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Women can be overly nice and sympathetic or extremely opposite. Men are to a greater extent objective. I personally don't have a preference - I have scaled interviews conducted by both.

No 1 living detribalized politician today. He doesn't play tribal card. His inner guys were made up of Ibos(Soludo, Dora, Ngozi) and Hausa(El Rufai, Ribadu)

Na empty mortal jare. I no see any yam. Just wanted to create a scene

One placed greatest focus emphasis on strenght of the financial system, the other on ethics in the system, and every other thing followed for both.

I admire both of them, so won't rate them.

1stknight: Jarus,

Do Mathematicians work in Oil firm? If yes, as what?

Pls modify your post to Jarus.

Sure, one with degree in Maths can get a job in an oil firm.

1, Maybe with experience elsewhere and coming in as experienced hire, in which case subject of study matters little

2, Not sure, but I think some MNCs include sciences generally in general entry level recruitments

The Tech guys may be able to shed more light.

I never heard of the guy's name. The only northerner I know in Nollywood are Ali Nuhu and Halima Abubakar(except Kogi-born Mercy Johnson who is southern in features)

That must be one of the highest. I have read cases of less than 20k even on this Nairaland.

Approx. 7500

Those commercial bus drivers can also be very daring at times. Only yesterday morning at Epe I witnessed something similar, one truck driver carrying somne items refused to stop despite a gun-carrying mobile policeman's threat, including staying in front of the truck. The driver was adamant, struggling with the truck. Trust me, as a Nairalander that had read similar stories before that led to fatality, I don run eter bush(for fear of stray buullet) while the scene played out. The police guy fired a dummy bullet at the truck's tyre but it was harmless and the truck escaped. That was too daring of the driver, if you ask men knowing these mopols are always drunk.

NL is one crazily funny place. The ACN/PDP 'war of laptops' is especially entertaining.

Beaf comes in, types something, adds some photoshopped pictures, etc
PointB and co report at the tread to support the Master himself
Gbawe buzzes in, types a rebuttal in long epistle
10 friends of ACN like Gbawe's post
Musiwa strays in to add his own
and the battle goes on

We normally use pool car when we go out together and we both sit at the back. In few times we go out with her car, I normally prefer to sit in front, while she sits at the back and her driver drives. But in rare cases, I sit beside her.

berem: Is he actually the richest man in africa? What about Deinde Fernandez?

Forget about all those ovation tales. Deinde Fernandez, Harry Akande etc are no where close to Dangote. His major competitor is Mike Adenuga. Kase Lawal too dey try

Both are ok, but I'd take PwC over KPMG

samguru: but some companies,having increase someone's salary will saddle more responsibilities and more power,technically we can say is a promotion,
some companies avoid the change of position name in other not to give benefits attach to the new office

Well, you said 'some'. More pay coming with more responsibilities and power is promotion, but the ones I was referring to in my earlier post doesn't come with change in responsibility/power.

I agree.

I also like the way they phased it between him and Dangote. Dangote earlier and MIke the year after. I'm sure that was deliberate. Much as I'm not a big fan of Adenuga's one-man business model, I have always commended him for his resilience. And not to forget this man has been contributing immensely to sports development in Nigeria, from sponsoring supporters clubs to offering to pay the salaries of national football team coach (Berti Vogts) to bailing out Super Eagles in times of serious financial strait.

miteolu: SANUSI is playing with his job, no one has dealt with Baba Obasanjo that go unpunished.

What a fresh drama '' ACT 1 SCENE 1

Not SLS. Story is told of when he was ED (Risk mgt) at FBN in 2005, he refused to sign a document that would sort of coerce FBN to buy into the Transcorp(Obasanjo's boys project) bubble then.

Sanusi actually divested his FBN stake immediately after he became CBN boss.

Nothing wrong in being a private sector player while still being a minister but, for conflict of interest sake, he should not have allowed his firm participate in the competitive bidding

That said, I think, for his good job, it can be better managed while the man is allowed to continue his work.

No, some companies give annual adjustment for inflation, between 5-20% depending on the company. The reason is this: what you salary of 2m bought last year cannot be bought for the same amount this year. So your coy can up your pay to 2.2m for example and that's not promotion.

Promotion ordinarily comes with more responsibilty(and more accountability) and more pay.(But in few, dare I say, absurd cases esp from these slave-driving firms, promotion doesn't automatically come with more pay).

I respect my female boss, but not to the extent of 'helping her with her bag'.

Yes, the man was doing a good job, but we canot wish away the fact that allowing his firm participate in a bid for which he is part of the umpire is an unpardonable breach of ethics.

Just an observation: if it was Buhari that was in the news for anything religious, I would hav been seeing words like fanatic, fundamentalist, bigot flying around in thsi thread.

100 level, Awo Hall in Ife.

I just came back from mosque after moghrib(sunset) prayer and one guy, coming from Awo TV room, just broke the news to us in our room. I think there was meant to be an important (EPL, or was it UCL) match that evening that was cancelled.

cedaraustine: mr Jarus..where exactly do u work? Dat's if u'd even ansa..most pple're bound based on d job agreement nt 2 disclose dis "classified information". do these oil firms still recruit openly based n d perceived level of politics der ?
i rily wanna b der buh @tyms i get discouraged n even lower my standards...recently considering putting more chemical firms lik plastics, agrofertilizers, etc up on d list of where i wanna do my IT jst because d 'supposed oil n gas firms' hv no openings dou i still hv frnds dat 'stroll' in der based n connectns..tried networkin wif dem buh deir parents and guardians hv a 'limit' since i'm nt directly deir ward/child. its a tough world buh i know i nid 2 use d situatns watever 2 my advantage 2 avoid being frustrated....plz respond n tanx

Sure, like you rightly pre-empted, I wont disclose my current place of work.
I personally hold that Oil & Gas sector still remain of the most merit-driven in terms of employment, especially for the multi-national operators. The Nigerian ones, to a considerable extent, also value merit. I have brilliant friends, from poor homes, knowing no one, getting jobs in Shell, Chevron, Saipem etc. I always quantify merit in oil sector as not less 90%, based on what I have seen. In fact, over all, I think this pessimistic mentality of Nigerians that you cannot get job without knowing anyone is far exaggerated. I got my current job from an advert in Guardian newspaper!

The major constraint in the sector is the competition. It is highly competitive. You compete with a lot of bright, equally qualified folks for few openings, which means you have to be on top of your game, plus a stroke of luck. I once got invite for Economist opening in Total E&P. 32 of us were shortlisted from Nigeria, about 10 others ferried in from UK and US schools (Nigerians doing their Mscs & MBAs there) and we were competing for a single space! You can imagine the competition. At the end of the day, none of us 32 from Nigeria landed the job but one of the guys from US, not principally because he was schooling in US, but because he outperformed us in the selection process. In 2008, more than 200 of us jostled for Shell commercial openings, but only 7 were picked, and of that 7, there were just 4 immediate spaces, meaning they put the remaining 3 on hold till almost a year later and 4 resumed immediately. My friend and classmate in the university, a very brilliant dude, made the list of 4 and he had no more than Bsc Econs from a Nigerian university(then), no experience other than NYSC in a bank and knew nobody.

So the major challenge is teh competition. The sector is very competitive.

Of course, there are long legs too, but I personally dont like to dwell on that, becasue it is not only minimal, it is very defeatist and I don't believe that hinders you from getting your own space on merit. If there are 10 openings, I'm sure 9 of them will be filled on merit, and that's fair enough for one to work for. The pervasive you-cant-get-a-job-without-knowing-any-big-man mentality among Nigerians irritates me, so I like not to dwell on it.

However, there is what is called networking in the industry(and beyond), which to me is fair. It is especially applicable among the independent players in teh industry and hardly work in established MNCs like Shell and co which have standard, global recruitment procedure which must be followed.

Networking is about recommending someone you know can do a job, and saving the company the time and cost of going through the rigours of advertising and all that. It should also be noted that even recommendation is not automatic placement. Your recommendee will go through the normal process of interview and all that, will compete with a couple of others, and selection will be based on his performance in the selection process, not who is recommending. At least 3 of my Ife circle of friends got jobs in my former place of work via this channel(I recommended them, passed their CVs across to right quarters and, being good chaps themselves, they scaled the recruitment process, except 3 - 2 didnt scale the test, 1 rejected the offer for pay reason). And 1 of them is also on his way to my new place too.

But mind you, all these are easy because these guys not only have rich CVs(most of them First Class grads and multiple award-winning Chartered Accountants), but also interview specialists.

Networking is also about having access to right information. It's not all the jobs you see advertised in newspapers. In my former place of work, around 2009, I once overheard our HR lady talk, more or less like a joke, to my boss that 'XX, we need chartered accountants o, if you have right candidate, abeg forward the CV', while my boss joked it off that 'can you pay 10m for them?". Having overheard that, I just sent an IM to the lady few minutes later and told her 'zzz, i get some brilliant chaps, chartered accountants and they wont cost you up to 4m pa'. She asked me to send their CVs and I immediataley picked my mobile phone and called 2 of my friends(one was in GTB, the other in P&G then, asked them to send my CVs immediately and within 1 hour, our HR had their CVs). Both of them scaled the test and interviews, and one got the job(the other rejected it on the ground that he couldn't take 4m. He is there today.

I'm sure you wont call that long leg, but access to right info (networking).

It's the work of Jinn. I also experience it once in a while(like once or twice a year), especially when I forget to recite Kursiyyu(qur'an 2:255) or when I wake up in the middle of the night and return to bed. I struggle to recite kursiyyu and it goes. But the issue is it becomes difficult, if at all you're able to, to utter anything.

I do it. Especially after realizing I overreacted in my initial anger.

This guy is a great administrator walahi. You can't just help admiring him. The guy get sense.

I've not seen much of Ajimobi and Amosun.

dayokanu: Don't you love me being naughty? Imagine the kinda things I can do to you in my naughty ways.

OAMJ is actually the worst by a margin. Jarus the worst? Never. Jarus was an excellent mod during his time

DK, are you serious or being sarcastic as usual? On OAMJ, I mean. I have far contrary opinion on OAMJ and I do think it is clear to everyone that he's doing an excellent job. Or am I taking DK too seriously?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Shattap!! Jarus is the worst [/quote]Ileke-idi, emi omo!
Give me 1000 reasons why I am ma.

You know you're my Olori 1, with Iyalode Desola my Olori 2.

mobiss: Mr jarus any idea about the engineering and technical aspect of the industry? If yes,a million question is awaitng,sir. And if u don't mind,sir,what aspect of the finance are u into?

I'm an Accountant, so may not be able to answer all your questions. But you may search for the thread 'Total Oil and Gas workers'. The technical guys are there, although most of them are not Nigeria-based.

Which other side?