This is to inform all student of Adeyemi College Of Education And the general public that the amount tenable by both fresher and stalites for the 2017/2018 academic session had been released.

This was released in a internal memorandum released by the governing council of the college today 8th jan, 2018.

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The phenomenon that most Africans are poor, not because they really are poor, but because someone decides to describe them as such.

My grandfather is ‘poor’. He certainly lives on “less than a dollar a day”. He is now 95 years old. In his nine and a half decades on earth, he has never lacked,and he has never begged. He only attended one year at a mission school in the 1930s and learnt how to read and write. This is how he pulls it off:

When he wants food, he goes to the banana plantation, looks at tens of bunches of matooke (banana) and decides which to harvest for the day’s dinner. Adjacent to the plantation is a sweet potato garden, cassava garden, yams and finger millet. To the south of the banana plantation are beans, cow peas or peanuts gardens. Down the valley is grazing land with tens of Frisian and cross-breed cattle. They provide him with milk daily, 365 days a year.

He also has about 20 goats. In Nigeria, goat milk was generally not considered palatable, possibly due to the abundance of cow milk, so we never milked goats. He would sell a couple of them to supplement income from other produce to send his children to school. He also reared a couple of chickens, more as a hobby.

The farm produces more than he can consume. He sells the surplus to afford such essential services as kerosene (recently upgraded to solar), soap, sugar (at his age he no longer takes sugar, he uses honey – doctor’s orders).

Scattered across the farm are sugarcane (for eating, not for making sugar) and fruit trees (guava, mango, pawpaw, avocado, orange, passion fruit, pineapple). He drinks fresh juice from mangoes and passion fruit. As is evident, everything here is on a subsistence basis, but very organic. He has done this for the past 75 years.

He had eleven children, my mother being his first born. He sent all of them to school, saw eight of them through college. He sold at least two cows, some goats and some produce each school term to send his children to school.

I went to live at grandfather’s place when I was 5 years old. I left when I was 14 (my family lived in an urban area). I learnt how to farm, milk cows, tether goats, harvest fruits (by climbing the fruit tree) and harvesting honey (at night using smoke).

Why the long story?

My grandfather, just like millions of other Africans that live like him, is considered poor. He rarely holds money, and he rarely needs it. He produces most of what he needs. But using the standard World Bank/IMF description of ‘poor’, my grandfather is poor. I live in the city and earn about USD 12,000 a year after tax, which in Nigeria is a decent salary. But I can hardly match my grandfather in terms of providing for my family with fresh milk, fresh food and fresh fruits.

This is one thing most people that watch CNN and BBC do not know about Africa: not all Africans are poor, many simply live differently than you.

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The University College Dublin (UCD) Global Excellence Scholarship Program for Nigerians is funded by UCD International and aims to attract excellent candidates to the UCD’s graduate programs and encourage early application.

Eligible Field of Study: Scholarship awards are applicable to full time Masters programmes, this is excluding all programmes in the Smurfit School of Business, joint masters programmes, clinical programmes, and online programmes.

Type: Masters

Eligibility:

Applicants must be citizens and current residents in Nigeria;
Applicants must be self-funding and classified as non-EU for tuition fee and application purposes;
This is a highly competitive scholarship, and as such successful applicants are likely to have obtained a first class honours degree (For Masters).
Scholarships are renewable annually subject to the student maintaining an annual grade point average of no less than 3.08/4.2 (upper second class)
In order to be eligible to apply for this advertised scholarship, applicants must have ‘Offer’, ‘Conditional Offer’, ‘Accept’ or ‘Conditional Accept’ status associated with their application;


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I am here again to talk to university admission seekers. It is getting more clearer how some people with high hopes of admission may not get admitted this year.
At first, it was NUC that said not more than 500,000 can get admitted this year.
If my Mathematics is still right, that’s less than 30% of the number of candidates that wrote UTME this year.
The admission crisis of this year is the highest so far since 10yrs I have been monitoring the admission trend. This write up is nothing but a deep heart-to-heart talk with people that care.
There are various factors working against the admission this year, some of which are internal while others are external.
The internal factors are of two categories- JAMB and UNIVERSITIES.
JAMB already made some schools re-compile the list up to 3 times due to bottlenecks observed. This reason should make applicants know that, this is not as it used to be. Even professors are not able to even know what the content of the approved lists of so many schools look like.
CAPS from JAMB is also a big internal factor that may affect so many aspirants this year.
I think gone are those days of TOM, DIK, JACK & HARRY saying they have their own list, which they normally use to exploit aspirants.

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The University of Sheffield is offering Merit Scholarships to students from Africa and other Developing countries for Undergraduate studies at the University.
Application Timeline:
A link to the online scholarship application will be sent by email to all eligible offer holders from February onwards.
You must have received an offer by 13th April 2018.
You must choose the University of Sheffield as your firm choice by Friday 20th April 2018.
The deadline for scholarship applications is 16:00 (UK time) on Friday 20th April 2018.
Scholarship results will be announced by 16:00 (UK time) on Friday 25th May 2018............

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Yes, Definitely will be needed

All successfully admitted candidates in the 2017/2018 Lagos State University (LASU) admissions exercise (100 Level and Direct Entry) are required to pay a NON-REFUNDABLE ACCEPTANCE FEE of N20,000 as from Friday 15th December, 2017 to Friday 29th December, 2017.

Method of payment


Visit LASU E-Payment portal: http://www.lasu.edu.ng/epayment

While on the LASU E-Payment page, you are required to enter your UTME RegistrationNumber in the Column marked with Matric Number/PaymentID/Application Number.

Select “Main Campus” in the Column for “Campus”

Select “Undergraduate” in the Column for “Study Type”.

Then Click on “Proceed” to continue.

Your details will be displayed with the amount to be paid

Click the radio box “Confirm information and proceed”

An invoice with the TRANSACTION ID will be generated. Please PRINT the INVOICE

Proceed to quickteller.com/lasu to complete the payment using the TRANSACTION ID on your printed invoice
STUDENTS' UNDERTAKING FORM

ALL admitted freshmen are required to download and complete the “Students’ Undertaking Form”. The form is available at http://lasu.edu.ng/news/letter_of_undertaking.pdf

This form will be submitted along with other documents during the Central Admissions Clearance exercise

CENTRAL ADMISSIONS CLEARANCE EXERCISE (CACE)

The Time Table for the 2017/2018 Central Admissions Clearance exercise shall be released soon.

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