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@SirJarus
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Still waiting for the opportunity ask Amokachi whether he knows how popular he is in Turkey.

Was holidaying in Turkey last year and almost every adult (40 years and above) appeared to know him.

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Once they knew I was from Nigeria, the next thing was “Ehhh, Nigeria? Amokachi, good player; Okocha, good player; Uche, good player”.

I almost ate free food because of Amokachi at one restaurant as the attendant was reverring me as if I was Amokachi’s brother.
I met another man at the mosque and he was practically begging me for photograph just because I was from Amokachi’s country. That’s him in the pic.

I wonder what these guys will do if they met Amokachi himself. Mob him? Image
To think these guys played football in Turkey over 20 years ago. And they are still this popular. Or well, maybe I have been meeting Besiktas and Fernabache fans.

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Dec 10, 2024
Have stopped telling people they can get job in good organizations, including public sector organizations, without any connection.

Have come to realize that it doesn’t make any difference. And it’s an agelong thing.

In 1991, a young graduate secondary school teacher in Ilorin called Babs came to hustle for jobs in Lagos. He walked around Marina etc submitting his paper CVs. On the day he was returning to his family in Ilorin, he bought a newspaper at the motor park and saw Shell advert.

When he got to Ilorin, he told his friend, Ade, a fellow job seeker, about it. Ade told him the job was not meant for people like him, job already reserved for children of elite. He did not listen to Ade. He wrote his application letter, photocopied his documents, went to the post office, and posted them to Shell in PH.

Babs was invited for test, later interview, in PH. The friend kept discouraging him. “You will travel to Port Harcourt? Why are you wasting your time? They know the people they want to pick already. This is just formality”.

All through the process, Ade was discouraging him. Until he received Shell offer letter. He couldn’t believe it.

Babs would go ahead to rise from a young warehouse stock officer in Shell PH to become the #3 person in Shell Nigeria at some point, later seconded to NLNG as CEO, and after NLNG assignment, moved to Shell global HQ in Hague, Netherlands, as Global VP for Upstream covering about 50 countries.

There are many Ades here. Choose who listen to.

If an Ade here tells you, “that was 1991, not now”, move to page 2 on this thread.

1/5
Shola, bred in Bariga, Lagos, lost his parents at a young age. But he was very brilliant. Managed to raise funds for his UME and got admission into UNILAG. He took tutorials to make some money for feeding. His brilliance was helping him. He was always winning sholarships. He graduated with first class. He worked in a couple of financial insitutions before applying to Shell. He did not know anybody. He got into Shell.

He got into Shell in 2020. If you think that was long ago, I want to remind you 2020 was Covid year.

Shola is here reading this.

If another Ade changes the story that these are private organizations, move to page 3.

2/5
In 2019, NNPC published recruitment advert. Bobola, a young guy from Akure that just finished NYSC and had never worked anywhere, applied.

He joined the thread on Nairaland where people were discussing that recruitment. A lot of people were saying they were wasting their time, that NNPC would not give them job, that the job was reserved for children of politicians.

A certain Jarus, well experienced in career matter and has seen hundreds of people get jobs in these organizations time and again, was shouting oarse on that thread that they should not give up.

Stage after stage in the recruitment process, there were Ades swarming the thread and passing message of defeatism - “wasting your time on jobs you cannot get”.

Bobola kept pushing, stage after stage, not entirely hopeful, but kept hope alive, reading the posts of people like Jarus encouraging them.

February 2020. He opened his email and saw NNPC offer. He is with NNPC now.

He is reading this.

2020 was not “then”. 2020 was four years ago.

Need one more example for same NNPC? Move to page 4.

3/5
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Jul 19, 2023
If it will inspire the younger ones (or anyone at all), retelling the story of Taiwo Oyedele’s career

1. Born in a village in Ondo State in mid 1970s

2. Almost denied admission into primary school at 5 because he was small and his left hand could not touch the right ear Image
3. Accepted only because his twin sister’s hand could do. And they were born same day. You can’t say Kehinde is ripe for primary education and not Taiye born on same day.

4. He was consistently the best student in his class through primary and secondary schools
5. Mostly struggled to pay the N50 school fees but weekend farm work helped. Got paid N5-N10 per weekend of farm work.

6. Then the struggle to pay the big fee for WAEC exam - N495. Needed to do at least 6 months of farm support before being able to raise that. Dropping out… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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May 30, 2023
1. Crude oil (oil from the ground) is processed and converted to petroleum products.

2. The conversion process is called refining

3. The products are many (diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, petrol etc), but the most relevant one here is petrol

4. Nigeria has abundant crude oil
5. But it is not the crude oil you use to power your cars, generators and other machines. It is these products.

6. Nigeria has 4 government-owned crude processing plants (refineries) but they are not working

7. So we need to sell the crude to foreign buyers who in turn process
8. We then buy the products and bring them to Nigeria

9. This means the cost of the product in Nigeria will include

- cost of the product as bought from the overseas seller
- cost of transporting to Nigeria & clearing at ports
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May 14, 2023
How to Deliver Public Lecture in Nigeria

Sample Topic: The Role of Western Hegemony and Religious Imperialism in Dismantling the Building Blocks of African Socio-Cultural Milieu

2 hours lecture

First 10 minutes: Define West. What is the West? Who is a westerner?

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Next 5 minutes: Define "hege"

Next 5 minutes: Define "mony"

Next 5 minutes: Rant about hegemony and some Max Weber theories.

Bring 10 definitions of hegemony according to different authors, never mind that only one word is different from each's definition

2/
Next 10 minutes: Define religion. Rant about some Karl Marx saying

Next 10 minutes: Define imperial. Define "ism". Join them together

Next 5 minutes: Define dismantle. Give 20 synonyms for dismantle

Next 10 minutes: Define Building

Next 10 minutes: Define blocks

3/
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May 11, 2023
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Putting the ball into the net gets me crazily happy 😊
Deadly finisher
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Mar 31, 2023
One of my closest friends picked up a unit of Fortrose Court this week (what will be his 2nd house in Lagos) and it evokes memories & lessons in friends supporting each other in course of life.

In May 2008, fresh after NYSC, I resumed at a coy in VI as an accounting officer 1/
I never liked accounting, I was given the opportunity because they saw in my CV I was writing ICAN exams and winning prizes.

So there I was, thrown into real accounting, to manage the accounting records of a company with over 500 chains of filling stations.

Oju agbami

2/
As I struggled to settle down in first few weeks, there was a colleague sitting beside me. Let’s call him Ola. Ola was a contract staff employed a year before me. I was a full staff, so earning way more.

But he was already a chartered accountant (qualified in 2007) while

3/
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