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khattab02:
Op what of Abuja National stadium? can't remember who scored there first and also Surulere.

I remember Brazil defeated SE 3-0 in the match to open the stadium in 2003 or so.

shakol91:
@ Oga jarus pls can we meet outside this forum. I need to reshape myself. I can't continue like this

Shoot me an email: jarushub@gmail.com

rioemmanuel:
Mr jarus,nice article up there.
Let me also use this medium to ask you this question that has been disturbing me for some time now.
Career wise,which do you think is the best,computer science or elect engineering.

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer.

Is this per session? Or the full grant?

I was a Chevron scholar in my undergraduate days and I was paid N255k or thereabout.

shakol91:
things dey ooo,what of people that couldn't secure admission into main campus but was told to apply to affiliated campus because of time. I can't advise my enemy to go to any affiliated campus in this country because most are incompetent and also downgrades cgpa's because of the students at the main campus. Please which way for the set of people that are in or went through this situation? @ Oga jarus

Affiliate programs are nonsense, if not fraud, almost 100% of times in Nigeria.

Jamzig1:
Thanks for your reply. pls, what posts were the physics graduates employed for in chevron and was it with only BSc.Physics they applied with or they had MSc.

Yes, he went for Msc in an electronic course in the UK after his first degree in Physics. He had first class in physics from Ife in 2005, a year my senior.

He got job with Chevron.

Unfortunately, he was the Chevron guy that kidnapped and later killed late last year https://www.nairaland.com/1203632/oluwatoyin-akanbi-missing-please

However, let me state that the purpose of the article is to look at issues from soft side, to encourage those who are studying courses they ordinarily didn't wish to study or studying courses that are generally regarded as non-marketable.

It doesn't in any way say you should not do your best to go for the course of your dream.

khattab008:
There are still firms out there that see the relevance of First Degree in a cognate field(Don't know whether there are in the majority or not).

The feet acheived by the likes of Kim and Lagarde might be difficult to reach here in Nigeria.

My point: One can't easily succeed in other fields, not related to his course of study in Nigeria.

Aig Imhoukhude studied Law. He ended up a Bank CEO (Access Bank).

I have friends that studied Agric, Chemistry, Botany etc that are accomplished accountants today.

Jamzig1:
@Sir Jarus_i have always wanted to study an engineering course, preferably civil,elect/elect,chemical engineering but unfortunately my dreams was diminished when i was offered PHYSICS in lieu of civil engineering i applied for in FUNAAB, i would appreciate your advice/mentoring

As I advised in the main article: make the best of it. I know physics graduates that got jobs in Chevron.

I wrote this for 10MinutesWith, a UK-based career and education platform.

http://www.10minuteswith.com/blog/does-undergraduate-course-study-really-matter

As an African blogger with focus on education and career mentoring, one common question I get from student readers from time to time is, “How marketable is my course of study?” This is surprising given the fact that a student is expected to know the marketability of his course of study before opting for it in the first place. But anyone that is familiar with the educational system of African countries, especially Nigeria, will know that many students are more bothered about getting admission into University than the relevance of the course of study that they are pursuing.

It is common in Nigeria for a student to apply for a certain course, say Economics, but due to the inability to meet the cut-off score for admission into the chosen department, he is offered admission to study a less competitive course, say Sociology. The implication of this is that someone that has primary interest in one course will find himself being forced, so to speak, to study another course because that was the course “given” to him by the University he applied to.

Although a few undergraduates will stand their ground and do not mind spending another year at home to retake the entrance examinations, many students take the offered courses because they are not confident that they will get admitted into their desired department even after retaking the entrance examination. The latter set of students are the ones that come to the internet to ask for the marketability of the courses of study offered to them.

But does course of study at undergraduate level really matter? The truth is, except for highly specialised professions like Medicine, Engineering et cetera, you can become almost anything without having your first degree in that line. Even for Engineering, many postgraduate schools allow you to do your Masters in engineering courses with a related Science first degree.

In some cases, you don’t even need a second degree in a specific career line before you become a professional in that industry, all you need to do is to gather practical experience or run some courses in the desired field.

The current president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is my favorite example. The Korean-American studied Medicine at Harvard Medical School for his first degree. He now heads a Financial Institution. There are many top investment bankers that studied courses that are far off from Finance or Banking. Even Christine Lagarde, the current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), another financial and economic institution, studied, not economics, not Finance, but Law, for her first degree. She is now a Finance guru.

A good number of the best accountants around the world studied Economics. In fact, I don’t usually advise my mentees to study Accounting. All you need to do to become an Accountant is to write relevant accounting professional examinations like that of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) or other recognised accounting professional exams of the local country. I have friends who studied courses as far off as Agriculture but are now working as Accountants because they wrote and passed the qualifying exams of a relevant accounting body.

First degree, most times, is just to broaden the student’s horizon, to improve his cognitive processes. It hardly determines what one goes on to be in life. This is why I normally advise young students to make the best of whatever courses they are studying and not to be demotivated by their inability to get the course of their desired study.

paulGrundy:
Seun wants to have us believe that he is an atheist so that he would dissociate himself from the changes that recently occured at the islamic section, hence driving back traffic to the religious section.

Seun has never hidden his being an atheist. He created a dedicated thread for his story sometime in 2007 or so.

Those of us that were on NL in its early days know.

He tries to maintain balance to people that don't share his belief though

Emilord:
Well mine was in 2011.I had earlier on booked a scheduled FLIGHT online.The following day which was d day of my travelling,i reached the PLACE,but i found out that my FLIGHT was abt leaving and was already full to d brim,i was like whats d heck?i approached d PILOT but he didnt reason me.
I was madtt,i rushed outside,brough a 2by2 plank,and was rushing inside only to discover that the flight has left.
That was how i missed my FIGHT,d flight was GOD IS GOOD MOTORS frm asaba to Lag.

Funny guy

I'm a last-minute person, but I've had two misses I can't forget.

LOCAL - 2010

Went to Ilorin to meet a lady I was eyeing during the time I was looking for Mrs Jarus.

I got to Ilorin airport to catch an Arik flight back to Lagos Saturday evening. I saw it taking off like this (small airport). I missed it. No Sunday flight, and I must go to work in Lagos on Monday. I passed the night in Ilorin and joined commercial bus the next day to Lagos.

INTERNATIONAL - May 2013

KLM flight to Amsterdam. Traffic and all that, got to MMIA 45 minutes to departure. The counter had closed, all stories fell on dears hear. Missed the flight. Went back home for next day flight. Paid $150 or so for rescheduling. That's about 23k. The money pain me sha.

Sibabasibaba1:
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Bros, what if we calculate it this way?:

MUSLIMS

Belewa---5.5
Murtala---0.7
Shagari—5.3
Babangida—8 years
Abacha---5 years
Yar’Adua- 3 years
Total- 27.5

Total: 54 - 27.5 =26.5

See abracadabra - wuruwuru to the answer

Shagari: October 1979 - Dec 1983 = 4 years, 3 months. That's 4.25. Where did you get your 5.3 for Shagari?


Diariz God o

karlmax2:
Uwhat of Tarawa balewa who was nigerian prime minister? And then the the prime minister was the head of government. 2 why did you not impute the amount of years these Christian heads of states ruled Nigeria?. Well if u can't I would help you

Still waiting for you to help him.


Meanwhile, let me help you too

Christians

Zik - 5.5
Ironsi - 0.5
Gowon - 9
Obasanjo - 11
GEJ - 4

Total: 30

Muslims

54-30=24

Jfrezzy:
There is some set of people here they keep claiming they school in france and spain,who cares were u school.
See people that could not pass wace and Neco opening there mouth.

It's all fun. That's the trending thing on NL. Garri once trended, FTC once trended, Nokia charger once did too.

CoolHunk:
All sweaty! Eww!!! Isn't he supposed to be married to Coach Shuaibu Amodu's daughter? Haha...I know so much about everything.

No, he married Kadiri Ikhana's daughter.

dubienatti:
Mikel holdz d record as d only African player to hav won ever trophy in Europe
UCL
ECL
EPL
F A CUP
CARLIN CUP
COMUNITY SHILD
any one still remain?




Ok.. dat stupid super cup..

E no eazy..d boy iz Gud..

Kanu also won all these.

To know their impact, look at personal stats,not team stats:


Kanu was voted by Arsenal fans the world over as 13th Best Player in the History of the team.

JJ regarded as Bolton's Greatest (or second greatest) player in their history.

JJ was the only Nigerian in the Telegraph's Best 100 player in EPL history.

Not sure Mikel will come close in similar lists, whether for Chelsea or at EPL level.

Osaze won EPL player of the month twice or thrice. Only Henry, C. Ronaldo and very few other players share that with him or have more.

Yobo rose to become Everton Assistant Captain and played every minute of the EPL for his club in 2006/2007 season or so

For me, it's in this order:

1, JJ
2, Kanu
3, Yakubu
4, Osaze
5, Yobo
6, Mikel
7, Martins

eye4eye:
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Let me let you enjoy your foolery. Sokoto State is 95% in the hand of APC. The only PDP supporters in the entire Sokoto State are the member of Sagari family

Some people don't know anything.

PDP's little popularity in Sokoto State wasd because of the popularity of Governor Wammakko and Tambuwal both are now in APC. PDP is long dead in Sokoto.

Gordieshegz:
Dude remember chemistry and physics dampened d hope of many students becoming scientists and such headed to arts and others,,forgotten so soon??for a science student to make 280 in jamb or post jamb,he or she must hav scored roughly 70 in english language...l am sure u wouldn't tell me english doesn't matter wen u talk abt being in arts..here in OAU-Ife,it has become a norm for guys that couldn't make it in sciences to transfer to social sciences,name any of their courses expecially economics,psychology,and still make a first class or second class upper cgpa...so wat r u saying?? Though every course is important in building a nation,u mustnt still underestimate the toughness of science related courses..selah!

I finished from same OAU Ife.


Yes, I agree Sciences are generally tougher than Social Sciences, but you exaggerated a little bit.

I know many people that crossed from those departments and still struggled in Economics. Students of Computer Science with Economics ( a course in the faculty of Science) do Economics subjects with us and they hardly find it easy.

Look, many engineering students don't find theory courses easy, so there is no guarantee that they will be do very well in Social Sciences.

Ever done a Psychology course?

That's mature of both sides. Traditional institutions should be mature and not nurse grudge against anybody.

Good job by both parties.

Seun's media-shyness like someone earlier mentioned accounted for his underrating.


Chude Jideonwo of YNaija/Redmedia group is another notable omission.

careersap:
This is another classic case of bitting the finger that fed you. Nevertheless, political moles should be allowed to go, but political promiscuity and rascality should be discouraged.

Who fed who?

Majority of the people that voted for him as speaker in 2011 were ACN, CPC reps and and others from PDP that refused to listen to their leadership who wanted Mulikat Akande.

He won the election of his constituency on his personal strength and reputation not because of PDP. PDP has never been popular in Sokoto state, it is personalities like Tambuwal and Wammako that gave them some influence.

Up until recently, every slight discomfort, especially having to do headache (I used to have headache a lot then), I went for paracetamol.

In fact, if you put all tablets of paracetamol I have consumed in my life in one 20 liter bucket, it will fill it up.

I recently stopped taking it except very necessary when I read it could damage the liver. I have also led the campaign against taking it at the slightest headache or any other bodily discomfort. I don't allow my people to take it except part of the drug prescribed by the doctor.

waternogetenemy:



Shut up! [b]All appointment are subject to approval by the President.[/b]

See why I quit NL politics section?

waternogetenemy:
There is no need to place too much emphasises on a gone case. Tambuwal was a nobody before GEJ appointed him speaker of House of Rep, today Tambuwal has returned back to obscurity.


The honourable thing to do Tambuwal as done in any civilised country or model democracy such as the US and UK, is to resign ur post as speaker first and then defect to the opposition.

We have examples of American Congressman and UK MPs that have done so. Defecting is not the problem but resignation? Oh well, prepare for impeachment.


Mods, I know nairaland is an APC site alongside sahara reporters but stop hiding comments that criticise APC.

See these children that don't know anything about politics.

GEJ appointed Tambuwal Speaker?

Tambuwal was a nobody before becoming speaker? Someone that has been a ranking member of HOR since 2005?

He doesn't lose anything if he is impeached. His tenure will end within few months and he will be sworn in as Sokoto State governor by same May 2015 God willing.

Ok, at worst, he will lose speakership position between now and May - 7 months.

Even Tribunal results are being rigged.

Drsteoids, I discovered I had eye issue in September 2011 when I went for an official training and couldn't read the content on the projector from the seat I sat, whereas my colleague that sat just beside me could read everything clearly. Earlier, I had noticed I don't get to read road direction messages until I get very close

I complained to my HR which gave me a letter through my HMO to see optician.


I was tested by optician and she asked why it took me so long to complain, that my eyes were bad.

I was given glasses. That's how I started using glasses. I use it only to drive, when in an event/class/programme that requires me to see long distance.

My question now is: my glasses does the job currently, do I still need to see an ophthalmologist for treatment? I have never seen an ophthalmologist. Never bothered about corrective treatment, since my glasses puts me in normal eyesight position.

I think the defenders are underrated: that Njoku girl was a beast.