An information security company base in Lagos is urgently looking for a web programmer to work on multiple public-facing websites: blogs, eCommerce, and promotional. We're looking primarily for a PHP developer with a back-end focus, Required skill : php, mysql, jquery,xml

info@corp.macconext.com

An information security company base in Lagos is urgently looking for a web programmer to work on multiple public-facing websites: blogs, eCommerce, and promotional. We're looking primarily for a PHP developer with a back-end focus, Required skill : php, mysql, jquery,xml

info [at] corp dot macconext dot com

An information security company base in Lagos is urgently looking for a web programmer to work on multiple public-facing websites: blogs, eCommerce, and promotional. We're looking primarily for a PHP developer with a back-end focus,  Required skill : php, mysql, jquery,xml

info [at] corp dot macconext  dot com

Nancy? Take it else where, I trust someone somewhere needs this more than me, believe me.
All the best

We are empowering unemployed youth, students of the forth coming holidays, graduates alike to take advantage of this opportunity in achieving their financial freedom and be their own BOSS.
We are offering training courses in bead-making for 3 weeks at N5000 . Call 08032924716 , 07028026990 or email: divapurple@yahoo.com for discount.
Other trainings include make-up, head gear tieing courses, balloon decoration course . Discount available for interested persons

Get full body massage for 2k! Enquiries call 08032924716. Offer last till July 31st

Thanks bro,those tiny things really do come handy. I looked for it later but found out the guy selling them had exhausted his stock.
How do I get any? Do u know where I can get it?
Oh I was disposed of valuables. Sad.

I never thot it would happen to me until recently on Adeniji Adele my car broke down and I became an easy target for robbers in that time of the night.
If only I had listen to my girl friend and bought those 3mins tyre inflators!

This is authoritative, guys start eating more of ogbono soup and okro soup to prevent infertility.

Dr. Ogaga is an authority on this, ask him

Wish you the best

Mobil has finally agreed to pay King CLement Uwemedimo ( and all registered Patentees) royalties accrued to them over the past 11 years. That is a huge amount of money.  Are you a registered patentee?

@ Canuck , its no problem, i will gladly do this and for any other person that is interested in having a copy of this all time greatest song. I dont know Bongos Ikwe in person but i think her deserves to be remembered for this good he did for our great country. I mean despite all he had to go through in the hands of the powers that be then. That is another story for another , lol

who wants a copy of the audio?

@Chosen04, its obvious u dont know what we are talking about here. I mean this was the boom song then. YES OO. you couldnt help but sing along. It was that good. Forget all that grammar construction u r talking about , ask ur lecturers who Bongos Ikwe was way back then, abeg, no lele, lol

No really jokes apart, this was on composition that only time can judge how brilliant the composer was

@ Canuck, I am working on something good and u will certainly be the first to get a copy of the audio. A friend said he can get it for me before weekend. Lets see how that turns out.

@ Chosen04, in the year 1985, Nigeria was not as dramatic as it is today. Ask ur parents, or anyone who can give u a clue of what it was like back then. Yes agreed that u were a toddler and so couldnt have heard it being played on the airwaves but believe me, it was a song that got ur singing along.

Some good old days that was back then. Pls dont call happy days like that trash, just becos u were still stealing milk.

@ftmom,

Thank you so much for the correction. I am sure someone out there will certainly be able to fit in all the wording of the song soon.

The song then was on everyone's lips especially the part of the hoe, hoe. We kids then liked repeating it . It was the good old days indeed.

Pls can anyone help us here, do u have the video, complete wordings of the song or even what has become of Bongos Ikwe himself, fill us in.

Meaning that you are not aware that naija has gifted and talented musicians like Bongos Ikwe, abi? too much talent

@Chosen04, my dear lady, u must have just started walking by then, lol

Staying In Touch With The "Real" You
We’ve heard over and over again that single mothers are both “mom and dad”. Although, we cannot in reality be two people, many of us do a “bang up” job raising healthy, successful children in spite of the missing mate. But being the only parent in the house is an arduous task. So, we must aggressively take good care of ourselves - mind body and spirit - so that we don't lose ourselves in the daily demands of raising our children.
This is why the primary focus of our single mother support groups in Kansas City is to focus on the women behind the mom character. At the meetings we spend the bulk of our time discovering how we, as single moms, can lead mentally stable, balanced, complete lives. To be able to raise our children confidently and effectively, we’ve got to take good care of ourselves mentally, spiritually and physically.
Here are 5 tips to guide you in staying in touch with yourself as you parent your children.
1) Find some “YOU” Time
I’m not saying you have to set aside an entire day for yourself, but if you are able, find some amount of time in your hectic schedule to just enjoy your life. When my son was small, I would use his nap time to listen to music, take a long bubble bath or eat some sinfully decadent dessert. Granted, it wasn’t a lot of time, but it was enough time for me to slow my day, refresh myself, and hear my thoughts. 2) Maintain Friendships



for more go to naijasingleparents on facebook

@ Lannre, pls i so will i, i was 9year old then. How time flies!

He was among best 3 music writter ever produced in nigeria and among the best 10 in africa. He sold more 15 million albums in his life time. he was the best english music singer nigeria ever produced. Nobody yet as live up to his ratng sing english music in nigeria.

Where is Bongos Ikwe now? Why should such a brilliant man like this be forgotten just like that ( all becos of a woman)

Okay, guys, can some one help me out again here. Since this song was such a bomb way back then that i can still remember it till yesterday, i was wondering if our aspiring Presido ( Maradonna) will allow oga Bongos compose another one successfully as per say madam Mariam don kick bucket

This is a big whaoooooo for me. I cant believe it too that its been 25 years just like that. gush this does make me so old. I am glad that i could get ur attention and the complete wording f the song.

50 years ooooo, i wonder which song they will compose for naija, our beloved motherland this time around. any suggestions?

Come October 1, 2010 will be 50 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurray! I want to ask the house, can anyone remember the wordings of the song of Nigeria at 25yrs composed and sang by Bongos Ikwe

Nigeria is 25,
we all indeed survive,
arise salute the nation,
come join the celebration,
a people united will never fall,
the sun will shine and the rain will fall ,
on our land, vast and mighty, richly blessed by the Almighty ,

who can help me with the rest

This pictures would touch an heart but be that as it may, its the reality we all have to face. these guys live on these dump site, check ojota site. I mean , its the truth but again looking more closing they are busy, working, even with the some of them with their ear piece ( meaning they have a phone on ipod on) its not as they would want it but the fact remains that our leaders, those that know better have closed their eyes, turned their back to the truth and allow the decay in the system to continue.

Life must go on, these guys are making the best they can of what the system has left them with.

See the smiles , see the bond of togetherness even in the dump!

CNN and all their pranks! I had this post on so everyone can see /read what distortion to a speech can do to a well planned, well said speech. I tire oo

In a country where a graduate is earning 15k and a chincoco or indian earned thousands of naira, how else would they not not undermine Nigerians more qualified than them.

i tire for our government ooo

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Tonight, we have Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, leader of Africa's most populous nation and its biggest oil exporter. 



Good evening, everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpour, and welcome to our program. 



Nigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, is in Washington for the nuclear security summit, and he gave us his first interview since assuming power. He took office in February after President Umaru Yar'Adua had been languishing from a mysterious illness since last November. 



And within weeks, he's had to deal with a new explosion of violence in a long-running land dispute near the city of Jos in which hundreds of people have been killed. And at the same time, he's faced an insurgency in the oil-rich delta region, fueled by small arms imported from the West. 



And when he met the U.S. president, Barack Obama, at the White House this week, Goodluck Jonathan was urged to tackle election reform and corruption. I sat down with the acting president after that meeting, and it's the first time he's given an interview to anyone since taking office. 



AMANPOUR: Can I ask you first, what an extraordinary name. How did "Goodluck" come to be your name?

GOODLUCK JONATHAN, ACTING PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA: I don't know. I have to ask my father. (LAUGHTER)



AMANPOUR: You don't know? 



JONATHAN: No.



AMANPOUR: Have you had good luck? And do you think you'll need more than good luck to face down the incredible array of challenges that's on your plate? 



JONATHAN: Well, the issue of good luck, I don't really believe that the good luck is an issue. But as the president, I've been facing myriad of (ph) challenges. What some people will attribute to good luck could have been disastrous under some circumstances. 



AMANPOUR: Well, let me ask you this. You are now Acting President, because the President, Mr. Yar'Adua, is unwell. 



JONATHAN: Yes. 



AMANPOUR: Have you seen him since he has come back from his medical absence in Saudi Arabia? 



JONATHAN: No, I have not seen him. 



AMANPOUR: Why not? 



JONATHAN: Well, when somebody is seriously ill, either the president or a citizen of Nigeria, and by virtue of being a president is a public figure, but still when you are seriously ill, we would respect the opinion of the family. And in the thinking of the family is that (inaudible) insulate him from (ph) most of the key actors in government (ph). 

I have not seen him. The Senate president (ph) has not seen him, Speaker of the House of Representatives has not seen him, and other senior government officials. 


AMANPOUR: Doesn't that cause, when all the senior members of government, including yourself -- doesn't that cause anxiety amongst the people? 



JONATHAN: Yes, it does. It does. Obviously, it does, but we cannot over-influence his family's thinking. 



AMANPOUR: Would you prefer that the family allowed you to visit him? 



JONATHAN: Yes, of course. But I will not want to force. 



AMANPOUR: What is his actual state of health? This also is a mystery. 



JONATHAN: I can't say exactly. It's only the medical doctors that can. 



AMANPOUR: Have they told you? 



JONATHAN: No, they haven't. 



AMANPOUR: Have they made any public statements? 



JONATHAN: Not quite. Not now. At the beginning, yes, but he left for Saudi Arabia, I think in the second week or so or within the first week we are told that he has acute pericarditis. After that, no other statement has been issued. 



AMANPOUR: So if he can receive religious leaders, why can he not receive at least the Acting President who's acting in his name? 



JONATHAN: Well, religious leaders are there for (inaudible) blessings. But probably that is why they asked the religious leaders to go and pray for him. We are a very, very religious society. 



AMANPOUR: Do you believe that those around him -- his family, his loyalists -- are trying to undermine you or your new cabinet or your efforts as acting president? 



JONATHAN: I wouldn't say they were trying to undermine me, because the laws of the land are very clear. 



AMANPOUR: Do you think he will ever come back to government? 



JONATHAN: I can't say that. It's difficult for any of us as mortals to say so. 



AMANPOUR: So you are now Acting President, and you have essentially a year, because elections will be held this time 2011. 



JONATHAN: Yes. 



AMANPOUR: What is your most pressing issue? 



JONATHAN: The most pressing issue for Nigeria now, in terms of basic infrastructure, is power. What outside power. 


AMANPOUR: You mean electricity? 


JONATHAN: Electricity. But outside that, what is central to the minds of Nigerians now is an election that their votes will count, free and fair elections, because we've been accused of a country that our elections somehow questioned. And I promise Nigerians that they will surely get that, and I've done some experiments. The next thing that Nigerians get worried about is the issue of corruption. You know we've been accused of people who have privilege position in government amassing wealth at the expense of society. So they expect us to take these two issues seriously. 



AMANPOUR: So what can you do to take those issues seriously? Obviously, the issue of good governance, of free elections, free of corruption is central, and you heard the United States has also said just now that you must remove the head of the election commission, Mr. Maurice Iwu. Will you do that? 


JONATHAN: You see, the issue of the -- the electoral body -- the issue is that whether the president electoral body -- we called an Independent Electoral Commission, INEC -- can conduct free and fair election or not. And I told them that, yes, they can, because I have done it with the same people. 



But issue of the people is INEC, I told them that, look, between now and ending of June, most of the officials at the national level -- they're called commissioners -- their tenure will end, and we're going to review them on individual merit. And if some people still cannot go back, we have to replace them. 



AMANPOUR: Do you think he will stay or will he be removed? That's something that the U.S,  

(CROSSTALK)



JONATHAN: ,  among -- among the commissioners at the center that their tenure will end by June this year. And we are going to review, 



AMANPOUR: So he will be out by June? 



JONATHAN: All of them we'll review. And any one of them that we feel is not competent definitely, 



AMANPOUR: Do you feel that Mr. Iwu is competent? 



JONATHAN: (inaudible) I know that this question continues to come up. What I've said is the issue is beyond Mr. Iwu. 



AMANPOUR: I know. But I'm specifically talking about him, because it's come up in your meetings with U.S. officials. 



JONATHAN: Yes, I agree that within the period that he's chairing INEC, there are quite a number of controversies. I agree. There are quite a number of concerns. There are quite a number of controversies. There are a number -- the perception is that the feeling back home and in the international community is that he cannot conduct a free and fair election. 



So I know what I'm telling you, that this (inaudible) Iwu, I'm not trying to hold brief for him. The Iwu we are talking about has conducted free elections. These past three elections were credible. So the issue is -- because the issue is beyond Iwu (inaudible) set up an electoral system and our regulations and laws that will make sure that anybody who is appointed to that office should be able to conduct acceptable elections. And that is my focus. 



AMANPOUR: OK. Will you run in 2011? Will you present yourself as a presidential candidate? 



JONATHAN: For now, I don't want to think about it. I came in as the vice president (ph) to run with President Yar'Adua. Of course, getting close to -- to period of election he took ill, and I have to take over under somewhat controversial circumstances. Only last week, I reconstituted the cabinet. So let us see Nigeria move forward first. If the country is not moving, what -- what will I tell Nigerians I want to contest for? Yes, I'm a politician and I would be interested in politics, since I'm still relatively young. 



AMANPOUR: But the -- the reason I ask you is because, 



JONATHAN: Yes, but I cannot even tell myself now. I must assess myself. 



AMANPOUR: I understand. 



JONATHAN: You cannot just wake up and say you want to contest an election to be the president of a country. First of all, you must say, can you really bring the dividends of (inaudible) three months after which we review ourselves. And I used to tell people, look, if I'm not satisfied with what is happening (inaudible) election? 



AMANPOUR: Well, I'm asking you because there is this informal agreement amongst various locations north and south which has been closely followed about taking turns at the presidency and that power must shift. For instance, Mr. Yar'Adua, who is from the north, has not even finished one term, and he should have a second term, according to your informal agreement. You're from the south. 



JONATHAN: Yes. 



AMANPOUR: So it's kind of not your turn, so that's why I'm asking you -- and everybody's very interested as to whether you will present yourself for elections. 



JONATHAN: Yes, those interests are there. I was part of a lot of meetings in the ruling party (inaudible) even (inaudible) within the ruling party (inaudible) but, basically, the issue of whether I will contest or not is it (inaudible) I used to say that, if I contest elections, the elections in Nigeria are not only the presidency election, et cetera (inaudible) of Nigeria. 



There are options for me if I want to contest election. I recontest as a vice president to anybody. I can contest as a president, because the laws allow me. But that is not my own priority now. My priority now is to see how, within this little period left, what impact can we show? 



AMANPOUR: But let me just get something straight. You say that you can contest and it's possible that you will contest, yes? 



JONATHAN: It is, of course. 



AMANPOUR: Yes? It's possible that you will contest then? 



JONATHAN: These are options. I don't want to think about it. 



AMANPOUR: One other question on elections. Mr. Ibrahim Babangida, former Nigerian military leader who seized power, essentially, and ruled for about eight years in the late '80s and '90s, says that he wants to contest them again in 2011. Is that acceptable? 



JONATHAN: He's very free. There is no law stopping Babangida from contesting. Babaginda and any other military head of state are very free to contest. 



AMANPOUR: What would that say about modern Nigeria? 



JONATHAN: It depends on the people, and that's why we say that -- yes, it depends on -- I will say that the votes of the people must count. Babangida is a leader that has been head of state for about eight years plus, just like you said. Babangida has his friends. He has done some good jobs, even though some people may see -- nobody will be a leader that who will not see you from both left and right. But as an individual, Babangida is very free to contest the presidency. Other military leaders are interested in contesting the presidency, not only Babangida, and they are all free. On that 11th day, Nigerian votes will count, and not me.

AMANPOUR: Mr. Acting President, one of your big challenges, as well, is to try to re-energize the peace process, the amnesty process in, in fact, your homeland, isn't it, the Niger Delta area? 



JONATHAN: (inaudible)



AMANPOUR: Exactly. So there was a whole system set in place, but it seems to be fraying, and there's a lot of concern, particularly given how vital it is as an oil-producing part of the world. What are you going to do about that? 



JONATHAN: Well, the amnesty process (inaudible) what's happened is that people don't really understand the total concept of the amnesty. The amnesty is divided into three phases, the disarmament phase. That is the phase where militants surrender their weapons. Then rehabilitation phase and reintegration phase. 



Some of these militants have been in that armed struggle for a very long time. And when young people are involved in carrying weapons against the state for very long time, there is a tendency for them to go into some forms of aberration-type behavior (inaudible) excessive alcohol or some of them they even (inaudible) so you have a process that you must follow. 



After the disarmament, the next is rehabilitation. You have to rehabilitate them. Then you have to properly integrate them into the society. So during the process of rehabilitation, you must re-orientate their thinking and make them to learn some skills that will enable them and a decent living through the proper reintegration process. 

What's now -- we are trying to make the best -- up to this time, we have not gotten the kind of (inaudible) but now (inaudible) we (inaudible) Niger Delta before the minister of defense, who handled the disarmament, was also coordinating the rehabilitation, and that was giving us a lot of problems.

But now we are (inaudible) rehabilitation. The disarmament was the military exercise, so the minister of defense (inaudible) so the case of rehabilitation and reintegration has now moved into the hands of this president adviser to the president on the Niger Delta. We have a good program. 



So by the first batch of trainees (inaudible) or so are going to move to their camps in the crossover state (ph) by the third week of April, so we have to do them in batches. The total number of militants are about 20,191, little more than 20,000 (inaudible) so it's a lot of youth. And it's not easy to manage those number of people. 



AMANPOUR: What about Jos, which we just saw an explosion of violence there between Muslim and Christian? What can you do about that? 



JONATHAN: No, no, no, it's not a problem between Muslim and Christians. That is quite wrong, actually. The problem of Jos is -- Jos occupies a plateau, quite a high land area in Nigeria. And that's an area where a number of people settle outside the indigenous population (ph). In fact, even when Lagos was a federal capital territory, most -- most Europeans who came to Nigeria, they preferred to stay in Jos. 



Because of the elevation, the temperature is very low. It's like a sub-temperate climate where the temperature sometimes could drop up to minus two. No part of Nigeria that (inaudible) well, because of that climate and the mining of tin and others (inaudible) within that area. 



So there's a lot of settlers from the southeastern part of Nigeria, from the southwestern part of Nigeria, and from the extreme north, so most of these settlers now play big in the economy, local economy. So the indigenous population feels that they have been excluded from the economy, and that has been bringing conflict from the early '60s. 



AMANPOUR: But what can you do about it? 



JONATHAN: Of course, we have (inaudible) in terms of what we are doing, we are discussing with the traditional rulers (ph), we are discussing with religious leaders, we are discussing with opinion leaders. That is to appeal to them (ph), and they are responding. 



Of course, we're also providing security, because, first of all, you must provide adequate security to make sure that people don't carry weapons and intimidate or kill others, so that is being done. 

Then we also are appealing to their conscience using their leaders, both opinion leaders, both their religious leaders, both traditional leaders. And it is paying off. 



AMANPOUR: It is paying off? 



JONATHAN: Yes. 



AMANPOUR: Do you think that kind of violence will stop? 



JONATHAN: (inaudible) I cannot say it will stop completely, but our commitment is to make sure that it stops. 



AMANPOUR: With issues like Jos or the Niger Delta, with the fact that, as you mentioned yourself, there's a severe power and electricity crisis, and all sorts of other issues, how do you make international investors feel confident? Even kidnappings there are, as you've said yourself, need to stop. 



JONATHAN: Realize Nigeria is a very big country. And some of these issues people raise in the media that makes it look as if the whole country is rampant (ph).

It's not quite so. We have a letter of international investors even in the Niger Delta, you have the oil companies everywhere. Yes, we have these occasional issues of kidnapping, but it doesn't stop (ph). But we are also strengthening the local security system, the police force. We are trying to set up a special fund to make sure that we're strengthening the police to maintain law and order. In addition to making sure that we provide what the people will need and appeal to different groups, to see reason why (inaudible) we are also doing what we think is right to increase the security, because you must secure the area. 



AMANPOUR: You've just had meetings with President Obama. What was the most important issue that you discussed? I know President Obama discussed many things, including the issue of a joint fight against terrorism. 



JONATHAN: Yes, of course, 



AMANPOUR: It was the Nigerian youth who tried to set himself and set a plane on fire over the United States. 



JONATHAN: Of course, that is an unfortunate incident. But I know you know more than me. When that issue came up, it was a global issue, and everybody traced the history of a young man. This man -- this young man left Nigeria long ago, and he got indoctrinated in the West. 



AMANPOUR: But do you nonetheless think it's an issue that has to be combated, terrorism? 



JONATHAN: Of course. Nigeria -- you know that the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nigeria is one of the countries that signed it. We believe that the whole globe must be peaceful. We cannot (inaudible) cannot encourage that. Nigerians are not terrorists. We know the problem as African leaders. We are suffering from the use of small arms and light weapons. In fact, in Africa, the use of small arms and light weapons is more devastating to us than even the issue of nuclear terrorism, because Africans have died from small arms and light weapons, more than the nuclear terrorism, because most of these weapons used in the former Soviet Union are no longer relevant, and they've all been shipped into Africa. 



Most of the small arms and light weapons manufactured in America and other -- in European countries are shipped down to Africa, and this is a cost of most of this crisis we're having, this insecurity we're having, so we totally support. 



AMANPOUR: You've got 12 months, essentially, to enact the reforms you're talking about, bringing about the changes, whether it's to election law, whether it's to the issue of peace. How much do you really think you can achieve in this short period of time? 



JONATHAN: We'll do our best. Some of this (inaudible) human issues that you can achieve significantly, like we talk about electoral reforms and conducting clean elections. We don't need 100 years to do that. We don't even need a year to do that, because they're human factors (ph). And a few months, we should be able to set up a system that can conduct free and fair elections. But all that is like basic infrastructure that needs a period that -- that you conceptualize it, you figure out the design, you figure the planning, environmental assessment, and so on before you the physical execution of the projects. Those ones will take some time. 



But still, people will see that you've set up a clear roadmap. If you think the most challenging infrastructure that we have, the power infrastructure, the electric power infrastructure, we must set up a clear agenda that people will know that we are moving forward and we have milestones that we can benchmark you. 



Definitely a government that -- we have 12 months, and especially -- especially it's an election period. Immediately after elections, government’s activities tend to slow down because of, of course, they are key positions that are in government. 



So we have that kind of a challenge. We don't really even have 12 months. We can't even claim to have 5 months. But what we promise is that within the shortest possible time, we take (inaudible) cannot take everything. We take the things that we believe we can leave some footprints, but most importantly for Nigerians to see that we are -- we are serious and we are committed. 



AMANPOUR: On that note, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, thank you very much for joining us. 



JONATHAN: Thank you. 



AMANPOUR: And that was our conversation with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan. And that's it for us now today.

Courtesy of CNN.

San Francisco, April 13, (THEWILL) – THEWILL can authoritatively report that LM Ericsson (Nigeria) Limited is set to embark on a mass retrenchment of its Nigerian workforce to pave way for Indian nationals which the company is currently in the process of employing en masse.

More than Four hundred and thirty Nigerian employees of Ericsson will be affected by the purge because of Ericsson’s plan to engage cheaper labour from India.

About fifty Indians have already been employed and flown to Nigeria to familiarize themselves with Ericsson’s operations before the affected employees last day at work.

Those mostly affected are engineers in the Network Operations Centre (Front office and Back office support) dept of the company who were employed from Zain in August last year.

The decision to embark on the mass sack was conveyed to employees during a meeting held on 7th of April 2010 at 9am at the Air Force Officers Mess, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos by the management of the company.

THEWILL investigations revealed that after the decision to sack the employees was conveyed, the management of Ericsson immediately put up vacancy availability on its web site specifically for Indians. See link http://www.ericsson.com/article/100330_opportunities_in_india_20100330101055

Further investigations revealed that Ericsson had entered into a multi-million-dollar service agreement with Zain last year, (Zain was recently acquired by India’s Barti). Part of the deal was to provide engineering and Network operations services to Zain including employing about four hundred and fifty employees in Zain’s Network Operations Centre.

Before the management of Ericsson formalized the employment of the engineers in August 2009, some key issues that were of the greatest concern to the employees were discussed. Issues like salary structures, harmonization of salaries between Ericsson and Zain staff transferring to Ericsson, promotions and salary increases, career advancement in Ericsson, possible job function changes, possible breach of contract between Zain and Ericsson, plans for redundancies, possible sale of Zain amongst others. Ericsson guaranteed the engineers secure and long-term employment.

An authoritative source at Zain confirmed that Zain has not reneged on any part of the service contract it entered with Ericsson adding that the management of Ericsson was just in search of cheaper labour from India at the detriment of Nigeria employees.

Checks at Ericsson also revealed that in total disregard to standard labour and employment regulations, the company is not offering the affected employees any severance package.

THEWILL contacted Mr. Blair Mackenzie, Ericsson’s Human Resources Director for comments on the sack but he said he is not authorized to discuss the subject. He suggested we speak to the Managing Director or the corporate communications department.

Attempts to reach Omasan Ogisi of Ericsson’s corporate communications for comments also failed.

@ Jamace,

i dont get you at all. i think you have much more informations than you are ready to let the house know. i smell more rats from your corner. gba be. you no bi small man for this matter at all. tell us the whole truth that you know as regards this Comandclem stuff.

true true, tell me , wetin be the yarn wey dey for this thing. the angle wey u dey take attack anything wey i dey talk for here, na so so attack and counter attack na him you dey throw come my side.

i dey suspect you really bad, gba be!

Bros na you sabi ooo. i know say God is faithful

@ Beaf, you got the to the point here with your reply. i had my doubts too at first and this led me to one of their office which is located at Ojuelegba.

enough documents even as far back as 1980 when Mobil managemetn didnt think Nigeria had enough oil to last them this long thereby committing the mistake that is giving this man the upper hand against them.

i pray Dr. King does win this case come October 5th, its not going to be easy but with all he has lost and is still going thru, it will benefit all who believe in tis dream.

no bi small thing o