₦airaland Forum

Shadexbabe: Please is it a must that I go to UI to register the transcript after sending it?

NOT A MUST PLS[b][/b] I think ''sending'' is different from ''submitting''. The whole essence of going to UI after sending is to confirm whether they received it or not. If you really care about your admission, don't put your destiny in the hand of ''postal agency machinery'' my opinion anyway

georgecso: Just received three reports from friends in Kano that the popular Sabon gari motor park situtated along New road was hit again by another bomb blast... details later.

Sabon Gari, is that not where southerners live in Kano?

greatestman: Guy Universities of Technology are Different from conventional Universities. 98% of courses offered in Universities of Technology is 5 years in which you are awarded with B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) not B.Sc with those grades you are seeing their, i am not yet in first although almost. The 55 courses i mentioned i did not include my Teaching Practice and Industrial Attachment. I still have 17 courses more to offer in my 500 Level let do the maths 55+2+17=74 this are courses i must offer and pass before i will be awarded with B.Tech (Ed) Electrical Technology Education.

Even mine is small compare to people in Science Education and Operational Research. Young man i don't think you have been to the university (If you happen to be in the University you are this type that follow the crowd without knowing what is happening) @ the bolded because you can offer as much course you want but you will not exceed the maximum unit. Don't be fast to buttress your ignorance.

Yes, I agree with you. He didn't know, there's a minimum requirement, no maximum, besides education courses are more

cuteyguy: hmmmm,pls guys i finished frm poly ibadan,course :Science Lab.Tech departmnt with upper credit 3.7,wot courses are available for me to study?

It depends on you, any science related course. marine, botany, biology, microbiology, medical lab, chemistry, physics, etc

Shadexbabe: please is ND postgraduate cert. or postgraduate diploma

ND is NATIONAL DIPLOMA, postgraduate as in how?

THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL WAEC CERTIFICATE AT WAEC IKORODU OFFICE

Your printed statement of result
1 Recent passport photograph
N2000

NOTE: JAMB OFFICE DOES NOT GIVE MAY/JUNE CERTIFICATES BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SENT TO RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS, ONLY NOV/DEC

You can collect your certificate from WAEC Ikorodu Office if you wrote your nov/dec at the following centres:
Ikorodu
Lagos Island
Epe
Ibeju Lekki
Victoria Island
Shomolu
Bariga
Ajah and
Ketu

Shekarau was born in the Kurmawa quarters of Kano, the son of a police officer. He was educated at Gidan Makama Primary School (1961–1967), then at Kano Commercial College (1967–1973) and finally at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1973–1977) where he received a Degree in Mathematics/Education.

After finishing his Degree, he went into the civil service. Later on, he started his career as a Mathematics teacher at Government Technical College, Wudil in 1978. Two years later he became Principal at Government Day Junior Secondary School, Wudil. In 1980 he was transferred to Government Secondary School, Hadejia, then to Government College Birnin Kudu in 1986, then to Government Secondary School, Gwammaja and then to Rumfa College in March 1988, all as the school's principal.

Career

Shekarau became Deputy Director of Education in charge of Bichi Zonal Education Area in 1992. One year later, he was promoted to Director Planning, Research and Statistics in Ministry of Education. Two year later, he became Director General (Permanent Secretary), Ministry of Education and Youth Development.

In January 1995, Shekarau was transferred to Ministry of Water Resources, Rural and Community Development, then back to Ministry of Education in January – May 1997 before he was asked to moved to General Service Directorate of the Cabinet Office, all as Permanent Secretary. By February 2000, he was on the move again to Civil Service Commission, where he stayed for only four months before the civil service commission under Ado Gwaram Government sent him to the State College of Arts, Science and Remedial Studies (CASRS) as Chief lecturer (Mathematics) at the Department of Physical Sciences, in May 2000. Shekarau remained in this post for 17 months before he voluntarily retired from the services of Kano State Civil Service on 2 October 2001. Some time after quitting his post as Chief Lecturer, he decided to work as a secretary to businessman Aminu Dantata. He was employed under Dantata until he became a contender in Kano State's 2003 gubernatorial elections.

During the last presidential election campaign, I listened to him on the TV as he unveils his agenda.... He's sound and sincere, hope he will focus on education and not politics. He should serve as an evangelist for western education in the north since he himself is a beneficiary

DrHesjay: You shouldnt talk to lomaxx that way.. As far as i am concerned, he is more experienced in all these things..... N at least deserves respect.. What he has achieved now...u probably wont achieve it until 5 or 6yrs to come....

Apart from respect, what is wrong in what lomaxx wrote, he was only giving an advice to young medics on the benefits of attending a good medical school.

lomaxx: You're not wrong. Attending a top medical school in Nigeria makes you a better doctor, your diagnosis will always be top-notch, ensures you automatically have the answers to all health problems. It also means you'll never have to fail professional examinations as a student and finally you're better off than folks in Harvard Med.

I think these folks should learn from threads like this and stop insulting their ''mentors'' else great minds will stop responding to heartburning posts. If you don't understand, quote the post and ask the poster to explain him/herself.

What an elder sees sitting down, a young man cannot see jumping

Nobody can deceive us again, we are wiser now, we cannot forget their past statements in a hurry. Again, we have records of performance of both religions worldwide....hmm food for thought. All they need is POWER to act their script

jide olubiyi: @phantom. So many words, so much tedium and yet you fail to convince the reader that you're not yet another sentimental health worker, in your case so disgustingly skewed in the favour of medical doctors. I do not work in the hospital and that alone hasn't stopped me from making the following observations:
1) When medical doctors go on strike (which they do with about the same consistency as you blink) the other health workers have never been known to initiate a counter strike with no other motive than to thwart the demands of the medical doctors. How come the medical doctors feel they have the right to hold the entire nation to ransom just because the demands of the other health workers were favourably considered by the government? This is a very bad precedence medical doctors are establishing; even if they return happy from this strike, what should stop JOHESU from not staging their own counter-counter strike?
2) Whenever an argument (valid or not) is raised perceived by other health professionals and considered to be against the Nigerian medical doctors, the medical doctors immediate try to explain it away by saying the attitude of these other health professionals stem from their anger at not being able to enter or complete medical education. This sounds very ignorant, naive and stupid for anyone to say considering that everyone has his flair and personal reasons for choosing either nursing, anatomy, medicine, or philosophy. And in fact, most brightest minds will be drawn to basic sciences such as mathematics, statistics, physics, law, chemistry, and engineering courses because these require more analytical reasoning and creative mind than medicine which most of the doctors scale through by dumb memorization (a.k.a. cramming).
3) Nigerian medical doctors seem to have an unusual disease- the compulsion to dictate the remuneration, professional development, as well as the fate of all other health professionals. This is both arrogant and absurd considering that each profession is properly autonomous. Medicine is a profession. Nursing is another. So is Pharmacy and Medical Laboratory Science. Just the same way the other health professionals have no business with the way things are run within the medical profession, the medical doctors should stop poke-nosing in the affairs of the other professions
4) Medical doctors (perfectly exemplified by the illiterate who wrote the main article on this thread) have a knack for playing down on the roles of the other healthcare professionals. You went about boring us with how important the medical doctor is in patient management, after attending to your patient Mr Doctor, don't you go home to sleep while the nurses stay awake with the patient attending to his every need? And yet you think patient care is all about you. How about the countless number of cases where medical doctors have been reported to err in writing drug prescriptions; if the pharmacists aren't there to save the day (which they usually do without feeling the need to shout it on the rooftop), how many more patients do you suppose you would have murdered? And yet, to you patient management is all about you, and you alone.

This is the right time the Nigerian public should rise up and demand what they deserve. Be it medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, scientists, they are all intended to serve the interest of the public. And we are not as dumb as these professional clowns would want to portray us. We are Nigerians living in Nigeria and we sure know how to interpret the goings-on. The committee that granted Johesu's demands were not health professionals, they were Nigerians who used their discretion to judge the reasonableness of their demand. And the on-going NMA's strike is nothing more than calling the bluff of the Nigerian public, that we are not capable of deciding on such basic and plain things as this.

@phantom. So many words, so much tedium and yet you fail to convince the reader that you're not yet another sentimental health worker, in your case so disgustingly skewed in the favour of medical doctors. I do not work in the hospital and that alone hasn't stopped me from making the following observations:
1) When medical doctors go on strike (which they do with about the same consistency as you blink) the other health workers have never been known to initiate a counter strike with no other motive than to thwart the demands of the medical doctors. How come the medical doctors feel they have the right to hold the entire nation to ransom just because the demands of the other health workers were favourably considered by the government? This is a very bad precedence medical doctors are establishing; even if they return happy from this strike, what should stop JOHESU from not staging their own counter-counter strike?
2) Whenever an argument (valid or not) is raised perceived by other health professionals and considered to be against the Nigerian medical doctors, the medical doctors immediate try to explain it away by saying the attitude of these other health professionals stem from their anger at not being able to enter or complete medical education. This sounds very ignorant, naive and silly for anyone to say considering that everyone has his flair and personal reasons for choosing either nursing, anatomy, medicine, or philosophy. And in fact, most brightest minds will be drawn to basic sciences such as mathematics, statistics, physics, law, chemistry, and engineering courses because these require more analytical reasoning and creative mind than medicine which most of the doctors scale through by dumb memorization (a.k.a. cramming).
3) Nigerian medical doctors seem to have an unusual disease- the compulsion to dictate the remuneration, professional development, as well as the fate of all other health professionals. This is both arrogant and absurd considering that each profession is properly autonomous. Medicine is a profession. Nursing is another. So is Pharmacy and Medical Laboratory Science. Just the same way the other health professionals have no business with the way things are run within the medical profession, the medical doctors should stop poke-nosing in the affairs of the other professions
4) Medical doctors (perfectly exemplified by the illiterate who wrote the main article on this thread) have a knack for playing down on the roles of the other healthcare professionals. You went about boring us with how important the medical doctor is in patient management, after attending to your patient Mr Doctor, don't you go home to sleep while the nurses stay awake with the patient attending to his every need? And yet you think patient care is all about you. How about the countless number of cases where medical doctors have been reported to err in writing drug prescriptions; if the pharmacists aren't there to save the day (which they usually do without feeling the need to shout it on the rooftop), how many more patients do you suppose you would have murdered? And yet, to you patient management is all about you, and you alone.

This is the right time the Nigerian public should rise up and demand what they deserve. Be it medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, scientists, they are all intended to serve the interest of the public. And we are not as dumb as these professional clowns would want to portray us. We are Nigerians living in Nigeria and we sure know how to interpret the goings-on. The committee that granted Johesu's demands were not health professionals, they were Nigerians who used their discretion to judge the reasonableness of their demand. And the on-going NMA's strike is nothing more than calling the bluff of the Nigerian public, that we are not capable of deciding on such basic and plain things as this.

phantomm: I agree! everyone can aspire to be what they want to be. you seem intelligent so let me ask you. are our people intelligent enough to differentiate a consultant physician from a consultant pharmacist? don't you think like everything in this country, this particular issue WILL be abused?? who will suffer? do you think the patient is the center in all this? our people are largely illiterate and I can assure you corrupt paramedical will use this as an opportunity to fleece Nigerians. my brother open your eyes. this will destroy healthcare.mark my words!

Oga, what do you mean by ''differentiate'' oh you want everybody to see you from afar and say that is the consultant coming? patients are not dunce as you think, let the professional knowledge you have to offer and benefit the patient differentiate you (as permitted under the law as long as you don't encroach into others territory) white gown, stethoscope, etc are professional tools they are not objects of shoulder raising, what you do for the patients will tell them who you are, if you ask patients about their medications/drug related questions, they already know who you are, forget title, doctorate title is not a reward for spending years in the university, it is scientific knowledge and what you can offer the public. I am an advocate of team work with everyone respecting the other and not one person thinking he's the dictator, you must comply by his order even if he is make graven and glaring mistakes that is against my own professional ethics

wallex1983: Hmmmm,

Still waiting for when NASU and other admin staff of Nigerian universities will come up to say they want to start becoming Professors so that they can become VC and DVC. Surely if Johesu scales through, NASU will follow suite.

Gobe go come start Part 2

Are the professors that become the VC and DVC in the universities from the faculty of Education only, is the position of the Chief of Defence Staff meant for only the army when there are more qualified officers in the navy and the airforce? why do doctors think they own the patients, have the patients not come to the hospitals for joint health care from health practitioners with everyone doing his/her professional bit, can any patient come to the hospital and see a doctor without passing through the nurse, the lab scientist, the pharmacist, etc. A proud man is he that sees others as nothing but himself. the problem in the health sector today is ''nobody else but me'' attitudes by the doctors and the patient will be the loser if not checked.

ACM10: In my hospital, when a patient is diagnosed of HIV, TB, Lassa fever, etc, the nurses will immediately cease to attend to him. All the services will be rendered by a doctor. Now tell me why a doctor should get the same hazard allowance with them?

The allowance cannot be the same I agree with you, but doctors should not be the ones to determine how much allowance others get. There should be a board of all stakeholders regulating that

Oduduwaboy: They are not exposed to the same hazards ma.
The surgeon deals with blood, body fluids, needle prick injury etc while the pharmacist or physiotherapist sees none of these!

What about the laboratory scientists that analyse HIV blood, blood fluids, needle prick injury, broken glasswares, etc. Until the doctors accept that everybody is important. How on earth can you say you alone is important others are not when you cant do their jobs with yours, if a pharmacist wrongly dispense drugs to patients, will you help him face the panel, when some pharmacists were arrested for dispensing Roephnol or what do they call it that time with no prescription did they not face it themselves, yet doctors say they are not important, these people want to upgrade their profession for better performance and patient care you doctors say no haba, come off selfishness, let what is due to your neighbours go to them, that is when what is due to you too can come to you, doctors are fighting with all other health professionals why? you are loosing our sympathy, I think you guys should check yourselves

Hi Docs,

Please what are the B.Sc degree requirements for direct entry into MBBS? My concern is if universities accept B.Sc Chemistry or any other physical science course for MBBS Direct entry. I am planning to get a D.E into MBBS in UI with Chemistry. Am I good to go? do my year one grades in my B.Sc degree make any difference though I have a 2.1 but year one result so bad.

Thanks for your objective, detailed and quick response

Guys pls come back and respond to my questions

Guys please I need your candid advise. I have read through this career trend and I can only commend you guys for your intelligent advise and ''fact droppings''

I am 30 years old, a graduate of Chemistry from a respected institution in Nigeria. I have passion in Health field (Medical/Pharmaceuticals), I have discovered myself and I am convinced that my career is in that line because all my gifts and personality point in that direction and i'm cool with how I feel. I want to have a good drug knowledge and have decided to study pharmacy through direct entry but I am afraid of what employment will look like in 5years time when I will be around 35. My parents are against it, talking about marriage and settling down. I want to resign from my employment and I am going to sponsor myself, I don't want to graduate as a pharmacist and be stranded or ask my parents for ANYTHING, they have tried for me I should begin to ''pay back'' at this age. Please advise me, IS PHARMACY REALLY WORTH IT, WHAT ABOUT MY AGE AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY. Is there a way of making money in school as a pharmacy student? My present employment pays 50k. I do not want to be a chemist or any of these roadside drug dealers (even though I am a chemistry graduate), infact I use to tell some of them that what they do is illegal, I feel a nudge each time I see people sell drugs inside the sun or molue (fake drugs with poor storage/transport condition)..... hmmm let God forgive me, I don't like seeing those people because they are killers. I have some cGMP knowledge because I did my SIWES in a pharmaceutical industry and I enjoyed it, I also like to attend to patients and counsel them especially on drugs but I don't like the attitudes of some Nigerian doctors towards pharmacists in our hospitals, they feel patients come to the hospital to see only the doctors, hence pharmacists should just dispense drugs and not have any rapport with patients and this can kill my own dream of counselling and patient pharma care. I want to be respected as a professional even if I am not making too much money at least let me be comfortable with my family as long as I impact lives and fulfil my purpose in life. I have made my O'level results (at one sitting, I wrote WAEC two times after my NYSC because the school does not accept two O'level results). Should I go ahead, what do you think the future holds for me in the industry? PLEASE I NEED YOUR ADVICE. Thanks

Thanks @ all