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Nigeria is no doubt a country of people with diverse culture and traditions and it has remained a major part of their lifestyle and belief, which inherently influence their social views vis-a-vis social class, leadership and life’s attainment. Among the most revered social status for many culturally ingrained folks in Nigeria, is the position of a traditional ruler. Traditional rulers are heads of independent states or communities that existed before the formation of modern Nigeria. In the days of native authorities, they can compared to your typical today governors who oversee the smooth day to day activities of their clans and domains, and are also strong custodians of culture and traditions that have continued to succeed one another with history and time.

The position of traditional rulers in Nigeria has witnessed tons of powerful men and women who before royal class have done well for themselves in their chosen fields. In the olden days we have had many who were priests, hunters, farmers, business persons etc. And in the present day, we have too many Kings who are Retired Military generals, Medical doctors, business moguls, Professionals, accomplished bankers, successful lawyers and most respected Rtd Judges and many from diverse fields of human endeavors sitting on the thrones of their fore fathers, and education has continued to be a big attraction to royalty in Nigeria.

Gone are the days when royal fathers are too crude and uneducated but today, monarchy has witnessed almost best of men on thrones. And it is interesting to see scholars not found wanting in this regard. In the last 5yrs, the Nigerian traditional leadership class has added many numbers of university professors to the royal lines more than ever in Nigerian history and they have continued to put their scholarly wisdom to good use for greater benefits of their subjects and could be better put as perfect blends of tradition and modernism.

Naijalocals here, have put together 10 Nigerian Kings who are Professors across different tribes and ethinic groups. Have a look…

1.THE ASAGBA OF ASABA, HIS ROYAL MAJESTY, OBI CHIKE EDOZIEN – 94yrs old Obi Chike Edozien is probably the first Nigerian Professor to sit on the throne of his fore-fathers in the capital town of Asaba, Delta State. HRM Obi Prof. Joseph Chike Edozien, CFR, JP, born on July 28, 1925 ascended the throne in 1991.


His father was Nathaniel Okafor Edozien a direct descendant of Nnebisi the founder of Asaba, and one of the most senior indigenous officials of the Nigerian Coal Corporation in Enugu. His mother, Nwakuso Edozien née Odogwu, was the daughter of a prominent Asaba chief, and a notable trader.

His father sent him at an early age to live with an uncle who was a school master in Warri, Delta State then Bendel State, Nigeria. He attended the Catholic School in Warri from 1933 to 1937. He attended Christ the Kings College, Onitsha for his secondary education from 1938 to 1942. In 1942 he attended the Higher College Yaba and then proceeded to Achimota School, Accra, Ghana.

His university education began with an admission to the University College Dublin, Ireland in 1944. He completed his BSc with honours in Physiology from the National University of Ireland in 1948, MSc in Physiology in 1950, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Chemotherapy (MBBCh) in 1954. He won several academic awards in the process.

His academic career began with an appointment as a Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry in Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1951. In 1952 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology at the University College, Ibadan. He returned to Ibadan after further studies in Ireland.

In 1955 he married Modupe Smith a radiographer at the University of Ibadan teaching hospital. Her father was one of the first indigenous managers if the United Africa Company and her maternal grandfather was Herbert Macaulay, Nigeria’s first surveyor and one of the principal actors in Nigeria’s independence movement.

The late colonial and early independence period were exciting times in Nigeria. Educated Nigerians rapidly occupied positions of responsibility in politics, commerce and academia. Everyone’s hopes were high that in a short time the country would bridge the gap with the more developed countries of Europe and North America. The euphoric mood permeated the University of Ibadan, and Edozien’s groundbreaking research in nutrition helped win it a reputation as a rising academic centre. He was appointed a professor in 1961 and became the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1962

Edozien’s career at Ibadan ended in 1967, a casualty of the political crisis that ended the euphoria of the late 50′s and early 60′s and resulted in the coups of 1966 and eventually led to the Nigerian Civil War. In 1967 he was instrumental in the efforts to establish the University of Benin in the newly created Midwestern Region of Nigeria. He was also implicated in the plots that resulted in the Biafran invasion of the Midwestern Region at the beginning of the civil war and was forced to flee the country.

After a period as a refugee in France, he was appointed as a professor of Nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. In 1971 he became a professor and head of Department of Nutrition, of the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina.

In 1990 Edozien was appointed the Chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research. Shortly thereafter he was selected to become the 13th Asagba of Asaba. He retired as a Professor Emeritus of the University of North Carolina and returned to Nigeria in 1991.

Edozien’s tenure as the Asagba of Asaba has coincided with dramatic changes in the character of the town. When the government of President Ibrahim Babangida created Delta State out of the old Bendel State, Asaba was chosen as the capital. Its new status as the seat of the state government has brought much of the chaotic development associated with contemporary Nigerian urbanization. The population of the town has grown and the influx of non-Asaba indigenes has strained the traditional institutions of the town.

A central theme of Edozien’s tenure as the Asagba has been the challenge balancing rapid development, modernization of traditional norms and institutions with preservation of the positive aspects and moderating influence of traditional values. Several on-going initiatives such as the Asaba permanent palace and civic centre and the documentation of the town’s traditional laws and customs have sought to balance these concerns.

Edozien remains an important figure in modern day Nigerian affairs. President Olusegun Obasanjo conferred the national honour of Commander of the Federal Republic on him in 2003. He is also the Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.

Source: https://unaab.edu.ng/2014/03/obi-prof-joseph-chike-edozien/

2. AMANYANABO OF KALABARI KINGDOM, HRM THEOPHILUS J.T. PRINCEWILL, J.P AMACHREE XI – In the year, 2002, the history of the Kalabari Kingdom, the largest ethnic group in the Ijaw speaking Nation with 33 communities covering three Local Government Areas of Rivers State (Degema, Asari-Toru and Akoku Toru) changed, when for the first time in its history decided to convey and coronate a Professor of Microbiology as its King, His Majesty King Professor Theophilus Jacob Tom Princewill. King Prof Princewill is the eleventh Amakaree from the Amachree lineage which started with “Amakiri I” (Amachree I) in 1770, although the kingship itself dates back at least to the 1600s. The Kingdom has not been the same, since Professor Theophilus Jacob Tom Princewill’s coronation on March 23, 2002.

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Prof. Princewill’s born in 1930 climbs to the peak commenced in 1935, at Buguma’s famous Baptist School. He was just five—the youngest ever to enrol.

Wielding a Ph. D. in Microbiology, from Leeds University, England (1975), Princewill won acclaim in his field, publishing over 30 articles in scientific Journals, between 1965 and 1988! He is the father of popular Prince Tonye Princewill, a politician and two times governorship aspirant in River State.

A socially committed King, the Amanyanabo is striving to alleviate poverty and restiveness through his Amachree XI Scholarship Scheme, now in its third edition.

During his 10th year coronation ceremony at Buguma, The King handed over N5, 100,000 in support of a project, as financial support for 94 students from Rivers State’s 23 L.G.A.s.

The Amachree XI Scheme uniquely applies to all L.G.A.s, irrespective of ethnicity and targets the highly strategic disciplines of Law, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine, Environmental Science and Computer Science.

Amachree XI, despite his age, eagerly answers the call of duty. He is once the Chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers and has sat on the state’s Advisory Council (1999-2007) as well as its seminal Peace and Reconciliation Committee (2006 to 2007).

This civic mindedness has earned him many accolades and awards, including the Grass Roots Royal Father Of The Year–presented during an epochal ceremony at Buguma City in 2007 by Silver Doors Concept Initiatives. President Goodluck Jonathan conferred on him, the title of the Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR)—a title meant only for Nigeria’s best.

King Princewill has, therefore, reached the pinnacle in both his personal and professional life: Superbly confirming his postulated status as a great leader par excellence.

Source: https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/87055/king-prof-tjt-princewil-amaechree-xi-celebrates-ten-years-o.html

3. OBAPERO OF ABIRI TOWN ILE-IFE, HRH OBA PROF. JOHN OMONIYI ABIRI. Born into the family of Pa Abraham ‘Muyiwa Abiri (d.1964) at 28, Oke Ayetoro street, Ile-Ife, South Western Nigeria on June 9, 1937 Abiri attended St Phillips School, Ile-Ife and Odudwa College Ile-Ife where he obtained the West African School Certificate in the first division in 1955. After a brief spell in the Federal civil service in Lagos and as a teacher at Ife Grammar School Ile-Ife, he gained admission to the University College, Ibadan in 1957 and graduated in 1961.


Abiri holds the B.A degree of the University of London (1961), Master of Education (M.Ed) degree (1965) of the University of Birmingham, U.K as well as the PGCE (1963) and the Ph.D. (1969) degrees, both of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a winner of both the Irving Bonnar Graduate Prize and the George Cadbury Prize in Education.

After obtaining his first degree (B.A) he served as a graduate teacher at Ife Grammar School, Ile-Ife in 1961-1962. He later moved to the University of Ibadan, starting as a Research Fellow and then as Assistant Lecturer, he rose steadily through the academic ranks until he became a Reader (Associate Professor). He was a visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Education of the University of London in 1973-74. He later served in acting capacity as the First Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the then Jos Campus of the University of Ibadan in 1974-76. He subsequently secured appointment in 1976 at the then University College, Ilorin, later University of Ilorin, where he served as the first Head of Department and dean of the Faculty of Education with responsibility of providing leadership in the formulation and initiation of the degree programmes of that faculty. He was the Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Federal Electoral Commission successively in four states of Nigeria between 1987 and 1993.

He was once an Assistant Editor of the West African Journal of Education (WAJE) at the University of Ibadan and Editor of the Nigerian Journal of Educational Psychology. He is the author of Moremi: An Epic of feminine Heroismand its Yoruba version Moremi: Itan Akoni Obinrin.He is also the Editor and Co-author of Perspectives on History of Education in Nigeria. He has many scholarly articles published in learned Journals. He supervised many students for M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Ibadan and Ilorin lots of whom have themselves become full Professor. He retired from the academia in 2001 after many years of meritorious service including 25 years as a full professor.

He was awarded the title of Baapitan of Ife (Chief Historian of Ife) by the Ooni of Ife in 1981, and later crowned as the paramount ruler and king of Abiri town, with the title of Obapero of Abiri in 2010.

Source: https://blerf.org/index.php/biography/abiri-prof-john-omoniyi-ola/

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If you have any other account of a Professor sitting on a traditional throne and not listed above, kindly give us the name and details, we will surely update the list after verification.

Thanks.

Naijalocals

Slaughtering of chickens are not everyday thing in most average Nigerian homes, except during yuletide seasons when merriment calls for it.
With precedents and experience, the peak periods for sales of raised chickens in Nigeria and may be in many places around the globe, especially for broilers chickens are during this December time – for Christmas and new year celebration.

Farmers nationwide are usually expectant of a time like this, to sell what they have been looking after for months, but it has been revealed that very few actually have strategies on grounds on how to sell faster or quickly.
Many a times, there are too many chickens in the markets at the same time, such that price per one drops significantly which in turn affects cost of rearing, hence many go home with very little gain after the whole farming period.

Some times, there are even many chickens that many would not be able to sell after the festive season that they would have to give out to friends and families to avoid continued feeding costs.
To help reduce farming loss and to guide, here 3 Practicable ways any livestock farmer can use to sell his or her chickens quickly.

1. Promote & Advertise Online : With over 30 million internet users in Nigeria, internet marketing has come to help loads of business owners to create boundless awareness for their products and farmers shouldn’t be found wanting.

Like Billionaire Entrepreneur Bill Gate has said in one of his popular quotes, which says “If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business”, any farmer that do not have smart fone in this present age to access and explore Agricultural related business opportunities have shortchanged him or herself.
If you can sell 200 chickens conveniently in a week offline, there are greater chances that you can sell double online.
Here are ways to go about it.

Get pictures of your chickens, with price tags and spread them across social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Nairaland, etc.
You can run sponsored posts through Facebook ads and liaise with delivery channels like motor parks, and you are good to go. There are vehicles that can assist with your transportation, once you put them in well ventilated modern metal cage or local raffia made cage (Kurukuru in Yoruba)

Once this logistics are set, start looking for ways to get patronage.
Look for Social media Influencers who can get a chicken freely for advertising for you.

If an SM – Influencer with many followers say good thing about your business to their followers, the probability of you selling off your stocks in few weeks is high.


An Influential brother often helps a friend to sell his Sallah Ram yearly on Facebook and this has been going on for two to three years now. You can find influential friends and families too, they are better channel to raise sales awareness.

Join huge social groups or pages like RANTHQ, FIN, Lagos Market on social platforms like Facebook, send message to their Admins and check their advert rates. With little pay, you can sell off your chickens in days because many of these groups have over a million followers.

Follow Social Media Celebrities on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter and tag along with them on your adverts. You can pre-informed those that are accessible first before putting up your advertising posts to avoid troubles. It works!

A lady selling a particular product begged Don Jazzy to help retweet her product, and as God will have it, Marvin boss did her this favour. This is better than many always begging Oga for money and ever since, this Lady’s business has expanded beyond expectations. That retweeted post keeps generating sales till today.

Market consistently on free advertising platforms like Nairaland, it is a great platform where your phone will not stop ringing from demands.
I helped an uncle to post about availability of Chiffon clothes on Nairaland in 2016 and up till this moment in 2019, I still get responses from that very post.
-Your WhatsApp groups are also interesting places to advertise your chickens, since most are friends. Don’t overlook this side too. Just be strategic.

2. Sponsored Buyers: A sponsored buyer is one who can pay conveniently for many of your chickens as either philanthropic gesture or gifts to love ones. Examples of these are politicians, business owners, etc. Every year big politicians buy thousands of chickens to be shared as “thank you gifts” to their followers and admirers.


These chickens are sourced from farmers, you can take advantage of that too. Talk to politicians around you, and develop a good proposal to that effect, showing that you can supply like 200 chickens at N3,000 per one and you can deliver to everyone’s doorstep on Christmas or new year Eve or few days to the d-day.

Put this proposal online for many to see. It doesn’t have to be lengthy, just few draw out of how you want to deliver, when you want to deliver and costs. Apart from politicians, business owners should also be on your top priority of people to contact. Write few local companies around your vicinity, putting your proposal on why you think their employees will appreciate if chickens are given yearly to them as a gift.

Visit Schools, proprietors may buy for teachers, church may buy for members because they know many may not be able to afford one and you can easily sell in hundreds and thousands thorough these means. You can even sustain lifetime customers here that will put your yearly sales worries to rest.

If I get link to talk to 20 private business owners with at least 20 staffs like schools, hospitals, mobile retail shops, hotel owners, government offices, and more, I can easily sell between 500 to 1000 birds without stress by putting call across.
You can ask like “Sir, when do you want your staff to have their end of the year chicken gifts? “
You may get response like bring it on so so date and you get your alert on delivery. No easy sales can beat this, you have just turned to a supplier.

3. Outdoor Sales: When it is two weeks to the end of the year like 15th of December. Start looking for strategic locations in town to get a stands where you can easily display your chickens daily. Find partners too who can also help you stay in other stations or points in the same town and give them commission on each sales they make.


This is the traditional way many farmers use. Look for places like big church main gate, busy areas in town, market etc. You can also make a little audio recording on your fone where you advertise your chickens in few seconds and can be on replay while you project it through megaphone or Public address system which you may rent or borrow. You can also add side attractions like playing trending songs to reflect the festive moment. With time, people will start stopping by to see what you are selling. Just add some little innovation and you will get appeal. In weeks, you would have gotten a reason sales patronage that will put smiles on your face.

Wishing all farmers, a good sales outing this year. Do you find this piece in anyway helpful? If so, Share with friends and neighbors who you know are presently raising chickens for money this year and that might find this useful. Your comments will also be appreciated.

Visit https://naijalocals.com.ng/3-easy-ways-to-sell-your-chickens-during-festive-periods/ to read more....

Researches lately have shown that Agribusiness is truly where the secret money hides in Agriculture.
And I believe too. I will show you how.

I told a man about a plot of land I intend to plant something on.

I have some cocoyam shoots, a friend gave me.

I have being eyeing a vacant land for a while and had already told one local labourer to help me clear the weeds

I can’t seem to finish it up in days, except I dedicate time and it’s no brainer to stress myself when I can do that with just N2,500. Lol

Then a neighbor saw me around the land.

He asked me, if I intend cultivating the place and what I want to plant there.

I told him, potatoes and cocoyam.

“I think they would do well there”.

I gave my reason.

Nice. But why not maize or cassava? He asked.

Oh, come off it sir. Cassava is not my thing. I pity those planting that thing that spend almost a year or more in soil and you send 200ticks at N7,000 and sometimes as useless as N5, 000 once everyone plants.

It is wastage of my resources, planting cassava and will waste another energy to process to useful form if I decide not to sell.

He smiled and told me how some farm crops can be so dispiriting.

He recounted an experience when he needed money and thought of going to his farm to see what he can pick or harvest.

One getting there the plantain are not matured enough, so he decided to climb kolanut tree and pluck as many as possible.
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Sat down and peeled the thing.

Went to a nearby stream to wash and packed them inside a bagco bag, and cover it with withered plantain leaves.

Now on his way to home.

Thinking he got something to turn to money atleast.

After trekking miles, to where the local buyers stay.

He talked to the woman.


“Iya Obi re oo, Elo le fe San?”

(Mama see something, Kolanut. How much do you intend paying?)

And the woman looked at the bag she can hardly lift from ground and said, “Buoda, Jeun fun o ni muri marun, obi ti yaa ponto, Obi tii fo, o tii haa yeye “.

My brother, let me give you N100. Kolanut market has crashed now. It’s now ridiculously cheap and it’s everywhere.

Lol ..

The man said, he looked at the woman for minutes and angrily took the kola bag.

He recounted more..

I wept as I leave. Is it how I was hoping for something or what I have been through all day? Or where I would still trek back home? – He said!

From Ile-funfun to Igboya (Describing his house and the farm in Ife).

“My brother, I find a nearby stream and angrily emptied the sack in there”

“And I trekked home happily”.

He continued.

“Not because, I was mean, but because I was happy I didn’t sell to that heartless local buyers out of no choice.

I knew the kolanut market was not at peak at that time.. But the bag worth atleast N500. And on a good day, I have shold have sold that for a thousand or more.

This is what they would sell at unimaginably higher rate to end users. And still smile for making good profits.

If you are not careful, middlemen in value chain will reap you of your sweat and your gains and you will keep doing same thing every year without improvement.

It is worst in farming or Agriculture generally.

From maize farming to cassava, and many others, the middlemen make more money than the farmers brazenly.

I’m wiser now in this thing.

He concluded.

Me: If a farmer spends days sweating for preparing a plot of land for planting, spends N1500 to buy Agrochemicals, and N300 to buy maize grains. And work twice in 3months to weed off the farm. You will be shocked that he doesn’t make N4000 from the farm after 3months. With efforts and investment.

They would buy 5 for N30. Lol

When the buyer makes at least N10 from every maize. If she buys the whole farm maize at N4000, trust me she would make atleast N2000 as gain in few days.

The Message?

There is more money in value chain between Producer and final consumer. In fact the middlemen are often called the necessary evil and parasites. Those in Agricultural sector are worst. Why we complain of food high cost, and the farmers complain of no gains, the-go-between smiles.. After all, it’s what they buy that they would sell.

If you can’t beat them, you can join them.

There is money in Agribusiness if you can go low and travel around.

That’s sometimes where the secret money in Agricultural value chain hides.

Don’t say you don’t know oo..

Cos now you know.

Sadly, there is limit to which we can help small holders farmers.

Few will be saved, but many will languish in pain.

And if they are not careful, just like teachers, their reward will be in heaven.

Don’t be a poor farmer.

Embrace Agribusiness too.

Before a farmer makes N2 as a year profit, the farm buyers will almost make same in weeks.

That’s where the money sometimes hide.

Source https://naijalocals.com.ng/agribusiness-where-agriculture-money-is/

Born2Breed:
Lovely story.

Be yourself and people will accept you the way you are.

Exactly..

BroOptimist:
Ikire, loni dodo. Omo ewu niwinrin...

Emi tí mo je dodo tan, tí mo wa fi owó dòdò ra omo oni dodo ni...

Hmm! Apomu bíntín, oko ìlú banta banta.

What a nice story!!!

Glad you like it..

Who still remember that hearsay story of a semi-illiterate but smart king from a town called Ikire in the present Osun state that they used to tell us back then?

OK. Let me gist you. Several decades ago, there lived a king, who was a merchant dealer - semi illiterate but quite smart and very intelligent. He was a real community mobilizer and was so engrossed with the development of his people – a virtue that made him to become the king. So, we were told.


Ikire land, had so many bad roads then, nothing like Ife-Ibadan road, that you see today. Everywhere was purely dusty and badly un-motorable. There were no electricity, no drinkable water and lots of social Amenities that could give a town a face lift. In short, the town has no government presence. And the King wanted to bring some things to the town at least.

So, one day, there were news that filtered in, that a white Gov- General is coming from Ibadan to see the Ooni in Ife then, and would have a stopover at Ikire, to see some timber workers.

As the king heard of this, he was so happy that he will see the General for the first, and will serve as a perfect opportunity to tell him some of the things that are badly in need of in his town.

Then a problem arises, he really can’t express himself very well in English and he doesn’t want a translator, because that may portray him as a pure village head unlike a king that is educated that the whites always want to relate with. So, the wise king got some tutors. They taught him what to say, in form of a speech, but the king formulated his own, in the best way he knows how to express himself.

And the long waited arrived, the king met the whiteman in the Forest with his palace entourage fully decked in their cultural regalia of Aso oke.. The white Governor was happy to see them, he felt honored and was ready to hear them out. Then the king began to read his speech written on a piece of paper, but he was reading something else, the one he had crammed.

He started by putting on his pair of glasses, to portray him as an educated fellow.

Then he began by saying.. “Royal royal ooo… Eeeh eee! Welcome gomina gomina. You’re a kingi, ayamu a kingi.. Kingi meji pade arawon! Ikire wanti wanti INA… Ikire wanti wanti omi, ikire wanti wanti ona baba ona l’ona apomu”.. Then he concludes by saying, “this is me to you ooooo gomina gomina, your royal royal” [Your lordship, you are most welcomed the governor. You are a king, so am I. Two kings are meeting today. Ikire needs Electricity badly. Ikire wants drinkable water. Ikire needs good roads, from Apomu side].

The whiteman who was already picking some Yoruba words before then, just laughed heavily and asked if what he was thinking was what the king was seeking for. The few educated town’s men nodded in affirmation and told the Gov in better ways, what the king was saying.

Just as the king is now, seated nodding his head and muttering a particular word, saying “there you are, dia you are.. Han han! Boserigan niyen, there you are”

Since then, the wonderful town of Ikire never remained the same again, as the Gov general not only gave them roads, but electricity and pipe borne water.

Moral lesson: Say it the way you know how to say it, people would help you understand it.
https://naijalocals.com.ng/welcome-gomina-gomina-a-throwback-story-of-a-one-time-akire-of-ikire/

There is a way your past can guide your future and the best way to go about this is to learn a lesson from every experience and let it shape your future and may be that of others.

I have been saddled with the responsibility of guiding young school leavers in choosing career paths in the last few years and I do this unconsciously by bringing in my experience as a regular jamb writer to learn from my mistakes.

I finished high school at 16, and I didn't get into a degree programme until I was 21.

Those years turned me to an experienced school leaver and I hate to see young school leavers doing nothing when there is something atleast to be done.

In my days, there are just no mentor around, especially when you come from a humble background, where you dream to become the first graduate in your family. Lol.

I have learned and learnt.

In the last two days, I have been asked by too many admission seekers on what next after Post jamb failure, particularly in my home zone where lots have recently failed OAU post jamb and got "Not Eligible for Admission response" after the result was released two days ago.

To many, this is their first great taste of failure in life. Watching your mates going to school can be killing and depressing but really, there are lots that can be done once you have your 5 credits O level intact.

Like I told someone today, If you have failed your post utme exam, explore your polytechnic option.

If you can't go to OAU this year, nothing should stop you from learning at Yabatech or Fed Poly to earn an OND.. No knowledge is lost especially if your dream course is in Agriculture, technology and Engineering.

If you have a good OND certificate, at 20 or 21, you have a greater chance to start a working life early than your mates.

With OND, you can apply for low cadre jobs in military, paramilitary, civil service and even private firms.

Stereotypes or dichotomy doesn't affect OND like HND.. Don't be fooled. Start somewhere.

If you're science oriented, you can try School of health technology around.. Try these three courses; Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW), Medical Lab Technology and Pharmacy Technology. Trust me, you will smile after school. There are loads of opportunities in Nigerian healthcare industry for graduates in these field with OND.

If you are in Art, try Nigerian Institute of Journalism Lagos, (Korede Bello finished OND here), Vocational school at Ajase IPO Kwara state, French School Badagry, Nigerian film school Jos, Wale Adenuga PEFTI School, you can learn cinematography, directing, scriptwriting and even acting here and by the time your mates who passed this post jamb may be finishing, you may have become a young star in the Entertainment Industry already.

If yours is Agriculture, you may try MOOR plantation, and other Federal Colleges of Agriculture across Nigeria. There is one in Akure that you may visit to make enquiries. I once heard a 400l Animal Production student of FUTA saying School of Animal Production students Ibadan know better than many of them during an IT training. Knowledge is wisdom.

And if your parents are rich, try private universities. Don't waste your precious time cos every year you waste today will surely stand against you in years to come.

Don't be like us, learn from us.

Your admission year is not lost yet.

Go somewhere.

Learn something..

All the best..

Lateef Eluyemi © 2019
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I have received loads of Admission guidance appeal and questions, most of which I have attended to in my little way and from my pool, I observed some things which need to be cleared once and for all.

First, I saw questions like I scored 172 and applied for Accounting. Another, I got 173, I applied for Nursing; another, I applied for Economics, what’s my chance at Unilorin, ABU, OAU and the likes?

Well, I think I should get this cleared. There are certain courses in Nigeria that you can never be admitted for, by first rate universities and even JJC Schools, with certain scores. I don’t ever think any public school in Nigeria will admit anyone with even 170 for Nursing. Bayero or Unimaid or Sokoto are not small schools, they only still give considerations because of fewer competition compared to Southern Unis and of course they are from educationally disadvantaged states.

Anyone with 170/180 JAMB score should be concerned with getting admission at least irrespective of any university. The era has gone past bragging of graduating from OAU or Unilag with nothing serious. A graduate of Uniosun with a first class or 2.1 will be first considered for fair job placement and interview than OAU 2:2. So, forget prestige now, just go anywhere and study.

If you want to still study your desired course and from a prestigious university, sit your ass down and start preparing for 2020 Jamb.

Also, for those interested in northern schools. I don’t think this should take you weeks to make up your mind. Applying for change of course is not what you spend days to think about. The more you wait, the lesser your chances, because anyone who applies for change of institution very late may not even get the opportunity to register for post-UTME in the new chosen school because JAMB may never update such name once the school is about starting post-UTME.

Most schools advertise their post-UTME form between one or three weeks after JAMB is done with release of results and cut-off score.

If you must change your institution, act now. Look for northern state universities like Ibrahim Babangida University Lapai, Kaduna State University, Kano State University, Umaru Musa Yaradua University Kataina etc. They are many. And look for courses in Agric, Education and even Arts. You stand good chance.

If you can dare the devil, try the northern federal unis too especially the newly created ones in Lokoja, Jigawa, Zamfara etc, with at least 180 in JAMB.

Your good post score may do a big magic. Most schools now do average of both JAMB and post-UTME scores, as final admission cut off. So if you score 180 in JAMB and 240 in post UTME, you stand a better chance than someone who scores 200 in both jamb and post-UTME. This is why schools are still calling out to candidates with at least 180. It means come and prove yourself.

Again, If you change from Unilorin Law with JAMB score of 180 to IBB Uni to study Law, you are only deceiving yourself. Law is Law almost anywhere and MBBS is same anywhere, with little considerations. So you must be truly good to study these courses. Your k-leg JAMB score cannot smuggle you anywhere. Choose less competitive courses instead.

And more importantly, let me reiterate, ensure you have a very good post-UTME score to prove that your JAMB score was just unfortunate and not your true measure. You can’t score 180 in JAMB and score 180 in post-UTME and expect miracle. If you must go to the university, you must prove it.


Visit sites like Schoolgists, Nairaland Education threads, Facebook school admission groups et al.

In our days, we sleep online to google schools and read JAMB brochures, like real admission manual that it is. That thing isn’t for decoration. Carry it, flip through universities, check online and ask questions. Admission is not given on a platter of gold to candidates with low score, you fight and struggle for a place.

Why are we writing this? Just to save you from waiting for another whole year. It can be frustrating.

Abdullateef Eluyemi Elufowora is a social commentator and education enthusiast. He tweets @EluOmoElu and writes at seldom for Jarushub - Nigeria's No. 1 Career Resources Hub.

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Sex - Everyone knows at least one person who is completely obsessed with “doing it.” What you probably don’t know is that while humans love bumping uglies, we’re not alone. There are animals who like sex way more than humans do – even more than your perverted friend who seems to have nothing else to talk about. Whether they’re doing it all of the time or just have an insatiable desire for sexual pleasure, these animals are all about getting down and dirty.

Each of these species has its own quirks when it comes to coitus, and you’ll likely discover that we humans might not be the only creative, kinky sexual beings out there after all – some so kinky they die (no, really.) These sexual animal facts will definitely remind you that we’re all just a bunch of mammals doin’ it like they do on the Discovery Channel.

Check this list…

1. Bonobos Apes

Bonobos also called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two speciesmaking up the genus Pan; the other being the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

Bonobos and humans share 98 percent of the same genes, which might explain their sexual appetite. Bonobos are the only apes to engage in many of the same sexual acts as us – such as “missionary position,” oral, and tongue-kissing. They’re one of the few animal species that engage in physical relations for pleasure and not solely reproduction. And they have a lot of it, for arguably more reasons than we do.

Bonobos get it on to reduce stress, move along in the social hierarchy, show affection, or simply to relieve boredom. They frequently swap partners without much jealousy, and regularly engage in homosexual activity – both male-on-male and female-on-female. Bonobos have enough intercourse that they’re considered one of the more peaceful apes, due to the stress they so frequently relieve.


2. Brown Antechinus

The brown antechinus truly lives out the mantra of “don’t stop ’til you drop.” Considered a rodent, the antechinus lives in Australia. By the time a male reaches maturity, he’s stopped making sperm even though he’s never even mated with a female – meaning the sperm he’s created is all he’s ever going to produce.

Since the antechinus has a limited amount of sperm and a limited time frame, that means he spends the mating season – about two to three weeks – violently mating with as many females as possible. As a result, each male antechinus goes at it until he literally falls apart. It’s all about the competition to impregnate as many females as possible, and each male will exhaust himself with the activity until his body begins eating itself, his fur falls off, and gangrene starts to eat away at him.

3. Rabbits

While the phrase “breeding like rabbits” seems a bit overused, there is some truth to it – over the course of a rabbit’s lifetime, he/she will parent an average of 1,000 rabbits. Rabbit mating sessions last only 20 to 40 seconds, which means they can get plenty in over the course of a day. Rabbits also don’t have the traditional heat or menstrual cycles, meaning they’re ready to go whenever, wherever.

4. Dolphins

Like bonobos, dolphins are one of the few non-human animals to have intercourse purely for pleasure. Dolphins are known to engage frequently in both hetero and homosexual activity simply for the love of it, but they take the pursuit of pleasure one step further than the vast majority of humans would, particularly in terms of masturbation.

Researchers have observed dolphins masturbating in some ways we’d consider extreme – by both wrapping live eels around their joysticks and copulating with dead fish. Dolphins have also exhibited sexual interest in humans – indicating that the need to orgasm knows no intra-species bounds.

5. Female Japanese Macaques

Female Japanese macaques orgasm in response to sexual activity, a very rare sight in nature. When the female orgasm occurs, she’ll clutch her partner and intentionally look at him.

Once observed over a 238 hour period byAlfonso Troisi and Monica Carosi, two Italian researchers, the macaques reportedly mated a total of 240 times. So not only do they seem to enjoy doing it, they also have quite a lot of it.

6. Lions

When a female lion is in heat, she’ll spend three sleepless days and nights having non-stop action with up to five different partners. Sometimes, a female is in heat for as many as five days, and she can do it as many as 250 times. That’s 50 times a day.

Intercourse between male and female lions is an often violent and always a noisy affair, though it doesn’t always start out that way. Female lions have been known to perform oral on males to facilitate sexual arousal and help them get down to business faster.

Read more on the rest on https://naijalocals.com.ng/2019/01/08/10-animals-that-love-sex-than-humans/

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Getting admission into higher institution is no doubt a joyful moment, in the life of every aspiring students in Nigeria, because it denotes the beginning of a new life, a new journey, a step towards dream fulfilment, change of environment, meeting new friends among many other things.

So, going to school is what everyone looks out for, but that’s where the merry ends, because of the rigor of learning in most Nigerian campuses. No thanks to lecturers attitudes and style of teaching in class too.


Like the saying, ‘school sweet, na something spoil am”. [/b]Here are 5 statements that annoy most students on campus.

1. [b]Settle down please, the lecturer is here finally: This statement, on a normal day should mean to settle down for learning, but in most cases, the manner & mood with which you receive it, can be so annoying. This is common when a lecturer delays you unnecessarily for hours, yet still telling the class governor that he is on his way, only to come after you are already feeling exhausted. Now, he enters and starts saying the nonsense, “sorry class, settle down pls, shall we begin?”


“For your mind you will be like settle down for what abeg? After I don dey see my bed for here? Oga sir, will you gerarahia”. Anofiaa�


2. Tear a sheet of Paper: Hehe hehe. This happens often when a lecturer asks too much question in the class and expects sufficient reply.

You will hear, “We talked about evolution of man from Ape last time, what did we say about Ape?


After like 2mins with no hands up, She will be like, “ehn ehn!! So, that last class that I was shouting on top of my voice, you people were just looking abi?” So, none of you can explain what I discussed just last week oo? OK, tear a sheet of paper, this is your C.A test. Lol!

Trust sharp guys, as dem dey tear sheet, naso them go dey use style open the lecture notes to see where APEs dey. You go feat memory storage in seconds. Lol

3. Can we continue please : This is another annoying statement to some students, especially at evening classes, when most are already feeling tired beyond redemption.

Students be like, “Oga free us now? Which yeye continue again”. While for lecturer mind “na we die here ooo”.

4. Take this material too, make photocopies – This is one off reactive and crazy thing most students hate to hear most, especially when a lecturer keeps dropping one material after the other, in every other week like say, na for inside the course the whole degree programme ends. Most students would be like, “God, which kind Whala be this now” – I don tire for this school oo.

Read more here

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