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Modupeoluwa123:
Good morning family.
Please I need help.
I took a bus (national coach) from London Victoria to Leeds.
I realized a family (two guys, one lady and a child) had about seven bags and unfortunately they are same with mine.
I tagged my bag appropriately with my name and tag but this family dropped off at Sheffield and when I got to Leeds, I realized my bag wasn’t in the cabin.

I’ve been at Leeds since morning because I missed my bus as a result of this.
I have a lot in my bag and food that can last me for six months because I only have money to pay my tuition with me.
I also have all my drugs in it as I’m an ulcer patient.
I have been crying since because I really don’t know how the national express will find my bag and I’m feeling sick already.
I have sent messages to all the groups I belong perhaps the family might be on the group.
What can I do please.

Uzonma:
Hi house which credit card can someone who is just six months int the UK qualify for with credit score of about 615?
Thank

TheGuyFromHR:
You might need to work a bit more on your offline networking. Referrals from random beings on the internet who do not know you in real life, irrespective of the website/platform, mightn't be easy to come by.

Strata1716:
Please if you’ve had a long layover in Doha airport, is there any where one can sleep without payment. I have a 10 hour layover and I’m thinking about where I’d sleep, please hotels are not an option because of cost.

lavida001:
Hi guys can I open Barclays bank account with just BRP and my naija passport ?

TheGuyFromHR:
The hack is simple - There are 1.2 billion Indians in India and maybe 200 million, 220 million, 250 million people in Nigeria (nobody really knows), all herdsmen from across west Africa included. So on the numbers alone, India is bound to be proportionally represented in the stats.

1stdami:
Hello everyone, is anyone aware of any Schengen country with interview dates available for September? I really need a vacation.

Godtemi:
Please guys, I wanted to book a flight using booking.com site. The currency is in USD. Can I use my naira visa or Mastercard for payment?

Or do anyone have experience of booking on booking.com site before?

MichaelUde:
Again, to clarify, it is not.
Care asssitant pay per hour and the NHS Band 3 pay per hour are not much different if both work 37.5 hours weekly.
Both parties can work as many hours as they like (in the case of the NHS worker, either in an agency or on the staff bank), to the point of exhaustion and dropping dead if na wetin dem want, so someone working in care is not better than the person in the NHS.

Goke7:
How soon is the soon? That's my point before you conclude whether am wrong or not. Most high paying jobs if we are talking about full time jobs can't be gotten by students who can't work beyond 20 hrs a week according to the law. Get your facts right before you turn on me. Let' people come out and say the truth, I gave an exception to those who got the jobs before landing in the UK. Lots of these jobs are also dependent on the kind of visa currently held and for some of these jobs some employers won't allow you start until you switch your visa to a tier 2 if they are going to sponsor. For most folks coming in on the student route including their dependents who can work full time, it may take them months before getting those choice jobs and yes some of them will include conditions of clearance tied to how long you've been in the UK which is where the UK experience ish is key. The chance we even have now is because of Brexit like you said but that it's not that all straightforward depending on the type of role and the conditions attached.

I don't intend to argue but pls when people state their view, you don't know what their experience is like before you conclude if they are right or wrong. Thank you

MichaelUde:
That is a given, and that was not what she meant.
Even back in Naija, people are looking for other ways to make money outside their salaries and have been doing so for ages, let alone in the UK. We all remember during Abacha's time when salaries were unpaid or delayed or inflation-hit and economic wahala first begin affect civil servants and many of them begin enter market for the first time or started doing other things like teachers offering lessons (or lecturers selling handouts, lol). Expanding/diversifying one's sources of income is not a new thing.

Some people in the abroad may be working lower paid jobs and running side hustles too while looking to move on up. My former boss in the bank for instance, dey Canada. He got a finserv job in a bank at a lower level than where him dey in Naija when he first got there, got himself a US visa and started the whole business of buying stuff to ship back to Naija, and all that. He has now moved up in the finserv industry, has a better paying job with a credit bureau, and in our WhatsApp group last week he was discussing the certifications he's taking, we just dey exchange opinions about which ones are best for each industry, etc. And he's still going to the US to buy ship home all manner of stuff for sale, he and I put money together for one "container" (we be Igbo men na).

Money can also be made outside employment as well. Some people hustle pass their salary by miles. A perceived lack of movement on the career level might be made up for by movement elsewhere. Some people no dey even work full-time and prefer to use their time for other things, for example. I sabi person wey dey highly invested in the property business in Enugu for example, he goes to Naija frequently (or used to), buying up land here and there and building property. And he still works in an agency here. If I remember well, he came out here in 2010 or so. Naija people go think say "this one don settle for shyte salary/job for UK", while the chap dey build himself a mini property empire back home.

Everyone is different.

Goke7:
@the bolded, this is what I was saying earlier, that you're a student means you can't even pass any security clearance for such roles now. Have you been given the job? No of course. The recruiters sending you messages does not mean you have successfully scaled the process. I have been there. We all have to work ourselves up there.

Adebayo82:
Please can somebody share with me the link to apply for American credit card, Amex.

semmyk:
Mind stating the UNILAG degree in full as it appears on the certificate or transcript. That would assist with insightful comments.
e.g Bachelor of Nursing Science (B.N.Sc), BSc Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Electrical Engineering...
PS: a 'Pass' is not awarded an Honours. Typically, 3rd class in 9ja are either (stand to be corrected on this though).
NB: in some countries and programs, honours is a distinct one year study program.

_{Inbtw, my BTech (Hons) from LAUTECH was worthy of a MSc.}

Endlessgrace:
This place has finally turned to Oyingbo market.
Here comes the millennials and Gen Z.

oluwaleokey:
I am about a week old here
Searching for menial job atleast to help me integrate in the system while I still strategies and pursue my dream kinda job
That said
I have the verge of securing two jobs but to choose one.
Sortation operative with amazon
Multi drop delivery driver

Then someone advised I leave it and a run a course on care/support/mental sth that would take three days, cost about £150... Afterwards I would get better job opportunities... Saying health care is the in-thing.

Elders abeg put mouth

TheGuyFromHR:
NHS Band 3 pay is certainly not peanuts, unless care homes have suddenly started paying what City firms pay?

It's about £22k or so (and set to go up somewhat by a few percentage points after the latest round of strikes/threats of strikes) and single people and people with joint family incomes live comfortably on such pay. Remember that whichever job you get you're most likely going to start climbing the ladder from the lower rungs and these are the pay bands you will be offered.

But you're way more likely to get sponsorship with a care home than with the NHS Band 3 role. On the other hand, virtually no such thing as "career growth" with a care home, they generally sign you up for five years to do the core work of personal care. Thereafter you can do other things, maybe, but in the NHS you'd have jumped by 2 bands in that period.

If she's comfortable with the care home, then nothing wrong with her staying and asking them for sponsorship.

OmichaelO:
Kindly guys,

When my partner and I got our visas, my wife the main applicant only got supporting document attached to her passport to show to immigration at the point of entry. , while mine didn't come with any. Everyone I've been asking said both came with supporting letters.

Is there anyone here with same issue and is this a major problem? Who can I contact, if it's an issue?

It's urgent please we're leaving in few days