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Flaame:
Good morning Mr Wip7, please I encountered a few issues while applying for my Turkish visa....I saw something like "multiple entry" or "single entry",but I chose single entry. Is that the right thing?
Also,my school said I've till February end to be in school while I saw March 02,2020 as the closest available date for appointment, please should I go ahead and book this appointment and maybe hope to see a closer date(just like the American visa appointment does)? Please what should I do?

Yes single entry is the appropriate to select in the visa form. Which one is your university?

strangest:
Sir please advise, I am surprised to see my full thesis which I have just converted and sent to a journal for publication at goodslide.org, though I know I have previously used the full thesis for PhD applications in the past. I never gave them the consent to share the thesis. I am afraid that it may affect my publication. What do you think I should do?

Kindly email them to drop it or you will take legal actions. If you have sent your manuscript for publication to journals in Elsevier, Taylor, Springer, they won't accept from initial submission due to their strong plagiarism software.

As far as I know, top journals in these publishers run 2-3 plagiarism tests before sending out for reviewing, during peer review and after acceptance before publication.

ynwtobby:
I’m new on here and I would like to get information on how to go about studying in Cyprus... Thanks

Read the pages.

Best wishes as you read!

Dora1996:
Good evening Pls is their a link to access Okay to board,i heard it doesn’t attract charges but my agent charged me a unreasonable sum of money which I can’t afford right now...pls help me out

OKTB is not free and individual can’t access it directly, it’s usually chain reactions especially for travelers from Nigeria.

If your agent is charging you what you can’t afford regarding OKTB, I will advise you apply for visa. Generally, most of the universities will register students till March 10-15. So go ahead and apply for visa.

Email me and let me know what’s ur agent charge

Best wishes in your decision!

solidworks:
Sir, I got confirmation letter after payment, the initial letter was acceptance letter.

My question is, the Embassy needs Admission letter too, should I request admission letter from EMU?

Acceptance letter is the same as the admission letter.

kingjoe:
prof .please give me an idea on the angle i should go.i am doing a reseaech proposal on energy efficiency in residential buildings in southern nigeria for my ph.d

Hi,

Kindly look up, I have given detailed steps to follow for a research proposal, follow the same steps. The proposal should be what you wish to do during your PhD. We don’t know it, only you know it.

Come up with a rough skeleton of your intended research, visit google scholar, Elsevier, Taylor, springer and Wiley and type the keywords in your proposed research and check out related published work.

I just did for you in the mention websites: energy efficiency in residential buildings

You can see that over 200,000 research articles have been published in terms of energy efficiency in residential buildings. Its quite easy to search, download, read and follow steps above.

That's how it is done. A potential PhD student must learn how to use a wide array of sources to find details/information for their research.

See the screenshots, follow it and read, then come up with what you intend to do and from reading you will come up with your own angle and develop it.

Best wishes

kunlesmiles:
Good morning, sir. The thesis work has been published, but it was written by my supervisor. I am very eager to learn how to write and publish in reputable journals. I used Microsoft Excel for the data analysis.
Sir, I would have access to a lab very soon. It would be an honour to work with you. In the main time, can I work on a review topic suggested by you?

Sure I can suggest topics for you. Excel is good but it’s output and various analyses for a professional manuscript in your area of research is low/poor for now. Try get either OriginLab or Graphpad... learn the basics on how to used them.

Back to the question how much of isotherm and kinetics models you know ?

asunmoGGMU:
To my own issue, Prof Sir, I am looking for PhD opportunity in Turkey. My discipline is Library and Information Science. I've 68% in my master (79% in my dissertation) with five research articles published, notably one first author in a Q1 journal of my field. I thought I would source for scholarship but it seems I'm handicapped already. My results and others were unilaterally moderated by a lecturer, I was cut from 73-68%.

What are my chances with respect to scholarship considering my grade? I had 2'1 at bachelor's degree too, which compounds my headache. I honestly don't want to do PhD in this country.

Turkey usually has twice a year general scholarship for almost all citizens in the world. Do you know? if not when is open for next entry, I will post the link here and you can apply. Also, if you cant find a PhD in your exact chosen area, can you just shift a bit to related? This may be helpful.

Ujawissy:
Thanks prof,
You quite motivating and a source of inspiration to me already, I had my undergraduate degree year 2018 with a degree in civil engineering, my major focus for postgraduate studies is Environment and renewable energy in a competitive and research friendly country.
The major challenge here in Nigeria presently is inadequate research facilities in our tertiary institutions and the government research agencies are quite expensive for starters, many researchers end up with predictive analysis instead of intensive research findings.
I have equipped myself with fundamental programming skills such as HTML, CSS, big data engineering, Also planning to take on a python next, with no environmental related projects executed with these skills so far, exemption of websites development I believe these skills will come handy during my postgraduate research.
I'm open to available opportunities in research area of water quality, erosion control, renewable energy (bioenergy) to be precise.

Congrats and am happy to hear this. There is a tonnage of research you may be able to do. However, if you don't mind some time to foot your research cost then that will be fine due to lack of facilities as you earlier said.

If you are interested in Renewable energy that is very good.

Will you be interested in Energy conversion/storage/production system?

1. like conversion of sunlight into electricity via a flexible mobile solar cell
2. Supercapacitor for energy storage just like a battery but more efficient
3. Microbial fuel cell to treat wastewater and produce bioelectricity?

chalxdon:
Good morning Prof, since early 2015 I've followed this page and I'm super impressed with how you have helped so many.
I drew a lot of inspiration at one point or the other from your posts.
By God's grace, i successfully completed my Ph.D last year and
thereafter scaled through an interview in a Federal Institution as a Lecturer. As a young Academic, i would like to benefit from your deep wealth of experience in growing and making impact in terms of quality research.

I am happy for you and congrats regarding your recent job interview. As soon as you are fully employed, please come back to this forum; I will be happy to guide you so you can lay a strong research footprint in your institution.

Best wishes

kunlesmiles:
Good morning prof, my area of interest is wastewater treatment using adsorbent. Going through some of your papers, I have decided to learn matlab and python programming, although am still at the elementary level.
With all due respect Sir, how do I get to be an exceptional researcher?

Well done, you have shown good interest in research, I will encourage you to do more.

You are an exceptional researcher and I really want to be like you. My Master's degree thesis was on "Silver Nanoparticle-Assisted Adsorptive Desulfurization by Composted Agro-Waste Activated Carbons".

Now, I will assist you in this regard to put you through how to publish your master thesis. So I will need a few things from you and you can follow these steps to polish your master thesis to make it suitable for publication.

First answer the following questions:

1. Do you have the raw data for each experiment?
2. How many times do you carry out each experiment for the parametric effect?
3. Do you have an effect of dosage of adsorbent, treatment time, initial adsorbate concentration, pH effect, solution temperature, desorption/reuse cycle experiments>
4. Which characterization did you perform on your adsorbent? You have FTIR, SEM, EDS, TGA, XRD, XPS (just list what you did in this regard)
5. Tell me how many isotherms (Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin, Toth, etc) you have in your thesis?
6. Tell me how many kinetic models you fitted your experimental results with (Pseudo-ist, Pseudo-2nd, Webber, intraparticle etc)?
7. Any thermodynamic results?
8. Which software did you use for graphical?

So if we have the above results, then that really great..we can proceed smoothly. If not, tell me what you have, then I can tell you which to determine and calculate.

If all is set, I will send you a structured pathway to reduce you thesis into a article-like format of two proposed journal to publish your work, ensure your plagiarism is far less than 10% when you want to send me ready work and language is suitable for publication.

I will read, make corrections, enhance your work if need be, and submit your work. If you have access to a lab, while the current manuscript is being submitted for publication, I will give you other work on related to subject to start and then you can understand more.

I believe through this pathway you will learn how to do proper research, learn how the publication is done in a reputable journal. With two more, you will be able to stand on your own and teach others and carry on with your career.

jeswinner:
Bsc- Electrical/electronics engineering
Msc- Facilities Management
PhD- Estate Management (I am presently stuck on the proposal)

The proposal should be what you wish to do during your PhD. We don’t know it, only you know it.

Come up with a rough skeleton of your intended research, visit google scholar, Elsevier, Taylor, springer and Wiley and type the keywords in your proposed research and check out related published work.

Download a few of them, dissect it to understand how they’ve done it, the methodology used and parameters or theories researched. Check the shortcomings, challenges faced and look where you can come in to provide solutions to the knowledge gap. Jolt down and re-plan to see if you will be introducing new methods, or if you will be providing cleaner solutions, low-cost alternatives or performance enhancements in existing services/products.

Google sample proposal, couple all your skeletons sketches and form a sound proposal. Don’t copy and paste and don’t take others work without credit.

Ensure your proposal has general elements such as brief introduction, the problem, existing solutions (with references), you may highlight the current shortcomings/weakness, your approach (methodology), implications and proposed outcomes. Scientific, economics, societal, environmental and general benefits. You may also highlight the current skills you have to support your proposed approach.

Check and proof ....that’s is it... you did it!

ObodoNaija:
B.A(Ed) - English Education

M.Ed - Educational Administration and planning

Please I have an educational article to publish, which free and recognized journal do you recommend I use?

Visit Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and Springer publishers....they have top quality journals in almost all field.

As a researcher, you must learn how to search for information which you must have done during your literature review.

Quality journals should share the majority of these characteristics:

1. Well known and reputable publishers
2. Indexed in recognized, verifiable databases such as SCI, SSCI, AHCI, MCI etc and found in WOS.
3. The Journal follows standard review system (single or double-blind peer review platforms)
4. Editorial members of the journals are respected academics from reputable universities widely spread across the continent

So find journals in the above-listed publishers, check if the journal aims, scopes and nature of article published are related to your manuscript, read the authors guideline and follow that to format your manuscript, register with the journal and submit your manuscript.

Best wishes

olawalepopoola:
My manuscript accepted in Science of the Total Environment (SCOPUS, SCIE, Pubmed indexed). IF 5.4

This is quite impressive. Congrats and you may slightly summarize what your work is about for specific and layman to know what the work is about.

Am impressed and keep going!

solidworks:
Sir i made a payment to EMU on Thursday,
Am yet to receive confirmation of payment from them so I can know my next step.

please the HIV and hepatitis test, is there any specified hospital for that or it can be done in any private hospital.

I need guidance Sir. you have answered all this questions before over 11 years ago, to trace it won't be easy. Thanks for your time.

Apply for a visa via the Turkish embassy Abuja website and visit Mz visa website as well for details of documents you need to submit at the embassy after you receive payment confirmation from EMU. You can check Turkish embassy Abuja website for details of document you can start preparing those documents now.

Upon registration at EMU, the government will select hospital for you in Cyprus to take the medical tests. Medical results from abroad is not acceptable.

Josskute:
Prof, please is there age limit for undergraduate studies in CIU?

Yes they accept maximum 27 last time I applied for a student.

Flaame:
At Abuja right?
Mr. Wip7, you've been very helpful to me personally in this trend,thanks. But I'd love ask a question. If I apply for visa,let's say by Wednesday or so(I said so cos my school fees has not reflected),can I still book a visa appointment and be in North Cyprus before month end?

I can only answer based on trends from my students.

For this incoming semester, I have recruited 98 students to various universities in Cyprus, 62 among these students opted to apply for visa and so far 85% obtained their visas within 15 days of visa applications, 10% just applied and 3% applying next week and 2% submitted visa application and currently almost 2 months no response now.

36 of my recruited students decided to go via OKTB, where 28 have arrived since and others am processing their OKTB towards Feb 25 due to Flight prices.

So that’s the trend....Turkish embassy does not have a fixed processing days, so response will be based on visa issuance rate each semester.

Most of the university wil registers new students till March 15, you may ask your specific university though.

terrywales:
Sir, it is possible to cancelled pre visa application prior to submission. I filled educational purpose ... Instead of education at Turkish republic of northern Cyprus.

Yes you can cancel and apply again from beginning.

Flaame:
Please,is it advisable to go to the embassy with my scratch card print out waec,I do not have the original copy.

Go to WAEC office to get CONFIRMATION OF RESULT stamped and signed original copy will be fine.

strangest:
Sir I sent an article to sciepub for publishing, only for them to come back after many weeks to tell me that I have been accepted for publishing but I have to pay approximately $200. I was thinking it's free publishing. Its a science educational article. Please advise. Thanks you

Please withdraw your manuscript from predatory journals and don’t waste your research efforts.

I have said severally here on how to find reputable journals.

Please I will encourage you and upcoming researchers to focus on publishing with Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Wiley publishers... these are reputable publishers and all subscriptions based journals are FREE.....your manuscripts will go through various peer-reviews, you will receive revisions, make adjustments if is considered worthy and get published.

Majority of predatory journals make decisions about your article in their bedroom, no peer-review or kitchen-based peer reviewed. Next will be your article is accepted and pay. When you pay, at the end you will find out your published article worth nothing while those predators smile to the bank.

I have been part of jury for selection of academic staff and researchers not only in my region but as external for number of countries; countless applicants with dozens of fake articles have been shortlisted for positions. I have seen applicants with over 46 articles published and less than 3 of these articles belong to reputable sources.

Best wishes

Recent Publication Now: Low-cost and highly efficient Antibacterial Polymeric Materials for Food packaging

Summary: With the growing concern of biofilm-associated infections and drug-resistant bacteria, an increasing interest in developing novel antibacterial agents is an urgent priority. Metal oxide-based polymeric materials are able to distinguish mammalian cells from bacterial cells and thus provide long-term antibacterial growth inhibition. In this research, we report the preparation of MgO, NiO and chitosan-coated metal oxide (CS–MO) nanocomposites via a simple in situ chemistry approach. All the samples exhibited antibacterial activities against the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus strains; however, more effective against S. aureus compared to E. coli. Noticeably, 5 mg/mL CS–NiO comparatively exhibited highest bactericidal capability where E. coli and S. aureus viabilities were reduced to 25–47% after 12 h incubation. After treatment with 15 mg/mL of CS–NiO, 98% of S. aureus and 92.3% of E. coli cells were inhibited.

Research Results: The CS–MO nanocomposites present superior antibacterial efficacy compared to chitosan or the metal oxides alone. The material is now re-designed as an antibacterial film for food packaging. Results here are published in a reputable journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS.

Researcher: Prof. Wip7, Another professor of biomaterial and toxicology, my PhD student from Iraq and Another PhD student from Spain.

Laboratory: Research carried out at Eastern Mediterranean University and Disease Control Center Spain.

Recent Publication Now: Low-cost and highly efficient Antibacterial Polymeric Materials for Food packaging

Summary: With the growing concern of biofilm-associated infections and drug-resistant bacteria, an increasing interest in developing novel antibacterial agents is an urgent priority. Metal oxide-based polymeric materials are able to distinguish mammalian cells from bacterial cells and thus provide long-term antibacterial growth inhibition. In this research, we report the preparation of MgO, NiO and chitosan-coated metal oxide (CS–MO) nanocomposites via a simple in situ chemistry approach. All the samples exhibited antibacterial activities against the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus strains; however, more effective against S. aureus compared to E. coli. Noticeably, 5 mg/mL CS–NiO comparatively exhibited highest bactericidal capability where E. coli and S. aureus viabilities were reduced to 25–47% after 12 h incubation. After treatment with 15 mg/mL of CS–NiO, 98% of S. aureus and 92.3% of E. coli cells were inhibited.

Research Results: The CS–MO nanocomposites present superior antibacterial efficacy compared to chitosan or the metal oxides alone. The material is now re-designed as an antibacterial film for food packaging. Results here are published in a reputable journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS.

Researcher: Prof. Wip7, Another professor of biomaterial and toxicology, my PhD student from Iraq and Another PhD student from Spain.

Yomseyyyyyy:
Good day gurus in the house God bless you all.

I just got an admission into EMU yesterday and they are saying that classes start by Feb 17th and add /drop that is registration for course ends on 2nd March. My questions are;
*What is the possibility of paying fees n getting visa between now n march 2nd or if I go after march 2nd;

* will I miss much for classes or should I just defer though I fear I may lose the 50% scholarship.
*how much should reflect in total in my bank statement. Please I await ur responses.. Thank you in advance

If you pay this week and apply for a visa this week, you should be in Cyprus this month. You cannot lose the 50% scholarship since its an entrance scholarship that you can get if you choose to re-apply next semester.



About embassy and many other things read all the pages back on this thread it has been answered. I have been replying questions regarding North Cyprus, EMU etc since 11 years when this thread was created. So take your time to read more.

solidworks:
Thanks a lot. How much do I need to pay EMU to enable them give confirmation receipt for visa application? and when are my expected to finish the total payment

The initial amount to pay is 1000$. You must finish payment before you graduate, you will pay each semester according to number of courses taken since you are charged per course.

Shezi357412:
Hello house pls I wrote my neco exam 2017 and my original neco result is not out how can I do Oktb

Go to the school and get the statement of result from the school you wrote the exam on the letterhead of the school, your recent photo affixed, signed and original stamp on it. Visit, NECO office also for Result confirmation letter/certificate to support that. That will be fine and come along with a scratch card.

harlardeen:
pls how do i book appointment for my visa application at the mzvize abuja office

Visit Turkish embassy Abuja website to pre-fill the visa form, upload all the requested documents and after then you will see the link to book appointment.

Mboki:
Alright, Please May I have the official Mail. And also, Will the School accept a Students copy from me? Reason is that I want to get a Student copy and use it for most of my online applications.

Yeah signed student’s copy is fine. Check your email for my uni official mail

Truebadge:
Please can I have your number

No need asking for people’s number, this is open forum just state what you want, I believe many inquiries have been dealt with on this thread if you can read many pages back.

Mboki:
Please Prof, I'm having issues. My University said my Transcript will take some time and that they can only send it to the University not me.

Can I make an application for my Masters without the Transcript yet?

You can’t apply without a transcript for a graduate program and you can ask for your university to issue electronic version ASAP and I can send you official uni email for them to send.

sharedalike:
Good day Wip7... I have gotten admission in GAU. Please I want to know if I can use my BSC statement of result for OKTB ? So that I will not have issue with the immigration at POE.
I went to the school I graduated from, I was told the certificate is not out yet, because the results for my set was approved April 2019, and I was told it will take 1year for my BSC certificate to come out after my results have been approved.

Secondly I want to Know if it's necessary to come with yellow card or health insurance for OKTB.

Thanks

Yes if it’s original statement of results, no issues. Also come with original transcript and support this with original WEAC or neco or GCE....

No need for yellow card or health insurance for that.

Mboki:
Thank you. The Tuition of 6800 USD is it per annum?

Entire fees

Mboki:
Hello Wip7, Please When I'd Deadline for 19/20 intake in EMU and GAU, please which of the universities offer cheaper Tuition rate? I need to start my admission immediately, can you send me an email of your WhatsApp line and requirements for Masters Applications anyaeze4@gmail is my mail.

EMU deadline for Spring is end of next week and master program at EMU cost around 6800$. If you have the cash, I will suggest EMU graduate studies.

Admission requirements:
1. University transcript signed and stamped (student copy allowed)
2. University Certificate or statement of result
3. International passport page
4. Recent photograph
5. Any other academic documents that may support your application

I don’t do WhatsApp chats, just email and here!