Hey single ladies!!!! Here is one honest fellow, hook him up fast. lolz. Nice one OP.

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Nice points you've raised, I've been in the position to review CVs for a big Multinational Company during my NYSC.

I agree that lots of people miss out on great opportunities due to laziness, even a simple 'sent from my Blackberry 10' can disqualify you.

It'll be more professional if you customise it to a brief info about yourself, maybe your name, phone number, and other contact details.

PS: But God factor can easily override all this rubbish wey I just write sha.

This Arab man like better thing ooo

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DuBLINGreenb:


Not about your post but your signature did the seagulls tell you that?

Hey man, it's only a quote with different meaning to different people.

Lie beget lies....ds small lie will give birth to millions more. My advice, look for someone that will put you through between now and your resumption date, and for your own good edit the post and remove the name of the company(else you'll start blaming the witches in your village once this thread hits FP).

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The recent wave of fuel scarcity being witnessed in the country remains the worst in history as the debacle of the unavailability of the nation’s most sought liquid after water has continued for more than a month with the government not being able to proffer a solution to it talk less of a lasting one.
With the authorities having offered various excuses for the scarcity of petroleum products over the past months, the mess has gotten to a point where the government has exhausted its pool of excuses and is forced to dig deep within its recess to put an end to the menace.
While it would be difficult to totally determine the extent of damage the present scarcity of petroleum products in the country might have caused the nation, the engineering gaps or weaknesses of the country as revealed by the scarcity can easily be identified.
Listed below are some of the engineering deficiencies of the country’s engineering sector and indirectly the Nigerian engineer.

The Refineries are not working: The present fuel scarcity and every other fuel scarcity in the country simply serve as a means of telling Nigerians that the country’s refineries are not working. While the government may have formed a habit of telling Nigerians over the years that the country’s refineries are working to certain capacities over the years and looking to improve upon it, this present fuel scarcity has revealed that the refineries are not working. If the refineries were working to a certain level, they would have been able to supply fuel to meet the demand of a segment of the country’s huge population and its resultant huge demand for fuel in the country.
Since the discovery of oil in the country in 1956 and the production subsequently, Nigeria built refineries in the country numbering four and it is worthy of note to inform that while a great deal of giant strides has been recorded by local engineers in the country, little effort has been committed to the development of maintenance and handling capacities of the refineries by the authorities and concerned bodies which leaves us at the mercy of the foreigners who built the refineries way back in time.

The Pipelines are Non-functional: The country has over the years invested huge sums of money in the construction of oil pipelines across the country for the supply of crude and refined petroleum products. The petroleum pipeline network links the production platforms, refineries and storage depots across the country.
But quite sadly, the pipelines are in bad conditions due to poor maintenance practices and largely vandalism in the recent years. The poor state of the pipeline distribution network in the country has limited the transportation of petroleum products in the country to the use of tankers on road which is not as efficient as the movement of petroleum products through pipelines.
The constant series of fuel scarcity has brought out this engineering deficiency to the fore as most oil marketers now lift their petroleum products from the terminals and tank farms which are mostly based in Lagos. This makes it difficult for the quick and efficient transportation of petroleum products to all parts of the country forcing marketers to transport refined products over longer distances thereby affecting overhead costs and the retail price across the country. Even if the product was readily available in the country, some marketers still ferry fuel over long distances and sell at prices above the recommended N87 per litre approved by the government.
Even though local engineers are more than capable of maintaining the pipelines and even deploying new ones, the dangerous security situation due to the activities of armed vandals has limited the capabilities and functionality of Nigerian engineering companies and engineers. As of today, the highly vandalised and poorly maintained pipelines has kept most of NNPC’s oil depots across the country without supply over a long period of time. 

The Power Situation is bad: The recent fuel scarcity has put a lot of pressure on the Nigerian populace as both vehicles and non vehicle owners are affected by the scarcity of the product. In all of the period since the scarcity has started, the number of people who want to purchase fuel for the running of their generators has always been longer than those who require it for the running of their vehicles.
This  indicates that a great amount of people require fuel daily to power their generators which only bear testament to the poor power situation in the country with only a little above 2,500MW of electricity being generated in the country over the past month despite the privatisation of the power sector some 18 months ago.  

The Public Transport Sector is sub standard: The scarcity of petroleum products in the country directly imparts the mobility of people with their cars and the domestic power generation of households as the poor power situation in the country has pushed us to. But another area where the country is doing badly is in the organised transport sector. This present fuel scarcity has made it categorically clear that the country lacks a functional organised transport sector.
In developed climes, the availability of an organised transport sector apart from aiding smooth and seamless movement of people across the country also helps to create a natural buffer against hardships in transportation that may occur due to contingent issues like fuel scarcity, public mass action, etc. But during this period of fuel scarcity in the country, a lot of commuters were stranded at various locations and leaving them at the mercy of shylock transporters who charged exorbitant fares.
While the efforts of corporate transport companies (both government and privately owned) in states like Lagos, Rivers, Niger, Enugu and the Federal Capital Territory, there still exist a huge gap that must be filled in the organised transport sector to help mitigate against further hardship in the transport sector that might occur in the future. 
There is no need repeating the fact that the country’s economy and its lifeline is heavily dependent on crude oil and its derivatives, but what must be categorically stated again is the fact that the management of the nation’s oil sector from the upstream, downstream through to retail and the petro-allied sectors need to be properly aligned to help reduce the infrastructural deficit in the country and close the gap between the country and other developed nations.

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DuBLINGreenb:


Not about your post but your signature did the seagulls tell you that?

They showed me that.

Your time never reach, you're nt lucky bt Blessed!!

Don't worry bro, you won't die. Death doesn't honour this kind of invitation, lolz. Well, we all have our stories but I'll advice you to keep hope alive and seek courage from your Holy Book.

Depression and self-pity will always leave you in a mess, (I've been there before) only YOU have to make the decision to get out of it. God's your strength!!!!

Dan Kunle is a consultant in the energy and steel sectors, and one of the advisors to the Bureau of Public Enterprises from 2003 to 2007. He spoke to Patrick Ugeh on how the government can get the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, its sister outfit, Nigerian Iron Ore Mining Company, Itakpe, and the accompanying rail line to Warri working. Excerpts:

Can you give your assessment of the steel sector?
Today, with the benefit of hindsight, and comparatively, what the Ajaokuta Steel Company has is just 1.3 metric tonnes per annum of liquid steel capacity which, today in China, is not economical. The minimum capacity today in China is 3 million metric tonnes. So, I just laugh when we talk of the potential of this company. This project was good (when it was conceived) because no nation can survive without steel. If you don’t have steel production capacity, you can’t develop. Everything you see today in the construction industry is steel. In the oil and gas industry, this local content they are talking about, steel is the main issue. In ship building, the automobile industry, it is steel. That is why, when you check the history of the US, it is Bethlehem Steel that build America. Check Bethlehem Steel, how Bethlehem Steel built the US.
Recently, the Minister of Steel, Mohammed Sada, mentioned that a number of companies had shown interest in Delta Steel Company (DSC), Aladja, near Warri, and that most of them happen to be automobile companies, but you seem to have issues with that. What is it really?
People must understand the nature and the structure of the Nigerian steel industry. The Nigerian iron and steel industry is largely construction steel. We don’t have flat sheet plant in Nigeria. Ajaokuta doesn’t have flat sheet plant; DSC (Delta Steel Company) doesn’t have. People must understand that the structure that we were building on before we lost momentum in 1984 when Buhari/Idiagbon took over was solid steel – rolling mills, angle rods, wire rods, rims – all the rolls for the construction industry. Because there were no flat sheets, somewhere along the line when Abacha attempted to revisit steel in 1995, out of the pressure some of us put – I remember vividly that I was at the centre of that pressure – I put so much pressure through the then Minister of Solid Minerals – Abacha commissioned Ferrostar to do a study for the flat sheet requirement for Ajaokuta. Without flat sheets, you cannot do much for the automobile industry; you cannot do much until your country produces enough flat sheets of different grades, different qualities, because every vehicle you see on the road is a metal box. However beautiful that car is, it is a metal box. So, Nigerian automobile industry, if they are talking of going into steel, I am a little bit surprised. Because it is not just an investment that you can just … the Nigerian automobile industry today is largely import-dependent. They are all importers of vehicles – whether they call it completely knocked-down (CKD) or whatever they call it. They are all importers, and for them to manufacture, you need flat sheet; you need a flat sheet steel plant. So, if Ajaokuta and Delta Steel are all solid steel plants, where is the relationship between the automobile industry and those plants? And the whole of the automobile industry in the country today – Peugeot Automobile in Kaduna, Volkswagen in Lagos (I was part of the people who sold them), plus Steyr in Bauchi, National Truck Manufacturing and Leyland in Ibadan (I was part of the people who sold them), including ANNAMCO in Enugu. So, I don’t see any correlation unless we are just trying to --- I don’t know what type of game that we are trying to play. But you see - I am not being political here - but President Jonathan’s Minister of Steel should please not try to mislead us. This industry, some of us know it too well that we can’t be misled. Delta Steel that he mentioned in his presentation at the National Assembly is to produce billets, pellets and rolled products. I have the whole configuration of Delta Steel – the foundry there, the oxygen plant there – all these facilities are to support one million tonnes capacity. There is nowhere in Delta Steel that an automobile industry has any business that is competitive or of comparative advantage today. I don’t know how he came about that issue but that does not mean an investor in Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria in Kaduna or Volks or whichever cannot go and invest his money in the steel plant. But I am just saying that the investment is not an investment that has immediate gain because they are all rolling mills – billets and pellets and … there is no flat sheet plant among them. Even if there is flat sheet plant, the automobile industry in Nigeria does not even produce tyres anymore. Dunlop and Michelin have migrated out of Nigeria, and we have the advantage of producing natural rubber from our farms but we are not even doing that. So, I don’t want the minister to mislead us at all. The industry has suffered enough, and now we must get it right.

So…?
China today is trying to battle with excess capacity of 57 million metric tonnes of liquid steel. What is the meaning of that? It means they have that excess capacity that they don’t want their producers to produce. They want to transfer that capacity to somewhere in the world. Can’t my President and the Minister of Industry take advantage of such and say Please, bring that your excess capacity here; I’ll give you whatever you need; I have iron ore deposits. If the grades are not good enough, I have ECOWAS Economic Treaty; there is high grade iron ore in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and I am part of the Economic Treaty. So I can take advantage of that. So, please come. You create the enabling environment. These are the things some of us have been talking about. So, for the Minister to be in the National Assembly and be telling us that some automobile industries are interested in the rolling mill… immediately I saw it, I said No,No, No, we are going wrong again.
But if the automobile companies are interested in the steel plant, they must have done their due diligence and found that it is going to be useful to them, don’t you think?
Well, okay, then the minister should allow AMCON and not tamper with the process. The minister should not interfere. That’s not how privatisation process was done when people like me were there.

Would you want to expatiate on what you mean by the Minister’s interference?
He should just say some companies are already in the process of being evaluated by AMCON, finish. He is not supposed to allow us know where they are coming from – whether they are from the automobile industry or the construction industry. For me, by that statement he has let the cat from the bag. That is my grouse with that his statement. Again, it also points to the fact that we are again going to get it wrong. Look, we got it wrong from 1984 when Buhari/Idiagbon slowed down Ajaokuta. Delta Steel survived it because they had already started producing as at that time. Ajaokuta never got out of that slow-down Gen Buhari and Idiagbon caused in 1984. Now, Obasanjo came in 1999 and tried to revive Ajaokuta and Delta Steel. Because of the full force of privatisation, the privatisation agency where I was (BPE) we pulled the hand back and said: Privatise it and give incentive for private sector to enter. Then we succeeded in privatising Delta Steel; we did not succeed in privatizing Ajaokuta. The ministry concessioned it. In the privatisation agency we attempted it. We engaged a consultant, BGL. We did everything, just to do the final bidding and make them pay and become core investor. We could not finalise it. The concession they had for Ajaokuta and NIOMCO, Itakpe, and the railway… was with Global Steel Infrastructure but Delta Steel was core investor sales. So, when that concession collapsed in Ajaokuta under Yar’Adua, eventually, it affected Delta Steel because it was the same owner.

Were you are aware that when Global Steel got the concession, they were asset-stripping Ajaokuta and taking some of the things to Delta Steel…?
Thank you. Let me say I am a student of privatisation process. The lesson Nigerian officials have not learnt I will tell you, which is why the country is in a mess. Who enforces post-privatisation or post-concession rules? BPE.
Thank you. If I sell an integrated steel complex to one owner, if he takes something from Ajaokuta to Delta and I who is monitoring – post-privatisation monitoring – I have a record of what he takes (I must know what he takes.) What is the compatibility of that thing he takes from Ajaokuta to Delta? If he brings something from Delta to Ajaokuta, what is the compatibility, what is he using it for? So, should we hold the company responsible or we should hold the people that are supposed to monitor post-privatisation responsible? The federal government of Nigeria still had interest in those investments. It was not 100 per cent sales. So, you should have stopped them from taking the assets there; and then you stop them from producing. I am not an advocate for Global Steel but I am only saying the federal government is the owner of the privatisation agency, the owner of the Ministry of Mines and Steel; the owner of all the regulatory agencies and if it cannot enforce its right in Ajaokuta, Itakpe, on the rail line, and Delta Steel, that is its headache; it is not the headache of the concessionaire because you are to police him, make him do what is right, and conform to what you are doing. Now, see the collateral damage now – they are not there to produce; you have no control over their assets because there is litigation. So, the place is idle since 2009. Those assets have been idle since 2009. You could not put them to use as government; you could not put money into them to complete them because the first goal since 1984 was not even completing Ajaokuta. Some sections were up to 98 per cent complete.
So, who should be held responsible for the non-completion? It’s the federal government that should be held responsible. The government felt at that point that it was better for it to pull out and allow the private sector do it. Why did we complete Delta Steel? Why did the Federal Government complete the refineries? Why did we complete Eleme Petrochemical plant? Why did we complete NAFCON? Why did we complete Aluminium Smelter Company? So, the reason Ajaokuta was not completed by the federal government is the reason the place is suffering. So, if I were the President, I would take Ajaokuta as it is, Itakpe and the railway – because these three assets are one; they must be together. I will call the Chinese and say, I am aware you have excess capacity in your country; please take this plant and put your money and help me complete it so that it will employ Nigerians.

What if the Chinese are not interested…?
They are interested. They are interested but there is litigation in NIOMCO, there is litigation in Ajaokuta; the rail… none of these assets is free. So, all the Chinese investors are observing what will be the outcome but they have done their studies of the entire iron and steel sector for the entire West Africa and in fact Africa. Anywhere there is iron ore in Africa, they have mapped it out. I am telling you on authority. Now, they cannot move because even the current management in Ajaokuta again are constituting additional legal bottlenecks for a future investor. Because all the units that make up Ajaokuta, they have started saying they will concession this out to this company to come and repair and put their money into it so that the place will not be idle. None of these people they are doing these things with has the resources and technical capacity to make those things functional on stand-alone basis, none of them. It is makeshift; which, again, is going to create problem. This is why I say in the last four years, the approach of the Minister of Steel to Ajaokuta and Itakpe has been a wrong approach.

In what way, because at a time several companies showed interest, but they were tied by the litigation?
No, the federal government is too big to be tied by litigation. There is no company in the world that can hold the federal government of a sovereign state to ransom. But the law is the law; if you have bought something from a state, legally you are entitled to that thing, and if you are being stripped of it and the process is not right, you are entitled to…
In view of the strategic importance of the iron and steel sector, even if the arbitration warrants that you are to pay penalty, what’s wrong in you paying? That’s the point. They have to wait for the arbitration to complete its course…
For four years? I know. I have been following the arbitration. But if I was the Minister of Steel today, I will go to the Attorney-General, the Minister of Justice, and say this is the life-wire of this country; let us resolve this arbitration. I will go to the president and say, Mr. President… I am aware that Sada has been doing that. I wish him all the best; I don’t have anything personal against him; The President should please de-bottleneck the iron and steel industry because it has employment potential; it is the only trigger for industrialisation in Nigeria.

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Foreign tech sites are calling it “the Android king....The Device that Will Blow your Mind this 2015.

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Foreign tech sites are calling it “the Android king....The Device that Will Blow your Mind this 2015.

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