GREATEST FUTARIANS

1. Financial Illiteracy: The main reason for poverty is that people do not have enough knowledge about money, its law, how it functions, how to make it, multiply it, save it, manage it and retain it. While the rich is looking for ideas, the poor is busy looking for money. Money flows in the direction of ideas. Eighty percent of people who win large sums of money return to their old poor lifestyles within ten years because money came to them when they were not prepared to manage it. 2. How to make money is rarely taught in the major social institutions: home, school, church. 3. The five percent of people who own ninety five percent of the money in the world, hold the keys to prosperity in secret. The rest ninety five percent will continue to work for the increase of the resources of these five percent. 4. Formal education prepares people to work for someone else. The university does not teach how to make money or own a business. The professors do not know how to create wealth, so they

1. Financial Illiteracy: The main reason for poverty is that people do not have enough knowledge about money, its law, how it functions, how to make it, multiply it, save it, manage it and retain it. While the rich is looking for ideas, the poor is busy looking for money. Money flows in the direction of ideas. Eighty percent of people who win large sums of money return to their old poor lifestyles within ten years because money came to them when they were not prepared to manage it. 2. How to make money is rarely taught in the major social institutions: home, school, church. 3. The five percent of people who own ninety five percent of the money in the world, hold the keys to prosperity in secret. The rest ninety five percent will continue to work for the increase of the resources of these five percent. 4. Formal education prepares people to work for someone else. The university does not teach how to make money or own a business. The professors do not know how to create wealth, so they

Understanding that being a student especially in Nigeria could be a very daunting task. This may be your case if you receive little or no pocket money to help you in moving around while in school. It is in this light that we has thought it wise to compose a little write up on famous businesses that students can carry out successfully while in school and still have time for their studies. So, grab a pop corn, your favorite soft drink and enjoy the write up. 1.T-Shirt Customization: This business requires your creativity as a student. looking around you, you’ll notice students love fancy and funky stuffs. learning the art of this business means you’ll have fellow students begging you to collect their money for a t-shirt write up. You can learn this simple business during your stay at home/holiday. You can start in small scale by doing the write ups on your own T-shirt, friends will like it and ask you to even do for them. Just start something. Remember the “My Oga at the Top Saga”? you

Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards 2014 For Eligible Students The Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Four (4) Million Naira Scholarship Awards For Forty (40) Students is out Chief Gani Fawehinmi Applications are invited for Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards 2014. The Awards will cover 2013 and 2014. The award is for 40 (Forty) students each of whom will receive One hundred Thousand Naira (N100, 000.00) making a total sum of Four Million Naira (N4,000 000.00). Criteria For Chief Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Award 2014 (1) Applicants must be poor and indigent (2) Applicants must be registered students of tertiary institutions in nigeria i.e Universities, polytechnicsand colleges of education. (3) Applicants must have good academic performance Mode Of Application For Chief Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Award 2014 Each applicant shall submit an applicaton form, not more than two (2) pages. The letter must include the following: *.Name of the candidate *.Course and year of study *.State of

The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC) and Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc Joint Venture as part of its Corporate Social Investment Programme is pleased to announce the commencement of its inaugural Undergraduate Scholarship Awards. The scholarship awards is open to qualified and interested second year undergraduates of Nigerian Public Universities. ELIGIBILITY Applicants for the npdc seplat scholarship must be second year students in Federal and State Universities in Nigeria. Applicants must have at least 5 O’ level credit passes including English and Mathematics at one sitting. Applicants who are currently on scholarship awards from other companies need not apply. Only students studying the following courses are eligible to apply: Accountancy, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Science, Architecture, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, G

The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC) and Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc Joint Venture as part of its Corporate Social Investment Programme is pleased to announce the commencement of its inaugural Undergraduate Scholarship Awards. The scholarship awards is open to qualified and interested second year undergraduates of Nigerian Public Universities. ELIGIBILITY Applicants for the npdc seplat scholarship must be second year students in Federal and State Universities in Nigeria. Applicants must have at least 5 O’ level credit passes including English and Mathematics at one sitting. Applicants who are currently on scholarship awards from other companies need not apply. Only students studying the following courses are eligible to apply: Accountancy, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Science, Architecture, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Civil, Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, G

Abuja – The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities on Friday called for the introduction of tuition in Federal universities to support funding of the universities. This is contained in a communiqué signed by Prof. Kimse Okoko, Chairman of the committee, in Abuja. The communiqué decried the resistance to introduce tuition in some universities by the Academic Staff Union of Universities and Students’ Union Government. According to the communiqué, the resistance is based on the argument that the introduction of tuition may take university education beyond the reach of the poor. It stated that avenues for finance for indigent students includes the revival of the student loans schemes, bursaries and scholarship, education bank, among other initiatives, should be put in place. The communiqué also stated that students who could afford to pay should be allowed to do so. It also stressed the need to reposition the Nigerian public university system for global competitiveness in the

This is to bring to the notice of all the Futarians out there that as school resume for the second semester of the 2013/2014 session the course form for the each department has been uploaded online and students are expected to start their course registration with immediate effect and that the registration is only going to last for just 2 weeks only, Furthermore, lectures start effectively on monday, so student are expected to resume latest this weekend. So we wish you HAPPY resumption as you resume TEAMS FUTASCHOLARS.

The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the Nigerian Federal Scholarship Award application for the year 2014. The Nigerian Award processes and implements scholarship awards for Postgraduate (PG), Undergraduate, Higher National Diploma (HND) and National Certificate in Education (NCE) students. CONDITIONS OF AWARD: The federal scholarship board nigeria award is tenable in Nigeria and takes effect from the beginning of each academic session. It lapses if not utilized within this period. The scholarship shall not be held at the same time with another Award nor for part-time studies. Change of course or level or the Institution of award is not allowed. The Scholarship allowance is meant to cover: Institution’s charges, fees and Personal maintenance allowance. ELIGIBLE FIELD OF STUDY: Science and Technology. Medicine and Para-medicals. Science Subjects with Education. Arts and other Subjects with Education. Liberal Arts/Social/Management Sciences. Law. HND (Science and Technology).

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has signed a N2 billion Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with six Nigerian universities, one representing each of the six geo-political zones in the country, to develop their engineering education capacity. The beneficiaries are the University of Ilorin, representing the North-Central; the University of Ibadan, representing the South-West; the University of Port Harcourt, representing the South-South; the University of Maiduguri, representing the North-East; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, representing the North-West and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, representing the South-East. Speaking at the MoA signing ceremony in Abuja on Friday, June 20, 2014, the Managing Director of NLNG, Mr. Babs Omotowa, said that the agreement, which was sequel to the plan unfolded by the company in March this year, was for the implementation of phase one of the company’s University Support Programme. Mr. Omotowa disclosed that the NLNG would spend $2 millio

So you just gained admission into your university of choice. Congratulation!! Just to let you know,life at the university campus is so different from what you're used to. Here its a new lifestyle you'll be experiencing. You'll do new courses and meet new course mates (people with different ideologies) and most of the decisions you take at the university will determine how your future will eventually turn out so it is better you're prepared and properly guided as a fresher on campus. The tips below will give you a head start during your early days on campus. 1.Be prepared: There's nothing more pitiable than a man who isn't prepared for the challenges ahead. A quote I love so well says: "If you fail to plan, you've planned to fail". You should be mentally prepared for the new life ahead. Set your goals, envision the kind of lifestyle you'd love to live on Campus, the type of friends you'd love to keep, the grade you'd love to graduat

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the cut-off marks for admission into Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education for the 2014/2015 academic session through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Chairman of the policy committee on admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria and Supervising Minister of Education, Barr Nyesom Wike, said that the Jamb utme cut off mark forUniversities is 180 points and abovewhile that ofPolytechnics and Colleges of education is150 points and above. The Minister urged the institutions to abide by admission guidelines into the nation’s tertiary schools. Prospective Post UTME candidates are to note that this is the minimum cut-off marks for tertiary institutions in Nigeria and some schools reserves the right to review their own cut-off mark upwards depending on the number of candidates that qualified for post utme. Best of luck To all Post-UTME Candidates…