1. 17-07-2008 07:25

Re-NYSC member can't speak English

This is what happens where the entire system is corrupt. 
The brilliant and good brains are loosing university admissions as a result of frustration for not having "CONNECTION" or "LEG" and are settling for polytechnics and Colleges. Ikpeama ifeoma is a graduate "GOD SAVE MY COUNTRY"!

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2. 23-05-2008 14:41

am not surprise

Admission and academic short-cuts 
are the orders of the day. Thus, 
we must bear the resultant effects 
on the likes of miss Doris Ifeoma 
and others.

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3. 19-05-2008 15:43

English

Clearly, the girl in question is fake. There is no Nigerian graduate who cannot speak English, albeit broken English. If it is true, such cases would be more common. IMHO, she must have bought the certificate. Thus, she should be arrested and made to disclose how she came about it. ESUT authorities should also speak up on this, now, as this sad development impinges on their integrity.

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4. 11-05-2008 23:29

People, please!

Let us not turn this into yet another opportunity to trash the various ethnic groups in Nigeria. Ifeoma happens to be Igbo. She has countless counterparts all over Nigeria. Be not fooled into believing there is a sliver of our land untouched by this predicament. Ifeoma is our responsibility, and we have failed her. We have already conjured up an array of hypotheses for how she passed through her courses, yet we fail to question the reason behind her story. Universities are now not only government business, but private and parochial business. Still there is not one university in the land that has the resources to prepare our students to join, and excel in a global workforce.  
As far as English goes, unless we are ready to accept Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa as an official language, more has to be done to make our students proficient in our adopted tongue. By coincidence, it happens to be the language of global business, education and entertainment. That alone should suffice as incentive to perfect our general command of the language. For all the disadvantages of having been colonized, we may as well capitalize on the fact that English is the lingua franca for the entire planet. Reform is the key. This ought to be brought to the attention of our representatives at Aso Rock. We are already behind. Certain standards must be made consistent across all nursery and primary schools, unless we want more and more Ifeomas entering into society with cooked credentials.

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5. 10-05-2008 20:46

It's alright!

1. This is not something new to all Nigerians, is it? where are those thet are sharing one certificate obtained by only one person but shares by 10people? She is one out of thousands 
2. can any one tell me what is the rank of the best Nigerian university in the world? 
3. Igbo people are those who laughs at anybody from another part of nigeria when speaking english. 
In that case where is their Load Luggard? 
3. they are only speaking fake english in their lands.

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6. 07-05-2008 14:18

Engineer

do you have to blame the poor girl,no?you have to blamer the goverment that base so much concentration on paper qualification not performance,what a about service members that marked WAEC paper that they themselves can not sit and pass withiut cheating,please ,they should leave the poor girl and face more important thing jare.

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7. 07-05-2008 11:32

Surprised?

Na so God dey take catch dem. Dem dey use resources wey women get 2 enter uni. That's y it's good to learn and not depend. People are short- sighted and try to pass a particular class. What happens in the long run? no english, no maths? How did she understand the questions in accountancy exam? That whole university should be properly investigated. There might be plenty of products like Ifeoma around.

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8. 06-05-2008 19:53

Why the surprise?

I am much less shocked by this story than by the majority of the responses to it. I cannot comprehend how there can be such an uproar from those who I assume should be familiar with life in Nigeria. I do not believe I found one response to the article that was written in proper English. No attention has been paid by anyone to rules of grammar, spelling or syntax. Imagine that - describing your anger with another person's lack of English language skills, in a comment that evidences one's OWN lack of English skills! If it were not such an embarrassment, it would be hilarious! 
Again, I ask, why the surprise? The very article itself has been published for the world to read, without having undergone the least bit of proper editing. There are many gifts and talents for which Nigerians in general are known. In my experience, however, English has never been one of them. 
It serves no purpose to blast the educational system, with its obvious flaws, when nothing positive will arise from the discussion. Those who have shown no effort in the amelioration of this situation should not go about lambasting Nigerian students. 
I do find it rather ironic, that as more and more Nigerians are raised without a working knowledge of their own native tongues, the mastery level of standard English not only fails to improve, but plummets. 
In any case, it should not be the responsibility of a university to teach an adult to speak the only official language of his or her country. That is the job of the family as well as the nursery and primary levels of school. 
The solution to this problem is not a mystery. The only elements lacking are self-respect as a society and the will to work together toward common goals. If we can gain a sense of foresight, we will be more inclined to understand and appreciate the value of hard work and effort.

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9. 05-05-2008 11:44

Big shame

It's a big shame if what i read is true. Most of our universities are nothing but a place of making money by our "able lecturers". There are several colleagues of hers in that state. The appropriate authority should fish them out before its too late. The First Lady issue should be ironed out properly.

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10. 05-05-2008 09:25

Educational Standard in Nigeria

When it is reported in our News media that Educational standard has fallen in Nigeria ,alot of our people will never agree with these facts.Students dont learn any more they only learn code of Cults and no more but let our leaders know that the future of that great Nigeria depends on a stable, strong and efficient Educational standard

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