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Good job. But I doubt that amount with what I saw.

marutimon: My view exactly, but I doubt Utaka will ever get a chance to prove his metal for Nigeria again.

He has cap for Nigeria actually, and has 1 goal in a friendly vs Kenya or so.

Takuti Jesu

From this clip, what I observe is that Peter Utaka has good positioning.

I don't do weeds, and hate it, but guys do it where I play football in my estate.

Infomizer: And we shouldn't forget Kevin Carter's "The Vulture and the Starving Child".

I was expecting to see this as number 1

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Tieda (wey your own)

Make two full sentences without using any word poster mentioned.

delors: Abeg bros, which Michael taiwo be that? Finished from OAU? Accounting?

OAU, yes. Accounting, No.

iamdsam: Linda Ikeji has been around in the blogging world blogger to be precise for a while now and she hasn't had any problem of any sort like that with blogger. I believe there's more to what made blogger to deactivate or scramble his site. He might not want to reveal the whole truth.

Linda is only 2 years older than Ogbongeblog, which Jide started in 2008, and is also quite popular and among top 200 most visited websites in Nigeria. So never say never, even for Linda. One Google spambot can misbehave like it did for Jide's Ogbongeblog

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Sagamite: Maybe that could be true, but I find it a struggle to believe that can be basic salary for an entry staff or even someone with 3-5 years experience.

Why

- Because even the Engineers in more affluent and developed countries do not make that. So if they are paying fresh local grads that, what will they pay Oyinbo expatriate with 10 years experience moving to Nigeria? N150m?

- Because I wonder how the management can justify such figures to their shareholders considering they can find 4 Nigerian grads for those salary figures and those 4 would be over the moon and bite their hands off. Why pay over market-dictated prices?

- Because the labour market has too much supply and there is virtually not much that adds a premium to the hired students to justify such salaries. Even Harvard grads will struggle to get such salaries for entry level in the developed world. So why pay a Unilag grad more than an Harvard grad?

- Because I have a close older friend that is an experienced oil sector staff. Someone who has experience working in Nigeria and the UK for the biggest brands in senior-mid roles and when he moved back to Nigeria after his stint in the UK to take a regional leadership role with a top firm, he blatantly told me his whole salary package and it was in no way extortionate as these figures (and I knew his salary package in the UK too). The Nigerian job's salary was high but very aligned to international comparative figures. This was a guy with over 15 years experience. Now he is in a new position with another of the international firms in Nigeria where he has only 2 superiors in the entire firm in Nigeria. So if his salary was not extortionate despite his years of direct, international and locally relevant experience, I struggle to believe entry level grads can make that much.

Bros, it is real. It is true. This is first-hand experience. I don't work for IOC, I work for a relatively small player in the industry, I have 5 years experience in the industry, and my total annual pay is well above 10m. And bonus is not even included. My company is not even an IOC and doesn't have the assets (and profits of IOCs).

Bros, it is real. I don't know how else to explain to you again. If an IOC spends N10 billion as staff costs in a year, it is a drop in an ocean. Guy, it doesn't significantly affect bottom line.

Sagamite: For someone with no experience?

In a country where thousands of graduates would bite your hands off for a fraction of that with a promise of that figure in another 5 years?



Really?

£100K for 3 or 4 years experience? In Nigeria?

Please explain to me using your employment letter how the remuneration is structured?



How is that structured?

not structured any specially. Total annual pay (exclusive of bonus which could even be as high as 1m), not tied to anything. As in, annual pay 10m plus for entry level. Chevron pays 21-24m pa for 2nd level (3-5 years experience), I have friends there. Do the math for entry level. Shell was paying about 7m for entry level far back 2008. Inflation and other adjustments, it can't be less tha 10m today

Uyi Iredia: Do you know or work with a civil rights group ? I wouldn't mind joining. That said the apathy by Nigerians to actively, positively participate in our polity is part of the cause of the rot in the system.

Nope. Independent efforts.

Again, I have not said PDP G7-2 governors defected to APC because of Nigeria, and not because of personal interests. But truth is, we need them. We just cannot do it alone, forget about all our rantings and pontification. Gani tried in 2003. We have tried it with Buhari/Nuhu Ribadu, in 2011, we cannot go alone. Whether it is Pat Utomi or Fashola, or even Pius Adesanmi, I think we will be deceiving ourselves to think we can go alone against these established professional politicians. We need alliances, even with these hawks. They can be reformed after all. All our new breed mantra will not reach anywhere. Before now, I had actually washed my hands off active national politics - after fruitless efforts in 2011 that saw me independently lead a team of online volunteers to sponsor radio jingles in 7 different radio stations across Lagos, Oyo, Osun and Rivers states. Maybe this new developments will reactivate my self-imposed apathy.

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2legit2qwt: Hey Jarus, I see you know Michael Taiwo..quite interesting how connected we all are

we grew up together, same primary school, secondary schl, and university. We've been friends since primary 2

Some pics

Repeat broadcast on LTV 10:10pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 26th).

JesusDWay: Jarus - Suraj Tunji Oyewale, a Chartered Accountant and Political Economist who is partaking in the largesse the Oil and Gas industry has to offer, good for you. The fact that you combine managing a blog site with your job is a thumbs up from me. I am presently watching you on tv and i discover that it seem you can express yourself better in writing than in speaking, it will be good if you can try to improve yourself in that area. Take care

thanks. Oration is actually not one of my strongest skills, as I do mention in the course of discussions here sometimes, but I have never been afraid to express myself anywhere. Don't forget also that being first national TV appearance, even well-known figures struggle to get it perfectly right. So not deterred by the performance. Overall , the feedback is encouraging. Thanks for your honest feedback too

For those that read top newspapers in Nigeria, especially Punch and BusinessDay, Nimi Akinkugbe should not be an unfamiliar name. She is an authority and perhaps the country’s most respected columnist on personal finance matters. After a successful career in IBTC spanning 21 years, rising to the position of GM and Head Private Client Services, she moved to Barclays Bank in 2010 as the Regional Director (West Africa) International Private Bank. She is presently the Director, Best Games Limited, the company that developed the much publicised Lagos City Monopoly game early this year. Best Games Limited is the exclusive distributor of customised editions of Monopoly in Africa (excluding South Africa).

For a personality of such standing, with predictably very busy schedules, it is only natural that getting her time for interview will not come easy. After weeks, I was able to get her answer some questions that I think readers of this portal, nay Nigerian youths at large, will benefit from. Here we go:

JH: As a senior management staff in IBTC (IBTC-Chartered and the enlarged StanbicIBTC) for many years, you must have recruited and worked with many Nigerian graduates. What is your experience with Nigerian graduates? Do you agree that they are unemployable as some analysts opine?



NA: I have always worked with outstanding Nigerian graduates even during the period where we have noticed a serious decline in educational standards. Those that have been fortunate to have the opportunity to be exposed to study abroad have more access to a well-rounded education and the required tools, but nothing beats a basic intelligence, and ability which our Nigerian youth are endowed with, and a drive and desire to succeed. With the internet, and access to a plethora to information our students here do have access to so much material. We tend to place heavy importance and are obsessed with all things ‘foreign’ and expect by default that the foreign trained graduate to be better; from my experience, this has not always been the case.

JH: Your Company, Bestman Games Limited, early this year, launched the Lagos city monopoly game, and it has been a success so far. What really inspired this?

NA: At Stanbic IBTC we realized that there is no personal finance instruction in the school curriculum. People just grow up picking up bad financial habits along the way, sometimes having great difficulty in their finances as they become adults. We started to include next generation seminars into our periodic personal finance seminars and talked to our clients’ children about saving and investing. Standard Bank had an excellent personal finance board game called “Winning Teams,” that teaches children in a playful, practical way, the basics of saving and investing.

It was at that time that I first embraced the idea of creating a personal finance board game that could go complement my columns and speaking engagements. I have written articles for a host of publications; Genevieve Magazine, 234 Next, and later The Punch Newspaper, Business Day, and a few blogs, including BellaNaija to try to simplify the world of personal finance in a way that will motivate people to pay attention to this important aspect of their lives. I didn’t do much about the board game until October 2010 when Harrow School, in the United Kingdom launched its own edition of Monopoly.

Before then I had only been familiar with the famous London edition with Mayfair, Park Lane, Old Kent Road etc, and didn’t realize that there were customized editions. Harrow School directed me to Winning Moves who own the franchise from HASBRO, owners of the Monopoly brand, to customize Monopoly editions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Monopoly is such a fantastic brand so there was no reason to continue to pursue the creation of my own board game. I approached Winning Moves UK and convinced them and Hasbro to commission new African editions of Monopoly. Lagos made history by being the first African City to have a local edition created for the mega city.

JH: What advice, as a successful professional yourself, do you have for my readers on career success in corporate Nigeria?



NA: Career success and personal success are derived from having set goals and staying focused on them as well as having integrity, being reliable, diligent and hard working. There are no short cuts to success and you cannot wish away these qualities. They are very helpful in building a sustainable career and if you imbibe them they will see you through success in key areas of your life not just at work. Employees who are reliable, dependable and can be trusted will always be more successful in any organization.

A company’s human resource is its most critical success factor and it is nice to see a growing focus on this area. Several companies are offering career solutions and entrepreneurial development programs and seminars. It is important to keep abreast of such programs and to keep learning as much as one can. You owe it to yourself to continually develop yourself and not rely on an employer to do this; this helps one to remain employable or become self-employed.

I believe that each of us has a unique talent that should be discovered and nurtured. Discover your passion and what you love doing as you may find that this is what drives you most towards success; it might also help you to employ others. Gone are the days where a degree guarantees you employment; now with the levels of unemployment, not just in Nigeria but globally, a degree must be viewed as a tool, a stepping-stone to employment or entrepreneurship.

http://www.jarushub.com/foreign-trained-graduates-are-not-necessarily-better-nimi-akinkugbe/

safarigirl: we're not testing him at the World Cup. The testing ground is the CHAN in January, I repeat, the U-17 boys are only going there to get a feel of the game, not for anything serious

and take space of more serious players just to have a 'feel of the game'?

emmydee: Enyeama, Egbim,(replace Ejide wit another keeper cos he's prone to injury).

Ambrose, Oboabona,Omeruo, Echiejine, Taye taiwo, Idowu, Musa Mohammed.

Onazi, Mikel, Victor Moses, Yahaya, Sunday Mba, Ahmed Musa,Nosa, Nsufor.

Emenike, Isaac Success, Iheanacho,Dike. Ike uche

your forward is a joke. This is world cup. Isaac Success and Ihenacho are not proven. This is not under-17. This is World cup

honeric01: Some people are trying to kill the career of that Iheanacho, the world cup is not where you take apprentice to.

2002 korea japan world cup and the story of Femi Opabunmi is a case study. be warned. let the young chap develop at his own pace and stop trying to turn a skonda bike to a power bike.

nigerians are very ignorant. That call annoys me.

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Ejide
Agbim or any other good home-based keeper for exposure purpose

Yobo
Omeruo
Oboabona
EchiejiLe
Ambrose
Taiye Taiwo
Egwueke (just to make list)

Mikel
Onazi$
Ogu
Kalu Uche
Mba//Haruna

Moses
Musa$
Ideye
Emenike
Dike
Amoebi
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I have always known the guy is world class(watch performance vs Messi in SA 2010). But he commits school boy errors sometimes. Congrats.

oyb: Pdude, aside from escaping to yankee, what have u done besides running a harem in adamawa?

. That was a deadlky blow. Trust you