What da heck!!! I sent the darn SMS and got this - "Send suggestive text messages to put him in the mood for a quality time later in the day". WHAT NONSENSE!!!

Where are all the phone geeks here?? Come say something.

Hey, phone applications afficionadoes.
Please drop the 10 applications on your phone that pass as your personal favourites. Mine are
1. Maps/GPS application
2. Shazam
3. Dictionary
4. Vlingo
5. eBuddy
6. MobiGenie
7. NetQin Anti-virus
8. NetQin Mobile Guard
9. Opera Mini
10. FlipFont

netotse:

how far? thought this thread had died sef. . .how's your end?

it went well, thank you. . .my medicals are tomorrow

Lol. I just pulled a Lazarus on the dead thread sha.
Wow, you are definitely on the fast track with Lafarge, dude. Did you ever learn waht you actually scored at the aptitude test? I'm guessing over 60%.
But this people sef, they are just concentrating on technical/engineering and sales cadres, keeping the rest of us "non-essential" cadres in limbo.

God dey sha. Keep us posted, Netotse, abeg.

netotse:

Hey pple,

i was invited to an interview at lakatabu training centre on the 1st of December, i got the text yesterday evening. . .

Oga, how did the interview go??

Bawo is okay. He was shot 6 times point blank by gangsters in downtown chicago.

He's currently recording a rap album about it.

This 2010 his pepper must rest. So no time for nairaland.

The above "prophecy" was posted by Tudor on 1st January this year @ https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-374355.0.html

Makes me wonder, really.

Anyways, Rest In Peace is traditional.

@ Tadejobi - Finally!! Someone who applied for the same position I did!!! Welcome aboard, matey. For starters, when exactly did you write the aptitude test, and what was your score

jegbadon:

Oh my guys sorry for the absence i actually was taken to a typical bush in the south south region for an assignment my my company so i never had to come on line to update us about my last encounter with lafrage but u uld also know that its unlike me.
Well we did saw the plant manager at Ewekaro and had a brief interview again with him myself and five others but well it was not that tough but at least a minimum of 25-30Min's was spent on each of us.

Finally i am happy to announce to the house that i got my appointment letter on Monday and the working condition is OK to me and like i said in most of my posts on this thread that the battle is still on as it will never be over until we all get there. so i pray and wish that all of us who ve been on this fight will definitely get there.

Remember the project is big enough to accommodate everyone of us as there are more and more expansions and areas of interest. God bless us all as i will still be following this thread and contribute where necessary,

Wow!!!! I'm so happy that guys are collecting offer letters by the day!!!! Here's a big CONGRATULATION, Jegbadon.

To the rest of us still waiting on Lafarge & God, it is well, believe me.

Jegbadon oooooooooo.

Status report abeg abeg abeg. This thread is getting colder and colder by the day.

JazzyPhizzle:

@Eeyore
It was an experienced position and I have been praying ever since! Freshers? Please confirm. What exactly are they up to?

Confirmed oo. They sent mails today inviting some freshers for medicals. (I don't remember when they wrote their own test). Abeg, who has the phone numbers of that Mamman Madu in their Hr, or anybody at all in their Hr? These people are falling my hand seriously.

jegbadon:

Yes the wind of change is really blowing here, I have just been called to appear at ewekaro to see the plant manager, Its going round we shall get there.

Congrats, dude. Now, tell us - How did it go

@ JazzyPhizzle

Pray, what position exactly did you apply for?? I wrote for experience hire on 14th September (@ Kimberly Ryan) and subsequently got a mail from one Mamman Madu from Stanbic's Hr Dept, informing me that I was successful. Since then, I've not heard from them.

Just yesterday, I learnt they are inviting freshers who passed the aptitude test for interviews.

Makes me wonder how organized the whole thing is, really.

fstranger:

I want something painless!

You don't deserve "something painless", you useless tribalist!!!! I just went through your past posts and I sincerely hope you die of heart attack secondary to cardiac arrythmia (your own words), or something equally distressful and painful in equal measures!!!

@ baroncy - Pray, when did you write your aptitude test?? Sometime in August this year PLEASE TREAT AS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY. lol.

Eeyore:

SCAMMMM!!!!!!!!!!

Dragnet handles the scam not you thieving clowns!!! Besides, a personnel manager should be stationed at Head office, not flooded Ikorodu

Sorry, I meant to say Dragnet handles the exercise.

With due respect, this one has SCAM written all over it. If you have this secret and really want to share it with all & sundry, what stops you from posting it here

Besides, how many of your friends and family have you helped secure a job with Zain

jejelolatu:

By the way, there will be a rebroadcast of the Finale on saturday. 6pm CAT, 5pm naija time. Mnet West (channel 102)

Lawyerchap, take note. I only hope that the wifey would not have sent your behind to the dog-house by then sha.

Munya looking FINISHED!!! Lol, how I love that moment!!!!

Big Brother Africa: A Frenzy of Spitting!
By: JEAN SUTHERLAND
WILDER than the great outdoors. Better than sex. As addictive as nicotine. The curtain came down on Big Brother Africa All Stars last night, leaving tens of thousands of fans across the continent staring blankly at … well, a blank screen. Yip, that dreaded moment has arrived; that time when fans have to confront their demons, get to grips with their addiction and get real in the real world. Errrrrrr … yes!

Hope you all hung on to your day jobs.
Believe me, people will be going through withdrawal symptoms. Y’know that jittery fumbling for the remote, that insatiable sense of abandonment, empty TV screen syndrome, that urge to click on the keyboard and vote for your favourite.
You name it, BBA fanatics will be experiencing it. If you have any suggestions on how diehard fans can cope, do drop us a line at bba@namibian.com.na
Otherwise, by the time you read this, the winner of the US$200 000 will be known.
I have no idea, as of now, who it is. The frontrunners were Nigeria’s Uti and Zimbabwe’s Munya with some Mumu fans predicting a 14-nation sweep!
Won’t be surprised if either Munya or Uti wins, though I’m up for a surprise!
Sadly, it looked unlikely (this is an understatement, of course!) that a woman would pull it off this year. Not that I believe that BBA should introduce the type of zebra system advocated by Founding President Sam Nujoma. Housemates should win for who they are ,
Still, given the vagaries and hypocrisies when it comes to judging men and women, the odds are, in general, stacked against the fairer sex.
You know, like when a guy and a girl get their romantic on – the guy is hailed as ‘the dude’ in about every shebeen across Africa, while the baying masses howl for the woman to be burnt at the stake.
For a woman, you have to be something of a cross between Mother Teresa and Naomi Campbell, and even then the chances of winning seem as unlikely as Mother Teresa throwing a cellphone at someone!
Abeg, abeg, abeg. God forbid.

‘KILL BILL’

So yip, 91 days of watching the housemates eat, pray and love has ended. But not without some last-minute drama. You betcha! On Saturday, a worse for wear Munya got his cry-oba on and threw his toys out of the cot, along with his dummy, in an orgy of self pity. Aitsa!
The f-word flowed as freely as an elephant with a rampant case of the runs dispensing a steaming pile of shyte, as he insulted and threatened to “kill” one or the other housemate.
Sheila, Lerato and Mwisho.
Mumu could not keep it in his pants … and hey, hey, hey, I’m not talking ‘two-minute-noodle’ syndrome here!
Munyalozi was in everyone’s face like a horse fly buzzing around a cow’s butt. Literally.
Worst of all, he took to mouthing his contempt for fellow housemates by spitting. Not once, not twice, not thrice. Multiple times.
Enough to get him disqualified, according to some comments in the blogosphere.
Eish, can’t help wondering if the spitting is linked to the ‘Fear Factor’ task the housemates did, which involved hissing cockroaches among others.
Could it be possible that some of those little hissers mated with Munyu’s tortured, small man syndrome psyche, morphing into the spitting Mumu we saw on Saturday? Now there’s a movie idea, ‘Invasion of the Spitting Mumus’!
Look, in some ways I feel for the guy. It seems as though he has self-esteem issues when it comes to making friends. He’s said as much himself. And he’s convinced himself that others don’t respect him, which appeared to be at the root of Saturday’s plague of petulance.
But hella, he doesn’t make it any easier on himself. As far as I know, spitting at people is not in the handbook on ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.
At one point, Munya – shouting ‘I’ll kill you’, ‘I’ll kill you’ – edged his face so close to Mwisho’s that it looked as though they were about to rub noses. The Tanzanian didn’t flinch and stared him down.
With that a spitting and hissing … eish, I mean dissing … Munya fled upstairs and aimlessly hauled out The Bible in an apparent bid to polish his image, a favourite ploy of his as BBA regulars will know.
Still, don’t be surprised if the Zimbabwean wins!
The wheels came off too late for many fans, who were yesterday bemoaning that they’d been “played”.
OK peeps, that’s it for today … Mwah!
– We hope to bring you a few interviews and post-show gossip over the next few days.


http://www.namibian.com.na/news/africa/full-story/archive/2010/october/article/a-frenzy-of-spitting/

Good people, y'all need to go do some cart-wheels on Munya United Fans Club on Facebook. I've been rubbing their nose in the defeat for the past 30 minutes. LOL.

Which way, Stanbi IBTC?

papihand:

Hey check for urgent vacancies at www.nigerianvacancies.com

Dude, how many times you wan tell us Abeg abeg abeg!!!

papihand:

Hey check for urgent vacancies at www.nigerianvacancies.com

Carry your market park one side, abeg.

Your zonal screaming holds inside Cell 3 at the Area 7 Police Station, Apapa, idiot.

@ GoldCircle

The parts in bold clearly show a silver lining in the clouds, some light in the dark tunnel. Besides, as at today, they are still advertising vacancies on their website.

South Africa‘s Standard Bank said it was likely to cut jobs, with an emphasis on managers and executives in Johannesburg and London, as it looks to cut costs due to lower revenue.
Africa‘s largest bank by assets said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday that revenue pressure would ”probably continue” during 2011 and that it was looking to cut staff in ”head office environments.”
Banks in Africa‘s largest economy have struggled as high unemployment and household debt levels have blunted demand for loans and hurt corporate spending.
Standard Bank, according to Reuters on Tuesday, reported a nine per cent rise in first-half profit in August, helped by a decline in bad loans. However, net interest income and non-lending revenue, the two most important earnings measures for a commercial bank, both declined.
The bank said in the statement that it was reviewing its costs, including staff costs.
”This review is likely to lead to retrenchments at all levels, with emphasis on managers and executives within the various ‘head office‘ environments, particularly Johannesburg and London.”
The bank did not say how much of its 50,000 staff it intended to cut.
Standard Bank has recently hired some high-profile bankers from competitors, including the head of Africa transaction banking at Standard Chartered.
Standard Bank‘s chief executive, Jacko Maree, told Reuters last month the lender was in ”hiring mode” for skilled bankers, and aimed to double its Nigerian branch network this year.
Standard Bank, which is 20 per cent owned by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, is looking to position itself as a full-service gateway t Africa

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201010060562218

monsho:

@Eeyore,

Much as I share your pain, I wish to inform you that you are not alone in the waiting game. If applicants
personalities, current job status, qualification and years of experience actually matter as Onyeoka has made
us believe; Lafarge wouldn't have shortlisted all concerned like they did in the first place.

Do I need to remind you that this same organization claim to have placement for even the inexperience, in their
website? Why would the management of such establishment now start engaging in selection of calumny if I
may ask?

Besides, the decision of Lafarge to have sent you a result, after the test, means that you are still relevant; they
would have wasted their resources on you if they considered your journey over with them.
If you'll trust in your ability and have this strong conviction that what is yours will definitely come to you then,
you'll worry less. Like I once said to Jegbadon: "if you are destined to work in Lafarge, surely, you'll get called".

It is too early to say you are OUT, brother. Never say never for, you might be wrong!

Kind regards, pal.

Woah, what can I say? Thanks for the head up, bro.

Meanwhile, someone who did the test in April has just gotten an interview invitation for the position of junior Engineer. I guess the Turn Around Time adds a new twist to the waiting biz.

Now, that's interesting. We have to collabo on this oo, or what do you think??

I'm for experienced level too. Did the aptitude test last month and passed. Still awaiting the interview invitation.

silvasurfa, what's your status?? Done the test or interview yet??

I also took their test in September for experienced hires. I subsequently got a mail informing me that I was successful and that an interview would be scheduled.

As I post this, there's not been any further correspondence from them. Makes me wonder,

Oseni & Silvasurfa

Are you guys for entry level or experienced cadre??