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I think the inferiority complex as exhibited by edu students stems from the fact that teachers are not properly remunerated in this part of the world and the teaching professional is considered non-lucrative and often viewed with disdain. This perception tends to affect the student's general outlook. Also, the faculty of edu. in most schools are considered ''dumping'' grounds for ''not too serious'' students who could not score high enough in jamb to be admitted into programmes of their choice. So, in order to pity them and provide them with the benefits of university education they are sent to the faculty of education to waste their time. This is the dilemma of most students of this great faculty.

The most surprising part is that the students of edu don't seem to know what they have or the kind of training they are receiving. I wish i had done Edu/Econs at Uniben when i was first admitted. A typical student of education does more courses than his mates in school. In my class for instance, why Economics students were doing just 7 courses, Edu/Econs students were doing 11 courses. This includes all core econs and educ courses and this was in our finally year oh. If presented with a choice of selecting between two graduates of maybe Economics and Education/Economics, from the same institution and grade, i would definitely go for the guy with edu/eco. The education courses on their own makes one very versatile and inculcates the required people skill necessary to function optimally in an organisation.

It pains me most that even graduates of education don't seem to know all this. Imagine a 2.1 graduate of education mgt asking if his/her educational background would affect her/his career propects in HR. If a graduate of education cannot function well in an HR position i wonder who will.

achmed1:
@tanimola . Am a recent grad of b.ed educational mgt with a 2.1 and i am almost thru with professional exams in personnel cipm. I also intend to do a masters in hr. From your candid point of view do stand a chance in makin a successful career in hr given my educational background. And cud it in anyway prevent me from getting to d top of my career ladder. Thnx

You have a 2.1 and that is all you need to get started. So far, you are on the right track. Relieve yourself of any form of inferiority complex which may have been as a result of what your friends say or think about your course of study. Get the necessary certifications, and if possible, get a masters degree in Hr or any management field. When I told my cousin i was studying Economics she said i was studying a woman's course. Today, the economics has taken me farther than her own profession. So, move on.

So, you want to go for Pharmacy because people say it's lucrative? And you are already in 200 level? Unless you are below 20 yrs i would advise you to continue with physiology. Your undergraduate degree matters less these days because you can easily switch to another program during your postgraduate studies. Which course isn't lucrative even? Even Igbo/Yoruba/Hausa languages are lucrative these days because i have seen people who read these languages but work as consultants for google etc. So, why do you want to waste two yrs of your life just because people say a course is lucrative? Why not build your career based on passion and then watch the money flow in later? In today's job market, age plays a very vital role. Younger people tend to get job earlier than older ones. Employers give preference for younger graduates than older ones. So, don't waste much time in school pursuing shadow when your mates are already earning money.

In my 100 level in school then, i had this friend of mine who was admitted to study Economics but his family insisted he studied Law because it confers respect and seems more ''lucrative.'' He went back to write Jamb and ended up wasting two yrs of his life seeking admission to study law. Finally, he went back to Economics and works with one of the leading MNCs in 9ja today upon graduation. Also, when i told my family i was studying Economics my cousin sister told me i was studying a woman's course. But today, am glad i did.

So, what do you make of this? It's all about passion, determination and hardwork. Physiology is as lucrative as Pharmacy depending on what you make of it. All you need is to graduate with a top grade and the world will become your oyster. When my woman gained admission to study Food sci and tech, people said she wanted to waste 5 yrs just to learn how to ''cook.'' You can see how ignorant people can be sometimes.

Unfortunately, it's hard to determine which profession is more lucrative than others in Nigeria due to unavailability of data regarding earnings by professionals. So, everything is all about perception. Just because that your village man who studied Law built houses at every corner does not make Law more Lucrative than history, after all Chinue Achebe, Wole Soyinka etc never studied medicine, Law or any heavyweight course. Today, graduates of Mathematics, Economics and Accounting work in Total and earn N17m per annum whereas graduates of pharmacy, medicine, law etc struggle to get a job of 100k per month. Again, it depends on individual characteristics, luck and maybe hard work.

If pharmacy gives you joy and fulfillment then go for it. But, if your resolve to study pharmacy is based on it being lucrative then i will suggest you give it a second thought. We live and operate in a dynamic world. Before it was Law and Medicine, now it's Business and I.T. Who knows what will be on board by the time you graduate, maybe physiology or something else.


[quote author=Ty_coon link=topic=820157.msg9738714#msg9738714 date=1323553397]Goodluck with that sire, if you like study Igbo Language in Harvard University! [/quote]Don't mind our moderator, am sure he was joking Pharmacy in OOU is as good as Pharmacy in OAU. But, i would choose OAU over OOU maybe because of perception, reputation and the opportunity to meet other serious minded students.

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I like your spirit. With this spirit you are definitely getting in. I think there is a recruitment fair for 2012 in lagos??

Why can't he do it in Nigeria? Why India?

Ajanle KoKO

Jarus

It will be a hard one deciding which comes first

Very matured and respectful, even when their individual personalities are under attack by some mischievous posters

In the European ECTS system, transcripts are called Transcript of Records (ToR), and are used to document the [b]performance of a student over a certain period of time by listing the course units or modules taken, the credits gained, and the grades awarded. [/b]The Transcript of Records provides a standard format for recording all study activities carried out by students. It is an essential tool for academic recognition.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcript_%28education%29

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That's the kind of response you get when people who have no clue on issues being discussed make senseless comments. What is the justification to invade another country's foreign premises. And tomorrow this set of people will end up becoming our law makers, people who know nothing on international law and inter country relations.

The South African govt should have been shivering now if this was to be the UK and US embassy because of the actions of these senseless policemen.

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And you are any better, huh

Are we discussing corruption or the illegal invasion of another country's premises? Can you name any govt that is not corrupt, including your revered South Africa?

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Another sensible person

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Don't mind those silly people.

South Africa must be the most lawless country on earth

There's no justification for an ordinary police officer to invade the embassy of another country, except maybe if there is war between the two countries.

Oba234:
chill out!  what is the point of you cursing? Well leave me be with my inferiority complex and live in your grand delusion.

Stop making this silly argument. They were denied visas and so? Is that enough reason for ordinary police officers to invade the embassy of a sovereign nation? Any country reserves the right to either allow you entry into their country or not, why is that of SA an exemption?

[quote author=G-Chux link=topic=817411.msg9695345#msg9695345 date=1323074005]Shame on the Nigerian Embassy. If this is true, more shame to our dilapidated ego. They couldn't restrict bribe taking to their fellow countrymen. Pretty ugly.[/quote]How did you find out that the bribe allegation is true and even if it's true, is that enough reason to invade the embassy of another country?

Are south Africans this lawless that they do not respect the integrity of another nation, even a dilapidated one like Nigeria?

Yeah, i benefited from his ''engrish'' tutorials.

Ola biy

wow! hahahaha, i didn't notice this

Me ke? Recommended??

Jarus was so busy at the politics section that he had little time for ''us'' here. Aj is a mod, and so many other excellent contributors. Sagamite was also busy moderating another section. T22 is also good, he comes in when the road seems to be blocked and brings in fresh perspectives.

Normally, i would have gone for Violent

One good thing about violent is not just his contributions but his depth of analysis.

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I meant after the CCNA. It takes relatively shorter period to get the CCNA than MCITP. Considering that age is no longer on your side and the apparent difficulty in getting entry level job i still recommend you get the CCNA first. CCNA  is cheaper, faster to get and recognised in the industry. No experience is useless, what you need is to garnish your CV and make it catchy to employers. So, you can ultimately leverage on your  little networking experience and kick start your career from there. while taking the CCNA you can freelance for an ISP or collaborate with others to handle major industry projects, even without pay.You can also consider taking project Mgt certifications as recommended by the mod or you may take a PhD and go into academia since you already have an Msc.

Aside connection, the only way to get into the I.T industry is to apply for jobs. Apply to as many jobs as possible.

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So, just to pass apt test and then speak better''engrish'' at the interview then i will start earning all these. O boy, if na juju i fit do. Man don dey old yet pepper never rest.

Do they now pay better than these IBs?

From your background, i may suggest you start from CCNA and then progress from there.Also, try and see if you can get into one of the major players in the I.T industry that will give you a boast in your career.

Before? yes. Now, i don't think it's worth it that much. The top IBs that used to crave for Ivy grads seem not to be in good shape now. So, taking such risk with that huge amount of money may not be ideal. Also, it depends on why he needs the harvard MBA; ego or huge salary with mouth watering bonus?

If i must go to harvard it has to be company sponsored, scholarship or that i happen to fall into a financial windfall. I can't risk 40m just to get harvard kpali I am aware that harvard education opens a lot of doors and bestows a lot of respect to the holder. However, it will be most valued when it is on sponsorship or scholarship or anything close to that.

I don't know if an Msc from harvard opens the same door as much as the MBA, i would have recommended the Msc which seem relatively cheaper. Harvard education is like playing a lottery now, you either lose or gain.

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Are these salaries only for the tech guys (the engineering grads etc) or is it applicable to all entry level staffs ?

Most of ''us'' from non technical background would want to enjoy this windfall

Pls answer me o, i don suffer

whats the benefit Lol

Bros, did you not make any savings out of the 65k you were paid before? Why not start with a one room apartment or maybe explain to your employers that you currently have accommodation issues?

Bro, all what you enumerated above are already in the system. Except in the area of making it compulsory like English and Maths. The major drawback remains the teaching methodology, lack of facilities and poor learning environment. What is the point teaching someone Microsoft office when he/she has not seen computer before. How many secondary schools, and universities have a functioning computer lab? None if you ask me.

In my school and most other schools for instance, students in their 2nd yr are required to take a course in use of computer packages, programming etc. The university collaborates with some IT centres so that students can come there and be taught by their lecturers. This training runs through a full semester and at the end the IT centres grade the students and submit their results to the university. However, every body tends to forget what was taught in the IT centres before they get to their final yr due to lack of continuity. Students need to continuously practice what they were taught in these computer centres to ensure proper retention and applicability.

The govt really need to increase funding to the universities and give them certain level of autonomy. Funding remains the major drawback and the more the govt slacks in this regard the more the problem intensifies.

Shock:
Abi o, which one are you self? A knowledgable mathematician or an expert? Because I don hear say you self be solid maths graduta

See me see maths

Shock:
I think the issue here is pride, than people wanting to add value to the thread, and from what I can personally gather, the difference is in how everyone defines the term "experts"

I tire pass you o.

People like ''us'' wey no go better school na war!!!

But seriously, it's really pathetic   Everybody wants to show that he is better than the other, even when they know little or nothing of the other person.

Exactly my point. GDP will suffice here as a measure of growth and as dependent variable. So, basically what you are looking for now are other independent variables to include in the model.

The variables you include depends on availability of data and relevance to the research topic. Data on inflation, tax rate, income, output etc are readily available. But data on investments etc may not be handy.

Now, let me list a few independent variables you might want to consider;

1.price level
2. Revenue
3.Output
4. consumer price index (CPI)
5.Producer Price Index (PPI)
6.Income etc

I am worried as to why you decided to choose 1986 knowing fully well that it was the early periods of SAP(structural Adjustment Programme) in the Nigerian economy with its adverse effects on spending, income and growth.

It may be interesting to check what other researchers have done in this area to enable you get started. Check out this study below;
http://www.academicjournals.org/jeif/PDF/pdf%202011/August/Unegbu%20and%20Irefin.pdf

well, hence VAT is the independent variable and you are measuring its impact on the economy. Then i think other variables of interest may include;

GDP= a measure of economic growth
Tax Rate - a measure of tax revenue
Per capita Income/Income or disposable income- a measure of the ability to pay
Revenue etc

I think which ever model you try to build will definitely have to explain the impact of VAT in the economy cos this is the main issue your research is trying to resolve. Get data on GDP, Tax rate etc and regress against data on VAT.

Visit NOS, Ministry finance, ministry of national planning, CBN offices or website and see if you can get data on any of the variables. Also, at undergraduate level i think it is still possible to run a simple regression involving just two variables, depending on what your supervisor wants. In that case GDP levels between 1986-2010 may suffice. Remember, your analysis is basically to identify whether VAT helps economic growth of Nigeria or hampers it. So, methinks GDP will be a good measure of growth in this regard.

Sanusi at it again

CBN Imam

downcasted

I am still laffing hahahahaha

I lost my 5 yr relationship to ''NYSC" hahaha

But you know what?

I got another better one a wk after. But now, this one too is doing ''NYSC.'' My options are still very open.
I am not in the country too, but my options are still open hahahaha

Meanwhile, you are a hardworking young man, so, women will never be ur problem. Except if u want them to be

The one

Star actor, Jim Iyke, has been involved in real life drama more than any other actor in Nollywood. From getting a reporter arrested to having altercations with ex-lovers, he even went physical with Olisa Adibua. Indeed, he has been in the press several times for the wrong reasons.

Last week, another dimension was added to the off-screen life of the star actor as he was dragged to court by Habiba Abubakar for alleged fraud of N15 million.

According to report, the woman claimed Jim told her to invest the N15 million in his company, Untamed Records, for a certain share percentage, but alleged that Jim diverted the money to his personal use without informing her. She allegedly petitioned the Inspector General of Police, claiming that Jim refused to refund her money and threatened to beat her up.

Jim was in court last week and pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him. He declined to speak to the press and went on to prepare for the launch of his Untamed Mall in Abuja. Jim temporarily put the court saga behind him to open his mall for business in Abuja.

We, however, tracked him down after the event to speak on the court case. “The matter was a simple business deal that went wrong. It was a question of trying to resolve a matter we couldn’t do on our own, so we had to resort to the court,” he said.

A source, however, disclosed to Sunday Sun that the matter would be settled out of court, but Jim is unmoved by the development as he plans to make his new venture a success.

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/showbiz/2011/nov/20/showbiz-20-11-2011-001.html

I have watched the Central Bank of Nigeria big boss and his experiments with great feelings. Sometimes, I get this strange feeling that he intentionally keeps trying his hands on one odd tinkering at a time, possibly not to arrive at the right destination, but perhaps to know what we would say or how we react.
And trust the Nigerian citizen – he just sighs, grumbles, mutters some resentment, or sometimes raises his voice, but at the wrong place and to the wrong person and platform and goes on living as usual.

We have not had it so easy since Sanusi came, with his clampdown on banks that led to the big fraudsters shedding tears in regret and shedding weight in detention. In this wise, Sanusi acted well to cut them to size. But the pains he left in us remain the job losses and closure of the involved banks.
Before he came, we had some little breather in employment openings in the banks, most of which recruited new hands – fresh graduates every year. As he drew his cudgel against the managers of the banks, not so careful as to spare the banks, the institutions went under with the owners. Today, we are worse off. Our economy so battered and lacerated, the sleaze among bank executives still worse than before, even the improvised managers he invented getting messier.

Like we always watch helplessly, Sanusi carries on like none, not even the system he is supposed to protect is hurt. And now another, among some other hasty ‘innovations’ is on. It is a cashless banking system that allows you no option but just get a smart card (ATM card) before you transact business. I have a feeling that even the societies we learn the cashless tradition from still leave free citizens the option of choices. The use of an ATM card is like a right of the user or bank client. The basic rule of one’s right is that the owner of rights also owns the rights to use his right or waive it. But in this set-up by Sanusi, the right to opt out is lost. We are under compulsion to transact business in banks only with ATM unless when the volume of transaction reached a certain amount. To rub it in, while we would be railroaded into this straight jacket where no options exist, even with the chequebook the same banks issued us, the ATM card is nowhere to be seen.

Four weeks ago, yours sincerely applied for an ATM card at the Gwarimpa branch in Abuja of a big old generation bank. At the point of filling the form for the card, a smart young man, or one that thinks himself too smart directed that I come the following day to pick up the card. But that following day has translated to four weeks. At the last check at the bank last Monday, the same person that promised to make the card available overnight asked when I applied for it. When supplied the information he needed, he was like saying ‘only three weeks’. The expression was so clear in his face. The next response was a flat “it is not yet ready’. When would it be ready? The young man blanked out and pretended the question was not important to deserve an answer. Probing further on why I would be barred from transacting with the cheque the bank gave me, and won’t at the same time get the ATM card as required, he simply advised me to write a cheque and go upstairs and be attended to. What again? To be attended to with a cheque less than N100,000 in value? For goodness sake what manner of inconsistency is this? He changed his position a bit by directing I go home and wait until I get an alert informing me the card is available.

What is the simple answer – that Sanusi’s CBN never made the grounds ready for a cashless banking before recalling his traditional haste to bamboozle banks into refusing our cheques without any ready alternative.

In Lagos, on Friday, October 28, I had walked into a Zenith bank to demand an ATM card. I was readily given a form to fill. That I did, and waited to be told to pick it up the following Monday. But I was totally wrong as the lady attending to me said the card would be ready in two weeks. I had to ask her to tear the form and terminate the process as I would not be in Lagos where I just visited when it would be ready.

Where the drama started was at the Utako, Abuja branch of the First Bank where I was refused withdrawal because the amount on my cheque was less than N100,000. The teller directed that I step downstairs and get an ATM card immediately. But that was a daydream. Four weeks after, the bank is yet to issue me an ATM card. As I watched in helplessness, so I saw many others in the same dilemma grumble and leave the bank helplessly. Poor victims of CBN’s narrow and mistakenly zestful policy, who would listen to them even if they scream? As I scream, am I not doing so just because I have this platform? Does that worry the all-knowing Sanusi who believes and demonstrates that he is the CBN boss because he is the most intelligent Nigerian? He exudes the arrogance in our face everyday, and we have pitiably come to live with it because his imperial majesty who snubbed us in the past even with his imperial Islamic banking rabble rousing is too big to listen to complaints.

As he champions the must-use-ATM campaign, even those who have them live with complaints everyday. And you wonder how a banking system that never managed effectively a paltry percentage of the bankers with ATM would accommodate all on the same platform. Two in every five banking transactions via the ATM end in sighs.
Before the CBN commenced this painful clampdown, no one knows the efforts it made to make sure the banks have the ATM cards to issue customers as palliative. What about the security of the system in a country where many account holders in banks have been stripped bare through ATM fraud, where power failure and other inconsistencies threaten us everyday. We are not sure of any provisions by the CBN to forestall these hardships, yet the mandate is definite that no ATM, no banking. The target is more on going cashless in banking and not the ease and the basic factors that would make it a reality and painless.
Some months ago, in places like Lagos, the rule was if you withdraw money less than N100,000 with a cheque, you pay a surcharge of N100, but not any longer. Yet, the major reason many Nigerians loathe the ATM is the fraud and inadequacies involved. Over time, these problems have neither abated nor vitiated. They remain on the rise, and alarming. We don’t hear of those concrete plans to solve them. And the remainder of the bankers who had distanced themselves from the ATM system as personal immunity against the inherent vagaries have under compulsion been exposed to it by Sanusi’s policies.

Customers had millions of complaints in the past where their accounts were debited via ATM transactions they never made. At some other times, you insert the card in the machine, punch figures and expect the money to roll out, only for it to swallow same and debit your account. As you take the complaint to the bank, they ask you to write the manager who will take one full month to answer you, just to hear what your problem is as if you were so dumb not to reflect it in the written notice. The faults and failings of the ATM system in Nigeria are just endless, and here we are landed deeper in the mess by an overbearing CBN rule just for the sake of making rules with no provisions for them to be implementable. Sanusi has not explained to us what he actually wants from Nigerians as his tenure lasts in the CBN, and we need to be told if these are all for good or to make life tougher for Nigerians in his special way.

http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/thoughts/thoughts-nov-19-2011.html

Op

Hope you are not expecting her to tell you she slept with another man? It's very obvious she did.

The relationship seems to be complicated.

I will suggest you forget about her and continue with your life. We are talking about your future wife here

She doesn't worth this headache

Oh boy, i can't stop laughing at you hahahaha

This was almost exactly what i experienced between Dec and March 2011 when i traveled newly.

In my case, my lady was more matured than yours.  At the end i realised it was all my fault, i was always nagging, complaining and suspecting.

Relax your mind and concentrate. Think less of what she does in your absence and all other things shall be added unto you. I don't bother about what my woman does in my absence, i rather spend my time encouraging, advising and appreciating her. Even if she leaves, she will always remember one thing --i was nice to her and meant not harm. Call your woman and have a long chat with her. Women need to be assured and reassured that you are there for them.

Build your relationship on openness, trust and care. Make her your friend. In fact, i encourage my woman to hang out with her male friends, go to club etc. Yes i do that, not because i am foolish but because i want her to be a bit relieved of my absense. It is not easy for a woman to stay that long without companionship, and to add to it nagging.

But me dey chop my suya small small here o. Life is too short

work on her and don't let your 4 yr relationship die out.

buzor:
how did this made the homepage. like anything can now males the homepage.
@op i feel your pain and frustrations but let us hope and pray that things will eventually get better

An example of the insensitive nature of Nigerians.No wonder human life have no value in Nigeria.

@op, It's not about the govt alone, we as a people have no regard for others and their predicaments. Imagine telling an accident victim that we have no beds and therefore cannot admit you without minding that he may die for not being attended to earlier.

A friend of mine was mistakenly shot by a group of cult boys when i was in school and was rushed to the hospital, the first thing the the useless and clueless nurses asked was;where is your hospital card and police report? Good a thing he didn't die. And these are supposed to be professionals, medical doctors who probably spent many useless years in school studying nothing. Life saving is the main thrust of every medical personnel but in our country the reverse becomes the case.

The same attitude is displayed when they get to positions of authority, they will hardly care about how their fellow citizens feel and live. It's really pathetic.

Sorry for this unfortunate but avoidable incident.