crestdevelopers:
abeg how much be house rent for that side and which side be that..?

Well, Pearl Garden, Paradise, Centenary and Queen's Park estates just off G.U Ake Rd all have nearly 24hrs power supply. Rent in those areas aren't as expensive as Ajah in Lagos. You can get a decent 2 bedroom flat in those places for about 500k and slightly higher. I know folks who pay 300k for such apartments but they are residents who moved in when there wasn't even electricity in those places.

Done

Jarus:


Thanks. But pls remove the last 2 words.

Congrats on your new role.

Jarus:


I have no idea.

And to be honest, recent developments in my career pushed this NNPC thing further down in my priority. At this point, under no circumstances will I take the job so no point bothering friends for info.

divads:
Sir. what can you say about Schlumberger entry level, against Nnpc graduate trainee position.

in terms of job security. Salary structure and staff personal development..

I learnt Slb train their recruits Abroad. do they do the upfront pay? do you know how much they pay their field engineers?

I can tell you that lots of Halliburton, Schlumberger and Baker Hughes folks are on the NNPC EH journey. When I said service companies would chew and spit you out, I was referring to them. There are incredible opportunities to be had with companies like SLB, HAL & BHGE. You get to work in remote places across the world. The pay is great especially as a field engineer, your field bonus which could be a fixed amount or even a percentage of your field ticket makes it so much better. SLB and Baker have training schools in Abu Dhabi and Dubai respectively so that's where you go for your initial training. Advanced training would see you go to the US, usually Houston and Dallas. Maintenance folks at Baker go to Celle, Germany where they have a manufacturing hub. You could be in a pool of engineers that work for this Geomarket which basically means you work in all of West and Central Africa. Then you may become internationally mobile and go way beyond Africa. When you get to that point, you are on the track to the big leagues. Sounds good right? All these good stuff may be truncated the minute oil prices take a nose dive. Headcount reduction is the first cost saving measure they implement. At that point it won't matter if you had been trained in space or worked at some intergalactic wellsite, you could be sent home. It's a cycle of boom and burst. A lot of people want the stability and relatively mild atmosphere of the IOCs and NOCs while others live for the adrenaline of service companies.

Jarus:


I have a friend that, in 10 years, got to a level in Shell it ordinarily takes 15 years to get to due to exceptional performance.

A guy from a very poor home in the "village". Struggled to pay 17k school fees in our final year in university. That's why I always encourage people to try their best and not listen to all this talk about connection in recruitment.

Now a very very big boy.

Happy for him. That's how life is.

That's truly exceptional considering that Shell isn't famous for fast progression. If that your friend was in the multinational service space, he may already be regional VP of a product line. However, service companies will chew and spit you out in a minute regardless of your achievements. IOCs offer better job security but a slower rate of progression. It's a trade off really.

iammiracle1:


Sir please how many years to get to managerial level?

In the multinational space, promotions aren't driven by time alone. You have to build specific and measurable competencies before you can breakout and move to another level. Someone may do this faster than another person. You could be cross trained into a different role than that for which you were initially hired or posted abroad for international exposure. These things all come into play when promotion decisions are made. This isn't to say it's a perfect system. However, NNPC may be different given that it's government run.
My advice would be to go through the process and not worry too much about how long it might take you to go up the food chain.

Others include;
Newcross Petroleum
Panocean
Belema Oil
Conoil Producing
Oando Energy Resources
Amni Petroleum
Frontier Oil
Sterling Oil Exploration & Energy Production Company
Heritage Energy Operational Services Limited
Chorus Energy
Sahara(Enageed)
Folawiyo Aje
Niger Delta Petroleum Resources
Summit Oil
Statoil is now Equinor

You may want to confirm that Summit is still afloat, they drilled a couple of dry wells and couldn't pay contractors.

Jarus:


Not in any order

1. Shell
2. Chevron
3. Exxon
4. TOTAL
5. ENI/Agip
6. Addax
7. NLNG
8. Seplat
9. Sapetro
10. Lekoil
11. Eland/Elcrest
12. Eroton
13. Oriental
14.ND Western
15. Statoil
16. Dubri
17. Petrobras
18. Moni Pulo
19. Walter Smith
20. First E&P

Note: At non-managerial level.

Hello Chioma,
How did your 221g interview go? My nephew is in a similar situation.

Holywizard, what a moniker !
I do not think you need employers to validate the way you feel about your looks by offering you a job. You have to give yourself that validation by understanding that you are enough. You have to believe that you look fine with your scars. Those scars tell a story of survival and endurance, no matter how difficult things become they remind you that better days lie ahead. That way you are able to build your confidence back up. I'm not unaware of the stares you may get from random strangers but that's because people are intrigued by difference. You can look them square in the eyes till they look away or you can offer them a warm smile and move on depending on how you are feeling at that moment.
Now to your question about jobs. There are always going to be jobs we don't qualify for based on physical appearance and our skill sets. I may never work as a physician or a model with a full head of hair. I don't have the skills and I have lost all my hair. However, I have a job I love in an industry that drives Nigeria's economy. Nobody at my job has been hired or turned away because they look a certain way. Your skills are what matter here. You are going to get a job soon enough.

Emirates is bae...flew LOS-DXB-IAH. The hostesses were courteous, planes were neat. Food was amazing, beef stroganoff tasted like Gordon Ramsay made it.
I had an 8hr layover in DXB, got bussed to a Copthorne hotel where there was a buffet style dinner. The downside was you had to pay for internet at the hotel.
I will fly them again.

ChinnyBonn:


Thanks Winchman!
Would you know what email address WES uses to reach FUTO? Or should I just tell WES to send to an alternate email address?
Even, I had contacted WES on Wednesday (28th June) through the "contact us" form on their website to know how they sent the verification request to FUTO but I'm yet to get a response from WES. Can you help with their twitter handle or any of their SM ids?
On the payment of 10k for the verification, is that what is obtainable now? I mean how recent did you do this?
Obviously, FUTO responds to WES by email else the payment would be more than 10k.
Anyway, where is the Records and Statistics unit? Is that ay the Senate building? Also, how long did it take FUTO to send the email response to WES for your verification request?

For my husband's issue, WES needs both results to do the ECA and we've only got the HND one (even OND statement of results no dey). Are my chances of meeting the CRS cutoff so slim if we don't have ECA for him even though he'll take IELTS?
Do you know if IQAS can do the ECA with HND results only and not require the OND one as well?
I think it's possible to go on without his ECA...but I wonder if that would mean highest level of education for him will be N/A or secondary

Sorry for my many questions, na guidance I dey seek ni...please epp

WES likes to keep the email addresses confidential to protect the integrity of the process. You may want to check to see that your verification request hasn't been received by FUTO before you make a case for an alternate email address. My verification was finished sometime in June 2017, so yeah it's very recent.
If you want WES to get back to you in decent time, hit 'em up @WESCANADA on Twitter. I'd suggest you DM them first, it's civil. You can tweet for the whole world to see if they fail to give you the response you need.
Records & Statistics is now in SEET. Their response took all of 2 weeks despite the fact that I made it look like Christmas for a few of the guys there.

I'm not familiar with IQAS' procedures, didn't use them.
Did WES explicitly state they won't evaluate HND alone?

You can use the CRS tool to get some comfort feel about your likely CRS points. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

sutelk:
Greetings, I'm a Medical radiographer (medical radiation technologist) with over 5 years experience practicing in Nigeria and thinking of moving to Canada in a year.
From what I've gathered I will need my qualification assessed by the Canadian regulatory authority and will also need to sit for and pass a qualification exam in Canada before I can be licensed to practice in Canada.
My question is; is there any visa/immigration route that allows me enter Canada to sit for the exams, wait for the results and then search for a job if successfully licensed. Or do I have to travel to Canada to sit for the exams, return to Nigeria to wait for the results and licence, apply for a job from Nigeria before applying for express entry?
The exam results take a month to be released.

You do not have to write any licensing exam at this time. Like most of us here, all you need do is send your credentials to a credential evaluation body, write IELTS and enter the pool. When you move to Canada, you may decide to write all the exams you want.
However, this doesn't rule out the possibility of writing licensing exams before you move if that's how you want to play it.

perks:


Better stick with dis CRS calculator before u misdirect urself.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

I think he's referring to the Come to Canada tool. That tool is as important as the CRS tool. It determines eligibility for EE.

ChinnyBonn:
Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie on this CIC matter and I really need some guidance. Thankful for this thread and the people on here to provide assistance.
I am 32 years old and will be the primary applicant as I am younger than my hubby.

First of all, I have sent my BSc cert to WES and my school (FUTO) has sent the academic transcripts too (after 2 months ooo ) but I then got a mail from WES on 16 Jun that they have sent copies of my documents to the school for verification and would place my assessement on hold till they receive a written response from the school. Huh!!! Another bout of waiting again
I don't know how this was sent to the school, whether it was an email or paper mail so now I'm waiting on the school to send the written response (wonder why this ECA is this difficult). Any FUTO graduate here that knows what I can do to hasten this, please?

Secondly, we couldn't apply for ECA with WES for my hubby because his OND certificate is lost and he only has the statement of results for HND. How do you think we can proceed with getting ECA for him? Though from the look of things and the school involved (Fed Poly OKO), we may have to go on without including him.
So will my points be significantly lower without him? Or can IQAS assess his HND alone with needing the OND results?

You have to go to FUTO to get them to respond to that verification request. WES sends the request by email and regular mail. The guys at the registrar's office at the senate building will help you check. They'd check their register for the hard copy which may not have arrived yet if WES sent it via standard mail. They'd direct you next door to check with the IT guy. He's a really nice fellow, he'd check with the date the email was sent. A potential problem here is WES has different email addresses for FUTO, my verification request wasn't found till I insisted WES sends to an alternate email (WES doesn't share the email addresses). Their director of customer service had to step in when I made a lot of noise on SM.
You'll pay 10k at one of the cash offices at the senate building for the verification. You'll take the receipt to the IT guy (at least that's what I did) who'll have a clerk send the request to Records & Statistics where it will be processed and sent back to WES via email.
I have written a detailed account of the process so others can know how to navigate it better. It appears there aren't many FUTO people on this journey so information about specifics as they apply to FUTO isn't readily available.

@Your husband's certificate issue.
You guys can evaluate only his HND. However, if he has his OND statement of result, WES will evaluate that too. You need all the CRS points you can get, there are lots of uncertainties following the June 6th changes and the recent spike in CRS cutoff.

bigbroda:
Any Uniport graduate dat did WES evaluation in d house? 0

Honestly these WES guyz are giving me headache abi na UNIPORT ni.

I already paid WES and also sorted out my Uniport transcript sending. About 2 weeks ago, my status on WES website changed to 'documents recieved, review in progress'. I knew they use about 20 business days to complete review, I just decided to mail them yesterday complaining dat I was yet to hear from them on my credentials evaluation and I got d mail below from them:

Dear Applicant,


University of Port Harcourt has sent the attached form requesting a fee in order to verify the authenticity of your credentials.

PLEASE SEND YOUR PAYMENT DIRECTLY TO University of Port Harcourt.

Your evaluation is on hold until WES receives a written response from University of Port Harcourt.



What's dis crap about? Does anyone understand dis? Still wondering why they didn't even tell me dis until I mailed them yesterday.

Hello, I think all you need do is go to Uniport and pay the required fees so they can verify your credentials. Nigerian schools are money making, corrupt enclaves.You should tweet something cold and shocking at WES for waiting for your prompt before they gave you that information. I'm tweeting up a storm currently and they are hastening things up a bit.
Do you know when they sent the verification request to your school? Mine was sent on the 25th of March, yet FUTO claims they haven't received it yet.

It really feels good to see perfume addicts here. I used to think I was the only one with this addiction.
My favourite perfumes right now are V&R Spicebomb and Bvlgari Man In Black. They are easily the best smelling fragrances for the sophisticated man.
Since am an addict, I will go ahead and list all the perfumes I currently own.... Bvlgari Man Extreme, Lalique Encre Noir, Dior Homme and Grey Flannel by Geoffrey Beene.
I generally buy my perfumes in Naija, they are cheaper here..don't know why. I trust the shop where I buy, I always check with my barcode scanner app. If you are ever in Abu Dhabi, you should go to Hamdan Centre or Medinat Zayyed, they have really affordable tester bottles and normal retail bottles. In the US, you could just raid all the Ross stores you can find.

sehnoritasuzan:
sauvage Dior. Spice bomb is my recent

Why you into masculine scents? U no see Flowerbomb ni? I think girls can get away with masculine fragrances anyways, especially those two. Sauvage smells so clean, like you are forever fresh outta the shower.

Durchmann:
Spice Bomb Extreme by Viktor & Rolf EDP

That's my No. 1 brand for now and it hasn't disappointed so far.

Oh here's the real juice....haven't used Extreme yet. I'm on my second bottle of the regular Spicebomb 90ml juice. When I wear it, I'm on another kind of high.

Biko make una no vex, who go school for FUTO wen don complete WES verification. How long e take you? I'm beginning to pull out my hair from WES' apparent inactivity. I need to know who verifies certificates when WES sends the request. How do they send the request, courier or email?
Pls epp me ooo.

arinola2:


@ lavivaavril & AZeD1

Hello, your response to NYSC experience relates to my wife's case.

I would like to know how would one be able to proof payment/salary during NYSC (as i read somewhere that it should be paid work/job if it must be used).

(1.) NYSC pays monthly though (i don't know if this account can be used) and hope this will not clearly show that it was NYSC/goverment paid allowances?
This is putting into consideration that the company worked for during the NYSC period didnt pay any salary.

What do you advice in this case?

I intend to be the one to show the POF (which will be in my account).

Please advice on this, thank you very much.

You could get your account statement from the time you were a corper. Please note that you may have to go through a longer processing time when you claim points from NYSC experience as I think it falls under government employment. A lot of people on this forum have had that issue.

sammyacbxyz:
Please is it possible that there is a mistake on my IELTS result?

Listening: 8.5
Reading: 5.5 I just cannot believe this.
Writing: 7.0
Speaking: 7.0
Overall: 7.0

This test is frustrating me. If I request a remark, is there any possibility of upgrading reading to 7 which will bring my CRS to 465

See, you really don't have much of a problem. You clearly have good English language skills as your scores are not exactly mediocre. I think you need a bit more work in Reading, it's something you can do. That test is full of traps to get you to falter, watch out for them and you'll be fine.
You could apply for an EOR but am not sure that will help. This is because your Reading may have been already rechecked due to the wide gap between it and other scores. So, your result may be unchanged after EOR.
Please don't despair,IELTS isn't out to get you.

jelmusboy:
My CRS is not up to 400 with those parameters. That's why am asking on what to do

It has to be your IELTS scores. You may want to rewrite IELTS and aim for L8R7W7S7. Try to max out your IELTS points and see where that gets you.

Does anyone know someone who went to FUTO and has completed their ECA with WES? WES just received my documents, I reckon they will want to verify. So I need to understand how they communicate with FUTO. E-mail, courier, what? I need to know who to follow up with in that school immediately WES requests for verification.
*Heads up* If you are having difficulty getting WES to respond to you, tweet at them.

Hello great people, so my IELTS score just got in L 8.5 R 7.5 W 7.0 S 8.0. I am very shocked by the Reading score as I thought I had aced it and was going to get a perfect 9. Writing is a different ballgame, in hindsight I noticed I didn't complete all the tasks as I didn't describe my apartment which was one of the three requirements of the writing task. However, I think 7 is too low for the essay I wrote.

I want to apply for a remark of the Reading and Writing parts. I know chances of getting a higher band in Reading is slim, since it's majorly objective type answers. I'm almost certain, I can get something higher in Writing. However, all I can get from all that trouble given perfect IELTS scores is an additional 6 CRS points. That will move me from 419 to 425(turns out being in your 30's isn't such a good thing ).

Given all these facts, do you guys think I should petition for a remark? Should I just suck it up and rewrite or just wait and hope CRS scores fall to 419 and below?

The advice most of you have given are insensitive and does nothing to help his situation. A lot of Nigerian owned companies are unstructured and dysfunctional. They really don't care how relevant or indispensable you think you are, they can hire the next guy with same skill sets as you or even better. However, that isn't enough reason to stay in a place where you are underpaid and treated like scum.

@OP you need to take a critical look at your appointment letter,if it says you ought to be confirmed after 6 months of probation and you have done 6 months already, then talk to HR or whoever is responsible for such matters in your organisation. What I have learned about bosses is they don't want to have conversations or negotiations that hurt their chances at climbing the corporate ladder. If they can get you to work for free, they will. Your HOD may not want to ask management for a raise on your behalf because he may be negotiating one for himself or he wants a fat bonus as reward for cost cutting. That additional couple of tens or hundreds of thousands that you could earn may undercut his bonus, nobody wants that.

I just got a raise myself, believe me the path was tortuous but well worth it. When I spoke to my boss to thank him for the role he played in that, he said I deserved the raise and congratulated me for the amazing work I do. Amazing work ehh? Yet no one felt I deserved a raise until I pushed for it. The lesson here is, make a great case for a raise and you will get it. Do not be swayed by the band singing sad unemployment tunes, people are still getting hired.

oscar4lyf:
Gudpm luvly friends, pls can't one fill the Canadian skilled express form without having the itels score and he is also a graduate

No you may not. IELTS is one of the fundamental prerequisites if you are going to be the principal applicant.

softseun:
what is the best option to apply and meet up with scores requirement if you have only a BSC and 5 years experience with IELTS of 7 band and married. It seems without masters there is no way to meet the required score, am i right?

I tried to calculate this several times using different calculator online, returned different result.

Please advise if someone of my profile could apply to the pool directly.

Thanks

What's your CRS score? You could rewrite IELTS and aim for at least 8 in Listening and Reading. You score will jump considerably but maybe not so much to get you an ITA.

Hey guys, I have been a ghost follower who enjoyed every bit of the information I got here. I got into the Geology programme at Freiburg. I currently do not have all the money I need for the blocked account so I want to explore the sponsorship letter route. However am worried that I would be required to show proof of relationship to my sponsor. The guy who has agreed to get me the letter is not related to me, would this be a problem? I do not want to mess up up my records with claims of relationship I can't prove. Do German schools defer admissions? My programme only admits for winter semester. I look forward to your incisive responses.