₦airaland Forum

pokosimani:
Dear NLanders,
I have been working for a tier 1 Bank in Nigeria for some time and so far it has been quite good. I work with great people and the pay is reasonable. Recently, I got an offer to work in a multinational telecoms company. While this seems like a good offer, I am worried about working for Chinese/Indian companies because of the negative report about them generally. Your considered opinions and/or experiences would be appreciated.

Many thanks...

GboyegaD:
What is TDH and FBA?

johnkey:
Marriage is totally unnecessary now, know this and know peace in your life. You can choose to still look fresh and bubbling with enough money at 70 banging young pussies (some of my future sugar girls have not been born trust me).

StarFire08:
This issue is something we are in one way guilty of . Wanting a TDH/ FBAbabe in the long run ignoring the important things .

olamide0147:
No one use ipob uses kanu for cheap points or score, it just that kanu is too coward and weak to lead a nation, he speaks more than he act. A só call leader that never frontier in battle igboho is different from kanu

Freestainworld:
Another ESN in making, well-done guys

IamgratefulLord:
Ha!! If i uninstall the tecno drive, wont it affect the phone. Im lost o

SmartPolician:
You don't seem to understand the point.

Lai Mohammed didn't ask them to stop running ads on those networks. However, he pays they have to pay a sum for doing so.

Whether Guinness is a foreign company or not doesn't change anything. The laws in our country are so lenient that we are often taken for granted.

For instance, oil companies destroy lands and waters in the Niger Delta and get away with it.
But when BP did the same in the US (Deep Water Horizon), it attracted heavy penalties.

The point here is, being a multinational company does not change anything because the law didn't forbid them from advertising on those networks.
The government wants them to contribute to its local content industry whilst doing that.

Neddyogu:
Pls o I thought Guinness was an Irish company. Did they sell d company to a Nigerian outfit that chose to retain the name? Cos I don't understand that reference to Guinness as a Nigerian brand.

htdot:
You let emotion becloud your sense of reasoning.... Who is buying Dangote cement in USA? As far as I am concerned, the major market of Guinness is Nigeria...

htdot:
Good one...
100000 thousand naira is even too small. How can your market be in Nigeria because of busy body, you then b giving cnn our money. Thunder fire dangote yansh

IamgratefulLord:
Oga Sanchez, it's been awhile. How are you doing? Have you taken the vaccine? Please I would like you to help me out with this: I use a Tecno phone. (Spark 4). I connected the phone to my laptop so as to transfer all the videos and pictures to my laptop but my laptop isn't recognizing the phone. I use an HP laptop. What do I do?

IamgratefulLord:
Oga Sanchez, it's been awhile. How are you doing? Have you taken the vaccine? Please I would like you to help me out with this: I use a Tecno phone. (Spark 4). I connected the phone to my laptop so as to transfer all the videos and pictures to my laptop but my laptop isn't recognizing the phone. I use an HP laptop. What do I do?

Zobah:
what type of business?

Fahdiga:
Nigerian army has taken it as a hobby to be killing easterners in the name of killing IPOB Members .the blood of the innocent Igbos killed will continue to hunt them till the end of time

afroniger:
Nnamdi Kanu needs to restrategize. Too many Igbo youths getting wasted over his methods. He can't even supply ESN with weapons so they are having to sack police stations to steal their weapons. For how long must this continue?

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Nigerian Army had deployed combat helicopters, gun trucks, and soldiers to search some forests in the South-East states where the ESN was suspected to be camping.

A joint operation of the Nigerian Army and police has led to the death of about 16 operatives of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), a military source told SaharaReporters on Wednesday.

The source said hundreds of security operatives on Tuesday night launched a heavy attack on the camp of ESN in Aba, Abia state, killing about 16 of them and injuring others.

SaharaReporters gathered that the operation was in response to a series of attacks against security personnel in the South-East.

Not less than 20 security operatives have been killed in the region by unknown gunmen in the last three months.

Police stations are also not left out in the assault as three of them have been razed in 2021.

Three policemen were killed in a fresh attack in Ohafia LGA of Abia state on Monday.

The officers were killed while on a ‘stop and search’ operation in Abiriba town.

The gunmen were said to have ambushed them and carted away their rifles not long after they arrived in the town for a routine operation.

The slain police officers were identified as Austin Ugwu, Longinus Ugochukwu, and Ama Ifeanyi.

IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, had in December 2020 launched ESN to protect the people of South-East and South-South regions from terrorists and bandits allegedly trooping in from the North.

Kanu described the outfit as a replica of the Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun, earlier launched by the governors of the South-West to curb insecurity in the region.

“The sole aim and objective of this newly formed security outfit known as Eastern Security Network is to halt every criminal activity and terrorist attack on Biafraland,” Kanu had said.

“This outfit, which is a vigilante group like the Amotekun in the South-West and the Miyetti Allah security outfit, will ensure the safety of our forests and farmland which terrorists have converted into slaughter grounds and raping fields.”

He added that the establishment of the security outfit became necessary following what he described as the “failure” of the governors of the South-South and South-East to put in place measures to protect the people in those regions.

SaharaReporters earlier reported that the Nigerian Army had deployed combat helicopters, gun trucks, and soldiers to search some forests in the South-East states where the ESN was suspected to be camping.

Recently, it was learnt that some Nigerian soldiers resigned and joined the ESN, on the grounds that the ESN, being funded by both international and local donors, had better welfare packages for its officers than the military.

“The Kanu ESN boys are not a bunch of rookies and untrained fellows brandishing guns. I personally know five guys from my hometown in Anambra State who left the Nigerian Army to join the ESN. Two of them were formerly serving in Operation Lafiya Dole, Borno State, before they quit.

“We are being reliably informed that there are other soldiers, particularly of the South-East extraction, who will soon leave for other various reasons and they are likely to be recruited into the fold,” a military source told SaharaReporters.

In July 2012, about 356 soldiers in the North-East and other theatres of operation had resigned from the army – some on voluntary retirement, while others cited loss of interest as their reason for disengagement.

The soldiers had written to the former army chief, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, on July 3, 2020, under Reference NA/COAS/001, quoting the Harmonised Terms and Conditions of Service soldiers/rating/airmen (Revised) 2017.

The approval of the voluntary disengagement of the 356 soldiers was contained in a 17-page circular from Buratai, AHQ DOAA/G1/300/92, signed by Brig Gen T.E. Gagariga for the army chief.

Again, this January, another batch of 127 soldiers resigned from the Nigerian Army and are due to leave by May.

They comprised one Master Warrant Officer, three Warrant Officers, 22 Staff Sergeants, 29 Sergeants, 64 Corporals, seven Lance Corporals, and one Private.

Valkrie:
How did you know that its ESN that gun them down? You people just trying to give a dog a bad name....

Have it ever occur to you that it could possibly be a rescue operation conducted by the accused people?

Haba Mallama...!!

Fulani Herdsmen attack. I hear this happened yesterday around Neni junction, Aniocha LGA of Anambra State. Never before since crisis of the civil war has security degenerated to it's present levels. President Buhari has colossally failed at rudimentary governance. What a pity! pic.twitter.com/fR3FAdZdEO

— Olaudah Equiano® (@RealOlaudah) March 19, 2021

Zzor:
I didn't say so but Urhobo men are very unfaithful

“Dangote model will likely be the one most emulated until its beggar-thy-countrymen contradictions become more apparent.”

The United States described the Dangote Group of Companies’ business strategies as disastrous to the Nigerian economy.

Owned by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, it is the largest conglomerate in West Africa with over 30,000 employees.

A report published in 2010 on Wikileak’s website said even though Dangote played a major role in Nigeria’s economy, “many products on the country’s import ban list are items in which it has major interests.”

“Although an undiluted success in terms of wealth accumulation, Dangote personifies the duality in Nigeria’s economy,” the American government said while maintaining that the duality “presents a dilemma for country’s economic policy.”

It accused Dangote Group of blocking investment that the company may see as major competitors, noting that “Weighing everything in the balance, we believe the Dangote model is harmful to Nigerian and American interests in the long run.”

The American government further warned, “Unfortunately, the Dangote model will likely be the one most emulated until its beggar-thy-countrymen contradictions become more apparent.”

It is safe to say the assertion of the U.S. government has been evident in some of the tactics employed by the conglomerate.

Dangote Group faced wide criticisms in the past years over what detractors described as favouritism from the Nigerian government.

The company faced backlashes after it called for a total ban on tomato importation in 2019 when it started its tomato processing subsidiary.

Barely two weeks ago, the conglomerate proposed a provision in the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) seeking to ban the importation of oil by companies without refining licences, which according to the company, will help spur investments in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry.

Dangote also recommended that the volume of fuel imported should be distributed according to what each refinery produces.

Aliyu Suleiman, a chief strategist at Dangote, suggested the anti-competition approach during a visit by members of the National Assembly’s joint committee on PIB to the company’s project site.

The group proposed that only companies with licences to refine crude oil should import fuel whenever demand surpass available fuel or when a refinery is undergoing maintenance.

The recommendation came at the time Dangote Group was on the verge of completing a 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Lagos.

Financial experts, however, said the Dangote refinery should not be allowed to become a monopoly in the manner of the state-run NNPC, although it remained unclear how the conglomerate would be prevented from holding a monopoly if the controversial clause makes it into the PIB.

This is also evident in the reopening of land borders to Dangote Group in November last year, when it was allowed to transport its products to neighbouring West African countries.

Nigeria had shut its land borders in August to give room for the consumption of home-grown products, but the access granted to the company was said to be based on an authorisation issued by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.

A businessman and founder of Stanbic IBTC, Atedo Peterside, faulted the move.

He asserted that it portrayed Nigeria’s economy as favouring only the well-connected.

“Allowing legitimate exporters and importers to move their goods across the border should be a no-brainer,” Mr. Peterside said in a tweet.

“Why refuse everybody else and allow only one company (Dangote)?”

He added, “This is why some of us argue that the Nigerian economy is rigged in favour of a handful of well-connected persons.”

A spokesman for Dangote Group Tony Chiejina declined repeated requests for a reaction to the damning allegations, insisting instead that our reporter should visit him at the company’s headquarters in Lagos before comments could be provided.

Rugaria:
Just as some people will call for the arrest, trial and possible elimination of Nnamdi Kanu with his ESN, but will get highly agitated and emotional if the ubiquitous DSS tries to arrest one Sunday Igboho!
Two people fighting gingerly for their people, but one is projected as a necessary nationalist, the other framed as a runaway hooligan disturbing the country with his "victimhood"..The same press. The same country. The same task but different appraisals!
The thing I have learnt far back with the relationship between Nigerias ethnicities is that some groups project their rabid tribalism by accusing others of the same"crime"..

Tulejoor76:
Are you saying everyone living in lagos makes more than 100k

gbemishile:
hello nairalanders.

I am thinking of getting a decent self contain partment in lagos that is close to my work place. I am currently employed with a salary scale of about a 100k, and for now I have no alternative source of income except my current job which is a govt job. I am just scared I might not be able to sustain the rent cus I only have my salary to depend on for now, and I will still have some other commitments like family etc.

I was thinking of getting a decent one room, like a face me I slap u, till am able to gather my home furnitures, and also try to develop myself in terms of certifications, or learning some IT skills, then I can move to a decent self contain. The only fear is the last time I lived that life was my University days.

Can a salary of 100k sustain an apartment here in Lagos?

Your comments are highly welcome

Mindlog:
"We went for counselling and the pastors said she has to be contributing for expenditures in the house, we agreed on 60% to 40% sharing formula for all expenditures. So me as the man would contribute 60 while she will contribute 40"...Still imagining the Pastors doing the counselling, counselling a married couple or 2 people co-habiting? If it were professional therapists no issue with co-habitation but Pastors?