₦airaland Forum

DMilanista:
Boss mi, how far? Longest time, where u dey nah?

DMilanista:
Don't let it get to TG's level o mbok

fidet:
Just passing

IlorinBoy1:
still waiting for you at deturla

woodfrank:
please. mail me bonipinsaiye@gmail.com... we nid to talk.

IlorinBoy1:
any tips on partner interview? thanks (ps i don read thread from top to bottom, nothing on dat)

Acousticlexi:
. I m not too conversant wth nairaland. I d prefer through mails or whatsapp. thanks

goukayuu:
]Guys who have succeeded and the ones who haven't: Please lets help our comrades coming in, if you are so inclined and feel for our unemployed brethren, then please if you have the test materials/study tips/expo/anything that can help, send it to me. I will compile everything, make it readable, easy to understand and throw all the materials into Dropbox.
When I do that, the link that will be produced will be a one click for all who needs everything related AWD recruitment in one area. That way anybody can access it and stop asking people who and who does not have them and will enhance the thread's discussion.
Email: goukayuu@yahoo.com

Thanks.


PS: Fellow Deloitters, this message is especially for you.

Acousticlexi:
. Deturla, pls kindly mail me on lanreadeosun00@gmail.com I have some

inquiries to make. Thanks

chrisI:
WOW! havent been here in Ages! A friend of mine told me what was going on and i decided tgo check it out! had my phone stolen, so i have been unable to chat for a while now. hope yu guys have been doing great! To the many still hoping on God to answer prayers, raise your chin up dear, your story has already been told, and the end is that you won! so no matter whats going on in your life right now, keep the end in mind! YOU WON! see you soon!

purposefulzion:
So it s a direct process now? Where workforce dey?

DMilanista:
Well, u didn't talk to us when u saw us. I just guessed maybe u lost interest. U only talked to Fidet, probable he's d only one expected to do the 3rd floor runs Thanx boss, we r appreciate, good to see u ystday.

Elacutey:
wow...it was nice putting a face 2 all the names...dmilanista,fidet,amyGod,elohorm,ulotade,okinjay and d guests(spies) . congratz once again n c y'all on monday...

yemibayo: Please as a non accounting graduate(computer science graduate to be precise). Can i enrol for ICAN?

DMilanista: To lighten up this thread, lemme ask dis question: Discuss exhaustively, which is preferable, ICAN or ACCA? Give ur answers with cogent reasons. Senior colleagues are not exempted.

elohorm: Hmm especially FIDET, that guy no get mind at all, remaining small make he faint for my neck yesterday. I'm sure he must have had a sleepless night. LOOOL
CONGRATULATIONS PEEPS

DMilanista: Communicato Ufficiale from DMilanista: Congrats to everyone in the struggle, those that have had their medicals and those that are still waiting. I v always had this right feeling. Lemme specifically mention AmyGod (my prophet on the mountain), Ulotade, Ladiel, Elacutey and my secondary school mate soon-to-be colleague Desilz. Thank u'all for d solidarity.
To our Senior colleagues: Dolapobello1 (I'm highly indebted to u for d guides throughout), deturla and olabode. Even those that I've not bn able to mention. God bless y'all.
Lastly, to those that we started this race together but through circumstances could not get to this stage, I say don't give up. There is always light at the end of a tunnel. Trust me, I'm a living witness (after falling short in KPMG, E&Y, PWC). So don't give up.
Long live AWD!
Long live FRN!

Signed:
@NaijaMilanista



shey I try? Me sef go soon turn President.

fidet: AWD, ki lo n happen na?


Deturla, how come we have 7 mutual friends on fb and we haven't met?

dolapobello1: Lol. Right here Chief. Been reading all the drama. Everyone should just calm down. Deloitte is looking forward to receiving you just as much as you are looking forward to hearing from Deloitte.

OkaiCorne: No mind them. Body dey scratch them to resume work. *strokes beard impatiently* I'll be more than happy to welcome them.

ThaiAlNigeria: Greetings Nairalanders,

Looking forward to be a valuable contributor in these forums.

I'm from Bangkok Thailand and our company has been doing business in Nigeria for almost 2 years.

We have a registered company in Nigeria as well as in Bangkok and Dubai.


My elder brother saw an opportunity in Nigeria and made up his mind that Nigeria indeed has a great many opportunities.

Needless to say, actually implementing the idea was not an easy task.

We faced so many great hurdles to make it here that we almost closed down our business at the end of first year for reasons I will further explain soon.

I will separate my post into 2 phases.

1) Our first & second business idea and how that failed (Rice, Clothing and imports)
2) our third business idea and how we made it. (Haulage)

I will start with the first phase

Our first business idea was importing Rice into Nigeria. Seeing that I am from Thailand and Nigerians love Thai rice it sounded like a valid business plan. So we went around Lagos searching for buyers. We came across several powerful women that trades in Rice. We saw these huge warehouses full of rice and many container of rice being offloaded into the warehouses. They were willing and enthusiastic to work with us if we could get them their price. Daily rice prices are fixed. So we made a connection with these powerful women.

Now our next goal was to find the rice at the right prices here in Thailand. But it does not end there. We had to register our rice with Nafdac (Nigerian agency for food and drug). And going to the process of Nafdac is amazingly time consuming and expensive. We hired a lawyer to help us speed the process.

We had also known that the import taxes on rice into Nigeria is 40%. Now here was the issue. We tried finding a source of rice at the right prices here in Thailand but it was not possible. The reason it was not possible was because the import taxes were too high and there was no way we could have made any money selling to the Nigerian Market. We wondered how did other people do it? We investigated. We went to the port and made some connections with some people there and found out that rice importers were not paying import taxes. They were paying money under-table. It is an acceptable practice. But we understood it was against the law and decided to drop the idea of importing rice as wanted to wholly abide by the country laws 100%. We could have made money with the right connections but decided not to go this route.

That is failure of our first business plan.

Our second business plan basically involved importing clothes worth around $2000-$4000. But we failed to sell enough in the market. Due to competition and lack of market research we failed.

After this we decided to try to import various stuff into Nigeria like Air conditioners and electronics. But we realized that the prices the buyers were asking were too low compared to what the factories were selling it for. Plus due to heavy competition, complexity in import/export process and direct easy access to factories itself via alibaba and websites; we as middlemen importers were not needed and even if we were our profit margins would be very little.

So we kissed our import dreams goodbye as well.

Almost 1 year in Nigeria had passed.

If there is one thing we learnt.....doing business in Nigeria was NOT easy.

If you are interested, I will next write the second phase of our story later and tell you how & why we succeeded and the extreme difficulties (To the point where we were about to lose most of our fortunes) we faced before we succeeded in our next venture. (Haulage)

My humblest regards.

Your Friend.

slimmy05: Eunisell Limited, a leading African chemical specialty fluid management oil and gas services company.
Are you the one we are looking for? We are currently looking to fill the positions of Graduate Trainees. The incumbent will be based in Lagos/Port Harcourt.
Job Title: Graduate Trainee

Location: Lagos, Port-Harcourt

Minimum Qualifications:

B.Sc./HND (2nd Class Upper/Upper credit) in any of the Engineering disciplines including Chemistry, Applied Chemistry or Industrial Chemistry
Minimum of 5 credits in WASC, SSCE, NECO, which must include English and Mathematics
Not more than 2 years post NYSC
Not more than 28 years of age as at December 31, 2014
Application Deadline Date
27th August, 2014

How To Apply
Qualified applicants ONLY to send CVs to: recruitment@eunisell.com using Graduate Trainee Programme as the subject of your e-mail

MarvellousGod: @dabrains...thanks alot for the tips...


Quick questions, do they post employees outside Lagos?
How many candidates were selected from last year's exercise?
Can you give a range of what their pay looks like??


I'm asking all these so as to know what decision to make, I will be glad if you respond to them. Thank you

Chikogb: Bro any reply from them?