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symbolofhope:
Hello Nairalander, i have always failed job test most especially Dragnet test, could their be anything am missing out, how do you guys ace those PWC, KPMG, E&Y, Deloitte tests


I used to prepare with all seriousness and relevant past questions, thanks for your advice as usual

Which segment do you find difficult: verbal or numeric?

Match fixed.

The Field Marshall of imposition-based consensus suddenly now wants democracy. So strange.

There's something fishy about his continuous attack on only Osinbajo. He seems to be afraid of something.

Sannisege:
so endorsement is now imposition? You may need to get your brain checked

Even if you succeed in decieving your victim, you cannot succeed in deceiving yourself. So keep deceiving yourself that what Tinubu does is endorsement and not imposition.

To you it is endorsement, to others it is imposition. Choose the one you want. The sky is wide enough for all bids to fly without colliding.

BAT relies so much on his ability to buy delegates. He is extremely confident of his war chest.
I don't see how the north will give him a Christian VP and that's his biggest hurdle despite his massive war chest.
Even if he emerges the APC flagbearer, he will most certainly lose the election to PDP who must have chosen a balanced religious ticket.

NwokoloOwa:
Osinbajo should go and sit down. You must know your capacity and your limits. That's the problem a number of Nigerians have.

He should be grateful to God for bringing him this far and just bow out. He should also be grateful to Tinubu for helping him to oil his career and facilitating his nomination as VP. Anything aside this line of thought is self deceit, delusion and lack of wisdom.

I'm really surprised at his sense of judgement.

Grateful to Tinubu for what....

Tinubu discovered Osinbajo because Osinbajo had endearing qualities. Tinubu didn't fall Osinbajo to serve out of pity. Wasn't Osinbajo a special adviser to a one-time Attorney-General of the Federation years before Tinubu appointed Osinbajo.....

Tinubu isn't God to be superior to every other person. Some people also discovered Tinubu and gave him the chance to climb the ladder.

You cannot limit your aspirations in life because of your boss, especially in a situation where time is of the essence and once past the age, you cannot aspire to it anymore.

Sanwo-Olu no get work again.

It's strange that Tinubu now wants democracy rather than the way he has always imposed candidates. In fact, he just imposed Sanwo-Olu last week.

Abeg post the link to the video.

TheRareGem1:
If you watched the video of when Buhari was narrating how people approached the VP for the job of VP when Baba was sick, you'd decode that this is expected. PYO didn't listen to any of them, held on hope and it was learnt that he didn't even tell PMB, it was Emir of Daura that told PMB when they spined everything against him as if he wanted the position for himself. Hence, PMB PYO is stronger than ever

His loyalty was put to test and he passed, in flying colours of course.

Just go to registry for another wedding certificate. Explain the issue to them so they won't bore you with other things, you will just do the documentation and pay the necessary fees, without doing the ceremony associated.

No be anger o.

I am EH, but it's important we discuss these issues once in a while.
No matter how we continue to shy away from it, it continues to divide us further & further.

The fact that we benefit from an unjust system doesn't mean we shouldn't say the truth. We can benefit today but what of posterity.

I am quite sure generations of Nigerians who lived in the sixties, seventies, eighties wouldn't have predicted an evil like the boko haram insurgency, but see where injustice has led us.

darado:
Master na the APL anger u wan drop on the North
No b them deny u job ooooo. Abeg mylord.

OK. Please do a research and tell us the number of candidates from Zamfara State or Kebbi State, that registered for WAEC, NECO and JAMB in 2019.

Also tell us the cut-off mark for Zamfara & Kebbi State indigenes, for entry into the Federal government colleges. Then state the cut-off mark of any two States you choose to pick from the South-west, South-west or South-south.

Your statistics will prove how competitive the educational system in the north is.

And if you are so sure of how strong northerners are in education, please clamour for the abolishment of federal character.

KAYL3B:
I disagree with you here my brother, we shouldn't let our emotions make us say disparaging things about the educational system in the north. By the way they are all the same N,S,E,W. The educational system in the north is competitive. I schooled in the north, like wise lots of southerners , and they would admit that it standard is high 75%.

I don't feel wronged nor do some people feel wronged that northerners got in. The wrong is that a northerner should not get into a place with 40% and a southerner who scored 80% denied the same place, and you openly call such a system "merit-based".

It's a fact that many northerners will not be occupying seats they are occupying today if we go by true merit.

Even your reverred and highly educated Emir Sanusi Lamido said it earlier this week that the North should not think federal character will help them in the future and they should rather be ready to compete on equal level. I opine you can't be more northern than the Emir, but he chose to speak the truth while you shy away from it with appeal to emotions of if I have superior knowledge than northerners.

I bear no grudge against northerners, because I really do pity their downtrodden. Despite the privilege they have and systems like federal character being applied to favour them, they are still the ones you find doing the crudest & dirtiest of jobs even in the south. They are the ones you find littering & begging for alms in the south.

Why not champion the application of federal character to the Super Eagles and other national teams....

Dmamasboy:
So you feel wronged or some people feel wronged that some northerners got in and they didn’t hence the explanation of federal character and how it opposes merit?!
This thought is only brought about because you somehow feel superior to some people from the northern part of the country. That is messed up.
You think every northerner is educationally poor? You think your certificate is above the northerners? Knowledge is knowledge period. Maybe you wouldn’t even fare against the northerners you feel superior to.
So long as people keep getting this type of mentality, we can never be one as a nation.

The phrase "Federal Character" means merit has been sacrificed already! Hence you can never claim that the any process that is subject to federal character is on merit, because federal character implies that some people who are less performing, say, from the educationally less developed States, will find their way in, above candidates who totally flawed them from the educationally advanced states.

How do you deny a candidate from the south-south who scored 80% and allow a candidate from the north-east who scored 40%, and still have the audacity to say such a process was on merit? No! It's not. We've already used federal character to sacrifice merit in order to favour some folks. Ditto for why cut-off mark for entry into the Federal Government Colleges varies. A candidate from Zamfara State will have a cut-off mark of 23% & a candidate from Ogun State will have a cut-off mark of 85%, and you call that process merit-based? So, such a process lacks merit from the beginning once federal character principles apply.

Ask candidates that went for interview at the Towers and they will tell you for a fact that you hardly hear names from the geographical "upper" regions of the country when names were being called in the amphitheater. It was claimed that some powerful folks were not happy with that & decided to "adjust" the process to aid more people from those "upper" regions of the country to come in. For a process that started speedily to now take nine months between conclusion of interviews to issuance of APLs....

Lastly, note the use of the phrase "National Spread" which the NNPC used in its communique, it showed a desperation to validate the process. They've turned it to a game of luck.

Hmmmm. Your sister got it on merit but you have a top source in NNPC.

Nobody will ever claim s/he was aided.

Ihategirls:
My sister was among the 1050 GTs selected

And she got it on merit without knowing anybody

I think this recruitment was the most transparent in all their recruitments!

Then again, a top source in NNPC Abuja gave us an information that they wanna release some kinda supplementary batch b list

With 850 names

Go and pray ooo

Hello Guys.

Please advise how one can estimate the value of an structure on a piece of land. Just the structure (which is an uncompleted building) only.

The cost of land in the area is known, but since there is an uncompleted building on the land, there is a need to determine the value of the uncompleted structure to know if the asking price is reasonable.

Very sound professional advice will be appreciated.

Cheato64:
how am I supposed to know she won't want to learn how to drive on purpose, and if I decide to firm and she jumps bike, accident or miscarriage might happen, I won't forgive myself

Then continue enjoying it na since you can't be firm. You're a man and you're saying you can't be firm, then let her continue controlling you.

If you don't tame her now, your old age (sixties above) is when you will see more hell.

You better be firm and rein her in now, or you keep enjoying it.

The answer to your question is crystal clear to you. How can you be constantly assaulted and humiliated by an unrepentant man that has the audacity to treat you so bad whilst still seeking your hand in marriage, and you're still asking if you should continue with him?

Just ask yourself and imagine what he will do to you after marrying you and he presumes he owns you.
Flee from a potential life of misery and assault that could endanger your life.

You've been warned enough.

Crap journalism. Nothing new from what we are already aware of. One lazy journalist just sitting somewhere to put together different opinions already expressed on the issue.
The writer should go get busy and do some good investigative journalism, say about the North East crisis.

ijustdey:
https://www.independent.ng/aisha-buhari-the-dirty-fight-in-aso-rock-villa/

panalyst:
NOT TRUE. 2 YEARS? THE LAST SET OF STAFF NNPC HIRED WAS IN 2012

TRUE; applications in October 2012, aptitude test in December 2014, interview SMS invite in February 2015, suspension shortly after and.........all went blank till today.

I guess those positions were filled through the backdoor.

NB: I got the interview invite then.

DanXplore:
What is the relationship between capacity to solve problems and capacity to survive accident...if at all it exists? Does one develop skills (formally or informally) on how to survive accidents? Do people discipline themselves through hardwork on how to dodge accidents or survive plane crash?

I don't even have the energy to delve into your Jacob-Esau analogy. FYI, not everybody on this thread practices your religion.

Your analogy is spurious and embarrassingly saddening. If you must use analogies, use the ones that are apt.

Try to comprehend things oga. The issue is whether God is a factor and I can tell you yes, he is. It's not only capacity that helps you to attain positions in life, some other factors must work for you. And that's what many people refer to in different ways: grace, luck, favour, time & chance, G-factor, etc.

This is a recruitment in which several factors are being used simultaneously. You could be the best from your state but the position you applied for has to be taken by another candidate from another state due to federal character principle, and boom, you're out despite having performed excellently. It simply means time & chance didn't favour you.

Was GEJ the best in terms of capacity when he assumed the position of president, ditto for PMB..will you say Mai Kanti Baru was the best in NNPC when he was made the GMD, ditto for Mele Kyari.... Was Emefiele the best the banking sector could offer when he became CBN governor, was Buratai the best in the army when he became COAS... In a place like Nigeria where ethnicity & nepotism is rife, you could be the best but your ethnicity won't favour you. Will you see PMB choosing his ADC from a tribe other than his...

There was a time the best two 500L students in the department of petroleum engineering in one of the foremost federal universities in Nigeria were to be sent on an excursion overseas. The best two students were male and the 3rd best was a female. Suddenly the sponsors and the department just decided that one of the two students should be a female. That was how the 2nd best student was sacrificed so the unqualified female could join the excursion.

A reflection of all these scenarios simply tells you that it's not only demonstrated capacity that takes you to where you aim for in life, other factors (not obvious or seen) must work for you.

DanXplore:
Alot of people trusting God for NNPC success are just so unbelievable. I suspect they're the newbies in the job market. So if all the 9000 interviewed trust God for the job, who will God then allocate the slots to when there are very limited slots? obviously, it is the person that has demonstrated potential capacity to be a solution provider in NNPC that will get the job since God is now a common denominator to all applicants. Abi does God love you more than the other applicants?

Just remember that virtually everyone prays to God for protection, yet people will still die today, tomorrow and everyday thereafter. So what criteria will God choose in picking those he will spare their lives..... Will he spare those that have demonstrated capacity in crossing the road, or those that have demonstrated capacity in driving without hitting another road user, or those that can sleep without closing their eyes, or those who are extra careful to know when their gas cylinders are expired or about to explode....... Did God love Jacob more than Esau, did God love Peter more than Judas, and for you that you're still in the process: does God love you more than those that are better than you in terms of capacity, but have died in the course of the process..... Just being open-ended.

holujay:
Pls, what's the call all about?

In my opinion, I think job interviews should be totally devoid of anything political or religious. Even the panel wouldn't ask any question that has political and religious undertone and as a candidate, it's best to steer clear of asking such question too, lest the panel interprete one as a likely controversial person whose working preferences and interpersonal relationships could be affected by such issues.

MuhMubRaj:
I hail o. I did my interview on Monday, I was Slated for 7:00 am but I finished almost 12pm. The Panel seemed t nice to me, they all wanted to hear me talk except 1 man that was just attacking left and right. I kept my answers shot and direct because with my experience from other interviews too much talk can koba you. I was doing well so far. After the fifth Man finished with Me. There was silence for some minutes while they were taking notes. It was at this moment my village people entered the interview room, Fortunately or unfortunately it coincided with when the Oga of the Panel asked me If I had any question for them, I took a deep breath, Smiled and thank them for the opportunity and I asked directing the Panel oga. The " Ruga Scheme" a yes or a no. I noticed the surprise on all their faces even without looking, At this Point I was convinced My Village people Came along with a Costa Bus, another Minute of silence Followed then the Oga spoke, " well that don't have have anything to do with NNPC it is a political Something and It depends on the States that agree to it or not, Their Questions surprised me so I decided to Play the game with them, I honestly hope I get this Job But I no dey attach My Heart to am Because I am certain Allah will only give me the best and nothing but the best.

The mail came in just after the message came in. I received another mail to that effect again this morning.

Kaspa007:
yes ooo i was rescheduled too but i havent gotten the mail they said would be sent, please has anyone gotten the mail

Feels good you mentioned Zain Africa Challenge, which I participated in.

NaotoKan:
One of the interesting shows to grace TVs in Nigeria. Another was the Zain Africa Challenge.

Be it chicken, lizard, alligator, snake, frog, ostrich, goat, cow, human, assume the first one that comes to your mind whenever you hear "egg" or come across the word "egg".

It's that straightforward.

special1Z:
Good point !!!!!!!!! please was the type of egg stated? like a chicken egg, lizard egg etc. can you recall?

Egg shape should be ellipsoid, I think people who did Further Maths can relate. Orange & the earth are spherical cuz they are a little bit flattened at the top & bottom poles.

T4kbaba:
LG law = bye law, egg shape = sphere and Swahili = Kenya.

They can measure accuracy but certainly not speed in this type of test where everyone had the luxury of time. The duration should have been somewhat in the region of 15mins to 20mins if speed is desired.

Chukeg:
If they re going to apply speed accuracy, that may affect very many persons if not everyone. In centre where I wrote, almost everyone finished before 30minutes. But we had to While away the time thinking that another set of questions may come ( that was because the officials told us to wait). It was surprising though

Cool down candidate, don't be too excited. It's the end result that matters. You are competing with tens of thousands of other candidates.

ofurufu:
Who else noticed there was no answer in that 1/6 + 3/8 question?

The answer is 13/24 but I just picked 17/24, the nearest answer (which is also the only option that has 24 as denominator).

Are you competing or just having an experience.....

nickae:
It's different for everyone, but I had questions like;
NNPC was setup in, who is the current UN sec gen, full meaning of opec, efcc,
Civil war started and ended in... They pulled from those current affairs in the past questions.
Study them very well