garfield16:


what's the big picture care to explain because this is a supposed best graduating student of mass comm saying things like "I wasn’t discourage" instead of "discouraged". If this huy walked into my office looking for a job i wouldn't employ him because I can't trust him to write articles without proof reading his English.

Etizz:
OP abeg how can I differentiate between left leg socks from right leg socks?

garfield16:


direct your enquiries to Chris Ngige, Minister for employment

garfield16:


There is no big picture, you and him are products of a failed education system which is why you dont see a problem with his English


again a student of mass com writes an srticles, not engineerring, not economics, Mass Comm and here are the grammertical flaws in his article

"published on several news outfits" should be published in

ranked Denmark the “ Happiest Nation, Burundi, the least happy” and Nigeria 103rd least happiest in the .....poor use of semi-colon


The survey ranked countries based on their abilities to provide basic necessities of life for their citizens thereby making them happy .The report published on several news outfits ranked Denmark the “ Happiest Nation, Burundi, the least happy” and Nigeria 103rd least happiest in the World. But to start with the first one, as usually the case with many students who graduated and are awaiting mobilization for National Youth Service, I started browsing the street of some major towns and cities in search of a temporary job to earn a living and avoid being dependent. [b]Nigerian youthsNigerian youth [/b]I visited several secondary schools in Kano to see if I could be appointed a classroom teacher, of all the schools I visited, the school principal pulls out dossiers of applicants waiting to be called for an interview.


This is the 1st paragraph of a published article by someone supposed to be the second best graduating mass comm student? I stopped highlighting the errors because there are so many The whole article is a grammatical mess, God help us!!!!


syntax errors, grammatical errors. Now someone at Vanguard published this article because as the second best graduating student one would assume you don't need supervision but alas!

akanbiaa:
From your utterance you seem proud and arrogant(no offence meant) have you heared the parable the empty drum makes the loudest noise, nairaland is not an english tutoring class and if you notice a mistake you dont insult(except if thats how you are raised up in your family and your lack manners and respect)you only show the error and the corresponding correction and the op will learn and might even thank you. You really dont get the big picture(the employment of experts in english question was for you to reason if experts can be unemployed who are you to criticize negatively someone trying to pass a positive message), see how you disgraced yourself by making mistakes while trying to ridicule the OP and display your expertise in english which is faulty to a large extent. You should learn to think deeply before typing and behave or at least pretend to behave as a well bred gentleman. A word is enough for the humble and wise. If you like take heed and be wise if not insult and get worse its your cup of tea. I am already Like water you hate me you suffer and you like me its to your benefit.

garfield16:


I am an employer of labour, I always have vacancies for good people, I struggle to find good graduates. I get applications every day but they are usually always not up to the task. take it from me there are jobs out there, the problem is there are too many half-baked quack graduates and to make matters worse they have no work ethic. That's why it seems like there are no jobs, if people only strive to improve themselves, they'd be in hot demand in this environment because believe me the average Nigerian University graduate in unemployable, why do you think people are sending their kids abroad en-masse? Just as graduates are shouting no jobs, employers are moaning no good graduates. Distinguish yourself from the mundane and you will get a top job.

jara:
Let me first thank you for your criticism of the young man without a job that came out as Mass Comm. graduate.

I was really surprised by the paragraph below. Please not. There are no jobs out there for many qualified graduates while there are for some that are unqualified but know who is whom.

Half-baked graduates are everywhere and foreign graduates get the same criticism in their foreign countries.

The reason people are sending their kids abroad en-mass is because they can afford it. If they spent the same amount on our schools, we would have better students. You should have known that. Indeed, with all the faults and criticism of Nigerian universities (believe me, I share their views), Nigerian graduates do better in graduate schools than many foreign graduates and accomplish more. The reason may be hunger to learn and most of them are on scholarships from government and daddies that send them out en-mass. While many Nigerian graduate students have to work and send money home.

My biggest surprise is that you ignore the substance of the article. After all the cries and demonstrations people like you and me have given up on outrageous salaries!

Sealeddeal:
We Nigerians are cowards. The only meaningful thing this generation of Nigerians can achieve to save our future generation is to go on complete rampage and take over from this very elite and destroy every Traditional/Political institutions they have built around themselves to sustain them and their children. We can never achieve anything by voting out old evil and bringing in new one. We don't deserve this very democracy if our generation will be better.
We should bury the idea of being rich and buy the idea of building a rich generation. We can never be happy but our generation can be made happy if we can successfully destroy this very dangerous set up from the evil minded elites

iliyande:
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iyatrustee:
I enjoyed reading through! He is a witty writer. Keep at it brother and you would be one of the Simon Kolawole's, Mahmud Jega's soon



I am sad already. Nigeria has more than enough resources than most countries can boast of.

garfield16:



For you and all the other who keep pointing out my typos, I weep for our country! The rot in the system is so bad that we no longer know right from wrong, I weep for our future as a country and the mediocrity of our youth because you don't seem to get it. For the umpteenth time, i am not a journalist, a self confessed 2nd best Mass com graduate, I am not the one in search of a job, I did not publish in Vanguard, so I dont have to correct my typos or proof read my post. Very often I will know there is a typo but I only correct if it changes the content of my post otherwise people can figure it out but I can do that because i am not a journalist and I am not writing an article in Vanguard!!!! Is it really that difficult for you people to understand that he is held to a different standard precisely because he a mass com graduate who intends to be a journalist. He is a professional, I am not, he published in a newspaper, I did not. Are we really this far gone as a country?


if I am sick and self diagnose and buy the wrong medicine it is allowed, I am not acting in a professional capacity but if a doctor prescribes the wrong medicine are you saying I should not complain because even I made a mistake? what is wrong with you people?

When something is wrong, it is wrong, there is no way to sugarcoat it, wrong is always wrong. But we are a nation of people with low standards especially in our professions but when you point it out they say you are arrogant. No winder if you want anything done well in this country you have to bring in foreigners, even to lay tiles, to plaster walls you have to bring in people from Benin republic, because we Nigerians dont understand the concept of standards in our professions.

RingimKabir:


So you know Kolawole and Jega.

I tot ladies never read columns

garfield16:


The reason people are sending their kids abroad is because if they don't they'll end up like the graduate of Mass Comm above....half baked and umemployable!! The same people who are sending their kids abroad went o universities here when the quality was good, the degrees were worth the paper it was printed on and the graduates were employable and in demand. I know because I am one of them came through the system when the system was good and I can see the difference between the graduates then and the graduates now. It's not a question of affording, it's a question of Nigeria is just not an option so you just have to find the money or you would have failed your kids. I am telling you people in my time no 2nd best graduate from a Nigerian Univeristy or Polytechnich would publish such a flawed article, talk less of a Mass comm graduate. By the time you graduate even if it is a 3rd class, it would have been drilled into you to proof read your work such that iot is second nature or else you will still be in Uni with endless carryover! Not even someone with a diploma, there used to be standards in education, sadly there aren't anymore and the worst thing is you tell the youth of today and they say you are being harsh and they wonder why Dangote is asking them to come and drive trucks.

akanbiaa:
Your attitude and manner of approach is the problem.

iliyande:


Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/nigerias-first-minister-sadness/



www.nairaland.com/attachments/3508039_cd0830aweaeza5_jpeg7838d3cb56c7aff35eca9dba6e59bd4a Haruna trekking from Kano to Abuja to protest ‘Taraba guber election rigging’ in April 2015. Photo credit: AS Aruwa

garfield16:


His English is not that of someone with a 4.0 GPA. If it were any other field I would understand but not Mass Com. How do you get a 4.o GPa in Mass com with poor English and sentence composition? These are the people that will end up as journalists and start printing misleading news all because they didnt get their English right. Did you notice how he said he "demanded" to see the GM, that should have been "insisted" or "requested" also twice at least he said salaries instead of salary.

Kayoski:

Am sorry ,If u can't see it yourself with ur self acclaimed wealth of wisdom , then am sorry u have no place here...
I suspect u have a myopic mind
#Noinsultsmeant

Kayoski:
This is one of the best article I've read on NL in a long while ...
Oga Lalasticlala this is frontpage worthy...

#modified

Nigerian youth, Nigerian youth , Nigerian youth

in 1980's : u were told u r the leaders of tomorrow
in 1990's : still leaders of tomorrow
in 2000's : still leaders of tomorrow..

pls when is expected "Tomorrow " arriving

in all this years , obasanjo has ruled u twice , buhari is ruling u the second time , don't be surprised if babaginda and abdulsalam still rules again...

Take ur future in your hands " Tomorrow is today"

garfield16:


I cannot apologize for an attitude that doesn't tolerate mediocrity. I won't be dragged down by the national pastime of "managing"


I say what I see, I speak my truth, I don't know you from Adam so I don't have to be diplomatic on the internet. The question you should ask is whether what I say is true or whether people don't like the fact that I am saying it. If what I say is wrong then call me out, if it is the latter then that is your problem not mine. It means people have a problem with the truth.

lekkie073:
*open thread*
*read*
*yawn*
*sleep off*
*wakes up*
*stretches limbs*












what is dis one saying sef

henrydadon:
u were warn not to vote buhari..

garfield16:


His English is not that of someone with a 4.0 GPA. If it were any other field I would understand but not Mass Com. How do you get a 4.o GPa in Mass com with poor English and sentence composition? These are the people that will end up as journalists and start printing misleading news all because they didnt get their English right. Did you notice how he said he "demanded" to see the GM, that should have been "insisted" or "requested" also twice at least he said salaries instead of salary.

garfield16:


His English is not that of someone with a 4.0 GPA. If it were any other field I would understand but not Mass Com. How do you get a 4.o GPa in Mass com with poor English and sentence composition? These are the people that will end up as journalists and start printing misleading news all because they didnt get their English right. Did you notice how he said he "demanded" to see the GM, that should have been "insisted" or "requested" also twice at least he said salaries instead of salary.

garfield16:


His English is not that of someone with a 4.0 GPA. If it were any other field I would understand but not Mass Com. How do you get a 4.o GPa in Mass com with poor English and sentence composition? These are the people that will end up as journalists and start printing misleading news all because they didnt get their English right. Did you notice how he said he "demanded" to see the GM, that should have been "insisted" or "requested" also twice at least he said salaries instead of salary.

garfield16:


what's the big picture care to explain because this is a supposed best graduating student of mass comm saying things like "I wasn’t discourage" instead of "discouraged". If this huy walked into my office looking for a job i wouldn't employ him because I can't trust him to write articles without proof reading his English.