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Morning Oga seun

Let me go straight to the point but first honestly nairaland through it thread had done Alot for Nigeria or let me say Africans because like we that joined long ago we pick life changing lessons and met life changing ppl but that being said below are what I think you needed to note:

1. Interface: it keeps the page refreshing at all time but note the straight away nature of this platform make it more user friendly and I think it should maintain that. App this days had been more of media but please let us still maintain this balance in here

2. Religion: unlike the past this was not really an issue in Nigeria as a whole but lately religion intolerance is now the order of the day, Nairaland ban was in full effect and prompt in the past but now it's weak in my view

3. Politics: I can say the same thing with religion on this but it seems more immaturity is now in the house. We all will never have the same ideology but yet respect each other view but not again in here

4. Tribe: I cannot Echo this enough. This is a menace on this platform now. We now call each other names, curse at will and even threaten forgetting the meaningful part to life.

5. Encouragement: Give back to the people. It will go a long way in view of latest reality. It mustn't be raw fund, u can change narrative with data/airtime/eatry tickets or cinema tickets and the likes it goes a looooooong way

6. The OGs: just like 2go that year let the OGs be visible so as to be respected for the time spent here.

7. Upgrade and App: I think have only notice an upgrade once or twice in here. Please give us a face lift and possibly a go to App with better fintuned functionalities

8. Minors: Many young ones are here now please let your platform be sane enough for everyone.

9. Information: lately many information here are becoming outdated and sometimes fake. B4 now no matter where I see infomation my confirmation ground was always here but now is not the case. Help bring back the good old days

Education and Enlightenment: This is the SOUL of this forum but it's losing in present day

NOTE:
I can go on and on but the fact still remain this forum was a blessing, please help us keep it that way. Help sanitise the virus now eating deep into the system of this once great platform. Engagement had reduced drastically, people don't see the need to hear their opinion either good, important or helpful just because of responses.

Let me stop cos many have said Alot. Thank you

So sad
All Nigeria youth wants now are just drugs and the like

Etsado:
Has anyone been able to check for their name?

Till monday

Hermaphrodite2:
Wasting our 90billion naira on this hajj of a stuff is one of the most ridiculous thing this government has done

Try to ignore somethings sometimes

May God 4give the dead
Grant them peace after death( Aljanah)
Give the family the strength to bear the loss
Amin.......

newnig:
THE Organized labour on Wednesday stormed out of the minimum wage committee meeting with the Federal Government over the later’s offer of N48,000 new wage.

Recall that the organized labour had made a demand of N615,000 as the new minimum wage and had given the government up till May 31 to conclude negotiations on new living wage.

The Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage resumed negotiations on Wednesday.

Vanguard was reliably informed that representatives of the organized labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, were enraged over the government offer.

Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku, who is one of the representatives of the NLC told Vanguard that, “we asked whether the N45,000 is for transport, food, clothing, housing or for what.

“So we just told them that since they are not serious, we better just leave, so we stormed out of the place.”

He said that the government offer was presented to them by the Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Government of the Federation Office.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/minimum-wage-labour-rejects-fgs-n45000-offer/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0KnN7pSK_wD6WS-4AYQGZ1juRLNtTPGi7LPfmM4tieA_khFZKQHtr3GWI_aem_AaklYPd3Qelz5CRYO0dIoNSLIezbWvqHXzh9RQFc9EfjJyJRE2a7y0ssSRtAYmDiNp8yC3xQ4D_mms0YlRBgicnh

I remember when someone quoted 55k Maxs. I troway salute

HELLASJ:
All digested accordingly sir, I've enrolled in a Cybersecurity course on Cisco Networking Academy. It's been a great experience so far. I will open a thread on my journey into Cybersecurity soon.

Thank you for your Motivation.

I just started too my brother. We can connect to share progress and learn together

techaboki:
Nobody in this group seems to have any info about the Federal Fire Service recruitment

Wetin de play abeg?

What do u want to know about FFS? If its the recruitment Der are some glitches due Nigeria but soon things will fly so in the mean time tey to get urself one position and pray

kkkp:
omo why?

Cos his the president and power is transient.

horlatunji00:
123k before + 40% increase
Tag me if space come on board

Where did u see the increment?

MUTERIKA:
Stateman, I appreciate. Been long I last saw your comment.

Nigeria have it way of humbling its citizens
But have always been lurking around. Thanks for the concern man.

MUTERIKA:
Ọmọ, na the SSC I dey wait ó. This one UBA don put me for wait list, make age no go pass for every reasonable applications. SSC lọ sure ju. Make dem sha release Form. NAF is about to start Recruit applications. Hopefully, it will spread to other military arms too.

Let me help you out with little insight. Short service combatant (SSC) and Direct short service course (DSSC). Those are the 2 course been ran by army but the rest sister forces only have DSSC. In the army SSC at the end of 9month training course are joined with NDA cadet and they passed out together while DSSC are just professionals that are not included in NDA like doctors, lawyers, education and any other places they may have short fall. DSSC training is 6month and not with NDA cadet but other places dey feel like.

Lastely my brother I won't lie to u
You can't join army without knowing anybody cos the first 30man screening list will not fall from heaven. Good luck if u want to know more just search ssc and dssc on this forum u will see it all

Norms

Op it seem u don't know what u are talking about.

Samsung � is what u are saying and still adding bad in the same sentence. Abeg shift

Now that's a simple birthday
Coke, Fanta the way it used to be.

mollie12:
Everybody knows unemployment is a big issue in this country. So many are searching for jobs long after completion of tertiary education and youth service, with few offers in sight.

We come over here to complain about the lack of job opportunities. But my experience over the past 4 months in this arena has been very interesting.

On average, hiring managers forward 3-4 job vacancies/offers to me each week, asking me for candidates I can refer to them for one job opportunity or the other.

I just moved cities and changed jobs within Nigeria, and my experience on my previous job and the new one is the same: the HR department has a LOT of open roles. They are looking for job candidates but cannot find any.

One of the HR staff keeps coming to our side of the office almost every day that they are looking for candidates to fill this role, do we know anyone to refer?

Only yesterday I was speaking with a manager on a job I'd left 2 years ago. He was complaining that he had roles to fill but didn't have candidates. I had a similar conversation with yet another ex-supervisor of mine - looking for staff for a new team he was putting together.

And it makes one wonder: so many jobs, so few qualified candidates? Or what exactly is going on?

Like I said, the last 4 months have given me a clue to what is going on.

Over the last 4 months, I have had to seek staff for short-term roles. And my experience has been lamentable. Horror stories. I could write a book on them.

The number of candidates that talk a good game but cannot deliver scrap, that promise Mount Everest but deliver an anthill - is appalling.

Initially, I kept an open mind and was willing to take people on their word, and trust that they would be reliable enough to deliver. I wanted to open up opportunities for young people to earn income commensurate to their skills. I actually had a dream to through my short-term role opportunities, nurture a pipeline of promising talent that I can whole-heartedly refer to my previous colleagues and managers who come to me seeking job candidates because they have done great work I can vouch for (I don't just refer anyone because these people come to me because they know I do quality work and value quality work and will only refer quality talent to them - I have a reputation to protect).

But after quite a few false starts and hundreds of thousands of naira down the drain, I have to ask myself: are our graduates really employable?

From my experience, and those of others, here are a few ways our graduates shoot themselves in the foot and deny themselves a chance of a rewarding job opportunity or offer:

1. Lack a can-do attitude. I remember once contacting a job candidate who had applied to fill a role to do a preliminary interview. I could tell from his CV that he had almost no experience, but the job to be done was not that technical so I felt this is something someone that learns fast can do. On calling him and explaining the work to be done in detail, imagine what the fellow told me? He sighed and started grumbling and hissing "I don't think I can do this kind of work o". And this was basic research and data gathering oo, work every university graduate would have done in their final year. I just jejely left him.

I wonder why a graduate looking for work would act that way. This is a job you sent your CV for, no one forced you to send it in. The least you could do is do research on what the role entails, and convey confidence when your interviewer calls by explaining that even though you have limited experience, you can learn quickly. I guess he wasn't really looking. But these are those people will look at, and say the Nigerian system has failed job seekers.

2. Lack a growth mindset (allergic to learning and constructive feedback). I have noticed this trend with youths, particularly in the 21-28 age range. They do not know how to handle feedback on their work output well. If you tell them their work needs improvement, they act like you have slapped them in the face. And when I see this sort of reaction I just want to shake them and tell them: you are too young to be thinking your work will be perfect from scratch! That's the value of time and experience - it improves the quality of work. You work cannot be 100% at the first attempt or even the second attempt, but with refinement, feedback, work and skills get better. But these ones will go around to report you to others that you are wicked or other falsehoods, meanwhile, you are only looking out for their own progress. (Let me iterate here that I do constructive feedback - I don't shout or insult or put down people's personalities in the name of feedback because I know this is not helpful: it only destroys self-esteem. So I am referring to normal, even-toned, dispassioned feedback. And this is the feedback they take offense with. SMH)

3. Religious fanaticism. You hear of candidates that tell interviewers that they cannot come to work on Fridays. Or that they have to leave early on Wednesdays for choir practice. Meanwhile, the first interviewer is a Muslim, and the second interviewer is a Christian, a church deacon. Imagine what the interviewers think of such candidates. When these candidates get the job rejection, they will be consoling themselves that they are facing persecution for their faith, not knowing that what they are facing is the consequence of stupidity.

That's all I will say on this one. In all things, apply wisdom.

4. Entitlement mentality. I think this is an issue I will blame the motivational speakers on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for. They have sold this stupendous idea to young people that they can get a job that will earn them millions with almost zero experience. They convince them to toss aside "low-paying" jobs and demand to be paid "their worth". They lie to them that only paid internships should be pursued.

Let me clarify something here. I absolutely hate the idea of jobs that pay graduates what can barely take them home. But the unfortunate reality is that in a capitalist market, money follows value. People will pay you a high salary because they believe you will deliver a high value to their company. Not because you hold a certificate paper, because everyone holds that, and you know what they say about supply and demand. If you don't have in-demand, hot skills that are scarce, be ready to take up that peanut-paying job and that unpaid internship to learn what you need to learn to be in demand. It is called stooping to conquer.

But many job candidates don't understand the market they are in yet. So they struggle in this area.

5. Poor work ethic. This is one I can write a book on. It appears many graduates don't understand that employers employ them to ADD value. So they engage in behaviors that erode or destroy value for their employer. And wonder why no one wants to hire them.
What is value to an employer? Time and Trust.

How is the value of Time and Trust eroded?
i. By missing deadlines. This is when someone is asked to complete a task by 3 pm on Wednesday, but instead, completes it and send it by 5 pm on Friday. And does not apologize or communicate ahead of time that there will be a delay so their employer can manage the impact. Time is money - this is unacceptable behavior
ii. By being unreliable. This is connected to the above in a way. When a supervisor gives work to you, they want to be able to go elsewhere and come back assured that you will do the exact work. But sometimes, there is no communication, and after the time elapses, the work is not done. When your employer has to engage in prayer and fasting for you to deliver your work on time and in good quality, know you won't last long. You are creating too much stress.


6. Refusal to self-develop. In the world we are living in, the biggest disservice you can do to yourself is to end your personal learning and development with a BSc or BA. Even if you cannot afford a Master's program, there are so many free online courses that allow one to take up relevant digital skills (mind you, digital skills go beyond software programming, so there are skills for you if you absolutely hate the idea of coding).

And even asides from digital skills, there are so many other things to learn to become workplace-ready (employable). You need to learn business writing, proper verbal and written communication skills, telephone and email etiquette, emotional intelligence, team and collaboration skills. And all of these are available - for FREE! - on this internet. Same internet all of us are using. So it is always disappointing when I encounter a job seeker who has been searching for years but in all this time of searching, did not set apart time to ensure they have the workplace skills to succeed.


After all my plenty story, I'm still hoping we do have employable Nigerian graduates out there. Those that know better than to fall into the above-listed traps. What do you think? Share in the comments

Nigerian graduates are employable because you and your pals searching for candidates are also nigerians and u started from somewhere and in your private corner u seem to be employable from your view so as others the only thing is just that the opportunities that was given to u are not provided to those young graduates. If u have opportunities available am a graduate with little to no experience and am ready to give it my all and between I study geography.

BafanaBafana:
They withheld his name because he is a corp member.

His name is Arnold Maniru it has been mentioned in other news. This blogger blogger get skuchis

3lovelyflowers:
Chelsea will still beat them.

Check the last 5 games

How many hours can the body stay without oxygen. Know this know peace.

olamide0147:
Yeah they exist but na your type full everywhere

Chai u get bad mouth

Two ways to scam
1. Physical
2. Spiritual
Either way the end result of scam is bad if u don't reap now u reap later. Simple as ABC
And for the madness part my brother skit apart in Yoruba land dem no dey take madness play for main road hold that

NNAMDIII:
Guy if you read wetin the guy wey i quote talk then you go know why i talk say make him disturb him godfather, the guy we were talking about faced board for RC, they asked him if he was in uni and he said yes. That's automatic disqualification, because they'll say he should finish uni and go for ssc since he's already in school, he should give others that are not in uni the chance to make shirt. If you're in uni you have back up plan, if u dash u can still go back to uni, na nda lose. So it'll be hard to admit candidate wey dey uni.




I'm not saying cadets wey been dey uni no dey oo , them plenty , me too been dey 200l before nda, the thing is don't let them know you're in school because if they do you won't make shirt.





I told the guy to disturb his godfather because I knew he won't make it, the baba no get gf, final list came out and he didn't make it, na him kill himself because he told them that he was in school.





85% of cadets wey i know for nairaland no get gf, if not for nairaland me too for no make shirt, it was in this forum i discovered that you don't need GF to make shirt. When i wanted to go for screening i been no even get anybody to sign form, i disturb oga ugo4u to help me, last last he told me that no be by force make officer sign form for person, i sha went there and did my village thing and i was number 4 in my state, I was number 4 because of the mistakes i made during group obstacle, my group failed all the group obstacles if not I for be number 1, i no get gf , na experience i use make shirt

I really love ur manner of approach to issue.
U have my respect and for the record u will make a fine officer

So much ignorance in the house imagine NMS dey train corpers.

GarangDeMabior:
Outside the fringes of ilorin, his reign can still be felt, infact is felt.

Bros know aloow me knock u oooo where
Is it Offa Abi where

Sammy07:
Expantiate how he reigns beyond

I told him to enlighten me on his claim but nothing

GarangDeMabior:
His reign extend beyond Mr.

Enlighten me

Bkayyy:
OH you think I am claiming parts of Kwara for hausa . Sorry I interacted with the hausa there to know they are permanent residents not indigenes

Guy do u know uve been wrong all along.
U can nver know Kwara like Kwarans so please rest

GarangDeMabior:
They are well placed and positioned because they are governed by an emir.

Only Ilorin is governed by Emir take note

Bkayyy:
I wonder how you yorubas manage to stay put in your houses and imagine how neighboring states and towns look like. I mean from oshogbo to Ilorin is roughly 2000 naira on a normal day but you people can't defeat the travel phobia and attempt it.
Guy ilorin dey your backyard oh, no allow foreigners dey tell you stories about her

Ilorin to oshogbo 2k u must b high on something cheap and if u must know I waka pass u. Far and Wide

Vanzcharles:
Man The present day Nigeria is Divided into 6 Geo political zones. I want to ask you a question I need your answer, Atiku is from what part of Nigeria?

Buhari is from what part of the country?
Answer this and let me show you where I'm driving at.

Atiku NE cameroon
Buhari NW Nigeria.
Pack well and stop driving around

Bkayyy:
Try to convince someone that has not been to Kwara. The yorubas in Kwara try to project offa as the second biggest city in Kwara but those that have been there knows better, after visiting all of them I realized that Lafiagi is actually the second biggest just that Nupe people don't like to make noice, they prefer action. And saying that yoruba is spoken in all the Local governments, you made me laugh big time. Yoruba is not even used in tsaragi that shares boundary with share talk more of the entire local governments including the almighty Lafiagi that Nupe don't joke with.
The only thing I give to the yoruba kwarans is that they are more educated than there Nupe counterparts, but when it comes to influence, don't underestimate the Nupe influence because an average Nupe man cares less of what he can gain from the yorubas but the yorubas depend on the Nupe for food which is a primary necessity, now tell me who needs to learn and speak the others language

Guy abeg stop all this uve been saying since u are just saying nonsense if someone from OFFA catch u with all this trash uve been typing ur life will not remain d same. U can say alot of rubbish about kwara but remember don't mention hausa or North in the same sentence with Offa u are committing atrocity be warned. If u like say patigi hold the state Capital na u know that one. IGNORAMUS