Dear Kira – Keep Majors Major!
In the journey of life, it’s imperative to focus on what’s truly important – faith, family, education, and love. Distinguishing between the essential and the trivial is crucial.
Academic
Academics is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire…
I have been taught, I teach and am always learning while passing critical information across as creatively as possible. I strongly believe in formal education as a way to develop core critical thinking competencies needed to proffer solutions to modern-day global challenges.
Caveat – Can’t get into school this year? Take the PreDegree Option!
The year is 2005, I just got my JAMB UTME result and I am 4 points away from the cutoff. I branch off to a family friend’s house from the cyber café to avoid answering unavoidable questions. I am playing with the kids with uncertain dread in my heart. How do I tell them at home? How do I face my friends?
WHY SCHOOL? (2)
Schooling for many people is to prepare them for a solid, safe financial future and this is where many get it wrong. While securing a future is a good thing, schooling is designed for a more holistic purpose.
DON’T DO A MASTERS…YET!
If you have attended any of my classes particularly for final and penultimate year students, you would have heard me at one time or the other make this statement, even with mild threats…
WHY SCHOOL? (1)
Schooling for many people is to prepare them for a solid, safe financial future and this is where many get it wrong. While securing a future is a good thing, schooling is designed for a more holistic purpose…
MY MESSAGE TO BAD BOYS
Do you love sitting at the back of the class? Chatting away, distracted and really not interested in the class at hand? Do you find yourself always at the other end of the wrath of lecturers, with endless complaints about you being a bad boy?
HELP! I AM IN THE WRONG DEPARTMENT!!
One major excuse I have heard repeatedly given for failure in academics is the choice of a wrong course. It is a major factor contributing to the loss of interest and ultimate dissolution of grit, passion and determination to succeed.
In TREVI for the love of Geotech…
I’m currently rounding off a 3-day training on the method for carrying out the Consolidated Undrained and Drained Triaxial Tests.
FUTA GeoLab – Best in West Africa
I’m currently working at the TREVI Foundations Geotechnical Research Laboratory in FUTA, Akure, Ondo state, were i have been charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the triaxial testing equipments are brought to full functioning capacity.
ISSMGE-Nigerian Geotechnical Asssociation Workshop.
Nigeria is finally making her mark in the committee of geotechnics-inclined nations. I was priviledged to attend a workshop for the NGA (A member of the NSE, Nigerian Society of Engineers), and was impressed to see the international ISSMGE (International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering) board members at the workshop