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i m impressed....u a good person..God bless u

u r yuzedo's sisterhwz the lekki mansion

MissYuzedo: Read above u mahn!

Nice job starflux...God bless u real good

StarFlux: Hey, thanks!

Usually, you transfer the money to the school's account. When you're granted a resident permit and arrive here in Norway, you'll go make your own bank account and the money will be transferred there. As far as I'm aware, there are no limitations. You transfer it after your school application has been accepted. Once the money is on the account, you can go ahead and apply for a visa.

I don't study any of these things, so I can try finding such programmes for you, but can't really say much from my own experience. Only thing I can do is ask around and see if said programmes can be found in a database where the lowest grade point averages from last year are listed, you'll get a general idea how competitive it is. It really depends on the school most of the time. As long as it's natural sciences, it's okay? I'll go ahead and find some for you.

Apart from sufficient funds, there's really no other requirement. Just focus on doing your best.

sorry 4 derailing!!!i couldnt resist...i asked a question earlier and i was ignored...want to starrt naruto manga/anime but i need info on where to get the downloads and also where to begin 4rm...so sorry again

rapmike: Wia r d mods nw? This guy deserves 2 be bannd nw. He is derailing d thread wit dis Avatar ting.

abeg guys who just got into finland should narrate their experiences so far...the good, bad and ugly..thnks very much...it ll be appreciated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKH_TCBnOcU

nice one dahonestboss

Just to point out that the aforementioned countries u mentioned, u are designated as an INTERNATIONAL STUDENT...U obviously cant compare ur fees with those of the local indigens or home students.
Moreover in the UK, most of the students are all on student lons which they would have to pay back to the government installmentally once they graduate and start working

stagger: Prof. Femi,

You are so exactly on point.

I was a university student when ASUU was on strike in 1992 for 9 months and in 1996 for 6 months. Not to count the numerous school closures we had as a result of riots against the university authorities to improve conditions, the same conditions ASUU is fighting for.

My first year school fees? N40. My first year accommodation? N110.

By the time I left school, my total school fees and accommodation was not more than N10,000. So when we check the total fees I paid in my first degree, it could not come to more than N100,000 in school fees and accommodation combined: less than $650. LAUGHABLE.

ANY WONDER WHY FACILITIES AND CONDITIONS WERE SIMPLY SO DIFFICULT FOR US?

Fast forward a few years. Did 2 post graduate programs in Australia and Europe. Total cost? Tuition fees alone: nearly $40,000. Not counting living expenses, accommodation (paid in three months what I paid for my house back in PH for a whole year).

Check out the difference: paying less than N100,000 total school fees in Nigeria, as opposed to $40,000 (N6.6million) for post graduate degrees abroad.

THE COLD HARD TRUTH: Nigerians love good things but do not want to pay for them.

ASUU is fighting a very just cause for Nigerian students who have totally failed to see the big picture. A day will come when ASUU will stop agitating to get the Nigerian government to do their work: fund public universities. PUBLIC universities are GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. How can a house owner totally neglect to take care of his own property?

The only other option when ASUU stops agitating: NIGERIAN STUDENTS WILL START PAYING TUITION FEES. By the time a student in UNILAG or UNIABUJA or UNIMAID or LAUTECH will start paying N3million, N5million, N10,million a year, then the eyes of Nigerian students will open and they will start screaming: HAD WE KNOWN! Then it will be too late.

Not to deviate from this thread but i will copy paste what the Venezuelan Ambassador told Mademoiselle Dora Akunyili during the rebrand naija 'period'.

He goes thus
“In Venezuela, since 1999, we’ve never had a raise in fuel price. We only pay $1.02 to fill the tank. What I pay for with N12,000 here (Nigeria), in Venezuela I’ll pay N400. What is happening is simple. We have 12 refineries in the United States, 18,000 gas stations in the West Coast. . That’s why we have 22,000 medical doctors assisting the people in the community. The people don’t go to the hospital; doctors go to their houses. This is because the money is handled by the Venezuelans. How come Nigeria that has more technical manpower than Venezuela, with 150 million people, and very intellectual people all around, not been able to get it right? So, it is important that Nigeria takes control of her resources. In venezuela, We have no illiterate people. We have over 17 new universities totally free. I graduated from the university without paying one cent, and take three meals every day, because we have the resources".

@ prof femi plz i would need ur input in the second paragraph of my post.
btw, thank you again for spending your time 'trolling' with us in a matured manner... . God bless

uzoexcel: Random Musings

Prof Femi, thanks for enlightening us on the state universities issue. I have always wondered why they r involved in the first place.

Also, in the list of demands by ASUU to the FG, are you guys gonna asking the Federal Government for the establishment of more institutions in the country. Cos everyday we read in the news that more than 1million students in the country sit for jamb every year and there are always less than 200,000 spaces for this students?

Also prof, there are some things i think you failed to mention or touch upon.For example the issue of having outdated syllabus which most uni's/depts fail to review. I dont think the Federal Government is responsible for this.Most of my brothers/sisters here on nairaland will attest to this. For instance i read Elect/Elect Engr in a Federal Uni. The only programming course we did was in our second year and that was Fortran '77 and a little BASIC programming.FOR 5YEARS, just 1 redundant programming course!!!IN THIS JET AGE!!and we had to cram it!!!Can u just imagine...My first year, i was doing Bio 101 (3units), Chem 101 (4units), Chem 102/Organic Chemistry (4 units), Engineering drawing (firsy year down till second year) where we used T/square and cardboard sheets while the outside world is talking about autocad and Matlab....This were all freaking irrelevant and i dont think its the FG's fault..And it wasnt just in engineering.I remember my friends studying Microbiology, Crop science., AAnimal science etc and they all had to take engineering drawing courses which was quite irrelevant to their!!!Doesnt ASUU have a monitoring body for things like this? Please i would like an honest answer from you.

My annoyance with these strike ish is the 'disadvantage' it places both federal/state university graduates when compared to their private university counterparts in the labor/job market....Most jobs give certain age limits for graduate trainees, management trainees and with the strike some of these students experience coupled with the delay in some universities sending student lists to NYSC for them to be called up, we then find out that at least 60% of these guys r already at a disadvantage before venturing into the job market. For me i did a 5year course and finished years ago at a federal uni in the east before i was 21 even with 2 'strikes' and this is because i started school early and also was lucky..But this aint the case for everyone

Lastly, i think the current university students are also at fault in this matter...Please, i m not trying to be holistic cos i was once a student and i was once guilty of what i am about to point out....For heaven's state, This is our future!!!!!The government/politicians will keep toying with ASUU and vis a vis the students cos none of them have children in naijaa. The few who have put their children in private universities... What is NANS doing??If the NANS executives and most students were deeply affected and serious, they wouldav called the attention of the world to the going-on's in our educational system. Anonymously invite Aljazreera and other popular 'media' to take a look at the current situation and make a documentary on it..There is nothing our FG hates more than international embarrassments...By now, students should have 'gingered', organised themselves and matched onwards to Abuja and then to Aso rock/national assembly and camp there...NANS/SUG are rich enough to afford this else what do they use the SUG levy for?By the time the whole world sees more than 100,000 students shouting/protesting, something would at least be done in helping to ameliorate the sufferings of my fellow brothers.

Do u know that if the FG/Government officials reduce their allowance by 15%, it would be more than enough to fund the system and meet ASUU'S demands. I rest my case

**Please as i said earlier, i m not casting aspersions on anyone..I was once a student and i did not to anything in my time when universities were on strike 'cos i was none the wiser*****

speechless!!!!!!!

i concur with thee but we seriously need to resolve this issue..I also had enough nasty experiences upon my getting into the uni...lol..I was 15years old then and straight from a boarding house i had stayed for 6years of college...It was like a jungle for me man...Had so many issues straight from having a harsh course adviser who would tell me to get outta her office without me opening my mouth to having missing papers of which the crazy lecturers would not hear my pleas despite my name on all the attendance sheets
But i have forgotten all those though!!We just hope though that the FG answers ASUU's pleas while ASUU should try as much as possible to eradicate bad 'weeds' in their own system.

Boss13: [q]Lastly, i think the current university students are also at fault in this matter...Please, i m not trying to be holistic cos i was once a student and i was once guilty of what i am about to point out....For heaven's state, This is our future!!!!!The government/politicians will keep toying with ASUU and vis a vis the students cos none of them have children in naijaa. The few who have put their children in private universities... What is NANS doing??If the NANS executives and most students were deeply affected and serious, they wouldav called the attention of the world to the going-on's in our educational system. Anonymously invite Aljazreera and other popular 'media' to take a look at the current situation and make a documentary on it..There is nothing our FG hates more than international embarrassments...By now, students should have 'gingered', organised themselves and matched onwards to Abuja and then to Aso rock/national assembly and camp there...NANS/SUG are rich enough to afford this else what do they use the SUG levy for?By the time the whole world sees more than 100,000 students shouting/protesting, something would at least be done in helping to ameliorate the sufferings of my fellow brothers.[/q]

This is nice but nigerian students should not only fight the government, they should fight their teachers too. The nonsense must stop. I have been privileged to study in this country and above and what we have here in terms of attitude of lecturers is something to beat someone mercilessly for. A little reason I feel no sympathy for these ASUU greeds.

Random Musings

Prof Femi, thanks for enlightening us on the state universities issue. I have always wondered why they r involved in the first place.

Also, in the list of demands by ASUU to the FG, are you guys gonna asking the Federal Government for the establishment of more institutions in the country. Cos everyday we read in the news that more than 1million students in the country sit for jamb every year and there are always less than 200,000 spaces for this students?

Also prof, there are some things i think you failed to mention or touch upon.For example the issue of having outdated syllabus which most uni's/depts fail to review. I dont think the Federal Government is responsible for this.Most of my brothers/sisters here on nairaland will attest to this. For instance i read Elect/Elect Engr in a Federal Uni. The only programming course we did was in our second year and that was Fortran '77 and a little BASIC programming.FOR 5YEARS, just 1 redundant programming course!!!IN THIS JET AGE!!and we had to cram it!!!Can u just imagine...My first year, i was doing Bio 101 (3units), Chem 101 (4units), Chem 102/Organic Chemistry (4 units), Engineering drawing (firsy year down till second year) where we used T/square and cardboard sheets while the outside world is talking about autocad and Matlab....This were all freaking irrelevant and i dont think its the FG's fault..And it wasnt just in engineering.I remember my friends studying Microbiology, Crop science., AAnimal science etc and they all had to take engineering drawing courses which was quite irrelevant to their!!!Doesnt ASUU have a monitoring body for things like this? Please i would like an honest answer from you.

My annoyance with these strike ish is the 'disadvantage' it places both federal/state university graduates when compared to their private university counterparts in the labor/job market....Most jobs give certain age limits for graduate trainees, management trainees and with the strike some of these students experience coupled with the delay in some universities sending student lists to NYSC for them to be called up, we then find out that at least 60% of these guys r already at a disadvantage before venturing into the job market. For me i did a 5year course and finished years ago at a federal uni in the east before i was 21 even with 2 'strikes' and this is because i started school early and also was lucky..But this aint the case for everyone

Lastly, i think the current university students are also at fault in this matter...Please, i m not trying to be holistic cos i was once a student and i was once guilty of what i am about to point out....For heaven's state, This is our future!!!!!The government/politicians will keep toying with ASUU and vis a vis the students cos none of them have children in naijaa. The few who have put their children in private universities... What is NANS doing??If the NANS executives and most students were deeply affected and serious, they wouldav called the attention of the world to the going-on's in our educational system. Anonymously invite Aljazreera and other popular 'media' to take a look at the current situation and make a documentary on it..There is nothing our FG hates more than international embarrassments...By now, students should have 'gingered', organised themselves and matched onwards to Abuja and then to Aso rock/national assembly and camp there...NANS/SUG are rich enough to afford this else what do they use the SUG levy for?By the time the whole world sees more than 100,000 students shouting/protesting, something would at least be done in helping to ameliorate the sufferings of my fellow brothers.

Do u know that if the FG/Government officials reduce their allowance by 15%, it would be more than enough to fund the system and meet ASUU'S demands. I rest my case

**Please as i said earlier, i m not casting aspersions on anyone..I was once a student and i did not to anything in my time when universities were on strike 'cos i was none the wiser*****

prof.femi:
The issue of state universities is another tough one. I work in a federal university, so it is easy for me to distance myself from them. However, selfishness aside, these are my thoughts:

In Nigeria, everything is politicized. As I have made clear, tertiary education is very expensive. Many states have no business owning universities because they cannot afford to. However, the people of the state will clamor, the governor who wants second term will promise etc, etc. Now, the universities have been created, but cannot be well-funded.

We then run the risk of having two distinct classes of universities in Nigeria, which, for many reasons, is not acceptable. So what to do? Charge the students the real cost of educating them? Uniosun and LASU are doing this I believe, to widespread outrage The other option is the most common one in Nigeria: dump it on the neck of FG. So during every negotiation, ASUU makes a pitch to government about the risks of having two different classes of universities. FG realizes how unfair it is to ask them to partly-fund universities created by states. However they also realize (I think) that the states cannot afford those universities, so they sprinkle some crumbs to the state universities (please note, all of this is my interpretation).

So why are state universities on strike? Because if they do not associate with ASUU, and get some crumbs from FG, they run the risk of being left to the states alone to fund, and they know that is just not going to happen.

I'm not saying I support this. I'm just tellin' the way I see it.

nd who told u she aint a xtian....y nt use google nd research properly?? she s strong irish catholic nd has even played for the pope

Mc Stoic: Music is a universal language of the soul, hence anybody, any kingdom can use it. But who uses it, their allegiance, religion etc is where the scrutiny and debate comes in. If Enya were a christian then her music would promote such. On the hand she's not and she has an allegiance too which her song must promote.

i knwwwwwwwwwww....lol...dnt care though ... hw r u

Thnks babe...between i love ur name...Aurora;it means dawn, i think...i m gonna giv my future first daughter that name

aurorae: @uzoexcel.
GBAM!!!
let all d davido WizKid and others crooners come and let's do lyrical comparisons. pple just feel justified when they condemn things that are beyond their understanding.

again bless u bro 4 ur comment

#goes back to listening to my enya storms in africa#

hehehehehe!!!!i cant answer this question

if u gonna be graduatn wid a first class from a reputable institution in naija, then u dnt really v major issues...google 'erasmus mundus scholarships for masters courses'...once u get this scholarship, u get a double masters degree from 2 different top institutions in europe and its easier to get jobs with these scholarship as top companiues r affiliated with these scheme...u also get to knw 2 different languages...my frds r all on these scholarship also and its really opened doors for them

peter1994: I'm a chemical engr student (and by God's grace i'm goin to gradg. .with a 1st class). Havn read d post about unemplnt in naija ystrdy i got inspired to start making plans ASAP. .i have interest in norway, so part of my plan is to start learnin dia language, (what is ur view/which language do u advice me to start with? because sm1 mentioned 2 lang. .earlier) pls help ur boy plan.

@switycool:thnks for ur post...wat abt those wid Toefl instead of IELTS...u seem to rather emphasize on just IELTS??is it better preferred especially in switching to canada? lemme knw ASAP...gracias

Be careful!!!!!

PAGAN 9JA:
jesus be careful. dont cross my path or ill curse you.

along wid john snow

Inosenduatall: Mehn my money is soooooo on khaleesi. She has never taken her eyes off the ball. She has three dragons and a well trained slave army that feels no pain (the unsullied). Me thinks she is most likely going to sit on that iron throne baby.

not to sound like a bigot but i think the main issue with the aforementioned 'killers' and 'muslim' terrorists is that the latter always says/kills in the name of Allah...The ones u mentioned dont kill in the name of religion but for their own individual purposes...Lets be truthful to ourselves and analyse like adults
Also, for my xtian brothers who quote several verses of the quran that talk on 'death to infidels' etc, i would urge us to remove the log in our eyes b4 removing the speck in our muslim brothers...There are so many verses in the bible most especially in the old testament where violence was used and numerous quotes by our lord on 'slaying our enemies/unbelievers/gentiles/unclean people'...

Owo Lee: [color=#006600][/color]
As I Am Muslim Its My Duty to Clear All Doubt About #‎Islam

My Religion Is Teaching Me To Fight Against Evil And Injustice, And I Do That In The Right Way, I AM Called A "Terrorist"

Today The International Media Specially Western Media They Are Saying That..."All Muslims Are Not Terrorist But All Terrorist Are Muslim."

But If You Go Back To The History Of The World You Will Find 100% Falsehood In This Statement.
For Example:

1)In The History Of The World Who Has Killed Maximum Innocent Human Beings??
"Hitler"
Do You Know Who Was He??
He Was A Christian ??
But Media Will Never Say That Christians Are Terrorist!!!!!

2)Joseph Stalin Called As Uncle Joe
"He Has Killed 20 Million Human Beings Including 14.5 Million Were Starved To Death"
Was He Muslim??

3) Mao Tse Tsung (China)
"He Has Killed 14 To 20 Million Human Beings."
Was He Muslim??

4) Benito Mussolini (Italy)
"He Has Killed 400 Thousand Human Being.
Was He Muslim??

5) Ashoka
"In Kalinga Battle He Has Killed 100Thousand Human Being.
Was He Muslim??

6) Embargo Put By
George Bush
In Iraq 1/2 Million Children Has Been Killed In Iraq Alone!!!
Imagine This People Are Never Called Terrorist By The Media.
Why??

Today The Majority Of The Non Muslims Are Afraid By Hearing The Words "Jihad"
Jihad Is An Arabic Word Which Comes From Root Arabic Word"Jahad" Which Means "To Strive" Or "To Struggle"
"To Strive Or Struggle" Against Evil And For Justice, It Does Not Mean Killing Innocents ,The Difference is We Stand Against Evil , Not With Evil".

lol

musKeeto: Wow... Things dey happen o..

Hope he used a condom...