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Tag: Nigeria

Chasing Dreams… My Journey to Nigeria.

August 27, 2019 Ashwin Mathew

First and foremost, I’d like to thank GSK, PULSE, GCSD, colleagues, family, and friends who supported me during the past year. It’s because of your

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Stepping into the unknown

August 19, 2017 manishburman

Welcome to my second blog (or first vlog). Although contents of this one is a list of everything first – introduction, meeting, impression, experience and

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What’s the spookiest city in Nigeria?

November 4, 2016 AlexGordon

Laghost! (although some say its A-boo-ja) Took me a while to come up with that suitably scary joke for this month’s blog, which I’m writing

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“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”

September 29, 2016 AlexGordon

Hi All, The quote in the title is from an author called Wendy Wunder, and I felt it was incredibly apt for this months blog.

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Wetin Dey!

August 10, 2016 Jeevini Sivanathan

..Nigerian slang for “How are you doing!” Over a month already! So I will start with work and what I have been doing at CHAI.

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Visiting The Biggest City in Africa

August 8, 2016 AlexGordon

How far? (Naija slang for “What’s up?”) It’s been a busy few weeks since I last blogged, but I’ve inadvertently created some time to write

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What did the German say when meeting Aladdin’s monkey?

July 7, 2016 AlexGordon

“Abu, ja?” Apologies for that awful joke, but it is really hard to make a pun on ‘Abuja’. Luckily, my German GCSE never stops paying back,

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Welcome to Nigeria!

June 24, 2016 Jeevini Sivanathan

On Monday I arrived at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) office in Abuja. I was introduced to all the employees and was greeted with a very warm

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Time to go

June 16, 2016 Jeevini Sivanathan

Hi! My name is Jeevini and I work for GlaxoSmithKline in London, UK. I have been accepted onto an amazing programme that GSK run called The PULSE Volunteer Partnership.

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It’s Christmas!!!

December 19, 2015 nicoleasamson

Today, Friday 18 December 2015 is my last day with my NGO, Jhpiego, Nigeria.  My 6 month PULSE assignment is at its end – wow,

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The Harmattan is here!

November 27, 2015 nicoleasamson

Gosh this last month has been a busy one! We received an extremely warm welcome from the GSK office in Lagos as well as manufacturing

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Doing the ‘Hokey-kokey’ in Nigeria

September 11, 2015 nicoleasamson

I have now been working in Nigeria with the NGO, Jhpiego for two months and have recently returned from a two week training stint in

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“Hey: Nigerian Culture Talks”

July 17, 2013 Moaz Ibrahim 2013

Actually, I’m in my third week of my Pulse assignment in Nigeria. But I’ll spend this week in Lagos not Abuja due to business needs.

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Greetings from Abuja!

June 29, 2013 paulgwannamaker

I arrived in Abuja on Saturday for my 6 month assignment! So excited to get started- and then arrived at the airport and realized that,

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Welcome

April 23, 2013 paulgwannamaker

Welcome to my Blog!  On here, I’ll post updates on my PULSE experience preparing for, during, and following my experience working for Malaria Consortium in

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