"I have a piece of advice for all would-be freshers. The university is a lot more different from a secondary school, your home, local area, etc.
Your first day in the university would pass as uneventful especially as you step into the lecture hall. This information is specifically for MOUAU freshers but would still be relevant, I believe, to the fresher and the newcomer in any other Nigerian university.
1.Visit the school portal to complete your registration formalities as soon as you can. The horde of freshers you'll meet at the portal once the second batch of results have been released wouldn't encourage you. More so, it would get to a point where nepotism and muscle flexing may prevent you from completing your registration formalities in time. After your registration, go for medicals the proceed to your college to "open a file". Remember that at each point, you'll have to make payments.
2. Even if you were top on the merit list or the last to be admitted, all would pale into insignificance by the time the first semester results are out. And for your information, MOUAU does not handle exam offences with kid gloves.
3. Your medicals fee covers the first and second semesters of your first year. If you fail to undergo x-ray and submit your specimen samples in your first year, you'll have to pay for it in later years.
4. Get acquainted with the school environment. Make out time to visit and take note of lecture halls, laboratories, the school farm, etc. It would aid you in adjusting well to your new environment.
5. Single credit courses are the most finance-draining courses, the most annoyingly demanding, and the easiest to fail. Be advised.
6.Do not be carried away by the ordinariness of lecturers, the lecture halls or the school environment. Learn to face your books seriously from the word go.
7. Do not be caught in the rat race. Flashy clothes, eye-catching jewellery, expensive feeding, etc. Experience has shown that 90% of students who live outrageous lives on campus are from low class families. There is no prize for impressing everybody.
8. Be yourself, learn to stand alone. Don't get into a circle of controlling peers who can influence you negatively.
9. Avoid student politics like a plague. Course-repship, comradeship, being in charge of other students in any way. Avoid beauty pageants - 'most beautiful' or 'most handsome' competitions. Many a student has lost his destiny due to these ephemeral exercises.
10. Beware of cult groups and anti-cult groups. While the former puts you in spiritual and psychological bondage, the latter under the guise of exposing cultism introduces you to the covert esoteric lives of cultists. When you end up gaining knowledge from anti-cult groups, signs and gestures you never paid attention to will begin to make meaning to you. There is nothing to gain from being able to identify cultists. You may even end up as a target or being blackmailed for it.
11. The university is not a place to polish up yourself and display your beauty. In five years time you'll look at your days in the university as you are looking at your secondary school days today. The time is too short to be squandered on frivolities.
12. Avoid boy and girl friend relationships. Preserve your dignity. Apart from its attendant fights, jealousies and innuendos, you could lose your life, get into a scandal, get pregnant or contract STIs. That everyone else is doing it does not mean you must be like everyone else. And never be deceived into thinking that every student in the university is morally loose.
13. Avoid parties, no matter who throws it. Avoid nocturnal meetings and questionable gatherings.
14. Be informed that no matter your background, there must be someone who knows you more than anyone else. Don't live a lewd life in school with the feeling that no one knows your roots.
15. Identify the students arm of your church and join the school fellowship. Otherwise, identify with a fellowship of proven origins. I'll recommend the Deeper Life Campus Fellowship, Scripture Union Campus Fellowship and the Watch Man campus fellowship.
16. Do ALL your assignments the day they're given. Never skip tests, UGC labour or practicals.
17. You are in the university to study for a degree, not to make friends, play football, show off, or exhibit waywardness. Apart from your devotion to God and to your studies, everything else you do in the university is a distraction.
18. Achebe hall becomes a sauna during the middle of the first semester. You could practically see vapour wafting out if you stand at the back door. If you are asthmatic, please find a spot on the platform around the lecturer and keep your inhaler handy. Achebe faintings are no longer news.
19. Do not engage in fights, volatile arguments or in separating fights. You may get yourself into a bigger trouble.
20. Don't make roommates with students of questionable character. Let your relationship with the opposite gender be on purely platonic bases.
21. Always pay attention to whoever is on the platform teaching, be it a student or lecturer. Never stand up to correct a lecturer on a gross mistake. You may fail his course woefully. No matter what you want to correct, someone else in the hall has seen it and kept quiet.
22. In all, get to know Christ and the power of his resurrection (Phil. 3:10)
He alone can help you navigate the deep waters of the campus environment"

nice..never knew someone on all this fb students get this thing

Nice write up

Very very nice advice.

you for no kuku go school. Just read yur books and don't join cult and you are good to go. Contrary to this post, Remember you are only going to be there for 4years(5 for some), so have the time of your life so you can have memories to cherish when you are done...what's the point of a life that's not being lived anyway?

My candid advice is that University is where you experience the good,bad and ugly side of life just don't let the bad side of it outweighs the good ones.Stop all these lectures that our parents made us to believe.