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Thanks man!

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Jarus: The first is a downstream company like my current place of work, and our biggest competitor in that sector. If I move to the place, it will be like moving from Real Madrid to Barcelona. But the biggest obstacle may be the pay I'm asking for. From my inquiries with their staff, I doubt they can offer me what I currently earn here, not to talk of granting my higher pay demand, which is almost equal to what a manager earns there. But we are still in it sha.

The second is an independent player in the upstream, one of those medium-size E&P firms that rake in million dollars coolly without much noise, practically unknown except you're in the upstream industry. We are currently negotiating pay and my request is 4m on top of my current pay here. The negotiation is on.

So if any of these work out, I may be welcoming you guys to a new office in few weeks time, if not I remain oyb's messenger here! lol

The latter just clicked yesterday and I have accepted it. My dream of crossing from downstream to upstream eventually materialized. Alhamdulilah

So from May 1, I will be welcoming you guys to a new office. Lol

I will be tendering my resignation in my current office this morning, effective end-April. I have already composed a powerful farewell message to my colleagues.

I couldn't get the 4m on top of my current pay as I asked from the new company but the negotiation yielded 2.5m addition. So I consider it a fair deal but upstream coys have more perks.

It's been a long journey especially when I remember missing Shell offer by whisker at the start of my career in 2008. It's a long walk to dream!

I thought Kano ruling families, including the Bayeros, are Fulani?

I think we are making the same mistakes our(southern) leaders of old made. I can see how Fulanis are being underrated here, probably because of the nomadic fulanis we see around. On a good day, an educated Fulani man can compete with any educated southerner and in addition more fearless and bolder than an equally educated counterparts from the South. Needless to compare them with Hausa, as they are way ahead of Hausas in education and intelligence. That is the simple secret of their stronghold. It is also misleading to say they are minority. An account has it that they are even more than Hausas, but not sure of that.

Wasn't Murtala Fulani?

Not sure this has anything to do with politics, but even more unsure of where to move it to. Culture?

deols: that is interesting to know of. But was the decision for her alone or every other person on the floor?

Am feeling proud of her already.

They were few female Muslim stockbrokers actually and those that cover their heads are even fewer.
Not sure, but I heard others from other stockbroking firms had also conceded to remove their scarf.
Interestingly, the person that stood with her most in IBTC was a Muslim lady topshot who doesn't even cover her own head. She argued her case in top level management meetings. And kudos to IBTC management too, despite being headed by 2 born-again Christians respected her religious stand and accepted her case.

olawalebab: can you please shade more light on this?

Some 2-3 years ago, Ndi (NSE DG) banned dressing in Hijab, in fact scarf, on the floor of the stock exchange, as if the Hijab stopped them from doing their job. It was at the height of that woman's uncontrolled power in NSE and few people dared look at her in the face.

One of IBTC's key stockbrokers, G(full name withheld, a year my senior in Ife), was an Hijab-wearing sister(very small Hijab for that matter). IBTC needed to take a decision based of DG's new dress code. She offered to resign instead of going to the floor of the exchange without head cover. But she was too valuable to be left by IBTC, so they took it up. They beckoned on some powerful Hausa big men who run things in this country(and are on the board of virtually every corporation, including NSE or know top guys there) and they got NSE DG to reverse the decision, which is stupid anyway because their brain and not their Hijab will do the work.

Desola: Eyin ara egba yi ati claiming sha! Iya to bi Wole ni omo Lisabi amo babae, Ishara Remo lo ti wa. Infact month mo ile won ni Ishara. Looto Abeokuta lo ti dagba sugbon ishara la fori e sole si.

Month ti miss e, sweetheart mi. Where have you been?

Iru amulumola Yooba wo lonfo yi, iwo omidan yi?
So r'aiye re l'ode. Emi aboki gan o gbodo mon fo Yoruba bayi.

Oh, just seeing this topic!

I'm interested in this topic.

Somebody mentioned Onyeruke's ban on hijab-wearing stockbrokers on the floor on page 1, yeah, it's a case I'm familiar with and know some of the players!

She is the best thing that has happened to tax administration in Nigeria.
Kudos Ma'am.

Still available

Gworo aboki or funky aboki?

Desola: Well said, aboki. You never qualified in the first place!

Lol
To think I was just telling my wife here about you and how you see me as 'omo ale Yoruba' before you posted this.

Lol

Andre Uweh, I'm humbled by your vote of confidence.

But I know I stand no chance for the following reasons
1, I'm a northern Yoruba (from Kwara) and I believe the mainstream Yoruba (Oyo and Osun in particular) should produce the leader of Yoruba.

2, I am a proud Yorubaman no doubt, but I have never believed in ethnic supremacy. I see myself as detribalized. I'm not one to lead or take part in ethnic war. So I don't see myself as ideal candidate

3, Desola. Lol

Why is Aare Musiwa's name not there? None of the nominees is as passionate about Oodua nation as Aare Mapomeji.

blank: Ajah to Festac. It took 5hrs. 2hrs traffic in Ajah, 2 hrs traffic in Apapa and 1 hr for the remaining journey. It was so stressful that i did the return journey in two days time. Slept over in a hotel. lol.

Experienced same when I drove to my company's retreat in Festac from my Ajah home last year. The Apapa traffic was especially hellish.

Do u stay in Ajah too?

A statement by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, on Wednesday, stated that Fatokun had distinctions (A1) in nine subjects and had been admitted to the  Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, to study Law

Most of the brightest students in the South-West always want to go Ife.

Lagos-Kwara, about 4 hours

That network was helpful to me in a recruitment exercise I'm currently undergoing.
I was doing some Google-searching on the company, an E&P company, when I bumped into the company's Linkedln page; and incidentally saw the name of the person I was asked to see on interview day on the list of the company's staff on Linkedln professional network. I clicked her name, read her profile and saw that she had only recently worked for a company that is one of the sister companies to my current organization. I immediately called my friend in her former company to inquire about her. At least I was able to get info beforehand on one of the people that would interview me. I got idea about her and her personality and I had clues to what to emphasize during the interview. Uncertainty was at least eliminated and made my brain to hit the interview ground running, instead of spending first few minutes trying to understand your interviewer.

Yes. Call the no up there.

Telling us you ride an X6, and that it can buy 5 ivtec, is worse than the 'key flaunting'!

When you should even be made to pay before registering...

netotse: @Jarus

do you guys have any ERPs(energy risk professionals) in your org?

Not aware we have this and doubt it. Being a large, multi-subsidiary org, I can't claim I know everything about the group, but I'm not aware we have. Maybe our E&P subsidiary has.


But surely we have a Group Risk Unit, but just the regular risk management, not some specialized like ERP.

I hope Mike Adenuga will also learn from this. Always relcutant to list his companies.

[quote author=vibe_222]My friend, face your studies and graduate with a good grade
and someday, your effort in school with God's favour shall
get you a job that you will buy for yourself a jeep.
Do not rush for anything.
Face your studies and leave car alone.[/quote]Gold!!!

I suspended the sale for 3 months so I can buy a new car, which I have since done.

It's now available for sale again. 900k.

Still very clean and engine working perfectly.

The only issue is AC compressor which is minor, and that is why I dropped the price to 900k.

So if interested, call me on 08061198625. It's in Ajah, Lagos.

LIKE any other adjective that borders on morality, the word ‘bad’ is one that does not have a universal definition. Even making it more susceptible to relativism is the word it is qualifying in the topic of this piece. So it is necessary to open this intervention by appreciating who a bad Muslim is, in the reckoning of this writer and its convergence and probable divergence with the more popular definition of a bad Muslim.

Not a few non-Muslims believe that every Muslim is a bad person. Times without number, I have come across the ascription of potential terrorist to every Muslim. While Muslims that hide their Islamic identity are not usually spared, those that identify with their religion are especially the victims of this stereotypical imputation. Yet, many other people separate ‘Good Muslims’ from ‘Bad Muslims’, even if they quickly add that the latter are in the majority. This is the popular conception.

Professor Mahmood Mamdani, one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world according to several reputable ratings, would however not agree with this notion. In his essay, ‘Good Muslims, Bad Muslims: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism’, the Uganda-born Columbia University professor of Government, expressed the view that there are no bad Muslims or good Muslims; that, rather , there are bad persons and good persons; that, irrespective of the religious persuasion, a bad person will always be bad and a good person good.

The professor delved into many other areas, including the culpability of CIA in global terrorism, but of relevance to this article is his submission that, ‘bad Muslims’, as has been popularized, is a misapplied term that has for long been hypocritically used in isolation of its opposite – ‘bad non-Muslims’, or if we use the Islam-West dichotomy, ‘bad westerners’.

From whatever angle one views it, one thing that cannot be disputed is that some Muslims have done incalculable damage to the Muslim ummah across the globe and I don’t think whatever motivates them to do so, they can be called ‘good Muslims’. This piece therefore does not aim to compare this class of Muslims with their counterparts of other ideological or religious persuasions, neither does it seek to discuss the belief among many Muslims that global media also contributes to the stereotyping of Muslims by sometimes emphasizing the ‘Muslim’ in someone who just commits a common bad act and de-emphasizing the persuasion of another criminal that commits same evil act. Discounted for all these, the global menace of ‘bad Muslims’ may be a little less serious one, but what I genuinely subscribe to is that there are truly bad Muslims wreaking havoc across the world.

Of course, the Boko Haram plague (yes, that is what it is) is what will first come to the mind of a Nigerian reader of this article. Yes, I have Boko Haram in mind in this intervention. But which Boko Haram? The real Boko Haram, perhaps the Yusufiyyah and its offshoots. I clarified which Boko Haram because, like one Nigerian politician and former FCT minister, answered someone that threw the question ‘what is the solution to the Boko Haram challenge?’ to him on Twitter, I also agree that there are many Boko Harams now: real BH, fake BH, government BH, political BH. It is very clear that some equally unscrupulous political elements have taken over the sect’s activities. People settling political scores now hide under BH to perpetrate their evil. That is the political Boko Haram. But here, I am referring to the real Jama’atu Ahlus Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, those who believe — and appears genuine to them — that killing other people — real and imaginary enemies — is a religious duty.

The history of the Boko Haram uprising has been chronicled in the media so many times and there is no point rehashing it here. It has been reported, without any refutation, that the clash the sect had with security men when they were going to bury a dead member of theirs and leading to the killing of more members marked the beginning of the sect’s violent turn. The subsequent killing of their leader, Yusuf Mohammed, consolidated the violence. Since then, the sect has gone spiral, attacking not only security officers and government institutions, but most pitiably, Christian places of worship.

I do read the statements of Boko Haram leaders as published in newspaper reports and what I find most worrying is that these people appear convinced that their activities are act of piety and they are doing their religion service by those acts. Pray, what has a Christian place of worship got to do with expression of your grievances? Qur’an (suratul Hajj, 40) specifically forbids tearing down of places of worship thus: “……Did not Allah check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated

in abundant measure...”. Verses of Qur’an also abound that render unjustified, attacking non-Muslims that are peaceful or indifferent to Islam. Allah warns us Muslims in the Holy Qur’an not to begin hostilities, embark on any act of aggression, violate the rights of others, or harm the innocent. I do not know how innocent worshippers in the Madalla Church or the ones in Church of Christ and St Finbarr’s in Jos, constitute problems to Muslims. I find it unimaginable that someone will perpetrate such fiendish act and imagine a place in the good books of his Creator.

Exterminating innocent souls is seriously detested not only in the Qur’an but also common sense, except one with a hardened mind and no conscience. How a Muslim will think killing people that did not commit any offence is right and still thinks he is not a bad Muslim is beyond me.

Basic Islamic history tells us how Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), whom we all claim to follow, related with non-Muslims, especially Christians and Jews, in his time. The story of how King of Ethiopia, a Christian, sheltered and protected Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his followers after they migrated from Mecca due to persecution by their kinsmen, is one of the elementary teachings we all read in Islamic traditions. We all also know how Abu Talib, Prophet Muhammad’s disbelieving uncle was so protective of him in his lifetime. These are ways non-Muslims have been helpful to Muslims in history. Unprovoked and misdirected attacks at them, whatever the motive, are therefore not only bad, they are indeed sinful (haram), for they violate the commandments of Allah and His messenger whom we all claim to follow.

Perhaps the most striking of Islam’s documented manner of relating with Christians can be found in Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) ‘Charter of Privileges with Christians’, original (Arabic) copy of which is still available in Topkaki Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, and reads (in English translation):

“This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them.

No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries.

No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims’ houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God’s covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate.

No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray.

Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world).”

It is, therefore, our duty, as good Muslims, to speak out against the activities of our bad brothers. And I am narrowly defining ‘good Muslims’ in this context to mean those that shun acts of unprovoked aggression, because I am aware that shunning violence is just one of the many good deeds that make someone a good Muslim, it is not the only thing. We cannot continue to remain silent and cry victimization while the activities of these fellows are staining us. The prophet (PBUH) taught us that ‘when you see evil, correct it your hand (i.e change it); if correcting it with your hand is not possible, correct it your mouth (i.e speak against it); and if that too is not possible, correct it with your mind (i.e detest it) — and that is the least of faith”. It, therefore, behooves us Muslims to correct this evil of violence with whichever of these sanctioned methods is available to us. While writing against it is the least some of us can do, I believe our ullama (scholars) will do better by making maximum use of their knowledge and mimbal (pulpit) to correct this menace. Violence benefits no one in the end.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81818:bad-muslims-and-the-rest-of-us&catid=87:outlook&Itemid=616

Not sure of Agbaje, but the last 2 GTB MDs were smokers(at least of cigarette).