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TOUGHEST NIGERIAN POSTGRADUATE SCHOOLS

 

Toughest, or slowest, or most difficult, anything you call it, but its not just NICE. Postgraduate programmes are by design, made intellectually tasking. It is expected to stretch the postgraduate scholar in a rigorous education that involves research, either at masters, doctoral (PhD) or post doctoral fellowship.

However, any thing Nigerian bears its flavour. Postgraduate study in some Nigerian Universities is the definition of frustration, in an environment filled with sadist. Stories abound of students spending 5/6 years for a Masters degree or between 10-12 years for a PhD. This is a list of our Nigerian universities notorous for intentionally frustrating students. You can add yours based on your experience.
    1. OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE IFE (OAU): This first generation Nigerian university tops the list for the toughest school to obtain a Masters/M.Phil/PhD. OAU has no known academic calender that it follows
      . Student activism that ends up in disruption and school shut down is rife. For a Postgraduate student, you only know when you get matriculated, as graduation can be timeless. Beyond this, OAU is an institution filled with a lot of sadists lecturers. They take pleasure in making students frustrated, all in the name of building standards.  Though, a little cheap in tuition, postgraduate students pay in form of emotion break down and extra long years. Obtaining a PhD in record time is abnormal in OAU.
    1. UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR: UNICAL as it is fondly called is not a welcoming university for good postgraduate study. The school is rife with a lot of corruption, that frustrates diligent students. In some cases, thesis supervisors demand cash in order to read their students’ thesis work. Even with all the cash/yam/bush meat for marks, it is still difficult to round up a Master study within 2 years.
    1. AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY: ABU is one of Nigeria’s best universities located in Zaria. ABU’s stress comes mainly from the religious angle. Non muslims must be prepared to go extra mile, especially when dealing with fanatic Muslim lecturers, who have an unreasonable hatred for non Muslims. Also, Ahmadu Bello University and other research institute around Zaria have some of the top grade functional science/medical research facilities in Nigeria, so a thorough postgraduate work is expected, no matter the cost or time constraint.
    1. OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY: OOU or OSU is an all comers school. It seems like the school was established to rake in money for the people in charge. OOU has all kinds of part time, sand wish, and weekend programmes at undergraduate and some times postgraduate level. This is aside the regular postgraduate programme. Unfortunately, the school does not have the academic man power to cater for it large student population.
    1. UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT
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IBADAN: PG School Fees Schedule Released

Postgraduate student portal of the University of Ibadan is officially open for freshly admited PG students for 2016/17 session to login and view their school fees.
After login in to the UI postgraduate portal, click on generate invoice. Next, click on skye bank and then 2013/14. In the space provided, paste the invoice number to generate your school fees/tuition Make sure you have been cleared before doing these.
After payment of tuition, you will have access to the course registration, medical clearance and accomodation registration.
Note that the 2017/18 U.I PG forms should go on sale around May.
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NOUN signs MOU with NTI over Postgraduate & Degree Programmes

National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to enable the institute affiliate its postgraduate and bachelor degree programmes with the university.

This was contained in a statement issued in Kaduna and signed by NTI’s director-general, Professor Garba Dahuwa Azare.
According to the statement, the affiliation will further boost teacher education and ensure that quality and international standard are maintained in teachers’ training across the board in Nigeria.

“The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the affiliation of the institute’s PGDE and Bachelors Degree Programme to the NOUN in order to boost further teacher education in the country,” it stated.

To this end, Professor Azare said NTI had launched its new portal for registration of applicants and students and payment of fees.
“With the commencement of the new portal, a marked change has occurred in some aspects of registration and payment of fees for all the institute’s programmes.

“Part of the changes include: the abolition of the purchase ‘PINS’ and the use of a few number of banks for translation. With the new portal, students can pay through their ATM cards and through any commercial banks of their choice,” the statement added.

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2016/17 CHEVENING SCHOLARS AWARDS CELEBRATION

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It was an evening of excitement and celebration as successful as 2016/17 Chevening awardees from Nigeria mingle with the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, and past Chevening Scholars from Nigeria.

The Chevening Scholarships are the UK Government’s overseas scholarships, awarded to individuals with demonstrable leadership potential who also have good academic backgrounds. The scholarship not only offers financial support for people studying for a master’s degree at any UK university, it also allows beneficiaries become part of an influential global network of 46,000 alumni. In 2015, 45 Nigerian benefited from the fully funded scholarship.
Leadership Newspaper reports that people who had made it to become Chevening Scholars were being ushered in, some with their guests into the residence of the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, His Excellency Paul Arkwright.
Omoboyowa Roberts, one of the beneficiaries of the 2016/17 Chevening  Scholarship, told LEADERSHIP that, “this for me is a dream come true, something I had always looked forward to even from my university days. I am going to be studying, Masters in Peace and Development at Leeds Beckett University.

“I think it’s a global opportunity to meet with other scholars and to be a part of the alumni, and above all to be able to get the investment where you can come back and develop Nigeria as a whole, so, it’s been a fantastic opportunity, and I am happy to be privileged to be a part of the global network,” she said excitedly.

This year, Nigeria had the most applications for Chevening scholarship, about 4000. The High Commissioner also stressed on the importance of funding the programme so that more Nigerians could be beneficiaries as he called on the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to encourage their best to apply for a Chevening scholarship, as the scholarship needs more people in the civil service and government sectors.

Big names such as Channels television’s John Momoh, Nigeria’s Comptroller general of Immigration and many more have benefitted from the awards, including the Ministry of Foreign affairs Permanent Secretary, Audu-Rafiu Olusola Enikanolaiye. Supporting the network would in turn not just aid social networking, but provide opportunities for future generations of Nigerians.

A Chevening Scholar, with an offer at London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine to study Health Policy Planning and Financing, Chinwe Chikwendu, said “Perhaps why I am actually most excited is because it’s not just me, from my family here tonight, my younger brother happens to also be a beneficiary. We are going to the same university; we are going to do the same course, so I bet you this goes to show the level of transparency that is actually applied in the Chevening scholarship selection, because if there was any other thing that is considered then both of us would not be here tonight. I want to say, a big thank you to UK government first of all for the Chevening scholarship scheme, because this is just something very wonderful that has really helped so many people achieve their dreams, it is also something that has given many people the opportunity they had never really imagined they would get. So it’s something really wonderful, and I think the best way to reward the British government and Chevening, is for us to go out there to the UK and make the most of the opportunity.

Credit: Leadership News