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An interview on Scholarship application for Nigerian Students

February 13, 2012 – 8:44 am | 5 Comments

The first and most important step to searching for education financial opportunities is to understand how scholarships work. Overlooking this aspect may cost you more in future opportunities.
If you are overwhelmed by the process of …

How to Win a Scholarship in 2012

January 5, 2012 – 5:52 pm | 14 Comments

As the year 2012 is just as fresh, it is the time of the year most of us set goals with hopes of achieving them through the year. Here in Nigeria, the removal of fuel …

How to Find International Scholarships online in 2012- Do It Yourself

December 10, 2011 – 9:00 pm | 11 Comments

You might have nursed the dream to study abroad to complete your undergraduate or postgraduate education for some time, and even more predominantly, to achieve such with financial help, in the form of scholarship(s). Why …

8 Common Problems Scholarship Applicants Encounter and How to Fix Them

November 11, 2010 – 8:07 pm | One Comment

I want to share with you a Guest Article I wrote on www.intscholarships.com (a Scholarship Website) on 8 Common Problems Scholarship Applicants Encounter and How to Fix Them. On interaction with scholarship aspirants, you’ll get …

How a Kenyan Student Won a Scholarship to Study Pharmacy in 2010- What it takes to Win Scholarships.

November 3, 2010 – 7:18 am | 2 Comments

Extraordinary Scholarship for a Kenyan Pharmacy Student
Myron Odingo- a young Kenyan student from a “humble background” was awarded what the Keele University called “the chance of a lifetime” to study Pharmacy at a UK university, …

Using Quotes to Improve your Scholarship Search on Google

August 28, 2010 – 10:55 am |

I’ve written about searching for scholarship on Google; how to play around with keywords to get better search results. Another Google.com search feature you can use to improve your search results is searching with quotes. …

10 things You Need to Know to Acquire International Scholarships

August 26, 2010 – 7:32 am |

There are more to winning overseas scholarships than just applying without a plan… And there are many available scholarship programmes — Both for Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies — you can apply to as a Nigerian …

How to Automate your Scholarship Search With Google Alert- Google Research Secret

August 25, 2010 – 6:29 am |

Google AlertGoogle Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results from websites, news-sites or blogs, based on your choice of query or topic. Users can set up a Google Alert for any query, …

WSAF 2010 Scholarship Fraud- The Update

August 13, 2010 – 10:16 am | 12 Comments

Two days ago I published a post titled The World Scholars Alumni Foundation Scholarship 2010. SCAM? You Must Read This — a scholarship program I suspected to be a scam/ fraud after I received a …

The World Scholars Alumni Foundation Scholarship (WSAF) 2010. SCAM? You Must Read This.

August 11, 2010 – 2:39 pm | 106 Comments

What you are about to read could be tagged ‘The Most Controversial Blog-Post of The Year’. It could even create a wrong impression of this blog- AfterSchoolAfrica.com – but it’s a chance I’m willing to …

How a Student Won a Scholarship Award Because She Was the Only One That Applied

July 30, 2010 – 8:50 am |

I was reading some scholarship success stories recently (it’s
something I do quite often), and was shocked at the story of Erica M.
who won a Scholarship simple because she was the only student that
applied. Here is …

Preparing for scholarship is like Football World Cup

June 18, 2010 – 1:16 pm |

As the Football world cup competition continue to unfold it’s surprises, it will be nice for scholarship aspirants to learn a few lessons from this competition. Thirty-two (32) teams are struggling for the world cup, …