This piece isn't aimed at discouraging anyone from relocating to the United Kingdom. The country has the 6th largest economy in the world and it offers massive economic opportunities for both the young and old. It is also beautiful and gives maximum exposure to people. But things are changing and they are changing rapidly. You need to be mentally prepared before you get ambushed by harsh reality. Keep the following factors in mind when trying to take the plunge.

(1) Limited job opportunities:
As a fresh immigrant, it takes the grace of God to crack the white-collar job circle. Even if you get white-collar jobs, most of them don't offer visa sponsorships. So, they can't guarantee you any desired visa extensions. To someone who wants to stay back in the UK after studying, what's the point? For the blue-collar sector which apparently admits every willing or unwilling human being available, the jobs are disappearing. You must have heard viral stories of people on healthcare visas not getting shifts. As if this isn't enough, job opportunities are drying up in the less desired warehouses where hard labour is rife. The warehouses constituted the last hope of the common man those days. If you are hoping to gather money to pay your school fees from hustling in the UK, you might need to have a rethink.

(2) 20hrs Work Limitation:
In recent times, there have been strong rumours of student visas being canceled by the Home Office, after the holders failed to stick to the 20-hour work restriction in a week. It is one of the most traumatic experiences an immigrant can face abroad. Imagine you are getting an email that your visa has been cancelled, while you are just settling in, with a huge debt hanging over your head. You might strongly consider detonating a Kim Jong Un-like bomb in your village to annihilate any witch/wizard that might be linked to your predicament.

(3) Housing Crisis:
The housing crisis in the UK is so severe that people now take their house-hunting activities to the NSPPD altar at 7 a.m. It is not just about the exorbitant prices alone, it is about the stiff competition you will face from other applicants. It is as competitive as applying for civil service jobs in Nigeria and India. These so-called accommodations come in the form of "poultry" due to the relatively small sizes. They also come with massive paperwork that could be cumbersome for a new immigrant to satisfy. This isn't the challenge an immigrant wants to face due to its overwhelming nature.

(4) High Cost Of Living:
Living costs constitute a global issue and it is highly multi-factorial in nature. Major cities in the UK like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Birmingham, etc., have been hit by mass migration, thereby straining available public facilities. People with permanent jobs are feeling the heat not to talk of the casual workers living from one unassured shift to the other. For a man converting naira to pounds to cater for daily expenditure in the UK, the thoughts of running away, or committing suicide might be crossing his mind, at least 4 times in a day.


(5) Low Chances Of Staying Back:
The chances of international students staying back in the UK after schooling are getting slimmer than the popular Nollywood actress, Lepa Shandy by the day. Before you know it, your 2-year post-study period would have elapsed and you might have to return home. Before now, healthcare visas have come to the rescue. Today, the opportunities have been abused and the forces of demand and supply have also affected sponsorship opportunities in the healthcare line. If you think you can easily marry a citizen to stay back, you might have to buy some anti-depressants, as a backup plan.

In conclusion, the best way to easily scale through these hurdles, and weather the storm might be by owning one of President Tinubu's controversial bullion vans.

Osahon George Osayimwen is a Journalist and a Developmental Psychologist

Pls if you have the means and resources to jakpa, jakpa.

Hehehe.

We are experiencing worst over here,so my advice to anyone just like the person above me stated, if you have the means and resources to japa please Japa.

Most people over there even with the condition's mentioned above are still doing way better than people over here.

In as much as what he wrote sounds true but not actually. If you are in English speaking nation thank your goodness because that language barrier is always an issue. Someone somewhere in Chile is fighting to get a Passport... stay in UK and fight your way up.

There are no limited job opportunities if you are skilled in the fields they have shortage in, I am on my second UK skilled worker visa as I switched from my first job.

I went for a blood test in a teaching hospital facility recently, I saw a staff who worked there and knew he was definitely Nigerian, I briefly chatted with him and did check him out on LinkedIn, finding out he was working as a Medical Laboratory Assistant at the hospital where he started working in April and was sponsored from Nigeria by the hospital and he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science/Research and Allied Professions from Ebonyi State University.

If you are highly skilled and it is in demand in the UK, japa!

Naija is not rosy either.

Nigeria 🇳🇬 is not a perfect place either... if you have the finicial resources... don't wait for no one.. pls move

MatrixReloaded:
In as much as what he wrote sounds true but not actually. If you are in English speaking nation thank your goodness because that language barrier is always an issue. Someone somewhere in Chile is fighting to get a Passport... stay in UK and fight your way up.

Laugh won burst my belle 😁


@ Tensazangetsu20 show face oh

Am just tired of please don't jakpa, stay back which kind talk be this nah, let people who wants to travel let them go nah, u know what people re going through in Nigeria? As am hearing now that Nigeria is hard than before ooooo, I mean buhari regime. Let people move if they want to and stop discouraging people from migrating.

uche87:
This piece isn't aimed at discouraging anyone from relocating to the United Kingdom. The country has the 6th largest economy in the world and it offers massive economic opportunities for both the young and old. It is also beautiful and gives maximum exposure to people. But things are changing and they are changing rapidly. You need to be mentally prepared before you get ambushed by harsh reality. Keep the following factors in mind when trying to take the plunge.

(1) Limited job opportunities:
As a fresh immigrant, it takes the grace of God to crack the white-collar job circle. Even if you get white-collar jobs, most of them don't offer visa sponsorships. So, they can't guarantee you any desired visa extensions. To someone who wants to stay back in the UK after studying, what's the point? For the blue-collar sector which apparently admits every willing or unwilling human being available, the jobs are disappearing. You must have heard viral stories of people on healthcare visas not getting shifts. As if this isn't enough, job opportunities are drying up in the less desired warehouses where hard labour is rife. The warehouses constituted the last hope of the common man those days. If you are hoping to gather money to pay your school fees from hustling in the UK, you might need to have a rethink.

(2) 20hrs Work Limitation:
In recent times, there have been strong rumours of student visas being canceled by the Home Office, after the holders failed to stick to the 20-hour work restriction in a week. It is one of the most traumatic experiences an immigrant can face abroad. Imagine you are getting an email that your visa has been cancelled, while you are just settling in, with a huge debt hanging over your head. You might strongly consider detonating a Kim Jong Un-like bomb in your village to annihilate any witch/wizard that might be linked to your predicament.

(3) Housing Crisis:
The housing crisis in the UK is so severe that people now take their house-hunting activities to the NSPPD altar at 7 a.m. It is not just about the exorbitant prices alone, it is about the stiff competition you will face from other applicants. It is as competitive as applying for civil service jobs in Nigeria and India. These so-called accommodations come in the form of "poultry" due to the relatively small sizes. They also come with massive paperwork that could be cumbersome for a new immigrant to satisfy. This isn't the challenge an immigrant wants to face due to its overwhelming nature.

(4) High Cost Of Living:
Living costs constitute a global issue and it is highly multi-factorial in nature. Major cities in the UK like London, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, Birmingham, etc., have been hit by mass migration, thereby straining available public facilities. People with permanent jobs are feeling the heat not to talk of the casual workers living from one unassured shift to the other. For a man converting naira to pounds to cater for daily expenditure in the UK, the thoughts of running away, or committing suicide might be crossing his mind, at least 4 times in a day.


(5) Low Chances Of Staying Back:
The chances of international students staying back in the UK after schooling are getting slimmer than the popular Nollywood actress, Lepa Shandy by the day. Before you know it, your 2-year post-study period would have elapsed and you might have to return home. Before now, healthcare visas have come to the rescue. Today, the opportunities have been abused and the forces of demand and supply have also affected sponsorship opportunities in the healthcare line. If you think you can easily marry a citizen to stay back, you might have to buy some anti-depressants, as a backup plan.

In conclusion, the best way to easily scale through these hurdles, and weather the storm might be by owning one of President Tinubu's controversial bullion vans.

Osahon George Osayimwen is a Journalist and a Developmental Psychologist

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Baba werey ni bobo walahi.

Omoh i like the way you write.

Good use of english and also funny. I don laff tire.

Very funny guy

lastkingsman:




Laugh won burst my belle 😁


@

Tensazangetsu20

show face oh

Na lie? Abi na Spain him dey

There are Nigerians going to the uk to work as auditors at kpmg, pwc, bdo and co. There are Nigerians coming to work as nurses or doctors. There are those coming to do tech jobs. Abi na only study visa be route to UK

Japa to UK doesn't mean you have to stay in UK.

There are other countries where your UK degree will open doors to. Widen your scope. That is the real deal.

Before border close abi?


But he jus Spoke 100% truth. But as nigerian u go still survive bt no complain say dem no warn You.
I was an assistant teacher here, but there life style & payment is like that of 9ja counterparts, small pay, even endure bullshit from the kids... I, a whole lecturer back in 9ja those days... I ran away from the Lane oo. N coughed out £650 to grab a license , that what I roll with now. Now next is the £1200 license i am Eyeing. That settles my life for next 10yrs Till when I make my way into their TERTIARY INSTITUTION to continue what I paused back home. Work SMARTLY no HARDLY 👌

Why always UK...Nigerians should explore other European countries

Una don start again with this nonsense abi?

Prophet of doom. You go UK, you no wan others cine abi

I can tell you authoritatively that this is balderdash.

The only possible item is your number 5 - the opportunity of staying back. That in itself depends on how you position yourself early in your arrival.

If you have the opportunity to japa today, whether UK, Canada or Canary, the only thing you are likely to regret is that you didn't do it earlier.

And I've repeated this, you are as good as those feeding you information when you arrive at anywhere. Gather info, align with those succeeding (legally) and aim for the top.

Do it if you can.

People who are designing policies for you and running the country either as politicians or technocrats don't even have faith in the system and all have second homes abroad. Why are you shying from same.

Must you have a write up? Let them see it for themselves. Or you come home. Nobody said life is easy anywhere. Life is experiential

Then come back to Nigeria na and allow other people go. Tueh!

Japaing should be based on the prayerfully thought out question "Is it the will of God for my life?"

Allow people to move to wherever possible. No be everybody get the stamina to fight this Balablu economy tooth and nail.

Reading...

Too many Loud people in this Youkay.

Sooo, all these Naija wey full UK be mumu?

Stop discouraging people that want to come

Abeg o make una leave them make them go let those of us that want to stay back remain in Nigeria!