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babyfaceafrica:

ejibaba: :


Thank you but I maintain my stand...if you really have the sense as claimed do a double check on my claim and you would verify my assertion, though not 100% but to large extent. We carried out a study 5years back on cultural influence on leadership disposition and style and this informed my statement.

Nothing personal or insulting in post as I never claimed any tribe was better. So tribal warlord take a chill

you made.a sweeping accusations on a tribe on social media and you have the effontry to come here to.mention a fallacious research... you really have no sense

When I saw study/research.... I .... Choi. Academics "yaf suffered"

Georgeofor1:
You need to distance yourself away from him diplomatically, desist from having lunch with him, lengthy conversations and joining him back home. That way he would not have the confidence to Boss you around(i.e giving you instructions on who and who not to communicate with). Keep playing cool but try to get close to any manager that's open-minded, just in case he starts feeling insecure and wants to write bad report about you, there would be someone to question his report.

Take this advise.....and you're out on the street in a jiffy

nams77:
Very apt. I made that mistake before coming across that book.
I was a new employee, bright and full of creative ideas. I was always making timely and great suggestions. Never knew my manager wasn't happy. He saw me as too forward. The first thing he did was to fling me to a far and irrelevant branch. Away from the hub of power. He publicly humiliated me, but back then, I used to be a fiery headed person. I got my pound of flesh later but it cost me my job.
From that irrelevant branch the chairman selected me to be the head of a committee that will x-ray and examine every activities of staff and also proffer recommendation. The chairman was looking for a no-nonsense person. Someone who cannot be intimated or cowed. At the end of the exercise, you can guess my recommendation. It was a scathing report against the management staff and the MD. He was immediately relieved of his position and transfer to an obscure subsidiary.and me? I was later axed by another over-zealous newbie lol

Ranchhoddas:
Law 7: Let others do the work for you, but always take the credit.

Use the wisdom, knowledge and legwork of others to further your cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do for yourself what others can do for you.

48 Laws of power.

Better to know the game than to be played

@OP, let me be brutally-frank in stating the following (you are at liberty to reject these submission tho)

YOU ARE MAKING SOME DEFAULT MISTAKES OF SMART NEW RECRUITS.

1. With this mindset? You'RE few clicks away from getting into trouble. More like your boss is baiting you and you're falling for it. He's most likely seeing through you....the frustration, the impatience, the anger and other stuffs
2. I am more worried for you that are you concerned about "your work" and stuffs like that at this stage of your career? In fact, what you are currently being measure on is your ability to be a potential leader..i.e. a team player, a good steward and a good servant (not a loner)..and a cardinal aspect of that includes your ability to serve. If you are at this stage worried and complaining about your manager "taking credit for your work", the signal you're sending is that if you're a GM, you will soon be complaining that the GMD is "taking credit for your work" to the Board?
3. Someone advised you (albeit less-wisdom) to copy a superior officer in your correspondences...... Even the superior officer will frown at such "un-tempered ambition". You need to get into the mind of your superiors a bit. The moment your boss's boss condone such acts (allowing you to correspond to him directly and not through your manager) = your manager is at liberty to do same to him.
4. YOU NEED TO RESPECT YOUR MANAGER. Have you ever considered why this guy was employed as the manager and you as a subordinate? Because his profile, experience and total package is better than yours. At the moment he offers better value to the organisation.
5. Why are you so overtly ambitious to see the GMD? Why can you not simply relax and let your work speak for you? Have you bothered to check if you have overtly demonstrated this ambition of yours and your manager has seen it hence his decision to suppress you? You seem to have given out all your aces and he knows your "moves"; explains why he doesn't want you to attend meetings in his absence or see the GMD on-on-one.
6. On the issue of the new accounting software, I tell you (as someone who led information systems in the corporate world for over 7yrs), your knowledge of how to use the accounting software above your manager hardly counts for much in the grand scheme of things. You are rated on this, you manager is rated on the delivery and accuracy of the end product - The Financials. The management will not scold him for not knowing how to use the software.....they will rather scold him for not using you guys to use the software to effect.

Pls get some things right
1. The journey to the top is arduous, challenging and tasking. It requires physical and mental fitness, and you have to fit for the marathon. You will be muscled, bruised, out-witted, taken advantage on (you may/will also do same..). For each you need to learn how to navigate your way through these hurdles. It requires patients, smarts and wisdom.
2. Don't make a move ahead of the time for the move. Be like a cat (Lion, Tiger, Jaguar etc) that waits patiently for the right moment before it pounces. If you "jump" before time, you miss the prize....and people who are less capable than you will be rewarded
3. Make your manager feel comfortable (even if you hate his guts). Let him feel you're not a threat. Even if you want to scheme for his position..... take him off your scent. Your time to seize the moment will surely come. For example, I always refer to the root of my biggest career break as that one time I taught my former HR manager some aspects in excel (something simple, trivial and of no consequences), she was so impressed with my conduct that she never forgot me. From there she recommended the company "disconnected" outsourcing that aspect of training and made it internal. I was asked to train a whole exploration department.....from there I was invited to join a meeting/project team mid-way to "volunteer my opinion" on an aspect.....from there I was asked to permanently join the project team......from there the project team was sent to the UK for a 2 weeks training/workshop/strategy session......at the workshop I distinguished myself.........back in the country I was one of the people given public acknowledgement by the MD.......from their the ED invited me for an informal interview for a new position........on and on. Prior to this I was like you. I was "burned" for about 3 frustrating years, before I let wisdom work and not my frustration.
4. This may or may not work, I suggest you change your strategy - make it a priority to continue to do a damn good job, then let it look like you don't care beyond that point. Push your good ideas to your boss. Let him get "uncomfortable-until-he-hears-from-you". Increase the output of your department through him. Let the bigger and better results continue to churn out......if he fails to recognize you and others in the team, then one day he'll do himself in. Even if you don't get rewarded on this job, if you keep at this pace, you'll have simply prepared yourself for a bigger and better position on your next job.

Regards

omocalabar:
Am almost there.. . Remainin 8yrs 23 hrs 59mins

Me too, almost there......remainin 9yrs 11months 29days

dfrost:
You are right. I guess weather, and other factors are undermining the records. Also sports is tending towards ads these days. Sports personalities are more interested in ads, money, fashion et al. So striving towards breaking records are rare these days.

I think with golf in West Africa, it has to do with more exposure to modern training methods, golf academies springing up (David Mark has one in Otukpo, some in South Africa, Ghana, Cote D'ivore etc) and these Pros are getting improved sponsorship of sort. There are improvements in sponsorship of competition in West Africa..... Most importantly the "Tiger Woods" effect...

iamjavadem:
Dont mind the useless footballer, as if his girlfriend doesnt use fake beauty too.

Do you just willfully purpose in your mind to say senseless stuffs?

dfrost:
Congrats man. So no good Nigerian golfer to hit back at him?

7 birdies for a West African golfer? I'm impressed.

I'm also impressed. Gone are the days you will hear results like winner wining with 4 over

SyberKate:
Hi

So I decided to go into a long distance relationship with this guy I have not met yet. We just met online and have exchanged pictures.

So far the relationship is just one week old and I was in a bit of a situation where I needed some money. Nothing much just about 15,000 to solve an issue.

So I asked my BF if he could assist me with the money, only for him to start saying things like the relationship is still young for me to be making demands, that what if he starts demanding for s3xx this early in the relationship.

I said I wish I could have solved my problem myself but I really need all the help I can get. He still insisted that he hasn't even met me physically and I could be trying to swindle him for all he knows.

Then I said if he feels that way then no need to continue with the relationship and it was over, just like that within one week.

So do you think I was being unreasonable to make demands this early in the relationship.

Do I think you were unreasonable? I believe the guy should thank his stars......

GavelSlam:

raker300: :
The greatest lie we tell is the lie we tell ourselves.

I am yet to see one project started and completed by this admin in the Southwest to justify their blind support of the admin.

The railway projects are on going.

How long did it take you to complete secondary school?

....that's if he's completed it yet

eTECTIV:

oyebanji44: :
For the first time in Nigeria .masses and politicians are cooperating and complaining bitterly together..against buhari l support pmp all d way.

It is only a clueless govt dat will release such figures claiming inflation has dropped while prices and at d same time claim fud inflation is on d rise.. Let dem kip deceiving d gullible ones like dis one
Wateva U have been smoking is definitely bad for ur brain...

Me thinks it is only a "half-educated-illiterate" that does not know that govt don't release inflation figures

engineerboat:
You seem to be out of sense



I gave you an estimated cost.

You said no.

I ask you to give to true price.

You are here blabbing.

Pack well jare

You submissions are unintelligent in the first place..... That you can't figure out your gaffe..... Unfortunate

engineerboat:
You can just let me know how much their rate is instead of ranting like this.

Let you know how much their rates are? Are you that daft? You mean you did not bother to find out how much their rates are before you conjured ridiculous and fictitious figures.... or you are working so hard for the Atiku media team to notice you and throw you some coins..... Even doing that you are not intelligent enough

engineerboat:
Next level

Buhari spending #83,725,000 for cover page Ads to announce what he'll do and not what he has done in 4 years?

You are not intelligent kobo. A typical newspaper have their rates published... How did you arrive at this mysterious figures... From your ass?

abescom:

IamaNigerianGuy: :
The entire article is junk. I can't make head or tail of Fashola's statements. Anyway, it's too late to concession anything. Buhari should go.

Maybe because you are more interested in buhari going than anything else.

But rest assured he will go but that's if people don't vote for him in 2019 not because a nobody thinks he should go.

Your pain just started.

His pain has not just only started.... It has been dancing shaku-shaku for eons.
I was even thinking he is incapable of understanding and that it actually takes some level of investment in ignorance and hatred to attain his level

Ok, I see a lot of ignoramuses on this lane.....

When she says she's the best man for the job, the tenses are CORRECT. To put it simply "Man" in this context refers to person regardless of the sex.

Ps: PMB/PYO has my votes tho.

decuteGenius:
Pls I'm a PDP chieftain and there no train station in my village, UYO. fake news!!

Olodo!.....

Did you read the piece at all or your comprehension developed wings and flew away?

Joshrob:
Muslim songs are boring,just as if they are mourning..all you will hearing is girls using there nose to sing.
I can bet that non of my muslim friends (guys) have any muslim song in there phone but you can find at list one Christian song in there play list.
Make una nor vex o..na watin I see I dey talk so

So you can see that in this small instance... You are not even willing to accommodate

Samunique:
I think those religious bigots in Nigeria need to watch this video and see how
Hammed Musa joined the team to sing without any bad feeling as a Muslim.

... also let me add that we Christians should also accommodate and join Muslims who may want to sing/pray as well

tolexy007:

Mynd44: :
Jimi Agbaje needs to up his game and quickly

this is not issue of Jimi, this people are funded by Lagos state, if Jimi invite dem 90% of them will not come, cos dey know what Tinubu and Lagos state in giving dem

I said the game has long been played.......

Think of MC Oluomo, Think of Baba Eto, think of Yoruba-wood....dimension this more

karllemah44:
I can only recognise Jide Kosoko,Charles Inojie and Alex Ekubo...who are the rest?

Shows your level of ignorance.....

Mynd44:
Jimi Agbaje needs to up his game and quickly

The "game" had long been played .......

thunder74:
I was passing through Opebi link and this poster got my attention. Why writing the father's name in small size? Could it be that he is ashamed to associate with him?

You ask a stu.pid and useless question to me......

1. Folajimi got to politics on the platform of his father
2. Folajimi is not a newbie, he had contested and won election in the past based on the fact that he planted in the grassroot politics of his area
3. That you are asking this question show your ignorance of him, his locality he represents and the politics of that locality
4. The question "could it be that he's ashamed to associate with him"? is a puerile and lopsided thinking. Why? because Lai Mohammed represent a government you are in disagreement with? I think people should set boundaries between hate-filled thoughts and rational thinking

Uti. O fe lari mo? Eran awon agab....O fe soda.......

12345baba:
what's the use of getting what u can't maintain, na waste of money. We rather use the money and maintain our roads instead of setting rail tracks that will be overgrown by grasses and left for vandals to go and steal.

This your rationale.......my jaw just dropped

Fabulous7:
rail has now become something we are now celebrating while some countries have gone beyond this.There was a country!!!

What then should we celebrate? The Dasuki's $2.1b largess?

LordofNaija:
With these APC government it is hard to believe anything these days. What I see up there are pictures of a construction site. Pictures of coaches running on the tracks or I don't believe

Your dumbness is with "skill". A train that for the past two weeks people have been enjoying free train ride........ Not surprising, when GEJ commissioned the 2nd Niger bridge on paper, you believed

12345baba:
Hope we can maintain this railway business o

So we should not build rails because you think we cannot maintain?

ChiefAlex:

Iamicekid: If with this you don’t understand, in law bro u don’t diversify word, putting myself in his shoes with this there statement you First told you don’t do events and later told you I have to meet some of your security measures, right so if it’s not politics related which security measures do you want to give a personnel like Davido which he can’t offer or live up to... He no dey make money from something he dey spend, come think of it in a thing he wants to make money from how much will it take him to provide 1000 security personnel, or more if they still request more...
so you telling me for your own mind wizkid met the security check while Davido can’t meet it right.. Abeg go shift front

Your IQ is low

Terribly and embarrassingly low

Afamed:

Bibby25: I doubt if Eko Atlantic is been sincere concerning this issue...I personally feels its politically motivated. My opinion tho..

You just feel without any reasonable input or excuse? Don't allow your emotions to tamper with your sense of reasoning .

Too late.... His sense of reasoning is already defective

This is the most useless piece of unintelligent reporting ever seen. I junked the rubbish after reading few lines of the stu.pid concuction. You mean the CFO of NNPC award contracts? bunch of idi.oits full ground here.....not that I did not know tho.