professonal clearing/logistics agents. cool money

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kemd:

professonal clearing/logistics agents. cool money

@Kemd, hmmmm i've never heard of those, do you by chance have any idea how much they make how and what it is they actually do?

the construction section , i mean architecture, structural n civil engineering

i probably would have to give it to contractors or better yet the middlemen who hunt for contracts and then "sell" it to the real companies who do the real work, real estate agents also make a lotta moohlah, my friend made 6.5 m last month from a 290m crib in abj, he was part of a "consortium" of real estate agents

formally,soilder
see ibb, abacha, obasanjo, even david mark. which school them go?

Some answers given by some naija people are very frustrating, I thought the question was the most lucrative "profession"

Abi e kin gbo oyibo ni?

PROFESSION, PROFESSION, PROFESSION (profession is synonym for job, career, something you studied in school or learnt after school requiring technical or professional expertise, a service carried out, payable in salary, wage, or contractual agreement), bla bla bla,

E lo ka wikipaedia now      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession"A profession arises when any trade or occupation transforms itself through "the development of formal qualifications based upon education, apprenticeship, and examinations, the emergence of regulatory bodies with powers to admit and discipline members, and some degree of monopoly rights."

Abi una bi olodo ni!

I tire for una o!

Newcreatio, Thank you for reminding us what a profession is ,

The highest paid profession or professional would be the guy who runs his own business.

He may not be so rich when starting out but he's getting there in time.

There is nothing as fulfilling and complementing as running your own time, business and deciding for yourself, how much you want to earn. So as a professional practising my profession in my own company, i can decide to want a salary of N5million a month.

That simply translates to tuning my work to make sure that my net per month is in excess of 5M, so I can pay my salary and those of my staff and keep the company running.

newcreatio:

Some answers given by some naija people are very frustrating, I thought the question was the most lucrative "profession"

Abi e kin gbo oyibo ni?

PROFESSION, PROFESSION, PROFESSION (profession is synonym for job, career, something you studied in school or learnt after school requiring technical or professional expertise, a service carried out, payable in salary, wage, or contractual agreement), bla bla bla,

E lo ka wikipaedia now      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession"A profession arises when any trade or occupation transforms itself through "the development of formal qualifications based upon education, apprenticeship, and examinations, the emergence of regulatory bodies with powers to admit and discipline members, and some degree of monopoly rights."

Abi una bi olodo ni!

I tire for una o!

My broda, thank u jareeee, me sef i taya for some of these ppl. They'd just make a comment without understand what is been asked. NA WA. Thanks for enlightening them on what 'PROFESSION' means. Some of the comments are ANNOYING.

Just go into oil business. It does not matter if it is palm oil or Kulikuli oil, the name rings bell and the sky will be your limit.

basking4me:

Newcreatio, Thank you for reminding us what a profession is ,

The highest paid profession or professional would be the guy who runs his own business.

He may not be so rich when starting out but he's getting there in time.

There is nothing as fulfilling and complementing as running your own time, business and deciding for yourself, how much you want to earn. So as a professional practising my profession in my own company, i can decide to want a salary of N5million a month.

That simply translates to tuning my work to make sure that my net per month is in excess of 5M, so I can pay my salary and those of my staff and keep the company running.

If everybody buys your idea who will be your staff? robots or human beings?

for me o i think pastors( d 1 wey sabi see vision well well) is d highest payin n most lucrativ job right nw. just knw how to romance ur members and dats all

for me o i think pastors( d 1 wey sabi see vision well well) is d highest payin n most lucrativ job right nw. just knw how to romance your members and dats all

I dont quite undastand dat
But at d starters church work will first take all of your money, nights, sleep, everything that that makes u human goes wit it and u MUSt PRODUCE REAL GENUINE RESULTS for your members to the point that they RECOGNIZE IT IS YOUR INPUT that brought them this forth through God, If nah u, in what way can u appreciate the man of God, MONEY, and if you don't, even u will not feel satisfied and happy

I am talking from experience bro

obviously the most lucrative profession in Nigeria of today is Fraud if you can find your way in to it and with the right click, better still join the militants

It would be nice if we could have professionals in the various fields talk about renumeration structure in their industries.
All these comments about church and fraud are not really helping.

Multi-wetin? Abeg, talk something else.
Do u know the number people who are employed yearly by these multinationals through signed complimentary cards of some big shots irrespective of the course they have studied? Just go to university and obtain a degree, that's all; whether Yoruba or Hausa

I absolutely disagree with this. Most MNCs in Nigeria are merit-driven. At least I can talk for Shell, Chevron and Mobil. Of course, connection may get one or two people in, but 97% are merit-based. Secondly, especially for Shell, their recruitment standard is global, whether in Nigeria or Malaysia or Europe.

I have undergone Shell recruitment process in the past and got to final stage, SRD, but couldn't show up at Warri, for the exercise, due to an error of judgment and fluffed the opportunity.

I have at least two friends that got jobs in Shell without knowing anybody; from a poor background but very brilliant. Their recruitment process is merit-driven, but very competitive, forget about complementary cards.

Jarus:


I absolutely disagree with this. Most MNCs in Nigeria are merit-driven. At least I can talk for Shell, Chevron and Mobil. Of course, connection may get one or two people in, but 97% are merit-based. Secondly, especially for Shell, their recruitment standard is global, whether in Nigeria or Malaysia or Europe.

I have undergone Shell recruitment process in the past and got to final stage, SRD, but couldn't show up at Warri, for the exercise, due to an error of judgment and fluffed the opportunity.

I have at least two friends that got jobs in Shell without knowing anybody; from a poor background but very brilliant. Their recruitment process is merit-driven, but very competitive, forget about complementary cards.

@jarus,
do you really understand what you're talking about? 97%? in nigeria? you really need to mingle. merit-driven in nigeria? did you mean when getting experienced employees ( who can really better MNCs' lot) or fresh graduates? how many ministers of petroleum have we had in the last 20 years? trust me, each and every one of them could get you jobs with these so-called MNCs. then, permanent secretaries, niger delta governors/MILADs.former military leaders, judges,NDDC people (one is about to give my friend chevron job and the guy is still relaxing in london) , emirs,other ministers and vitually everybody in the presidency.
you really surprised me and it seems you don't understand nigeria or how things work in nigeria.
they dare not say no to all these people else they lose license for juicy oil allocations. but, obviously, some are merit-driven. but this can't be more than 65%.

if i may ask you, are admissions to universities in nigeria merit-driven, even to study medicine? are placements for doctors at LUTH, UCH merit-driven? would you say all WAEC/JAMB results are merit-driven also?
you'd better 'LOOK' well so that you're not left behind.
and, please answer this: despite your brilliance, have all the jobs you have had in your life (especially, when you first graduated) come to you whithout you knowing anybody; be it brother/friend/relative/acquantance. even if they only helped just to get you shortlisted before you eventually proved yourself as brilliant? even when you went to vetiva?please answer.
merit-driven MNCs;my foot!

^^
I beg to differ, and I'll align with Jarus.
There is always room for merit. I have never gotten any job so far from an introduction, and I have worked in 2 MNCs now.
My wife is also working in an MNC, the one that is most notorious for who-you-know. She got the job 100% on merit.

That's not to say there is no who-you-know. That exists not only in Nigeria, but everywhere in the world. Some grad schools in the US you can't even get into unless you know somebody. But that does not rule out merit.

^^^^
but would you say it is 97% like jarus said? because i can acutally give you evidence to the contrary. and if all the MNCs you know are truely merit-driven, please tell me their names as i am sure (not bragging though) i will pass their test(s). for sure! i have a brother who is a doctor and he was contantly denied opportunities in nigeria before he came back abroad where he studied. no merit.despite his brilliance.
and this is medicine oooooooo. that deals with our wellbeing. yet no merit.
if i tell his story, you'd hate nigeria.

ola olabiy:

^^^^
but would you say it is 97% like jarus said? because i can acutally give you evidence to the contrary. and if all the MNCs you know are truely merit-driven, please tell me their names as i am sure (not bragging though) i will pass their test(s). for sure! i have a brother who is a doctor and he was contantly denied opportunities in nigeria before he came back abroad where he studied. no merit.despite his brilliance.
and this is medicine oooooooo. that deals with our wellbeing. yet no merit.
if i tell his story, you'd hate nigeria.

You have a very good point; it's nowhere near 97%.
But I would still say at least 60% of jobs are via merit. After all, I work in an MNC as a manager, and I hire people every now and then.
Of course you cannot rule out profligiacy, which is huge in Nigeria. Yoruba-owned companies hire largely people from the South-West and Igbo-owned companies hire by default from the South-East. That remains a big problem in Nigeria, and is part of the overall trust and nationhood issue.

But merit is still there. If I look back over the last decade, so many of my contemporaries have been able to forge a career, despite not having any connections beyond somebody possibly helping you to submit your CV for an unadvertised vacancy. But the pre-requisites, such as a good degree in a discipline in demand, must be in place. The last ten years have also been good to Nigerians. many new jobs have been created, a far cry from the 90s when people were basically graduating into unemployment.

I hope this trend can continue as government proceeds with basic reforms. There is so much opportunity held down by a greedy and unrepentant few. As per your doctor brother, I would say medicine has progressively declined in Nigeria over the last thirty years. If your brother did not relocate, I wonder what he would have been doing in Nigeria.

ola olabiy:

^^^^
, i have a brother who is a doctor and he was contantly denied opportunities in nigeria before he came back abroad where he studied. no merit.despite his brilliance.
and this is medicine oooooooo. ,

well, what happens is that there are some establishments in which the people there wants to maintain absolute control. a guru may applied to such establishments, but the people there migth see their inclusion as a treat to their monopoly of power. it happens every where, even in the university and the military. many foreign trainned lecturals are denied the opportunity to lecture back home because they felt when introduced into the system, they may start dictating the tempo of things against the wish of the home base lecturals. in the military, the short service commissioned officers are discreminated against by the full combatant officers, even of the same rank. they see them as civillians in military uniforms. the list goes on and on.

AjanleKoko:

You have a very good point; it's nowhere near 97%.
But I would still say at least 60% of jobs are via merit. After all, I work in an MNC as a manager, and I hire people every now and then.
Of course you cannot rule out profligiacy, which is huge in Nigeria. Yoruba-owned companies hire largely people from the South-West and Igbo-owned companies hire by default from the South-East. That remains a big problem in Nigeria, and is part of the overall trust and nationhood issue.

But merit is still there. If I look back over the last decade, so many of my contemporaries have been able to forge a career, despite not having any connections beyond somebody possibly helping you to submit your CV for an unadvertised vacancy. But the pre-requisites, such as a good degree in a discipline in demand, must be in place. The last ten years have also been good to Nigerians. many new jobs have been created, a far cry from the 90s when people were basically graduating into unemployment.

I hope this trend can continue as government proceeds with basic reforms. There is so much opportunity held down by a greedy and unrepentant few. As per your doctor brother, I would say medicine has progressively declined in Nigeria over the last thirty years. If your brother did not relocate, I wonder what he would have been doing in Nigeria.

i think i have to take your word as you work for one of these MNCs. i think it is truely 3-in-5 situation at top companies in naija. 60% of employees are merit-driven. most of these merit-driven positions are however found at top or managerial level. so their CVs speak for them.
you are also right to say that nepotism exists the world over, though at a much more mild rate compared to naija. i once dated a daughter of a nigerian bigshot who came to the uk for her LLB. 3 siblings doin masters at the same time. they all returned to nigeria to work in top companies without any interview. her dad is a top judge (name withheld). no hard feeling as i would like to be in their position.

favouritism.
worringly, that is naija.

Jarus, Pls and pls, ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS>>>>>

to the best of my small experience auditing these MNCs, I would align with Ola_Olabiy.

THE PROBLEM IS THE SELECTION METHOD, u can say that the test and interview is based on merit, who and who did they invite to write the tests and attend interviews? (if they say they want 2nd class upper, 25 years, etc, is it everyone that applied and have the required criteria that they invited?)

I remember that early last year (2009), shell called for Graduate positions and I applied (just like loads of my friends and colleagues), only for me to hear from friend on a sunday that another old colleague of ours was having an interview with shell that week-end. He used influence from his uncle who is a Chief in the Nigerian Army (albeit, he was not taken eventually)

If a whole recruitment process is a SHAM, then why are we talking about 97% (it is circa 60% merit).

Shortly after the recruitment, we all received mails that the recruitment has been suspended till further notice.

until, I get to the top and see how it is done, i would not conclude that any organisation is holy.

^^^ It is dumb who benefit from such sham who will tell you it is done on merit, to hide their ineptitude.

At least the smart and intelligent ones tell you the truth even though they benefit from the sham.

You guys should look at it like this:

If Shell needs 100 people, they probably only have 55 or 60 merit slots.
Remember when you did JAMB. I don't know how it runs nowadays, but in my time, there was catchment area. Apart from Unilag, UI, and Abuja, every other school had catchment areas. There was also ELDS (educationally disadvantaged states), etc. And of course we all knew that top profs usually had lists.

Work is just like that. There are few well-paying jobs, and many people who want those jobs. So there is no way that influence won't play a role.
If you compare with the developed countries, you'll find a similar pattern. I am sure getting a job in Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs will have the merit, as well as the 'influence' candidates. It is a demand and supply thing.

So it doesn't mean the whole process is a sham. There are just less slots available, and you have to work harder. Else you have yourself to blame.

^^^^^
Pls pardon my ignorance, what does MNC stand for

MNC = Multi-National Companies

Oh i c. thnks bro

if 60% is based on merit then as long as you are good and have solid experience you shouldn't have any problem getting a job in any of these MNC i think

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Maybe the topic should have been highest paid professionals and most lucrative occupations in Nigeria, we seem to have a general understanding that they both mean the same thing but they are not. The truth is that many people are educated in various  professions but end up in different occupations just to earn a living. Occupations could be like banking, customer services, politics etc while professions still remain as doctors, lawyers engineers, teachers and the popular ones that specifically involve the act of technical professing.

i believe banking is the most lucrative occupation now in Nigeria though may not be highest paid, correct me if am wrong but please which is the highest paid/ lucrative profession, if you know of any and have an idea of how much they earn in figgures spill it out and lets quit beating about the bush!