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Elsueno:
Unfortunately it's because most Nigerian workers are thieves, Only a few are honest & they are very hard to find.

I have seen a company that was working very well & taking care of thier dealers when the managers where of foreign origin..Immediately the owners started allowing Nigerians to take those positions, everything went downhill. They corner d benefits meant for d dealers & even illegal go towards cutting off the dealers with thier customers by posing as 'dealers' themselves.

If u can find a trustworthy Nigerian worker, u go enjoy well but once that's not available, bros stick to d foreigners, at least them fear what ever it is they worship

I noticed a consistent behavioural pattern among Nigerian billionaires who run big businesses.

This behaviour is pronounced more among Mike Adenuga of Glo Brand and Aliko Dangote.

The behaviour is this: these business owners hardly hire Nigerians as business executives to run their businesses.

They prefer to travel as far as Pakistan, India, or Lebanon to hire their nationals to come to Nigeria to run their business.

Dangote's top executives are mainly from India and then Lebanese, while Mike prefers hiring Pakistan nationals to run Glo for him with his daughter Bella.

Dangote started hiring Indians business executives when he was a trader and since he transitioned into an industrialist, he has not looked back as he has doubled down in hiring them.

Hiring these guys comes at a steep price.

Most Dangote Group executives are Lebanese or Indian, and their annual salaries are up to 300 million naira per annum when converted to our local currency.

Aside from the high cost that they charge as salaries, you provide a duplex accommodation in Ikoyi or Banana Island with an SUV for them.

You also provide Hilux vehicle with policemen protecting them against kidnappers since they are endangered specie because of their white complexion.

Devakumar V. G. Edwin is one of Dangote's trusted lieutenants, as Aliko does not joke with him.

He has been with him since 1992, when he joined the business as a general manager.

At that time, Dangote was still a mega importer and a trader.

Edwin helped to transition the Dangote group into the industrial behomth that it is today from a trading company.

He is the one supervising the refinary project in Lekki for Dangote as Dangote trusted him so much, having supervised the building of the cement plants for the group all over Africa.

When you convert what Devakumar V. G. Edwin earns into Naira because he is paid in dollars by the Dangote group, the man earns more than 350 million naira salary per year.

Just like the rest of Dangote's top executives, he is an Indian national, and it is the same story across the whole gamut of Dangote's executives. .

The CEO Of Dangote sugar, RAVINDRA SINGH is an Indian national.

The same with the CEO of Dangote Cement.

Now I want to understand:

Why, despite the high cost of hiring them, are these Forbes billionaires more comfortable hiring Pakistanis, Indians, or Lebanese than Nigerians to manage their businesses in Nigeria?

Are they more ruthlessly efficient than their Nigerian business executives?

Is there any reason why this is so?

PaulH07:
I'll give that yansh hot dawgy, no matter the amount of beads on it.

Na this kind superstitions me I dey like, I go just dey chop una dey go ni...

LauraClasikVibe:
Do Strict parents raise the best children., Lets discuss

LauraClasikVibe:
Almost all and I repeat NEARLY ALL the married men I know above 45yrs have one girlfriend or the other.

It's almost normal now

ThatFairGuy1:
And you'll/you're happy?

Stop being a pessimist Nwane

Threesha:
Happy weekend

sureway1:
Hard work doesn't pay, diligence does...

Viccur:
Lost mine in August and it's not funny at all. I'm really depressed.

BItt:
It's been tough to cope

Reinaldo:
APC lies. But never again!!!

I'm actually working (45k month) and I’m also doing business but my business is booming sometimes I sell close to (150-200k a month) & the work is really giving me small stress sha! It a government work.

I’m thinking of quitting and focusing on my business but I’m scared that if I quit I will loose the opportunity of doing government work or what if my business crash tomorrow. I do sell stuff online and it kinda generating me good money, but I don’t know what to do.

If you were in my shoe what will u do?? No insult please

planetx:
Super story not interested in coming back indeed, the same property 99% of Nigerians living abroad are trying to build back in the same NIG. So when she is old she will tell them to dump her in a old people's home in Canada because she gave up all her father's properties in Nigeria.

sonofthunder:
Your auntie no get joy oh.... Lol


Zéro interest in returning

Bertino:
I been dey scroll through this thread for this perspective. I dey UK, but relocating back home in a few weeks. So my narrative is for UK.
I go rather go back Nigeriato face wetin I sabi. Than spend years of my life searching for what isn't missing. You will always be second citizens, restricted on the type of jobs you can perform, the level you can get to. Not full blown in your face racism, subtle legislation that will put you in check. If you want that, by all means.