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Student of Life.

[Olu Awolowo | Eni Oba nke | Okanlomo Oodua @Donendy2003]

When Ecobank took over Oceanic Bank, the Oceanic staff discovered that we were calling one another by our first names in Ecobank. Our MD Funke Osibodu was Funke but not Mrs. Osibodu. They were coming from a background that they were calling Mr. Adetunji, Oga Deji, Madam Ibru, Dr. Clever…. So, they had to adjust. So, if it is Mrs. Cecilia Ibru who is cautioning that lady, I may not have any issue with it. No issue because that is what she encouraged in the institution that she ran in Oceanic Bank. Majority of Nigerians who will be contributing on this discussion online will definitely not know this truth. They will not know because most of them were still in primary school or still crawling in the 1990s when Tony Elumelu and his other ‘cow boy bankers’ came to the corporate world at their tender ages. Elumelu became MD of Standard Trust Bank, STB in 1997 at age 34. Other guys who floated GT bank and Access Bank were also in their 30s. They could not do the work alone so they had to recruit staff into their Banks. They discovered that the experienced people that they were hiring were in their 40s, and 50s. They found it ridiculous to be calling their staff Mr. Lagbaja and Mr. Tamedu. They had a complex, giving instructions to someone older than them. To conquer the complex, they introduced the idea of calling all staff by their first names. It levelled the ground for everybody. Mr. Daramola Oladeji at 44 is now addressed as Deji, Mrs. Oluwole Olufunmilayo with 3 boys in the university at 48 was being called Funmi at work and she must answer. They were the one who came to destroy the work place ethics in order to satisfy their ego and help them manage their complex.
One good thing about it I must confess is that it makes you freer to relate with your colleagues without any age barrier to the overall benefit of the organization. In Ecobank during the general staff meeting which we call village meeting, you will hear people saying ‘Funke’, I have been raising my hand since and you have not given me chance to talk … that is the MD that that they are addressing. Even at that, if I am to travel with the MD to Abuja on the same flight and I want to ask her which airline to book, i will enter her office and say ‘Funke admin is asking me which airline should they book for our journey?’ Do you know that on that flight, I will carry her bag, as a mark of respect. If another big Oga is with us on the trip and we reach our destination and he ask ‘ Deji what are you doing, you are delaying us’; Do you know I can tell the Oga without any fear, "I am waiting for the conveyor belt to bring Funke's bag, but it has not come" meanwhile, the person i am calling Funke is the owner of the bag I am waiting to collect oooo.

I have gone this far to let you know that even in the midst of name calling, we used to give honor and regard to one another but not openly like they do in some other places. That girl knew which environment she was coming into. She knew people were being called and addressed by their first names. They were tutored along this line in the training school. Those who violated the policy were given penalized
She will do d same in an Access Bank. She will do it in GT and Ecobank and she will not be reprimanded. I had an Oga that came from Afribank of old to join us in Ecobank. When he would address our Group Head, he was always being fined N1,000 in those days. He would say ‘Excuse me, Sir’, here is a fine of N1,000. Mr. Lagbaja sir, another N1,000 fine but when he calls our Group Head by his first name, our group head will say ‘Yes, i am listening’. The other man was coming from a background where the culture was different from the new place he found himself.

Money has come; age has also come. Tony is seeing that lady as age mate of his own girls of yesteryears who have equally become ladies now. He and his friends who were underaged bankers were the promoters of this culture in the banking industry.

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Ex-governors Nyame, Dariye jailed for looting multibillion-naira state funds named members of Tinubu's 2027 campaign team

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[Headfort Foundation for Justice @HeadfortF]

As you read this, BUK final-year student Maryam Isah Shehu is STILL inside Suleja Correctional Centre.
She missed her final exams on Saturday. Why? Because after the @officialEFCC used public pressure to perform "leniency" and drop charges, bureaucratic games kept her behind bars. 👇

[Punch Newspapers @MobilePunch]

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 '𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲' 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 20 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮, 𝗨𝗦

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://t.co/UPNOPRjvSZ

[Hussling Emeka Benjamin @BloodedDutchMan]

All the IPOB ESN in this video have been successfully recycled..
Criminals that swore never to allow southeast rest..
No marked grave no burial, they will forever remain forgotten..
Kudos to the security personnel

[Meggyyyy @pinkyy_nurse]

I really need this to reach more people today. 💔

Lauretta has made it through 11 rounds of chemotherapy, but her fight isn’t over yet.

Please help me get this to someone who can help. A donation, repost, or share could make a real difference.

Please don’t give up on my sister.

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

Over 200 lecturers, including professors, have left KASU: ASUU
https://t.co/DY0Ssxq2ai

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

Politicians Now Dictate Academic Staff Recruitment, says ASUU
https://t.co/Y1MtixnovJ

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

VIDEO: Floods Submerge Parts of Abuja After Heavy Downpour, Destroying Properties as Luxury Cars Disappear Under Floodwaters https://t.co/P8VKgQWpEg

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🩵🤍 EXCLUSIVE: Coventry City agree deal to sign Taiwo Awoniyi from Nottingham Forest, here we go! 🇳🇬

Club to club agreement done, permanent move and also understand medical is now ongoing.

New striker for Frank Lampard. #ccfc

[Premium Times @PremiumTimesng]

Time: 3:49 p.m.
LG: Obokun
PU: 004 (Ilare Market Square, Ward 10)

The Presiding Officer nullified the result after the ACCORD and APC agents failed to reach an agreement.

The BVAS recorded 265 accredited voters, while 266 votes were counted, resulting in one extra vote. APC scored 135 votes, while ACCORD scored 131.

[Chimama ❤️ Obi @Chima_Obi1234]

"While the Ekweremadus maintain that Sonia had no knowledge of the plan to illegally get a kidney donor, she responded to her father’s WhatsApp messages that had photos of new potential donors. To one photo of two young Black men, Sonia wrote: “OK, that’s fine. Thank you. Are they still more to test?”

Her father told her: “Yes, but by the end of the week, I will decide who to proceed with. We will get it right this time.”

Sonia wrote back: “I trust you, daddy, thank you ❤️”. Then she added: “The dark one looks better, the light one looks like he’ll run away 😂😂😂”.

(Culled from The Guardian's feature article on the full details of the Ekweremandu organ trafficking case).

That's how your rich people and their children talk about you.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Israeli forces stage 'mutiny' at Negev base in protest against commanders

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/wqfbjeLrte

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: US Senate blocks resolution curbing Trump's Iran war powers in 49 to 47 vote

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/4PvT25jogD

[Trending Explained @TrendingEx]

TRENDING: Nigeria lost its first-ever female neurosurgeon, Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu, to the U.S. where she retrained as a pediatric resident, and now works at a Children Clinic in Missouri. She was a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital 🏥

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

How policemen forced ICPC Chairman to ‘pay bribe’ at Abuja checkpoint
https://t.co/RSCBLWCG6j

[Peoples Gazette @GazetteNGR]

EXCLUSIVE: Aso Rock memo shows how Gbajabiamila used fake law to corner N54 billion oil revenue from NUPRC https://t.co/l5NWKWCFsM

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

BREAKING: 𝗞𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝘆𝗼 state 𝗽𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗹𝘀 and 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

Katsina Elders Demand Unconditional Release Of Bashir Kurfi
https://t.co/5MXPfIe99E