₦airaland Forum

dadicvila: i remember going for the hill climbing in Agwu camp(Enugu),we were still lined up platoon by platoon when my khaki trouser started tearing,before i got half way it had already turned to skirt,i had to use the khaki shirt to tie my front and a nairalander gave me her own khaki shirt to tie my back like women tie wrappers,God just saved me from disgrace that day.....those Nysc kits are terrible,i wish somebody can take up this issue

Tusky44: Honestly, this is the beginning of the failure of the power sector road map. No wonder Nnaji quietly left this hopeless administration. How can you ignore the likes of EDF, Siemens, GE, NPower, CECC, British Gas, National Grid, etc for LOCAL CHAMPIONS like Atiku, Emeka Ofor, IBB, Abdusalam Abubakar, Otedola, Tinubu, etc? God you really hate the average Nigerian otherwise why haven't you answered my prayer?

GEJ you will regret your failure.

God bless you

Billyonaire: Stop your lamentation and do not make this personal cos of your health. FEDs via BPE signed the contract and faulted it there after, whats hurting you, are you paid by a Manitoba stakeholder to cry online ? FEDs signed the contract and was applauded, they have a better choice now, and the next choice will be more applauded than Manitoba, take a chill pill. You cant do s/h/i/t!

Bros....Gbawe is saying the truth.

Bishop Noel Jones..his composition of God's word with too much rhema
Joel Osteen...his calmness and illustrations
Jesse Dupilantis...his simplicity
John Hagee...His passion for end times
Tarry Rufus...he used to be in charge of HOTR portharcourt before he started another church. So much rhema

lets see how it goes

berem: are you fuccking kidding me? Did you think before you wrote this trash? Oya wait make police follow catch you one day,I pray for them to strip you n.aked while your dangling balls and small pencil is being displayed in public.

Lady Berem...how you take sabi say na small pencil the guy get

The idea of having parachutes on planes is nothing new, but fitting them to larger aircraft is one of the radical new ideas being suggested in Geneva this year.


http://www.terminalu.com/europe/parachutes-on-planes-concept-designed-to-prevent-air-crashes/25413/

dopeJemi: I laugh in pigin


Can't wait 4 ModelLa 2 be mah e-woman

Bros you serious with this your proposal oh...

Sisi_Kill: Whaaaaaa? Darkness?!! In Our Country?!! The country where the whole of the President took over just to ensure we have light?!

OP take it back! Take it back right now!!

Are you really expecting us to believe darkness is creeping back where we celebrate 3 straight days of light?

I got news for you dude, you have failed! The enemy of progress who is paying your salary to spread this false news in order to make the FG look bad has failed. FAILED! FAILED! FAILED!!!

Weak comment

Ashmark: Am really enjoyin this trend abt d Oil nd gas tin.My questn is,is it possible for smeone wit no engineerin backgrd at d university to work in ds Oil cmpany.

Yes and 100% possible

blink182: Jesus of Nazareth, what exactly do these guys do? That's insane pay.

14 million monthly pay Ǎ̜̣̍Ϟd I know perks haven't been added Ǎ̜̣̍Ϟd I thought people earning N4m were the top dogs.

They work as consultants and mainly on a contract basis....

A biochemist can work as an Oil and Petroleum chemist...

Oil and petroleum chemists work mostly in the lab. Some have jobs that take them into the refinery, but usually on a short-term basis. Others may work temporarily in the field, collecting samples. Chemists work in groups and often with chemical engineers.Chemists in the oil and petroleum industry work with crude oil and the products derived from it, including petroleum for automotive or aviation fuel as well as petrochemical feedstocks, which are used in a range of polymer products. Chemists in the field have a similarly broad spectrum of jobs: from “fingerprinting” oil leaked in a spill to process control at the refinery, and from developing catalysts used in the refining process to creating new polymers for fibers and resins.
Most chemists in this field work for large oil companies. Others work with independent companies that develop processes for the oil industry, such as fluid-cracking catalysis, or that make chemicals used to aid drilling and refining. Many chemists work at companies that supply chemicals for petroleum companies and provide technical support for handling environmental systems.

http://www.careercornerstone.org/pdf/chemistry/careerbriefs/oilpetchem.pdf

AjanleKoko: To borrow from Sagamite: You must be a person!!!

Do you know how many times I have visited India in the past couple of years on business?
Nuclear ko, Jagaban ni. You better sit down with this your countryman analysis. Generator boku for India.

The bolded was un-called for nah...I thought you are one of the moderators on NL...

berem: the one wey my forefathers don dey talk since,dem no hear.shey na my own dem go hear bah? I no get power for talk talk!

There was no Nairaland then, but now there is,your voice will be heard

berem: So wetin make we do now? After writing this long sermon,the OP couldn't profer solution? Mtscheeew!

My dear sister,pls profer one nah...

saintneo: I adore the comparison. However, I reject the idea of writing so much without putting forth a specific solution. It's easy complain about our negativities but solutions are very difficult.

Recently, the aviation minister embarked upon cleansing of her ministry. For many years we have heard about how our aviation has gone beyond deplorable conditions, the ministry was filled with incompetency. She sack unproductive staff and promoted productive ones; next thing we are hearing is ethnic recruitment. Even though I find it had to believe the ministry is now filled Igbo people, I think Nigerians should rise above medicority and embrace excellence.

@ the bolded,if only all Nigerians will all agree on that and let all hands be on deck to achieve it..

ifihearam: THIS ARTICLE TOO LONG NA

SHUOOOO

Its long but e make sense die nah

This is a spot-on and thought provoking write up....Nigeria lets go back to the basis of development..

The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).

When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonised, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists, among others. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.” Interestingly, it is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but, ironically, rejected the British technology. The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its own heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North. Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.

Long after the Whites and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its territory by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a very religious people.

Meanwhile, as we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, and hospitality industries among others.

Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples. It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother, sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it does not change hands, no show. And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.

One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the morals in our society. But it is not so. The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.

We import petrol even when we have crude oil in abundance. We also import rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance. We even import toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort. Yet, we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive vehicles are the in thing. Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot products as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado as official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70 per cent live below poverty line. Private jets have become as common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education and its sick people are running to India for treatment.

India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans travelling to the country for medical treatment. India has joined the nuclear powers nations. India has launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.

I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.

Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166,000 million, while India has a population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups, India has more than 2,000. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions — Christianity and Islam; but India has many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 52 years of independence; India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.

I am a Christian, and nothing can change me from Christianity. But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” is still a saying that is germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion; more work and less of hope; and more action and less of words.

Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now or it may be too late.

October 23, 2012 by Azuka Onwuka (azuka.brand@augustconsulting.biz)

The above article describes Nigeria very well...

2good: Having a foreign experience is an advantage when you want to break into the industry as an experienced hand. I intend spending like 8-10 years in Europe, Middle East and the Americas after which I will go back to Nigeria where the money really lies and do contract. The main people earning the money are the experts many of whom earn as much as $2000 per day and are rotating 28 days on and 28 days off. That is where I am working towards and I don't think any company in Nigeria can pay close to that. But you have to be in the technical field to get that kind of remuneration most times.

Some expatriate earns $2,880 per day in Nigeria.

Gideonyte: Total does pay the highest these days! From HR surveys Iv seen Total first then Mobil when u compare their annualized pay. I know Total's annualized pay for Overseas MSc holders to be presently 17m and 16m for Mobil, however Shell comes last with about 7m. Annualized pay actually means taking all remunerations before tax over a 4 or 5 year period and dividing by 4 or 5 years respectively. This is because there are some grants and loans with a lifecycle of 4 or 5 years.

Academic qualifications for Shell means nothing, they pay u only based on the job position you re going into. Mobil HR is more flexible but Total HR take it as a matter of policy to match your qualification and experience to pay grade. Its said that no two people in Total get paid the same salary even in the first year of employment. If you're wanting to get into an Oil company i totally recommend Total, Mobil or Chevron, leave Shell alone o. Do you know that someone with 5 years experience in Total earns higher than some people with 14 years experience in Shell?

However, I realised that on matter the salary one receives its just important to be a good manager of money!

cheers

the bolded is what matters

kenkruse: You're all the same.

Okija_juju: I saw all thes at one glance

I too know dey worry ohhh...

afam4eva: lol @Chief Alhaji Hassan Walewa

Muslim Chief for village wey dey inside Rivers state.....no comment

Seun shaGARRI: Na people discover Waltz, Salsa, Balle abi na Bole....we dey here dey dance like imbeciles.

I NO FIT LAUGH....

Patdedon: Earlier this year we were told that port harcourt refinery will be fully functional by the end of the year. Now it has a taken a different turn, 2014. Let's watch and pray it doesn't end with the lips again.

You said my mind..

Enough allowance for them...

615 illegal refineries..... na drum wey dem use fire dey heat dem dey call refinery...
They should use another word and not refinery..
Are they trying to say,that they have 615 of the picture below as illegal?..