Written by Gbola Subair, Abuja
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
The just concluded recruitment examination conducted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recorded abysmal failure as 80 per cent of the applicants, who were mainly first class and second class upper graduates, failed the examination.

Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr Austen Oniwon, disclosed this on Monaday while declaring open the 9th NNPC National Quiz Competition in Abuja

Oniwon, who disclosed that the NNPC was currently carrying out a recruitment exercise, stated that the result of the recruitment examination was not as good as expected as[b] 80 per cent of the so-called first class and second class upper graduates scored less than 20 per cent.[/b]

Represented by the Group General Manager, Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr Levi Ajuonuma, the NNPC boss disclosed that this abysmal record did not only heighten the NNPC management’s apprehension about the lack of functionality of our education format but goes a long way to underscore the need to shift focus away from mere paper qualification.

Disclosing that it would no longer be business as usual in the NNPC, the Group Managing Director said reliance on people to secure employment in the organisation was now a thing of the past stressing that the NNPC now placed emphasis on brilliance.

Apart from the NNPC examination, the GMD said the recently recorded nationwide mass failure of candidates in WAEC and NECO exams made the call for the urgent review of our school system more pertinent.

He said only a functional education that is skilled-based, that adds value to the nation’s economy and takes into consideration the skill-gap that exists in our nation today is ideal for Nigeria of today.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/26695-80-of-first-class-second-class-upper-applicants-failed-nnpc-exam-gmd

I strongly beleive that the GMD must have exaggerate the outcome of the recruitment exam, 80 % of candidates scored less than 20 % of the marks, there may be a knowledge gap in our university education but no school worth its salt will ordinarily award a second class upper or first class garde on a platter of gold, The result should also tell the GMD to open the door of its recruitment to all regardless of being a 2.1 or a first class graduate.

Those who wrote the exams should please share their thoughts on the difficulty or otherwise of the NNPC recruitment exam in relation to similar exams especially those conducted by multinational companies in Nigeria.

I kinda think that the statistics is exaggerated. I over prepared 4 d test but ironically the test was d cheapest i hv ever seen in my life. I could remember telling a folk that i wont score less than 100% in the maths section; this is how cheap it was. I wrote the IT option and i can tell u that those who studied nothing related to it would still score like 40%.

The GMD's statistics is likely to be wrong n bloated as i dont see any graduate in Nig scoring as low as 20% even if he has a 3rd class.

so who is lieing

A paid attack on our education sector, foriegn trained grads also wrote it. Sumthin is fishy jare. 9ja 2.1 and 1st klas are gud at passin test on paper, if it ws oral i go belive . Attention seeking gmd

Why does the NNPC need to recruit so many people? A wasteful organization that should be wound down to make way for private investment. Government needs to discard this monolith mentality, and use PIB to create enough entrepreneurship opportunities in the sector, so that there can be wider employment options. Let them just go and sit down somewhere with their WAEC-style exams.

@Ajanlekoko,
In as much as rate your views on issues highly, from what u wrote up there i could see that u lack information about NNPC and what it stands for.
As par reforms,NNPC is in dire need of it. That it should totally make way 4 private concerns n multinationals then you need to hit your web browser or get close to pple more informed about it

Plutarch:

@Ajanlekoko,
In as much as rate your views on issues highly, from what u wrote up there i could see that u lack information about NNPC and what it stands for.
As par reforms,NNPC is in dire need of it. That it should totally make way 4 private concerns n multinationals then you need to hit your web browser or get close to pple more informed about it

Pls inform me. I sincerely lack information about NNPC

AjanleKoko:

Why does the NNPC need to recruit so many people? A wasteful organization that should be wound down to make way for private investment. Government needs to discard this monolith mentality, and use PIB to create enough entrepreneurship opportunities in the sector, so that there can be wider employment options. Let them just go and sit down somewhere with their WAEC-style exams.

perish that thought.
That is govt's biggest corruption spinning machine.
an organisation where accountability is an alien term.
that exam was probably another money making venture for them.

Here comes A GENERATION OF "OLODOS."

Thanks to fake lives, fake egos, fake hair, etc of the their fake hp hop/hip life.

^^^ yes, in addition English premier league, UEFA champions league,Europa League, Carling Cup, FA Cup, Spanish La liga, BlackBerry, Big Brother Africa, Free mid-night calls, Facebook, Nairaland, Yahoo-Yahoo.These are the people that will become teachers to our children.

Behold the Nigerian Generation of Olodos!


Shocking reports of mass failures in Nigerian school examinations have only confirmed the observations of many scholars and social watchdogs since the past and present incompetent administrations of the Nigerian government have failed to address the systemic failure of modern education in Africa’s most populous nation.

How can pupils and students pass examinations and excel in scholarship when they no longer read!

They prefer to waste their quality time chatting and pinging on smart phones, babbling and gossiping on Facebook filled with their trivia of junk, Twitter and other social network sites, hooked on European soccer leagues and championships and messing around in wanton promiscuous sexual intercourse spun by psychedelic X-rated hip hop music videos and pornographic movies on the Internet and TV while their equally corrupt parents and guardians have failed to be good role models since they have been caught in extramarital affairs of adultery, rape, and other licentious acts of debauchery and other corrupt practices.

Many of the parents are actually intellectually retarded and the only thing they know best is having sex and breeding children they cannot care for. So, majority of the retarded parents breed retarded children and increasing the population of dummies and liabilities who are a regular supply of recruits for crime and prostitution in Nigeria.


What of the school teachers?
When the educational system has collapsed, what kind of teachers do you expect from the tertiary schools?

Over 80 percent of the teachers are not professionally qualified to teach, because they don’t have the compulsory certification to teach.
I bet you, that majority of them will fail the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations if they were in the US.

Majority of the Nigerian teachers in Nigerian schools are even as intellectually retarded as their pupils and students.

In 2008, 19,118 teachers in public schools in Kara State failed the aptitude and capacity tests in English and Mathematics designed from primary four pupils!

Then we have received the latest shocking report that 80 percent job seekers failed the 2011 Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) recruitment aptitude test. And the applicants are the so called best graduating students with first class and second class upper class degrees from Nigerian universities.

“The recent mass failure of candidates in WAEC and NECO exams nationwide makes the call for an urgent surgical review of our schools system more urgent than envisaged. Also our current experience in the ongoing recruitment exercise where candidates with the so-called 2:1 certificates post less than 20 percent score line in some cases has heightened our apprehension about the lack of functionality in our education format. Over dependent on certificates is not the best. Over 80% of the candidates that wrote the NNPC recruitment exams failed,” said Engr. Austen Oniwon, the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday August 22, 2011.

Majority of the graduates from the universities have been found wanting in intellectual skills, unemployable and unproductive.

They have been cheating to gain admission into tertiary institutions and cheating to pass examinations and cheating to graduate, cheating to get jobs and they continue cheating as a way of life until they pass away.

The Nigerian society is like a serio-comic tragedy of existential drama on earth.

The following observation is from a Nigerian blogger.

Distractions Unlimited!
While the Bermuda Triangle of social networks – Twitter, Facebook and Google – still reigns supreme; Blackberry (BB) has become a must for many. These students are no exception, they are constantly pinging. If only the propensity to face-book can be converted to facing their books, then these guys would pass. A post summarizes it thus:
SUN NEWSPAPER today confirmed that ONE million candidates failed SSCE… Y wont dey fail?
FB/ BB/ Lace wig/ …BBA/ Wizkid/ Oniru/ Galleria/ Elegushi/ Ozone/ Shawarma…/ Pizza/ ipod/ Brazilian Hair/ Twitter/ Sagging/ nimbuzz/ ipad… Mcheewwww!!!



~ By Nwachukwu Egbunike in Why won’t they fail? of The Feathers Project blog.

Mental retardation (MR) is a common malaise plaguing majority of the youths and just listening to the popular ditties of 99% of their most sensational hip hop singers is enough to rate their low Intelligence Quotient (IQ).

Communicating with them is like having a nightmarish discussion with idiots online and offline.

These hordes of Nigerian youth I call NFAs (No Future Ambitions) are intellectually retarded with below-average intelligence quotient (BAIQ).

The majority of Nigerian youths we are seeing before our very eyes today are a generation of dullards or what we call “Olodos” in the popular Yorùbá language.

Before we expend all the vituperations on the Youth of Today, we should spare some for the NNPC and their silly posturing. With all the first class and 2:1 graduates they have been employing over the years, they have managed to win the dubious award of being among the eight most corrupt state-run energy companies in the world.
All their first class and 2:1 graduates do is sell crude at $32 and remit $18 to the National Treasury. Even at that they are unable to keep any record of their remittances, and have declared themselves to be heavily in debt. Last time a serving finance minister (Remi Babalola) tried to raise a red flag regarding their finances, he was kicked out of government for his trouble. The organization should be closed down and its assets sold off like NITEL.

If the Gmd wants us to believe him, they (nnpc) should publish d result.At least people dat sat 4d exam should knw their performance,

AjanleKoko:

Before we expend all the vituperations on the Youth of Today, we should spare some for the NNPC and their silly posturing. With all the first class and 2:1 graduates they have been employing over the years, they have managed to win the dubious award of being among the eight most corrupt state-run energy companies in the world.
All their first class and 2:1 graduates do is sell crude at $32 and remit $18 to the National Treasury. Even at that they are unable to keep any record of their remittances, and have declared themselves to be heavily in debt. Last time a serving finance minister (Remi Babalola) tried to raise a red flag regarding their finances, he was kicked out of government for his trouble. The organization should be closed down and its assets sold off like NITEL.

Stop making unfounded comments and shifting accusations. The fact is youths of today don't read. I currently have a Youth Corper living with me who graduated with a CGPA of 4.4 out of 5.He spends 20hrs out of 24hrs receiving or making phone calls and pressing his phone for whatever. I have been warning him of the challenges out there he kept adamant.He believes so much that for him to have made a 2:1 with 4.4 he knows too much.

And 2:2 and below graduates should not just make jest of the 2:1 and 1:1 graduates cos I know 98% of 2:2 and 3rd class candidates would have failed that same test. 

Orikinla:

Here comes A GENERATION OF "OLODOS."

Thanks to fake lives, fake egos, fake hair, etc of the their fake hp hop/hip life.

Syenite:

^^^ yes, in addition English premier league, UEFA champions league,Europa League, Carling Cup, FA Cup, Spanish La liga, BlackBerry, Big Brother Africa, Free mid-night calls, Facebook, Nairaland, Yahoo-Yahoo.These are the people that will become teachers to our children.

Are u guys surprised. Our Educational system in Nigeria is trash. The grading system is very wrong.

Syenite:

Stop making unfounded comments and shifting accusations. The fact is youths of today don't read. I currently have a Youth Corper living with me who graduated with a CGPA of 4.4 out of 5.He spends 20hrs out of 24hrs receiving or making phone calls and pressing his phone for whatever. I have been warning him of the challenges out there he kept adamant.He believes so much that for him to have made a 2:1 with 4.4 he knows too much.

And 2:2 and below graduates should not just make jest of the 2:1 and 1:1 graduates cos I know 98% of 2:2 and 3rd class candidates would have failed that same test. 

Why you dey talk like farmer like this?
Did you even read or understand my post? Where in there did I defend the youth of today?
I daresay you seem to suffer the same malaise as the youth you are quick to criticize.

AjanleKoko:

Before we expend all the vituperations on the Youth of Today, we should spare some for the NNPC and their silly posturing. With all the first class and 2:1 graduates they have been employing over the years, they have managed to win the dubious award of being among the eight most corrupt state-run energy companies in the world.
All their first class and 2:1 graduates do is sell crude at $32 and remit $18 to the National Treasury. Even at that they are unable to keep any record of their remittances, and have declared themselves to be heavily in debt. Last time a serving finance minister (Remi Babalola) tried to raise a red flag regarding their finances, he was kicked out of government for his trouble. The organization should be closed down and its assets sold off like NITEL.

The NNPC and its den of first class robbers.