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Mindlog:
He deserves the sacking.

Was he expecting to be covered up with his repeated sleeping on duty?

You work at night, be disciplined enough to sleep during the day. I also worked as a waking night support worker in a children home, resuming at 8p.m and ending at 8a.m. The second staff was paid to sleep in the home from 8p.m to 8a.m, only woken up if there is an emergency. If I had dozed off because it was night and no one would know, then the young person sneaks out of the house and ends up harmed...it will be over for me.

I slept during day, then from 10p.m when the young person has slept off, I worked on my laptop or watched NETFLIX in the lounge as the hours rolled by.

It is very risky covering up another staff who was sleeping while on shift with you...when incident happen, you go explain tire.

Are you minding the nincompoops who are supporting the laggard? With night shifts, you're meant to sleep well at home during the day, before coming to work at night. For that colleague to have captured evidences and report the worker, it's likely that he might have received warnings in the past about the sleeping habit and he probably brushed them off.

I've come to realise how extremely backwards our sense of reasoning is when it comes to progressive thinking, that I no longer bother with issues concerning Nigeria and Nigerians anymore. We are the architects of our failures. Politically and socioeconomically. Coming to NL these days just makes me sad and depressed, with the kinds of topics seen on the FP.

Honestly if you've relocated and wish to make progress abroad, avoid Nigerian mentalities for your own good. Even in business, you're most likely to be helped by a British local than by a Nigerian (emphasis on most likely). The locals would very willingly give out a used (almost-new) property for free, but that can never happen with a Nigerian.

Stories and experiences abound that I do not have the strength to type here, but honestly, at the risk of sounding haughty (which I'm not), I'd prefer to do business with a local than with a Nigerian. Even the British run their scams (don't get me wrong), but with Nigerians, the risk of being disappointed is much higher. Sad to say.

WriterNig:
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@Jim Ferguson UK tweeted;


Hindustan Times || Free Press Journal


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIaXCBNpqwU?si=qj_u8fRyuAdBLDi_

Trudeau is currently embroiled in a diplomatic row with the Indian PM Modi due to allegations from Trudeau, that India sanctioned the assassination of a high-profile Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

My first reaction to this news is that it's probably a smear campaign.

Was Trudeau truly holed up in his room for two days?

ImoleNaija:
Long Live The ECOWAS President!

Jagaban, oko iya awon haters .




As ECOWAS President, do you now expect Tinubu to fold his arms when there are pressing issues?


You must be taking ECOWAS for Nigeria. Other members of the union also have stakes in this.

LOL.

That promise about 50 million youths being drafted into the army and fed agbado and corn is fast becoming a reality.

I'll be watching you at the frontline bro.

Good job! 👍

Zahra29:
While I agree with the majority of your comments, I would caution against statements like the bolded which can lead to unrealistic expectations.

£2300 is approx £28,000 pa gross. A recent immigrant without experience or the requisite qualifications will struggle to obtain this level of pay, especially in the north where costs of living may be lower, but so also is the average wage. If they worked a lot of overtime shifts per week, it might be possible, but not as a starting basic salary.

I apologize if my statement may have created such a situation.

By zero experience, I meant HCA roles for which many homes recruit people with no experience on 48 hrs/week contract. Minimum wage is £10.42/hr or 26,000/annum based on that contract. And this is if the person didn't pick a single OT shift for the whole year. With OT, it's definitely in the 2,300 range and much more than that.

TheUnsure:
Through work visa

Perfect.

It might be a good idea to consider going first, settling down and finishing arrangements before bringing the kids on Work Visa - Dependent Child.

P.S. It is much easier to live in the UK as couples than as single parents.

TheUnsure:
A single mum in this case...Kids are 7 and 10. They are not so little but also not old enough you stay at home unattended...

Is it on a work or study visa if you don't mind me asking please?

TheUnsure:
A single mum in this case...Kids are 7 and 10. They are not so little but also not old enough you stay at home unattended...

Would be quite difficult honestly. What would happen if mum needs to work night shifts?

People here tend to mind their own business but they take childcare very seriously. If your neighbour happens to suspect that the kids are being left alone, don't be surprised when the neighbour reports the matter to the county council and then Welfare Services will just come and knock on the door one day. They take kids away from the parent if there is reason to suspect that there is insufficient support at home to take care of the kids.

During the day, who will bring them back from school, take them home and feed them? Can you do all that within 1 hour of your break time?

I'm sorry I don't want it to sound like I'm advising you, but if I were to chip in, I could suggest maybe having the kids stay with a grandparent or someone who can care for them for about 4 - 5 months, travel alone first, settle down, get the job and start earning, rent a house good enough for the kids and see what arrangements can be made for them when they arrive.

It's much easier to raise N1m post-expense savings in the UK than in Nigeria. So you'll actually be in a better position to plan and take care of everyone while they are still in Nigeria, than if the whole squad landed at once.

DesireFarms:
Ur Sarcasm is irrelevant. This is an open forum and you need to be open to learn new things. Some people earn more than 600£ a day. Though most of the job are contracted and might jst last for few months or weeks, But it’s very possible. Don’t just sit down in the Corner of your room and think everybody is earning the bare minimum . Even people earning minimum wages are doing fine,I’m still part of the minimum wage crew. Relocated with student visa with 2kids now on Tier 2 and I’m doing relatively fine. Relocating to the Uk should be a personal conviction. If you believe you need it. Do it and don’t look back. It might /always be tough/rough at the beginning but with time,You can/may have achieved what you haven’t achieved in Nigeria for years. UK is not a Bed of Roses ,but the system works, to make life easier for you ,always try and upgrade and acquire relevant skills and you don’t need to know anybody here to get a job unlike the other side,Just have the right skills.
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Don’t mind that individual. You’re right. I know people who get paid 1million pounds per day in the UK working just 2hrs in a warehouse

My dear. Ignore those you can ignore.

I still cannot comprehend trying to compare living in Nigeria with the UK.

I'll give just one example:

Yesterday I saw the video of the small plane that crashed on a busy road in Lagos and then another video of some non-uniformed young men, supposedly pulling out pieces of the plane from the ground, while a crowd was gathered around them filming the whole thing.

Now tell me, if there should be an investigation to inspect the wreckage and find out reasons for the crash, how the heck will that be possible, when unknown elements have absolutely destroyed the evidence? There was absolutely no form of police presence or any security agency on ground to cordon off the area and preserve the wreckage. At the end of the day all I read from comments being posted were "chai, hope nobody died?". That right there is one of the evil mentality and systems in place that made me happy about leaving Nigeria.

That complete lack of organisation, failed systems, corruption (I'm not saying that the UK is blameless), abuse of power, poverty and seeming helplessness by the people. It's just too much.

TheUnsure:
I guess relocating as a single-income household is not the best idea…

Definitely a very bad idea.

There will always be jobs available for both parents. Jobs that can pay them each at least £1,800 - £2,300 per month after tax, without any working experience. After settling in, they can eventually expand contacts/network and search for better paying jobs.

The biggest challenge is managing childcare, if there are kids that are still quite young.

Dotherightthing:
You've buttressed my point already

The fact that you can't return home to enjoy the fruit of your labour shows you are slaving for people back home. So what is your gain

Also, how does someone earn 340pounds per day in UK How many hours do you work How much are you paid per hour
Make una lie small small nah

Back here, not everywhere is like Lagos.

Where I am power is 24 hours except there is a fault. Some people have access to potable water which they don't even pay for. Everywhere is calm. We thank God.

We're already enjoying the fruits of our labour here and I don't understand what you mean by "returning home to enjoy the fruits of our labour". The fact that I'm contemplating returning back to Nigeria when I retire is more of a "returning back to my roots" reason and not to go home and "enjoy". I'm already "enjoying" here bro.

Another crazy thing I discovered here is that vacations to places like Paris has become as easy as just taking a Eurostar train (if we don't feel like flying) and we could do that 3 times a year if we chose.

I will never advise any Nigerian not to come over here because the change in your circumstances if you do would be destiny-changing, as long as you're willing and able to work and believe me there are too much jobs available in the health and care. But plan the relocation wisely.

This your constant rant about the pay being a lie is understandable because I assume you must be converting it to naira and concluding that it is impossible for someone to earn the equivalent of N350,000 per shift after tax. Hate to break it to you, but some agencies would pay more than double that amount on public holidays.

I won't reply your posts anymore.

I don try biko.

Dotherightthing:
Japa is actually for people not doing well in Nigeria
So it's good for your wife.
All the same, is your wife coming back to enjoy the fruit of her labour in Nigeria? Very unlikely.
It's more like slaving for people back home.

Yeah I understand your viewpoint and believe me, that is one thoughtful consideration I've decided to reserve for the future. I look forward to retiring and spending my grey years in Nigeria, which is why we're gradually building nest eggs here and there, but the more I get used to the modest way of life here as contrasted with the loud/aggressive way of life at home, I do get doubts about whether I can really live in Nigeria when I grow old.

When I mentioned my wife's case I only listed that as one of some examples of the drastic change in circumstances that has occurred in our lives since we moved to the UK.

I do beg your pardon if I come off as sounding like a brag which honestly is not my intention but rather an attempt to convey to you the peace of mind that we feel since we moved vis a viz the constant assurance of power supply, clean water supply (we don't even put water in the fridge but drink cold water directly from the kitchen tap at home. It blew my mind that such level of water cleanliness could be maintained all the way from the water purification plants, through the mains and to all the homes). With regards to home security, fences are mostly about 4 feet tall, with shrubbery for privacy. I've never locked our gate before and so many times we've forgotten to lock our front door and go to bed at night, without any fear of a break-in. Most of the people I interact with are always courteous, are not loud and people tend to follow rules for the most part in their daily activities. It is not all rosy though, because there are some inefficiencies you may encounter but it is definitely not something you can compare to what you'd experience in Nigeria.

Prior to travelling I'd always considered the US or Canada, because of the stories we used to hear about the UK and it's notorious taxes. Well, we came in and by God's grace we've both been working, earning, paying our bills and saving enough to send home.

If I could drop some pieces of advice about relocating to the UK, avoid London if your combined household income is going to be less than £90,000 per annum. The city is designed to only be affordable to live in by the wealthy. It is also severely overpopulated which has led to increasing gang-related activity and crime rates.

I will advise that if you ever see the opportunity to come to the UK from Nigeria, grab it with all four limbs. If it's through a work visa route, that's all the more icing on the cake. Coming via the study route with a large family at once, is definitely going to create difficult circumstances in trying to settle down.

P.S: To others who say it is not possible to save additional N12.5m within a year:

NHS Band 5 Nurse salary per month after tax: £1,760 - £1,960 for working 3 days a week.
After picking agency shifts elsewhere:
£340 per day or £3,060 per month after tax (2 nights a week, 9 shifts a month)

God so kind, a couple can earn as much as £7,500 a month after tax, be modest and keep their monthly expenses under £2,000.

You really do not have to live in London to claim that you're residing in the UK. It will just drain your lifeblood and make you forget your reason for leaving Nigeria in the first place.

Cheers.

ariesbull:
stories....12.5 m a year

Liel

K

Dotherightthing:
Japa crew will NEVER learn!

The best you will get from relocating abroad is change of location.

After years of trying to settle down, you return to almost the exact routine you had back in Nigeria - maybe even stricter.

Different strokes for different folks.

I'm running my personal projects, while my wife paid N12.5m of her own funds to buy land back in Nigeria, within a year of moving abroad. While she was in Nigeria, her employer was paying her N45,000 per month and doing guy on top.

What worked for Adam might not work for Adamu.

IbeOkehie:
USA, UK, Australia, Ireland...Seychelles, Singapore, Botswana, Kenya, Canada...anywhere but NOT in the official Poverty Capital of the WORLD.

Kk. Thought you were talking about a business.

IbeOkehie:
Invest nothing into Nigeria UNTIL the naira is completely floated and the Land Use Act is repealed to grant property rights to the people. That’s a minimum and it's not a drastic requirement.

There's more secure places to invest and get better returns with less worries.

A word is good enough for reasonable persons. Look at the level of FDI into Nigeria and take your cues.

In fact it's advisable for Nigerians to continuously convert their holdings to dollars and pounds sterling and move it beyond the reach of Nigerian government. All your top government officials and politicians do exactly that so why would you do otherwise...they know what's going on.

Good Luck to Nigeria.

Hi.

Like where?

techbroX:
Well, it seems more like abuse than beating cos he was reported to have beaten his kid with a "metal stick."

At the same time, the mother and the child should be ready to take care of themselves without the husband because that man may not forget that incarceration... It's not gonna be easy to reconcile after 3 years in prison.

The woman wanted the man out.

That's why she kept on bringing evidences (the kid's injuries at the hospital, the text message from the husband, etc) that she knew would implicate the man and put him in serious trouble. She's probably targeting child support payments from the government.

You'll be shocked at the number of marriages that have dissolved because of benefits payments from the government.

Jennyclay:
Biko, Someone should come and take me to U.k, honestly I won’t end the relationship/marriage

Unapologetic feminist like you?

Akorkor:
The quote you got is not wrong. Although it could be better. I paid £970 for insurance on my first car in the Uk using my Nigeria drivers license. Same 2010, automatic . As people advised, use compare website

£970! Wow.

It's possible that a UK license would charge a lower premium.

koonbey:
You can simulate the results of using a provisional license by just entering that that's what you hold.

I know some insurance companies require you to enter the number but some others don't, if I recall correctly. You can also try some of those insurance marketplaces.

Enter your details and say you have provisional license, then note the figures. Open a private tab and enter your details saying you have a foreign license, then compare.

Yeah. I tried that earlier and the site asked me to input the license number.

Dear ancestors in the house,

Good day.

I want to apply for car insurance and would like to know which is more cost-effective: whether to buy the insurance with my International driving permit or to first apply for a UK provisional license.

For the preliminary insurance searches, I was seeing annual cost of £700 for a 2010 1.5L engine SUV (insurance group 17E, married, 30-40yrs). Seems quite high to me. Correct me if I'm wrong please.

Tenks.

What would the Dakolos say? 🤔

tshoboy:
Paki is a racist/derogatory word. Avoid using it!

Sorry sir

Chreze:
Just saw this now. Believe you must have found way in. For future and as record for others:

There is something done with a drill to successfully unlock a door. All you need to do is get the lock back and I believe that’s less than £10 to get the new lock with keys. I would have written the process for the drill here, but for security reasons can’t/won’t.

Any unlock situation, ask your neighbors for drill, 80% sure they will have one as DIY is a human in every home in UK. You might be lucky that the owner of the drill knows how to use it for locks and help you do it since he/she knows you live in the house.

A general option is put a spare key under the flower vase in the garden or in your gas heater box outside your home.

Pele. Those blacksmith Abi goldsmith (one of the smith sha) de charge £170 to cut and replace key. UK fit kill person.

Lessons learnt o. It will NEVER happen again.

I searched on YT on how to open the door, came across Macgyver technique, but still didn't work. I eventually got (gold)locksmith to come and open the door. Wasn't funny at all.

Thanks for your ideas.

dupyshoo:
What about your neighbours? They might be able to help.

Pakis that make me feel as if I'm neighbours with Bin Laden.

They pretended as if they were not around.

Lexusgs430:
Do you have a spare key, anywhere?

If you're renting, your LL or EA would have a spare key......

EA said I should come to their office 20 miles away to pick up the spare key. When I told them I'm barefoot and not properly dressed o.

@Lexusgs470 I've just locked myself outside the house and na only me dey house. Barefoot and no jacket.

I'm stuck in the foyer. Have tried sliding a card through the gap. No hope. Ahdondie!??

I don't want to start calling locksmiths now to charge me on top jam lock. Any advice anyone please ?🥺

handsomeyinka:
Holiness..
Kindly understand the fact that most people on this forum are holier than you.

We know jesus is coming soon.
We know we are in the last days.
We know the world is evolving..

Please i take God beg you...Grow some sense.

Or better still...visit yaba..The left side.

If only you knew the true situation of things in the US and UK currently.

koonbey:
Absolutely not worth it.

People seem to be obsessing too much on this credit building thing without realising that those scores are merely approximations that don't really matter when you're applying for stuff. No lender approves you based on your score at Credit Karma or wherever - they have their own algorithms that factor all the different elements of your credit history, and they don't share that with anyone, not even the credit rating websites.

The fundamentals are time and consistency in clearing your debts. And there's no need to rush it. Using that 10 per month for a phone contract will be a much better investment. Pay your cards down, pay your bills on time, register to vote, and give it time.

Unless you're rushing to get a credit card with a huge limit, in which case you're probably setting yourself up for trouble.

My dear, the credit line availed in credit cards isn't even my target. I was working under the impression that credit facilities such as approval for purchases by installment payments, etc were determined by those factors you mentioned, in addition to the high value of your credit score.

My priority is building a good enough credit history for mortgage application in the near future. I'll just have to settle with the slow and steady process of reporting my timely bills/contract payments.

Thanks for your input.

NevaUgivup:
I agree with you that Loqbox were being shady with the £2.50 weekly charge. That's a lot of money and they were not open about it.

If you want to downgrade your membership:
Log in and go to the ‘Account’ section
Click Membership, Manage my Membership, Choose a different Membership plan, select
Loqbox Lite and continue.

You'll be refunded your £5

Thank you so much.

Done. 🙏

Ireportlive:




3rd position, even with IREV, BVAS, ... No Governor in 36 states

These monkeys are ridiculous

Obi with three letter words in his name came 3rd

Obi a third class Philosophy graduate came third

.

You call yourself a journalist right?

bigtt76:
Well ...how else do you build your credit history when no one is ready to give you a credit card? This is more like a stop-gap approach to it. Besides they also report your rent paid as part of the package and at the end of it all, you get back your savings.

I used your referral link to sign-up to CreditLadder to be reporting my rent payments and I am not being charged a dime for that service.

£120 a year as extra charge to hold my deposit just to build my credit by Loqbox, in my personal opinion is too high a price to pay. I don't know about others in a similar position.

And that charge was being deducted without pre-information, my permission or consent.

NevaUgivup:
You can opt for the basic plan with Loqbox and it is free.
If you joined Loqbox recently and have been charged £2.50 you can downgrade to the free service and your £2.50 will be refunded

I deliberately signed up only for the Basic membership ab initio, so you can imagine my surprise when I started seeing the weekly membership charges to my account.

I have written to them to reverse the charges and revert me back to the Basic membership that I signed up for. Currently awaiting their response.

Thanks. 🙏



P.S. Not directed at anyone in particular, but an observation I made over the past few months that I've spent in this country.

There are a lot of business practices that go on here, which even in Nigeria, would be considered very shady and fraudulent.

I noticed that some businesses here would bombard and try to coerce you into taking up their service without giving you full disclosure of what to expect in terms of your payments to make or the quality of service to expect.
Their primary objective is to have you sign-up and provide your card details. After you've committed in good faith, signed up and provided your card details, you'll just start seeing debits to your account that you never expected.

Apart from this recent Loqbox experience, another case in point being one tuition provider which I'll prefer not to name now. I saw their catchy advert promoting their services as a learning provider for various professional qualifications among which they listed some IT and Project Management qualifications. I needed more details but couldn't find what I was looking for on their website. For my enquiries I was instead directed to fill a form for them to call me back.

I filled the form and was contacted by one of their marketing personnel.

TLDR: After his marketing pitch, I told him that I wanted a one-on-one coaching for PRINCE2 which he assured me would be provided and the next was him asking me to sign up. I asked about the cost involved which was exorbitant in my opinion but when I considered the one-on-one coaching I felt it would be worthwhile. My payment was to be made in 12 installments and after I'd made the first payment, they sent me login details and someone else called me to give me orientation on the program. To say that I was disappointed was an understatement. There was no one-to-one coaching, they lied about their 24/7 availability, the final breakdown of my total payments to be made was higher that what I'd been told initially and the program was basically video lectures in a format that was similar in structure to the one I had already purchased from Udemy for about N6,000. These people meanwhile were planning to charge me approximately £2,600! The person who did the orientation kept on emphasizing on me downloading the resource materials and going through the videos.

I just patiently waited for him to finish and concluded the call with him before going to re-read their T&C's with regards to refunds. If I had downloaded their material or watched a certain length of their video, I would not have been eligible to obtain a refund of my initial payment. I wrote and eventually got refunded for the £240 they had charged to my account and bid them bye bye.

My grouse with all these shenanigans is that they would promise heaven and earth when selling something and would hide material information from you pertaining to payments, until you've committed and made first payments.

Thank God for their FCA and working systems that protect consumers. A lot more worse things would have been going on. Later they'll say Nigerians are corrupt.

Sorry that I wrote too much please. Just wanted to get it off my chest.