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The key question for me is: how do you know which area falls on R1, R2 or R3? Seems to me that most places in Lagos will be R2. So which is R3?

Yes, it's NMA SBU

Just to answer a few questions here abt Nigerian IOCs.

1) It is my personal opinion that connections can get you in maybe 5% of the time. I do not want to say it's impossible which is why I'm going for 5%. Some of the brightest guys you all knew in school (those guys u call Efiko, who were dirt poor then) work for these companies now. When I joined joined about 7 years ago, I had the best engr grads from Ife, Uniport, Uniben in my set. So it is a fallacy in my opinion when we talk about knowing somebody to get in. These companies have the strictest internal checks even for recruitment.

2) A lot of people actually do not know what goes on in IOCs in Nigeria regarding pay and benefits. I'll give a rule of thumb though: if you know anybody that tells you his monthly basic salary is 1 million, know that it is about 55% of his total pay. He still has a lot of benefits some of them bothering on the absurd. For example, you get rent allowance which is more than 2.5 million for entry level where I work, safety allowance (0.5 monthly salary), furniture allowance, generative purchase allowance, generator fueling allowance, car allowance, car fueling allowance, security allowance, children education allowance, 13th month, success sharing, home ownership, end of negotiation pay, car refurbishment, field allowance, shift allowance. They even pay you if your child, spouse or parent dies. All these though are due to the unions. No management loves you that much to want to give all that. If you then factor in your typical yearly increase, you are not doing badly at all. Personally, my basic salary is five times what it was when I joined 6/7 years ago.

3) on NYSC, the company has a policy to absorb whoever NYSC sends to them until the quota is filled up. The advice is, get yourself posted there and report early. I'm not ruling out influence in this also.

4) on stock options, we typically don't do this. It was broached at one point but the opinion amongst employees is that they do not want to transact business with management in that way I.e. give me my money and I'll go do what I want with it.

I also do not agree with the sentiment that spending years abroad in the industry gives you certain competitive advantages when you come home. It is a global industry and the technology is the same so I fail to see the competitive edge. In the instances I've seen, you are benchmarked against employees of similar years of experience and hired on that grade. We do not hire managers from abroad, we promote from within or bring an expatriate to do the job. Note that anybody of Nigerian heritage is not an expatriate by the company definitions even if you have a foreign passport. You come as a Nigerian, simples. Good thing is people don't mind because nairaland payroll is fantastic anyways.

This is all I can think of right now.

P.S. I'm posting with someone else's ID.

I dare say Herriot Watt University compares favorably with Imperial in EVERY way when it comes to petroleum engineering education and industry perception in the UK.

Based on the facts put forward by Tinubu himself, he cannot be 60 years old.

Let me explain based on the facts below:

1) Tinubu retired from Mobil in 1991

2) Tinubu is 60 years old this year

We can deduce that Tinubu "retired" from Mobil at the age of 39 years. It is IMPOSSIBLE to retire from Mobil at 39. For early retirement, you have to be 45 years old.

The above will be different though if it is said that Tinubu RESIGNED from Mobil in 1991.

[url][/url]Staff at a college ranked as "highly trusted" by the UK Border Agency are helping foreign students cheat the immigration system, a Sky News investigation has found.

The investigation discovered that diploma certificates and dissertations were for sale inside the London College of Business in Barking.

As "highly trusted" by the UK Border Agency , the college can sponsor visa applications for foreign students and help them towards post-study work visas if they get their applications in by April 6.

But we found foreign students desperate to obtain visas can buy themselves the necessary qualifications without attending any classes.

It should take nine months to get a postgraduate diploma from the college but its marketing consultant has been secretly filmed by Sky News telling students they can have one in a week if they pay £1,000.


Dr Javed Akhtar told one student who had not been on the course: "Don't worry - It could be done in a week. The first thing is registration. Then comes your PGD.

"When you get your PGD you'll be registered with the university in a day. The only thing you need to do is submit your dissertation."

Master's degree dissertations are also for sale. A student working for us was told by Dr Javed if he wanted the qualifications quickly he could pay someone at the college £500 to provide his coursework. That dissertation is then sent to be externally marked at the University of Wales.

The student asked: "What are the chances of me applying for the visa right away?"

Dr Javed responded: "Yes you can. Everything is done for you. We're just waiting for the money."

We made an initial payment of £270 and the first section of the dissertation was sent through to us.

In the meantime, our student was given his postgraduate diploma certificate.

We checked the certificate number with awarding bodies EBMA and the Qualifications Network who confirmed our student was a genuine graduate, even though we knew he never took the course.


The student was also given a completion letter which said he had studied at the London Canada College, at an address next door to the London College of Business. We can find no evidence that this college still runs courses and were unable to contact it.

The undercover student told us: "This was a great surprise for me because you can buy a diploma for an amount of money. When I spoke to the guy he said, 'Just come on Friday. We have a class but it's just a formality, so that you know where the library is and all the things, if anyone asks you about the college.'"

Sky News also discovered that a member of the public tried to report the London College of Business to the UK Border Agency several weeks ago but struggled to find anyone willing to listen.

Former college lecturer Mike told us: "Having run a college myself I had an email and a phone number. I sent an email but got no reply. I left messages, no one got back to me.

"Eventually (after two weeks trying), I got through to the head of crime prevention, or fraud prevention for the area where this college is.


"He took down the name of the college but, as soon as we gave him the name of the college, he didn't want to know any details about what the college was up to or anything like that. He just said, 'Thank you.' That was the end of the conversation. He hung up."

In a statement, Immigration Minister Damian Green told Sky News: "We are determined to crack down on abuse of the student visa system, which has gone on for far too long.

"This Government has brought in radical changes across the board, which are beginning to bite.

"We take all allegations very seriously and the UK Border Agency were already aware of allegations in relation to the London College of Business in Barking and undertook a visit to their premises on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation."

We approached Dr Akhtar for his response but he denied allegations of selling diplomas.

The University of Wales said it "investigates all allegations of misconduct, and has already launched an investigation into this matter. Furthermore, the University of Wales announced in October 2011 that it was bringing to a close all of its current validated activities".

The London College of Business stated: "This person is not (nor ever has been) an employee of ours. He is one of the many people, members of the general public and former students, who refer prospective students to us. This he does for many colleges and universities not just London College of Business."

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