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Nice2023:
If I tell that guys how I started this life with a meagre sum of 300k and what it has become today,it will shock him.

The message is,don't under-estimate the power of starting small.

Please share your story for us to learn.

Acecube:
She can accept it.

And still take jamb if she really has the passion.

16 is still young though. Though there's no harm in getting into school early.

Some questions I feel "she/you" should be able to answer.

Does she have someone that tells her the nitty-gritty of Uniben putme, how to pass it, what text to read ?

How was her Utme ?
Coz her foundation (utme) has to be strong

Is she based in Benin ? There are some lecture houses churning out great scores year in year out.

Maybe she should attend one and put in more effort.

Truth is, many persons take courses with the intention of switching and end up graduating like that

Some lose the zeal along the way coz why try ? When they are already in Uni ?

So many questions begging answers...

Caveat: I'm asking all these with the assumption she has a passion for medicine.

Physiotherapy isn't bad.

Thanks for your insights.

(1) She has a passion for Medicine.

(2) She is based in Lagos and not Benin but has somebody in Benin

(3) She will accept the Physiotherapy and then do JAMB again.

(4) This Uniben PUTME is an eye opener for her. She initially thought that Uniben PUTME was based on JAMB but this year's was an eye opener as Uniben can change things without notice.

(5) Her UTME was strong. She got 299.

(6) She will study hard and start preparing for next JAMB as Uniben is not likely to resume till March/April

(7) If in the next JAMB, she scores high, she might consider Unilag as Unilag combines JAMB, WAEC and PUTME and her WAEC is very good.

(8 ) She will now study extra hard as she now knows that entering Medicine in any University is not easy and very competitive.

Cardiojosh:
Radiography
Physiotherapy
MLS

These are all professional medical courses too.

Thanks. I will tell her to accept it then.

Cardiojosh:
You know, physiotherapy is also called medical Rehabilitation.

Do not know much about it. She needs to take a decision if to accept or reject it. Most students just know about Medicine and Pharmacy and then a little about Optometry.

NL1960:
Please i need some advise here. I have a 16year old relation who got 65 aggregate for Uniben Medicine. She is from Edo.

Iam looking at some options for her.

(1) Retake JAMB next year.

(2) Take any 4year science course and try to switch to Medicine in 200Lvl. What 4year science will be appropriate for this?.

(3) If (2) is not possible, complete the 4year course and use it to gain entry to 200Lvl Medicine.

Please urgent replies are needed as she has been crying as the PUTME result was a great shock. There was total chaos in Uniben PUTME this year especially for those that wrote on the first day. Some students even fainted.

Goodday All,

A quick update on this issue.

She is being transferred to Physiotherapy. Is Physiotherapy a Medical course or a Science course?. What are your thoughts?. To Accept or to Reject?.

ejehijustice:
The North is not as bad as we from the South see it or are made to believe. Yes, there is insecurity in the North but truth is insecurity is in every region of the country. Even in the North the insecurities are more prominent in the outskirts.

Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto is in the heart of the city and I can tell you it is relatively peaceful - more peaceful than a lot of Southern cities.

That score is too good to throw away. Being female and young should not be a barrier. There are younger ladies here as well and trust me all she needs is to join CMDA and she would be well groomed and cultured.

The environment here makes it a bit difficult to turn wayward.

Yes, the weather is extreme - she will adapt. The road is far - surely she will cope. It is the seat of the caliphate - all she needs to do is to mind her business and she will do just fine.

However, if Sokoto is too far, then Unijos could be an option.

Thanks. Still weighing the various options.

Keeon:
hey with this JAMB score, I'd advice she changes to UDUS (Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto) I school there and it is a federal University. In fact, her quota is 150. If she so likes, her cut off for MBBS last year was 280

Thanks.

I have heard so much about UDUS even Unimaid. The security challenge is the issue. Too risky for a 16year old girl that spent all of her time in a closed guided catholic boarding school. It is easier and faster for a boy to toughen up and adjust in such environment. The parents have alreafy ruled out certain regions.

Cardiojosh:
I will sincere advise she change institution to one that are yet to close her post utme portal.

Unimaid post utme portal closes in 3days, if she can register then I welcome her into the department.
I know an Edo guy who got in with a score a little bit lower than hers.
I hope this messages meets you on time.

Please that score should not go down the drain, no time to think about this, I've done it for you.
Only thing you need to think about is the 250k school fees for 100lv, and I know God will provide.

Let her do the change and apply in the next 6years he'll graduate.

Thanks for your insights.

She is a girl. Unimaid is too far. The parents are in Lagos. They were even crictised for wanting to send her to Edo. Maiduguri is a no for them. Too much insecurity to suddenly throw a 16year old girl who has never left Lagos into. The 250k is not an issue.

RuyiMedicDiary:
Any Medical course will be good. If she is 100% sure that its MBBS she wants, any 4 year course would do. (E.g Anatomy, Physiology, etc) But if she's not so sure that it's MBBS she wants, Biko let her go for a 5 year professional medical course instead.(E.g Nursing, Pharmacy, etc)

And yes, she can choose same UNIBEN. There won't be any issue if it's same school.

Thanks. Let me wait and see what she will be given. She wants MBBS.

Ruggedfighter:
Hello, NL1960. Your sister's score is quite okay, but sadly, that won't give her medicine.

1. Taking jamb next year will depend on what she really wants though, if she's determined to do medicine, then taking jamb again next year is the best option she has.

2. This is a total NO. It's 99% impossible. You can't switch to medicine in Uniben, except maybe you're the VC's relative or maybe you know someone with a high profile. The profile has to be very very high because I know of someone who tried switching even with the kind of connect he had, it still didn't work. Well, I did too, nothing came out. I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just telling you how it is.

3. On this note, I'll now have to chip in this piece. Let her change her course NOW. When I say NOW, I mean ASAP. Let her change to a professional course, say Radiography before admission starts, if she's fast enough, she'll be given. Instead of her studying the 4yrs course and hoping to come back, let her do something professional, so that in case, the medicine passion dies along the line, she'll have something reasonable to hold on to. There are nice professional courses she can get with her aggregate range, let her do her findings and change NOW. I know someone it worked for. He applied for medicine but his score wasn't up to, he quickly changed to pharmacy and he got in, though he took jamb again. It can work for her too, if only she's fast enough. Admission now is 50% smartness and 50% intelligence.

Good luck.

Thanks.

I will consider all your suggestions. She got 299 in JAMB this year. Uniben PUTME was chaotic on the first day that Medical Students wrote. That was what affected her. Those scheduled for 12:30pm could not write till around 6pm. Some students fainted while waiting with all the sun blazing with no place to sit and had to be taken away by ambulance.

RuyiMedicDiary:
(1) should be a great option of course

As for (2), I have no idea how it works in UNIBEN or if it's advisable.

My concern is (3). With the way Nigeria is unstable, I won't advice it at all. Strikes are the order of the day. Medical school is no longer 6 years in most federal universities. It's now a minimum of 7yrs to a standard of 8yrs. 2021 made it 10 years since I started 100L in my first degree and as of now, I'm still in 400L. (Bear it in mind that immediately after my first degree I went for NYSC and immediately after NYSC, I started the MBBS degree). This option (3) should be a LAST LAST option. It should be considered IF and only IF all options have been explored and it's still not working out. It is a HUGE & UNNECESSARY waste of time if there are other options.

If money isn't an issue, I'll advice that she accepts whatever medical course she gets, instead of sitting at home. Then try switching in 200L and try another JAMB next year.

Alternatively, she could try the A'Level route (IJMB) if UNIBEN has something like that. Here, if she gets a particular cut off point, she'll get direct entry admission into 200L MBBS class.

Thanks.

RuyiMedicDiary:
If money isn't an issue, I'll advice that she accepts whatever medical course she gets, instead of sitting at home. Then try switching in 200L and try another JAMB next year.

. Which medical course do you suggest?. As for trying another JAMB, is it allowed to chose the same Uniben while she is in Uniben?.

RuyiMedicDiary:
Alternatively, she could try the A'Level route (IJMB) if UNIBEN has something like that. Here, if she gets a particular cut off point, she'll get direct entry admission into 200L MBBS class.

. Did not look at this or JUPEB as it seems it is always to difficult to get to 200Lvl through A/L or JUPEB .

Please i need some advise here. I have a 16year old relation who got 65 aggregate for Uniben Medicine. She is from Edo.

Iam looking at some options for her.

(1) Retake JAMB next year.

(2) Take any 4year science course and try to switch to Medicine in 200Lvl. What 4year science will be appropriate for this?.

(3) If (2) is not possible, complete the 4year course and use it to gain entry to 200Lvl Medicine.

Please urgent replies are needed as she has been crying as the PUTME result was a great shock. There was total chaos in Uniben PUTME this year especially for those that wrote on the first day. Some students even fainted.

Pesbest:
IMO, You guys are missing the point here as far as I am concerned.


Pay a Nigerian that same 300m Naira a year, and see if you will not get his full loyalty and utmost performance.


You an Indian 300m Naira and pay a Nigerian 12m Naira and you expect to get same result.


It doesn't work that way folks.


That 300m naira you are paying that Indian, is what it takes to buy his loyalty and efficiency....know this and know peace.

Gbam. My firm once had a proposal with a financial institution. The MD slashed the proposal to about a third of the value that the foreign owners accepted and when asked why, she said 'why i should i pay such an amount to Nigerians'.

Rubyjade:
First thing is to determine your risk appetite before venturing into any investment.Stock market is not for the faint hearted at all.

I know a lot about the stock market. I played it a lot then. Made some killings and made some losses. I just decided to go out of the stock market temporary. I mighy come in again to start playing it.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
This is my own mindset too.

Bonus advice from me: u can try Nigeria stock exchange with long term target in mind, the longer the time of keeping the investment position, the bigger the rewards. It can fetch 100, 200, 500, 1000% see Nigeria stock exchange surging upon assumption of new regime of GOVT.

Check this link: https://tradingeconomics.com/fcmb:nl

The bellow picture is FCMB giving a return of 200+%

Not really easy to be patient with stocks especially when you see the returns on MMF. Was patient on FCMB for 5years. It is just when the new government came in that it started to move and got to N6. I sold on Friday and will be moving the funds to MMF.

The same thing happened to First Bank. Was between N7-N9 for many years before it started moving after the new government came in. It is now at N18. Will just watch it for few more weeks before determining to sell and move the funds to MMF.

Oyindamolah:
Split into 60-20-10
60% for money market fund
20% for Treasury bill
10% for business

What of the remaining 10%?.

emmanuelewumi:
If you build with N50 million, how much can one sell?


The expected profit margin? How long will it take to get a buyer?

Especially in this tough economy.

An agent told me a surprising thing last week. He said that builders now prefer to build 2-bedroom flats for rent instead of 3-bedroom flats and duplexes. His reason being that with the economy, family size is now smaller.

emmanuelewumi:
Caused by the type of education we receive here.


It is madness to sell your house for N50 million a bank manager, to start working as a sale atendant in a super market or gas station. Na what happened to a relative.


Japa if you must, but selling the house you built after working for years because of this get as e be

More than madness. I cannot have N50m and then give it to US or UK or Canada in the name of japa. Of recent, i have been seeing so many japa adverts for work as farm help in rural areas of Canada. Imagine spending N50m to be a farm help in -40degrees.

emmasoft:
When you invest in equity based fund during bearish market you will understand better why I said investing in dividend paying stock directly is preferred. True you will be told it's less risky and managed by professionals but the fact is that its the state of the market that determines the returns on equity based fund. Whether professionals or novice the market has a mind of its own.
However, go with what you are more comfortable with.
Your strategy or investment objectives matters when it comes to investing.

Stocks in our market do not follow any fundamentals. You will see a stock that has not moved for more than 10years and because of a bull market, it starts moving everyday without any information of any change in fundamentals. Before you know it, rookies will be sucked in and the so called professionals that triggered the artificial movement will dump on them and move on.

emmasoft:
@NL1960, thank you so much for the patronage. I really appreciate this.

Yes, you will get the e-account number within 24hrs all things being equal.

Thereafter you can now credit the UBA (custodian bank) account number for MMF that will be sent to you. After funding, your login details will be sent to you as well.

Kindly note that in all your transfers (deposits) always use your e-account number as the description so that tracing and posting into your investment account is made easy.

Thank you.

@emmasoft , my journey with IBTC Mutual funds has started. I funded my account yesterday morning and it was credited to my Mutual Funds account the same yesterday. Interest was also calculated on the amount as at this morning. I hope they keep up this efficiency as i will be topping it from time to time.

emmasoft:
@NL1960, thank you so much for the patronage. I really appreciate this.

Yes, you will get the e-account number within 24hrs all things being equal.

Thereafter you can now credit the UBA (custodian bank) account number for MMF that will be sent to you. After funding, your login details will be sent to you as well.

Kindly note that in all your transfers (deposits) always use your e-account number as the description so that tracing and posting into your investment account is made easy.

Thank you.

I have received the e-account. That was fast from Stanbic Asset Management as i filled the information by 10am this morning.

Oyindamolah:
investmentone, GTbank has bought it. It now gtfundmanagers and their customers service is extremely poor. I can't still get statement of account

You have to call the customer care number of gtfundmanagers to get statement of account.

emmasoft:
pick tier 3.

Difference between tier 3 and tier 1

Tier 3 has no limit as to the amount you can invest.
minimum of 5k and no maximum
while tier1 has a cap of 200k ie your account can not hold more than 200k and you can not transfer more than 20k at a time.
It's actually for financial inclusion, particularly for very low-income brackets or students.
So for you, it's tier 3 you should pick.

I have used your link to open an account. Waiting for the e-account number now.

eghuan1:
If the metal cap dries up and the plastic container if filled up, it means the content if the radiator (metal cap) is going into the plastic container due to overheating.

It's not supposed to be ao

Let your mechanic check your fan or check the cooling system to be sure everything is working fine.

An update on this issue.

The mechanic checked it and did some fixes but said that it is not a long lasting solution as the radiator is now weak and will need to be replaced. I have been using coolant since then and regularly top the coolant.

The Toyota Corolla was bought brand new in 2007 and the radiator has never be replaced since then.

Anybody with an idea of the cost of replacing a radiator?.

emmasoft:
pick tier 3.

Difference between tier 3 and tier 1

Tier 3 has no limit as to the amount you can invest.
minimum of 5k and no maximum
while tier1 has a cap of 200k ie your account can not hold more than 200k and you can not transfer more than 20k at a time.
It's actually for financial inclusion, particularly for very low-income brackets or students.
So for you, it's tier 3 you should pick.

Thanks.

emmasoft:
Okay. You are welcome. Chat me up let's take up from there.

I will be waiting!

I tested your link for StanbicIBTC MMF as iam breaking my VGIF to move to StanbicIBTC MMF but iam seeing Tier 3 and Tier 1 as options. Which should i pick when iam ready to open?.

ojeysky:
That's wrong the actual cause of the overheating should be investigated, the fan should not be the reason.. connecting fan direct is not ideal for your car cooling system

Thanks

ojeysky:
I hope the fan was not "fixed" by connecting it direct whereby it always blow everytime you turn on the ignition....

This was done. Initially, the fan only triggers automatically but now, when i turn on the ignition, the fan blows. My AC is bad for now. So do not know if that was why the rewire did it that way.

GAZZUZZ:
Search for Toyota coolant

I drive a Toyota Corolla. I bought coolant from Toyota filling station. Will that work well for a Toyota Corolla?.

SmilesInn:
There's a leakage somewhere which is why the water in the radiator is drying up. You can start by checking your radiator cap, make sure it's closed properly or the inner rubber is weak which might cause a leakage before checking or parts of the cooling system to avoid unnecessary spending.
The cooling system of the engine is a closed system with very high pressure when it's hot & any tiny space or hole will lead loss of liquid also stop using water to avoid rust, use a good coolant.
Gazzuzz can shed more light & put you through.

Thanks.

The radiator cap was changed by the mechanic when he noticed that it was bad. I will switch to coolat instead of water.

Manuella4ace:
There should be a blockage between that hose connecting the reservoir and the radiator, check properly

Ok. Thanks.

eghuan1:
If the metal cap dries up and the plastic container if filled up, it means the content if the radiator (metal cap) is going into the plastic container due to overheating.

It's not supposed to be ao

Let your mechanic check your fan or check the cooling system to be sure everything is working fine.

Thanks.

The car was initially overheating. It was then i discovered that the radiator was leaking at the side and the fan was not working. Both were fixed and the issue stopped. It is occurring again. I will tell the mechanic to check what you have said. Thanks once again.