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Philippines bars workers from Nigeria after kidnapping
Mon Jan 22, 2:31 ...Read the full article.

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Imagine! Even the Phillipines - the Phillipines!!! - are avoiding us.

Next we would hear is that Aghanistans have issued executive edicts warning her citizen to stay away from Nigeria..or Iraqi's are evacuating their citizens from Nigeria...LOL! LOL!

Auspicious.

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=Auspicious;150429>Imagine! Even the Phillipines - the Phillipines!!! - are avoiding us.

Next we would hear is that Aghanistans have issued executive edicts warning her citizen to stay away from Nigeria..or Iraqi's are evacuating their citizens from Nigeria... LOL! LOL!

Auspicious.

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Hi, folks!

.... Meanwhile, the yet to be impeached President of Nigeria, the Butcher of Aso Rock (BoAR), is deeply engrossed in his high-intensity ego wars with the yet to be impeached Vice President of Nigeria.

What a visionless generation of vipers that have infested Nigeria!

Muchas gracias.

Don Juan Carlos ABRAXAS (III)

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Good riddance! What are the workers from that country doing that Nigerians inside and outside Nigeria cannot do?

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@ Eezeebee

Let me hazard a guess.

Could it be that they are doing the jobs that our educational institutions have FAILED to provide Nigerian graduates, e.g basic accounting, engineering, medical personnel etc? Especially with their outdated curricular that are almost totally out of sync with the real world working environment.

It will shock you the quality of graduates our university churns out these days.

Can you imagine a university graduate of Computer Science who NEVER used a PC during the 4-year course of study? If you can understand that then you'd probably understand the situation we're in.

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=InDiaspora>@ Eezeebee

Let me hazard a guess.

Could it be that they are doing the jobs that our educational institutions have FAILED to provide Nigerian graduates, e.g basic accounting, engineering, medical personnel etc? Especially with their outdated curricular that are almost totally out of sync with the real world working environment.

It will shock you the quality of graduates our university churns out these days.

Can you imagine a university graduate of Computer Science who NEVER used a PC during the 4-year course of study? If you can understand that then you'd probably understand the situation we're in.

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In case you missed it, I'll repeat it: What are workers from that country doing that Nigerians inside and OUTSIDE Nigeria cannot do?

I won't argue that the quality of graduates leaves something to be desired. There are a myriad of reasons why this is so and that would have to be tackled in another thread.

You really don't understand it do you? These companies are prepared to bring people from faraway Phillipines to perform tasks that can be performed by Nigerians both at home and worldwide.

I am no xenophobe and I'm all for everyone getting all the opportunity they can EVERYWHERE in the world.

When a country takes the step of 'banning' travel to Nigeria, IMHO na dem sabi. Have you travelled to Nigeria recently? The planes are virtually filled with more foreigners than Nigerians. Evidently the circumstances there still favor them more than it does the Nigerians and that is my grouse.

Any company which is willing to pay a Filipino, an American, A citizen of the United Kingdom et. al. virtually anything he/she can ask for, provide them 100% electricity in their 'camps' - (Shell camp, Julius Berger camp) etc. provide them drivers to and from their work place but will NOT go the same lengths to provide for a Nigerian is USELESS to Nigeria.

I make NO apologies for that. Until we overcome our underclass status to anybody who can be called 'other' and stand up for ourselves, we will continue to 'weep' when the Filipinos are banned. Nonsense!

They should NEVER come back as far as I'm concerned. I and the other '140 million' Nigerians won't miss them!

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=EezeeBee;150599>In case you missed it, I'll repeat it: What are workers from that country doing that Nigerians inside and OUTSIDE Nigeria cannot do?

I won't argue that the quality of graduates leaves something to be desired. There are a myriad of reasons why this is so and that would have to be tackled in another thread.

You really don't understand it do you? These companies are prepared to bring people from faraway Phillipines to perform tasks that can be performed by Nigerians both at home and worldwide.

I am no xenophobe and I'm all for everyone getting all the opportunity they can EVERYWHERE in the world.

When a country takes the step of 'banning' travel to Nigeria, IMHO na dem sabi. Have you travelled to Nigeria recently? The planes are virtually filled with more foreigners than Nigerians. Evidently the circumstances there still favor them more than it does the Nigerians and that is my grouse.

Any company which is willing to pay a Filipino, an American, A citizen of the United Kingdom et. al. virtually anything he/she can ask for, provide them 100% electricity in their 'camps' - (Shell camp, Julius Berger camp) etc. provide them drivers to and from their work place but will NOT go the same lengths to provide for a Nigerian is USELESS to Nigeria.

I make NO apologies for that. Until we overcome our underclass status to anybody who can be called 'other' and stand up for ourselves, we will continue to 'weep' when the Filipinos are banned. Nonsense!

They should NEVER come back as far as I'm concerned. I and the other '140 million' Nigerians won't miss them!

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in think you have a point eezzeebee ,

but how easy is it to get nigerians to go home especially when they have gathered the kind of work experience required . it is extremely difficult . that is the point where the mind brings up all sorts of reasons and excuses why you should not go back.

on the other hand , it was malaysia or indonesia , i forget which , that made the foreign companies pay a 1000 dollars a month on the head of each expatriate staff that was employed in their country instead of an indigene.

these companies might not really be interested in employing graduates of nigeria unless you make them to . it is that simple . some years ago i met some shell staff that had worked in nigeria and i discovered to my surprise that more often than not, the expatriate staff were just people with lots of hands on experience and no training.......

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@ EezeeBee

I humbly submit. Your argument is spot on and very valid.

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Do these companies have certain quota reserved for Nigerians or do they have free hand to hire just anyone they wish? This is where a technocrat like Utomi comes in. He's aware of world economies and what obtains in Civil societies. Any Co wanting to set up business in say, Harlem, NY tries to convince the City that majority of their staff will be local people. The Cos say they're bringing jobs to the Community. Why must this be any different in Nigeria?

Granted these Co are in business to make money, but they should be compelled to make a greater percentage of their staff Nigerians, in every category. AND the laws must make it harder and more expensive for them to hire expatriates where there's local content to fill that need. If it's not there, train them. Me thinks it would be more cost-effective for them to hire local content. It's a no brainer.

Unless there's something else to be gained by hiring expatriates. I think it's all part of the fraud being played out in the foreign exchange arena, this time against Nigeria by the Cos, in collaboration with some corrupt Nigerian officials.

Good riddance to those Philipinos. Let the Co hire Nigerians, and our people back home should start believing in themselves, because there are geniuses amongst them.

If a Co refuses to operate within the laws and decides to pack-up, some people can copy their work and move on.

I see a great opportunity for us to take some control, if only the FG will enact enabling laws and assume its role as an advocate for the people.

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=Nonyellum;150647>Do these companies have certain quota reserved for Nigerians or do they have free hand to hire just anyone they wish? This is where a technocrat like Utomi comes in. He's aware of world economies and what obtains in Civil societies. Any Co wanting to set up business in say, Harlem, NY tries to convince the City that majority of their staff will be local people. The Cos say they're bringing jobs to the Community. Why must this be any different in Nigeria?

Granted these Co are in business to make money, but they should be compelled to make a greater percentage of their staff Nigerians, in every category. AND the laws must make it harder and more expensive for them to hire expatriates where there's local content to fill that need. If it's not there, train them. Me thinks it would be more cost-effective for them to hire local content. It's a no brainer.

Unless there's something else to be gained by hiring expatriates. I think it's all part of the fraud being played out in the foreign exchange arena, this time against Nigeria by the Cos, in collaboration with some corrupt Nigerian officials .

Good riddance to those Philipinos. Let the Co hire Nigerians, and our people back home should start believing in themselves, because there are geniuses amongst them.

If a Co refuses to operate within the laws and decides to pack-up, some people can copy their work and move on.

I see a great opportunity for us to take some control, if only the FG will enact enabling laws and assume its role as an advocate for the people.

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Hi, Nonyellum!

Spot on!

Indeed, there is an opportunity here, staring qualified Nigerians, inside and outside of Nigeria, in the face, beckoning them to creatively re-negotiate themselves selectively, into lucrative sectors of the Nigerian economy, against a global salary and benefits benchmark, which, incidentally, has served the interests of generations of non-Nigerian skilled and semi-skilled workers very well, for the better part of half a century, now.

And so, the paradigm shift should not be difficult to achieve. Internationalizing the salary structure in Nigeria, with global baselines and benchmarks, in the interest of quality. Many thanks to MEND.

The Law of Unintended Consequences is fully at work here.

Muchas gracias.

Don Juan Carlos ABRAXAS (III)