₦airaland Forum

Thank goodness the money is coming at a time when ASUU needs so much funds.
FG will not have any course to complain again.

Mbeki may be right, the problem with Nigeria is not about informed citizenry, the problem is that the 'informed' are way too tribal and nepotistic.
even here on nairaland, some supposedly informed guys blindly support corrupt persons as long as they are from their own side of the divide.
Oduah's case promptly comes to mind.

OP

i thought she was staying at Enugu govt house.
when did she start living in Anambra govt house

I dont mean to be pessimistic but going by the trend of events, I doubt if there's any hope of ending this menace.
ribadu prosecutes thieving politicians - we said obj was after his enemies.
el rufai tries to return abuja back to its master plan - we said same things as in ribadu's case.
alamesigha jumps bail to land in Bayelsa - we celebrate his triumph over enemies. (meanwhile he's granted state pardon)
sanusi engineers the arrest and prosecution of corrupt bank ceos - we accuse him of a northern agenda.
bankole steals over 10 billion - we say its a ploy by the older generation of politicians to oust the new.
ibori is incacerated in the uk over a crime he was declared innocent of in Nigeria - we celebrate his birthday even in his absence.
subsidy is removed to stop thieving marketers from stealing us dry - we protest on their behalf.
dariye is accused of stealing 10b, he said he contributed said monies to pdp campaign - case closed (mean while he's now a senator of the federal republic)
oduah is accused of misappropriation - youths protest
and so many more cases i can even write a whole book.
thing is once any corrupt individual is from our side of the divide, we only see their innocence, we say the others are doing worst, they should prosecuted first, but its got to start from somebody.
the elite understands our mentality, together they unite to keep us in the dark and we gladly accept.
they send their kids to ivy league schools so they (the kids) come back to lead us - we gladly accept.
if we must fight corruption, this nepotism got to end.
problem is it wont.

JonCina: @Joey82,
did he finally take you to his boss? if yes, were you re-imbursed?
Hope your flight back was good?

my flight was good
his boss was not on sit o.

delbisi: Anybody else got a call from cadbury that their medicals is OK?

delbisi, looks like u are ahead of the game o.

not bad.

Yaasir: @Joey82
We are thru with the medics and it was trully comprehensive. We were told that everything about the medicals would be concluded this week so that successful candidates can meet the HR manager next (formality though). We are just praying for the best. The remaining people will complete their medics latest 2moro.

thank u for the prompt response.
will be having mine 2morrow.
my problem is they just have to find a way of refunding my flight ticket this time o.
all the best man.

Yaasir: @ifycyril
I asked the guy and what he told me was the 2 programs (experience and mgt trainee) are both ongoing but they would like to complete the experience hire probably by next week so that they can concentrate more on the entry level. The whole process for the experience hire will most likely end next week? What stage of the recruitment are you now?

are u guys through?
hw did it go?
anything special asides the meds?

well its high time mr president proceeds to china for another round of borrowing.
this situation is more urgent compared to other situations that made him borrow.

Yaasir: I was called. The guy said they don't want to send mail in order not to cause issue between me and my employer.

got a call from them earlier in the day.
mine is scheduled for tuesday 8:30am

Yaasir: @delis,
Mine is 8:30am on Monday. In any case we are going to meet. We wil surely get the job by God's grace. Congrats!!!

congrats guys.
did they contact by call or email.
still hoping to hear from them.

JonCina: Thanks bros J! Mine is tomorrow. God will show us HIS favour again. Just entered from ph where i took my test.

so, how did it go?

UGOCHUKWU3: Thank you guys for sharing,pls what is the salary range for the position,

that's the challenge, there is hardly any information on the salary range.
i even got the number of one of the reps but he couldnt tell me anything tangible.
he however said it is negotiable for experience hire.
which means u can be on the same cadre but some may be earning more.

whitestone204: kindly share ur experience with us

it was very ok.
i have attented lots of interviews right from my trainee days but i must confess this was the most brief interview i ever had.
the panel was 2 hr guys and the sales director (3 people in total).
this means there wont be any 'mago mago' as the sales director already knows the caliber of people he's looking for. (he is not even a nigerian)
the sales director did all the on the job question asking and we were soon at a level the hr guys could not catch up.
questions centered on what u currently do and how it fits into what they are looking for.
the hr guys only asked whether i could drive, the salary range i was looking at, they mentioned location i'd like to work and whether i could drive and whether i have a driver's licence.
it took 10mins max and i was out.
nobody spent more than 10mins while i was there at the interview.
and we were well over 20, mostly form lagos though, some from abj and kd.
i didnt meet any rivers and owerri.

Rossikk: Look, for goodness sakes', this is Nigeria we are talking about. Gowon was a 32 year old neophyte who had not the MINUTEST appreciation of international geopolitics, economics, history, or policy. He was about as unqualified for that position as it was possible to be.

What was he doing there?

On that picture should be either Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Anthony Enahoro, Sir Ahmadu Bello. Men of substance and knowledge. Even Balewa was far more credible. What did this 32 year old soldier-man know about ANYTHING?

And people are here talking about his ''first lady'', and ''Sandhurst'' like it's Cambridge or Harvard. Sandhurst is a military school like NDA Zaria, nothing more nothing less. They don't teach you anything there other than how to be a good soldier.

Meanwhile, it was only after he was booted out of power that he decided to go and learn, at Warwick University, UK, the things he should have known PRIOR to being installed in power a decade earlier.

hey mr,
that u are over 32 and still living in ur father's house does not mean 32 yr olds cannot take the world by storm,
how old do u think the likes of Awo and Zik were when they entered politics.
if u have a problem with Gowon, point it out, his age has nothing to do with his becoming president and u biafrans should be thankful that it wasnt some ruthless soldier like murtala that was at the helm of affairs during the war. i bet u, the war wouldnt have even lasted a month. gowon prosecuted that war with so much humanity, u all shld be grateful to him

mehn... she looks like she aint breathing well at all

21. anytime u plait ur hair, never let a strand to fall frontwards to ur face only to keep adjusting it backwards, pack everything up and tie at the back and spare urself the activity.

22. anytime u decide to wear a low waist jeans and a spaghetti top, spare urself the stress of trying to pull ur top down especially if u are on top okada

triple ow: Hello NLers. For those of you that got the interview invites, where did you do your test, and where's the interview holding? Any idea if its being done according to zones like the tests?

did test @abuja.
interview in lagos.

UGOCHUKWU3: @Joey82.Pls there is clarification i ll need from you,was the e-mail addressed to u specifically,pls let me know,tanx

it wasnt sent specifically to me.
looks like to an undisclosed group of people.

darlingjoes: How come people are receiving invite for interview while i got two invite for text for past test on the in the name of error is well oooo

invite for interview is sent by cadbury itself.
the test invite u got was an error message from the guys that conducted the test.

Calculus12: Congrats!

thank u.

Got an email from Cadbury earlier informing me i passed the test and they will proceed with my application to the next level.
just got another email confirming an oral interview slated for sat 17th august.
anybody in the house with ideas how their interview looks like?

By Lágbájá
Dear Okey Ndibe: Thank you for sounding the alarm in a way that should make us reflect deeper. Mumu is not a condition I proudly proclaim. It was with a heavy heart that I came to this shocking realization that we are indeed a country of mumus. Harsh as it might sound, no other explanation would suffice. It is apparent that the "leaders" know that they would always get away with whatever incredible schemes they concoct because, amongst other reasons,

(a) the mumu people they "lead" are no different from their mumu "leaders" in character

(b) the mumu people are gullible, superstitious and naive

(c) there are no consequences for criminal acts if you belong to the right group

(d) these mumus never demand accountability from their "leaders"

(e) the mumus expect their rulers to loot or would otherwise consider them foolish

Apologies for the seeming overgeneralization but the vast majority runs with this mumu mindset.

There is a limit to how much one can squeeze into a song before sounding less music than sermon. Please permit me to expatiate using your perimeter of "recent events in the past week or two".

For simplicity I would use a numbered list to analyze and highlight a few seemingly disparate but absurd mumurity examples and indicators.

1. 5 members trying to impeach a governor would make you think there are probably only 6 or 7 members of the House of Assembly. According to the assembly's website there are 31 members. For mumus, 5 out 31 constitutes a majority.

2. In the land of mumus you can make your own mace and confer it with automatic authority, elect a "new Speaker" and swear him in.

3. No single hospital in Nigeria to entrust the unfortunately injured member with. He had to be flown to the UK.

4. Flown abroad ... likely on tax payers' account

5. Treated ... likely on tax payers' account

6. Visited by officials... likely on tax payers' account (business or first class tickets?)

7. Nyesom Wike the Minister of State who led the visit was until recently the Governor's (Amaechi's) Chief of Staff. He was allegedly nominated for the Ministerial position by Governor Amaechi.

8. Shouldn't the mumus wonder how Nyesom Wike as Minister of State for Education found the time for this all important trip while abandoning his post in spite of the raging crisis in his ministry with the Academic staff union of Nigerian universities currently on strike? Well the mumu staff and students can rot in hell I guess.

9. Madam Patience would probably have "visited" too, if not for the noise such would generate. So for now, the victim suffers alone.

10. The erstwhile pontificating police boss of the State could not find the patient's prominent attacker for over a week.

11. Madam Patience having first denied any involvement in the crisis while verbally attacking Soyinka, eventually owns up "pouring out her grievances".

12. She owns up to a group of visiting Bishops who came on a peace making mission to find a lasting solution to the crisis in their region. Religion is always an easy scapegoat and tool of deception in mumudom.

13. Why would you even think that the Bishops would go back empty handed? Any "transport fare/thank-you-for-coming", if received, would have likely been financed on tax payers' account.

14. And why are we ranting about "tax payers"? Why are the tax payers not furious over the incessant misappropriation and misapplication of their hard earned contributions? The answer lies in the question... Aside from PAYE, how many are compliant in mumudom?

15. First a set of 5 Governors and 3 Deputy Governors (representing their respective Governors), left their duty posts for a solidarity visit with the embattled Governor of Rivers State... of course to the detriment of tax payers. (a) They were not on leave, but left urgent work and duties behind for the "emergency" solidarity visit. (b) Flight to and fro Port Harcourt of course likely on tax payers' account.

16. They were closely followed by a second set of 4 commiserating sympathetic Governors. Of course, again likely on tax payers' account.

17. Madam Patience's grievance, as she divulged to the visiting Bishops, started when Governor Amaechi refused to be governed by her, as he would not listen to her veiled orders on how to govern the State... which incidentally is her primary territory being her State of origin. Mumus have no problem with that, fully being in harmony with her as she sings as first lady in Abuja while simultaneously dancing in absentia as Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa and conducting the orchestra in home state, Rivers.

18. Madam ends her confession to the Bishops by saying that Amaechi is her son as she is obviously the mother of everyone in mumudom. The question all mumus should ask is, "Would a good mother promote the demise of her child?"

19. Where was her outraged sense of motherhood when Senators were busy voting to turn mumudom into a Nation of pedophiliacs at the expense of her innocent "daughters"?

20. Where was her outraged sense of "mother of the Nation" when the video of 5 gang rapists went viral. Has she used that "mother of the Nation" power to find the culprits? Not a priority in mumudom.

21. Where was her outraged "motherhood of mumudom" when 46 school children were murdered in Yobe? Indeed the whole Nation of mumus have just gone on with their more important mumu lives like nothing happened.

22. Which brings us to the insane mumurity that gives the "leaders" confidence to try pranks such as the attempt at crafting the under age marriage law, knowing that with the mumus... "nothing go happen"

23. In the land of mumus, the rulers know they can always throw in the religious card, so Senator Yerima leads the child slavery onslaught with the religious chant.

24. While all this was going on, 79 year old OPC founder, Dr. Fasheun was, in his own description, "delivering" Mustapha to Kano.

25. Soon after, Gumsu Sani Abacha had the courage to rant on social media about her proud heritage... because with the mumus who his father savagely ruled over... nothing go happen.

26. Gumsu even called Soyinka who was a victim of her beloved dad's misrule, "Mad empty Professor" ... because in mumudom, "nothing go happen".

27. Final scores... Jang 13, Amaechi 19, but in the land of mumus Mathematics has a different interpretation for 13 is greater than 19. Even the President of the mumus ratifies that.

28. By the way, both Governors Jang and Amaechi are from the same imploding political party.

29. Jang says he is old enough to be Amaechi's father... a common escape route that is often quickly bought by the mumu populace. Old enough to be the President's pawn and to upturn justice might be more like it. Only possible when you know for sure that your people are mumus... Nothing go happen.

30. The Governor is supposed to be the chief security officer of his State, but apparently in mumudom, his Police Commissioner is his boss.

31. The Governor's security staff could be so easily withdrawn because nothing is institutionalized in a Nation of mumus. The loyalty of the security personnel is not based on the constitution but on personal or maternal affiliations. The mumus keep watching because "it does not concern me o"... "Big men and women are fighting". Same way the injustice of the Nation's attorney general's assassination does not concern them.

32. Most reports in the Nigerian media kept referring to the self appointed Speaker as if he were truly the substantive Speaker. A mere use of "self-acclaimed" would have been logical, but they were already calling him the Speaker because... ignorance? inducement? resignation to the belief that the 5 vs 26 Assembly coup was already a done deal?

33. While all this drama unfolded, Nigeria, like the proverbial head-burying ostrich felt it had the moral right to insist on democratic processes in Egypt.

34. Sahara Reporters had screamed about the underhand conspiracy to proclaim Mustapha "not guilty". Mumus simply went about their daily mumurity unperturbed because "it doesn't concern them". And when it happened as predicted... no problem. Mumus continue dem jolly as if nothing happened.

35. Meanwhile, Daniel and his political supporters carried their politics into the house of God at Rueben Abati's mother's funeral service... simply because there is no true reverence for God. Religion is a safe hiding cave. The mumus in the congregation would never protest such sacrilege because... "it is not strange" as the houses of God are now also political grounds. Obasanjo built one in Abeokuta. Jonathan got one built in Otuoke.

36. Meanwhile, some other mumus were again busy putting the Nation to international shame. In unprecedented match fixing fiascos, Police Machine beat Bubayaro 67-0 while Plateau United Feeders beat Akurba FC 79-0. Just in case you are confused, the game was soccer, not basketball.

37. The matches were to determine which one of the two tied teams would be promoted into... wait for this... just the 3rd division of the Nigerian soccer league. How many goals would they have to orchestrate when they want promotion to the 1st division?

38. Interesting to note that one of the teams involved in these shows of shame, the Police Machine, represents the Police Force. Now who would investigate this scandal?

39. Mumus involved in the conspiracy had to include players... team management... referees and other match officials... spectators That is quite a large mumu cooperative.

40. Since four teams were involved, multiply the number of conspirators by 4 (except match officials and spectators which should be multiplied by "only" 2). Hence, the scam was done in the open. It was a confident public show of shame. No... two confident simultaneous scams. No problem as corruption is everywhere.

41. Before the matches, Police Machine and Plateau United were level on points, goal difference and goals scored, and each was playing its final match which would determine which team would get elevated into the 3rd division league. Plateau United scored 72 of its 79 goals in the second half, thereby averaging more than one goal per minute. This would necessarily include the time needed to celebrate each goal, retrieve the ball, bring it back to the center, wait for the referee's whistle before kicking off again.... after each goal. 72 times. Or did they just write the preferred figures as we typically do on election day?

42. Is it not curious that neither of the two losing teams could manage a single consolation goal? What else are we if not mumus?

43. Then there was the innocent man who was freed by the high court in Owerri after having been unjustly incarcerated for seven years, "awaiting trial". No compensation... nobody held accountable for his ordeal. He insisted on being taken back to the prison as that was his only guaranty of a roof over his head and a daily meal. It was merely a "small thing" in the daily bizarre news as mumus went about their daily mumurity with their typical mentality of "e no concern me".

44. Remember that this is mostly a snippet of the past two weeks or so. But there is more... 20 year old Chijioke Nwankor allegedly rapes a 9 year old pupil to death in Calabar. Reportedly in his own words, he asked her to bend down in the uncompleted building because it was too dirty to lie down as the place was being used as a public toilet. That is mumudom parlance for faeces shamelessly defecated all over the ground. Could the defecation be by aliens from outer space?

45. Well... thankfully, there is always a little ray of sunlight sneaking through the dark jungle. A Briton who was kidnapped by an armed gang shortly after arrival in Lagos, has been released.

...All in just the past two weeks or so in mumudom.

Excuse me, I have to return to work. I need to earn £3000 for my British visa. Wait a minute, did I tell you I am still a Commonwealth citizen?

http://saharareporters.com/article/lagbaja-responds-okey-ndibe-%E2%80%9Cmumudom%E2%80%9D

no 7 is so on point.
most employers use candidates emails and phone contacts to check online profiles especially fb and linkedin.
making ur online profile look responsible is important in today's job search.

what's with NANS and the rivers crisis.
what are they doing about ASUU strike?
they should be giving fg ultimatums on strikes instead.

it is said that when u are happy u dance to the rhythm and when u are sad u remember the lyrics.
the artists are simply dealing with different markets, and ur comparisons is with artistes from different music genres.
in nigeria, people like to be happy and dance more to the rhythm, what ever lyrics u put to a good beat goes.
hw on earth do u think dbanj was able to sell? his lyrics are so whack, even in oliver twist, what catapulted it to top the charts was beats and its only the beats part of the song that have been reproduced or reused in other endeavors.
i think is very unfair to compare afro hip hop artistes to r and b artistes.
maybe u guys should be comparing asha's lyrics to bruno mars.
and davido to 2 chainz, then and only then will i c a level playing ground.

@op
when it comes to trust, there are no in-betweens
its either zero or 100%.

i thought that Ajaokuta steel company was privatised.
hw come the government is still imputing funds into a company it already sold.

ree dee should be the only single nollywood female star that does not forge her age.
congratulations on ur 38th birthday.
at least u are not those forties claiming 28 every other year.

Nigeria is breaking records these days and even setting more.
just last week, some kids broke the teeth brushing record.
i think its high time results like this go into the guiness book of record.
or where else has a match been played with such goal margin.
even the longest match in history could not produce such goal difference.

where on earth is the so called civilian JTF getting weapons and ammunition from?
this development'd better be checked before we start breeding another militant wing in trying to stem the boko haram tide.
in nigeria, there is hardly any program for arms proliferation and as such no civilian should be armed.

nothing much
just the usual flavour chants and tiwa's auto tuned voice.