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Education / Re: Covenant University Has The Best Fashionistas (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 10:08am On Jun 01, 2019
ezenwajosh:
oh really they have some TAGS on them or what?
I know all of them personally.
Education / Re: Covenant University Has The Best Fashionistas (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 9:40am On Jun 01, 2019
ezenwajosh:
Am seeing a foreign background with foreign car number plate in what's the university name again?
Yes foreign background but they are CU students.
Education / Re: Covenant University Has The Best Fashionistas (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 11:35pm On May 31, 2019
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Education / Re: Covenant University Has The Best Fashionistas (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 11:33pm On May 31, 2019
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Education / Covenant University Has The Best Fashionistas (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 10:56pm On May 31, 2019
Despite the tough dressing rules - oyedepo's children are definitely some of the best dressed folks in the Nigerian University System.

While the rules are no longer as draconian as a decade ago, the university still retains a strict dress code policy for classes and chapel services.

For instance jeans is still an abomination you would never get to see anywhere in the school except the postgraduate residence - but the students find ways to still make sense of the little options available.

Many other church universities created after CU have modelled their dress code to that of CU.

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Religion / Re: Bishop Abraham Chigbundu Called For Seed Sowing, Nobody Came Out (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 7:37am On May 20, 2019
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Education / Re: IT Staff Defrauds Covenant University Of N180 Million, Rides Chopper To Work by grandiose4ever: 11:11am On May 18, 2019
XD3G:
Goodness me!!!

An Employee flying a Chopper, not hired by his Employer, back to vicinity of his base!!!

Dumb, dumb guy.
He dey rent chopper when even the VC no dey use chopper. Eleribu somebody...

Once heard of how a gateman with CBN colluded with other CBN staff to divert currency notes meant to be incinerated. Every body took their various share and only burnt half of the retired notes while gateman got his own share.
A week later the bastard gateman went to buy a Gwagon grin The authorities didn't even ask questions they just arrested him, and from there he led them to the rest.

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Education / Re: IT Staff Defrauds Covenant University Of N180 Million, Rides Chopper To Work by grandiose4ever: 11:00am On May 18, 2019
It is very possible that sort of fraud happens. If it's from IT dept, the uni won't know quickly. Covenant's school fees is not exactly flat, so the university can only predict it's income. For instance, a particular class may have some students paying 853k, another student paying 830k, another 825k - most parent never check the breakdown as CU never really offers a breakdown.

My roommie who was also my coursemate always had close to 70,000 more to pay than myself every year. I drew his attention to it, but he and his parents were unperturbed so I left the issue.

The variation in fees come from, maybe additional services requested by students who told the uni to charge it to their subsequent fees.

The IT dept would be the one to gather all charges incurred in other places and aggregate it with school fees. So a smart IT person can just add 5k to the school fees of everybody and even the VC won't know.
But I believe someone at DFS must have colluded with him to make this successful..

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Education / IT Staff Defrauds Covenant University Of N180 Million, Rides Chopper To Work by grandiose4ever: 10:20am On May 18, 2019
ALL is not well in the IT Department of Covenant University, Otta, Sentry can authoritatively report. A guru in information technology (IT) attached to that department is in the police net after he was found to have devised a means by which he diverted funds meant for the university into his private pocket. By the time the university woke up to his antics, he had succeeded in siphoning a whopping N180 million!

Before the bubble burst, not a few people were said to have wondered how the loved and trusted official was managing to get the funds with which he maintained a lifestyle the Chancellor of the university and Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, would call “riotous living.” He was said to have bought some flashy cars which he kept in a mansion he bought with stolen funds in highbrow Lekki part of Lagos, even though he had a house in the school where he lived with his wife.

Every Friday, he would cruise with his wife to the posh house in Lekki to enjoy the weekend. But what really gave him away was the habit of flying back to his duty post in Otta in a chopper that landed at the premises of The Bells University, which is only a stone’s throw from Covenant University.

Tongues began to wag from onlookers who started to wonder who the big boy could be. Word about his lifestyle soon got to the authorities of Covenant University who decided to put him under surveillance and realised that he had stolen the university’s money amounting to more than N180 million. The funds were mainly school fees paid by students. The fees were paid into the accounts of the university in designated banks but the disingenuous inventor found a means of diverting the money into his private account. The discovery alarmed the authorities of the school. Oyedepo, sources said, was flabbergasted.

The IT guru was promptly reported to the police, who arrested him. Covenant University authorities expected the police to fast track his prosecution but that was not forthcoming. Words got to the university that the suspected fraudster was greasing the palms of the police. Again alarmed by the development, the authorities sidelined the police and handed the suspect to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Upon interrogation, the suspect admitted stealing the said sum and even agreed to refund N56 million in cash immediately. Sentry will keep you posted on further developments....

https://thenationonlineng.net/n180m-fraud-rocks-covenant-university/

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Education / Entrepreneurship Education: The Covenant University Way - Businessday by grandiose4ever: 12:47pm On May 15, 2019
Entrepreneurship education the Covenant University way: Lessons for other Nigerian universities




From the entrance gate to lecture halls, to hostel rooms, to cafeteria, to the new Hebron Startup Lab – even the walk way, everything at Covenant University (CU) – the best university in West Africa – is deliberately designed to inspire, educate and propel students towards entrepreneurship. So, it’s no surprise that such high value startups as PiggyVest, ThriveAgric, KoraPay, PayStack, Wilson Lemonade and more than 100 others have come out of this high-energy campus, over just a few years. And when this university decided to be selfless and share their methodologies, nothing would stop me from grabbing the opportunity, not even the discomfort of spending significant part of my personal savings.

The Covenant University’s entrepreneurship education methodology is actually simple, yet highly effective. It’s designed around the idea that if you can put in place a supportive ecosystem for development of entrepreneurially-minded students, you’d reap a reward like having campus-originated startups like PayStack raising US$8million form foreign institutional investors like Visa, Tencent and Stripe, or PiggyVest which raises a Series A Round Funding of more than $1.1million from local Nigerian Investors.

The CU’s entrepreneurship ecosystem has two major components – talents development and incentives. But beside those, there is this corporate philosophy exemplified by the Chancellor himself, Dr David Oyedepo and all the senior management team that drives entrepreneurship: they dream, speak and do entrepreneurship. They have this philosophy that their students must be so molded that they don’t go back to their parents for anything after graduation. At the heart of CU’s curriculum are development of entrepreneurial mindset and great attitude in students. They don’t necessarily want everyone to be business owners but they do want to make sure that those who would rather work for others are job-ready and that they possess the attitudes that not only attract high-quality jobs, but also ones that keep them in the job when they do get one. This is one of the reasons they introduced CU Developer Circle, one of the most thriving in the country, where students acquire high premium digital skills that help them unlock Silicon Valley-like jobs while in school. This is also the driving philosophy behind their popular TTG (Towards a Total Graduate) program, where students are mandated to spend few extra weeks immediately after graduation learning critical attitudes, resume development, how to ace an interview, work ethics, being a productive worker, making a difference in the community and so on.

Back to the two components of CU’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, they have a practical approach to entrepreneurial talent development. First, most of their entrepreneurship faculties are practicing entrepreneurs. Most are into consulting, monetizing their knowledge and skills by building a business around such. In this way, they understand what it takes to start, manage and scale a business. They understand the mechanics of identifying problems, building solutions, raising funds, discovering a market, managing people and scaling a proven concept. At CU, teaching entrepreneurship is more like saying: ‘you can give what you have’. With this, entrepreneurship is not necessarily taught, it’s inspired by people who are travelling the same road. Second, students ‘Get Out of the Building’ a lot, to try their hands on real-life businesses and projects. Third, CU draws on it robust network of successful alumni for regular Speaker Event to inspire, and as mentors for their students. And lastly, they have high-integrity system for tracking feedbacks and reviewing their curriculum and delivery.

On the incentive side, several supporting infrastructures are on ground for both students and faculties to think and act entrepreneurially: free high-speed wifi, a startup lab, regular reward-driven business model competition, institutional facilitation of access to markets and finance as well as sponsorship to Accelerator programs for startups looking to scale.

By and large, i believe that most things in life are guided by laws. Like the law of gravity in science (whatever is thrown up will come down), there are specific laws, adherence to which leads to better outcomes, for entrepreneurship education. Outcomes at CU have shown that these laws include top leadership’s commitment, practical/experiential approach to talent development and provision of reasonable incentives in form of infrastructural supports for On-Campus enterprise creation.

Do other universities in Nigeria have the right entrepreneurship ecosystem at the moment? The answer is, not yet. Can they ever get there? Certainly, if not beyond. But they must start as soon as today. Someone within the university, not necessarily the VC or the Dean of College of Business, but anybody at all who is passionate about entrepreneurship needs to champion the course. This must be an individual who is ready to unlearn, learn and relearn the right way to teach entrepreneurship. He or she must be an individual who would say that‘my students’ future is too important to wait until our ecosystem is right’ and then make a firm commitment to use whatever is available, starting wherever possible to improve things. At the Dangote Business School where I currently coordinate all Postgraduate Entrepreneurship Programs as well as MSMEs activities, I see myself as this kind of Entrepreneurship Champion. Even before travelling down to learn about CU’s system, I have embarked on some initiatives targeted at making entrepreneurship education practical and experiential.

Our lectures have been scaled down from 2hours to only 1 hour and the other hour is for in-class interaction with practicing entrepreneurs or development of communication skills in our students. Once in a month, our students go out on field visits to enterprising organizations to network and learn firsthand what works and what doesn’t work. On day one, our students are assigned to mentors, a practicing entrepreneur who has achieved a measure of success in his/her venture. And lastly (for now), our students now begin their internship much earlier so that they have ample opportunity to engage and learn from industry people.

To conclude, I strongly believe that with active collaboration of stakeholders – top management of the university, faculties, alumni and private-sector players – public universities in Nigeria can produce students who will build Unicorns (startups with more than $1b valuation). More importantly, I believe that with the right supports and vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystems, Nigerian universities generally can produce students who will change the narratives of the country and make a dent in the universe. Yes, They Can!



Adams Adeiza,

Dr Adeiza is of the Dangote Business School, Bayero University, Kano.



https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/entrepreneurship-education-the-covenant-university-way-lessons-for-other-nigerian-universities/

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Religion / Re: Pastor Adeboye Built Intensive Care Unit For Plateau Hospital (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 6:06pm On May 12, 2019
Ibcrown:
ode omo. Christianity is a scam
Oloriburuku omo ale jati jati
Education / Re: British Council Gives Covenant University's Startup Lab Multimillion Naira Grant by grandiose4ever: 6:00pm On May 12, 2019
Lalasticlala
Religion / Re: Victor Eghan: Watching Game Of Thrones Will Lead You To Hell by grandiose4ever: 10:05am On May 12, 2019
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Religion / Re: The Nexus Between Religion And Economic Development by grandiose4ever: 9:16am On May 12, 2019
You are asking all of the wrong questions...
Religion never stopped any society from being corrupt. Laws do! The people take their destinies in their hands, remove oppressive regimes, enforce their choices and get the desired results e.g Orang revolution, Arab uprising etc, Or a radical leader comes in play and changes everything for good. E.g Lee Khan yew, Theodore Roosevelt etc.
Religion / Re: Pastor Adeboye Built Intensive Care Unit For Plateau Hospital (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 7:38am On May 12, 2019
SageMK:
This is good stuff. The positive impact of Christianity on the average Nigerian can't be emphasize enough. I hope those structures get the appropriate maintance required.
You are correct. Christianity is the best religion on planet Earth.
Lalasticlala

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Education / British Council Gives Covenant University's Startup Lab Multimillion Naira Grant by grandiose4ever: 8:53pm On May 11, 2019

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Education / Re: Covenant University Vice Chancellor Shares Beautiful Picture Senate Building by grandiose4ever: 6:37pm On May 09, 2019
Fierce11:
And how do we prove that the VC shared this pic? Anyone could've taken it.
That's his Facebook page na
Education / Re: Covenant University Vice Chancellor Shares Beautiful Picture Senate Building by grandiose4ever: 8:24am On May 09, 2019
TANID:
nice Building. My Team Work In That Building Almost 2 Month Ago
Maintenance?
What's the name of your company? I might need ur services at my work place.
Education / Re: Covenant University Vice Chancellor Shares Beautiful Picture Senate Building by grandiose4ever: 11:53pm On May 08, 2019
HigherEd:
Eight floors with a pent house, not nine floors.
The pent house too na floor.
Do you have an idea how much it cost?

I like how the Senate colour blends perfectly with the stadium at its back.

Education / Covenant University Vice Chancellor Shares Beautiful Picture Senate Building by grandiose4ever: 10:45pm On May 08, 2019
Aderemi Atayero shared picture of the 8 floor senate building which is reputed to be one of the most beautiful senate buildings in Africa.

You would indeed agree that #CUisbeautiful tongue

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10161641726680655&id=793730654

Cc lalasticlala Highered codetemplar seun

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Education / Kingdom Of Pharisees And Saducees: Covenant, The Shame Of Nigeria by grandiose4ever: 6:16pm On Apr 28, 2019
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Celebrities / Re: Mr Ibu: I Died And Woke Up After 4 Days - John Okafor by grandiose4ever: 7:07pm On Apr 27, 2019
Thank God for your life

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Crime / Re: Shari’ah Court’s N7,000 Fine On Rapists In Zaria Sparks Controversy (pics) by grandiose4ever: 5:47pm On Apr 27, 2019
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Crime / Re: Shari’ah Court’s N7,000 Fine On Rapists In Zaria Sparks Controversy (pics) by grandiose4ever: 5:47pm On Apr 27, 2019
Why are we keeping the shariah system to begin with?

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Education / Re: Covenant University Producing Many Atheists - Students by grandiose4ever: 9:01pm On Apr 26, 2019
The point I realise this was when Living faith invited Covenant university students for one church service.

Oyedepo kept on preaching and wouldn't stop. The next thing guys started vexing o.. And where like Oyedepo should round up his message and let them go back to their hostel... Naim Oyedepo face us that day o from pulpit. Not funny day o.

Thing is many of these folks are coming from irreligious homes. Pele Pele ni gbogbo nkan o. The school needs to focus on outreach rather than coercion.

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Education / Covenant University Producing Many Atheists - Students by grandiose4ever: 8:06pm On Apr 26, 2019
The students of Covenant University are speaking out on how Covenant university which is meant to produce good Christians is actually turning itself out to be a tool for the devil...

Due to the many choking religious laws, many students are coming out en mass to disavow Christianity and what it stands for...

The new regulations which states that a person would be deprived of exams if he fails to attend enough chapel services is causing much anger in many quarters. Especially for final year students who may be faced with the potential of accruing an extra year if the regulation stands.

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Education / Re: Landmark University, Omu Aran Library (Photos) by grandiose4ever: 12:56pm On Apr 26, 2019
This is beautiful!

Though I prefer the greening of their College of science.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Man Threatens To Resume At Any Company If He Doesn't Get A Job by grandiose4ever: 5:26pm On Apr 24, 2019
A man has threatened to resume into any company if he fails to get a job this month.
The tweet though hilarious is a reminder of stark consequence of unemployment in Nigeria.

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Education / Lady Denied Admission By Covenant Graduates With First Class In UK by grandiose4ever: 9:44am On Apr 20, 2019
Lady denied admission by Covenant university graduates from the university of wales with a first class.
As shared by her mum...

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