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21. 04-05-2008 11:14

Shameful

I have been able to interact with many ESUT graduates,most of whom cannot make a correct sentence.Anyway,same thing is happening in ABSU,where students pay either in cash or in kind(with their bodies) to earn a degree.This is not new in the Nigerian society.The authorities should investigate and bring this urgly trend to an end before things gets worst.

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22. 04-05-2008 09:40

TURANCI

Have you heard the first lady speak ?she can barely string together a complete sentence in english if she is not reading from a prewritten speech and she is supposed to be a graduate of ABU.Makes me wonder if ABU teach students in hausa.

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23. 04-05-2008 09:26

To Emeka

Why do you think this is not possible??. Are the lecturers at ESU immuned to corruption? or to sexual favours. I dont know where you live but I can tell you i am ashamed at the level of English with some our new graduates(ie the one we can 'speak and write'). We really need to wake up otherwise the stupidity that prevails now will be nothing when this so-called new gradutes take over the country 20-30 years from now

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24. 04-05-2008 09:05

THERE ARE MANY LIKE HER

Now let us be honest with ourselves this is not a problem of just one particular university, it is a general problem with our educational system. Mushroom universities, many mushroom lecturers, admitting mushroom students sometimes not through JAMB but through 'Special lists' of those who can afford bribe, exam malpractice, sex for marks, money for marks, buy handout for marks, pay lecturer to write your project etc etc. Is there any student in our university who does not know what it means to remain behind after exam to "follow up?". And unfortunately it is not only the new state universities even in the first generation universities I personally have come across cases of a lecturer offering to write project for one of his graduating students for 50k. In this  
I agree with Soludo that 80% of Nigerian graduates can not be employed in a competitive environment. Many private companies and international organizations have come to realize that a Nigerian graduate with Second Class Upper does not necessarilly mean a quality product hence such organizations trust their own apptitude tests and interviews and rate such results above Nigerian degree.Most of our post graduate / Masters courses popular with workers and politicians ,are just cash and carry programmes.The unfortunate thing is that there are many like Miss Doris Ifeoma teaching our children in schools. It is a viciuos circle, garbage in garbage out. The solution? Tighten up our admission criteria, accredit only fit universities and for courses in which they have qualified staff, flush out substandard lecturers, make teaching one of the highest paying jobs so as to attract quality people not just adventurers who take up teaching as an opportunity to sample beautiful females and collect money from the ugly ones and male students. Put in checks andbalances that will enable students to report extortions without suffering any repercussion.

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25. 04-05-2008 08:41

is not a possible

I utterly do not agree with this,I need a further prove

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26. 04-05-2008 08:37

Teach her basic english

what is wrong with her not speaking english this is what to expect when academician decide to leave the classroom and take administrative and political appointments to the detriment of educational development,since the state director is a P,hd holder i presume,he should help the young woman and others like her with tutorials in basic english.

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27. 04-05-2008 07:48

re: NYSC member cannot speak englisg

such a disgraceful act should be investigated and possibly the girl should be made to state how she got her purported degree certificate. If it is true that she actually studied in ESUT, the authorities of the specific department should be queried. I am utterly scandalised having finished from the Engineering faculty of ESUT.

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28. 04-05-2008 07:38

Doris attend community primary school

Yes she attend her community high school and was later admitted to the university with the same certificate, kindly treat her well and let her firt provide her intry qualification and how her graduate certificate was awarded to her. This are some of the things that happened every day. I dont think writting post graduate qualifying exam for the national service will be necessary.

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