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nairawall: The Prepaid Nigeria GSM Card printing activities is scam.

I am trying to get somebody in Lagos to verify if truly the office they listed on their letter is real.

This is the address:
Pent house,5th floor 6 New Isheri road Ikeja, lagos

After making payment to Prepaid Nigeria, they keep coming up with all manner of excuses and this has been weeks. I am very convinced my N50k is gone. This is the account number they use in running this scam:

Ecobank( 0501042140) Okorie Vincent C
Telephone Number: 07084417543.

Those about doing business with this company should be careful.

Inemobot: Pls pals, where did Nigerian College of Aviation Technology located in Zaria? Thanks 4 ur reply.

Evagreenfields: ^ ^ sadly m in lagos.

Evagreenfields: awww thanks tho. maybe one of these days, it might happen.

Ufeolorun: Not belittling the profession,really.

Evagreenfields: on a 2nd thought, i could be your understudy watcha say?

2sexy: Whatever!

Ufeolorun: Anyone could be a data analyst except you looking for certification. I feel you don't need to go through the conventional schooling process to become a data analyst,just 1or 2 months workshop or training,books on data analysis and good excel/spreedsheet skill can can equip you with the right skills to do data


You are better of with ican cos obviously you can't become chartered in 2 or 3months and all chartered accountants are expected to know how to analyse data,be it financial or non-financial.

2sexy: Bsc or no Bsc... Who cares? I am a proud poly Grad and I will make more money in this world than most of my Bsc holders.

Does Nigeria really care about that? Where is the design, the machine, the technology, the development? Nigeria does not give a f***k who you are or where you come from.

I remember watching on AM Express a few years ago where a group of 3 UNILAG students built an hovercraft and it worked so well. During interview, the leader of the group said he has been on the project since year 1 but where are those guys today? Only God knows.

At my school in PTI, one mechanical engineering student built a one man helicopter, where is he today? Another guy in the electrical department designed and built a device that can be used lock your car even if the car was stolen and taken to Ghana, it wouldn't start.

Who cares about you? My advice to all HND holders is this, if you know your capacity and that you are very good, why worry yourself about what people think about your qualification or cert.? Albert E., Isaac Newton, Henry Ford and many more who changed the world didn't have as much education as most of us, but they did changed the way people value them. But then, we have to be in a place where the system are functioning and the basic infrastructure are available. That's why I will leave this country come 2013 / 2014. Over there you are more valued than in your own country.

Nah. . . Bsc holders can continue claim superiority, I don't give a damn. What I care about is my financial capacity, investments and businesses in the next 10-20 years from now.

2sexy: Bsc or no Bsc... Who cares? I am a proud poly Grad and I will make more money in this world than most of my Bsc holders.

Does Nigeria really care about that? Where is the design, the machine, the technology, the development? Nigeria does not give a f***k who you are or where you come from.

I remember watching on AM Express a few years ago where a group of 3 UNILAG students built an hovercraft and it worked so well. During interview, the leader of the group said he has been on the project since year 1 but where are those guys today? Only God knows.

At my school in PTI, one mechanical engineering student built a one man helicopter, where is he today? Another guy in the electrical department designed and built a device that can be used lock your car even if the car was stolen and taken to Ghana, it wouldn't start.

Who cares about you? My advice to all HND holders is this, if you know your capacity and that you are very good, why worry yourself about what people think about your qualification or cert.? Albert E., Isaac Newton, Henry Ford and many more who changed the world didn't have as much education as most of us, but they did changed the way people value them. But then, we have to be in a place where the system are functioning and the basic infrastructure are available. That's why I will leave this country come 2013 / 2014. Over there you are more valued than in your own country.

Nah. . . Bsc holders can continue claim superiority, I don't give a damn. What I care about is my financial capacity, investments and businesses in the next 10-20 years from now.

Evagreenfields: ^ ^ you have a point there. i will try to get the softwares and learn what they entail. thanks a bunch

crackhouse: is a car designer and a mechanic the same?. When i say car designer i mean the person that did the schematics design. Knowing the practicals without theory is like being clueless of the whole thing cos u don't know what happens internally.

Evagreenfields: ^^ thank you

Evagreenfields: ^^^
Thanks for the advice. It might be easy for you to say so because u have probably gathered the necessary experience(s), expertise and networking required to do that. I'm kinda fresh out of school. Rounded off nysc in Feb.

Evagreenfields: Mathematics is a very marketable course. M proud I read Mathematics and Economics @ b.sc level even though I never dreamt of it in secondary school. I also love the assumption of intelligence because of mathematics. Even though I'm yet to get a job, I'm believing God it ll happen soon.

olaezebala: Cause the only thing you can do as a Computer Engr in 9ja is replacement. Are they expected to build a motherboard or DVD rom e.t.c? They only need to know how to troubleshoot and find the faulty part of the system and go to computer village, buy the part and replace. Simple.

tanimola22: [b][/b]

Hi,

Thank you for breaking things down. In my class, we did not do the highlighted (Fotran and Pascal) because we thought they were just too antidulivian. The others were learnt and known.

And we built algorithm and wrote codes and did many more of the things you stated..

Thanks though...

T22.

EPOMA: What i don't understand about people with the bible is that they always give reasons to favour themselves, we can in as much quote other portions of the bible and say it was meant for galations, ephesian and so on. I think if we believed the bible was inspire by God,I don't think Paul made any mistake from what he said and it was for every believer

x-fire:
The basis of training BSc and HND graduates is quite different. We all know that. One should be more theoretically inclined while the other should be more practically inclined. For instance, the requirement for entry level in HND is 4 credits unlike BSc which is 5 credits. Also, there is also a wide gap in qualifications of lecturers in both institutions. For instance, I know corp members who taught in federal polytechnics and colleges of education during their service year. This can not happen in a university (at least I am yet to hear of any). Also, the universities boast of good number of PhD holders and professors. In most cases, lecturers in polytechnic have masters degree at the very best. In some cases, the only PhD holder some polytechnics can boast of is their rector!!!! Thus, eventhough the level of research in Nigeria is below par, in comparative analysis, you can't compare the level of research and academic breakthrough in a university with that of a polytechnic.
Apart from this, the brightest students go the universities, meaning that universities are generally more competitive. This increases your exposure Competition also has a way of fostering self-development.
Granted, the standard of education in Nigeria is low. But on a general note, an average federal university in Nigeria has a higher standard than an average federal polytechnic. Same for the state universities and polytechnic.
On a personal note, I have met VERY MANY good university graduates but I have interacted with only few sound polytechnic graduates. I think it all boils down to level of exposure, inferioriy complex and lack of self development.

x-fire:
Your write up shows an intense and deep bitterness and anger against Nigerian university graduates for no just cause. No hard feelings but a lot of bitter words vented against uni graduates by HND holders arise as a result of inferiority complex. In many cases and arguments that always arise, the poly graduates always start the debate. Even when I was serving, it was the HND holders that always (always and always) start the endless debate.
My own advice is that never you allow your degree, your class of degree, your type of degree, or course, etc to stop you from achieving your dreams. Look beyond the limitations and rise above it.
I have met many unsound uni graduates. I gave met many unsound poly graduates. I have met a few good HND holders. You, and not your certificate determine your future.

juman: Unfortunate, failure of clueless people turn Gen. Abacha to hero in the sight of some people.

Gen. Abacha was a baaaaaddd leader.

tanimola22: Well, I definitely don't know of others elsewhere. I only know of myself and people that graduated from my undergrad class. That said, it is my delight to let you know that I took courses in Operations Research, Design of Experiment as well as in Statistical Methods and Concepts. The courses in Statistical Methods and Concepts almost completely cover all what there is to know in Statistical Computing and Industrial Statistics at undergrad level. Might I also let you know that I had lab (computing) sessions in Statistics during my undergraduate days and each student in my undergraduate class did a couple of graded projects using the knowledge gathered during the lab sessions. I guess this is what you call 'Stats Computing'.

Of course, taking into cognizance the very definition of humility, I have done both Econometrics and Financial Econometrics at a very high and intensely competitive level (competing with students from Asia, North America, Europe and Africa) and I can humbly tell you that the knowledge I needed to understand these courses was not beyond the scope of what I learned at undergraduate level Statistics in naija. The Econometrics covered at non-graduate level is only laughable, at least in my view. It is almost a repetition of material covered in Statistics and does not always include an extension to FGLS and GLS and a host of other very important analyses that are extremely useful in Economics and which I unfortunately cannot just begin to list now.

The truth of the matter is that, faculty (professors) vary across universities and some universities, even in that same naija, are just lucky to have a near perfect combination of faculty. I know this is not the case in general, but it is true. In addition to other very important knowledge that I acquired in Statistics while in naija, the combo of Lebesgue Measure Theory and Further Probability Theory that I was so very well exposed to, remains one of the best things that have happened to me as someone who studied in naija.

T22.