Job Vacancies: Product Development Manager @ MTN Nigeria

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.
MTN Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Title: Product Development Manager, Prepaid
Reporting To: Senior Manager ,Product Development & Support

News: Teacher Jailed For Killing Rabbits

An Italian teacher has been sentenced to eight months in prison for killing two rabbits with a hammer in front of his pupils in an anatomy class, the animal protection association LAV said on Wednesday.
Carlo Rando, a trained surgeon, had ordered a delivery of four dead rabbits to be dissected for his class, the association said in a statement.
Two were dead when they arrived but the two surviving ones escaped into the classroom before being captured by the teacher.
He first tried to strangle them, then punched them and finally finished them off with a hammer in front of terrified teens, LAV said.

Entertainment: Pa Akintola Ogungbe Is Dead

Veteran Yoruba theatre legend, Pa Akintola Ogungbe is dead.

Late Ogungbe

Pa Akintola Ogungbe died Wednesday morning  in his hometown, Abeokuta, aged 78.
The Ogun State-based actor cum producer and director was popular with the epic film, ‘Ireke Onibudo’.

News:Someone Attempting To Bomb Ekiti Govt House

A middle age man was Wednesday arrested in Ado Ekiti by the police for an attempted bid to bomb Government House, the official residence of the state governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi.
The incidence happened barely twenty four hours to the judgement of the Supreme Court of Nigeria which is expected to deliver judgement on the case instituted by the former governor of the state, Engr Segun Oni, challenging his removal from office and subsequent declaration of Governor Kayode Fayemi as the validly elected Governor in the 2007 and 2009 elections in the state.
The alleged bomber was said to have been conveyed to the spot by a man on motorbike who was said to have escaped arrest as soon as  the suspected criminal alighted in-front of the main gate of the Government’s House.

Job Vacancies: UNDP

The Agriculture Transformation Agenda (ATA), unveiled by the Honourable Minister for Agriculture presented opportunities for the provision of technical assistance and other support to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) for the scale up of positive inclusive markets experience in Nigeria. The ATA is aimed at establishing a sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in Nigeria to raise the income of rural farmers. UNDP through its project, Facility for Inclusive Markets (FIM) has offered to support the Government of Nigeria (GoN) in key demand areas that include developing and implementing key value chains in agriculture and agro-industry and enhancing inclusiveness. FIM will also work towards its goal of catalysing the scale up of positive Inclusive Market experience in Nigeria and as a platform for capturing knowledge in and out of Nigeria.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is providing, through UNDP, long term technical assistance to the Agricultural Transformation Implementation Group (ATIG) as the organ established by the FMARD to implement the Agricultural Transformation Agenda. This support will compliment the UNDP-FIM project and ensure the successful delivery of the goals of the ATA. This project will provide critical technical expertise to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to successfully implement the ATA. The UNDP-BMGF technical assistance to FMARD will support term technical assistance for capacity development and the expansion of value chains in agriculture and agro-industry, institutional policy support and direct intervention to farmers and other small holder value chain actors that are vital to ensuring inclusiveness and sustainable results in the creation of business opportunities and jobs at the grassroots.
The success of the agricultural transformation action plan requires the development of sound and evidence-based policies and institutional reforms. There is need for consultative processes to ensure understanding of stated government policies, shape those policies and ensure successful implementation. The agricultural transformation agenda will draw on the wealth of expertise within Nigerian economics and policy think tanks, with support from the International Food Policy Research Institute.
This post is a Development Project Funded (DPF) post.
The United Nations Development Programme (Nigeria) announces the following vacancy

National Advisor Food and Agricultural policy

• Job TypeContract
• Job LevelTop Management
• Min QualificationMBA/Msc
• Experience 7 years
• Job FieldAgriculture

News: Osun Speaker’s Wife

An Osogbo Magistrate court yesterday ordered six alleged kidnappers to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly kidnapping Mrs. Muibat Salaam, the wife of the Speaker, Osun State House of Assembly.
The six suspects;  Chukwududi Okereke, Ogbole Ochijile Elijah, Okonkwo Lucky, Chukwuma Osifo, Kaikine Mahan and Uwadiunor Philip allegedly kidnapped Mrs. Salaam on of October 9, 2012 at Ejigbo,hometownof the Speaker.
The suspects were later arrested in Ogun State through the combined efforts of men of the Ogun State Police Command and the vigilante group in the town

News: Oba Adeosun Escaped Assassination In His Palace

A popular maxim has it that  the rich also cry. The reality of this recently played itself out in Ogun State as  a  traditional ruler, the Aga-Olowo in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Adeosun, narrowly escaped death when he was attacked by a gang of suspected assassins which stormed his palace in the wee hours penultimate Sunday.
Narrating his scary experience, the embattled Oba said he had  to escape through the back door of his palace barefooted and  without his royal paraphernelia. Thereafter, he trekked about 32 kilometres in the bush to safety. The Oba’s near-death experience can only but convince all and sundry that even traditional rulers in Ogun State are no longer immune to the problems of insecurity  ravaging the gateway state.

*Embattled Oba Abdulrasheed Adeosun…narrowly escaped death when hoodlums invaded his palace

News: 400 Level Student, 23 Other Suspects In Ogun By Police

A-400 level Sociology Student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Azeez Salami, 27, was among the 24 suspects paraded by the Ogun State Police Command yesterday  for armed robbery, burglary, car theft, murder and  obtaining money under false pretence.
Addressing newsmen  at Eleweran headqu- arters of the Command, the Commissioner of Police,Ikhemefuna Okoye said the suspects were those arrested in the state within this month  alone.
He said that  Salami had been on the  wanted list of Police in a murder case  which, according to him, was still under investigation, before he  was arrested with one cut-to-size single barrel gun in his hide-out in Ago Iwoye.

News: In Plateau Shooting Casualties Rise To 10

The death toll from Monday night’s shooting at a drinking spot at Heipang in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State rose to 10, yesterday, as two of those hospitalised later died.
The increase in the number of deaths worsened the tension generated by the killings in the area as people from the village, yesterday, took over the Jos-Abuja highway to protest the attack.
This is even as the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has condemned the continued killing of innocent Northerners following ethnic and religious disputes and asked for a change of heart by those concerned.
National Publicity Secretary of ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, who spoke for the association, lamented the recent upsurge in retaliatory killings in Barkin Ladi.

Job Vacancies: Asset Integrity Manager @ Oil And Gas in Lagos

Addax Petroleum is a subsidiary of the Sinopec Group, one of the largest oil and gas producers in China, the biggest oil refiner in Asia and the third largest worldwide.
Addax Petroleum was founded in 1994 upon leading petroleum industry expertise and a deep-rooted understanding and respect for African cultures. Over the years, Addax Petroleum has evolved from a young pioneer into an established international oil and gas, exploration and production company focused on Africa and the Middle East.
Addax Petroleum’s assets are located in Nigeria, the Joint Development Zone of São Tomé & Príncipe, Gabon, Cameroon and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, comprising an excellent combination of oil and gas reserves and exploration opportunities. The Company’s approximate average oil production for 2011 was 140,000 bbl/d.
Addax Petroleum has over 1100 employees worldwide with service offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Houston (USA), and operating offices in Lagos (Nigeria), Port-Gentil (Gabon) and Douala (Cameroon).

Job Title: Asset Integrity Manager
Employment Type: Permanent
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Vacancies: Registration Area Officer II & III @ Independent National Electoral commission (INEC)

For the essence of undertaking a comprehensive organizational structural review and improvement in its operational capacity, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to revalidate and update the list of applicants. In view of the above, interested candidates are hereby advised to apply; meanwhile those who applied earlier can update their applications accordingly. The vacant position identified include:
Job Title: Registration Area Officer 11(08) & 111(07)

The Job:

News: Atiku Knelt Down And Bowed His Head To Greet His Boss Obasanjo

The crowd at the venue of the 2012 Comptroller-General of Customs’ conference in Katsina, burst into cheers and applause when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar knelt down to greet his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Atiku Abubarka

Atiku and Obasanjo, who served as vice president and president of Nigeria respectively, between 1999-2007, had an estranged relationship during the last lap of their second term in office.

Entertainment: A Cold War Between Davido and Wizkid

The streets have been buzzing with suggestions of a cold war between two  music raves, Davido and Wizkid. Though both have denied such, those close to them insist that there is a less than healthy rivalry between the youngsters.

Wizkid and Davido

News: 2 Lebanese Kidnapped In Niger Delta

Gunmen have kidnapped two Lebanese workers from a construction site in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region, police said Tuesday.
The two “were taken from a construction site in the creeks of Delta State yesterday (Monday),” state police spokesman Charles Muka told AFP.
“Both of them were working on a bridge project being handled by Setraco Nigeria Limited,” he said, adding that investigations had been launched into the incident.
Muka could not disclose the nationalities of the victims, but local media said they were Lebanese and were seized by gunmen in a speedboat.

Entertainment: I Never Said I Married My Wife Out Of Pity

Joseph Benjamin was allegedly said to have granted an interview to an online radio presenter who asked why he married his wife; a woman who is now separated from him and Joseph was quoted as saying, he married her after she got pregnant, because he didn’t want to have children out of wedlock.
Minutes after this purported  interview was aired and shared by other eavesdropping online blogs, Joseph was “mis-interpreted” on social networks and entertainment blog that he married his wife out of pity.
Now the actor is furious and has stepped out on social networking site Twitter.
Here are his tweets

News: Gunmen Dressed As Soldiers Opened Fire On A Jos pub

Gunmen said to be dressed as soldiers opened fire on a Jos pub, killing 10 people in a region hit by waves of clashes between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups, authorities said Tuesday.
The incident occurred in the Barkin Ladi area of Plateau state late Monday and saw gunmen storm the pub then open fire indiscriminately on customers, according to a military spokesman who denied soldiers were involved.
Barkin Ladi is a mainly Christian area of the region which lies on the fault line between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south of Africa’s most populous nation.

News: State Coordinator Says NYSC Camp Not A Five Star Hotel

The State Coordinator, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Lagos State, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, Tuesday dismissed the news making round that the condition of hostels at the Ipaja NYSC camp is not conducive for corps members.
Adeyemi who was taking up by journalists after the official closing ceremony of the 2012 batch ‘C’ orientation course yesterday, faulted the publication by Sunday Punch Newspapers on the issue, saying that the correspondent who wrote the story never visited the camp to see the situation of things for himself and neither did he hear from her to have a balance report. “If the writer was sure of his story, he would have put his byline,” she said.

Job Vancacies: Numerious Positions @ Obafemi Awolowo University [Non Academic]

Obafemi Awolowo University - Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following Senior Non-Teaching Positions below:
Senior Non-Teaching Position

1.) Protocol and Hospitality Unit

• Higher Executive Officer – CONTISS 07 (N579,391.00 – N857,305.00)

Job Vancancy: Specialist Business Executive @ May & Baker Nigeria Plc

May & Baker Nigeria PLC - We are committed to applying our resources and science to improve the quality of life. We provide quality and affordable medicines, food and beverages to those who need them.
May & Baker Nigeria Plc is recruiting to fill the below position:
Job Title: Specialist Business Executive
Job Ref.: MBSBE112012
Department: Pharma Sales & Marketing
Job Type: Permanent full-time

Job Vancacies: Numerious Positions @ Obafemi Awolowo University [Academic]

Obafemi Awolowo University - Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following academic positions below:
Faculty of Arts
1.) Department of Music

• Lecturer I/II – CONUASS 04/03
• Senior Lecturer – CONUASS 05

Qualifications