thanks hotstepper 4 clearing that up..i'm going to tell her not to go anywhere cause according to law a medical degree is a medical degree irrespective of where you get it ..uk.the states or canada...and a happy new year to you too...!

Hotstepper:

ohhh i get your point...HND AND BSC r totally different. HND  is like community colleges here that  gets diploma and BSC getz a degree and da length of study is alwayz higher..colleges here spend 2-3 years studying(more practical) and university students spend 4-5 years depending and ofcourse most cases u do a thesis or an internship(IT)...like in high skool, if u want to go into uni., 4rom grade 9, u have 2 start taking what we call ADVANCE OR UNIVERSITY courses but if u want to go 2 college, u take college courses...until da year 2003 in Ontario Canada(which happened 2 be ma set), u have 2 go an extra one year after your grade 12(SS3)(we call it OAC as per A-LEVELS) if you want to be go to university but people that want to go 2 college just stop in grade 12 and go but now everyone stops at grade 12 with specifications like: COLLEGE CANDIDATES(COLLEGE COURSES-KNOWN AS M COURSES) and UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES (UNIVERSITY COURSES KNOWN AS U COURSES). Canada's education is by age so when they have da OAC, da people that want to go 2 uni. were being cheated because we tend 2 enter at 19 unlike college people who enters at 18 but know with the removal of da OAC, everyone enters at 18... .oh and people taking college courses and people taking university courses uses different textbooks even though they r in da same grade so university courses r more advanced and intensed dan that of college.

when da people that went to college finish their program, they can transfer straight 2 university with their credits and can start either 4rom 2nd or 3rd year depending how well da person did or in most cases, some people don't even finish in college and transfer..here, some people go 2 college because they feel itz easier(which it is in most cases) and also 2 get off skool so fast.

@hotstepper i just wanted to ask u if u r in canada,if u r do they accept british a-levels if u want to go directly into uni there for medicine cos i have a friend who's thinking abt transferring to canada after her a-levels for uni...wud be grateful if u hit me back as soon as possible..thanks!

well i totally agree with you all about this hajj issue..i heard only yesterday that someone was going for his 4th time and i'm wondering to myself ...how come? in a country where some people barely have enough to eat..even the issue of the government sponsoring some people has been corrupted that those in power put people on the list to return personal favours..i mean if Allah subuhana watahala has blessed you soo much and you have already had the priviledge of fulfiling the 5th pillar of islam once why not spend your wealth in other rewarding venues like helping the needy and if you really want to go for hajj why not send somebody else (who cannot afford it)to represent you..you will be rewarded for your good deeds ....afterall thats the essence of hajj .

we all are going on about pastor bimbo odukoya.....yes irrespective of my faith i admired her and felt she was a woman of substance...i was personally affected by this crash so i am really sad......we all say the crash might have been averted but it all boils down to one issue death cannot be cheated when God says its your time to go you have to go....i lost my friends to this fatal crash ...brilliant promsing teenagers like myself had to answer the natural call of death though in a gruesome way......if we say we can avoid death wat do you say about a man asleep on his bed and got hit by a stray bullet...i am not in nigeria now but my heart goes out to them...i know i am young and i mean i am barely eighteen but i have become aware of the reality of death...we should all take some time to think......mamy their souls be granted peace...amen.

i nominateChimamanda Ngozi adichie who is only 26 years old and has been nominated for the booker prize and shortlisted for the orange prize in literary works...i mean that is just too cool...she is making africans proud,more precisely nigerians,even more precisely nigerian women ....big ups to her and more grease to her elbow.for more info on her book the purple hibiscus try this link http://www.nigeriavillagesquare1.com/purplehibiscus.html

yeah i am a bollywood fan as well....the only problem is that their storylines are very predictable just like nollywood movies...they r good dancers and singers we have to give them credit for that ...and really beautiful/handsome....but thats not all to a movie is it?well if u are looking for a different bollywood movie that goes against the normal happy,soppy storyline i suggest you go and see black..its about this girl who is blind and deaf....you all need to see rani mukherji at her best performance of all times....and if you prefer the normal happy storylines...muje dosti karonge is something to see...

..i want to study medicine and believe me there's no way I'm working in this country....i just want to work for about a year and get the experience of working abroad...and then after that its back to nigeria...by the Almighty's grace i plan on establishing my own hospital where the people who are less fortunate get treated at subsidized rates cos it breaks my heart to see people dying cos they cannot pay the hospital bills of private hospitals...and the government hospitals r nothing to write home about..i would also want to  do a bit of research all over the world and find ways we could all work to improve our health sector..i mean common guys if we don't help our country...by staying abroad then who will?think about it!