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You 're going to pay it separate,I think it's just 5k or 6k,and the student affairs officials 're the one incharge to allot it.

Hayurdayle:
Pls, ao do we get these hostels, or we are going pay it together with d sch fees or how?

Funny dude,just take your time to ask any accounting student of Unilorin,he/she will tell you how OAU students defeated them on their campus last year. Proudly GreatIfe ...For learning,and culture.

killercute16:
Only if UNILORIN was there...Oya Oau student come and make noise small.

Hmmnn,hope she was able to pour what she has crammed?? All the best anyway!

Ma' shaa Allah,Jazakumu Allah khair...Prayer when finding it difficult to assimilate,though I have seen it in a screen shot,but for the benefit of those who can't download or zoom the screen shot,here is the prayer; ALLAHUMO LA SAHLA ILA MA JA ALTAU SAHLA,WA ANTA TAJ AL LI AZNA IDHA SHITA SAHLA. may ALLAH increase us in knowledge,and understanding

Hw far brother?? Have you confirmed your admission status?

adeshola1:
abi ooo

Good,but have gotten my materials from a senior colleague on campus!

ADEWALE7777:
For information o ur course of study,for what to expect on campus and piece of advice ....add o whatsapp 08117928126 #teamOAU

liberty300:
mr. English, you don't know you're wrong Abii? Op was correct..seems you didn't write jamb to see THIS kinda questions. The last "s" in blasts means continuous tense..which is wrong. Correct yourself Mumu man

Grammar Nazi,u're fully recognised!.

Prof Jega on Procedures for Obtaining Permanent Voters Card.
http://www.nta.ng/2015/01/23/prof-jega-on-procedures-for-obtaining-permanenttemporary-voters-card/

Goodluck Jonathan Compared To Idi Amin Of Ugandan In Aggressive Pro- APC Advert
A political group, Defenders Of Democracy placed this advert on The Nations newspapers, saying he should stop comparing himself to the likes of Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Lee Kwan Yew and Marting Luther King, that he belongs to the likes of Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Robert Mugabe.
For the Defenders Of Democracy, they’re a faceless group as compared to Ayodele Fayose’s campaign published by Punch Newspaper and Sun Newspaper also attacking the candidate of the Oppostion political party.
NewsWireNGR recalls that during the week, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, hit hard at All Progressives Congress candidate in an advertorial that was condemned by the electoral umpire and majority of Nigerians.
It’s an election season in Nigeria and both sides are obviously going all out to woo electorates even taking to hate messages..
Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari of APC will be slugging it out come February 14, 2015 at the polls in a bid to preside over the affairs of Nigeria..
When the advert was published by Fayose, the Goodluck/Sambo 2015 campaign organisation has distanced itself from the controversial Newspaper advertorail against the candidacy of APC Presidential Flag-bearer, General Muhammadu Buhari.
Source: http://newswirengr.com/2015/01/24/goodluck-jonathan-compared-to-idi-amin-of-ugandan-in-aggressive-pro-apc-advert/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

It's simple as ABC,just log on to www.jamb.org.ng A page will pop up with many links,click on ''check admission status'' then enter your jamb registration number! Best of luck!

elkenzom1:
Pls how can I check if I'm offered admission into OAU online?

Thanks jare haydot95,it seems the guy didn't know there is a platform for the newly admitted students! How your programme?? Abi na kasun kaji enterprise u dey work ni?? Hmm.I trust you,you must have turned a DYNAMIC SCRIPT WRITER,now? Anyway,happy resumption in advance.

haydot95:
Na Common room be this www.nairaland.com/1485652/obafemi-awolowo-university-admission-thread/282

And this one na BQ www.nairaland.com/1922124/oau-2014-2015-freshers-newly

If you're an adult learning English, the accent you have when you speak English is affected by the sounds and intonation of your first language.
For many people, accent is not important. But in some situations (i.e. if you're working in a call centre, or with native English colleagues or clients) you might need to reduce your accent to be more easily understood.
The aspects of an accent that make the most difference (i.e. the parts of an accent that mark you as coming from a particular country or region) are in the pronuniciation of individual sounds, and in the intonation (where your voice rises or falls).
British Accents
There are a huge range of different accents within the UK. Two of the most well-known accents (and often those you're most likely to hear in coursebook listening exercises, or via the media such as the BBC) are Received Pronunciation (a formal accent, also known as the "Queen's English" and the accent from around the South East of England.
Typical features of these accents are:
– the /r/ is not pronounced at the end of syllables (although it's pronounced when a vowel sound follows)
fire (= fai-uh)
firing ( = fai – ring)
– the /a/ in words like bath, grass, fast etc is a long sound (the same as in "art" for example)
The RP / Home Counties (the area around London) accent can be heard in wealthier places, while the traditional London (Cockney) accent affects how English is spoken in less wealthy areas. This accent is often called "Estuary English" and some typical features are:
– glottal stop (where the /t/ sound between vowels is not pronounced
(bottle becomes "boh – ul", for example.)
– the "th" sound is pronounced as "f" or "v"
Accent reduction
Remember that it isn't possible to completely eliminate your accent. However, there are ways that you can minimise it.
– Identify the sounds (vowels / consonants) or stress and intonation patterns that are different from native English accents
– Work on these areas. You might need to "relearn" the way you pronounce different sounds (i.e. not automatically adding an /h/ sound before vowels, or moving your tongue / lips to better pronounce a /t/ or /b/ sound, for example).
– Practice as much as possible. Regular listening and speaking will help you identify the areas in which your accent is very different from native English speakers, while frequent conversation will allow you to put what you learn into practice.
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Pronunciation tips
1. To a native speaker, one of the biggest signs of a non-native speaker is in the intonation. Pay attention to where your voice rises and falls. (See Stress and Intonation in Questionsfor more information.)
2. You're more likely to cause misunderstanding when you speak English if you get the word stress wrong (than if you get an individual vowel / consonant sound wrong). When you learn new words, remember to look up the stress marks too, so that you know which syllables are stressed or unstressed. (See our page on using a dictionaryto see how this works.)

Can Mr poster be more objective by posting the tution fee in each of the versities?? Let's see wether a common man can afford to sending his ward to the school,if truly GEJ cares for the poor parents.

OAU,ECONOMICS...

butanep:
which sch is that N what did u study?

I hope u're all warming up for resumption?? Dammytragger,and umm what happend to you guys,I didn't see/read your count down today,don't tell me you're tired of posting the countdown oo! Wishing you people happy new year in arrears,and happy resumption in advance.

Guy,take a chill pill,I didn't mean it or can't you see the smiley beneath the post?? quote author=holatin post=29171179]what ??
you said lazy.
What happen to an hungry man reading book, he read but doesn't assimilate.
When I saw someone posted this, I thought d person will be intelligent but lo Am wrong.[/quote]

Lazy bone,I don't want your type on this thread.

holatin:
Will read after eating supper

7. “Jealousing."I have heard many young Nigerians people say something like “she is jealousing me because of my success.” I thought this unusually nonstandard usage of “jealous” was confined to Nigerian Pidgin English until I heard supposedly educated young Nigerians use it. Well, jealous has no verb form.

8. “Pepperish.”No native English speaker says pepperish” to describe the burning sensation we feel from eating pepper. The usual word is “peppery.”

9. “Cunny.”The adjective usually rendered as “cunny” in Nigerian English (as in: that boy is very cunny; he tricked me into giving him my phone and he ran away with it) is properly spelled as “cunning” in Standard English. Most native speakers recognize “cunny” either as a slang term for the female reproductive organ or as an archaic word for a rabbit.

10. “Mannerless.”Mannerless, the Nigerian English adjective of choice for “rude,” “ill-bred,” etc., is an outdated word. Its modern equivalents are ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannered, etc. Someone once challenged me that he found “mannerless” in many online dictionaries and wondered why I said it wasn’t Standard English. Well, it’s because most native speakers don’t use it any longer, its listing in online dictionaries notwithstanding.
Bonus:
“Instalmentally.”This is a uniquely Nigerian English word. In Standard English, installment—or “instalment” if you prefer British spelling—does not take the “ly” form when it’s used as an adverb of manner. Its adverbial form is “in installments.” So it is, “I will pay for my laptop in installments,” not “I will pay for my laptop installmentally.”

4. “Convocate.”This is an archaic and rare word that you won’t find in most modern dictionaries and that native speakers of the language never use. Its modern form is “convoke.” But the verb of choice in Nigerian English for the convening of the formal ceremony for the award of degrees is “convocate,” as in: “our school convocated last Saturday.” Native speakers don’t even use “convoke,” the modern alternative to “convocate,” in that sense. They simply say something like “Our school had a convocation last Saturday.” Convoke is often used in relation to formal meetings or gatherings, as in: convoke a conference or convoke a meeting of the National Assembly/the Federal Executive Council, etc.

5. “Gisted.”The verb form of this word is not known to any other variety of English outside Nigerian English. Native speakers say “chitchat” where Nigerians say “gist.” In Standard English gist is usually a noun that means the central idea of a conversation, a speech, an argument, etc., as in: “what is the gist of President Goodluck Jonathan’s long broadcast?” Gist is never used as a verb in Standard English, and it has not the remotest semantic connection with light informal conversations.
I think it was the prolific and highly talented Dr. Herbert Igboanusi of the University of Ibadan who once pointed out that “gisted”—and its other inflections such as “gisting”— started as a slang term in southern Nigerian universities before it percolated into general Nigerian English.

6. “Detribalized.”Nigerians use this word as an adjective of approval for someone who isn’t wedded to narrow ethnic or communal allegiances; it describes a person who is nationalist, cosmopolitan, liberal, progressive, and broadminded. But that’s not the way native English speakers understand and use the word. To “detribalize,” according to the Oxford Dictionary of English, is to “remove (someone) from a traditional tribal social structure.” In Australia, for instance, English settlers forcefully took away children from their parents and took them to white foster homes to “detribalize” them, in other words, to take the “tribe” out of them, to “civilize” them. That program was called “detribalization.” It arose out of the notion that “tribes” are a collection of savages that need to be civilized—or “detribalized.”
It’s a shame that educated Nigerians describe themselves as “detribalized” and think it’s a badge of honor. The ignorance is just galling!
This is the usage advice that the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary gives on the use of the word tribe: “In historical contexts the word tribe is broadly accepted (the area was inhabited by Slavic tribes), but in contemporary contexts it is problematic when used to a community living within a traditional society. It is strongly associated with past attitudes of white colonialists towards so-called primitive or uncivilized peoples living in remote underdeveloped places. For this reason it is generally preferable to use alternative terms such as community or people.”
I have written at least five previous articles in the past six years calling attention to the impropriety of calling modern people anywhere “tribes.”

Top 10 Outdated and/Or Made-up Words in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.

http://m.allafrica.com/stories/201212160073.html/

Nigerian English has a wide variety of words that have either run out of fashion in the contemporary English of native speakers of the language or that are entirely peculiarly Nigerian, that is, can’t be found in any English dictionary. In what follows, I identify and discuss top 10 such words:

1. “Rearer.”In Nigerian English this word almost always collocates with “cattle,” as in: “cattle rearer.” I have never heard anyone referred to as a “goat rearer” or a “sheep rearer” in Nigeria, perhaps because Nigerians don’t raise goats and sheep in as large numbers as they raise cattle. The first hint that “rearer” is an unusual word came from Microsoft Word, which disfigures the word with its cheeky red underline to indicate that it's is not in its internal dictionary. But Microsoft doesn't always offer a reliable guide of a word’s acceptability. First, its word bank is severely limited, especially for academics like me who use “big,” unusual, and sesquipedalian vocabularies in our academic writing. Second, it has a notoriously pro-American bias in its linguistic idiosyncrasies, especially if your computer is bought in America.
It turns, however, that “rearer” is actually an old-fashioned or obsolescent British English word. When I searched for it on Google, I found that it appeared only on Nigerian, Indian, and British Guyanese themed websites. I found no contemporary use of the term in British newspapers. Nor did I find it in American, Canadian, Australian or New Zealand websites. So I searched for “herder,” the term I’ve heard native speakers use for what we call “rearer” in Nigerian English and found millions of contemporary uses of the term in British and American news media websites. I modified the search to “cattle herder,” and my keywords yielded over 3 million matches. But a search for “cattle rearer” turned up only a little over 66,000 matches, mostly on the websites of former British colonies.
It is obvious, based on the foregoing, that “rearer” is an archaic British English word that has been replaced with “herder.” However, as is often the case, people on the periphery of the development of a language (such as Nigerian English speakers) are usually the last to catch on to new vocabularies, semantic shifts, and novel usage patterns that occur in the center of development of a language.

2. “Disvirgin.”As I’ve pointed out in previous articles, there is no such word as “disvirgin” in the English language. It is an entirely Nigerian English fabrication. No other variety of English in the world, except perhaps Ghanaian English, uses the word. Native English speakers use “deflower” to express the sense Nigerian English speakers seek to convey when they say “disvirgin.” A rarely used alternative to “deflower” is “devirginate.” The word is so rare that many reputable English dictionaries don’t have an entry for it. For instance, it doesn’t appear in the the most current edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English.

3. “Opportuned.”Like “disvirgin,” this word does not exist in any English dictionary. It is an entirely Nigerian English word that was formed in ignorance. What exists in English dictionaries is “opportune,” without “d” at the end. Opportune means “timely” or “well-timed.” E.g. “Wait for an opportune moment to tell him how you really feel.” In Nigerian English we use “opportuned” where “privileged” is the appropriate word to use. Where we would say “I am opportuned to speak to this august gathering,” other speakers of the English language would say “I am privileged to speak to this august gathering.”

May 3rd,but the acceptance fee may be unveiled by march or april,my observation,though!.

mikeczay:
pls when is 2014 oau resumption datepls when is 2014 oau resumption datepls when is 2014 oau resumption date

New Words in Oxford Dictionaries You Should Know
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Adorbs:It’s an adjective used informally to mean “Inspiring great delight; cute or adorable.” Examples the dictionary gives are: “all the pets are totally adorbs”; “check out the adorbs photo”; “newborn babies are so adorb.” The dictionary etymologizes the word as an early 21stcentury modification of “adorable.” I have never come across this word before, and I’m unlikely to ever use it.
2. Cord cutting.This expression is defined as “The practice of canceling or forgoing a cable television subscription or landline telephone connection in favor of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service.” A usage example is, “The cable industry has seen a decline in television subscribers as customers engage in cord cutting.”
Many people outside the West may not be able to relate to this expression for many obvious reasons. For one, canceling cable subscription isn’t an option for most people in the developing world because broadband Internet connection is still a luxury. Second, landline telephone connection never quite took off in many developing countries to start with, so canceling it isn’t part of people’s experiential repertoire there.
3. Cray or Cray Cray.The dictionary defines this word as the short form of “crazy” and says it’s chiefly American. Usage examples include: “I have a feeling this is gonna get cray”; “She’s cray cray.” I’ve actually first heard this word from my 10-year-old daughter. I didn’t think it would get lexicographical imprimatur.
4. Dox (also doxx).This word is spawned by online interactions. It’s defined as “Search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.” Examples are: “Hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures”;“Perhaps the greatest threat is their contacts with other hackers who are more than willing to dox them.”
Perhaps the best example of a doxing in Nigerian cyberspace was the unmasking of presidential aide Reno Omokriby Nigerian cyber sleuthhounds. Omokri sent out a libelous news release against former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusis Lamido Sanusi (who is now the emir of Kano) with the false name Wendell Simlin, but wasn’t careful enough to cover his cyber tracks, so he was doxed.
Dox, according to the Oxford Dictionaries, is the “alteration of docs, plural of doc (short for document).”
5. Hate-watch (noun is hate-watching).It means to “Watch (a television program) for the sake of the enjoyment one derives from mocking or criticizing it.” Some usage examples the dictionary gives are “I hate-watched every single episode”; “It was the year that hate-watching became our national pastime.”
I think this word actually fills a real lexical void in the language and is likely to endure. On a personal note, it perfectly captures my relationship with Nigerian movies. (Read my January 1, 2009 article titled “When Art Imitates Dreams: A Commentary on Nigerian Movies”)
A related word is “binge-watch,” which is defined as “watch[ing] multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession.”

The # teamNESA-OAU participated in the 3rd Inter-
Varsity debate competition in honour of Prof. Ibi
Ajayi today, on thursday, December 18th, at the
University of Ibadan, Ibadan Oyo state and came
out 1st position organized by the Nigerian
Economics Students Association,(NESA-U.I).
NESA-UNILAG came out 2nd and NESA-U.I came
out third. Other participating universities includes,
Bowen University, University of Illorin among
others.
The debate committee was headed by Babalola
Susan and its members included; Ibiyemi Abayomi,
Muideen Oladayo, Koya Funto, and Emmanuel
Oluwasetire as keyu participants. Muideen Oladayo,
was the Chief Speaker, and he was assited by
Koya Funto Esther. The impromptu sesction was
handled by Oluwasetire Emmanuel.
This victory is just one of the results of the pro-
active stretagies of # TEAMEXCELLENCE led by
Ibiyemi Abayomi
# teamUNILAG which came out second, had its
chief speaker carrying the day as the best speaker
for the evening.
One important factor that contributed to this
victory was the support provided by the
department by providing a lecturer in person of Mr
Emmanuel Sanusi to journey with us to UI.
‪#‎ teamNESA‬-OAU appreciates his presence and
support all along as we prepared for the
competition.
To conclude, the NESA executive council remains
committed to serving nesans and as a whole lot of
other events in line with a debate competition for
all NESANs across all levels, further details will be
made available as soon as the ESRC approves.
Plans for the 2nd Annual Economic Students
Conference (AESC) and the 12th Leadership
Qualities and EntrepreneurialDevelopment
programme (LQED) are also in motion. Please feel
free to contact the PRO for more information.
Congrats once again to # NESA -OAU.

B.Sc. Geology and Applied Geophysics (4 years programme)
‘O’ Level Requirements:Five ‘O’ Level credits which must include Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and English Language.
Source: http://www.oauife.edu.ng/admission/undergraduate-studies/
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Seconded.

XXX5:
I want to suggest that we freshmen should start
discussing things like our resumption date, course
outlines, Acceptance fee, life on campus, things
we're gonna need for registration, and so on, so as
to keep ourselves informed and also to keep the
theard moving at a good pace. thanks. Wishing you
all a trouble-free day ahead.

When next they tell you Buhari will Islamise Nigeria if he becomes the president, tell them they are senseless; that no democratically elected president can Islamise Nigeria.
When next they tell you Buhari is too old, tell them you prefer an old man with a purpose than a youth without a focus. You may even ask them that what benefit did the youthfulness of Dimeji Bankole who became the number 3 man )Speaker of House of Representatives( at the age of 37; James Ibori who became a governor at the age of 41 and Lucky Igbinedion who also became a governor at the age of 42 bring into the system.
When next they tell you Buhari is the sponsor of Boko-Haram, tell them they have gone nuts. That they used the same propaganda to campaign against the man in 2011, so why is he still walking the streets while the menace Boko- Haram is burgeoning and the president has not ordered his arrest?
When next they tell you APC is more corrupt than PDP, tell them “no matter how good they are in mathematics, they'd never be able to add up the sins of APC and arrive at the report card of PDP since 1999. Logic and common sense will always be their undoing in such a mathematical venture”. )Credits to Pius Adesanmi(
When next they tell you about Buhari’s human right records during his 18 months sojourn as a military head of state, tell them he is not coming back as a military head of state but a democratically elected president and that does not erase his sterling anti-corruptioncredentials which is what Nigeria badly needs at the moment.
When next they tell you that it is wrong for Buhari to be hobnobbing with the likes of Tinubu, Atiku and co, given his toga anti-corruption; ask them if they voted for him when he
decided to do it alone.

How far,bro?? Have you confirmed your name on jamb portal?? All the best.

Olusharp:
add me 08099680854

The joy mood is still in the air ni,e no easy to be a latest,nd cutest bride...Ba'rakallah feeh,my sister

ellechrystal:
N u got it wrong again .. hahshahaha

Taah,it's an arabic words...

LORDI:
kk,thanks,I've learnt something new today
*modified*
Walimat nikkah,..is a yoruba word?.

Its means wedding ceremony....walimat*ceremony* Nikkah*wedding*

LORDI:
Abeg what is Walimah-nikkah?..am hearing it for the first time,..please

XXX5:
INSTRUCTIONS TO PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS FOR
THE 2014/2015 ACADEMIC YEAR
Candidates who made Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife their first and/or second choice and took the
Obafemi Awolowo University Post UTME are
advised to check their names from the list of
candidates admitted by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) on the Obafemi
Awolowo University Website (www.oauife.edu.ng)
or e-portal.oauife.edu.ng and follow the procedures
for registration as laid out. Confirmation of
admission on the OAU website shall commence with
the payment of non-refundable acceptance fee of
N20, 000.00 (fresh students only).
Candidates shall thereafter continue with the
registration procedure as detailed out on the e-
portal of the website as provided above i.e.
(www.oauife.edu.ng) or e-portal.oauife.edu.ng.
Students are required to pay appropriate charges as
indicated below by obtaining scratch cards at the
counter of any of the branches of the following
banks:
ECO Bank Plc
First Bank Plc
IBTC Stanbic Bank Plc
Skye Bank Plc
United Bank for Africa Plc
WEMA Bank Plc.
OAU Micro Finance Bank
Union Bank Plc.
Zenith Bank

there is nothing like this on the newly created portal of OAU.
http://www.oauife.edu.ng/ips/