₦airaland Forum

Loaded89:
According some sources, they are trying to round up everything before 4th of May. The HR has a lot of work to do, as the GMD is trying to retire some of the Top Guns in the corporation. One cannot say if the HR can meet up with the deadline. Thanks elzab for the info. You are in the know looop. Peace.

Yes, May is the month to look to actually.

yungmin:
You are just deluding yourself, no insult intended. What do you mean by southern university hardly admit northerners. What year did you graduate or started writing jamb? How can you be boastful of a jamb score or 249? So you think a jamb score of 249 would place among the best scoring students? you just confirmed all we have been saying. The standard is really low there. For your info, before you consider yourself to be among the best in jamb for any of the school's in the south, you should be looking at scores of 270 and above.

*start writing Jamb, not ‘started’.

Are you sure you belong to this EH category

The cut off mark for UI at the time was 200. My Masters and PhD are 4 years apart. I have 6 years working experience. I’ll leave you with the math.

By your analogy, it means you couldn’t get admitted in any southern university, hence your choice of ABU. Which also means you’re not bright.
Sigh, I’ve just been wasting my breath afterall!

#Out

Originakalokalo:
I don't know why we are having this distractions on this thread.

Pls let's dig into this claim that someone got APL as an EH.

Updates are needed here.

Not true at all please. We are monitoring!

The PRESSID thing is a story for another day!

But in brief, it was poorly planned from the onset. Members of the planning committee were busy shortchanging the scholars for no reason. The funds were being provided by PTDF when PTDF is itself a scholarship awarding body. Are you now saying these ones have 3 or 4 brains that the PTDF scholars didn’t have?

There’s also Tetfund scholarship and the Bilateral scholarship agreement as well as the commonwealth scholarship, NLNG, NDDC, NITDA and even NNPC scholarships.. all targeting bright Nigerians.
What was the basis for the PRESSID and why couldn’t it be established stand-alone?

yungmin:
Dual carriage way my foot. I served in Bauchi and I already told you I did a programme at ABU. You really have got nothing to say. The political class in the north are the worse ever. It is sad you are publicly hailing the ostensibly. It appears you guys in the north are just too docile.smh

Haha insults at last, typical!

Going to the N/East from Kano you follow Wudil, Gaya, Jama’are, Azare, Potiskum up to Maiduguri. This is a standard dual lane please.

I am not hailing, I am comparing. Open your eyes and read again, not with a clouded mind this time!

Peace!

yungmin:
The average northerner is a wanderer my foot. I have given you a typical example. From Kogi state up south, go check all the institutions and tell us the population of northerners in them. Also the reverse and testify.

Down south you mean. The south is geographically lower.

Let me give you a short answer; southern universities hardly admit northerners. But northern universities do. I had 249 jamb score years back when jamb was jamb and I’d put UI first choice and ABU second choice. UI flat refused me admission while ABU said why did I put them second. Lol. I lost out that year.

Your experience is probably little that’s why you zones down to universities with reference to the wandering thing. I am talking life in general.

Anyway, nice conversing.

Wish us all the best with NNPC. Peace

Inception:
If this is your thinking on the matter,

Then Quota system should be abolished, since Northerners are equally enlightened according to your post.

I sincerely like the inference you’ve drawn on this.

Now let me tell you, you see this Quota System of a thing? It is a tool for ensuring inclusiveness in anything.. Educational Institutions, Governance, Recruitment etc. Countries like Belgium, Germany, France, Iceland, India, Norway, Malaysia etc, have one form quota system or the other. I have lived in 4 countries and my experience is that governments do what brings balance to their system and ensure peace.

What we need to embrace as a people is the culture of contentment. Even if the whole 1050 successful are picked from one state, some people will still not get. You’ll have the first class, ace the aceables and still not get for one reason or the other.
Let’s stop blaming our mishaps on others. Maybe you’re not all that yourself.

Let me tell you this, the peculiarity of our own Quota System is such that it actually protects both sides. FCC ensure for example that a northerner in-charge of affairs doesn’t short-change southerners by skewing outcomes. In the end, whatever magu magu you do, so so number MUST come from each state and their representative State Commissioners in FCC will confirm if they’re their indigenes or not. You think there’s no wisdom in that?
Me thinks Federal Character is actually a tool for ensuring process merit in a complex setting like Nigeria.

yungmin:
lol, I did a degree ABU zaria. It is just religious constraints that is displayed there. All of the malpractices happening in other schools still happen there. Infact, in my class, the guys that were notorious in exam malpractices were northerners. They do it in cliques. If there is anyone myopic, it is the average northerner. You guys don't get expose beyond your region. I still maintain that northerners should be honest with themselves

You can as well tell us the quality of your ABU degree if you’ll at least be honest.
Malpractice? Come on, really? Even the ones with the white face and pink noses cheat in exams. It happens the world over.
“You guys don’t get exposed beyond your”. This is a very ignorant statement I must say. The average northerner is a wanderer. We move for agriculture. We move for trade. We move for many reasons and we find solace in the little experiences life dishes us along the way. Lagosians will will educate you better on this fact. Personally, I have just few states that I haven’t been to in this country and I truly appreciate the diversity. If there’s anyone unassuming and trusting to a fault, it is a northerner, only that he can be lazy and have a lackadaisical attitude. If you truly went to ABU you should be able to confirm this.
Religion is an important part of our heritage and if you’re angry about that, it’s your cup of tea. Do yours I do mine brother.

Porsches30:
I don’t know you bro but God bless you for putting this out there because i was beginning to get enraged that some daft people here think people from Arewa are not smart enough for top jobs like NNPC’s.....This is aptly put....I’m not sorry to say that some of you from the South are so intolerant of other people’s tribes and religion you think you are superior to others....i have one advice for you if you are in this category....
TRAVEL!!!!

Some of them only traveled to Abuja for the first time when they were invited for NNPC interview.
They are completely clueless about the actual vastness of this country.
I was travelling to the N/East from Kano some few years back and I was expected to contribute to a discussion on a certain Whatsapp group with many of my friends/colleagues from the south. So I quickly did a 5-6 secs video to show that I was driving and the whole topic changed... “so you people have good dual lanes like this in the North?” Because I have traveled the South too, I completely understood their shock.
I put a picture of Maiduguri (Lagos Street) at night and people kept swearing I was out of the country, I am not even kidding. Those who know, know! There are mega schools in Maiduguri where kids are given free bicycles to go to school. Yes, that same Maiduguri that the only thing you hear about is insurgency. How can you ever know any of these if you don’t TRAVEL??
When they go to Kano they be wondering if that’s the same Kano they always hear about. But some of their brothers have lived there all their lives but they’ll never tell them what the true situation.

You’ll be shocked at the number of Yobe indigenes with a PhD, very young guys. An awful lot of them have been drafted in the present state administration silently making their contributions towards growing their state and gaining a good head start at the game of politics.

Nasir El-Rufai is even smarter than the rest. He has, through his Kashim Ibrahim Foundation, rallied sound minded young northerners across all disciplines, home and abroad to coach them on governance and attached them in his government.

Make una dey der dey shout, we are coming ehn!

What exactly, if I may ask, are the governors in the South doing? No roads to show except for what the Federal Govt is doing. One was busy building statues of foreigners in his state. Another was brandishing cutlass on live TV threatening to kill people of opposition with it, and you tell me he’s a lawyer by training. If you go to some states in the south you’d swear there hasn’t been governance for long. If you see some of the roads down there..! The second niger bridge, Something of 1.6km, no one from that region could champion the delivery of that project, with all the federal allocations and 13 percent derivations of neighbouring states, until a northerner came through. Yet, at the slightest instance.. insults!

It is well!

freedomest:
Since NNPC made public comment about E.H, E.H will be released publicly. if not all, some.

True. There’s no sweeping it under. Fact is, the EH is where major interests lie. There’ll definitely be trade-offs, but it will see light of day with relative integrity.

Wish us all the best.

IkpuNnegiEwu44:
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Trashed to the Bin

East kee you there!

Typical.. as expected!

Some of you are very funny and myopic!

Most of our institutions in the North are embodiment of character and learning. I pray you get into this same NNPC that you’re bitter about and see the representation of the Northerners that you think were ‘favored’ by federal character. You’d be shocked to the bones. Most of the high-fliers in most of the sets either in DPR or NNPC and her subsidiaries are of northern extraction. This is mostly simply because they have matched capacity with character. It is not by gra-gra or ‘baffing up’ or your so called exposure or even sharp practices. Noise as we know it, is made by empty drums. This same arrogance and low self confidence you display at every opportunity and instance will be your downcast identity if you ever get into the corporation.
We don’t buy certificates, we equally don’t forge it. Its either we have it or we don’t. We hold our 2.2s and 3s with pride because it’s the result of our input. So do we our 2.1s and 1st. It’s not a do or die thing for us.
Some years back, I remember an NNPC recruitment that the panelists discovered most 2.1 graduates of Geology from University of Maiduguri and ABU performed better than the very many 1st class graduates that came from the south, especially east! Not to boast or anything, in my masters class in the UK, there were instances we helped a lecturer with the Geology aspect of his course because he wasn’t a Geologist. Our colleagues from other parts had this same mentality you all are displaying at the very beginning of the programme year.. “these malo guys no sabi anything”. I promise you by the end of that program the difference was beyond clear. We had five DPR staff, 3 from the north, 2 from the west. Boy ol’boy, those guys were top notch. Even after so many years in the field, the Engineering that was still in them was just awesome. Aliyu was not very outspoken, perhaps you’d laugh at his accent, but that man was an all-rounder, damn. Abu was eloquent and top notch, those in the industry may know him because of unionism. Tola was quiet but he knew virtually everything. Great guys I tell you. I concluded that year that there really was merit in DPR recruitments.

You see, we are hardly the nagging or complaining type. We make do with what is at hand and forget what puts us in bewilderment. We don’t trouble our hearts. We have have alot of pointers to what we can say are our problems with the south and how they are also causing untoward hardship and embarrassments to the rest of Nigerians especially by their actions in the diaspora, but you don’t find us hampering on these things or castigating the whole region. Even in the north, we know that alot of easterners contribute to our woes.. kidnapping our children to the east, importing hard drugs and making fat cash in the north. The ones doing legitimate spare parts business have complete monopoly of the business, you dare not try to join in - we don’t any way cuz we’re happy with that balance. They easily own lands and mansions without any hassle because we believe they’re entitled to as long as they got the purchasing power. Can you dare do that in the east? Lot’s of you come for the 1 year NYSC and find it difficult to go back to your places, yet you insult us at the slightest instance. We have housed southern corpers in gov’t lodges, we have posted them to even the Government House, we have encouraged them to stay afterwards. Heck, we give appointments in Govt to southerners who have stayed with us for long. This is the kind of energy we expect in return, or at worst bear with us as we grow.
Now what will shock you the most is the South can only say they are educationally ahead of the North statistically i.e percentage-wise. But in terms of sheer numbers it’s insane to think that the North is behind. This is not unrelated to our population vis-a-viz the current aggressive drive for education, Although much more needs to done. We have issues, there’s no denying. The West is one and only region that is holistically education-driven, and they put it to good use. They form part of the network that salvage the image of the country in the diaspora.. y’know Professors in various fields and some even serve in foreign governments.
Economic status of the North and Northerners that is generally overlooked by mainstream statistical indices is a topic for another day.

In essence, let’s respect ourselves and our differences. I am sorry for derailing this thread but it’s a result of Newton’s 3rd law.

Peace!

anataala:
Ina goyon bayanka, bai kamata yayi irin wannan magana ba. ya kamata ayi hatara.

Kwarai.

Donas11:
The Senate has passed the 2020 appropriation bill....

So that excuse is out of the way..

The corporation has no business with the Appropriation Bill, they have their own budgeting cycle.

Biaso:
My brother, you and I know that the ones clamouring are not the ones who made it to the Interview. Anyways, we hope for the best. Cheers!

We hope for the best.

Cheers!

TomDickandHarry:
Gbam!
Sorry I cannot translate gbam

LoL!

Biaso:
It is the reality on ground. There is a process for conversion, you have to go through it. If it wasn't, you won't have countless contract staff working for over 25 years without conversion..

I agree. However, most of them sat for the Exams, and interview. Looks to me a good ‘alibi’.

Well, let’s see how it unfolds.

chidiebereuzoma:
Bro, what about GTs?

Safe as a house!

Biaso:
The reason organisations recruit from time to time is to bring in, intelligent and vibrant employees with fresh ideas, it's not just for the sake of recruiting. Why do you think the Corporation has somewhat not attained the desired or required heights that's expected? The answer is obvious. The GMD knows this, that's why he embarked on massive restructuring across the corporation.

And, there are certain parameters that qualify one as EH, it's not just years of experience on the job, this issue with Contract staff, has always been there, no serious minded O&G would convert contract staff based on sentiments, not even NNPC. A big bro who works in the IT Department of NNPC joined as a contract staff, and he sat for the exams 3 times, he wasn't lucky on the first 2 occasions, but fortune smiled on him the 3rd time. There is a reason vacancies for Experienced Hire, were thrown open to the public, that's because NNPC wants the best they can get.

Lastly, fresh and innovative ideas are what keep organisations in business and ahead of competition, that's why bringing in New EH is always paramount to the survival and progress of world-class organisations. If the contract staff want to be made permanent staff, let them go through the recruitment process. This entitlement mindset is why NNPC has still not been able to achieve it's vision of becoming a Worldclass O&G Corporation.

This is what we all know and want to hear. Sadly, it is not the reality on ground.

MI6:
How did they get employed as contract staff in the first place? Any nationally advertised process for them to join the corporation at any time? Just want to understand it better!

The corporation over the years has been using Contract/Ad-hoc hiring to cover shortfalls in manpower until a time when they can do a proper recruitment, it is lawful.

joobseekar:
"Mgt circle" are the connect through which contract staff came into the system, and if they're arguing in their favour now, then we are in for a long ride.

Exactly.

I don’t know what their strength in number is but I don’t believe all advertised expertise could have been covered by the job descriptions of contact staff. So maybe there’ll be trade-offs. Some of them got DPR and left. Some will probably go with the ‘ongoing’ PEFMB & PPPRA recruitment. Some already applied and did interview with us.

But really, the issue standing in the doorway is this debacle.

As it stands, there seems to be a superior argument in favor of Contract Staff within the Mgt circle. This is for a number of reasons amongst which is the fact that they already have requisite hands-on experience/training over the years. So, Why hire new EHs when you have already expended resources to train Contract Staff?

As such, they’re considering proceeding with GTs and shelving EH applicants. No final resolution has been made yet as they’re still weighing the options and having meetings.

In the end, there might just be some middle-ground agreement.. take from here and there.

May the odds be in our favor!

N.B - they seem to have more connections than us, if at all we do. Lol

smartkester:
I saw this on DPR thread, please look closely how genuine is this or it came from this thread itself

It is crisply genuine.

bulaj:
How can a self funded corporation be dependent on the passage of the budget? Enlighten me somebody.

Not passage of budget par se! They have their own internal budgeting for the fiscal year, aligned with that of the FG (June-July).

But yeah, the Corporation just takes from what it generates and remits the rest to federation account.

Hi Guys,

For those contemplating a protest, you are at liberty to. But, what is your premise?
Some of the people that even saw there names in the 'leaked list' of successful applicants for the DPR 2016 recruitment but were not contacted are still there waiting to be called in some sort of second batch recruitment. In this case, nothing has been done that you can even prove.

Know this, in rebellion, the agitators are usually always the fall guys, even when the cause has been achieved. You may just be fighting for people who already know for sure they are getting in.

And oh, never make the mistake of thinking you are 'faceless', lol.

Some of us have been rebels in workplaces and other settings alike, e no dey pay like that.

Lets be patient and engage in other things, what will be will be!

Cheers.

olaidefat:
Notification in December and resumption in January not bad.

Not bad at all.

The Corporation would've captured New Staff Training and all the allowances in the 2020 budget. Most importantly, the rejigging currently going on in the CHQ and some subsidiaries will allow for proper placement of staff and postings.

However, lets remain prayerful, lots happening underground. But, hopefully rational reasoning will prevail.

Cheers.

So, just to contribute to the data collated on here, I’ve been paid;

July 1st
EH
3k
5th Sept, 2:05pm
Lazarus Mikailu

Somebody is probably waiting for somebody’s son or daughter to round up NYSC, or finish a course abroad so they can they tell somebody to proceed with the last bit.

OR

Somebody is leveraging on powers at their disposal to ‘re-insert’ names that were otherwise initially hard to smuggle, thereby stalling the process.

Something must give.

It is well! Que sera sera!!

apaf:
But careful observation should make us know that roughly same number of pple were pulled out from each state for the interview, say 240 per state.
In which the apropriate % will be used by FCC to selected the finalist as said before, to balance workforce and state equality.
So I dont believe there will be any state that will produce less than needed quota from their state for the interview..
It should even be more than.
APL is a goal.

Lol, issoryt!

GeniusOla:
Thanks chief

Uw Sire!

simplynace:
Thanks...

Could you go further by listing those states.

I’d rather not say, please. It will just bring up unnecessary discourse. But I’m sure you can take a wild guess, and you’d be correct.

Cheers.