₦airaland Forum

davidylan:
some of the questions here na real wa . . .

- should i get there on time?
- what documents should i take to the interview
- please find school for me
- should i drink water before going?
- what color shirt should i wear?
- do they require shoes at the embassy . . .

one would think this visa was the ticket to heaven.

justwise:
Sad but true

antitpiah:
^^^^

UK--->Cambridge, Massachusetts, ------>  Williamstown, Massachusetts?USA


You got it made!

or is it:

UK---> Williamstown, Massachusetts ------>Cambridge, Massachusetts ?USA

Irrespective, you are set for life.

If i were ileke, I'd all over your dyyyck!

Besides tpia is a woman.

Ystranger:
The process is ridden with corruption like everything else in Nigeria. Not trying to undermine the kid, but seriously, the best mathematics, and science students in Nigeria are in those public, underfunded schools. There are better students in our public schools than what we have in the Nigerian Turkish whatever they call it. Good education, but the students aren't the best we have to offer


I agree with you totally. Every year, and in almost every state, the people making it far are predominantly people in the public schools. I know this for sure. It is like WAEC, the result from the private schools, including Turkish whatever, is not a true reflection of the state of things. Private schools like the Turkish whatever are known to cheat their way through tests like this. Not that the kids arent up to it, they probably are, but the kids in those rich schools are not anywhere close to the kind of brains we have in our public schools. Ademehin's achievement is a reflection of what he learnt, academically and otherwise, in the public schools. His achievement is a credit to the hardworking men and women in our dilapidated secondary schools. Let no Nigerian Turkish crap take credit for it. Up Oyemekun, Igbobi college, Iganmode, Oritamefa, OSCAS, Ejigbo grammar and other schools like it in little known places ( other wise called Hinterland by some misguided NL intellectuals ) around Nigeria.


Besides teaching them how to speak with their nose, there is nothing much they have to offer, TBH. No be the same people dey take WAEC and JAMB with the rest of us? Shior kelembe iso.

It is not the responsibility of the Diaspora to develop Nigeria. What has Nigeria done for us besides give us a bad name abroad?

Did Nigeria give me a scholarship to college? No. . .

Did Nigeria give me a good quality education while I was growing up in Nigeria? No. . .

Kobojunkie:
That you hate your life and your family is no reason why you should go around imposing same on others.

I am glad you at least admit that you dey craze . . . thanks be to God!

Abeg

Can someone with my level of education explain what this is all about?

AjanleKoko:
OP,
It depends on which category of school you're referring to. In many countries, Nigeria included, basic schooling of between nine and twelve years are compulsory for every citizen. In some cases, those years are offered free, so it behoves on the people to take advantage. School at that level is very important, because we need to get literate, and be armed with the basic knowledge we need to function in the modern world.

Beyond those years, school these days is beginning to pan out as an expensive hobby, or an exercise in certificate purchase. The number of people who are able to find true fulfilment from education beyond the first nine to twelve years is dwindling by the day.

All across the world, the story's the same. Millions of college graduates with no job, no skill, and no clear future, while there is a growing blue-collar hole. It's getting very worrying. In my view, it is even a conundrum of sorts. No matter if a hundred million jobs are created every year, there simply would not be enough suitable jobs for college graduates. And for the employed, the opportunities for career advancement are getting more limited by the day. Its a new reality that we are all facing.

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e be like say wetin SAFAGO and co dey yan na true, African students are far below the pecking order in the scheme of things, weda admission to competitive programs or funding. God dey my broda. We go yankee together.
Na faith, nothin else

nnamdistan:
Hi guys, my i've been away for a while cos i've been hustling hard. my interview is on the 7th of August and I have a question i'd like to ask.

1. I have a full ride, to a LAC I'm only expected to contribute $1000 out of $55,000. However my pops bank statement is less than that amount cos he frankly uses company account more. So i intend to carry both company bank statement and his personal account statement. the statement in his company account is about 900,000 (i am not from a rich family). Does anyone sense any red flag here? I have the complete company docs( memat and cert. of incorporation to show that my dad is the owner of the company).

Please I appreciate your answers

ZnO:
Sefago aka Ekiti bear
You can continue with your monologue. But before you go far into it, please just provide the name of the Yoruba woman and then continue with your monologue.

Stop telling me what I knew several years back. I posted that in response to your insinuations (made as Ekt Bear and as Sefago in the past in one of your childish attempts to get back) that people who studied in non-Ivy league schools cannot get tenured at Ivy league schools.

And no, it is not just the number of publications but the quality of the publication. If you publish in one article PNAS as I did in the past, you can get tenure even faster than one with 10 publications in some obscure journals

ZnO:
This man did not study at any Ivy League, bust is a professor ah Harvard.
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ZnO:
Then you do not know the game.

ZnO:
Ekt Bear aka Sefago (same person, just like I said last year)

Ekiti dude logs out and responds  as Sefago

Na today?

That woman is not a nairalander with a pseudonym, and would actually be proud that her name is being mentioned. So if she does exist, you that I know will be so happy to furnish her name. There is simply no such person. Stop the lies.

We don't have the same writing style. He is far more arrogant than I am Grin (but very well may have good reason for it, for all I know. . . I don't know enough about him to say)

We remember SAP - structural adjustment programme. That was a WB instrument forced upon our country using backchannells to bribe and coerce our leaders into the agreement.