₦airaland Forum

dallasi:
When Ecobank took over Oceanic Bank, the Oceanic staff discovered that we were calling one another by our first names in Ecobank. Our MD Funke Osibodu was Funke but not Mrs. Osibodu. They were coming from a background that they were calling Mr. Adetunji, Oga Deji, Madam Ibru, Dr. Clever…. So, they had to adjust. So, if it is Mrs. Cecilia Ibru who is cautioning that lady, I may not have any issue with it. No issue because that is what she encouraged in the institution that she ran in Oceanic Bank. Majority of Nigerians who will be contributing on this discussion online will definitely not know this truth. They will not know because most of them were still in primary school or still crawling in the 1990s when Tony Elumelu and his other ‘cow boy bankers’ came to the corporate world at their tender ages. Elumelu became MD of Standard Trust Bank, STB in 1997 at age 34. Other guys who floated GT bank and Access Bank were also in their 30s. They could not do the work alone so they had to recruit staff into their Banks. They discovered that the experienced people that they were hiring were in their 40s, and 50s. They found it ridiculous to be calling their staff Mr. Lagbaja and Mr. Tamedu. They had a complex, giving instructions to someone older than them. To conquer the complex, they introduced the idea of calling all staff by their first names. It levelled the ground for everybody. Mr. Daramola Oladeji at 44 is now addressed as Deji, Mrs. Oluwole Olufunmilayo with 3 boys in the university at 48 was being called Funmi at work and she must answer. They were the one who came to destroy the work place ethics in order to satisfy their ego and help them manage their complex.
One good thing about it I must confess is that it makes you freer to relate with your colleagues without any age barrier to the overall benefit of the organization. In Ecobank during the general staff meeting which we call village meeting, you will hear people saying ‘Funke’, I have been raising my hand since and you have not given me chance to talk … that is the MD that that they are addressing. Even at that, if I am to travel with the MD to Abuja on the same flight and I want to ask her which airline to book, i will enter her office and say ‘Funke admin is asking me which airline should they book for our journey?’ Do you know that on that flight, I will carry her bag, as a mark of respect. If another big Oga is with us on the trip and we reach our destination and he ask ‘ Deji what are you doing, you are delaying us’; Do you know I can tell the Oga without any fear, "I am waiting for the conveyor belt to bring Funke's bag, but it has not come" meanwhile, the person i am calling Funke is the owner of the bag I am waiting to collect oooo.

I have gone this far to let you know that even in the midst of name calling, we used to give honor and regard to one another but not openly like they do in some other places. That girl knew which environment she was coming into. She knew people were being called and addressed by their first names. They were tutored along this line in the training school. Those who violated the policy were given penalized
She will do d same in an Access Bank. She will do it in GT and Ecobank and she will not be reprimanded. I had an Oga that came from Afribank of old to join us in Ecobank. When he would address our Group Head, he was always being fined N1,000 in those days. He would say ‘Excuse me, Sir’, here is a fine of N1,000. Mr. Lagbaja sir, another N1,000 fine but when he calls our Group Head by his first name, our group head will say ‘Yes, i am listening’. The other man was coming from a background where the culture was different from the new place he found himself.

Money has come; age has also come. Tony is seeing that lady as age mate of his own girls of yesteryears who have equally become ladies now. He and his friends who were underaged bankers were the promoters of this culture in the banking industry.


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Starboytwo:
Even me self go run.

No vex.

onajo2000:
He doesn't know how to speak English correctly

BoogieBoogie:
E don tay na..U forget to write the late Tai Solarin....Still doff my hat for the late Gani Fawwhinmi and late Fela Kuti , lots of respect to Femi Falana though..

LibertyRep:
What exactly has Soyinka done wrongly?

I understand those activists turned politicians who eventually secured a place at the table. But why do we lump those who stayed in their lane with politicians?

jude79:
The blockage of road whether by redeemed oo, Christian's oo, indigenes oo, Muslims oo, all are against the law and must be stopped!!!! Qed.

maivd:
Yes head slammers will support all forms of violence. Spits on your deranged head.

Shinjawest:
Do you now want to support Palestine?

All Muslims r terrorists..

I will always support Israel .

Muslims r not good people..

If u gv dem peace they will gv u war ..

God bless Israel for doing the lord's work

God bless America and all killer's of head
slammers

AroOkigbo:
And who's collecting wotowoto now?
First to do no de pain

internet:
U are a fool, empty skull, illiterate of the 21st century. U don't know anything i swear. Ask intellectuals to sit u down and lecture u. U don't know anything about israel and the world at large. All the arab nations combine together can not defeat israel. Bloody muslim bigot and terrorist like u. If e sure for the arab nations, they should team up and go against israel, if dem no go collect am wotowoto from israel.

cjudy:
Oya cry small small.
Your Gaza and any other country that will put hand is already collecting wotowoto Abi you no Dey watch news?
Your terrorist country are collecting heavy payment as we talk now.

cjudy:
Oya cry small small.
Your Gaza and any other country that will put hand is already collecting wotowoto Abi you no Dey watch news?
Your terrorist country are collecting heavy payment as we talk now.

CaptainAyub:
Na Israel fit una

Okwyjesus:
Isreal na country abeg.

Less than the smallest region in Nigeria but thick skinned

Validated:
Israel should bulldoze all those standing structures. Let the place revert to desert that it was. Nonesense killers of infants do not deserve to live. They should join their cousins in Lebanon and Syria.

SIONKPO1:
That's why people says average Muslim are Terrorists,instead of to to condemn the barbaric actions by Hamas,you are codedly applauding it ,well latest Sunday Gaza may seize this exist and if it does it can never be rebuilt again.
Mr Terrorist

Whytelyon:
Answer this question
- did Palestenians not know that land was waste land before Israel came? What did they do about it?

ccrazy:
First prophet mohammed is a smelly beastly pig, allah is a mad insane rabid dog and Islam is a form of mental illness.
TAA! be straightforward with your narrative. In your quoran, the one you claim to believe, these prophets,

Dzulkifli as (Ezekiel) ذو الكفل

Dawud as (David) داود

Sulaiman as (Soloman) سليمان

Ilyas as (Elijah) إلياس

Alyas’a as (Elisha) اليسع

Yunus as (Jonah) يونس

Zakaria as (Zachariah) زكريا

Yahya as (John) يحيى

Isa as (Jesus) عيسى

please where they living in Neptune or earth, if on earth where was their residence then and which geographical location was it?

IF You can't honourably answer this, then you are a hypocrite just like your fellow Islamic terrorists and Israel will show una siege.

Taylor94:
Israel no wan leave Hamas make them drink water keep cup


Who send Palestine make them first go attack Israel sef


Whoever gave that order must be regretting now


You go dey attack God’s own nation


Palestine una mind no go touch ground

illicit:
Argument get age?

U no read of where Jesus Christ go inside synagogue dey go lecture him papa mates?

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joyandfaith:
Nation or kingdom of Palestine has never existed historically. Jews returned to their ancestral homes after 2000 years in exiles around the world. Palestine was never part of Arab territory.

FalseProphet1:
That's Muslims for you. Give them food, shelter, accommodation. Once they become comfortable, they'll start killing you.

I heard Israel use to give work permit to Gaza inhabitants to come to Israel and work. Now everything would stop, they'll all become refugees. Depending on UN support for survival. All because their religion told them to hate and kill non Muslims.

This I have seen.

illicit:
That year I dey JSS 2

I saw the victims on TV, some drowned inside canal


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