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Well, self defence skills is very important too. Everyone needs it, it gives a little bit of confidence and gaurantee. Let me share a short story;


A man, his wife and child were walking along the road by the express. Suddenly, a bus came from nowhere, left the express and almost hit them. In annoyance, the man hit the side mirror of the bus and it broke. The driver came down, dragged him into the bus and beat the hell out of him despite the fact that the driver was wrong. If the man could defend himself, it wouldn't have been as bad as it turned out to be before he was rescued, I felt so sad. So, self defence skills is very very important.












Another important skill is driving skills, you never can tell when you will need it particularly during emergencies. It is important everyone learns to drive.



Moreover, swimming skills is a necessary skill too, useful for emergencies and some dangerous situations, everyone should learn how to swim.


Finally, I think knowing how to play a musical instrument is important too for relaxation, expression of thoughts, meditation and so many things. For the guys, knowing how to play ian instrument can get you that lovely geishee too .....I remember how my friend, Evans had a lot of girls around him in the university days, he plays the guiter so well, composes R and B songs with their names whenever they come visiting and they just smile and blush along as he sings on. At least, it can put a smile on somebody's face. I manage to play the harmonica (mouth organ) and it is so much fun when friends, ladies and all request for a particular song and say, "can you please play this for me?" .

Talk about beauty and brains, talk about Vivly.

I see a lot of solidarity votes for Rozzay. I guess at the end of the day,popularity takes the lead which I am afraid is a bad way of chosing our own miss Nairaland. Moreover, her response to the questions was below average and mixed with pidgin English (which is a no no). It will be an insult to this great forum if Rozzay emerges the queen ( no offence), Jennima is even still okay.


@Vivly, win or not, you are already a queen and far above most of the contestants structurally, intellectually and all. Unfortunately, voting is mostly done based on solidarity and popularity here and that's why you have been seeing some names allover. Keep it up.
#Team vivly#

Just give this damn award to Vivly. I vote for VIVLY.

There is this school called NEKEDE (I don't know the full name), it is a polytechnic.If the school is not the worst higher institution in Nigeria, it should be one of the worst.

Bale1:
I have seen graduates from many schools in nigeria but I can bet you that graduates from the universities listed below always stand out among their peers in terms of excellent and discipline in their work place

1.UNN
2.UI
3.OAU
4.Unilorin
5.CONVENANT UNIVERSITY

Also for poly I will say there is just one
1.AUCHI poly

+ FUNAAB

enairaprof:
In my opinion, it is much easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for students to make first class in these institutions.
1. Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA)
2. University of Ibadan (UI)
3. Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU)
4. University of Benin (UNIBEN)
What's your view?

UI and Uniben shouldn't be on that list.

kunlebabs:
Its nt really down. It still went tru. Its ur mobile browser server. They had server overload

The home page was opening was opening but as soon as you click on the "Application" section, nothing goes through again. Moreover, I used a cafe, used my phone and laptop when I got home, used an ipad too but it was still the same. When I got to the school on saturday, they couldn't do anything at the school cafes too, they said "yes", it isn't going through.


This is not the first time this will be happening. During regustration, the site was not accessible for about 4 days and registration was about to close. I went to school and discovered that even the staff couldn't access the portal too, no one could access it. The fact is Unilag's web. Administration is too poor, the persons in charge of their sites are incompetent. How will you explain having information about 2011/2012 admission on the homepage and the requirement for the registration when another session is about to start, too many stale news on the page too.

boldan:
Natural waves

All you need to do is to open unilag pg application link,log in with your secret number and surname and reprint the application form.simple.You may not really need all the pages,I think the first page having your passport and proposed course of study is ok.
I did my exam on wednesday.I am not sure anybody asked for any exam pass from anybody even though I got there late,but I was not asked, so relax go there with a print of the first page of the application form and I think you are good to go

I know how to print the pass joor not talking about that. What I meant is that the link that will take you to where you will enter your details stopped going and the school couldn't do anything about it.Unfortunately, I didn't make a copy of my application print out because I rushed to submit and there was no time then.I only went with my teller,the print out that has the reference number andd passport, the woman didn't allow me in, I found my way around the pass at the end of the day. How can a whole school portal be down for 24 hours+? Unilag is overrated .

braine:
But wasn't the file simply downloaded?? Its a pdf file and I believe everyone should atleast have the file. I don't know how people are having issues with printing any document!

What I mean is that the link to even take you to where you can access the exam pass isn't going talkless of printing.

boldan:
For all those having problems with printing exam pass, go there with a copy of the application you printed.I:e a copy of what you submitted to your department, at least that has your photo and proposed course of study on it, and also don't forget the teller you used for the payment.In short carry eveerything about uunilag pg to the exam hall,(prospectus,teller,printed application,paper generated showing your secret code,even past question if you have to show to the invigilators that beyond any reasonable doubt,you are a candidate for the paper.

Didn't make a copy of the application form I submitted to the department. I submitted a coloured one , they should be able to retrieve it. Unilag is below par when it comes to all these net issues, it was war too before we could register, a whole university of lagos. Smh.

I have not been able to print out an exam pass. The page is not going .

StealthyMe:
Thanks...my bad
I thought since twas a school of Agriculture,they wouldnt offer engineering courses

IT is a school of Agriculture because it has special grants to practice agriculture to the core; enough fields,mechanical devices and the lecturers( Prof. Adebambo and co) are something else when it comes to agriculture. Infact, I didn't like taking a stroll with my friends that were studying agriculture cos they will give you a thorough analysis of any tree,leaf , soil we come across. I can beat my chest for any one that studied agric.there.

Sciences and engineering is well practiced too in a very standard way but not all engineering courses are available (no chemical engineering for example) and no medicine and clinical sciences too.

StealthyMe:
Nice point...but its still a probability

And considering the fact that FUNAAB doesnt offer Engineering courses

Funaab offers engineering courses.

Who ever hired this eediot should get him fired. How can there not be at least 5 pictures to back up this claim? This is the most fooolish thread I have read in months.

sangresan:
.....Too many theorems without names.....Hard to cram....You may even understand them(very easy) but to remember them nko....In Mathematics,Real Analysis takes the cake......It is the abstract aspect of Calculus...All the theorems and principles of Calculus are derived from Real Analysis....

Exactly!

Spongia1:
MTS 311
Groups and Rings
Toughest Course ever. Got an E and I gave testimony in churchM it was that serious

Hmmm MTS 311 (Groups and Rings). The cheapest question you can get there is what is a group or what is a ring?and that will take about 9/10 lines to define cos you will state all those 9 yeye axioms and tell them that if it obeys the above, then it is a ring. Kai! And that won't fetch you more than 1/4 mark or even 1/8 in some cases. When we did ours, a very close friend of mine dozed off when he saw the questions; I guess he didn't sleep well prior to the exam and he crash read also, too many proofs to memorise and all.He failed it and lots of people too, I have a way of scrambling for an "E" in those courses cos I will continue writing and joining the bits I know or have an idea of rather than give up and go submit. I know by the time they add 1 mark here, 1/2 mark there, 2 marks there, it will enter 40 sha.

Spongia1:
he's not on sabbatical o. Still destroying lives there

. In Agboola's tiny voice.....You are stewpid okay? You think we are in here for a party? This is Unaab there is not time for jamborees.

jidefrimi:
greatest nacossite
Greatest funaabite!!
Jst abt 2 tak maths method ii.agboola is now on sabbatical leave.

Great! I see@Agboola. Our set won the National computer programming competition for Nigerian universities. Hope you are still flying the flag?

A sadist handled our MATHEMATICAL METHODS II when I was in school. Never smiled in class, taught so passively but tests and exams were hell. We had a lot of things to read up prior to the exam and I didn't even sleep for 2 days before exams. When the question eventually came, come see question! The cheapest thing there was the Green's theorem where you will start with the proofs, the Laplace transform I was banking to have a whole question set on it failed to be so, it was just question (4d) that was set on it. I got an E in that course and about half of the students that took it failed even Engineering students. We staged a protest, saw the VC, the lecturer was called and he was told to upgrade the course with about 5 marks or so, he refused. He said the law states that a course should be upgraded if 50% + failed but just 47%failed his course and he wouldn't upgrade .




Another challenging course was REAL ANALSIS and God be with you if Dr AAA Agboola will take you that course. He is not a sadist(most people think he is though) but believes everyone should be a genius. He seems to like that aspect of maths where most lecturers dread. 90% of his published works are on Groups, rings, hormomophism theorems, real analysis and all other abstract mathematical areas. His questions are not usually easy too. We had a C,2Ds, about 34Es and the remaining ones from 70 of us scored "F". Students gave testimonies for getting an "E" in that course. No be small thing o! We were blessed in terms of lecturers ; we had 2 of the best 20 mathematicians in Africa (Oguntuanse and co).




I can never forget our computer programming courses too, those ones na die. Not until 300 level, we used to write programs on papers . From 300 level, all our programming courses were done straight on the system and right there in the examination hall, you will know if you have failed or passed cos you will run the programs and if none fails to run, na F be that.



#unaab#
#computer science#

olukenzo:
True.

Professor Julius Amioba Okojie of JAO1, JAO2 and 3 fame.

When is JAO4 coming?

Lols. We were part of the first set to launch JAO halls.

Julius Okojie was a former vice chancellor at Unaab. At Unaab, all lecturers are Phd holders, no Msc.

There is a used condom close to the glasses on the bed chamber.

meelorlah:
Integrated mathematics was so dear to me,God bless d guy that authored it.Invincible teacher by Ashade did d magic for me in JAMB's Use of English.

Exactly dear, that guy; Afolabi J.R is something else.

New school physics is sometimes ambiguous and contradictory in explanations

Essential Physics by Farinde is straight to the point and sufficient to get a student at least a B3 in physics


The best thing that has happened to physics is a text book known as " THE SCIENCE PHYSICS " by Afolabi J.R. Any regular ohysics textbook can be combined with it.



The best textbook for further mathematics is still "Further mathematics project 1,2,3". However, I will recommend this two texts again "BASIC FURTHERMATHEMATICS AND SOLVED QUESTIONS" by Afolabi J.R and " INTEGRATED MATHEMATICS" by Afolabi J.R. If you use these textbooks particularly the ones authored by Afolabi J.R and you score less than a B2 in furthermaths O level and less than a 70% in mathematics UME, you need to be flogged.



In our time, the best tutorial centre in Lagos was "Adams Tutors" Oshodi. We had otheers like Davser tutors ( Akinrinmade's lesson). Akinrinmade is arguably one of the best Biology teachers in Lagos state. He is now a VP in one of the Lagos state model schools. We had Expert tutors too and so on.

Valentinooo:
Guys look at this question from one of the aptitude tests too.

If 3x-2y=8, then 4y - 6x is
(a) -16
(b) -8
(c) 8
(d) 16
(e) cannot be determined

In the solution they got -16. I understood how they got it but do you guys think it's the right way to solve it?
If i'm to choose, i will go with (e)

Cc:
Belovedsamex
Kentnickole
eckersley
Naturalwaves
Femi4
Kylekent59
Kingkaspa
Obinoscopy
akalaka1
other mathematicians in d house

Hello bro, I am here o. This should be an easy one. Just assume the value of the equation we do not know to be a constant say "b". Try solving the equations simultaneously, the values of "x" and "Y" will cross out leaving you with only the specific value of "b" .When I solved it, I got "-16". Here is my solution;

Olutola88:
Thank you very much sir for the analysis. We need two or more UBN staff to confirm the figures

Take home after deductions used to be 159k per month. I learnt the salaries have been reviewed to 206k now (before tax), so, after all deductions, it is now 170k+

Access bank 237k per month
Shell Trainee About 667k per month.

Kylekent59:
For no 1

Margin =20%
5$=1kg
6kg= $30
Margin = (selling price - cost price)/selling price
0.2=(s.p-30)/s.p
0.2 s.p - s.p = -30
-0.8 s.p=-30
S.p=$37.5. While cost price =$30
Markup= (s.p/c.p)-1
=(37.5/30) -1
=0.25. Or 25%
Representin. FUTO maths dept 400 level

What margin are you talking about? I see you referring to the 20%. So, you mean, to get a 20% profit from a cost price of 30dolls, you are going to sell at 37.5 dollars? Your solution is wrong sir.

eckersley:
I want believe the text 'giving' is a typo and ought to be spelt as given. That is to say, he was supplied[given] the goods at that price, hence that is the COST price. The next sentence buttresses this point by saying, If he wants to make a profit of 20% NOTE: He hasn't sold the goods yet. Can someone pls explain to me the rationale behind taking the stated sum as the SELLING [and not the COST] price?
I believe if that was the SELLING PRICE, the question would have looked thus: What was mark up on the cost price, if he MADE a profit of 20%? Which is to say he has done the sales already, hence there is a SELLING PRICE. Folks do u see it any other way?

You see what I mean? The question is senseles.
Let me assume your explanation is right and let me solve it that way then;

From the assumed explanation, cost price = 30 dollars. To make a profit of 20%, he will need to sell it at (20/100*30)+ 30 = 36 dollars.
Then this 36 dolls is the selling price as well as the marked price for a 20% profit.

Difference between the MP(SP) and the CP is 36-30 = 6 dolls.

So now, what % of 30 dolls is 6 dolls?

Let the % = X
X/100 * 30 = 6
30x= 600
X=600/30 which still gives us 20%.

I can't believe that a reputable organisation like Chevron will set such a question like no 1 that is so unclear and ambiguous. Based on the question, we do not need the 5 dollars info to solve it except if I don't understand the question. This was what I got anyway;

lovaleenny:
Couldn't find any results on teaching jobs...Thanks dou

Check "hotnigerianjobsdotcom". You should see the advert for lagos state civil service job there. When you click on it, you will see "education officer" as one of the openned vacancies and follow up from there.