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Rotimi47:
I don't know him or any one of them.

However, how did you recognise or know him I dey suspect you O!!! Anyway, if true, that means Nigeria security agencies are doing a very good job to stop all these killings.


All those who fail to embrace peace in Ikorodu
and other areas should be arrested.

Let every frat embraces peace and stop all these senseless killings and reprisals.

Jesus Christ to all Nation.

#SAY NO TO CULTISM!!!!!!!!

Our pictures are different if you give a close look. Mine has a green mark pointing to him, but yours don't.
Besides I live in Ikorodu and aside I know more of what you don't know.

Passionate888:
how sure are you?

That is the guy. His gang name is armour tank. he is from Ijebu Ode. they only came to Lagos as an external for Eiye confraternity.

Oyelamioyebanjo:
Please shed more light how true is this I hope it's true

He's from Ijebu Ode, the war going on between Aiye and eiye brought him as external to kill in Ikorodu, after the mission, he fled back to Ijebu Ode, that is where he was apprehended not as armour tank but as cultists. but I'm telling you now, that, that guy with charms is armour tank.

Rotimi47:
Fake News!!!!

Here is the actual news

Police tackles cultists in Ijebu Ode, many arrested
By Uhuru Times - May 27, 2020 0359


Some of the suspects
Some of the suspects
The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday intensified efforts against cultists in Ijebu Ode, who have been on a killing spree, with the arrest of several suspects from different parts of the town.

Unconfirmed reports claim that no fewer than 10 members of both Eiye and Aiye Confraternities, who had been engaged in a supremacy battle have lost their lives. Some of those killed had parts of their bodies hacked off and taken away as trophies by the killers.

Some of the suspects


But in an operation, which began on Sunday and might have been led by the Divisional Police Officer of Igbeba, CSP Musiliu Duga, a source told Uhuru Times that many suspects are now in the custody of the law enforcement agency following quality intelligence, which led the police to the cultists’ hideouts at Adefisan, Imoru and Iwesi (off Ibadan Garage) among others.

The source said, “We got quality intelligence from the people and that is why we were able to stop these killings by arresting many of those involved. Without the information provided by the public, there is no way we would have gone this far. It is our prayer that this kind of cooperation between the police and the public will continue because we are not God, Who knows everything.”

Say No to Cultism!

you call it fake news... You don see armour tank face to face?
smiles, oga that is armour tank... and na Ijebu wey come run external for Ikorodu.

This are the guys who exhibited the act.
they are from Ijebu, they came from Ijebu to assist their members in Ikorodu.
The leader no 3 named armour tank is the one with charms on his shoulder. They were arrested at Ijebu Ode

donstan18:
You finally made it in life.

if only you give it more try, you can be more sensible than this... remember, one more try

Met with Jide Kosoko and his daughter, Shola Kosoko today at Ikorodu, Lagos State. very humble and intelligent individual!!

Please, I need to know

Please guys when is NYSC batch A 2020/2021 time table and registration coming out?

can I still be added to senate list after submission?
I'm yet to conclude with my clearance in school, and I heard senate list has been submitted but registration closes by November? so if I conclude my clearance on monday 28 can I still get added there?

please guys can I still be added to Senate list after submission?

PASSING THOUGH SCHOOL AND LETTING SCHOOL PASS THROUGH YOU.
EDUCATION IS MORE THAN AN A4 PAPER.

Awww how beautiful and superb it is to graduate with a first class or second class upper honours, so beautiful right?
Because you will have higher percentage of job opportunities and admirations, yes it is a lot of hard work and I indisputably commend your efforts because you're great, yes you've really worked hard and may God reward your hard work.

But do you know there are differences between your certificate and your personality in the world of reality? There's difference between passing through school and school passing through you.

In continuation, when you sustain a job with your certificate at a massive company, can your personality help maintain the job? What leadership quality do you possess to uplift your position in the company? What about your Communication skill? Your patience with co-worker during stress, and what about your relationship with your boss? Does your co-worker see you as a good leader or do your general manager see you as a potential good successor? What about coping with envious and jealous individuals?

All these attributes are essential criteria to unleashing the door of greatness! And you don't get all these only by A4 paper, it is not 1+1 nor calculous.

It's called self development;

Self development comes prior to experiences you've had, not just that, but how you've been able to learn from it and apply it to your everyday activities and relationship with people outside.

Like how do you handle aggression? How do you cope with stress? This is not mainly under the collection of career and work place alone, it also involves your home and neighborhood environment.

I'm not telling you to involve them in a physical combatant war, but what if that is the requirements to stop being pressed down beyond your level? And the only thing is to protect your dignity, respect, prestige, reputation and family(love ones). There's a quote common amongst comrades I had. it says " I rather die standing than live on my knees" yes it is real, learn to fight for your living.

But it's best if you don't have to go physical with them perhaps, but through your composure and intellectual approaches, no one will tell them to desist before they do. You will encounter lots of negative people who would become competitive and wants to bring you down to their level. But your SELF DEVELOPMENT AND COMPOSURE will save you not certificate this time.

As much as academic certificate is important so as self development is vital.
Most especially have God!!

And to the young ones reading this write up, please note that academic grade is very important and make you sure you have a good grade.

Thank you all!
Love you all!

lloyds:
Me judge, from the guy's write up and reponses, you can infer a good level of intelligence and knowledge. Many factors can affect one in life. . I have learnt not to be judging people, because anyone is capable of becoming anything if he wakes up.

You're amazing!!

tfash96:
The way u reason en just to use u do ritual dey hungry me

Bro check my Facebook profile to know more about me, then you will know I'm the real deal. Ebenezer Ogbonnaiye

DrObiHogan:
You're just not serious. You need to copy emails of any university you have in mind and write them messages asking all these questions and get the replies you need. You better sit up if you want anything out of this life. Start messaging universities with your questions. It seems Canada will be best place for you self.

Thank you bro. sometimes I'm being moved from one link to another and I ended up being confused. And having learnt a lot from Nairaland which has changed my life, it has prompted me to give in a try if you guys could help me, and right now, I'm not disappointed. thank you all

kfrosh:
You can start by using Google. Reword your question in so many ways. For example, WHAT NEXT after a third class degree, can I do my Masters degree in the US with a third class, where you able to get a job with a third class degree etc.

Reword in so many ways and you'll be surprised at real life experiences you'll see on links you'll be directed to. You can get a Masters degree in the US if your CGPA falls within 2.5/4 evaluating your result using WES. Or if your CGPA lies within 2.3 thereabout.

If you've got funds, doing a top up degree in a UK school will be your "bestest" choice. It goes for one year and you can do your Masters after that immediately. You can even get a First class in your top-up degree, I've seen one too many cases of such result.

So in other words, your options are limitless. It's a tough road ahead, but you'll surely conquer once you're focused and you learn from your past mistakes.

Thank you so much bro. I really appreciate your tendency towards helping me. you've really contributed a lot.

deltateam:
Abeg don't do since you don't even know the geographical location of USA. So if you go to interview and first question is: What continent is USA?

Na Europe you wan answer?

Don't judge too early dear. I was hasty in the write up, so I never had much comportment to scam my write up before posting them.

besides, don't tell me you can't offer anything meaning rather than trailing errors, shebi e go credit your account na.

YorubaWarrior:
Of course... just smash the GRE or GMAT big time..

awww... Thank you bro...
if I won't take much of your time, how much do I budget bro?

calgaryFriend:
This comment show that you have not done anything, were you expecting to read through such a thread in 1 hour and get all the information you need ?

You should spend atleast one week reading that thread and taking notes, you have to learn to be patient. Damn what is wrong with todays youths.

I have many friends whom I met on that thread now in America doing well, such a rich and robust thread, you are saying you have not got the information you need, who told you you would get the info in 1 week sef.

Those 2 threads have all the answers to your question, if you are unable to find it there then I am not sure you'd survive the rigours of graduate school, trust me.

Nevertheless, Thank you!

dhebo:
... I was surprised he still asked questions here after that guy provided not one but two links for him... Did he check it at all?

lol bro I actually did. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

calgaryFriend:
Brother, you need to learn to read, study, dig for information by yourself.
Otherwise forget about graduate school.

Some one has given you 2 links , those 2 links have invaluable information, dont be lazy start digging into them and in a little time you will be able to make intelligent decisions about how you want your life to turn out.

Not looking for information from random strangers online.

Goodluck.

Thank you bro.
I have actually done a lot of researches, but I still thought coming on nairaland and relating to the closest individuals will go a long way.
I have gone through those links too, but I can't get the specific info. as all I could come across there were only visa processing which is far from my question. after all, I needed to know if there are Universities over there that offers 3rd class degrees master before processing for my visa, and with few researches I learnt GRE is the route but I still need to know if 3rd class also could do GRE. please if you can help me with more info. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, help a brother

Having studied a course I wasn't interested in the University, I have however graduated from the University with a 3rd degree in mathematical sciences. It has been very hard for me with such degree. However, I think one thing I'm suffering from now is as a result of career dilemma, I'm no doubt a very talented guy in the aspect of creativity; I have had lots of works e.g writing and music too, which I have been highly complemented positively for by viewers on my Facebook page(My username: Ebenezer Ogbonnaiye) visit to see my works.

friends and families have been left in awe due to my level of creativity/artistry giving me the conclusion that years and money wasted in the university studying maths should have been used to pursue a career in artistry world, now I'm just helpless and confused on what to do. however, recently, I don't know how true dreams could be about reviling one's supposed career after I had a dream of being praised and listen to while singing to some group of audience and was applauded aftermath.
The specific reason I'm here is to know if my dreams could also be another way of reviling to me what I should indulge in.
presently I'm thinking of going for a PDG in the University so I could enroll in a Msc.
I'm very good in music but I don't want to put all eggs in one container to not regret my whole tendency in the end.
I need your advises please.

it will surely go a long way. help a confused soul.

iyimide:
Consider cyprus international university. They accept and the whole package is 1M

Thank you bro. and Will there be any need for PDG?

justwise:
Welcome to part 15.


I really have to thank all the contributors for making out time to answer questions here, your contributions are appreciated.

Part 14 is here for reference purposes: https://www.nairaland.com/4672093/general-u.s.a-student-visa-enquiries-part

You can also ask VO question in this thread started to help prospective students https://www.nairaland.com/2991174/u.s-student-visa-f1-m1

Part 11/12 Visa Transcripts. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vv0a0sfgaysztiq/AADbiS4UG7q57b0qcFPjaPkna?dl=0

F1 visa application link https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/study-exchange/student/

I'm open to more suggestions regarding any useful link to add to this page

Good luck!

OP please

I have an issue draining my life and my emotions. It goes thus; I have just graduated from the University with a degree of 3rd class in mathematical sciences(IT). It is so hard to accept but the deed has been done and I have to start looking forward. so, I want to make an enquiry if there's chance for me to do a master in the USA with such low degree or if they also accept 3rd class graduate through PDG. please I need your advice on this.

thank you all!

DanjaNinja:
My GRE Experience: Lessons Learnt - J.

General Tips
#Tip 1: Don’t rely on any one single book.

Each book has its strength and weakness. Combine them all for maximum impact.

#Tip 2: What books do I need?

1. Grubber 2015
2. Barron’s GRE
3. Nova GRE Math Bible
4. Kaplan
5. Princeton Review

#Tip 3: How can I get these books?

[b][color=#990000]UPDATE : January 2017:
As of this moment, the GRE materials have been deleted from both accounts by google due to Copyright violations. Nonetheless, these materials are widely available through a simple google search.

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If you can afford physical copies of these books – Sweet, go head and buy them all. But If you can’t afford any or you’re a ijebu madam like the lovely,intelligent MsNas or like myself, simply send a blank mail to selfstudy360@gmail.com or selfstudy.version2@gmail.com for soft copies (Pdf’s). #MoneyMustNotWaste

(a) selfstudy360@gmail.com contains:

• Barron's New GRE 19th Edition
• Cracking the GRE 2013
• Gruber's Complete GRE Guide 2012

While

(b) Selfstudy.version2@gmail.com (New*) contains:

• Gruber's Complete GRE Guide (2015)
• Mahanttan Prep - 5* lb. Book of GRE® Practice Problems (2013)
• Nova’s GRE Math Bible (2008)

#Tip 4: When should I take the GRE?

Take the exam at least 4 months before you plan to send your admission applications. That way, if you don’t meet your targeted score (not your portion…Oya say Amen!), you would still have enough time to retake the exam without duress. For example, if the deadline for admission application is September 15th, the ideal time for taking the GRE should be by May. The reason for this is simple: If you don’t meet ur target score, you can retake the GRE by June thereby providing ample time for sending your application. This is not a rule but a suggestion.


#Tip 5: How much time would it take to prepare for the GRE?

Minimum: 2months @ 4-5hours per day.
Note: The number of hours do not really matter, it’s the amount of problem solving skills learnt per unit time that counts. Some people learn quickly while for others, it might take longer to read and understand new concepts. So remember, 4-5hours are just recommendations, whether u spend more or less time – ultimately, it doesn’t matter. What matters is how much u learn and how fast you can correctly answer questions. If it takes u 4-5hours per day to achieve this goal, so be it. If it takes u less time, so be it. If it takes you more time, so be it. No one cares. Ultimately it’s your scores that matters.

#Tip 6: Can I prepare within a month?

Yes u can, but it’s not advisable. You need time to internalize and completely memorizes the GRE strategies.

And lastly,

#Tip 7: Don’t be deceived by your score on POWERPREP II.

You took the sample test on PowerPrep II, you had an average of 160-165, you feel good and cant wait to take the actual test. Truth is Powerprep II does not compare to the actual test. On a scale of one to ten, one being very easy and ten being very difficult, Powerprep is a 4.5 and the actual test is an 8.5. #OkBye

Now for the part you’ve been waiting for: My GRE Experience.

This is a summary of lesson learnt from my personal experience, please feel free to add your insights and contributions. Sharing is caring.

You probably know this already but just to refresh your memory - The GRE is made up of three parts: Analytical writing, Verbal and Quantitative.
1. Analytical Writing
2. Verbal
3. Quantitative

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO ACHIEVE HIGH SCORES.

FOR ANALYTICAL WRITING:

Books and Resources needed for Analytical Writing:
Official GRE Topic List (30%) + Kaplan (60%) + Barron (10%).

(a) Official GRE Topic List: GRE maintains a list of every possible topic that you will find on the actual test date!!!!!! It’s totally legal and you can find the list here:
Pool of Argument Topics: https://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/argument/pool

Pool of Issue Topics: https://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/issue/pool

The list is quite exhaustive: 200 issue task topics and 200 argument task topics. Once you have the list, group the topics into categories and proceed to (b). I believe if u know the possible questions, your chances of success should be up 30%.

(b) Get a copy of Kaplan’s New GRE Premiere and head to the Analytical Writing Section. Read, digest and understand the essay development template for both the issue task and the argument task as discussed on chapter 15 – Chapter 21 (New GRE Premiere - Kaplan 2011-2012 edition. Newer editions should be better). Don’t bother reading anything else on Kaplan, the rest of the book is useless. With the Kaplan template, you can begin to draw up possible responses to each topic category from the GRE topic list that you obtained from the GRE website. That way, on the test day, coming up with responses won’t be all that difficult because you’ve seen it all – abi how una see am?

(c) Get a copy of Barron: While this may not be compulsory, it will help you in paragraph development. Read and understand the “Claim, Grounds and Warrants” development on chapter 6 (Barron’s New GRE 19th Edition).

The last and most important step is to PRACTISE, PRACTISE AND PRACTISE. Practice using the available topics from the GRE list in a timed mode – your practice should mimic the real test. For the GRE, its 30minutes per writing task but for you, its 22 minutes. Why? It’s always better to practice with less time – It makes you stronger.

Practice with POWERPREP writing platform or Notepad to get a feel of the nature of the typing platform. Don’t practice with Microsoft Word.

One Again, PRACTISE AND PRACTISE. It’s ultra-important you do so. You can only write well by constant practice.

My Experience: I didn’t practice enough. Truth be told I practiced only once and the end result was abysmal. I could only manage one sensible paragraph for the issue task – Big Poo. The way time flies when ur messing up is simply amazing. The argument task was much better, I wrote 4 sensible paragraphs –all within 23 minutes.
Score: Surprisingly,I scored a 3 on the writing section. since the total score is the average of both scores, I assume I made a 5 on argument and a 1 on issue…lol..just my opinion.

Generally, Argument tasks are easier than issue tasks – for Argument tasks, an essay or issue with faulty premises is given; your job is to identify and logically explain them while for the Issue writing Task, you have to develop your own argument from scratch. Finding faults is easy (argument task), writing from scratch is less easy (issue essay). But for you reading this right now, a minimum of 4.5/6 should be perfectly achievable. Why? Cos you know every possible topic, you have pre-planned responses and your “hand dey hot” due to constant writing practice.

One last tip: As soon as you are done with a particular section, whether you performed well or not, it’s best to completely ignore that section, it belongs to the past - it doesn’t matter anymore. Whether you did well or not, does not matter and if you believe you didn’t perform well, it still doesn’t matter. Focus completely on the next section – You have seven (7) more sections to deal with and you need a focused, optimistic mindset to proceed successfully. There’s no use crying over spilt milk. [/b]

FOR QUANTITATIVE

Books You Need for Quantitative:

Grubber (25%) + Barron’s (25%) + Nova GRE Math Bible (25%) + Mahanttan (25%).

Do you have to read them all from cover to cover? Not really. Each book has its strength and weakness’s. You want to be prepared for every possibility. Better you write the GRE once than write it twice. Think of the cash - $200. Think of the time spent on preparation – weeks, even months and finally, think of your Goals. So grab does books and study like mad. The end justify the means.

Lesson 1: Study each question category and solve the most difficult questions you can find on that category to re-enforce your understanding of that category.

For example, if you had prepared with Grubber like I did, you will find the data interpretation, graphical and statistical questions difficult. Why? Grubber does not really delve into these sections. Barron in addition with Manhattan and Nova does a better job. So read and understand the underlying principles and skim all books for difficult questions on all topics.
Likewise, if u ignore Grubber’s Data Comparison and algebra strategies, you might not do so well. But then, there are notable exceptions. Individuals with an engineering, mathematical and statistical background would generally do better in the Quantitative section – they’ve been doing these problems for years. Also those with an aptitude for numbers would better. Does that mean those with little mathematically backgrounds would end up with low scores? – Nope. Just read up and practice, you might end up doing better than the so called Math wizards.

The GRE Quantitative consists of two sections made up of 25 questions each. Each section runs for 40minutes – that’s an average of 96 seconds per question – which leads to lesson 2.

Lesson 2: When studying and solving quantitative questions, set a time limit of 50 seconds per question and stick to it. Like previously stated, practicing with less time makes you stronger and faster.

Lesson 3: Solve lots of Quanttitative questions.

Manhanttan and Nova Math Bible offer a huge collection of quality quantitative questions. Solve as much questions as you can on both books. Luckily, if you don’t know the answers, solutions and explanations are provided in both books.

My Experience: I studied solely with grubber. Algebra and data comparison were a walk in the park but “I hear “ween” for Data interpretation/Statistics, Combinations and Graphs. On the actual test, I saw 6 hefty graphical and data interpretation problems and some others I can’t recall @ the moment. Were they super hard? – Not really but “them hard small o”. To answer them, you need to understand the question (30secs), solve for solutions (30-40secs) and compare possible answers (10secs). If u get it wrong, u start all over again. But as you start over, remember Time dey go ooooo!
That’s why you need Lesson 4.


Lesson 4:Someone on this thread advised - if you find any question difficult, simply mark that question and move on to others.. You may return to that question later. Don’t waste time trying to solve one question for over 1 minute, skip and return later. This is so true!.

FOR VERBAL

Books you need: Grubber (90%) + Barron (10%).

Honestly, You can actually survive by using only grubber. The verbal section seems like the easiest section on the GRE but don’t be complacent o! This section is pretty tricky. I remember one particular essay with about seven (7) paragraphs. It was so dense that you could barely understand the content of a single paragraph; It also felt like it was written in another language. It was that difficult.

Also,the verbal section is made up of several subsections all mixed into one. You will find sentence completion (synonyms and antonyms) and essay comprehension all packed into one.
My Experience: I scored a 157/170 – Not bad @ all given that Grubber was the sole book I used. I won’t lie, am an avid reader – I guess that helped. However, if you study the Grubber Verbal Strategies: Latin and Greek Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes; the Most Important/Frequently Used GRE Words and Reading Comprehension Strategies – You should have no problem with the Verbal section. Grubber does an excellent job by building ur vocabulary, teaching new words and providing some interesting strategies for essay comprehension.
There are other books like Princeton Review but since I didn’t use it, I can’t say much about it. This is where external input is advisable. Those who used Princeton, oya speak up.

Final Advice:
Unlike Jamb (wicked people) that provides a single opportunity to write the exam per year, the GRE gives you 5 chances per year to write the exam (better people). But because you can doesn’t mean you should. Prepare well and write it once. A score of 160 per section is totally achievable. Just read and solve a huge collection of difficult questions in a timed mode.

Oya it haff do, una bye bye, I don try.


UPDATE 1: If you had to choose one Book for Quantitative Analysis, Barron's should be it. That Book is the truth. The best GRE Quantitative prep book ever.

UPDATE 2: Added Kaplan New GRE to "selfstudy.version2@gmail.com". If you want a copy of the Kaplan GRE book, send a blank mail to selfstudy.version2@gmail.com" .

DOWNLOAD GRE BOOKS AND STUDY GUIDE HERE

OP please

I have an issue draining my life and my emotions. It goes thus; I have just graduated from the University with a degree of 3rd class in mathematical sciences(IT). It is so hard to accept but the deed has been done and I have to start looking forward. so, I want to make an enquiry if there's chance for me to do a master in the USA with such low degree or if they also accept 3rd class graduate through PDG. please I need your advice on this.

thank you all!

emmahoney:
https://www.nairaland.com/5233208/general-u.s.a-student-visa-enquiries-part

Thanks for the tread you shared, more so;
Bro can I get an enrolment with my type of grade?
and how much should I budget for?

Good evening guys.

I have an issue draining my life and my emotions. It goes thus; I have just graduated from the University with a degree of 3rd class in mathematical sciences(IT). It is so hard to accept but the deed has been done and I have to start looking forward. so, I want to make an enquiry if there's chance for me to do a master in the USA with such low degree or if they also accept 3rd class graduate through PDG. please I need your advice on this.

thank you all!

R

These Biafrans self... Best thing for Buhari to do is to enslave them, they can't form unity, it's not in them..
Either your licking asses like it or not, Jonathan and that witch will be shot live on TV and the whole Igbo land will be cleared with atomic bomb, we don't want you in Nigeria.

technuel:
If this bus is the same bus I saw at Ikeja then LSG should explain while they will import fairly used Vehicles. Just hope that one is different. And meanwhile while can't they patronise Innoson.

At this level of evisage towards a state you work at, if you still live in Lagos bros you no fit make am ooo..

comshots:
Tinubu go soon become danfo driver while ambode go be his conductor.The way Lagos state politicians carry taxi and molue work for head ehn!See air-conditioned inside passengers park.
I give those buses 5 months them go be like molue.

The reason they indepted so much attention to transport is why Lagos is a small London to every Nigerian, you envy it or not, the progress continues!