Hedonisst:


From my experience we don't have nearly enough of "so much talent". It's a game of numbers. If by talent, you mean being good enough to be mere cogs in the wheel, especially when working overseas, or being good enough to reinvent the wheel (which is what our people excel at), then I understand that. Innovators? Outliers? Too few.

magicminister:



It’s not a waste of resources to empower our people.
Guys, we need to wake up man.

I don’t wanna die and still have a country that isn’t up to scratch with most countries on earth!

HigherEd:
To be very honest, the most important thing is that the buildings don't collapse on its residence. And I am sorry I don't trust the Nigerian University system and her products...

deomelo:




And the foreign entities can not wait to snatch the same Nigerian trained professionals via brain drain just like Saudi Arabia drained away Nigerian trained doctors a few days ago?


Stop disrespecting and undervaluing your self worth

Famfa Oil Tower, Corner of Alfred Rewane (Kingsway) Road and Olawole

MrBrownJay1:


as on a deadline, they have no time to teach people nor waste valuable resources on educating people. this is too big of a project to leave any chance for failure or having irrelevant people running around on site.

next one will be better for educating locals!

forgiveness:


The Lebanese-Nigerian behind Azuri Towers development said he's transferring the technology to Nigerians. In fact, he has a school for that.

magicminister:


What school is that bro?
That would be really great news if true... Skill transfer is not something you really learn in school. Its something that happens on the job where you watch the more experienced people do it and then try to replicate it under their supervision until you're able to comfortably do it yourself.
An individual going to such school would be wasting their time and money.

fykes:

There's absolutely nothing a foreign engineer does better than a Nigerian engineer. Just that here in Naija quacks and apprenticeship has made engineering look like hawking.
I have worked for years with engineers from China, Philippines, turkey, South Korea and Indians. They can't put up or iinovate the way we do. They just have an air of superiority bcoz they know the black man has little regards for his kin

jesmond3945:
Op is hundred percent right, anybody that doesnt agree with him is suffering from inferiority and slave mentality. There are many blacks in the diaspora that can do this job perfectly well. This is why the white look down us as monkeys because we behave like one. What is so special with what they are doing that a black african cannot do?They make this money move it to their country and use it to oppress us.

magicminister:



Your head Dey there.

We are here fight ourselves when we can all unite and face the common enemy.
See, I might not like an Igbo or Yoruba or Hausa person but our continent is being raped and other countries are leaving us behind.

If we manage to have the Chinese build a borehole, we commission it.... we all have to rise up. This country can be great in our lifetime. We have lost too many talents to foreign countries and have failed to give emerging talents a chance to flourish.

Oshigun:
@OP

The project is a PPP model i.e public, private sector partnership. The private sector is financing the project and therefore can be be expected to have total freedom over recruitment of staff to work on Eko Atlantic. We need to stop overthinking issues in Nigeria and refrain from a mentality of avoiding the bigger picture to then be seeing problems where there is non. This is a powerful project and the benefits will be huge. Foreigners partnered with Nigeria to make it happen.

Instead of worrying about the non-inclusion of Nigerian at staffing level, start a campaign for many of our very rich politicians and business leaders to conceive and fund projects like these. They can then have the freedom to employ Nigerians labour to fill 100% of vacancies if they desire. If you don't need others then you control your destiny 100%. If you need others now, then work to not need them in future at any level. We need others desperately yet I don't see us working to ensure we don't in future.

Yes Nigerian labour can be deemed competent but financing these projects are considerations the likes of Elumelu, Otudeko, Dangote et al may not back. Those who provide the cash will have a say over issues such as staffing. If I am a Lebanese financier of a Nigerian project then I will employ my qualified cousin from Lebanon rather than a Nigerian as I owe Nigeria nothing. I am already helping them develop their Country with my cash and knowledge so why should my people not benefit? Why should the onus of developing/employing Nigerian human resources fall on me and not Nigerians themselves?

When , as an example, Dino Melaye puts billions into luxury cars that depreciates in value daily, instead of projects of infrastructure that will seal his legacy and outlast him, you begin to appreciate the black man's burden and how he is a prisoner to his own shallow values and belief system. I get your point but you also need to get the most important consideration here which is that things are the way they are because we Nigerians let it be that way. We don't show sufficient interest in taking charge of processes that will accelerate our own development. if we did, we will not be importing so much goods, services and direct labour as we do today.

HigherEd:
To be very honest, the most important thing is that the buildings don't collapse on its residence. And I am sorry I don't trust the Nigerian University system and her products...

Hedonisst:


Stay there and be making yeye mouth. You're comparing your incompetent self to Chinese, Indians and Koreans. How funny does that sound! Just stay in your lane abeg.

magicminister:


I know we don’t have the man power but projects like this should be a huge learning and growth experience for everyone

MrBrownJay1:
come on bro, what did you expect?! with all the corner cutting and building collapsing in the news, you really believe they wanted some scandal with such a big project as this one....?!

before that nko? isnt Berger the main player in building roads and bridges?!