Where dis guy go again na Baddo come update o! E don dey cold abeg and me no like it

So? See this Otondoh.. That's how it is in almost all Nigerian villages. No bigi

I comment my reserve

Hmm, the country is upside down.

Long piece of shiiiit, very few jobless peeps are gonna read all through this boring writeup.

Op,that school is somehow backward now-why chalkboard
I am currently serving in a Local Government in Enugu State and do you know what they did in my school!

They answered all the questions in two A4 papers and then make photocopies(about 70) and gave them to the students while the WAEC invigilator sat at the front with viju milk(s) and series of doughnuts!

Wetin I see 4 .................... pass this one....90% of my ss1 students couldn't write A-Z. Had to copy all the notes on the board, couldn't dictate. Was frustrated one too many times. The waec, they had to photocopy the thing and share....former corpers told us that at the end they'll just give you 200 naira...so we didn't involve ourselves.

bankoleben: We interacted with the driver throughout the course of the journey, asking a lot of questions about Ikom and Cross River people in general.
"Ikom is a good place o", the driver said responding to a question. "After Calabar, na Ikom be the next urban city" he continued.
"Na true say Cross River people dey chop person?", someone asked from the back seat, causing everyone in the vehicle to burst into laughter.
"Na only Ugep people dey chop person o, no be everywhere", he responded.
"Dem talk am for camp say dem don stop am teh teh", the lady sitting beside me said, looking the direction of the driver, visibly terrified.
"Na lie o no let dem deceive you", he replied, looking convinced about what he was saying. He continued, "If dem see say una body dey fresh well well, na to chop be the next thing o".
The lady beside me gave out a heavy sigh, and everyone seemed filled with fear.
"Na God go save us o", someone finally said following a brief moment of silence.
The discussion continued until we got to Ikom. Just as the driver said, the town seemed civilized. Almost all the new generation banks were present, and the streets were clean. The vehicle took us down to the NCCF Family House, where Batches B and C corps members were on hand to welcome us.

When it was 8:00 pm the bell for evening devotion was rung. The devotion was a 30-minute programme, after which the NCCF executives introduced themselves one after the other, and we were intimated with the Dos and Don'ts of the Family House.

It had been a long day. My eyes were heavy with sleep, but bed spaces were at premium. The brothers' room was completely occupied, so I moved to the sitting room, laid a piece of cloth on the floor and slept off...

The bolded is a complete misrepresentation of the Ugep people. I am from ugep and we are not cannibals, we have had countless corps members who have settled in ugep after their various service years. Please let's stop misinforming people.

Dr. Wise:


The bolded is a complete misrepresentation of the Ugep people. I am from ugep and we are not carnivores, we have had countless corps members who have settled in ugep after their various service years. Please let's stop misinforming people.

wat! UGEP IN D HOUSE? DIDNT U READ WAT Driver said? Talk true una stil dey taste am.

still waiting

Hahahaha, everybody wit his own view of xperience. Mine was @ Rivers state, in a village dat hav never xperncd motor tire mark or print of a motor tire 2 talk mor of electricity b4. We didnt wait 4 a prophet 2 tel us or knw wot d vileg would b lik. * Anyway 2 start wit dia girls, could u bliv dat up to 80% of dia gals blow age of 20 has up to 3 children wit difrnt fathers?. Wen we approchd dem on y dey ar givn birth Rajally:-D but dey wasnt ashamed 2 tel us dat givn birth 2 basterds as we nomly cal it is nt a sin 2 dem.
* insid d clas, d boys are fathers while d gals are mothers, that made us 2 stat treatin dem as parents as if we'r teachin in ADULT EDUCATION centre.
* worst of it, imagin dat a teacher would b westin his/her tim teachin whil majority of un-serious 1ns would b playin PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS @ d back wit its voice 2 d maximum.
* Com 2 exam, exactly wot bankole said hapens dia.

Nadoson: Hahahaha, everybody wit his own view of xperience. Mine was @ Rivers state, in a village dat hav never xperncd motor tire mark or print of a motor tire 2 talk mor of electricity b4. We didnt wait 4 a prophet 2 tel us or knw wot d vileg would b lik. * Anyway 2 start wit dia girls, could u bliv dat up to 80% of dia gals blow age of 20 has up to 3 children wit difrnt fathers?. Wen we approchd dem on y dey ar givn birth Rajally:-D but dey wasnt ashamed 2 tel us dat givn birth 2 basterds as we nomly cal it is nt a sin 2 dem.
* insid d clas, d boys are fathers while d gals are mothers, that made us 2 stat treatin dem as parents as if we'r teachin in ADULT EDUCATION centre.
* worst of it, imagin dat a teacher would b westin his/her tim teachin whil majority of un-serious 1ns would b playin PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS @ d back wit its voice 2 d maximum.
* Com 2 exam, exactly wot bankole said hapens dia.

lol.. Which of the villages in rivers state

Which of the village rather

This thread don cold jor.....*runs outta thread*

@ op, I also serve in crossriver state.. Odukpani to be precise... I teach both intro tech and further maths.. The students in the school are smart.. The school has a standard lab for each science subject(biology,physics, chemistry).. It just depends on ur PPA

Babe,plz next time do not quote such lengthy write ups!

roselynbas:

Oga, please, can you continue?!

This OP never see anything sef.
His own is small compared to mine.

Unlike you, I'm no saint.....I simply went with the flow then.

I too served in Cross-river........Community Sec. Commercial School, Okangha, Ikom.

Going through the Poster's account reminded me of my service year in Cross River as well, Obubra Local Govt. back in 2009/10.

It's common practise in most parts of the state. The students pay huge sums of money as "Admin fee", which will be used to arrange the answers and sort invigillators.

It's a very lucrative business there. WAEC officials hustle to get posted to schools with larger population of students cos the larger the number, the more "gain" they make.
In my PPA then, subjects like mathematics and other subjects requiring calculations were solved on the board for the Students to copy, while the answers for other subjects are dictated to the students. It gets more annoying when the students still ask for the spelling of simple words while answers are being dictated to them.

Teachers that have children taking the exams will ensure their kids get a duplicate of the written down answers, so they can get the answers faster and more accurately.

I seriously weep for this country whenever I think of the future. Who will teach my Children :

The bolded is a complete misrepresentation of the Ugep people. I am from ugep and we are not carnivores, we have had countless corps members who have settled in ugep after their various service years. Please let's stop misinforming people.

Unfortunately That silly story will live with you Ugep People till Christ' s return.

Same with the story of Yoruba Peeps eating from "kpo"

and all Hausa men "not circumcised"

Or Calabar peeps eating every dog they find next door etc...

The conversation in that taxi was a joke but I think the poor coppers took it too seriously.

BTW OP,
I went to high school in Mary Knoll college, Okuku in Ogoja (CRS) in the 80's We had M.Scs and at least 2 PhDs Indian Teachers and some Irish Rev Fathers(it is a Catholic School) all through with several laboratories,libraries, solid School. Most of the boys where highly cerebral. Some of us where on scholarships and the school's Projects, Teaching aids and some teachers at the time were being sponsored by the world bank.
If you stole you were sent-off, you were caught "girrafing" you'd be taken out of the exams and suspended, you failed more than once you were sent-off, you are fagged and you run to mummy, or daddy you were sent off(Ask Liyel Imoke nah...him run go Govt college Umuahia for him time....lol), sneak out of hostel and you are caught...you go go.

I was back there on a visit a few years ago....5 yrs ago precisely and I almost cried....that school was looking like ....well.

The kids I "tested" outside the fifth class still looked and sounded a little sharp but in our days they will definitely come up the rear in any exams or some below average performance....my point? standards have fallen across the country but you will feel it more in "Politicians impoverished states" like cross river and several others. After this I expect you to tell us about the people themselves...they are surely very warm,love visitors and very peaceful.and you had lots of pounded yam, no be bro so no palm wine for you ..right?

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So...if you are serving in Ikom....don't do like me ooh.

I was the ONLY corper from my batch in my school then.

"Some of you can start number one on the first page while others can leave some spaces for the second question." That was Mr. James teaching his students the art of cheating.
"After 2, you count two boxes upward and mark that point." He obviously wasn't finding it easy explaining how to plot a graph to his students.
One question after the other, Mr. James wrote everything on the board. The students found graph plotting extremely difficult, except for two who seemed to have some idea of how it's done. As he wrote on the board, he asked the students to "go and load your pockets with money."
Towards the end of the paper, the supervisor, who had received his own share of the 'administrative fee' paid by each candidate, brought out a paper to be filled by the Physics teacher, stating the specifications of materials/equipment used for the practical.
I haven't seen any equipment or material but if that paper wasn't filled, or wrongly filled, the whole practical would be rendered useless. I simply took the photocopied material Mr. James copied on the board, and from the table of readings, I calculated the specifications of materials/equipment that must have been used to arrive at those readings, and signed as the Physics teacher.
"Exam malpractices is what we do here o", Mr. James told me as we moved out of the lab after the paper. I didn't say a word.
"Is this how you do it in Southwest too?", he asked. I told him it's not done that way, though there are isolated cases like that.
For years, exam malpractice had been entrenched in the system such that a clean exam would look strange to the people. This is a case when the normal becomes abnormal and the abnormal is the norm; when disorderliness is the order of the day. It reminded me of George Orwell's writing in his 1984's novel: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." How contradictory!
After the paper that day, I realized Mr. James was staying in Ikom so I followed him back on his motorcycle. As we got to the main road (Ikom-Calabar expressway), he stopped for some seconds to greet a man. He later told me that the man was stationed at the entrance of the village to 'signal' them in case an external examiner/supervisor came visiting. I then realized it was a case of 'organized crime'. On our way back that afternoon, I asked him if that's what other schools do.
"Our own is even better," he replied.
I'd heard stories like that before but it was strange watching it unfold in my own eyes.

Oga Bankole, I hope you read this reply. I have carefully followed your thread and its a pity your NYSC experience in Cross River State had to be a pungent one. As an indigen of this amiable State, Let me try to correct some impressions here: Firstly, I'm going to forward the name of that school to His Excellency the Governor on Monday, I think they deserve a visit from our State Commissioner for Education. Since the inception of Senator Liyel Imoke's tenure as Governor, the Secondary School system has seen immense reformation-and o! We do not have money in CRS so we cannot fund free education. Secondary schools across the 3 Senatorial districts have been renovated and their staff and teachers duely trained, retrained and sacked where necessary. The school at Ekirom will surely witness change soon and I assure you her principal and corrupt staff will be brought to book. We've had instances where the Commissioner for education drives to schools in rural areas and is not even recognized for his person by staff and so He gets the required information and acts accordingly. Examination malpractise is seriously frowned at by the Cross River State government. This government does not believing in commissioning so many school projects, stocking them with laboratory apparatuses and leaving them to rot at the hands of incapable teachers, but seeks to groom schools properly in a quota system, which involves testing, training and retraining of secondary school teachers-and yes, secondary school teachers do write exams set by the ministry. To further clear your doubt, you could inquire about the impact of this administration on the education system. Giving you the Governor's mailbox number here would not be necessary-education is that important to him, the first time I got it was while he was addressing secondary school students at a Children's day forum a couple of years back. Your complaint will be reported to the appropriate authorities, and we don't "eat people" here in Cross River State. Hope you have a rather fulfilling visit when next you traverse the land of this beautiful place. Long Live Cross River State!

bankoleben: Thursday soon arrived and I got to Ekirom around 8:30am. I learnt Victor had gone to Ikom so I didn't bother going to corpers' lodge. Only a handful of students were around, standing in groups of twos and threes when I got into the school compound. I moved closer to some of them and asked a few questions about their preparation for the exam. It wasn't long after that when Mr. James arrived, and as usual, he was in 'high spirit'. We talked for a few minutes after which he ordered the students to move into the laboratory.


The sight of the lab from outside alone was discouraging, and moving inside was even more disheartening. There were only a few benches and some stools. No sinks, and if not for a few retort stands and measuring flasks, you'd mistake it for another classroom.
He opened a small office inside the lab where some old and damaged equipment were kept. He brought out, three rectangular glass prisms, four damaged meter rules and three dysfunctional ammeters. Equipment he brought out was no where near what WAEC asked the school to provide.
"Where are the other equipment", I asked.
"These are all we've got, we'll manage them." He knew I wasn't impressed with his response.


He showed me some photocopied papers containing likely questions and their answers, telling me it was prepared by the Physics teacher they liaised with.
When the WAEC invigilator arrived with the question papers, the students were arranged according to their exam numbers while Mr. James asked me to move into the small office where laboratory equipment were kept. After a while, when the paper had started he brought a copy of the question papers and asked me to go through the questions.


The questions were not unfamiliar, the usual questions that had been asked repeatedly by WAEC over the years. Out of curiosity, I moved out of the office to check what was going on. All the students were seated with WAEC questions in front of them doing nothing but looking up as though some sort of manna would fall from heaven. I wasn't surprised because even Isaac Newton, with all his prowess in Physics, would have been helpless without necessary equipment. Of what use are three rectangular glass prisms - without optical pins and plain boards - to thirty students who needed to demonstrate the refraction of light through a glass prism? Outside the lab, Mr. James was busy making calls on his phone. I then returned to my seat in the office.


About an hour after the commencement of the paper, I heard the sound of a motorcycle entering the school compound. Not long after that, Mr. James and a short, dark man walked into the office with some papers. I didn't need a prophet to tell me that the 'manna' the students had been waiting for had arrived, the bye product of Mr. James' alliance with another school. The short man explained some things to Mr. James and left, but not before both of them had agreed on a price. In a moment, Mr. James moved out of the office, cleaned the chalk board and all the students readied themselves to write.
"WELCOME TO CROSS RIVER STATE", I said to myself.

the bolded part made me chuckle.

Op,I am not surprised at your story.These things happen in the so called "Centre of Excellence" too. I served in a private school in Lagos and I was one corp member that made it hellish for authorities in the school because of my refusal to participate/help students solve their exam questions.
I was told by the school principal that its no big deal even as the proprietor of the school is a redeem pastor and fully supportive of it. She said the school apart from being what it is, is also a business enterprise and if. SSCE failure is associated with the school,parents would withdraw their wards. I didn't budge though. It was against everything I stood for and couldn't be a part of it so I didn't show up when they were to write those papers.
Even other teachers in the school said I was a wicked person and dared me to deny that I wasn't "helped" during my time which I did though they disbelieved.

Everything is wrong with the Nigerian system of education.Everything is wrong with how a lot of people see education/certifications-do or die. whatever it takes!The rot is deep and cleansing is almost unacheivable.

slimyem: the bolded part made me chuckle.

Op,I am not surprised at your story.These things happen in the so called "Centre of Excellence" too. I served in a private school in Lagos and I was one corp member that made it hellish for authorities in the school because of my refusal to participate/help students solve their exam questions.
I was told by the school principal that its no big deal even as the proprietor of the school is a redeem pastor and fully supportive of it. She said the school apart from being what it is, is also a business enterprise and if. SSCE failure is associated with the school,parents would withdraw their wards. I didn't budge though. It was against everything I stood for and couldn't be a part of it so I didn't show up when they were to write those papers.
Even other teachers in the school said I was a wicked person and dared me to deny that I wasn't "helped" during my time which I did though they disbelieved.

Everything is wrong with the Nigerian system of education.Everything is wrong with how a lot of people see -education/certifications-do or die. whatever it takes!The rot is deep and cleansing is almost unacheivable.

Na today?? redeemed pastor... mschreewwww

tonibassey: Oga Bankole, I hope you read this reply. I have carefully followed your thread and its a pity your NYSC experience in Cross River State had to be a pungent one. As an indigen of this amiable State, Let me try to correct some impressions here: Firstly, I'm going to forward the name of that school to His Excellency the Governor on Monday, I think they deserve a visit from our State Commissioner for Education. Since the inception of Senator Liyel Imoke's tenure as Governor, the Secondary School system has seen immense reformation-and o! We do not have money in CRS so we cannot fund free education. Secondary schools across the 3 Senatorial districts have been renovated and their staff and teachers duely trained, retrained and sacked where necessary. The school at Ekirom will surely witness change soon and I assure you her principal and corrupt staff will be brought to book. We've had instances where the Commissioner for education drives to schools in rural areas and is not even recognized for his person by staff and so He gets the required information and acts accordingly. Examination malpractise is seriously frowned at by the Cross River State government. This government does not believing in commissioning so many school projects, stocking them with laboratory apparatuses and leaving them to rot at the hands of incapable teachers, but seeks to groom schools properly in a quota system, which involves testing, training and retraining of secondary school teachers-and yes, secondary school teachers do write exams set by the ministry. To further clear your doubt, you could inquire about the impact of this administration on the education system. Giving you the Governor's mailbox number here would not be necessary-education is that important to him, the first time I got it was while he was addressing secondary school students at a Children's day forum a couple of years back. Your complaint will be reported to the appropriate authorities, and we don't "eat people" here in Cross River State. Hope you have a rather fulfilling visit when next you traverse the land of this beautiful place. Long Live Cross River State!

I hope you are ready to fight this good fight with proof as this story may be a fictionalized account

@ OP & other corpers. Please do accept the expression of my high regards for letting us in on these sordid happenings in our front yards. No apologies to those pretending its not happening or probably an isolated case. We're derogatorily ranked as the 3rd nation swelling the poll of illiterates in the world. Kids don't have nothing to strive for anymore..they can't even compete favourably with their peers in national exams. Things would only change when we admit that we've got a real bad problem.

biolabee:

Na today?? redeemed pastor... mschreewwww

lol.
Her emphasizing that was to tell me to stop being hung up on religion and morals because I kept saying its stood against what I believe in
So if a redeem pastor can turn the other eye,what am I then making a fuss about?

We know this happens. The real question is, "How do we change the system so that it stops?"

Who benefits currently? Parents, Students, Teachers, Gov't Officials
Who is harmed? The society at large is robbed of competent, and well educated people. Let's not even mention how scary doctors without a real education are.

Solution #1: Make the test harder to cheat on.
* Make each test slightly unique. For example, create 100 different editions and randomly distribute them so that every school gets dozens of different version of the same test.
* Require schools to submit video of students taking the exams. Video must show the current newspaper, the chalkboard, the teacher, and every student must be visible.

Solution #2: Pay students N100,000 if they can provide proof that someone cheated.
* If 50 people are all sitting in a room trying to cheat, isn't ONE of them going to want the money more than the good grade? That should scare everyone into not cheating.

Solution #3: Forcibly close schools if malpractice is proven.
* As soon as a school is found guilty of malpractice, everyone must be fired and replaced. The principal must get jail time.

Solution #4: Create anger among the populace.
* Distribute flyers showing the consequences of malpractice. For example, show pictures of mother's dying after childbirth and link the death to badly educated doctors and nurses.

Got any more solutions

Let's create a list of solutions to this problem, and submit it to the Governors. No sense in just sitting around and complaining about it.

@Slimyem, your case is exactly like mine!

I was just going to point out to the OP that even in our dear, civilized center of excellence, it happens.

I served in a private school too, and I was given more than my due share of workload. I didn't complain when they asked me to coach the students for their WAEC. I bore their rudeness and lackadaiscal attitudes. I'd give them assignments, they'll ignore me. I'd explain the rudiments of Biology practical, they'll be asking me to teach them reproduction.

And on the day of their WAEC Biology exam, they were looking for me. I was at Ogudu for a rally and didn't show up. The principal made my life hell from that moment.
*He reported me to my mommy
*Started with holding my clearance
*Didn't pay me for after school lessons, summer coaching. In all these things, I didn't complain. Because the other corper was doing it, he went about boasting that they won't retain me, and I'll come back to beg on my knees.

God rewarded me, I didn't go back. I didn't even stay on for a day. I got a job even before service year was over, and till date, the children weep when they see me.

They insist that if the result isn't good, parents will not bring their kids. From 23 students, the became 169 during WAEC, because people know its a school where malpractice rocks.

I didn't cheat to pass SSCE, I even wrote it twice before I got a good result, so I won't help anyone cheat. Did the exams get harder overnight?

By the way, the principal said to my shame, he hired the best Biology teacher in the area, and I should go to hell.
All the students had F9. I swear.
All their students who applied to study medicine are back, they wrote it again. I no fit laugh.
There's no hope for Nigeria