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ugomnaanny:
pls did the person write IELTS? Cos i got admission In Wolverhampton but was asked to bring IELTS result, but I settled for Salford rather

She is being asked for IELTS too.

Does anyone know how to prove to university of Wolverhampton that IELTS is not required as course was taught In English?

illocution:
Good afternoon guys, please I need advice from gurus in the house.

I have gotten admission offers from Teesside University, Uni Sunderland and Uni Wolverhampton for Semptember. Teesside tuition - 13,000 to deposite 4000 with 2000 scholarship. Sunderland tuition - 13,500 to deposite 3500 with 1000 scholarship and Wolverhampton tuition- 13950 to deposit 3000 with 1000 scholarship. I really don't know much about these cities and I would prefer a place with friendly living expenses and part time job opportunities. Please guys your advice will go a long way to helping me make a decision on wish of the schools I should accept.

Someone I know got admission to University of Wolverhampton. Please what did you do to get a 1,000 scholarship.

Kindly let me know please. Thanks.

Choconilla:
They waste a lot of time . They will respond but they are quite sloppy with correspondence. My mail has been unattended for weeks.

Thank you very much. I will give them few more weeks before getting panicky

Has anyone received an admission offer from the University of Wolverhampton recently?

One of my siblings applied for MSc Information Technology Management on 16th March and the application is still pending.

Does anyone have experience of how long it takes to get a response, please?

Dazeey042:
@justwise please is Northampton a good place when it comes to part time jobs and living expenses?

Also, do you recommend campus accommodation or off-campus?

I know Northampton very well. There are good jobs in Northampton. It's also not far from Milton Keynes. I have family members living and working in Northampton and it's a nice town as well.

Amazon has one of their delivery warehouses there for part-time jobs and a few other logistics companies too. Barclays is also located in Northampton.

illocution:
Good morning all.

Please between Sunderland, Wolverhampton and Middlesbrough which is best for international students in terms of living expenses and part time jobs? I really need help deciding as I have unconditional admission from Teeside uni, Uni Sunderland and Uni Wolverhampton.

Help a brother please. @Justwise and other experienced people the house your advice please.

I can say that Wolverhampton is a decent town to live in for students. You have a shuttle Tram (light rail - 25 minutes trip) to Birmingham where there are many jobs. Birmingham is one of the largest city to get jobs similar to London and Manchester.

Living expenses in Wolverhampton is also affordable. There is shared accommodation that you can live in Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley (which are close to as well. Middlesborough is probably cheaper than Wolverhampton but may be difficult to get jobs.

hosey:
Project Managers in the UK earn a lot so you will definitely meet the salary requirement to get a job. So no need to worry about shortage list.

You can do MSc Project Management at RGU but this is usually not enough to get a job. You should have Prince2 Practitioner and APM PMQ. These two qualifications costs about 3500 pounds in total if you do it with a training organisation. But if you self-study, you will spend less than 1000 pounds for both qualifications. Self-study will be easy as you would have covered most of it in your MSc Project Management course.

Another thing you can do is to do MSc in any Information Technology course in RGU. Then do both suggested Project Management qualifications. This will make you employable in both the IT sector as well as a Project Manager in any segment. You can also combine the skills to be an IT or Digital Project Manager. You can work as an IT Business Analyst which is on the shortage occupation list.

Good luck with any of your choices.

You are spot on with this advice. I currently work as a PM and I personally won't advise anyone from Nigeria to study Msc Project Management.

It's best for you to study a niche course e.g. Msc Cybersecurity or any other non-IT subject and then do Prince 2 Foundation and PRactitioner certifications. You can also throw in Agile Scrum Exam from Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance in for good measure.

Employers don't really care what your B.sc is to become a project manager. What they care about is if you've passed your Prince2 and/or Agile exams.

To see what I mean, anyone reading this, go to www.totaljobs.com and search for IT Project Manager jobs. Look out for what they want from potential candidates.

Phatkings:
MSc information system
University of Portsmouth
University of Huddersfield
De montfort University
University of Bedfordshire
University of South Wales

MSc business analysis
Robert Gordon University
University of Hull
Northumbria University.
Northampton University
Manchester metropolitan University

MSc information system and technology
Sheffield hallam University
Salford University
Kingston University
Bournemouth University
Robert Gordon University
University of West of Scotland
University of West England Bristol
University of Derby
Wolverhampton University

I sincerely appreciate you for this wealth of information. I will now go ahead and ask her to use the following to apply. God bless!

LokoH:
Oro ni yio so ra re,
oro ni o so ra re
Ti iyawo ba nan omo oko
Oro ni o so ra re.


A Yoruba song meaning:

"Everything will explain itself ( she go hear am) if a house wife flogs a son in her husband's family.

. . . abeg Yoruba interpret better, I am a Biafran.

Truth: Yoruba ' v encroached. How dare you touch one of your masters ?

I actually read and sang this in Dr Orlando Owoh's melody. Going to YouTube to listen to that song again.

One of my favourite by the Dr �

Apart from Aston University, does anyone know an affordable Uni that offers M.sc In Information Systems, Business Analysis or Information Systems and Technology?

I have a candidate that has a Pure and Applied Physics as B.sc and want to study an IT-related course for postgraduate.

Nigeria is not worth fighting for! Know this. Know peace.

chinavs9ja:
Good evening, I wrote this because I am just tired to keep explaining the kind of work laptop does to people around.

Why is it that people always think negatively about those using Laptop? I am a programmer that work remotely from home but whenever people come around the first thing they ask is "Am I also into yahoo?" I will have to sit them down to start explaining what programming job entails.

Honestly, it is really frustrating! Please why did people usually have this negative thought to those innocent programmers doing their legit job?

Started working online since 2007 and it was even worse back then.

I remember a banker flatmate who constantly harrased me for doing'yahoo' because he can't understand how I can make money without leaving my room lol.

Those were the days before paystack. That was even before Instagram became instafamous in Nigeria.

Next time. Don't bother explaining. Peiple generally have a poor mentality despite being educated.

michael03:
I was married 2018 and I stayed in abuja while my wife stay in ogun state due to job, so in August 2019 she got pregnant and in March 2020 surgery was done in order to bring out the baby due to her increase bp cos we could not wait for her to give birth in May as a result of increase blood pressure.

The surgery was successful and d baby was put in incubator but after 5 days d baby died.

So in June I went to doctor for check up and tests were carried out i.e semen analysis, testosterone analysis, urinalysis and uric msc. It was confirmed I was having a very low sperm count of just 2.8 million sperm count instead of anything from 15-20 million that can fertilize an egg to b able to get pregnant.

I don't understand why a man will be treated for infertility just 2 months after his wife gave birth.

From time to time some men do have low sperm count.

Just ask the doctor for recommendation of supplements to boost it.

Zinc supplements is a good one to take. Take it for 3 months consistently. And go back to do your sperm test. You will be amazed at the result.

Bringing the children to your house is a form of emotional blackmail. In hindsight, you should just go into your house and get some of your raw food e.g. 1 cup of rice and give it to him.

When you do that, he wont be able to say no to it.

Trust me, he used those kids to collect money from you. Those kids are not actually hungry. The money won't even go into feeding the kids.


There is a significant number of Nigerians that will "begi begi" just to collect money from you. THey believe they are entitled to your money and they even castigate you when you don't share it like you are doing wrong.

It's the brainwashing through cultural and religious lenses. Don't fall for it. Learn to tell people you are broke. and stick with it.

bouncin04:
I have other girls that come around once in a while.. but issue is .. I've invested so much time and money on her ..just can't start all over with another girl ..

This is the problem you have. You are seeing this relationship as an investment that you must not lose on.

Cutyour losses Bro. Let her go. You want to wait till she gives you STD?

Cry. Hurt. If you have to. But don't ever continue with a partner who will not stop cheating.

If you eventually marry her. She will still cheat coz she knows nothing go happen!

QuitNotice:
I started hating this man from the day I saw a video attributed to him online, where he preached that you shouldn't help one in distress, that it's god's responsibility in doing so, and that you 'frustrate' His efforts when you help, blah blah blah.

Oga keep kwayet. The only thing that can convince us about you is a video of you forecasting all these; not suddenly becoming a pundit

You started hating the man?

Watch the video again objectively and read your comment again and you will see that you've missed it.

Olaleyetobz:
So sorry.. I had many family issues to sort out.. I’ve just decided to submit my application.. I started a job at an event and fashion house in July and I get over 280000 as monthly salary, no side hustle except for rent payments made to my account by my dad’s tenants..
I’m trying to put in an application for November to visit my fiancé who is a citizen of Uk and has all the required documents..All expenses would be handled by him... I’m a bit nervous and I need help on other things to put in check before applying ..

I understand your concern. Here's what I advise:

1. Wait six month before applying for this visa. How will you travel to the UK, when you just got a job?

2. You need to prove that you can sustain yourself financially (outside of your fiance's funding) and that you will return to Nigeria after your trip.

3. Even though expenses will be handled by him, you still need to show your own financial capability too.

Others on the forum will share some more advice on this.

Has anyone travelled from the UK to the USA without issues in recent times?

I know there is a restriction on UK -> USA visit.

However, I note from the travel declration that this rule does not affect people who have family members who are US citizens.

My 4 yr old has American citizenship. And I am looking to visit the USA in December with him and his mum.

Anyone with similar circumstance that can advise please?

Juliearth:
Blessed are you amongst other men to know your wife's true colours. Marry a woman that can support you through thick and thin... Is she handicapped? What is stopping her from setting up a small business to support you? That you didn't have the best childhood experience doesn't mean you should be a dunce and a fool for love.

You have a child with her, you can cater for that child's wellbeing, but that doesn't necessarily mean marrying the mother of that child, especially since she has shown traits that you cannot cope with. Work out an arrangement with her to go back to her parents' house. Your mother can cater for your daughter for the time being...



You also need to work on your cheerful giving spirit. You are not God, stop playing God in people's lives by trying to help them. Learn to hear from God before helping and you should also know that there is a factor called "the rainy day". If your savings culture was topnotch, you may not have resorted to taking loans to pay rent and other things... People take loans for investments and not to sort liabilities. There is a video by pastor Smart Adeyemi. Its on giving. I would implore you to look for that video and pay heed to the content.

Thank you very much for this post. Just a little correction. It's Pastor Sam Adeyemi and the video is on YouTube.

Very insightful topic on giving by a pastor. Poster should watch it

RandomAfrican1:
This fiverr of a thing that y'all keep mentioning usually requires freelancers to do video intor etc of themselves. That can be quite stressful if you ask me.

Nothing good in life comes easy. If it was easy, everyone will be rich. I'd rather go through the pain to become rich than live with the pain of not having enough. Choose our pain.

chukemmang:
Calculate $1,500 multiplied by 1 million fools paying the $1,500. The guy don hammer scatter.

If you have used that $1,500 you wasted on the useless tutorial in buying bags of garri to sell, your life would have been much better today.

Our education sometimes blinds us from potential business opportunities.

Lol. Very funny comment. In the past few months, I have realised that many Nairalanders (a) don't read a post properly (b) respond with insult to feel good about themselves.

And that is what you've done.

1. You don't know the kind of life I live. Yet, you assume my life is not better.

2. The result I have gotten from that program is more than what 1,500 garri will get me (which i actually stated in my original post)

But thanks for your comment. It shows the kind of person you are.

wjxavier:
Your headline is misleading.

Anyway, I’ll advice you.

I watched a movie last night titled SPEED KILLS, and starring John Travolta.

The title is enough to chew on. Most of you want to blow overnight. And that’s a problem.

Y’all don’t know how to stick to things.

Secondly...I also learnt that...

It doesn’t matter how much you’ve lost.

I’d doesn’t matter how hard a thing is.

Success stories are not for quitters.

99.9999% of the time, victory is for those who see it through. Who stay in the game.

Took me 7 years to learn this in my online game.

I used to do free marketing. That is, I never wanted to pay for services or renew them. Like web hosting or autoresponder services.

If you ain’t paying, you ain’t winning. If you like be there for 10 years.

Pay for services.

Get a coach.

Bring your a game.

And get the “fvgck” back up if you fall.

That’s how to win at ANYTHING.

Oh and by the way, I finally got serious in 2016.

3 years later, I hit my first $100,000 month.

It’s not hard.

But the finish line is only for those who stay in the game.

Doesn’t matter how much you’ve “lost”.

Your story doesn’t matter until you win.

My name is Waju Abraham.

Google me.

Waju...you are here...lol. Very funny how your comment sef be like marketing copy...lol I thought I'm the only one that think and write in copy for everything.

chukemmang:
All those foolish motivational speakers telling you how they made millions online but will tell you to pay for their nonsense videos.

If you are smart, you will realize that the millions they made was not from any foolish online business but from fools who paid for their foolish videos from all over the world.

Just imagine if only 1 million fools paid $24 for a foolish video.

If they made so much millions from a business, why are they selling their foolish tutorial videos? Why not give their videos out for free?

Your mindset is actually flawed. You cannot learn a skill to professionalism without actually paying for it.

Even the school you went to....Did your lecturer did the actual thing they are training you about?

My point is...if you see every business education trainer out there as scam...you will never make it online.

There are many of them that genuinely teach because they are passionate about it along with the money they make.


I bought a course from an online marketer called Frank Kern. I paid $1,500 for that same course.

Yes $1,500. Convert it to naira at the time was $1 = 350

I spent over two month of every day actively implementing it.


Many people will watch the course...think...it's difficult. Then move on to the next program and never make any result from it.


I have reaped the rewards of that implement àti on ten times over.

But I spent two painful months implementing it.


If you see that sef...you will call the guy scammed x 100.

Change your mindset. Be choosy about who you buy a course from and make sure they do what they practise.

That's the only way to win!

The problem is that you are jumping from one source of business to another.

I've been doing same online biz for more than 15yrs and Its been profitable.


There are lots of people jumping into that space....and not doing shishi.

For you to be profitable with any business..you need to spend 10,000 hours dedicated to it.

You seem to be more into programming....freelancing could have worked for you. But you lacked selling skills.

Jobs won't fall into your laps online coz you are a programmer.

There are one million programmers out there. The ones who make money freelancing are the one who can sell.


My advice....start with fiver.

Check out those in programming who have lots of reviews.

Then curate your own profile similar to theirs.

Then offer to do a $50 job for $10. You will get people who need help but don't have much money. Do the job. Get them to give reviews.

Once you get 10-20 reviews...increase your pricing.

When you saturate that niche...move to upwork.

Most normal skills are a dime a zodozen online. Those who TRULY WIN are the ones who have selling and marketing skills. Do simple programming jobs.

malali:


So how did we end up like this, if he enacted the Sovereign national fund, why weren't laws put in place to protect it, knowing very well we are a nation of looters ??Thats where the experience comes in......Obasanjo giving the rat to the cats for safe keeping and walked away is also complicit in the events of the modern day Nigeria.We cannot absolve him of all blame.....He is part and parcel of the ongoing destitution of Nigerians.I will say it to his face when i run into him anywhere!

Enacting laws is not the job of a president. You should blame your lawmakers for that.

It is clear you did not read my post properly.

As for you saying it to his face...very easy to say than doing it.

malali:
Nigeria is the only country in the world who has generated so much from crude oil sales without a sovereign wealth fund......Today we rejoice at the mediocrity of sharing rice and sugar to adults.....When the country is not at WAR ??
Obasanjo quick to comment ....he was at the Helm of power twice...why didnt you enact provision to put away excesses from crude oil sales in investments ??

IBB why didnt you do the same with the oil windfall ??

GEJ,Yaradua,Abacha All of them are guilty !!!

Look at Norway,Qatar,Saudi.......They also sold crude oil.....Why are their politicians not sharing rice and kuli kuli to their citizens today ??

Today we are rejoicing at sharing rice and sugar.

Love or hate Obasanjo, he actually was the one that created the Excess Crude Oil Account and Sovereign Wealth Account for Nigeria. I am not sure where you are getting your fact from, but Obasanjo did help Nigeria have its own wealth account.

The government after him up till now depleted that account.

Blame Obasanjo for Odi massacre, For shoddy power reforms, but on this particular issue, you cannot blame him!

I need some help with suggestions for best Android Phone for a budget price of N50,000.

I checked Konga yesterday and there is just too many different version to determine which one is the best one for the price.

If possible, I might be able to stretch to N55k (it's meant to be a second phone)

I ideally need a minimum of 4Gb RAM, and minimum of 32GB to 64gb storage. Good battery power and screen will also be a plus.

Anyone with suggestions of the best brand please?

Does anyone know if a B.sc is required to get a UK Minister of Religion Visa?

I have a family friend who has asked for my advise to confirm as they've been offered a job and to be issued with a Certificate of Sponsorship to be the sole worship leader for a church in the UK, but his only major qualification is NCE and he has been the worship leader for a Nigerian church for over 10 years.

I have checked on the Gov.uk website but nothing significant about educational qualification, so want to ask my nairaland family.

Anyone with experience of Minister of Religion visa, please kindly advise further. Thank you.

ikoroduarea:
I have been doing this for them for over 10 years. I ma not a stingy person. I have a very active charity foundation for the support of less privileged, which they've benefited from too many times. My wife had earlier recovered from sick shortly before the second time ease of covid19. My major problme is the pressure and contstant demands. Its not even up to 48 hoursi sent the senior one money before the younger one demanded for money for his shop again. Thank you for your concern. Like i said earlier, insults are welcome. Thank you everyone.

This post shows you probably will never take the advice given to you here.

I use to be like you. A friend owed me over a million till today and I had to forgive that debt. After forgiving...dude asked me to gift him money for his wedding. I just laughed and told him I don't have.

Anyways...here's what I did to curb this:

1. My parents are my priority. I set up a monthly allowance for them and make sure I do this wverytime without fail.

2. I have two phones. One is my private line. The other is for everybody else. Whenever I go to Nigeria...i give out my public line to everyone and my private line is only available to immediate family and close circle.

Some óf these leeches will go as far as asking your siblings or parents your number.

My instruction to my immediate family is...if anyone very close that you can't refuse ask for my number...only give my public line to them.

That public line Ehn. Is always in my bedside drawer. Only get opened once a month and whenever I see someone ask for money. I just read and ignore.

What I have discovered is...people who genuinely need money will only ask you for money for food if they are struggling.


Be like me. Say no. Stick to your no. Overtime....they will move to the next person to leech from.

Funny thing Is....my most trusted friends are the ones that do not ask me for anything.

And please....stop posting on social media. It draws leeches.

jumokealaro:
Am having the same 6 Month Visa Expiration as yours. If Nigeria doesn't open our airspace by August i will be traveling to Ghana to travel to the UK cause i don't want my Visa to expire. No one knows if renewal will come out positive. I need to take those pictures.

Your chances of getting a visa again is higher if your circumstance and document have not changed since you last applied.

All you need to state is that due to covid, you were Unable to travel as you were conforming to government guidelines.

I am not discouraging you from going through Ghana. Just letting you know you have the above option too.

Waleibrahim224:
Thank you so much, I feel much relieved even though I served a ban I wasn’t supposed to have. because I was a minor then. But I’m sure I’m ready for a fresh application.

In that case...even better. Be truthful in your application and own up to it and state you were a minor and did not have the power to make decisions on your own.

Maybe some people on this forum will give you a better wording.

Waleibrahim224:
Hello guys, hope you all are good. I applied for Uk visa with my mother and my sister sometimes June 2010, and Visa application which I don’t know if it was refused or not because till this moment we still don’t know the reason behind our refusal, even though we applied for the visa through a man who said he was an agent in this field and then he failed to tender the reason for our visa refusal to us. But I have the reference number (LAG - xxxxxx) written at the back of our passport. Please advise on what to do. Because I’m thinking of reapplying but I don’t know how to without the last application’s decision letter.

1. What was the exact words your agent told you when the refusal came through?

2. There is always a refusal decision letter. If your agent did not give it to you, there is high chance he applied on your behalf using fake documents and you were possibly banned and he tried hiding it. But then, it's been 10 years, so you can apply again.

3. You can try to reach out to the agent and see if he'll own up this time. Any information he can give is better than none.

4. When applying, be truthful in your application. This time, supply correct documents. Also, I hope your circumstance has changed in 10 years also. This will be one of the determinants of getting a visa this time.

Some other people on here might have other angle that will help you make informed decision.