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9jii:
I Believed if Amechie wants VP slot he would've gotten it.
APC members are not about self ego,they are bout working together for the Interest of Nigerians.they're changed men and women.

THE CHANGE IS COMING 2015
ITS OVER FOR THE CORRUPT

are u from this country? Wat did I just see? "Change" u must be joking. Ur eye go clear

Anoda fed govt scam

kazmanbanjoko:
buhari said he is no more interested in presidency.

Then OBJ is 7yrs old

bakandow11:
good wrk u jst help somebdy here. More power to your elbow

Thanks man....wat are we here 4 if not helping

Do you feel like you're stuck in your current job? Are you ready to move up? It's tough to climb the corporate ladder, but if you want a job that excites you and pays well, you'll likely have to make the climb at some point. If you want to get a promotion, you'll need to be a patient team player while also being an ambitious self-promoter. It's a difficult balance to strike, but these tips can help.

Work for companies that can give you room to grow

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The type of company you work can determine your potential for promotion. When applying for jobs, seek out companies with opportunity for advancement. You don't have to work for a huge corporation, although these usually offer plenty of promotion possibilities at any given time, but you do want to look for a company that has enough going on so that you can be assured you're not running into a dead end. Preferably this company will be doing well and growing, though many companies, especially very large ones, tend to grow in cycles.

Concentrate on just doing the best you possibly can in your current position

Excellent performance reviews aren't sufficient to get you a promotion, but they're necessary for it. So are good attendance, punctuality, and a willingness to go the extra mile when the company needs it. Showing up 5 minutes early and leaving 5 minutes after your shift can turn into a fortune of extra income over your lifetime when you are the one that gets the promotion.

Make sure people know you're doing a great job

You don't want to toot your own horn too much, but you can't always expect your merits to speak for themselves. Keep in good contact with your supervisor, and make sure he or she knows what you've been up to (assuming you've had some smashing successes). Don't be an attention grabber or "brown-noser," but make sure people know who you are and make sure you get credit where credit is due.

Be popular

In an ideal world, promotions would be based solely on merit. We don't live in an ideal world, though, and office politics will often play a role in who gets promoted and who doesn't. Use and develop your people skills. Be kind and helpful to your coworkers, supervisors, and underlings. Develop relationships with people you work with, play golf with the boss, and get to know people (other than your immediate supervisor) who make decisions in the company. Be present at company events and network with people from outside your department.

Make sure the right people know you want a promotion

Don't be afraid to tell your supervisor about your career goals--most good supervisors will ask you about them and try to be helpful. Continue to do a great job in your current position, and don't seem fed up with your current work, but let decision makers know if you really want a particular job.

 

Apply for jobs within the company

These days you can't just wait for a promotion to fall in your lap. That happens sometimes, but most promotions, especially at large companies, require you to go through the application and interview process, and usually you'll have to compete with candidates from outside the company.

           * Apply for the right positions: Don't just apply for any opportunity that pays a bit more than your current job. Look for opportunities that you are genuinely interested in and that you are qualified for. You don't have to have all the skills listed in the job description, and you probably won't, but you want to be able to make a good case that you'll be able to get up to speed quickly.

          * Take the application process seriously: Too often, internal candidates figure they've got the new job in the bag, but studies show that as few as 1/3 of internal candidates win the better jobs they seek. External candidates can be extremely competitive because they have no pretenses of security--they want the job, and they know they'll have to put their best foot forward to get it. In addition, companies sometimes want to bring in new people to bring new skills or perspectives to the organization. The lesson here: don't be complacent, and remember to "sell" yourself as you would if you were applying for any other job.

Seek out new skills

If you become the best customer service representative of all time, you're well on your way... to remaining a highly regarded customer service representative for the rest of your career. It's not enough to be great at your job; you also have to develop marketable skills that prepare you for more responsibility. When you gain skills and qualifications far beyond what your current job requires, your employer may see keeping you in that job as a waste of your talents.

        * Go to school: If you haven't earned a Bachelor’s degree, do it. If you have, consider earning a Masters or PhD, but only if one of these qualifications will help you achieve your career goals. Don't just go back to school for the heck of it. Instead think about what programs will help you climb the corporate ladder. Sometimes specialized professional designations or licenses can be far more important to getting a promotion than degrees, and sometimes you may just need to take some classes to improve your computer skills or accounting ability, for example. There are a wide range of education programs available that allow you to go to class in the evenings or on weekends, and there are also ample opportunities for accredited self-study and online learning. What's more, your employer may reimburse you for certain tuition expenses, so it may be possible for you to expand your knowledge at no cost to yourself.

* Learn a second/third language: Due to the increasing globalization of the world in general, more and more companies will be looking for people that know multiple languages. Learning more than one language also means you don't need a translator, which opens up international posts (such as a manager for an entire continent, as opposed to a state or small country).
        * Take on temporary projects: Temporary projects can be a great way to broaden your skills and network with people from other areas of the company. Many people feel uncomfortable volunteering for these assignments because they can be challenging and can force you out of your comfort zone. That's the point.

        * Volunteer: If you're not getting new skills at work, consider volunteering your spare time to a non-profit organization. Large, well-recognized non-profits almost always offer a wealth of opportunities to learn new things, and smaller organizations may also have suitable projects you could work on. Successful non-profits typically look to fill volunteer positions with people who are qualified to do the job, but with a little persistence you should be able to find an opportunity that uses your existing skills and helps you build new skills. Your community involvement can also be a plus toward your getting your promotion.

Get a mentor

A strong relationship with a manager or someone higher up in your department can open a lot of doors for you. For one thing, you'll likely learn a lot about the organization and about the jobs you might want to get in the future. For another, you'll have an ally who will be willing to go to bat for you when you do decide to apply for a new opportunity. Finally, your mentor may groom you to succeed him or her when they move up or retire.

Groom a successor

It's a common paradox, you're so good at your job that you're indispensable, but you're so indispensable in your current position that the company would fall apart if you were to leave that position. The solution to this problem is to take another employee under your wing and train him or her so that they will be ready to fill your shoes if you get promoted. Some people are afraid that their understudy will take their job if they do this, but as long as you're a great employee and continue to develop your skills, the only way you'll lose your current job is by getting promoted. Training another employee (or several) also shows that you have management skills and that you care about helping other employees develop their skills.

Develop a new position

If you figure out a better way to do your existing job or see the need for a new position, don't be afraid to talk to management about creating this position. Since you're the one who saw the need and, presumably, you're best qualified for the position, this can help you take on new responsibilities, even if you don't get a big pay raise at first.

Seek employment elsewhere

If, for whatever reason, you seem to be at a dead end with your current employer, it's time to look for better opportunities elsewhere. This can be hard if you feel a loyalty to your employer, but you do need to do what is in the best interest of your career or you will become unhappy with your job. Recent surveys show that as many as 75 percent of employees are looking for new jobs at any given time, so you won't be alone.

1. Okada killed two people inside trailler...
2. Christiano Ronaldo impreginate Funke Akindele...
3. Lil Wayne features Pasuma in his new single...
4, Eyinmba will sign Messi dis January...
5. Baba suwe joined Illuminati, signed in by Jay z..
9. Obama claims EDO STATE as his home town...
10. Chris Brown wears agbada and
slippers to the grammy awards...
Keep it rolling..

Hmmmmmm

mencade6: Alpha one, alpha two and lieutenant martowskin do you copy? Alpha one, alpha two and lieutenant martowskin please do you copy. This is alpha seven. Location, north central nigeria. (kano). Airborne 207 has already touch down. I repeat, airborne 207 has already touch down. Climate so severe. Habitat somehow favorable with large mass of topographic land still unoccupied. I repeat unoccupied. Just discovered many buidings as potential place of succour for Boko boys, I repeat potential place of succour for Boko boys. Still speculating, but right now, alpha seven is still on the registration process. Already gotten room 15 as place of abode. Alpha seven reporting... Over!

Mehn reading old posts and can't stop laughing

Notin new here

"Pay as u go"

GboyegaD: This is falsehood. With an average of 4.8 each semester he can still make it provided each semester is of equal units.

false ni false ko.....the man made 3.96CGP in his year 1 which is d easiest level to make 5.0CGP....and u are telling me it is feasible for him to have 4.8CGP from year2 to 4th year or 5th year.....my man u must be learner...or a comedian.....

joshbouy: it's not over for me I know that.

Loolz. Is Good keep d spirit up

joshbouy: it's not easy, currently in my 200level(studying physics) Uniben and it hasn't been easy. although my 100level Gp wasn't encouraging(3.934) I still have plan on making a first class

just try to be a 4pointer..... forget dat big-dream......is over for u

greatestman: That is were you got it wrong, we over hype first class graduates in public universities (Mind you i am student from public university with CGPA of 4.47 on the scale of 5.0 point in my final year). In public universities we have frustrated Lecturers that are not satisfied with their monthly pay, and secondly the employment selection is base on WHO YOU KNOW factor. But lecturers in private universities are selected base on merit. People with passion for teaching, people that have teaching ethics, people that are delighted to see their students passing, people that are ready to help their students. Why won't the students have good grades? unlike our lecturers in public universities that are forming local champion without any teaching ethics, been harsh to their students, nobody is ready to attend to your personal problem. Why won't you graduate with 4.2 in place of 4.6? please carry your frustration to somewhere else, Not private universities first class graduates they are good they have conducive environment for learning, they have good lecturers etc. Any first class product being it from private, state or Federal universities are good in their on way. (Being it sorting, being it malpractice, being it cramming, being it natural intelligence etc)

what is this one saying? the OP didn't say private uni 1st class graduates are bad, he is saying it is more difficult to make 1st class in public uni dan private uni. "u must be from nairaland uni ogun state " ...........my bro. just chill don't start a fight you cant win.

Neroski: i still they wait u o

even me o

mencade5: this thing fit enter fp. Make i no dull

Com dis man, where u run enter

I wonder the type of mod we have in Nl, som 1 will just dig deep and repeat old threads as far back 2005 and it will still make FP.....mukina2,mynd44....NL executives....dis tins no dey gel again o.
What has happened to

rule 14. "Please search the forum before creating a new thread on Nairaland."


https://www.nairaland.com/3628/99-secrets-girls-know-guys

femilek8: Hand band or which one pls.....lol

Welcome, english boy oya help me correct am....ITK

One comment and already in FP, I wonder the condition of making FP....nairaland and nigeria....make I stop b4 I face band

django1: In case the reality of things escaped you, the whole country failed miserably and at the end of the day more yorubas passed than ibos.

Although I understand why you people are jubilating but you still have nothing on yorubas as we still have more brilliant students than you.

I would really like to see the percentages of those that passed the core subjects (Maths and Eng).

My BRO. Bring ur blood down and stop fighting with d wind. We ar all catching fun here, but if u ar so serious go jump for railway or beta still hug the nearest transformer close to u

I think say yoruba people knw book b4 o

MissIndependent: Good to see you after a very long time you no miss us at all because you don dey earn big big money abi? Congrats on your new job...

Hahahahahahahahahah......madam independent.....in short na only u I miss....my dear tins tie me like hook wen catch fish...I only come to nl most times without passin d front page topics.

Anyway we thank god...as probation period don pass we fit play as we like for nl....but hope u knw say u no try sha

I hail una o, is MARTOWSKIN in d building after a very long time, POP tins for una mind abi...eku gba du my people.

I remember hw much I hate yoruba land during service....my bro and sis. Is so funny dat this same yoruba land loves me so much dat they refuse to let me go.

Even wen I tot NYSC will be my last contact with yoruba land....I was only deceivin my self.

Behold got a job and I was transfered 2 anoda yoruba land(Osun state).
I couldn't cry but start laughing at my self.

NO MATA HW MUCH U DISLIKE UR STATE OF POSTING AND WANT TO RUN OUT LIKE I DID....my guy no think am, this is one Nigeria, neva can tell.


Congratulation to d great house... Once again..happy POP in advace

The goodnews be say she go always come back to beg

Nicklutz: Lolz naija no easy na....i greet u sir

e go easy in jesus name. Those wen don get job, if any indoor job recruitment they happen for ur end, make una still update una broda and sista for the house o, if na to submit application una fit help us do am, so dat tins go dey soft. No be bad idea be this b4 o since na one love tins...d one love no end for nysc make we extend am reach employment...biko nu, God go bless una yanfu yanfu

Where everybody run go, na so the unemployment hard reach?.......make una still dey update ones ones na....finallly na me still dey remember this building

This is d best thread I hav seen in nairaland since I joined......not ebola, bokoboys, pdp and ebele threads...God bless u Op

Two American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an experimental drug that seems to have saved their lives.
Dr. Kent Brantly was given the medication, ZMapp, shortly after telling his doctors he thought he would die, according to a source familiar with his case. Within an hour, doctors say his symptoms — labored breathing and a widespread rash — dramatically improved. Nancy Writebol, another missionary working with Samaritan’s Purse, received two doses of the medication and has also shown significant improvement, sources say.
As there is no proven treatment and no vaccine for Ebola, this experimental drug is raising lots of questions.

1. Who makes the drug?

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San Diego. The company was founded in 2003 “to develop novel pharmaceuticals for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, focusing on unmet needs in global health and biodefense,” according to its website.
Mapp Biopharmaceutical has been working with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the military responsible for countering weapons of mass destruction, to develop an Ebola treatment for several years.

2. Are there other experimental Ebola drugs out there?

Yes. In March, the NIH awarded a five-year, $28 million grant to establish a collaboration between researchers from 15 institutions who were working to fight Ebola.
“A whole menu of antibodies have been identified as potentially therapeutic, and researchers are eager to figure out which combinations are most effective and why,” a news release about the grant said.
Tekmira, a Vancouver-based company that has a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an Ebola drug, began Phase 1 trials with its drug in January. But the FDA recently halted the trial, asking for more information.
At least one potential Ebola vaccine has been tested in healthy human volunteers, according to Thomas Geisbert, a leading researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch. And last week, the NIH announced a safety trial of another Ebola vaccine will start as early as September.

3. How does ZMapp work?

Antibodies are proteins used by the immune system to mark and destroy foreign, or harmful, cells. A monoclonal antibody is similar, except it’s engineered in a lab so it will attach to specific parts of a dangerous cell, according to the Mayo Clinic, mimicking your immune system’s natural response. Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat many different types of conditions.
The medicine given to Brantly and Writebol abroad was a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine.
However, the drug can also be produced with proteins made from tobacco plants. ZMapp manufacturer Kentucky BioProcessing in Owensboro has been working with Samaritan’s Purse and Emory University Hospital to provide limited quantities of the drug to Emory, according to company spokesman David Howard.

4. Why did American missionary workers get the drug?

Many have asked why these two workers received the experimental drug when so many — around 1,600 — others in West Africa also have the virus.
The World Health Organization says it was not involved in the decision to treat Brantly and Writebol. Both patients had to give consent to receive the drug, knowing it had never been tested in humans before.
The process by which the medication was made available to the American patients may have fallen under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “compassionate use” regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outside clinical trials.

5. Did doctors know it would work?

No. The drug had shown promise in primates, but even in those experiments, just eight monkeys received the treatment. In any case, the human immune system can react differently than primates’, which is why drugs are required to undergo human clinical trials before being approved by government agencies for widespread use.
The two Americans’ cases will be studied further to determine how the drug worked with their immune systems.

6. Will the drug be made available to other Ebola patients?

It’s unclear. Rolling out an untested drug during a massive outbreak would be very difficult, Doctors Without Borders said in a statement. Experimental drugs typically not mass-produced, and tracking the success of such a drug if used would require extra medical staff where resources are already scarce.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says scientists have to be careful about assuming this drug will work in other patients as it appears to have worked in Brantly.
“Having worked with administering antibodies for people for a really long time, that would be distinctly unusual,” he told CNN. “As we all know in medicine … you have to withhold judgment.”

7. Does the company have more vials of the drug?

The company has very few doses ready for patient use, Fauci told CNN.
“(Kentucky BioProcessing) is working closely with Mapp, various government agencies, and other parties to increase production of ZMapp, but this process will take several months,” Howard said.

8. Who paid for the drug and how much did it cost?

We don’t know. Samaritan’s Purse covered the cost of Brantly and Writebol’s evacuations but did not pay for the drug, according to a spokesman.
When a patient gets an experimental drug, the drug company can donate the product under compassionate use. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. might have done that in this case.
Health insurance companies typically do not pick up the tab for treatments that have not been approved by the FDA. But they usually would cover the cost of any doctor fees associated with giving the drug and any costs associated with monitoring how the drug is working.

9. Would this drug stop the Ebola epidemic?

If it were widely available, it certainly couldn’t hurt. An effective Ebola drug could help doctors treat the deadly virus, which is killing about 60% of the people infected in West Africa. But a vaccine would be a much more effective tool in stopping this, and future, epidemics.
Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent them from ever becoming infected. One challenge with Ebola, experts say, is that companies don’t believe they could make much money from developing a vaccine, so few companies show interest.


Source:

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nine-questions-new-ebola-drug

Somtimes I wonder hw people think.

HND is just 2yrs, ur graduating CGP is. Accumulated with 2yrs assessment only.

BSc is 4yrs, ur graduating CGP is accumulated with 4yrs assessment.

B.Tech/ B.Eng: graduating CGP is accumulated with 5yrs performance.

Now if u ar to combine the last 2yrs of the B.Sc/B.Eng/B.Tech holders, most of them will make 1st class, because at this point in time, they ar focus and more matured. Unlike yr1 and yr2 days when they were still kids.
The errors they make in yr1 and yr2 as kids, still affect their CGP in yr5


But u HND holder, ur OND does not affect ur HND, u av only 2yrs for ur assessment, of which at this point in time, u ar older and more matured, making good grade is not an issue.

U want to be equal with som1 who combined 5yrs assessment to u combining 2yrs only...how is dat fair.


It will only be equal if OND is scraped out from the system, u go for straight 5yrs, then wen u combine CGP for 5yrs we can start talking of equal.


Poly have to upgrade their standard...like auchi poly were u have ND1 of 3 to 4 arms(A, B, C,and D) imagine, u can't see dis in any uni.


No more collecting of reminant, from university.


Wen applying for jamb, they were not equal, they ar now gradute, u want them to be equal. No, it should be equal rite from d start.

cyif2003: It 6th oh

Source of information pls