Beyond Undergrad

May 31st 2009 I graduated from the American University of Nigeria. Beating the “walking the stage” challenge was a very tedious pre-graduation exercise for me and I felt very happy that God saw me through that challenge. Graduation day was very very intersting but after that day I asked myself "What next after graduation?"






(You'd be scared how much value I assign to my 32 :))












Who has suggestions as to what they think I should do after graduation?

Musish Football Club prompts a reopening of my blog

Musish Football Club began life when a group of students at the American University of
Nigeria (AUN) decided to form a football team in late 2006. The Club had played under
the name LXB FC before this time. Their first match was a 3-0 victory over Java FC, on
April 21, 2007. This excitation( and surprise) made the patron of Java FC paste news about us on the AAUN news letter on page 4 of this page http://library.aaun.edu.ng/screens/News7.pdf

Soon after, the name Musish FC was adopted and the Club continued playing in friendlies and local AUN cup competitions for the next few years. The Club turned professional and joined the Football League in the Spring of 2007. They have since then had their home at AUN, Yola, Adamawa, Nigeria. Musish have been playing in the AUN premier league, where they have remained ever since.

Musish were champions for the first time in AUN in the first ever AUN Premier league in
2006 as the former League of Xtraordinary Ballers (LXB). They were runners up in the
following season having lost in the finals to TB FC.

Musish FC participated in the 2007 Coca-Cola FA Cup for the first time. During this time
Musish had some of the game’s greatest players in AUN on its books: Littbarski Adeh, Eno Essien, Richard Etim, Samuel Abok, Yusuf John, Raymond Jacobs, Quadri Danlami and
Abubakar Kele, were just some of the names in what was one of the greatest sides ever to
play in the Football League.

The Club's management was very happy to inform its fans and supporters on the
availability of its Jersey for commercial purpose. All the jerseys were made to the tastes
of the consumers as their names and preferred numbers came printed at the back of it. To
get a copy, they simply sent their names and numbers to musishfc@gmail.com and in a
week, they got it. You may do the same.

Though the launch date has been pasted for the sake of having a better planning for the
event, The management advice that fans and supporters should buy the jerseys for friends
and families at the cheap additional logistics costs.

Musish Football Club currently boasts of the largest supporter base in AUN, Yola, and its
environs. The Club hopes to be keep on in its strive for success on and off the football
field as it looks forward to providing a sizable number of the players that will be in the
Nigerian Squad in the South Africa 2010 World Cup.

For your view, we have a little video for you here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjtY1kvoCs plus a little interview done by Mr. Elie B. Smith of Canal France International (CFI) here http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=5482

Watch out for us in the nearest future!

Christmas in Yola.

For a long time, I used to believe Christmasses outside Lagos are boring but I now know of another place where chrismas is not boring, and that place is Yola. After 4:30pm, my friend, Ehis, got me an invitation ticket for their NCCF
dinner Christmas program at the Yola international hotel. The program was supposed to start at 5:00pm. We got there like 15 minutes past five.
We saw people of different beauties, all excited. Wonderful. We showed our tickets and were allowed into the show hall. We sat and had a nice time watching the whole show. Like 20 minutes from the time we entered, pepper soup was served round with malta guiness -- :-* cool – first round. As the program continued, we had somebody came up to spark up the place with some comedy while we went for a second round of fried rice and some goat meats. Somebody’s birthday is 25th there. He brought cakes and cakes upon cakes – third round. At some minutes to eight, forth round – some fruity slices of melon, pawpaw, and pineapples were served round in a moderate cup.
While the menu menu menu went on, there were a lot of picture taking going on. And after the menus, there was a more fantastic scene, people singing praises and taking group pictures. It was very very interesting.I got to meet new people, new friends from different places.
Me b4 the showDuring the show

Einstein was right: In the midst of problems lies opportunities.

Guess what? 7: 48 am Dec. 25th 2005, I made a very funny error of deleting all the files in my documents folder, meaning that all my semester work + my invention folder are gone :(. Very funny indeed. It is going to cost me at least 2 weeks of trauma and 3 months of work to regurgitate the load in the folder, if I will ever have the time to recreate it. What am I going to do now? So I started brainstorming.
One day in INF 201 class, Prof. Kah said something about Computer forensic experts: people that can help restore/undelete deleted files. This gave me an insight of how I can recover those files. Immediately I got online and I started learning about the whole stuff to see if I can be one of those people and to see how it will help me get my files back.
What an opportunity it was for me to be aware of the functions of the forensic softwares. Interesting. Suppose I did not have the problem of file loss, I wouldn’t have had a motivation of thinking of the forensics.
I want to prove stubborn by creating more problems for myself so as to see if I will have the opportunity of finding out more. Can you guess what I did?
Seven hours later, I was very vexed and so I formatted my hard drive and re-installed a new Win XP. Now, can I get back my files and pictures? The most of these softwares go for prices that are too unaffordable ( like $299). I don’t even know anything about how to use the softwares.
Though I have this opportunity to do this. Now, all I want is just my document folder.
Can anyone help PLEASE. There are a lot of important documents lost now including my first semester project.

Do I have a thesis statement?

Viewers, please look carefully at my blog with an open mind and a critiquing eye. Do I have a thesis statement? Let me know about what you feel about my writings.

Entrepreneurship is going to be full time fun next semester

He he he he he, I got it! I got it!! I got it!!! I got the business idea that’s going to storm the whole of AAUN next semester, that’s going to make a windfall profit of 800% ROI for the first quarter of next year at the start of its operations. I got it. What a wonderful idea I’ve got.
For a ling time I’ve been reading some stuff on how to get rich which includes “ the science of getting rich” by Wallace D Wattles, 1910. from there I learnt and got a motivation of “how to find/realize my domain, which will make me dominate the market by thinking (doing my business) in a certain way.
Do you think you have a certain way to carry out your business play to stunt Abti next semester? Don't you think a certain way of making money from your business is by getting people to see the what you have thought of? Have you been thinking of how to make people aware of your business?:)) That’s why I blog.
There are going to be spaces available for advertisements in the first edition of the campus newspaper (AAUN Red and Green) next semester. The prices are as low as you can think of. You may want to contact me (the secretary) at ishola.m@aaun.edu.ng or Dr. Janette Wallis (the Club Advisor) at her e-mail address. This is the right and best available kind of advertising for you.
Remember, “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising”—Mark Twain. Make your business large and let your share holders be proud of you.

The first semester has finally ended

Friday Dec. 23rd 2005 we submitted our end of the semester project to Prof. Kah. It was a very interesting time as I think of how to get a nice rest during the holiday after the hectic prototyping process of the hecamis (healthcare management information system). What an experience it was for us being a part of the development process in the systems development life cycle. I have seen a lot of softwares. I have used softwares. I have read on how softwares are created and architectures. But this time, I’m in the making of it. We built a prototype J)
Let me introduce you to the futuristic award winning Hecamis (Health care management information system). Hecamis is our name for the management information system we are building for MATCO (Muhammad Arabi Tukur Company) hospital.
During the semester, we took the INF 201 course which took us through an introduction to the principles of information systems; basic principles, fundamental design/development and information development life cycle stages and ethics of the profession. We got equipped with a paraphernalia of knowledge we need to scale through the systems investigation, analysis, design and testing stages. We got assigned this project that made us applied our knowledge to develop a management information system (MIS) for MATCO in order to solve the basic and pressing problem of the organization which is in the area of records management.
We have been able to design the functional prototype for the records management of the organization and I will tell you something – it was fabulous. I really enjoyed my experience working in the group of 5 as the project manager. I had some 4 other crazy guys during the architecture, analysis, database design …. While I went gallivanting around, administering.
Though it can be sometimes very hard to be in a leadership position, but after achieving the desired goal, one tends to say something good about it.