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ufuosman:
Kudos to anybody wen don graduate, 9ja school no easy

Nigerian public universities are hell holes.

blackbeau1:
Rain semester? So we cannot have good news in this country abi?

Rain semester is same as Second Semester.

Naughtytboy:
What about dat guy in merlin

Sir Elyan or so?

ModsWillKillNL:
I suspect he is Azubike.
He studied Computer Science in CU.
He made a First Class.

He's really good. Been following him on this platform for a while now.

Statsocial:
Not only OAU, it includes UI(already on the list), UNN, Unilag, OAU and Covenant.

Every year when it's time to collect all the data. Each university from Harvard to Standford, MIT even to University Of Ibadan and every other Uni that are being considered would turn their Financial, Academic and admission record to Times Higher. The record would for example include all the money realised from research, and industry collaboration. Total number of staff and students. Number of international faculty and students, number of academic staff that have PhD and got it from the University.

Then Times would send 18000 surveys to the best Researchers across top notch Institutions Globally - Presumably to US, Europe and some in Asia. The researchers would be asked to pick the current best universities in their field of work e.g Prof. Melissa Franklin of Nuclear Physics, Harvard would have to pick top institutions in Nuclear Physics(Research and Teaching) she may return Harvard, Oxford, MIT and Caltech on the survey. Then it would be tallied(Nigerian Universities rank severely low here barely getting 1% score)

Then they use bibliometric/webometric tools to extract all research work ever produced by universities in consideration between the last five years and obtain Citations, Research Co-Authorship, Research Volume etc

After that, they would now exclude any University in Consideration that does not have at least 1000 research work publication(indexed by SCOPUS) and minimum of 150/year in the past five years.

The Result are then interpreted and audited by Price Water Cooper House(PwC) and released-So you see why it is completely trusted by Governments because it is a very rigorous process.(over 95% of US higher Institutions don't make the top 1000 rank)

I love this.

Who are you Statsocial? Who are you?

Flyovers: The new indices for development.
God why? Why Nigeria? I would have managed UK if you threw me there.

"...we intend to..."

Nigeria is cursed by the blood of the innocents that have been shed over the years.

That is all I can say.

But, N2000 for audition in 1998? Two thousand could pay school fees in some primary school as at 1998 o!

Angelb4:
I served in 2007, can i still submit my bank details?

Did you read the post?

ShakurM:
What a joke! whole world kor, let's see if she plays a major role in the movie. Nollywood stars that are popular? are you serious right now bruh

Maybe the guy does not know, Nonso Alozie of "Nanny McPheee - The Big Bang", he was in Game of Thrones too... ShakurM leave that guy, they think everything is a battle of ethnicity. Hollywood does not know you as Igbo, Yoruba, whatever you're either a Black American or an African.

blingxx:
Yoruba people making it big in Hollywood in 2015.. Let forget about John boyega.. We already have a yoruba guy in suicide squad movie

There's Chiwetel Ejiofor - featured in "Dr. Strange" definitely not a waka pass role.
Other movies he's been on;
Love Actually - 2003
Salt (with Angelina Jolie) - 2010
Twelve Years a slave - 2013
Z for Zachariah - 2013
The Martian - 2015
Triple 9 - 2016
Mary Magdalene - 2018
The Lion King (Remake, which features Beyonce) - 2019

You were saying?

HeyCorleone:
The whole world would get to know Funke Akindele. How many of your Nollywood stars are that popular?

Genevieve.

We don't have light in the hostel, is your generator on I'm coming to your lodge?

This one happens in school so much.

otoboson:
Yes

Thanks. So it's the normal Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and the likes.
Pardon my questions bro.

Statsocial:
Wow! 60MW is a lot! 60MW can power 15 universities the size of UNN-i hope there is proper funding available for it and wouldn't those workers of such plant be unionised by NASU?

It's properly funded. And the project also hopes to solve the electricity needs of neighbouring communities.

Statsocial:
Joint Action Committees (JAC) of trade unions in the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), on Wednesday threatened to shut down electricity and water supply in the university. University of Nigeria Nsukka Trade unions: Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), said they were participating in the on-going strike to press for improved welfare.



Mr Paul Arua, UNN’s Chairman of JAC, told newsmen in Nsukka, that the nationwide strike of non-academic staff of universities would continue until the Federal Government meets demands of workers. “I am leading the enforcement team to ensure that no non-academic staff enters any office to work in UNN until government meets our demands, then national executives will suspend the strike. “As part of making the strike to be total in UNN, the enforcement team will on Wednesday shut down electricity and water supply in UNN.’’


He advised students that have returned to go back home as non-academic staff currently on nationwide strike would not allow offices and classrooms to open for office work or lecture. “The best thing for the students is to go home till non-academic staff suspend its strike; there will be no lectures, there will be no electricity and water supply in the university,” he said When contacted, the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in UNN, Dr Ifeanyichukwu Abada, said lecturers were ready to teach students since ASUU was not on strike.


“Students are welcome back to campus and should prepare to receive lectures because lecturers will be coming to class to teach, ” he said. In swift reaction to the threat of non-academic staff of the university to shut down electricity and water supply , the Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, said what it means that leaders of non-academic staff in UNN have a hidden agenda.


“I know non-academic staff of universities are on nationwide strike, I have not heard any university where the union shut down electricity and water supply in campus. “Unless leaders of non-academic staff in UNN have hidden agenda and want to hide under the ongoing nationwide strike of non-academic staff to execute it,” he said. It would be recalled that UNN students were expected to resume academic activities on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 after the Yuletide. NAN SSANU, NASU, NAAT shut down UNN, UniCal, RSUT others December 6, 2017 UNN postpones 2017 post-UTME screening exam September 9, 2017 UNN postpones its 2017 post-UTME screening exam September 9, 2017

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/nasu-others-threaten-disrupt-water-electricity-supply-unn/

Lalasticlala Bifrost Christejames

I read the news as soon as the report came in. It's funny when NASU-UNN threatens to shutdown academic activities. It would be a futile attempt. UNN academic calendar has been stable for close to a decade. Hence, this ploy by NASU is sure to fail.

And I must say, Non Academic staff in UNN are among the laziest set of civil servants in the country. I am pained by this because I know students who have suffered because of their laisser faire attitude. I wonder if this is same in other public universities.

She's beautiful, but her legs are like those of a flamingo.

saipn:
I wonder why majority of you are comparing IVY league universities with Nigeria university when the likes of university of Ghana ranks better than university of Ibadan.pls next time try and compare our universities with the one in west africa not the developed ones

Where in my comment did I make a comparison? Tell me.

churchee:
If after doing all these they are ranked in world first 900, what must they do to be among world first 10?

Just thinking the impossible

But it is not impossible. However, a lot needs to be done. Imagine what the likes of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, MIT are doing (or have been doing) to stay top. We have a long long way to go.

This is impressive, UI is an institution I respect in the South west. With such acceptance rates, lecturer-student ratio is bridged to a favourable standard.

However, the incessant strike action is what UI should look into, probably pull out of ASUU, NASU, SSANU and the likes, seek better means of generating funds besides federal government allocations, attract alumni funding (which I'm sure they're on it) and UI would rise above to be among the top 900 in the world.

Shebi she was just a flight attendant in the movie ni?

Gbemishile1:
please dont let us take masturbation as child's play becus there are a lot of young ones on this thread who are taking notes.
Masturbation negatively affects a lot of things in the life of a person,most especially the male
people who say its not bad are probably married people who masturbates maybe once in a while when madam is not at home.dont compare it to an average guy who has no wife or even girlfriend and decides to masturbate often to please himself.
Masturbation affects the body,mind and soul negatively

Masturbation can help prevent prostrate cancer. One doctor said.

sinola:
...Ops,could you be kind enough to share the names of those books that helped you overcome the habit if you wouldn't mind.i wish to recommend them to some guy.
Thank you

Hmmm. Some guy... That guy. We all know the guy.

AccessME:
Masturbation is Sore, Evil and Barbaric

It made me spend an extra year in School!

I still regret what masturbation did u to me even till date

Be truthful to yourself, how did masturbation cause you an extra year in school?

Statsocial:
Bifrost is coming for you.

Bros, you want me to say something?
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This post shall not grace FP. Never!

Interesting read.
But, the earth is not flat — from my own observations and studies.
And, since you do not subscribe to the fundamental fact that supports a round earth (actually an "Oblate Spheroid) — vis Gravity, then there's no point. It was really an interesting read Billyonaire. I wish I could meet you in person.

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Which of them did Seun attend? That's number one for me.

kingreign:
I studied Urban and regional planning at bachelors I have a msc in that same field and also I'm a registered TPL. Out there in the real world, TPLs jobs are taken by other professionals and little is left for TPLs to do.

Right now I'm running an MSC in environmental management a paradigm shift from URP.

And Environmental Mgt is a specialisation for Geographers. In fact in some universities (vis, Unilorin), it's BSc (Geography and Environmental Management).

The only thing making me laugh is one ignoramus who said that most universities around the world are scrapping Geography from their curriculum. I laugh again.

*Oxford* still offers Geography, (as Geography & the Environment)
Other top schools in the UK still offers *Geography*, University of *Cambridge*, University of Leeds, University of Edinburgh, University College London, and a host of others.
In the USA, although Harvard, Stanford, MIT do not offer it, some top schools do, Dartmouth College, California state University... The list is endless.

No course supersedes the other, it's just that in a well structured system. All of these disciplines have something to offer.

kingreign:
Cos in this part of the world we don't recognize URP.

I read Geography at University. And I don't regret reading it for one day.

And the thread died.