k beats february edition 2015

KBEATSFEB2015

J O K E S L O V E B Y T E S A N D M U C H M O R EP U Z Z L E S

ValentineDONE KONGA’S SPECIAL WAY

Konga Recognized As The 2nd Most Innovative Company In Africa

Performance Appraisal

Konga And NIPOSTEnter Into Partnership

For Improved Service

Director Commercialon Self-Fulfilment

MISSION

To be the Engine of Commerce & Trade in Africa

VISION

§ To be a powerful force for the Economic Growth of Africa

§ To connect Africans with each other and the rest of the world through Technology & Commerce

§ To be a company that employees, customers & society are proud of and depend on

VALUES

THE CUSTOMER SITS ON THE THRONE

Satisfied customers are essential to our success. There are no kings in Konga… Only servants of the

customer.

HARDWORK

We embrace hard work. We understand that it is only through pushing ourselves beyond our limits of

comfort that we become better as individuals and as a company.

HONOUR & INTEGRITY

We are open, honest and trustworthy in all our dealings.

TEAMWORK & SACRIFICE

We work together disregarding personal interests to meet the needs of our customers and to build a

stronger company.

PASSION

We are passionate about our brand and our mission.

CONSTANT EVOLUTION

We always question the norm looking for opportunities to birth new ideas. As individuals we embrace

flexibility and rapid change.

CULTURE & VALUES

K-BEATS | EDITIONFEBRUARY 2015

FROM THE

EDITOR’S DESKThe month of January is over! Awesome! Go on, admit it! We all love the

month of February!!! It fills us with expectance and makes us reach deep

into our pockets. Interestingly, this month’s issue of our enthralling K-Beats

Magazine is so ‘achievement’ packed…and remember what achievements

does to us. It just gratifies us and motivates us to get better.

This issue puts us in the know about our prestigious company, Konga,

being recognized as the 2nd most innovative company in Africa. Yes, you

read it right! The 2nd. Awwww! I just heard you say Amaze balls! Also, it

celebrates Konga & NIPOST entering into partnership for improved service

delivery. As we all know, our reputable company prioritizes the customer

sitting on the throne and as such, looks to provide seamless fulfillment

process.

Also, it brings you the direction of focus to self-fulfillment of our fast

growing market place, highlights on performance appraisal, and of course

Valentine…done in Konga’s very special way!!!!

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the package as we take you through exciting

events of the company this month of February.

EDITORIAL TEAM

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From Left to Right

Olatomiwa Akande, Oluwatoni Adegbenro, Vanessa Onwudiwe, Christopher Akande, Onwuatu Joy,

Teju Fola-Alade, Angela Medoh, Mosope Adebowale, Olawale Oshinowo,

and Babajide Aroyewun

K-BEATS | FEBRUARY 2015 EDITION

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EDITORS NOTE

IN THE NEWS

DIRECTOR COMMERCIAL ON SELF-FULFILMENT

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

RIDDLES

VALENTINE DONE KONGA'S WAY

ANSWERS FROM LAST EDITION’S RIDDLES

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JOKES11

MOTIVATIONAL STORY12

INSIDETHISISSUE

LOVE BYTES

JOINERS IN FEBRUARY/ MARCH BIRTHDAYS

PICTURES AT A GLANCE

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GUESS WHO17


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IN THE NEWSKONGA RECOGNIZED ASTHE ‘2ND MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANY IN AFRICA’!!!

This month, Konga.com received international recognition from Fast

Company in its annual world's 50 Most Innovative Companies issue. Earning

recognition as the 2nd of the World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies

of 2015 in Africa, the publication called out Konga as "…having the potential

to become an African e-commerce behemoth."

This would be the second consecutive year that Konga would be recognized

in this prestigious list; the company has risen up 3 spots on the list from the

5th position it held last year. Only one other company had the distinction of

being recognized on both the 2014 and 2015 lists—‘One Acre Fund’ from

Kenya. Previous editions of the list have featured Tech giants such as

Amazon and Twitter.

This award is one of many signs that Konga is revolutionizing the landscape

of commerce in Nigeria today through innovation and creativity.

KONGA AND NIPOST ENTER INTO PARTNERSHIPFOR IMPROVED SERVICE DELIVERY

On the 12th of this month, we announced with NIPOST a partnership in which NIPOST post offices would also double up

as pick up locations for Konga orders. The announcement was made at a joint press conference held at NIPOST UNILAG

office.

Execution on the collaboration would begin with NIPOST locations in universities. As part of the agreement signed by the

two organizations, NIPOST’s EMS delivery service would also be leveraged as an additional channel for quick and

affordable nationwide delivery service for Konga Marketplace sellers.

At the event, the Honorable Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mrs. Omobola Johnson

represented by Dr. Abiodun Jagun commended the initiative stating that the partnership is a laudable one, and that it

would support the growth of e-commerce and retail in Nigeria.


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DELIVERED-TO-SHIPPED CHAMPIONS LEAGUEProudly sponsored by K-Express

January 2015 League Standings

The start to the 2015 delivered- to- ship season is live and some

teams are already showing champions character with sterling

performance at the start of the season. A well- organized

defense (Inventory Officers), effective and efficient midfield

(Sorters & Admin Officers) using the midfield and flanks to

supply a potent attacking force (Dispatch, Driver & Assistants)

team has earned some teams accolades.

This is not a game of football but fulfillment operations by K-

Express. Ikorodu, Ibadan & Yaba SC teams has shown the quality

of a well-balanced effective team with their performance in the

month of Jan 2015. The start to the 2015 season was keenly

contested with the teams jostling for the top spot on the league

table. Ikorodu SC came tops closely followed by Ibadan and Yaba

respectively.

The management will like to use this medium to congratulate

and appreciate these teams for showing character and for being

formidable in the month of Jan, 2015. Though 2015 is still a long

season ahead, we hope to see consistent improvement and the

urgent need for the bottom teams in the relegation zone to

improve on their performances.

Rank Sorting Centre Delivered to

Shipped (%)

st1 Ikorodu Sorting 80.3

nd2 Ibadan Sorting 79.9

rd3 Yaba 79.7

th4 Maryland 77.5

th5 Illupeju 76.6

th6 Abuja 75.0

th7 Alimosho 74.2

th8 Omole 73.3

th9 Festac 71.3

th10 Ikeja 68.3

th11 Abuja-Garki 67.0

th12 Port Harcourt 66.0

th13 Sura Service Point 57.2

DIRECTOR COMMERCIALON SELF-FULFILMENT

1. Briefly explain the concept of Marketplace?HR:

Marketplace is a concept that gives any buyer Mark:

or seller in Lagos the ability to trade on the Konga

platform, list their products and have them fulfilled by

K Express which is Konga and delivered nationwide.

2. What is the current modus operandi of HR:

Marketplace?

It is noteworthy to mention that, Konga has Mark:

over 10,000 sellers at the moment Lagos-wide. These

sellers list products on the platform, customers see

them and make their orders, merchants take the

ordered parcels to one of the drop-off centres in

Lagos, and those are taken in and delivered by

KExpress to customers.

3. What is Self-Fulfillment about?HR:

Self- Fulfillment is giving the marketplace Mark:

sellers within and outside Lagos the liberty to deliver

their own products themselves, rather than being

compelled to use KExpress.

4. Why are we shifting focus to Self-fulfillment at HR:

this time?

We have observed overtime that, the amount Mark:

of capacity in terms of demands for our sellers

products verses the physical ability for KExpress to

cope with those volumes is very dis-jointed, so there

is more demand really than we can fulfill.

There are a number of sellers who are capable of

delivering much faster than KExpress because they

are dealing with a very small proportion of the whole

volume. So customer satisfaction level increases and

sellers are very much happier because it improves

their ability to get their pay faster.

Self-Fulfill enables sellers to deliver wider varieties of

products that we could ever handle as Konga. So now

with Self-Fulfill, you can deliver cup-cakes, and a

variety of perishable items, Agricultural goods,

livestock, very large items of furniture, even services

at some point. It all hinges on Konga's vision of

creating a platform or eco system for commerce in

Africa and Nigeria particularly. In this ecosystem, it’s

our role to provide a platform and some of the

services and really the bringing together of buyers

and sellers, rather than to try to constrain trade by

what we are able to do with the infrastructure we

have built. Its not to say that the things we have

invested in were the wrong things, they were actually

the right things to do. But now, we recognize that

commerce in Africa is not going to be this heavily

controlled western centric view of commerce, but its

going to be the “e” in front of Apapa, the “e” in front of

computer village, the “e” in front of Balogun.etc.

5. What will be the impact of Self-Fulfillment on the HR:

organization?

There is huge amount of work to do from the Mark:

technology perspective. So we have this wonderful


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application called SellerHQ, which is the tool used to

list products, manage orders, confirm deliveries, to

see how much your payment is as a seller. etc. It was

designed to operate in a very tight and constrained

world of Konga and KExpress, so now we are

liberalizing it to develop a lot of functionality within

the platform, to enable you a seller provide lots of

choice; how you want to fulfill these items, whether

you want to accept pay-on-delivery or not, which

areas do you want to deliver to, and then, that choice

gets pushed down to the website so that buyers can

determine which of these options they would like. So,

the technology team is working incredibly at the

moment to deliver on a number of key projects on

Self-Fulfill. There's a separate and equally difficult and

challenging project around payment--K-Pay which is

very exciting, but that's for another conversation but

its fundamental.

As the business switches focus to much more

Marketplace, the Retail team will become very

focused on the things we do very well like mobile

phones, laptops, appliances and also exciting fashion

products. So they become the key two areas of focus

rather than some of the other categories we have

been trying to spread ourselves in because, in many

of these categories, the marketplace percentage of

the business is already above the retail percentage.

So we are going to become very tightly focused on

certain areas of retail that we do very well in and

continue to develop, and then the rest of the category

we may not buy but are still demanded for, will now

become marketplace.

6. HR: Having said alot, could you drop a few words for

Konganians?

Mark: This is an amazingly exciting time to be in

Nigeria and in Ecommerce business in Africa because

things are moving so quickly. This is a kind of one-off

opportunity because, there would never be a Konga

at this stage of its life where we are building these

things. So we are really mapping and we should all be

proud to be a kind of cartographies, the mark makers

if you like. There is no template, there's no root-map,

we are not following anybody, we are genuinely

leading the way. Its important that as we do that, we

retain the ability to innovate constantly. I will

encourage everybody to look around once in a while

and to see how far we have come in such a short

space of time, and how much we still need to do. But

the really important thing is as we talk to these sellers

particularly and hear the stories of empowerment

that konga platform has given them, its incredibly

rewarding. Konga is more now than just a retail

ecommerce.

HR: Thank you Mark for your time, we appreciate your

efforts; well done Marketplace team.

Mark: My pleasure.


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erformance Appraisal is a formal and structured system of measuring and evaluating job related behaviors

Pand the performance of employees of an organization against set objectives, within a specified period of time.

It is a developmental tool used for all round development of the employee and the organization. It is

measured against factors such as job knowledge, quality and quantity of work output, as well as our core values.

Our Performance Appraisal Cycle runs from January to June and July to December annually.

The just concluded July-December Appraisal, took place in January 2015 with eligible Konganians who have worked

for a period of 3 months, inclusive. This implies that employee must have been in the system as at 30 September

2014.

After the performance appraisals, moderation sessions followed and all employees were moderated based on the

five (5) behavioral matrix: Consistently Exceeds Expectation, Exceeds Expectation, Meets Expectation, Needs

Improvement and Unsatisfactory. Eligible employees were moderated by their Line Manager and Director.

Based on management’s decision, the percentage (%) weight for the appraisal was 30%, while moderation was 70%.

At the end of the exercise, the average overall score formed the basis of the overall ratings as shown below:

Employees whose performance fall under K - Star Leavers category will be advised to exit

the organization due to unsatisfactory performance while employees whose performance fall

u n d e r K - S t a r Tro o p e r s c a t e g o r y w i l l b e p l a c e d o n a t h re e ( 3 ) m o n t h s

Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). Other employees with good performance will be

rewarded based on approval and our K- Rock Stars will be recognized.

Kudos to all top performers and I encourage all Konganians to put in their best and aim for

high performance in the next appraisals.

Score Rating Description

>85% A* K-Rock Stars

84%-70% A+ K-Stars

69%-55% B K-Rising Stars

54%-40% C K- Star Troopers

<39% D K - Star Leavers

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FROM LAST EDITION’SRIDDLES


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RIDDLES

Answer these questions correctly and win

N3,000 VOUCHER.Send answers to [email protected].


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At a secret family meeting, everyone shakes hands exactly once with every other person present. If there was a total of 28 handshakes, how big was the family?

How many squares are on a chessboard?

What is one thing that all wise men, regardless of their religion or politics, agree is between heaven and earth?

The Smith family has a mother, father and 4 daughters. Each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the family?

There's one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the

score or the leader until the contest ends. What is it?

A woman had two daughters who were born on the same hour of the same day on the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?

A person lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the elevator to go down to the ground floor to go out. When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor.

Only on rainy days does he take the elevator to the tenth floor. He hates the

stairs, so why does he do it?

One word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly. What is it?

A man went to a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone else

at the party who drank the same punch were poisoned and became very sick. Why

did the man not get sick?

A man was found murdered on Sunday. His wife immediately called the police. The police questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis: The wife said she was sleeping. The cook was cooking breakfast. The gardener was picking vegetables. The maid was getting the mail. The butler was cleaning the closet. The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know?

VALENTINEDONE KONGA'S SPECIAL WAY

The most romantic day of the year generated a big

buzz all around the country- and Konga seized the

opportunity to wow our customers with various fun

offerings.

From romantic getaways to fashion discounts and so

much more, Konga.com set up a one stop shop for

our customer Valentine’s Day needs.

And with the closely interwoven communications

around Valentine’s Day and the Nigerian Elections –

Konga played on the dual season with the ‘secret’

Konga Love Party. A party that was solely focused on

showing love. With a dedicated KLP website, Social

media posts, YouTube & Instagram videos, people

were buzzing with the news of the secret party

before they clearly understood that it was a Konga

initiative.


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JOKES

Two guys are walking down the street when an

armed petty thief approached them and demands

for their money. They both grudgingly pulled out

their wallets and began taking out their cash. Just

then one guy turned to the other and handed him

some notes. "Here's that N15000 naira I owe you,"

he says.

A car was involved in an accident in a street. As expected a large crowd

gathered. A newspaper reporter, anxious to get his story could not get near

the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly, "Let me through! Let

me through! I am the son of the victim. I am the son of the victim lying there.

Let me through!” The crowd made way for him. Lying in front of the car, was a

donkey.

An unemployed Nigerian man storms into a job center "I have been

ringing 08001730 for the last two days and no one will pick up the

phone, why? “The woman looks up and says "Sir, those are our opening

hours!"


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MOTIVATIONALSTORY

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire,

and he told his boss of his plans to leave

and live a more leisurely life with his

wife. He would miss the paycheck, but

he needed to retire. They could get by. The

contractor was sorry to see such a good worker

go, and he asked the carpenter to build just one

more house as a personal favor. The carpen

ter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his

heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy

workmanship and used inferior materials. It was

an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.

When the carpenter finished his work, the

employer came to inspect the house. He handed

the front-door key to the carpenter. “This is your

house,” he said. “It is my gift to you.” The

carpenter was shocked! What a shame! If he had

only known he was building his own house, he

would have done it all so differently.

So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at

a time, often putting less than our best

into the building. Then with a shock we

realize we have to live in the house we

have built. If we could do it over, we’d do it

much differently. But we cannot go back…

You are the carpenter of your life. Each

day you hammer a nail, place a board, or

erect a wall. Your attitudes and the

choices you make today build your

“house” for tomorrow…

Build wisely!

Written by

Teju Fola-Ade


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Our Way of Appreciating One Another

Thank you to Mr GBOLABO ADEYOJU for being a good teacher and a wonderful boss to me and everyone in the team.

-Oluwafemi Agubiade

Thank you to ANGELA IJERHEIME for being awesome and helpful always.

-Dolapo Duro-Oni

Thank you to AWOYALE GEORGE for being a role model and a good tutor to me.

-Onyibe Kachi Jennifer

Thank you to OLUSEYI FOLARANMI for being the best boss ever and a role model!!! Boss of Life!!!

-Babajide Iroko

Thank you to IYEYINKA OLAYANJU for being a mother to me.

-Adebowale Adeshina

Thank you to ADETORO TAYO-ADETORO for being a source of inspiration.

-Adebowale Adeshina

My immense admiration goes to CHIKODI UKAIWE, for his calm approach to difficult situations.

-Gabriel Gregory

If Konga had more people like you, it would be a better place. You do make a difference OBINNA EZEANI.

-Akinwunmi Akintoye

Thank you EMMANUEL EKEDE for always being ready to assist me, and you do this with so much pleasure.

-Kafilat Saka

Thank you to JIDE WILLIAMS for being my idol. You may not realize this, but i respect your person.

-Oluwatosin Akinyemi

Thank you to ADEOLA LAWRENCE for being a source of inspiration, a big sister and a guide to me.

-Chizoba Anekie

Thank you to ADE BALOGUN for being a good leader to be admired.

-Prince Adenyanju

Thank you to MONSURAT OMOBOLANLE USMANFOR for bringing sunshine to the office every day.

-Ubakanma Igbokwe

Thank you to SHEGUN FALOMO for being nice to us and contributing immensely to my growth.

-Konga Bayelsa Branch

Thank you to ADEOLA LAWRENCE for not just being a boss but an inspiration to me.

-Femi Oluwasogo

Thank you very much IKEOLUWAPO AKINBAMI because your leadership has been

my inspiration each day. Thank you

-Uduak Edwin-Okon


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JOINERSFEBRUARY, 2015

MARCHBIRTHDAYS

Ï ǼI First Name Last Name Department DOB

1 Margaret Odigie K Express 1-Mar

2 Andrew Mori Technology 1-Mar

3 Adebusola Adetoro Technology 1-Mar

4 Ohwota Fortune CET 1-Mar

5 Lekan Olawaye K Express 2-Mar

6 Bamidele Adelokiki Warehouse 3-Mar

7 Abigail Onah Finance 3-Mar

8 Godwin Ichukwu K Express 3-Mar

9 Happiness Okororie K Express 3-Mar

10 Jamiu Aminu K Express 3-Mar

11 Jafar Suleman K Express 3-Mar

12 Aderemi Salawu K Express 5-Mar

13 Ogheneovo Miller K Express 5-Mar

14 Shekoni-Odutayo Abisoye CET 6-Mar

15 Ojetayo Olufemi Technology 7-Mar

16 Chukwudi Enyeazu CET 7-Mar

17 Friday Ademu K Express 7-Mar

18 Benjamin Ike Warehouse 9-Mar

19 Munder Simon K Express 9-Mar

20 Akinrinade Aderemi Warehouse 9-Mar

21 Kehinde Olagbaju Commercial 9-Mar

22 Adegboyega Adewusi Warehouse 10-Mar

23 Eyebira Ezechie CET 11-Mar

Name Job Title Department

Nneka Obiano Marketing Communications Associate Commercial

Dee Hans Software Engineer Technology

Yuanyuan Yi Software Engineer Technology

Emeka Ajene Vice President, Quality and Arbitration CET


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24 Chidi Kalu K Express 11-Mar

25 Oluwaseni Omotoso Warehouse 11-Mar

26 James Ikwuome K Express 11-Mar

27 Nnaemeka Eze K Express 11-Mar

28 Ganiyu Dauda K Express 11-Mar

29 Abayomi Omotayo K Express 11-Mar

30 Munier Parker Technology 12-Mar

31 Opeyemi Oluwagbeyide Finance 12-Mar

32 Abidemi Oluwole Warehouse 12-Mar

33 Charles Uye Technology 13-Mar

34 Chizoba Ibebu Commercial 13-Mar

35 Ucheolisa Onwuatu Technology 14-Mar

36 Mikail Adetoye Commercial 14-Mar

37 Nnamdi Onyemachi CET 14-Mar

38 Daniel Christopher K Express 14-Mar

39 Frank Chiekwene Warehouse 14-Mar

40 Helen Denuola-Orimolade Administration 15-Mar

41 Adekunle Adeboye Technology 15-Mar

42 Adekunle Adejuwon Warehouse 15-Mar

43 Patrick Odiakose Warehouse 15-Mar

44 Peter Agoji Commercial 15-Mar

45 Olumide Ogunfowokan K Express 15-Mar

46 Matthew Onoja K Express 15-Mar

47 Pius David Administration 16-Mar

48 Ikhide Okojie Commercial 18-Mar

49 Remi Adebayo HR 18-Mar

50 Anne Uchendu Commercial 18-Mar

51 Olatomiwa Akande Commercial 19-Mar

52 Peter Atabo CET 19-Mar

53 Owobu Benjamin Administration 20-Mar

54 Olushola Oguntoye CET 20-Mar

55 Akinwale Afolabi CET 21-Mar

56 Abuchi Akunne Warehouse 22-Mar

57 Kehinde Abass Administration 22-Mar

58 Adebayo Atoki Warehouse 23-Mar

59 Omololu Oremosu CET 23-Mar

60 Mfon Umomon K Express 23-Mar

61 Olusola Cole Commercial 24-Mar

62 Adekunle Adeoye Commercial 24-Mar

63 Latifat Babatunde Warehouse 25-Mar

64 Bolaji Jamiu K Express 25-Mar

65 Ufot Essient K Express 25-Mar

66 Lovelin Momodu Finance 26-Mar

67 Oluwatosin Akingbulu Commercial 26-Mar

68 Kenneth Anthony K Express 26-Mar

69 Jibrin Alidu K Express 26-Mar

70 Samuel Adeniji Commercial 27-Mar

71 Jimmy Adesanmi K Express 27-Mar

72 Oluwagbemileke Faleye Technology 28-Mar

73 Ifeanyi Okudo Commercial 29-Mar

74 Aderopo Ayokunle Technology 30-Mar

75 Atiyyah Badru K Express 30-Mar

76 Oluwafemi Adeniji Warehouse 30-Mar

77 Ademola Bhadmus Technology 31-Mar

78 Babajide Williams Commercial 31-Mar


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PICTURES AT A GLANCE

EVENTS


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T H R O W B A C KGuess Who?

Teju Fola-Alade Adedoyinsola Abitoye Sebastian Loaiza

Marketplace team Human Resources team Marketing team

M A I D E N E D I T I O N ’ S A N S W E R S

Guess Who?

Guess correctly and win a

N3,000 VOUCHER.Send answers to [email protected].

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For grievances at the workplace, personal challenges that may have

an impact on your work output; should you need someone to talk to

or counseling, please send an email to [email protected] or call

08092451487 within the hours of 4:00-5:00(pm), Monday to

Friday. A representative from the HR department will be in touch

with you within 24hrs of receiving your message; high level of

confidentiality is assured.

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