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AbokiWam:
This shows you're the same as Fadedvoice

This post was initially hidden, you rushed and used faded voice to post a picture of the text

Now mod released this one
Faded voice like we all knew in the ashii thread is elder001

What's your point? You think people here don't know Faded voiced belongs to me?

TemporaryHansel:
But bro, don't you consider what will happen if all the graduates in this country migrate to Lagos because of jobs? The implications will be severe.
Something has to be done about the other states not creating enough job opportunities to cater for their population. Even the small good paying jobs that they have, it's mostly by connection and hardly by merit.

I never said all graduates should migrate to Lagos.

All I'm saying is if u have 4.91/5.00 and u choose to stay put in a state where there are no job opportunities because u don't want to stress urself, then that's on u!

TemporaryHansel:
Also as for job vacancies being posted online. In most cases, those companies only publish those vacancies online to fulfil all righteousness oh. They already have people they intend to employ. Of course, I'm not talking about Lagos here. Lagos is an outlier.

That is the type of mentality that will make graduates not try anything since they believe it's not possible to get it

TemporaryHansel:
But bro, don't you consider what will happen if all the graduates in this country migrate to Lagos because of jobs? The implications will be severe.
Something has to be done about the other states not creating enough job opportunities to cater for their population. Even the small good paying jobs that they have, it's mostly by connection and hardly by merit.

I disagree with this. If you have a company will you pick the best people or just give jobs to people by connections?

You think a business owner will want to self sabotage by not picking the best people? Unless na beer parlor he dey run

Many people just make assumptions without even trying. I knew many colleagues who will swear with their lives that no one can get jobs in Nigeria without knowing someone

TemporaryHansel:
Also as for job vacancies being posted online. In most cases, those companies only publish those vacancies online to fulfil all righteousness oh. They already have people they intend to employ. Of course, I'm not talking about Lagos here. Lagos is an outlier.

This is not true at all ❌

TemporaryHansel:
Also as for job vacancies being posted online. In most cases, those companies only publish those vacancies online to fulfil all righteousness oh. They already have people they intend to employ. Of course, I'm not talking about Lagos here. Lagos is an outlier.

This is mostly true for experienced hire. For graduate trainee it's not.

Akinlot:
This is mostly true for experienced hire. For graduate trainee it's not.

It’s not even true for experienced hire .

Most companies that are well run have checks and balances in place to ensure the best candidates are employed and not the nonsense man-know-man.

By the time u have 2 to 3 stages of interview with different people in the reporting line and maybe a top management person/MD, water would find its level .

BlueRayDick:
It’s not even true for experienced hire .

Most companies that are well run have checks and balances in place to ensure the best candidates are employed and not the nonsense man-know-man.

By the time u have 2 to 3 stages of interview with different people in the reporting line and maybe a top management person/MD, water would find its level .

Where I work and in other companies within the industry, vacancies for experienced hire are usually filled by in-house contract staff.

Many times I wonder why they advertise and continue to waste people's time. Perhaps, there's a law that says they must.

BlueRayDick:
It’s not even true for experienced hire .

Most companies that are well run have checks and balances in place to ensure the best candidates are employed and not the nonsense man-know-man.

By the time u have 2 to 3 stages of interview with different people in the reporting line and maybe a top management person/MD, water would find its level .

You're seeing it from a Lagos lens. I'm just telling you what I know. I know many people in places they have no business being, but it is what it is. I'd have said more, but sometimes we gotta be careful with what we say. Make I no spoil food for person mouth.

Akinlot:
Where I work and in other companies within the industry, vacancies for experienced hire are usually filled by in-house contract staff.

Many times I wonder why they advertise and continue to waste people's time. Perhaps, there's a law that says they must.

For a company that uses contract staff for operational roles , it is not out of place to absorb their contract staff .

What we are talking about here is a real job opening being announced and then assume the company would pick a specific candidate they anointed instead of the best candidate based on merit . Maybe some companies do it , but most top companies with standardized processes would not .

BlueRayDick:
For a company that uses contract staff for operational roles , it is not out of place to absorb their contract staff .

What we are talking about here is a real job opening being announced and then assume the company would pick a specific candidate they anointed instead of the best candidate based on merit . Maybe some companies do it , but most top companies with standardized processes would not .

They are real job openings posted on job sites like every other vacancy.

In-house contract staff are the anointed candidates. Your chances of getting in as a random Joe who sees the advert on jobberman is less than 2%. It doesn't matter how good you are.

Ibime:
Na now I understand that conversation couple weeks back about people dying young from doing business in Nigeria

Small tidying up of my popsie affairs in Nigeria want give me stroke. Nigerians no go kill pesin.

Senior man, how is your old man doing? Just checking .

raumdeuter:
Senior man, how is your old man doing? Just checking .

He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

Ibime:
He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

Sorry man

The worst thing about this sort of thing is that in your heart of hearts, A part of you is kinda seeing your journey to old age through his lens. Genetics can be an a*s sha

It helps in making your mind quickly about certain things and especially while of sane mind. For me, I started resonating more with Euthanasia

User09:
Sorry man

The worst thing about this sort of thing is that in your heart of hearts, A part of you is kinda seeing your journey to old age through his lens. Genetics can be an a*s sha

It helps in making your mind quickly about certain things and especially while of sane mind. For me, I started resonating more with Euthanasia

Las las the man enjoyed his life and he also wanted to go, but I never see wetin go kill am cos they brought his BP down to that of a 20 year old. Himself done resign say he never seen wetin go kill am again so he has to manage where he is.

As for me, I still have 30 years of good health inshallah so I never reason that side but I will also want to go once quality of life is affected. When I was 17, I thought fun would end at 30. I have crossed 40 and still having fun and intend to do so till 70 so no shaking.

That is Tom Brady’s pay as a Fox Sports analyst. Bear in mind that he only works… 20 days a year🤯

User09:
Already captured my views/outlook but spambot banned me and hid the post

I was going to say he should look at the 4bn vis a vis the total volume traded seeing as that was the total injection for a six month period

I do want to see the counterpoints that inform his prognosis.
And why he is weighting them over the trove of positive data points.

-Lord

raumdeuter:
while resisting Polygamy, Married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron aka GloriousGbola caught with the Head of HR (who is also married) at a concert

Note from treblechamp, when you are out there with your sidepiece always avoid any appearance of a camera

Coldplay no even try for them at all. He even spotlighted them

Coldplay puts CEO of Astronomer and Head of HR on jumbotron looking cozy during their concert. pic.twitter.com/yuy2R5FAEc

— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) July 17, 2025

See the way the guy disappeared. Rumors on SM has it that his wife has already dropped his surname from her profile.

Make Baba just forfeit the 50%. Cant even imagine what he's going through with investors and the board right now

Apparently, there's even a 3rd wheel, who's complicit in the affair - Linkedin people don mess up both the cheat and accomplice comment section.

I don laugh tire - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7334025693715955714/

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7283268160122716161/

GloriousGbola:
How are jobs advertised these days?
Back in the day na to get Tuesday guardian and copy all the ads and then send your cv. A person with a first already has his foot in any door. Check every advert. The problem is that if you are not also among hustlers you may not know what to do.

If you grow up in a civil service family in a civil service state all you know is waiting - which is not how it works.

jobs these days are based more on experience and skills than degree

which is why you will see companies hiring highschoolers than uni grads

Ibime:
He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

I tell you growing old is no fun especially when all these chronic diseases start

One of my friends mom living in Africa died this morning. She has been complaining of some symptoms over the last 1 month but she refused to use medication claiming she knows her body and she has faith

One Monday while talking to someone over the phone her speech started to slur and was saying gibberish. They took her to a hospital and she passed

She was supposed to travel to Yankee to visit her kids and grandkids this weekend

raumdeuter:
I tell you growing old is no fun especially when all these chronic diseases start

One of my friends mom living in Africa died this morning. She has been complaining of some symptoms over the last 1 month but she refused to use medication claiming she knows her body and she has faith

One Monday while talking to someone over the phone her speech started to slur and was saying gibberish. They took her to a hospital and she passed

She was supposed to travel to Yankee to visit her kids and grandkids this weekend

One of my friend dad’s nickname is “àgbà ṣòro da " (Growing old comes with its own complications).

Living through my late dad's experience, old age just comes at you suddenly! One minute you are having the time of your life with your grandkids at your table making you laugh heartily with their shenanigans and the next day you are down with an irreversible medical condition 🤦‍♂️.

That’s why I find it amusing that a man above 70 years of age will be scheming to rule this complex country called Nigeria when there are enough personal headaches to deal with at that age .

raumdeuter:
while resisting Polygamy, Married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron aka GloriousGbola caught with the Head of HR (who is also married) at a concert

Note from treblechamp, when you are out there with your sidepiece always avoid any appearance of a camera

This man has gone super viral

He is all over my reddit feed.

Bad way to close second quarter.

Ibime:
He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

Sorry man

Ibime:
He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

Sorry about that, the best you guys can do is creating good memories with him as it won't get better.

In all his stilt, strict, stubborn, and selectively subdued persona, he was also a humorous person. His humor came in bits and tits, at those moments you least expected them.

Two incidents come to mind for me.

One was during one of my initial pre-appointment reviews with him. I had objected to his offer to me to become the Group Managing Director of NNPC. I preferred the Ministerial Portfolio so as to focus on policies.

‘Why don’t you want to be GMD?’ he asked me as I settled into the sofa next to him in the residential unit of the villa. This was in early June of 2015.

‘I am worried about scandals and the expectations of friends and foe. I don’t want to be tainted’

He burst into a staccato of laughter

‘You think any public office insulates you from scandal?’ And he kept laughing, stopping in between to take a sip of water.

‘If you don’t plan to do anything corrupt, scandal should not bother you. Everyone who has occupied that desk has had issues’, he continued.

‘Well, no one gets free of scandal once you come into government. Even I, as straight as I try to be, people still accuse me of all sorts and abuse me.

We simply do our best and leave the rest to Allah. And on policy, you can drive policy from anywhere if you are determined.’

‘Ok sir’, I began to concur’, then adding, ‘I don’t also want to be absent from council and have a Minister torpedo the change efforts you are bringing me to lead in the petroleum sector’.

He rolled his eyes for a while, then bending forward he said in hushed tones

‘ok you will resume as GMD and when it is time for me to appoint Ministers I will also put you on the list’.

‘Thank you Sir’, I replied and as he stood up he added with new vigour and finality, ‘let’s hope you will be thanking me six months from now, but you resume tomorrow. I do not have time for equivocation.’

‘Yes, Mr President and my General’, I replied. I stood up and gave a mediocre imitative salute.

‘You are funny, Ibe’, he said with a dismissive laughter and wave of the hand, calling me by my name for the first time.

The second was when I went to him to suggest I wanted to go to the militancy zone and make contact with the militants to end the destruction of pipelines that was ravaging oil production in the sector. It was in his office and we were alone.

‘Well, I don’t think it is a good idea. They will take you hostage and ask for ransom and tie my hands. I will rather let the security agencies deal with security issues and you produce the oil’, he said with a fatherly smile.

‘Only problem is, we can’t produce enough oil if we don’t stop the disruptions Mr President’ ,I replied.

He leaned forward with his usual deeply probing eyes ‘are you one of the militants? How will you find them?’

That took me by surprise

‘No Sir, I am not one of the militants. But we have back channels’ ‘You want me to send officers with you into the creek?’ He asked ‘No Sir, that will be more trouble’, I replied.

‘You are on your own. This government does not pay ransome’, he scoffed at me, adding, ‘anyway, I am the substantive Petroleum Minister. If you don’t come back, I will continue the job without you.’

We had some good laugh on that occasion. It was to the credit of that trip, his willingness to accomodate my naivety, and our subsequent meetings with PANDEF under the leadership of Late Pa Chief Edwin Clark and the ceasefire that ensued, that oil production rebounded from lowly 1mbpd to 1.9mbpd over the next few months. All under the President’s leadership.

I did not have the opportunity post my departure from Office in 2019 to meet President Buhari again and to exchange ideas and compare notes . Perhaps it would have afforded me an opportunity to debunk so many mischevious tales of rifts and disloyalty that characterized our working relationship in those years, largely peddled by some self serving pretentious aides and flank opportunists.

I was keeping that opportunity for a one day suprise visit to Daura. The truth is that all I prefer to remember of my working time with President Buhari are my Reverance and Respects for a great man.

Regrettably, my visit today will now be only to participate in the burial Programme of a truly Great Man, for indeed THERE WAS A President.

May his soul Rest in Peace. Allah yaji kansa da rahama , ya bashi aljanna fir dausi.

Tuesday 15th July 2025 10:00am

•Prof Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, former Minister of State Petroleum Resources (2015 -2019); Former GMD of NNPC

Rinse and repeat

Amoto94:
, I am the substantive Petroleum Minister.

Chakam! 📸

Substantive Petroleum Minister who oversaw $2.98 billion going down the drain with nothing to show for it.

In March 2021, the Federal Executive Council, led by the late President Muhammadu Buhari, approved the sum of $1.5bn for the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery in Rivers State.The former Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr Timipre Sylva, said the rehabilitation would be done in three phases of 18, 24 and 44 months.

In August 2021, the FEC also approved the sum of $1.48bn for the rehabilitation of both Warri and Kaduna refineries.

This puts the budget for the three refineries at $2.98bn under the immediate-past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, Mele Kyari.

Despite huge spending, Port Harcourt refinery resumed briefly before shutting down, Warri refinery followed the same path, while Kaduna refinery remains idle.

I don't understand, are we practicing different religion abi na me no know wetin I they do
Tremblechamp, popizaino, gloriousgbola

https://www.nairaland.com/8476879/sa-rejects-registration-islamic-state

iamoyindamola:
I don't understand, are we practicing different religion abi na me no know wetin I they do
Tremblechamp, popizaino, gloriousgbola

https://www.nairaland.com/8476879/sa-rejects-registration-islamic-state

The guy must have applied to form an Islamic Party in South Africa just to farm attention. I mean the number of Muslims in South Africa is not even up to 2% of the entire population, so how would he have achieved anything even if the party was registered?

The worst thing about old age is how it can all go downhill from nowhere.

My Dad was relatively fit as a fiddle two and a half years back then from nowhere dementia, escalation in his diabetes before he finally passed away last year.

Big ups to you and your old man. It is well.

Ibime:
He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun

BlueRayDick:
The guy must have applied to form an Islamic Party in South Africa just to farm attention. I mean the number of Muslims in South Africa is not even up to 2% of the entire population, so how would he have achieved anything even if the party was registered?

This is it right here, like i don't understand they want to force it on non muslim country