₦airaland Forum

Renzel:
Lol. Have they paid their 2016 scholars?

lol The advert is like "one chance "

D9ty7:
5. Lion king
Just like King Kong, Lion King is not even a human king. The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Where is Rev King?

just waka pass con rid comit Di pen on whu?

DreManuel:
Is it possible to hold PTDF scholarship plus some other financial aids say Fellowship from the school of your choice, TA/RA, etc?

I know PTDF says it is not allowed but do they really follow through?

No, bro. PTDF will pay your school fee directly to the school's account. So there will be clashing in your account with the school.

hadigirei:
Ask the person. Its still in his mails then.

Finally, I got the pin. Thanks, once again.

PhD interview I don ready for una

tundeloveday:
I think i should mention, after much restrain, that you and others carrying this notion are in a sorry state of mind, with due respect. And i hope you will give chance to people who still have faith in the system to adequately prepare for the exam. Many of these people here will appear on next year's trend discussing on how to write the test again not because it is rigged but they kept rigmarolling instead of having 'just a little faith on the system, no thanks to the quoted text on this message. You must agree with me that the list brought out by Ptdf is merit ( about 175 of them). If the problem is how manage there are more people than 175 being sent for study, then maybe u need to know more. Ptdf scholarship board is a channel for awarding nysc presidental scholarship, tetfund, pressid of blessed memory and federal government scholarship or so. In as much as i agree with you in airing your opinion, i hope i have convinced a few people who would rather have been discouraged by comments like this. The system still works.

It seems you are deluded with what we are discussing. Did I say it is not working? It does work but too many corruption. Having faith in the system is giving scholarship to who merit it. There should be no back doors of whatsoever, in as much as we are equal before the law.

Bro, each of these you mentioned has their budget, right. PTDF fund is not for Tetfund. Perhaps, Tetfund is for lecturers. Stop confusing yourself, thinking, we are discouraging anyone

toprealman:
6 modules out of?

10! my guy just come UK con flex.

DreManuel:
I recall during my youth service in 2012, I had an idea of designing and fabricating a model Solar Dryer for Agricultural products in rural areas. Thinking that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will be a condign sponsor based on the scope of the project, I approached the ministry with my well articulated proposal and budget.

After about 3 months of follow-ups and few weeks to my POP when NYSC was on my neck to deliver the project, I eventually got a response from the ministry and it was; "this is not part of our mandate". That left me wondering what the mandate of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development could be if it can't sponsor a project of designing a Solar Dryer for Agricultural Products in Rural Areas. The irony frightened me. And how much did I budget for? A "whopping" NGN15,000. Enough said.

That leads me to your concerns: if we extapolate my experience to the LSS, we can see some parallels. It seems to me that LOCAL projects that cost so little sometimes are the most difficult for the decision makers to fund (whether such budgets are difficult to inflate and misrepresent, your guess is as good as mine), and some boondoggles get easy nods.

Again, the fact that the best Paediatric graduate from Uniport recently got ONLY a prize worth NGN 250 (yes 250 Naira!) speaks volume about how much we value merit in this land. Enough said.

I feel your pain, bro. These organizations are scam, especially, when you have no god-father. What they publish on the dailies is different from what you get, deceiving people. If they say 50, expect 150.

passedpawns:
The lss fraud is massively dispiriting. Back in 2013/2014, different schools hosted different programmes under ptdf lss.
Uniben hosted chemical engineering, university of Ibadan hosted petroleum engineering, uniport hosted petroleum geoscience, etc.

I wanted uniport and so I had to settle for petroleum geoscience, even though geoscience wasn't what I wished for. On that note, I downloaded and printed two petroleum geoscience textbooks to help secure the scholarship.

It is noteworthy that the exams for oss and lss were not merged back then. After the shortlist of successful candidates was released and oss wrote their exams, it became due for lss to follow suit.

On one fateful day, in the plot of still awaiting the lss exam and engaged in further studies, i decided to resume my habitual net surfing for general updates. Behold, I saw a headline about list of awardees for ptdf lss. I quickly contacted some prospective scholars to ask if they either got invitation or heard of any interview for the lss, but they all affirmed negative.

I felt utterly disappointed. My pain augmented when I bitterly went through the list of awardees to see some manipulations: the uniport awardees were petroleum engineering students, not petroleum geoscience!

After recovering from the shock, a former classmate called me to inquire if I would be interested in buying ptdf oss slot for N600,000.00. That was the point where I became totally broken

However, it is also true that there are genuine scholars in the ptdf scheme.

Absolutely, corrupt organisation. That's what they do.

cc150615:
Actually I know quite a number of overseas scholars that still have some hitches with their payment too. I'm beginning to lose hope in the whole ptdf thingy....after all the hype we used to hype them.

you mean presently studying overseas, right?

Bro, don't lose hope. There are merited guys, just that, they are denying some that merited it over 'employee slot thing'

wasted life

BBBlaze:
Issorite!

inother news

One pastor said naija situation will be worse, if buhari doesnt stop fighting corruption...

so where do we go from all this?

Ask those pastors if they ever have faith? lifting spirit will always encourage drowning spirit that there is hope in the midst of challenges.

toprealman:
Quote me, the merit list they release is only a mere fraction compared to what they actually sponsor.

Sure!
I was mad inside but I could not act otherwise. one of them failed woefully. It is very shameful.
This guy failed like six modules or so.

jpphilips:
Learn not to misinform people in public, the foreigners own the facilities in part while they are allowed to operate them.
A child born in Bonny RA has not seen black out in the last 10yrs. A child raised at the Iboe quarters havent seen blackout in the last 15yrs. A child raised in the Shell RA ph has not seen blackout in the last 20yrs, At the Eni Rumuolumeni RA, should be 15yrs or more, All in Nigeria, Ask around. Care to tell the one you claimed to visit?

Oga, what have I said that misinform people reading my comments. If I may ask you which power grid were they connected? wasnt it from gas plant generator? learn to understand argument. Sure, it was shared project, but being operated by foreigners. And again, those facilities you mentioned are owned by the foreigners. Did you know shell sold almost all their facilities in warri,Delta state?

I don't need tell you my ego since you have one. Go ask who own those fore mentioned RAs.

jpphilips:
So the one you visited is owned wholly by foreigners?

let's not drag this issue. Government is not ready to work.

toprealman:
Please talk am again make one "TheScrypt " wey de over educate hear am!

Frankly speaking, this is not hear say from someone, I met these two categories confession, as in, during my program.

jpphilips:
Have you been to any of such facilities to be sure you understand where im driving at?

yeah

Zaitoon:
@ the bolded, the same way Christianity has blocked your sense of reasoning

Did you ask question why "Islam" should be used to express issue of health.?

jpphilips:

Those facilities are operated by foreigners so what has the Nigerian government got to do with it?

I will say the facilities are owned by foreigners and have powered their work stations. The issue with Nigerian government is, they never ready to make electricity project work.

TheSCRYPT:
They (PTDF) have not paid a single LSS from the previous batch, hope you know that?

Just passing.

I think that PTDF is marginalising the local scholars. I am yet to read one from foreign scholars on here.

What pained me most is seeing PTDF giving scholarship to someone who didn't write the test or interview. And, most importantly, to someone who does not merit it.

jpphilips:
I really dont care how they do it, but Nigerians must know there are several places in their country with constant electricity supply, BTW most facilities are powered by gas turbines what do you think GE is doing in Nigeria?

That is why I said, the leaders are trading with the project. GE is one of the largest producer of turbine engines, of course, they are here to do business with Nigerian government, of which, if government really mean business, constant electricity is possible but it is all about trading to loot our money.

jpphilips:
Light never goes in any oil producing facility in Nigeria, you guys scare me with this electricity thing.

Oil producing facility used recycling product to generate the power for the industry but it's not same for the environment. What I will want you understand is, the leaders are trading with the project of generating electricity.

Hymns in heaven for the overcomer.

omobs:
if I dey read una post,body just dey sweet me,anybody wey say nah naija be the best, that person nah *****, abeg fvck naija,me tire for everything here,and one idiot go thief 47million dollars lock inside room,I just waste my one year say I dey serve this nonsense country,abeg make person do enter Yankee,even if nah Syria or yemen

una two funny fur ear. which one con be Syria, again. dat one na from frying pan to fire.

ephi123:
How exactly does asking EFCC to act professionally translate to tribal sentiment?

Go read the acts.
Those information you hear are by-product of the media.

ephi123:
No one is saying anything is easy, but they should get their investigations done and finished before throwing info out there. That is like basic common sense for their line of work.

Have you ever read EFCC act? Don't be clouded by tribal sentiment.

ephi123:
They are not simply humans, they are humans who have (or should have) been trained in the basic tenets of their job.

Do you think making or creating investigative evidence is simple to come by? It takes time and patience to lay hold on these criminals.

ephi123:
Drama drama drama

So EFCC can not carry out a proper investigation and identify the true owner of this money? That means their level of professionalism and expertise is even worse than i thought. They should continue releasing a new name per day, we are all waiting.

relax! EFCC are not spirit, they are human like you. You just give them time, you will understand, there are more to the drama.

Nigerian police = illiterate, uneducated, and untrained officers. Majority of them have no clue what is it written in Nigerian police act, let alone Nigeria's constitution about ethics and professionalism. They think putting on police uniform is to intimidate

Set of zombies.

ifyain:
All these for a dead white man?

No! for Jesus, who died for you and me.

obisesan2016:
Hi am interested phone no 08022838304 I have 15year working experience

Go guy!

GameGod:
Afterall stealing is not corruption.

says PhD holder. Even toddler knows stealing is a vice of corruption.