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Nigerian Breweries Collecting CV’s for 2011

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 3 comments

in Manufacturing vacancies

Nigerian Breweries Plc, the pioneer and largest brewing company in Nigeria, was incorporated in 1946 and recorded a landmark when the first bottle of STAR Lager beer rolled off the bottling lines in its Lagos Brewery in June 1949. This was followed by Aba Brewery which was commissioned in 1957, Kaduna Brewery in 1963 and Ibadan Brewery in 1982. In September 1993, the company acquired its fifth brewery in Enugu while in October 2003, a sixth brewery, sited at Ama in Enugu state was commissioned.

Nigerian Breweries is accepting CV’s for 2011, Click here to register your CV

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Total Nigeria Plc Accepting CV’s

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 1 comment

in Oil and Gas Vacancies

Total Nigeria Plc markets and distributes petroleum products in Nigeria. It offers various fuel products, including petrol–PMS, diesel–AGO, kerosene–HHK, and LPFO for engines, and industrial and domestic use. The company also provides aviation fuel; liquefied petroleum gas for residential and domestic use through its approximately 300 gas stations; bituminous products to construction industry; and marine lubricants to ships, as well as offers insecticide sprays.

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Oando Oil & Gas Accepting CV’s for 2011

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 0 comments

in Oil and Gas Vacancies

At Oando, we believe a highly skilled workforce in a conducive work environment that promotes and rewards continuous learning, will facilitate the achievement of business goals.

We are therefore committed to:

  • Fostering a work environment that provides personal and professional development opportunities for staff to maximize their potentials.
  • Developing employee competencies and preparing them to assume greater responsibilities within the company.
  • Encouraging a tradition of continuous learning and private initiatives for personal and professional development of staff.
  • Facilitating and encouraging a strong commitment to the development of human resources through work assignments, on-the-job experience, and focused training and development.
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Wema Bank Graduate Recruitment 2011

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 1 comment

in Banking & Finance Vacancies

Wema Bank Plc is a universal banking institution incorporated in 1945 as a Private Limited Liability Company (under the old name of Agbomagbe Bank Limited) and commenced banking operations in Nigeria the same year. The Bank later transformed into a Public Limited Company (PLC) in April 1987 and was listed on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in January 1990.

On February 5, 2001, Wema Bank Plc was granted a universal banking licence by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), thus allowing the Bank provide the Nigerian public with diverse financial and business advisory services.

Entry Requirements – Experienced Hires 

Qualification: University Degree or its equivalent, with a grade not lower than Second Class Lower Division. Professional qualifications and and/or certifications proffer added advantage.

Age: As specified.

Communication Skills: Advanced competency in oral and written English with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently in a professional work environment.

Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrable and proven interpersonal skills; the ability to work and interact with people regardless of age, sex, background, religion, colour, or origin.

Flexibility: Be adaptable and demonstrate the ability to traverse different assignments and work locations.

Analytical Skills: Possess the ability to apply strategic thought process to complex business challenges and develop innovative, yet practical, solutions.

Commitment & Aspiration: Possess the aspiration towards growth and achievement of personal and corporate goals.

Application Process – Graduate Career 

All fresh graduates with a minimum of a university degree not below Second Class Upper Division, or its equivalent. Candidates must have completed the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme are encouraged to send their applications to [email protected] 

All eligible candidates will be batched and invited for the Computer-Based Test (CBT). This is the preliminary phase of our entry-level recruitment process. Once successful, they are scheduled for the next phase of the process, leading eventually (for successful candidates) to an exciting career with the Bank.

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Procter & Gamble Vacancies in Nigeria 2011

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 0 comments

in Healthcare Vacancies in Nigeria

The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) boasts boatloads of brands. The world’s top maker of household products courts market share and billion-dollar names. It’s divided into three global units: household care, beauty and grooming, and health and well-being. The firm also makes pet food and water filters and produces a soap opera. Two dozen of P&G’s brands are billion-dollar sellers, including Febreze, Fusion, Always, Braun, Bounty, Charmin, Crest, Downy/Lenor, Gillette, Iams, Olay, Pampers, Pantene, Tide, and Wella, among others.

P&G shed its coffee in 2008 and it’s selling Pringles. Being the acquisitive type, with Clairol and Wella as notable conquests, P&G’s biggest buy in company history was Gillette in 2005

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Afribank Nigeria Accepting CV’s

by Nigerian Information Directory on August 29, 2011 · 0 comments

in Banking & Finance Vacancies

The selection process is open to university graduates or the equivalent, irrespective of discipline, because the Bank knows from experience that an intelligent person can emerge from any discipline or higher institutions of learning.

The Bank’s comprehensive 6 – 12 months training programme (theory and practice) for newly recruited staff fashions out a banker out of the new employee. At the end of the training period, the Afribanker would have acquired cognate experience in all aspects of banking. Thus, an Afribanker who had undergone the training would have gained enough experience to head a section or unit in the Bank. Therein lies the secret behind the courteous and efficient services delivered by the Bank.

Training and learning is an ongoing process in Afribank Nigeria Plc. Employees are encouraged and motivated to study and pass professional examinations in order to achieve self-development and enhancement of their careers in the Bank. Payment for or refund tuition and/or examination fees, monetary rewards for successful completion of some professional examinations relevant to banking, notably, the Chartered Institute of Bankers Examination, are some of the incentives.

Functional, albeit small, libraries exist in the following locations:

The Head Office Training Department
The 5 Staff Training Centres (STCs), strategically located in Lagos, Benin, Ibadan, Kano and Kaduna
The Strategic Planning Unit
These are some of the efforts to help employees cultivate the reading and learning culture, for the only safeguard against obsolescence, in all ramifications, is continuous renewal of the mind through learning.

The Head Office Training Department and the STCs are collectively referred to, in-house, as the ‘University of Afribank’. Training at these locations go beyond just banking subjects. The object is to make the employees develop skills and competencies, which are relevant to both their professional and personal lives.

Deserving employees are exposed to specialised training programmes, locally and abroad, in order to update their skills and competencies. The choice of training institutions ranges from the Lagos Business School to the Harvard Business School. The Bank sponsors a number of qualified staff annually for the MSc programme in Banking and Finance at the University of Ibadan. Also, the Bank encourages the staff to engage in part-time studies for the acquisition of higher qualifications.

The foregoing facts are some of the reasons why Afribank Nigeria Plc. can boast of efficient and courteous service delivery and employee loyalty. Service longevity is celebrated in the Bank. There are staffs who have put in more than 20 quality years of service! The constantly challenged brain does not age.

Please apply here for career opportunities at Afribank Bank plc by filling the form below. All information given should be short and brief.

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UN Building Abuja Suicide Bombing 26/08/11

by nigerian newspapers on August 27, 2011 · 3 comments

in Featured Headline News, News, Politics

A car bomb ripped through the United Nations’ headquarters in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Friday, killing at least 18 people, in an attack reminiscent of a June blast claimed by a local radical Islamist group.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the final casualty toll was likely to be considerable and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ordered tighter security around the capital after what he called a “most despicable assault.”

Security sources and witnesses said the car rammed into the building and blew up, badly damaging parts of an office complex where close to 400 people normally work for U.N. agencies.

“We do not yet have precise casualty figures but they are likely to be considerable,” Ban said.

“This was an assault on those who devote their lives to helping others,” he said in a statement. “We condemn this terrible act, utterly.”

Body parts were strewn on the ground as emergency workers, soldiers and police swarmed around the building, cordoned roads and rushed the wounded to hospital.

“Different people have been taken to different hospitals so we’re not sure of casualty figures. It is at least 18,” said Mike Zuokumor, Abuja police commissioner.

The BBC reported that a spokesman for the Islamist group Boko Haram had said in a phone call that it had carried out the attack. The BBC gave no further details.

Speaking before the BBC report, an Abuja-based security source said he suspected Boko Haram, whose strikes have been growing in intensity and spreading further afield, or al Qaeda’s North African arm.

“This is…a serious escalation in the security situation in Nigeria,” the security source said.

In Friday’s attack the car slammed through security gates of the U.N. complex, crashed into the basement and exploded, sending vehicles flying and setting the building ablaze.

“When the car got inside it went straight to the basement and exploded, killing people in reception, right and left,” said Abuja resident James John, who saw the attack. “The entire building, from the ground floor to the topmost, was just fire and smoke. I saw six bodies been carried. I can’t believe it.”

Michael Ocilaje, a U.N. employee at the complex, said: “All the people in the basement were killed. Their bodies are littered all over the place.”

The building, which housed 26 U.N. humanitarian and development agencies, was blackened from top to bottom. In places, walls were blown away and there were piles of debris.

SIMILAR ATTACK

Militant attacks in the oil-producing regions of southern Nigeria have subsided but the north has been hit by a round of bombings and killings by Islamist extremists.

Boko Haram, whose name translates from the local northern Hausa language as “Western education is sinful,” has been behind almost daily bombings and shootings, mostly targeting police in the northeast of Africa’s most populous nation.

The group claimed responsibility for a June bomb attack on the car park of the Abuja police headquarters which bore similarities to Friday’s blast at the U.N. building.

In the June attack, a car rammed through the gates of the police headquarters in the capital and exploded, killing the bomber and narrowly missing the chief of police.

Boko Haram’s ambitions are growing and if it is confirmed to be responsible for Friday’s attack, this would mark a shift beyond domestic targets.

In London, Henry Wilkinson, associate director at Janusian risk consultants, told Reuters the attack suggested Boko Haram had evolved from being a parochial Islamist faction to one that also threatened international targets in Nigeria.

“This attack will prompt many Western organisations and business to reassess the threat the group poses,” he said. “The targeting of the U.N. building indicates a more global outlook probably influenced by al Qaeda ideology.”

In Abuja President Jonathan ordered tighter security. “The President believes that the attack is a most despicable assault on the United Nations’ objectives of global peace and security, and the sanctity of human life to which Nigeria wholly subscribes,” the state house said in a statement.

Security sources and diplomats are concerned that Boko Haram has links with more organised groups outside Nigeria.

These include Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb which operates over the border in Niger and has kidnapped foreign workers there. However, it was also suspected of kidnapping a Briton and an Italian in Nigeria earlier this year.

In December 2007, a car bombing at the U.N. building in Algiers killed at least 41 people, among them 17 U.N. staff. In 2003, 15 staff and seven others were killed by a bomb attack at the U.N. building in Baghdad

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Abuja Blast Rocks UN Building 26th August, 2011

by nigerian newspapers on August 27, 2011 · 2 comments

in Featured Headline News, News, Politics, World News

  • Attack was by a suspected suicide bomber
  • 18 persons dead
  • Diplomats, several others injured
  • It’s an attack on global community, says FG

The four-storey building housing the various offices and departments of the United Nations (UN) in the Central Area of Abuja was rocked by bomb blast allegedly carried out by a suspected suicide bomber.

The blast occurred around 10.30 am, leaving at least 18 people dead and several others seriously injured. The building was also seriously damaged.

THISDAY learnt that an alleged suicide bomber rammed his Honda car, laced with explosives into the building, resulting in the blast.

Unconfirmed report put the number of deaths at 18 but this could not be independently confirmed at present.

THISDAY also could not confirm the number of those injured as they were still being rushed to the nearby National Hospital at press time.

Our correspondent, however, noticed that some of the victims brought to the National Hospital, Abuja were brought in dead.

 

The alleged bomber, THISDAY authoritatively gathered, defied all attempts by Kings Guard Security officials, on duty at the premises, to prevent him from entering the building.

It was also learnt that the alleged bomber forced his way into the ground floor of the building, where the reception is located.

One of the guards, who spoke with THISDAY, said the blast occurred a few seconds after the man drove directly into the ground floor.

The loud bang that followed threw the entire building into confusion with several persons including top diplomats, other officials and visitors around running helter-skelter. The blast immediately set the ground floor ablaze.

 

Our correspondent who witnessed the blast was on the third floor of the building on appointment with a technical officer of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Mrs. Lillian Okwa, at 10 am.

The entire UN building, THISDAY learnt, is manned by Kings Guards Security, a private security organization, and no policeman was around when the incident happened.

Attempts by THISDAY to speak to staffers of the body failed as those who escaped from the building unhurt were helping in the rescue operation.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government has described the bomb blast as an attack on the global community.

The President of the European Union Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, also condemned the bomb attack, saying it was an attack on the whole international community.

 

Source: Thisday

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NOLLYWOOD LOSES ANOTHER LEGEND

by nigerian newspapers on August 26, 2011 · 1 comment

in Entertainment News, News

Just two weeks after the death of ace veteran actor Sam Loco Efe hit movie industry, another Nollywood film maker, has also died.
She is Agbo Martina.

The Cameroonian film maker, who was based in Nigeria, had passion for the arts and spent most of her life in the country where side by side with top Nollywood film maker like,Fred Amata and others.

According to the information gathered, she died in Nigeria two days after the death of Sam Loco.

She produced the popular Nigerian Cameroon movie “Before The Sunrise” which stars Zack Orji,Dakore Egbuson,Fred Amata and Cameroon Soukous musician Jean Piere Asumah.

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REAL REASONS STAR ACTOR JIM IYKE AND KATE HENSHAW LOST OUT OF GLO DEAL

by nigerian newspapers on August 25, 2011 · 0 comments

in Entertainment News

Telecommunications giants,Globacom Ltd recently concluded the annual assessment of its brands faces, otherwise known as Glo Ambassadors and at the end of the day, the name of 2 prominent Nollywood stars in its usual line-up of Ambassadors were conspicuously missing.

Effectively, Kate Henshaw and Jim Iyke have been dropped as Glo Ambassadors.

Though there are multifarious parameters for the assessment of the activities of Glo Ambassadors, including inputs from different departments of the company and public relation experts, we can reveal to you that the dropped Nollywood stars have been found wanting in their roles as Glo Ambassadors, hence the refusal to renew their contracts.

The company is keeping mum on its decision to drop the two stars but while most of the other Glo Ambassadors have represented the company at numerous events, Kate Henshaw seemed to be riding her own waves as she has hardly answered the calls of the company.

From our own tracking, the only Globacom event which Kate Henshaw has honoured for a very long time was the official launch of the company’s submarine cable known as Glo 1 in October last year. Apart from her presence in one of the recording of Glo Naija Sings last year as a Glo Ambassador, Kate Henshaw Nuttal has been nowhere to be found, near a Globacom event for a very long time.

At a point,a lot of people have wondered if Kate Henshaw was still a Glo Ambassador.

Jim Iyke on his part, has obviously had to grapple with a lot of image issues for a very long time and it was obvious that the company would decide to do away with his services as a brand face. He has also hardly been present at Globacom events.

One of the few events Jim Iyke can be remembered to have attended for Globacom was the official presentation of P-Square to the media as Glo Ambassadors in August 2010.

Apart from seeing his face in couple of Globacom press commercials, it has been lost on quite a number of people that Jim Iyke was still a Globacom Ambassador for sometime now.

Meanwhile, a lot of Nollywood stars who were retained as Glo Ambassadors have always seized every opportunity to re-affirm their commitment to the company.

Apart from always being there when the company needs them, they constantly remind Nigerians that they are Globacom Ambassadors from their activities as well as promoting the company at every turn.

This was the case when Sammie Okposo took his wife to the altar last year.

Other Glo Ambassadors like Uche Jombo and Funke Akindele are also known to give out Glo souvenirs to people at every opportunity.

Furthermore, this crop of ambassadors and others are always there when the company calls them.A Monalisa Chinda,just like a Desmond Elliot always answers the call of the company which in effect was even part of the deal in the first place.

Our investigations revealed that though the company understands that these stars are always very busy and may not be there sometimes when they are called, when it becomes a pattern to treat the invitation of the company with levity, it becomes repulsive, especially since the Globacom deal has become the mainstay of most of these stars in the last few years as actors and actresses no longer earn the huge sums they used to from acting.

Meanwhile, though Globacom has replaced Jim Iyke and Kate Henshaw-Nuttal with two new movie stars,it has also expanded the portfolio by one.

The newest stars to sign deals with Globacom as Ambassadors are Kunle Afolayan,Odunlade Adekola and Jamila Umar Nagudu.

These stars were picked by Globacom to broaden its reach in the Yoruba and Hausa language movies industries.

The three new stars were picked after a meticulous assessment by the company which reinforced their pivotal position in the entertainment world.

It was also a testimony to how well they have done for themselves.

Being a Globacom Ambassador comes with a lot of perks. Apart from the contract fee, the brand faces are paid when they are invited for Globacom events, especially outside their area of residence.

They are also paid allowances for taking part in Globacom commercials. When a commercial is being shot outside the country, apart from their allowances, they are flown with their managers on first-class to locations outside the country.

These Ambassadors also benefits from the magnanimity of the Chairman of the company, Dr Mike Adenuga Jnr when they impress him with their output in commercials.

However, to remain a Glo Ambassador, you need to continue to be relevant in the industry from which you were picked. For instance, Sunny Nneji who had a different kind of contract with Globacom, unlike the Nollywood stars has been given a long rope by the company as a result of his inactivity in the music industry for sometime now. The company is not impressed that he has not been making waves lately. Same goes for Stereoman Ekwe.

A lot of these stars try their best in order not to put the wrong foot forward and to them, image is everything.Monalisa Chinda was quick to prove that her break-up with her ex-husband was not any fault of hers while Uche Jombo has since done away with her skimpy clothes.

You simply need all the respect and relevance you can get to remain a Glo Ambassadors and staying away from scandals is one sure bet.

Ask Mercy Johnson, who would have been one of the lucky few today if not for the scandalous stories that have tarnished her image, though she nonetheless denies them all.

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