wamide042:


Please kindly and slowly read what you typed. Correct it and come back to abuse me. Thank you.

Lol. There is nothing to 'read slowly'. Thank you for showing that I made a typo, but the message clear well well - and the typo will not be touched because some guy on the internet is trying to correct me for English. Just lol.

Grow up and act with maturity. Anonymity of nairaland is not a reason to be unpleasant.

thebosstrevor1:
The future is bleak for present day Nigerian women.

Lets be sincere, it will be rare to see women like her in this generation.

Many women here have lost all their educational vibes, all that matters to them now is runs, fashion, gossip and Instagram.

Don't say so - because you don't know. And there is nothing about being "sincere" about.

We have future Okonjos from Nigeria - just that you don't know them.

I was chatting with one the other day. She told me she pushed to become a PhD holder because she was motivated by mama Okonjo. While I agree with you that many girls are getting it wrong, you should also be aware that there are many out there who are trying to make things happen...

Mama Okonjo was exceptional, even by her generation's standard, and so even by her generation, her achievements are rare. If exceptionalism is what you mean by rare, then maybe you might have a great point. Because even mama Okonjo was/is exceptional (rare?) by her own generation's standards

wamide042:
Please where is Aunty kemi.... she’s yet to reply oo..

Why are you being try so hard to be stupid when you're not? You don't need this rubbish shit you're doing.

Congratulations Ma.

This mama won on all fronts (family, career, etc etc) and she is world class in her profession.

Interestingly, the kids are also all very great kids, smart people and interestingly humble and very accomplished. They will never easily put it to your face that their mum is okonjo - lol. You will never unnecessarily hear it in your convo with them.

The mama did a wonderful job with such children and I think she is a role model for our young girls to follow, especially those who want to be world class in their profession and also win big on the family front...I no dey talk about awon aunties "men are scum" gang ooo. Lol

Congrats ma.

worldfezzy:
Hello Dear Senior Colleagues and Mentors,
I am a new PhD student in Mathematics. I need people who I can work with in the area of research. I am into Mathematical modeling, Stochastic calculus and differential equations.

What level are you?

Where are you doing your PhD?

Yildiz:
Hello professor. First of all I am currently a Computer Science PhD student in China. My research is on Graph Neural Networks based Sequential Recommendation. I would like your input on something please. The requirements for graduation is basically 3 SCI papers then a thesis ofcourse. My concern is will 3 papers be enough to compete for a postdoc position especially in European Universities? To add more context, the duration of the PhD is 3-4 years and so far I just completed 1.5 years. Again I have 2 papers under review, 1 at Knowledge based systems and the other at Neurocomputing. If 3 papers will be okay then I could graduate at 3 years. Thank you in advance

I will choose someone with 3 quality papers published in the major journals of a field over someone with 23 papers published in the minor journals of that field.

To your question, if your 3 papers are in the best journals in your field or if they are in some very respectable journals in your field, then I imagine you would look competitive wherever you apply.

For example, if your 3 papers are published in some of these journals - https://blog.typeset.io/top-16-international-computer-science-journals-a-template-guide-3b838a7fd902, then I believe you are competitive.

It is not by the volume of your papers. Quality and impact matter.

Nevertheless, I would suggest you to still apply widely for a postdoc, no matter what your current publication record looks like. Anything can happen.

I have seen people with only promising working papers, but working papers nonetheless, get accepted into highly coveted Postdoc programmes

I thought this might be of interest to some of you:
Mathematics Training for Economics, Finance and Management PhD Applicants
[b][/b]

As part of our continued contribution to the improvement of human capital in Nigeria, we are offering a 9-month certificate course in mathematics. The purpose of this course is to improve the mathematical background of candidates intending to pursue a PhD in a quantitative social science or business field, but who have not been exposed to the varied mathematical tools used quantitative social science or business at the (advanced) graduate level. The 9-month course will cover proper mathematics courses, including real analysis, linear algebra, differential equations, multivariate calculus, applied functional analysis (mainly optimization) and, for the most gifted and talented, measure theory and topology.

For selected applicants, the cost of attending the course is FREE. For non-selected applicants, unfortunately we do not accept tuition fees for admission to the certificate course. The course is taught online by a distinguished associate professor of mathematics.

For those eager to attend, please email your applications to – info@baumtenpers.com and baumtenpers@gmail.com
Deadline for sending your applications is 24 February 2021. Please including the following in your application packets:
1. Your BSc and MSc transcripts (or BSc for those who don’t have MSc)
2. Letter of intention to participate in the certificate program
3. 2 letters from people who can vouch for your character and ability

This course is most beneficial to those who wish to apply for a PhD in Economics, Finance or Statistics in Canada or the US and want to show that they have taken and excelled in the prerequisite mathematics courses for PhD.

At the end of the program, transcripts will be issued to successful candidates.

Signed
Mgt

I thought someone might be interested in this opportunity:

Mathematics Training for Economics, Finance and Management PhD Applicants


As part of our continued contribution to the improvement of human capital in Nigeria, we are offering a 9-month certificate course in mathematics. The purpose of this course is to improve the mathematical background of candidates intending to pursue a PhD in a quantitative social science or business field, but who have not been exposed to the varied mathematical tools used quantitative social science or business at the (advanced) graduate level. The 9-month course will cover proper mathematics courses, including real analysis, linear algebra, differential equations, multivariate calculus, applied functional analysis (mainly optimization) and, for the most gifted and talented, measure theory and topology.

For selected applicants, the cost of attending the course is FREE. For non-selected applicants, unfortunately we do not accept tuition fees for admission to the certificate course. The course is taught online by a distinguished associate professor of mathematics.

For those eager to attend, please email your applications to – info@baumtenpers.com and baumtenpers@gmail.com
Deadline for sending your applications is 24 February 2021. Please including the following in your application packets:
1. Your BSc and MSc transcripts (or BSc for those who don’t have MSc)
2. Letter of intention to participate in the certificate program
3. 2 letters from people who can vouch for your character and ability

This course is most beneficial to those who wish to apply for a PhD in Economics, Finance or Statistics in Canada or the US and want to show that they have taken and excelled in the prerequisite mathematics courses for PhD.

At the end of the program, transcripts will be issued to successful candidates.

Signed
Mgt

I thought someone might be interested in this opportunity:

Mathematics Training for Economics, Finance and Management PhD Applicants


As part of our continued contribution to the improvement of human capital in Nigeria, we are offering a 9-month certificate course in mathematics. The purpose of this course is to improve the mathematical background of candidates intending to pursue a PhD in a quantitative social science or business field, but who have not been exposed to the varied mathematical tools used in quantitative social science or business at the (advanced) graduate level. The 9-month course will cover proper mathematics courses, including real analysis, linear algebra, differential equations, multivariate calculus, applied functional analysis (mainly optimization) and, for the most gifted and talented, measure theory and topology.

For selected applicants, the cost of attending the course is FREE. For non-selected applicants, unfortunately we do not accept tuition fees for admission to the certificate course. The course is taught online by a distinguished associate professor of mathematics.

For those eager to attend, please email your applications to – info@baumtenpers.com and baumtenpers@gmail.com
Deadline for sending your applications is 24 February 2021. Please including the following in your application packets:
1. Your BSc and MSc transcripts (or BSc for those who don’t have MSc)
2. Letter of intention to participate in the certificate program
3. 2 letters from people who can vouch for your character and ability

This course is most beneficial to those who wish to apply for a PhD in Economics, Finance or Statistics in Canada or the US and want to show that they have taken and excelled in the prerequisite mathematics courses for PhD.

At the end of the program, transcripts will be issued to successful candidates.

Signed
Mgt

Malone122:
Please does any one know any university that offers cheap tuition of like 20k$ without scholarships please assist ??

Have you looked at California Polytechnic - https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/edu/110529/california-state-polytechnic-university-pomona/tuition/

NigPatriot:


One of the most humorous questions I have attempted to answer. Firstly, Why do you think US schools won't accept schools from Cotonou. The blatant truth is if a school is accredited; also if the program is accredited, then why not?

But sadly, I noticed most of these schools in Cotonou; Benin operate without modalities which is why foreign bodies don't recognize their degrees.

Not to break your heart, ill advise you to reach out to the schools in particular that you are applying to, mail the graduate Coordinator (GC), tell him/her your uncertainty about your school of graduation. You'll get the appropriate answer.

I wish you well.

Let's start by asking him which school he went to in Cotounu. OP, if you need guidance, come open. State the school you attended in Cotounu, the course you studied, level and grades you got. Let's start from there.

If you attended the highly regarded schools in Abomey Calavy, then you're actually superior not inferior. However, if as[b] NigPatroit [/b]stated, you attended one of the schools that are not accredited even by the Benin Government, then that one go be somehow ooooo.

I await your direct answers. If answers no direct, then no way to help much.

Novartis:
By Cotonou graduates, I mean people who schooled in the Republic of Benin

We are highly discriminated in Nigeria

That’s why I came to ask here first, so I’ll know if USA discriminates us too

The Nigerian graduates who discriminate you are ignorant as usual...Shouting "giant of Africa". When I tell some of them the truth, they start shouting thunder. Look at my my previous posts, you will see our people like to feel superior even in many instances when they are clearly not superior.

If you're quality, anywhere will want you.

As I said, some of the best African researchers in certain fields in the US and Canada are from Benin Republic. Yes, Benin Republic, and they studied in Abomey Calavey.. I don't know ANY Nigerian in the class of these guys. Ok, let me be a bit lenient - I ONLY know ONE Nigerian is is trying, but still not at that level yet.

Between, I am Nigerian.

Where in Benin did you go to school? What was your GPA? Hope you got more than 13? (or a good GPA if you use the US 4.0 system)? What do you want to do for PhD or master?

I sent a student to do a master in Benin Republic Cotonou a few years ago. That master provides a better training than anything available in Nigeria in a certain field. That student is now in North America and was admitted for PhD.

Nothing is wrong with Benin (or Cotonou as you put it) education. If anything, there are certain fields that graduates from Cotonou universities are actually doing better. Yes, better!

Ykxcels:
‘’How Many Rejections Now? 10!’’
How I got a Fully Funded Master’s Scholarship in The United States of America.

It had always been my desire to study abroad right from high school. So fast forward, having seen my final year result, graduating with a first class, I took 7 days off praying and fasting to ask God for the next agenda, what is next in His will? God began to speak to me about going abroad and confirming it in outstanding ways, details withheld. Okay, what destination? Having consulted with my Professors, my priority was Canada, USA and manageably UK. What do I need to get scholarships? Get my transcript, international passport, take IELTS/TOEFL and write GRE. While planning all these I was also praying towards my NYSC and God was telling me some things which were not very clear to me until I got to Ogun State NYSC Orientation Camp in Shagamu. Then it became very clear that though I have obeyed the clarion call of my fatherland, there was a demand of my father God on me that year to serve as State executive at Nccf Ogun , March 2018 to April 2019. It was a great sacrifice which took a lot of my time and attention because I was also serving as a Graduate Assistant, in the Electrical / Eletronic Engineering department at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, (MAPOLY), Abeokuta. And, I was lecturing. How I got my placement there is a story of faith for another day. Thank God service year ended and I was asked to apply as an Associate Lecturer by my HOD who wanted to keep me but somehow the application was declined by the Dean. I had applied for Mastercard Scholarship of McGill University, Canada, 3 Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (CSC), EducationUSA OFP and the PTDF scholarships while serving and they all looked promising. Despite the rigor of being the State Rugged, I stayed up late every night punching the computer, reviewing my application essays and the likes.

When my application was declined at MAPOLY, I moved to Lagos to stay with one of my mentor’s mentees, who works with Shell. I never knew he had been following my What’sapp status and by the kind of things I post there, he had judged that I am someone he could accommodate to stay with him, support and bring up to speed while I get sorted my applications. There in his house, I had access to electricity 24/7, food 24/7, even though I had already became a fasted man in NCCF. I settled down preparing for my GRE and though it was good, it wasn’t good enough for me with a score of 311. I could not write TOEFL or IELTS because of money and since many schools waive it. While preparing for GRE, the first rejection letter dropped. It was McGill’s, then the 3 CSCs and then the PTDF scholarship. After so much investment in preparation for the interview, I was not awarded. Then, I applied for Skoltech scholarship, a school in Russia, it was not successful. I applied for Mastercard Edinburgh, declined! Chevening, it failed then FSB Commonwealth Masters. I even paid a consulting firm to review my application, it failed. I was also applying to schools in the US But the problem was writing to Professors, requesting for GRA/GTA and getting no response.

How many rejections now? 10! While in this struggle, I got the idea to write to professors in Covenant University, to volunteer as a Research Assistant with anyone in line with my research interest, drawing from a scholar who challenged me by telling me, I didn’t have any online research presence apart from social media. He said the first thing most professors do when they get your mail is to put your name in Google to know if you have been in the corridor of research work and publication, to know if your mail is worth their reply. Personally, I did not know anyone in Covenant University so I went through the school website, went through the CVs of some lecturers in the Electrical and Information Engineering Department and I wrote to 5 of them. I made contacts in Unilag, especially because I had a comfortable accommodation at Surulere, and OAU because I could be accommodated in our mission house in Ife and I would be able to survive on tutorials. I got accepted into the 3 – OAU, Unilag, Covenant for voluntary research assistant work. I got a response from one of the Professors in Covenant who was willing to take me but on a condition - no accommodation, no stipend! That was a great challenge especially for someone from my background but I had learnt to walk by the leading of the Holy Spirit. September 2019, I resumed at Advanced Signal Processing and Machine Intelligence Lab, Covenant University Centre for Research, Innovation and Development, Covenant University and, by December, I got a scopus-index paper published in a conference held in Madrid, Spain.

After this I started getting a few responses from the Professors I was now contacting in the US. I kept writing, I kept searching for schools and I kept applying to schools. I applied to 6 schools in the US, I was getting admitted even for direct PhD but full funding was the main challenge. In another 3 months, by April, 2020 I had already gotten 4, all scopus-indexed publications, with one as the first author, and 2 other ongoing journal papers. I also got a fully funded scholarship to do my master’s at Covenant University with World Bank project under the supervision of my Professor but with a condition that I was not going to travel abroad untill I am done with the 2 years. That was the first opportunity in two years but, I had to decline it even though I was yet to secure one scholarship abroad because while I prayed about it, I heard God telling me that Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. I also remembered how in March, while at a church anniversary meeting, the guest minister from nowhere picked me up and began prophesying about my journey abroad with some instructions and revelation of the future and so I did not seek counsel with any human being until after I had declined it. I did not want to be pitied out of God’s plan for my life.

Shortly after, Covid-19 broke out, and with it, the global lockdown and ban on international flights, all hopes became very gloomy. Those who had secured scholarships even in the US prior to this time were being faced with the possibility of losing them. I know people who lost theirs, how much more I who was still just hoping to get one. Anyways for me, it was a journey of faith with God saying to me ‘let the bird in your hand go for two in the bush’. Who does that? My faith had built from faith-based teachings I had been listening to, I soaked myself into them and interacted with friends of like-faith who in the heat of the lockdown, started a whatsApp group where we pray and share God’s word with each other, just the three of us. In the lockdown, our lab was not locked down and I was working on some research work when we got this grant from the university to design and build an automatic solar powered water, soap and sanitizer dispensing machine with automatic temperature sensing functionality which we were also working on. This was the 8th month of volunteering without any pay. How was I being accommodated and fed? Those are testimonies of grace and favor for another day. God is too faithful to fail His children who serve and call upon Him in truth. Meanwhile, I was not really scouting for jobs. Maybe I would have gotten one, but that was not in the plan I received when I was leaving campus after my week-long wait in fasting and prayers.

Then came this fateful day, the last Friday of May 2020. we had just finished our normal weekly research cluster meeting and I was about to close my computer to leave the lab when I refreshed my mail and saw a strange email subject titled ‘Assistantship offer and SEVIS form’. I opened it and could only manage to read it halfway as tears roll down. A fully funded master scholarship worth thousands of dollars. The application fee was waived, my documents were sent free of any charges, I didn’t have to pay a dime, it was all covered and overflowing. Even if I were to bring a spouse, she would be covered as well. What a great God! I was to resume for the fall which was in August, 2020 but because of the international flight ban in Nigeria, I had to defer it to spring 2021, which is January. And so, for the first time in my life, I was on board an an airplane, on a flight to the United States of America. This is my third week in the US and everything has totally changed. Everything I struggled for in Nigeria, I am settled with in the US. I can clearly see pathways to the kind of future I desired and ofcourse fulfilling God’s master plan in the earth is my priority.

Eventually, I spent 14 months volunteering in Covenant University, and though I was not paid by my Professor, the school paid for every scopus-indexed publication and I was able to achieve the following:
1. Two fully funded scholarships; one declined, one accepted and one pending interview results
2. Assisted with Experimentations on Machine Learning Techniques Towards the Development of an Automatic Nigerian Currency Recognition Model, and published a conference paper.
3. Conducted research on Automatic Modulation Recognition Using Cepstrum Descriptors and Feed-Forward ANN and then using Constellation Diagrams with CNN for publication as two journal papers
4. Researched on the Transmit Power of a Universal Software Radio Peripheral Using GNU Radio Framework and a Handheld RF Explorer, published a conference paper.
5. Assisted with Experimentations with OpenStack System Logs and Support Vector Machine for an Anomaly Detection Model in a Private Cloud Infrastructure, and published a conference paper.
6. Three ongoing research works and manuscripts.

For me, the rejections were divine directions because even though I have left Covenant University, I am still a member of my Professor’s research cluster and we are still working and collaborating together on projects.

ykajalas@gmail.com

Congrats dude. Happy to read your account.

Do your best at the current US program so you can move up for PhD. I know of someone who went to a not so famous Nigerian university, got a chance to attend a master in the US, did superb there, and eventually cruised into an ivy league school for PhD. With your kind of faith, you may even enter MIT sef.

Good luck

Novartis:
Please which US schools accepts Cotonou graduates ?

What do you mean by Cotonou graduates?

The following schools have admitted, with full funding, students from Benin Republic who studied there in Benin Republic (where you have Cotonou)
1. Princeton
2. New York University
3. Winsconsin-Madison
4. Houston
5. Penn State

Martinez39s:
Why should they have withheld her result? Even if they wanted to withhold the result, they should not have withheld it till it cost her a possible admission. Such irrational, thoughtless and disappointing attitude from WAEC unnecessarily delays geniuses who merited their exceptional results.

Hmmm..There was a reason, but I won't say it.

But let's just say thank God her results were released, because some places for burn

Gerrard59:


95% of black people reside in Sub-Saharan Africa. Collectively, Caucasians have proved to be developed judging by their spread in the Americas and Australasia. Your last statement is OKOTO because if someone is smart, that smartness should reflect in the person's living standards, something that is not exhibiting itself in Sub-Saharan Africa - home to the vast majority of black people.


What sort of intelligence is that?

What about the bad environment (due to a long time of bad leadership - case in point naija) that is dragging back some people?

Now, you may argue that the bad environment or bad leadership, etc, is due to one thing or the other. That could be right, but that would be another point entirely.

Environment counts.

blackslayer:
America gladly welcomes you! I wonder why you waisted your time taking Jamb!

Good point.

But it was so prove that she can tear JAMB. She even underperformed her target because of some mistakes which we do not understand their source till date. The target was to get 400 in Jamb, but sadly result came out as 335. She manage am sha. 335 no bad LOL

DECLAN2015:


My sister results was like this but got f9 in biology.As a science student myself i was curious,later she confessed to me that the in igilator was strict on the day of biology but allow fhe teacher to help them im other subject.

Congrat to the lady if truly she did that without any imput.

The last part of the last sentence sounds so so to me. But let me don't drag it, since you spoke well in the first half of the sentence.

For anyone's information, she took UK equivalent of junior waec when she was in JS3. Guess what she scored? All A's.....

This one don dey get A's tey tey tey. Didn't start last year.

Sheggy13:
This girl is truly exceptional. What impressed me most is the IELTS score of 8.5/9.0 especially at her level of just being a Secondary school leaver. This is the same IELTS that many Master's and PhD holders have written and not gotten close to that score of 8.5 after several attempts yet this young girl aced it at once. Bravo.

Well said.

And just one correction -- she took it in SS3

Reader530:
Expo tinz

Another dumb statement.

Make una continue with dumbness. Deceiving yourselves that academic excellent is impossible. That's the mentality that leads to the shitty academic performance of many of una

Freestainworld:
this girl is top notch, the fire is really burning bright and fiercely.

She is really top notch and fiercely hardworking. Even her mother fears for how - she spends hours and hours reading. She once got 100/100 in a UK English exam.

She is among the all time best from Nigeria at the secondary school level.

Juliusmomoh:
Naija expo wap...
This is where she got the answer from ..

I knew I was going to hear something like this.

Seriously, are you this slow? Some who got all A's in not only Nigerian exams but also major foreign exams, yet somehow you still found a way to call it "expo"?

Is it that some young people in Nigeria truly believe that true academic excellent - like the one demonstrated by this very outstanding student - is impossible?

Somebody should please help me with the pitiable and unfortunately myopic thinking of some of our young people. This is getting ridiculous.

Francangel:
Universities offering free waiver

1. Michigan technological University

2. University of Missouri Saint Louis

3. West Texas A&M University

4. University of Pittsburgh (Code: H2P)

5. University of Dallas
Code: scholar2021


6. Netherland excellence scholarship
Deadline: January 31, 2021

7. University of Oregon (Request for it from the department and GC will nominate you)

8. New York Institute of Technology
Code: GRAD2021

9. University of British Columbia in Canada also waived App fee for Chemistry ppl sha�

https://www.grad.ubc.ca/prospective-students/application-admission/apply-online


10. Morgan State University
Code: FREE20


11. University of Arkansas at little rock
Code: GRFREE6



12. Wayne State University - no app fee, deadline-early dec

13. University of Rochester - no app fee, Deadline-dec 15

14. Temple University - Can offer waiver

15.Michigan State Univ. - no app. fee, deadline - dec 15

16. Iowa State Univ. - no app fee, deadline jan 15

17. Georgia tech - no application fee

18. Georgetown Univ. - can offer waiver

19. Univ. of Emory - can offer waiver


20. Case western reserve university - no app fee,deadline- april 15

21. Caltech(can offer waiver)

22. Brigham young univ. - no app fee, deadline Jan 5

23. Carnegie mellon University - waived app fee for fall 2021 application

24. ulane University - no appl fee, deadline- april 4

25. Pennsylvania state Univ. - can offer waiver, deadline- dec 15


26. Univ. of Illinois chicago - waive app fee till dec 15


27. Utah state univ. - no app fee

28. George Washington uni- can offer waiver, deadline - feb 1

29. HARVARD UNIVERSITY - ALL PROGRAMS WAIVED APPLICATION FEE

30. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - ASK AND YOU WILL GET

31. MIT - ASK AND YOU WILL GET

32. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - ASK AND YOU WILL GET





Schools that waived GRE and have full funding for PhD Chemical Engineering
1. Texas A&M University
2. University of Notre Dame
3. University of Colorado Boulder
4. University of Oklahoma
5. University of Maine
6. Iowa State University
7. Missouri University of Science & Technology.

TOEFL is also waived by all of them with the exception of University of Oklahoma. Send each of them a mail for fee waivers, from my experience some would definitely respond positively.

This is a wonderful list.

misterniyi:


You are a complete idiot for writing this nonsense

Which graduate did you interview? How many program codes were you writing when you were first hired.

Infact tell me in what language can you code right now? Covenant University graduates are among the very best I have interviewed and hired. Not even the best FG Unis have anything on them.

I don't know of your last sentence and I am not sure, but you're correct in saying Covenant got some top students. We too have hired from there before, and we will hire from there again.

The general problem is that many government school teachers and students can't bring themselves to accept the FACT that Covenant University is a top school in Nigeria. This is a top 5 university, and in several (not all) instances that I have seen, the teachers at our government schools are not superior to the teachers at CU.

EdoFirstBorn:
This is rather unfortunate

Unilag still the best ti got mine in one week without a dime spent

My hod was so glad to assist , everyone I met in senate and admissions who remembered me where so glad to assist

Things must have really changed - and that's good. I'm happy to hear that.

Meanwhile, the lady in the video, well, perhaps her case is an unusual one off case. I say this because we have a very smart Covenant University graduate as a staff member with us and when this person applied for a job with us, they applied with all their transcripts and certificate.

I hope the girl in the video can get her transcripts soon.

premechaz:



She was not a product of the Nigerian school system, let alone a product of Awo's free education.


She schooled in London. get your facts right, Ms. Expert on everything Nigeria.

Very disgusting claim. Somebody who never studied 1 minute in Nigeria. Rubbish

Righteousness89:
Reckless talk from a young man without Understanding of Life..

In fact, I struggle to understand what he is saying, really.

Thousands have made it without thuggery. What's the young man's point.

Man, nothing we no go see for our naija youth.

Crime does not pay.

hinere:
Concerning this issue, I think charity begins at home. Everything boils down to SELF ESTEEM.
Most girls that bleach their skin have low self esteem due to their black skin. They feel ugly and I think the media is contributing greatly to it.

You see a advert for a Soap and Cream and the models they use are all fair.
Infact when I was small, I saw an advert for Delta soap where they used a black girl. Then an angel appeared to her and gave her Delta soap to use. After using it to bath, the girl turn fair right there in the bathroom.
The fair girl was the popular actress "Lillian Back". The advert ended by her getting the man of her dreams.

After watching that advert, I was shocked that an ordinary soap could change your skin but it was all a Marketing Strategy

Charity begins at home. Even from MBGN, most of the winners of that contest are fair. So we need to start changing things from our end inorder for the younger generation boys and girls to pick something tangible from.
When we start portraying the Black Skin in a Positive light, people will feel confident in themselves.

As for the surgery aspect. It's still LOW SELF ESTEEM.

Even some Men have Low Self Esteem that's why you go to the Gym and see so many guys there pumping hard iron just to have Six packs, Big Chest, Big Biceps and all because the media has portrayed that guys with such body physic is the Ideal Male Look and its only guys with such Physic that can get anything they want.

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.....
CHANGE STARTS WITH US.

Be Confident in yourself.
Be Confident in what you have.
I'm not against doing what makes you happy.
If Bleaching, Surgery and whatever will make you happy and boost your Self Esteem, go for it and be happy because life is too short to keep being INSECURE AND having Low Self Esteem for Vanity.

Thats my 2 cents. Enjoy your evening and don't forget to invest in Agriculture and Real Estate and get 45%-55% Profit in months. To know more, click this thread.

https://www.nairaland.com/6235562/invest-agriculture-make-up-55

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I just couldn't let the bolded go. I am surprised such a statement is coming from an otherwise nice write that you have strung together. So, I will assume you weren't aware and I will say it: Weightlifting is a form of exercise and gazillion number of studies have shown that exercise is good for the body. It's strange to classify weightlifting or gymming (a healthful engagement) to bleaching (a danger to the health). Again, I am surprised and amazed. It's OK if you don't have a six pack and don't have the interest and discipline to have one. But it is not OK to claim that going to the gym to lift weights is bad. You are indirectly saying in your new discovery that exercise is bad. Seriously??

Even the Bible says bodily exercise has some profit. For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. Yet, in your wisdom, you claim weightlifting is somehow bad? Seriously Sir?

Wow, nairaland. I hail.

Nonetheless, I agree with you on the part that is against doing things to destroy one's body. But for weightlifting, man, you no get point for that.

Greenman2020:


Well, not this time around.


Visa interview transcript
Profile
School: MSU
Program: PhD Sociology
Scholarship: Full funding + Teaching Assistantship
Deficit: NIL
GRE: 300
TOEFL: Nil
Bsc in Sociology (Federal University)
Highest Educational level: Msc, Criminology (Federal University)
Undergraduate Gpa: 3.44/4.0
Msc Gpa: 3.2/4.0
No of F1 Attempts at the US embassy (2), denied last year for Masters in Criminology with zero funding at West Texas A&M University.
Status: Denied
Lagos consulate, Nov 20th 2020

My interview lasted about 10 minutes. Here we go:


The moment I entered the hall, I noticed that there were three VOs interviewing people at the counter, two females and one male. I realized immediately that the male was the guy who denied me last year and started praying that I should not come across him again. He had already denied about three to four persons right there in the hall. Unfortunately, I came across him again.

The moment I passed my passport and i20 to him, he looked at me and said, "I denied you last year and sorry I cannot interview you this time." He then directed me to another VO, an elderly woman. I can't remember the window. Now the interview proper.

Me: Good morning ma

VO: Good morning, pass me your i-20 and passport then place your hands on the scanner for the biometric capture.

Me: Okay ma. (I passed the documents to her and placed my hands on the scanner)

VO: Where are you going to?

Me: I am going to MSU, Starkvile, to pursue my PhD in Sociology with concentration in Criminology.

VO: I see. So, why this university?

Me: I settled for MSU because I was able to find a wonderful Prof. in the person of Professor XYZ who not only shares my research interest but believes in my abilities to excel at graduate school. For me, that's priceless. I also settled for MSU because the program is fully funded.

VO: I see that you've got full tuition waiver. Who's paying for the decifit?

Me: Please check ma, I do not have any deficit. The stipend from my assistantship covers my living expenses.

VO: Okay. Alright (kept typing into the system)

VO: What other school did you apply to?

Me: I also applied to Northeastern University, Boston, but I was not admitted.

VO: Did you write GRE, if yes, your score? (I was asked this same question the last time by the male VO)

Me: 300

VO: Where do you work? (I asked the last time too)

Me:I work with XYZ, a Lagos based NGO

VO: Have you travelled out of the country before? (Was also asked the last time)

Me: No


VO: Sorry bla bla bla and hands me a green paper.
Me: (dumbfounded)



PS: Gurus in the house, Fairheart, Walspring, Chonco, and the rest what do you guys sense as the reason for my rejection? I'll appreciate your views because I intend to reapply. Thanks.

Guy - I'm really sorry. I just became weak after reading about your experience. These guys can be annoying. I was escorted out of their embassy in Rome many years ago when I tried to argue with them about whatever hidden reason they've denied my visa application. I'm waiting for the day I will meet a visa officer here, at a party or somewhere, so we can engage in full scale debate. Sometimes their decisions are crap.

Some are OK sha - like the ones that issued me a visa several times at their London embassy and some I've dealt with during my other applications.

Vahn:
Hello everyone, Please is it advisable to send a mail to a professor and making enquiries.

I want to apply to the Ms Business Analytics in Columbia University but there isn't a direct person to ask questions, they only have a general department admissions email which I mailed and got an automatic reply stating I will get a feedback in 3working days.

Do you think I can mail an associate professor?

Because I have checked online and people only mail professors indicating that they want to join their research team, and I am not a PhD applicant but MSC.

Please help me with ideas, thank you

Dude, that program is join effort between CBS and IEOR at Columbia.

Contact this girl with your questiions - https://www.ieor.columbia.edu/raven-james
Also contact Eleni Iliopulous - https://www.ieor.columbia.edu/faculty/eleni-drinea
Or Lola - https://www.ieor.columbia.edu/lola-radev
Better still you can contact oga Mike - https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/mgr27

Let me know how it goes

Good luck

moneyshop:
One thing in life is for sure, no one is irreplaceable!

We thought we'd have seen it all in the time of Pele, Maradona, and recently, Zidane, Ronaldo Rema, Pirlo, Beckham to mention but a few...

Soldier go, soldier come. Many young players are rising, and there are serious ones that will still break Ronaldo and Messi records.

Welcome to EPL in advance Lionel

Yes, it will be broken. Just that by then you will be 92. Players of Messi-Ronaldo mold do not grace the pitch in decades.

This is like when a professor writes a recommendation letter saying 'in his 40 years in academia, this student is the best I've encountered, and I have taught and done research in the best universities in Africa, Europe, North America and Asia". This type of letter applies to Messi-Ronaldo. They don't come everyday, they're not everyday players

moneyshop:
One thing in life is for sure, no one is irreplaceable!

We thought we'd have seen it all in the time of Pele, Maradona, and recently, Zidane, Ronaldo Rema, Pirlo, Beckham to mention but a few...

Soldier go, soldier come. Many young players are rising, and there are serious ones that will still break Ronaldo and Messi records.

Welcome to EPL in advance Lionel

Yes, it will be broken. Just that by then you will be 92.