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

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 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

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

https://twitter.com/_manddie/status/1663181251619037184

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

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?

1/ 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/

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https://twitter.com/ovo_himself449/status/1656764002633134084

Putting the ball into the net gets me crazily happy 😊

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/

FGN’s Executive Order 007 - Road Infrastructure Tax Credit (a form of tax) not a revenue loss.

1. You use money to pay tax to build or refurbish an approved/eligible road

2. Govt (thru MoF & MoW) certifies the Project Cost

3. Your tax reduces by the amount of project cost 4. Plus a top-up (called uplift) set at CBN MPR rate + 2%

5. MPR currently 17.5%. Hence uplift of 19.5%

6. So if you spend 100m on a road project, and certified, your tax reduces by 119.5m

7. The top-up is to incentivize you because if it’s kobo for kobo, why waste effort

Once in an Aberdeen restaurant simultaneously munching the Chinese rice and reading my material for an exam I had the next day.

One young psycho (who should be in mid-20s) just came to sit by my side and collected my book, read a line and said "this is rubbish, everything in this book is rubbish".

Aggressively charging at me, sometimes asking me incoherent questions about the material and ending with "rubbish".

I was the only customer there at that time and I was surprised the waiters did not call him to order for disturbing a customer

Opening ceremony for Crestville Apartments by AM Realty

Short let apartments in Ilupeju Contact @am__realty

How would Buhari have defeated Obj in 2003?

Yes, Obj’s 24m votes was a heist, but if you factor our the malpractices, Buhari still will not close the 12m gap.

The dynamics of 2015 were different from those of 2003. Who was the 2015 BAT equivalent for Buhari in the SW in 2003?

https://twitter.com/abuashafa/status/1635906515717570561

Who was the 2015 Amaechi equivalent for Buhari in Rivers in 2003?

Did Harry Marshal of 2003 have the clout and state machinery/resources of 2015 Amaechi in Rivers?

Who was the 2015 Rochas equivalent for Buhari in Imo in 2003?

Massive rigging in all Nigerian past presidential elections.

2007 so bad that even final results only scantily available publicly and the elected Yar’adua confirmed irregularity

2003 and 2011 also highly suspicious across board.

Technology (card reader) introduced from 2015 All said, I personally do not think all the malpractices altered the winner in any way.

Rigging or no rigging, Buhari could not have defeated Obj with ANPP in 2003

Buhari (ANPP) & Atiku (AC) could not have defeated Yar’adua in 2007

JARUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FORECAST

Updated 23 Feb 2023

Previous forecast released on 11 Feb

What changed?
1. INEC released actual PVC collection data today. Forecast estimated for the estimate used

2. Updated for significant developments based on field reports from Anambra, Benue, Jigawa, Kebbi, & Zamfara. Changes affected distribution of votes. Slight change in Rivers too. No change significant enough to affect our previous distribution in other states.

No change to voters’ turnout rate estimated in previous forecast.

Head to Head: AA vs BAT vs PO

Here is my view of how their government will look like. Not based on manifestos (believe Nigerian candidate’s manifestos at your peril), but based on antecedents and knowledge of the candidates’ tendencies and inclinations.

Let’s go

(Thread) AA

His government to look like a blend of Obasanjo’s & IBB’s - liberal, some far reaching sectoral policies here and there. Likely to revive privatization trend put on hold by PMB (who’s looking to start more state-led enterprises eg Nigeria Airways).

Odanz knows 🇳🇬 politics!

In my view the best demonstration of understanding of 🇳🇬 politics I have seen in this season of election forecasting.

Slightly different from mine (& that’s ok) but largely agreeable (we can’t see things 100% same & we weigh factors differently)

1/

https://twitter.com/mrodanz/status/1628088256301608995

My comments

1. He didn’t put number to his projections (unlike mine), would be interesting if the ranking was quanitified

2. I agree with him that PDP has the spread

3. I disagree on his projections in a few states (eg in my Kwara, I think APC is winning with a decent margin)

FORECAST OF 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (thread)

Did same in 2019. This is not a poll but a forecast based on knowledge of Nigerian politics as an active follower and observer of about 30 years, interactions with people across Nigeria, feeling the pulse of the street etc

1/4 TURNOUT

Turnout is projected at average of 41%, higher than national average of 30% - 35% in previous election cycles since PVC was introduced

2/3

Nawa for you o

It’s this exact behaviour of imputing motive to everything that made me use enemy, even though I put it in quotes, which means it wasn’t anything serious, not enemy in the sense of the word.

https://twitter.com/seunosewa/status/1578648465575645184

But we used to “fight” a lot, mostly because you are always coming up with spurious accusations like you just did here, accusing me of leaving to start my own. I left moderatorship in Jan 2013 after the Achebe matter, but I did not leave NL. I opened JarusHub in March. It had

How I Built a Business & a Brand From Social Media Posts: The Story of JarusHub

In 2007, during my NYSC in Sokoto, and also studying for my ICAN exams, anytime I got bored from reading at the Sokoto University’s Medical Campus classrooms, I strolled to the campus’ cybercafe

1/ I burned the 1 hour surfing Internet, applying for jobs, checking emails and following football news. I came across a website called Nairaland in the course of these online burrowing and formally registered to be able to participate in discussions on the site in July 2007.

2/

1. Accountant (ICAN prize winner 😉) but doesn’t like accounting

2. Born & bred in Kwara (first 19 years spent fully in Kwara)

3. Never tasted alcohol or cigarette

4. A struggling Muslim (ole ntele salafi)

5. Local man, street cred

6. Never visited America

https://twitter.com/bifolax/status/1578359526113234945

7. Visited 14 countries

8. “Struggle to get your share of wordly things but don’t play dirty”. I try to be fair to all.

9. I love a very good car

10. And a good house

11. I strong believe in prayers, charity & adhkar as means of spritual uplift or warding away of evil

Head-to-Head: Atiku vs BAT vs PO

Personal view of the potential outlook of their presidency

Put in a room, given white board and marker and asked to analyse the governance outlook of the 3 candidates based on what I know of them, here is what I will write

(Thread) Atiku

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- Likeliest to settle fastest of the 3; likeliest to be used to governance bureaucratic procedures

- Private sector & business friendliness, privatization & commercialization pursuits

- Unifying

As a student of Nigerian political history , another reason I believe BAT will do well in the North (not as much as PMB but likely to beat Atiku by a decent margin) is that amana (trust) philosophy of the North.

I think the North does not betray, or, well,

1/ it keeps political promise. And there is a trend to this.

After a Shagari 1979-83, the North strongly supported a southerner, MKO in the next dispensation.

MKO never got there. And they still kept the promise by rewarding Obasanjo when the dust settled.

2/

HOW TO BUILD A GOOD NETWORK FOR JOB HUNTING PURPOSES

A. FOR JUNIOR/ENTRY LEVEL POSITIONS

1. Participate in extracurricular activities while in school

These activities help to meet as many people as possible whether in your departments or across departments. It could even provide opportunity to meet some external personalities who may be helpful to you in getting your first job.

2. Attend conferences and seminars

Attending educative programmes like seminars and conferences helps you to meet as many people as possible, some of