Monday 8am abuja zone
Indeed good news. The senate had called on the Federal charater to lift the ban and allow agencies to promote and recruit. NO GOING BACK ON MONDAY. So help us God
An organisation is clearly under fire from all angles with a bill that could alter its operations and structure also in the offing and you expect the organisation to go ahead and issue letters to hire fresh employees? How strategic is that?Originally Posted by Bravejustice
Rather than protest, I believe a fact finding mission or visit to a reputeable media houses in Lagos & ABuja to demand status report of the recruitment process sounds more logical.
Interestingly I wonder what company would not have serious thoughts about hiring "restive" youths who take to the street based on hearsay and fear.
@ 4gkevin, you are very correct.federal ministry of edu,and ministry of labour and productivity just released vacancies today.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Will b in abj b4 saturday, God willing. Guess unity bank is a good rally/take-off point. Dress code pls?
@jeffisme. Are you the devil or the devil's advocate or simply a devil incarnate? Just
I don;t think we have anything to lose if we at the end of our planned peaceful protest, NNPC operation and structure witness changes that could affect manpower hiring as has been claimed. But we shall be bittered if we could not carry it out. Only to be speculating if we had known at the end. This journey and struggle may not be close to perfect. We are only considering time and event. Who knows, we might secure our NNPC (successful ones) jobs. @jeffisme: its really long time. Pls join us to make this a success. I see us smile home at least with prononucement from the management. Then we will know if PIB is what is responsible or corruption as usual. Whichever......................................... ............
@All, we're working on getting the press statement on as many major dailies as possible come Monday 11th June. I wish to appreciate @favouredstan for the effort so far. Also, see attached the acknowledged copies of letters sent to the Police, NNPC and DPR before the June 4th protest. The coordinators of the zones may wish to download and make reference to them for the new of 11th June. Please note that a new first paragraph had been added to the the press statement to carry a word of condolence to the management of NNPC on the ill-fated Dana airline and the loss of life of her members of staff. Please see the revised press statement below:
A PRESS STATEMENT BY CONCERNED NIGERIAN GRADUATES ON THE CONTINUED DELAY OF NNPC/DPR MANAGEMENT TO RELEASE APPOINTMENT LETTERS TO SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AFTER MONTHS OF INTERVIEW AND DEHUMANISATION OF NIGERIAN GRADUATES
Firstly, we wish to commiserate with the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on the loss of some members of her staff in the ill-fated Dana airlines mishap of 3rd June. We commiserate with the families of the bereaved and pray that God grants eternal rest to the departed. This sad event however, is a clarion call to all Nigerians and people in authority to do the right thing, be it proper maintenance works on an airplane or conducting and successfully concluding a free and fair recruitment process by a government parastatal, and which is the subject of our protest on this anomaly that needs to be addressed.
Sometime around August in 2011, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation announced to the consternation of Nigerians that 80% of the over 40,000 Nigerians that sat for the recruitment test of the corporation failed. This result was even more disastrous considering the fact that those who failed where either first class or second class upper degree graduates. Nine months later, fellow Nigerians, the successful candidates who were being interviewed at the time that very inauspicious declaration was made do not know their fate. To fully appreciate the import of the following discourse, the reader might need to be informed that this recruitment process began in November 2010, when the NNPC announced recruitment positions in the corporation and its subsidiaries.
On the 25th day of March 2011, over 40,000 young, bright and promising Nigerian youths sat for the NNPC's recruitment test in various locations across the country having met the stipulated recruitment criteria. Many of these young chaps, including yours sincerely, had to pass through a lot of rigors in order to write this test. Many of the candidates had to embark on harrowing journeys on the death traps we call inter-state roads. Others traveled from various parts of the world- Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia on personally funded flights.
On getting to the test venues, instead of a little respite in the form of already sorted out logistics, they were welcome by what could best be described as cut-and-nail arrangements. In their hordes, these hopeful Nigerian youths bore the infernal heat of the sun, as they waited for the officials of the NNPC and Phillips Consulting, to make face-saving reparations to their blighted first impressions. Such was the hope of the "hopefuls", that even though a test that was earlier scheduled for 11am was delayed till about 5pm (and even 6pm in some venues), their resolve was not in a bit deterred. They strained their eyes to make use of the little light the dark halls could afford them. Nothing could better define the enthusiasm of these young ones than the arrival of a newly wedded bride still dressed resplendently in her wedding gown making her way through the crowd to "secure her future".
Despite these inconveniences, 20% of the candidates - as asserted by no less a person than the GMD himself, braved the odds, passed the test and were invited for interviews. The last batch of successful candidates were interviewed at the NNPC towers in mid-august 2011, in a time when the security situation of Nigeria could best be described as tenuous, owing to the endless bombings that were becoming rife. Once again, optimistic Nigerians made the trip to the NNPC towers across lands, air and oceans at personal expense.
As is the tradition, account numbers of the interviewees were collected to facilitate payment of their transportation allowances. Forward to nine months later and the “hopefuls” are still hoping. There is no gain saying that the Phillips Consulting officials and the NNPC senior staff members involved in the recruitment exercise have been paid their allowances, while not even the transportation allowances of the interviewees have been paid. Nine months gone and counting, hopefuls have been waiting with bated breath for the conclusion of this recruitment process. Hopefuls are increasingly wary, because the conspiracy of silence on this process forebodes ominous signals as was the case with the 2008 recruitment, which was ingloriously swept under the carpet. The expectations have reached feverish pitch as evidenced by discussions on various fora created for this purpose.
The question that keeps begging for an answer is: What offense did the Nigerian youth commit? Even though the issue of the fuel subsidy probe has been espoused as a possible excuse for the delays by some, the corporation and its parent ministry have gone ahead to present and defend budgets for the year which made provisions for increased manpower. If the NNPC management doesn’t have ulterior motives, what then is stopping the release of appointment letters to successful interviewees? If the GMD was so quick to denigrate those who in his allusions are pretenders to the degrees they possess, is it not only fair to reward those who proved their mettle.
The NNPC and her sister organisation, the Department of the Petroleum Resources (DPR) have decided to play the ostrich concerning the recruitment of a few deserving Nigerian youths, whereas in this nation, billions of Naira have gone into sustaining the avarice of a few undeserving persons including top management staff of these two organizations. It is even more disheartening that in the recently held ministerial platform, the Minister under whose watch this hogwash was perpetuated shied away from it. It needs some reiteration that it is the career of hardworking, deserving young Nigerians that is being toyed with by a privileged few. The President, Minister and top management staff of these organizations should remember that “those whose nuts were cracked by benevolent spirits are morally obliged to others”.
The successful conclusion of this process or otherwise will call to question the genuineness of Mr. President’s transformation agenda, which most of the hopefuls bought into, and gave him their votes for. It is unjust that in this nation, a cabal of few persons who brought this nation down on her knees still run amok, whereas the employment of a few thousand youths (whose collective annual wages wouldpale in the face of a single loot) has become a matter of contention. So far, the hopefuls have remained calm. We are gentlemen and ladies in the very sense of it; we are responsible professionals/would be professionals, but there is a point to which we can suffer the evil in the land.
We are therefore taking our destinies in our hands by waging a peaceful protest as law-abiding and responsible citizens to draw the attention of government to the evil menace. It is our hope that the government, the Minister and management of NNPC lends a listening ear to our plea and respond by a speedy conclusion of this long-running recruitment process and invite successful candidates for training.
We appreciate the involvement of media and civil society to our cause as an injustice against the Nigerian youth is one against the nation's future.
GOD BLESS YOU!
GOD BLESS NNPC/DPR!
GOD BLESS NIGERIAN GRADUATES!
GOD BLESSTHE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!
Signed:
For NNPC/DPR hopefuls online forum.
To: All print and electronic media houses in Nigeria
Cc: Group General Manager HR, NNPC
Director, DPR
Group Managing Director, NNPC
Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
To be delivered on Monday 11th June 2012 at a peaceful protest/demonstration at all NNPC offices in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Warri.
Commissioner of Police Lagos State Police Command.pdf
NNPC Lagos Zonal office.pdf
DPR office Lagos.pdf
@Bebrief well done my guy...pls that date of test was on 26th March...do amend. I am in full support...Lagos zone!
@all: Honestly I feel this paragraph could give them an easy way to push us aside. @bebrief and favouredstan: I don't intend to Jeopardize the excellent work you have done. You guys are wonderful.
"Sometime around August in 2011, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation announced to the consternation of Nigerians that 80% of the over 40,000 Nigerians that sat for the recruitment test of the corporation failed. This result was even more disastrous considering the fact that those who failed where either first class or second class upper degree graduates. Nine months later, fellow Nigerians, the successful candidates who were being interviewed at the time that very inauspicious declaration was made do not know their fate. To fully appreciate the import of the following discourse, the reader might need to be informed that this recruitment process began in November 2010, when the NNPC announced recruitment positions in the corporation and its subsidiaries"
@4gkevin, I agree with you
@Bebrief, kudos man. I think dt write up ll fly.
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