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PoliticsRe: Final Result Of The 2023 Presidential Election by yomiuk: 7:48am On Mar 01, 2023
Best guy won/

Kudos cool
FoodRe: UK-Based Lady Says Nigerian Foods Smell & Should Be Banned In Offices by yomiuk: 10:18pm On Dec 21, 2022
Very true.

Warmed in the microwave rice with vegetable soup that had mackerel and stock fish.

A delight to the mouth and belly but not to the nose of oyinbo.

My colleague said my meal stinks.



grin
Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 11:18pm On Oct 11, 2022
doggedfighter:
yomiuk, what's your personal take in this ?
I saw this coming over a decade ago.

Used to work in a hospital and observed that most foreign doctors were the ones doing the anti-social and odd hour shifts, while the indigenous ones were doing the easy day shift.

It is a tough one to call because at least they are on better pay and get paid when due, unlike in Nigeria where the working conditions may be similar without pay for months.

Who are we to blame? I
Nigerian govt? Doctors? System failure? Culture?

Let me apportion the blame

Nigerian govt? 50%
Doctors? 10%
System failure? 25%
Culture? 15%

I will say, all of the above.
Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:11pm On Oct 11, 2022
Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:10pm On Oct 11, 2022
We took our findings to the BMA - and its deputy chair, Emma Runswick. She told us the situation was a "disgrace to UK medicine".

"Our international colleagues have come a long way to the UK, and have found conditions so exploitative it beggars belief."

NES Healthcare told us that our "feedback about doctors' experiences" with the company was "extremely positive". It says it provides doctors "with a safe and supportive route to pursue their career choice in the National Health Service, and in the UK healthcare system more generally, and that their work is of "great benefit to the British public."

Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:09pm On Oct 11, 2022
Some NES doctors have received help from Dr Jenny Vaughan from the Doctors' Association. She receives many complaints from Resident Medical Officers and says the UK healthcare system has developed into two tiers - one for NHS doctors, the other for international recruits working in the private sector.

NHS doctors can only be scheduled to work up to 48 hours, and if they request, up to 72 hours a week.

"No doctor in the NHS does more than four nights consecutively because we know that it's frankly not safe," says Dr Vaughan.

"This is a slave-type work with… excess hours, the like of which we thought had been gone 30 years ago.

"It is not acceptable for patients for patient-safety reasons. It is not acceptable for doctors. "

Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:08pm On Oct 11, 2022
Dr Femi Johnson was sent to a different hospital to Augustine, but says he was also expected to work 14 to 16-hour days and then be on call overnight. "I was burnt out," he says. "I was tired, I needed sleep. It's not humanly possible to do that every day for seven days."

But when he needed a break because he was too exhausted to continue, NES were entitled to deduct money from his salary. The company says that is to cover the cost of finding a replacement doctor, but Femi says it leaves NES doctors in a terrible dilemma.

"In situations like that, I always make that internal discussion with my inner self - 'Femi are you doing right by yourself and are you doing right by the patient?'" he tells us. "Unfortunately, I haven't always been able to answer that question."

Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:07pm On Oct 11, 2022
The GMC also offers the exams in several other red-list countries - Ghana, Sudan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Both the GMC and British Council deny they are involved in "active recruitment" and say they're simply helping provide a service for doctors wanting to come to the UK independently - something that is allowed under the guidelines.

In Augustine's case, he was studying for the second part of those PLAB exams in the UK, when he was approached by NES Healthcare and later offered visa sponsorship and a potential job.

While that does appear to have been "active recruitment" - NES says it wasn't, because it is not a recruitment agency and, as such, only engages with doctors from overseas once they've already committed to practising in the UK. But the Department of Health and Social Care told us the UK code of practice did apply to NES - so the company was in breach of it.

We spoke to several African doctors recruited in this way by NES. They all had similar stories about what the terms and conditions of their contracts meant in reality, once they had been hired out to private UK hospitals.

Foreign AffairsRe: Doctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:05pm On Oct 11, 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63141929

y Paul Kenyon & Anna Meisel
File on 4 & Newsnight
Doctors recruited from some of the world's poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they're being exploited - and believe they're so overworked they fear putting patients' health at risk.

A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being recruited by a British healthcare company and expected to work in private hospitals under conditions not allowed in the National Health Service.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has described the situation as "shocking" and says the sector needs to be brought in line with NHS working practices.

The BBC has spoken to several foreign medics - including a young Nigerian doctor who worked at the private Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital in 2021.

Augustine Enekwechi says his hours were extreme - on-call 24 hours a day for a week at a time - and that he was unable to leave the hospital grounds. He says working there felt like being in "a prison".

The tiredness was so intense, he says, there were times he worried he couldn't properly function.

"I knew that working tired puts the patients at risk and puts myself also at risk, as well for litigation," he says. "I felt powerless… helpless, you know, constant stress and thinking something could go wrong."

Nuffield Health disputes those working hours, saying its doctors are offered regular breaks, time off between shifts, and the ability to swap shifts if needed. The company adds that "the health and wellbeing of patients and hospital team members" is its priority.

Augustine was hired out to the Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital from a private company - NES Healthcare. It specialises in employing doctors from overseas, many from Nigeria, and using them as Resident Medical Officers, or RMOs - live-in doctors found mainly in the private sector.

Augustine says he was so excited to be offered a job that he barely looked at the NES contract. In fact it opted him out of legislation that protects UK workers from excessive working hours - the Working Time Directive - and left him vulnerable to a range of punishing salary deductions.

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Listen to File on 4 - Paul Kenyon investigates the 'brain drain' of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK

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Augustine is far from alone. The BMA and the front line lobbying group the Doctors' Association has given the BBC's File on 4 and Newsnight exclusive access to the findings of a questionnaire put to 188 Resident Medical Officers. Most of the doctors were employed by NES but some were with other employers.

It found that 92% had been recruited from Africa and most - 81% - were from Nigeria. The majority complained about excessive working hours and unfair salary deductions.

For years now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the "active recruitment" of doctors and nurses from developing countries with severe shortages of medical personnel. The WHO has compiled a list of 47 such countries - most of them in Africa. The UK government has incorporated that list into its own code of practice - calling it the "red list". In effect, it makes Nigeria a no-go destination for British medical recruiters.

So how did the doctors come to be working in the UK in the first place? We travelled to Nigeria and witnessed another troubling side to this story.

In an exam hall in Lagos, the country's biggest city, we found hundreds of doctors queuing to take what's called a Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board test - or PLAB 1. The paper is set by the General Medical Council in London and is the first step required by the British medical authorities to secure a licence to work in the UK.

The doctors we spoke to said they were attracted by the potential of higher salaries and better working conditions. The event was being overseen by staff from the British Council - an organisation sponsored by the Foreign Office.

Foreign AffairsDoctors From Nigeria 'facing Exploitation' In UK by yomiuk(op): 10:03pm On Oct 11, 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-62845571?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=6344e6be59bb920430c26f94%26Doctors%20from%20Nigeria%20%27facing%20exploitation%27%20in%20UK%262022-10-11T04%3A32%3A25%2B00%3A00&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:5b233eba-8124-4f21-864e-ef6c3562954a&pinned_post_asset_id=6344e6be59bb920430c26f94&pinned_post_type=share

Doctors recruited from some of the poorest countries in the world to work in hospitals in the UK say they are facing exploitation and are so overworked they worry about putting patients’ health at risk.

A BBC investigation has found evidence that doctors from Nigeria are being targeted by a British healthcare company called NES Healthcare.

It found they are expected to work in private hospitals under conditions that are not allowed in the National Health Service - the UK's publicly funded healthcare system.

NES Healthcare disputes the BBC findings and insists it provides a safe and supportive career route.

The company says feedback about doctors' experiences with them is extremely positive.

But the British Medical Association has called some of the working conditions a disgrace to UK medicine.

SportsRe: I Can't Believe There are Still Men Who Don't Watch Football. by yomiuk: 9:15pm On Aug 29, 2022
yom2:
OK we also have northerners there too?
Yes. They also have their tribal differences here too.
But it is mostly, in a humorous way nowadays.
Unlike the Africans
SportsRe: I Can't Believe There are Still Men Who Don't Watch Football. by yomiuk: 9:12pm On Aug 29, 2022
Probz:
And listen, I’ll have you know that football at its most primordial indigenous core originated in China (no-be just whimsically-dainty dolls, char-siu, technology na Covid them don-originate, obv’s.). London just polished it up in a technically-official sense and Liverpool (the reds, not those pesky blues that arguably no self-respecting Scouser would openly-claim to stan, and I say that as someone who’s actually related to Victor Anicbebe and rightly-thinks he’s a dope player, because he himself is) added a bit of ose-Nsukka-lite heat to the pitch. Sturridge helped when he was in his L.F.C. prime.
Sound.
wink
SportsRe: I Can't Believe There are Still Men Who Don't Watch Football. by yomiuk: 11:20pm On Aug 28, 2022
Even in the UK where football originated, millions do not watch football but are into rugby.
Especially those in the north.
TravelRe: Nigerian Man Speaks Out Against Alleged Racism In Europe (video) by yomiuk: 6:36pm On Aug 21, 2022
JaskanFactor:
As someone who grossly underestimated the damaging effects of racism to life in my youth , as an older man i can only tell the younger ones this.

We are on thier planet, ever since black people disobey God and oyinbo was sent to punish them, this is no longer our planet, we are guests here now.

So that if as so called black man you dont want stress in oyinbo region, you need to be very creative about how you keep low profile and your head down. Even going as far as doing most shopping online and only going out very early or very late when the streets are quite.
Dont owe them money, and if you can avoid it never work for them , by that i mean never put yourself in a position where thier money depends on your performance. In short keep your distance from them, and you wont go crazy, cause thats very common with black people in Europe who eventually loose their sanity as result of decades of racial stress.

The best person to look after your interests is you, so dont expect your enemy to tell you when its safe to go outside, be the judge of that yourself.


They run the whole world , and make everywhere black people live in large numbers a place of death decease and corruption and insecurity.
All the terrorists in Africa terrorising Africa and all the gangs terrorising black neighbourhoods in in western countries are working for them.

In effect as black people we are under arrest on this planet from moment of birth, so how much careless behaviour can you afford when you have already been declared A PUBLIC NIUISANCE ON THE PLANET.

Never ever ever, put yourself in situation where you are shouting with them, thats like playing with explosives.
Cause if you really have any idea how much they hate black people, you will think very deep how to avoid them in every sense of the word.

Never ever underestimate people who have human skull as their favourite image on t-shirts, tattoo, coffe mug etc, it means worshippers of death.

Stop playing with fire, around them is not the safe place to get upset.
A blueprint for living among the oyinbo.
Nice one man
SportsUsyk Wins Bout On Spilt Decision by yomiuk(op): 12:14am On Aug 21, 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/boxing/62562489?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=630168e9405bb048e3182a24%26Usyk%20wins%20on%20split%20decision%262022-08-20T23%3A06%3A18.363Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:97d5a4f9-bd51-4a20-aa5a-57ad22ad2b55&pinned_post_asset_id=630168e9405bb048e3182a24&pinned_post_type=share


AJ not disgraced but his stock has just gone down.
CareerRe: 620k Job In Nigeria Vs Msc In UK? Please Advise by yomiuk: 3:17pm On Aug 20, 2022
OboOlora:
Job wey dem fit sack u tomorrow if Govt change policy that kills the business of your employer
Or make kidnappers carry de ask for 50M ransom
Or make u get one terminal illness wey Reddington go use u chop with zero facilities

Too many uncertainties, may Nigeria not happen to you.

Meanwhile that 620k is less than £800, you can make such amount working 20hrs a week for 1month while still studying

Choose wisely my friend!!!
Have you factored living cost into this £800.

Rent per month will swallow up that money like dog eats bone. grin
TravelEmirates Airline To Suspend Travel To Nigeria by yomiuk(op): 7:32pm On Aug 18, 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-62438202?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=62fe119f4929d817e9777942%26Emirates%20to%20suspend%20flights%20to%20Nigeria%262022-08-18T10%3A19%3A52.345Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:68a8a984-9fbf-4938-b0f1-12c44b0ec5b1&pinned_post_asset_id=62fe119f4929d817e9777942&pinned_post_type=share

The Dubai-based Emirates airline has said it will suspend flights to Nigeria from the start of September as it has been unable to repatriate its money from Nigeria.

The problem has arisen because Nigeria has restricted access to foreign exchange, the Reuters news agency reports.

The government has not yet commented.

In a statement, Emirates said it had “made considerable efforts to initiate dialogue with the relevant authorities for their urgent intervention to help find a viable solution.

“[It is] regrettable there has been no progress.”

Flights will stop from 1 September “to limit further losses and impact on our operation cost”.

In June, the International Air Transport Association said that Nigeria was not handing over $450m (£370m) owed to various airlines, Reuters says.

Emirates said it could reconsider its decision “should there be any positive developments in the coming days”.

Affected travellers can get refunds for their tickets, it added.

CelebritiesRe: Despite Sextape, Tiwa Savage Rocks Naked Dress To UK Concert After-party (video) by yomiuk: 11:40pm On Aug 15, 2022
The girl no dey shame.

Top runs girl
CrimeMozambican Caught Planning To Sell His Albino Children by yomiuk(op): 7:30am On Jul 27, 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=62e0bc55c0a04b705829a13f%26Mozambican%20caught%20%27planning%20albino%20children%20sale%27%262022-07-27T05%3A47%3A35.632Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:201c792d-19e6-4913-be39-fb31c8ca1d7e&pinned_post_asset_id=62e0bc55c0a04b705829a13f&pinned_post_type=share


A father who wanted to sell his three albino children was arrested in Mozambique while negotiating over the price, police have said.

The man and his brother were arrested in the western Tete province.

Albino people have been killed in the country for their body parts, which are for ritual purposes.

Police spokesman Luciano da Câmara said two supposed buyers are also under police custody.

He said the three children, aged 10, 13 and 16, were taken from their home and held in captivity while negotiations over their price were ongoing.

"The sale was to be made for over $39,100 (£32,400),” the police spokesman said.

“We took steps and located the two individuals in Angónia who confirmed plans for the deal," he added.
SportsRe: Liverpool, Bayern Munich Reach Agreement On Sadio Mane by yomiuk: 9:59pm On Jun 17, 2022
If this guy was white or European, he will cost double this amount

£35million for a player of his calibre is cheap !!!!
CrimeRe: Hamzah Issak: HSBC Employee Steals £900k From 3 Nigerians In UK by yomiuk(op): 7:54pm On May 14, 2022
AlphaTaikun:
Ode... grin He looks like a UK-based omo Paki or Bangladesh.
wink
That is why I basket mouth am now grin
CrimeHamzah Issak: HSBC Employee Steals £900k From 3 Nigerians In UK by yomiuk(op): 6:53pm On May 13, 2022
A former bank employee has been jailed for taking almost £900,000 out of accounts, police have revealed.

Hamzah Issak, 30, altered account details while working at a Leicester branch of HSBC between 2016 and 2018.

Enquiries showed a total of £896,645.05 was deposited into other accounts with the assistance and knowledge of Issak.

Issak of Apollo Court, Leicester, admitted charges including fraud and computer misuse, and was sentenced to five years and eight months.

Unidentified suspects
Issak pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position and four counts under the Computer Misuse Act at Leicester Crown Court last year.

Leicestershire Police said HSBC identified three customers had seen payments made from their accounts without their knowledge or authority by either electronic funds transfer or bill payment.

All three victims, who are Nigerian, were in their home country at the time the transactions were taking place within the UK.

The force said the bank's investigation found that on two occasions unidentified suspects entered the Leicester branch and had gone directly over to the defendant, bypassing other staff.

Both suspects were then served by the defendant who failed to follow company protocol on checking of signatures.

Issak also pleaded guilty to charges of possession with intent to supply class A drugs, possession of a weapon for the discharge of an electrical incapacitation device and possession of criminal property.

This related to a quantity of cocaine with a street value of almost £700, a stun gun and £1,600 cash which were found in his car in December 2019.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-61431112

SportsRe: Tyson Fury Knocks Out Dillian Whyte To Retain WBC Heavyweight Title by yomiuk: 11:04pm On Apr 23, 2022
Whythe was crap
SportsRe: Nigeria Vs Ghana: 2022 World Cup Qualifier (1 - 1) On 29th March 2022 by yomiuk: 10:11am On Mar 30, 2022
So much talent and potential with nothing to show for it.

Superglued eagles
embarassed
CrimeRe: Farida Sule Mohammed: Lawyer Killed In Abuja-Kaduna Train Attack by yomiuk: 10:09am On Mar 30, 2022
Is it not sad when any good development occurs in Nigeria, Some take/see it as an opportunity to do evil.

The heart of mankind is full of evil intentions.
CrimeRe: Yahoo Boy’s Mother Jailed Five Years For Receiving N91M Internet Fraud Money by yomiuk: 10:06am On Mar 30, 2022
Those days has far gone when parents will ask their children where they found money to buy a new shirt or shoe. Now, a guy of 25 yrs old will buy a Merc , without no feasible means of income, and questions are not asked.

Now society is asking why these young cats are getting into all sorts of shit dealings and activities.

Answer?

Because they know that no one will question them and they can get away with it.

Surprised?

Not at all smiley
FamilyRe: Paul Bolton, 68-Year-Old Briton Is Looking For His Yoruba Father, Femi Odiendie by yomiuk: 1:38am On Mar 07, 2022
It was very common in the 50s up to the early 70s. where many Nigerian men who came to study in the UK,had relationships with white girls from low income families back then and got them pregnant.

People like Daley thompson, the Fashanus, Kris Akabusi are products of those periods
BusinessRe: My Bank Just Overpaid Me By 32k by yomiuk: 7:21pm On Mar 02, 2022
It's not even about reward but about having a clear conscience that you have done the right thing,
InvestmentUK Bank Hands Out £130m In Christmas Blunder by yomiuk(op): 7:52pm On Dec 30, 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59826345

Tens of thousands of people awoke on Christmas morning to a surprise from an unexpected benefactor - Santander.

The bank mistakenly deposited £130m into 75,000 accounts on 25 December.

Santander's staff are now rushing to claw back the money, although the job is being made more difficult because much of it was deposited in accounts at rival banks, according to The Times.

The error occurred when payments from 2,000 business accounts were made twice.

"We're sorry that due to a technical issue, some payments from our corporate clients were incorrectly duplicated on the recipients' accounts," the bank said in a statement.

"None of our clients were at any point left out of pocket as a result and we will be working hard with many banks across the UK to recover the duplicated transactions over the coming days."

It said the mistake may have meant that some people were, in effect, paid twice from their employer's account, although the second payment was funded by Santander.

Ruined Christmas
One payroll manager, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the blunder had cast a shadow over Christmas and Boxing Day.

"It ruined my holiday period because I thought I'd paid out hundreds of thousands in error - I thought I had done something wrong," they told the BBC.

"I thought it was just me and that I was going to get in trouble at work."

They said that Santander had not given any information about how firms should explain the second payment to staff or about how it should be repaid.

"It's just a complete shambles," the payroll manager said. "How they are going to recover it, I just don't know."

The bank stressed that it had already begun speaking to the rival banks - which The Times said included Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Co-operative Bank and Virgin Money.

Santander said those banks would "look to recover the money from their customers' accounts."

However, it was not clear how the banks would respond if their customers had already spent the money, meaning returning it would push them into overdraft.

Santander indicated that it may contact people directly to get the money back.
FoodRe: Big Snake Killed By A Nairalander Today!! by yomiuk: 1:39pm On Dec 11, 2021
The only thing that does not face discrimination in Naija is meat. grin
FashionRe: Looking For Fashion Designers by yomiuk(op): 1:30am On Nov 23, 2021
We have got access to the UK market.

Are you creative and innovative?
Have a good understanding of market trends?
Are able to design fresh and unique styles? Male or Female.

Because this is a public space, we are not accepting WhatsApp contacts at this initial stage.
Only email address and we take it from there.
wink
FashionRe: Looking For Fashion Designers by yomiuk(op): 1:30am On Nov 23, 2021
Onwe6666:
7
i have filled the form and sent back to you...
Thanks. I will keep you posted via email.

We are doing a lot of screening at the moment.

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