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Job Title: National Sales/Marketing Manager

Company: Rapid Growing Pharmaceutical Company

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND  

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Field: Administration / Secretarial   Pharmaceutical Sales / Marketing / Business Development

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Requirements: – Must be a Pharmacist of not less than 5 years marketing experience of which at least two years should be on Managerial level. – Must have the capacity to organize and co ordinate the national sales force. – Must be proficient in mentoring, clinical presentations, credit management and personnel management Is expected to have broad knowledge of national pharmaceutical market demands. – Candidates must possess high integrity, dedication to duty and efficiency attested by previous places of employment. – Only Qualified Pharmacists with requisite experience need apply.

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Job Title: Finance Account Officer – ROL/FIN/02

Company: Rainoil Limited

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND MBA/MSc/MA

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Field: Finance/ Accounting/ Audit

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Rainoil Limited is a leading downstream oil marketing company; primary products which include (PMS), Diesel (AGO) and Kerosene (DPK).

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Rainoil Limited was incorporated in November 1994, commencing operations in May 1997. In 1999, Rainoil Limited acquired its first service station.

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Rainoil's operations currently span across the downstream value chain i.e. Tank Farm Storage, Petroleum Product Haulage/Distribution and Bulk/Retail Sales Operations.

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Responsibilities:

i. Preparation of Bank Reconciliation Statements

ii. Daily data capture and transaction posting on the ERP

iii. Stock reconciliation

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Qualification & Experience:

i. Bachelor's Degree/HND in Accountancy

ii. Minimum of 3 years' experience

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Skills and Competencies:

i. Financial management, accounting and analysis

ii. Financial Reporting iii. Knowledge of ERP Accounting application

iv. Financial audit, risk management and control

v. Knowledge of Accounting policies and processes

vi. Numerical and analytical skills vii. Attention to detail.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, or a man claiming to be him, has been killed at least three times so far, according to the military, yet each time he apparently returns in the group's numerous jihadist videos.

Dead or alive, he appears to be fuelling violence which rights groups say is killing more people than at any time during Boko Haram's five-year-old reign of terror in the north of the 175 million-strong state.Officials say Shekau may be a name adopted by leaders of various wings of Boko Haram, raising the possibility the death of one may make others more amenable to negotiating an end to the fighting and release of 200 schoolgirls whose kidnap in April caused an international outcry.The last time the military said he was dead a year ago, a man looking similar to Shekau but slightly fatter continued to appear in videos issuing threats and taunting authorities.The Islamist insurgents have killed thousands of people, many of them civilians, since launching an uprising in 2009, and abducted hundreds of children in a tactic reminiscent of Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa.Shekau's face has often appeared on video claiming attacks.Now Nigeria's military says this video imposter -- real name Bashir Mohammed -- has died in fighting in the town of Kondugu, prompting the question whether there is another Shekau lookalike ready to continue the fight in Africa's top economy.An alternative possibility is that Shekau is not dead."The Nigerian army has claimed on multiple occasions to have killed Shekau and it's been disproved," said Ben Payton, senior Africa analyst at UK-based risk consultancy Maplecroft.Shekau took over when Boko Haram's founder and spiritual leader Mohammed Yusuf was killed in policy custody in 2009."BRAND NAME"It is not possible to verify whether or not the videos are of the same person or more than one, but the man in later videos that the military said was Bashir Mohammed had a plumper, rounder face, his nose was wider and his bridge less defined. His talk was even more bellicose and maniacal than the original Shekau, with statements vowing to kill all pagans and saying he was against the ideology of the whole world.The old Shekau was often quite sombre; the new one has a menacing laugh. And he only appeared after the alleged death of the real Shekau in August last year."The name Shekau has become a brand name for the terrorists' leader," military spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade said on Thursday, an acknowledgment that however many Shekaus they kill, the violence is unlikely to end.By contrast, the death of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in battle in 2002 ended a quarter century of civil war in Angola."Even if Shekau has been killed ... Boko Haram is much bigger than one individual. It has multiple units that operate with a fair degree of autonomy," said Payton. But if it is true that Nigerian forces have inflicted heavy casualties in the past few days on a faction of the militants, as Boko Haram sought to hold territory it declared to be an "Islamic state" two months back, the others might turn out to be slightly more moderate.The military said on Wednesday more than 130 Boko Haram Islamist fighters had surrendered, and a man posing as the group's leader in numerous videos had been killed in clashes, although it often claims successes that are impossible to independently verify. "It's very likely that there's two or three Shekaus and the commanders of different factions decided to all use the name," said Jacob Zenn, Boko Haram expert at the Jamestown Foundation."Possibly, that leaves ... an opportunity to capitalise on the death of this Shekau and start talks with various (other) members of Boko Haram." (Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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Former Belgium youth coach Eric Abrams will take over as Football Federation Australia's new technical director after overseeing many of Belgium's current crop of stars.


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Job Title: Internal Auditor

Company: Fast Growing Catering Company

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND MBAMSc/MA

Location: Rivers, Nigeria

Job Field: Finance/ Accounting/ Finance

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The following vacancies exist in a fast growing catering company based in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Nigeria.

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Qualifications: – MSc. BSc. or HND in Business Admin, Marketing, Accounting, Foods & Nutrition or any related discipline – Experience: 8 – 10 years – Age Limit: 35 – 55 years.

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WASHINGTON -- Countering extremist groups like the Islamic State will require "not less religion but more," according to a prominent Muslim cleric who President Barack Obama referenced in his United Nations address earlier this week.

"It's out of religious ignorance that they are doing what they're doing," Sheik Abdallah bin Bayyah, a Saudi Arabia-based scholar currently visiting the United States, said of extremist Muslim groups. "They have a very shallow understanding: They use some de-contextualized verses and things from religious texts and historical examples. ... They build a current of violence, and we have to build that which will confront this current."

Bin Bayyah made the comments through a translator at a U.S. Institute of Peace event in Washington. The event marked the end of a weeklong conference on countering radicalization that brought together scores of religious leaders from different faith traditions and many countries.

"Islam has within it the mechanisms to promote peace," bin Bayyah said, adding that he believes religious leaders like himself must "reveal the sophistical nature of the arguments" used by extremist recruiters.

Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Obama cited bin Bayyah as an example of a Muslim leader working to undercut the appeal of groups like the Islamic State.

Muslim intellectuals are unsure whether they should focus on the root causes of extremism or focus on how to stop it, bin Bayyah said. For him, he added, the "how" is critical given "the immediate circumstances." He did not mention any specific extremist group by name.

"If we say in the current conditions, no peace without justice, then given the amount of grievances we're dealing with, let's forget about peace altogether," bin Bayyah said. "We have to get peace established in our hearts so that we can then work towards the grievances in peaceful environments."

The scholar said that while leaders like himself should not be concerned with pleasing governments, they should cooperate with "people in authority" to ensure that they are protected from extremist threats and to build peace.

In describing its new campaign in the Middle East, the Obama administration has said it is not at war with Islam but with what the president describes as a perverted understanding of the religion. One way it has tried to signal this has been by including Arab nations in its coalition to bomb Islamic State and al Qaeda militants in Syria. Still, some argue that aligning with governments that have their own controversial understandings of Islam and have been known to use the religion as a strategic tool for their own motives may further threaten America's image in the Muslim world.

Bin Bayyah has previously held government positions in his native Mauritania. He now chairs an organization called the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies. On Sept. 14, bin Bayyah issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that attempted to comprehensively refute the Islamic State's ideology. Titled "This is Not the Path to Paradise," his statement begins: "This is addressed to the young men who bear arms against their own nations and destroy both country and countrymen. You have abandoned all values and made enemies of the world. We call on you to pause, reflect, and heed this counsel for the sake of all who want good for our community."

Other Muslim scholars in the United States, the  United Kingdom and parts of the Muslim world have issued their own statements blasting the Islamic State's claims to represent Islam. Earlier this year, bin Bayyah also issued a fatwa against the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram.

Still, conservative American media outlets have attacked him in the past for alleged ties to a Muslim Brotherhood leader banned from entering the U.S.
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Job Title: Human Resources Manager

Company: New Trading Company With An International Brand

Location: Nigeria

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: BA/BSc/HND

Job Field: Human Resources/ HR

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The following vacancies exist in a trading company with an International Brand:

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Requirements:

.:. Recruitment with a good data Archive

.:. Knowledge in contracts and employee official papers

.:. Knowledge in appraisals and evaluation report

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Qualifications: – B.Sc/HND in a related course with 5 years minimum working experience.

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As the Ebola outbreak rages on in West Africa and begins to slowly spread in the United States, the race for a cure or vaccine for the deadly virus is more pressing than ever.

Because of relatively few Ebola patients (2,418 cases in total before this current outbreak) scientists simply didn't know enough about how the rare virus works in the human body, or have access to enough patients to learn from and treat with experimental drugs, to perfect a cure or vaccine. And given the small number of people who would have benefitted from an Ebola cure before this outbreak, experts say big pharmaceutical companies didn't see much of a profit to be made by pursuing lengthy, costly drug research.  

Still, there are a handful of experimental treatments out there. Ideally, these untested therapies would undergo years of randomized, controlled trials -- first in animals, then in small groups of human beings. But at this late stage in the outbreak, with thousands of people suffering, medical ethicists say placebo groups in Ebola trials would be unfair, Reuters reported. As long as there are certain standards for the trials, World Health Organization officials also agreed that using untested drugs on suffering Ebola patients is ethical.

In the absence of large-scale, clinical trials that can scientifically prove whether or not therapies are effective, all eyes are on the handful of cases that are so far serving as anecdotal evidence for the most promising Ebola treatments. These are the main therapies being utilized in the fight against Ebola.

CONVALESCENT SERUM

Dr. Kent Brantly survived Ebola after contracting the virus while serving on a medical mission in Liberia.

How It Works: With this method, convalescent serum from an Ebola survivor's blood -- which has antibodies in it that helped the person defeat the virus -- is transfused into the patient. The theory is that the antibodies in the donor blood would help the patient defeat the virus.

Testing Before The Outbreak: There haven't been any clinical trials that prove blood transfusions from survivors are an effective Ebola treatment, but a handful of individual cases lead the World Health Organization to believe this is a promising avenue for future cases. Blood transfusions are already accepted therapies for conditions like anemia, sickle cell disease and kidney disease.

Who Received This Treatment: As an idea, blood transfusions for Ebola treatment have been around since the disease was discovered in 1976, and have been used in subsequent outbreaks. In this current outbreak, perhaps the most famous donor of "convalescent serum" is Dr. Kent Brantly. When he was diagnosed in Liberia, he received a blood transfusion from a young teen who had survived Ebola with Brantly's help. Since returning to the U.S., Brantly has donated his blood to American missionary doctor Rick Sacra, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo and Dallas nurse Nina Pham, all of whom had matching blood types to Brantly.

Supply: Everyone who survives Ebola and is fully recovered is a potential donor for the next patient, provided they don't have any other communicable diseases like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B or C and syphilis, according to the World Health Organization. WHO recommends that Ebola survivors wait 28 days after being discharged from the hospital before donating blood.

ZMAPP

Dr. Frank Thieme, Manager of Development at Icon Genetics, holds a nicotiana benthamiana plant, which is a close relative of tobacco, in a greenhouse at the company's facilities on Aug. 14 in Halle, Germany. Icon Genetics has developed a process to produce proteins and enzymes via the nicotiana benthamiana plant that will be used in the production of antibodies for ZMapp, which is being heralded as a possible cure to the Ebola virus.

How It Works: ZMapp is made up of a combination of lab-created Ebola antibodies designed to cling to the Ebola virus and prevent it from reproducing.

Testing Before The Outbreak: Scientists infected 21 macaque monkeys with Ebola, and treated 18 of them at various stages of their sickness with ZMapp. All 18 survived, while the three who did not receive ZMapp died. It's generally thought to be one of the most promising drugs against Ebola.

Who Received This Treatment: American health workers Brantly and Nancy Writebol received ZMapp, as did Liberian doctors Abraham Borbor and Zukunis Ireland, Nigerian doctor Aroh Cosmos Izchukwu,   British nurse Will Pooley and Spanish priest Rev. Miguel Pajares. However, Borbor and Pajares ended up dying from the virus.

Supply: ZMapp antibodies are grown in a low-nicotine tobacco plant and then harvested, purified, tested and formed into the drug. There are no more supplies of ZMapp left in the world, says ZMapp's creator Mapp Biopharmaceutical. Production is underway, but creating more doses is difficult, costly and time-intensive.

TKM-EBOLA

Former Ebola patient Dr. Richard Sacra arrives to a news conference at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., on Sept. 25.

How It Works: Small molecules called interfering RNAs in the medicine target a certain RNA protein in Ebola.

Testing Before The Outbreak: Scientists exposed seven macaque monkeys to the Ebola virus and then administered varying doses of TKM-Ebola over the course of a week. One macaque who only received four doses did not survive. But the rest, who received different doses, did survive.

Who Received This Treatment: Sacra was treated with TKM-Ebola, and survived the virus. Now drug creator Tekmira will make the drug available to people in West Africa through a clinical trial.

Supply: Tekmira CEO Mark J. Murray said that supplies of the drug are "limited," reports the Wall Street Journal.

BRINCIDOFOVIR

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where Thomas Eric Duncan was treated, is seen here on Oct. 15 in Dallas, Texas.

How It Works: The antiviral drug was made to fight viruses like adenovirus, cytomegalovirus and smallpox by preventing viruses from replicating.

Testing Before The Outbreak: It had been tested in large-scale human trials for other infections, but had only been tested against Ebola in lab experiments. The in vitro Ebola tests were effective, according to drugmaker Chimerix.

Who Received This Treatment: Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., took the drug but died a few weeks after contracting the virus. NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo is also taking the drug, and  his condition is improving, reported Nebraska Medicine nursing director Shelly Schwedhelm.

Supply: The company has adequate supplies for all of their clinical trials, including Ebola, confirmed a spokesman for Chimerix to HuffPost.

SUPPORTIVE CARE

Health workers in protective gear pose at the entrance of the Ebola treatment unit of the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, in the Liberian capital Monrovia, on Oct. 13.

How It Works: Supportive care involves keeping patients hydrated, either with oral or intravenous fluids. It also involves maintaining oxygen supply and blood pressure, or combating other infections that may occur.

Testing Before The Outbreak: This is the only treatment option most health workers in West Africa have in the fight against Ebola.

Who Received This Treatment: Out of 8,914 confirmed cases, 4,447 people are dead. If this mortality rate holds, it means about half of confirmed Ebola patients are actually surviving with supportive care alone.

Supply: Safe, effective supportive care requires personal protective equipment, hospital resources like clean isolation units, beds and medical equipment, and humane working conditions. Doctors Without Borders, the most prominent international care organization on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak, is "overwhelmed" and calling on more medical professionals to come volunteer their time in West Africa. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is also trying to recruit volunteer health workers to come to West Africa.

But local West African health workers are bearing the brunt of the care burden right now. They don't have adequate supplies or training to deal with the onslaught of patients, and it shows in the mortality rates among health workers. Sierra Leone's health worker mortality is 71 percent, Liberia's is 51 percent and Guinea's is 52 percent, reported TIME on Oct. 3.  In Liberia, health workers are under such duress and being paid so little money that they staged a two-day strike for higher danger wages this week.

Read more from HuffPost on Ebola:

The Uncensored Reality Of Covering Ebola As A Journalist

All The Times The World Tried To Warn Us

Why We Won't Have An Ebola Vaccine For Years

The Most Destructive Ebola Myths, Debunked

What Actually Happens When A Person Is Infected

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Job Title: Carpenter

Company: United States Embassy In Nigeria

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: Secondary School (SSCE)

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Job Field: Engineering / Technical

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The U.S. Mission in Nigeria provides equal opportunity and fair and equitable treatment in employment to all people without regard to race, color, religion, intercourse, national origin, age, disability, political affiliation, marital status, or intercourseual orientation.  The Department of State also strives to achieve equal employment opportunity in all personnel operations through continuing diversity enhancement programs.

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The EEO complaint procedure is not available to individuals who believe they have been denied equal opportunity based upon marital status or political affiliation. Individuals with such complaints should avail themselves of the appropriate grievance procedures, remedies for prohibited personnel practices, and/or courts for relief.

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Listed below are current job opportunities at the United States Embassy in Nigeria.  Please click on the link to learn more about the specific opening. 

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All Interested Candidates:

Closing Date: November 6, 2014

Position: Carpenter – Abuja (PDF 176KB).

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