₦airaland Forum

LOOO SERRRR

Ellyptical:
L+G,
What about number portability? It has been ages since we started hearing of plans to implement this and up till date nothing has been done about this.
Number portability refers to a system in which I can keep my 0803 number and switch to Glo this week, and move to Etisalat next week if Glo pisses me off.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-75102.0.html

I recall that Etisalat pushed for this when they came into the Nigerian market but I suspect foul play. Some gainers in the number monopoly may have exchanged bags to shoot this idea down. I will wait for Wikileaks to shed light on this.
This same MTN that said that per second billing could only begin 3 years after their operation in Nigeria but quickly started per second billing when Glo kicked off is my main suspect. I wont be surprised if i hear that MTN has been bribing to make sure that this number portability never sees the light of day.
Must every good thing for the masses be shot down by these greedy multinationals? Must the NCC show how much of a weakling it is by allowing these companies to get away with the story of lack of infrastructures for the portability project?
To make things clearer, Nigeria is one of the Largest and most profitable GSM markets in the world. MTN had 30M subscribers in 2009. This is more than the total population of Ghana! How much more profit do these greedy companies need before they can admit that they can afford whatever infrastructure they need for the number portability?
Can someone please initiate a petition to the senate committee on Communication and the NCC?
Thanks.

YOU initiate it. Let us stop waiting for the next person to take initiative. That's why we are where we are today. "As long as i am ok, i dont want any trouble and i don't care if my neighbour is in trouble"- This, i think, is the major problem with us in Naija.

As usual, people are always quick to criticize without finding out the facts. Im sure there are GOOD reasons why the staff of the bank decided to go on strike. Its probably the last resort-especially since there is no employee right protection in this country, Until people begin to assert their rights, things will continue to decline.

I work in a bank, and i have a fair idea of how 'management' can stuff their foreign bank accounts with all kinds of dodgy 'allowances' while cutting the salaries of the staff at the same time. U'll be suprised to know the extent to which the senior management of banks line their pockets at the expense of the staff that do the real work. Its unfair, to say the least.

Ifthe information posted by bibelo is true, how can an MD take 1 million every Friday?. I know its possible, cos ive seen worse things happen in the banking industry.

Please let us know the facts before blasting the bank. Going on strike may be the only option left for the staff to force management to even consider their basic rights as employees.

If u can define what want in life then u'd make a choice whether to stay in Naija or move to a developed country for 'better life'.
Personally, I'm not crazy about being an Otedola but I want the basics of life- I wNt to be able to call an ambulance if I have a medical emergency, call d police if I need 'em, I want to come home after work and like 3 hrs traffic (for a 20 minute journey) and not bother about how to fuel the generator and wake up at 1 am to switch it off, have access to a saner environment where people actually obey rules, etc.
A family friend bled to death at Luth recently because he had a gunshot wound and the hospital refused to treat him.life is short, and I want to live it to the fullest. It's HARD to do that in Naija.

Yeah, and i saw a spider in my room today,

U serious, is it the Awo Aloma It seems there is at lease one Loma per set. really curious to know who this one is, too much money. Abeg loma, while being modest, i like hearing success stories of peeps from Ife. Motivates me a whole lot. Damn i remember Oklagogo too!

@ Jarus, im sure ure not doing so bad urself, being a popular name here on NL also.

Yeah, the name was Orunmila, Tony Fash? Thot he had graduated years ago. 3 A's was the presido when i was in year 1, block 1, awo. and yeah i was among the boiz that used to do 'aro' to gals trying to take the short-cut thru awo to Moz! E ja de e wa wo won oooooo!!!

Had my best days in Ife when i was in Awo.

Knew MM when he was in rm 21 and i was in 23 back in the day. Fun memories

@ Jarus: do u remember Dapo, the guy who dressed like a gurl with lipstick and all, how bout the Awo boi called 'Obatala' who used to start his aro everyday by chanting 'this world is not my own' at 6 a.mGreateeest Ifeeeee

Shout out to tumababa. Got my iphone 3gs up and running again real quick. Nice one bro.

@tumababa: Just added u on Y!msgr (hope that's wot u are on). 'preciate it.

Hi Y'all i have a 3GS and i recently restored the OS to 3.1.2, used blackra!n to jailbreak. Not sure of how to proceed with the unlock and i dont want to mess it up. Plase help out

@texazzpete: Hi can u pls add me on Y! msgr? (cob2007) I got a question about my 3GS. I would appreciate some help, Thanks

LOOOL!!! OMG and i thot i was the only one that cringes when the guy talks. Amokachi is even a bit calm. Ikpeba is so loud and crude, i wonder how the guy managed to get on satellite tv.

I feel embarassed for him.His diction is way off. Homeboi kinda reminds me of Lord of Ajasa

Im in Naija, and i tell you the basics of life is not just here. Given a choice, i will choose the comfort and peace of ming living in the west brings (for those that are willing to work hard and pay the price) to life in Lagos, which is close to anarchy right now, Mad traffic, no security, no light, bad roads, i have been to the Uk a couple of times and i can tell that we need serious help in Nigeria.

To me, its a no-brainer, I could stay in Nigeria if i see that the government is committed to providing the basics of life, but for now, given a chance, i'm outta here!

Im in Naija, and i tell you the basics of life is not just here. Given a choice, i will choose the comfort and peace of ming living in the west brings (for those that are willing to work hard and pay the price) to life in Lagos, which is close to anarchy right now, Mad traffic, no security, no light, bad roads, i have been to the Uk a couple of times and i can tell that we need serious help in Nigeria.

To me, its a no-brainer, I could stay in Nigeria if i see that the government is committed to providing the basics of life, but for now, given a chance, i'm outta here!

Tabon Taboooon, t'ija ba de kpereen, ni se lo ma yo ibon si eeeeee!!!!

@ Flooow: Thanks, i have sent an application to KPMG. I'll try PWC now. Considering the large amounts of mail the probably recieve daily, i hope they read it. Thanks for your input though.


@ Petermania. Thanks. I saw your mail sent you a reply.

bruv i have passed the cisa exam also, looking to work in IT audit. i also have taken MCSE and just took the CISSP exam yesterday. My question is how did you get into IT Audit in NaijaI dont seem to be making any headway. considering that you made this post like 2 years ago, if u get this, pls pm me on cob2007@yahoo

Since she mentioned in pidgin English, Reply her with Yoruba: Mummy mi ti lo s'oja, daddy mi lo Lokoja, wa gba kondo, kondo, kondooooo

I'm like yeah, woteva

Hey, im pushin 29 and still live with momma! Not proud of it, but i've got a major project i'm gathering money for so need to stay here a lil bit longer. Sue me!

Y'all should thank God that you do were not configured that way, I mean think about it, will any one in his right senses will be willin to set yansh for the same gender, Serial killers and paedophiles are different, Homosexuality is a matter of consenting ADULTS not force, Get the  hormones in the body messed up a lil and u'd be surprised at how it manifests in the  person's behaviour.

saintneo:
nwa gara sukulu!

Thanks for the clarification, was gonna go shopping for some acid-proof rain gear!

Abeg NTA go show am?

@ Wilife,

I am in the same condition, working in a bank doing a job i dont really enjoy and not able to put my CISA knowledge to practice. I also have MCSE. Will appreciate any hook-ups

I live at Ajah and i intend to start ACCA classes in June. I am just wondering if i have to go all the way to the mainland to get a good ACCA training centre. 

Please help out if you know of any ACCA training center within the lekki/ikoyi/v.i axis

Thanks.

See this publication by March 2009. I saved it because it made a lot of sense then. And now!

Group plots takeover of five top banks
Written by Omoh Gabriel & Emeka Mamah
Monday, March 23, 2009
LAGOS—ANTI-CONSOLIDATION forces have regrouped with the hope of dismantling the structures and forcing a takeover of the top five banks in the country, Vanguard can now reveal.


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The grand plan by the group is to cause panic and uncertainty in the industry and make the target banks look unsafe for depositors.
Meantime, indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may announce the names of a new Governor of the Central Bank (CBN) and the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) in April just a few weeks before the tenure of the incumbents run out.
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to make public information on causes of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
Vanguard investigations revealed that the aim of the anti-consolidation forces is to cause loss of public confidence in the banking industry and compel the Federal Government to move in by injecting funds. Further, they ultimately plan to instigate government to take equity holdings in the targeted banks.
Vanguard gathered that the group at work is made up of former bank owners who lost out during the consolidation exercise, a powerful clique in the present government, and some aggrieved persons in three of the six geopolitical zones in the country who felt left out in the consolidation exercise.
Presidency sources disclosed that those who felt left out in the consolidation exercise are up in arms to recoup what they felt they lost during Obasanjo years.
Part of the plans hatched by the group is to ensure that the incumbent Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, does not get a second term. The plan is also to ensure that whatever gains consolidation recorded are discredited. This, it was learnt, was meant to force the President to act quickly in the matter of appointment of a successor to Soludo as they anticipate that the president’s slow move may scuttle their dreams and cause the renewal of Soludo’s re-appointment for a second term.
The group’s second game plan is to make Nigerian banks look unsafe in the eye of the banking public. Part of the game is to spread rumours that some banks are unsound and are on the verge of collapse. They send out text messages to individuals and account holders passing wrong information on their target banks. At the moment, the group’s target is one of the high-flying new generation banks where they have sent out several messages.
New CBN Gov, Auditor-General to emerge April
The tenure of the CBN Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. O. R. Ejenavi from Delta State will lapse in May 2009.
Naming nominees for the top jobs, according to a presidency source, will afford the Senate ample opportunity to work on them before they assume office.
While Soludo will complete his first term in office as CBN governor by May 29, Ejenavi will be due for retirement on age grounds on May 18.
However, among those being considered for the position of CBN governor include the Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman from Kano, who was a former Finance minister and deputy governor at the apex bank; another former CBN deputy governor, Obadiah Mailafia from Nassarawa, Mallam Isa Hayatudeen from Borno, a former managing director of FSB International Bank, incumbent Managing Director of First Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, also from Kano, and Mallam Falalu Bello from Kaduna, Managing Director, Unity Bank.
But the most touted name so far is that of Mallam Isa Yuguda, the Bauchi State governor who won election on the platform of the All Nigeria peoples Party, ANPP, but defected to the ruling PDP last week. Yuguda is also an in-law of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Yuguda was also a former Managing Director of Inland Bank, a legacy bank in post-consolidation FinBank.
Past CBN governors include late Dr. Clement Isong (Akwa-Ibom), Alhaji Adamu Ciroma (Yobe); Mr. Ola Vincent (Lagos), late Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed (Bauchi); Mr. Paul Ogwuma (Abia), Dr. Joseph Sanusi (Ondo) and the current Professor Charles Soludo (Anambra).
It was also gathered that strict obedience to civil service rules will be observed in the appointment of a new Auditor General for the Federation going by the constitutional provision.
Section 86 Subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution states: “the Auditor-General for the Federation shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Federal Civil Service Commission, subject to the confirmation of the Senate.” That of the CBN may be determined by other factors, mostly political considerations which are at the pleasure of the President without recourse to the commission.
The most senior director in the office of the Auditor-General currently is Mr. Ogunsina G.F from Ekiti State who may be appointed unless there is political maneuvering. Having been a director since 2004, it may not be smooth sailing for Ogunsina because, there is another senior civil servant Mr. Osonuga T. A. from Ogun State who was promoted a director in 2007 and is being propelled by other forces to occupy the office.
It’s unfortunate top 5 banks are targeted, says official
A CBN official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that it is unfortunate that top five banks are the target. The banks, he said, are sound. The CBN had mistaken in the past the ongoing move as de-marketing by competitors in the banking industry, saying it is unhealthy competition.
The group is using this means to make depositors panic and undertake massive withdrawal of funds from the targeted banks in an attempt to cause liquidity problem in the bank. In that state they hope to cause a take over by the government which may buy a stake in the bank and later sell to members of the privileged group who may be appointed in the interim into the board of the banks.
Arewa worries over liquidity problem
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to inform the people the cause of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
ACF said that the commercial banks must have obviously lent too much money to people who either invested them in buying stocks or in the importation of petroleum products in the country, but are unable to repay such loans.
A statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani however blamed the CBN for enquiring “into the volume of the so-called toxic assets of the commercial banks while refusing to tell Nigerians how or why in the first place, the banks found themselves in trouble.
The statement reads “The Working Committee of the National Executive Council of the Arewa Consultative
Forum (ACF) held its meeting at its national headquarters in Kaduna on Tuesday, the 17th of March 2009. In attendance were all National officers of the ACF drawn from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). General IBM Haruna, the Chairman presided.
“Among other things, the meeting reviewed and discussed a number of issues and other troubling developments in the country. At the end, it resolved to issue the following statement.
“The ACF deliberated on the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and observed that Nigerians are feeling increasingly frustrated by the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to disclose the true the true nature and the scale of the crisis.
“Even members of the National Assembly, despite their best efforts, have been unable to get to the truth of the matter.
According to Arewa consultative forum “All that seem obvious is that our commercial banks had lent out too much money to too many people who had invested them in stocks or petroleum importation but who are now unable to pay back. Beyond that, the public has no clear idea as how or why the loans were given and on what terms."

See this publication by March 2009. I t made a lot of sense then. And now!

Group plots takeover of five top banks
Written by Omoh Gabriel & Emeka Mamah
Monday, March 23, 2009
LAGOS—ANTI-CONSOLIDATION forces have regrouped with the hope of dismantling the structures and forcing a takeover of the top five banks in the country, Vanguard can now reveal.


advertisement


The grand plan by the group is to cause panic and uncertainty in the industry and make the target banks look unsafe for depositors.
Meantime, indications emerged yesterday that the Federal Government may announce the names of a new Governor of the Central Bank (CBN) and the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) in April just a few weeks before the tenure of the incumbents run out.
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to make public information on causes of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
Vanguard investigations revealed that the aim of the anti-consolidation forces is to cause loss of public confidence in the banking industry and compel the Federal Government to move in by injecting funds. Further, they ultimately plan to instigate government to take equity holdings in the targeted banks.
Vanguard gathered that the group at work is made up of former bank owners who lost out during the consolidation exercise, a powerful clique in the present government, and some aggrieved persons in three of the six geopolitical zones in the country who felt left out in the consolidation exercise.
Presidency sources disclosed that those who felt left out in the consolidation exercise are up in arms to recoup what they felt they lost during Obasanjo years.
Part of the plans hatched by the group is to ensure that the incumbent Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, does not get a second term. The plan is also to ensure that whatever gains consolidation recorded are discredited. This, it was learnt, was meant to force the President to act quickly in the matter of appointment of a successor to Soludo as they anticipate that the president’s slow move may scuttle their dreams and cause the renewal of Soludo’s re-appointment for a second term.
The group’s second game plan is to make Nigerian banks look unsafe in the eye of the banking public. Part of the game is to spread rumours that some banks are unsound and are on the verge of collapse. They send out text messages to individuals and account holders passing wrong information on their target banks. At the moment, the group’s target is one of the high-flying new generation banks where they have sent out several messages.
New CBN Gov, Auditor-General to emerge April
The tenure of the CBN Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo and Auditor-General of the Federation, Mr. O. R. Ejenavi from Delta State will lapse in May 2009.
Naming nominees for the top jobs, according to a presidency source, will afford the Senate ample opportunity to work on them before they assume office.
While Soludo will complete his first term in office as CBN governor by May 29, Ejenavi will be due for retirement on age grounds on May 18.
However, among those being considered for the position of CBN governor include the Minister of National Planning, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman from Kano, who was a former Finance minister and deputy governor at the apex bank; another former CBN deputy governor, Obadiah Mailafia from Nassarawa, Mallam Isa Hayatudeen from Borno, a former managing director of FSB International Bank, incumbent Managing Director of First Bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, also from Kano, and Mallam Falalu Bello from Kaduna, Managing Director, Unity Bank.
But the most touted name so far is that of Mallam Isa Yuguda, the Bauchi State governor who won election on the platform of the All Nigeria peoples Party, ANPP, but defected to the ruling PDP last week. Yuguda is also an in-law of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Yuguda was also a former Managing Director of Inland Bank, a legacy bank in post-consolidation FinBank.
Past CBN governors include late Dr. Clement Isong (Akwa-Ibom), Alhaji Adamu Ciroma (Yobe); Mr. Ola Vincent (Lagos), late Alhaji Abdulkadir Ahmed (Bauchi); Mr. Paul Ogwuma (Abia), Dr. Joseph Sanusi (Ondo) and the current Professor Charles Soludo (Anambra).
It was also gathered that strict obedience to civil service rules will be observed in the appointment of a new Auditor General for the Federation going by the constitutional provision.
Section 86 Subsection 1 of the 1999 constitution states: “the Auditor-General for the Federation shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Federal Civil Service Commission, subject to the confirmation of the Senate.” That of the CBN may be determined by other factors, mostly political considerations which are at the pleasure of the President without recourse to the commission.
The most senior director in the office of the Auditor-General currently is Mr. Ogunsina G.F from Ekiti State who may be appointed unless there is political maneuvering. Having been a director since 2004, it may not be smooth sailing for Ogunsina because, there is another senior civil servant Mr. Osonuga T. A. from Ogun State who was promoted a director in 2007 and is being propelled by other forces to occupy the office.
It’s unfortunate top 5 banks are targeted, says official
A CBN official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that it is unfortunate that top five banks are the target. The banks, he said, are sound. The CBN had mistaken in the past the ongoing move as de-marketing by competitors in the banking industry, saying it is unhealthy competition.
The group is using this means to make depositors panic and undertake massive withdrawal of funds from the targeted banks in an attempt to cause liquidity problem in the bank. In that state they hope to cause a take over by the government which may buy a stake in the bank and later sell to members of the privileged group who may be appointed in the interim into the board of the banks.
Arewa worries over liquidity problem
However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank (CBN) to inform the people the cause of the development as well as the scale of the crisis.
ACF said that the commercial banks must have obviously lent too much money to people who either invested them in buying stocks or in the importation of petroleum products in the country, but are unable to repay such loans.
A statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Anthony Sani however blamed the CBN for enquiring “into the volume of the so-called toxic assets of the commercial banks while refusing to tell Nigerians how or why in the first place, the banks found themselves in trouble.
The statement reads “The Working Committee of the National Executive Council of the Arewa Consultative
Forum (ACF) held its meeting at its national headquarters in Kaduna on Tuesday, the 17th of March 2009. In attendance were all National officers of the ACF drawn from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). General IBM Haruna, the Chairman presided.
“Among other things, the meeting reviewed and discussed a number of issues and other troubling developments in the country. At the end, it resolved to issue the following statement.
“The ACF deliberated on the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and observed that Nigerians are feeling increasingly frustrated by the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to disclose the true the true nature and the scale of the crisis.
“Even members of the National Assembly, despite their best efforts, have been unable to get to the truth of the matter.
According to Arewa consultative forum “All that seem obvious is that our commercial banks had lent out too much money to too many people who had invested them in stocks or petroleum importation but who are now unable to pay back. Beyond that, the public has no clear idea as how or why the loans were given and on what terms."

Like Chris Rock said,lock yourself in your room, look yourself in the mirror and tell your image:"Bleep YOU.Bleep your dreams, hopes, aspirations, now lets go out there and make this woman happy"

Lie, Lies, Lies!

Dan Forster is in the US on vacation.I met him sometime in January when he was arrested by immigration and he said a whole army of Intercontinental Bank lawyers followed him.He was delayed, but was released later the same day.

The story about Cool FM's boss hauntin him is true cos he said he got threats from his former boss to stop him from leaving his station.He got told that if he leaves, he won't be able to work anywhere else.

I expect that the financial might of Intercontinental that employed so many lawyers will have sorted the whole thing out (by hook or crook). Also, i believe it was a strategic move to get married to a Nigerian which gives him the legal right of abode.

Leave the guy alone people!!!

Benz E-Class: Segun Arinze?ROFLMAO. Brilliant!!!

What would u do?