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Suraj Oyewale (Jarus)

8 Jan, 9 tweets, 2 min read

1/Joe (not real name) is a Beninoise young man who has been my family plumber for over 8 yrs. Very effective, competent, friendly & trustworthy, he graduated from petty kitchen sink fixes in our rented apartment to being the only artisan we did not collect a comparative quote for

2/ He has helped with full house plumbing works for 2 projects in the past 6 years, both costing millions in material and labour. But the more important part is, we introduced him to a big man brother, a bank executive, about 5 yrs ago and he has been their own family plumber too

3/ He has helped the brother to do the plumbing jobs in all the projects he has done since then. Impressed with his work (and character), this VI based brother has also introduced him to his friend/neighbour, another bank executive (husband CEO of a bank, wife ED of another bank)

4/ He has been their go to guy for all water issues in their houses. The last thing I saw on his Whatsapp status was video of him fixing the water system of the swimming pool in the palatial home of these execs.

5/ We that introduced him are probably the smallest fry in his portfolio now. But he remains humble. Still use him for renovation work last week. He still takes small N30k jobs from his low to middle income neighbourhood customers.

6/ It's been a win-win for him and his big men clients - obviously costs less than corporate or Lekki plumbers, and possibly more efficient, and he also gets better pay than petty plumbing works in the low to middle income neighourhood he started from.

7/ Now usually well dressed, with a team of 5 apprentices he supervises, he has grown from repairing kitchen sink in a rented 3 bedroom flat for N1k to getting contract costs a few millions in houses that he requires 3 level of security to enter.

8/ Apart from upskilling (not sure he can fix swimming pool when we knew him 8 years ago), he has also done a good job of rising to the demand of his new semi-elite plumber. Last December, he gifted us gifts worth N25k for patronage in 2020.

9/ I'm sure he would do more for his bigger men clients in Lekki and VI.

And his biggest win so far: He finished a 4-room 2 storey building on a quarter plot last year. He has tenants.

Now, that's some transformation within a decade.

Not bad for a 32 year old Cotonou boy!

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1/ This 10 year old Buhari-branded Tee must be my oldest piece of cloth (bar a couple of agbada inherited from our patriarch).

The story?

In 2011, when Buhari was a hard sell in the South, before he joined forces with Tinubu et al, some of us volunteered to sell him

2/ So a group of us on Nairaland then came together, raised some funds among ourselves. I was the coordinator. I remember one Nairaland guy - from Kogi? - I didn’t know came to my then office and dropped N500k cash and 100 pieces of this Tee from the booth of his car.

3/ We raised about N800k in all and did jingles in radio stations in Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Rivers states. I think we called ourselves Buhari Online Support Group or something like that. We also did some publicity material and distributed those shirts.

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1/ The Banker That Never Was: My Journey into Oil & Gas Industry

Inspired by a tweet by Professor @MoghaluKingsley who talked about being deliberate about wanting to have a career in the UN since age 13, to the laughter of this friends and schoolmates, I share similar story

2/ At 10 in 1992, I decided I wanted to be a banker, largely influenced by Dr Femi Adekanye, my distant mentor, a top Lagos banker of the era whose family house in Offa was just next to ours. He was the CEO of Commerce Bank (now defunct).

3/ He was also the President of CIBN and West African Bankers Association at the time. Anytime he came home from Lagos and visited his family house in Offa, the whole neighbourhood stood still, with his convoy of brand new Daewoo Racer and Daewoo Espero cars.

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Top 10 unis in the world for 2021 according to THE.

This is one thing UK has refused to cede to the US. Oxford beating the US giants Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, Princeton, MIT

Also worth mentioning: only 3 of the 8 Ivy league schools made the list (Harvard, Princeton & Yale)

Abeg, how do I get the certificate of these schools o? Not 2 week courses o

Btw, many people do not know that MIT and Stanford are not Ivy league. Even worse, many people think Oxford and Cambridge, which are not even US schools, are Ivy league schools.

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3 Dec 20

Difference between a job chat and an interview

A job interview is a conversation between an employer and a prospective employee with a view to assessing the suitability of the candidate for job offer.

While a job chat is also a form of conversation with a prospective applicant with similar goal, there are a number of differences between the two.

However, before highlighting the differences, it is important to caveat that both terms are sometimes used to mean the same thing. Your sms or email invite could describe it as chat but it could end up being a full scale interview. So it is necessary to bear that in mind.

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10 HELPFUL TIPS TO MAKING FIRST CLASS DEGREE IN THE UNIVERSITY

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Came across this piece I wrote in 5. May be helpful to your younger ones.

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One of the most popular questions I get from my younger ones and mentees who are about to or have just gained admission into university is what they have to do to graduate with a first-class degree after their studies.

Unfortunately, there are no hard and fast rules on how to make this class of degree. What works for one person may not work for another. What works in one institution may not automatically work in another.

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1 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/seunonigbinde/status/1333883341527986176

This is very true. My writing skills may not be excellent but I know it’s more than decent and it has helped me a lot in my career.

Great writing skills help a lot in one’s career.

https://twitter.com/seunonigbinde/status/1333883341527986176

My personalised, unconventional cover letter played a huge part in getting my current job in 2011/2012.

From email writing to contributions to industry and company publications, writing is a very powerful tool for career development.

When you’re known to be a good writer, even your colleagues will ask to help check their drafts - of documents and even emails. You establish yourself as a strong force, as an asset. Nomination into editorial board etc. All these activities give you workplace visibility and clout

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