NewStats: 3,264,650 , 8,184,336 topics. Date: Wednesday, 11 June 2025 at 08:52 PM 6l1o3a

harddrive2012:
Greetings all,

Abeg I need help with getting WhatsApp verification code. I just woke up 3 days ago and noticed WhatsApp logged me out. I tried logging in back and keep getting ‘unable to send code’. I also tried the call option and got same error code of unable to call. I’ve deleted the WhatsApp countless time but I still keep getting same error to try back after an hour. I keep going in cycles and the 1 hour never ends.

I initially thought it’s my sim but I was able to get other code like Telegram code, bank alert message and also chatted Glo on Twitter which they also sent me a ‘Test code’ without issues. I have sent an email to WhatsApp regarding this issue but no response till now.

Please what else can I do to get this code from WhatsApp. Attach here is the response I keep getting

Thank you

I am guessing it’s your Nigerian Number you are talking about yes?


Do you have the SIM in a phone? Is the number active? Do you have at least N50 credit?
Do you receive ‘normal’ sms? For example, if someone from Nigeria sends an sms. Do you receive it?

ehizario2012:
My people, is the CSCS construction certification as relevant as it used to be? Is it still as lucrative?

The certification itself hasn’t lost any relevance. It’s still like it has always been. If there are a lot of construction gigs going on around where you live, and you want to earn some ££ then CSCS. Why not?

Ibro2021:
My people. I greet una.

I'm reviewing my psw application and discovered that I entered port details (including issue and expiry dates) where national identity card was required.

I've also done the declaration part so can't edit any longer. All that's left is to make payment for IHS and application.

What are my options, please? Is this error fatal, and do I have to start another application from scratch?

Thanks.

Start another application from scratch, shouldn’t take you more than 30 minutes to complete.
You have your peace of mind, and your sanity.

Schoolhike:



Complete your application, then the application as pdf, make your edits on it by cancelling out the wrong info and type or write the correct info and after finishing submit it as an additional document and can include explanation.

Can use the website ilovepdf dot com_or you print out the application form then use pen to cancel our and write.


Edit: follow @ Bourne007 explanation similar process I was trying to explain above

Honestly speaking, I think this is too much for a simple issue.
OP has not paid, the application hasn’t even be made yet.
Isn’t it a better thing for OP to simply create a new application? Enter everything correctly and avoid any long (unnecessary) grammar?

gergemam:


Thanks

😭😭😭

OMO... Wetin human go do now...

Either write IELTS (which is honestly a very easy exams)
Or
Do the ECCTIS (formerly NARIC) comparison. I posted about this last week.

Always, Always read the official guide on the uk.gov website.

missjekyll:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/17/legal-action-planned-over-uk-cruel-income-threshold-visa-rules

If this affects you, read this article .
For the gentleman asking when these changes will take effect, even sunak himself does not know.

This may not necessarily affect a lot of folks on this thread.
Reason: Most on this thread may not already hold British citizenship, or infact ILR.

eniola1010:


But dont they need to proof english proficiency which is either ielts or a degree taught in english from uk or ecctis prove that ur degree in nigeria was taught in english or could i be wrong?

Indeed. They do need to show proof of English.

gergemam:
Good Evening My Ogas.

My daddy Lexusgs430, and Oga hustla.


Please 🥺🥺🥺 for Dependent on Tier 4 that want to switch to Tier 2 as a skilled worker, do the individual need IELTS?

Waiting for a good response

YES!!!!

lavida001:
So the individual who died on the Bibby barge is a Cameroonian 🇨🇲 Doctor 🤔

Not True

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23986298.doctor-cameroon-named-man-died-bibby-stockholm-barge/

@ deept,
@poanan
…….

Thank you very much for providing a lot of context to this.

Any keen reader will see that contrary to what MissJelkyll would want to hoodwink folks into belly, Akshata Murty did not actually commit any tax fraud or crime or any illegal or unlawful action.

Ticha:


Money on paper especially the over all salary and the fact that all expenses are usually paid and that's how we came here too. Our combined income when we first arrived, doubled our UK combined income.
And honestly, the average Brit thinks that the UK is a third world country and that every other developed country is better.

People who are recruited from the health care sector are recruited to the regional areas and it's mainly Australia that pays very well. Very few come to NZ as salaries are a bit lower here. Very few can also buy holiday homes in either Aus or NZ as the cost of living is pretty high. The average junior dr salary is around $80k for both countries but a lower population and living in less populated areas means less work over all and more time to shalaye as needed.

Plus the lifestyle is totally different so for a newbie there's lot to enjoy initially. For example, it's warm all year round and we always have a hot Christmas, majority live close to the sea. NZ in particular is a very relaxed typically Pacific country. No school uniforms, no home work at primary school, people wear T shirts and shorts to work - that's a business attire haha, people walk bare feet in summer, my children hardly wear shoes to school cos they have a shoe free classroom and their classmates don't bother - they just put the shoes in the bags!
Houses are larger, way way larger than the UK. Our bedrooms in my house are bigger than the lounge in our UK family home!
People are friendlier - so much so that you will walk away thinking you've made a new best friend.

One day when I have time, I'll do a break down of our monthly costs that we still have in the UK and also have here. We spend a lot lot more here on those costs.

Thank you very much for this information. Really useful.
Summary: The grass always appear greener on the other side

missjekyll:
I pay taxes on all my income as do everyone without this "non-dom status" . I ve even had my taxes increased recently because the UK ran out of money. why are they special? They should be taxed for everything before anyone else asks me for more money.
Lying is always bad nomatter who does it. She is clearly domiciled here , why Claim she isn't.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/rishi-sunaks-wife-says-its-not-relevant-to-say-where-she-pays-tax-overseas

Yet again… trying to hoodwink the vulnerable and ill/mis-informed.
If you sell your treasure bills in Nigeria. Or you sell off that piece of land you bought in 2013 in Iyana-Ipaja. Do you pay taxes from that Nigeria sale to the HMRC? (In addition to the taxes you paid to FIRS/LIRS)?

profemebee:
Ticha, thanks for this... all i have been saying..all i have been freaking saying

I provided visa approval data and links of even Australia revising their immigration laws....

Provided % of immigrants data to Total population...

Till today, no data to back their emotional responses....

Some said it is because I settled status which i don't have... i still paid the IHS and visa fees last year.. i'm affected

Some said i have oppressed mentality.... meanwhile they don't look in the mirror.. .. when you keep that mindset, you're actually the one being oppressed.. the oppression has a great real estate in their minds

You can keep migrating and keep complaining because no country is perfect when it comes to immigration

There are countries that will want 1 million immigrants, but they do it in milestones over a period of time... No country will just open their borders to 1 million immigrants at once

They do it in stages and review each stage to see the pressure on the amenities and system (people, culture, facilities, budget, etc).

Even ’s Emmanuel Macron who (and his ers) speak so much bile (I use the word intentionally) on Marie Le Pen. Guess who sent an ‘anti immigration’ bill to Parliament? No. You guessed wrong. It wasn’t Marie Le Pen. It was EMMANUEL MACRON.

Peerielass:


Not entirely correct. They pay tax on their UK income which entitles them to use the services you have mentioned. Whether it’s morally acceptable or not is another discussion.

MissJelyll will not mention that. She will refuse to say the fact, which is that they do pay their fair share of taxes on their UK income.

Are you surprised she refused to engage when I gave the Gusau & Cornwall factory analogy?

Hello Ticha,
Given your submission, I am kinda perplexed. Why then do we have NHS doctors leaving in droves and moving to Australia & NZ ?… at least so says the UK shadow cabinet et al. Does a ‘Junior Doctor’ earn up to AUD $150,000 annually? So that even with 33% tax, they go home with lots and lots and are able to comfortably live, pay off mortgages and buy second holiday homes etc….

Ticha:


None. You're taxed from your very first dollar earned! Lowest tax band is also 33% (10% for under18s). All savings and investments are also taxed so nothing like ISAs or LISAs.

Sounds like the kind of taxation a certain Labour politician wishes for the UK.

missjekyll:
Changed my mind. You have a different style of debate. It does make me feel like i m talking to myself.

Can you watch uk political shows tomorrow? You won't see your style at all guaranteed.

I m yielding the floor to you but i have not conceeded the point.

Good day to you , Sir/Ma

Better yield the floor. You come all the time to push a Labour agenda. You quoted Zahra as a good debater. Did you notice that Zahra29 debates without recourse to party-political affiliation?

You, every time, you castigate the Tories. Paint the Tories as evil. Look at this thread, for the past 300+ pages. Search the thread and see how many times anyone (apart from you) has infused Tory this, Tory that on the thread.

You portray Labour as the messiahs. Very small push back like this, very tiny pushback, you collapse like a pack of cards.

Like I mentioned, the 2014 Nigerian experience has shown clearly that castigating and painting a ruling party in bad light is not enough.

You want us to vote Labour, to get the evil and wicked Tories out, but you are afraid of putting down labours” policies down in black and white to convince us.

Tell us, how Labour will do it.
That was how Osinbajo, Buhari, Fashola et al made noise in 2014. They pointed out all the evils of the GEJ/UMY/OBJ (16 years of waste). And failed to craft a policy on how they will achieve it. With hindsight, we now know that APC ( equivalent of the present day UK Labour Party) left nigeria worst than they met it.


Elaborate on how Labour will do it.
And spend less energy on your daily Nairaland Tory bashing. Then, you could win more votes for Labour.


PS: I have met David Lammy 1-2-1. I read the Guardian. I watch the BBC. I watch GB News. I am an avid consumer of LBC’s James O’Brien. I voted Rupa Haq in 2017 and voted Daniel Zeichner in 2019. If Dianne Abbott stands next year, who knows, I may vote her.

homole:
Hello House, as a dependent, looking to switch to a health and care visa as the main applicant is it mandatory I do a test to prove your knowledge of English for a health and care worker visa, Bear in mind I have a Higher National Diploma. Your suggestions will be appreciated.

Yes. You do need to proof your competency in the English Language.
Option 1: & write IELTS.
Option 2: Get your OND/HND transcripts and certificates. Get a letter from your school in Nigeria to attest that English was the medium of Instruction. Create an on the UK NARIC (I think they cal it ECCTISS now or so).
Do a comparison of your HND/OND. the attestation letter from your school. If it’s comparable to a UK English ( I think B2 they call it), then you are sorted. Use that to proof your English and apply for the visa.



If you require any further help, come back here. We are here to help.

missjekyll:
Apologies everyone, let me take Reesheesunack to a dead thread.
I keep replying because I do not want to leave misinformation uncorrected. You never know who is reading.

I want him/her to leave that finished party. 😃 .

You still never take me to the dead thread ohhh… I have been searching through all my mentions.

missjekyll:
Its a debate, not an inquisition. You answer your own questions and post links. Thats how we debate over here. Zahra29 is more fun to debate.
Come back , Zahra. 😃.

I only mentioned the daily mail because not everyone knows who rothermere is as would be clear to anyone who read my sentence...he does not pay uk taxes because of "non dom status ". That is unfair and should be remedied.simple and short

Does he (his company) pay every single kobo in tax for ALL the earnings in the UK?
The answer is YES.
This non dom argument get as e be.
So you, MissJekyll. Let’s assume that your grandfather in Nigeria left you 20,000,000 naira.
You open up a small Ankara company in Gusau.
You employ people. They work for your company. Your company in Gusau makes profit. Your company pays ALL taxes to the FIRS in Nigeria.

The same You, MissJekyll, having moved to the UK, you used the money you earned in the UK to open up a zobo factory in Bath or Cornwall.

Your zobo company employs British people and provided jobs for British people. Your zobo company pays ALL its taxes to the HMRC.

Then along comes Labour Candidate who says that to raise money in order to fund UK schools and to pay Benefits to UK citizens and to increase the salaries of UK GPs, you MUST pay taxes on ALL your company profits in Gusau, Nigeria to the UK govt, in addition of all the taxes you have paid to the FIRS in Nigeria.
In other words, your Zobo factory in Bath pays taxes to HMRC only, whereas your Ankara company in Gusau is expected to pay taxes to both the FIRS and the HMRC.


Which kind sense be that?


So much for Labour wanting to fund the UK from non dom status taxes.

Give me a break!

dustydee:

Jokes apart, you are doing a better job than a lot of the front benchers and for now you have my vote unless Starmer messes up.

Starmwr that cannot even tell us what/who a woman is.

Starmer that is tilting so much to the Blue team that he has now started copiously quoting Margaret Thatcher?

As to your vexation about what KS did to JC, come on….. but Keir ed Corbyn & Corbyn’s mad manifesto on 2019, Keirn’t he?

missjekyll:
To sum up our discussion this afternoon, Tories are bad 👎. They know it and have accepted defeat in the next election.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-boss-accused-giving-up-31631600

As to the owner of the Daily mail, why don't you answer all those questions yourself? I have said he doesn't pay uk taxes
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/29/non-dom-status-claimed-by-800-british-born-taxpayers-living-in-uk,

where is your evidence that he does?

People , I ve found a Tory . Please direct your questions on the recent changes to him/her.
I have a few for him/her as well....

why are your plans for immigrants like all of us on this thread so vindictive and punishing? Why have you spent 300 million on this Rwanda fairytale with nothing to show for it?
Why are you pushing to leave the European Court of Human Rights ? What other terrors do you have planned for the hapless inhabitants of these Isles?

Why are the railways expensive yet cr*p?

why is the NHS now rubbish?

Why are schools collapsing literally?

Why are prisons now so full to the brim that criminals are being released early?where are our bobbies on the beat?

Why are criminal courts backed up to 2 years even for serious crimes?

Why can i no longer swim in the sea at dymchurch because soakaway is being poured into the ocean?

Why are there more foodbanks than mcdonalds?

What have you done well in the past 13 years?

Pray tell, inquiring minds on this thread want to know

As an avid student of (recent Nigerian History), your rhetoric is EXACTLY what the APC used to get to power in 2015. All these ‘Where’ questions you are asking, the APC asked them. And because of all the Where’s rhetoric, the APC got into power. The APC (in 2014) was talking about making $ = NGN. What they failed to do was to say the ‘HOW’.

That is the same thing You (and UK Labour & Cooperative Party) are doing. Whipping up rhetorics. Oya, tell us (the voters) how you will achieve it. The HOW is the key thing here. Plus, where will the money come from?

Missjekyll. HoW will you achieve these?

Railways are expensive yet crap: How will labour reduce the fare from Sheffield to Rotherham from £5.10 to £1.20?


The NHS is now rubbish: HOW will Labour un-rubbish it?

There are no bobbies on the beat: How will Labour bring bobbies on the beat? And where will the money for the bobbies salaries come from?


There are more food banks than macdonalds: How will Labour establish more macdonalds to outnumber the food banks?


Prisons are now full to the brim: how will Labour decongest them?


You see, you keep on banging about how the Tories are rubbish. Tell us how Labour will solve the problems.

ehizario2012:


You can make a novel out of this actually. I was only kidding and it's obvious. I was only angry because it was clear he just wanted to "show himself"

If I met him on my very first train ride and he booked me, I would have just taken it on the chin and moved on. Welcome to UK things... But 2 whites, one man, one woman didn't make an issue out of it.

But seriously, how will you be angry for someone for doing his job?

ehizario2012:


He is more sensible than those whites who used their discretion then. I am not even arguing that I was right, I know the law doesn't recognize ignorance but I was a few days in the UK... It's one of those things but this particular black guy just wanted to show himself. The owners of the land didn't book me, to and fro! Not one trip, but two!

It's alright, we move.

And that’s the reason why you wished it was in Lagos, so that you would do him something untoward, because he was doing his job.


If you want to bring up stories that touch, to portray any race as good and another race as bad, better bring up justifiable stories.

Your aim of bringing this story is summarised in the last 2 sentences of your original post:
To imply that the black guy who is an immigrant (like you) shouldn’t apply the rules to a ‘fellow’ immigrant. Your story was meant to paint white as good and black (immigrant) as bad.
No sir. E No gel.

missjekyll:
Apologies everyone, let me take Reesheesunack to a dead thread.
I keep replying because I do not want to leave misinformation uncorrected. You never know who is reading.

I want him/her to leave that finished party. 😃 .

You mentioned owner of daily mail. I asked you the simplest questions, your skirt around. Realising the folly of not drawing the line between the man vs the man’s businesses.

Goke7:


did he intentionally want to break the law? did he pay his fare or not on the previous occasions?

He made it clear to all of us here that were it to be in Lagos, he would have manhandled the black ticketing officer who was simply just doing his job and applying the rules.

ehizario2012:
The conductors definitely must have had an option to use their descretion and accept cash, maybe an unwritten rule among them... But it's but it's by discretion. If there was no room for flexibility, those white conductors would have booked me. Take it ore leave it. There are laws, there are traditions.

Please stop this narrative you are painting, insinuating that it’s black people (ticket inspectors) that do over do.
Accept that you were wrong (ignorance is not an excuse before the law). And learn from the experience. And move on.

ehizario2012:


I laugh @ racism? What's racism? It's in all of us, that's why we were uncomfortable when Fulani herdsmen tried to take our lands through Ruga, that's why there was Ghana must go. Every man is racist by nature, take it or leave it so I'm not bothered by that.

I ed through two white people without stress, they must have seen something that made them let me , they didn't even tell me I should have bought a ticket before boarding! They just collected my £10 and gave change with a smile... I later read d rules and understood that tickets should be purchased before boarding etc... but I'm sure those whites would not have booked me for not buying tickets especially when they saw my family. But this privileged black guy wan oppress new immigrant. I laugh.

Balderdash!!

The white ticket inspectors (who in All honesty failed to do their jobs properly) were probably too scared to apply the rules to you because of fear you could play the race card.

Plus, the white men looked at your face and saw that you resembled someone who could do to them what you implicitly implied you would do to that Black ticket inspector (re: last sentence of your original post). So they just ‘let sleeping dog lie’.

But that black ticket inspector, he saw you, looked at your face and e no scare am. He has probably handled rough people (in that same Lagos you quoted previously). So he applied the rules.

missjekyll:
I submit that comparing wales and england is comparing apples to oranges. They are 2 nations with entirely different demographics and budgeting priorities.
In any case , its probably best left to Scottish or Welsh Nigerians if there are any on the thread.You seem to be repeating daily mail headlines ( correct me if I m wrong)

What would be fairer is to compare the same nation (England) under the labour party and the conservatives.

As to taxes, it is only fair that people who make more should pay more taxes. Lord Rothermere (owner of the daily times a billionaire) pays No taxes in the UK. The same uk he has based his business in and freely uses UK services being paid for taxpayers like you and i. This is just 1 example. There are thousands more.

Taxing the rich will raise more money too for social services .Its simple mathematics, 40 % of £5000 is less than 40% of 1 million.

I heartily endorse this policy. Everybody should pay their share towards the growth of the country.
The government should tax them first before coming to me for more money.

You see, my sister. (Probably) unlike you, the Daily Mail does not control or determine my PoV.
If it is any comfort (to you), I consume the Guardian, the Independent more than o do the Daily Mail or the Daily telegraph.


At least you have not been able to defend the Labour government in Wales.


You said the OWNER of the daily mail pays no taxes in the UK. How about the Business? Does the Daily mail (as a business pay their fair share of taxes? Does the daily mail pay corporation taxes? Is the daily mail a burden to the UK? Does the daily mail provide gainful employment to hundreds of citizens (who may otherwise probably have been without jobs?)

Is your issue with the daily mail (as a company) or with the daily mail major shareholder? Is your problem the company or the person?

ehizario2012:


Lol @judgement. Now I understand why people bring their issues here and say it happened to their uncle, brother, sister, neighbour, cousin etc... never themselves! Its the judgement they afraid of... Well, I'm an Edo man and we nor dey fear judgement.
It's all in the past now anyway.

Whether Edo man. Lagos man. Or Sheffield man.
You were wrong.

You even implied that the ticket inspector stuck to the rules because he was BLACK.
And you even went on to insinuate that if it was somewhere else, you would have physically assaulted the inspector, for doing their lawful job.

Bro. You were wrong. Plain & simple.

ehizario2012:



Hmmm... In my first week in this country, I took a train to Rotherham from Sheffield and paid £5.6 in cash inside the train, on my way back I paid the same £5.6 in cash. The conductors were white, a lady to, and a guy fro. It was only me that day, I went to confirm our accomodation.

Following day, I packed my family and all my children inside train to Rotherham, got there as usual, met a white conductor outside the train and told him I'll be paying cash inside the train he said no problem. Lo and behold, the conductor I saw was a black man, he asked for tickets and I said I am paying cash. Next thing, this black man gave me a ticket of £100 for not buying a ticket before boarding the train... My protests and samples of receipts of previous journeys fell on deaf ears. I felt so embarrassed with my kids. That's how we do ourselves, over sabi na e dey kill some of us. Over do!!! He definitely came in as a migrant too! If na Lagos we dey, I for use something do am.

Imagine….. na you break law, na you still wan come claim say black conductor do wrong.
You are in the wrong.

missjekyll:
I not only answered your question about wales , i extended it to scotland and northern ireland when i mentioned devolved governments.

Westminster have got the purse strings and with the best will in the world, even the best government in the world cannot deliver without funding.

If you think the economy was bad under Gordon Brown, how would you describe it now and in the past 13 years?

Do you , in all honesty, deserve another win? NO!Absolutely NOT.

You are beginning to sound like Nigerian Governors. A PDP governor will be performing woefully in his state, he will not be doing what Governors are meant to do. If you ask him, he will point the fingers at the APC President as the cause.

Same applies to an ANPP Governor. This Governor will not pay salaries. Not pay pensioners. This Governor will use millions and millions and millions to sponsor pilgrimages. Sponsor mass weddings. Build new mosques. Sponsor quaran recitation programmes, sponsor feeding during Ramadan. This same Governor will not build or improve a single Govt Sec Schoo or primary school. If you want to hold him to ransom, he will point the blame at the PDP president at the centre.

Question: Has the Labour government in Wales utilised the ‘meagre’ resources they get from Westminster to better the lives of the Welsh voters (on issues that are within the powers of the devolved governments)?
No…. They would rather pursue useless 20mph speed limits.


Has the SNP utilised all they get from Westminster to better the lives of the Scots?
No, they would rather spend hundreds of hours pursuing phantom gender bills. And Nicola & her hubby will be using money to buy motorhomes.


I am not saying we Tories are messiahs. Never. I am not saying we Tories don’t have useless folks amongst us. Never.
All I am saying is, you stop this idea of portraying Tories as bad and Labour as messianic.


Imagine your way of raising money (according to you) is to tax the hell out of rich people, as though it is a crime to be genuinely rich. It amounts to poor understanding of Economics & capitalism to think that the best way a government can raise money is to tax the hell out of rich people.