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A Corper Treks from Abia State to Port Harcourt

Corp Member Set to TREK From Abia To Rivers State - See WHY

Nigerians have been known to take up several things as a 'hobby' or even a test of strenght. Sometimes, these 'hobbies' raise eyebrows in question.

Who can forget when it was a common thing for people who were 'trekking in support' of presidential candidates during the 2015 general elections held in Nigeria?

A young man even decided to 'trek for love'because he needed to prove to the woman he loved that he wanted to be more than a friend.

This corp member decided to embark on a long trek in celebration of his state's golden jubilee

Fast forward to 2017, a corp member identified as @mc_dave, has also decided to embark on a long trek as well.

The corp member who is currently serving at Umuahia, Abia state, decided to trek all the way from his place of primary assignment to Port Harcourt, Rivers state.

He claims he is embarking on the trek as a means of celebrating his state's golden jubilee and the completion of his service year.

mc_dave is starting his trek a day after his passing out parade

Announcing his move via Instagram, he wrote:

"What will you do to celebrate greatness? How far will you go to appreciate development and growth? What risk will you take to sing about the good culture and values of Rivers State?

My name is Mc Dave and I wish to let every Rivers man and indeed the world be on the know that, in my own way of celebrating the golden jubilee of Rivers state and my passing out from service as a corps member, I'll do a long distance walk from Umuahia the capital of Abia which is my state of primary assignment to Port Harcourt, The heartbeat of Rivers State...

#iwaka4Rivers #riversat50 #portharcourttotheworld

He went further to share a detailed picture of his plans. See below:

What do you think? Would you join the 'trekkers' anytime soon?

Source : NNU. Ng

Skin Bleaching causes Cancer and Deforms your Baby.

Warning To Mothers: Skin Bleaching Causes Cancer And Deforms Babies - Experts

Edmund Delle, a dermatologist at the Rabito Clinic in Accra, holds up a picture of a woman with

ochronosis — discoloration caused by long-term application of hydroquinone to lighten the skin

In the early 70s, Fela Anikulapo Kuti ridiculed women who were addicted with skin bleaching, calling them ‘ugly women’, yeye (useless) things’ in one of his most popular songs ‘Yellow Fever’.Decades after, the bleaching craze appears to have hit new heights, with pills and injectables now being used to lighten skins, according to this report by AFP.

Dr. Isima Sobande was in medical school when she first heard of mothers who bleached the skin of their babies. She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn’t long before she saw it with her own eyes.

At a health centre in Lagos, a mother brought in a two-month-old infant who was crying in pain. “He had very large boils all over his body,” the soft-spoken 27-year-old Nigerian told AFP. “It seemed like they weren’t normal.”

The baby’s mother explained that she had mixed a steroid cream with shea butter and slathered his skin with it in order to make it whiter.

“I was very appalled. It was distressing,” said Sobande.

Shocked, the young doctor now takes a different view on skin bleaching, also called lightening or whitening.

For many Nigerians, it is a “standard procedure,” a gateway to beauty and success, she said.

“It’s a mindset that has eaten into society. For a lot of people, it’s the path to getting a good job, having a relationship.”

Skin lightening is popular in many parts of the world, including South Asia and the Middle East.

But medical experts say that in Africa — a continent where regulations are often lax or scorned — the widening phenomenon is laden with health risks.

Cultural watchdogs, for their part, see it as the toxic legacy of colonialism.

Africa is experiencing a “massive trend of increased use (of skin bleaching), particularly in teenagers and young adults,” said Lester Davids, a physiology professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

“The older generation used creams — the new generation uses pills and injectables. The horror is that we do not know what these things do in high concentrations over time in the body.”

Where statistics about Africa’s skin-bleaching industry exist, they are often old or unreliable. But evidence from the range of products, suppliers and services points to a continent-wide market that may number tens of millions of people and possibly more.

In Nigeria alone, 77 per cent of women — by extrapolation, more than 60 million people — are using lightening products on a “regular basis”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in 2011.

Experts say the African market is rapidly expanding as companies seek to cash in on the continent’s booming youth population.

“More clients want insight on the lightening market,”said Rubab Abdoolla, a beauty analyst at market researchers Euromonitor International.

The rich tend to opt for pricier registered products which are available in standard doses.

Others are likely to buy creams, often bootleg concoctions mixed in the back streets, that may be dangerous and are blatantly sold in defiance of official bans or constraints.

Ingredients may include hydroquinone, steroids, mercury and lead — the same element that, at high doses, poisoned Elizabethan courtiers who powdered their faces ivory white.

“These chemicals damage respiratory, kidney and reproductive systems,” an official from the Nigerian drug control agency warned. “They cause cancer, affect the nervous system, deform unborn babies.”

In spite of the risks, authorities are struggling to control the bleaching innovations, which include a compound called glutathione, taken as injections or pills.

Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya have all banned skin bleaching products with high amounts of hydroquinone and mercury, with the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa urging people to “reject all colonial notions of beauty”.

In July, Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority issued a statement telling pregnant women not to take glutathione pills to bleach their unborn babies saying that there may be “serious toxic side effects” such as “asthma, renal failure and chest pains.”

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stresses that it has not given approval for any of the injections on the market today.

“These products are potentially unsafe and ineffective, and might contain unknown harmful ingredients or contaminants.”

Those who start using skin lightening say they invariably stay with the practice.

“Before you know it, it has become some sort of an addiction where you want to maintain that look,”said Dabota Lawson, a Lagos socialite and cosmetics entrepreneur.

“Just like with plastic surgery, it begins to feel like it’s never enough.”

In Lagos, the creams are assembled by a legion of cosmetologists and sold at a price anywhere from 5,000 naira to 20,000 naira ($14-55, 12-47 euros), a prohibitive amount in a country where the minimum wage is just 18,000 naira ($50, 42 euros).

Instagram skincare star Pela Okiemute’s “Russian White” body cream claims to give “firmness, intense beauty and a mixed race complexion”.

His “Cleopatra Royal” cream, whose label features Elizabeth Taylor in her famous role as the Egyptian queen, promises to “lighten and radiate”.

Customers should start seeing results in two weeks, says Okiemute, explaining that his creams, which include collagen, kojic acid and “anti-ageing” snail slime are safe, though he declined to divulge his formula.

“We have a lot of customers who have used a lot of wrong products, they come to us and we give solutions,” he says.

He flicked through his phone to show before-and-after photos of a client who had a problem with dark knuckles, a telltale sign of a skin bleacher.

Intravenous injections and pills of glutathione — an antioxidant naturally found in the body that has a lightening side effect — are the new frontiers of skin bleaching.

At his clinic on the outskirts of Lagos, beside an abandoned Chinese restaurant, plastic surgeon Aranmolate Ayobami charges clients 150,000 naira ($415, 350 euros) for a five-week course of glutathione injections.

Known as the “Buttmaster” for helping patients seeking an hourglass figure, Ayobami buys the injections from companies he trusts in the United Arab Emirates or the United States.

He only gives certain dosages for a limited amount of time, he said.

But sometimes clients will bring in their own cheaper product that they bought online and urge him to inject them. “We try to discourage that,” he said.

If many millions of Africans lighten their skin without regret, others are dismayed.

“Skin bleaching is one manifestation of folks trying to get power and privilege aligned with whiteness,”said Yaba Blay, a researcher at North Carolina Central University.

“We’re seeing folks attempt to be perceived as having more value because of their complexion.”

Recent black movements are trying to challenge that perception.

#Melaninpoppin, a hashtag celebrating black skin, and the smash-hit movie “Black Panther,” which featured an almost all-black cast wearing African-inspired outfits and natural hair, are held up as testaments to a shift away from longstanding Eurocentric standards of beauty.

But whether the tide of opinion is turning in Africa itself is another question.

“The truth for me was that my beauty was more accepted abroad than at home,” said Ajuma Nasenyana, a model from northern Kenya, who has walked for Victoria’s Secret and Vivienne Westwood.

“In the African industry the lighter your skin tone the more beautiful you are. Hopefully the industry is changing and starting to appreciate darker skin.”

Sobande, the doctor, said, “We’re living in a more positive environment than a few years before.

“But it’s going to take a lot of effort to change the mindset.”

Source : NUN.NG

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Apply For UBA Graduate Trainee Recruitment 2018

 

Industries: Banking Finance & Investment

Job Objective

• To ensure the place of business provides wonderful quality banking service to all or any customers.

 

• To keep up contact With new and existing customers on routine account management activities.

 

• To have interaction customers in cross mercantilism of the bank’s product and services as well as E-sales

 

Role and Responsibilities

•  Customer Relations Management/Sales
Proactively develop client relationships,       anticipate and provide solutions to client needs and give high priority to client satisfaction.

•  Accurately assess the risk profile, suitability,     and appropriateness of clients when marketing the bank’s products and services by maintaining an accurate and up to date call report, KYC   database.

 

• Sale to prospective customers UBA‘s E-banking products.

 

• Enroll new customers, and resolve related issues.

 

• Engage customers to cross-sell bank products    and services
increase product sales, and customer loyalty by maintaining good client relationship.

 

• Open and maintain accounts I’I accordance With the established procedures.

 

•  Apply regulatory requirements such as KVC.     Money laundering Prevention procedures at all times.

 

•  Accomplish tasks efficiently by showing concern for all aspects of the job, pay attention to detail and ensure that output is delivered at the highest possible standard

 

• Ensure that the customer’s instructions are duly effected by applying all standard checks and controls, coordinating with another department including head office operations and compliance.

 

• Ensure proper documentation for all new and existing accounts.

 

• Ensure timely opening of new accounts on the system.

 

• Support branch sales and service team.
Cheque book issuance and maintenance.
Dormant account reactivation
Meeter/Greeter.

Customer Service Ambassador

• Service improvement
make sure that walk-in customers directed to the counters, assisted in finishing transactions, and scanned with efficiency.

 

Service issue resolution

• Answer all customer queries, resolve ‘on the spot‘ service issues, escalate to 80M, issues that cannot be handled on the spot.

• Follow up customers with pending cases, and keep him/her informed.

• Compile and publish customer satisfaction score daily

• Download Customers’ issues from the Group Response Portal (GRP) and a monitor resolution of issues logged against the branch through the Business Office staff.

Educational Qualification

•Minimum Educational level B.Sc. in any related discipline

 

Experience

•  Prior experience in banking operations is highly desirable

•  Relevant banking experience preferably supporting retail customers

• Sales knowledge, skill & experience (added advantage)

knowledge

• Some knowledge of Banking products and services

• Good understanding of the operational, credit and regulatory risks facing the business

• Business Development and acquisition

Key skills

•  Excellent customer service orientation

• High level of integrity

• Good verbal & written communication skills

•Selling skills

• Focused, Motivated & Results Oriented

• Paying attention to details

•Good interpersonal skills

•Fast and error-free processing

•Strong problem resolution skills.

•Selling & Marketing Skills.

 

Closing date: 25/05/2018

How to apply:
Interested and qualified applicants should

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