PhD Public Health and Environmental Toxicology | CEO @ SobaniResources| Director@ Endocrine Health Foundation | Chairperson young emerging professionals ASSP.

Portharcourt
Joined August 2019
There’s a difference between trying… and moving with strategy. At Sobani’s Resources Limited, we’ve built our reputation on helping students, researchers, and organizations move from confusion to clarity from ideas to structured, results-driven execution. We don’t just “help with projects.” We provide: • Research & academic support (Undergraduate to PhD) • Data analysis, interpretation & modelling • Research-backed business plans & strategy • Consulting solutions for NGOs & organizations And now… we’re taking it a step further. 🌍 We are officially introducing our STUDY ABROAD SERVICES. If you’ve been thinking about leaving Nigeria for better academic or career opportunities, this is where structure meets opportunity. We guide you through: • University admissions • Statement of Purpose & CV optimization • Scholarship applications • End-to-end admission processing No confusion. No guesswork. Just a clear pathway. This is not for everyone it’s for people who are ready to do things properly and get real results. 📩 Send a DM or email to get started. Limited slots available. #StudyAbroad #JapaWithPlan #SobanisResources #DataWithStrategy #ResearchSupport #GlobalOpportunities
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Dr. Ifechidere Sophia Obani (Nwanyi Mbaise) retweeted
I had 3 hours to write the motivation letter that got me accepted into the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship programme. I had found out about the requirements only a few hours before the deadline. Three hours to understand the expectations, organise my research interests, establish academic fit, and produce a coherent document. Not ideal, and certainly not something I would recommend. But the experience taught me how important a clear research argument is when time is limited. First, I started with the research problem, not my personal story. What questions interested me? Why were they worth investigating? What was their broader academic significance? I wanted to move beyond expressing interest in a field and establish a research direction grounded in meaningful questions. The objective was to give the letter intellectual substance from the outset, rather than fill it with generic statements about passion, ambition, or academic excellence. Second, I connected my academic background to my future research direction. Rather than presenting achievements as a disconnected list, I focused on how my previous studies and research interests informed what I wanted to investigate next. I also considered academic fit: why the proposed research opportunity was relevant to my goals, and how the available expertise, research environment, or prospective supervision could support that direction. The letter needed to explain not just what I wanted to do, but why my background and the opportunity made sense together. Third, I used the final stage to strengthen the argument. I checked whether the research direction was clear, whether my preparation supported it, whether the academic fit was specific, and whether I had answered the actual requirements. I removed repetition and generic claims, ensuring each paragraph served a distinct purpose: establishing preparation, explaining research interests, demonstrating fit, or outlining future objectives. The result was a letter that helped me secure the scholarship. With more time, I would have pursued deeper literature reviews, supervisor research, and external feedback. But under pressure, my guiding principle was simple: define the research question, justify its significance, establish your preparation, and explain why this opportunity is the logical next step. If you're someone who's applying to multiple PhD positions, juggling multiple responsibilities and need someone to help you structure and elevate your research argument without spending days on it, DM me "Motivation"
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I’ve seen tweets from scholars complaining about how they wrote their papers independently, without using AI, only for peer reviewers to feed their papers into AI tools and provide AI generated reviews of their work. You can choose not to upload your documents to AI tools, but how do you stop a reviewer from doing so?
I’m begging y’all, don’t ever upload your raw data to any AI platform. You risk losing the originality of your work, and it might become unpublishable. A word is enough for the wise.
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Do you disagree? I dey waka but will look in to react to the comments
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I’m begging y’all, don’t ever upload your raw data to any AI platform. You risk losing the originality of your work, and it might become unpublishable. A word is enough for the wise.
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Replying to @AdaObani
Motion is Lotion. Waka truly makes sense
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I want to add a few details about the founder of @WakaCommunity that was quite intriguing. He's in his early 60's and a grandfather but you need to see how good looking and fit he is due to his commitment to healthy living. From our conversation, you could feel his energy and enthusiasm for life. He also shared that he isn't on any routine prescription medications although he manages glaucoma (hereditary) with prescribed eye drops. And his philosophy is beautifully simple: “Movement is medicine.” Not everybody needs a gym membership. Not everybody needs an expensive fitness routine. Sometimes, we underestimate what something as simple as WALKING can do for our health. Regular walking can help improve cardiovascular health, support blood glucose regulation, manage weight, improve mental wellbeing and reduce the risk of several chronic diseases. And this is what I find particularly interesting about @WakaCommunity. They aren't simply organising walks. They're building a community around preventive health, healthy habits, education, physical activity and early screening. Lorenz talked about walking for 30 minutes daily, taking short walks after meals, choosing the stairs when possible and finding opportunities to move even during a busy workday. His message was clear: You don't have to compete with anybody. Just keep moving at your own pace. As someone whose work cuts across public health, occupational health and environmental toxicology, I find this approach particularly relevant. We spend so much time discussing disease management, but how often do we deliberately build habits that reduce our risks in the first place? Of course, healthy living doesn't eliminate every disease, and preventive screening remains essential. But our everyday choices can make a meaningful difference. What excites me even more is how this connects with the work we do at the Endocrine Health Foundation, particularly around endocrine and metabolic health. So yes, I've accepted Lorenz's invitation to join the Waka Community Lagos chapter for their Saturday morning walks! I'm looking forward to experiencing the community firsthand, meeting fellow health advocates and exploring how we can strengthen preventive health education together. Thank you, @boardyai, for facilitating this meaningful connection. And thank you, Lorenz, for reminding us that sometimes the most powerful health interventions begin with the simplest habits. Your health is an investment. When last did you intentionally take a walk? Kind reminder that the Waka app is available for your downloads. #WakaCommunity #PreventiveHealth #HealthyAgeing #WalkingForHealth #EndocrineHealthFoundation #PublicHealth #Boardy
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Dr. Ifechidere Sophia Obani (Nwanyi Mbaise) retweeted
"...some of the women said they had not seen sanitary pads before." That line has stayed with me since a 30 minute call with a doctor that @boardyai connected me with. She stocks pad banks in schools because girls there were using cloth. This is a true life story. Dr Ifechidere runs safe spaces for schoolgirls, led by student leaders and corps members. Over 300 women in her community. Her struggle is keeping those women coming back. Ours at @WakaCommunity is getting our members and the average Joe/Jane or common man/woman screened and educated about preventive health using simple daily habits that are easy to follow. Her women need a habit they can keep. Our waka family needs what her foundation teaches. A walking community and a health foundation can combine to keep changing lives. This is symbiotic. So I've invited Dr Ifechidere to our Lagos chapter waka which takes place every Saturday, starting at 7:00 AM from 15 Bello Close, Chevy View Estate along Chevron Drive. I also pushed her on two things: to start menopause awareness drive and keep the boys and men in the room because women's health is everybody's business. You are welcome to join @WakaCommunity and support our ministry changing lives one Waka at a time ❤️
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Dr. Ifechidere Sophia Obani (Nwanyi Mbaise) retweeted
Waka Community International Foundation was featured in the book " Nigerians, a self organising people" co-authored by @nevinomics @ruffydfire @UmaKymal et al @WakaCommunity...changing lives one Waka at a time
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Dr. Ifechidere Sophia Obani (Nwanyi Mbaise) retweeted
i know a few employers who'd open their doors for this
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Today, through @boardyai I was privileged enough to be connected with Lorenz Mba of @WakaCommunity and during our conversation, he said, “Record it, post it.” So here I am doing the lord's work. During our school outreaches in Ogbomoso, we met girls who had never used a sanitary pad. They relied on pieces of cloth to manage their periods. Today, we run three self-funded pad banks through the Endocrine Health Foundation. But menstrual dignity is only one part of our work. For years, the Endocrine Health Foundation has advocated for women's endocrine and metabolic health. And we've been working to take that advocacy beyond communities and into corporate workplaces. That's where PCOS at Work comes in. An initiative we've been developing to help organisations integrate hormonal and metabolic health awareness, employee education, supportive workplace policies and preventive wellness into their corporate health programmes. Because women's health is organisational health. We are in search for companies willing to host PCOS at Work as part of their employee wellness programmes. Will your organisation open its doors? Sometimes, impact begins with a conversation. Today was a reminder to keep telling our story. Kindly download the Waka app now available on your apple store and play store and Get active! Start walking! #PCOSatWork #EndocrineHealthFoundation #Boardy #CorporateWellness #WomensHealth #ESG #waka
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#lagoslifegame I think it's high time I divorce this man... Common pregnancy he can't carry till full-term.
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It's looking like a south south problem o although their bolt drivers are polite about it and addition to fare is voluntary so back to PH people. You people are suffering!
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Lovely to be back in Lagos where my bolt fare is 2500 and I paid 2500. Port Harcourt people are really passing through a lot in the hands of these greedy people.
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