₦airaland Forum

Satioshi:
Laying of tracks has already started in Fagba market and is progressing on both sides. How is this man oblivious of this?

He's actually talking about laying tracks to from the Iddo take off point.

myboy2010:
what a good question I will prefer you to answer to know your status

Find my conclusion below

free2ryhme:



so we award or embark on infrastructure contract that help increase employment, yet Nigeria government allowed the Chinese to import the steel and materials that is needed for this railway. This was a good time to invest in steel production that would be used to produce track for all these railway.
Nigeria government and their bad contract. we borrow money from the Chinese, pay interest, purchase the material from them and hire their own worker. These deals are always bad for Nigerian's

cc:real

Unfortunately, our steel industry was late to the game...... but I think there are some concessions

FG approves 60% local content for railway projects
By Abdullateef Aliyu, Lagos | Publish Date: Aug 9 2017 2:00AM
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FG approves 60% local content for railway projects
The Federal Executive Council has approved a local content policy for the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project
Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi disclosed this while monitoring the progress of work on the $1.5bn project.



At the monthly project briefing yesterday were the Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Mr Olatunji Bello, the Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (LAMATA) Mr Abiodun Dabiri, for Lagos State Government, the Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure Mr Olalekan Adegbite, Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Engr Usman Abubakar, the Managing Director, Engr. Fidet Okhiria, and staff of CCECC, the contractor handling the project.
Under the local content policy, he said the contractor has been directed to ensure that nothing less than 60 percent is reserved for local sourcing of manpower.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/fg-approves-60-local-content-for-railway-projects/209150.html

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myboy2010:
efcc are not doing there work... they should check the excesses from the transport ministry led by amaechi

Se o ya were?

deomelo:
What is the meaning of this rubbish. Boats to be used exclusively by state officials?

Lousiest Lagos state governor ever.I hope and pray this orobo clown doesn't get re-elected lai lai.

I miss Fashola sha..

Bros,

As if our "clocks" were synchronised. Immediately I saw that part, I was like.......WTF

bxboss:

“The Emir ordered that my sister, Hauwa Dadi, should be released to us. But we signed an undertaking that she should not be punished. We have just left the Emir’s palace. I will call you later to give you the details.”

Ok! this is technically a case of abduction.......but in context, I suspect these two were probably trying to elope or something?

GODAKPAN:
dont tell me that he goes about employing incompetent people? they were competent, thats what gave them the job. how he measured their competence is his biz. all jobs needs retraining and its captured in the budget. i wonder what u do but i want to ask if uv never be sent on a training by ur employer because the concept of training and retraining is sounding strange to u. am only asking him to retrain his employess as its evident that decay has set in. and who is deceiving him that those that scored 75% are competent?

That is precisely why El-Rufai is management and you on NL.

Rubbish! So the excuse to keep incompetent people is to train and retrain them? I wonder what is value to people like you. What training if I may ask? They failed an exam that students in good schools will pass for God's sake.

Ideally competency tests should be your gateway into the job. That's why in some countries, you cannot teach children if you have not passed the certification test

GODAKPAN:
train and retrain them, was the said exam after a lecture or was an impromptu event? exams are never true knowledge of an individual. is he going to recall all students that passed thru the said teachers? in sane clime, his govt would be sued for wasting peoples future by recruiting unfit teachers. things r not only done to score political points. nobody is completely daft, just retrain those teachers and test them, if they fail u can fire. my post stated that its his responsibility to train his personnel after employment. he deemed them fit before employing them, meaning the decay only happened under his watch because of mismanagement of the system.

Who am I to tell you that your decision is not justified...... Hmm! Unfortunately you are the only one who has not had sex for a year. I also suspect that the lady who infected him would have gone for treatment and continued "servicing" your husband.

Secondly, the way you write, it's either you make too much assumptions or you live in denial

GODAKPAN:
it is assume that they were fit at the point of employment and its the responsibility of employers to retrain their staff as decay and complacency sets in at the long run. Am only asking the govt to own up to the decay process and redress it rather than sacking. Except there is more to it.

I am seeing too many twisted logic today. So how should he own up and redress the decay, if I may ask? He should keep incompetent teachers to keep teaching innocent kids? and do what exactly?

Chartey:
A social studies teacher that was given secondary school mathematics questions to answer will likely fail. He/she solved those things last about 20 to 30 years ago. Let's be honest.
A few weeks back, I attempted some simple geometry and I fumbled a lot before getting the correct answer because I'd forgotten all the principles. I had an A in WASSCE Gen Maths.
Even El-Rufai will fail this exam.
The teachers only NEED to know the subjects they teach very well.
I agree there are some teachers who are not fit for the job but what do you expect when the profession is the least remunerated in the country.
Government should pay teachers well and see the profession become competitive.

This is how some of make ridiculous statements and arguments that beggars logic. If you call yourself a teacher, what competence will be assessed? Is it not your competence to do the job you're employed to do that should be tested?

What is our business with your own shortcomings? If you like get zero in geometry, who cares! People put their children in school to learn, and the people to impart knowledge are abysmally poor...... and you are not concerned?

@OP,

Don't let people take you to the cleaners. Your submission is pretty lame.

laudate:
Tinubu's son was said to have been rushed to a general hospital in Lagos. Can you swear that he got prompt medical attention in that hospital that could have prevented his death? Ekwueme was rushed to a private hospital in the SE. Thank God his people took that option. It was probably because they were aware of the poor facilities that were on ground in the govt hospitals.

This is the problem I have with some of you lots. You argue with baseless assertions and flawed assumptions. I ask you for veritable evidence and facts, you are telling me about "was said". More ridiculous you are asking me to swear?

Please save it. I am not doing this anymore

laudate:
Are you saying our medical facilities had nothing to do with it?

Do you have any proof that our "medical facilities" have ANYTHING to do with the condition of both(Tinubu's son & Ekwueme)?

laudate:
The difference between Nigeria and Netherlands, is that the patient in Netherlands has a fighting chance of survival, because the healthcare system in that country is better organised and skilled, responsive medical staff are available 24x7 to deliver adequate healthcare to such a patient. There are various equipment such as defibrillators to help jump start the heart, within arm's reach. In Nigeria, such a patient does not have access to all these things, even if he gets to a general hospital or govt owned medical facility. So he does not have the same chances of survival, that a patient in a Netherlands hospital has.

You don't get my point. It is an open secrete that our medical facilities are sub-par. What is disingenuous is to attribute 2 isolated events and...voila, atribute them to the state of our medical system.

[quote author= post=61817980]Can you show me where I wrote most industrialized?

Anambra is most indigenous industrialized state in Nigeria second to commerce after Lagos, where Igbos control large percentage in Lagos[/quote]Another term?

Ok which state will be the most tribal industrialised state

ODVanguard:
[quote author=]:

Anambrab is fourth largest economy in Nigeria after Lagos, Rivers and Abuja, most indigenous industrialized state in Nigeria,
Second in commerce after Lagos these are facts, most of you are ignorants, Osun edge Anambra on child mortality rate not poverty rate, on the table minus Lagos home for all tribes in Nigeria and foreigners southeast still beat west.

Guy, you be proper e-goat o. The same Soludo that made that 'fourth largest economy' comment was quoted on record just few days ago for saying:

"Anambra'll emerge 5th largest economy soon"

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/soludo-anambra-ll-emerge-5th-largest-economy-soon.html

So, which one are we to believe?? Did Anambra slide back from being 4th largest to now targeting 5th largest?? Or did he really mean it'll become 5th largest in the World?? Like Blue3k said, no single data has been presented so far to back that scam of a statement. You people have been exposed as merchants of lies and fabrications that you are. More and more verifiable data like the ones presented in this thread will continue to expose you lots for the frauds that you are. Smh.[/quote]

Jesu Christi ooooooo!!!!!!

These people's penchant for bringing stats out of their asses is awesome. It is even more ridiculous that the guy tried to twist the interpretation of a published stats.

Desyner:
In the face of superior point, you quickly resort to character assassination, I commended Aregbe for the Garment Factory because it can yield returns in short term or medium term at most [b]unlike Schools where the returns are long term and harder to guaranty. [/b]There are short term, medium term, and long term returns in economics ventures. You obviously don't understand this simple fact and kept categorizing all projects as just projects.

1. Character assassination? well I am not the one who have been found out to lie ceaselessly on NL, neither am I the only one to have accused you of lying. "Ida e lo pe ara re leru" - you simply showed true to type

2. Let me also address this your submission in bold.
a. So you now agree that investment in schools has any return at all. This classic from you who a while back saw and stated investment in schools is of negative effect
b. I once told you that I cannot help your comprehension deficit. If you do not see investment in schools as a fundamental input into the economic development of a state or country, then I am not interested in debating with a person with such low-level intellect
c. You put up lies in most of your submissions, when found out, you accuse people of twisting your posting. This was someone who accused Osun state of not paying teachers at all, yet when evidence put forward, you change story. Schools are built, you claim there was no IGR to pay the teachers, they showed you that Osun had a modest and decent IGR by all standards, you changed story.......and you tell me you have a credible character?

otokx:

Sheun001: :


when I first checked
it showed recommended then I click on accept it now showed accepted

You should have waited till your status changed to approve.

Unfortunately this is a glitch in the system and not Sheun001 's fault. The system should have been programmed to enable the acceptance botton only when the status is "approved". Well CAPS can still be improved going forward and JAMB should fix this subsequently

shabzy95:
My mine is showing not admitted. Should I accept or what?

"Ye gbele o"......

Nnamdiojukwu:

smilingface: :
i don't understand..is this admission only ment for those that their school have release admission list or is jamb now giving out the admission.

Good question.

Good question?

At the risk of not wanting to sound rude, I will advise you both to start with reading what CAPS is all about......

teresafaith:
I'm really envying this man's sugar baby

Chai!!! See money!!

Trust me "little sis" your life is better than that. You don't want to become someone's intimacy gadget and be "thrashed" off when you are "worned-out"

grandstar:
This is s senseless write up.

Alex Ekwueme I doubt was corrupt and even if he was, it was tiny compared to what we have now.

Tinubu is no saint but he set up an ambulance system.

Fashola tried by building string institutions that are still standing after his departure.

He sh0uld not lump all together.

Note: I am apolitical.

In addition, it is even not professional to use isolated events to generalise an pattern. Is the guy telling us that people in Netherlands for example don't die of heart attack? (like Tinubu's Son) or people in advanced countries don't go into coma (Like Sir Alex Ekwueme)? Funilly enough this medical facilities he so derieded has successfully stablised Ekweme and the news this morning is that he's out of coma. So I ask, what is his point?

AntiWailer:

majekdom2: :
when they want to downsize, most times, if your direct managers knows his stand, you are going nowhere. It's about your works. Tell me who will stay between a subordinate that brings in 10 new customers or increases revenue by 50 percent and a boss that only does his managerial duties with no new businesses. I am not talking about one man company either. It's about your works, colleagues and managers. The man can't do nothing if the guy is good at what he is doing except if it's a one man's business. No one will send an employee away because one line manager finds a mail an insult to his position! Failures and mistakes are there for us to learn and that he has but not that he will be seen as incompetent.

I have been in the corporate world for more than 11 years across several major sectors.

I have seen VERY GOOD AND INTELLIGENT people without sense hurt badly.

You have to be balanced.

The "No 1 rule of 48 Laws of Power " stays

Sending mails rudely to your Seniors is not Excusable.

The bolded is funny . I guess you are still climbing the ladder and that is why you think Managerial duties is fried rice.

When you are very good, add sense and you will climb fast.

Can I also add that many young folks have this erroneous impression that managers are there by luck and not that they actually paid their dues. Secondly many of these young folks think management look at issues through the prism of the young folks?

I have seen brilliant folks get roasted, simply because they are "BRILLIANT". The corporate world is a battle ground. A lot comes into survival and "doing your job" is not just the only thing

Adadioranma79:
Today, We needed information from the branch managers,3 of them to be precise. I was tasked with
ensuring they send the information on time

Since you know why the information was urgently needed and prolly have the idea of what the information shud have included, noticing your managers werent responding and it was going to have consequences, all you had to do was draft the mail, send to your managers for final scrutiny and approval, then they can forward the mail as theirs. All it wud have caused you was the same time and energy you used in sending the rude mail to your superiors. You wud have felt better and more appreciated knowiing you saved the branch some embarrassment. It doesnt require much to be more, shows good initiative and responsibility. Thats how promotion comes dear. Best of luck.

I learnt a bitter lesson too back in the days (almost 10yrs ago) when I worked in IT. We were on some very interesting and "strategic" projects, and I was lead on virtually all of them. I had as boss, the HOD, but as lead I was the face of the project, especially when we needed to make presentations to management. I had good presentations skills to match, and coupled with the fact that I had a weekend job as a facilitator in an institution which prepared people for professional exams.

I noticed that during my presentations, my manager was always interrupting me. Some times, he will tell management "what he is trying to say is........." or sometimes he will ask me to pause and say "Let me explain that part better". To cap it all, he messed up my appraisal by awarding me "average" on presentation skills. Now let me also add some perspective to this. I was selected as part of the "egg-heads" in the organisation and we were sent to what we call "Leadership Academy" (I'm sure some people have this in their organisation or gone through variant of it). For us, this is where future managers a "backed and cooked". In the Academy, I was nominated as the best in presentation skills and was the "presenter" for the team......yet my own manager rated me "average" on presentation skills. Besides, these were some of the many things I was going through with him. He knew how to "use" me to get accolades, yet he also had a penchant for keeping me in "my place". I remember another situation where I was about to leave office for a class, so I went to seek his permission. He told me I cannot go, that we had a presentation for the MD and he wanted me to attend. This was on a project that I was not involved in. I only discovered afterwards that he made sure I attended due to my capability to handle the "top" in terms of answering technical and business oriented questions.

So I shared my "challenge" with a friend. We both came to the conclusion that as at then " I was outshining the master". I wised up sharp-sharp. The next presentation came. I was to present. I got up and told management about a challenge we were currently witnessing on the projetct, but they should rest assuredly know that we were on top of it, especially that our Manager brought his experience and leadership to bear by guiding us on how to solve such problems. During the presentation, I made sure that on three occassion, I related the success in milestones to my Manager. That was the first time I had a presentation that my manager did not say "Pim". He did not interrupt. I made the presentation slightly about him.

Long story short. We delivered the project (Phases 1,2,3). I was moved from IT, to corporate office and told that they are putting me in a business facing role (that was good bye to IT). I served a GM for 7years and I did with wisdom. I don't speak in meetings unless he gave me permission. I attended virtually all meeting with him (we are quite close) including strategy retreat overseas, yet I pass my suggestions to him on pieces of paper during meetings. I compose emails, send it to him for review and we now use his email address to send it out to the whole corporation. I was given other side assignment, which management don't inform him. Sometimes I will tell him informally and say "between us"........My GM is retired and I am currently in acting capacity.

My charge to young ones......pls be wise. Don't rush into battles you were program to loose. Patience and comportment is key

KingsleyCEO:
You must be careful when relating between two super power (bosses) if not you will incur wrath and neither will be willing to save you. And your choice of word is also very keen. I have been told by my regional manager to tell my immediate boss stuff that I am not too comfortable with but I kept it to myself only for my RM to still come around to ask my BM if I delivered such and BM turned to me and I simply said I forgot to pass the message. Right there and then the RM passed his message after which my BM understood the reason I forgot.

Bros,

You belong to the categories of wise men that the Yorubas call " a ran omo ni ise eru, o fi ti omo je". Let me also share a story about a collegue some years ago. She had issues with a wicked direct boss. She was impatient and decided to take her on. She invoked a clause that staff use to address discriminatory/unfair/intimidation etc treatment. A committee was set up to look into her case. Guess who were the panel? Other managers, except the wicked boss. Guess the outcome of the case? This my collegue was declared guilty, accused of making a mountain out of a mole-hill and she was given a warning letter

When a common friend related the story to me, I simply told her that she went into a battle she had lost right from the get-to-go. Except she had a concrete/tangible evidence (which she did not), you cannot accuse your boss of intimidation and hope to win. I also told the common friend that the composition of the panel spoke volumes. Even though most of the panel members do not like the wicked boss, I reasoned that they still ruled in her favour to protect themselves. I imagined they had reasoned that if they ruled in favour of the subordinate, then they have open a flood-gate as other staff members who had issues with their managers will also start protesting, calling for a panel review.

This affected lady most likely took many of the good advise we colleagues gave her - essentially, "be patient", "manage your boss", "bid your time", "do a damn good job","court other boses and build networks". Guess what is the situation today? The wicked boss left (infact word was that she heard she was about to be laid off, so took a face-saving measure) and this our colleague was elevated and is now in the position.

Many of you young lads needs to learn comportment.

COdeGenesis:
Help -one Of My Bosses Said I Should Never Send Him A Mail Again


I am currently in deep shit. I happen to work as an analyst with the overall manager of a company in Kaduna . I am a data guy and not really a Manger,not interested in being one either. Today, We needed information from the branch managers,3 of them to be precise. I was tasked with
ensuring they send the information on time.

I got a mail from the Regional office threatening to carry out disciplinary action if they didnt send the information. From the mail I got to find out our State is the only one that hasnt sent theirs.

So I sent a reminder to the Branch Managers requesting urgently for the said inputs, I told them the delay was becoming quite embarassing to the state and we need to send this information out urgently.

To my surprise a branch manager called me and clearly told me I shouldnt send him such mails again, he said I insulted his office and I can tell my boss what he said.

Fellas, Nairalanders, this is frustrating, i know I have issues with the way I dish out mails and I always sound too straight forward.

I feel like resigning, maybe it's not really my thing. I need advice on how to handle this issue before they probably gang up against me.

Someone help me push to FP

Bros,

Wisdom is required in all things. You are making damn big mistakes on many fronts and you run the risk of getting fired. Let me start by asking why bring this to NL? don't you know it may threaten your job if someone picks this up and show this manager or even your manager? Except you can cover your track very well, companies frown at having their issues on social media.

Secondly, if you used this phrase in the said email,

told them the delay was becoming quite embarassing to the state

, then I'm afraid you have over-stepped your limits. You don't make simple and silly mistakes like this, telling a "superior officer" that his actions are embarassing and you expect him/her to take it? Many of you young lad/lasses needs to learn comportment or else you get fried in the corporate environment.

A simple thing that you would have done that would have saved you all this needless back-fire is to have asked your boss to send the reminder. Even him will not have used the word "embarrassing"

MXrap:
Ekoile aka deomelo attack these questions one by one. No insults.

MXrap: Ekoile, Ibadan has a very large economy than the whole of the rural Osun State. Now what's patronage level of Ibadan airport? The population of Osun people resident in Oyo State is far greater than the population of Osun State. Stop this propaganda because it cannot fly. We all know that Osun is a rural state but you come online to paint it otherwise. Continue. LOL


How many people visit Osun State in a whole year?

How many transport companies deemed it necessary to have their terminal in Osun State?

Is there any product that's manufactured in Osun State?

What's the economic importance of Osun State to Nigeria to warrant it making Nigeria to save 22billion?

Propaganda hasn't helped anyone. Continue..lol

Can I take this offer?

Desyner:
How can you say I don't understand IGR (Internally Generated Revenue) ?
You are pathetic as a debater or political jobber or whatever you are. The way I see you right now is as someone who needs sleep to articulate his thoughts. Just re-read your own post and realize you need rest.

I even commended Aregbe for starting out with Garment Factory - a revenue generating outlet - but scolded him for not continuing in that direction to balance out recurrent expense like salary. Check my posts, I also suggested Aregbe should have prioritize an Industrial Estate with power, road access, secuirty etc. Remember? I did that on this same thread where you are trying to twist my words.

Your are pathetic. Keep changing monikers and I will keep taking you to the cleaners.

1. You mean you needed to type the full meaning of IGR to demonstrate your knowledge of it? It's a pity you sunk your profile so low.
2. You commended Aregbe for starting out Garment Factory, yet derided him for building standard schools? Bros, is your head "paining" you or something? I mean how do you reason? You do not even know how a govt should balance its responsibilities. I keep asking myself why should any decent person engage you in argument with your penchant for "twist" and "turns"


Don't worry, I know your type. You are simply a liar, a non-starter and "self-overrated". For your reputition, we now have to resort to quick screen-grabs and google cache, as we now know your penchant for falsehood, shifts, twist and turns.

.....and also, do you think Osun state's growth will be hinged on your myopia?

Desyner:
Stop twisting my words. By saying "Osun state's IGR is left unattended to" It doesn't mean they N0.00 IGR. It means the IGR isn't growing proportionately with resources that are suppose to influence its growth - resource like Debt, staff/workforce strength.

How convenient! Another load of lies. Did you come to this conclusion by showing us stats either now or when you posted it?

That was when I discovered and rightly accused him of not only being a liar, but a liar with no honor.