Chief EgoBekee

My personal experience on this 👇 After I got my admission to Germany 🇩🇪 in 2020, my girlfriend (now wife) was very skeptical about when I would come back for her. Her concerns were valid, her environment was filled with stories of women who hadn’t seen their husbands for years after they traveled abroad. To be honest, even I didn’t fully know how the future would play out. All I had was my full commitment to her, despite the distance. We prayed about it and agreed to continue with a long distance relationship. The plan was: maybe when I start a PhD, I’d come back, marry her, and take her along. We also started exploring other options like Canada Express Entry along the way etc. But life had a better plan. During my MSc, I got an international job offer from the Netherlands 🇳🇱. In the HR email, they asked me to send the passport details of my wife so they could process her visa to the Netherlands 🇳🇱. I was shocked 😳 I replied immediately to confirm. I told them I wasn’t married yet, but asked: “Do you mean if I’m married, you can sponsor my wife, even if she’s in Nigeria?” They said yes. Omo… I can’t explain the joy I felt that day 😭 That same day, I started planning my wedding 😂 I resumed work in September, traveled to Nigeria in November to marry my babe, and by February, my employer had processed everything and she joined me abroad. Just like that. So yeah… I guess we were lucky. But more than luck, I’d say it was faith, timing, and commitment aligning perfectly.

My personal experience on this 👇 After I got my admission to Germany 🇩🇪 in 2020, my girlfriend (now wife) was very skeptical about when I would come back for her. Her concerns were valid, her environment was filled with stories of women who hadn’t seen their husbands for years after they traveled abroad. To be honest, even I didn’t fully know how the future would play out. All I had was my full commitment to her, despite the distance. We prayed about it and agreed to continue with a long distance relationship. The plan was: maybe when I start a PhD, I’d come back, marry her, and take her along. We also started exploring other options like Canada Express Entry along the way etc. But life had a better plan. During my MSc, I got an international job offer from the Netherlands 🇳🇱. In the HR email, they asked me to send the passport details of my wife so they could process her visa to the Netherlands 🇳🇱. I was shocked 😳 I replied immediately to confirm. I told them I wasn’t married yet, but asked: “Do you mean if I’m married, you can sponsor my wife, even if she’s in Nigeria?” They said yes. Omo… I can’t explain the joy I felt that day 😭 That same day, I started planning my wedding 😂 I resumed work in September, traveled to Nigeria in November to marry my babe, and by February, my employer had processed everything and she joined me abroad. Just like that. So yeah… I guess we were lucky. But more than luck, I’d say it was faith, timing, and commitment aligning perfectly.

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MTN – money thieving network

My company kept paying this amount until another similar company came and bought almost all the senior engineers with enticing offers and was coming for us the juniors,so the MD called us for a meeting and instantly placed everyone on 450k and 500k salaries(with increment every 6 months) He ordered cars for about 10 of the senior engineers left and started treating us nice immediately. The problem is lack of competition and lack of cautioning by the government.