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A profile is a short introduction to your CV, whereas a cover letter is a one-page letter going into much more detail about why you are suitable for a specific job and organisation. There will inevitably be some overlap in content, so try to write any similar content using different words (use a thesaurus) and from a slightly different perspective.

Because your profile will be on all your CVs, you normally just mention the particular job sector you are applying for jobs in (e.g. banking). A cover letter is normally used to apply for a specific advertised vacancy and so will focus on a particular job (e.g. editorial assistant in Channels TV). Sometimes you may send out a speculative cover letter with your CV and here the focus will be broad, just like in the profile, as you don't know which jobs might be available.

CONTENTS OF A COVER LETTER
State the JOB you’re applying for e.g. editorial assistant.
Where you found out about it (advert in The Guardian newspaper etc. - organisations like to know which of their advertising sources are being successful)
When you're available to start work (and end if it's a placement)
Why you're interested in that type of work
Why the company attracts you (if it's a small company say you prefer to work for a small friendly organisation!)
Summarise your strengths and how they might be an advantage to the organisation.
Relate your skills to the job.
Mention any dates that you won't be available for interview
Thank the employer and say you look forward to hearing from them soon.

Avoid Buzzwords!
Buzzwords make you sound like just another faceless candidate, a plastic applicant with no real personality who just cuts and pastes from other people's CVs. What I mean are words like; Extensive experience, Motivated, Results-oriented, Dynamic, Proven track record, Fast-paced, Entrepreneurial (What the heck do you know about entrepreneurship? If you have knowledge on this, you won't be searching for a job - FACT!)

Words like those above makes your cover letter look vague and don't really lay emphasis on your person and personal attributes. Don't tell me you are result oriented, tell me that special uncommon skill you possess that makes you achieve results.

Hope am making sense to someone. Cheers.

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Recently I was going through some opinion polls and discussion sessions online about resume writing and the need to outsource writing your CV to a professional.

I have come across the question so many times "why do I need someone to help me write my resume?". Below are global thoughts and opinions from people. And in case you do not know, resume writing services exists around the world.

[b]"I have paid $50 for someone to rewrite my resume. I had been using a resume created 6 years ago, but with updated job titles. The resume service shifted around sections, modified verbs so they sounded more active than passive, and created a transition between sections. I had had friends review my old resume, but it took someone who didn't know me to ask: "but what did you do here" or "how much positive change came out of this". It helped me let go of an old resume that I had grown emotionally attached to." - Jenab Troast (Texas US).

"I paid for CV Writing from a company called dubai-forever.com. They specialize in customizing International resumes according to Middle East standards. They delivered quite on time and am happy with the results, since I got the job I was looking for in Dubai, UAE. I received personal attention too, as they are a small firm."- (Jacalyn, Mumbai)

"Resumes are DEAD!!! And if they aren't, we should get rid of them! People spend a lot of time creating a quality resume only to have it barely glanced at. Resume = too much work for too little pay off." - Charlie.

"Your are absolutely correct about applicant tracking systems. Most large organizations are employing ATS to deal with the crush of resumes they receive (this is why it is so critical to target your resume toward each specific positon). But those applicant tracking systems need something to scan, and that something is still commonly candidates' resumes. Even in the case where a company does not accept resumes (which is fairly uncommon), the content of your resume can be repurposed for the application process. Then, when you are asked in for an interview, you can bring your actual resume. All of that is to say that, while the landscape is certainly evolving, the resume still plays a critical role in the job search and hiring process." - unknown

"The successful resume is very easy to read, quickly communicates the most highly critical information, has a strong summary section filled with hard skills (as opposed to soft skills like "team player" and "excellent verbal and written communication", backs up every claim made with concrete, specific, results-oriented examples and accomplishments in the experience section, and contains information which is highly relevant to the specific position and company it's being used for.

A good resume must pass inspection with everyone who touches it, including the administrative assistant who receives it (who sometimes alerts managers to exceptional incoming candidates), the Applicant Tracking System searching for keywords, and the hiring decision-makers.

The essence of a superior resume all boils down to one thing: Above all else, remember that your resume needs to be heavily focused on what you can do for your employer, and how you can do it better than the many, many other applicants competing for the same position you're applying for. Every word, every phrase, every formatting decision, every creative design and marketing principle you employ, should retain the reader's focus on this one, constant message." - Ellen Hall

"Hired a writer from Resume Professional Writers too, and got two interviews within a quarter. Anyway, I was just about to say that the resume writers are not the biggest problem in getting a job. It's the hiring process of the employers. I suspect that some of them don't read my resume at all.

But if I'm gonna give advice to those considering hiring an online resume writer here it is: always call the company. You'll only have a hunch on their value after you actually hear them talk." - Neil Chicago.[/b]

The question now is: Is it really worth it sitting down crafting resumes when it is assumed that employers do not really read our resumes? Is it worth it hiring a professional resume writer crafting your CV even with the 50% probability that employers may still not read that expensively crafted CV?

In writing our CVs, what are we actually doing wrong? Lets discuss. What is your opinion?

What's up with Oil companies? It seems getting jobs from them now is like dating Nigerian girls (soooo difficult ). Anyone with information on NNDC current structure and if their buhari-led troubled waters have finally settled?

bigx:
I gave it to my lawyer and he registered a new company with old name limited. No long process and th business name is still functional

Gbam!

But note that lawyers charge very well

Lucasbalo:
Whao, very interesting piece. Not a bit surprised that Nigeria is stuck at the bottom of the barrel with all this corruption and nepotism. When young Nigerians are tired of the worthless leaders, both past and present, revolution will be the next course like Rawlings of Ghana killing four heads of state. Until then, Nigeria will be a iperpetual third world country.

Am afraid corruption has eaten so deep that it has become inseperable. Just like trying to seperate a snail from its shell.

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The Wolfsberg Principles, an initiative of 11 banks and institutions across the world to fight serious international financial crimes, traced another $3 billion of our stolen money to Babangida’s accounts abroad, and $4.3 billion to Abacha’s.
Although Babangida used mostly fictitious names for his numerous accounts abroad, EFCC could zero in on some of the accounts by following up on the dusts raised early in 2003 over the financing of a leading Nigerian telecommunications project in which Babangida is alleged to own 75% shares. Mohammed fronts for his father on the authentic board of the company. Those claiming to have borrowed from foreign banks in the heat of the EFCC’s revelations at the time have not identified the collateral or sortie used. Documents on the loan supposed to have been granted on 9 February, 2001, was dated 28 August, 2006. The original ‘loan’ letter has not been presented. Apparently, Paribas Bank, based in Paris, was managing a slush fund from which investments in excess of US$400 million was made to buy into Alcatel, (the telecommunications’ partner technical partners), Bouygues Telecoms, Peugeot and Total finaelf.

Alcatel and Parabel National of France were worried at the time that their invoices for the telecom project were being inflated to launder funds by the supposed private owners of the sources of funds and that private cheques were being issued to finance the staggering project without recourse to borrowing from banks. They suspected illegal laundering of funds and threatened to withdraw collaboration on the project while alerting Interpol to investigate the sources of the private cheques being issued to finance the project.
IBB could not participate in Obasanjo’s 2003, inauguration ceremonies, because he was allegedly out of the country sorting out the Interpol queries on the Alcatel’s slush account alert, at the time. Even now, the telecoms’ financing details through Siemens etc, could be investigated by the EFCC tracing ghost cheques to issuing private sources of funds and their local and international banks to unravel possible laundering of funds.

Luscious contracts for the construction of Abuja were awarded to front-companies of his and his cronies, including Julius Berger and Arab Contractors that between them virtually single-handedly handled the construction of the new Federal Capital. The security danger of foreign companies solely constructing a country’s capital and having access to its structural secrets, including possible Presidential underground escape routes and military arsenal volts, is mind boggling to say the least, but that is an issue for another day.
The largest, most prestigious housing estate in Alexandra, Egypt’s leading holiday resort town, is alleged to belong to Babangida. Even Egyptians cannot afford his rent, which is alleged to be in dollars. All his tenants are rich foreigners and the staff of multi-national companies operating in Alexandra. The estate is alleged to have its own airport, which Babangida uses when he visits.
Babangida is alleged to own several other housing estates around the world, including houses on Bishop Avenue in London. He uses his London houses, it is alleged, as guest houses or gifts for people on his compromise list. He is considered generous with gifts of cars with their boots stuffed with naira notes when he wants some jobs done.

Perhaps you would want to join me to play the prude accountant, generous with figures. Let’s pretend that Babangida was a General throughout his service years in the Nigerian army. Again let’s assume he spent 30 years in the army and was paid N100,000 monthly (actually, salaries of Generals were less than N10,000 a month until recently) and he saved every kobo of his salary. He would be worth about N35,000,000 plus interest in the bank today. But Babangida’s 50 bedroom palatial abode in Minna is alleged to be conservatively worth billions of naira and he does not owe any bank on it.

In 2003, he threw a wedding party for his first daughter, which numbed the nation. Some 28 governors were in attendance, and in June 2004, he treated us to another dream-like political carnival during his son’s wedding. No one dared to ask where the money came from to set up such a palatial abode or scandalous and intimidating wedding carnivals in our jungle of abject poverty and hunger. Nigerians revelled in the lavish show of shame, hoodwinked by the audacity, the sumptuous food, the ambience, the vulgarity….. At least we saw our fellow Nigerians (albeit a handful of them), living it up on the money that could have guaranteed millions of Nigerians, active, regular employment indefinitely.
Almost all the principal characters involved in leadership tussles with Babangida since 1985, Abiola, Yar Adua, Idiagbon and even Abacha, have all died through induced cardiac arrest, lethal injection, poisoned food, gassed telephone handset, etc, etc, and my fear is whether Nigeria would survive the Godfather himself?

The writer of this piece is unknown. It was published by Bribenigeria.com

Alhaji Bashir Tofa for the NRC, and Bashorun M.K.O Abiola for the SDP, emerged as the presidential flag bearers. Babangida who was unhappy that progress was being made in the presidential election process was further pissed-off when his nominee, Pascal Bafyau, the ex-NLC president, as Abiola’s running mate, (to spy on and undermine Abiola), was rejected by Abiola. Abiola also upset Yar Adua’s calculations, by not accepting Abubakir Atiku as his running mate, and choosing Baba Gana Kingibe instead.

Of course, the emergence at last of promising presidential candidates for both parties was not a very palatable option for Abacha too who was still nursing the dream to succeed Babangida although pretending to be on the side of Babangida. Abacha misled Babangida to think of him as a possible ally, so the scene was set for Babangida to feel that if he annulled the election, he would have the support of Abacha, Yar Adua and other perceived, powerful enemies of Abiola, including a leading traditional ruler in the South-West.

Babangida, in his determination to scuttle the presidential election at all cost, promulgated Decree 13, forbidding the presidential flag bearers of the two political parties from doing anything whatsoever that would influence members of the public to vote for them at the election scheduled for June 12 1993. Then Babangida empowered NEC to disqualify any of the candidates at will, and as a (final) fall back strategy, to scuttle our democratic dream, he set up his Association for Better Nigeria (ABN) party, using Senator Arthur Nzeribe as proxy.
On June 10, 1993, at the unholy hour of 9.30 pm, late Justice Ikpeme, who was appointed a few days earlier and hurriedly transferred from Lagos to Abuja, granted a court order to the ABN, restraining the NEC Chairman Humphrey Nwosu, from conducting the Presidential election on June 12, 1993.

The Director of the United States Information Service (USIS) in Nigeria at the time, Mr. O’Brien, warned that the US government would not be happy if the June 12 election was cancelled. Babangida panicked, and although he declared O’Brien persona non grata and ordered him out of the country in his personal interest, Babangida allowed Nwosu to go ahead with the election.
The election was adjudged by the international and local observers monitoring it and by the two political parties involved, as the fairest and freest in the history of Nigeria. By the evening of June 14 1993, more than 50% of the election results had been authenticated and released by NEC, showing that SDP’s Moshood Abiola had swept the polls.

To everyone’s surprise, Babangida suddenly ordered NEC not to release any more results. On June 23, 1993, Babangida gave an unsigned statement to Nduka Irabor, his press secretary, announcing the cancellation of the presidential election on the radio. The unsigned statement was a strategy to allow Babangida to deny its authenticity, should Nigeria begin to boil over the announcement. Nigerians had become too hungry and docile to react.
Babangida annulled the June12 election entirely on his own, based on his selfish, personal agenda to rule indefinitely. Before annulling the election, he rallied the connivance and support of some critical Emirs and a leading Yoruba traditional ruler known to be antagonistic to Abiola’s political ambition, and the signatures of a bunch of political and military apologists (or jobbers), tagged the G-34, on a document entitled ‘Peace Pact,’ in endorsement of his annulment of the June 12, 1993, elections.

The G-34 comprised of the following members of the military junta and leaders of the two political parties, the SDP and the NRC: Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, Chief Earnest Shonekan who eventually headed Babangida’s contraption called the Interim National Government (ING), General Shehu Musa Yar’ardua, Alhaji Sule Lamido, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma, Amb. Dele Cole, Chief Tony Anenih, Chief Jim Nwobodo, Brig-Gen David A. B Mark, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Alhaji Olusola Saraki, Chief Dapo Sarumi, Chief Joseph Toba, Chief Bola Afonja, Dr. Hammed Kusamotu, Dr. Okechukwu Odunze, Prof. Eyo Ita, Y. Anka, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, Chief Tom Ikimi, Barrister Joe Nwodo (who signed with reservations) , Dr. Bawa Salka, Alhaji Abba Murtala Mohammed, Alhaji Abdulrahman Okene, Lt. Gen Joshua Dongoyaro, Lt. Gen Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, Brig-Gen John Shagaya, Brig-Gen Anthony Ukpo, Halilu A. Maina, Alhaji Bawa Salka, Mr. Amos Idakula, Mr. Theo Nikire, Alhaji A. Ramalan, Alhaji A.
Mohammed. Many of these traitors are still making decisions for Nigeria today.
Babangida’s military constituency, by and large, was against the annulment. Abacha saw his opportunity to act, and with the backing of the armed forces of Nigeria, warned Babangida that he would be entirely on his own after the August 27, 1993, handing over date. Babangida in fear, concocted and swore in an illegal arrangement he called the Interim National Government, ING, to take over office from August 27, 1993. After swearing in his ING on August 26, 1993, Babangida who was supposed to be pulled out of the army in the military tradition, played all sorts of pranks to delay the event from 11.am to 1.00pm and then to 3.00pm, when the Nigerian army removed Babangida’s guards from the Eagle Square to warn him that his time was up.

There is this strong allegation among the rank and file of the armed forces, and members of the defense correspondence of our newspapers attached to the seat of power, that Babangida arranged, in the last couple of weeks before leaving office, for several armoured vehicle loads of newly printed naira notes to be delivered daily to his new Minna palatial abode obviously with the connivance of Abacha, perhaps as his mentor’s retirement benefit.
Abacha and Babangida had several serious financial problems with Abiola but one of them takes the cake. It was over some foreign war booty amounting to US$215m. It is alleged that Babangida had asked Abiola to help launder it when Babangida was in office but Abiola was not interested.

Babangida allegedly side-stepped Abiola and eventually prevailed upon a member of Abiola’s family in the custom of family friendship, to rescue the situation. Then the person suddenly died. It is further alleged that Abiola was asked to return the money and he truthfully and honestly said he knew noting about it and even if there was such a thing, he had no authority over the matter. Then he was asked to pressurize the children of the deceased to play ball.
Abiola refused, arguing that he had no legal or moral right to do so. The kids of the deceased wanted Abiola released but Abiola was too principled to succumb to blackmail so the powers that be decided early after his arrest, that he would die in detention for declaring himself president.

The Gulf war oil windfall is Babangida’s often-referenced loot. Abacha set up a panel headed by the highly respected economist, Pius Okigbo, in October, 1994, to reorganize the CBN. Okigbo’s panel discovered that $12.2 billion of the $12.4 billion accruable from the Gulf War excess crude oil sales was frittered away or unaccounted for, through nebulous or phantom projects that could not be traced. Only $206 million was left in the account. According to Okigbo, “disbursements were clandestinely undertaken while the country was openly reeling with crushing external debt overhead. These represent, no matter the initial justification for creating the account, a gross abuse of public trust. “
When Obasanjo in 2001, decided to look quietly into the missing NNPC’s US$12.2 billion Gulf war oil windfall linked to Babangida, it was found that the documents pertaining to the fraud had disappeared from the volts of the Central Bank. The brilliant, highly respected economist, Pius Okigbo who handled the investigations into the scam had private copies. Before he could deliver, he insisted on travelling to London against strong, wise, private, counsel, and he was wasted. Other members of the Okigbo panel had copies of the report anyway and were still alive.
Government miraculously found the CBN documents when it suited it, and aspects of the documents concerning IBB, were published during the threat by members of the House of Representatives to impeach President Obasanjo in July, 2005, because of speculations that IBB was one of the Northern elites fanning the plot.

Babangida was ruthless in the way he amassed his colossal wealth. First is the illegal self-allocation of free oil, sold on the spot market. Then he initiated the corrupt culture of maintaining a huge monthly security vote virtually as personal pocket money. Rather than repair our refineries, let alone to work at maximum capacity, IBB built private refineries in Cote d’Ivoire and the Republic of Benin, where he took our crude to refine and sell back to us as fuel.
John Fashanu, in a private investigation published in African Confidential early in Obasanjo’s current regime, discovered an alleged $6 billion debt buy-back scam by IBB between 1988 and 1993. Another $14.4 billion disappeared into off shore accounts as currency stabilization and debt buy-back scheme that actually cost $2.5 billion. One of the front-companies used, Growth Management, based in London, bought the debt for 10 cents per dollar and resold to the government at 45 cents to steal 35 cents per dollar. Fashanu was trying to recover about $17 billion for the Nigerian government only for the CBN to say they had no records of the deals. The records are out there abroad but cleaned out at home to conceal the (theft) deals.

As soon as Giwa was spotted entering his house, the allegation continues, the Arab terrorist offered to go and deliver the bomb, but his colleagues in crime stopped him on the grounds that a white man would look too suspicious for the job. Marwa, accompanied by Ogbeha, are alleged to have delivered the bomb to Dele’s son at the door, after which the crime team drove off to Mafoluku where they burned their delivery car. The same day, the Arab terrorist was flown out of Lagos, first to Kano, and eventually out of the country.
Major Buba Marwa was at the time rewarded with the rank of Lt. Col. and posted to the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, USA, as the new Military Attaché. His rise in the Army was extremely rapid and as Col. returned home to be Governor of Lagos State. Armed robbers welcomed him to his new office with the kind of daredevilry never before experienced in Nigeria. Violence begets violence they say. The armed robbers raided from Mile two to Ikeja, even as he was passing by. Marwa panicked, so Babangida pumped unusual resources into Marwa’s coffers to ensure his success, which is the genesis of his tramping around as an achiever today. His private life does not suggest that he suffered in fool’s paradise.

Marwa, Ogbeha, and Gwazo, have since denied their alleged involvement in Dele Giwa’s murder. Marwa, who now owns an airline and, therefore, knows that it takes less than eight hours to fly across the Atlantic to Nigeria, argued that he was studying in the USA at the time. The implication of this, of course, was that it was impossible to take a few days off his studies.
Marwa, who rose to fame through IBB’s benevolence, is considered in military circles as one of the IBB boys, made up principally of the trusted cronies of the retired dictator. Accused of laundering money for IBB, Marwa again relied on the puerile argument that he was the Borno state governor in 1990, as if state governors are too busy governing diligently to travel out of Nigeria for a day or two, or even a week, on private businesses.

In December, 2005, when Marwa was detained for a couple of weeks by the EFCC, for laundering money for Abacha, he allegedly admitted that he had no choice in the matter as a military officer. He was only doing his duty. Of course, doing illegal duties loyally often goes with silencing, mouth-watering pecks, if nothing else.

In the area of managing the national economy, Babangida bestowed his adroitness and moral degeneracy. His economy was dominated by male-wives, particularly in the banking and oil sectors. Women often brag about the efficacy of ‘bottom’ power. Feminine men sometimes flaunt it too as their passport to economic liberation. Between them and the suddenly very lucrative 419 business of the time, industry was complete. IBB’s chiefs, allegedly colluded with 419 criminals to create the over-night semi-illiterate money-bags without class or shame, (including the 150 members of the National Assembly, that in 2005 sent IBB a birthday card), and who together now form the bulk of his supporters and campaigners, to return him to power.
Babangida (sapped) or totally wiped the middle class out of existence with the destruction of the naira, which he did by fiat in 1985, when he down graded the naira exchange rate from about N2 to N18 to the dollar. By the time he was forced out of office in 1993, the naira was exchanging at N60 to the dollar. Society was now reduced to two social classes of either the very poor or the rich rogues.
Babangida first concentrated on pulverizing his military base by tinkering with the 1985 Decree 17, to give himself sole authority to fire his military chiefs, including the chief of general staff; chairman, joint chiefs of staff; service chiefs, and the inspector general of police. General Domkat Bali said at the time: “Babangida must have known what he was aiming at if you now take those powers of the President as civilian, and you now put them on any army officer who then sits with other army officers, in the name of Supreme Military Council, SMC, who are useless to him, whom he can change tomorrow, that means that name is not Supreme at all.”

Bali was provoked to leave the government when he was demoted from the position of Minister of Defence to that of Internal Affairs. Ukiwe, a senior naval officer, who was IBB’s deputy, was forced to retire even before Bali did, for demonstrating patriotic zeal in defense of team spirit, over our IOC membership saga.

Gideon Orkar’s failed coup of April 22, 1990, provided Babangida with the opportunity to further purge the military. With total control over the military, IBB was ready to pursue his President-for- life agenda, (starting) by dismissing his S. J. Cookie’s Political Bureau programme for the return to civil rule by 1990.
For over eight years, Babangida kept shifting his handing over date and juggling his transition programme by arbitrarily banning and unbanning politicians, particularly the known opponents of military rule. He spent N40 billion on his endless transition programme, and bribed all and sundry, including the NLC with N50 million, NUJ with N20 million, PMAN with N30 million, and so on, to try to silence them. He attempted to compromise some vocal critics by settling them, and those he could not recruit, he sacked where possible, or detained, or killed, or hounded into exile.

Less than two years into his rule in 1987, IBB announced that he was planning to bequeath a lasting legacy of civil rule, through a gradual learning political process. Four years into his regime in 1989, he lifted for the first time his ban on partisan politics, and set up two political parastatals. One was called the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the other was the National Republican Convention (NRC).
The handing over date to civilian government was postponed once again from late 1990 to the 1st of October 1992. He allowed elections to be held into the local governments in 1990, and in 1991, Babangida instigated intra party squabbles to find excuse to ban 12 of the candidates participating in the governorship elections. Candidates replacing the disqualified ones had barely one week to campaign.
Elections into the State Assemblies miraculously held without too much acrimony, followed shortly afterwards by elections into the National Assembly. In all the elections, known individuals strongly against Babangida or the military in power were sidelined, banned, or hounded into exile, prominent among whom were Ibrahim Tahir of the NPN, Sam Mbakwe, Chris Okolie, Wahab Dosumu, Ebenezer Babatope, etc.
Allegation of massive rigging was invoked on 17 November, 1992, to ban Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Musa Yar Adua, who had emerged from party primaries as presidential candidates for the NRC and the SDP respectively, and 21 other presidential aspirants, (including Chief Arthur Nzeribe, Chief Olu Falae, Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Alhaji Umar Shinkafi), from participating in the scheduled August 1992 presidential election, and all other future elections. The trick was that Babangida was gradually narrowing the field of potential presidential materials to himself. Remember that Babangida had promised Yar Adua the Presidency when Yar Adua helped to actualize the 1985 coup that brought Babangida to power. The ban did not go down well with the political elite in general, and particularly with Yar Adua who had assumed he would take over leadership from Babangida.

With the ban, Babangida once again postponed his handing over date from October 1st 1992, to Dec 5, 1992. Soon after, Babangida mandated the National Electoral Commission (NEC), to conduct the presidential primaries of the political parties, and he again fixed a new date of January 3, 1993, for the handing over of the reigns of power to a civilian government. Bribery, thuggery, rigging, ethnic cleavages, etc., ruined the NEC supervised political parties’ presidential primaries, resulting in the dissolution of party executives, who were replaced by Sole Administrators, and National Coordinators. Handing over date was once again postponed to August 27, 1993.
Baba Gana Kingibe, who was the SDP chairman before the dissolution of the party executives, and was then supposed to be managing the affairs of Yar Adua, was alleged to have received Babangida’s backing and financial support to aspire as presidential candidate obviously to cause confusion in Yar Adua’s political camp. Kingibe pasted his campaign posters all over the place, causing bad blood between himself and Yar Adua, which spilled into the Jos SDP convention of 1993.

In the meantime, Babangida was busy creating anarchy in the ranks of the politicians by introducing his modified open ballot system, and insisting that presidential aspirants go through tedious ward, local government, and state congresses. This eventually produced two presidential aspirants for each of the states, plus two for the FCT, and the unwieldy 62 presidential aspirants had to go through further elimination processes, at various national congresses, before the Jos (SDP), and Port-Harcourt (NRC), conventions of 1993.
Several irregularities were observed at the party conventions and a lot of money changed hands.

Akilu had just returned from a military training in India at the time and Babangida recommended him for appointment as the head of the Secret Service. Idiagbon by-passed Akilu and slighted Babangida by not consulting with him to confirm the new head of the Secret Service from the army.

Gloria Okon was arrested at the Murtala Mohammed Airport trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country. Gloria claimed to be a courier for the family of one of the two high ranking military officers deeply involved in the Supreme Military Council’s palaver. Gloria was quickly smuggled out of the country and a carcass burnt beyond recognition of a human body, was left in her prison room to deceive the authorities. As Gloria’s drama was playing out, Abiola brought a large consignment of banned newsprint into the country, forcing Idiagbon to insist on the arrest of Chief M.K.O Abiola.

All sorts of calamitous events kept rolling out at the time, including the arrest of one Ikuomola for trying to smuggle a large consignment of cocaine out of the country. He indicted a son of one of the Dantatas and they were both tried and sentenced to death. The Dantata family mounted pressure on the Supreme Military Council to commute the sentence to life. The issue heightened the division among the Supreme Military Council members, with the Gloria Okon’s high ranking military benefactor, siding with the Dantatas naturally.
Idiagbon insisted that if poor people found with cocaine could be punished with death sentence, why should the rich and affluent be spared? Idiagbon also wanted the lawyer, (a Rivers state chap who had received some four million naira as legal fees on the case at the time), to be shot along with the drug barons for benefiting from the evil.

The schism between Idiagbon and Babangida totally paralyzed the Supreme Military Council and it could no longer function. Idiagbon forced compulsory leave on Babangida, under close surveillance with tapped telephone lines and all. Chief M.K.O Abiola saw the opportunity to save his neck from the newsprint saga by teaming up with his friend, Babangida, and he provided the seed money for a coup.
Through the facilities of Abiola and the Dantatas, Yar Adua was brought into the picture to help influence the Saudi Arabian monarch to extend a special invitation to Idiagbon as a guest of the monarch, to perform the 1985 Lesser Hajj in Mecca. Idiagbon felt greatly honoured by the invitation and took with him to Mecca, most of his supporters on the splintered Supreme Military Council, including Mamman Vasta.
With Idiagbon (who was the head of the Buhari’s regime in every sense of the word, and was very popular because of his transparent honesty, patriotism, and discipline), out of the way, Buhari (who was ready to vacate office anyway), was picked up like a helpless chicken at Doddan Barracks, and dumped in jail. Idiagbon, against the coupists’ advice, returned home a people’s hero, although locked up for several months too by Babangida.

Luckily, it did not take too long for Babangida to begin to reveal his secret agenda. He had removed Idiagbon/Buhari from power to douse the heated allegation at the time about illegal drug links and to help the IMF/World Bank ruin the naira and open up the Nigerian market as dumping ground for American and European junk and decadence. The marginalization of the naira suited Babangida’s Machiavellian streak to blunt prospects of mass protests with abject poverty, hunger, and basic survival pre-occupations. For example, the terroristic power of massive foreign exchange loot in a private hand, is limitless as a tool for forcing pauperized populace to acquiesce to the self-perpetuation antics of a potential despot.

Babangida’s first pronouncement in power was to shock the nation by adopting the civilian title of president. He did this because of a secret personal ambition kept to himself, to transit into life president in the mould of Presidents Nasir of Egypt and Eyadema of Togo, and also because of his agreement to make Chief Abiola his Vice President for collaborating over their 1985 coup. Abacha kicked against Abiola becoming Vice President because he was eyeing Babangida’s seat in a possible future coup of his own and wanted to remain the defacto next in command, in military terms, for eventual easy take over excuse.
Babangida promised Yar Adua a short-lived military transition after which he would hand over power to Yar Adua. That was why Yar Adua kept boasting during the early stages of Babangida’s regime, that no force on earth could stop him becoming the next president of Nigeria. This prompted Obasanjo’s statement at the time that Yar Adua must have forgotten something at the state house.

Babangida was so single minded, self-centered, and power-drunk, he single-handedly forced OIC membership on Nigeria without respect for our supposed religious secularity. He used every means imaginable to assert his power. Spiritual, criminal, everything was fair in his ruthless power game. The gods of the Marabouts became privileged guests at Aso Rock, lacing it with severe witchcraft, which was later vigorously sustained by Abacha.

If the physical failed, the metaphysical was handy in the human blood bath for power. Blood was the language in the cultish game for total control. Fear gripped the land. Who was going to be the next victim? Life was scary and worthless. I bet, corridor of power social acolytes of the time like the Arisekolas, Adedibus and the Akinyeles, could write blood-cuddling masterpieces on the mysteries of the season. Assassinations were rampant, sophisticated and comprehensive, incorporating bombings and dare-devil forages. Media houses were burnt or closed down, and critics of government were murdered, incarcerated or hounded into exile. Plane loads of promising young army officers lost their lives in questionable circumstances. Others appeared to have been sacrificed in distant land civil wars.

The Ejigbo military Hercules crash that killed an elite corp. of army captains and majors returning to their Jaji training base, is a typical example of the terrible human carnage visited upon us at the time by a desperate tyrant bent on holding on to power indefinitely at all costs. The plane was doctored and it crashed a few seconds after take-off from the Murtala Mohammed airport. No rescue attempt was ordered or made until 24 hours after the crash and even then, the inadequate facilities of a private company, (Julius Berger), were relied upon. Forty-eight hours after the crash, a warm body was still found suggesting that some lives could have been saved if rescue operations had commenced minutes after the crash.

Apart from the needless assassinations of possible opponents and rivals for power, there were totally senseless ones too, such as the death of Murtala Mohammed’s first son immediately after visiting the seat of power. It was generously reported in the press at the time. The allegation was that during the friendly, private visit, the young man was asked if he would be prepared to do a job. The young chap said he could not say until he was told what the job was. When told that he was to help facilitate the elimination of Chief Abiola, the young man said he couldn’t because Abiola was like a father to him. The host then quickly dismissed the suggestion as if it had been a joke and asked how the young man travelled to the state house. “By private car,” the young man said. “You are going about without security?” the host asked, pretending to look alarmed, and detailed some security officers to escort the young man to his Minna destination. The body of the young man was later that day found in his car on the route between the seat of power and Minna.
One of the documents we received was on Gloria Okon. We could not use the information in Nigeria at the time because no newspaper would dare publish it, so I arranged for Ejike Nwankwo, my bosom friend, to take the documents to his senior brother, Chief Arthur Nwankwo, who was in political exile in London at the time. The idea was for Arthur Nwankwo to have the Gloria Okon’s story published in the Manchester Guardian, but Arthur decided to delay publication until he could use the immunity of the Nigerian Senate, which he was aspiring to join in Babangida’s best time as a member, to make the story public.
Senior members of the Ministry of Information, and of the Daily Times at the time, and a director of Newswatch, were not totally ignorant about what was going on in Babangida’s government. In fact, Abacha at a point, asked the boss of the Ministry of Information to frame up Dele Giwa. The boss being a principled and die-hard journalist, argued that it was difficult to frame up journalists.

Babangida’s boys went ahead to frame up Giwa anyway. Three days before they killed Dele Giwa, Col. A. K. Togun, the deputy Director of Babangida’s State Security Service (the SSS), invited Giwa to his office and accused him of involvement in the importation of arms while linking Giwa with other persons alleged to be trying to stage a socialist revolution in Nigeria. At the meeting, agreement was reached, and Babangida, through his emissaries, promised to meet Giwa’s terms. Two days before Giwa’s murder, Akilu allegedly phoned Giwa’s home to ask for direction because Babangida’s ADC “has something for him, an invitation or something.”

Dele Giwa allegedly invited the overseas editor of Newswatch at the time to be around. Obviously, Giwa took the president’s promise more seriously than his colleagues at the Newswatch. This was why, when Giwa received the parcel and confirmed that it was from the President, his guest’s first reaction was to dash off to take cover in the toilet adjacent to the room where Giwa opened the parcel bomb. The guest escaped death by the whiskers and blasted eardrums. Tagum, when asked by Airport Correspondents on October 27, 1986, about Giwa’s bombing inadvertently confirmed the blackmail reason for Giwa’s death when he said: “We came to a real agreement and one person cannot just come out and blackmail us. I am an expert on blackmail. If a motorcycle man suddenly dashed in front of a car and the driver kills the motorcycle man, another motorcycle man who was there would not say the motorcycle man who dashed in front of the car was wrong.
He would say the driver killed him, not that he killed himself”

An Arab terrorist, who was recruited to collaborate with a University of Ibadan chemistry don especially for the task, produced the bomb. The terrorist is alleged to have gone with Major Buba Marwa, Ogbeha and Gwazo, in a Peugeot station wagon car with fake license plate numbers, to deliver the bomb at Dele’s home. On arrival, they were told that Dele was not in, so they laid ambush near-by to watch movements in and out of Giwa’s premises.

jefy:
Thanks you guys for all the info on been a contractor,bidding,documentations,coy formation etc...am a pen pusher and will contact the OP for further discussion. @databoy et al,God bless you plenty

Thanks to you too for following this thread.

@All, if you are interested, we are offering a company registration + packaging deal. It's a full option. What you get is;

CAC registration (1 million share capital)
TIN/VAT registration
Tax Clearance certificate
DPR registration
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Employee/HR policy handbook
QA/QC Manual
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Company website (and custom email addresses)
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Accounts/Logistics Assistant.
Key Accountabilities:

Maintain an effective and efficient petty cash imprest system.
Prepare vouchers and entering transactions into excel ledgers.
Submission of clients invoices.
Coding of all expenditures.
Proper filling of documents.
Provide relevant assistance to internal and external auditors during stock verification exercises.
Assist with the movement/transfer of imported/local goods/equipment and raw materials to pre-assigned Forte/clients locations/warehouses.
Ensure the company’s procurement needs are supplied at the right time, place, quality, quantity, price and packaging.
Ensure payment of all approved utility bills.
Assist in Trucks Inspection for load out.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
The position requires a sharp thinking graduate of Accounting, Economics or any Finance related discipline with at least two (2) years’ experience. Part (Foundation) professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, etc.) will be an added advantage.

The following skills are essential:

Good appreciation of standard methods for analyzing a range of Production Chemicals and Drilling fluids.
Good appreciation of Forte’s quality control procedures and guide lines.
Balance of technical knowledge with interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people.
Good people management skills.
Good oral, written, interpersonal and communication skills.
Good networking and teaming skills.
Good organization skills and attention to details
Problem analysis and solving skills.
Working Relationships:
Internal: Operations External: Service providers

Laboratory Assistant
Key Accountabilities:
Perform sampling and all laboratory analysis while adhering to all safety rules.
Assist in the formulation of drilling fluids and perform analysis on drilling fluids.
Perform routine QA/QC test on all chemicals.
Check and report calibration dates of all lab equipment and update records.
Segregate chemical waste and maintain records.
Support other operational activities when required.
Support field work and monitor equipment/tools movement.
Visit vendors base for sampling and verification of chemical quality
Perform basic report of Laboratory analysis.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience: The position requires a sharp thinking graduate of Industrial Chemistry or Chemical Engineering with at least two (2) years of laboratory experience in the upstream oil and gas sector. Basic certification and training in HSE will be an added advantage.

The following skills are essential:

Good appreciation of standard methods for analyzing a range of Production Chemicals and Drilling fluids.
Good appreciation of Forte’s quality control procedures and guidelines.
Balance of technical knowledge with interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people.
Good people management skills.
Good oral, written, interpersonal and communication skills.
Good networking and teaming skills.
Good organization skills.
Attention to details.
Problem analysis and solving skills.
Working Relationships:
Internal: Production Chemical & Services and Drilling Fluids & Services departments
External: Service providers

Warehouse Assistant
Key Accountabilities
Ensure the safety of products.
Ensure required procedures are performed to guarantee readiness for receipt of goods into the warehouse:
Supervise cleaning/re-arrangement of warehouse floor space appropriate and adequate for the storage of incoming goods.
Ensure availability and operational status of equipment required to receive incoming goods.
Verify incoming stock details and ensure agreement with required supporting documentation e.g. waybills, goods receipt note, e.t.c.
Supervise the loading of stock from the warehouses and ensure accuracy in nature and quantity of products released as specified in the appropriate stock issuance documentation.
Raise and distribute all product documents for all products received or delivered.
Assist with coordinating the activities of forklift operators, loaders and other personnel involved in the movement of stock at the warehouse.
Update and reconcile stock card.
Ensure proper labelling and arrangement of stock in the warehouse to facilitate easy location and retrieval.
Provide relevant assistance to internal and external auditors during stock verification exercises.
Conduct regular stock examination and report stock damages/degradation to the Warehouse Supervisor for proper accounting capture.
Track age of stock and provide required data for periodic age analysis by the Warehouse Supervisor.
Prepare & distribute weekly stock report.
Implement good housekeeping processes within the organisation’s warehouses e.g. proper cataloguing, stock labelling and serialisation, appropriate segregation/storage of special stock (e.g. separation of corrosive items and other items requiring special storage), good fire prevention techniques etc.
Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Warehouse Supervisor.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience

The position requires a sharp thinking graduate of any discipline with at least two (2) years relevant experience in the upstream/downstream oil and gas sector.
Relevant certification and training in warehouse management will be an added advantage.
The following Skills are essential:

Baseline/ intermediate knowledge of warehouse management.
Operational knowledge and understanding of inventory optimization and accuracy.
Good people management skills.
Good oral, written, interpersonal and communication skills.
Good networking and teaming skills.
Good organization skills and attention to details
Problem analysis and solving skills.
Working Relationships

Internal: Finance, Drilling Fluids & Services, Production Chemical & Services and Laboratory & Technical Support departments.
External: Service providers
Method of Application

Interested candidates whose skills and capabilities match the job profile should send their CV with subject:“Laboratory Assistant – FO/FUS/LA/1115” or “Accounts/Logistics Assistant – FO/FUS/ALA/1115” or“Warehouse Assistant – FO/FUS/WA/1115” to external.careers@forteoilplc.com.

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This is really funny because right now I cannot access all the websites I have hosted with you. This isn't funny.

DomainkingNG, you guys are frustrating me seriously. This is the second time I am hosting a website with you that I cannot access with my computer. It keeps telling me the website is offline or server not reachable. Ive been trying to access it but to no avail. I raised a support ticket and it took you guys almost 6 hours to respond to my ticket and what you said is what you always say; "it is loading fine from my end, check kproxy.com or clear browser cache or flush DNS.
I am not a newbie in this and don't you think I must have done those before complaining to you For the sake of peace I decided to do what you asked me to do. I have used 3 different computers and 3 different networks but still not able to access the website. It takes you guys hours to respond to support tickets and have REFUSED to get a working phone line (NIGERIAN). This is laxity in customer support and it kills businesses.

Please try to sort out this issue once and for all or I will be forced to mover my websites hosted with you. I cannot continue to suffer this while my clients keep raining fire on me. The said website has been offline since yesterday and I am currently trying to access it with their computer and it is still not working. Now what do you expect me to do in this situation?

I have raised another support ticket and now I have no choice but to wait for hours again before it is answered. This is really bad.

Dahveydson:
Who wouldn't know what an academic journal publication is. This quest is primarily for your gain whether you choose to admit or not. I have seen initiatives like this, request for works of others and turn around to sell it for a fee without the knowledge of the author.

LOL @ I don't know you. Sorry, I don't need to.

Am sorry for the misunderstanding. Our Journal is new and we operate under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. We operate an Open Access model which means no publication is to be sold neither do people pay any form of subscription access the publications. If we sell your work for monetary gains, you have the right to sue us and worse, we will be sanctioned. So in case you are wondering, we are not interested in selling your works. Perosnally I don't edit or review works, that is the reason there is what we call peer review.

Though we are on the verge of affiliating with one or two professors here in Nigeria, we have some good academicians in various field already affiliated with us. We are also working on affiliations with other international publishers network.

Publishing your work in other international journals can cost you up to USD700 (over N140,000) called a manuscript handling fee, especially publications in medical research and clinical trials. Because we are new, we are not charging anything from you guys. So instead of derailing and looking for reasons why nothing good can come out of Nigeria, try to embrace this endeavour and get your work published.

Personally, I have been involved in two online projects which are currently successful (www.officemanager.com.ng and www.procvnigeria.com) . This is my third and by the Grace of God, it will be successful.

Someone has to prove to the world that good things can also come out of Nigeria. Cheers.

Dahveydson:
Instead of OP to just say he's looking for project works to put on his blog and probably sell, he wants to make use of the gullibility of Job seekers. Nice Try.

Please what do you mean by gullibility of job seekers?

If you know me well, you will understand that I am not a "blog" person. And am truly amazed to notice that you don't know what a journal publication is. I guess you are unemployed because I don't think employers will be interested in what you just displayed. Do a Google search and try to understand what I actually talked about.

If as a graduate you do not know what an academic journal publication is, then we have a long way to go in this country. If I were you, I'll just ask questions instead if I don't know. Do you think everything is about blogs??

Those who have indicated their interest, you will be contacted soon. Cheers.

Do you know you stand a better chance with recruiters when you have a citation on your CV that you have a research work published in an international journal?

Some few reasons why you need to get your research work published;

-Recruiters will be able to view your research work and come to terms that you can handle data collation and ordering.

-You do not need to explain if you are good in feasibility study or survey. It cam be seen in your published research work.

-If given a task to conduct a research in an emerging market, you will deliver and prospective employers do not need a soothsayer to tell him/her you are good in this. Of course, you have just published your research work.

-Other researchers conducting a form of study from different countries will give a citation and reference your work if used. This goes a long way in giving you some authority online. When you name is Googled, these citations and references leads back to you. And trust me, every employer will be happy to get an intellectual on board.

-If you dont have that required working experience, you have a verifiable intellectual competence which can be a valuable addition to any work team.

-When you tell employers; "I am a graduate of Microbiology", it is not just stated in your CV, but there is an actual link to a project research work you have done published online. This is one of the quickest ways of vetting your qualification claims. There are so many graduates out there who cannot defend their qualifications. Be different!

So, what did you study in school? What was your project research work title? Let it pave the way for you by getting it published online. It is your work and it should be a point of reference for researchers globally not sitting in a dusty shelf.

Do you have a soft copy of your project research work (which you did in school)? We can help get it published online and boost your CV.

The following courses are welcome;

business management
business studies
marketing
conflict resolution
biology
Chemistry
Engineering
microbiology
agricultural research and development
environmental sciences
psychology
genetics
political science/international relation
linguistics
Art and History
mass communications
economics
Liberal arts
tourism and hospitality management

You project research work can be published in a newly launched online journal (International publications in management, sciences and humanities research). If you are interested, send an email to admin@imashjournals.org and someone will give you some guidelines and how it is done.

Don't worry, it is free.

Anyone have an idea which international payment processor is efficient? In terms of fees (per transaction and integration), hopefully a free integration wont be a bad idea. I know we have our own indigenous payment processors now accepting international credit cards with the likes of voguepay and simplepay4u, but like it or not these have not yet attained international reputation/standards. And this may affect the business.

My target market is Europe and Asia. Is there a way I can make use of paypal?

Any ideas are welcome.

We are about launching an international online journal which will help in accelerating the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of high quality research articles using the open access model. Open Access is a publication model that enables the dissemination of research articles to the global community without restriction through the internet. Thus, all articles published under open access can be accessed by anyone with internet connection. Academic Journals strongly supports the Open Access initiative. Abstracts and full texts of all articles published by our online journal Journals are freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication.

In order words, your research works including academic projects, dissertation and thesis can be published online (after proper verification and screening). Your works can easily be viewed by a global audience and referenced when engaging in further research.

If you are in the academic profession or interested in building a new career there, then you should understand the importance of research publications.

We have assembled a team of research scientists, lecturers and academics both here in Nigeria, India, United States and South Africa to review submitted works to be published in our online journal.

For now, we are will be accepting works to be reviewed and published for free. If you are interested in submitting your articles, research works and projects, you can drop a mail nwaka@5star-global.com and you will be sent guidelines and procedures.

You can ask you questions here.

Etisalat’s vision is a world where people’s reach is not limited by matter or distance; a world where people will effortlessly stay in touch with family and friends; a world where businesses of all sizes can reach new markets without the limitations of distance and travel.

They are currently recruiting both fresh graduates and experienced professionals to fill the following vacant positions in ALL their office locations below:

1.) Graduate Analyst, Strategy & Business Development
2.) Specialist, Product Marketing
3.) Specialist, Data Services
4.) Senior Engineer, VAS Planning
5.) Graduate Engineer, BSS
6.) Specialist Finance Support
7.) Manager BSS HLS Operation
8.) Senior Engineer, Performance
9.) Head, Strategy
10.) Specialist, Knowledge Management
11.) Head, Regional Sales (Regional) - Lagos State
12.) Head, Regional Sales (Regional) - Oyo State

Application Closing Date
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george31:
We need contractors in Enugu to work on a small project in Nara Unateze Town, Nkanu East LGA

Contact me on 08037133612
Email: geoegeprays@gmail.com

What's the nature of the contract? And Which company or organization is involved? You can share here please.

I requested for just one CV and now my inbox is flooded.

Easy Taxi is the largest taxi booking app in the world. The application connects taxi drivers and passengers, allowing them to experience a fast, convenient and safe ride, with just a tap of the finger. Easy Taxi is available for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Firefox OS devices, as well as for B2B clients through Easy Taxi Pro and Easy Taxi Corporate solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the positions below:
Trainee (Intern), B2B Sales & Marketing

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
LocationLagos
Job FieldGraduate Jobs / Internships Sales / Marketing
Slots: 2

Job Summary

We’re recruiting two (2) interns to support the B2B Marketing team responsible for executing sales and partnership strategies to develop our market in Lagos.
The intern will work with senior members of the department to source for new business opportunities by identifying prospects, pitching relevant products, maintaining relationships with clients, and gathering feedback to continually improve the user/client experience.
This position is ideal for people who enjoy variety in their day – from working outdoors, meeting lots of people, preparing reports, and meeting targets that demonstrate their drive and ambition.
We are looking for a dynamic young professional with amazing interpersonal skills, who is also enthusiastic about executing plans and meeting goals.
This role has been designed to prepare young entrepreneurial minded professionals for a career in marketing and sales.
Responsibilities

Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business
Gathering and documenting customer requirements in order to develop relevant pitch presentations and marketing collateral to drive sales
Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries
Tracking contract negotiations and agreements
Reviewing and improving individual performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
Developing expertise of our market by deepening customers’ businesses and requirements via each engagement (even in case of no sale)
Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations
Basic Qualifications

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proven leadership potential
Comfortable presenting ideas to small audiences
Receptive of feedback and quick to adapt
Excellent team player – with a great sense of humor!
Must be comfortable in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and able to manage priorities well
Account Executive, B2B Sales & Marketing

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
Experience1 year
LocationAbuja
Job FieldSales / Marketing
Job Description

We’re recruiting sales consultants to support seasonal efforts in B2B Marketing. The consultants will work as members of the team that will be responsible for driving sales and partnership strategies in Abuja.
The sales consultant will develop new business for the company by identifying prospects, pitching relevant products, maintaining relationships with clients, and gathering feedback to continually improve the user/client experience.
This position is ideal for people who enjoy variety in their day – from working outdoors, meeting lots of people, preparing reports, and meeting targets that demonstrate their drive and ambition.
We are looking for dynamic sales professionals with amazing interpersonal skills, who are enthusiastic about transportation, technology, advertising, or all of the above, with the zeal and commitment to formulate concrete plans to achieve goals.
This role leads in the articulation and representation of the Easy Taxi brand to prospective companies with the utmost professionalism and integrity. So we’ll be looking for sales consultants with STRONG written & verbal communication skills.
If you’re interested in this role, you should be able to convince us in your cover letter that you’re worth interviewing; it should be relatively easy for you to hone in on your target audience (us) and demonstrate the level of persuasive, data-driven, and value-proposition based writing and communication style this role will require.
Note: This is a consultant position with minimum of 3 months commitment.
Responsibilities

Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business
Gathering and documenting customer requirements in order to develop relevant pitch presentations and marketing collateral to drive sales
Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries
Negotiating contract terms and agreements in alignment with company strategy and sales objectives
Reviewing and improving individual sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
Developing expertise of our market by deepening customers’ businesses and requirements via each engagement (even in case of no sale)
Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations
KPIS

# New Contracts (B2B Clients)
# Average Contract Amount
Basic Qualifications

1-2 years cumulative experience in direct sales, sales management, business development, territory management, and client engagement
Experience producing and delivering compelling persuasive presentation
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Proven leadership skills (as may be responsible for developing junior team members and growing sales team)
Must be comfortable presenting ideas to internal and external clients, receptive of feedback and quick to apply changes
Excellent team player and we really mean this
Must be comfortable in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and able to manage priorities well
Compensation
Generous Commission Scheme on Sales

Customer Relationship Manager

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
LocationLagos
Job FieldCustomer Care Sales / Marketing
Job Summary

Responsible for acting as a liaison between customers, drivers and companies.
Assists with complaints, orders, errors, billing, cancelations, and other queries.
Often serves as the first-point of contact with customers, and thus plays a critical role in exhibiting core brand values and nurturing loyalty.
Key Responsibilities

Engage potential customers by answering product and service questions; suggesting information about other products and services.
Resolve customer complaints via phone, email, and/or other web applications
Recommend potential products or services to management by gathering and collating customer feedback, analyzing customer needs, and sharing insights with the rest of the team
Resolve product or service problems with speed, efficiency, and professionalism; determining the cause of the problem; selecting and explaining the best solution to solve the problem; expediting correction or adjustment; following up to ensure resolution
Contribute to company-wide team efforts to expand customer base and improve the customer experience by executing small customer engagement campaigns, and supporting other departments as needed
Carry out customer surveys and follow ups as directed by the Head of CS
Data Entry: input relevant information by the company into our back office application, and other data / knowledge management tools
Act as service provider to other departments in the daily management of customer and driver relationships and communities
Skills and Qualifications
We’re Seeking:

B.Sc/HND in any discipline from a reputable university/polytechnic
Excellent WRITTEN and VERBAL communication and interpersonal skills
Excited about team work, proactive and rigorous learning, and personal growth
Displays can-do attitude and resourcefulness in solving problems
Excellent people skills and an upbeat and enthusiastic attitude.
Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT) recommended (*extra points for proficiency with Google applications)
Interested in working for a startup, where you’ll learn fast, fail fast, and continue to develop professionally
Other Considerations:

As our way of verifying commitment, all entry-level CS representations will be required to perform night and evening shifts during their first 1-3 months at the company. Please do not apply if you will be unavailable for at least 3 nights and/or weekend days every week.
Relationship Manager

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
Experience1 year
LocationLagos
Job FieldSales / Marketing
Job Summary

Looking for your big break? Join Easy Taxi Nigeria and start building your career as a sales and marketing professional today!
We’re recruiting for the freelance position of Driver Relationship Manager, a member of the Easy Taxi team that will be responsible for executing field marketing and sales strategies to engage and recruit one of our most critical markets: entrepreneurial, tech-savvy, experienced, and professional drivers.
This position is ideal for people who enjoy variety in their day – from working outdoors, meeting lots of people, preparing reports, and meeting targets that demonstrate their drive and ambition.
We are looking for a cohort of energetic and dynamic sales professionals with amazing interpersonal skills, who are also enthusiastic about executing plans and meeting goals. This role leads in the articulation and representation of the Easy Taxi brand to prospective drivers with the utmost professionalism and integrity.
The agent supports the company by identifying prospective drivers (in the field or online), pitching our app as a way to increase their revenue, maintaining relationships with them during the recruitment, training, and onboarding process, and gathering feedback from the field to continually improve our value proposition and app.
This positions reports to the City Manager, Abuja.
Responsibilities

Field prospecting at least 4 days a week to meet and engage new drivers
Gathering key driver documentation and requirements in line with the company’s signup policies
Following up on inquiries and referrals from drivers
Negotiating driver contract terms and SLA agreements in alignment with company strategy and acquisition objectives
Meeting daily and monthly supply acquisition (sales) targets set by the Area/City Manager
Reviewing and improving individual performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
Developing expertise of our market by actively contributing to the company’s understanding of the professional/taxi driver profession via each engagement (even in case of no signup)
Operating flawlessly as an invaluable ambassador of Easy Taxi at all times
KPIs:

New Driver Signups
New Driver Requests Accepted (During First Month)
Basic Qualifications

Non-Negotiable: You must know your way around Abuja
1-3 years cumulative experience in direct sales, sales management, business development, territory management, and client engagement
Intermediate to Advanced skills using Excel / Google Sheets
Experience producing and delivering compelling persuasive presentations
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Proven leadership skills (as may be responsible for developing junior team members and growing sales team)
Must be comfortable presenting ideas to a variety of audiences, able to adapt communications, remain receptive of feedback, and adaptable to change
Excellent team player and we really mean this!
Must be comfortable in fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and able to manage priorities well
Compensation

Base Compensation (between 20-40K depending on experience).
Very generous commission scheme on driver signups.
Account Executive, B2B Sales & Marketing

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
Experience1 year
LocationLagos
Job FieldSales / Marketing
Job Description

We are recruiting for the position of Account Executive, B2B Marketing, a member of the team that will be responsible for executing sales and partnership strategies to develop our market in Lagos.
In a sentence, the account executive develops new business for the company by identifying prospects, pitching relevant products, maintaining relationships with clients, and gathering feedback to continually improve the user/client experience.
This position is ideal for people who enjoy variety in their day – from working outdoors, meeting lots of people, preparing reports, and meeting targets that demonstrate their drive and ambition. We are looking for a dynamic sales professional with amazing interpersonal skills, who is also enthusiastic about executing plans and meeting goals.
This role leads in the articulation and representation of the Easy Taxi brand to prospective companies with the utmost professionalism and integrity.”
Responsibilities

Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business
Gathering and documenting customer requirements in order to develop relevant pitch presentations and marketing collateral to drive sales
Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries
Negotiating contract terms and agreements in alignment with company strategy and sales objectives
Reviewing and improving individual sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
Developing expertise of our market by deepening customers’ businesses and requirements via each engagement (even in case of no sale)
Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations
KPIS:

# New Contracts (B2B Clients)
# Average Contract Amount
Basic Qualifications

1-2 years cumulative experience in direct sales, sales management, business development, territory management, and client engagement
Experience producing and delivering compelling persuasive presentation
Superior written and verbal communication skills
Proven leadership skills (as may be responsible for developing junior team members and growing sales team)
Must be comfortable presenting ideas to internal and external clients, receptive of feedback and quick to apply changes
Excellent team player
Associate, Strategic Partnerships

Job TypeFull Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
LocationLagos
Job FieldAdministration / Secretarial Sales / Marketing
Responsibilities

Identifies, implements and evaluates corporate and non-traditional partnership opportunities aimed at brand extension and strengthening Easy Taxi’s brand associations.
Develops and executes a winning integrated partnership strategy and budget.
Manages the collaboration efforts between partner organizations and Easy Taxi departments; assure timely and relevant communication.
Coordinates with Easy Taxi marketing campaigns to integrate strategies and partnership opportunities for industry stakeholders.
Reports to the MD, but works collaboratively with the Brand & Communications team
Required Skills

Successful candidate must be a creative self-starter with a strong ability to consider a wide and diverse audience.
Must be capable of exercising independent judgment, discretion and initiative while utilizing tact and courtesy in frequent contact with business and industry representatives, government officials and the general public.
Must be skilled at value based sales, relationship building, problem solving, partner retention and conducting oneself with diplomacy and independence.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills; ability to convey information in a clear, concise and meaningful manner for audiences with varied levels of expertise and at all organizational levels; knowledge of methods used to tactfully deal with the public.
Knowledge of Google Apps and Microsoft Office products including (and especially) PowerPoint presentation software. Also, working knowledge of social media platforms is preferred.
At least four (4) years professional experience developing tourism related initiatives.
Method of Application.

Apply here: https://etnigeria.submittable.com/submit/

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The interviewer is not asking for a prediction but actually wants to know if you understand the current issues facing the industry and what the future trends may be.

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