My neighbor sponsored his 26-year-old younger brother to the UK in 2024. The younger brother would always complain about how boring and lonely life was in the UK, but my neighbor kept encouraging him. “Don’t worry, you’ll soon get used to the environment.” He eventually completed his master’s degree last year. After that, he approached my neighbor and asked if he could help sponsor his girlfriend to the UK too. “Bring your girlfriend to the UK? That won’t be possible. She should ask her family members to run that for her,” my neighbor replied. His brother insisted that if my neighbor refused to help him bring his girlfriend over, he would leave the UK and return to Nigeria to meet her. My neighbor stood his ground. Early this year, his younger brother returned to Nigeria without informing him. He rented an apartment and started living with his girlfriend. No job, no business, just the little money he had managed to save while in the UK. Eventually, he ran out of money, and the girlfriend broke up with him. “I thought you had made it already. So people in the UK are suffering too?” she told him. Now, my neighbor’s younger brother is begging him to send him back to the UK. My neighbor told him, “Over my dead body!”