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[size=28pt]WHAT THE HECK?? SONY ARE COWARDS, THEY FINALLY MAKE ONE GOOD COMMERCIAL WORTH WATCHING AND THEY DECIDED TO TAKE IT DOWN BECAUSE OF OUTSIDE "PRESSURE". WAY TO GO SONY. [/size]

If Nigeria wants to improve its image, then why did they stall there investigation into the halliburton oil scandal that involved Nigerian officials?

ha hha ha ha ha, later they would have the audacity to blame Sony. Where is madam dora?

and I'd love to rub minds with the best of them, Silicon Valley types, and make valuable contacts.

ajanlekeko
In that case, then you might want to go to either Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, or California Institute of technology.

candylips,
you need to listen to pitbaby's advice, she got it right. MBA's are very very very challenging. Even the school that i am in, my friend who just got his MBA there said he struggled heavily because it was very challenging. I know of someone who got laid of and he told me that no matter what i do i should try and get a management degree because when they start firing the accountants or the other specialists. If you are not versatile or you don't have anything extra then there might be no reason to keep you.

sagamite and candylips
Concerning what i said about free tuition, i meant for undergrad and not for grad school. Also COST IS NOT ALWAYS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO QUALITY. Because a school is expensive does not mean its a great school if it were so Bucknell university would be one of the best universities in the country. Georgia institute of technology (Georgia tech) is a very cheap school yet one of the best, infact, they have the number 3 engineering program in the country. University of Michigan is another cheap quality school. In the field of business, university of Virginia is also in the top 10 (in some cases top 5) but it is also a cheap business school.

You are right when you are talking about the Adesoye's kids ending up being fake American wannabe gangsters, i know some of them here sef. By the way, not a lot of this guys are impressive at all and its because our educational institutions in naija are just CRAMMING INSTITUTIONS. Our students spend time craming definitions, advantages and disadvantages, merits and demerits, "factors millitating against" e.t.c.
Instead of having science competitions that bring out the creativity in our kids, they spend time craming and craming and craming. I remember spending 95% of my time in class when i was taking physical education craming on how to shoot a basketball . Even in our exams, they might even ask yout to define physics. Here, they don't have time for that, they give you problems to solve and the problems are designed in such a way that if you don't understand the concepts you can't answer the question. That means instead of wasting time writing 10 foolscap sheets of answers, you are actually solving real world problems.

By the way, Richard Fuld never went to an ivy league school. Besides he was also not a crook, all  he did was over-leverage his firm to a ratio of 33:1 (that's another topic for another day sha) and made dangerous investments (over-gambling). Waren Buffet also attended two ivy league schools: the university of pennsylvania (one semester) and he got  his MSc. at Columbia University.

LaNiger,
You are incredibly on point. A GREAT MBA IS WORTH EVERY PENNY.

tolu10,
If Obama and several other world leaders or power players in there industry never "broke the bank", they would not be where they are today. If you want something in life, then go for it. Leverage (debt) is not bad as long as you can pay for it, infact, credit is what makes businesses grow. I am not saying that you should bad investments like going to borrow 100,000K to go and study history or russian philosophy (unless you can afford to pay it back), i am saying make a good investment where you know that you can get good returns. A lot of students who go to medical school or law school here "broke" the bank but they are reaping the fruits of there labors. You have to  plan in life to get what you want. You don't just jump in to an MBA because everybody is doing it but you have to know what you want to get it for, then when you calculate the cost benefit ratio, and you decide that it is worth it then you should be willing to do what it takes to get it, even if it means breaking the bank.

Here is a link to the Nobel laureate from University of Chicago alone

http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/

yaaaaaaaay, omo that is ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS  and Nigerians are still boasting about Wole Soyinka and Emeka Emeaghwali? 

sagamite

But i will say though that there will be a marked difference at the PHD level. as an example for instance a Phd in Astrophysis is Uni Chicago should be more expensive than MIT . why ? because Uni Chicago has a most advanced space observatory in the world but guess what. it is cheaper than MIt. why ? i have no idea

It is probably cheaper for several reasons, the department might not have its own building therefore the costs are low or it might be that MIT has more research proffessors. It might also be because they don't have a department so they borrow course from the physics department or school of astronomy. I don't know the specific reason.

On another issue, Wake Forest might have a free MBA program as a way of attracting minority students or poor students. In the ivy league school like Harvard, Yale and co. they recently instituted a policy that if you are from a lower income family, THEN YOUR TUITION IS FREE. This is because they make sooooooo much money from there endowments so they don't need there money. It is also a way of truly attracting the best and the brightest who might not have the money especially minorities, so sagamite, you might wanna consider going there (wake forest).

devilmaycy

Omo, thanks a lottttttttttttttttttt for your points. I have been trying hard to explain to this my brothers but they won't yield.

yeah i was like wtf at first, then i remembered what a grad student at my school who did his undergrad at LSE said about the school. He said they gave them a list of books to read for a class and u read the books for the semester. Like classes in the UK have like 100 students in a class so it might make sense. Only first years classes at top schools in the US have that many students. Most classes range from 15-35.Also classes are thought differently from seminar classes, to tutorials, to discussion, to labs, to math study groups. From experience, if you miss class your teacher would know. Also classes are sometimes run in a discussion format so if you did not do the reading for that week the professor would know, especially if you dont say anything in that class.

You are soooooooooooooo on point. Here in undergrad, if you miss one day of class especially in senior year that na disaster. My guy (candylips) doesn't understand that the system is a lot different.

I posted thios previously but it got deleted. The alumni list for these schools is phenomenal, with a proven track record of success. Like nearly every major investment bank (i know its a general statement but too late to produce hard facts), at one point in its history, has been lead by a harvard business school graduate. It is likely that some smart student from a state school could do an equal or better job running these banks, but harvard gave that future ceo the extra bump he needed. John thain, vikram pandit, privates kovacevich all attended top schools, the list goes on and on.

Thank you jo, have you also forgotten Treasury secetary Henry Paulson (Harvard), Ben Bernanke (Harvard), Timothy Geithner (Dartmouth). This are the guys who worked to save the US financials system from collapsing. Last time i checked, they didn't go to northern oklahoma panhandle state.

[size=18pt]HA HA HA HA LATER ON THEY WOULD HAVE THE AUDACITY TO BLAME SONY. WHERE IS MADAM DORA?[/size]

PLEASE, PLEASE MY FELLOW NIGERIANS, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME TRYING TO STUDY IN THE UKRAINE WHEN YOU CAN STUDY IN ISRAEL. Israeli schools are much much better than russian and ukrainian schools so don't go wasting your time there. Israel's Technion institute has the biggest electrical engineering facility in the western world so  please people, instead of going to Ghana, you should go to Israel.

Technion Israel institute of Technology  http://www1.technion.ac.il/_root/index.html
Weizmann institute of Science  http://www.weizmann.ac.il/
Tel Aviv University  http://www.tau.ac.il/
Ben Gurion University  http://web.bgu.ac.il/home



You can go to english speaking schools in asia like hong kong institute of science and technology or national university of singapore. Also Malaysia has a lot of good english speaking schools.

For more info on schools in Asia you can check this out.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-154714.0.html

What is the difference. I did a comparison of the syllabus of Havarad and Uni North Carolina for example and apart from one or two courses they are very similar. So why should i pay 100k for Havard as against 15k for UNCC. What is in the harvard mba that is worth 85k more. certainly not the lecturing because all these top schools are notorious for their rigorous approach to self study and coursework. So if that is the case then i can easily go to a uncc and buy books and study on my own . right. or even just stay in paid employment and buy books that i read on my own and probably do professional courses which actually makes more sense to me

[size=18pt]WHAT?!?!?!?!?[/size] I know you are probably in London so you know nothing about the united state's school system. University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is one of the best schools in the country. In fact, it is one of the top 50, so don't EVEN begin to compare it to a school like texas southern university. Wake Forest University too is consistently among the top 50 also. Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Fisk, UNC, University of Texas, Rice are the top schools in the southern part of the US.
Also, education in yanki is not like the type in England. Here teachers actually teach you, its not like England that is intensive on self study. If you like no go class one day especially if you are in grad school and see what happens to you.

But i will say though that there will be a marked difference at the PHD level. as an example for instance a Phd in Astrophysis is Uni Chicago should be more expensive than MIT . why ? because Uni Chicago has a most advanced space observatory in the world but guess what. it is cheaper than MIt. why ? i have no idea

It is probably cheaper for several reasons, the department might not have its own building therefore the costs are low or it might be that MIT has more research proffessors. It might also be because they don't have a department so they borrow course from the physics department or school of astronomy. I don't know the specific reason.

On another issue, Wake Forest might have a free MBA program as a way of attracting minority students or poor students. In the ivy league school like Harvard, Yale and co. they recently instituted a policy that if you are from a lower income family, THEN YOUR TUITION IS FREE. This is because they make sooooooo much money from there endowments so they don't need there money. It is also a way of truly attracting the best and the brightest who might not have the money especially minorities, so sagamite, you might wanna consider going there (wake forest).

You would barely spend 6 hours (being generous here) of your studies with them in your whole time doing the MBA. Better off buying their book in my opinion.

If you have the privilege of spending 6hrs with Warren Buffett and I bought his book, I can virtually guarantee there is nothing you would learn from him that I would have not learnt from the books. Yet you might have paid 10000% the price I paid just for the privilege.

Can you imagine going to Columbia University and being taught by the likes of Nobel Prize winners like Joseph Stiglitz (former clinton economic advisor) or Paul Krugman, it doesn't get no better than that.

Also, in addition go to wikipedia and look at the alumni list from the ivy leagues and you would see what i am talking about.


Food for thought: do you honestly think that Barack Obama would have become president had he gone to a school like Texas Southern University rather than a glossy school like columbia or harvard.

Its such a very sad story.

yea. Oluchi is married with a kid o.

Yep, she is now married to an italian designer, luca orlandi so that means her name is no longer oluchi onweagba, its oluchi orlandi.
oh, by the way, just to throw this one in there, they already have a son together.

wow, what a national treasure you have there. unfortunately, nigerians don't value antiques. try and see if you can auction it in england or better you can keep it till nigeria becomes more developed and the people become more advanced and refined in culture (probably in the next 100 years), then you might wanna sell it.

@poster

For where!!! you don go UNILAG or UNIPORT before?

Look at the governor of bayelsa state showing off his mansion like MTV cribs. Later they would be blaming the North for all of there problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DslTiMDZcOA&eurl

its not going to make a difference jo.

sefago, you might want to repost your original post that was deleted but try break it up into pieces and not just posting the whole thing at once.

[size=28pt]HA HA HA HA HA HA, THE COMMERCIAL IS VERY VERY FUNNY. WHAT A CLASSIC. I WOULD NEVER FORGET THAT LINE [/size]

"Bernie you can't believe everything you read on the internet, otherwise i'd be a Nigerian millionaire by now." ha ha ha ha ha.

WHAT A CLASSIC COMMERCIAL. ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS he he he





I saw the commercial yesterday with my yanki rommate and we laughed. My other yanki roommate also asks me why he gets too many e-mails from Nigeria.

pete

did you lose your job at the AG's office because of that??

[size=28pt]HA HA HA HA HA HA, THE COMMERCIAL IS VERY VERY FUNNY. WHAT A CLASSIC. I WOULD NEVER FORGET THAT LINE [/size]

"Bernie you can't believe everything you read on the internet, otherwise i'd be a Nigerian millionaire by now." ha ha ha ha ha.

WHAT A CLASSIC COMMERCIAL. ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS he he he 





I saw the commercial yesterday with my yanki rommate and we laughed. My other yanki roommate also asks me why he gets too many e-mails from Nigeria.

yep, you are right. Webometrics is a phoney. Its amazing how many naija people use this useless sites to select good universities.

sefago, i ain't seeing your post, its as if the spambot deleted it.

MBA's can be costly but when you think about the exposure and the connections you make.

Being in the same class with the guys who formulated the theory.

University of Chicago alone has over 100 Nobel laureate winners

Thank you jo, dayokannu, can you imagine learning from the guys who actually formulated the theories that you are cramming or the guys who actually wrote the textbooks. I can't think of a better way to learn son.

During the Ikeja Bomb blast,

Compensated Victim: Thanks you sir for the Money

Abacha: This is all I have to compensate to the Ikeja Bomb Blast Victim If that is not enough come to Aso rock to collect the Rest.


If you remember any of Abacha Funniest Statement, Please Post.

omo, na lie abeg. The ikeja cantonement blasts happened in 2002 while abacha died in 1998.

[size=28pt]YESSSSSSSSSSSSS OOOOOO MY SCHOOL THRASHED GEORGIA. [/size]

Small by area or population?

Both. By the way, Aloy emeka i need your opinion on this issue https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-313588.0.html

No, Access.

sefago and dayokannu
you are right, the Asians do understand that not all education is the same, and that's why they try to get into the best schools. They know that comparing an education from MIT with one from the University of Arkansas is like comparing some secondary school like comparing NYU to UNILAG or Loyola Jesuit college Ansarudeen.
Of course, there might be one or two gifted kids that come of out ansarudeen, but seriously does that mean that they are now on the same level. Heck, the kids would have learnt a lot more had they gone to Loyola. My people, the difference is clear.
These guys truly value not just an ordinary education but a truly excellent one.

The Asians always try to go to the best schools in every country like IESE (spain), INSEAD (France) while the Nigerians end up flooding schools like University of Houston, Texas Southern University, Oklahoma Panhandle, Langston and any other university that they can think of. Heck, Nigerians don't even look at rankings when they are applying to a school, to them, as long they are schooling in yanki that's all that matters. I even heard of a wealthy politicians daughter going to some tiny junior college in cali and i am like what?? You mean that with all the super-duper excellent schools in cali like caltech, stanford, berkeley and co. na junior college you go. The Asians that go to the panhandles' and co. were usually at the bottom of the food chain in there schools, yet they still dominate the best and brightest Nigerians from UNILAG, OAU and UI,what a shame ( omo,we really need to step up our educational system o).

Asians and Jewish parents always make sure they push there children to go to the best schools and that's why they are very successful. Just look at the start ups in Sillicon Valley. There is a saying that Sillicon valley was built on ICP's, not integrated circuit processor's but indians, chinese and pakistani's. On the other hand, who does Nigeria have, Emeka Emegheawali.

candylips and sagamite, kilon seyin no?? how can someone seriously say that getting an MBA from Texas Southern University or Grand Valley State is the same as getting an MBA from MIT?

candylips i know that you are not in the US but the educational system in the UK is a lot different from that in the US.


oyinda
by the way, princeton does not have a business school. Also, people who work in Wall street don't work in small office cubicles. I have been there, they work in huge trading floors with several other colleagues (just picture a huge computer lab with lots of people sitting in front of computers that have 3 to four monitors).

When people are done with Wall Street they go to other positions in life, like starting there own business. Others go to academia, non-profit and even public office.

[size=28pt]SAGAMITE AND SEFAGO PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE DON'T TURN MY THREAD INTO A PLACE OF PERSONAL INSULTS ABEG, WE NO DEY NAIJA O.[/size]

I value you guys opinion but we shouldn't let it degenerate into name callings.

Finally, odilli would have to explain what he did to the money that he stole when he was governor of Rivers state.

omo, the chick is not bad at all, especially for a naija girl.