Bot9999:
My dad spoke to one of the deans who said the merit admission list is ready but theyre still having series of meetings and it's highly unlikely that it will be released this week
So the suspense goes on..

Lol nawao

Series of meetings on what is already "ready"..

Fingers crossed...

Qassy4all:
lol..you are yning me..we will see one day..congrats on your admission

Thanks brother..

I sent you a mail..

kidneystones:



Oh !!!! Sorry , Dr bobola .

Lol
E Pele sir

Hipprocrates:
According to Dr bobola07. Is there anything like direct entry to MBBS in any University in Nigeria .If I should get you right.



what is d meaning of backlogs students have to be cleared b4 they can admit medicine.

Sure. There's direct entry admission into MBBS. Once you have Bsc in relevant courses or A'levels, you're eligible to apply

Back to eksu, due to d withdrawal of accreditation they experienced sometimes back, they couldn't promote students from 300 to 400.. So there were about two to three sets in 300L awaiting to write the medical board exam. So I think d reason why dey aren't admitting yet is just to balance what is already on ground so that there will be normal transition

kidneystones:



McLean the great , ride on my doctor .

Lol..bro! McLean ends in Futa oh

Bobola will be better

Qassy4all:
Dentistry

Final year dentist??

Boss, I'm prostrating right now oh...

Please tell me when to standup..

Hardeboi580:
pls guys when should we be expecting the first list sef?

Hmm.. "Maybe" before Friday.
If it doesn't come by then, maybe next week..
They will sha release it one day.

samuelizz:
Congrats DrBobola...

You owe me JUST 3 Malts

Just 3 abi?

I'm sure the 3 means 3 crates.

No wahala

I'll just add 2g of Potassium cyanide to each bottle. It will make it chilled and enjoyable. Even if you want 15 crates, I'm at your service.

Hipprocrates:
What is the difference between anatomy and medicine and surgery. Because pple that chose EKSU this year for medicine and surgery were asked to choose either anatomy or physiology. I am not even sure if EKSU is really that competent in these courses. And even if sumone is admitted to study anatomy in EKSU instead of Medicine. Is that person advisable to go. Please I need urgent a km d precise answers to my questions above!.

Anatomy and physiology, as well as biochemistry are basic medical science courses. They are the courses that medical students study between 200-300Levels.
They also exist as degree courses in schools. They take 4 years in most schools, except in FUTA and some others where you have to use 5 years for every course.

Benefit of studying the courses is that you are eligible to use the certificate for direct entry to MBBS when you're done.

Coming to Eksu, I was also there last year, just didn't want to mention it in my short story. We were already in the screening hall when they just came and announced to us that there won't be admission for medicine that year. Disappointment everywhere.

But since they have anatomy and physiology programs, its a good development. I think they had recently obtained partial accreditation from MDCN, but they can't admit into medicine yet because there are backlogs of students that have to be cleared.

Its not a bad option to startup with any of them, who knows, they might allow students with a good grade to cross over in 200L.

Let me help describe in short what the courses do.
.anatomy is just d study of the structure of body organs, tissues. You'll learn how to describe them and various names. Physiology majorly has to do with the mechanisms by which the organs of the body/ processes within d body occur while biochemistry is the study of the chemical reactions that occur inside living cells.

For example, in anatomy, you'll learn all d parts of d kidney, the structure etc. Physiology will teach you how the kidneys forms urine, while biochemistry teaches you the cascade of reactions that go on at cellular levels to generate urine based on the structure and function of d kidney..
They are wonderful courses.

That's what Med students have to combine all together.

Nltaliban:


Changing is somehow difficult.

In college of medicine, many students have perfect cgpa I.e 7.00 / 4.00 (I mean 100%)
Now tell me how physiology student with 5.91/3.24 cgpa will be able to change. Besides, if you try very hard to make a perfect cgpa self, your hod might not want to release you for the fear of loosing one of his best student.

And again, corruption is rampant in Nigeria. Sometimes, when there are spaces to change to in mbbs, those people who want their candidates to fill those slots will just say theres no space.

Well said.

afoobabs:
what a wonderful testimony so so inspiring truly it is the hammer of persistence that drives the nail of success. boss I doff my hat and take a bow cc:Samsonyte see something

Thank you brother

Papi112:




Thanks sir
So please.. In changing from one course to another let's say physiology to mbbs... How do you c thIs I mean the odds... Am talking about after first year

Nltaliban has said it all.
However, I believe there should be at least a faint chance.. Besides, it's better one starts with something, if at all there's no chance to cross, just pick another jamb for another school. Being in d system would have given you an edge and avenues for better preparation

Nltaliban:


Boss!!!. I really do envy you.

To everyone reading this,
Hebrews6:15 Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
God surely has a plan for your life, sometimes the only ticket to actualizing your dreams is patience. Waiting might be tiresome but I tell you, EVERYTHING GOD HAS FOR YOU IS WORTH WAITING FOR.

wait for it, it will come. It might tarry, it will surely come.

Waiting is not wasting.


Congratulations Dr Bobola07

Well said my Rev.
Thank you bro!

Mobuoy19:
Bobola07

You're the real MVP. Your story not only give up, it's an archetypal example of resilience.

I hope to meet you sometime in the future, your buoy has a lot to learn

I'll DM you bro

Papi112:


Sir I asked did question before ...since you have walked d way before I think you wud be capable to shed light on it



Is it d same subjects offered by all in d same faculty in d first year

To the best of my knowledge, 100Level basically covers introductory mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and general studies. Irrespective of the course you're studying (am speaking for sciences based courses now).

In Futa, which should also apply to other schools, those courses form the bulk of 100level courses.

As you progress into the second year, your courses begin to get narrowed down to your discipline. For example. Wen I got to 200l, I had more of chemistry, microbiology and biochemistry courses. Just one maths. And physics

By 300L, you should start your departmental courses in full scale.

Papi112:


Based on these sir... U said one can always reapply for a course.... Does it mean one can matriculate twice...


Example
Bola applied for mbbs was given physiology can she reapply for mbbs d next year??

Yes. Its very possible.
I can't say for UI, weda dey allow already matriculated students to matriculate again in another department, but it can happen from one school to another. There are Pple that left oau in 200L to UI medicine

holuwajobar:
oh my God, i was even thinking my own matter is complicated until i read this post..... If anyone read dz post n he or she is not encouraged, thenn dah person shuld jez commit suicide....


Guy, u try oooo.... Me wey i never enter 20, i still dy sober coz my friends enter 300level..... What i learnt frm ur post is dah, everything and everyone have their own time.... My time will come..... I will become a medical practioner by d grace of God....

God bless u bro

Smiles

Thanks bro.
God bless you.

kidneystones:



Nice .. A lot of claps , yeah you are triumphant .. Mclean

Thanks brother

TheHistorian:
Optimum respect to Bobola07.

He's really a source of motivation and inspiration for kids like us.His scribbled story exudes nothing other than resilience,perseverance and tenacious focus.

I really do envy his success.

Aim higher bruh.

NOTE...You don't have to quote all of his post in giving a reply or bestowing commendation.Re-Posting it in its entirety seem like a Spam and makes navigating downwards on the page more strenuous.

Historian, thank you so much. God bless you

oldfoolnigger:



Ewoooo....Boss oooo.
Na ehn.....I'm short of words to describe ur personality.... Really encouraging and a big source of inspiration... A reservoir, in fact, a 'fountain' of inspiration .....U tried big time boss...Good friends are second to God, one's parents and good siblings.....


I remember calling u Dr and u were doing face like expired shit...if I tear u slap now dem go say I'm mad...


Stop me from calling u Dr this time around and u will see Amadioha and sango in action....lolz...


Dr Bobola.

Removes cap for the boss of all bosses*
Sits on the ground for him*
prostrates for him*

Calls him gallant soldier*






leme come and be going.

Lol... Thanks brother.
We are going to the very top.

No matter the route taken.. So far we get there

Hipprocrates:
how old are u bobola07

Lol

That's a personal question.
Well, I'm in my early twenties. That should suffice.

Just as my boss Pes13 has said, sometimes, things don't go the way you planned it to be.

Sometimes you don't get some things on a platter of gold. You have to go through disappointment, hard work, failure, tears and determination to lay your hands on actualizing your dreams.

What you're about to read is probably the longest message I have ever typed so far in life. Its very very lengthy due to the number of years involved and my wish to share some very personal details. But I assure you its worth reading.

If things went the way I planned, I would probably be a final year Medicine and surgery student at OAU. However, the plan never worked out like that.

From the disappointment of 2011 admission at oau (medicine) and lautech (medicine), I pressed on in 2012, with a jamb score of 242, applying to lautech (anatomy) and futa (biochemistry). I had 59% and 68% respectively, and was subsequently admitted to futa on supplementary list.

This never quenched my ambition to become a practitioner in the medical field. Together with some of my friends then in futa, I picked up 2013 jamb form, scoring 250 with Uniben (Medicine) as my school of choice. I had 66% in the postume and was subsequently admitted for Biochemistry instead. I declined the admission, while a friend of mine was admitted to oau to study medical rehabilitation (physiotherapy).

I moved on to 200L in Futa, still hurting from 2 failed admission attempts at my desired ambition. I went ahead to pick the 2014 jamb form, it was my first time doing jamb on computer. I had a disappointing 230. Based on the advice of a friend, I decided to choose Dentistry, also at Uniben. I had 59% in the postume and was subsequently admitted to study plant science and biotechnology. I smiled at myself the day I checked that admission status. I closed my eyes and shed my tears inside. That same year, a classmate of mine in futa gained admission to study medicine at UI. He's going to 400L now.

I moved to 300L in Futa, and in the year 2015, I decided not to take the jamb form, due to some factors, most of which were personal. Maybe I was discouraged by past failures and inability to break even.

2016 was the darkest and most traumatic of my admission experience. I was already in 400Level. I bought the jamb form with my own money (For the first time) during late registration. It cost me 10 thousand naira.
When I got the date for my exam, it was 1st march, 2016. I was scheduled to also have two first semester exams (BCH 415 and BCH 411) on that same day. To worsen the matter, I couldn't get the center in futa. I was to write in Oau cloud computing auditorium.
I used my influence to persuade my exam officer, and she was able to move only one out of the two papers to the previous day (29th Feb). So, I wrote BCH 415 and 405 on that Monday. I finished around 6:15pm and immediately found my way to north gate to get a bus to Ife. I stayed with my former classmate in faj hall overnight where I had to revise my subject combination, simultaneously reading BCH 411, hoping that I would be able to get to akure before 12pm, the time for the exam.
On the exam date, due to delays and accreditation, the exam that was supposed to start 9:30 started 10:15. We were given 2hrs 45mins. I didn't use up to 1hr 30 mins. I answered all my questions and submitted. Immediately I ran to get a bus to akure but I couldn't get one on time, by the time I got to school, the exam had been written.

That's an automatic carryover, according to school rules.

Well, I braced myself, and had to lie to my parents when the result came out that I missed the exam because the time was changed without me knowing.

About 5 days later, jamb released the results and I found myself staring at 207.
I had 38 in chemistry. The same chemistry that I had never scored below 66.
I felt sad but at the same time happy because I chose UI for dentistry. And for UI, minimum of 200 in jamb qualifies you to wrote postume. I was determined to hit as high as possible in the postume before the minister of education announced cancellation of postume. My hopes were dashed big time.
I applied for the screening last year. I have a very decent o'level and it was able to raise my aggregate to 64.208 but My woes were further compounded when UI released cutoff marks and dentistry was 64.29

I have never cried so much in my life like I did that day.

I decided to put an end to the serial disappointments about my admission. I sealed my mind to any other attempt to become a dentist. Perhaps it wasn't meant for me.

2017 came. I Started my final year in futa. But my friends (the oau guy and another friend in unn 400L medicine) kept persuading me to apply for jamb. For where? The persuasion fell on deaf ears. These guys raised money and sent it to me to pick the form. At that point, I couldn't say no. I picked UI again for dentistry. Jamb came after first semester exams. I wrote it in futa center and I had 295, scoring 76 in the chemistry I had 38 in 2016.

The rest is history.

Today, Monday, 6th November,2017 , between 3:30 and 5:30pm, to the glory of God, I wrote my last examination as a student of biochemistry, Futa, and I hope to resume to the university of Ibadan next year by God's grace.

If I were to pick 3 things that brought me this far, I'd choose
1. God's grace
2. Determination and persistence.
3. Supportive and encouraging friends.

If by any way, you've been disappointed by anything in life, I can vouch for these three things. Once you have them, they'll get you to your dreams.

another piece of advice for aspirants that didn't reach cutoff/ get their course by any means, anything you get right now, please enrol and start. You can always reapply for your desired course later on.


Thank you for reading.
God bless you.

smartograpy:
Mehn am not surprised You told me to chill
we are not in the same boat so You wont understand.
3rd time of writing jamb and this year's admission is at stake
hopes are getting more dimmer and dimmer

I understand how you feel bro. I've been there many times.
But one thing is sure, there will be change of course.
There's no session that UI, or even any other school hasn't announced change of course, because space for all their available courses are not always filled on merit, so they need to allow some people change to those courses so they can admit more.

But bro, just put your mind at rest. You have a good aggregate, and I'm sure God gat you this time around.

Take care.

jerrykuvira:
COC to chemistry /geology.
Which is advisable

I'll advice chemistry
54.25 is the merit cutoff for geology while 50 is merit cutoff for chemistry.
Chemistry "should " have more admission space than geology.

However, this depends on your aggregate. If you have a good 60+, then you can pick geology.

All d best bro.

smartograpy:
Now what is really my fate. I choose English education meanwhile i scored (71 in P.jamb and 247 in jamb) and i scored 66.365 as aggregate.The cut off mark for English edu is exceedingly high this year compared to the previous years which is a strong indicator that many people choose that course and by normal reasoning they have filled up their quota should i do COC or should i hope for supplementary or second batch admission list?

I'll advice you do COC. That puts you in a safe haven for now. At d same tym, u can also hope that you can make supplementary list

Phaneroo:
Please what of someone that had 71.5 for mbbs

That's damn too close

Let the person do COC to be on the safe side, at d same tym, its also possible that the person is still admitted for medicine through supplementary list.
It's a very close score
Wish u d best

Nltaliban:




Teach yourself first

I know it already

Mandeyy:
Did u mean that maxillofacial surgeons in Nigeria do neck dissection? I thought it's done by an ENT surgeon. Have u witnessed it being done before by an oral surgeon or u were just lying?

The residency training of an oral & maxillofacial surgeon covers rotation in ENT. That would make him/her able to do a neck dissection

Besides, dentistry covers medical and surgical treatment of diseases of the oral, craniofacial and neck regions.

ModestGal:

plsease what courses can one change into,and after the year one can go to medicine?

Physiology, Biochemistry, Human nutrition & Dietetics

Nltaliban:



Unibadan fountain head!!



Only a mind that knows is a mind that's free.





Some lines of Ui's anthem. if you know, you know

Smiles

Come lemme teach you the first and second stanzas.

Nltaliban:



Yes. That's the power of social media. People who scored zero in the postume had their name on the merit list of a school some set of people call prestigious?

To me, there are only two schools in Nigeria
ui
association of other universities


Probably that was what gave me motivation.

Ui remains the best and most transparent

Well said bro.

Its really pathetic... Withdrawing merit list due to irregularities.. May God help Nigeria.

UI, the first and the best.

holuwajobar:
if d supplementary list is released, what kind of candidates will be on d list?

Mostly change of course candidates
Plus those who were very close to merit cutoff wey get connection.