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Demulsify:
I dont know you or your story but i am a christian and i will only say what i have experienced for everyone to learn.
Pls dont make my mistake. The worldnof finance and accounting is totally global and saf to say ICAN Is not globally recognised and it is not worth more than 2 points in the Western Education (WES) grading.
Usually i dont do this anymore but thank God for God.
So my friend i dont know, carefully think things through. Outside Nigeria, ICAN has no value. Do not make my mistake.
Choose wisely. God bless

Are u serious?

Ican is not recognized outside Nigeria?

squarelead:
Still have a long way to go.... Am in skills level... Writing 6 papers, but in 4:2

I won't say it's a long way ti go o...

You are just progressing steadily that's all...
All the best bro in your May Exams.....

VulgarVulvas:
The nigga is approaching 40 fast with nothing to his name but his useless paper certificate from a useless Nigerian university which was made possible by his parents' picking the tab on his school fees. He tried getting a Master degree but was not able to get his aging parents to pay for it or get a paid position in a university (since nah only Shell and Chevron he won work for). He still dey house dey wait to inherit popsie house

LOL

Bros you ain't got no chill......

See finishing

DanXplore:
U must be a joke. Did u read and understood what i wrote?

It's okay

squarelead:
CIBN relevant or not.... ICAN all the way.... Cant wait to add ACA to my CV.

I wish you the best....
What level are you on now, if I may ask?

PaperLace:
The problem in Nigeria workforce is superiority complex. They forget there is something called division of labour and specialisation.
There are accountants, bankers, economists, marketers, managers... they all come together to makeup the business unit and achieve a common goal.

There are doctors, nurses, pharmacist, paediatricians, gynaecologists... forming the medical unit.

None is greater than the other, but no_ in Nigeria, a doctor feels he is higher than a nurse, an accountant feels he is higher than a banker, an architect feels higher than an estate manager...the list goes on. 'and you wonder why we achieve lil or nothing in our various sectors.

You sabi

hayoakins:
After wasting over 4 years in Lagos State University (part time) due to the epileptic academic calendar, I decided to combine with my full time banking job, a full time academic program and my professional qualification exams (ICAN and ACCA). To friends and family, it was an academic and career suicide mission but little did they know that my zeal to make up for the wasted years outweighs any logical, technical, financial or mental constraints. Having to stay up almost all night for over 4 years finally paid off.

I remember how my GP dropped from 3.78/4.00 to 2.87 when some lecturers felt insulted that a student who doesn't attend lectures was among the top 5%. They never knew I had Indian professors mentoring me on YouTube with Google at my call. I remember having to double my study time to still graduate against all odds with 3.35/4.00.

I remember days I stayed up all night at NYSC orientation camp studying for ICAN paper I had to sit for a day after being discharged from camp and ACCA papers while my platoon members and flat mates were flexing at mammi market.

I remember when I had to run away from been a guard commandant after been shortlisted when parade rehearsal was competing with my study time, having to also hide unto the bunk to miss the ever boring NYSC SAED lectures just to cover my exam syllabus. The sacrifices all paid off this day

ACCA and ICAN certified in the same year, in the same diet with two (2) ACCA awards in the bag.

Thanks to my boss who gave me time off when I needed it most.

To my mentees, the thought of never wanting you to give up against all odds got me going when giving up seems like the easiest option.

The thought of wanting the street kids to look at me and say because of you, we didn't give up got me this far.

The prayer of a praying mother also avails much more

Success is up for grab to whoever is willing to pay the price. ©Ayobami

The future is up for grab, I grabbed mine yesterday ©Ayobami

Whoever you are, where ever you are from, dreams come true to those who are willing to pay the price. No price, no prize.

The journey was stormy but I never took my eyes off the prize (this day) . #NoPrice #NoPrize

This is dedicated to all the streetkids who never sold their dreams on the alter of a few minutes pleasure and who had to run the race all alone. Never ever give up.

#BasedONbelief #It'sBeenGOD #It'sGOD #It'sStillGOD

AYOBAMI EBENEZER AKINADE, AAT, ACA, ACCA (affiliate)

PS: I am currently employed as a business Strategist and Financial Analyst (Project Associate) with over 6years working experience in one of the leading money deposit banks in Nigeria but actively seeking a more challenging adventure in another corporate entity.

Core competence include strategy development, project management, stakeholders management, financial analysis, sales and marketing and research.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayobamiakinade

Very inspiring

DanXplore:
It irks me when i see people make comments like this ignorantly in the name of motivation. you must think ICAN is a joke. I hope you are not the type that will advice someone with D7 in maths, E8 in Physics, D7 in biology, to keep pursuing their medical ambition. I know of people who spent years doing ICAN meant for just 2 to 3yrs and ended up frustrated.

@ OP, i dont believe in buttering people up so i will tell you the truth. If you go for ICAN with the same rate that earned you a third class, you will likely end up frustrated. But if you insist you want to be chartered, then here is a recommendation.

1. Go back to basic accounting, if possible O level accounting, and make sure you understand the rulesof debit and credit very very very well. Master it properly ...not just memorise its applications
2. Go on you tube and create a program for your self. Download sufficient videos on each of the accounting areas....from elementary book keeping to cashbook, pettycash analysis, suspense a/c, control a/c, partnership a/c, company a/c, joint ventures, public sector ....u know them. i repeat, understand and master them...dont just memorise the captions and formats.
3. download sample ICAN questions so you'd know what you are up against.

when you have done this and are satisfied, u can now do ICAN. If you cannot still attempt sample ICAN questions for the Basic level, then i'll advice you humble yourself and go for what could be up your speed.

I wish you well

Why will you advise him to go for ANAN instead of ICAN in the first place?
Do You know the circumstances to which he finished with the 3rd class You don't know him, and you have already tagged him unserious because of the third class.?

What is the correlation between a third class and passing ICAN Exams biko?

All he needs to do is register and be determined to pass, that is all.

DanXplore:
i will advice you ignore ICAN and go for ANAN.

@OP please disregard this advice.
You can do ICAN with your degree like that

chukxie:
With their small Asian dicks, they've built stable economies with constant electricity and superb standard of living where people with big dicks go to seek greener pastures.

Fatality

unstableaswater:
That is the problem with over-sabi Nigeria journalist from southwest, always quick to field Nigeria like it is an identity. We all have our ethnic identity that we go by.

He is definately Igbo, my brothers too like them Chinese girls, i dont know y.

So Nigeria is not an identity?

I na-anukwa

gypsey:
imagine! because it is easier to blame the victim, some ones rapes a woman first questions is always, why was she out? why was she wearing provocative cloths? why did follow him? no ones asks why did the man rape her?

It's just a useless society filled with hypocrites unfortunately

nanotechy:
@op whatever you do, DO NOT go to a Nigerian University for your graduate studies. Find your way to the US or Canada (US preferably) for your graduate studies. Otherwise, you'll end up adding to the problem called Nigerian Universities. My one kobo

LOL

You have a hilarious point tho, but not everyone has the money for abroad, and not everyone will get scholarship, so you have to make use of what you have

Jayson1:
So, a girl cannot visit someone peacefully without the fear of being killed or beheaded?




Na wa o

Thank you o

Instead of condeming the ritual act, people are talking rubbish and blaming the girl......

Okay she went out for "fun" ; is that a license to kill her in such manner?

Nigerians and anti clockwise thinking

ednut1:
No, The $25b reserves CBN keeps brandishing about na big lie. Dem don loot am to like $2b.

That is not true

ToyinDipo:
Sentiments, this is what is killing black nations. So the Nigerian dj can't play a song to tell it how it is in his country from wherever.
The same politicians of questionable moral standing ruining this country, yet instead of them channeling their energy where it is needed, they are whining about a tv program set to better the lives of its participants.
In the words of Eminem: ...4king do-gooders, too bad they couldn't do good in marriage.

You say?

ZarZar:
So where do we live? On nests? In hives? Where? A "poor black neighbourhood" in SA surely cannot compare to the likes of Makoko, Lasgidi (aka Zoo York) & your other slums. In fact, Nigeria is one giant pile of rubbish.

Poor neighbourhoods by South African standards

Lol @ giant pile of rubbish tho.
If only you knew; D

Ngozi123:
You say "yet" as if it's inevitable that Nigeria will realise its potential. If it hasn't done so in 60 years of its independence then what makes you think that it will in, say, the next 60 years? Nigeria may have better human resources than those countries but what's the point if said human resources prefer to run their trade abroad, in countries that have a better infrastructure than Nigeria, whilst the country continues to stagnate?

As things stand now, and for the foreseeable future, those countries are in a much better position than Nigeria so I don't see how some Nigerians can look down on them.

Not all the human resources want to run away tho, know that.
South Africa has been regressing, especially since that nicompoop Zuma took over, so I don't see the "progress" they are making

Kenya has tried, and Ivory Coast has done very well too, but Nigeria is still moving.

cstr55:
So Nigerians are still attending this AMVCA even with the wide-spread xenophobia against their brothers and sisters in south Africa, when a boycott could have sent a clear message.
That Nigeria yeye sha. No boundaries of decency and national pride, no shame and sense of brotherliness.
Everybody just dey hustle dey go for his/her self alone. And this is the same Nigeria some people actually gave their lives for.
Tufiakwa. God forbid bad thing.

Hmmmm

SalamRushdie:
This is clearly an arrow by a powerful village predator drone

Hmmmm

Ngozi123:
Why on earth would a South African or a Kenyan be jealous of Nigerians and Nigeria? You're the biggest country (figuratively speaking, not literally) in Africa yet you're riddled with terrorism, poverty and illiteracy. Both Kenya and South Africa have been making huge strides in the last 20 years yet you feel that they'd be jealous of a country that has barely improved since it 'received' its independence in 1960? I don't know where Nigerians get this arrogance from- you're not helping yourselves by having this attitude.

Ngozi....
It may be true that Nigeria has not actualized it's potential yet, but I daresay that indeed Nigeria has made progress since the return of democracy, even tho we need to do more, and indeed, Nigerians are more enterprising than the Kenyans or South Africans, and we have the diverse man power that they don't

They may have better infrastructures, but they don't beat us in what I said up there

AjanleKoko:
On a serious note,
I don't know about highest paid, as that's not standardized in most of Africa. But I would say the most lucrative profession in Nigeria is accounting.
The Guardian did a survey some years back, and accountants topped the list of most wanted employees, followed by commissioned salesmen/business developers. Engineers came a distant third

I tend to believe this tho

MEILYN:
Obama was a total failure. Thank God he's out already.

How did he fail

He was not a failure...
He did his best

NotComplaining:
Black ppl rly need to move on. We were great for longer period than we were downtrodden. Like every thing that rises to the top it must fall to the bottom only to repeat the process.

Every group of civilization were at one point enslaved. Whites (albinos) were considered ghosts and bannished from Africa. Where there was conflict there were slaves.

At every point in time you will find the despised and the revered of a subset. At the tiime this evil was happening to Sara Baartman, Spanish culture and monarch were being heavily influenced by exotic black culture, white women were being raped openly on the streets of Paris.

Humanity remains forever dynamic.

Very true

ogbonti:
Dimple, let's get rid of respecting and preserving ignorance. ..... example the likes of Jobsthsn, Tinubu, Buhari or Balarabe Musa, have no right to say anything about politics in Nigeria talkless of being involved in it. Our system and culture ridicules intellect

Your last statement is so true

mizzytan:
Wow. Touching story. Well we should let bygones be bygones, so many atrocities were committed against blacks.

More like humans have committed atrocities against fellow humans, it's not just about black or white

Nukualofa:
The idiotic El Rufai couldn't call him the Acting President rather he used Vice President

He is yet to face reality

Reporting for duty...

Ask4Info:
OAPs have a standard salary structure of between N120,000 -N300,000 depending on the radio station, the programme, and the OAPs experience.

Note that these OAPs also work in other departments after their programs like Technical, Production, Programmes, Research and even Sales. Don't think they just close for the day after their show.

Senior Executives who are OAPs earn way more that what i quoted above.

OAPs who do shows have the privilege of getting one or two "popular" artiste to perform, while the radio station they work for gives them free or next to nothing platform to advertise their shows.


DON'T BE DECEIVED, ONLY A HANDFUL OF OAPs ARE DOING FINE. MAJORITY OF THEM LIVE FAKE LIFE.

I don't want to stir controversy by mentioning names

You hit the nail on the head

Mbkite:
nice thread.....
Please before you enter class room to lecture, make sure you have practiced what you studied for at least 2years. we need to close the gap between theories and practicals. we need to stop producing half baked graduates.
Anybody who has not practiced for a minimum two years should not be allowed to lecture. that's my take.

You have a point tho...
But passion for the job and proper seminars and workshops will bridge the gap

davidif:
Finally some good news about Naija. Not all the depressing things you read about the country. If you see the potential policy makers around the world see in Africa it would marvel you. Unfortunately we just read ourselves apart because of pathetic tribal differences and other nonsense. It's too bad most Africans don't see the same potential other countries see in our continent. God bless Nigeria.

Exactly...

The cultural inclinations of Africans is to blame for our backward state.
We sit on goldmine but.....


I'm tired