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Oh OK. You've spoken well.

GRACEGLORY:

There’s a difference between school and education, School remains within the circumstance of class rooms, education is a bastard who happens to be an illiterate, he never goes to schools, it’s largely a function of information. Schools only enhances us to educate ourselves. The certificate means, he has the capacity to educate himself, so, we certify him, assuring you that he has that capacity.
Secondly, prosperity doesn’t come from abroad, it comes from above. The world is in a chaotic state all over.

Well I'm still part of the group seeking to move out of this country. It is becoming very difficult to live an honest life here.

Despite how humble my background appear to be, I went to school, studied hard and graduated with a CGPA of 4.01/5. A course of five years was made six because of some unreasonable strike action within the university and the general ASUU. After national service , you begin to 'look' for jobs. And because you don't have 'connection' the jobs you get are those 15/25k monthly. Your age is a 'disadvantage'. You apply for govt. jobs, you get rigged out.


All the while, your peers who are into Yahoo-yahoo are 'living big'. You resolve to remain sane, positive and keep trying but years keep passing by. You look at what policies your government is making and you feel hopeless.


I'm intensely looking for scholarships or anything to leave this space. I believe I have the intellectual ability to excel in my field outside this country. The environment here is very unhelpful and depressing.

The only reason I am still around here is that I presently do not have the financial wherewithal to fund my travel processing.

Admission about to drop but I do not have the means to block that sum. I badly need a SL.

I cant afford to forfeit this year again. Please and please anyone who could help me. Abeg.

Is your course Environmental Chemistry?

Cestmoi1:
For my course, I applied since 20th of May. They didn't acknowledge receipt of my application. So, I mailed the program coordinators and they said the selection committee will seat before the end of this month and I'll get feedback before 15th of July and acknowledged receipt of my application. So, mail your program coordinators.

Thank you very much.

seungold1929:
University of Jena: 23 september- 11october
Don't know of Bayreuth

please anyone here knows the enrolment deadlines for FSU-Jena and Univ. Of Bayreuth?

Here. Have you got admission yet?

geofortress:
Good day guys..

Any University of Bayreuth Applicant here?

Please lets connect......lets share info....

oh wow...thanks so much

Brown2Green:
Yes

Please, is it full-funding?

Brown2Green:
All chemistry applicants should put an eye on Kennesaw State University.

They will offer GA at the spot once you get admit.

Hello bro, I like your response to the op's situation. I am in a very similar case with him. Is this 'talk' you talked about still available?

twosquare:
Took you so long...Since you have a degree in Mass Comm; with such a skill, you should be able to earn online with no problem, pending the time you will get a 'traditional job'' If I tell you that sometimes, I earn 300k working for myself via the Internet in a month without a 'traditional job' yet; will you believe? So, you have a goldmine in your hand. You just need to press the right buttons so you can establish yourself..you yourself see as things are in this country..if you wait for the govt, that would be unwise o..please, take your destiny into your hands. Or think of something you can start. Send me a PM, and let's talk further.

This is one of the deepest stuff I have read for some time on the internet. A very deep, balanced, thoughtful and inspiring comment. I have cancelled going to mid-week service for today!

fairheart:
Long time Twoods! The last time you and I had misunderstanding here, I told myself I'd not get on any heat conversation with you. I will manage to keep my word. But I must say a few things about the comment below.

You said you're a Christian as if you've to tell people who doesn't know you before they know your faith. You also hit the original poster hard by saying he falsely acknowledge God the visa approval you know nothing about how he started and ended to the point of the approval. How did you know his acknowledgement of God is false? A true Christian would not have used this set of words on another Christian because he reverences his Creator for a success that means a lot to him. Who're you to even quote that part of his post?

Yes, you're right that he did basically everything his counterparts in Europe or Asia would do to get the visa, yet, acknowledging God is something any stable, grateful, happy Christian would have done. And you come out here to hit it as if it's wrong! He owns all the right in heaven and earth to call his approval a "miracle". Is it not a miracle in a country good and genuine people don't get their way (even after hardwork, and doing all the right things the right way) because of the way our situation is? Is it not a miracle that a man from the largest black nation on earth and one of the poorest, is going to the best nation on earth? Is it not a miracle that you, Twoods, got your F1 visa smoothly, which was a huge opportunity that gave you a strong foundation you harnessed to become who you're today? Why not return home and see the difference? Maybe! You even live and eat in a country that even its founding fathers acknowledged God and miracle at one point or the other during the founding phase! I think you don't know what a miracle is!

As for saying he did others disservice, you're also wrong. Blatantly wrong! In fact, you're seeing all these religious stuffs from a broken perspective that you need to fix before you can truly earn the badge to correct others. And you need to fix it, because it's neither helping you nor the people you think this guy has done disservice to.

If you love God with your heart, mind, and soul--as the Christ you said you follow commanded—you'd have known and understand perfectly well that it's every Christian responsibility to reverence God! That is their Creator for Heaven's sake! It's one of our duties if we love God! He has done that and you are trying to call him a bad name. This's the part of your comment that touched me to grab my computer to write.

Some of the students you see on this forum are first-generation! Some of their parents did not get to travel abroad to study. I know a student here who was the first in his entire family—from Dad's and Mom's side--to enter the airplane and travel abroad to study. You will call it nothing because you easily got your visa. But for him, this is a feat—a record his children will live to read and be proud of. How stupid of me would it be if I say he should shut up and sees it as normal? It's not normal! He did great and that's it! He should be thankful to his Creator—even if this student is not righteous or has garment of sin on! How's that your business? How has that done any student here a disservice?

You cannot judge anybody religious/spiritual experience, no matter what you claim to know, the level of your education, age, or the social stigma you claim you're correcting. You're an educated man! Read the history of the country that has bathed you with opportunities you use to have come this far in life. The US was founded by men and women who had strong faith in God and influenced by it. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Rockefeller, Washington, etc. If 32 years old Thomas Jefferson who's said to have written the Declaration of Independence is here, I'm sure he would be laughing at your comment. The "God factor" was part of his life as it was for others. He prayed and write about "God". This was when America was under the influence of Great Britain. And Thomas was one of the brightest young men of his generation. Read that document bro!

The issue is not God or reverencing Him, because the last time I read the book of Isaiah, it's stated in a chapter and verse I can't remember that, 'We are His witness." And you know what that mean? We have duty to reverence him. He's our Source and Creator! We wouldn't have been here if not for HIM. That's what Emeraldtommy was trying to do! And you miss that part, man! The American founding fathers placed God at the centre of everything while they do their homework—as this student has done prior getting his visa! He's done nothing wrong to deserve this useless comment that you should have assessed thoroughly before posting here.

I have pushed this idea everywhere I go or invited to talk or share my opinion on the state of governance in Nigeria: God will not do for us the things He has given us the abilities to do by ourselves and for ourselves. But if we do what we should do, He's God to help us where and when we reach our limit--if need be! Nigeria is not what it is because Emeraldtommy and other Nigerians perpetuate or live with the perspectives that all it takes is "miracles" for Nigeria to work; Nigeria is what it's because Nigerians abuse religion by hanging on God when and where He wants us to work hard and get things done by ourselves. It's not because we reverence God or admit his presence or believe in miracle! We will still need miracle to build Nigeria anyway! Yes, we must work hard, create, innovate, strategise, breed natural leaders, and do our homework when and where necessary. But we will still need God, prayer and cling on the essentiality of morality to create a nation as great and prosperous as America. Go to China and ask their highly intelligent scientists if they believe in God or a spiritual being or force aiding Creations or at the centre of everything! They will tell you their story. They believe in the assistant of the spiritual realm, which God is centrally behind! I would have been the first to bounce on Emeraldtommy had he said he got his visa due to "all-God, no man duty" bulshhit. He did not do that. He's just happy and grateful to a God who got his back.

If you want to help your home country rewrite its dark story of ineffectiveness, poverty, lawlessness, falsifications, corruption, injustice and more importantly, abuse of religion or faith that has destroyed and wasted our resources and time, do it right. You'll need God's help yourself to do that! In fact, you will get to a point you will wish for a miracle and get it, even as you play the primary role. You gotta accept that God is at the centre of everything, even in the midst of darkness you see many Nigerians groaning in. Get your own perspective about things checked. You've done a lot of disservice to those you claim you wanted to serve with the comment below. I hope that they, too, see where you got it wrong! Have a great day!

I agree with everything you've written but completely disagree where you wrote that what people here are feeling is just 'sadness/disappointment'. Is even being 'sad/disappointed' continuously for years a light thing?

Altern8:
The kind of depression that leads to suicide is not what most of you are describing here. You are referring to sadness/disappointment.

Clinical depression is a mental health challenge. It is not something you can advise anyone to snap out of. It requires medication and professional counselling sessions.

Hope you now see why many of those who eventually commit suicide go ahead despite all the advice and tough love they’ve been receiving. It is not a simple phase that can be overcome by financial success or a beautiful new girlfriend. It is a persistent mental condition.

There is a group, active on twitter called Mentally Aware. Contact them if you think your depression is not just deep sadness.


And please stop saying suicidal people are mentally weak or they have poor upbringing. That cannot be any further from the truth.

One example is Robbin Williams, a rich and successful Hollywood actor. He committed suicide despite having all of the things most of you are praying to get. I also read about a top executive who committed suicide shortly after a trip in his private jet. His business was on the upward trajectory and he had loving family members (as stated in his suicide letter). They still don’t know when he became depressed cos it wasn’t evident at all, at least until they read his suicide note after his demise.

Medical help is the way forward for depression. Do not trivialise it by saying hurtful things to those suffering from it.

If you think you overcame it on your own without help from a psychiatrist or any knowledgeable person, then what you went through was most probably NOT depression. It was just a phase of sadness.

Well I think that's crazy, no family assistance and no connection in naija....hmmmmmm.

Martinez39:
Lol. Family members and relatives are not always your friends. Don't expect much from them.

Thanks so much....and just in case there is a need somewhere for the official errand thing, would gladly pick that up

ONKEvents:
I can relate, but you can not be jobless. You don't need to resume an office to have a career. Start freelance marketing, dropshipping, official errand running(I have a friend that helps a company, submit letters, collect cheques and pay them to the company account. And he collects 30k monthly, and he only needs to run these errands 4x a month. Imagine doing it for more than 1 company) all you need for most of these is smart phone and data.

My motto nowadays is I refuse to be pressured.

If your siblings are disrespecting you, it's because they have seen you too much, get friends you can stay over theirs for a week, return stay few weeks home and disappear again. Then another thing is learn to stay your lane and don't trespass theirs. Most times when my elder ones are pucking their nose in my wahala or always acting bossy those days, that's when we remember that they are not ashamed their mates are working and they are here acting all bossy at home.

Stay safe! It's just a phase

Maybe a bit off-topic here but being jobless brings massive depression. My depression heigthens every Sunday evening remembering there's nothing to do and no where to go on Monday. I feel like a complete bum.

Siblings have lost respect for me and so many bulshits ....its crazy. Here in the dark, blackness

Oh ok, thanks. Wetin Chemistry con do German schools na

iblion:
Chemistry no too get many options. Check bremen,FH Münster, FAU, FSU Jena. George August Universität. Bonn. Bayreuth. I’m not sure if their deadline has passed thou. You’ll be limiting your options without TOEFL exam and uniassist but you’ll surely get. Just check them out.

Please people:

Which schools still have their applications on? I am particularly looking for those with chemistry-related courses and that accept EPL, online application and maybe mailing of documents. No Uni-assist!

Thanks.

Hello bro, though I was not the one that actually asked that question but I could have been the one! In my case, I have not taken the GRE and TOEFL test. I have a final CGPA of 4.01/5. First degree. Would be glad to hear your comments/advise. Thanks.

Johnolukolade:
It is usually referred to as "Financial Support". Have you done the GRE and TOEFL? What's your level of education and what's your standing (GPA)... If you tell us that, someone would give you one or two heads up on where you can get funding.

Just realized that I would need to write GRE and an English test to be considered for scholarships/funding. Could anyone please help me as I cant afford the fees right now.