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Education / Re: Unilorin Aspirants " Facing Tanke Is Real" by baruzeez(m): 6:59pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
leksbore:oga no vex me ooooo if u dey vex no mean say u go dey talk say unilorin graduates be half baked oooooo if unilorin Graduates are definition of half baked graduates. then there are no fully baked graduates in Nigeria. and besides google it wole soyinka graduated with seccond class upper o Peace |
Education / Re: Unilorin Aspirants " Facing Tanke Is Real" by baruzeez(m): 6:45pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
leksbore:that's what the school is doing now guy you sef no G.P no dey really rise for unilorin oo, actually the idea is more God than Harm |
Education / Re: Unilorin Aspirants " Facing Tanke Is Real" by baruzeez(m): 6:43pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
leksbore:lolest lol, well i kinda agree with you, but why is every unilorin student vexing dis days na i agree our school is using it as an avenue to make money, at least God don catch dem now dem no fit admit reach 13k again make we dey see as dem wan chase ppl go tanke again but bro imagine a student of the faculty of education that could not make 1.5, you said we are all not the same in terms of understanding but different level of education has its own requirements, My broda University is not by force oooo, why should you spend your papa and mama money for four years and graduate with a Pass. just look at it from that angle im referring you to 1.4 in 100 level my broda is f**king bad, sending u back home gives u anoda chance to start again and rethink what you want in your life. My broda my friends that were chased from engineering while some out of the school back then in 2013 are now happy where they are, at least its better than spending 5 years+1 year remedial and achieving nothing . |
Education / Re: Unilorin Is Extorting Her Students by baruzeez(m): 6:31pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
Ancientboy:Guy u've said it all, i am yet to pay ma school fees because of dat yeye 7k I no dey pay o |
Education / Re: Unilorin Is Extorting Her Students by baruzeez(m): 6:29pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
ah swear the tin dey pain me sef the extortion is just way too much, speaking of protest i am very close to principal officers of the SUG and all they are saying is that we have no choice we gats pay nooni |
Education / Re: Unilorin Aspirants " Facing Tanke Is Real" by baruzeez(m): 6:09pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
leksbore:bros i cant lie to you it is a very wise decision. lets look at it from anoda angle imagine a student getting 1.4 cgpa in his/her first year. my broda the probability that he/she will graduate with second class lower is very low. for God sake 100 level is like a little bit advanced level of ya secondary na, when you guys get admission u get carried away and u feel like thats the end of the journey, now you are here complaining 1.5cgpa in Year 1 is too high habaaaaa. University is not a play ground ooo my broda, the journey of ya life starts dere. Lyk a mentor of mine always tell me THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR FAILURE, MAY WE NOT FAIL OOO HEAVEN HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES |
Education / Re: Unilorin Aspirants " Facing Tanke Is Real" by baruzeez(m): 6:00pm On Nov 04, 2015 |
leksbore:bros read very well the minimum CGPA was set to 1.0 here while in unilorin it is 1.5 so its still like the same thing na its just that the figures is way too high in unilorin |
Education / Re: 200 Level Unilorin Student Drowns by baruzeez(m): 3:32pm On Nov 02, 2015 |
For God sake how can u be swimming near dat Unilorin dam Well RIP |
Religion / Re: Alcohol: good Or Evil. What The Bible Really Says. by baruzeez(m): 9:15am On Nov 01, 2015 |
LEGALAide:young lyk 100+ba 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Alcohol: good Or Evil. What The Bible Really Says. by baruzeez(m): 8:49am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Abeg aw about weed because na my hobby and life be dat o |
Education / Re: List Of Nigerian University That Have Performed Successful Open Heart Surgery by baruzeez(m): 8:36am On Nov 01, 2015 |
Fp material |
Politics / Re: CCT Trial: I Have Never Collected Bribe From Anyone – Orubebe by baruzeez(m): 10:17pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
Even orubebe claims he has name and integrity to keep This is a joke right 21 Likes |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: My Answers To A Nairaland Thread - A Must Read Article For Job Seekers by baruzeez(m): 9:06pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
That was inspiring and kinda emotional
Thanks very much Op.
Bigger u Insha Allah 1 Like |
Education / Re: How To Achieve High Scores On The GRE by baruzeez(m): 8:57pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
Hey guys please Im really in need of GRE ebooks Gruber and others u av please. My mail is baruwa.abdulazeez@ymail.com. May God bless you |
Education / Re: Agbami 2014 Has Started Awarding by baruzeez(m): 7:43pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
Hey guys do we need any bvn registration for agbami account |
Education / Re: Can Somebody Recommend Any Good Boarding School In Ibadan by baruzeez(m): 7:42pm On Oct 31, 2015 |
globalresource:ogbeni try ibadan grammar school jawe Simply the best |
Education / Re: Post Pictures/ Profile Of Notable Nigerians Who Attended Your University. by baruzeez(m): 8:12pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
General Johnson Bamidele Olawumi Director General of National Youth Service Corps Alma Mater: University of Ilorin 1 Like
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Education / Re: Post Pictures/ Profile Of Notable Nigerians Who Attended Your University. by baruzeez(m): 8:06pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Nkem Owoh Movie Actor Alma Mater: University of ilorin 4 Likes
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Education / Re: Post Pictures/ Profile Of Notable Nigerians Who Attended Your University. by baruzeez(m): 8:05pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Femi Adebayo Movie Actor Alma Mater: University of Ilorin 2 Likes
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Education / Re: 2013/2014 Total National Merit Scholarship Award:payment Information Thread by baruzeez(m): 6:51pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
hey guys i called mr anifieok today , fortunately for me he picked up and he told me that they are starting the payment in less than two weeks I guess we should start counting down now after two weeks i am suing TOTAL E&P to CCT Tribunal 1 Like |
Education / Re: Post Pictures/ Profile Of Notable Nigerians Who Attended Your University. by baruzeez(m): 3:51pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed Kwara State Governor Alma mater: University of Ilorin 3 Likes
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Education / Re: Post Pictures/ Profile Of Notable Nigerians Who Attended Your University. by baruzeez(m): 12:51pm On Oct 30, 2015 |
Babs Omotowa Managing director NLNG Industrial Chemist Alma Mater: University of Ilorin 3 Likes
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Education / Re: Share Your Embarrassing Flogging Moments In School. by baruzeez(m): 1:21pm On Oct 27, 2015 |
Reminds me of mr ariwoola of ibadan grammar school He laughs while beating you very heartless a man |
Politics / Re: Buhari And Women: Is He Shy, Coy Or Con? - Vanguard Reporter by baruzeez(m): 7:54am On Oct 27, 2015 |
Let them go back to their Husband's kitchen joor Shey no be woman be dem Stella odua, Allison madueke, okonjo iweala, and these are the people that brought failure to the previous administration. We want anybody dat can deliver irrespective of gender. Iranu ati abasha How many women dey power for UAE Abeg make una follow me join movement #gobacktothekitchen |
Education / Re: Protest On Going In FUNAAB by baruzeez(m): 10:09am On Oct 26, 2015 |
Why are most school clinic doctors and nurses so heartless we just keep hearing undergraduate students death as a result of abuse of power by our doctor and nurses Rip to the dead |
Career / Re: Can I Make A 2.1 With Present CGPA Of 3.32? by baruzeez(m): 5:23pm On Oct 25, 2015 |
amosamali:wow great analysis I'm impressed bro 1 Like 1 Share |
Education / Re: UNILORIN@40- Ghana President Arrives by baruzeez(m): 3:39pm On Oct 23, 2015 |
My Alma Mata I sing |
Technology Market / Re: Open Here for All UK Used And New Phones (updated) by baruzeez(m): 11:40am On Oct 23, 2015 |
eliascomm55:how much is uk used htc.M9 |
Politics / Re: University Of Ilorin @ 40: A Tribute by baruzeez(m): 10:31am On Oct 22, 2015 |
If you are not a student of the University of Ilorin get one as a friend |
Politics / University Of Ilorin @ 40: A Tribute by baruzeez(m): 7:30am On Oct 22, 2015 |
“Can anything good come out of Ilorin?” Dele
Sobowale 1980s.
Underestimating people and institutions can
produce some startling surprises. Let me
confess that I was a pessimist about the
prospects of the University of Ilorin back in the
1980s. Despite knowing it was there, it just
never occurred to me that I would have
anything to do with it. I was forced to consider
it when one of my dearest in the world, my
daughter Onikepo (Nike) Sobowale made two
decisions on her own. First, she was going to
read computer science. Second, she was going
to offer Unilorin as her first choice.
The reader needs to understand why it was
difficult for me to know which of the two
decisions was the more alarming at the time. I
had enrolled her at Adrao International Nursery
and Primary School, Victoria Island, at a time
when it was the most expensive school in
Nigeria. I was not very rich, but my employer
was an American multi-national company, which
recruited me from the USA for the job.
That made me one of the highest paid
Marketing Managers in Nigeria. I was
determined that my kids would receive the best
education money could buy. Later Nike was
joined by two younger sisters at the same
school which collected enough money from me
to buy a Mercedes each year.
She proceeded to Queens College, Yaba, on
merit, finished as an “all-rounder” and scored
close to 300 in JAMB. She could have selected
any university and any course in Nigeria and the
admission would have been automatic. But, she
chose Computer Science and University of Ilorin
– and promptly drove me to consume twelve
bottles of GULDER non-stop. Computer
Science? Unilorin?
How could I go about beating my chest among
my friends with these options? It was also an
ethical dilemma for me because I left Nigeria
for the US promising my Mum to return a
medical doctor; then changed course to
economics. I had vowed never to interfere with
the career choices my kids make. And here was
the first one driving me to drink gallons of beer.
My work with two multi-nationals in the US, with
large fleets of trucks and delivery vans and
sterilized computer rooms, had convinced me
that Computer operators were mechanics in air-
conditioned rooms wearing white coats, instead
of those in the Mechanic Workshop which were
greasy and grimy. My brilliant daughter was
going to join the “white coated mechanics”.
Horrors.
Added to that, she was heading for Ilorin, Kwara
State which, at the time, for me, might as well
be in the Sahara Desert. Called the “Gateway to
the North” by many people, it was, as far as I
was concerned, a Gateway to Ignorance in the
19080s. And, if there had been Boko Haram
then, it would have been Gateway to Hell. As a
born and bred Lagos boy, anything beyond Ikeja
was “jungle”. Even Ibadan was barely tolerated
and if she chose University of Ibadan, I would
have advised her to keep away from the
“natives” (ara oke as we called them).
The vital questions were: should I stop her and
why? Eventually, the principle of non-
intervention in career choices of my kids
prevailed. I swallowed more beer and away she
went without knowing she left a father who
spent the first few months expecting and
actually praying she would be fed up with Ilorin
and return home to start again elsewhere.
Blessed are the ignorant people acting out of
partial knowledge. First, I was totally ignorant of
the future of ICT and how it was going to take
over all aspects of our lives in more ways than
Medicine, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, and
even my own field, Economics could have
possibly do. Today, it is virtually impossible to
achieve success in any field without a large
dose of ICT. So score one for Nike.
It took a bit longer for the University of Ilorin to
demonstrate its true grit. I must confess that in
the early days when friends ask me which
university Nike was attending, I would pretend
not to hear the question or change the subject.
How could a “real Lagos boy” like me announce
that my intelligent daughter was attending a
university in the “bush”. The first person to
whom I gave the honest answer actually told
me, “Dele you must be mad.
U.I, Uni-Ife, UniBen, UNN are there and you sent
your daughter to Ilorin” – making it sound as if
I sent her to the gallows. And, mocking me
further, he reminded me that I once said “Can
anything good come out of Ilorin?” Sure enough,
I said it. And I was ashamed that Nike was at
Ilorin.
Nevertheless, life continues to teach all of us
lessons we refuse to learn. Among the enduring
lessons of history is “Nobody can be certain
about the future”. But, most of us, especially
adults, think we can predict the future. If
anybody had told me that University of Ilorin
would be ranked along with the University of
Ibadan today, I would have told the person to
“go to hell”.
Given the gap in everything, at the time, it
looked absolutely impossible that Unilorin would
catch up to the first generation universities.
Today Unilorin sits at the top of the pile. The
university had in one generation, defined as
thirty years, worked its way to the front ranks.
The great Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, said
that the word “impossible” doesn’t or should not
exist, Unilorin has made me to agree with him.
Now I can beat my chest. Onikepo attended
University of Ilorin. |
Education / University Of Ilorin @ 40: A Tribute by baruzeez(m): 7:20am On Oct 22, 2015 |
Dele Sobowale
“Can anything good come out of Ilorin?” Dele
Sobowale 1980s.
Underestimating people and institutions can
produce some startling surprises. Let me
confess that I was a pessimist about the
prospects of the University of Ilorin back in the
1980s. Despite knowing it was there, it just
never occurred to me that I would have
anything to do with it. I was forced to consider
it when one of my dearest in the world, my
daughter Onikepo (Nike) Sobowale made two
decisions on her own. First, she was going to
read computer science. Second, she was going
to offer Unilorin as her first choice.
The reader needs to understand why it was
difficult for me to know which of the two
decisions was the more alarming at the time. I
had enrolled her at Adrao International Nursery
and Primary School, Victoria Island, at a time
when it was the most expensive school in
Nigeria. I was not very rich, but my employer
was an American multi-national company, which
recruited me from the USA for the job.
That made me one of the highest paid
Marketing Managers in Nigeria. I was
determined that my kids would receive the best
education money could buy. Later Nike was
joined by two younger sisters at the same
school which collected enough money from me
to buy a Mercedes each year.
She proceeded to Queens College, Yaba, on
merit, finished as an “all-rounder” and scored
close to 300 in JAMB. She could have selected
any university and any course in Nigeria and the
admission would have been automatic. But, she
chose Computer Science and University of Ilorin
– and promptly drove me to consume twelve
bottles of GULDER non-stop. Computer
Science? Unilorin?
How could I go about beating my chest among
my friends with these options? It was also an
ethical dilemma for me because I left Nigeria
for the US promising my Mum to return a
medical doctor; then changed course to
economics. I had vowed never to interfere with
the career choices my kids make. And here was
the first one driving me to drink gallons of beer.
My work with two multi-nationals in the US, with
large fleets of trucks and delivery vans and
sterilized computer rooms, had convinced me
that Computer operators were mechanics in air-
conditioned rooms wearing white coats, instead
of those in the Mechanic Workshop which were
greasy and grimy. My brilliant daughter was
going to join the “white coated mechanics”.
Horrors.
Added to that, she was heading for Ilorin, Kwara
State which, at the time, for me, might as well
be in the Sahara Desert. Called the “Gateway to
the North” by many people, it was, as far as I
was concerned, a Gateway to Ignorance in the
19080s. And, if there had been Boko Haram
then, it would have been Gateway to Hell. As a
born and bred Lagos boy, anything beyond Ikeja
was “jungle”. Even Ibadan was barely tolerated
and if she chose University of Ibadan, I would
have advised her to keep away from the
“natives” (ara oke as we called them).
The vital questions were: should I stop her and
why? Eventually, the principle of non-
intervention in career choices of my kids
prevailed. I swallowed more beer and away she
went without knowing she left a father who
spent the first few months expecting and
actually praying she would be fed up with Ilorin
and return home to start again elsewhere.
Blessed are the ignorant people acting out of
partial knowledge. First, I was totally ignorant of
the future of ICT and how it was going to take
over all aspects of our lives in more ways than
Medicine, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, and
even my own field, Economics could have
possibly do. Today, it is virtually impossible to
achieve success in any field without a large
dose of ICT. So score one for Nike.
It took a bit longer for the University of Ilorin to
demonstrate its true grit. I must confess that in
the early days when friends ask me which
university Nike was attending, I would pretend
not to hear the question or change the subject.
How could a “real Lagos boy” like me announce
that my intelligent daughter was attending a
university in the “bush”. The first person to
whom I gave the honest answer actually told
me, “Dele you must be mad.
U.I, Uni-Ife, UniBen, UNN are there and you sent
your daughter to Ilorin” – making it sound as if
I sent her to the gallows. And, mocking me
further, he reminded me that I once said “Can
anything good come out of Ilorin?” Sure enough,
I said it. And I was ashamed that Nike was at
Ilorin.
Nevertheless, life continues to teach all of us
lessons we refuse to learn. Among the enduring
lessons of history is “Nobody can be certain
about the future”. But, most of us, especially
adults, think we can predict the future. If
anybody had told me that University of Ilorin
would be ranked along with the University of
Ibadan today, I would have told the person to
“go to hell”.
Given the gap in everything, at the time, it
looked absolutely impossible that Unilorin would
catch up to the first generation universities.
Today Unilorin sits at the top of the pile. The
university had in one generation, defined as
thirty years, worked its way to the front ranks.
The great Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821, said
that the word “impossible” doesn’t or should not
exist, Unilorin has made me to agree with him.
Now I can beat my chest. Onikepo attended
University of Ilorin.
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