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14/07/2024

With Abu Imrān – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

13/07/2024

Five questions to ask yourself before you Japa.

1. Know your why. You must settle your purpose in your heart first before you make the move. This will help you prepare for what is ahead particularly as the first couple of months and sometimes years would require you to make a lot of adjustment in a new environment. You will hear many things about life in abroad, but you need to settle your purpose in your heart first.

2. How are you going abroad? The how is as important as the why. Are you going abroad as a student, on a visit visa, permanent resident, as a skilled Migrant or as a desperate Japarian. The how will determine the quality of the abroad you experience. The best route is always through permanent residency pathway, the second best is through study/fellowship/exchange programme. Others are uphill tasks. It is needless to ask the means as air travel is the safest.

3. What is your long term goal? You must have a plan. If your visa is temporary or doesn't guarantee you continuous stay, you need to settle what long term options are. The more permanent your stay, the sweeter and better abroad is.

4. What is your perception of abroad? Your perception mirrors your reality. If you think abroad is tough, it will be tough for you. Changing or updating your perception of what abroad is and how you can survive and thrive is sacrosanct. If your perception of abroad is based on other people's negative experiences then you need to seek for better knowledge. There are challenges abroad inevitably but it always get better with time.

5. When challenges come are you ready to be adapt, sink or swim? This is perhaps one of the main questions that separate quitters and winners. When you move abroad and can't find a job, or you have to squat, go to work in the cold, work long hours and deal with the vicissitudes of life in a new setting, how do you intend to test your resilience especially when you have a family or when you have to make adjustments to a new normal. Do you sink, swim or adapt and rise?

Abroad is broad.

With Chidomere Ndubuisi – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉
13/07/2024

With Chidomere Ndubuisi – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

10/07/2024

I just received an email from the Johns Hopkins University president, notifying the alumni community that Michael R. Bloomberg has donated an additional $1 billion to the University. With this, most students will attend tuition-free! I join the JHU community to THANK Bloomberg for his extra support of this university.

“Johns Hopkins has received $1 billion in new funding to support financial aid for students in our university’s graduate schools. This remarkable gift comes from Bloomberg Philanthropies and builds on the landmark commitment made by Michael R. Bloomberg, Engr '64, in 2018 to provide financial aid for our undergraduate students—which allows us in perpetuity to accept incoming students without regard for their ability to pay and without requiring them to take out loans for their education.

“As a result of this latest transformative gift, beginning in fall 2024, our School of Medicine will be tuition-free for students from families earning under $300,000, and students from families earning up to $175,000 will receive a full ride, support that includes both tuition and living expenses” - Johns Hopkins University.

10/07/2024

Question: can international students benefit from the Johns Hopkins University scholarships as you reported on the $1 billion Bloomberg donation?

My response: We all benefitted, and I do assume that remains the case; check the school website for the latest update. For the engineering PhD, if Johns Hopkins University admits you for a PhD program in engineering, it will have 100% funding for you. They will pay about $60,000 of your yearly tuition and pay you about $37,000 stipend annually. As you progress in the program, you can even get more scholarships as they have tons of money there.

So, there is no harm if you want to take a chance. It is a top-ten university in the United States, and is the world’s finest medical school. The probability of getting a job before graduation is close to 99.99% as recruiters flood the campus hiring students.

Yet, it is super selective. When I applied for my electrical computer engineering PhD program, more than 900 applied; they picked 15 students. So, you have to be on top of your game; I entered with a GRE Quantitative 800/800 and a CGPA of 4.00/4.00 from my Master's degree.

Understand that Johns Hopkins does not have any course requirement for the PhD program. In other words, no one will tell you that you have to take 180 credits or whatever. The program is designed such that a huge problem is assigned to you, and you have to solve it! You have to decide on courses you will take; I took courses in medical school, Math, and English departments besides the engineering ones. As I write, I am not even sure there is a CGPA for PhD students; the focus is on solving the world's greatest problems and not grades. During my time, I invented a technology on robotics for medical and space applications and the University patented it for me. In 2017, we licensed some rights to the United States Government.

What again....on the inmails. Check the school website. Hope my context helps. If you can go for it; it is the world's finest university on how it develops scholars. Good luck https://www.tekedia.com/johns-hopkins-receives-additional-1-billion-from-michael-r-bloomberg/

10/07/2024

The news is that ECOWAS wants to unveil ECO, a currency. First, as I wrote to the African Union Congress 15 years ago, I stand on my call: a single African currency would be a disaster for the continent. We overestimate the potential value of this single currency for Africa. My note to the African Union https://www.afrique-gouvernance.net/bdf_document-1255_fr.html

We must understand that Africa’s economies are heterogeneous in nature which means that trade shocks will not be easily managed, unlike the European Union, which has a more homogenous economy, and which has been trading together for decades before the adoption of the Euro. So, you do not want a situation where we have this ECOWAS currency, rumoured to be ECO, and Nigeria’s economy which has undue influence on all ECOWAS countries, will blow things up because everyone is using one currency.

A single currency will not remove the rascality of our politicians, and without an autonomous local central bank, many bad things will happen, since a supranational bank will assume control of the ECO. In other words, when Nigeria mismanages, it will not have the power to re-calibrate its currency, and any impact of that will be shared by all ECOWAS states due to the size of its economy. Good People, expect a massive welfare loss when that happens.

Then, the big one. The CFA Francs zone has been trading for decades. There is no statistical data to show that a single currency has improved intra-trade there. Currency does not solve the problems of ports, roads, innovation and other basic amenities which are needed for trade development and growth.

What do I propose? I support using technology to make different currencies "disappear", making it possible that a man in Lagos, with Naira, and buying a hat in Ghana, and paying in Cedi, will not even know that he is paying across the border. Yes, the seamless experience would be like he is paying someone in another part of Lagos! But using convergence of currency to achieve that will be a mistake for Africa.

That was my banking & finance doctoral research while in banking, and I did publish many of my findings in the African Union, World Bank, etc. We need to focus on building foundational pillars so that West Africa's economies could become more homogenous before we can introduce the ECO, if we expect this to deliver welfare gain for the people https://www.tekedia.com/implications-of-ecowas-single-currency-eco-for-west-africa/

10/07/2024

Here are top tips to move from temporary visa to permanent visa when you japa.

1. Mark your time - your student visa will definitely run out and visitor visas are no temporary discomfort. Three months into your programme as a student start plotting your next move. Gauge the market for job prospects. Scan the city your are studying in. Spread your tentacles to other training in other fields or specialization you can pivot to and use that to take concerted steps.

2. If you are in country where permanent residency is not in the offing, activate your search for permanent residency opportunities in other countries. Don't leave it for late. For instance, if the UK or any country in Europe is not looking viable, seek out Canada, New Zealand and other sister countries.

3. Use what you have to get what you want. I'd you already abroad you are already one step ahead. I have to however caveat that not all abroad is abroad. Back to the point, if you already in a better abroad country and what you are studying doesn't align with labour market demand, change direction. Make hay while the sun shines. Abroad is easy when you study courses that have labour market demand or take up skills in career paths that provide a conduit for permanentizing your stay.

4. Have a back up plan. The first back is to have a visit visa to another country while you are already in a better abroad country. For instance, getting a US visa while in the UK or a New Zealand visa. Some visit visa allows you to job search but not work. That is a lifeline at least. The other back up plan should be to secure internships and other job opportunities while studying.

The more permanent your visa, the sweeter the abroad, the more temporary your visa, the greater the discomfort.

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