₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
Well, I expected this, even if the reply looks fake.

At the end of the day, the guy went to CSU. The cold reason being...he worked for Mobil, and other top companies. Now....unless you want to sit down and tell me that Mobil did NOT CHECK THE GUY'S RECORDS...Tinubu at the very least graduated from CSU, and learned enough to work as an accountant for Mobil in the USA...not 11 Nigeria ltd (formerly Mobil Nigeria), and as far as we know, was not sacked.

It's the Buhari certificate saga again. Apparently Buhari was the only one who joined the army without a certificate because in 1961, there was a plot to make him President of Nigeria in 2015, and the shadowy group decided that the best way to do that was to make sure one young boy, from a rather obscure family should join the Army without a certificate, while everyone else from the SAME HAUSA FULANI STOCK ALL HAD THEIR CERTIFICATES....

Tinubu graduated from CSU. And he graduated as a male. Personally speaking, I don't think it makes him fit to be president...and as we know, he won't have been president if Atiku had for once been humble and allowed Obi take the PDP nomination....PDP would have literally thrashed APC at the 2023 polls, and if Kwankwaso had also been a loyal party man for once. But, Nigerian politicans.

wrong. Where dem say he work na Mobil Nigeria, not Exxon Mobil like these dimwits have been bandying, Exxon Mobil that merged in 1998.

So in short, the CBN acknowledges that figure, meaning it wasn't a farce. Therefore, all the CBN can do now is what they are doing ie. trying to water it down to bamboozle people to believe it is a normal thing for the figure to fluctuate.

Fluctuate is very different from PLUMMET. Awon oloshi. Lol

okeysoninv:
they are revoking cos that's not getting shift, don't give that guy false hope abeg.

no ooo. It appears you are mixing it up. Not getting shifts but still employed, is very different from being laid off and not employed. It is those that lose their jobs ie lost the employment that have to look for another sponsor. If you still have the sponsorship and the employment, you ain't gonna have your visa revoked cos you ain't getting shifts, na hunger and possibly homelessness go just kee you...

Equity15:
hmmmm..then that's bad. They should have gone via student route. That amount would go a long way for them. My fiance was preaching the care worker visa to me. I researched it and saw that it's not something i can do. Told her if she can do it, we can go there. I'll go as her dependant. I have a remote job that can atleast cover us( even if not fully) if she doesn't get shifts. Nigeria is getting too uncomfortable to live in. I just hope the Uk favors us.

Lastly, will the COS be revoked if you don't get shifts for a long time?

Any advise for me?

No. Your COS won't be revoked if you can't get shifts, as that is out of your control. The only option is to keep searching for another care agency that will absorb such a person as bills have to be paid. It may require moving to another location if such are hard to come by in the present location. This is what I have learnt from the true account of others here who are/have experiencing/experienced that. To your other question, to be honest Naija is some type of way right now truly, so I would refer you to the Living in UK thread for more views/advice on that. There is still quite a lot of sound and viable info being shared on that thread that can help you make a favourable decision. Since you do remote work, there likely will be regions/locations they can point out that the cost of living will be low, so your finances aren't strained and probably such locations won't have this problem with getting shifts. All the best.

Cheers!

Equity15:
exactly. Cause if she has a work visa and no job was waiting for her..why not apply to other jobs? I also think the story isnt clear

it is clear. Let me clear it up for you. When you get COS to come and do care work, your papers legally prohibit you from doing anything aside care work for the period/duration of that visa. Hope that much is clear. If they are now able to circumvent it illegally somehow, I no come know. Many people even here on Nairaland have complained about the same thing, about coming in and not getting shifts, and also still finding it hard to get another care work in their/certain locations since that is the only work they are limited to. Just do a lil digging you will see at least 10 cases of this same thing by Nairalanders

Toks2008:
Exactly my point.

I'm so sorry to say this but most Nigerians have this annoying entitlement mentality.

If you know what 5years work permit visa can do for you, "paying 10k" to get it is like a child's play compared to what you will benefit. Even if you start from cleaning for £10 an hour, you will still make enough by month end and you can build from there but these dumb Nigerians come to the UK hoping to get white collar jobs.

Many undocumented people in America and UK go into arranged marriages spending about £20k yet fail to secure residence permit and all is in the bid to be able to live and work legally.

This lady who granted this interview is stupid, dumb Nd brainless.

How i wish the home office could do their job and revoke her visa cos she is foolish not to understand that buying that visa is even a crime.

Some Nigerians are just so freaking stupid.

you are right, but still just throwing emotional tantrums. I say that cos while we know most of the Nigerians wey carry this craze for head are stupid, you people on nairaland travel section as a case study especially are feeding the craze, and you'd be a liar not to admit this.

No be this same travel section Justwise and some others were calling myself and pocohantas liar when we stated clearly and plainly most of the people in our circle aside tech, healthcare professionals ie docs, nurses, radiographers, physiotherapist etc were doing low wage jobs notably care work for like 90% of this people who largely went on student visa, not even work visa? Was it not called bad belle despite that evidently even in that living in the UK thread, the job that pops up MOST that people themselves say they do in discussions there is care? Telling the truth as it is was called bad belle. I said it to the point that even my wife that was singing the song in my ear, I sat her down and told her the reality say me I no fit leave boss level come dey do boy-boy even in USA, much less UK. Shey she go do dependant dey do the work make me go do PhD or another MSc, she no talk since then.

Did you guys like me, tell them the truth about what to expect as per jobs when coming to the UK without specialised skills?? No be to dey put lipstick on a pig una dey do instead of just saying it how it is. So of course, many will come with unrealistic expectations just as you have seen here and now vexing about. You know how many marriages are under stress right now cos bros don tire to dey do these 'jobs' and wifey isn't hearing it, and now looks at bros like he is lazy, and understandably so, cos bills have to be paid. You can't step in a river and complain of cold, when you already expect the cold. People largely have unrealistic expectations and most time you fellas even here feed it. Tell things how they are! Any small thing una go turn it to a We Vs They argument, or that the person is anti-japa! Smh

That said, like you said, many more idiots like this one will get access to a mic, notice how Nigeria is popping up on this kin news lately....and yea, this heifer is def getting her visa revoked for sure.

Also, if the experience of some others are anything to go by, of a truth there have been complaint of not many care shifts being able to go round lately. Even before this report, many people here on Nairaland have complained of the same thing, they came on HC work sponsorship (care visa) and they haven't gotten shifts at all or very few shifts, and they say their visas are for care work only, so they can't legally do any other kinda work

Bought it and used it all through my service year in Jigawa that year. Best chiller ever!

maasoap:
That's exactly my fear too. Violently protests, chaos, unrest is looming if the price of petrol is allowed to continue to soar citing market forces as the determinant

I can bet it with you ain't no protest gonna happen bro. Crime will certainly increase in epic proportion. If you can register a shakabula, pls do. I myself am in the process of getting one. These hungry men ain't gonna face their leaders for respite, na we we dem go face...

Evolutionlove:
Lol Nothing will Happen, You can Bet it with me.

They will just throw them some Rice, Beans and Garri, Perhaps they may be lucky to get some Groundnuts. Afterall everywhere will be Calm and Normalcy will return

Any other Entities who wants to be adamant and wants to disrupt the Alooting Aloota will be Gunned Down and Mauled by their Field Dogs.

I'm too tired to type because I have given up on Nigerian Negroes.

angelfrost is right, and so are you bro.

The coming days are ominous, but unfortunately like you said these hungry men ain't gonna face govt or their leaders, na still dem fellow Nigerian wey dey manage himself dem go face. Robberies and kidnapping have been on the rise over the last month again, but the bastards won't Rob or kidnap their councillor or chairman (if governor no dey attainable). Na still innocent Nigerians dem go raise hell for.

Nigerian negroes are something!

nairalanda1:
Sorry old boy, but if you are so upset about my simple comment, to the point that it angers you, it shows that you are allowing your self to be falling under my power.

Don't let this site affect you too much. Breathe, have fun, and relax.

And I still stand by what I wrote. Cry, but at the end you get hurt, I get the marks.

bye Felicia✌️

nairalanda1:
By Jupiter, I did not know I had so much power over one.

you have none. It was just crassly and crazily insensitive and almost borderline insane to say Nigerians don't want to suffer. The overwhelming majority of Nigerians were born into, live, eat, drink, sleep and wake in suffering. This has been the case for generations. Get your head out of your ass once in a while.

Of all the statements you have made here, that one is by far the most morose. Nigerians should die to please you and your theories since despite everything thus far you can still open your mouth waaaa and type that Nigerians don't want to sacrifice or suffer. Only thing Nigeria has given me as a person is a nationality, aside that nothing else.

Gerrout!

nairalanda1:
It's just a game politicans play. PDP played it, Obi played it, APC is playing it now.

The only way out of poverty for Nigeria is to remove subsides on everything, suffer some years of hardship, while the subsidy removal hopefully attracts investors that would have to build things from scratch, force millions of kids into vocational and technical education, and find ways to make using our raw materials to make goods and services for the world...in the next ten to twenty years.

Russia is a rich nation. Russia is an industrial nation. In 1929, it was worse than some African countries. Stalin then came in and introduced a crash programme on industrialization, because either they did that, or the West would crush them badly. By 1961, Russia was sending men to space...a country that some 40 years earlier was so backward.(Russian troops entering Germany in 1945 could just not understand why Germans would leave their nice country to come and invade their broke ass poor country on seeing how nice poor people's houses in Nazi Germany looked like compared to their hovels at home)

South Korea is a rich nation, and went from being broke and worse than Senegal in 1961, to ultramodern nation by 1978, because Park, their army ruler, did it the hard way. A generation worked long hours for poor pay and dirty work to build the base for the industrial paradise that South Korea is today.

Here in Nigeria we don't want to suffer. That's why when some corrupt politcan comes and promises us to lift us out of poverty, we believe, and vote for them, yes including APC. The people who believe in Biafra want biafra so that they can have more money to share among themselves, not because of any ideology. Most Nigerians believe that if we share the money, we would all have enough...at best we would get a few thousand naira for the year.

We keep not wanting to face the truth of development. Since independence, we have laboured under the delusion that we just need to share the money more 'equitably', that we are rich, that we should live like the Saudis. Meanwhile, we don't even produce up to one third of the oil the Saudis produce...yet we want to live like them.


But point the above out, you are a government supporter, you are excusing government.


IUntil this APC government, the other parties, and Nigerians wake up and face truth, we are going to remain poor...and broke. Sharing oil money. Instead of using what we have to make something for the world.


I don't wish that it would have to take a Nigerian version of Stalin to wake us up.

keep quiet with your silly rehashed rhetoric. Nigerians don't want to suffer you say. We have been enjoying since 1960 abi.

Just be spewing theoretical bullcrap, that is not based on any smidge of reality.

Abeg!

toneroforever:
So it turns out we were actually living fine pre-May 29 2015 when a bag of 50Kg rice was N8,000, fuel was N97 & dollar was N215.
But the evil & demonic party came in just to steal,kill & destroy this country. May God punish them.

there is no day that passes that I don't wish we could just reset back to 2014 and prevent this catastrophic mistake. Compared to now, we were enjoying, but we no know. Wetin be japa when dollar was 150 to a dollar? We had it sooooo good, but didn't know. Quality of life was so much better, and there we were erroneously thinking we were suffering then, and could have it better. We didn't know it would get 200 time worse. I was spending tens of thousands of dollars like it was nothing. Moving to Canny for an individual less than 2m. So so sad!

You arrogate so much authority to yourselves but can't seem to get just one prediction right. Well Buhari didn't get any solutions, so either your prayers had no fire, or Buhari didn't have faith or both. Smh

EdiskyHarry:
Rubbish.
Where was this same African union when Libya was attacked by NATO all because gadaffi was planning of establishing an African currency.
African union all ran away when the chairman of the union (gadaffi) was attacked and killed.
African union is a big disgrace to Africa.

well said.

Emekaonline:
Please what is money laundry? Many of you are just as olodos as your Pandora

at least learn that the correct term is 'money laundering', if that is the ONLY thing you'll learn from this exchange you dum-dum.

erico2k2:
Poor bloggers, there is nothing called British Police! they know if they use the word Met police, they will incure the wrath. The Uk police have no jurisdiction to arrest a person who they perceive was corrupt in Nigeria, that's up to the Nigerian govt, unless it was money laundry, or an offence committed in British soil>

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66582585

https://news.sky.com/story/former-opec-president-charged-with-bribery-offences-in-the-uk-12945213

Yea, BBC and Skynews are blogs too.👊

Anything that will make these bastards go through hell is a welcome development. I hope they keep losing their stash and freedom in foreign lands since the chances of that happening in Naija na IF and ONLY IF she's the focus of a witch-hunt, and even then, if she ready join APC all sins will be forgiven. I hope she gets jail time and gets bleeped in there by a dude or dudes with massive 17-inch nethers...lol😎

Omo elewon....lol🤣🤣🤣

Babanla werey ni daddy e. It just pleases me to say that.


Over and out.

BoldBrainz:
With a million naira, slow down on the business idea.

The Nigerian business atmosphere is currently very cruel on start-ups and existing SMEs. Irrespective of your location and how viable the option might seem, burying a million naira into a startup right now, is a mistake you may not recover from.

Keep your job. Save a bit more while you watch where the country is headed for the next 5 to 6 months. You can revisit the thought afterwards.

Just so you know, a million naira now is roughly 750 dollars. It's not exactly as much money as you think it is, given the inflationary percentage out there.

I just told him the same thing in more words/detail in my previous post. Naija as it is today isn't anybody's mate. Even those wey don dey established dey feel heat, much less new entrant.

As someone who loves, is passionate and skilled at doing business, I have only one advice to give you.

Don't do that right now!!!!!!!

Only one that seems a bit promising there is POS, but that depends on the specific area and foot traffic therein you wanna capture. Bike may not give you as much profits now due to high fuel cost (I say may cos location differences matter eg here in Ibadan transport fares haven't increased much despite the hike in price of fuel, some increased by 50 naira, most stayed the same). Barbershop, it will take time to have steady customers, plus you now have to pay rent for two places, raising your cost with no guarantee of commensurate inflow to support it in the first one year.

1m naira is nothing! Only exception to this is if your business idea is somewhere in the food value chain, and I'm not talking farming (cos 1m is nothing for farming right now either).

Brownshoe:
nostalgic, I don't really know the song then,

I sing it as: ah the the the limca🎵🎵
Limca di limca di🎵
So small then.

lol...na so o. The 'limca' na the constant wey everybody know for the song🤣😀

Hmm OP sorry about your ordeal. Follow the steps someone shared about copying the CBN anti-corruption desk when you mail his bank. And keep following up with reminder mails. The scammer will contact you when PND is placed on his account.

About the debate on pay on delivery. I sell mattresses and I gladly turn down people who ask for pay on delivery. If you can't visit the store, you will pay at least a deposit of 5k before goods leave the store, so we are assured that you are committed to the transaction. I did pay on delivery for a useless human being who decided to change his mind and switch off his phone after delivery guy had gone out. Had to pay for delivery guy carrying mattress to and fro and no money was made. Second time, the mattress got to the idiot and he started negotiations all over again, cos he felt I won't have a choice. I had to pay the delivery guy for his service again on this occasion despite no money being made from the botched transaction. Since then, any prospect that can't visit the store and can't make a deposit before goods leave the store are free to go fuuurk themselves!

lol. Been there

I also have a very high libido. I was very very very sexually active before I got married, and my wife knows this. When the kids came in and joined the equation, at some point she sef bring this kain talk. I made a decision even before I got married to her that when I get married, no philandering for me, cos if I do it once and cross that line, nothing stops me from continuing on that path.

So what I did was play understanding for a while, but when I was done playing understanding I sat her down and told her that before the kids it was us two, when the kids are grown and go, it will be us two. She knows damn well and good what my appetite for sex is like, she knows i'm a human and my cravings of many years won't just stop at the flick of a button cos we now have kids, and she knows I'm def not gonna treat her angrily or poorly because of sexual frustration when she is great to us all in other ways. So, if this continues in order to keep us all smiling and cohesive I might have to relieve tension as I see fit if she is not up to the task for that period.

Of course she was like, why the threat and why taking it too far etc, but the Koko is I'm happy to report I haven't had an issue on this since then, and this conversation happened some 3yrs ago.

A frank conversation works, most of the time. Try it.


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Burob:
Good to be alive, how time flies.

Have a lemonade drink Limca.

When you're having fun together🎵
The sun and the sea together🎵
Music and dance together🎵
Lime and lemonade drink together🎵

All you need is a drink Limca🎵
Lime and lemonade drink Limca🎵

All you need is a drink Limca🎵
Lime and lemonade drink Limca. 🎵

hustla:
I asked this question on the money market thread and recommendation is to convert

There are no indications that the exchange rate will improve as we have not done even the basics and probably won't do it

Best would be to convert a sizeable % and observe over time

the wereys are already backtracking after their futile and foolish floating experiment. The exchange rate na less than 900 for USD as at now. Na to sharply go change am tomorrow las las at all at all na im bad pass. What's even more absurd, na the NNPC go take the loan, not even CBN or even in collaboration with CBN or Finance ministry.

Just when I was done being patriotic, and I was patiently waiting for dollar to cross 1000 so I can exchange this shikini $1000 wey dey here na that time FG decide say dem wan resume defending of the Naira again, after floating isonu. Awon ppl yi ti cut ticket mi sha🤬🤬🤬🤬😡

Na MENT!

Vinnie2000:
Helinius
Moh247
Favor914
LegendHero
MannaVulturegrills,etc

Are all ABSENT on this APC thread.

Why? 🤔🙁

children of perdition will be absent on this thread.

All of them especially the vulture griller, was praising darling daddy for 8 years and cursing the enemies of Nigeria. 8 years later, darling daddy is now fingered as the 'current' enemy of Nigeria. Will he be able to curse Bubu directly now? Sure he can't. Empty curses by an empty human.

Lol

yinkeys:
Formally educated in Nigeria doesn’t mean they’d be politically enlightened or have global exposure
Some wont even know anything when it comes to geopolitics & history
Aren’t a lot of Nigerians just cramming, cheating their way through the system
You don’t have to go through formal education structure to be enlightened
The internet is there

they have all that, but all that took a back burner on the altar of tribalism. They forgot all the shit, job losses, economic death, retrogression, massive corruption that APC entrenched and represented in a jiffy. What I was trying to point out to you is that APC got votes, millions of it despite a horrendous 8 years, and not just from baba's and mama's and illiterate almajiris, but from even young educated fellas like you and I, regrettably. Very sad!

yinkeys:
Élection figures were largely manipulated nationwide you’re talking about voters
Take Lagos & Rivers state for example
Most people voted LP
People in high brow areas of Lagos island largely voted LP

we know.

Here's the problem, yes there was manipulation, but make no mistake, APC still garnered millions of votes, a testament to the FACT that million of Nigerians learnt absolutely nothing from the last 8 years of misrule. I have friends, youths o, educated and all that were assertively supporting Tinubu/APC. I am sure you will certainly have such friends too. A good number of the people are damaged goods. I will keep saying it, i never expected that APC will still get even 100k votes, assuming Nigerians learnt anything at all over the last 8 years about the cancer that the APC is and represents.

Just face your affairs my guy, and strive for self-preservation. Don't bother about Nigeria or Nigerians for your sanity.

membranus:
Emefiele, with Buhari, plundered our resources and destroyed the economy.

Through the CBN's balance sheet just released, it is now clear that Buhari , through the CBN ,took secret loans from international organisations like JP Morgan , Goldman Sachs, FX Forwards etc. I am talking of secret loans up to 15 billion dollars.

Secret in the sense that the national assembly was not even aware of it and therefore , after the loans were received , there was no appropriation. Buhari , Emefiele and their thieving band just kept spending and plundering.

Buhari took those secret loans and used our foreign reserves (built by past governments) as collateral.

This is in addition to other humongous loans that he took , with the approval of the 'o yes' national assembly, from world bank ,IMF , ADB and other international financial institutions. He also took loans from countries like China, France,India , Japan and Germany.

Buhari took more loans in 8 years than all the loans , when added together, taken by past governments of Nigeria since our independence in 1960. Let that sink. He took more loans in 8 years than what we took in our first 55 years as a country and with nothing tangible or infrastructures to show for it.

And yet that was not enough for Buhari and Emefiele.

It has now emerged that Emefiele printed 23 trillion Naira for Buhari to spend without any appropriation or oversight by the national assembly. The effects is what we are seeing today and has made the value of the Naira to continue to sink.

Go and read the CBN report just published and you will weep for what Buhari did to Nigeria. The man is worse than Abacha. Compared to Buhari, Jonathan is an angel.

I hope that those who voted him because "Osinbajo will handle the economy" can now clap for themselves.

#COPIED

anyone with half a brain cell can see the propaganda here...

Unfortunately, many people are irredeemably stupid, so yea while I long expected that y'all will start singing this song on high pitch, certainly many will gobble it all up.

No worry. Some of us already know the game plan is to blame Buhari for everything now that Opolo eye holds sway, just as y'all blamed Jonathan for everything when Buhari held sway.

Very predictable...smh.

Judas1X:
From this emotional response, I can already tell you haven't got a clue what morality is. Lol.

great! You can run along now Mandy.