₦airaland Forum

I'm not surprised. People never liked disciplinarian leaders. And this happens in many government parastatals. It's something I've witnessed before. So, it's not new.

CrownedPhoenix:
Away from impersonation, a few questions:

If a person can defend himself in court without claiming he has LLB, LLM or called to bar, why shouldn't he be able to do so?

If a person has someone whom he thinks can defend him very well in court on a subject matter even without having LLB or being called to bar but knows court processes and proceedings very well, why can't he be defended by same?

Kindly enlighten me.

There are established standards even in the legal system. The law must be followed. This is also partly done to protect the legal profession. So, if the rule says you must be represented by a lawyer, then you must!

Osidazz19:
The same people who will claim that they did it years to come from now ,are the same ones wailing and crying about this project just because it doesn't pass their one plot of land
We the real Nigerians are behind this project, I already drove on it at least 4 times from VI to Jakande and looking forward to using to to Eleko soon.
This is the greatest project in the history of Nigeria. It will open up rhe country

The haters can not see this from the same perspective as you and will soon come for you. How some people can claim to be so oblivious of the economic impact of this laudable project still remains a mystery to me. but thank God, the man PBAT does not even look at faces. He just faces his government and his legacies.

fxexperts:
Seeing all this rant only confirmed to me that Nigerians all have this slave mentality and are all very gullible with a high level of illiteracy roam free. You all should learn how to think critically and stop getting hypnotized so easily. How can you just believe the trash Premium Times wrote up there. na wa for una oo..

You don't come to my mention to tell me that a report put in the public domain by Premium Times is false without bringing your purported true version of the story! It simply means that you debunk reports even when you have no contrary details, and only ignorance could have caused that.

It would have been more honourable to skip and pass.

mascot87:
Prove a point? To who? You? Joker.... He is doing what he planned to do and not proving anything to anyone. If you have chosen not to act ignorantly, you would know the master plan was to start the calabar section of the coastal road by the last quarter of the year

Please let them be. Ignorance is a real disease! The master plan you made mention of made no sense to them.

Whether they like it or not, Lagos - Calabar coastal highway will be completed on schedule! It will be tolled, we will pay and we will use the road. Whoever doesn't want can go through their usual 13hour route.

It's nobody's business!

This is very unacceptable! How do you report the activities of your office to outsiders on the foolish promises of getting you protected?

In the first place, sharing of sensitive information in an organization is a crime on its own. No company would ever tolerate that. Not even the federal government!

It is the reason some employees of some organizations are made to sign non-disclosure agreement before asking the newly employed to resume duties.

Now your protectors have succeeded in getting you redeployed to non vibrant sector and it automatically means your continued membership of that association is useless primarily because you will no longer have sensitive information to share.

Las las, you will learn how to face your job as a matter of priority rather than join any association that would put you into trouble. What were you even expecting? That your employer who employed you so you can put food on your table and feed your family will be shut down out of hatred for the progress of the organization that pays you a salary!

People are wicked!!

adetoya234:
I will start taking turakin Adamawa serious when he steps down for Peter Obi.
If Adc makes the mistake of not giving Peter Obi the ticket, they should kiss winning in 2027 goodbye.

Step down for me! Give me the ticket! Step down, step down!! Haba!!! Why are you people afraid of following democratic process? Yet, you clamour for electoral reforms where democratic process is followed to the letter!

You people should learn to lead by example if you are really serious about winning the presidential election.

Nobody will step down for anybody. Every aspirant will test his popularity at the polls and whoever wins at the primaries gets the presidential ticket.

Case closed!

helinues:
Personal house is not an asset but liability. The earlier people know that, the better for them

I disagree. You can only say this if you live in a state that's not viable economically. If you live in Lagos and you manage to get one, even if it's only you and your family that live there, trust me, you have conquered housing issue.

So, it's an asset, not liability as you claim!

xtivin:
They will eventually find a way to sack them gradually through witch hunting. The truth remains Dangote has power to hire and fire simple

Some emergency lovers of the 800 workers have said he can only hire but lack the power to fire!

Their plans have been thwarted. What the expected isn't what they got.

The leg that walks zigzag is seen by the eyes that sees zigzag!

It's a win win for both sides 😂😂. Sacked workers reinstated, strike suspended! Case closed!!!

flokii:
Redeploy the sacked Nigerians to non-existent positions in the other companies under Dangote group while he employs the 2,000 Indians to start work in his refinery..

Nigeria which way?.. where are we heading to in this country??

Exactly what the people wanted needed! The oil union claimed he sacked them, right? So, he has re-employed them. Case closed. Or do you want to go dictate to him where he posts them within his own organization?

bluefilm:
The peanuts you're talking about, how much exactly is it?

Can you mention the figures so that we can begin to have an idea how much of a peanut is the peanut?

The same peanuts that's in multiples of the regular minimum wage. His drivers earn close to four times the approved minimum wage and imagine him creating about 24,000 jobs in the process and some people are still sad that they are not permitted to dictate to him how he runs his business!

Oakenshield:
you will just type and support but don't know anything. They major grouse of the fighting is Dangote doesn't want union in his refinery,so that he can hire and sack without recourse. Thereby paying them peanuts and careless about them

Look at the person that knows something but oblivious of Dangote salary structure! If you know know, you should rather keep quiet than mislead the public.

Validated:
So Dangote does not want union, too bad. Even in developed economies, unions are allowed. You cannot continue the monopoly, unionization is a MUST HAVE.

Can you name one developed country where the union has ever held the country by the jugular and sabotage it's economy, claiming a private organization lacks the right to enforce its internal policy!

A company is entitled to make it's own policies and is only accountable to the government. Anything short of that is irrelevant.

You want to work in a company and the company has handed you the handbook containing the rules guiding your conduct at the company.

You know you can not cope with it but you still go ahead and signed just because you need the job, only to wake up one day to say you want to make your own laws and there's nothing the company you work for can do about it!

How many times have NMA interfered in the affairs of private hospitals, or have you ever heard of ASUU in interfering in the internal policies of the private tertiary institutions?

You people should open your eyes wide and refuse allowing hatred box you into a corner. This is a war declared on the Nigerian people and it's economy by these associations if you don't know!



Because you people

saintkel:
yes ..he is his mate n there's nothing u and ur fellow guys can do about it

Who am I to school you on the need to give recognition respect the elders, especially when it even involves the traditional institutions?

So, if you become a governor at 29 and a governor of another state is 65, you would still assume you are mates, right?

That's how you were trained and as such, I can not help you.

My only advise to you is to ensure you do not pass down this same mentality to your children and younger generations.

yarimo:
why didn't you and your family build a refinery and make sure PENGASSAN and NUPENG take control of your your staff

Thank you very much. These people are allergic to good things. All they want is chaos!

All they know is destabilize a working economy. They only know how to destroy what they can not build. Later they will say Nigeria is not working.

Too much of leniency is bad sometimes.

Gotocourt:
Am so ashamed of my dear country, comrades couldn't mobilize strike for bad roads, insecurity, poor minimum wage, insufficient social amenities, against corruption, against government for failed refineries

But they are mobilizing against a private company that brought succour to the whole federation 🤷🏿

God will bless you for this comment. I just can't fathom the way the comrades reason. If this escalates and the refinery is grounded, their emergency saviours will hike fuel prices, claiming the fuel is imported and the landing cost is #1,500.. Funnily, these same people will be the one going around claiming the government has not done anything about the cost of fuel and inflation bla bla bla. They should just continue. I guess people get too comfortable and now they want to try discomfort!

Elly1:
Stop that, why then you people blaming the Government for their policies?

People are free to blame the government because whatever belongs to the government belongs to the people. But whatever you acquire with your personal money is private to you and no third party can come into your space to tell you how you spend your money. It's the same thing here.

Dangote should be allowed to make it's own internal policy as a private entity. The most you would do is resign if it doesn't align with your values or you stop to patronize him.

But going to seize his refinery is not right. It's invasion!

ariesbull:
Bunch of clowns...they should disband this NLC...you didn't build refinery for Dangote,your Papa no build any one


You can't tell him how to run his business.... DANGOTE Should fire all these clowns and hire new people and before employment tell them no UNIONISM

He actually told them and even made them sign the "no unionism" clause before they were employed. That's even the Genesis of all these. Nupeng said, why would Dangote make them sign such thing and that the newly employed drivers must belong to their association and must carry out their instructions at the refinery as well as join their strike whenever they call.

So, you see!

Basicend:
Hmm. Ndume is a voice of the rich northern cabals that are fronting Dangote. He is also very unstable.

Tinubu needs to be careful with him. We have trade union act within the constitution.

How can one single individual acquire 4,000 brand new trucks in this same Nigeria. I saw them with my eyes last two weeks.

Not Benz o, not brand new cars. When majority Nigerians cannot afford a brand new car currently.

I learnt his ultimate plan is to purchase 10,000 for fuel distribution. The Union saw what is coming.

This is just one of Dangote's several companies. So how mighty is this man? Don't tell me these funds came from just bank loans and business proceeds. Haba.

Look at this one o. So, your own grouse is because he's very rich? That is why you want him grounded at all cost!

Now I understand. It's actually getting clearer.

ogascomax:
So that means they should allow Dangote to treat Nigeria workers the way he wants because he built the refinery as a private owner. Whether private or government they must be guided by the law of the land regarding engaging and disengaging workers. Apart from what Dangote is doing many workers are suffering in the hands of many employers without protection. Many a time people will work and employers will find reason not to pay you and to sack you. Some employers have become so notorious about such a behaviour. They were a time that my brother worked for a lady. Time to pay him she told him if she gave him employment letter.
You can easily take sides in this matter but since you are not working in that refinery you will be standing with Dangote but those who are working and suffering there will say otherwise.
Someone said did they force them to work. Sometimes I wonder how people reason.
Don't be childish in thinking.

So, to you now, the entire country and 220 million masses (of which you are one) should suffer just because Dangote employed less than 5,000 people, who are hell bent on shutting down the private refinery because they were sacked for not keeping to their terms of engagement.

The way you people reason sometimes is just awkward!

Zionmdde:
Am glad I have so identified with them that you think am one of them. That's the spirit of fighting for one another

I hope one day you don't wake up and find your means of livelihood taken away from you, and you are asked to find alternatives.

Funny to know you're one of those who do things without thinking of the consequences. Continue! By the time the refinery grinds to a halt and importation becomes the other of the day and it in turn brings about galloping inflation and the likes, I hope you will not come online to cry how the government has been bad and prices have gone up and fuel has not been available despite producing crude in this country. But to think of all these effects now, all you want is chaos.

Keep it up. All of us will suffer it together!

Zionmdde:
Same as asking ASUU to build universities
MAN to build industries
NMA to build hospitals
NANS to build universities
NUPENG to buy petrol tankers and Build petrol farms

Congrats that's how smart you sound
Cheers!!!!

Your comment reeks of ignorance!

In case you didn't even know, ASUU members are university lecturers in government universities. Why did ASUU not compel lecturers of private institutions like Covenant university, Redeemer's, Babcock etc to join them? It's simply because as much as unionism is a right, choosing not to belong is also a right. And these are private businesses, not government enterprise.

How many times have you heard NMA going to picket private hospitals for not joining the union? It is just very wrong under whatever guise. The most they should do is build their own refinery and make their own laws.

Dangote is a private business with internal policies. And if they truly signed to not join any union before they were employed, then it amounts to going against the contract they signed and the company could also decide to invoke the consequences for such.

Besides, you are not even thinking of the far reaching effect of all these!.

If you happen to be an investor, would you ever consider running a business in such an environment?

Do you want Nigeria to go back to depending on imported fuel and then return the landing cost narratives?

Make una dey think na

ikennaoma:
Quote me any day any time, dangote cannot run dangote company or any of his subsidiaries in USA,EUROPE OR CANADA the way he's running it in Nigeria. How much do you think he pays an engineer in his company compared to what an Engineer earns in any of this mentioned REGIONS..

Oh! So, he should run his business in Nigeria but pay the same salaries as they're paid in Europe and America! Just listen to yourself now! Even at that, working for an organization is by choice, not by force! If he doesn't employ the indigenes, we condemn him and claim he employs only his people.

What exactly do we want.

Why can't you establish your own refinery and pay your workers what's obtainable in Europe and America? But no! Someone has established, all you want is run it through the back door.

Later we will claim the foreign investors and even our people in diaspora are not coming here to invest their money.

It is well!

It's quite amusing to know that these same people are the ones who often claim that some of our wealthy individuals refuse to establish their businesses here in Nigeria. They run their businesses overseas simply because they already know what Nigerians are capable of doing....holding them to ransom in the name of association!. It is well oo

Those supporting the shutting of the refinery should continue.

Is this the same reason the foreign-owned companies, the Lebanese, the Chinese and a host of other foreigners always find it difficult to employ Nigerian staff into senior positions? Then, I am not surprised.

You will never find any Nigerian in senior position in those companies and it is because of things of this nature. How do I invest billions to provide a solution to an age-long issue only for some people calling themselves an association to be plotting to run it through the back door and some lovers of chaos and haters of good things are supporting them and cheering them on!

The government is not the enemy of Nigerians as you people always claim afterall, it is we ourselves. You people should continue, in fact, if you like, shut it down for six months and let fuel go up as high as #3,000 per litre and prices of every other basic neccesities also spiral out of control. Shebi you have all forgotten the "landing cost" narrative. e go touch everybody las las. even those supporting them, all of us go suffer am together.

oyichi:
so you must be of the same age with someone before you call him your brother?, nawa for foolishness ooo

It is disrespectful to call someone 19 years your senior, your brother. I don't expect you to know tho. We Yorubas drink respect like water.

Meanwhile, give it whatever colouration,Peter Obi is 63 and HIM Adewolu Ladoja (Olubadan of Ibadanland) is 82

She obviously does not have a mother. if she does, she must have been put under pressure. If as a woman you are not married at 52 , honestly I don't know what is left to be enjoyed by whoever calls along at this point because I doubt if a single man who was never married can be interested again . .you may have to prepare to be a second wife or you remain single till you grow old.

it is so unfortunate but truth, they say, can be bitter.

madridguy:
Tribalism for saying it is very important to marry from a very good tribe with good culture?

Forget tribalism. Just imagine the show of homely respect from the wife of a governor to the president! I know of many governor's wives in the country that would only extend a handshake.

In Yorubaland, that respect is in our DNA no matter how highly placed we are.

That is a first lady of a state o, don't you like that?

What is she saying!

Obi has not denounced his membership of labour. He said he's in labour but the coalition is only for 2027. So, what does she mean by 'Abure is the reason Obi is no longer in labour '?

owobokiri:
Can you show the reading public how the advent of Dangotes refinery has improved prices...?
That's is taking into cognizance the pump price of say petrol before the advent of this regime, compared to the present price after the coming of the socalled Dangotes refinery.
I am waiting.
DON'T RUN!

You should tell me whether you've bought the same fuel at the rate of 1,080# or not, before he started operation. Besides, I need you to remind me a time when you spent 30mins on the queue to get fuel at any filling station since his refinery began operations.

Rather than encourage more investors to come into the largely untapped industry, you are here encouraging the disruption of the only one available.

It's not just proper.