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MrMann1:
Travel transcript

Flight was on Sunday 14th August.
I got to the MMIA around 2:45pm, joined the queue at Emirates stand to get checked in for boarding pass and collect baggage claim.

The immigration officer asked what items I had, told him clothing, garri, beans and dried fish. He used his hand to feel all the items and ask me to "shake body" I gave him 1k sha.

Moved to get boarding pass and baggage claim, then I was directed to go to gate E55 for pre boarding check.

All the officials at immigration checks want a tip. Well I gave few and ignored others after I had given my brother the remaining naira cash on me, then I bid my family a goodbye as I joined gate E55 queue around 4:12pm.

By 4:48PM, I was done with all checks, joined the large crowd sitting at the waiting room of gate E55

I boarded by 5.30 after my zone number was called, checked for my number seat and things seem to happen fast.
I did not have chance to seat with a chic, I was stuffed in the middle of 2 elderly ladies, pretty sure they are mummies..

O boy... Emirates sweet. The touch screen in my front cannot be fully exhausted, well I no dull myself. I listened to music tracks of Fela, Whitney, Rihanna & Bob Marley, watched CNN.

Plane took off exactly 6:06pm, Naija time.
I decided to eat spiced chicken with herbs, plus orisirisi appetizer. Anytime I remember the amount wey I use buy ticket, I go juz vex put mouth for everything in my food tray.
Some will taste like Shiite, but I go juz gulp water to drain it down. Drinks?? I had few can of beer, spirit mixed with juice and white wine. Wetin concern me.

Watched Money Monster, listen to music, slept off for a while then we landed at Dubai 4:30am for stop over.

Mehn Dubai airport na business center.
I located Gate C17 for flight connecting to Houston.
Used WiFi to connect to a dubai laptop seller that we already had a deal to deliver to me at Dubai airport, he did not reply chat then I wasted money to buy a call card for 30AED
His fone rang, but he wouldn't pick up, I had to dash out the call card to a cleaner at the airport after I tried calling Naija all to no avail.

Boarding to Houston flight started at about 7:40AM Dubai time.
Took off around 9:15AM Dubai time
I slept alot during this flight cos my seat was close to the air hostess where I had chance to stretch my legs.
Smell of food always wake me though
Stop over @Toronto to refuel 2:18PM Canada time. We never alighted here, so I viewed Canada from the window.
In about 45mins we were on our way to IAH.
Watched movies, CNN and listened to music mostly while I napped.

By 5:20 we landed at IAH and moved to POE.

POE: Hello! Your passport pls, what are you doing in the states?
Me: I'm here for studies as I gave her passport, admission letter and i20.
POE: Oh. You are a student.
Me: Yes ma'am
POE: Checks my passport and mentioned my name almost correctly and smiled, then asked if she pronounced it well
Me: I smiled back and said yes.
POE: What are you studying?
Me: Computer Sc.
POE: OK, she then proceeded to do biometric

She then asked me to wait at the back of her booth that an officer will come take me from there. Holding my passport and i20.
I waited a few seconds and an officer directed me and some few others to a room where immigration and police admitted us in.

I think one lady from Algeria had issue with her visa, dunno if she was deported.

While waiting in this room to be attended to, I sharply connected to Wi-Fi, chat up my uncle, who told me that he is already waiting for me outside.

Then I made a silent prayer to God that nothing should hinder me.

After about 30 minutes the officer called me and handed over my docs - passport, i20 and admission letter.
Then I went down through the escalator to claim my baggage where it passed through screening, my passport was checked here again.

Then I was free, and voila I went out of the airport to meet my uncle....

Mehn. America is damn organized.

Please can someone carry two hand luggage? flying with Emirate. I have my laptop bag and my suit rack.
thanks!

Sureboy, nice one..
Please is anyone travelling to Alaska this August??..

worry359:
Why would ANYONE be going to Alaska in the winter?

Lol.. Yeah some students go there to study. I don't understand the chat you posted there.

Do you know anyone going to school in Alaska this fall?

Anyone travelling to Alaska this August?

madri4u:
Pls pals, has anybody done d mini game week2 petroleum system chart?..pls reply which of d cell can i put source rock, reservoir, seal and exploration target..Dat part is givin me tough time as i hav only one attempt remaining to validate..Tanks..pls share ur answers...Onle luv

My guy they find expo, seems you just want to pass the tests and get 100% so you can get the certificate. (Naija guys, na so e dey be everybody LOL!.)

Bros, read that material very well, you'll understand it. the petroleum system chart part is quite tricky and very easy as well. the clue is always given in the mini game.
Read every information you see in the mini game, especially the hints usually written at the base of the mini-game dialogue box.

I hope this tip is helpful.

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jogojogo:
I applied for Petroleum and geo science (lecturer II), my course of study is petroleum engineering. I am yet to get the invitation. Any petroleum engineering invited for the same role/position?

Same here. I applied for the same position and also studied petroleum engineering, No invite yet. I just hope no one has been contacted for this position.
Let's remain positive. It should be in batches

CCsurplus007:
Well its gonna be quiet because it is as if seplat HR has employed all that they need. Is there any graduate trainee on the forum that was called Let the person signify to abi na coded things now? Anyway what would be would be. Please mr coolio do you know if pple would still be contacted? after the test i got a mail to send in some documents with a tone of urgency and till this i have not heard anything from them. Abi dem don forget us...lol

Bros u like better thing ooh!.. you dey wait for seplat and pressid.. That's nice!

On Friday July 18th, I boarded a night bus for the first time in my life. I was very apprehensive given the bad state of our roads and the activities of men of the underworld. The risk associated with travelling by road for 10 long hours and the resources I would expend in the process made the choice a very difficult decision to arrive at, especially when I considered the fact that the result of the exam which I was billed to write could go either way. Just last two weeks, the Petroleum trust development Fund (PTDF), released the list of successful candidates for their oversee scholarship after about 8months of endless waiting. I became worried that some powerful Nigerians may take advantage of the long wait to rig the selection process. My suspicion heightened when a friend called me and asked me to send my particulars, so that his sister who works with the government, can help increase my result score. I regretted not sending my particulars to this friend when last week, a former school mate called me to inform me that he had passed the PTDF exam. Knowing that I did not see him during the exams, I asked him which center he wrote his own exam, he laughed and told me flatly that he didn’t sit for the exams. His name miraculously appeared on the successful candidates list because he has a powerful Uncle who pulled some strings on his behalf.

Now you understand why going to Lagos for the exams was a big deal for me. I went anyway; I took the risk to travel to Lagos from Port Harcourt for the Seplat recruitment exam because I needed the job. I have a job, but the opportunity of landing a better job will always be appealing. Luckily, I arrived at the venue of the exams in ample time to brush my teeth and change my shirt. As I readied myself for the test, I met a guy who also came from Port Harcourt for the recruitment exercise and we got talking. He told me how he was invited for a Halliburton interview and I was thinking to myself, ‘this guy must be very intelligent’. I was crestfallen when he told me that he did not even apply for the job in the first place, to talk of sitting for the exams. He was merely invited for the interview at the instance of his highly connected brother who was part of the system. He must have seen the shock on my face because I could barely talk, when he started telling me that he wished he had brought someone to sit for the exam on his behalf.

Few months ago, 21 graduates lost their lives in the NIS recruitment exam. Till today, the Minister under whose watch this recruitment heist was pulled off is still at the helms of affair in the Ministry of Interior. Hundreds of thousands of graduates were subjected to an exam when most of the slots have been taken by politicians and top ranking civil servants. We have moved on from that debacle and the millions of naira creamed off from jobless Nigerians are yet to be refunded even after Mr. President’s directive. The government which seems overwhelmed by the present security challenges is barely doing enough to arrest unemployment and the major opposition party seems too busy with insulting the ruling party, that it can hardly find the time to tell Nigerians how they intend to create jobs if elected. Recruitment agencies are cashing in on the misfortune of graduates to rip them off by hoodwinking them with different kinds of graduate programs and fees to help them search for non-existent jobs. Companies on the other hand are making it very difficult for fresh graduates by introducing obnoxious recruitment criteria. If companies are not asking for impossible years of experience (as if you can have an experience without working), they will be calling for age brackets that will disqualify many graduates because of the time wasting NYSC program.

This country is becoming increasingly difficult for young Nigerians who do not have connections or are unwilling to soil their integrity. It is a sad reality that in today’s Nigeria, who you know is better than what you read or graduated with. Hard work and competence count for nothing in a nation where nepotism has been elevated mediocrity above excellence. Graduates are becoming desperate as their patience wanes with each passing day, even as they see the opulence displayed by our greedy politicians. My worry is that one day, this critical mass of our population may revolt and its consequences will be worse than the present crisis in the North East. What worries me even more is that more youths are ready to do whatever it takes to become gainfully employed, including selling their conscience. The future of this country will be in dire straits if her future leaders are brought up to believe that honesty, hard work and competence, do not pay. Something urgent needs to be done about the ugly reality of Nigeria graduates.

I can only hope for the best as I await the result of the Seplat recruitment exam, since I do not have any big man to plead my case.

http://edugist.org/from-experience-the-painful-reality-of-a-nigerian-graduate/

Caseless:
since he has 2 strongholds already(ss and SE) getting 25% in those states can b disastrous. And dont forget that he might pull a good show in d middlebelt. IMO, SW is d battleground this time around, and gej's chances must b greatly reduced to barest minimum in order to make him lose convincinly.

IMO is no battle ground.. IMO for GEJ!!... Rochas is just deceiving himself.. we knw what we want...

colossus12:
Imagine what wud av happened if everyone purchased dis software- 940 candidates scoring 90+ in d aptitude test. It wud av degraded cinfores.
Nextyear, Cinfores will make an astronomical profit frm d sale of dis software, dis was dre plan afterall

Yeah You're right. I don't blame anybody for scoring high or scoring 90+.. Next time we should all utilize the info we av. Personally, I knew about the brainfriend software but I thought they won't use it this year since evrybody knew about it, I neva knew some badt guys av been studying wth it for months. Should NUC use the software next year, evrybody will score above 90. that way they will come to their senses and do the right thing.

As for this year, I dnt thnk up to 10 guys got more dan 90(i stand to be corrected), and i saw some really low scores inside the hall. So I feel, this year's performance curve is normal..

Now the wait begins.. *Na prayer and fasting things*

colossus12:
Sir, how can we measure a man's intellect by mere sitting beside him. Sounds like you av an inbuilt device dt measures IQ . Smiles. Its like you n marqueez av known eachoda fr long, so why making it sound like u just met him.
I think its hightime we put a stop to these

I got his contact here on NL while i was searching for info for the test.. As fate may have it, he sat beside me during the test and we became good friends afterwards. Well, I don't av any measuring device but bro, I love to appreciate good things when I see them. May be you need to see him in person and find out the feats he has attained. I'm not here to praise any1 but I dont like it when a fellow scholar downgrades another person. In as much as many of us are not happy with our performance, that doesn't mean will should throw insults at one another.

What are we putting a stop to if I may ask?

umbro577:
Please sir, I'll appreciate if you can forward it to my email deborah12111@outlook.com.

umbro577:
Having read various comments, I have come to understand the meaning of First Class in Nigeria Universities. I wrote the test and I saw everything. I knew from the inception that public scheme in Nigeria always go rogue... I can deduce from the 90's, 80's and 70's holders, that their literals construction is indeed "First Class Level". May God Help Nigeria. You're writing like SS1 students and you scored 80 percent in the CBT exam? Your logical reasoning is extremely low and you claimed to have gotten 0ver 70%? NUC God dey ooooo. Nigeria is about who you know NOT what you know. Because who you know will give you the right information to shortcut your success. For those real first class holders, let this be a lesson for us, in a public scheme like that, let's search for people that will give the right information, because what we know cant take you anywhere in Nigeria. For those brain friend customers, I expect you all to close your face because you're a disgrace to the tag name "First Class"
And to the Prof. in charge of the scheme, I'm disappointed in him for his insensitivity.

My Oga..Clap for yourself, u write like a Phd Degree holder and your logical reasoning is very high. Please can I knw your score?.. Wait a minute, was that you asking for materials?.. Oga/Madame, Please stop insulting your fellow scholars cos u may not be better than them. I sat beside Marqueetim in that test, believe me that guy is a genius. And his logical reasoning is very high. He scored high without any software because he searched for info online. You have the internet so use it wisely for your research, rather than coming here to castigate someone.
Please guys, let's stop insulting ourselves. Your First class is just a certificate, what's important is what you do with it.

henchamb:
yes General has only onw wife. her ist wife died in 2006 before he married aisha.

arewaqueen:
He never had two @ the same time. The first is late whom he divorced in the early 80's and married this one

Abeg who dey lie?? Yeye dey smell

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Those of you writing petition. Please ensure you also send your full name, exam no and seat no so that Prof. Okojie will add 20 marks to your scores...

And also don't forget to tell them that some smart guys used the software last year and last two years and had high scores.. While this year the smarter ones decided to grab the whole score.. I guess PRESSID knew some guys will get evrythng that was why dey decided to set 96 questions for the engineers..

NONSENSE!!!...

ceechedah:
Its a shame if dose who claim to b first class graduates wld say cheating is bin smart,mayb u schemed ur way tru to get dat certificate, if u really worked hard for it u wldnt av said dat, am disappointed!!! @Gbadeolu, yes every1 came to dis platform to get direction because at some point we didn't no wat to prepare wit, but for some pple to get d exact questions n answers n no it is d same question dat will b set, is just too much n I think a petition shld b sent to PRESSID secretariat. u, moyogeneral n Dchamp r soundin like dere is nothing wrong probably because u guys r among dose who cheated. Its a shame!!!

Please stop saying people cheated. And stop mentioning names, its wrong. Besides, I doubt if any one of us here scored up to that 90 so why pointing fingers. I'm in support of the petition too but seriously no one is sounding like a cheat here. I still believe if we re-write the test people will still complain cos I'm sure some guys will still score very high. 940 scholars not smiling!!!

DChamp1:
I stand to correct a statement made by you that its only the non high scorers commenting...I stand to correct by saying I scored above 6o with the aid of God...but I still stand to correct cinfores mistake. But I support u in saying no1 should call these guys cheats.

Thanks man... I stand to be corrected anytime. But It's also our fault for not getting the software and studying it very well.
Someone posted something about brainfriend software and I believe evry active Nairalander saw it, it wasnt hidden. Even if we write the test again, some guys will still smash high scores and at the end only 100 candidates will be taken. I guess next time evrybody should act smart and get evey possible material/software and prepare very well.
Some people even bought materials online for this test which someone posted here as SCAM ALERT.

I assume evry nigerian 1st class graduate is sound (*assumption abeg), but the major difference in our abilities is our level of information.
Let love Lead!

I smell selfishness... why is it only the guys who didn't score high complaining?. this test was just as normal as the one for the previous years. I spoke with some guys that scored high last year and 95% of them prepared for their test wit cinfores/brainfriend software yet i didnt get d software cos i thougth things wil change tis year since many ppl knw about it.. No point calling anybody cheat or names. Truth be told, those guys who scored above 90 are smart guys and prepared verywell with the software.
I've learnt my lesson not to take anyting for granted but seriously te test wasn't so difficult, besides the cut off is not 90 so why all these careless comments am seeing here. I met the guy who scored 96 and believe me the guy is very sound, so stop killing yourselves over this issue. Let's just wait and see what happens next.. lets keep our fingers crossed and hope for te best.

No hard feelings, If i had seen dat software I would av scored above 90 too and I will confidently defend it. After all some ppl scored above 70 without any software.

LET PEACE RAIN PLEASE.. *If you aint informed you are deformed*

happydasy: heard is gmat tins. 20 quantitative, 20 verbal, 10 critical reasoning. For 1hr. Wot date n tym is urs?

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happydasy i sent u a personal msg... to ur email pls reply so i can talk to you there. thanks

[quote author=lendron03][/quote]pls how did you contact the hr. I have an issue which i want to clarify... pls send me a direct msg ASAP

yeah i wrote in ph.I havn't heard from BOG

dammyspencer: I wrote in Lag.. seem you wrote in port then.

Any feedback from BOG yet?

ok.. mine is @ FUTO.. same time with urs.. did u write ur ncdmb/tupni test in ph?

dammyspencer: yeah bro... I wore an ash colored trouser and a sky blue shirt.

I am writing at unilag. 10:30 am. how about you? time and venue?

dammyspencer.. It seems u are writing NAE scholarship aptitude test dis satday... where is ur center cos am also writing can u pls remind me what u wore last friday so i can match u name with ur face.. thanx

was ur 5k??.. mine was 10k. I guess the result should be ready by now..... please if anyone is contacted let us know..
cheers!

boblans: the test was pretty complex sha..its normal GMAT's...we did maths first then later we wrote an essay and we wrote english after then...dey even gave us 5k for t.p each..and said dey wud contact d successful people(i.e people dat scored 65 and above),,we were about 23 or so dat wrote here in ph..four months training in nigeria and four months training in germany..

the test has come and gone... I wish ncdmb will sponsor everybody cos i didnt see crowd...
Now the wait begins!

This very funny? so nobody has any idea of what the test will look like... hmmm..