Jan 6th...First Day at work ohh!!!!.

Thank u Baba God.......


Ambience: The ambience of the office is on point, though very quiet but beutiful and clean. Im a reserved and quiet person and hence love to have a little noise around me. Work space is also tidy.

Colleagues: Mostly babes and quiet just like me.....but i will cope sha. One is a BASIS person and the other HR. I'm yet to meet the FICO, MM and SD pple.

T[b]he Work Itself[/b]: Ive received certification materials from them and the day begins with watching videos on youtube on SAP HR. Ive been given access to the live environment also. I think im happy and sad at the same time. Miss my old colleagues..happy about the new experience. I can be termed a cry cry baby...but the emotions are under check this morning.

Ill keep u posted on how the day goes. Lest i forget..the internet is awesome too....i jus love fast internet..dont blame me ohh

...baba we are all following now. Biko update asap. Ill be 27 this October and plan on joining a major multinational come 2015. Its not easy though for we women but i hope to share my story one day like u.

44....quite apt i must say.

Im 26...very single but i am sure bookmarking these for the future. May God grant u all the strength u need mammie.I also pray that God would lead u to get a good nanny also...

mogbomoya: Hello House,

2014 is round the corner, and the purpose of this tread is to share easy tips on how a working mother can survive without a house help in the YEAR 2014. (This is specially for Nigerian Working Mothers/Women. Mothers abroad pls share ur survival tips as u guys are used to DIY.)

Some say house helps are necessary evils. I had my first help in January 2013 and this year alone I have had 3 househelps! (The first was a thief, the second was so lazy & rude, the third had eye for my hubby and eventually got pregnant for our gate man). I got fed up and I have lived without them since September 2013. I am happy I do not have a stranger living with me.

I have a 17 months Son, and I am currently 3 months pregnant. The following tips will help anyone who decides to join me to say no to househelps in 2014.

1. You must get ur spouse involved. This is the most important o.
2. Get a washing machine. This is a saving grace cos my toddler can wear 5 different outfits in a day!
3. Get a deep freezer. This helps me to cook in bulk and store.
4. Ensure you have a generator that can power you freezer. (You do not want ur stored food getting defrosted and going stale cos of the erratic power supply in Nigeria.
5. Shop in bulk and store. In case you don't have time to shop, there are various online grocery shops. I love Madam Sabi. www.madamsabi.com You can also get ur office assistants/cleaners to help with ur shopping. For me, hubby does the toiletries and necessary provisions shopping (He buys from any supermarket, pack & shop/Shoprite/ebe ano), while I do the vegetables and meat.
6. Plan ur meals at the beginning of each week. I have a timetable.
7. If you have a toddler, get a Creche that closes 7pm around ur home, so that in case you are stuck in traffic, ur mind is at ease knowing fully well that ur kid is in safe hands. My baby's creche closes by 7pm, and in case my hubby/myself can't make it before 7pm. They take him home and I pick him from there. They also bath and fed my baby dinner and dress him in his night wear, so I just pick and put him to sleep in his play pen, while I make dinner. I take to bed when he eventually falls asleep in his playpen.
8. If you have older kids, get an after school facility, most creches offer this service. They bath, feed ur kids and help out with their assignment. They even help make ur female kids hair.
9. While doing house chores/cooking, my hubby baby sits our son.
10. Have a night schedule / specific bed time for ur children. My son sleeps by 7.30/8pm. so I have 2 hours to fix a quick dinner, have my bath, have dinner with hubby and watch TV.
11. Go for first service on Sundays. i.e if u are a xtian. I attend 7.30am service. Am back home before 10am, and have time to do loads of stuffs.
12. I use my Sundays to plan out all our cloths and shoes for the week. (Myself & son)
13. Get at least one good wig. For those sundays you are unable or too tired to make it to the salon.
14. Get ur hubby to help paint ur toe nails and do ur pedicure. Not only does it save u time, but also a bonding time for you both.
15. My hubby helps with the ironing and washing the toilets & bath.
16. Do not stack up ur dirty plates & pot. Try as much as possible to wash as u cook.
17. Get nice cartoons and sing along for ur kids. This keeps my son busy in his play pen / high seat while am busy with cooking/house chores. (In case hubby isn't around to baby sit.)
18. You do not have to attend / honor all weekend party invitations! I bet most don't even notice u are absent.
19. Hubby baths our son every morning. While I pack our breakfast/lunch boxes.
20. If u have an uncooperative hubby, pray to God and talk to ur hubby.

House, abeg add more tips.

I made FRONT PAGE!!!!

Please what catering school did u attend?? Is it in Lagos?

yinx007: This year, after searching for a job so bad I didn't get.. I enrolled in a catering schl, fine tuned my baking skills and since I have a passion for cooking it made it easier for me, learnt cakes, decoration of cakes, sharwama, kebabs... Took it a notch higher... Taught myself cookies and some soups nt peculiar to my tribe.. I intended adding IT skillz to it but I'll pick that up next year and fine tune my french once and for all cuz I'm 55% good with french.. Would write the necessary exams.. Another skill I achieved was learning to memorize bible verses... I love to read but had issues with memorizing my bible verses..

2014 here I come.

Tried sending u a mail Sir Sagamite..

Its really sad no one is commenting on this thread...skills are extremely important in the Nigeria that we have found ourselves.

To be honest the school is really beautiful...I like the drama theatre location...really nice.

Thanks Nnaiah, im gonna be the one learning from u boss....coz i'm a trainee learning on the job ohh. This thread spurred my interest and i was lucky enough to get this opening as an Trainee Functional Consultant, though i'm coming from a Business Process background in IT. Im female btw.
Good to have u guys all on board.




Jan 6th...First Day at work ohh!!!!.

Thank u Baba God.......


Ambience: The ambience of the office is on point, though very quiet but beutiful and clean. Im a reserved and quiet person and hence love to have a little noise around me. Work space is also tidy.

Colleagues: Mostly babes and quiet just like me.....but i will cope sha. One is a BASIS person and the other HR. I'm yet to meet the FICO, MM and SD pple.

The Work Itself: Ive received certification materials from them and the day begins with watching videos on youtube on SAP HR. Ive been given access to the live environment also. I think im happy and sad at the same time. Miss my old colleagues..happy about the new experience. I can be termed a cry cry baby...but the emotions are under check this morning.

Ill keep u posted on how the day goes. Lest i forget..the internet is awesome too....i jus love fast internet..dont blame me ohh

Nooo...Y did this thread just die? . Just now that me i have joined an SAP company as a functional consultant SD, that's when the thread decided to go extinct..... Please everyone come back.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh...Oga tonye this is soo nice. I like ur style of writing very humorous i must say and descriptive. Nice one

Please what is the deadline for applying? I hope i am not applying late ohhhh. Thanks all.

I have used SAS in the past and Excel is always handy. Recently, i discovered Minitab and it is really helpful. To gather data in vast amount, i use KAPOW and of course it doesn't end there.

When i fisrt got the role of a analyst, i felt all i needed was data analysis and report writing skills. Turned out i also had to learn advanced Microsoft Access to structure my data before using SAS, Minitab, and Excel. These days, my advice to analysts is "you should learn everything from data mining, database structuring and administration, plus data analysis with the help of modern tools & software". Lastly, remember that the business of transforming raw data into reliable information & insight ultimately requires common sense too.

I'd be back to read more from other contributors. At least today we aren't bashing Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa here but if anybody cares to start, i am fully ready and charged up as usual.


Sir, Please how can one learn these tools, in my current employment, i dont use these but would like to learn,m what do u suggest ?

Where are the Business Analysts ?

I have a lot of questions for the moderator:

1. The discipline of Business Analysis is not very prevalent here in Nigeria, except within the Telcos why is this so ?

2. Why do they not have many opening as regards BA's ?

3. Aside the role of a PM or Sales depending on the organisational structure, which other role can a BA migrate into ?

4. Aside the CCBA's and CBAP's , there seems not to be any other exams one can write too ?

For one who is veering off into Internal Audit, without a background in Accounting, what advice would u give ?