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Bruno G is in the squad for the Chelsea game.
While I have your attention, Bespoke Suicidal professional help is available at every PL ground this season.
The Hub (right by The Armoury) is open 2 hours before, during and up to 2 hours after every league home game this season.
LBC caller Andy:
“The silence on Middlesbrough is deafening.”
9 people killed! 2 serving policemen dead.
A little girl of 7 years old burned alive.
Gang warfare.
Extra police flooding in.
No “pure, cold rage” from Farage. No Reform roadshow.
That phrase only comes out when the offenders look a certain way.
£1,700 a month coming in. £900 on rent. £300 on bills.
No car. No holidays. Every meal cooked at home. Shops in Lidl. Already cut back on everything there was to cut back on.
That leaves around £500 for food, phone, clothes, getting to work and anything that goes wrong.
"Budget better" gets said to people in that position constantly. What exactly is left to budget?
As a medical student, I was travelling through Turkey with some classmates. Our flight was delayed for almost 24 hours.
They singled out the only person in our group with a British passport. She jumped the queue, was given a hotel room and vouchers to eat at top restaurants in the airport.
We, the Nigerian passport holders, weren’t given rooms. We got voucher, with limits, to eat at Burger King.
This was around 2010. I’ve never forgotten it.
I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.
One thing became clear:
Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.
Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.
This isn't about politics.
It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.
I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.
Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.
If we get education right, we change Nigeria.
Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi
🚨🇨🇭🤯 Swiss commentator David Lemos has SLAMMED FIFA and the 2026 World Cup:
🗣️ "It was without a doubt the most commercialised World Cup in history, and also one of the most politicised.
We will not forget the price paid by people who didn't have significant financial means to follow their passion...
Sometimes they couldn't even enter the country because their nationality wasn't the right one. Fans, journalists, and even referees, such as Somali official Omar Artan 🇸🇴.
We also think about the unacceptable treatment of the Iran national team, who were unable to compete on equal terms in this tournament.
We also think of the Balogun case: we witnessed a president boasting about calling the FIFA president to have a player's suspension overturned.
Politics found its way into the heart of the game, even though FIFA says it wants football to be above everything else. Clearly, that is only true up to a certain point.
It was also a World Cup in which every match was effectively played in four quarters, and the final featured a half-time interval of almost 30 minutes...
The crisis has two names: money and power. Today, there is a crisis of trust between many people involved in the sport and FIFA.
In the coming weeks, money will pour into many federations and many figures in football, who will politely be invited to stay quiet.
We can only hope that some of these issues will be addressed, and that we never see them again."
When the perpetrator is a white Christian man and the victim is a brown Sikh woman, funny how all of those details are left out of western media headlines.
This is what this "brilliance" looks like over an actual life.
You arrive legally, pay PAYE, NI, visa fees, and thousands upfront for the IHS(the highest fees in the world).
Five years later, you may be settled, but the safety net you funded is still kept behind another locked door.
Even before settlement, healthcare was not a completely open door for you. In England, the NHS may investigate infertility, but an IHS payer is excluded from funded IVF, IUI & donor treatment. One private IVF cycle averages about £5,000 before medication & storage.
"It can never be you", but no one who has ever needed these services felt it would be them.
Then, thank God a child arrives. No Child Benefit. If wages fall, no Universal Credit child element. Some funded childcare survives NRPF, but the UC scheme that can repay up to 85% of childcare costs is unavailable, so the family quietly absorbs the gap. Wild guess how many families in Britain do you think do not/have not used one of these in their lifetime?
Then work disappears( I know, it can never be you) or the rent rises. New Style JSA may exist if the NI record is strong enough, but there is no UC for living costs or rent, no Council Tax Reduction, and no ordinary route into social housing or homelessness assistance. That your cash ISA you're proud of will disappear before your eyes. You may be in your 20s now and alone but you won't be like that forever.
Then someone unfortunately has a stroke. The NHS may stabilise them & offer short-term rehabilitation or reablement, usually free for no more than 6 weeks. But a serious brain injury does not check the calendar & recover once it has reached week six.
After that, long-term physio, OT & personal care become a negotiation across NHS & council boundaries. NRPF does not erase the right to a Care Act but neither route is automatic, a lot of immigrants are left high and dry—even NHS workers.
Meanwhile, PIP is closed. If a partner cuts work to become your carer, Carer's Allowance is closed. If savings are drained by rent & daily care, UC is closed. The body may still receieve healing as the surrounding household around it collapses.
Nobody "wants benefits". Nobody wants infertility, redundancy, a stroke or a serious life changing event.
The point of a safety net is that a careful life can still split open without warning. After years of paying in, migrants should not be insured only against "good luck". I don't think people fully understand what "they don't want any anyway".
Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.
I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.
I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.
I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.
My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦♂️
At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.
Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.