@OurFavOnlineDoc Your opinion is totally wrong. The safety of lives is very important. When the insecurity in Benue heightened over a decade ago,the Catholic church I worship placed different measures similar to this. They also brought security machines to check people in. Ask people in the North
@thecableng How does Atiku do it with primaries? We thought it was just with delegates but this is direct primaries and see numbers. Even if you think it was rigged can be rigged in every section of the country, even in Amaechi's stronghold? Hmmm
The blind student Nnamdi Daniel has been sent out of his hostel today by Prof Adibe Agbos who is the Director of housing and accommodation in UNN.
He was sent out for speaking out about the state of the UNN hostel and what he is suffering as a visually impaired student.
We will get him a much nicer place to stay.
You see this evil in UNN, we will fight to dismantle it.
Our students can’t live like prisoners anymore.
UNN is the first indigenous university in Nigeria and its glory must be restored to the fullest.
The university must be a model for all universities in Africa.
@izzy_ogbeide Just to be clear, nobody hungry for Buhari with you. Some of us saw him clearly for who he was based on his trajectory as a military ruler. Only some delusional feebleminded persons (like you) were brainwashed. Are we clear on that? Good. Continue to seek for what Peter Obi did.
@dammiedammie35 I've experienced this countless times. I have all the routers of different networks you can think of yet it's never guaranteed. Nigeria has broken me several times just like it did to her. I can feel her pain because that has been my lived experience.
@winexviv God bless you for all you're doing to institute social change and reforms in Nigeria @winexviv I don't know if the Nsukka campus facilities have gotten any better since we left
I got a role with the Canadian Red Cross… before I even entered Canada. 😄
I landed a Volunteer Role with the Canadian Red Cross while in Nigeria, 1 month before I left. There is an edge in thoroughly making your own research about anything and everything about the country you want to move to before making that move. Trust me, all the vital information you’d get would help you settle in, and it would merge with the information people who were already there before you, would dish out to you.
Having learned how vital volunteering is in the Canadian work culture, I started approaching preferred organisations once it was sure that our travel documents were in our hands. I remember that email and the subsequent call that followed from CRC to learn more about me and my drive to decide to join as a volunteer once I landed. It blew my mind that, oh, shit is possible. I felt seen and valued, and if I had failed that remote interview, I wouldn’t have been sad, because I was really proud that they even interviewed me.
When I got the mail saying I had passed, it still felt like a mirage till I landed in Canada. After informing them of my availability, I had to wait 6 weeks to receive my Volunteer ID, which was sent to my doorstep via Canada Post. This one came after I was dramatically sacked (laughs 😄) from the first job I landed just 4 weeks after entering the country. That funny story is coming.
With that ID, I was so wowed and eager, and I must say, the quality of training and protocols you are placed to take as a volunteer is no different from what the full staff get. You are assigned organizational email address, you pick the days you are available to show up, you are allowed to have the experience you are gathering with them to be on your resume, to help your job hunt, and you can be given reference if you land a job outside, sometimes you are sent vouchers for discounts in their partner shops and free to attend career improvement events, etc.
My spouse also made the volunteering move when we landed and got a position in Customer Support in a Community Service Organisation, which I am not allowed to mention here. She also has a job now with that Canadian Work Experience.
I still feel proud looking at my ID/Tag and its neck ribbon! 😄Volunteering culture is a big flex in Canada and in the Western world, and it can really open up great opportunities for you while you are on it or later on, and I am sure a lot of people here can attest to this. I still make time from my main job now to keep up with my volunteer position at the Canadian Red Cross, when I can, because it doesn’t stop. I volunteer in a department that works in line with health and safety, and it played a big role in landing me a job.
If you are out there and still finding that job and have never tried stepping out to pick up a volunteer role in any organisation at all, give it a try… you’d never know!
Udo!
@Eberelollipopz@Richie_Ehdu This is CEC, UNN. I was surprised to see people acting surprised that the tree grows in Nigeria. Trees that were scattered across different parts of UNN (I don't know about now). It was always beautiful to see it shed its leaves during the Harmattan season