antics here. We know you very well, and we know your trade, and it's a cheap and shameless one. The supporters of an evil party and an incompetent ruler like Tinubu will always support baseless posts like this. I pity people who listen to APC sponsored anti-japa posts like this one. They want young promising youths to suffer in the hellfire they've created.

This your ranting is baseless. Go ahead and japa. Did the government tell you not to japa? The only thing that will please your heart is to condemn Nigeria and paint any other country as heaven on earth.

SIRTee15:
So your friend don't have 250 dollars per month for health insurance but can blow over 5000 dollars flight ticket just to fix his teeth in naija.
If he has health insurance, he will see his dentist within a week.

And most standard hospital that will give him satisfactory service in naija are private and don't come cheap. For dental extraction he may be paying upward a million naira, which is rightly 1 thousand dollars.
CS in Reddington is 5-10 million and kidney transplant is over 20 million.
So what exactly is the penny wise, pound foolish trip your friend embarked on.

First, ticket to Naija does not cost 5k unless you are flying business class. Also, in low season period such as now, you can actually get it for1500 or even lower. I travel to Nigeria about 5 times yearly from the US.
Secondly, did I tell you that he only went to Nigeria just for that, obviously he had other things to do in Nigeria and just used the opportunity to do the medical service.
The extraction cost him 40k NAIRA in a private clinic. Not millions.
Americans cross the border to Mexico to get cheap medical services. It's nothing new.

You think everyone can afford to pay 250 dollars monthly just for medical insurance?
There are many people struggling to service in this US and you expect them to pay 250 months just for medical insurance that they might not even use for years.
I have medical insurance and it cost me way more than 250 per month for my family. Thanks that my company pays some of it but I still pay more than 250 out of pocket.

CommonSense1967:
First, ticket to Naija does not cost 5k unless you are flying business class. Also, in low season period such as now, you can actually get it for1500 or even lower. I travel to Nigeria about 5 times yearly from the US.
Secondly, did I tell you that he only went to Nigeria just for that, obviously he had other things to do in Nigeria and just used the opportunity to do the medical service.
The extraction cost him 40k NAIRA in a private clinic. Not millions.
Americans cross the border to Mexico to get cheap medical services. It's nothing new.

You think everyone can afford to pay 250 dollars monthly just for medical insurance?
There are many people struggling to service in this US and you expect them to pay 250 months just for medical insurance that they might not even use for years.
I have medical insurance and it cost me way more than 250 per month for my family. Thanks that my company pays some of it but I still pay more than 250 out of pocket.

So your friend endured toothache and decay and waited until he could afford cheap ticket during off season
then came down to naija and risk his health with a sub standard facility to have his teeth removed.

He could have done it with the abokis living in sabo since he care less about risk of infection and endocarditis complications. They cost way less.

And since cost is the issue for him, next time tell him to travel to Mexico for most elective procedure, they are much cheaper and safer since they have a reputation to protect.
Travelling to naija all the way from usa for tooth extraction makes no sense.
Some of my patients in Canada go to Mexico for elective procedures if they can't wait any longer for their elective procedure dates.
So no big deal.

SIRTee15:
So your friend endured toothache and decay and waited until he could afford cheap ticket during off season
then came down to naija and risk his health with a sub standard facility to have his teeth removed.

He could have done it with the abokis living in sabo since he care less about risk of infection and endocarditis complications. They cost way less.

And since cost is the issue for him, next time tell him to travel to Mexico for most elective procedure, they are much cheaper and safer since they have a reputation to protect.
Travelling to naija all the way from usa for tooth extraction makes no sense.
Some of my patients in Canada go to Mexico for elective procedures if they can't wait any longer for their elective procedure dates.
So no big deal.

Keep grasping on straws. I can see that you have reading comprehension issues.
He went to Nigeria for other things but used the opportunity to get the dental work done.

I flew to Istanbul to get my dental work done and while there, I was surprised by the number for people from Europe and the US coming to Turkey for dental procedures.
When I decided to get my dental work done in Tirkey, my dentist tried to scare me about bad jobs and possibilities of infection. 4 years later, I'm still referring others to them for the job well done.
Good night.

Dora Akunyili lives on!

Unfortunately, she seemed to believe in the greater glory of the US where she was either a citizen or PR holder than Nigeria where she held a minister and nafdac chairmanship role, same as the current Prof Adeyeye, the quota system chairman & benchwarmer.

bigpicture001:
Wrong diagnosis from the UK hospital countering diagnosis by UNTH hospital in Enugu killed Dora AKunyinli

Why should anyone do a tooth extraction when they can do a root canal therapy and have their dental aesthetics and beauty preserved?

SIRTee15:
So your friend don't have 250 dollars per month for health insurance but can blow over 5000 dollars flight ticket just to fix his teeth in naija.
If he has health insurance, he will see his dentist within a week.

And most standard hospital that will give him satisfactory service in naija are private and don't come cheap. For dental extraction he may be paying upward a million naira, which is rightly 1 thousand dollars.
CS in Reddington is 5-10 million and kidney transplant is over 20 million.
So what exactly is the penny wise, pound foolish trip your friend embarked on.

I had this conversation last year December with a friend in Uk she said that the doctors there us chat got to attend to patients that she has experi it 4 times that she now doesn’t even bother to visit them except she needs a prescription’ Omo true me it’s well

spiceadole:
I understand this calculation but my life is still better in the UK than what it was in Nigeria.
I am a medical doctor in the UK

An essential professional like you
will always have a better life in UK than
Nigeria.

Your services are in high demand and
you are well paid & get extra income from
added hours of work, unlike in Nigeria
where doctors are basic maltreated,
grossly undervalued and underpaid.

But for the average japa people that simply
take off to go hustle at any available job,
the wahala is real as bills keep you on
permanent high jump.

The major consolation in the relatively
affordable cost of foodstuff👍

OredoPikin2:
Una too dey lie
Nawa oo

What do I gain if am lying. This happened four month ago.

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.

Many of them na fake certificate

Love800:
Atleast good health care will be administered to you with the delay.
Naija doctors might diagnosed you wrongly.

I see profits of my hustle with the neck pain+high bills.
An average nigga back home is being exploited from communities, councils, lawmakers, law enforcers and the civil service.

How did mama nafdac died? She was diagnosed here in Nigeria that she has cancer, she went abroad for treatment and the foreign hospital said she was misdiagnosed here in Nigeria. Years later she died and it was the hospital abroad that was wrong.

Well, our experiences differ. This same NHS saved my baby and my wife from a near natal fatality. Everything turned emergency during delivery, all of a sudden. As I pressed the emergency buzzer, less than a minute, her room was filled with two consultants and midwives on duty. Before she could get to the theatre, everything was cleared up and set, baby was delivered. Baby was in crisis, not breathing, not responding. At that point stood the paediatric team, headed by a Nigerian doctor and some midwives. My baby was moved to ICU immediately, placed on oxygen till saturation level stabilised. She was revived. The interesting thing is at this time, they were explaining every step to me, detail by detail. Also, amazingly, delivery took just 35-40 mins, with emergency C-section. The had a team of 3 consultants and Paediatric team on standby . The most interesting of all is they everything was free of charge, covered by our Health Insurance and the followed up till mom and daughter fully recovered and we went home in 3 days. The system works. There may be bottlenecks of delay but when the chips are down, it’s handled efficiently and professionally

I understand your plight. That was your impression of the UK . UK is still better than Nigeria in all ramifications. If you don't believe, go back to Nigeria. There is no country without their culture of life , UK is not exceptional. Some of us that were here in the last 25yrs has different opinions from your own. My advice is whoever that wants to come to the UK needs to take it easy when they arrive here. Secondly, our people wants to make the money they spent before coming here within a year that is not possible. As a result of that they started working all round the clocks. Tell me how you are not going to collapse at work when you work 72hrs in a week non stop. Kira kita o dola . This life has no duplicates. The way we work in Nigeria is different from the way UK system runs. Real hard work is here but not in Nigeria. That was the reason why some Nigerian are payin here. Again, some Nigerian are having underlying health issues before they came down here but not aware of it.

casualobserver:
what many of you dont realise is many of them are trapped there. many sold everything they had here to japa and while most want to come back, they cant. they have no savings or assets to sell to finance the return home. plus there is the shame of coming back empty.

imagine selling your house, car etc, sometimes the cost of your relocating cost you tens of thousands of pounds.....you said Nigeria was hard but somehow you managed to find that money in Nigeria. You get to London and you find out its not what was sold to you but the worst thing is you are living from hand to mouth and you dont have the means to raise the funds to return home.

thats why they dont come back despite the misery.

you probably need a salary of about £70k to be comfortable and able to save £10k a year with discipline. The typical jobs available to 95% of Nigerian japas pay roughly 1/3rd of that. They are minimum wage jobs that leave you with nothing at the end of the month. The reason those jobs are available is because a citizen on welfare can earn the same by not working and without the stress associated with such jobs. A citizen would rather stay at home than work for that money but you hear 'big" numbers like £25k p.a and you think the citizens are fools for rejecting those jobs? It's not about how much you earn but how much is left. At £25kp.a, after rent, council tax,gas, electricity, travel card, food, etc you would have done well if you are not owing someone talk less having anything left.

Hold

Is the 25k after tax

How.many percent of immigrants are earning this low

I know it should be 3k pounds per month but this 25k is below 3k pounds per month

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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That's the NHS for you. It is government funded and thus always congested. Compare it to our general and teaching hospitals here in Nigeria. You cannot compare an NHS in the UK to private hospital in Nigeria which you pay for out-of-pocket or use HMO (which you're paying for indirectly). When you come to government hospitals here,you'll understand that the NHS is cool

Lol….. u give am uppercut….

E nor go answer…

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pneumaticos:
Hold

Is the 25k after tax

How.many percent of immigrants are earning this low

I know it should be 3k pounds per month but this 25k is below 3k pounds per month

1) your salary for minimum wage work (care workers, warehouse etc) is between £20-30K a year before tax

2) 90-95%

3) the only way to increase your wages is to increase the number of hours you work. However, the Uk is not like Nigeria where they pay you and you sit down idle. They will get every single £ out of you and your body and mental health will feel it plus there is only a certain number of hours you can do in a week. you probably need to work 6 days a week 12 hrs a day to make £35K before tax and you will definitely burn out.

You can still go to a private hospital and you will receive prompt attention.

So what are you talking about!

lilyheaven:
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

Vision101:
Relocation of any type is not an easy decision. He didn't tell anyone not to go.

His opinion,if wrong or misleading can alter the descisons of others especially if he was unlucky (this traveling stuff comes with per head luck),he doesn’t have to tell anyone not to go.

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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.

Even with bleeding, you will not get good emergency care in Nigeria...