fstranger:
Total BS. No one is going to pay a driver that much money anywhere in the world.




Yeah, thats capitalism for you. If there is a better package out there, let us know. If not, STFU



Is that true? Why is he doing that when he should be enlarging your father's pocket? Dangote, the owner of Dangote Inc., is trying to enlarge Dangote's pocket . . . what an abomination! What he is doing is totally evil, totally out of place.




He does not . . . so who does?

Your govt? Hmm why didnt the govt provide you better jobs?

Your parents? Why didnt they provide you better jobs?

Your Teachers, why didnt they provide you better jobs.


Why are Nigerians so entitled like this? I mean, why should Dangote give a shyt about your retardedd arse. Is he your father?

AjanleKoko:

Almost like you read my mind.
I had someone ask me the past week, why do we hire graduates to work in call centers? Because of so many soft issues, there are always going to be challenges with motivating them, keeping them focused on the job, etc. Better to hire and train someone who can give you a much better ROI over time. That's the same reason why banks started hiring OND grads as tellers and front office staff.

seun001: If it wasn't a condition, many graduates will still apply but making it a condition is the issue and that is what people are venting about.
will employing Graduates -
make Dangote improve maintenance of the trucks.
make him increase the salary/remuneration he is paying his current drivers.
provide better working environment considering the average employer in Nigeria exploits his employees.
automatically make our roads cease to be death traps or do you think those same illiterates actually have death wishes.

Please research the statistics,once you get employed in a profession,the odds that you change that line once you are in is low. You gonna become a driver for the whole of your career. That is why you see a doctor heading a financial services company.the word 'rat race' comes to mind.
Since you took a job as a driver cause you were not able to land a job,why do you think you will get one while you are a driver. don't forget that abroad, you are not taking up a driving engagement because you want it as a career but just to earn something while completing your studies and of course,it's easier to get a job even if you got a 2 yr driving experience.Tell that to the Nigerian employer and see the kind of response you will get.

There is no validity of comparing Nigeria to what happens abroad. You can enter an org abroad as a driver and rise up to become the CEO of that same company .That can never happen in Nigeria even if you are a genius.ask those that are employed in contract positions in Nigerian establishments if they were ever converted to full staff even after working for 15 years.

hononyx: So far I can see that those promulgating this job for graduates are working with oil and gas firms...or business moguls...I don't have a job and I won't drive the truck...lets continue to demean ourselves in the name of bad economy while some of us sit back behind our laptops with beautiful jobs pretending this idea is genius...we will get there...oya Bsc, B.eng, HND, OND, SSCE, no cert apply now...rubbish....

hononyx: So far I can see that those promulgating this job for graduates are working with oil and gas firms...or business moguls...I don't have a job and I won't drive the truck...lets continue to demean ourselves in the name of bad economy while some of us sit back behind our laptops with beautiful jobs pretending this idea is genius...we will get there...oya Bsc, B.eng, HND, OND, SSCE, no cert apply now...rubbish....

ola_pluto: Someone tell me the difference between Dangote's program and a billionaire looking for a phd holder to help him mow his lawn for a big pay. The only thing good about it is the paltry pay. If a billionaire comes tomorrow to employ phd holders to help him cut bush for 1m naira monthly, folks will apply because it puts food on table. But what happens when money becomes less important?

Ola one: ^^^^ It is a job. But, let graduates who are [b]desperate for income [/b]apply with their SSCE. He should stay clear of this. The move is full of spikes

AjanleKoko: If I was Dangote, I would go for SSCE holders, and not graduates.

dayokanu: I cant see the big deal about this.

In life the most important thing is paying your bills. Most of those rich men you see paid their dues.

I have heard rumours of Tinubu and Adenuga driving cabs while they were students and fresh grads before securing jobs

If I dont have a job and I need the money, I would apply even with a PhD

Whether you like Bill Gates or not...this is pretty
cool. Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out
at a high school speech about 11 things they did not
learn in school. He talks about how feel-good,
politically correct teaching has created a full
generation of kids with no concept of reality and how
this concept sets them up for failure in the real
world.

RULE 1
Life is not fair - get used to it.

RULE 2
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel
good about yourself.

RULE 3
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out
of high school. You won't be a vice president with
car phone, until you earn both.

RULE 4
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a
boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE 5
Flipping burgers is not beneath anyone's dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping
they
called it Opportunity.

RULE 6
If you mess up,it's not your parents' fault, so don't
whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE 7
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills,
cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about
how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest
from the parasites of your parent's generation, try
delousing the closet in your own room.


RULE 8
Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools they have abolished
failing grades and they'll give you as many times as
you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE 9
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get
summers off and very few employers are interested in
helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

RULE 10
Television is NOT real life. In real life people
actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

RULE 11
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for
one

fstranger:

Even in the West, graduates from Ivy-leagues occasionally have to leave their comfort zones and travel to far-flung places like Africa under grueling and demeaning condition to do work, teach and interract with boring and retardedd souls like the many you have here just to build up their resume and eke out some of their most interesting periods in poverty and poverty-stricken environments. They do it because they understand that there is dignity in work. What is wrong in a graduate driving, if that is what t takes to keep body and mind together?

Bill gate said it best:

Ufeolorun:
You laid it down like a serious employer.Why should I employ people who see my job offer as a stepping stone or a stop gap measure.I think this whole graduate driver thing is just a ploy by Dangote to either be in the news or kiss up to the public,it further questions his business acumen.

since_1914: I have read all the arguements for and against the Dangote truck driver job and I must say am impressed that this hasn't turned into one of those topics that degenerates into name-calling and other unproductive behaviours on this forum.

I personally think most of the points made 'for and against' are all very valid. At the end of the day, everything depends on our individual situations, beliefs, goals and ambitions in life. For some people it is difficult to re-invent themselves after taking on a truck drivers job for 3-4 years. In fact it takes 'uncommon' courage to wake up one morning and quit a job that puts food on your table, without first getting an alternative especially if you already started raising a family on account of this job.

Secondly, the moment you sit in the driver's seat of Dangote's truck, that is the day you wave your university qualifications goodbye. Because in a country like ours, life experiences doesn't count for anything in the eyes of recruiters and employers of labour. As far as they are concern, you were not employable in your field thats why you took up a driving job. It were elsewhere, such experience would count in your favour but here it will count against you.

On the flipside, those whom have vowed to pursue their dreams rather than take up Dangote's job offer, should be ready to see their dreams to realisation even in the face of hunger and indigence. Its not enough to have big dreams and egos. There must be a plan.

Ola one:
Come on, how many of those burger-flipping Oyinbos are graduates? How many truck drivers in your NY are graduates?

And, those gap year students DO NOT go to Africa in order to "eke out a living"? They do it because they like adventure . . they do it in order to have real-life experience.




Let me use your usual style whenever you want to rile EktBear up here: STRANGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, stop. Stop NOW, Stranger!

hononyx: @Bello oya come home with your degrees and start a career with the truck drivers association of dangote....very funny story you have indeed, I don't need to be a professor to know how frustrating it is for you out there, but let me ask you a simple queston, what happens to the unskilled labor force that abounds in this country if graduates treasure this offer?...the call for self employment is unilateral but don't sit in the comfy of your highly rated status and dictate what happens to chaps that are in a system that doesnt work...am tired of listening to this foreign stories..be patriotic and apply becos you think the man is doing Nigerians a favor...am not saying folks shouldnt apply but why not encourage these graduates in more befitting ways...now you think graduates move from class to class to earn a degree, you forget its still your first class from this same universities that has given you the opportunity abroad...oga Bello be sincere and tell the truth when you see one, there are other ways to encourage these graduates...leave the unskilled jobs for the unskilled...you admitted that you went up the ladder too in your landscaping jobs, allow us too to grow both mentally and physically and don't ridicule us with your part time job....

Ukwu_Nnu:

Am sorry to say but you are pathetic! You don't have job and don't want one...

A cuz of mine drove truck for a coy for yrs b4 he secured a better job in an oil firm today.

Nobody is condeming anybody to driving truck for life!

product:

Don't mind him , why can't he just stay put here in Nigeria and farm , after all some farmers are graduates . Unwarranted advice

Ola one: To me, it's just a way of saying "Yeah . . look at me . . I am not even a graduate . . . And I am a bloody billionaire. Well, the so-called graduates are the one driving my trucks. Bloody clueless boys and girls with paper certificates that certify them as clueless fucktards. I am so fuc.king blessed."

since_1914: Secondly, the moment you sit in the driver's seat of Dangote's truck, that is the day you wave your university qualifications goodbye. Because in a country like ours, life experiences doesn't count for anything in the eyes of recruiters and employers of labour. As far as they are concern, you were not employable in your field thats why you took up a driving job. It were elsewhere, such experience would count in your favour but here it will count against you.

dayokanu:

Bleep yeah. Isnt it the same thing every billionaire does? Bill gates gather all the smart geeks from Harvard and MIT and lump them into one room and they make millions for me Bill fuking Gates a murderfreaking Drop out.

Like its said Most of top 5-10 richest men in thw world are not even college grads and they would tell you to work for them you need a 4.0 GPA.

I heard Elumelu had a 3rd class but he might tell you to work for him you need a 2-1.

Thats the way the world is. If I am rich I can tell you that I need an Ivy League MBA to be my cleaner for $200,000 ayr If you dont like it skip over

Ola one:
Well, you are right. It is not compulsory to take it up.
However, I am sure you know that Bill Gates example is different. BSC for trucking work. C'mon, guys. It is demeaning. Would you have considered it?

dayokanu:

Do you think the field of study still count in many cases? Go to banks and consulting companies the majority of people there are Engineering and Science grads.

Go to Wall street, its also filled with Engineers and Scientists.

The MD of a Bank in Nigeria is a petroleum Engineer.

The first thing in life is making ends meet. After that you can start talking about field.

i graduated as a Chemical Engineer and I can tell you less than 20% of my graduating class work as Chemical Engineers right now almost a decade after graduation