Secondary School Students Writing Exams for UNILAG Undergraduates!

Secondary Students Caught Writing Exams For Varsity Students

''No fewer than 23 secondary school students hired to sit for semester examinations by students of the University of Lagos have landed in serious trouble.

"Already, nine of the exam cheats caught during the institution’s just concluded second semester examinations have been docked at the Yaba Magistrate court on a four-count charge of conspiracy, altering, forgery and impersonation.

"Investigations by security operatives at the university revealed that most of the suspects were secondary school students.

"Can you imagine a secondary school student, writing examinations for an undergraduate? It makes us wonder how those students got admission in the first place. By handing them over to the police, we are trying to teach other students that dishonesty is not the way forward,"

"Just a few months back, we arrested a welder while writing examinations for a student of International Relations in the same school. We won’t get tired of prosecuting them until they get tired of cheating."a security source said."

--Sun Newspaper, Saturday August 06, 2005


Where do we go from here?

How will you blame the undergraduates? In Nigeria, what employers are looking for are certificates, it dosn't matter whether you got them from 'oluwole'. So, if the police are closing in on 'oluwole' experts, then, the next option will be to get into the system and get it by all means. If not, to get naira will be difficult and therefore,survival will be difficult.

Why won't secondary school students have to write exams for them, when they seem to understand only parties and clubs?  Despite all their all their [arrogant behaviour] they can't even pay better mercenaries?  I bow!

Edited: Use of pidgin English

The issue I think, rests not only with the students, but with the lecturers as well. These people were probably hired by cult members just to show presence and mark the attendance sheet during the exams, after which the undergrads would "settle" the lecturers. I cannot believe, try what you may, that 23(!!!) secondary school students can genuinely write undergraduate exams (In Nigeria) and pass. Too much coincidence there, and does it mean that our undergraduate curriculum is getting "soft". If not, abeg tell me the school name.

This goes to show that Nigeria is Jagajaga!

so that their space will not empty in exam hall
 

duh. why would you ask someone to write your papers if you weren't.

  oga o. Ni Nigeria yi na. But come to think of it- how can a secondary schl. student sit for an undergraduate exam? The students should be properly interrogated. there is more to it than we can see now. Sugbon o ye ki unilag ti ju yen lo naow! E doti arayin men!!!  

  Anyway, unilag students are overwhelmingly "effizious" iyen ni pe effizy ti po ju. sincerely no beefs!

It is a very sad story indeed. don't know what 9erian eductional system is turning into and da fact that companies r more interested in 1st class not what u really know. i can't imagine that kind of thing happening somewhere like canada aspa a uni. student covering for a friend not to talk of a high school kid..itz ridiculous. don't get me wrong but 9erians are really smart because i do get that often here but there r some that just doesn't want to put that effort instead they would prefer 2 party and club all year. like last year iw as in 9eria, da same unilag. friendz i have that goes dere kept inviting me 4 parties that i had 2 ask them if they eva study in school because unlike western world whereby they put assignments full everywhere that even a breathing space u will be asking for. in another account, a 2nd cuzzin of mine who is a graduate had 2 go and write an exam 4 his friend who is in da uni. simply because the dude is sick. am like den he should tell da prof. and write it after if da sickness is that bad. i also have another friend who didn't write an exam simply because he doesn't know what 2 write and told me he will pay off da prof...den am like NA WAHHHHH. something l similar like diz can happen here whereby you're givien a take home exam and u go and get a tutor or someone with master's degree 2 do it and pay da person...2 of ma 9erian friendz did it diz semester and they don't know nuthing in economics but just doing economics as a major 4 da sake of it. so most of them take that mentality and come abroad but cannot pay a prof. here...itz impossible.. i once asked  ma friend 4rom kenya if her major is economics, shez like nope that economics r for 9erians  because almost any 9erian in ma school is doing economics whether they have background in it or not. Nigerians help to help Nigeria is grow further and 1st class or da case may be shouldn't be a criteria of who getz a job in most cases but what the person really know considering the kind of system we have...enough said

Education in this country needs serious reformation. If not, the country is heading nowhere. They will continue to borrow the best hands from other countries at Nigerians' expense. But never thinking of producing them. What can I say? If only I have my way.

It is indeed a shame but it wont be the students that hired someone that is to blame, rather it is the fault of the institution who did not check their standards before admitting them into the school.

I find it hard 2 believe dt incident actually happened in Unilag.Cos.its in d papers doesn't make it true.I'm a Unilag student n i know d security measures in place which wil make impersonation in d exam hall highly impossible.Besides i never heard anythin about it n we've got our own Unilag Sun.A lot of people say things about Unilag dt makes me realise they kno little about d school.Ppl keep sayin we love parties n show offs but dt is true of a section d students as it happens in all schools.Cut us some slack now.

I find it hard 2 believe dt incident actually happened in Unilag.Cos.its in d papers doesn't make it true.I'm a Unilag student n i know d security measures in place which wil make impersonation in d exam hall highly impossible.Besides i never heard anythin about it n we've got our own Unilag Sun.A lot of people say things about Unilag dt makes me realise they kno little about d school.Ppl keep sayin we love parties n show offs but dt is true of a section d students as it happens in all schools.Cut us some slack now.

dude (reniks or whateva), u only click the post botton once next time! we get the point, u don't have to post the same message 10 times, dang, u ain't doing no justice to unilag  by showing us that u can't follow simple instruction and post your' message once!

its a crazy thing, crazy approach and crazy and crazy,
can you just imagine ! so many things are really not right in our naija. imagine a serious student that scored between 250 and 285 over 400 being denied admission! and a rich student with barely 200 over 400 being given admission ! isnt that crazy. some parents are even paying for their wards to gain admission ! what do you expect those wards to do when they finally get to school? Definately, they are going to cheat, drink, smoke. join cult and do so many bad things like hiring a secondary school students to write exams for them. it is really a pathetic story ! the story isnt pleasant at all .
Is it a must that you go to school? some of the dullards could have done better if they have learnt a trade or do some other things that is not related to school.
maybe government has faults as well. the society and the environment is not just settled and okay for so many things
the truth of the matter is, so many things are being applied so that , situation can improve in our society.
we just need a positive attitude and we should try to be doing whatever we can do in our own little ways.
i simply pray for the betterment of our motherland

  it's a pity and a disgrace, i wonder how such students feel walking up to a kid to help them write exams when they surpose to be teachers to those kids. Well i also blame institutions because the qualified students are left unadmitted because they don't have a bag of NAIRA to offer. IT"S A PITY AND A DISGRACE