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Baba wants to bribe ppl you try sir.

CodeTemplar:
Exactly!
The bishop has a better idea about making a Nobel laureate than what most people may realize.

One of the reasons Oyedepo is a role model to me is he has a way of identifying successful things and replicating it.
His thought process can be summarised into this "if that man can do this to get that result then i can copy what he did and get his results" Case study: his replication of Yongi Cho's 1 million congregation operations. The resemblance between Covenant and ORU is extraordinary, from compulsory chapel attendance to corporate dressing, the entrepreneurial drive of stanford. Till today Covenant doesn't take transfer students - even from the USA and never awards honorary degrees(deliberately cultivating prestige).

He followed Harvard's principle of not venturing into programmes they were not prepared for. Reason, why CU(richest private school) has never never ventured into Law or Medicine. It is not fear but strategy-A strategy that works for Harvard till tomorrow. When he declared Vision 10:2022, i'm sure NUC must have thought Oyedepo has actually gone mad No the man went and printed the vision everywhere on campus and kept repeating it to NUC anytime they visited. He led the management team to keep looking at the vision. I felt sorry for him that day he declared the vision. My lecturer was alarmed and felt insulted by the declaration of that vision, but today he is busy jumping telling everyone that CU is doing well. Now i don't feel sorry for him again. I now understand ridiculous ambitions are part of the 'Covenant Spirit'.

Oyedepo once said on visiting ORU, Texas. "If Roberts can build this here, then it can happen anywhere in the World". Today CU has surpassed the University on which it was spiritually modelled after-at least by Times Higher standard - very soon i would complete a book titled ....... becauae i am convinced he is a visionary radical.

Lee kuan yew of Singapore rarely did anything new to advance Singapore. In his words we simply copied other people's template and finetuned it to our own local need. This is the same brain power behind China's rise to prominence, they identify a problem, they study solutions of others and they go after it with everything they have. Case in study: China discovered its universities where lagging behind on all fronts. The country declared the "double first class mandate" which mandated 42 of China's best university to overtake western ones. Today, for the first time Tsinghua university China has surpassed Ntl Uni of Singapore as the best Asian institution and is coming close to Harvard and the likes while surpassing many other ivy leagues.

You can see what they are trying to do with their football league. China doesn't wait for the wind of positive change, they force it to blow in their direction.

That JF Kennedy's visionary spirit which says "Russia sent a man to the Space then America must send a man to the Moon" is very absent in Africa's leadership, dying out in Europe and on standstill in USA. And when few people try to stir the waters here in Africa we tell them many reasons why they can never succeed because we are too familiar with serial failures in govt.

Ifelola Olaleye

The university should set it's gaze on Economics. Economics is a good place to start. The only problem would be in the area of policy adoption...


Africa is a fertile ground for Nobel Prizes because of the many challenges bedeviling the continent, so if the school can nurture specific young lecturers in Economics to pick up a problem and go after it with maximum vigour propelled by a funding pool larger than what they need, they would definitely come back with that coveted prize.

Sirheny007:
And if it does not come to pass,
we shall proceed to count it yet again as one of your many prophesies which did not come to pass.
Alleluia.

That is really not just a prophecy but a visionary drive. The University has a solid strategic plan on how to bring this to reality.

And you would be amazed what Nigerian lecturers can do when backed by solid funding. The church is very willing to bankroll this venture. If anything i am very certain CU's dept of Economics has what it takes to produce a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics.

This USA sha

Olympics(Sports) they lead
Education they lead
Defense they lead
-Truly the greatest Nation on Earth.

Nn

The Nobel Prize is the most distinguished and coveted global honour. First awarded in 1901, it has recognized individuals and groups from over 30 countries or territories. In the 104 years of its existence, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to close to 1,000 laureates. The Nobel Laureates can be groups or individuals. There have even been multiple time nominees and awards. The highest number of recognitions has been given to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It has received the Peace prize three times in history.


History of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize was created through the final will of Alfred Nobel, an accomplished Swedish inventor. Although Nobel’s will was read after his death in 1895, it was highly controversial and took six years before the awards came into being. The Nobel Prize recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of various aspects of culture, science and academics. In Alfred Nobel’s will, he dictated that the interest from his estate fund will be awarded to those recognized in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Medicine and Peace. In 1968, a further category of Economics was introduced after the Central Bank of Sweden made a donation to the Nobel Foundation.


The first multiple recipient of the Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, a Polish-born and naturalized-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radiation. Curie’s awards were also unique because she received the prizes in two different categories. In 1903, Marie Curie, alongside her husband and another physicist were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. This was in recognition of their achievements in studying the radioactive behavior of elements and successfully isolating isotopes. She repeated the feat in 1911 by winning the prize in Chemistry after isolating pure radium. The Curie family in total has had five Nobel Laurates.


Nobel Prize Winners By Country
The United States is the highest Nobel prize winning country, with a total of 368 winners. The majority of these prizes have been in the Nobel Prize for Physics. It is commonly thought that the access to improving technology has led to this accomplishment in the US. As a matter of fact, the only category of Nobel Prizes in which the North American country doesn’t lead is the Nobel Prize for Literature. France has the highest number of recipients for the Nobel Prize for Literature, with 16 Laureates.


Famous Nobel Prize Winnners
The Nobel Peace Prize is usually seen as the most coveted prize for both individuals and organizations. It also has a reputation of throwing surprises in the annual event. In the early years up to the Second World War, the Nobel Peace Prize was always awarded to diplomatic mediators and anti-war activists. However, as the 20th Century progressed, the type of nominee and Laureates diversified to works done in other humanitarian ventures. An example of a distinctive Nobel Peace Laureate is Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. He believes that economically empowering rural women will help to eliminate the poverty experienced in his country.


Perhaps the most famous Nobel Peace Prize Laureate was Nelson Mandela, the first president of post-apartheid South Africa. He jointly received the 1993 Peace award with Frederik de Klerk for their efforts in ending apartheid in South Africa. The anti-apartheid efforts in South Africa had earlier seen Reverend Desmond Tutu being awarded the same recognition in 1984.

https://googleweblight.com/i?u=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-30-countries-with-nobel-prize-winners.html&hl=en-NG

Codetemplar lalasticlala

CodeTemplar:
What is the point of govt stifle the cement competition and make dangote artificially rich while citizens are homeless?
Is that a example of Dangote making life easier?

Truth be told a Dangote doesn't do to well with competition. And while his companies have brought so many jobs to Nigeria we can't deny that the lack of competition which is a product of govt stifling opposition does a lot of harm...

CptCharlesVane:
Same egos rate federal universities with antiquated libraries and systems over CU that is in record time making remarkable strides. Save for their priggishness, and fundamentalist approach, CU is a very good university for acquiring knowledge.

We could argue about the so called roadside unis in Europe but I digress. Yes, universities are not businesses to yield ROI like the model nigerian private universities use but at this time in our history, more universities are always better than few.

You are right, CU is quite fanatical. Hopefully, the University would grow beyond that soon. The decision to allow the private sector in the educational landscape was quite late but i believe it would yield the needed as more Nigerians come to embrace it as the future.

Fyi0:
UNIPORT

Lol very funny.

rhajaan:
I laugh when other tribes see Northerners as unintelligent Abo..kis....they are silently taking over their educational structures from Southern bred academics and professors...see the amount of scholarships offered to their indigenes.....
They would have gone for good southern professors...but they know they would dominate and Populate their system with southern brethren, knowing fully well they(Northerners) cannot do this in the south ...rather they went for foreign Profs. who would not care about domination but would mentor the Northern academics.

Take a look at Ekiti for example and see how the educational structures are rapidly falling. If you have ever schooled up North...there is a systematic plan to have Northerners...foreign trained and obviously better...to take over from southerners in most Universities... eg ABU and BUK...

I hope other states wake up...

I see it, but they are majorly doing it in a crooked way. UI doesn't enjoy nearly the amount invested into ABU. Over the years, the Min Of Education, NNPC and CBN have given ABU some very suspicious level of funding that other universities down south are not priviledged to.

BUK's solar electricity project is so massive and bankrolled by govt apparatus. I wonder if southereners realise this silent mandate by the North to give advantage to themselves as regard educational institutions. But know this while Southern public schools may be deprived of the level of funding in Northern schools, the private sector led education sector is clearly dominated by the south, from primsary to tertiary level.

CptCharlesVane:
How many of the US institutions have you been to? 70% you say Universities that are part of striking ASUU I understand if you want to stoke your ego but on what basis is UI better than any even lowest ranked US university that could be a1,000 times better funded than UI?

Looking into STEM fields, what equipments are in UI and how much access is a regular student granted? XRD, NMR, MS or MM modelling software. For chemistry in labs abroad, acetone is used to wash glassware, like it's free and you could use up infinite amount of solvents learning the ropes for flash chromatography.

I'm sure you're trolling, if not then I wonder. How much goes into education in Nigeria? How much external funds does UI get how much is internally generated and how often and much do the staff get payed and owed? A cursory look at universities website tells a lot and when did they start using one. I suggest you read an article by Pius Adesanmi on Education and universities in Nigeria. How many foreign students are in Nigerian unis, you think if it was so good even in West Africa there wouldn't be lots of foreigners here?

Say what you know and be proud of your uni but don't talk about what you know nothing about. If you compare universities like high schools, based on students and alumni performance as a result of teaching, perhaps. but universities are mainly the birthplace of new knowledge and you damn need a whole lot of money for that.

I'd rather send my ward to Ghana for an education than Nigeria. Simple transcript and responding to emails they need genuises for that.

** There's a researcher who collaborated with a professional association of scientists to send old model lab instruments that have been replaced to African universities for very subsidised rates, sometimes even for free. They occasionally come around to teach your uni professors how to operate old low resolution models of spectrometers.

Nigerian universities are based on rote memorisation that's why AW on GRE record low scores. We were never taught or encouraged to question, just follow, do as I do. That's why you have professors with huge egos abusing students in Nigeria.

You can memorise how an electron microscope works but can you deduce the principles behind it and why one is needed in the first place to build a better and more affordable based on paucity of funds in the 3rd world. Raman was Indian and developed Raman Spectroscopy in India and won the Nobel Prize that's how you measure universities (Places where knowledge is generated that becomes useful for future inventions) how do you do that with hungry lecturers, can you even do research without funds? but even then our tertiary institutions began in the 60s, while universities have been in existence way before the 10th century.

Tip for you: go to a university where there is more money per member than big ego 'prestigious' universities that strike over workers emoluments.

You are quite right. For instance, when Covenant attempted to start medicine they understudied their foreign counterparts, but when they saw the requirements of creating a World Class Medical program they simply backed out - temporarily. Yet, Covenant is more or less the richest institution in the country. A small replica of University Of Wisconsin - Madison's molecular laboratory at CU cost over 250 million naira.
So Universities are fund consuming machines and i would understand if many of them here find it hard to compete with the foreign ones. Nevertheless, there are roadside universities in Europe and USA too. I believe in the next few years Covenant and soon to be Dangote university would be Nigeria's flagship universities.

This is not the kind of story haters of the church will like to hear lol.

The Redeem christian church of God has awarded N300 million scholarship to 694 students of the Redeemers’ University in Ede, Osun state.



The list of successful candidates for the RCCG – RUN scholarship has been published already on the University website (www.run.edu.ng)

The scholarship was awarded to students that are children of RCCG members, RCCG ministers and workers, RCCG part-time pastor, RCCG full time pastor, spread across all 100 to 400 level of the institution.

https://www.kemifilani.com/2018/10/rccg-awards-n300m-scholarship-to-694-redeemers-university-students.html

Lalasticlala codetemplar

Benefits of having a Nigerian billionaire as an indigene of your state.
Lalasticlala

Are you serious, so you wasted my data because of an increase from 11,000 - 23,000. Like are you guys freaking serious? The majority of you guys use phones worth way more. Your cummulative data in a year is probably worth more.

Don't give us that "Nigerians are poor crap". If you take an holiday job you would definitely be able to afford a part of it and then you can complement it with your parents give to you. Nobody should come here to complain about school fees not exceeding 30,000 naira.

Instead of you to celebrate your university, asking them how they manage to keep the school running with such low fees you are here rambling.

It seems you don't know it would take the current annual school fees of 70 unilorin students to pay one professor's monthly salary. And 840 students annual school fees to pay one professors annual salary...

Inasmuch as we don't want govt to leave the poor behind, pls do not be ridiculous. Any school fee lesser than 30,000 is fair on the part of govt and the university.

ASUU is crazy! Manufacturing lies to manipulate the Nigerian public. Truth be told 26% is an unrealistic budgetary allocation for Nigerian edu sector. What then would health, works, power get?

Stories by Dayo Adesulu


UNESCO Consultant and former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola has disputed claims making the rounds for years that UNESCO recommends 26% bugetary allocation for education in every nation.He noted that having consulted for UNESCO for years, he can authoritatively say there’s no such recommendation.He said: ”There is nothing like 26% budgetary allocation to education recommended by UNESCO anywhere, you can’t get this anywhere” Okebukola who spoke in Lagos to journalists during Caleb University convocation recently said the talk about 26% budgetary allocation to education began in 2001 when he was the scribe of NUC stressing “Seventeen years ago, I was executive secretary, NUC and kept hearing this and I was like, where is this one coming from?.

I have been consulting for UNESCO for years, I have been writing on funding university education everywhere and you are talking of 26% , where is it coming from? In October, there was a UNESCO general conference, the minister and I went to the director general of finance and asked about the 26% budgetary requirement and he said which 26 percent is that? I also took another minister, a woman there, when we had another conference two years later and they said there is nothing like that. ”When you keep telling lies everyday, it becomes like truth. Go to Ghana and anywhere else in the world, check the literature, you will never find it anywhere else except in Nigeria where they are talking 26% budgetary allocation to education and because it’s coming from the unions in the educational system, people will think it’s true and the public is also quoting it.

I just laugh when I hear about it, there is nothing like it anywhere except in Nigeria”. Okebukola who believes that peging national education funding at 26% could be adeguate or inadeguate, however said that funding should be measured on the basis of needs.He added ”When people are talking about measuring your needs and addressing the funding to meet your needs, such needs could be 50% or 10%. I have been priviledged to participate in at least two UNESCO global conferences and when it comes to issues of funding, we don’t recommend 10 % or 30% globally. We only encourage member states to provide financial resources for their education sector in a way that will meet the peculiar needs of each country”.

On whether our education standard in Nigeria is falling or not, the former NUC scribe posited that the standard is rising and not falling.He said: ”We do have standards and our standards are encoded in what is known as the benchmark, minimum academic standard for all the courses that are taught in the Nigerian university system.

’’According to him, any student in any of our 165 universities who wants to take a course in history, philosophy or medicine, the standards are already there. ”The standards are the courses that you must take and the content of the topics that you must take within the course.The standards are the offices that should be available for lecturers, the proportion of books relative to students, the furnishing of classrooms relative to the population of students, the proportion of professors relative to senior lecturers and all that should teach you all the programme, so we have all these standards laid out.


”Every university will now have to subject students to those standards. What has happened is that the standards are rising and not falling, they are being enhanced by the day.Professor Abubakar Damu Rasheed, the current Executive Secretary of NUC is on the match, on a revolutionary match to improve quality in the university system and standards are now being enhanced. If you look at the standard at the end of the year, you will see that they are richer and higher in terms of scope than the ones we had before. So, when the standards get to the universities, the lecturer who will teach them or teach a topic in the curriculum at Caleb will be different from the one at the University of Ibadan. ”The way I will teach the topic will be different from the way the lecturer in the University of Ibadan will teach it. You expect also that there will be exposure of students to practical work, because of a number of things, chief of which is resource handicap.


Our public universities are not able to provide laboratory experience, taking example of sciences to implement the standards. At the end of the training period at the point of graduation like this, if you can get a student from the University of Port Harcourt, Ibadan and Caleb University, you will expect that they should have the same theoretically but practically, you will find out that on account of all of these variables it’s relative. The other is interruption of academic calendar. ”It’s a four-year program, there is a strike in between and when the lecturers come back, they would want to cover a thirteen-week semester in three weeks. The standard is not covered for the graduate. In our private universities, it’s a lot better for a number of reasons. You have better student-teacher ratio and staff who are able to address individual needs of students unlike the public universities where you have large number of pupils and staff discipline is weaker.


”In Caleb University for instance, God helps a lecturer who just vamoses. The students will make noise and when you tell parents, they say they are paying a lot of money here. So, there is tighter control in the private university system. What I am saying is generic , because we have a hierarchy where the private university system or sub-system is doing better in terms of production of quality graduates than public universities. I can assure you here that if you look at the report of the Vice Chancellor where many of our students are doing well all over the place, look at Covenant, they are all doing quite well over there too”.


Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/theres-nothing-like-26-unesco-funding-requirement-anywhere-okebukola/

Lalasticlala

nwabekeyi:
world biggest hospital? Error 404

world largest university? please next

world largest research centre? lolz

world largest orphanage? lwkmd

world largest church? yes, God be praised

this country has a fundamental problem

It is you who has a fundamental problem. What has your islam or atheism done for Nigeria in comparism to the awesome stuff that Christianity has done?

Have you seen the Catholic hospitals scattered across Nigeria. Or have you seen the ECWA e.g Egbin or Jos Hospital which has been serving Nigerians for years.

The current best university in West Africa is founded and partly funded by a Nigerian Church.

One of the biggest research centers in Nigeria is owned by Covenant university and funds the majority of multidisciplinary researches in Nigeria.

Are you telling me you are ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of Orphanages in Nigeria are affiliated with Churches or founded by Christians inspired by biblical charity.

There is not one single indigenous private organization in Nigeria that funds research more than David Oyedepo Foundation - quote me anywhere.

Churches are one of the most relevant movers and shakers of the real estate/construction sector. Their property acquisition/disposal as created huge wealth for many Nigerian companies. Their rate of property development has created many jobs and has helped the economy in many ways - let us not forget that these churches take much of their revenue from foreign nations and spend much of it here. So pls shut up and elect a sensible govt and stop wailing on nairaland

Congratulations to Dunamis. This one is twice bigger than Faith Tabernacle.

ObaKlaz:
You'll never find one comment from Mr. Seun Osewa here, because it's not a Christ/Christianity-bashing thread, and because ISLAM is involved.

Na they all lose their voice when Islam is involved. Nobody wants to die I, myself cannot criticise islam in the open.

Oga Seun pls leave islam alone, you can continue attacking Christianity - the soft target.

Where Islam Grows Freedom Dies - Islam is the single greatest threat to human life today. It has made women widows and children orphans.

It's unfortunate how 1.7 billion ppl got themselves entrapped with it. Most times i just feel pity for these ppl.

I Just imagine what countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia etc would look like without Islam.

Where Islam Grows Freedom Dies - Islam is the single greatest threat to human life today. It has made women widows and children orphans.

It's unfortunate how 1.7 billion ppl got themselves entrapped with it. Most times i just feel pity for these ppl.

I Just imagine what countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia etc would look like without Islam.

I pray for peace in their family.

Establishing a university is no joke. It is a legacy project. If you want your name to stand the test of time, establish a university. So that's is the price you pay to join the league of John Harvard, Leeland Stanford Jnr, Carnegie Mellon, Vanderbilt etc.

ABUAD

Chief Afe Babalola has said that he sold his properties in Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja and London as well as emptied his bank account to establish the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD).
The founder of ABUAD stated this at the weekend during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Afe Babalola University Agriculture Expo (ABUA-EX) where 48 farmers across the 16 councils of the state received N6 million from the legal icon to expand the scope of farming.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) described himself as a fulfilled man, having succeeded in touching lives positively.


While warning on the consequences of neglecting agriculture, the university administrator said that Nigeria risks becoming a beggarly nation by taking farming for granted.

He lamented that the youths were not interested in agriculture, noting that they were already having the wrong notion that farmers belong to the lowest rungs of the social ladder.

Appealing to the Federal Government to re-establish the moribund Education Bank and rename it Education and Entrepreneurial Bank, for undergraduates to have access to loans for their education and go into enterprises after graduation, to reduce unemployment and hunger.

“It is imperative that we revive agriculture to ensure that Nigeria regains its lost glory in that all-important realm and in the overall interest of the people, as any nation that pays little or no attention to agriculture does so at its own peril of becoming a beggarly nation.

“When I started, virtually all the courses were subscribed to by admission-seekers, with the exemption of agriculture.

“Even the second year, we had less than 10 students and then thought of how to give incentives to our youths. This made me to reduce the tuition fee by 50 per cent; and if you graduate with good grades in the College of Agriculture, you will get N250,000 to go into farming, because I believe in the slogan ‘no farmers, no nation’.

“Before I established this school, I emptied my banks after selling off my property in Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja and London. But I am happy today that all stakeholders had described this university as the fastest growing in Africa.

https://m.guardian.ng/features/i-became-poor-to-establish-abuad-says-babalola/

Lalasticlala

White people and their wahala. Why not find a space to put ads on it neatly. If you think the income it generates is too much then send the excess over to Haiti or South Sudan instead of turning yourselves to beggars.
I'm sure less than 0.00001% of Nigerian internet/wiki users would ever consider donating.

Useless govt always looking for ways to vilify christianity

Believe me, you should rather be more concerned about giving that same advise to your imams and alfas who radicalise boko boys against innocent Nigerians. Fake prophecies are opinion, it is certainly nothing comparable to the level of islamic indoctrination and brainwashing going on in northern states which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Nigerians.

Few months to election and he has finally regained his voice.

Lalasticlala