But he didn't get his Phd from a Nigerian University, but from an American one. That is the point.

venmotors:

Former VC of UNN is a prof in Robotics
Make research before coming here to spit rubbish

TheLogicalMind:
But he didn't get his Phd from a Nigerian University, but from an American one. That is the point.

Yep. Exactly. 99% of Nigeria-obtained PhDs are useless to Nigeria's science and tech progression. It's ether they are plagiarizing or essentially repeating research already published elsewhere, claiming to add Nigerian context or perspective. No novelty, no innovation.

Still, those who studied abroad and returned home are unable to make meaningful impact due to a myriad of "Nigerian factors".

jesmond3945:
point of correction govt subsidizes fees unlike harvard which doesn't. Standard of living is different, what 10 million naira will build in Nigeria would take 50 million to build in america. We have the resources and import finished goods to build, they import the resources and manufacture finished goods to build. A mecahnical engr in naija can build 10 lathe machines for use while in harvard a company in china would do that. So both systems are not comparable.

So why are you expecting your universites to produce Harvard level graduates with such low funding.??

Our education budget is less than 1 trillion naira. That is 2bn US dollars....split among all the primary , secondary and university in Nigeria. That is where your money for subsidy for fees comes from.

otipoju:


Then how come Sweden is able to offer free tertiary education for its citizens.

A drug Truvada costs $2000 in the USA while the same medicine is sold for $8 in Australia.

US economy is a greedy economy. Education does not have to be expensive to be good.

Last week a Prof. told us in class that the reason why these courses are expensive is due to the salary of administrators.

An MBA programe at Clayton State costs $13,000 while Emory University costs like $53,000. Bro the quality is not different.

Education does not have to be expensive to be good.
The problwm with Nigeria is that we have government officials who are deliberately and sytematically destroying education so that they can keep the citizens in ignorance.

In Georgia State alone we have 89 universities out of 185 higher instituitions for a population of 10 million.
In Nigeria we have 170 universities for a population of 200 million.

1.Sweden's GDP is many times larger than Nigeria's because Sweden does not rely on oil...they rely on industries.

2. In Nigeria, when it is time to talk about the economy, all I hear from Southerners and Northerners is how to divide the national cake. Neither side is interested in improving manufacturing.

3.In a country where a large percentage of people steal power and then expect the DISCOS to supply power 24//7....(and corruption in the DISOCS worsens the matter)...

tactius:


1.Sweden's GDP is many times larger than Nigeria's because Sweden does not rely on oil...they rely on industries.

2. In Nigeria, when it is time to talk about the economy, all I hear from Southerners and Northerners is how to divide the national cake. Neither side is interested in improving manufacturing.

3.In a country where a large percentage of people steal power and then expect the DISCOS to supply power 24//7....(and corruption in the DISOCS worsens the matter)...

Sweden's GDP is not even up to twice larger than Nigeria. Or did you mean GDP per capita?
Regardless, Nigeria"s problem is misplaced priorities and culture of corruption and incompetence.

To gain admission into Harvard University shows that you are good enough, so comparing Harvard and Uniben drop out is really baseless. My opinion though. I prefer to be referred to as an Harvard drop out than a Uniben drop out.

Then I saw a cbt app that has some free practice questions relating to the NNPC recruitment so you all might find it useful (https://www.cbt.ng/mocks/59/nnpc-recruitment/subject-areas).

FSU:


Sweden's GDP is not even up to twice larger than Nigeria. Or did you mean GDP per capita?
Regardless, Nigeria"s problem is misplaced priorities and culture of corruption and incompetence.

Sweden has less than 11 million people. Nigeria has 170million people, if not more.

So of course...per capita GDP would be less for Nigeria.

tactius:


So why are you expecting your universites to produce Harvard level graduates with such low funding.??

Our education budget is less than 1 trillion naira. That is 2bn US dollars....split among all the primary , secondary and university in Nigeria. That is where your money for subsidy for fees comes from.

what do you mean harvard level? I schooled internationally and I can tell you there is not being done overseas that is not being done in Nigeria even better. An average nigerian undergrad handle more courses than their counterpart overseas.Do you know how much tetfund and the federal govt has invested?. Why do you like converting naira to dollars to reinforce your assumption? Let me tell you this what 1 trillion can do for Nigeria education 10 billion dollars cannot do it in America, you know why? everything in america is overpriced.
Why are Nigerians excelling and carting awards, if accoding to you harvard level students are better? Chika ike schooled in harvard, what has that done to her life? My man believe in your own.

tactius:


Sweden has less than 11 million people. Nigeria has 170million people, if not more.

So of course...per capita GDP would be less for Nigeria.

Then say GDP per capita.

It's not only a Nigerian issue. If I may ask, how many professors in the US are as rich as bill gates.
In Nigeria, we have people that cannot write their names that are richer than some PhD holders in the US.
We have chanchangi of blessed memory, which school did the owner of bua, innoson motors, folorunsho alakija etc attend.
They are richer than some professors in the US.

alfarouq:
It's not only a Nigerian issue. If I may ask, how many professors in the US are as rich as bill gates.
In Nigeria, we have people that cannot write their names that are richer than some PhD holders in the US.
We have chanchangi of blessed memory, which school did the owner of bua, innoson motors, folorunsho alakija etc attend.
They are richer than some professors in the US.

Some? All, I would say. Likely no US professor earns more than $250K (and that is the very upper range for profs in Harvard and other top schools), per annum. However, coaches and university presidents earn as much as $400K and above

Most US professors earn between $50 and $150 K per annum, depending on what you teach, what school, whether full or associate or assistant prof, and how much research grants/funds you bring in. Non science profs typically earn lower than science profs. I am sure Innoson makes much more than that per annum as his salary/profit from his business, let alone Alakija.

Agbaletu:
It is unfortunate that some of you don't even know what it means for one to have a PhD either in Nigeria or anywhere in the world.

Dude stop consoling yourself. Nigerian universities churn out PhD like its purewater and many of them don't know anything always having the ego that they've made it in life. The educational system of Nigeria is bad. Very very bad. Like someone said, we only do research on less important and meaningless things. Shits like carrying out a research whether mango leaf is a good antioxidant when its a known fact that most plants are antioxidants and mango leaf might not be an exception. We have a long way to go.

LiveByNight:


Bro you can get it cheap online though from the right sources

As regards truvada

It's been a life shaper

Prevention is better than daily arv

Please where can one get that and have it shipped down to Nigeria

Agbaletu:

I am honoured too.
Federal and state governments are not funding ground breaking research at all. Most PhD and MSc students are mostly self-funded unlike in the West. The western countries are even funding Nigerian students' research works abroad. I could remember when I completed my PhD, a good friend of mine wanted to apply for his PhD too, but I discouraged him. I told him it will take all his resources and he might end up unhappy man after the completion of his PhD in this country. I am happy he is on scholarship in the west now. It will take a long time to get back to our earlier position in academic world. A novel research requires funding. The rot in the system will take along time to clean up. I do not see any green light for now; maybe I am being pessimistic.
Thanks, emere007 for your contribution.

Well I still believe that can only get better Prof, and I'd love to read more on your academic researches and journals to drink from your fountain of academic ingenuity.

Well the issues with Nigerian Students studying abroad stems from the fact that most are competing strongly with peeps who are better equipped from the cradle, hence why some take time to settle into the culture as obtained abroad.

But many Nigerian Students are doing incredibly well abroad, excelling in their chosen fields of study, the cost is a bit on the high side, but at the end of the day it is worth every bit of it. Again, it depends on the field, for those in the Humanities for example might find it a bit hard surviving because the courses herein are not competitive in the open job market.

For those of us with better IT knowledge are killing it big because many tech startups are lining up to snatch dudes with a strong leaning to coding and cognitive abilities on futuristic and contemporary tech.

Thanks again, I feel honored having this conversation, this site has been super filled with illiterates and semi illiterates, this is my first time meeting someone of repute and I'm so happy about that. High five prof!

LiveByNight:


Bro you can get it cheap online though from the right sources

As regards truvada

It's been a life shaper

Prevention is better than daily arv

Bro, i dont need truvada.and i can not make fun of those who do. The fact that you are inclined to make fun of those who do shows how despicable a human being you are.

My wife is a nurse and i get a daily feed of medical related video and articles to have things to converse about at home.

I have always complained that America is needlessly expensive to live in compared to other developing nations. That video was a perfect illustration to her to back my point.

My point remains, Education does not need to be expensive to be of top notch quality.

petarrhh:
To gain admission into Harvard University shows that you are good enough, so comparing Harvard and Uniben drop out is really baseless. My opinion though. I prefer to be referred to as an Harvard drop out than a Uniben drop out.

Then I saw a cbt app that has some free practice questions relating to the NNPC recruitment so you all might find it useful (https://www.cbt.ng/mocks/59/nnpc-recruitment/subject-areas).

To gain admission into Harvard or any ivy league school no be beans.

otipoju:


Bro, i dont need truvada.and i can not make fun of those who do. The fact that you are inclined to make fun of those who do shows how despicable a human being you are.

My wife is a nurse and i get a daily feed of medical related video and articles to have things to converse about at home.

I have always complained that America is needlessly expensive to live in compared to other developing nations. That video was a perfect illustration to her to back my point.

My point remains, Education does not need to be expensive to be of top notch quality.

You are a dummy and stupid and totally missed the point !! I wasn't making fun of them you dolt.. truvada is used for hi prevention!! Do you understand what the word prevention means ?? If trully your wife is a nurse then you shouldn't be this stupid

It means you can take truvada and have unprotected sex which is what is used for mostly by the youth hence my joke but you were in a haste to state your imaginary moral ground and missed it you dunce

Get away from here with your made rubbish

LiveByNight:


You are a dummy and stupid and totally missed the point !! I wasn't making fun of them you dolt.. truvada is used for hi prevention!! Do you understand what the word prevention means ?? If trully your wife is a nurse then you shouldn't be this stupid

It means you can take truvada and have unprotected sex which is what is used for mostly by the youth hence my joke but you were in a haste to state your imaginary moral ground and missed it you dunce

Get away from here with your made rubbish

Na your sabi. Carry as e dey do you go front.
No be me you go carry your frustration pour.Typical nigerian, you cant state your point without insulting.

It does not matter what truvada is used for. Prevention or cure it is irrelevant and i am not really interested. You can replace that example with another one, its still the same outcome. A drug being sold by the same company for $8 in Australia is being sold for $ 2000 in the USA.

The point is that things in the USA are needlessly expensive compared to other first world countries.
And that the high price of education does not automatically mean its better.

An average Nigerian student who schooled in any Nigerian University will come to the USA and be a star. Ask around.

Even business in USA will take orders from here , produce in China and ship to your home.

If you still dont get that, then i am sorry for your people.

FSU:
It is very pathetic to even imagine that a Harvard first year undergraduate drop out would be better than Nigerian PhD. What do you think? Can that be true?

of course not.

Germannig:


Keep consoling yourself. Some High Schools ( = Secondary Schools in Nigeria) in America are better equipped than some PhD programs in Nigeria. They teach AI and Robotics in Elementary Schools in America. As far as I know (and please correct me with facts if I am wrong), there is no Robotics PhD holder (let alone MS or BS) solely from a NIGERIAN university

Is that so? AI in high school

otipoju:


Na your sabi. Carry as e dey do you go front.
No be me you go carry your frustration pour.Typical nigerian, you cant state your point without insulting.

It does not matter what truvada is used for. Prevention or cure it is irrelevant and i am not really interested. You can replace that example with another one, its still the same outcome. A drug being sold by the same company for $8 in Australia is being sold for $ 2000 in the USA.

The point is that things in the USA are needlessly expensive compared to other first world countries.
And that the high price of education does not automatically mean its better.

An average Nigerian student who schooled in any Nigerian University will come to the USA and be a star. Ask around.

Even business in USA will take orders from here , produce in China and ship to your home.

If you still dont get that, then i am sorry for your people.

Shut up

Truvada pricing is decided by the FDA

China will always remains a wanna be

Get away

emere007:

well though sad, but thats the truth broh, your school curriculum and academic module is simple obsolete hence the poor graduates we get to churn our from our so called "citadel of learning"

It's never true. Stop having such mentality.

I don't understand what you guys mean by Harvard drop out as if they failed and were asked to leave. These guys of their own volition left school to pursue their dreams, just like Osewa left OAU to pursue his dreams that culminated in Nairaland and whatever other projects.

So there is no basis for comparison. If you want to be an academician that is your goal otherwise chase your dreams and be the best you can.

LiveByNight:


Shut up

Truvada pricing is decided by the FDA

China will always remains a wanna be

Get away

As usual, just noise, no substance

Watch "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Schools Pharma Exec on HIV Drug Prices | NowThis" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRsZbGs24jY

Watch this and close your gutter of a mouth.

FSU:
Harvard Drop-out vs UniBen Drop-out. Can't stop laughing

Hear oh! Harvard is not UniBen or IMSU or OAU or UI or ABU or UniPort. If you drop out from Uniben, etc, and think you will be like Bill Gate, na only you waka come.


On a more serious note: it is very pathetic to even imagine that a Harvard first year undergraduate drop out could be better than a Nigerian PhD holder. What do you think? Can that be true?

this really doesn't make sense because they left on their own to follow dreams
Elon musk left Stanford after 2 days now look at him more money than all the naija politicians put together they co owner of apple can't remember his name didn't get accepted to an ivy school went to boulder u in Colorado and was expelled now he has a department named after him in the very school that expelled him I agree that our public unis are horrible and I despise them in every way but look for a more reasonable comparison OK a dropout from Harvard that became a billionaire is it on the lvl of a Yale graduate that became a millionaire hmmmm even if they are both exceptional schools

Agbaletu:

I won't totally disagree with your submission. I can only tell you that it is near impossible to plagiarize now. It might be easy before now. [b]The days of plagiarism have passed. T[/b]he area of specialization really matters and your contribution to knowledge is also very important. More reasons why I have not published any paper this year.
As per the foundation, you are absolutely correct.

Not true many publications are plagiarized let alone dissertations

otipoju:


Then how come Sweden is able to offer free tertiary education for its citizens.

A drug Truvada costs $2000 in the USA while the same medicine is sold for $8 in Australia.

US economy is a greedy economy. Education does not have to be expensive to be good.

Last week a Prof. told us in class that the reason why these courses are expensive is due to the salary of administrators.

An MBA programe at Clayton State costs $13,000 while Emory University costs like $53,000. Bro the quality is not different.

Education does not have to be expensive to be good.

Education isn't cheap. Other cost are considered when setting fees

TVSA:


first year dropout that's still doing Engineering Maths and introduction to computer science is better than a PhD candidate? Why do we like to exaggerate like this? To be a pHD candidate, you must've had some research papers in international journals with your work scholarly peer reviewed. My supervisor in unilag has been publishing in IEEE explore since 2009. He got his PhD in 2013. And he did his Bsc, msc, PhD in unilag.

Not totally correct

asuustrike1:

Education isn't cheap. Other cost are considered when setting fees

University education in Sweden is free for its citizens.

otipoju:


As usual, just noise, no substance

Watch "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Schools Pharma Exec on HIV Drug Prices | NowThis" on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRsZbGs24jY

Watch this and close your gutter of a mouth.

You are very stupid

Now wonder you are a cortez supporter

You are very stupid