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abron25:
My work entails building architectures by utilising coordination chemistry and supramolecular interactions between metal acceptors and donor organic ligands.....which are synthesized from every available chemistry methods. It is called self - assembly reactions. I am delving into the use of metalloligands for heterometallic architectures.

Great! We are both on the same page. We also insert transition metals into the cavity of phthalocyanine molecules. I am using Indium, Galium, Zinc and lead as my transition metals due to their heavy atom effects. Getting a good solvent system for purification is a huge task for complex molecules.

Cindino20:
sounds interesting.....guess you gonna use chemical vapour deposition to deposit ur thin films( or pvd)

We make use of spin coating machine or by drop dry method.

Cindino20:
Wow this is nice...

Bsc chemistry Nigeria

Msc chemistry in view ( analytical chemistry option) Germany.

Most recent research...recovery of lithium from brine (electrochemical methods), Quasi solid state Lithium ion batteries

Future Research :Biosenors...

Would love to contact you.

I hope to come to Germany on student exchange program if my supervisor will allow me. We can exchange ideas if you don't mind. I'm currently in Nigeria for a break.

abron25:
Good day friends.....

I am happy to see this kind of thread on FP. I have been a guest for 6 years....finally got a reason to join...to connect with intellectuals.

BTech Pure and Applied Chemistry (Nigeria)
MSc Inorganic Chemistry (Nigeria)
PhD Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (India) - 3rd year
Area of research: Design and Synthesis of Supramolecular Architectures for Sensing, Catalysis and Biological Applications



Nice to see you here brother......mind connecting for collaborations?

This is impressive! Are you also working on phthalocyanines, BODIPY or porphyrin for your research work? I'm currently in my second year and working on phthalocyanines and BODIPY using click reaction methods. I did my MSc research on sensing of pesticides using Zn, Co and Mn phthalocyanine derivatives.

Kokopos:
You need minimum of 3.5 over 5.0 in MSc before you can apply for Phd.

With MBA getting Phd admission might be difficult. I also have MBA but looking forward to Msc management. My advice is that people should not bother about MBA instead go for MSc, since MSc management can also go for MBA but MBA cannot be seen as MSc in academic terms.

For UNILAG, you need minimum of 4.0 out of 5.00 to proceed to PhD. I am sure South Africa will still take 3.5 for PhD.

babseg:
Alright, never heard of the phrase because I'm also in to optics

Is a branch of optics, we measure the nonlinearity of the molecules induced by the passage of laser radiations. The more the nonlinearity the better the molecules as nonlinear optical materials.

babseg:
Please What does nonlinear optics mean

Is an emerging area of research in chemistry and physics in which a molecule is synthesised and used as a shield to protect light sensitive materials like human eyes, sensors and military hardwares from intense laser radiation. The material is expected to allow the passage of ordinary lights, but strongly attenuates the laser radiations.
The molecules are first tested in solutions and later on solid support or as a thin film.

BSc Industrial Chemistry
MSc Physical Chemistry (Electrochemistry)
PhD Physical /Organic Chemistry (South Africa)
My area of research involves synthesis and characterizations of supramolecular compounds for nonlinear optics applications.

jaboza:
Master programme in most schools here is 3 years.

3 years for MSc program? This is strange! The maximum you can spend for MSc in my school is just 2 years. You can even spend 2 years for PhD here in SA.

Sure, you can! I did mine in February and entered SA in March.

Emasel:
Hello house,

Pls I would like to know if there is a particular period within which one can apply for study permit in SA,or if one can apply anytime because I am yet to receive my admission letter, and I am actually looking at resuming in July now,Can I apply for Study permit say Jan/Feb for July entry?

Thanks!

cc: TYPOP,Samtol4,Chemashie

following keenly....may be I can add these to other incomes I'm making as well.

kingmayor:
The following is required to apply for your refund
Any person who claims a refund must submit the following documents:
(a) Application for refund of repatriation deposit form (available at South African
Foreign Missions or Department of Home Affairs Local Offices);
(b) Original Passport (for verification purposes);
(c) Original receipt of the deposit;
(d) Proof of banking details / warrant vouchers (cheques);
(e) Proof of final departure from the Republic of South Africa on or before the expiry of
the temporary residence permit; and
(f) in the case where an application for refund is made in the Republic, proof of
change of status prior to 26 May 2014 or proof of permanent residence permit.
(NOTE: Anyone who had overstayed his or her permit shall not qualify for a refund,
as he or she would have violated the terms and conditions of his or her temporary
residence permit).
Failure to claim a refund by 28 February 2015 will result in the deposit forfeited to the
State as unclaimed.

Can you explain the bolded part?

kingmayor:
The repatriation refund is for all categories of temporary visas and visitors visa if you paid the fee.

Long time kingmayor! Is it necessary I go to Abuja Embassy to collect my repatriation refund or I can collect the cheque at Lagos Embassy? I'm planning to travel to Nigeria by month end and would like to collect the refund before coming back to SA.

How We Made First Class —law School Graduates

https://www.nairaland.com/1970642/how-made-first-class-law

Two students that recently graduated from the Nigerian Law School reveal how they bagged first class degrees, even as many others recorded failure. Twenty-five-year-old Opeyemi Longe is used to blazing the trail in the academic world. For 13 years, many students had tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to bag a first class Bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Law of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State.
But, in 2012, the native of Omuooke-Ekiti broke the jinx and emerged the first student to graduate with a first class degree from the faculty.
Not done with this feat that has earned him accolades and admiration, Longe, who was admitted to the Abuja campus of the Nigerian Law School in October 2013 for the one-year mandatory vocational legal training for aspiring lawyers in the country, pledged to keep the flag of excellence flying.
Apart from being one of the four students that shined at the 2014 Part II Final Bar Examination of the NLS, Longe has also emerged as the first law graduate of the AAUA to obtain a first class degree from the 51-year-old institution.
The other successful students who obtained a first class degree at the NLS this year are Ikechukwu Uzoma from the Lagos campus of the NLS who graduated from the Abia State University, Uturu; Anita Omonuwa (Abuja Campus), a graduate of the University of Reading, United Kingdom; and another student from the Bayelsa campus of the school.
The mass failure recorded at the law school this year has remained a subject of discourse among legal luminaries and educationists. According to the summary of the result posted on the NLS website, mynls.com, only 3,418 out of the 7,176 registered students passed the examination.
About 527 students had conditional passes, while 3,100 failed. Some of the students were said to have abstained from the examination.
The PUNCH sought to speak with the outstanding graduates produced this year at the Law School on the secret of their success in the examination. Longe, who had eight distinctions — including four A1s — in all the subjects that he offered at the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination in 2005, said he set out from the beginning to graduate with a first class degree.
Having performed the same feat as an undergraduate of a relatively new state university, he said, the development had placed on him a burden to defend the result at the Law School. Longe added that it was imperative for him to prove that the result he obtained at the AAUA was not a fluke and that he would have bagged the same class in any university in the country. He said, “When I finished from the university, I became the first person to graduate with a first class degree in a faculty that had existed for 13 years and this placed on me a burden to defend this result at the Law School.
“I knew that I was expected to prove that the first class I got was not a mere fluke and that I could not afford to have anything less. “Besides, I had always believed that I could be the best student in any school I attended. For this reason, I have been the best student in all the schools that I have attended, starting from primary school. “Therefore, I saw no reason why the Nigerian Law School should be any different. What I needed to do was to make myself realise I could do it and so it became my drive to make a first class.”He noted that his attendance at social outings and programmes were very minimal, adding that he did it on purpose with a view to achieving his academic goals.
Describing the mass failure as unprecedented, Longe stated that he did not employ any special reading strategy to post an exemplary academic performance. The third child in a family of six, however, explained that he studied “very hard” from the beginning of the one-year programme, adding that he bought at least two recommended text-books for each of the five courses offered at the NLS. He said he never toyed with group discussions organised by the school management, adding that the special arrangement gave him the opportunity to learn from his colleagues.
He said, “In each of the five courses offered at the Law School, I have at least two textbooks recommended by the school and I did not just purchase them for the fun of it. I took my time to study each and every one of them and you will be amazed what effect they had on me. “They gave me the privilege of having a good grasp of those courses, perhaps far above what I was expected to know. There may actually not be a special reading strategy, but I know I was disciplined in my studies. “I worked very closely with the lesson plan made available to all of us. So I ensured that I studied for each lesson before the class and carried out the pre-class assignments and this is where the issue of disciplined study comes in. “I told myself, ‘You must not do anything else unless you are ready for tomorrow’s class.’ In this wise, every other thing I needed to do came after I was satisfied of being prepared for the class of the following day.”
Although Aba-born Uzoma, who hails from the Nkwerre Local Government Area of Imo State, graduated from ABSU with a Bachelor’s degree in the second-class upper division, he etched his name in gold this year as the first ABSU Law graduate to obtain a first class degree at the law school. The 2007 alumnus of Dority International Secondary School, Abayi, Aba, Abia State, whose childhood dream was to be a legal practitioner, stated that he had always nurtured the ambition of having an excellent result to aid his “future educational and career goals.”
Going down memory lane, Uzoma said, “My childhood dream was to study law. I grew up saying I would be a lawyer for no particular reason. As I approached my decision years, I realised that my dream had moulded me into a frame that could only accommodate the studying of law.” Noting that there were many distractions at the Lagos campus of the Law School, Uzoma stated that he withdrew from social functions organised by his colleagues, adding that he mostly participated in academic and religious activities. “Wisdom directed my affairs while in the law school. I withdrew from several responsibilities I had outside school and my church, Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, besides, I adopted a regimented sleeping schedule, especially towards the exams. I did not join my family for the last Christmas and Easter holidays. I used those periods to rest and study Besides, I put in extra efforts to redeem any lost time.
“Cardinally, I had a way of keeping my focus strong and getting very involved in the curricular activities in school. As a group leader in the Lagos campus, I ensured that I was personally involved in all the assignments and I found some time to study. My constant dissatisfaction with my inability to meet some personal targets spurred me on to stretch and do more. I also kept a small circle of friends with whom I studied,” the 25-year-old stated. Noting that academic studies at the law school were quite demanding, the young lawyer, born to a pharmacist father, explained that the challenging “new learning environment” toughened his resolve to “succeed irrespective of my condition.”
Stating that he refrained from “memorising or cramming a lot,” at the law school, Uzoma said he sought to “understand how the law works and I applied every principle to everyday life.” Just as the Deputy Director-General and Head of Lagos campus of the NLS, Mrs. Toun Adebiyi, alleged that many of the students who failed were preoccupied with social media rather than their studies, Longe and Uzoma said they withdrew from social networking during the academic programme.
“Throughout my period at the Law School, I was significantly away from the social media such that some of my friends accused me of avoiding them, Longe said. Uzoma also stated, “I stopped contributing to discussions online and my degree of online activity greatly reduced.”
Acknowledging the commitment of the law school management in ensuring that students pass the examination, Longe and Uzoma noted that not all the unsuccessful candidates were unserious, as alleged by the authorities. Longe said, “Depending on the way you want to look at it, the management may be right to an extent because some students were just too unserious to pass. That is not to say that the majority of the student population were unserious. “There are students who took pleasure in coming late to class, pinging, chatting and holding separate discussions when lectures were going on. “But the sudden reduction of the time for the multiple choice questions from one hour to 50 minutes without adequate notice affected some students because they prepared for the exam on the assumption that they had one hour for the exams.”
Uzoma, who noted that the Final Bar Part II Examination had a “peculiar grading structure,” unlike other regular professional examinations, argued that it would be difficult to prove that the majority of his colleagues failed because they were unserious. “I cannot say that the majority of my colleagues failed because they were unserious. I do not know how that can be proved. There may have been some unserious folks in my set but I cannot say that the majority of my colleagues were unserious,” Uzoma stated. The two Law school graduates, who are waiting to be called up for the mandatory National Youth Service Corps scheme in November, have already received offers to join the academic staff of the Law Faculty of their respective alma maters. But they have said they would love to practise law, as well as pursue postgraduate degrees up to the doctoral level before considering to take up the offer.
Noting that they both seek to take advantage of available scholarship opportunities, Longe and Uzoma indicated interest in obtaining master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Birmingham, UK and Harvard University, United States respectively after undergoing the NYSC programme.

I wish anyone close to Idiaraba, Mushin or Surulere can confirm the authenticity of what the op is saying. These places are not far from LUTH.

yinksob002:
@HumbledbyGrace: I just did my membership reg. with Momentum Health and got my confirmation letter in less than 30 minutes. Never knew the processing was so fast.

Thanks

I guess you are lucky to get the confirmation fast. I was forced to switch over to CompCare when the confirmation from Momentum was delayed for 3 days. May be they have realized many students are now using CompCare and their is need for them to tidy up.

HumbledbYGrace:
The only cheapest university in SA that I know is UNISA, the fee doesn't double for foreigners like it does in other university, applications are closed now anyway, u can apply in March for second semester. I'll send you a link tmrw.

You may not get study permit for UNISA since most of their programmes are run online except a research-based courses that require contact with your supervisor.

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Do you still have this and at how much?

where is OP o?

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FeyiDOT: Hello, I really appreciate everyones contribution on this thrend. I ve some questions.
Pls I want to apply for study permit and I want to know where to apply is it vfs office or their embassy. From their requirement how do I get the medical insurance. Lastly can anyone give me the approximation of the amount for the whole process. Plss I need it urgently to start the process cos I ve to see my supervisor to finalise my phd proposal .thanks

It's now called Study Visa and you can only apply at the Embassies either in Lagos or Abuja. For Med. Insurance, google Ingwe or CompCare and register for 12 months. You can pay with your Visa or Mastercard on the site. For all processes you can budget of 400k covering repatriation, visa, medicals etc. Good luck!

I need help from experienced people on this thread, I got this mail while trying to source for information on application for accompanying Visa for my family..."In theory, according to the new laws, on a Study Visa your family cannot accompany you. You may qualify for a Critical Skills Work Visa. Please see attached and tell me if you agree that you fit into at least one Critical Skills category and also which Professional Body you would register with (compulsory)."
It seems I'm having problem with comprehension or what do you all think is happening? Does that mean my family can't join me on accompanying visa as a PhD student? I need help very fast!!!!

kemkem30: I wish I know what document exactly they think is false. So u think the problem might be the hotel reservation? How else can he get proof of accommodation. The university said they can't help with accommodation. It's UKZN Durban.

Let him get an accommodation and reapply with the letter indicating where he is going to stay during his program. Besides, we have a reliable guy who is also an active member of this thread in that school. His username is samtol4. I will call his attention to this question through my BB.

kemkem30: Hi everyone, my husband just got refused a visa. The reason given was: false documents. He is a lecturer, he won a post doctoral grant. All documents related to the grant were submitted including The university in South Africa's acceptance letter. His hotel booking for 6 weeks. Proof of payment of the first tranch of his grant (9600 dollars).
Do they do administrative review. Or does he have to reapply?

Those guys can be funny at times; may be he ought to have used other proof of accommodation in the application instead of hotel. He has nothing to worry about, let him reapply.

TYPOP: The young man went to AAUA and (I assume) spoke with the registrar. The letter was addressed to the Registrar directly. Any help?

The guy should have asked the secretary to the Registrar if they have received any letter or not by checking through the incoming (if received) mails and outgoing (if has been attended to by Registrar) mails. After confirming the receipt and dispatching of the mail at the Registrar's office, he should proceed to the Exams and Records where the information is expected to be supplied and sent back to SAQA. The guy will need to pay some fees at the exams and records before they can send back the report; if not, the mail will remain in the unit for as long as God knows. That is how a guy lost his admission in Finland waiting for school to reply not knowing that some fees are attached to the service.
In summary, he needs to check at Registrar's office first and proceed to the exams and records unit for the processing.

yinchar: For the past 5 weeks am still waiting for my study permit, this process is taking too long,...am time constraint and so frustrated right now...did anybody know what could be done to hasten up this process?.....

5 weeks and you are complaining? Try call their lines and know what is going on in there. Mine took about 6 weeks at Abuja. You have nothing to worry about, just chill.

TYPOP: Whao! That's lovely. Your registrar never reply mail for my client's SAQA o. How can I get in touch with him/her?

may be you can send a letter by post to him and get someone to drop it on his table. Was the letter addressed to him or academic affairs?

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Shine1177: Sometimes we don't know how far reaching the good we do to others can be and these good deeds always come to speak for us in the time of our need. That is why I know the 'Ogas' on this thread will surely reap a good reward for their selfless services. Thank you again.

I'm honored bro! Other people like samtol4, TYPOP, manager, collinsfbi and others have also helped me in the past.