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Moerorlah:
Thanks so much for your reply Nicklee.
I am bothered about the future of Chemical/Process Engineering. To me, it's kind of saturated now and that's why chemical engineers today are going into solar cells, semiconductors, bio- areas and many other ludicrous stuffs (not primarily meant for them ). Besides, according to what I have learnt (Bureau of labor statistics), Chemical engineering is the only engineering profession that will have a negative growth rate in the next few years, while an engineering field like petroleum engineering has a predicted growth rate of about 16%.
Also the demand for petroleum engineers is on the increase, and from common analyses, will continue to rise due to the rising global demand for hydrocarbons. Crude oil is continuosly getting more and more difficult to find and produce, one thing that immediately comes to mind is that more highly skilled petroleum engineers will be needed to do this. I suppose this explains why petroleum engineers will be in very high demand in the nearest future.
Getting a PhD in such an area like petroleum engineering will, no doubt, will make big oil companies 'beg at your feet' because they really need to get as much oil as possible out of the groud to meet their rising demand; an objective which requires a highly skilled personnel. Whereas, a PhD in chemical/process engineering will make you 'beg at their (companys') feet' because they don't really need you; all they need is to keep their facilities running and they have a bunch of BS and MS guys who can do that. (Perhaps that's why u chose to study petroleum engineering and not Chemical).
I don't know if I am being overly critical, but this has been my mentality.
Thanks again Nicklee, it does help a bit.

Hmm, it is interesting that I was talking to a friend as recent as last week and was lamenting that my biggest regret so far is not pursuing a PhD in chemical engineering. When I finished undergrad in Nigeria, I decided to apply to only 2 schools - One in California for petroleum engineering (now called energy resources engineering) and the other in Massachusetts for chemical engineering. Then I was fine with either/or but I tilted towards going to Massachusetts. I ended up applying to the school in California only because the person that was supposed to pay my application fee missed the deadline for the Massachusetts school. OK, bottomline is - I didn't have much of a choice anymore, so I went for PE.
I love chemical engineering and I think PE is so easy that you don't really need a long degree in PE to do well in the industry or even in academia. On the other hand, CHG is pretty broad and you can really do lots of cool stuff - from Bio. to organic semi-conductors, to Enhanced Oil recovery to reservoir engineering. And at the PhD level, I have come to understand that it doesn't really matter whether you are PE or CHG in research in the oil industry. For stats., ExxonMobil is made up of 18% CHGs and only 4% PEs. Infact when I interned with them, I noticed that there were more CHGs in their research company than PEs (ratio of more than 3:1).
CHGs jobs had been growing in the past many years and it is not surprising that the growth rate can turn negative. But there are still lots of opportunities for the graduates, even in the oil industry if you decide to work in that industry.
I'm not sure which school you got into but I think that also plays a role.

Moerorlah:
Hello everyone. I am new here and I hope someone can offer me some advice. I hold a first class degree in chemical engineering from Nigeria but just enrolled in a PhD programme in a chemical engineering in a University in the US (in top 60). In this programme, I might be doing research in process safety, risk analyses and reliability with some respected profs in process systems and control.

However, this is my worry: inasmuch as I don't want to be in the academia (I have always wanted to be in the industry: infact I accepted this PhD offer only because i could not get a job in Nigeria), does it make any sense to go as far as getting a PhD to get a good job later in the process industries?I understand many employers value more relevant experience than educational achievement, is that true?

I am thinking of switching to a masters in petroleumn (US, Europe or Saudi). Why? Like someone rightly obsevered, process engineers don't have as many job opportunities in nigeria as petroleum engineers.

Please could someone give me his/her opinion about this proposed move of mine? I can definitely get my PhD, but I am more concerned about what lies ahead. PhD is very challenging and I don't want to invest that much energy and significant years of my life in a course that will only pay back at a rate commeasurate (or even less)
with Msc.

Thanks, and hoping to hear from u guys soon.

Ok, just to help you clarify stuff here: getting a PhD does not constrain your opportunities to the academia. Infact most PhDs now prefer to work in the industry and there are plenty opportunities for them there. Just like you, I made a first class in chemical engineering from a university in Nigeria. Then I went for an MS in petroleum engineering and actually got a full time offer with Chevron US upstream after my MS. But I turned down the offer and decided to do a PhD instead. Besides the fact that a PhD gives you better interview opportunities (most companies are refusing to interview international students on any program less than the PhD), the pay and eventual pay off is way better (atleast in my case and in the cases of most of my friends who also towed the same path). And by the way, non of us is going to the academia - we are all headed for the industry and even in these difficult recruitment times, for most of us, the struggle now is how to choose between highly competing offers from different companies.
So bottomline is - with a PhD, you get to choose where you want to be - industry or academia, atleast with a PhD in engineering.

Hope this helps.

Now I know the situation in Nigeria is not exactly hopeless - this is a big eye opener and I am very impressed!!! He is smart and I hope we can get things right this time,

Hi Kunle,

Thanks man for everything. Many many thanks!!!!!

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Thanks

Wow, Kunle, thanks a lot for the great help you are offering. I am learning alot about selflessness here.

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God bless you.

Hi Kunle,

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Thanks a lot.

Hello everyone, My results are showing "Record does not exist". Am I the only one seeing this or are there others who are experiencing the same problem? For those whose record are up, did anyone see this message earlier?
Thank you!!

Nigerians like populist policies - anything to play the gullible mind of the poor masses. Any policy that appears targeted at the 'rich and wealthy' is always welcome by the uninformed poor masses. Sanusi is playing this game with this situation in mind. In my humble opinion, he could have handled these problems in a much smarter and strategic manner with less brazenness. Again, his move is populist in Nigeria and ofcourse so many people are going to hit on me for taking this position. I'm taking a sidon-look position on this and waiting for the next couple of months to either prove me right or dead wrong.

Hi poster,

I tried to PM you but couldn't. You could PM me - we could have lunch sometime.

Mozambique scores!!!!!!

I'm not sure to what extent my little post will help, but my take is that folks that CAN'T afford the high costs of education in the US should just do undergraduate studies in nigeria and work very hard at it. With a good undergraduate transcript from a decent Nigerian university and a good GRE (or other aptitude test) score,  it is easier to get into graduate school here with full funding. I did it and it has worked very well for me - I am in one of the choicest universities here in the US, (finished an MS and currently doing a PhD). The good side of this is while many of my american friends are still ridden with student loans (some running into 6 figure loans), I got to come to graduate school clean!!!! And to think that I got the same jobs, same pay with them, I am way well off.

This is my little panacea!!! don't start off with so much debt.

Nigerians will never cease to amaze me - a man constructs some roads, that is it and he is t he best man for the office of the Governor!!!!. Thank God I don't even live in Nigeria anymore, this sort of senseless argument would have made me sick by now.

I am not from Anambra, so I have no stakes there - but to tell me that a man, who stooped so low just to get access to power, is being celebrated this way for whatever 'roads' he constructed is appalling. We are always so quick to forget that development is a wholistic exercise. You don't do one at the detriment of others - that shows no blueprint at all.

please can you be more specific? I am interested in a miniflat or a 2 bedroom around Lekki, Ajah axis. So, if you could be more specific about location and prices, we will appreciate,

gabriellle:
i did my interviews in kpmg in two days and by 12 noon on the second day, I had an offer even without medicals! I turned it down because the pay was less than what I was already collecting in another company. My advice to nairalanders is believe in yourself and you'd achieve and re-achieve success constantly! congrats again man! KPMG is a great place to start or grow a career!

Gabriellle, Gabriellle, good to catch you here!!!!!

, annibo

Hey All

Anybody has any explanations on the recently posted Japaul PO allotment? I can't imagine someone who paid for 51,000 units getting only 10,000 units while the other who paid for 50,000 units gets full allotment. Am I missing something here?

Please, gurus in the house, help shed some light on this allotment plan !!!

hey folks,

Please, how can one who bought First Bank's PO online get his refund? I paid online with my debit card.

What about those that bought same First Bank, from a branch of a local bank in Nigeria? Would they have to go to the same branch of the same bank for their refunds?

And to Dangote Flour refunds? I bought through a branch of one of the local banks in Nigeria. Would I need to go to the bank for my cheque?

Many thanks.

fakande:
I feel sad to read the posts of young Nigerians like myself working hard at making a mountain out of a molehill. So what if Ribadu is sent on course or even sacked? I think its about time we begin to realize that no man is indispensable and also that there is always someone better for the job. Ribadu is primarily a policeman who was used by Obasanjo to set a bad precedent. He moved 2 steps into the senior officer cadre of the force without the requisite academic and intellectual requirements. He was thus recommended for further training by the police and it was approved by the President. What is the big deal in that? We speak of Ribadu as if without him, the nation, if it so determines, cannot fight corruption. Where did he get the money to buy Ehindero's former official residence in Abuja? That house was valued at well over N100 million. Lets face the fact, Ribadu availed himself of an opportunity given him to serve and performed averagely well, given the circumstances under which he operated. There is, however, no doubt that he was used by the former President to hound his political enemies into submission, a task at which, he excelled far and above the actual job of fighting corruption.

Dangiwa Umar might be a whole lot of things, going by the plethora of names he has been called by certain ignorant individuals on this thread. But it is on record that he is one of the few military men that voluntarily resigned their commission at the peak of a promising career and spoke out vocally against the same regime they helped to enthrone and in which they played a prominent role. I wonder how many times the "highly credible" Ribadu spoke out against the obvious high level of corruption that was been perpetrated by the Presidency under Obasanjo's watch.

It is appaling to see folks asking what Umar did as the kaduna state Governor. Umar has integrity. He resigned his commission in the wake of the 1993 electoral issues in Nigeria, and spoke vehemently against the regime. He also spoke vehemently against Abacha, even when he knew it could cost his life. He is quated as saying ''My loyalty to IBB, which people allude to, did not prevent me from vehemently disagreeing with and opposing him when he was being misguided by sinister forces to take decisions that were injurious to good governance and inimical to the existence and unity of this country.'' He did this when he was still a junior officer to IBB, and when he couldn't take the heat anymore, he resigned to have the unfettered privilege to air his views against impostors in government.

My point is simply. I reinterate that Ribadu started well and was a fine officer. But then, when his boss started out his unwholesome campaign and crackdown on his perceived enemies, Ribadu joined the fray. Yes, he lost it at that point. He ought to have asked to be excused from the commision since at that point, the whole thing was running contrary to anything sane and fair. Afterall, it was in the same administration that Okonjo-Iweala resigned after her boss lost focus on what they were all gunning to achieve.

In all sincerity, no one can malign Umar. And if you have anything to show otherwise, say it out. Asking what he did as Kaduna state Governor is wrong. What didn't he do? And by the way, it is on records that he still remains one of the poorest ex-milads around. Yes, I want to know what he didn't do.

Since he spoke against IBB and his SAP, spoke against IBB in 1993 elections, even as a junior officer in a MILITARY regime, we ought to give it to his as fearless and responsible. Standing out against Abacha, when he could have been easily framed up in a coup and locked up, as well as standing out against OBJ in the midst of his 'naked dance in public' is another pointer to his strength of character. I am not saying he should replace Ribadu. but atleast, I can't stand people maligning him unnecessarily for voicing an opinion that is largely true.

Obasanjo started out well, had great policies. Then he became selfish, got tangled with a most despicable move to get a third term, lost out, got vindictive, became uncontrollable and danced naked in the public. In a jiffy, he lost all the noble accolades and admirations he had garned for himself. Infact he had everything going for him, and would have easily been the undisputable father of modern Nigeria. Again, greed, selfishness and lust for power blinded him and he's lost all that. In the early years of his administration, I loved the man with my life and literarily adored him, until he started dancing naked.

Ribadu started well too. He was fearless, got great indictments of corrupt folks, and showed amazing commitment to the fight against corruption. Tafa, Nwude and the Yahoo boys are testimonies to that. I loved him, admired him and he was my hero. Young, bold, fearless. Then, he missed it. Yes, when obasanjo started his naked dance in the public, Ribadu joined him. In a fight like this, you need all the credibility and fairness that you can get. You mustn't give people a reason to point fingers at your sincerity. But he did just that. He went after obasanjo's perceived enermies in a wrong way. He started with Atiku after he fell out with ObJ, then went after everyone that had anything with Atiku. Adenuga suffered, Alams too. He made it too political. he personalized his fight against Atiku and went overtly public and political about it. If he did the persecutions across board, only if he did just that.

Mind you, I am not standing in for any of these guys. I am just an ordinary Nigerian like y'all. But I saw my admiration for Ribadu loosing heat. I heard him speak many times during the elections and I saw a man suffering, trying to do good and evil at the same time, trying to please obJ and posterity all at the same time. he missed it there.

I think we need someone whose commitment to this cause goes beyond service to his master and 'employer'. Maybe, a person in the class and astuteness of Col Umar might be it. Someone fearless, who knows no president. Someone who has been a torn in the flesh of the high and low and who can still do it with integrity. Again, I suggest the likes of Col Umar for the job. I wouldn't imagine Umar staking his integrity to protect anyone.

Finally, please,, Yaradua is our president, at least for now. And he is not as stupid as we have made him look in this forum. I suggest we refrain from calling him names and giive him a chance. He's only been here for 7 months and atleast is so far the most honest president we have had. I am only asking for us to give him a chance, atleast till the end of his first year.

Please, I have no connections with anymore in power Oo. I am just like any of you, stating what I think is an objective opinion.

HAPPY '08

PetroChemical Engineers don't work in upstream, that is for Petroleum Engineers. You will work in the downstream sector, in refining and in petrochemicals industry such as the plastic industry and host of other chemicals derived from petroleum. It is more like Chemical Engineering restricted to processes and chemicals from petroleum processing.
It is wrong to say Petrochem is some combination of Petroleum and Chemical eng. It is not.

Question,

If you used your CHN and your account is credited with your shares, How would sell them? Maybe, there is a special CSCS process of converting/assigning a CSCS account number to such stocks for onward trading - you cannot sell your stocks without a CSCS account number, therefore, you cannot expect CSCS to credit your account with just your CHN number. For everyone's information, I reinterate that your CSCS account number (all numeric) is UNIQUE. It is UNIQUE to you and your CHN. No two individuals can have the same numeric number.

tonyjon:
Hi Guys,

I believe the misery surrounding the the difference between CSCS# and CLEARING HOUSE NUMBER (CHN) has now been solved.

I got in touch with CSCS office and I was told that for IPO/PO, the number to use is the numeric one which is known as CSCS# and that the alphanumeric is the Clearing house number.

I was also told that if you use the alphanumeric on IPO/PO application form, your shares will NOT be credited to your account;YOU WILL RECEIVE SHARE CERTIFICATE.


Peace.

Exactly what I was saying all this while, there is no way your account can be credited if you used the CHN, you need a brokers platform to maintain an account with the CSCS and that is why you have the unique CSCS account number, no two persons have the same CSCS account number, and your CSCS account number is matched automatically to your CHN,

Let's let the case rest.

IykeD:
@ madeonline, you are very correct.Now, have you ever wondered why the CSCS no is unique, which has a combination of your names.Now to those who say CSCS account no is to be used, have you also wondered why when you use different brokers, you have different CSCS acount no but still the same CSCS no.This is because CSCS account no is unique to each stockbroker alone, as that is what they use on your bahalf to trade on the floor, CSCS no is used by all the Registrars no matter the no of stockbrokers you are signed to.
This is why on all PO forms, they write: Fill in your CSCS no and immediately after that, they ask for "name of Stockbroker".
If it was the CSCS acount no they require which is unique to each Stockbroker you use, they wouldn't bother asking for name of Stockbroker.
Please let's not confuse issues here.

The online PO purchase portals ( for both First Bank and Access Bank) did not require you to put the name of the stockbroker. It asked for the CSCS number only. The CSCS account number ( numeric), is not only unique to your stockbroker, it is universally unique, no two persons can have the same numeric CSCS account number. It matches you to both your broker and your CHN.

You should use the numeric number and not the CHN in PO/IPO forms. In simple terms, Come to think of it, the CHN remains the same even if you have multiple brokers, but the CSCS account number varies from broker to broker. However, all the CSCS account numbers ( numeric) point to the same CHN. the converse is not the case - ie your CHN does not point to the CSCS account number. in other words, if you use the CHN ( alphanumeric), how would you trade the stocks when it get's credited into 'your account'. You need a broker platform to trade, hence you need the numeric number to TRADE. By the way the numeric CSCS number is also unique to you, and any stock credited to it is automatically associated with the CHN, So, for PO and IPO, use the numeric CSCS number

crazyT:
I think the best thing is to buy more of Transcorp shares and awaits my grand children to reap the benefits in 2037 or there about.

Ha ha ha, Yeah right, Grand children indeed.

The fact, which people who have decided to follow the bandwagon, have refused to see is that Transcorp is one company with enormous potentials that are currently being harnessed for profitability. You cannot buy a pretty dead company like NITEL and expect to perform magic on it overnight. With time, and to be specific, in a matter of 1.5-2 years, Transcorp should be profitable enough to be an investor's delight- if they keep focussed though.

By the way, it was written in the IPO prospectus that profitability will not start until 2009. It was also started that part of the IPO proceeds will be used to repay Loans. Therefore, any investor OUGHT to have been prepared for a medium to long term investment, our biggest problem is that the irrational movement in the Nigerian stock market has blinded everyone into seeking short term ( 1-6 months, 100%) returns instead of looking at potentials, fundamentals etc. If Warren Buffet was Nigeria, he definitely would have been mopping up Transcorp shares by now, that is how investors out to think, not the unsustainable get-rich-quick stock investment style,

Anywayz, 'Make we siddon dey look'

Hey Temmie,

Where did you get Japaul's prospectus? The one on the company's website is worrisome. It has old dates and xxxx dates.

FAISALL:
dodochi42 hi,

please i read bcs chemistry hopin to go for M ENG in 1 of the american universities, can u please get me genuine consultant to help me secure addimissions. taxn

faisalfatai@yahoo.co.uk

If your transcript looks pretty good (eg 2.1 Transcript), then you can as well apply to any of the schools for Bio-engineering courses. Ofcourse you need to write the GRE exam and obtain a nice score too.

South African Passport? , You suck!!!!!

snairegin:
I think i have a lot of experience with the whole sickle cell issue and can relate to a lot of do's and don't's & give my own honest & spiritual belief to the whole issue.

God is a father of choices, if u have genuine love & honesty with each other , u should be together. Any doubt in your love or ability to stay together, move on and seperate peacefully. Although, i feel that you should always tell all genetic traits, interests, values etc as early as possible.

My sweet/ sad story,
Was in a relationship for 5 and a half years, the last 4yrs living together with the intention of getting married (literarily saving & advancing our careers to pay for a wedding ourselves), parents told me to check her genotype, told them that she had it done in nigeria and she's not sure of accuracy, but recalls it being AA

Told my parents that we would deal with all circumstances when it arises, how stupid i was to trust someone else other than God.

An SS cousin came on holiday (having wealthy parents with dad being a doctor) and died back in nigeria a week after. It prompted her to retest & she turned to be AS as well.
Her family & friends auto switched off & insisted we part , months after, she decided that she had to move on as we disagreed on the important topic,
What to do if the 25% chance occurs?, she wanted to keep at all costs with tears (optimistic), i wanted a test and abort( realist), our families wanted us to part at all costs( pessimist),

My personal view, if u both love each other & are perfect for each other, pain , suffering , difficult decisions, life's challenges would make u stronger each time,
If u both like each other a lot but not love, or one loves and the other doesn't, u should part ways.

AA+ SS, just prepare yourself in the worst of times for your hubby's passing & agree next steps, will, moving on etc, be smart with each other not stupid

AS+SS, don't u dare
AS+AS, only if your love is strong enough, personally, i believe medical science is meant to guide our choices rather than be a definite for choices,

Take for example, my ex marries an AA, but the first kid or one of them is diagnosed early with downes syndrome or some serious mental/physical defect, would she not be faced with the same problem?
If she keeps the baby with the second best man,she would struggle ,
If she takes a doc's advice of not keeping the baby, aborting would make her remember me,
If she learns of a medical breakthrough in 10 years time or the hubby turns into a monster, she would definately remember me

A woman has a bigger chance of a miscarriage nowadays in the western world than problems after an abortion

God is Love and love is , SELFLESSNESS
, SACRIFICE
, COMMITMENT and finally
, CONTEMPT

God never intends for us to settle for second best , stop the relationship as early as possible but if there is true love and agreed values, stay together

As for me, the next partner has to have same values, love GOD, love me and DOESNT HAVE TO BE AA or even african, as there would always be something in life that would make us all imperfect, challenges to face , bad habits to live with sacrifices to make

Very well Said. I think this is the best so far,

For naija abi for Holland?

Na wao oooo

I'm quite sure Dangote is worth more than $4b. Wait till he lists his flour and the cement company on the stock market. With the expectant astronomical price appreciation these stocks will witness, there is no doubt he'll be worth more than $10b. He's got cement, flour, sugar, telecom, oil and gas, etc companies all spinning mega bucks for him.

Let me help us get this very clear,

The practice of intra network calls being cheaper than inter network calls is a calculated attempt at amassing profits while stifling competition. With number portability, you simply move from network A to network B, while retaining the same old number.
You can not imagine the magnitude of competition we'll have when this comes on, and ofcourse we, the subsribers would be kings and the beautiful bride. Call costs will drop, free minutes will abound, text messages will become cheaper, and above all, service and customer relations will be highly improved. It's a good thing, and that is why developed nations have embraced it for so many years.

This works so well in the USA and makes us, the subscribers, KINGS. It doesn't require rocket science to understand and implement, atleast we would begin to expect better service from the draconian service providers that have milked us so dry, and yet provided us with embarrassing service.