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@AskMichaelTaiwo Dr for a reason. Many thanks sir.

When you start to hear "give me an example of a time when you lead a team" just know you are being tested on R. Again, remember to use the STAR framework. S – Situation (What was the situation?) T – Task (What actions did you take to lead the team?) A – Action (How did you support the members of the team?) R – Result (What was the outcome?) That’s the CAR framework in a nutshell.

I interviewed people for Shell for years. Here’s how to get in. 🧵 These tips will help you for other O&G companies too because they basically copy each other. Same concepts. Different buzz words.

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Should I try and explain? Do you promise to receive my explanation with civility even if you don’t agree with it? Ok here goes: There are only three learned professions: Law, Medicine and Theology. That is why when a lawyer is cross-examining a doctor or clergy from traditional churches, they do so with a measure of respect. The learned title means that the person is not just educated, they have acquired professional training and been examined in terms of knowledge AND character and found to be worthy. By that training, a learned person learns about the whole human being. That is why you can present certain symptoms to a doctor and he may ask you about work stress, diet, the home front, etc. A priest will do the same and will ask about your marriage, your children, your work, etc. he will additionally worry about the destination of your soul after you die. Similarly, a lawyer understands human nature and the duality between his ability to do good but also to do shocking evil and is confronting and navigating that in his work daily. He will worry about protecting your life and property both when you are alive and when you are dead. In each of the three professions, the person trusts you with their life, liberty or soul. Also, a learned person can be struck off if they misbehave. So, you see? Lawyers, doctors and traditional clergy are, by their training, more than just educated. That is what is different. ✌🏽

@The_Umdazz Alhamdulillah

UPDATE ON ABBA THE CORPER Abba has finally been released. What a huge relief! Thanks to everyone who showed concern, prayers and support. Wishing him peace and better days ahead.

A very gentle soul. @HafizBayero

@elrufai "Make value creation more rewarding than value capture" Indeed, we a blessed as a nation

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 2 4. Sectoral Reality: Why Building Is Harder Than Extracting Consider a few concrete Nigerian constraints. Power Nigeria’s average available grid capacity is just over 5,300 megawatts for a population exceeding 200 million. No serious manufacturing or services economy can scale under such conditions. When power is unreliable, firms remain small by necessity. Ports and Logistics Average vessel turnaround time at Nigerian ports has been around five days—far above global best practice. Each delay creates gatekeeping opportunities, raising costs and uncertainty. Jobs and Firm Structure With wage employment hovering around 16%, most Nigerians work in survival-level activity. This is not because Nigerians lack ambition, but because the system penalizes formal growth. When these constraints persist, entrepreneurship becomes a high-risk, low-reward path. Rational talent looks elsewhere. 5. Evidence from Other Countries—and What It Means for Nigeria Cross-country evidence supports this argument. Countries that channel more of their top talent into engineering, applied science, and production tend to grow faster. Countries where talent concentrates in rent-oriented legal and administrative activity tend to grow more slowly . The lesson is not that law is unimportant. On the contrary: law is essential when it enables commerce. But when legal and regulatory systems become tools for extraction rather than facilitation, they draw talent away from growth-enhancing activity. Nigeria today sits at that crossroads. 6. Signs of What Is Possible There are encouraging signals. Nigeria’s non-oil exports have grown strongly, driven by products such as cocoa, fertiliser, cashew, and processed agricultural goods. This shows that when incentives align—even partially—Nigerian firms can compete and scale. The task before us is to generalise this success, not treat it as an exception. 7. The Real Reform Objective Nigeria’s reform agenda should be summarised in one sentence: Make value creation more rewarding than value capture. Everything else flows from this. This means: •Shrinking discretionary power and rent opportunities in government; •Making rules predictable, transparent, and digital by default; •Ensuring property rights and contracts are enforced quickly and fairly; •Making it easier to scale a business than to stay small and hidden; •Aligning finance with long-term production and exports, not short-term arbitrage. When these conditions exist, the most talented Nigerians will move—naturally and voluntarily—into productive enterprise. 8. What Success Looks Like in 24 Months If Nigeria is serious, progress should be visible and measurable within two years: •Power availability rising from ~5,300 MW toward 8,000–10,000 MW reliably delivered. •Port turnaround times falling below four days, with fewer physical interventions. •Wage employment rising toward 18–20%, signalling firm formalisation and scale. •Tax-to-GDP moving toward 10%, driven by digitisation and base broadening—not harassment. •Manufacturing and tradables expanding their share of GDP and exports. •Non-oil exports growing not just in value, but in the number of exporting firms. These are not technocratic targets. They are signals to talent—telling Nigeria’s brightest minds that building, producing, and exporting now pay better than extracting. 9. The Strategic Choice Before Us Nigeria’s future does not hinge on slogans, nor on personalities. It hinges on who wins in our economy. If the system rewards brokers over builders, we will continue to underperform. If it rewards producers over extractors, growth will follow—rapidly and durably. This is the central lesson of economic history, and it is the challenge of our moment. Nigeria does not lack talent. Nigeria must reallocate it. God Bless our Country.

NIGERIA UPDATE - Nigeria’s Growth Crisis Is a Talent-Allocation Crisis - by: Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai - 1st April, 2026 - Part 1 Nigeria is often described as a paradox. We are a nation of extraordinary human capital—energetic, inventive, resilient—yet our economic outcomes fall persistently short of our potential. Growth remains shallow, productivity weak, firms struggle to scale, and prosperity does not spread widely enough. Today, I want to advance a clear and uncomfortable proposition: Nigeria’s growth problem is not primarily a shortage of talent, capital, or ideas. It is a problem of where our best talent goes—and why. This is not a moral argument about individuals. It is a political-economy argument about incentives. 1. The Core Insight: Talent Follows Returns Across societies and across history, highly capable people choose occupations that offer the highest returns to ability, especially where small differences in skill translate into large rewards. Economists describe this as increasing returns to talent. When those returns are highest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and production, economies grow. When those returns are highest in rent-seeking—activities that redistribute existing wealth rather than create new value—growth slows or stalls . People do not wake up intending to harm their country. They respond rationally to incentives. So the right question for Nigeria is not “Why are people corrupt?” It is: “What activities does our system reward most handsomely?” 2. Nigeria’s Current Incentive Structure Let us be honest about Nigeria’s reality. •GDP growth was about 4.1% in 2024, respectable on paper but insufficient for a country with our demographics. •GDP per capita remains around US$1,084, placing Nigeria among lower-income economies despite our scale. •Informal employment accounts for roughly 93% of the labour force, meaning most firms are small, fragile, and defensive rather than scalable. •Nigeria’s tax-to-GDP ratio is only about 8.2%, one of the lowest in Africa—signalling weak fiscal capacity and heavy reliance on discretionary collection rather than broad, rule-based taxation. These numbers are not abstract. They describe an economy where scale is risky, visibility attracts predation, and long-term investment struggles to compete with short-term access. In such an environment, the most capable Nigerians often find that the fastest and safest returns come not from building large, productive enterprises—but from proximity to state power, regulatory discretion, political brokerage, or legal and administrative contestation. This is exactly the mechanism identified in the economic literature: when the “market” for rent-seeking is large, talent flows there . 3. Why Rent-Seeking Damages Growth Rent-seeking harms an economy in three cumulative ways. First, it absorbs labour and capital without creating output. Resources are spent competing over existing wealth rather than expanding the economic frontier. Second, it acts like a tax on productive activity. Businesses face delays, uncertainty, informal payments, and arbitrary enforcement—raising costs and discouraging investment. Third—and most damaging—it diverts the very people who would otherwise be the most productive entrepreneurs and innovators. When the brightest minds are pulled away from production, the quality of entrepreneurship falls, technological progress slows, and the economy’s long-run growth rate declines . This is why rent-seeking does not merely lower income levels; it can permanently reduce growth.

@FrankLambeek You were shilling it with your whole life,you stupid IDIOT!!!!.

$VRA: the biggest scam from 2025, More projects will collapse in this year; be careful

@B_ELRUFAI @elrufai Allah (SWT) ya ji kanta da rahama. Ameen.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. From Allah SWT we came and to Him we shall all return. I would like to inform the public of the demise of my Grandmother, Hajiya Umma El-Rufai who passed away a few hours ago. She is the biological mother of our father, Mallam Nasir @elrufai. We are grateful for the life she lived and may Allah SWT bless her gentle soul. May He bless the soul of the parents we have lost. On behalf of our family, we seek your prayers. Thank you.

@CaptJamyl @AM_Saleeeem @whitenigerian @B_ELRUFAI @CaptJamyl @whitenigerian am short of words. Allah ( swt) bless u all. The north is proud of u all.

To whom it may concern, Good morning. Please, if you are interested in this important cause, contact me, @AM_Saleeeem or @whitenigerian. Groups and individuals are welcome to join. For the sake of transparency, we will make public all contributors and contributions, unless someone specifically requests to be anonymous. Please note: we won’t be reaching out to anyone; only willing people should reach out to us. No one is here seeking praise or glory; it’s for a common goal of contributing our quota to the youths of this country. Amount raised thus far: 20 million 1. Mohammed Jamal - 10 million 2. Capt. Jamil - 10 million 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Once you're making serious money Hire a maid. Buy a super comfortable bed. Get the fastest MacBook. Invest in a proper desk and chair. Join a serious gym. Eat organic. Eat quality. You'll level up 10x Faster!

@CaptJamyl Alhamdulillah. Do pray for us capt. Safe trip

Asalam sip sip gang Going Saudi today but back tomorrow InshaAllah. Just as I thought I wont go for Umrah this Ramadan, ya Rabb calls me. So I’ll be offline for some hours. What favors of your Lord can you deny? A lot of people have asked if I’m going and I said No! Incase you see me in Lagos today and Mecca tomorrow and Lagos again next tomorrow… I’m not dodging you ☺️ 🙏🏾

@egi_nupe Innalillahi wa Inna ilaihi rajiun. So sorry for the loss bro. We pray Alah (swt) comfort ur family and uphold u. Ameen.

Public Notice: Due to the unfortunate demise of my wife’s dad on Monday, this week and who has now been buried according to Shariah, I have her instruction to inform everyone who has reached out to her on the Ramadhan Package slots that the slots will no longer be attended to. Therefore, all deliveries are hereby canceled. Accordingly, everyone who has paid for the slots should please reach out to me for refund. Also, in case you have been trying to reach her for other enquiries related to Islamic Tales for Kids and other things, kindly send me a DM and I’ll deal with them accordingly. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment this might cause. Thank you.

@CaptJamyl @Farouk_Mokwa Capt namu No time to check time.

@Farouk_Mokwa Their papa’s table

Abeg release our papa jare... just like you in power today, he too was once in power… He is tested today, remember that you too can be tested tomorrow. "Do people think once they say, 'We believe,' that they will be left alone and not be put to the test?" — Quran 29:2 I come in pieces ☺️♥️☺️

@OpeBee Deserved.

Interesting Move. Congratulations to Mr Taiwo Oyedele. The reward for a good job done is more work

I'm in love with this sentence: "The smartest are quiet. The happiest are private."

The more you read, the more creative you become.

"Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" - Ann Napolitano

The smartest leaders don’t react immediately. They evaluate their reaction first.