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Number 410 is roastedcorn not riastedcorn Cc: odunharry

Number 410 is roastedcorn not riastedcorn Cc: odunharry

Number 410 is roastedcorn not riastedcorn Cc: odunharry

University : University of Benin

Course: Dentistry and Dental Surgery

Level: 300

Shabib:
Good day.

Any newly admitted dental student for OAU should please WhatsApp me on this no so as to be added to the WhatsApp group.

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BTW, I've been following this thread for a long time (4/5 years ago) and here I am, admitted to Bdds.

It's been God.

congrats man. I remember you from 2-3 years ago

Fweshman:
hello medicos, pls I'm in need of your advice. I'm just 20yrs old and I applied ABU Zaria for an admission to study MBBS and the Admission list is out since one month ago but unluckily I was given medical radiography moreover radiography is a new department in Abu Zaria. my aim in life is to become a medical doctor which is a dream since childhood. so I don't really know what to do I.e if I should go for the course or not or prepare for jamb next year. the worst thing is that I've never heard of the course even once in life and I don't know how marketable it is here in Nigeria and abroad. I'm very confused, pls give me the best piece of advice pls
thank you all and happy new year in advance

baba if you think becoming a doctor would make you rich like the society portrays, issa lie, big lie self. I know a doc that after Internship and NYSC had no job and started teaching English at a coaching centre, I know another working for an NGO collecting 20K salary, don't come to medicine with the mind that you want to make money but with the passion yo save lives. secondly its very appalling that you haven't heard of radiography when you are coming to the medical line. Radiography is a nice course, a good one at that. I'd advise you take this admission now and take this next jamb, that was what I did too.

chinonyinye:
pls for direct entry into medicine and surgery, what's the minimum grade acceptable for B.Sc?

2.1 minimum, first class is an edge. your performance in the D.E exam. in uniben I heard if a case that after all this people still performed well that they now started using NYSC certificate to screen them

ISISs:
Can I get ur whatsapp number sir... I just followed u.

07035694490

ISISs:
And I just made it to dentistry and dental surgery in the prestigeous university of nigeria nsukka.

Am happy.

Say hello to a new doctor nau.

welcome to BDS my brother, there's a lot ahead

Drbabalola:
Univ. Of Ibadan

that's quite competitive you know

Edopesin:
yep i saw one online

Online where?

Drbabalola:
Pls my senior medical colleagues, I need your candid advice. I'm 27 years old, still in interested in studying Dentistry. I so much love this course that I opted out of a particular school at the end of part 2. I rejected some admissions offered me, because I know taking them would carry me away from my real desire. Now I have picked 2018 utme form, with high optimism of getting Dentistry. But you know what? I'm also contesting as ward councillor in my hometown, which is about an hour journey from the school I applied to. Combining academics with politics has never been my headache, but I'm sure I need hints and useful tips from my senior colleagues on how I can best handle both medical program and governmental affairs, suppose I won that contest. No discouragement please, coz I know nothing is impossible. Thanks.

First of all, what school are you applying to?

cisca2001:
I just gained admission to study medicine at aau.. but what's the essence of changing if it's because of the academic calendar? You are already in two hundred level, if you change now, you ll be going back to hundred level when you ought to be in 300 level, you ll be spending more time instead.. but if you still choose to change, try delsu, their academic calendar is really fast. Remember you might not get medicine again. A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush

DELSU is 8years bro

Anyone admitted for Dentistry??

All of you people abusing my poor guy all of you are mad. 5 good years haba and you expect him not to be paid. The girl should have just broken up with him since she has been dating that other guy but No she wants to keep both of them just incase my guy just blows by chance in his photography, she didn't even officially break up nor tell him anything about the other guy, my guy just saw it on Facebook like that, I mean that is so disheartening. I'm not against the girl's "leaving him" but she should have broken up since.

wi5dom:
Keep checking....dont let UNIBEN shock you....it wont cost you anything aside data

fresh Jupeb students don't write DE exams

The girl child in Africa
By Mesogboriwon Adeleye Oriola


The girl child is by far the most endangered specie of the two genders in spite her higher population. The girl child is very prone to rape,not getting formal education and harmful gender based practices especially in a continent like Africa.

Day in day out we see in the newspapers how a 60 year old man would rape a 2 year old girl or even less and even with the sanctions given the occurrences just seem to skyrocket, rapists now become more careful while performing the nefarious act, this goes a long way in depicting that the sanctions are too minimal for the offence hence their continual practicing of it,the government should know the gravity of rape,most times these girls that are raped are psychologically affected for life, rape is not just a physical wound as that's what comes to our mind first on hearing rape news,its way deeper than that, it also eats the victims mentally and psychologically. Its a good thing we have rape counseling organizations now that are after the rehabilitation of rape victimchange their normal psychological self,but its a pity that the public awareness on these organizations are so low that most rape victims and parents don't know about the existence of these organizations or it's sine qua non help to victims. And like physical wounds ,we can only hope on time to do the healing on rape victims while the scars forever remain.

In Africa, a 'male child' is traditionally seen as everything to a man, many men marry more than two wives just to give birth to male a child and thereby causing their first wife(first love) pains for an act that Is solely their "supposed fault"(men determines the sex of a child), and this is so so appalling for I have seen many marriages crumble. most men want a boy that would carry their name so that according to them, "his lineage would continue", I wouldn't want to attack their opinion though but it's the same blood that you have that would run through the veins of your children be it male or female, and same would run through the veins of your grandchildren regardless of the change in surname which is the major concern. Some men even go as far as not sending their female children to school believing its waste of money because a man would still marry her off but that is pure "false thinking" instead why not think of the good things she can to for her immediate society and the world at large. We've seen many women world changers, literature in Africa would have still been in the abyss if Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie hasn't followed in the footsteps of Chinu Achebe,Elechi Amadi and the likes. Take a country like Rwanda for example, Rwanda is currently the best country in Africa and one of the "fastest developing" in the world and Rwanda has 64% of her legislative seats as women which is the highest in Africa, Rwanda also have a "female-only" university in which 85% of her graduates become productive to the country within 6 months of graduation. I have witnessed a man call all his four daughters 'useless' when he was about taking another woman just to have a male child,well all of them are doing fine in life now. In spite of all this knowledge why does Professor chukwuebuka , a well knowledgeable person still have extramarital affairs for male child after having five females?, it appears that tradition has eaten deep into his psychology that his clear thinking has been affected, there is a level of belief in tradition that no level of formal education can alter, don't get me wrong I am not saying African traditions are bad but change is a constant thing in every society and some things just have to be dropped and honestly 'not-educating or respecting a girl child' is one.

Over the years African elders have made it seem as if the white man has no culture and everything they believe should be prohibited Here in Africa but why accept their technologies and all then refuse some other important aspect that affects human lives. Today in Cameroon their is still a practice called breast ironing which is an act in which a girl child's breast is pressed with a hot iron for weeks or even months just to make it flat and reduce rape because according to them it increases their chances of being attracted to rapist but isn't the act itself as dastard as rape?. While in many communities in Nigeria women still have their hairs shaved when their husbands dies and also drink the water used to wash thier husband's dead bodies just to prove their innocence, this of course applies to girl children that were married off at very early innocent ages without seeing the four walls of a school. They keep her inside her house for months mourning then they'd tell her to be strong but how can she be strong when she's still distabilzed from her husband's death,then they'd give her his washed body's water to prove the innocence of killing her husband and keep her inside like a recluse for weeks all in the name of tradition and if she doesn't have a male child all her husband's properties will be taken away from her. The most painful of all these is the fact that the so called educated ones in the society still believe in all these. If the educated ones,those that should correct these practices are fully involved in it then what more of the uneducated ones?

“Justice will not be served until those who
are unaffected are as outraged as those
who are.” - Benjamin Franklin

This is a call to everyone that much still has to be done to achieve SDG5(gender equality), I am not a feminist , i'm just being logical. Its time for us the learned and willing ones now to rise and tell everyone trying to stifle the rights of a girl child that the girl child is same as the boy child because if there was no Dora Akunyili many of us here in nigeria might have been dead by now for taking fake drugs.

wi5dom:
stop roaming bro, the calculations is a yearly based calculation.
.
#LittleGist

I hv been guiding aspirants voluntarily since 2011 and it was the last admission which I came across a lady I think arguing about the mode of admission for that set in which I never rejected apologizing due to a wrong post or so because we are and I am human who learn everyday. You so much believe in runs ruling uniben admission, that who gets an admission is prolly via runs because of it's jamb score below the argued 311...... your acclaimed cut off for medicine, so be it. And if you also believe a girl with 215 who got admitted into ISD in the last admission was via runs, so be it.

I need not to exchange words with you...you are a new bee leaving you with your knowledge of how admission runs within the four walls of UNIBEN.
Do have some nice academic year(s) in uniben.... I remain an alumni.

#TGIF..... Also have a nice weekend ahead.

I give up on you bro, have a nice weekend

wi5dom:
Lol... do your maths written in English bro.

1 year in MCB and now in 3rd year(mb class). that's approximately 4 years.

2010/2011 till 2017 = 7years. ..that is you gained admission 2013 into mcb and 2014 into med against the claim of you knowing so much as far back 2010/2011. LOLX


at diz junction I say- Welcome Sir!!!!
Now I can ignore... lols.

are you a student yet? . . why is basic English language too complex for you to demystify?, when did I ever claim knowing as far back as 2010?, it was a claim you made that I didn't affirm . . . and Also, 2nd year and 3rd year in medical school is run for 18months but my set is the first set that'll do it for 12months . . now re-do your maths.

Draei:

#sighs! You both should chill the fućk out biko,
You both already dragging this into something else.

bro chill . . i'm not saying I know so much but if I don't correct this dude now, he'll go ahead and continue deceiving people with his baseless facts

wi5dom:
lol
may i ask what year you gained admission into mcb, the year u took jamb and gained admission into mb class and how old you are

Stop being the ignorance one here as if every admission is based or should be based on runs.

Meanwhile i said earlier, last year mode of admission wasn't the mode of admission used previous years.....and if you are insinuating many people gained admission via connection......i will say it is just your mere speculation or hypotheses. ''many" cannot be half or a quarter of the total people admitted.

I quite talking about these

jeez . . I give up on your brain . . . it's like English language is hard for you to understand . . . . . MB class is the 3rd year in medical school(medical school names its classes by the exam the students write,then a year in MCB)do your maths.

wi5dom:
It is due to the context of the so called "argument" as shouldn't expect to be admitted into ISD with a jamb score 215. As if it is an abnormality. Where as over the years, I have witnessed those with even a lower score than 215 gaining admission into ISD. I think he just want to create fears or probably over hyping the course in the minds of aspirants like "it is impossible" .

before UNIBEN uses aggregate scores not jamb score, it is only last year that UNIBEN used only jamb scores . . so when they were using aggregates if a person gets 215( which is quite a normal score when jamb was jamb Lol) and the person then scores 75 in post utme, the person will definitely get ISD . . but with ordinary jamb 215 this present period, baba the girl run am

wi5dom:
Is it possible you gained admission 2010/2011

If not, I think I know more than you do bro.

Lol you're so wrong, i'm in MB class and I was in microbiology before I took jamb again into medical school, and if i'm not sure of something I won't say it, stop deceiving people with your gross ignorance. Admission last year was filled with many loopholes, many people got admission through connection but I speak only with merit cut-off not benchmark at all, benchmark is just a fallacy.

wi5dom:
Lol. bro... how many years have you stayed or know uniben so well any course that takes "fall out" students from other course area because of not meeting certain criteria in their o'level isn't competitive bro....it means there is still space to take in even with their outstanding true ISD applicants. Seeing or meeting ISD applicants physically doest mean it is competitive.

ISD is something people don't know exist under art aside Law, History and the least, fine art and REL.

The 215 that got ISD last year isn't connection bro...I was in charge of the applicants account as she apparently knows nothing about online and uniben admission.

So don't put fears in applicants, one can get admission without runs.

And the 215 you are saying got medicine, I doubt but not totally. You know why? There was a situation then in school when uniben still operates Ecampus website, people were admitted even with 199 into courses that they are supposed not to gain admission. Then another senerio, in waeup, when somebody was admitted below the criteria for admission into a course, he matriculated....his details is on the portal, he pays school fees and can even see his result. You know what happened? his mat number was the same with another in the same course area. He runs it!

So that with 215 as u said to be in medicine in which I do not totally agree with you, may be in the same shoe of the above story set to happen.

Lastly, Medicine official bench/cut off was 235 not 311

your gross ignorance on UNIBEN is mind boggling, ISD is a very respected course,you placing history above it is so so demeaning. and also for the records ,that someone applying for a very competitive course and getting another course does not mean that the new course is not competitive. Take for example a faculty like dentistry that admits only 25 student every year ,their last year cut-off was 280(competitive) and someone with 305 that applied for medicine was given dentistry instead because she didn't get up to 311, a friend of mine that had 302 also was given physiology ,another one with 301 was given microbiology. There is a difference between bench mark and cutoff and last year the bench mark shit was just a formal thing ,better people with connection still run am. And lastly i'm a medical student so i'm very sure of what i'm saying.

Draei:

ISD.? she can...especially if she is an
indigene or under the catchment area.

for indigene I wouldn't argue much

dennisworld1:
bro which other course do advice. So she can switch maybe in 200level law

I honestly can't say

wi5dom:
c'mon man......don't say what you don't know. I know the school(uniben) more than you do. I don't deceive aspirants but to let them know the fact; sweet or hurt. As a matter of fact 215 jamb score as at last admission got admission into the course, ISD...even lower score than 215 in previous years. So don't stand for what you don't know bro.


you should be the one to stop putting wools in the faces of aspirants. *One can be admitted to study ISD known as "destiny changers" it thus mean, not that the course is not good, rather people who could not make it into law sometimes find their self in ISD, some bcus of subject combination...etc. So don't over hype the course.

bro I think I've spent more years in UNIBEN than you and I know what i'm talking about, ISD is very competitive, someone with 215 that got ISD probably got it through connection. Last year medicine's cut-off was 311 people with 215 still entered though with connection, i'm talking based on merit admission.

ISISs:
Both UNIs are cool..
Buh uniben has higher compettition than unizik.. Unizik offers igbo in year one as a Gss course. Now it is left for u to decide.

UNIBEN uses only jamb and there cut-off was 311 last year . . make your choice

dennisworld1:
ok tanx wants to know cus am buying change of course

let no man deceive you, she can't get ISD with 233

poyebad:
Thanks olusegxz. I received a mail from a pharmacist this morning sharing his personal experience. Based on what he wrote (quoted below) I believe you have a wrong information about pharmacists, and I even think may be earning so much more than doctors.

"Hello poyebad.
I came across a post initiated by you on Nairaland and I decided to share my personal experience to encourage your brother. This experience is not just mine, similar pattern is experienced by pharmacists all around the country. Pharmacists who are ready to work and not the ones who are comfortable with the meagre salaries being offered them both in the public and private sectors. Even if you're receiving #300k monthly as a pharmacist, it still qualifies as a pharmacist. The pharmacist is trained to function as a healthcare provider and at the same time as a businessman. I make bold to tell you that you cannot find a pharmacist who satisfies both aspects of his training that is not outstandingly wealthy. I worked briefly in a hospital and after just six months I decided to work as a pharmaceutical rep where my monthly target was in excess of #30,000,000 monthly. That's what set me thinking: why help another to make #30,000,000 monthly when I have all it takes (except the capital at the time) to make the same for myself. I built a little capital from working for the company from salaries and commissions. After three years working for the company and about seven years ago, I set up my own community pharmacy. Right now I have an allied production industry that produces about 23 products. My average cumulative daily sales (from the community pharmacy and from the production company) is approximately #57,000,000 (calculated for the first half of the year 2017). While I am not going to give you an idea of how much of that I pay myself as income, I believe this information should help you convince your friend.

Let me conclude this way: very few professions have the capacity to make you super rich in Nigeria. One of them is agriculture, the other one is pharmacy. Make no mistake about it, medicine can not provide you this kind of financial edge, except few exceptionally business savvy doctors who have learnt to step outside the comfort of their meagre comfortable salaries and into the world of medical business. In the end it makes not much difference what your friend decides to study. The more important factor is the kind and quality of person he is. If he is the salary type, then medicine is good for him. But if he is the type interested in building financial empire, then pharmacy is what he should go for."

this is one sided, anybody can open up a pharmacy store if he or she has the capital and use a pharmacist's license, you don't have to study pharmacy to do that you just have to have the capital. and also the only part of pharmacy that pays much is the community pharmacy. an engineer can open up a pharmacy store under the license of a pharmacist and a make millions daily. Hospital pharmacists are under doctors and are like the physiotherapists and radiologists. The best graduating student of pharmacy in UNIBEN last year is yet to get internship space(the dude graduated with 4.6+ UNIBEN is the only school that offers pharm.D, doctor of pharmacy instead of B.pharm). my close friend in medicine,his dad is the first consultant pharmacist in Delta state,still he's not financially buoyant now. Just go for anyone you like and pray God blesses you in it

[quote author=Mandeyy post=57668225][/quote]He might be right tho, I heard that in o.a.u the physiotherapy students there write 2nd MB but i'm not sure about that . . in some countries abroad physiotherapy is under faculty of medicine but not in Nigeria . . and about them relocating to teaching hospitals I don't think that's true but from 300-500level they will start clinical classes I.e going to teaching hospitals for lectures and interaction with patients like medical and dental students do in their 4th-6th year.