₦airaland Forum

b3llo:
How far those people wey don chop query? Hope say no supervisor wey don chop una money ni...

Dem dey give query ni?

This is a pure bullshit. How does reciting Quran help insecurity or maybe their works generally?

I believe everyone should be opened to their opinions, so let the Professor be and the people wearing Hijab be too. I don’t just like religion extremists, wether Christian or Muslim.

My problem is just with the people who fight for God they claim is omnipotent, doesn’t it demean him?

Donald408:
Please anyone seeing pending on the payroll..
Is it as a result of the INVALID showing on the BVN? Or general? Please treat as urgent!!
Kind Regards.

Mine too

foreveryoung1515:
east too. Just did mine today

I thought the man was saying he would stop it on Tuesday, how was the crowd today?

foreveryoung1515:
just seeing this, east or west?

East, I already left.

foreveryoung1515:
I'm in ilesha, you?

I’m on my way to Ilesa for the registration. Can we connect?

freethesheeple:
You are a fool to buy 10g for 2k

Believe me they will scam you many times..

Oga, that wasn't greed, I have been having data equivalent of 8 times my money since last year.
5k for 40gb + 4gb youtube (MTN)
3500 for 24gb + 4gb YouTube (MTN)
3k for 20gb + 4gb youtube (Airtel)

MTN just sent me a message two days ago about
10k for 80gb
15k for 150gb

All legitly from the service providers.

I'm kind of loving this

brainiac228:
I wrote the online test last week.
How is the stress level like? As you talk stress I don dey fear.
I guess this will be your 2nd year

I'm on internship. Second year starts sept 1st

brainiac228:
I'm waiting for the test result which should be out 23rd of this month. I pray I scale through.
Yiu go give me tips for the online interview.
Nigerians choke for there?
Hope say the school make sense?
Which course u dey do?

currently 6 Nigerians, 4 Nigerians just graduated this month.
Studying energy systems. The school makes sense, but the course work chokes.

ifex370:
Omoeux... Na so we see am o. The wait is on.


But Russia de allow people in for euro 2020, e kon reach students dem no allow.

Plain double standards.

Students are allowed, your school can make a case for you, and you will get your visa.

Pearlqueen:
Good day, good people of Nairaland.

My sister is in her final year in the university and has just concluded writing her project work but has been asked to do a plagiarism test for the work to ascertain its originality.

We don't know the easiest way to go about that and we would kindly require the assistance of any one who does to please guide us.

Thank you.

I have a Grammarly pro account. You can send me a message. I am working on getting a subscribed Turnitin account also.

helinues:
The gods of thunderstorm

You mean Thor??

Xenry:
They no dey tire at all. I thought say they don agree with us say this thing na dey exist?
To be honest, I never knew anyone who knows someone that knows anybody that had the virus. Isn't that mysterious?

Then I fear for the people you know. I visited isolation centre, I saw many die. I had it myself

dikru2002:
Please anybody with any information on how to translate and notarise documents should please signify

I do, send an email.

ShenTeh:
Of all the worries in this nation today.

Thunder fire Buhari
Thunder fire Tinubu
Thunder fire all the troublers of the peace of this country - Herdsmen, UGM, IPOB, whoever!

In fact, Almighty God's all-powered highest-voltage super-packed fire be directed in the all our politicians and lovers of bloodshed!

(You may replace 'Thunder fire' with 'F`ck', depending on the language that helps relieve your frustration.

Thunder has nothing to do with anyone, just some expanded electrical discharge shits. As per God help Nigeria, why do you think prayers are not answering, because God has no business in this shit hole. No matter how hard you pray, nothing will happen

Only the citizens' decisions in 2023

ManuelWest:
Please house, do you think it's going to to be possible for russia to open up it's boarder this year for we African students especially Nigerians?


If you have any information, kindly share

nobody knows anything yet, but they are likely going to. Projecting may ending or early June.

habakukjss3:
Hello.

Please send me ur email let me dm u.
I need know about skoltech

why not drop your email instead

trigger11:
pls drop a link to the school

skoltech.ru

Check out skoltech. It is a school formed by MIT in Moscow, free accommodation for international students, cool stipends, insurance, flight covered, and no fee at all for anything. No GRE or English standard test needed.

Eligibility,
1. It's for science, check the site
2. Has only masters and PhD
3. Get first class, not part of the official requirement though.

Check out skoltech. It is a school formed by MIT in Moscow, free accommodation for international students, cool stipends, insurance, flight covered, and no fee at all for anything. No GRE or English standard test needed.

Eligibility,
1. It's for science, check the site
2. Has only masters and PhD
3. Get first class, not part of the official requirement though.

Ask your questions here

Check out skoltech. It is a school formed by MIT in Moscow, free accommodation for international students, cool stipends, insurance, flight covered, and no fee at all for anything. No GRE or English standard test needed.

Eligibility,
1. It's for science, check the site
2. Has only masters and PhD
3. Get first class, not part of the official requirement though.

Ask all your questions here regarding the school. I am a student there.

I will chill if she refuses, ask her why. Make amends for the purpose of hurting her.

Make her crave for the marriage later, and break up when I am done hurting her. I don't forgive bullshits

Neymessi:
Good evening everyone, I really need assistance, I don't have any dime and I want to attend service tomorrow cos I don't like to miss church. Any amount I will appreciate
3117590637
First bank

call your pastor and tell him the same story.

Righteousness2:
Congratulations on the birth of your baby!
But the display of Nudity is Disgusting and Unpalatable

first time I will agree with you

Hello nairalanders, please I need a JAMB tutorial centre in Abule-Egba, I will be glad if I can be given a proper description of any good one

lilvicky68:
By the time cold nack you finish you go start to sing Nigerian Anthem..

I bet you aren't aware that Canada is colder than Russia.

The coldest place on earth is in Russia though.

ugohdignity111:
Hello gurus in the house....I greet all of una doggedly..
I'm a recent graduate of Environmental Biology/Zoology from a prestigious uni here in 9ja...and I graduated with a strong 2:1, 3.89 to be precise..

I'm yet to mobilized for service but I will be going when ever registration starts for prospective Corp members for 2021
I want to ask....which top 5 schools offer full or partial funding to students coming from biological science background?
What is my chances of getting a full funding or GA putting my cgpa into consideration?

You really need to drop your shoulder pads, and get mentorship. Starting with your 3.89 as a strong 2.1

For the schools, check Google, and find out their requirements. Your chances of getting funding depends on your profile (test scores, transcript, publications, sample paper, SOP, LOR, CV and other things that may be required). Also, smart applications

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

Be thanking God you didn't get skoltech scholarship. I'm a skoltech student, Skoltech will stress life out of you.

Covid is actually not funny, the closest person to me, is in the isolation centre, the last time I saw him, I almost cried.

I saw some other people through the window in the isolation centre. Seriously, If you are still thinking there is no covid in Nigeria, then, you are a TERRORIST.