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Politics › Re: The Chinese Can Have Amosun Too - By Abimbola Adelakun by tooloadedtofail(op): 12:07pm On Aug 22, 2024

We need more people to tell truths to mediocre leaders like this...

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Politics › The Chinese Can Have Amosun Too - By Abimbola Adelakun by tooloadedtofail(op): 12:06pm On Aug 22, 2024

Following the seizure of the country’s assets based on the ruling of a French court, former Ogun governor Ibikunle Amosun, put out successive press releases clarifying his role in the embarrassing situation. The first, explaining his responsibility in the matter between Ogun State and two Chinese companies (which culminated in the seizure of three presidential aircraft), was just as self-indicting as the second, a rejoinder to economist Pat Utomi. Both succinctly summarise everything wrong with leadership in this part of the world and why we just never seem to move forward. It is no longer news that we have bad leaders, but it was always distressing to see—through their self-narration—that we are ruled by people who are unethical, unthinking, and unsophisticated.

After reading both press statements, I concluded that the Chinese company’s enforcement of the law against Nigeria should not stop at seizing foreign assets. They should take Amosun with them. They can put him on the plantation for all we care.

Now, let me say that I have taken note that Amosun’s statement on Zhongfu’s duplicity, as much as they give him away as a poor administrator, is also one-sided. Until an investigative journalist can obtain and analyse the legal documents in the four Nigerian courts (where Zhongfu lost their cases) and the Paris arbitration tribunal (where they won) to provide a comprehensive picture of what unfolded, all we have to go by are the self-vindicating statements of each party. I should also add that this is not a defence of either Zhongfu or Utomi. Today, I am not particularly interested in the details of their deals with Ogun to take sides; I am only concerned with the naïve actions of the people who make the decisions that affect our lives.

In his press release, Amosun stated that two Chinese organisations fought over the lawful representative of the original joint venturer, Guangdong Province, China, and the right to manage the Ogun Free Trade Zone. Here is where it gets funny:

Zhongfu International Investment FXE, pretending to be a concerned and genuine tenant and Zone stakeholder, volunteered very damaging and destructive information about the official representatives of Guangdong Province, the Joint Venturer and lawful Zone Managers, China Africa Investment FXE and subsequently requested to be appointed as Interim Zone Managers.

If a rival agency provides “damaging and destructive information” about its rival, common sense should tell anyone that whatever they are “volunteering” cannot be merely for charitable purposes. Amosun must have been wearing that his signature cap too tight for air to be let into his head because he apparently favoured the gossiping party for no reason other than their takedown of their opponent. According to him, it was only later that they discovered the information was a “tissue of lies.” When I read the part where he stated that unknown to the Ogun Government at the time, Zhongfu International Investment FXE merely sought to de-market China Africa Investment FXE and to surreptitiously covert the state-owned assets of Guangdong Province in China together with the zone ownership and management rights of their business rival, I thought Amosun should be flogged in the market square.

For a state government with an entire bureaucracy at its disposal, it should not have been “unknown” to you that you were being manipulated. You could have done due diligence by carrying out an independent fact-finding mission before taking decisions rather than letting a self-interested agent do your homework. Also, between 2012 when you appointed Zhongfu as “interim managers” and 2016 when the Chinese government clarified that China Africa Investment FXE was the rightful investor, you did not do any independent work to ascertain the truth? If it would take the Chinese government for you to know what was true, why did you not contact them all along?

But that is one part of his self-indictment. The second part is revealed in his release where he responds to Utomi. He says, Before I came into office, the Ogun State House of Assembly had passed a persona non grata on Utomi, and put its resolution in the state’s black book. So, I was curious when I became governor and called Utomi to ask what the issue was. This was entirely at my discretion and not because he reached out to me. But I reckoned that as one with some degree of name-recognition, that should not be, and I wanted to know what happened.

What you quickly notice is that in his reply to Utomi is the change of tone. In the first statement, he was careful to assume corporate responsibility for the decisions that led to the Nigerian embarrassment. He made sure to use the pronoun “we,” and to state that this and that action was taken by “Ogun” or “our administration.” When he got into the spat with Utomi, he dropped the façade and reverted to the personal pronoun. Unlike the first where he was careful to spread responsibility for the failure of intelligence that has brought Nigeria to this point, the second revealed him as a governor who basically ran a one-man show while in office.

He left me wondering, why would you—as a governor—be curious about the legislature blacklisting an individual to the point of contacting the person? If you need to find out anything, why not read the records? I am sure Ogun lawmakers did not just blacklist Utomi; there had to be a documented reason somewhere. It was not enough that he reached out to someone on the state’s black book, but he also offered them N100m.

He said by their assessment of the project, the expenditure could not have exceeded N35m or at most N50m. So, how did he arrive at N100m as compensation? What bureaucratic procedure reviewed the project and thought N100m was due to the blacklisted Utomi as compensation? The only reason anyone would have needed to award a governor a plaque to cajole him to pay the N100m balance must have been because he personalised the government, and administrative decisions were based on his gut instinct rather than official procedure. Even you confirmed that by saying, But I did not change my position on the refund of N100 million as against his N200 million claim.

And then, the finisher: I challenge everyone, including journalists, to let us meet at the construction site and see the N200 million investment he claimed to have made there. Let them also ask what benefit the project would have been to Ogun State. But this again proves how poorly he thinks and decides. To calculate whether the project was worth the N200m Utomi claims or not, he asked us to meet at the site and assess with our eyes. For a chartered accountant, one would have expected he would provide us with audit documents. Was that how he arrived at the “N35m, or at most N50m” value of the project? He went there and used his eyes to “see.” Now you see why his calculations had a yawning disparity of N15m. If this is how he makes decisions, it is unsurprising that Zhongfu could turn him around.

Then he says after using our eyes to calculate, we should ask “what benefit the project would have been to Ogun State.” So, he did not think that the project would benefit the state, but he offered N100m for it. What kind of administrator does that? If Amosun could arbitrarily spend N100m on a “useless” project, who knows what else he wastefully expended the money that could have benefited the poor people of Ogun State on?

Honestly, the Chinese can keep him as part of enforcing the arbitration award. Except that he is not an asset—not to Nigeria, and definitely not to the business-savvy Chinese.

https://punchng.com/the-chinese-can-have-amosun-too/

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Politics › "Buhari Doesn’t Deserve Forgiveness" By Adelakun Abimbola by tooloadedtofail(op): 11:01am On Apr 27, 2023

During the governorship and state house of assembly elections in March, the president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) enjoined Nigerians to go ahead and collect any monies distributed by vote-buying politicians but still vote their conscience. Ideally, it should be shocking that a country’s president—especially one who came to power as an anti-corruption crusader—would shamelessly endorse an electoral infraction. But he has let us down so often that pointing out this error will be a waste of everyone’s precious time.

The more annoying part of that thoughtless statement was that it negated his previous posturing on the naira redesign policy to protect electoral integrity. When he met King Charles in the UK in November, he insisted the policy had come to stay because it would protect Nigerians from those who would use their lush resources to manipulate the election outcome. After reiterating that he would ensure a level playing field for contestants, this conviction would swing only months later. So, if ensuring election integrity was not a deep resolve, why take people through so much pain and hardship?

This man and the “Sai Baba” men watched as Nigerians, already severely impoverished by his uninspiring leadership since 2015, underwent the diminishing effects of the poorly conceived and shoddily executed naira redesign. The dwindled loss of livelihood especially crushed the small-scale producers who work in the agricultural produce sector and operate within the informal economic system. We are not a society that knows how to count and account for lives and resources, so we will never be able to adequately comprehend the full scale of the debilitating effect of that policy. However, it is still certain that people died from the stress, and some of the crippled businesses will never recover. All for what?

Naira redesign policy was a disaster that Buhari superintended over as a military dictator. Even though he saw the brutal outcomes of the policy, he still repeated it 40 years later. As it turns out, there was no larger vision for either our elections or democratic processes that drove the agenda. There was no gain for democratic institutions to which they were committed, it was just another one of the sadistic ideas that Buhari cranks out of his sociopathic mind each time he feels that Nigerians have not suffered enough. If there was no profound objective to be derived from the whole redesign policy, and he himself could advocate people taking money from their corrupt politicians, why did he not just leave people to collect their N5000? Why break things in the guise of trying to fix them?

That was the sort of ineptitude that defined Buhari’s regime. Several policies unleashed severe suffering but were hardly followed by any bigger plan to make the outcome meaningful. They banned food importation to stimulate local agriculture, but all we have to show for the economic ingenuity is the soaring costs of food prices. He closed the borders for almost two years to galvanise local manufacturing, making life even more unaffordable. After accumulating losses and hardship, they re-opened them. They could not point out anything remarkable they achieved through it. They said those ideas were why countries like China flourished, but ended up proving that half education is bad especially when running a country.

In not wanting to deal with either the complexities of planning or the messiness of human behaviour, Buhari’s regime treated social engineering as a process that could be automated. For instance, to make Nigeria a cashless economy, his administration restored far less cash into circulation than they took out in the form of the old notes. They imagined they could force people to use electronic means without first ensuring that the infrastructure to support such a massive scale of transaction was in place. That is his standard approach to governance: throw people into a desert and expect them to either stimulate their creative impulses and invent food, or eat sand and die.

Even his anti-corruption agenda was half-hearted. With too many Faustian bargains he had made to get to power, the best anti-corruption agencies achieved under him was to pursue the small fry while the real thieves of the Nigerian patrimony sashayed freely.

Last Friday, while giving his farewell message at the final Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa in the FCT, he reportedly said, “Having been a governor, minister, and the president twice, I think God has given us an incredible opportunity to serve as your president. And I thank God for that. So, please whoever feels I have done wrong to, we are all humans. There is no doubt I hurt some people and I wish you will pardon me. And those that think that I have hurt them so much, please pardon me.”

Here are two things he should note: First, we do not think or feel we have been hurt by his leadership, no. Those words suggest that the visceral impacts of his punitive leadership are simply a matter of individual perspective rather than objective reality. We have receipts that substantially demonstrate that he stole eight years from us. From rising and multidimensional poverty to out-of-school children rates, insecurity, corruption, and overall diminished quality of life, Buhari’s failure is not a matter of mere opinion or emotions. We live the insalubrious effects.

Second, saying we are all humans is fallacious. Who would look at the past eight years of his inhumane administration and not wonder if Buhari has a drop of humanity in him? When you look at Buhari, when you study his characteristic nonchalance to the high hopes and aspirations of Nigerians that his administration serially frustrated through their ineptitude, you cannot but understand why humans invented the concept of Satan. Some people’s wickedness is so unique that you need idioms of the supernatural to explain that degree of malevolence. Under Buhari’s watch, people were routinely kidnapped, and there was at least an instance where a community had to organise a fundraising to get money to retrieve their children abducted from school; entire communities were imperiled by rampaging herdsmen; prisons were serially attacked; terrorists and bandits killed poorly-armed security personnel in such high numbers that their bosses allegedly resorted to burying them secretly in order to hide the casualty rates; even the Nigerian Defence Academy was breached, and an Airforce Fighter jet shot down. Despite all the restlessness that defined his tenure, the man gaslit Nigerians by insisting we were doing better than ever before. How does that lack of fellow feeling qualify him to be categorised as “human”?

Buhari admitted he got all he wanted by becoming the president, but what of Nigerians? What did they get in return? Now he says he will no longer be burdened by the country’s issues. If over-solicited after May 29, he promised to relocate to Niger republic across the border. He might have said that as a joke, but that is in fact quintessential Buhari. He has a pattern of expecting others to do things he ought to do because he is lazy and inept. He is never responsible for anything. He got into power by pretending to be poor because he was incorruptible even though his election was sponsored by people whose hands were soiled by public corruption. He achieved little, and now expects Nigerians to clean up his failures.

For him to ascribe his failures to the fallibility of humanity when he barely even tried is another failure in itself. As someone who has had the privilege of living off Nigeria’s resources his entire adult life, Buhari failed spectacularly because he took and took and took but never gave back. He has not only failed as a leader, but also as a human being. He does not deserve forgiveness from even an all-merciful God.

Source: https://punchng.com/buhari-doesnt-deserve-forgiveness/

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Politics › Between Adichie And Shettima By Abimbola Adelakun by tooloadedtofail(op): 6:12pm On Apr 13, 2023

By
Abimbola Adelakun

In March 2014, at a time Boko Haram terrorism ravaged the country, 12 northern Nigeria governors travelled all the way to Washington D.C. to make a case against President Goodluck Jonathan before his American counterpart Barack Obama. These governors, who got a chance to meet Obama’s National Security Adviser, Ms. Susan Rice, accused Jonathan of sponsoring the terrorist attacks. According to media reports—still archived online—Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State launched the attacks by reading a laundry list of the president’s sins to the high-ranking officials attending the meeting. Two governors specifically named as joining Nyako to attack Jonathan were Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano and Kashim Shettima of Borno. It got to the point that the Nigerian Ambassador, Prof. Ade Adefuye, reportedly had to intervene and stop these men from “washing Nigeria’s dirty linen in public.”

If you wondered what the novelist Chimamanda Adichie’s name was doing in the same sentence as that of the vice president-elect, I am sure you made the connections now.

Adichie’s recent open letter to US President Joe Biden highlighting the ill-conduct of the February presidential election did the All Progressives Congress just as dirty as some of them once did Jonathan. While the US government is unlikely to publicly react to the letter, her account still delegitimises a government that characteristically looks to powerful western institutions for legitimacy. Before Adichie’s essay was published, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, had gone to Washington to market the last election as “the freest and fairest in the history of Nigeria.” For him to feel the need to travel to justify their government to journalists and international observers who must have been following the whole drama online, they must have been quite anxious to be taken seriously. Then came the open letter.

For an incoming presidency already under all kinds of scrutiny, Adichie’s letter must be a body blow. From the frenzied responses and the accompanying hormonal howls from the usual attack hounds, that letter’s contents must have touched their rawest nerve.

Expectedly, they accused her of “colonial mentality,” “anti-patriotism, and of course, “tribalism.” Since we are here, they might as well clarify if Shettima and his jesters’ crew who sidestepped all the local institutions and headed for Washington were on an agenda of decolonisation. And why did they not return there when the government of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) similarly failed to control banditry? Which patriotic virtues drove Shettima to de-market his president in 2014 but restrained him under Buhari’s debilitating regime? It was all self-serving politics.

The APC and their supporters thundering over Adichie’s letter and the irreverence of the Obidients must combine weak memories with moral inconsistency. From all the noise they have made about Obidients in the past week, one would be forgiven for imagining that an online mob of partisan political supporters is a historically unique phenomenon. They seem to forget that it was that Buhari was once outed for inaugurating a troll farm to battle online opponents and sow discord. Apart from the shadowy ones of the Buhari Media Centre who routinely creep out of the underbelly of the internet to muddy issues, he also appointed a retinue of media aides who probably outnumber his economic team. To justify their salaries and also establish some social relevance, those ones have spent the past eight years identifying and attacking supposed enemies. So how is it possible to have an atmosphere where trolling is accorded presidential gravitas, and you would not have formally created the same enemy you claim you want to destroy? If anything, the online ferocity we are presently seeing owes a lot to the Buhari regime’s formalisation of trolling.

It is amazing how people see Hitler and Mussolini in the Obidients when Buhari’s supporters are those whose election politics have serially inflicted physical violence. In 2011 when Buhari lost the election, they went on a rampage and killed an estimated 800 people. They were the ones who almost killed the man who named his dog “Buhari.” They once attacked Charley Boy in Abuja for protesting against Buhari. In April 2021, two anti-Buhari protesters were whipped in Kogi State by some Buhari supporters. Following that incident, Kogi State officials put an official statement justifying the violence saying, “We are placing it on record that the fanatical following of Mr President by Kogi people is borne out of our faith in his integrity and quality leadership.” How do you expect a society where the state legitimates violence not to face reprisals from those fed up but lacking commensurate political power?

The obvious lesson from all this is that the toxic politics that the APC sowed is overripe, and the rotten fruits are falling on their faces. The weapons of warfare that the APC used against the PDP while it was the “opposition” party are also widely available for those seeking to supplant the APC. Thanks to the internet, we have entered a historical phase where politicians seeking the highest office—and for whom the odds align—will get an online army of supporters to propagate their message and counterbalance those deemed the establishment. Every generation employs the tools at its behest to propagate the politics of its time, and this is no different. As it was in 2015 so is it in 2023 and will likely be in 2031. Unlike earlier eras where self-promoting politicians set up media houses to drown out opponents, social media now grants similar narrative power to people who would otherwise have been unheard. If they can form a mass, they can be heard. And jarring the ears of those inured to chaos entails not just shouting but lots of irreverence to boot.

The less evident part is that vengeful politics has been a good strategy for the APC. If it took Shettima from Borno to Aso Rock, it must have some viability. And if it works for them, what motivation do they have to give it up? And if those tactics work for one side, what stops the other from appropriating them?

To maintain their hold on power, they must keep holding up the specter of “the enemy” so that their supporters can concentrate their primal energies on trying to destroy it. But they must also be discovering how terribly exhausting such venomous politics can be. I am amused some aides of the incoming president have resolved to battle the Obidients to demonstrate that “nobody has a monopoly of madness.” I wish them good luck as they spend the next four years of their lives exchanging bitter words with the zestful users of the internet. Not only will they keep the rest of us entertained now that the present cohort of media aides appears battle weary, but they will also hopefully combust themselves in the monomaniac pursuit of the enemy they created in their own image.

In their bid to punch up and down at their enemies, both online and offline, they would have repudiated every allegation of righteousness and national interest once levelled against them. The good thing is that by the time they are done with their agenda of de-monopolisation of madness on Twitter, they would have disavowed every pretence of patriotism, every sliver of virtue, and every intellection they ever postured in their previous existence. I sincerely hope they do not get tired until they are entirely stripped of all pretences.

Source: https://punchng.com/between-adichie-and-shettima/

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Christianity Etc › Re: "Youths Can't Think": Bishop David Oyedepo Begs FG To Regulate Twitter, Others by tooloadedtofail: 9:17am On Jun 20, 2021

TeDesQ:
I disagree

When people no longer have strong grip over controlling people, they feel threatened.

It's control freaks that would have such ìdeologies seeing that massive amount of people they once had as captives are no longer captives of their ìdeologies and control.

The world will continue to be a free place for people and will never return to an era where people are dominated and controlled people by fiat

It's control freaks that need to develop restraint and control themselves

Do you see why Oyedepo says youths don't think again?

You saw news from Sahara Reporters (that has always disliked Oyedepo), and you made your judgement immediately without thinking of finding out what he really said or implied.

You really think that Oyedepo (who has never begged any man or govt and completely dislikes this regime) that riled against social media regulation in 2019 will suddenly beg them to regulate Twitter?

We really need time to think as he said.

This is the full message below if you care to know. He was talking about addiction and addressing his graduates in Landmark, not government.

https://fb.watch/6eIs6EHBmo/

Politics › Re: Pharaoh Okadigbo Dies In An Accident (Pictures) by tooloadedtofail: 9:44pm On May 23, 2021

Fogman:
Please where did this happened?

The main road between Kado estate and Gwarimpa, very close to the big roundabout that leads to Life Camp. Just by Kado estate, Abuja.

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Politics › Re: Pharaoh Okadigbo Dies In An Accident (Pictures) by tooloadedtofail: 9:43pm On May 23, 2021

Politics › Re: Pharaoh Okadigbo Dies In An Accident (Pictures) by tooloadedtofail: 8:09pm On May 23, 2021

Fogman:
This car was involved in an accident with a trailer

Saw it on my way to church around 6am this morning. It happened late in the night. Either the truck broke down or was driving in the middle of the road. The road was very wide and very good enough, so I suspect the victim must have have been tipsy or tired while on high speed that he couldn't evade the truck to overtake from the left.

Whatever it was, it was a sorry sight. It was obvious the victim was not going to make it.

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Christianity Etc › Re: My Giving In Church Vs My Giving To Others: What Is The Cause?? by tooloadedtofail: 6:00pm On Feb 21, 2021

Remember, you will give account of what you give to God personally same way the Pastor will give account of what he does with it.

On that day, no one shall be an excuse to disrespect his commandments....none.

Come to think of it, why don't you think that giving to the poor makes up for giving to your parents? Do they take the same place, even though your parents are not in need.

Please don't listen to sons of Belial. Those that minister spiritual things should also receive physical things.

Meanwhile, many pastors are not as wealthy as you think. They have a lot of responsibilities on them. They have only learned to speak in confidence... All those clean suits and materials are gifts from people like you they spiritually watch over.

Christianity Etc › Re: My Giving In Church Vs My Giving To Others: What Is The Cause?? by tooloadedtofail: 5:50pm On Feb 21, 2021

Your conscience is apparently disturbing you and that is why you find no peace in your heart and you are here to seek such.

Unfortunately, nairaland is no such place to find the truth. Faceless commentators, some of whom have no heart for (and lost their places in) God's kingdoms will seek to counsel you to join them. Only the truth in God's word will set free

Remember these two scriptures:

1. Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart, and all thy soul and all thy might. Then (after), thou shalt love thy neighbor. (God will never take a less place than your friends)

2. Why this waste? Why was this perfume not sold and money given to the poor? Then Jesus said, the poor you will always have, but me, you will not always have...(Giving to Jesus and the poor are different)

Let's be clear, one day you will see that Jesus stands to receive all you drop towards his course on this Earth (majorly for souls) and he has account of everything. May you not stand condemned when you wake up suddenly at the other side and tell you that you were only a manager of his wealth but you would rather meet needs of people you know....

The same way the mockers on this platform believe that God rewards giving to the poor only, they will not tell you Jesus sees all you put into church treasury because he actually receives them spiritually (remember the widow's mites).

My brother, listen to your conscience, it's really trying to help you which is why you are desperately seeking for answers under it's weight.

If you don't feel blessed where you are, you can change environment. But let it not be that while other people give towards soul winning, welfare of less privileged (which most churches don't announce), adminstration of nurturing souls, let it not be that God's wealth in your hands to manage is not there. You will surely give account.

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Jobs/Vacancies › Re: 2013 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Graduate Trainee by tooloadedtofail: 11:28am On Jun 10, 2016

An interesting wait here too....

I can only imagine how devastated a lot of people must have felt, especially those with regrets. Also amazing is the spirit some have demonstrated in receiving the news. I pray we don't miss our path of destinies in Jesus' Name....

To think of it that some parameters like geographical region, course of study , gender representation etc could have edged out some really brilliant folks. Whoever came this far should be rest assured that he/she can make it big anywhere and compete at any level and that God has a great destiny in plan for him or her...

We wait anyway...and as the Lord promised aforehad, it shall turn to me (and anyone who believes) for a testimony....

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Autos › 2005 Peugeot 307 For Sale (abuja)- N480k (negotiable) by tooloadedtofail(op): 2:31pm On Jun 02, 2016

Car still very neat. Nozzles recently serviced, so u got a road warrior. Engine very very intact. Newly registered. Upholestery still very neat

Things to fix/buy: 2 rear tyres for frsc sake (front still very new), left side mirror needs screwing, radio speaker needs boosting, multi display function blurry now ( all of which will cost little)

Reason for sale (on work transfer and wife doesn't like manual, so she may just abandon it for good)

Inspection will on weekend only except you live so close to Kubwa
Contact: 07057432841

Autos › REVIEW ON PEUGEOT 307 1.4l 2005 Model by tooloadedtofail(op): 12:27pm On Jul 29, 2015

I need a good review on Peugeot 307 2005 model for those who have used it before. Maintenability, and all. Got an offer from someone willing to trade it off a 500k.Mileage is 180,000km, just a need to change about two tyes and perhaps painting...Contributions will be appreciated please

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: 2013 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Graduate Trainee by tooloadedtofail: 3:50pm On Jul 22, 2015

And the company was an oil and gas multinational starting with "M" ......And the year was 2009.....Am I right?

okeyjames:
I also had the believe that he was either lying or he had been lied to. We choose not to believe because we actually can't do anything if the info checks out right.

I once was involved in the recruitment process of a very well known multinational company. Wrote first stage test with about 400 persons in attendance, then had a second stage test with about 20 successfuls from the 400. 10 out of the 20 were invited for interviews. At the interview, we saw 5 other guys smiling like sheeps while sitting in one corner forming caucus, so as a social guy, I tried to relate with them and discovered some were already contract staff and some knew someone in the company.

After the interview, we exchanged contacts and thanks to nairaland we kept in touch. 2 weeks later 3 of us out of the 10 received mails that we were successful at the interview and the other 7 received regret mails.

I was in touch with one of those contract guys and he said the company had already taken who they wanted even before putting up any job advert, that they only came to show face at the interview to fulfill all righteousness (they didn't do any tests but just showed up for the interviews)

A month later, that same 5 contract/IM guys went for medicals and resumed for the same opening while the 3 of us that got success mails were kept in the dark.

3 months later, the 3 of us got mails from the company that they regret bla bla bla and that they have other candidates to choose from and all that many stories. This is a very well known multinational.
There are many other stories like this happening in great companies and multinationals in Nigeria.

My childhood neighbor just resumed with NNPC as a graduate entry level even though recruitment is said to be on a hold, he didn't do any test or interview!!!!!

Let's just hope when we all get to wherever we are going to, we will be professional and use TRUE integrity when we can.

NLNG is a great company with high integrity as the facts from past experiences and many people who were successful in the past, especially in 2007 have been vocal about the level of integrity of the recruitment process.

In the end, I believe it will come out favourably for us.

We choose not to believe o. The way the guy was saying it, I personally saw flaws in his statements. If na true mehn, we no fit do nothing about am. But for our sakes, I hope it is not true. Infact, It is not true!

Christianity Etc › Re: Kidnappers Release Winners' Chapel Calabar Pastor, As Bishop Oyedepo Curses by tooloadedtofail: 3:50pm On Jun 22, 2015

PStacks:
Jesus was Never ever coursing, Jesus was only always Blessing!

The only time I think Jesus ever coursed was when he cursed the fig-tree, it was a tree and not a human being.

Jesus only says we should Love our fellow Human and not Curse them.

If Jesus were here, he would rebuke Oyedepo for Curse and curse and curse.

You are a Function of the amount of Love you exude.
The volume of Love you give out is what makes the world a better place,

There would be no room for curse under this our Administration of National Unity.

Really, I was wondering why you didn't read the in the bible where Jesus cursed cities (with people living in it) for not receiving the gospel (Chorazin et al). Read revelations on how Jesus gave it hot to some churches. Read them and come back

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: 2013 Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) Graduate Trainee by tooloadedtofail: 11:20am On Jun 15, 2015*

DivineU:
From the second mail NLNG HR sent to everyone on what to expect on the AC day. The AC is nothing more or less than the content of the mail.

Some people will want food served them, and also want you to spoon feed them. DivineU has said all you need. Meanwhile, don't have any problem with those who just went quiet, it was necessary. I will quote one of the personnel. "[/b]WE 'VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU GUYS UP ON NAIRALAND. WE ARE PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED WITH SOME THAT CHOSE TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF THIS EXERCISE. FOR YOUR SAKE, WE SUGGEST, EVERYTHING STAYS HERE.....WE ARE ALREADY IN, YOU ARE THE ONES THAT WANT IN.....IF YOU JEOPARDIZE THE EXERCISE BY RAISING THE BAR, IT'S YOUR FAULT"[b]

You can't get that and start ratting the details here. As for the non-sensitive parts,
1. Transport will be paid irrespective of wherever you are coming from, only present your tickets if you flew at all. Not immediately anyway.
2. About 500 plus were called up with .... number required (I'm sorry i can't say that not to distract anyone.The number is good, only believe God to see you through)
3. There is only about 50% chance you will be in the same group with people of your field. Maybe 60% though as you could see French graduate with an Architect and engineer, so you are not competing with anyone
4. About 20 people a day but your group will not be more than 5.
5. You will go through various assessors, so bias is STRONGLY minimized. Meanwhile, the assessors have such great personality that made it seem they had been told to make sure everyone succeeds. Even if you deviate, they will help you to come on track. They are that good.
6. All the exercises are just as stated in the second mail, nothing more.....and please stop being apprehensive, they are not different from the things you have seen on the internet
7. You never can tell what they are looking for as they are as expressionless as those Americans that deny people visa. they just keep writing and writing, but believe me, it's not scores they are writing, so you can peep till Jesus comes, you won't see anything useful to you.
8. By now, you should know you not in competition with anyone, but yourself. Be yourself and nothing more, it's just like another social gathering and let God's presence be with you
9. If you think 1 hour is a long time because of some sermons you hear, then the exercise will teach you that one hour is no time. So don't try to impress anyone, just be what God made you.
10. Finally, I tried to be cautious with the food part. Lo and behold, I shortchanged myself cos no one was assessing that. We were on our own. You will be faced with varieties of sumptuous meals. it's simply king style (or NLNG style). Don't be like me, enjoy yourself to the fullest....Maybe they may start assessing that area sha but I doubt it.

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