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Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by viodemus: 10:46pm On May 07
Na wa. No be small thing.

The former illiterate and okp*lor eyes have by themselves, chased out 90% of businesses in Nigeria in the last 10 years.; Believe it or not, okp*lor eyes has done in one year, an equivalent damage, of the 8 years of the former illiterate and tribalist. A record breaking something.

As I speak to you now, okp*lor eyes is somewhere in Arabia, lazy-ing around and only interested in corruption avenues. Okpolor eyes has failed in leadership, and won in corruption, winning in vicious tribalism, and winning in mass suffrage. The sample size is there to prove it. One year has given us a vital hint.

Okp*lor eyes, any genocide against the great tribe, will not prevail. We will unite and offense. Respect thyself.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Mrexcell(m): 10:49pm On May 07
Too bad more job losses for nigerian tech savvy youths by the time the apc is through with nigeria the country will be reduced to the 20th largest economies in africa.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Konjiboii: 10:52pm On May 07
Shebi dem warn us say by the BAT deal with us finish we go dey miss Bubu, who would have thought.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Konquest: 12:50am On May 08
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Litmus: 1:04am On May 08
Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down

Microsoft center is not a priority when there are masses of Lagosians dispossessed of thire homes that require food and rehousing. The Microsoft Centre building should be requisitioned and turned into a feeding centre and temporary accomodation.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by alphaNomega: 2:58am On May 08
someone said these are the best years of tinubu government. cheesy

nigeria politics is giving you pepper to lick while telling you it will turn to sugar after 8 years, then another set will come after 8 years and repeat the cycle.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ruffhandu: 3:44am On May 08
SouthSouth1914:
Companies are just folding up operations! Good Lord pity Nigerians, even if we have kleptomaniacs as leaders and a failed president!
You refused to help yourself, God has already empowered you but many of you seem to be lilly-livered. By the time tinubu and his gang finishes, you won't even be able to talk, Nigeria will be a limited liability company, and I am sure you know who the CEO will be.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by NaijaPrince18: 3:53am On May 08
We don’t need them. Maybe the children of hate will stop running to Lagos
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Ed12(m): 5:40am On May 08
Many parts of Nigerians are still largely uneducated. Let alone being information literate.

The city people that are trying to put us on the map in tech are being frustrated by unfriendly policies.

Nigeria is only big for mouth
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:06am On May 08
Bobloco:
Tinubu is busy searching for some propaganda investment deal in Saudi Arabia, while his calamitous economic policies and decisions are closing down businesses in Nigeria. 
.. what did you expect from a president that the only thing he could tell nigerians during his presidential campaign that...it's my turn
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ariesbull: 6:07am On May 08
Benjaniblinks:
You guys can go. It's well angry
your man ruined the economy Yoruba man
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:07am On May 08
APC and Tinubu just destroying the economy and shutting down bussinesses and increasing unemployment...it's a pity
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:09am On May 08
All this will not have happened if Peter obi was in power.... bussinesses would had been thriving, expanding and be successful and more jobs created for nigerians
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:10am On May 08
Reno omokiri will now blame Peter obi for this
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:11am On May 08
GardenOfGod:
This is not good... What good thing has this APC brought to this country?
.
What did you expect from a president that the only thing he could tell nigerians during his presidential campaign that...it's my turn
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ufotunang: 6:12am On May 08
Hez143:
why are they leaving
..it's because of the bad economy and Tinubu hard economy
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Edruezzi: 6:56am On May 08
Una get money to buy software? It isn't the handiwork of Tinubu alone. It's the vast, swirling value system itself. I frankly wonder what Microsoft thought it would gain by opening that office in Nigeria. Anyhow, $100 million means nothing to Microsoft, or any large American multinational. Time Warner lost $80 billion during the botched merger with AOL. Time Warner is still here. That's the company that brings you CNN.
Nigeria is a difficult and worthless environment for business. It can be argued that abstract thought and sophisticated reasoning are utterly alien to Nigerian, and sub-Saharan African culture. A company like Microsoft produces no physical products other than the Xbox and a type of keyboard. Windows 2000 called for the collaboration of 4000 engineers. Windows 2000 came out, obviously, in the year 2000, and is now obsolete. Microsoft's products are complicated ideas and services. That won't work in "Naija". The company's wealth comes from its ideas, which is why Bill Gates is worth ten time Dangote, who is a monopolist of flour and cement and nothing more. Two years of trading on all the stock exchanges of sub-Saharan Africa except that of Johannesburg is equal to sixteen minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
One of my biggest regrets was starting a structural engineering business in Nigeria. My second biggest regret was shuttering the business when sales were impossible. I then went job hunting. I went for interview at a Nigerian structural engineering company on Lagos Island. They gave me a problem to solve. The then second in command found the method I used incomprehensible and he spent nearly an hour trying to figure out how I solved and he asked whether I had used several obsolete methods. The matrix method made all the classical methods of structural analysis obsolete in the 1960s. By the 1990s a lecturer at UNN was telling students that a method developed in 1930 that he was about to teach would be used by the students every day as practicing engineers until they would retire. This was in 1997. That matrix method is the basis of all the structural engineering software used today. The author worked at another Nigerian structural engineering firm where it was clear that the engineers there were happily using analysis software to calculate without a clue about how it worked. Western engineering and technology forms a tradition based on constant development and innovation, where each generation recognizes it has inherited that tradition and must attempt to add to it and improve it and pass it on. That concept is utterly alien to Africa, where people still cut grass with cutlass, even at the schools teaching students technology.
Meanwhile look at the famed universities supposedly training the future Naija engineers, computer scientists and so on. Their hostels are filthy and squalid. An American or English farmer who attempted to house pigs or cattle in buildings as bad and unsanitary as Nigerian university hostels today would have his farm raided and shut down by the government health authorities and he'd be forced out of business.

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Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Edruezzi: 7:19am On May 08
After his 1985 overthrow Buhari had thirty years out of power he could have used to learn how economies work. He learned nothing and came back to power clutching the same stupid, and wrong, ideas. Nevertheless a majority of Nigerians were convinced "Sai Baba" would change things.
Na him una still de suffer reach today.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Edruezzi: 7:39am On May 08
Shoprite and GSK have left. Shell and ExxonMobil have sold their on-shore production. MTN lost $100 million.
It's Tinubu's turn.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by ScarletBrace(m): 8:00am On May 08
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by naijamerican: 8:17am On May 08
These Ronu APC members told igbos to go back to their states. Wyte man decided to do the same. Only tribalists will remain in Lagos after all the stupidity is done.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by naijamerican: 8:20am On May 08
hammer567:




IGBO PEOLE ARE LEAVING NIGERIA, NO TWO WAYS ABOUT IT.



GEJ AS DOING WELL, IT WAS TINUBU AND BUHARI THAT CHASED HIM AWAY USING INEC SCAM AND PROPAGANDA.



LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO NIGERIA IN 9 YEARS.




NIGERIA HAVE MOVE FROM TOP ECONOMY IN AFRICA TO 4TH HEADING DOWN TO 5TH, YET THOSE PROTETERS UNDER GEJ ARE ALL QUIET.



I CANNOT BE IN A COUNTRY WITH PEOPLE LIKE THAT, THEY ARE EVIL.

The best thing any Igbo man can do is flee this shythole. Come back and support you local communities. But contributing to Nigeria in any tangible fashion is very stupid for any south easterner.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Growing(m): 9:37am On May 08
ADC in Kenya is not affected.

ADC in Nigeria is shutting down.

Nigeria is in bad state.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by slowice(m): 10:31am On May 08
BATeria infected economy is destroying everything good we have.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by SolarEngr2(m): 11:46am On May 08
GrandFinale2021:
who is that lady

One of our female technicians at The Trills Consulting.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by mindtricks: 12:02pm On May 08
Benjaniblinks:
You guys can go. It's well angry

It is well you said?
It is not well.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Litmus: 1:03pm On May 08
On a more serious and alternative note: I have little doubt that if orientals such as Chinese, Koreans, Japanese were at the helm of Microsoft, Microsoft would not leave Nigeria. At least not in favour of Kenya than Nigeria.

Nigerians need to factor in these things.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by James91: 2:03pm On May 08
My happiness is that if you check well all the staff are from one or region, when the company was recruiting, they may not allow them to recruit from other tribes, now these people are they one becoming unemployed.
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by Litmus: 2:32pm On May 08
James91:
My happiness is that if you check well all the staff are from one or region, when the company was recruiting, they may not allow them to recruit from other tribes, now these people are they one becoming unemployed.

I believe people from other African nations are employed there too. There was, if memory serves me, a CNN or Al-Jazeera expose on the place. If true how would this impact your belief that employment at the centre is based on tribe ?
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by GrandFinale2021(m): 2:44pm On May 08
SolarEngr2:


One of our female technicians at The Trills Consulting.
I'm Engr. Dennis by name. Kindly connect me with her I'll like to speak to her, I admire hardworking ladies kiss
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by SolarEngr2(m): 3:00pm On May 08
GrandFinale2021:
I'm Engr. Dennis by name. Kindly connect me with her I'll like to speak to her, I admire hardworking ladies kiss

We have a number of them at The Trills Consulting. You can find my whatsapp line on my profile. Thanks
Re: Microsoft Africa Development Center In Ikoyi To Shut Down by 1000Capacity: 4:48pm On May 08
GrandFinale2021:
I'm Engr. Dennis by name. Kindly connect me with her I'll like to speak to her, I admire hardworking ladies kiss

Who dash you engineer?

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