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| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by patwilly(m): 7:25am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Ugosample:
hmmm
but a masters in Britain takes one year
And in University of Lagos, between 12 months and 18 months depending
Which university of Lagos? The one I know or another one... Taahh!! |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by sunnyeinstein(m): 7:27am On Apr 10, 2019 |
asuustrike1:
This is what I received from someone so I don't know who to believe.
Copied:
I just read, with shock, that a University of Ibadan lecturer in Mathematics Dept. has taken his life, primarily because he had spent 22 years on his PhD programme without a headway, because his professors were insensitive and saw the delay as normal. This is the practice in most public universities, my alma mater, UI being no exception.
My office roommate back in UI (thankfully, now a professor) was on his PhD for 11 years before finally bagging the elusive degree. He was ready long before the time, but the system (particularly his supervisor) wasn't ready for him. He had aged a bit before eventually earning this feat.
This irresponsible practice takes no one, no where. It shortchanges the student, department and university. It shortchanges the supervisor too, as he ends up having low or no credits in his PhD supervision experience or production of PhDs. No one wins when PhD students are unduly delayed. In the process of keeping students on their PhD programme for too long, for no tangible reason, other than "that's the culture", or for them to "mature", or to go through what they, the older professors had gone through as doctoral students during their time, the whole university system remains and suffers at a mediocre level.
I strongly condemn the process that led to the sad incident at UI. I belong to the generation of senior scholars that will support every hardworking PhD student to make rapid and legitimate progress. We celebrate people's progress and success here. Let every professor leading their students to suicide by their unethical and wicked act of delaying them in their academic programme learn from this regrettable Ibadan episode and do their job professionally and with the fear of God.
Prof Sheriff Folarin
Covenant University According to what i read here, the man was a perfectionist plus he had major family issues. Those two are recipes for depression leading to suicide if man not mentally strong enough. I can relate with the man as per the perfectionist part, was already going to fifth year on my phd but not ready to stop because i wanted a perfect thesis, to me, i needed some two more years despite over 2M spent already. My supervisor was the one who talked sense into me that its impossible to finish, just do to an appreciable point where all objectives have been met and continue research in postdoc. That advice plus the fact that people we started same time had graduated, even those my junior were given their phd despite doing shabby work. Back from India, almost going into depression, i quickly followed my supervisor's advice and put my thesis together based on the results and with the objectives met, eventhough i couldnt give it the right conclusion yet based on some loopholes i think i must block by proving somethings here and there. my dearest people, i defended and got my phd, thanks to God for using my supervisor and some people (my gf, now wife is another) whose voices/advice i did not allow to go to waste. Depression is real and can be self inflicted, the quest for perfection can bring it out too. Thank you, up man u today (no depression even if they get flogged  ) 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Akby(m): 7:44am On Apr 10, 2019 |
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| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Ugosample(m): 7:55am On Apr 10, 2019 |
patwilly:
Which university of Lagos? The one I know or another one... Taahh!!
that's my former school
I know what I'm saying |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Chukwuka16: 8:09am On Apr 10, 2019 |
asuustrike1:
Minimum is 3 years maximum 5 years No sir. PhD takes different formats depending on the nature of research and institutional policies. If you do the normal thesis style where you have to write up from abstract through succeeding chapters to conclusion then 6 semesters is usually common. You find this method in Nigeria and the UK. The PhD by publication route can be 1 year or 2 years (or less) depending on the policy in play. The requirements are a number of excellent publications, an introduction/co-ordinating chapter, maybe a linking introduction to each paper (half a page) and a conclusion. You just bundle your papers and the introduction chapter and you submit. Mine followed that route and took me 17 months. This is common in South Africa and some countries in Europe. In the UK some universities offer this route too. The papers however must be top notch (high impact factors and well ranked using SJR/ABS). The assumption is that since the papers have been peer reviewed and accepted by the academic community, the candidate can be said to have been assessed. For the UI issue, forget them. I visited Unilag recently and I cant just continue to thank Oluwa who lives in heaven for delivering me and my generation yet unborn from frustration. So I would have been a frustrated academic at this young age in a system that has decided within itself not to work? And it's so bad that in a short time you get lost in the useless culture they have created that you do not even realise after a while that time has gone. Imagine a department have 7 senior lecturers who have not been able to get promotion in at least 2-3 promotion cycles because they have mostly conference papers and now find it difficult churning out the required 18 journal papers. How will a young L1 hope to get promoted if his interviewers are still stagnant on SL? That is when you would hear something like "cant you see that your seniors are not moving? Go and respond to external advert." I have seen students being bullied by lecturers. I have even seen lecturers being bullied by senior lecturers/profs. The system promotes mediocrity alot that the good eggs get suffocated. My advice to anyone joining the academic system in Nigeria - government or private is to be careful. Colleagues from both divides have stories of woes to tell. Ah, God I thank you that I didn't make that decision to go and perish in Nigeria. It would have been a disastrous one. Today, I appreciate what it means to be an academic and have what is called somebodiness. No one is there threatening me or exercising some jurisprudence over my career/future. How and when I progress is entirely my responsibility. I am respected for my achievements and given all the resources I need to function well. It is only in Nigeria especially UI that a MSc student will write a paper and be third author. How will that paper ever count in his academic sojourn? It's only in that Nigeria that you would see students afraid to approach lecturers because they have turned themselves into tin gods. They thought I was a dead case. They didn't know I was a seed. When they buried me, I germinated. Today, I'm like that proverbial bone that cant be swallowed or vomited. They imagined that I would come begging cap in hand. Today I see their messages and just laugh. Kai, humans can be funny. Who do these lecturers think they are sef? Look at Ayoola talking. If trumpet blows now baba knows that he will be on Express train to hell! Has he finished terrorising us to buy that his plagiarized textbook for ODE? Nonsense. Hypocrite of the highest order. And you have the efforntery to call God? Bloody hypocrite. If Zubair delayed his PhD, the late Payne also delayed his promotion too abi? Liars. 7 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by themanderon: 8:10am On Apr 10, 2019 |
The Nigerian university system just like what obtains in most government owned organizations is nothing to write home about. Most of those wicked and soulless lecturers are not after their students learning a thing but they just want to frustrate students and make their lives miserable.
It is also on record that even amongst the so called lecturers there are cult like groups that if you don't belong getting ahead in the system will be almost impossible. I remember a very intelligent lecturer then in my school who was a PhD holder for many many years but for reasons best known to the university they refused to make him a prof despite writing tons of books and I presume research papers. Nigeria is a rotten jungle where there are no laws whatsoever. A shame of a nation. 4 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by niyidenrele: 8:23am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Tomide007:
He taught me algebra in 200level ...and I can say for a fact that he is the smartest lecturer in maths department... Better than those profs ...there were so many conspiracies against that guy.......If you're a genius please don't join Nigeria academia. ....there is also a genetic scientist in zoology department of ui.. But ui refused to recognise his PhD because he didn't receive his PhD from ui but from UK......the reason is dt he had to convert his PhD to ui standard... This said man is about the best geneticist in Nigeria. ....u can say that again ,same with one of my supervisor @FUNAAB ,a lecturer went and had PhD @ a univ in Ukraine, he told us when he got to FUNAAB, they told him they don't recognize his school viz a viz his program ,and he was not tested in any way to confirm if he truly has the required knowledge, he was told that, if he want to work ,he will need to begin his Master program afresh ,to which he had no choice ,than to do ,...is Ukraine not develop than Nigeria in education?.. they even call it a road side university... imagine 3 Likes |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Olajah81: 8:43am On Apr 10, 2019 |
sacajawea:
Was he a Practicing Muslim? U have satanic brain 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Tomide007: 8:49am On Apr 10, 2019 |
kayroc:
That man is depriving this world of his talents. If the guy should relocate to South Africa there he will make impacts and will have more funding for research.
People should remember that time in this life is limited and should abandon pride and misplaced dedication. How can you dedicate your life to an institution that is dedicated to your frustrations? It makes no sense. deep... really deep |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by kayroc: 9:08am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Excuzeme:
When a sitting President and his Vice (Obasanjo and Atiku) super-intended over an 18month strike of ASUU, (wherein students were left at home for 18months) , did nothing about the strike for 18months but used the Period to loot our money, acquire University licenses for themselves and both built personal and private universities for themselves (Bells University and ABTKU ), then we should all know that the destruction of public universities was a deliberate policy of those in Power and Authority, so as to foster the profitability of their own private university since they dont want competition.
If l were Buhari, l will SEIZE any Private university owned and built by anyone who occupied Public office in the last twenty years and convert it to public use, apart from massive funding of the existing, public universities I understand your point but I think that if those schools are taken over they will eventually be run down. This is the big problem. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by kayroc: 9:10am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Tomide007:
deep... really deep I personally know people that have died from pride. They have decided to die on top of an issue that is so minor that even the closest people to them can only see them as fools for dieing for such issue. Life is too short for that. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by GGirll: 9:37am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Martinez39:
But why didn't he leave? Why would a genius who can find employment elsewhere endure such suffering? It's not that easy to leave after spending hugely n also seeing that you are at d verge of finishing coupled with d fact that he was a staff n d love he had in his students who would be frustrated d more if he leaves them ungraduated. Besides if he leaves, other schools will query why he left his former job n will enquire from his university which if unlucky d wicked supervisors might spill trash about him n stop him from getting another job. Abroad would have been a better option but age can stop him from getting a scholarship abroad n d same supervisors can still jeopardize his chances by not sending reference letters early enough or not sending at all. He will also be seen as unserious for staying that long on a programme like that. All these coupled with family issues can make one see death as a means to end d misery. Pls if you haven't gone through a PhD programme in Nigeria and you dont have a PhD pls don't quote me. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by AngelicBeing: 9:46am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Excuzeme:
Are you sure of the above bolded statements?
I did my own Masters almost two decades ago at Unilag and it took me exactly TWO Semesters (one Academic Year) and that is what it takes everyone to do a 'Masters by Coursework', except if you failed one or more courses and you had to repeat the semester(s).
I have to confess that one of the reasons l swore never to do a PhD program in Nigeria was because of this same "Dobale" culture where your Supervisor holds you to ransom and would only "release you" from his grip, whenever he chooses to, irrespective of whether you had completed your dissertation or not.
I have seen many cases where "Prof.' gave all the courses that he is being paid to teach, to his Doctoral student and the PhD student just labors for the Supervisor year-in, year-out. Some of these PhD supervisors are nothing for the worst sadists that ever existed.
WRT the case of Mr. Zubair, my opinion is that his death was as a result of many frustrating situations and eventual murder:
1.) he was likely depressed from his unending Doctoral pursuit. that Ayoola saying rubbish up there is a bogus liar. His statements are so stupendous and silly, they dont deserve any response. Under no circumstance should anyone be subjected to the horor this guy was subjected to! 22yrs pursuing a PhD and registering for the same program , over and over again? This is sheer wickedness and inhuman.
And from testimonies of his former students, he is mentally sound, sane and honest so what is it that makes him 'register and register, over and over again, for 22yrs? 
2.) A Judge had decided to make his life miserable by appropriating a large chunk of his salary to his estranged wife such that the man sees himself and working for someone else and at the same time, his PhD was not attainable. This is an obvious casualty of feminism and insane laws that emasculate the husband, due to a family break-up.
3.) When he could not take it anymore, l guess he decided to end the "income" by resigning from his job. Since his salary was being deducted "at source", he decided to end the "slavery' by resigning because if he does not work and earn money, there would be nothing to deduct. Those who pay alimony or excessive child-support (its actually not about SUPPORTING the child because close to 90% of such money goes into buying frivolities and the "child" does not really benefit from it that much but "the law is what it is').
This si mostly why he resigned his appointment but like most "senior lecturers", you can still hang around in your official quarters for some years before being finally booted out if you dont find your way.
4.) What 'was alleged" to finally killed him was a fire-outbreak!
Now, that should be thoroughly investigated but unfortunately, we are in a country where intelligence is scarce among those who are saddled wit this kind of job. I would bet that he was murdered and/or then set on fire.
My "theory" is that those who initially were the beneficiaries of his income, organised his death since he has deprived them of such money.
if we can get good forensics on ground, it can easily be established first that the fire was deliberate arson and after that, it can be shown that it probably was not the fire that killed him or it was set deliberately to kill him (maybe locked inside to prevent escape so that he dies from asphyxiation). Recall that his body was not burnt!
In all, it is a sad end to a very hardworking and honest genius. The Nigerian system failed this man totally but Justice could still be served to his murderers.. The best comments on this thread, very unfortunate situation the guy found himself in, he could have just vammoosed out of Nigeria and his academic prowess would have been more appreciated in a saner clime than in a shithole jungle  1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Nobody: 9:54am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Chukwuka16:
No sir. PhD takes different formats depending on the nature of research and institutional policies.
If you do the normal thesis style where you have to write up from abstract through succeeding chapters to conclusion then 6 semesters is usually common. You find this method in Nigeria and the UK.
The PhD by publication route can be 1 year or 2 years (or less) depending on the policy in play. The requirements are a number of excellent publications, an introduction/co-ordinating chapter, maybe a linking introduction to each paper (half a page) and a conclusion. You just bundle your papers and the introduction chapter and you submit. Mine followed that route and took me 17 months. This is common in South Africa and some countries in Europe. In the UK some universities offer this route too. The papers however must be top notch (high impact factors and well ranked using SJR/ABS). The assumption is that since the papers have been peer reviewed and accepted by the academic community, the candidate can be said to have been assessed.
For the UI issue, forget them. I visited Unilag recently and I cant just continue to thank Oluwa who lives in heaven for delivering me and my generation yet unborn from frustration. So I would have been a frustrated academic at this young age in a system that has decided within itself not to work? And it's so bad that in a short time you get lost in the useless culture they have created that you do not even realise after a while that time has gone. Imagine a department have 7 senior lecturers who have not been able to get promotion in at least 2-3 promotion cycles because they have mostly conference papers and now find it difficult churning out the required 18 journal papers. How will a young L1 hope to get promoted if his interviewers are still stagnant on SL? That is when you would hear something like "cant you see that your seniors are not moving? Go and respond to external advert."
I have seen students being bullied by lecturers. I have even seen lecturers being bullied by senior lecturers/profs. The system promotes mediocrity alot that the good eggs get suffocated. My advice to anyone joining the academic system in Nigeria - government or private is to be careful. Colleagues from both divides have stories of woes to tell. Ah, God I thank you that I didn't make that decision to go and perish in Nigeria. It would have been a disastrous one. Today, I appreciate what it means to be an academic and have what is called somebodiness. No one is there threatening me or exercising some jurisprudence over my career/future. How and when I progress is entirely my responsibility. I am respected for my achievements and given all the resources I need to function well.
It is only in Nigeria especially UI that a MSc student will write a paper and be third author. How will that paper ever count in his academic sojourn? It's only in that Nigeria that you would see students afraid to approach lecturers because they have turned themselves into tin gods. They thought I was a dead case. They didn't know I was a seed. When they buried me, I germinated. Today, I'm like that proverbial bone that cant be swallowed or vomited. They imagined that I would come begging cap in hand. Today I see their messages and just laugh. Kai, humans can be funny. Who do these lecturers think they are sef?
Look at Ayoola talking. If trumpet blows now baba knows that he will be on Express train to hell! Has he finished terrorising us to buy that his plagiarized textbook for ODE? Nonsense. Hypocrite of the highest order. And you have the efforntery to call God? Bloody hypocrite. If Zubair delayed his PhD, the late Payne also delayed his promotion too abi? Liars.
Hmmmm!The Pull Him Down syndrome is prevalent in many public universities. I wouldn't advice my enemy to do PhD in Nigeria public universities 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by myself13: 10:10am On Apr 10, 2019 |
SunnyskyTG:
What is the essence of acquiring knowledge that can't be put to Use? Or we are only after Certification?
Yeah! I can confirm Knowledge have been replaced with Certification, most people now chase Certificate instead of true Knowledge.
Misplaced Priority. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Tareq1105: 10:18am On Apr 10, 2019 |
kaorama:
I know someone will come here and start defending the contagious university system which in the first place may have engineered the late man's family problem. Shame to some Nigerian universities which at best can pass for burial ground for destinies. He shouldn't have done what he did. He should have explored foreign opportunities opened to him for his PhD. I don't want to blame the university totally afterall we're told he was allowed to stay in his apartment after resignation 2 yrs ago. To me he should have travelled out. What he did was wrong even in the sight of God. I suspect his family crisis was responsible. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by lorhema(f): 10:23am On Apr 10, 2019 |
The prof says he's a Christian and a pastor and wouldn't lie against the dead. Why should I believe him?
Mr Zubair exonerated his supervisor? Was a perfectionist? I don't know Zubair but I know the system. Perhaps he submitted his drafts and they were unread for 6 months or were returned to him regularly as not adequate with the goal of teaching him a lesson.
The Prof also alluded to his marital issues. Do you know that a man's frustrations at the office can affect his home especially if his wife is not prayerful and a source of wise counsel? If a man is being oppressed in the office and the oppressors now say 'are we also responsible for his marital issues ', they are being clever. There are many ways to destroy a man.
Rather than this feeble attempt at a cover up, I hope UI will review its procedures and leave less room for seniors to oppress their juniors. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Martinez39(m): 10:26am On Apr 10, 2019 |
themanderon:
The Nigerian university system just like what obtains in most government owned organizations is nothing to write home about. Most of those wicked and soulless lecturers are not after their students learning a thing but they just want to frustrate students and make their lives miserable.
It is also on record that even amongst the so called lecturers there are cult like groups that if you don't belong getting ahead in the system will be almost impossible. I remember a very intelligent lecturer then in my school who was a PhD holder for many many years but for reasons best known to the university they refused to make him a prof despite writing tons of books and I presume research papers. Nigeria is a rotten jungle where there are no laws whatsoever. A shame of a nation. Jealousy, sadism, insecurity and the pull him down syndrome are the causes of these things. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Martinez39(m): 10:30am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Tareq1105:
He shouldn't have done what he did. He should have explored foreign opportunities opened to him for his PhD.
I don't want to blame the university totally afterall we're told he was allowed to stay in his apartment after resignation 2 yrs ago.
To me he should have travelled out.
What he did was wrong even in the sight of God. I suspect his family crisis was responsible.
Not really. The main thing is that they've frustrated him. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Martinez39(m): 10:34am On Apr 10, 2019 |
@Chukwuka16
Thank goodness you didn't do your post graduate study in Nigeria. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Menzy86(m): 10:45am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Cumpel1615:
This just defines the useless University system we have in Nigeria, I started masters at University of Ilorin in 2012, passed all my course work, no reset whatsoever, many of us made As and Bs but our thesis na problem, you need to know a strong lecturer that will back you up during your seminar or else they will rubbish your work. Me I have moved on with my life, I can't come and kill myself, let them eat it. Nigeria is bleeped Unilorin is definitely not one of the schools within this ignoble bracket. I started my masters there in oct 2014 and by April/may 2016, my statement of result was ready. Bro if you don't finish your masters in unilorin within 3 sessions, it means you are simply UNSERIOUS and most likely gone AWOL. I also know countless people there who completed their programs in different faculties in good time. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by CodeTemplar: 11:17am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Chukwuka16:
No sir. PhD takes different formats depending on the nature of research and institutional policies.
If you do the normal thesis style where you have to write up from abstract through succeeding chapters to conclusion then 6 semesters is usually common. You find this method in Nigeria and the UK.
The PhD by publication route can be 1 year or 2 years (or less) depending on the policy in play. The requirements are a number of excellent publications, an introduction/co-ordinating chapter, maybe a linking introduction to each paper (half a page) and a conclusion. You just bundle your papers and the introduction chapter and you submit. Mine followed that route and took me 17 months. This is common in South Africa and some countries in Europe. In the UK some universities offer this route too. The papers however must be top notch (high impact factors and well ranked using SJR/ABS). The assumption is that since the papers have been peer reviewed and accepted by the academic community, the candidate can be said to have been assessed.
For the UI issue, forget them. I visited Unilag recently and I cant just continue to thank Oluwa who lives in heaven for delivering me and my generation yet unborn from frustration. So I would have been a frustrated academic at this young age in a system that has decided within itself not to work? And it's so bad that in a short time you get lost in the useless culture they have created that you do not even realise after a while that time has gone. Imagine a department have 7 senior lecturers who have not been able to get promotion in at least 2-3 promotion cycles because they have mostly conference papers and now find it difficult churning out the required 18 journal papers. How will a young L1 hope to get promoted if his interviewers are still stagnant on SL? That is when you would hear something like "cant you see that your seniors are not moving? Go and respond to external advert."
I have seen students being bullied by lecturers. I have even seen lecturers being bullied by senior lecturers/profs. The system promotes mediocrity alot that the good eggs get suffocated. My advice to anyone joining the academic system in Nigeria - government or private is to be careful. Colleagues from both divides have stories of woes to tell. Ah, God I thank you that I didn't make that decision to go and perish in Nigeria. It would have been a disastrous one. Today, I appreciate what it means to be an academic and have what is called somebodiness. No one is there threatening me or exercising some jurisprudence over my career/future. How and when I progress is entirely my responsibility. I am respected for my achievements and given all the resources I need to function well.
It is only in Nigeria especially UI that a MSc student will write a paper and be third author. How will that paper ever count in his academic sojourn? It's only in that Nigeria that you would see students afraid to approach lecturers because they have turned themselves into tin gods. They thought I was a dead case. They didn't know I was a seed. When they buried me, I germinated. Today, I'm like that proverbial bone that cant be swallowed or vomited. They imagined that I would come begging cap in hand. Today I see their messages and just laugh. Kai, humans can be funny. Who do these lecturers think they are sef?
Look at Ayoola talking. If trumpet blows now baba knows that he will be on Express train to hell! Has he finished terrorising us to buy that his plagiarized textbook for ODE? Nonsense. Hypocrite of the highest order. And you have the efforntery to call God? Bloody hypocrite. If Zubair delayed his PhD, the late Payne also delayed his promotion too abi? Liars.
I hope the Payne you are referring to isn't the one that worked in CU around 2007 in Maths dept. If he is the one, then I really hope he changed his ways before anything bad happened. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Chukwuka16: 11:33am On Apr 10, 2019 |
CodeTemplar:
I hope the Payne you are referring to isn't the one that worked in CU around 2007 in Maths dept. If he is the one, then I really hope he changed his ways before anything bad happened. Can't really say. The late Payne is a big black guy who walks with a limp (if I can remember). And of course, he was in Maths dept. 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Chukwuka16: 11:36am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Martinez39:
@Chukwuka16
Thank goodness you didn't do your post graduate study in Nigeria. The God that lives in heaven delivered me from falling into that trap. Do you know that I actually nursed the idea of turning down my fully funded MSc scholarship in England for MSc in UI? God in heaven thundered on those familiar spirits after my parents went into marathon fasting and prayer. I even thought about coming back to that same UI for PhD after my masters before God re-wired my head to accept full funding in South Africa. It seems something was doing me back then. The Msc in UI is a frustrating period that allows the lecturers to further indoctrinate into students fear and subservience. MSc period that should allow a student develop some independent research capacity and jump-start their research career is spent publishing papers to facilitate the promotion of their supervisors. How can people be so heartless? 3 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by gudugudumeje: 11:38am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Maybe he, Subair was popular among and nuch loved by the students... So he has to be so treated to stop him going further. What a department of dont-teach-but-lecture only, best crammers& certificates; not best knowledgdeables rather... |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by tiwasiaife(m): 11:50am On Apr 10, 2019 |
Smart obiora,Obi,Amobi and onwuka of the Department of geology University of Nigeria,Nsukka comes to mind.
UI is fried chicken compared to Unn geology Dept also known as white house. former Jimbaz. |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Allylic(f): 12:02pm On Apr 10, 2019 |
Jiang:
Ok, try accessing that tetfund with just ur ACADEMIC PROWESS & come back here to give us ur testimony. Please woh, I just want you to experience something ...i no a lot of guys that have accessed the tetfund stuff,so I know what I am saying..I was once in the system so I know how it works |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Lordtunji(m): 12:16pm On Apr 10, 2019 |
Akby:
A.O Zubair is the most brilliant person I've ever come across. He taught me Abstract Algebra in 200 level and Reimann Integral in 300 level. I never missed any of his classes because he made the most complex mathematics look like a piece of cake. UI really lost a rare gem. RIP AOZ! Gbayi, he tot me Group and Rings too, AOZ is an enigma, i dont understand SAI angle tho. I believe you know who SAI is 1 Like |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Lordtunji(m): 12:17pm On Apr 10, 2019 |
sacajawea:
Was he a Practicing Muslim? Yes, a very strong muslim |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Lordtunji(m): 12:21pm On Apr 10, 2019 |
Tomide007:
He taught me algebra in 200level ...and I can say for a fact that he is the smartest lecturer in maths department... Better than those profs ...there were so many conspiracies against that guy.......If you're a genius please don't join Nigeria academia. ....there is also a genetic scientist in zoology department of ui.. But ui refused to recognise his PhD because he didn't receive his PhD from ui but from UK......the reason is dt he had to convert his PhD to ui standard... This said man is about the best geneticist in Nigeria. Same thing in that same Maths department, Babalola was a professor in South Africa, baba na still be senior lecturer for UI. Mama Ugbebor got her PHD at age 25 from UK didnt become a Prof until she was over 60 in the same UI. SAD 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Why Late Aminu Othman Zubairu Spent 22 years On PhD by Lordtunji(m): 12:23pm On Apr 10, 2019 |
advocate666:
No he won't. The aboki won't pass primary school exam over there. You dont have sense and you dont have anyone to tell you |
