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Geetrix:
u hate laughing cow cheese too? cheese spread...Marmite nko?

I avoid anything that has cheese.
When I order pizza, I always ask for 'no cheese'
Don't think I've had marmite yet.

Geetrix:
Had mine with bacon, egg, cheese and jam. Its alright.
But right now, Tesco hash browns is still my top breakfast. Anybody tried the garlic flat bread... You have to bake for a few minutes b4 eating sha. And there's another you bake too that looks like the brioche.... This brioche na just poff poff

Garlic bread...urgh!!
Cheese...urgh!!!

I still hate them and avoid them.

fatima04:
Pls house suggestion on where to get sweet bread like naija been trying some but not getting na salty bread I dey get.

And also why is everything quoted or made with bacon or pork now?? You see sth looking attractive, u buy and den discover u can't eat

I buy 'agege bread' from a Nigerian food shop in Glasgow. The bread is made in London.

But usually, the best sliced bread I buy weekly is from M&S Food. It's called 'Brioche Loaf'. I love that bread!! It's so delicious and not salty or bland like every other british bread.

Nchabuomo:
For those in Scotland
NIGERIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER VISIT TO GLASGOW

The Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom will be visiting Scotland on Saturday at 12pm on the 24 March 2018 for a Town hall meeting with all Nigerians living in Scotland.

Venue: Media House, 72 Hydepark Street, Glasgow, G3 8BW. For more information email:info@nigeriancommunityscotland.org

I hope I can make it this time.

View outside my flat this morning.

sutelk:
Ya, I saw that post, in fact I read every full stop and comma in that post cos that was what I suspected initially.
However, my profession happens to be on the shortage occupations list so I doubt if that's the real issue, something in their reply to my mail gives me the impression they haven't even started applying for the COS.
Let's assume there are no COS issues, how long does it normally take to process an offer of employment on the average?

Well, it would depend on the company's internal bureaucracy.
Also, they may need to apply for a CoS from the govt, and I've no idea how long that takes.

sutelk:
Make una leave wife matter. At least Nigeria de export something. I advice you to patronize made in Nigeria goods/wives cos me I no fit shout.
In other news, To the glory of God, I got a conditional offer of employment January 31st. The conditions were routine stuff like referees, Health declaration and stuff like that which I met within 3 days of the offer.
But them getting back to me on the next step is taking forever. Fear even catch me so tay I had to mail them on Monday to be sure the offer of employment was still on. They replied me yesterday assured me there was no problem but they were working on some things which they didn't state.
I spoke with a colleague in the UK and he advised me to prepare myself for July
My question is what was your experience, does it really take that long to between the initial offer and finally landing in the UK?
Cos the thought of staying in naija till July is making afraid catch me.

I shared a post 2 days ago on new developments in Tier 2 visa, that MIGHT impacting your case. You should read this https://www.nairaland.com/4158866/living-uk-life-uk-immigrant/7#65192287

Geetrix:
That mumu button go scarce oh....Personally, i think British people are very proud and i don't mean that in a bad way. It's just the way eg....SW looks down on hausas as illiterates! In my experience, i think, Brits generally have a superiority complex, so will probably need to be a big time person to attract or impress a Brit...Very handsome, great personality or be a footballer rich! or celebrity...Otherwise, maybe you are the one who will be the mumu and profess your undying love, probably because of visa and end up being the 'Houseboy". I think, other Europeans, except for Germans and maybe French, are less proud and more likely to date you or fall in love easily, Indian or Pakistani....those ones will not even look at you, as their family will easily frown on you as a black person. The family usually arrange marriages, no matter how much they might like or love you.

But, what do i know, i've only been here 1 year! I had a 1 night with a 37yr old Romanian divorcee and i think she felt she was doing me a favour. I wasn't into it, she was just disturbing me and i was trying to be polite! And the blacks i try to hook up with on Tinder and other dating websites are extremely proud, even more so than whites.

So, if you no fine, no money, and not a celeb. You might save yourself headache and get a wife in Nigeria who will love you like Superman for bringing her out of Africa

GBAM GBAM GBAMMEST!!!

Barcelona win.
At least 3 goals scored.

If you're with a Tier 2 work visa or interested, you need to read this. Wahala dey o.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/18/uk-hits-skilled-worker-visa-cap-third-month-home-office-refuses-applications



Britain has hit its cap on visas for skilled non-European workers for an unprecedented third month in a row, deepening the staffing crisis facing the NHS and other key employers.

When the monthly quota was reached in December and January for the first time in seven years immigration lawyers had expected it would prove to be a blip, but they now fear it is turning into a long-term problem.

More than a third of the tier-2 work visas issued by the Home Office go to medical and other staff recruited to work in the NHS. Migration experts expect that among the first group to be turned away will be doctors and other healthcare staff, software developers and scientists.

The next set of quarterly immigration figures will be published on Thursday. They are expected to show increasing evidence of a “Brexodus” over the past year, with an accelerating decline in the numbers of EU nationals coming to work in Britain while increasing numbers return home.

The Home Office sent out hundreds of emails to UK employers and businesses last week telling them that their applications for the certificates of sponsorship required to recruit mostly highly skilled workers from outside the EU had been refused because they did not meet the minimum points score set for the February quota.

The cap on skilled worker numbers operates on an annual quota of 20,700 with a fixed number of spaces available each month. Until last December the monthly quota had only been exceeded in one month since the cap was introduced by Theresa May as home secretary in 2011.

The Home Office confirmed that the minimum salary for a job to qualify for a skilled work visa was normally £30,000, or £20,800 for a graduate recruit. However, in December it was set at £55,000 and in January tier-2 visa applications for jobs paying less than £46,000 a year were refused unless they were PhD-level roles or were for jobs on the official shortage occupation lists.

The points-based immigration system prioritises applicants according to their advertised salary, with the minimum annual pay changing according to the number of applicants above the quota and their points rating. This hits the NHS particularly hard.

Nichola Carter, an immigration specialist at Carter Thomas solicitors, said: “From the information I’m receiving it is starting to look like the threshold for rejection in February could be around the £50k mark. Initially it was thought that December and January were just blips. Now it’s starting to feel like this could be a long-term issue.”

She said employers were increasingly seeking to sponsor skilled workers because they needed certainty in their recruitment plans.

“The government has to step in now and either change the points or the criteria or create exemptions. Calls for NHS workers to be removed have already been made.”

Carter added that she had seen two applications refused for clients last week: a software developer and a designer for a bespoke luxury goods manufacturer.

All jobs offered to skilled workers from outside the EU that are not on the official shortage occupation lists have to be advertised in Britain first for a set period unless the salary will be at least £159,600.

“I know of employers who are now willing to pay £65,000 for a job they were previously offering a salary of £35,000 for just to make sure they get a visa in the next round of allocations,” Carter added.

The immigration law firm Fragomen confirmed that the cap had been reached for the third time. “Since the quota has been exceeded three times consecutively it is highly likely to be exceeded again next month due to the volume of reapplications. Applicants can reapply next month provided the job advertisement is still valid. There is no right of appeal following refusal.”

Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of NHS Employers, has pressed the Home Office to exempt medical staff from the quota, saying NHS organisations were “increasingly concerned at their inability to obtain permits for essential medical colleagues”.

More than a third of tier-2 work visas issued by the Home Office go to medical and other staff recruited by the NHS.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “It is important that our immigration system works in the national interest, ensuring that employers look first to the UK resident labour market before recruiting from overseas.

“The tier 2 visa route is intended to fill gaps in the labour market. When demand exceeds the month’s allocation of tier 2 (general) visas, priority is given to applicants filling a shortage or PhD-level occupations.

“The published shortage lists include a range of medical professionals, including consultants specialising in clinical radiology and emergency medicine, and we estimate that around a third of all tier 2 places go to the NHS.

If you're with a Tier 2 work visa or interested, you need to read this. Wahala dey o.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/feb/18/uk-hits-skilled-worker-visa-cap-third-month-home-office-refuses-applications



Britain has hit its cap on visas for skilled non-European workers for an unprecedented third month in a row, deepening the staffing crisis facing the NHS and other key employers.

When the monthly quota was reached in December and January for the first time in seven years immigration lawyers had expected it would prove to be a blip, but they now fear it is turning into a long-term problem.

More than a third of the tier-2 work visas issued by the Home Office go to medical and other staff recruited to work in the NHS. Migration experts expect that among the first group to be turned away will be doctors and other healthcare staff, software developers and scientists.

The next set of quarterly immigration figures will be published on Thursday. They are expected to show increasing evidence of a “Brexodus” over the past year, with an accelerating decline in the numbers of EU nationals coming to work in Britain while increasing numbers return home.

The Home Office sent out hundreds of emails to UK employers and businesses last week telling them that their applications for the certificates of sponsorship required to recruit mostly highly skilled workers from outside the EU had been refused because they did not meet the minimum points score set for the February quota.

The cap on skilled worker numbers operates on an annual quota of 20,700 with a fixed number of spaces available each month. Until last December the monthly quota had only been exceeded in one month since the cap was introduced by Theresa May as home secretary in 2011.

The Home Office confirmed that the minimum salary for a job to qualify for a skilled work visa was normally £30,000, or £20,800 for a graduate recruit. However, in December it was set at £55,000 and in January tier-2 visa applications for jobs paying less than £46,000 a year were refused unless they were PhD-level roles or were for jobs on the official shortage occupation lists.

The points-based immigration system prioritises applicants according to their advertised salary, with the minimum annual pay changing according to the number of applicants above the quota and their points rating. This hits the NHS particularly hard.

Nichola Carter, an immigration specialist at Carter Thomas solicitors, said: “From the information I’m receiving it is starting to look like the threshold for rejection in February could be around the £50k mark. Initially it was thought that December and January were just blips. Now it’s starting to feel like this could be a long-term issue.”

She said employers were increasingly seeking to sponsor skilled workers because they needed certainty in their recruitment plans.

“The government has to step in now and either change the points or the criteria or create exemptions. Calls for NHS workers to be removed have already been made.”

Carter added that she had seen two applications refused for clients last week: a software developer and a designer for a bespoke luxury goods manufacturer.

All jobs offered to skilled workers from outside the EU that are not on the official shortage occupation lists have to be advertised in Britain first for a set period unless the salary will be at least £159,600.

“I know of employers who are now willing to pay £65,000 for a job they were previously offering a salary of £35,000 for just to make sure they get a visa in the next round of allocations,” Carter added.

The immigration law firm Fragomen confirmed that the cap had been reached for the third time. “Since the quota has been exceeded three times consecutively it is highly likely to be exceeded again next month due to the volume of reapplications. Applicants can reapply next month provided the job advertisement is still valid. There is no right of appeal following refusal.”

Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of NHS Employers, has pressed the Home Office to exempt medical staff from the quota, saying NHS organisations were “increasingly concerned at their inability to obtain permits for essential medical colleagues”.

More than a third of tier-2 work visas issued by the Home Office go to medical and other staff recruited by the NHS.
A Home Office spokesperson said: “It is important that our immigration system works in the national interest, ensuring that employers look first to the UK resident labour market before recruiting from overseas.

“The tier 2 visa route is intended to fill gaps in the labour market. When demand exceeds the month’s allocation of tier 2 (general) visas, priority is given to applicants filling a shortage or PhD-level occupations.

“The published shortage lists include a range of medical professionals, including consultants specialising in clinical radiology and emergency medicine, and we estimate that around a third of all tier 2 places go to the NHS.


Also, read this too https://www.forum-expat-management.com/users/10520-fragomen/posts/30344-united-kingdom-tier-2-general-cap-reached-for-the-third-time

OlowoB:
I never knew comforter had suya, I would probably try it out.

YEs, they have chicken suya and beef suya.

Definitely not true/original suya, but it's manageable.

Mynd44:
Cool.

More opportunities not to have children you can't raise. Just pop em pills and go about your Yoruba demon life.

Imagine someone like me that wants just two kids. I will be the one on pills before someone visits a new mother or watches a documentary on TV, her ovaries start jumping and she forgets that she hasn't taken her pills in weeks

Yeah, we should organise a hangout one Friday night.

True. Though I think those are mainly microscopic, individualistic goals and purposes.

I like to think that, as a collective species, mankind's ultimate purpose is...not just to survive (like all other forms of known life) but to continue learning more until we master all forms of energy and matter.

Happy New Year, all!

I remembered this thread today and decided to drop a greeting. Cheers!!

airsaylongcon:
Y'all took the SM campaign too far

Lol. Please don't do this. Do not blame the victims, who are rightly disappointed and frustrated and WERE right to speak out on the less-than-fair treatment.

NLNG are the ones that took this recruitment exercise tooooooo long and far.

Nchabuomo, OlowoB
I've only been to Calabash twice, as I don't like the fact that it's underground. It makes me very uneasy.
Comforter for me...I go there regularly just for the suya.

Inkredible:
Can you guess the phone?
That will take like my 4 months naija salary to get this device

Red iPhone7 or OnePlus phone.

chinchum:
Even blood group can show a discrepancy. A blood group O for both mother and father should not produce offspring with A or B or AB

That's what I meant.

Troublemaker007:
His case is not behavioral disorders o, I think he is not from this planet sef but hiding in human form. Someone who punch his father mouth tear, stab his eldest brother on the chest, stab his other immediate elder brother brother 3 times, back of the neck, twice at the back and the poor boy got operated 6 times before he survived, he almost blind my wife (gf then) eye by beating her despite she is the senior twin among them. He insults his mother everyday and stays at home eating and doing nothing. If e enter my head I fit put Otapiapia for drink give am coz he is a menace to the society. Very ungrateful and demonic human being. I banned him from coming to my eyes else I will just kill him.

How TF is he still walking around as a free man? Pls tell me he's locked up somewhere!?!?

Thankfully, I'm 99.9% sure that I'm the biological son of the man and woman who raised me.
Anyone who has seen me, my father and grandfather will confirm that we all look very similar.
My grandfather's wife even calls me "Di'm"...she believes I'm his reincarnaion

This is the first time I’m visiting the family section of NL, but this is the best place to discuss this subject.

Have you ever had doubts that you’re not the true child of your parents? Or that you’re not the true parent of your child? Or that one member of your family must have been adopted because he/she looks/acts so different from the rest of the family?

Have you considered that you or your child or that family member could have been SWITCHED AT BIRTH?

Months ago, I read 2 separate incidents of children who were mistakenly switched at birth and discovered it years later. One happened in South Africa, the other happened at Bogota Colombia.

When I was a kid, I watched a movie with my family called “Switched at Birth” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_at_Birth_(film)
Today, for some reason, I remembered the film and googled it. It was based on real-life story in America.

Then I found this page and I recommend that you all read it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babies_switched_at_birth#In_reality
Full of real-life situations where it was discovered that babies had been switched at birth. Some ended happily. Some were just painful to read, like the Japanese truck driver who was 60 years old when he discovered that he was from royalty and had been switched at birth :’(


Babies switched at birth is rare, but it does happen. And the consequences can be really huge and expensive.
It can happen due to mistakes from midwives and hospital staff.
It can also be malicious. I’m sure many of us have heard at least one story of a midwife ‘stealing’ a healthy newborn baby and selling it, while lying to the parents that their baby died, or substituting another baby instead. Or the one where one of the parents connives with the midwife to replace a female baby because they want a baby boy. SMH.


I wonder how often this happens in Nigeria.
But then remember that in Nigeria, we generally are very poor at recording data, keeping records, and conducting proper investigations.


This is another good reason why DNA testing is recommended for children. It’s not always because of suspicions of cheating. But also to assist medical history.

If you’ve had such suspicions about yourself or anyone, please don’t panic! And don’t start stupidly blaming enemies or village people or witches/wizards/Satan (rme). It's also not by yelling "God/Allah forbid!" and doing prayers. It can happen to anyone. Thankfully, we live in an era where we have scientific tools to investigate these things. If you can afford to, please do DNA test to calm or confirm your suspicions.
Sometimes, you don’t even need DNA testing (which is very expensive). Blood genotype tests may be enough.

obongtunji:
I only pity the guy because the kind of curses he has received from Nigerians ladies can not be quantified.

Criis:
So, na Nigerian's emotions you dey use do skit? After men and women have torn themselves to pieces on social media already

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA LWKMD

fatima04:
I miss all my handy men in naija oo��. Because ordering furnitures and home things online can be tiring and stressful and quite an adjustment.

Reading reviews and making sure you got everything right, make den no supply 2 x 2 bed when u think u r getting a good 6 x 6

For now, I think I am sticking with Amazon for furnitures because of the delivery (suggestions welcome ooo. still shopping and weighing options)

Setting up a house with a toddler and no grandma or sister to take care of baby while u run errands isn't easy as well, abeg how do new pple do it or y'all moved in as singles ni?

I heard IKEA is really good for affordable, easy-to-setup furniture, though I've not had to use them or any other.

Inkredible:
Amen ooooooo

I took plenty pishures and I don't know if to start posting everything here as time goes or just open a thread. Sha, your call.

Let me tell you a very simple story that happened to me.

After picking my luggage up and locating my Taxi, I was wheeling it jejely to the car when all of a sudden, the breeze hit me. My dear, I ran o. I left my bags there and ran into the car. The driver just laugh, con pity me carry am go put for booth.

Una nor tell us say na like this cold get level...

LMFAO

ujugirl88:
I'm so bored here in Scotland, pls who lives around Dundee, anyone fancy an outing?

Lol. Nigerians no dey Dundee? Scottish people love to drink, so if you drink, check out the local pubs.
You could try visiting Edinburgh on a weekend. It's a nice city.
Most Nigerians in Scotland are in Glasgow sha