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Jaydchukwuemeka:
I do think that your plan/plans towards your future with regards to your career, will play a major role in answering this.

Well said.

doghorp:
Guru in the house, pls kindly advise me on the right path to take, I have experience in the oil and gas (Drilling and Measurement) as a Mechanical Technician presently but I have previous experience in the Telecommunication control , power and renewable Energy, which of the master's option will be the best for me

It's difficult for people to answer this type of question, your career aspirations will play a key role in deciding the numerous acdemic disciplines to choose. Before making a decision, there are a wide range of variables that you need to remember, some of which might not have been obvious at first.

The first question you can ask yourself is why you want to first study a Master's program. Ask yourself, is a Masters degree appropriate for my job? not all jobs require a master or PhD degree take note. Will you be pursuing postgraduate research to boost your job opportunities, joining a new occupation or accelerating advancement?

Also, you should be more concern about job trends, even oil and gas still drives many economies can this be sustained and what are the prospects for a newbie? These days in developed worlds and some developing nations; the trend is shifting towards low-cost and renewable energy sources; portable electronic devices and wearable communication gadgets.....so is your country or current place of a resident also shifting gears towards these booms? How easy to get into these fields. Ponder with that.

Personally, I will ask you to look towards the prospects of No. 3 and 4.

Best wishes!

mykelmeezy:
anybody with information on pcr tests in abuja.....

where to do it and how long does it last?

If you are traveling to TRNC your test must be carried out within 120 hrs before boarding and must be valid upon arrival. So advise to get the test 48 hrs to your trip. Call any of these centers they will tell you how much and other details

ben4rl:
Hi Prof. Thanks for the clarification

You are welcome.

eazylion01:
I booked a flight for Monday on 19th of this month departure is from Abuja, maybe they adjusted their time table for later dates.

Ensure you check your flight regularly because Turkish airline are changing the flight automatically themselves that happened to few of my students in fact they changed one student flight like 5 times themselves.


Here is the NCAA timetable

ben4rl:
Good evening all.

Someone told me that Turkish Airline only flies from Abuja on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Please can anyone help me confirm?

That’s the truth due to NCAA timetable for all airlines.

Desjen:
Hi,

Arrived North Cyprus from Nigeria on Monday, we are currently on Quarantine at Salamis Bay Conti Hotel in Gazimagusa and it's absolutely free. Covid-19 Test Report is highly important at the Airport, they check again before boarding to Ercan and check again on Arrival at Ercan Airport before proceeding to Passport Control. When you are stamped in, you pick up your luggage and get in a bus already provided to head to the Quarantine location.

Welcome to salamis and enjoy the free food ...ahhh you are heading to NEU ...good luck there ...
Best wishes!

Very important for travelers

I recently noticed for some of the students that travelled last night, the airline officials at the airport in Nigeria have issues with Maths and English.

To be on the safest side and to avoid flight distruption; ensure the sample collection date for Covid-19 test falls within the 120 hrs allowed by TRNC In your PCR results.

eazylion01:
Does that mean new student will pay for their own expenses?

Free you don’t pay.

My students that arrived 3 days ago were just sent to quarantine center and enjoying free food for now and the previous ones finished quarantine and started registration...

teewest100:
Sir my Nigeria account is Naira, so it not possible to transfer into Cyprus bank?

You can only transfer money between accounts having the same currency. USD to USD; naira to naira ; ...

dbos11:
Hello guys, I just got scholarship to study SOFTWARE ENGINEERING in a university in Cyprus, RAUF DENKTAS UNIVERSITY actually. I tried to get some information about the school online but was only able to get limited information about the school online (even the school buildings sef, was seeing different images claiming to be of the school)
Please is there anyone here who's studying in that uni.

This is a new university opened around 2017 and named after the long-term former president of Northern Cyprus. I personally know and worked with the currenct rector of the university, he was former Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at EMU.

I have a good knowledge of software engineering and I have been vice dean of the faculty of Engineering also before, so my personal advise is that course like Software Engineering should be better studied in older universities like Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) which is well equipped with facilities and practically experienced intellectuals to handle this course. For now RSD is relatively young and would need some more years to boast of similar facilities at EMU and others. However, EMU is more expensive which is like 4700$ per year and the most ranked and highly reputable University in TRNC competing with various global universities where RSD could be lot cheaper and younger. Since RSD is relatively new, you dont expect them to have same facilities like EMU, CIU or NEU etc.

RSD will be much better for now for social science courses, arts and Tourism since these ones need less facilities...for now!

And I also heard that Cyprus degrees certificate are only recognized in Turkey (pls how true is that). Thanks in advance for your response

This is CAPITAL FALSE.

teewest100:
Is it possible to open bank account an transfer the money from Nigeria bank direct into the newly open bank in Cyprus ?

You can open account in USD, TL and other currencies in Cyprus. You can tranfer your money to your Cyprus accounts provided your money in Nigeria is in USD, Euro or pounds.

teewest100:
Is it possible to leave your money in Nigeria bank account and exchange to Tl in Cyprus? If so how can one go about it sir

Yes it is possible if your bank has bank card that allows withdrawal abroad ...generally most Nigerian banks do.

The card often have withdrawals limit per month/day, each bank exchange rate is slightly different and Access bank for an example also charges 240 NAIRA per withdrawal as their commission when you withdraw from ATM abroad but don’t charge for POS use.

For 600 TL; Access Bank recently charged 33,740 Naira.

So just inform your bank if your card can be used abroad ...if not they should activate it for you.

Mahmuday123:
Hello guys please can 800 lira sustain a student in TRNC per month

If the 800 TL excludes accommodation... then is more than enough.

So let me do a quick breakdown of what the 800 TL will do for you monthly considering you. This analysis will be based for one person using average current price:

Bread Local bread 3 tl – Agege bread 15 tl
Milk 1ltr 8.0 tl
Eggs 15 pack, 30 tl
Cheese Cathedral 200g, 12– 15 tl
Jam from 15 tl
Rice 1000g white from 15 tl
Pasta 500 g from 7 tl
Butter 227g from 15 tl
Fruits cereal from 30 tl
Full chicken (old layers) from 40 tl
Beans 500 gr from 15 tl
Telephone service monthly from 75 tl student package
Internet at home monthly from 75 tl

So for one month; as a single student I will multiply the major food by 5.
rice 5kg = 60 tl
beans 2.5 kg = 60 tl
eggs 30 eggs = 60 tl
Vegetable oil 2 lt (enough even you are cooking akara/kose) = 16 tl
Milk 10 lt = 80 tl
Chicken 3 full chicken = 120 tl
Tomatoes, pepper, onion (you can buy enough, grind and put in the fridge) = 100 tl
Internet and phone = 150 tl

Above is for an average student not the one that plays betting, not the one that smokes, drinks and do other things. Also, take note; this price is average considering the major supermarket of Famagusta. The price may slightly fluctuates based on your location and exchange rate. This is valid as at the time of posting.


All these prices; you can easily find them on the internet; the major supermarkets are called Lemar, Erülkü etc. they do have sites for products and prices.


Best wishes

Twizzy90:
At Radiance Research Resources

We provide:

Grammarly (grammatical errors and structure)
Turnitin (best plagiarism checker)
Quillbot (best plagiarism remover)

Why do you write here that Turnitin is the best plagiarism checker? have you compared Turnitin performance with other 150 existing software for plagiarism and reached this conclusion? For me I have compared it with 10 others. As a real academic if you guys are; to make any claim you must be able to proof and have practical evidence to support your claims. Take note: I am not disputing Turnitin being great to check plagiarism but stop saying its the best.

Quillbot: this is not plgiarism remover; its AI-powered software that paraphrases your texts, and in technical science it may not be appropriate for technical terms. Example: Quillbot changes "a stable photocurrent density" to " a robust photocurrent density" ..........in technical term robust cannot be used for photocurrent as it totally means different things.

We also provide dissertation and article writing services at affordable fee.

In this thread, we encourage students, researchers,lecturers, teachers and instructors to write their theses/dissertation themselves so they are able to defend their degrees. Any students that outsourced his/her thesis out is not worthy to hold the degree. That's why you see a minister or commissioner of power with a degree in electrical and power engineering but cannot provide any meaningful solution to power crisis nor even knows the differences between transformer and converter since both of them converts the voltage current. If such a person does the research work and writing; many things will be discovered along the line; its unethical and fraudulent to write a thesis for a student.

We help researchers publish their papers in high indexed journals without any payment or publication fee. Remember, the slogan "publish or perish".

We untie every Gordian knot.

You help researchers publish in high indexed journals sound like a joke to me. Who will be the corresponding author? you or the researcher? since the corresponding author must submit the paper with his/her email account details. For instance, one of my current works is on gold nanoparticles embeded polymeric whiskers for cancer cell targetting; if you help me to submit this studies to a journal and the journal sends a revision who will reply all the comments from the reviewers? you that don't have 1% knowledge about my work or who you will hire to respond?

It is very absurd and fraudulent to make this claim of publishing for someone in high-indexed journals. I am sure you really dont know what high indexed journals mean and neither do you have a proper understanding of the academic world.

In this forum, we encourage all researchers to do their research work, publish their work, and participate. What this forum is about is for people to ask questions when they are stuck during the research, so experienced researchers and academics can supply comments and suggestions.

For Nigeria to grow to prominence researchwise, lots of people need to be honest and modest. The one you helped to write a thesis and publish paper will turn out to be a commissioner of education soon....so what do you expect? Such a person cant contribute to educational development in that state or country since he/she is a fraud.

nams77:
Thank you so much Sir. My position aligned with yours but my concern stems from the comment a lady lecturer made off-handedly. She asked why I didn't want to follow through with the microbiology pursuit ( MSc), That it will help if I decide to pick up lecturing.
Do you think doing EQM instead of PMB will dampen my chances of becoming a lecturer?
Thank you sir and please forgive my writing.
No mind my funny question

Lecturer where? this should be based on the continent, country and location you want to become lecturer and your immediate goal for next 5 years and goal for next 30 years if you are currently less than 80 years now.

You will need to think; if you will be based in Nigeria as an example, you have to check how many universities are currently offering programs in your proposed master field. If you can find a good number distributed regionally then means chances of getting a job may be higher. So if your permanent location or next 5 years lecturing will be based in Nigeria and they have many universities in Nigeria studying Microbiology then you can go for it.

For example, in Nigeria banking and Finance is a very common course almost where almost all universities offer this program ........but in several countries, I have lived, lectured or visited they dont do this course. Common related course is often economics, international finance and MIS so these set of people work in banks in these places.


Developed countries and real developing countries are currently or have been applying artificial intelligence in almost all field leading to massive development and scaling up start-ups......I have not actually read about a university in Nigeria offering programs in this field maybe until 100 years to come. So if someone have Msc and PhD in artificial intelligence such person will be hotcake abroad but cold or no cake in Nigeria for now in terms of lecturing.


So consider your local environment, immediate goals, 15 years targets as main parameters and set aside changing world and advancement as a variable to reach your conclusion.


Best wishes

nams77:
Just discovered this beautiful thread.

Kudos to all the gurus in the house. I doff my heart for you.

Please which M.Sc option s preferable for someone who did applied microbiology and brewing ( B.Sc).
1) Environmental quality and Management
2) Petroleum and Environmental Microbiology.

Likely considering lecturing/oil and gas/others

What are the likely opportunities in these options.
Pls kindly quote me and share your wealth of experience


Boss no vex, make I copy you sir@wip7

In my point of view Environmental quality and Management (EQM) is not restricted when compared with Petroleum and Environmental Microbiology (PMB) .

EQM: I strongly believe in a good university, Master program in EQM will focus on courses and research in the areas of climate, water, soil, ecology, energy efficiency, waste treatment/control/reuse/management, raw materials recovery, sustainability as well as some economics and law. Meaning during your EQM research, you may decide to even take up research on advanced technologies for managing or treatment of petroleum wastes or microbial treatment of wastes. After graduation from EQM you have opportunities in wider PhD options.

PMB: This seems restricted only to petroleum and microbiology so as your main and minor research will revolve around this. PhD option will be limited when compared with EQM.




Disclaimer

This is my personal view based on international experience in the field of research and academics, exposure and business experience. This view may not be applicable to many local/national settings and not based on religion, political or superstition codes.


Best wishes in your decision.

Airport is currently opened at TRNC

Airport is opened currently and from the university and immigration officer info at the airport 9 Nigerian arrived yesterday and been sent to quarantine at their respective locations.

teewest100:
Sir pls I don’t know if you have any idea how long the PCR text result takes to come out, because am coming to Cyprus on 3rd, so I can know when to go get one

I don’t know but you can call any of these labs they will tell you when the results will be ready in their lab.

chem58:
OK sir

Yes quite important to ensure the plagiarism is minimal.

Another important point; if you have any paper published in those fields mention it to drive your point deeper.

Example you can write:

“I have experience with resources recovery; particularly I developed metal-organic nanowhiskers in 2016. A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to prove that this novel material can effectively recover trace gold from Ajegunle coastal water; the results of this study have been recently published in Water Research Journal.”


Best wishes

teewest100:
Please do anyone know the price of PCR test in Lagos Nigeria

Around 55,000 naira

teewest100:
Hello sir, do you have idea the cost for quarantine for two week for we cling from Nigeria

Students arriving Cyprus are not charged for quarantine in Cyprus.... Just get your PCR From Naija valid at least 3 days to arrival.

Profeme:
I'm in interested in AI related scientific research. How do we go about it?

MoniqueFresh:
Good day Prof. Thank you for this beautiful information. How can one apply for the training?

I am writing a grant application to EU and UNESCO that likely support this mission so some possible little stuff can be deal with.

The persons I will be working with will need to have accesss to research laboratory in their locations to carry out research. When am done with the finalization I will mention what are needed and its starts, need to get some updates from the Funders.

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teewest100:
Hello house, please I need you to put more light on this issues for us ooo, just checking the Turkish Airline website afternoon just to know how many percent of KG is allow older lodge, it to my surprise to see that just 4kg is allowed for cabinet and 8kg for other big bags going into the plane cargo area, sir please how true is this, because this is really giving much headache ooo

Turkish Airline allows 23 kg for Check-in baggage and maximum 8 kg as cabin baggage.

There is difference between Check-in baggage and Cabin Baggage

haroldwilly780:
....Chai dz one off me professor for issue on cyprus. ..e shock me o

eazylion01:
Thanks sir,I will be looking forward to your update

I had meetings. The airport is officially closed 16-25 unless the traveler is a citizen. Also, they have some agreement with border in Turkey where most flights before month end tend to spend nearly 26 hrs in Turkey for details of passengers.

In summary the airport is opened from 26th September again to anyone ...kindly get your ticket anything from 26th but preferably first week October as waiting time in Turkey is shorter.


If any changes I likely update !


Best wishes

Thurmieee:
I'm sorry for that didn't really mean to disrespect. Just curious. it's my sibling and I just got wind of the news. trying to gather info

I understand you perfectly..my point exactly is that if you have specific questions relating to the university you have applied you are better off asking the university directly because they have direct answers specific to their university.

Some of the agents of each university also do have some responses to common inquiries from students; but for me I will advise getting in touch with the university first if not get accross to your agent.

For general information about Cyprus; if you read this thread back or the first thread of North Cyprus you will be well informed as well,

In summary:

—-you need to have adequate financial support to pay your tuition and living expenses

—-the jobs are limited just like many other countries and even though many finds job but the wages often does not pay their fees while some are able to manage out.

—-The environment is quite, small island and compare to many other countries safe (you can dis-regard recent politically falsified news by do-nothing politicians)

—— Here is not bed of roses neither hell of fire ...you won’t pick Gold and cash on the street ...it’s just an island suitable for education mainly.

—For smarter students; you can always make use of infrastructure here like stable electricity, internet and many to build yourself.

—- I am happy to say, I have recently seen African students using the facilities to build a better future and developing themselves. Just few months ago, a Nigerian started game development company all from his room. The game is quite nice and he has received good recommendations and will participate in game competition early next year and few locals have signified interests to invest. Also, a Rwandese lady instead of using her phone to take selfies and posting all over internet for scammers to use; she rather focus on taking rare images of the nature; rarely visited locations; natural events etc. She got 30,000$ around March from Garanti for greenbrain virtual event; she has web store where she sells her images and she so keen to do more and change her world.

For me, I like meeting and knowing the smart, serious, legally successful, genuine, innovative and legally creative minds ....those ones inspire me!

Best wishes

Thurmieee:
hello I notice you're a prof for issues on cyprus. I just got admission and I need some information please. any form of info would help

I am not Professor of Cyprus issues. I am academic research professor (specialized on advanced materials synthesis for biomedical, environmental, energy and industrial applications) earned after several educational degrees and years of scholarship experience (masters, PhD, post-doctoral etc)

I just got admission and I need some information please. any form of info would help

If you have applied for admission yourself through the university website; you will notice that each university have international office which often have email addresses and phone contact. The staffs of the international office are trained to answer inquiries of prospective foreign students, so they are the first point of contact. You should ask them anything relating to the university.

This is Nairaland ( a public forum where people ask general questions; the answers here will only be correct if the person responding works at the concerned university).

Go ahead and contact CIU for your specific questions that’s how a prospective international student should do and act. If you have applied through an agent, you can still ask the agent if such person can provide detailed information.

If you want to know about Cyprus in general, this thread has part one just google it or search for it; you will find tonnage of details and this part 2 is growing.

haroldwilly780:
.....I dey gbadun dz professor. Always updating ...soft ...

It’s lord doing