got my letter as well.i saw so many typed letters ,i feel everybody is going to be called

anything yet, to be sincere i don tire 4 the whole situation,after the medicals i over relaxed thinking i have already gootten a bank job and didnt hustle anymore,even refused to go 4 some other tests[my mistake]if they are only lookin 4 people outside lagos they shld let us know and stop wasting our time, well everything workth 4 good,and GOD'S TIME IS THE BEST

yes i was sent theb assestment test by ecobank,i was sent this after i wrote the test.pls was this the same way for you?that is after the first stage test

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mosude79@yahoo.co.uk.my phone is nokia 6300

well i think we should make our minds known and send 2d dstv website or office, mails and messages saying we want all those channels shown in nigeria as well or thre will be consequences, nigeria is their biggest market even bigger than the s.a market, when they are not able to provide us with the full coverage of the premiership,one would expect them to compensate their subcribers in nigeria with more and new channells instead they are depriving us compared to the amount of stations being shown to their s.a subcribers, maybe when people stop buying dstv and go 4 hitv ,maybe then they wiill apreciate the nigerian market

tochikc , well spoken, thats the kind of attitude and belief we need right now, gooodluck

my bros january is exactly what i heard aswell, i just didnt want to be the first person to mention it, pls that is to far, well akp just as you said na GOD, there is nothing more powerfull than prayer, with fervent and continous prayers any situation can changed for the better, pray that GOD will touch the hearts and minds of spring bank officials and they will call us sooner before december

well the first batch have finished training, it was an expensive exercise, the trainees asked the management when we will called for the second batch,they guaranteed we will all be called but not as soon as we we think, bringing up the the issue so that we can create a pressure group to ensure they call us as soon as possible by maqking calls and enquries to the bank officials, at least before december period, so we go get money for christmas period,

P.S according to the trainees their take home salary is 140,000 thousand naira a month

Lanredaman i wasnt talking about YOU but LANRUZE, read the postings frm the first page, i was actually at their office and i was told to provide some of my missing documents they dont have, said we will all be called soon, they werent specific on when

LANRUZE
the way ur talking ur sounding like ur a PR man already working for spring bank because u are going all out 2 protect their image, i believe you are staff assingned to protect their image on this forum, assuming you are a staff,we do not need u to praise the board of directors but to let us know when exactly we will be called for our training, pls nairalanders pls read LANRUZE's posting on this forum and tellme what you think,

akp, HND with masters , yes you will be considered as a full or permanent staff in fidelity

mokpas i hope you have 2.1 because with 2.2 you will only be given contract staff in fidelity bank pending when u get ur masters, i know becos i attented the interview and the chairman is my fathers friend, with 2.2 spring bank is ur best option

in this months rapsody of realities,[a daily guide to spirituality by pator chris oyaks]dated sat aug 25th, pastor preaches that The wrong information breeds fear in the hearts of men. faith[the opposite of fear] on the other hand dispels fear and unbelief.if satan can succesfully plant fear in your heart and mind, then he has you even b4 he gets to you
the reason i say these concerning springbank recruitment is because of some of negative and false news being posted to nairaland about our reccruitment thereby creating unnessary fear in our hearts which the devil can use as a tool.please dont tell us about rumuors and believe in HEARSAY.only say things that you are absolutely positive about.
lets start talking positively about springbank because the tongue is very powerfull, pray 2 GOD and springbank will surely call us soon,
and about the rumuors that springbank might drop some of us that did the medicals. i believe only those who used fake certificates wiill be droped but on the fact that we are to many i dont think so because i can tell you authoritavely tthat some or many of us have gootten jobs elsewhere. most of the candidates i communicate with have gotten other or better jobs thereby already reducing the amount of springbank prospective staff, something i beleive the management has taking into consideration, take care and GODBLESS

P.S, im guilty of also contributing info which created doubt about our recruitment, where is moons the corper who used 2 give us inside and detailed info on our recruitment

The Attorney General is the ultimate law-keeper of the country. When he notices an aberration, it's his duty to announce it.

Even his announcement doesn't stop Soludo from doing what he wants to do except if the President, Citizens, Unionists, Corporate bodies or Stakeholders so intervene or seek a court order against it.

Judges can only tactically make suggestive statements that would spur people in the right position to take action. Attorney General by himself cannot stop Soludo unless there is somebody seeking court action or proper definition.

nigeria needs about $3 billion to upgrade its army to world standard, yet currency happy Soludo wants to spend between $12 billion to $20 billion on his annual money-printing ceremony.

Abeg, leave all that story. This is purely an issue of an idiotic proposal by a government official.

In Japan or Germany, when a senior government official makes such a terrible blunder of that magnitude, they resign.

@Ndipe

Soludo's policies are great and work fine in a militarised or OBJ kind of government where things are dictated to the masses and they bear all the suffering.

You cannot imagine the number of people who lost their jobs during the Banks Consolidation.

You will not understand the billions of dollars used to mint 50 kobo, 1 Naira and 2 Naira coins that not a single Nigerian uses. NOT ONE SINGLE NIGERIAN SPENDS A SINGLE ONE OF THESE COINS THAT COST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO MINT!

I wish I could type more but Seun banned me. I'm using someone else's ID and I don't want him to drop his "banner" on the person too, because e no dey hard am.

ventriloquising:

@Mariory

don't worry, we're all lucky that more intelligent people have intervened and this project has been suspended and it will most likely be cancelled.

Thank God for that if not, our lives would have been hell!


What that dull headed Soludo doesn't know is that as soon as George Bush Leaves office, Iraqi war will mellow down, venezuelan, Iranian and Saudi tensions will ease and Crude Oil prices will fall to about $30, and from 2009, our Crude Oil Revenues will reduce by 50%. That is when we will need to reach for savings we made during the windfall. But lo and behold, Soludo would have spent billions of dollars of it printing and reprinting money for no good reason.

Please we should either save or invest our Trade Surpluses rather than be printing billions of notes of N5, N10, N20, N50, N1000 and minting coins of 50 kobo, N1, N2 at a unit price of $2 each. This madness, carelessness and recklessness must stop!

ventriloquising:

In the 7th century, when Africans colonised Spain and Portugal and ruled them for 600 years, the Europeans became afraid and insecure because they thought we were going wipe out their heritage. The repercussion of that is the "Black Legend", mass murder and racism we're still suffering today.

When Khoikhoi and Zulu Jews who settled in Austria began to intermarry with the germanic peoples before, during and after World War I, the Germans and Hitler were terrified at the thought of losing their heritage and when they got a chance in World War II, they slaughtered hundreds of thousands of African Jews, more than 2 million "Rhineland Bastards" whom were the result of the intermarriage between these jews with German women, and millions of Europeans who allowed themselves to be converted to jews or adopted the lifestyle of jews were shipped off as slaves to concentration camps.

So was the magnitude of the punishment we recieved for trying to influence the heritage of Europeans.

They never thought one day, we'd be at the recieving end and we'd take it smiling. It's amazing. But they did it anyway.


That maga, Seun ban me sha for no reason, so I just say make I used a friend ID let my people know say it is important to protect our heritage, but Africans have always progressed by incorporating the good parts of other people's culture into our heritage and throwing away the bad. So no shaking. All join.

ventriloquising:

I'm baffled that even experienced Nigerians can't tell that Obasanjo and Yar'Adua have a relationship that transcends decades.

They are simply playing a combination of two games to correct the problems of Nigeria. Using two of the oldest tricks in the book.

1) Bad Cop, Good Cop.

2) Passing The Buck.


All these things are not happening par chance. This is the plan B. Plan A was Third term. All join!

ventriloquising:

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through its Governor Charles Soludo has decided that from August 2008, it will revalue / re-decimalize / re-denominate the Nigerian Naira by removing two decimal points from behind, whereby the old N100 becomes a new N1. In the same vein, a USA dollar (US$) which is currently N125 will become N1.25 in terms of the new Naira currency.



For those who agree that this re-denomination will generally have little or no effect, I would like you to consider the billions of Naira notes in circulation today and realise that to convert each to a redenominated polymer note will cost $2 per note.

Therefore, it will cost us $12 billion (our total Federation Account) to print 6 billion new Naira notes.

So why should we spend more than $12 billion on a project that will have little or no direct effect and even possibly, could have negative effects?


Besides, let's examine the indirect effect on devaluing our fixed assets.




What is wrong with Soludo? After minting billions of coins that nobody uses with our hard earned money, and after spending billions of dollars printing new N5, N10, N20 and N50 only recently, he wants to give out another contract for minting and printing so soon?

Abeg, we should use what we have till 2010 how can a country be printing new denomination of money every year?

To devalue currency is the easiest thing in the world compared to revaluing. It will most likely fail and even if it succeeds, it will make rubbish of our exports, make us more import dependent and obliterate our trade surplus.


Then there is the issue that we will be unconsciously experiencing massive inflation. After revaluing N1.26 to $1, by the time the currency depreciates a little to N2 per $1, we will not realise that what just happened is that exchange rate just went from N126 per $1 to N200 per $1 in terms of the old currency.


If a plot of land is N12 million and the new re-valuation converts it to N120,000. As a smart Nigerian, who stop "omonile" (land-owner) from selling that plot land for N125,000 (if you convert to the old rate: N12.5 million)
that's in fact 4% inflation immediately.


So revaluing the currency is actually devaluing our assets and in essence, unwittingly reducing the quality of our lives.


Not to forget that Nigerian bankers are about the smartest in the world when it comes to looking for loopholes in government policies that can be used to rip people or the government off legally.


Then what happens with the N25 billion capital base of the Banks? Will they settle with N250 million or will they start pursuing the new N25 billion all over again?



So please Soludo should leave our currency alone. Japanese Yen is almost equivalent to the Naira yet they have not died. In fact they are doing very well. Indeed they are doing absolutely exceeding well.




This may just be an attempt to please the ignorant masses that complain everyday that our currency has no value, so Nigeria is bad.




Look at all the plenty, plenty grammar just to say we want to remove two zeros? That's when you know something is amiss.




We are currently using $40 billion to maintain the exchange rate of the Naira to the Dollar at 126.
Soludo should suspect that we would need a foreign reserve of $4,000 billion (4 trillion dollars) to maintain an exchange rate of Naira to Dollar at 1.25.

As of now, we don't have that kind of foreign reserve.


Instead of just printing money and removing 2 zeros, we should rather keep the old currency and add 2 zeros to our foreign reserves.


China uses more than $1 trillion foreign reserves to keep their currency at 7 yuan per $1.


So rather than spending more than $10 billion printing new currency at $2 per note, we should add that $10 billion to our foreign reserves and look for more money to build up our foreign reserves till it gets to $4 trillion so that we can then strengthen this current Naira to even $1 to N1.


What Soludo needs to do is RE-DECIMALIZE OUR FOREIGN RESERVES BY ADDING TWO ZEROES BEHIND IT.





And please Elumelu and Soludo should stop touting stories that the Naira has made gains on the dollar due to high earnings from Crude Oil. The Pound that made gains too, is it due to their high earning from crude? Every currency in the world has made gains against the dollar in the past 6 months, even the CFA, due to poor economic policies in the US.




And now, we're hearing examples of other countries that have revalued their currencies. The fact that Bolivia, Ghana, Angola and Afghanistan did something crazy, we too should meddle into it.

Look at his mention of Germany and you will realise it was after World War I and World War II that Germany revalued their currency. Afghanistan and Angola too, after Wars, South Korea was after War.

Argentina that tried it during peacetime, all the revaluation led to total economic collapse, Ghana he mentioned just revalued their currency this year and we're yet to have enough time to see the benefits or effects.


Brazil is the only stable country that revalued its currency during periods of stability and has continually revalued and will continue to revalue.


This man should not throw us into chaos. And waste billions of Naira printing fancy notes. In fact, I suggest that the company printing Nigerian currency should be investigated and even changed because this regular printing of money backed up by big big grammar is getting really suspicious.




But of course I support the CBN withdrawing from forex trading so that banks can stop roundtripping and start making money by giving out loans.



generally, I believe Soludo knows more about economics than myself but on some specific issues such as the recent minting of N2 coins?!! Please. I said it from the first day that it was rubbish. How many times has the average Nigerian transacted business with the N2 coin? Even beggars are rejecting it.




Imagine that this project which will cause massive suffering and waste billions of dollars is just to boost confidence, psychology and bring back that nostalgic feeling of shopping sprees of the 1980s when Nigerians could travel to the UK with N20,000 and do so much. It's absolute rubbish.




I just confirmed my thoughts that this redenomination antic is going to encourage cash transaction and reduce cashless or ecommerce transactions. Because it is going to make cash easier to carry. If cash becomes easier to carry, most people would prefer to collect new N40,000 (the current N4.5 million) during a car sale than use come bank transfer that will charge an interest.

If I can take N20 safely and conveniently to a fast food joint with little cousins, why use an InterSwitch card?




This plan is evil. Let us not sit and watch it pass into law. The older generation that sat back while the Naira was being devalued are responsible for our 20 years of suffering. Let us not be responsible for another 20 years of suffering.


This plan is straight off the table of one of those crazy schemers at the IMF. The same people that brought us almighty SAP. Nigerians Learn, Learn, Learn!





We must resist this sham actively. We cannot continue to sit down and watch IMF use one man to ruin the lives of 140,000,000 Nigerians. Russia kicked IMF out before their economy started growing, South Korea kicked IMF out before their economy started growing. The only people that carried IMF matter on their head, consistently following every step over 20 years was Argentina and their economy collapsed.


Please, if it is their $18 billion that they used to buy a controlling stake in the Nigerian economy so that they can crumble it, please, let us pay them their 18 billion back and let them go.


This Soludo guy, where has he hard of a country that spends billions of dollars printing new currency designs every single year? Are we mad? Or is it because of the back slash he gets for every contract he gives out. The printing and minting company that handles Nigerian currency will soon get tired of us. EVERY SINGLE YEAR?!!


Some say Soludo is a genius, end of story! Is Alan Greenspan not a genius? That he used his low interest rates in the USA to cause all the current Stock Market woes in the world today and gradual death of the dollar as a stable legal tender?


Also I have come across a gang of thought that says the costmetic strengthening of the Naira will bring in Foreign Investors, boost Export, increase productivity, thereby creating more jobs and also improve standard of living and reduce Poverty. I refuse to refer to these people as a school of though because I don't believe they went to school.

A STRONG CURRENCY HURTS EXPORTS AND FAVOURS IMPORTS. A WEAK CURRENCY DOES THE OPPOSITE.

Or why would all the producers in the UK and USA run away to China? And the BBC had the audacity to start spinning hare-brained tales about how this will make us the China of Africa. How can we become the China of Africa by doing exactly the opposite of what China does, which is, consciously keep their currency weak. Anyway, our ancestors said it: "when your enemy begins to sing your praises, your downfall will be fatal".


I advice all Nigerians to actively resist this move. If we fail, the system fails. All we have suffered under Obasanjo will be a waste, our future a woeful tale.


However, for those of you who strongly believe in this move, God help you.



I'm going to build my own foreign reserve over the next 3 years. Every N100,000 I make from now to August 2008, I will convert to Chinese Yuan and save in a bank in China. From August 2008 every N1,000 I make in terms of the new Naira notes, I will immediately convert to US Dollars and save in a bank in Europe, ready for conversion to the Euro.
Then when the system collapses, we will see who will lose and who will gain.



This is not a matter of National Pride and Nostalgia of how great it would be to go on a shopping spree with N200, it is about crumbling an entire country with fantastic looking IMF ideas designed to keep poor countries poor, and rich countries rich forever.


Where are people like Professor Abhulimen Anao when you need them to talk now?


Thank God this project has been suspended.

REVALUATION OF NAIRA THAT WILL COMPLETELY DEVALUE THE LIVES OF NIGERIANS.


NO TO COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY BY THE CBN!

NO TO CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE RATE ILLUSIONS!!

LONG LIVE NIGERIA!!!

Well, I'm beginning to believe "Nigerians Are Fool" too. Ignorance is a disease, nay a sin. And the masses are rife with it.


@All

they tax a lot in yankee. Even lottery winnings sef.

denex=banned

Legendary indeed. The man was just a labourer who wants to cash in on the book writing fad for his final bank cheque that he'll will to his grandchildren after a totally played away life.

I heard from a reliable source that the new M.D has instructed them to continue with the recruiment that only the experienced should be the one to bring to his table.He also said that they should drop some people that the number is too much.
What they are now doing is that all those that used fake NYSC,WAEC and those that are more than the required age will be droped[caption from doty


doty you are scaring me with this talk specifically on the age limit, and what did u mean when u said the m.d said only the expererienced shld be the one to bring to his table,

In the past few days, rescuers have been pulling out badly decayed corpses. Putting the figure at 12 dead.

Meanwhile, a flood has destroyed several bridges and roads in Minnesota this weekend, killing 5 people though officials have scaled that figure down to 4.

4 Americans died in a Crash.


Three Marines and One Sailor were killed during a training exercise on the Arizona-California border, the USA.


The USA Marine Corps has so far refused to released the names of the dead. The HH-1N Huey model helicopter on which they were flying is an old obsolete Aircraft built in 1956.

49 people died in the US last week due to the heat wave. About 14 of the deaths occurred in Tennessee and a lot of the casualties occurred due to inability for the victims to afford Air Conditioning.

Missouri 3 killed, 6 wounded in Church Shooting last week Sunday.

the pastor and 2 other worshippers were shot dead in the church by the assailant and about 6 people were injured.




A man in Missouri hurled his seriously ill wife from their 4th floor apartment balcony to her death because he could no longer afford her medical care.


She landed on the concrete sidewalk on her back with her eyes open and her blood splashed all over.


Stanley Reimer told police he was having serious financial difficulties in providing healthcare for his sick wife.


He kissed his wife, picked her up and threw her off the balcony.


Immediately police arrived, he made it clear to them "She didn't jump!"


Where Exactly is the Medicare and Medicaid and free Healthcare for all that we always hear about?

Nobody has actually answered my question yet.

HOW MUCH ARE PAYING THE NEW INTAKES?


@Moons

you're in a better position to help me out with this enquiry. You could ask any of the staff.

well i also had the medicals in spring bank bt major concern is that we dat did the medicals are so many coupled wit the new corpers, how are they going to train us all in their traning skool, probably in different batches ,meaning everybody is not goin 2 be called at the same time, and i hope their pay package will not be reduced due to their problems, does any one know hw much they pay new in takes? their overall pay package?