Day 13 of 21: No Gree for Same Ol’ Same Ol’

I did something last school year that I would never have thought I would do in a million years. I became the President of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of my kids’ school. Initially, they approached my wife for the job. She

Anyone with experience should please help. Thank you in advance.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock will welcome a MT Scholar this fall by God's grace.

Fully funded PhD offer at the Electrical & Computer Engineering department!

The good news are still coming in. Don't give up.

The best way to fastrack our growth in life is to learn from people with experience of what we are planning to do.

I get a lot of questions about working in the USA both from people who are already here in the UK and our people in Nigeria. You can imagine how happy I was when

I so look forward to this. I can say 1,000X more than I can ever tweet. So this should be great value for anyone in attendance.

Thank you Toyyib Adewale Adelodun for putting this together. What a way to celebrate your birthday.

If you're already leading a comfortable life, opting to pursue additional wealth at the expense of a lower quality daily existence is an unfavorable trade-off.

Just last week, Professor Rita Orji, PhD mentioned the importance of a good IELTS score if you have to write it.

Your country has been exempted, and then you decide to write it and score 6.0. Please, do not submit that!

It is counterproductive to some of the advocacy a few of us

We always get surprised when confronted with the reality of our systems.

Imagine interviewing over 50 secondary school leavers to find just that 1 that can perform simple maths operations & communicate clearly to work as a cashier or production officer. The situation is dire.

Here are 𝙩𝙚𝙣 things I told students over the weekend:

1. Know yourself
2. Network
3. Manage your energy
4. Develop a learner's mindset
5. Bend don't break
6. Manage your time
7. Emote
8.Stay healthy
9.Set goals
10. Adapt

“Administrative processing” is more common with immigrant visas. This is the first time I’m hearing it for student visas.

Sometimes it’s just a quality review to check the work of the visa officer.

I hope they get back to you soon.

What's the best gift you've ever received?

The chances of rejection for someone with a fully funded offer still remains very low, around 1 in a 100.

Nothing is guaranteed in this life, including visa approvals, but as far as chances go, your best bet is to have a fully funded offer.

You hear about the rejections more

Congratulations on securing your F1 visa. I can tell the implications of all this is now dawning on you. The exams, applications, decisions, interview and now the visa is in your hand. And for the first time, it feels so real.

This is what you have prayed for. So don’t be

For you to be in a position to sustainably help others, you need to help yourself first. What is it that you want from life? What are your goals? How much money will you need to achieve it? How much money do you need to start saving?

Maybe 90/100k doesn’t allow savings, in

If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want will become the sacrifice.

Black don’t crack is a real thing!

How to manage a PR crisis.

Opened Grok (Twitter’s AI) and these are apparently what’s trending

I’m not sure how it comes up with these because I’m being fed mostly Nigerian news even though I don’t have my location as Nigeria.

Day 12 of 21: No Gree for Ingratitude

When I first joined Shell and started going offshore, I was like a kid in a candy store. When people asked me about my job, I’d tell them about the “mysterious majesty of the ocean,” or about the “super smart folks I got to room and board