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GloriousGbola:
indomie are the highest quality noodles sold in the country. and the company has stiff competition from numerous other FCMG. also guiness as a company are unlikely to allow their brand to be messed with.

this is what i expect [not immediate]
weakening of union
possible exiting of older staff [high earners]
tightening of controls - no more awoof overtime, no more stealing of diesel, etc
downgrading of assets - toyota to kia

You know the drill. The old staffers will be reeling out stories of the good old times to the new recently employed . They will be regaling stories of how u get sent on training to Dublin Ireland for 6 months while u get paid allowances in hard currency …. etc

GloriousGbola:
that is where you are wrong.

prepaid meters are for DOMESTIC customers
domestic customers are only one segment of energy users

you have customers on transformers 11kv who use MD meters
customers on 33kv transformers who use skipper panels

most of the delinquent customers are industrial level customers
you can choose not to sympathize with the discos, but that does not address the fundamental problem - the power industry is capital intensive and requires significant funds

most transformers are over loaded. most distribution panels are old.

and legacy NEPA staff are also a big part of the problem. apparently the meter in my house was actually intended for the marina area. so when i was paying bills online, the funds were going to marina sales area, rather than festac. an old friend who provided consulting services fr the discos went on an investigation and found intricate and bizarre meter by pass methodologies. meter bypassing not within the house, but in the wiring from the feeder pillars

i have said it repeatedly, estimated billing is simply a crude form of theft recovery. every transformer has a meter. what the discos do is they take the meter readings in an area, take the transformer readings and pass the loss to un metered customers via crazy bills.

funnily enough my friend told me that if you have agidi and drg with them to NERC, NERC will usually rule in your favor

So are u saying the Discos don’t have any way of stopping industrial consumers from getting power when they have not paid for power ?

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao.. My brother.
Those things will dip very very well.
They need to make profits and to do that j this current economy, something has to give well.

It's obvious Guinness has signed out from the Nigerian market. Not caring that the Nigerian people might be disappointed with what new Guinness drinks will taste like shows how insignificant our purchasing power is😥

To make profit , they only need to tighten the noose on some cost center within the organization.

They will cut down on CSR , u probably won’t see Guinness sponsoring some programs like they used to do in the past, they won’t pay new staff as competitive as they ought to, they may cancel provisions for gratuity for new staff , they may review the level of staff who get official vehicles going forward , etc.

Most of the things they will do will affect the internal stakeholders and not the product itself .

U know Guinness produces orijin bitters, for example they may come up with more spin off spirit drinks like orijin sef

liveLongNprospa:
The quality of those drinks about to dippppppp😁

I don’t think the quality of the product will dip. I believe the fact that they will still be manufacturing Guinness stout and other associated products under the Guinness brand name/license the quality will still be same.

But be rest assured they will compromise on other things that relates to staff welfare , maybe regulatory issues , unionism ,gratuity etc. which Diageo will no longer have control over . Only insider stakeholders will really feel such changes .

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8121743/enugu-state-government-seals-eddc

I spoke earlier about Nigeria transitioning from a socialist economy to a capitalist economy.

This is one of the worst legacies of military rule. The delusion that being some sort of govt parastatal or govt affiliated agency entitles you to free electricity.

Different agencies and bodies are bullying discos and refusing to pay their energy bills.


It is bad enough that most discos are running on broken subsidues. But then you have to add the burden of aggressive delinquent customers.

The problem of power in Nigeria is not an engineering problem. It is a finance problem. You want to spend billions replacing old and decrepit infrastructure - that's fine. But how do you recoup your investment when you have customers who have been weaned on the delusion of cheap electricity?

All this long talk can be sorted out if the Discos provide prepaid meter for their customers . Let the disco migrate the government agencies to prepaid meter and let’s see if they won’t find ways to recharge their meter to have light on.

Myself for example when I used to get crazy bills which I pay as much as I can and leave the rest . When they migrated me to prepaid meter , I cleared the balance on the crazy bill and I ended up not consuming up to 1/5 of the estimated billing even on heavy usage atimes.

Let the discos stop the nonsense of estimated billing , let the people pay for what they use via prepaid meter recharge and let’s see if the Discos can actually make profit.

I have zero pity for discos . I see them as Shylock business people who didn’t buy the discos because there was prospect of clean profit , but wanted to build on the old NEPA format of using estimated billing to inflate customers’ bills

iamoyindamola:
I saw what you did there😂😂😂

My hand is white as snow o

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Guiness Stout go soon dey in satchets now.

I trust those Asians to do anything and everything to stay in business[/color]

It’s not just that sef.

For the staff, Some of the perks that comes with working with multinational like Diageo will disappear with this change of ownership .

Na the staff go really feel am pass . Tolaram like typical Asian owned businesses will do everything to stay in business like u rightly posited .

raumdeuter:
Those banks have individuals that have deposits and will panic when they cannot withdraw because of the issue

Microsoft has assured the stakeholders which include staff, customers and govt that they are not closing down

But time will tell. It's not far, the tweet said this month end. Na just 19 days remain we will know of the person who tweeted is right

Unfortunately nothing happens to people for posting fake news

That’s the sad reality Egbon. 😢

Bayo Onanuga’s fake news dey even get documents attached . He posted process of applying for UAE visa wey dem never lift the ban .

raumdeuter:
Microsoft is not govt so why do they need to explain to public? Is it every silly rumor that private organization reply to

The minister asked them and they responded

Shebi dem say today na the end. By next week we can check their office at VI civic center and see if they are open

The problem is the guy who tweeted to farm engagement will not post a rejoinder but will just move on like nothing happened and post another fake news next week to hustle Elons giveaway

No be fight na. Which one be silly rumor again?

Private organizations from time to time usually address rumors that seem to portray them being financially challenged, shutting down or having regulatory issues. Just last week banks like Union Bank, Polaris , etc. were addressing rumors that suggested their licenses were about to be revoked like Heritage bank's. They didn't have to call it silly rumors before addressing it.

The same Microsoft can issue a statement tomorrow or in the coming days addressing the rumor.

I made a point that no be today Nigerian politicians and their appointees have been wrongly reporting outcomes of such meetings. It still happened recently. Ajuri and Onanuga dey post fake news steady sha.

raumdeuter:
I thought the Olaoluwa Tomiwa is Microsoft country manager speaking here

Olatomiwa Williams, Microsoft’s country manager for Nigeria, addressed these rumors in a meeting with the Nigerian minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy in Abuja. Mohammed Manga, the ministry’s director of information and public relations, briefed the press on the discussions between the minister and Microsoft representatives

Mohammed Manga who is the ministry of Finance's public relations director briefed the press about what was agreed with Olaoluwa Tomiwa(Microsoft country Manager) at the meeting.

Olaoluwa didn't speak to the press, Mohammed did. It was obviously a closed door meeting from the excerpt u posted.

Read it again

raumdeuter:
To copy the text

Microsoft has refuted rumors that it plans to shut down its Nigerian operations, following last month’s speculations that the tech giant was contemplating closing its Lagos innovation center due to concerns over the country’s business climate. The rumored shutdown was believed to potentially impact around 200 employees.

Olatomiwa Williams, Microsoft’s country manager for Nigeria, addressed these rumors in a meeting with the Nigerian minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy in Abuja. Mohammed Manga, the ministry’s director of information and public relations, briefed the press on the discussions between the minister and Microsoft representatives.

Manga conveyed that the managing director assured the minister of Microsoft’s dedication to its Nigerian operations, dispelling the recent speculations. Williams highlighted Microsoft’s eagerness to collaborate with the Nigerian government on shared interests such as cybersecurity and youth skills development.

But why can't Microsoft just issue a statement/press release to address the issue? This one that it is our minister's spokesperson that is reporting what was discussed at the meeting.

Our politicians and their appointees don't inspire confidence when they report outcomes of such closed door meetings, that was how Ajuri wrongly announced in September that it was agreed in the meeting between Tinubu and the UAE leader that Visa Ban has been lifted.

raumdeuter:
A statement I was typing in a rush

Microsoft Nigeria is not closed, they closed some teams in Lagos not all, not even the major teams that have always been there

Microsoft ADC Africa Development Center based in Nigeria is closed

So only a particular arm of the company is closed right ?

raumdeuter:
This is news real or just a part of Microsoft Nigeria that closed

I don't understand. Is this a question or a statement?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
No be statistics we go chop

Omo!

Tinubu dey enter plane go the nook and crany of the world dey look for investors while existing investors dey carry their load dey leave the country.

Master strategist wey no like statistics has been unable to show workings.

Reno Omo eru

Omo!

Ibime:
Ballzproblem2 is an Eboe who moved to Rivers State about 15 years ago and claiming Son of the Soil

Oya show receipt once and for all

iamoyindamola:
Cheaper

That one sef Dey . 😁

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick I think they are using FIFA curriculum but I still feel it's the preliminary more like fifa101

Why go through Udemy when u can go through FIFA or CAF directly ?

iamoyindamola:
E fit better pass finidi george or post no clue
I might check it out if I get a discount sha

But those are real coaches who got CAF and UEFA licenses respectively. U can't coach a real club with Udemy course na

iamoyindamola:
Udemy now offer professional football coach courses
This make sense sha

So someone can finish Udemy coaching course and get employed as coach of 36 Lions FC Lagos ?

liveLongNprospa:
So I have a question.

Larride if you get answer, e go help.

The PIB has stopped subsidy and it is also not captured in the budget.

So where is the money for subsidy payment coming from?
BlueRayDick izzou Theflint1 Amigoss Ibime itsrm

Any idea

I honestly don't know o.

U know there's a lot of hide and seek going on with the subsidy removal/payment , but I won't put it past NNPC being the one sorting the subsidy payment in their own way.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Because from HOA to Commissioners and even LG chairmen are loyal to Wike. If you ask me, I can guess that he picked all of them.

But a whole Rufai is dragged by every single Kaduna lawmaker. Definitely, he isn't the finger that picked them[/color]

Well, u have a point with the HOA members and LG chairmen that were handpicked by Wike .

But then I feel the current governor of kaduna state can stop the HOA members if he actually has El-Rufai's interest at heart like most annointed governors are expected to do for their predecessors. I'm sure Ododo will not allow such move against Bello in kogi fester under his watch

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It's not like they are merrying oh

When a young person dies, young people will sing and dance; thats just a way of paying their own tribute.

They can do it all night sef. [/color]

It is only now that I'm grown that understood it was their own way of paying tribute.

Amigoss:
This was even in Lagos abi ....that flavour own na like normal Friday night for benin,Obito things (I mean carnival like)......Though i heard it has reduced but used to be menace then,TV and Radio stations in Benin advertise Burial ceremonies from AM to PM....

Friday nights were days boys look forward to...picture an owambe and more,obito was it and the rice hits different with musicians serenading you with confirm highlife...

Was part of the culture I had to adjust to for someone who was not born and never grew up in the state,celebrating the dead than the living,people getting loans to do it or pressured to while the dead might not be well taken care of when alive

Yes, it was in Lagos. The thing was a cultural shock to me cos I've never seen anything like that until that period.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Looks like two different cases.

One is a godfather; the other one isn't[/color]

Who is a godfather ? Wike? What makes him a godfather and El-Rufai not one?

Itsrm:
I remember reading somewhere that Uba Sani wasn't El Rufais candidate initially. He only agreed to support him after much persuasion from party leaders. Perhaps, the foundation was faulty from the start.

Maybe those who follow Kaduna politics closely can enlighten us.

Kaduna 2023: El-Rufai anoints Uba Sani

Ahead of the 2023 governorship election in Kaduna State, the number of persons aspiring to succeed Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai of Kaduna State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reduced as the Governor has anointed Senator Uba Sani and directed other aspirants to support him.

A former Commissioner in Kaduna State who had aspired to contest the Governorship election under the All Progressives Congress ( APC) ,Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Dattijo, has expressed that his earlier ambition was to succeed Governor El-Rufa’i in 2023 but they were directed to step down for Senator Uba Sani.

Kaduna was in a celebratory mood by friends and political associates of Senator Uba Sani on Thursday, as news filtered that the Senator representing Kaduna Central, was given the nod by Governor El-Rufai.

According to reports, El-Rufai had at a meeting on Wednesday, compelled his former Chief of Staff and two-times former Commissioner of Budget and Planning, Muhammed Sani Abdullahi, popularly known as Dattijo, to shelve his ambition for the governorship and pick the form for Kaduna Central Senatorial District.

In a statement, Dattijo explained that at a meeting on Wednesday morning, the Governor directed that they rally round Senator Uba Sani for the Governorship seat. He however lamented that the Governor had asked “that I pick up the form for the Senatorial seat for Kaduna Central. While this outcome is not what we have planned or hoped for, we have accepted it as Allah SWT’s will provide to whom he wishes, when he wishes.“Therefore we have entrusted our future to Him and prayed the State and the Nation will have the best of leaders in 2023.

Maybe he was not his original candidate sha, but whatever must have made him annoint him ahead of others showed he he definitely preferred him to others. Nobody dey shout betrayer

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/05/kaduna-2023-el-rufai-anoints-uba-sani/

https://www.nairaland.com/8121216/alleged-n423b-fraud-efcc-sets

Why is nobody Calling the Kaduna state governor Uba Sani a betrayer like they are calling Fubara sef? Is there any difference between their respective cases?

Uba Sani was El-Rufai's annointed candidate just like Fubara was Wike's, but look at Uba Sani going for El-Rufai's jugular....

He has even called EFCC on El-Rufai's head within a year he took office. His own HOA have already written report and concluded El-Rufai was a thief with the state's yam in his throat. Fubara dey learn work for where Uba Sani dey but most people just overlook the matter.

Wetin dey sup?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]E be like say na Obiano pass am sef

The only good thing about that law is that there is no Wake Keeping anymore. At least, people fit sleep well for night.[/color]

But normally sef all those wake keeping are not supposed to be loud like they usually make it.

Twice growing up I've been traumatized by such wake keeping. One was a Benin man who died in our area; the day of his wake keep overnight ehn, they were just singing mostly sorrowful songs all through the night while drinking and hitting beer bottles with a stick to create sad melody to the dirge.

The second one was an Igbo man who died in his 40's. The man's relatives all through the Wake keeping overnight sang and drank with Merry. I found it quite strange cos u know as Yoruba's we felt such death do not call for much fanfare .

It took growing up for me to understand different people have different culture. But I still feel the two ceremonies should have been done without disturbing the sleep of every other person who don't understand the culture sha

afrodoc2:
Money making venture?

Nyem 100 thousand naira things aka I must to chop your dollar.

Sometimes u just wonder what our politicians smoke before passing some bills/making laws.

GloriousGbola:
going by his bants with ibime - the dude is an ibo guy in PH

two for the price of one
SE+ SS !!

the only question now is the hatred double or squared

Well, I’ve not seen where he admitted he’s a south easterner sha

izzou:
[color=royalblue]See as Flavour Papa Burial be like carnival.

What does the law say concerning it in Anambra state? 100k fine abi?

[/color]

What was Soludo and the house thinking sef when they came up with that burial law sef ?

Even most of the house members will violate the law if they have a burial imminent