Austine is a brilliant young man that connected with me sometime last year. He’s an undergraduate of the University of Ilorin. I have published a couple of his articles on JarusHub. He recently organized series of seminars on alternative funding for each faculty at the University of Ilorin , an exercise that inspired ...

Editor’s Note: Austine Archibong is one of the oldest followers and contributors to JarusHub, Nigeria’s most authoritative education and career resources platform. He had been a follower and contributor to JarusHub from his undergraduate days in UNILORIN in 2013. Now with one of the Big 4 professional services firms, he recently resumes his contribution ...

Editor’s Note: Austine Archibong is one of the oldest followers and contributors to JarusHub, Nigeria’s most authoritative education and career resources platform. He had been a follower and contributor to JarusHub from his undergraduate days in UNILORIN in 2013. Now with one of the Big 4 professional services firms, he ...

Austin Archibong Certainly, there would be downsides to having such a huge population as Nigeria is fortunate or unfortunate to have. However, the plights of entry-level graduate jobseekers in Nigeria is not about to reduce. There are barriers after barriers, requirements after requirements, spec after spec, and many stages involved ...

 AUSTIN’S INSIGHTS With Austin Archibong There are numerous ways to get new connections on popular networking site, LinkedIn. However, these are a few tips that have really helped me get more connections without sending any requests. 1. Writing Posts on LinkedIn’s platform: So I decided to post my first post ...

AUSTIN’S INSIGHTS With Austin Archibong   This past week, I called the driver of my supervisor to find out if the car was available as I had urgent personal errands to attend to. This was not the first time I would use the car for small ‘runs.’ On taking my ...

By Austin Archibong Austin is a final year student of chemical engineering at the University of Ilorin This contribution is borne from Jarus’s superb write-up on six things undergrads should do before leaving school. On that note, I’d like to add a  few more tips. Diversifying from your major a ...

By Austin Archibong Austin, a recent graduate of the University of Ilorin, is the founder of Austine Reviews, a website that focuses on reviewing academic and literary works.   It is not uncommon to see or hear about many students hanging around even when they have been sent out from their universities. ...

By Austin Archibong Austin is the founder of Austine Reviews, a website that focuses on reviewing academic and literary works.   We were assembled. We argued. We were at each other’s throats. Then we settled. We laughed hard. We played, prayed and hoped. Together. We presented. We failed. We were blamed ...

By Austin Archibong Austin is the founder of Austine Reviews, a website that focuses on reviewing academic and literary works.   Ceremoniously, secretaries would be delineated as persons that keep the records of any organization. During meetings, company files and possibly clerical works as it may be. However, in this context, ...

By Austin Archibong Austin is a final year student of chemical engineering at the University of Ilorin Established is the fact that ‘bigotry’ is a revered tradition; practised religiously in my fatherland. The most populous country in the second most populous continent in the world. Hence, the skip in giving ...

By Austin Archibong Austin is a final year student of chemical engineering at the University of Ilorin  This is an off shoot of the last paragraph of Sola’s excellent piece on Email applications: Why graduates goof (iii). He mentioned where people to be employed by the World Bank were requested ...

As 2013 finally rolls to an end, I want to seize this opportunity to thank everyone that has contributed in one way or the other to the phenomenal rise of this portal, Jarushub. This is our first year and I must confess the growth of Jarushub surpassed my expectation. It ...

I must confess I have been very fortunate to have fantastic columnists and contributors to support me on this portal since I launched it in March this year. They all added value to this platform. I cannot run a one-man show. Sometimes, time and some other factors make it difficult ...

By Austin Archibong (University of Ilorin)   The term ‘engineering’ has been around for a very long time now; basically, it involves application of science and technical know-how to solve the inexhaustible problems of man. Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering (aside civil, mechanical, electrical, material science, aeronautical, petroleum etc) that ...

By Austine Archibong Unlike the proverbial snail that leaves no trail, the sole contribution of the engineering discipline to the economy of Nigeria is overwhelming. Kofi Annan, former secretary to the United Nations (UN), once defined a developed country as a country that allows all its citizens to enjoy free ...