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Cashmadam:
You can do a cover letter and pay to upload the letter as part of your supporting documents - when you go for biometrics.

If you've done the biometrics, I would advise you to pray and wait it out. You might get lucky

My biometrics is Wednesday 16th August. I choose self-service and I am yet to upload all my document. I’m considering writing the letter as you advised and join it with the application before finally uploading all my documents on Mon/Tuesday next week. Or do you advise I apply for assisted service and pay to TLS to upload?

MUHAMMADADEYEMI:
What should I do if I made mistake on travel dates on UKVI for my visit visa? I just saw it after submitting the application and CAN NOT edit it. My travel dates for the conference is 10-16th September but I erroneously input 10-16th October. PLEASE ADVISE.

@Cashmadam @Opeyemi007

What should I do if I made mistake on travel dates on UKVI for my visit visa? I just saw it after submitting the application and CAN NOT edit it. My travel dates for the conference is 10-16th September but I erroneously input 10-16th October. PLEASE ADVISE.

Good afternoon all,

When is the next available dates for visit visa for those who recently booked? I would like to know before I pay as I have some tight schedule this month.

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By Dawud Taoheed

Call it callousness, inordinate treatment, unprofessional managerial dexterity, unsavory detention;

Kindly read and share till it gets to the concerned stakeholders, FSB truly deserves a Reform!

CC: Seun, Lalastica

Good afternoon.

Please, what are the types of professional certification that someone who studied Biochemistry can obtain in Nigeria?

The amount, where, when and how to acquire these certificates would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Lastbornbuns:
I mean for undergraduate. I'm studying Economics as a course can I apply?

You can't at the undergraduate level but you can at postgraduate studies.

yusman14:
how much can I use to collect my cert of origin in osun state?

It shouldn't be up to #3,000.

adeyemimuhammad08@gmail.com

PEN PRESS Journalist Selected As UDUS Indomie Campus Ambassador

Promise Eze reports,

A 200-level student of biochemistry and Pen Press journalist, Muhammad Adeyemi, has been selected as the UDUS Indomie campus ambassador.

Click on the link below to read this full report.���

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2212559042186462&id=524521464323570

Some candidates who wrote the exam from Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto on the 22nd of June 2019 received this email 2days ago. Photo speaks:

Has anyone received any email from AAF containing that you are to supply your contact and identity information for confirmation of CGPA from the University?

mustyy:
Hello my colleagues, I want to apply for PhD admission in UK, I have D7 in my Waec but C5 in NECO. Please can I get admission, which university please accept that for PhD studies, I need urgent answer please. Thank you

Use your C5 in NECO to seek for admission into UK universities, no university will accept lesser than a C6 grade in either WAEC or NECO.

goldpill:
Does anyone know how to reach this guy Suleiman? I am looking to work with first class graduates of mathematics, statistics or physics. Anyone who knows how to reach him should please refer, or have him send me an email at goldpill1968@outlook.com

I can help you to reach him. On what basis should I inform him of your workout with him?

I tap from your glory and victory. Definitely, you are going places higher.

Interview: "I was shocked when I saw F in my GST" UDUS Overall Best Graduating Student Recounts

By: Emelife Uc, 200l MELL

Suleiman Adebowale is a first class graduate in Mathematics of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and also the recipient of the award for Best Graduating Student, 2017/2018 session with a CGPA that is arguably the best his department and faculty has ever produced: 4.91.

What people don't know about Suleiman Adebowale however, is his rough journey to excellence.
In this interview with PEN PRESS UDUS, Suleiman Adebowale shares how he was able to reach such excellence in a clime like UDUS and a course he never wanted, further enduring a carryover, and still graduating top of his school year.

Pen Press: First of all, a very big congratulations, Suleiman. This is a commendable feat, graduating with a first class and in not just any department, the almighty terror- Mathematics. That's like a double win, congratulations!

Suleiman Adebowale: Thank you so much, I appreciate. It is just by the grace of God. What do I know? Alhamdulilah!

PP: So tell us your story. How were you able to scale through the jungle that is UDUS?

SA: If I must be candid with you, it is just the grace of Almighty Allah, determination, commitment and prayers. Sometimes, I felt like giving up but once I remember the promise I made to my Mum before getting admission, I will be like let me study a little more.

PP: Who were your inspiration all through the journey?

SA: My inspiration!!! One of what inspired me is a graduate of UNILAG then, Mr. Ayodele Daniel Dada that graduated with 5.0 cgpa in my first year 2014. I then told myself if he could do such then I should be able to do that too, which I did in my first year. But the higher you go the tougher it becomes, something happened in my second year that almost shattered my goal.

Mr. Kazeem Aremu (Egbon like i fondly call him) and the current HOD of Mathematics Dr. Issa Garba were also my inspiration, because I always wanted to know Mathematics like them, and still do.

PP: You mentioned something happened in your second year that almost shattered your first class goal. What was that?

SA: A carry-over. I had a carry over in GST 213. It almost weighed me down. Alhamdulilah!

PP: Wow! You had a carry over? I'm sure that must have destabilized you. How did you get up from it?

SA: Brother, it's God. I could remember vividly that moment, myself, Saifullahi and Abdulrasheed were checking our results at MH1, the duo had A in both GST 211 and 212, they were like they are damn sure that I will have the same, but reverse was the case when I checked. I saw F in my GST212, I was shocked, I felt bad, it was as if I failed my Mum, myself and my dream, I was destabilized.

Thanks to my beloved brother, Mr. Yunus Abdujeleel, he was there for me. He encouraged me to accept fate, he told me this is just a test of faith from Almighty Allah, and instead of feeling melancholic, I should rather thank Allah in which I did, before you know I got myself back on the track, believe you me, I began to see it as a motivation. No wonder the Chinese proverb says that, "the problem you have is not actually the problem rather it is ur attitude towards the problem."

PP: Wow! Your testimony is inspiring especially since it has turned a norm in Nigerian undergraduates to see failure as a stumbling block. In your case, it was a motivation. That's a whole new perspective I think everyone should jump on.
But then, has Mathematics always been the dream?

SA: No. To be candid, I've always wanted to be a Theatre actor. And before you ask, yes I'm a science student who applied for Mathematics but before I did, I wanted to be in the art class, but I met myself in science department, because there was this believe in my area then that science students were better and more intelligent than art students. My friends in sciences also came to challenge me in art department that I ran from sciences because I was afraid of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. I accepted the challenge and I came to science thinking I will only spend a term, before I knew it, I was immersed in science and I had no course in mind to study yet.

It was until I started seeking admission into high institution, Obafemi Awolowo University, and University of Benin in 2009 to be precise, and after not getting, settled for COE following the advice of my mother, did I find love for Mathematics because I was offered Mathematics/Geography.

PP: How were you able to overcome the stereotype that associates Math as being difficult?

SA: Fear of the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage. Everyone who has seen active service in war knows this, practice make perfection. I indulged myself in doing mathematics all the time, you don't learn Mathematics by reading, rather you learn it by doing it.

PP: Was there at any point you wanted to opt out and wished you were studying your dream course instead?

SA: Yes, to be perfectly candid with you I still have passion for my dream course.

PP: Do you think Nigeria as it is appreciates outstanding Math graduates?

SA: That I can't answer yet, but what I know is that the knowledge of Mathematics is desperately needed everywhere.

PP: What suggestions can you make to the ministry of education to improve the study of Math in Nigeria?

SA: The ministry should employ competent Mathematics teachers starting from the primary level to tertiary level, because the rate at which students fear and fail Mathematics is alarming.
The government should encourage teachers by paying their salaries promptly and they (government) should provide a well equipped Mathematics laboratory and library to each school.
The teachers should encourage the students and let them know the beauty of Mathematics. Henry Brooke Adams says and I quote, "A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops."
And the students should stop saying "I hate mathematics", you can't know what you hate.

PP: What are your plans for the future? What next after NYSC?

SA: After my NYSC by God's grace, I will be going for my masters degree. It is also part of my plans to have a standard poultry which I have started a little here. I'm also a web developer, I'd like to perfect the skill.

PP: What's your advice to students out there who wish to excel outstandingly in their various field of studies?

SA: My first advice is that you should always put God in everything you are doing, with God all impossible are possible.

Secondly, never give up, know that if anybody can do it, you can do it better. You have the potentials to achieve it, even the Bible says, "As man think, so shall it be." You can achieve Big - far bigger than you've imagined if you are determined and never give up.

PP: Thank you so much for your time, Adebowale. We celebrate you and anticipate greater feats from your end.

Suleiman Adebowale is an indigene of Oyo state, Nigeria. He is currently carrying out his NYSC exercise in Cross River, Nigeria.

Nurudeen Akewushola reports for PEN PRESS UDUS

Sequel to the viral rumor on the social media that students of Usmanu Danfodiyo students Sokoto staged a protest in support of the RUGA establishment across the 36 states of the federation to end the menace of the farmer-herder conflicts bedeviling the nation.

The Students' Union, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto , Comrade Faruku Barade has however clarified that the students of the Varsity did not participate in the protest.

It was reported by viralmula.com that some students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University staged a protest in support of RUGA establishment and the report has been generating mixed comments on social media and some have been making reference to the alleged protest to back-up its establishment.


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He further explained that the Union is not aware of any protest and as a body they went to the spot to confirm whether the students really participated and the organizers informed that the students of UDUS were not part of the protest.

He said:

"I was called by the chief security officer of the university and the Dean students' affairs to inquire whether we're the organisers of the protest and I told them that I don't even know the plan. The management of the school sent me and some of my excos and security men to go to the scene and find out who are the students planning for it, and we went there and met with the organisers, they said they didn't invite any students to participate in the rally"

Click on the below link to read the full story


https://www.facebook.com/524521464323570/posts/2133375913438109/?app=fbl

Nurudeen Akewushola reports for PEN PRESS UDUS.

Sequel to the viral rumor on the social media that students of Usmanu Danfodiyo students Sokoto staged a protest in support of the RUGA establishment across the 36 states of the federation to end the menace of the farmer-herder conflicts bedeviling the nation.

The Students' Union, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto , Comrade Faruku Barade has however clarified that the students of the Varsity did not participate in the protest.

It was reported by viralmula.com that some students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University staged a protest in support of RUGA establishment and the report has been generating mixed comments on social media and some have been making reference to the alleged protest to back-up its establishment.


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He further explained that the Union is not aware of any protest and as a body they went to the spot to confirm whether the students really participated and the organizers informed that the students of UDUS were not part of the protest.

He said:

"I was called by the chief security officer of the university and the Dean students' affairs to inquire whether we're the organisers of the protest and I told them that I don't even know the plan. The management of the school sent me and some of my excos and security men to go to the scene and find out who are the students planning for it, and we went there and met with the organisers, they said they didn't invite any students to participate in the rally"

Click on the below link to read the full story


https://www.facebook.com/524521464323570/posts/2133375913438109/?app=fbl

I will advise us not to create any WhatsApp group for now until the final shortlisting. It will be foolish of us to conceal the information which supposes to benefits future applicants to ourselves alone. Let make the conversations open here on NAIRALAND.

MrEgghead:
I've applied successfully but I didn't save the last reference number they sent me. Is there any way I can retrieve it?

Check your email and don't worry yourself too much, what will be, will be.

Seedorph09:
Same here, I am from FUTMINNA too o. Abeg I need any material or tips related to their questions o... Abeg

07030061196

Assaheed4sure@gmail.com

Help a brother please

Prepare for English language(Lexis and structure only) which is 20 questions, General mathematics knowledge with 20 questions too and General paper(Nigeria and world current affairs) which is 40 questions. I wish you the best INSHA ALLAH!

MrEgghead:
Did you get a confirmatory gmail message?
All I have been getting is " your form was saved but an Integration error occurred"

Keep trying, it will do.

NuclearReactor:
I got this email today...
Please do you have any idea when the names of Final Awardees will be announced

Latest by the first week of August.

INTERVIEWS FOR LSS POSTGRADUATE APPLICANTS
Posted on June 29, 2019

This is to inform all shortlisted LSS applicants that interviews for the final selection of awardees will hold from 15th - 19th July 2019.

Applicants will receive email notifications/invitations with their respective centers and batching within the week.

Undergraduate Applicants should NOTE that no Interviews or Exams for their category. The selected team of Panelists will perform the final selection for Undergraduate Applicants based on the credentials uploaded on the Scholarship Portal.

Best Wishes

The PTDF Scholarship Team



PTDF TOWER, PLOT 1058 MEMORIAL DRIVE, OPPOSITE SHEHU MUSA YAR’ADUA CENTRE, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, CADASTRAL ZONE A00, ABUJA

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INTERVIEWS FOR LSS POSTGRADUATE APPLICANTS
Posted on June 29, 2019

This is to inform all shortlisted LSS applicants that interviews for the final selection of awardees will hold from 15th - 19th July 2019.

Applicants will receive email notifications/invitations with their respective centers and batching within the week.

Undergraduate Applicants should NOTE that no Interviews or Exams for their category. The selected team of Panelists will perform the final selection for Undergraduate Applicants based on the credentials uploaded on the Scholarship Portal.

Best Wishes

The PTDF Scholarship Team



PTDF TOWER, PLOT 1058 MEMORIAL DRIVE, OPPOSITE SHEHU MUSA YAR’ADUA CENTRE, CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, CADASTRAL ZONE A00, ABUJA

Copyright © Petroleum Technology Development Fund 2019

What's the faith of LSS undergraduate applicants for the scholarship?

Helenchuks07:
Pls i dont know about this, am just hearing it because i lost my phone and was thinking i will get sms or email, pls how do i know if i was shortlisted. Thanks pls reply me ooooooo

PTDF portal was opened prematurely then, successful applicants will be contacted later.

Nurrex:
yes, I am. the shortlist of successful candidates isn't out yet, isn't it?

Yes! Shortlisting hasn't begun properly.

PTDF will contact applicants later. Check their website for details.

Are you in for LSS?

Nurrex:
please, what's OSS?

It's PTDF Overseas Scholarship Scheme.