₦airaland Forum

FatimaMK:
Final list is not yet out and you are talking about documentation? Documentation is for the successful applicants sir.

Ohhhh.. thanks

FatimaMK:
Oga don't argue on this. Many of my students got it in 2019 and I was the one who documented them when PTDF comes to my school. We discussed extensively on the selection process for both undergraduates and postgraduates. May be they used aptitude test before, but as far as last set of beneficiaries is concerned, it was application performance PTDF used.

Please has ptdf done this year's UG documentation? Just to get an idea when the list would be out

Dryoung1:
The final list will be out this week.....

Please is your source verified? Also would it be OSS and LSS plus undergraduates or only OSS?

yomi961:
The only solution is to vote out the demonic party.
They are not ready to listen.they only care about the elections since their children are not in government schools

This No. 11. How ironic �

Victoria ascerta!

Sinkhole is there hope? How far boss?

megastu:
Yes DM for pictures. It is a good AirBnB to stay for a short time while hunting for a more permanent house. It is 600 CAD per week with further discounts if staying for 2-3 months. Fully furnished, room, sitting room, dining, kitchen, bathroom and toilet and all inclusive.

600 cad per week? 2,400 per month for 1 bed Basement apartment?

MMalone:
What’s actually the problem please. Who can reach to them

I feel they've assumed we don't need it since ASUU is on strike. Or perhaps no means of verifying our results since NASU is also on strike.

140 out of 400? Oh wow. Sha, I trust some uni's that'll set high cut-off. I'm sure UNN will cut their normal 310+ for medicine. But where are the new students going to stay? We currently have 2 sets of 100l students pending

So it's because Aviation workers said they'll go on their own strike to show support to ASUU that all of them are waking up??

Jman06:
Your post reeks of ignorance!

A professor's work is not just to teach but also to carry out research and community services. None of these three aspects is easy nor comparable to works of a primary school teacher!

A professor teaches not only undergraduate students but also postgraduate students( Masters and PhD students). He also examines and marks their exam scripts. He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate (MSC and PhD) students during their research projects etc. Go to a typical Nigerian university and see the multitude of students a professor has to teach in a class!

A professor also has to carryout researches and publish the outcomes in reputable journals ( local and international) before he can earn his promotion. It costs a lot of money -- sometimes in hard currencies, to publish research works. Not to talk of the money spent carrying out the research. Materials like reagents, machines etc are quite expensive (where they are available at all in Nigeria). Sometimes, they are bought from overseas and you can imagine the financial implications.

Professors also carryout community services. You may doubt it, but when problems arise in the community, professors in universities are usually called in to proffer solutions. It happened during COVID19, even though they were not properly engaged the way they should due to our corrupt political system. Another instance of where professors get engaged to solve problems in the community is during poisoning outbreak. For example, there was once an outbreak of heavy metals poisoning in a state in the northern part of the country. Professors from ABU were called upon and they helped in confirming that it was actually Lead (a heavy metal) and that the source was actually from mining activities taking place there. The list goes on.

Let's also not forget that it typically takes a BSc, MSc and PhD to be in the cue for consideration for appointment as a professor while one typically needs just an NCE or at best a B.Ed to be employed as a primary school teacher. Go figure the cost of doing MSc and PhD in this country in terms of time, energy and financial commitments. Let's keep BSc out of the equation.

So, let's not be biased in our judgment of issues. Though the importance of primary school teachers should not be be underestimated, they should never be compared with the university professors. They're miles apart!

What research and community services have they rendered? Who has felt the impact? It is useless to produce work that nobody needs/reads/can even find. All these "reputable journals" were started by somebody. What's stopping them from having their own? With time and quality work, won't it become reputable too?

I dont know about you but in my school, it's mostly the postgraduate students that teach the undergraduates on behalf of "their professors"

Why don't these professors apply for grants for their research work? Is that not how its done in the West? They probably won't/don't apply/get grants because the research most of them do is of no relevance especially in the Social sciences/Arts etc. They just keep recycling the same work.

Also in those countries they keep trying to emulate, their universities are not wholly funded by the government. The professors there bring in funds to carry out their research and even pay postgraduate students to either teach/research. The only thing the government does is set a constraint/subsidise the fees undergraduate students are charged for their program. If ASUU insists universities must be autonomous, they should be autonomous in full. You can't do want you want and expect someone else to pay for it! They're being paid with taxpayers money and are keeping taxpayers children at home.

A quick Google search would've shown the source of the lead poisoning. Fact is; for workers in the public sector (not just ASUU), most times, their output doesn't justify the pay. It is hypocritical of ASUU to demand to be paid on similar levels of their counterparts in developed countries when this country is nowhere near developed. Are they the only public workers in the country? Why do they keep insisting on UTAS? Why can't they fix the problems with IPPIS and make it like their dear UTAS? After the 9 month strike of 2020 they're giving us another 6 months strike and you say they render community services? How chaotic would it be if all sectors had their own payment system?

The cost of doing BSc, Msc and PhD shouldn't pass 8/9 years in total but because of these same professors that'll go on strike, "sex for grades", "sorting" and all sorts of rubbish, people can't even estimate how long they'll stay at BSc level. Whose fault exactly is that? Student ID card has expired yet somebody is still a student.

In as much as FG is to blame here, ASUU should stop painting themselves as saints. Always talking about money that was looted as if they don't commit their own sins. Infact their meetings should be aired live on TV so the public will know what's actually going on. It's not to come out after meetings and say "agreement is on President's desk" and Ngige will reply that there's no such thing.

Jman06:
Stop comparing a professor with a primary school teacher! The scope of work and qualifications are wide apart.

A primary school teacher teaches the foundation of all subjects. You'd see one person teaching maths, English, computer, French and even religious subjects to small children that don't know right from left. But a professor concentrates only on an aspect of a subject.

The professor might have just one or two classes in a day then it's back to the office for them (that's if they even come). Primary school teachers stand on their feet all day! They even supervise lunch breaks. Have you ever spent a whole day with a child between the ages of 5 and 10 that's not yours? Do you know how active they are? Now imagine when you're in charge of a class that's 15+ in number, imagine getting them to keep quiet and learn. At the end of the month you're paid less than minimum wage and someone that's earning way more than what you're earning is keeping your own children at home and wasting your money. The structures in public secondary schools are even worse than those in the universities

What do these professors even do? Who reads their work? When Oxford professors and scientists were working on the AstraZeneca vaccine, where were they? Now they want to earn what those people are earning. Always complaining their pay is low when the entry level pay is like 150k per month (500% of minimum wage) as if its not what's obtainable in the public sector.

Ulunne777:
Fraud is converting the salary in dollars.
Every sector in Nigeria are been underpaid if you want to go that route.
Is it the same lecturers;
that hardly come for lectures
the ones that use outdated notes
the ones with nothing upstairs yet became lecturers courtesy of IM,
the ones that embezzle funds made for research purposes
the professors that'd delay a masters /phd degree program till infinity
The professors~Inec commsioners who are part of the rot in our elections .
the sex for grade ones
the sadists,
the ones you must submit tests with money,
The ones who sell plagairised textbooks and claim theirs.etc
There a re good lecturers though

Imagine where the minimum wage is 30k,yet some ppl don't earn up to that.We need better labor laws and enforcement not singling out a particular group for pity

Thank you! They're always so quick to compare their pay with UK and US professors' pay meanwhile their level of productivity is not remotely the same. Some of these lecturers sef when you see their work eh you'll be wondering. Every other sentence is quoted from somewhere. They'll have over 100 references for a 10 page research work. Before this strike, one of my math lecturers had never even stepped foot in the class. He lives in another state, he'll just send us assignments on WhatsApp through the class rep to do and keep till the day he'll come to collect all. Students are basically teaching themselves!

Or is it the ones that'll use Final year students and some postgraduate students to do their research; They'll write the background of the study, analyse the data then lecturer will come and put his name as author just because he's a thesis supervisor.

Granted, not all of them are crooks but they should stop wailing. It's very annoying. At the end, they'll rush one academic session in 6 months, collect salary for 12 months and clean mouth. Meanwhile students would pay 6 years house rent for a 4 year course. Not to talk of the wasted time and energy.

For Canada EE, you need approx 4.5m (13,310 CAD) as a single applicant (proof of funds). WES/IQAS for ECA ~$200, (your school might charge extra for transcripts) then 83k for IELTS, 5-10k for PCC, medicals (not sure, less than 50k maybe), App fees of ~2,000 CAD. Visit the express entry thread or the official website for more details. In all, might not pass 5m.

sinkhole:
Guys, this strike, na next year e go end o

Boss na you talk this tin?

edunaragold:
A determined man set up to achieve a successful goals in life ,must always come in contact with a woman along his way,that will help or distroy him.

So what do you tell your female kids?

Pogracious:
Hello please

Who can give a plug to getting a police character certificate from Nigeria. I remember somebody mentioned it but can't place my hand on it right now.

Please assist.

Thanks

If you still need this, ask on the Canadian Express Entry thread. It has been shared severally there.. even the email format

Solicitor2040:
Kindly check your portal to see if the edit botton is displayed.

It's not. I guess it's a glitch on their part

So ptdf sent me another mail which exactly the same with the last; to update profile before 11th. Who else got this?

Stargurl20:
Really?!

Yeah.. the 12 weeks extension is ending 31st

Stargurl20:
So, this ongoing strike is gonna bee extended once it expires on 14th next month? Who did we offend in this country ?

It's actually 31st of this month

Oga Justwise please come and sanitise this thread. See disgusting write ups people are posting about an entire gender from their own country all based on rumours and hearsay. This one pass hatespeech

mhosqo:
Really?
These kids on this forum sha.

Dont you think it's better to shut your gutters and be thought wise than refer me to Google?

Help if you can or shut it, not that hard.

Ha! Nawa o!! This insult is unnecessary please. She did no wrong by referring you to Google. How do you expect her to know all the US and Canadian universities that waive app fee, GRE and English tests? Even if she knows them all, where do you think she got the list from? Is it not the same Google she's directing you to? Do you expect her to do the research, write down the schools for you and post them here??

081087n:
Beautiful couple, but y always twins or more after a Long waiting?

For ivf, doctors normally fertilise more than 1 egg to have higher chances of success. That may be it (if the couple did ivf)

It's been almost 2 weeks.

tarantino1:
Very similar to what the US state early last year which means that they are yet to update it.

I see no mention of South eastern states and south western states.

You didn't see Imo and Anambra there?

Francopitch

MMalone:
When did you receive payment last year?

May.... hmm.. just realised it been more than a year

Wallflower01:
I should have done this too. Please what state are you from?

South Eastern state

Blackpromise:
Hello.
I was banned for 10yrs by the UK embassy here in Lagos on Sept 2014 ,because the VO stated that the Ghana ,Togo and cotonue Stamps I had on my Passport was fake..
Although the Ban will lapse by Sept 2024 ,but I intend to apply for a UK work VISA this year.
What are my chances and how do I appeal the ban..
Thank you.

You did not appeal since 2014, 8 years later you want to appeal
VO stated? Was the VO right or wrong? Anyway sha, you have no case. Just wait out the 10 years. Applying for work visa will just be a waste of money.

MMalone:
Hello guys. Please any updates on the payments

Hi, 2019/2020 awardee here. No payment since last year

benjamin2000:
My brother has applied for Ireland visa since March but he's not to get it's passport back.
Any news concerning the delay,I thought it was suppose to be 8 weeks but it's going to 4months now

Wrong thread. But Ireland has backlogs now so processing times have changed. Check the ministry for foreign affairs webpage to see the "date of applications" they're working on. Or you go on the Ireland visa thread

sinkhole:
just lett your bags rest for now, Na August we dey look now

Chai. Thanks oga