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The package is fixed and it's around 3m. For me, it's far less than what I'm earning at the moment but the prospect of sales job and the zeal to leave banking made me to accept the offer. Everything looks promising at the moment. Moreso, the HR director is such a nice person and a motivator.

Cadbury at last!!!! I have signed my offer letter. The resumption date is 7th October. A big thank you everybody for your prayers and contribution.

Cadbury has started calling for final stage after the completion of medical test. Best of luck to Thurber have been called. At least they can start the entry level process now.

@Jinxxx
I don't think the interview has much bearing on the final selection for medicals. It is more of suitability for a particular location. Like we all heard that they have spaces only in the North and Southeast, it means that some of us already based in the north will have an edge there not necessary cos we did better but cos we are familiar with the terrain. Most peeps from Lagos will most likely compete for spaces in the East and Jos. Lets assume your likely location is now Jos and your present location is Lagos, somebody that is presently working or has worked in Jos may have an edge when the 2 of you goes head to head. Just keep up the fighting spirit. God will surely provide a better one.
Meanwhile, has anybody heard form them concerning the last medicals?

@delbisi
Have you got any response from them and when? I did mine on Monday but yet to hear from them.
Thank you.

I read many people's comments and laff. You need to work with the bank to know better. Has anybody ever asked why thier staff usually form the bulk of people attending interview with another bank? Most of their branches, especially in the north, are grossly understaff? You can only know Access bank better when you have the opportunity to work with another bank. Everything about them is like slave camp; it sucks for real. The staff turnover is next to nothing.

@Joey82
We are thru with the medics and it was trully comprehensive. We were told that everything about the medicals would be concluded this week so that successful candidates can meet the HR manager next (formality though). We are just praying for the best. The remaining people will complete their medics latest 2moro.

@ifycyril
I asked the guy and what he told me was the 2 programs (experience and mgt trainee) are both ongoing but they would like to complete the experience hire probably by next week so that they can concentrate more on the entry level. The whole process for the experience hire will most likely end next week? What stage of the recruitment are you now?

@delbisi
Are you at Cadbury office now? Pls, stand up for recognition. Lol. Just want to see my online friend live!!

I was called. The guy said they don't want to send mail in order not to cause issue between me and my employer.

@delis,
Mine is 8:30am on Monday. In any case we are going to meet. We wil surely get the job by God's grace. Congrats!!!

Hello house
Please, Cadbury has started calling for medicals. I hope others have been called?

@Joe82
You are very correct. The interview was the shortest I have ever witnessed. The only snag was my professional qualification. The sales director was a bit sceptical if I could do the job with 2 professional qualifications. I learnt that they want to take quite a number of people but mostly in the north and eastern part of the country.

I did mine in kaduna but the interview is scheduled for Lagos. The interview invite indicates "RDM /WDM". so, I guess it will be together but you may have the option of selecting one.

I think the SMS were sent in error. I got an invitation from Cadbury for the interview. My interview is on the 19th of august. It was sent directly by Cadbury.

They have started conducting aptitude test. Though, I don't know when it would end and the number of test location.
Thank you.

Kindly check your mail for my cv. I sent it through: kknagari@gmail.com

what is the job title? i have Accounting, ICAN and Tax Qualification

The email provided is not going. Mails have been bouncing back since Friday.

Why is every blame on Keshi now? What happen to the global/avoidable mess created by NFF just before the tournament? Which of the team that competed at re tournament refused to pay their players? We should all rally round Keshi and not blame? When was the last time eagle played such a spectacular and possessive football? NFF has never and will never organize a world class friendly march to expose our so called "local" players. They will rather be waiting for when peru or Venezuela will invite us. They should solve thier own problem and see how things will come back to places. Teams like ivory coast and Egypt are playing grade A friendlies regularly while we only wait for invitationL tournament. How are they getting the funding and not us?

Thank you . It seems you are a strong insider with lots of information. While I so much sympathize with you, please I will like to know how to enter GT? I am a marketer with Stanbic (ACA,CITN).
I will appreciate your assistance on this regard.

I just sent my resume now through kknagari@gmail.com
Thank you.

Hate it or like it, the truth is Abati is totally on point. You can not but agree with all the facts contained in the statement. Though, he should have used less of those gutter language. The only lesson there is Abati should be prepared for the same bashing sooner than expected. Can the same Abati present the report he wrote about madam umbrera in 2010 to Oga Jona today? I'm pretty sure he would never wish to see some of those articleshe wrote about jonathan in the past. they will all fail to learn from history.

The issue is beyond whether or not NGF was using election to choose her leader. For as long as they all willingly agreed to go for election and there is no provision to the contrary in it's bye laws the election is valid. The only reasonable option available to the loser is to approach the court to prove his case. Some people are even asking whether the ballot papers were signed. Is it now a requirement for a ballot paper to be signed before election can be valid?

Hi people,
Please, I need urgent info concerning this recruitment company "Brentt & Co". Are they real or just another face of scam. I have been having series of telephone interview with them, though they have not asked me for money. Just that some of the things they are offering me are too good to be true.
Kindly drop your opinion about them if you have any.
Thank you.

sexymoma: That Where fit him... atleast if he commits an error in Contructing simple English they wont understand or they would manage it

I want to believe that you actually typed the above comment in error? What are u insinuating? People like you that take pride in denigrating other people/tribe have nothing to offer in real sense. For your record, the state has produced my outstanding scholars and academics better than have baked / illiterates like you.
Good day.

@ogakpatakpata and others
Pls, I need a sincere advice concerning my case. I have the the following qualification and experience
1) a B.Sc in Accounting
2) 2 Professional qualifications; ACA and Taxation
3) 5 years banking experience in Nigeria.

I also have a wife, a B.Sc holder in Linguistics, who is a teacher in government school.

I really want to travel to UAE or any other promising country for that matter.
Mind you, I am working with a Nigerian bank at present and my salary is roughly 190k per month.

Your sincere assessment will be highly appreciated.
Thank you.

Provide a valid link for us to apply.

“A Date With Destiny” a speech delivered by the Guest Speaker Chief Femi Fani-Kayode at the launching of the book titled ”Highlife-The Amazing Lifestyle Of The Rich and Famous ” written by Mr. Lanre Alfred and launched at the Muson Centre, Lagos on the 24th April 2013

In 1999 when President Olusegun Obasanjo came to power he met 1.5 billion USD in our foreign reserves. Yet by the time he left office in 2007, eight years later, he built up those reserves from 1.5 billion to 67 billion USD. Out of that 67 billion he deducted 20 billion and used it to pay off a large chunk of our foreign debt. That is how we arrived at the figure of 47 billion USD which was left in our foreign reserves in 2007 when Obasanjo left office and handed over power to the incoming administration. Today, four years later, despite very high crude oil prices and record amounts of oil and gas sales, Nigeria still only has approximately 45 billion USD in her foreign reserves. Some have described this as progress. Yet I do not believe that this can be described as progress in any shape or form. Successor governments are meant to build on the legacy of those that came before them. This is especially so when they belong to the same political party. In the case of the Jonathan administration this has clearly not happened given the fact that today we have just a little less in our foreign reserves than we did four years ago.

Let us look at our foreign debt profile. In 1999 when President Obasanjo came to power he inherited a foreign debt of over 30 billion USD from the Abubakar administration. Yet by the time he left power in 2007 he had paid off that debt fully and for the first time in the history of the world, sub-saharan Africa had a country that was completely debt-free. No other African country has ever achieved this. Yet sadly, four years later and under the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, our foreign debt has risen from zero to 9 billion USD. Consequently all the admiration and wonderful accolades that we won as a country from the international commmunity for exercising and indulging in financial prudence and good old-fashioned fiscal discipline when Obasanjo was in power have been squandered and lost.

Now let us look at the Excess Crude Account. In 1999 when President Obasanjo came to power there was zero in the Excess Crude Account simply because there was no such thing at the time. He established it and created it specifically for saving some of our foreign exchange ”for a rainy day”. Consequently from zero in 1999 he saved and built it up to 24 billion USD in eight years. This was unprecedented and it was commended by all the international monetry institutions. No-one believed that an African government was capable of saving money in this way. However the concept of ”saving for a rainy day” did not last for too long after Obasanjo left power. By the end of the second year of President Umaru Yar’adua’s tenure of office the Excess Crude Account was completely drained and left with only a paltry one billion USD. This surely has to be a record when it comes to reckless public spending and the squandering of our resources. In fairness to the Jonathan administration they met next to nothing in the Excess Crude Account when he took over as President two years ago and since then he has been trying to build it up again. Yet despite his efforts, as at the last time I checked, we had only 7 billion USD in that account. This figure represents 17 billion USD less than we left in that same account four years ago when President Obasanjo left office.

These are indeed difficult and unpleasant submissions from which I derive no joy but nevertheless true and accurate ones. Facts and figures do not lie and in this case they tell a very disturbing story. It is incumbent on us all to urge our Government to do far better. Yet the last time some of us tried to do this government referred to us, in a throughly disdainful manner, as being ”hypocrites” and nothing more than ”yesterdays men”. The point was taken. They did not want us to ask any questions, to speak the truth, to assesss their performance, to let the Nigerian people know where they were taking us or to express our deep concerns about the direction in which our country was going. We were even subjected to veiled threats and the most primitive and crude forms of intimidation. Yet it did not work and neither can it ever work because we are talking about the destiny of our country. No-one is intimidated and I for one will never be silent and cannot be silenced as long as there is life and breath in me.

It is to that end that I will take the opportunity of this august gathering to ask the same questions of ”todays men”, in addition to one or two new ones, that I asked just a few weeks ago. And those questions are as follows.

When will our President take President Obasanjo’s advice and finally do something concrete about Boko Haram and our security situation? When will our Government come to terms with the fact that a policy of appeasement and the offering of amnesty to a bunch of murderers, criminals and terrorists that seek to establish an islamic fundamentalist state in northerrn Nigeria and that seek to kill and maim everyone that opposes them in that inglorious endeavour is not only an exercise in futility but that it also sets a dangerous precedent? Does the fact that at least 4,400 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram and Ansaru in the last two years under their watch not bother them? Does the fact that according to the BBC and CNN 185 innocent Nigerians were murdered, 2000 buildings burnt to the ground and 10,000 people displaced in Baga town in one day just two days ago give them any cause for concern?

Is this not an eloquent testimony to the fact that the crisis is escalating and that all their calls and offers of amnesty to Boko Haram have fallen on deaf ears and failed? Does the fact that it took our Government two days to even acknowledge that the Baga massacres ever took place and that when they finally did all they said was that they would ”investigate it” not seem rather insensitive? This was after the Sec. Gen. of the U.N. and numerous other world leaders had not only condemned the massacre but had also expressed their condolences to our President, to the Nigerian people and to those that lost their loved ones. Yet to the best of my knowledge not one word of condolence or regret was offered by our President or our Government. Since when have we degenerated to such a point that when our people are killed in such a brazen manner and in such large numbers we don’t even seem to ”give a damn”? Since when have we become a nation of sociopaths that have no feeling and that do not value human life?

4, 400 precious souls cut short and slaughtered like chicken by Boko Haram in the last two years. How can our government sleep well at night with all that innocent blood that has flowed whilst they are at the helm of affairs of our nation? More innocent souls have been killed in the last 2 years by terrorists than at any other time in the history of Nigeria outside the civil war. How does President Jonathan and his ”today’s men” feel about winning such a dubious and dishonorable title? Does he still regard Boko Haram as ”his siblings” who he ”cannot hurt”? Why did the President refuse to visit the good people of the northeast for so long despite the fact that hundreds of people are still being slaughtered there by Boko Haram every day? He did not visit the place until the APC governors took the initiative, did the right thing, went there boldly and paved the way? It was only after that initiative was taken by the opposition that our President woke up from his deep slumber, remembered that he was the Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces and saw fit to go to the north-east. Why did he take so long before doing so?

Moving to the issue of corruption and the economy, when will our President and his ”today’s men” answer David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom’s, question and tell him what they did with the 100 billion USD that they made from oil sales in the last two years? When will they answer Obi Ezekwesili’s question about how they squandered 67 billion USD of our foreign reserves? When will they answer the question that Nasir El Rufai asked sometime back about how they spent over 350 billion naira on security vote in one year alone? When will they answer the many questions that Pat Utomi and many other distinguished and courageous leaders and ”yesterday’s men” have raised about the trillions of naira that have been supposedly spent on oil subsidy payments in the last two years?

When will they implement the findings and recommendations of the Nuhu Ribadu report on the thievery that has gone on in the oil sector? When will they cultivate the guts and find the courage to respond to a call for a public debate to defend their abysmal record? When will these ”today’s men” stop being so reckless with our money? Why would our ”today’s man” FCT Minister budget 5 billion for the ”rehabilitatioin of prostitues in the Abuja”? Why would he budget 7.5 billion naira for a new ”FCT city gate”? Why would he budget 4 billion naira for some kind of building or centre for the First Lady? Why would the Federal Government of ”todays men” budget 1 billion naira for food in the Villa? Are these the priorities of ”today’s men”? And all this when Nigeria is back in foreign debt to the tune of 9 billion USD and is still borrowing, when local debt has hit almost 50 billion USD, when 40 per cent of Nigerians are unemployed, when graduate unemployment has hit 80 per cent, when 40 per cent of Nigerians do not have access to good food and are described by the U.N.D.P as being ”hungry” and when 70 per cent of Nigerians are living below the poverty line? Is this the vision of ”today’s men”?

If so, may God deliver Nigeria. So much destruction and disaster all wrought in the space of two years and by just one man. That is the legacy of ”todays men”. Yet just as it took one man to take us to these dingy and depressing depths so it will take one man to lift us up again to the heights of glory. It took Adam, who was just one man, to destroy humanity and take away all that God had given unto us so freely. Yet it took just one other man, by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, to redeem mankind, to restore us, to reconcile us with God and and to once again grant us our salvation and give us dominion over the earth. One man destroyed and another came down, as God incarnate in the flesh, and restored.

I have come here to tell you today that though one man has virtually destroyed the great legacy that was handed over to him and entrusted to him and his co-pilot 4 years ago in 2007, we should not lose hope because God has already raised and prepared another to take that power back in 2015 in a free and fair democratic election. He has raised another to redeem our fortunes, restore our pride, dignity and self-respect, rebuild our economy, restore law and order and give our beloved homeland and our beautiful people hope for a better tomorrow. No matter how bad things may be today, God has already made a way out and crafted a master plan for restoration, joy, abundance and a good harvest for our future. That is indeed where our hope lies. We leave all to Him and we shall continue to do that which He Himself has asked us to do in His Holy Word by speaking out against injustice, oppression, persecution, corruption and the rampant evil that reigns supreme in our land. We must not remain silent when faced with this evil. We must not remain holed up in our prayer closets and merely continue to hope against hope. We must do more far more than that. We must get involved in the struggle, join hands with all the relevant stakeholders, get involved in politics and work and fight hard within the confines of the constitution and the law to remove those that have visited such evil on our land and sought to blight the future of our nation. And in this struggle fear and indifference has no place because we are eagles, we are kings and we are lions.

I say this because eagles do not hide when they see a storm gathering, lions do not retreat when the enemy threatens and kings do not run when they hear the sound of battle. Rather the eagle flies boldly into the eye of the storm without a trace of fear but with power, majesty, grace and passion. The lion rises and roars with courage and strength as his adversary approaches. The king does not yield one inch of the field to the marauding enemy but rather he gallantly and boldly leads his captains and princes into the most bitter part of the battle.

This surely is our calling and the essence of our lives. The Lord has given us the spirit of the eagle and the lion: the spirit of the warrior and the king. We cannot and will not be intimidated by anything, any circumstance or anyone and least of all by what we see or hear. And why should we be afraid of mere mortals, for what is man? The bible asks,”who art thou o man?” It then answers it’s own question by saying “thou art as the grass that withers, thou art as the flower that fadeth……..a man that is born of woman, that is today and tomorrow is no more.” Indeed that is all we are before God. His word says it is He alone that has the power to “give life and to kill.” If we die tomorrow it is by His will and if we live tomorrow it is by His grace. His word says it is He alone that is worthy of our fear and of our praise.

We must therefore all humble ourselves before God and know that He alone rules in the affairs of men and determines the destiny of nations. So fear God alone and be the man or woman that He has called you to be; a prince of Heaven, a deliverer of his people, a fearless warrior and a worthy king. And one of the characteristics of a true leader and king is the courage and ability to fearlessly rise up to the occassion and speak out when faced with evil, injustice and oppression. One question that is often asked today is why should we speak out ? Why bother? What difference does it make? And yet Edmund Burke provided the answer to the question when he said that when good men remain silent when they see evil in the land, that is when such evil flourishes. He said that the hottest place in hell is reserved for such “good” yet silent men . This is not only true but it is also deeply profound. That is why it saddens me when some people suggest that we should not talk about our challenges and that we should not speak out and protest against the evil and injustice that thrives in our land today. Imagine what it would have been like if people had adopted that attitude all over the world and throughout world history.

The point is that we must speak out strongly and protest against evil whenever and wherever we see it. That is why we were educated in the first place and that is what being a believer is all about. Protesting against, speaking against and fighting against injustice and evil is the greatest duty that we have to humanity and to one another as human beings. It is a sacred trust and obligation before God. The minute we stop talking, we stop protesting and we stop speaking out against that which is unjust and evil, that is when we are truly lost as a people. That is when we cease to be the men and women that God has ordained us to be. That is when we no longer deserve to be called human beings. That is when we must bow our heads in shame forever.

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The brothers are surely devilish. That is the the kind of result you have when people are unemployed/ refused to be employed.
Anyway, how would the guy be able to return to full action not necessarily being healed alone? I sincerely feel for the family and the guy in particular.