don4real18:


First, I wish to congratulate Mr Ayodele Dada for his academic milestone of which many have tried and many have fallen so he should keep his head held high even though he is not to first and certainly won't be the last.

I stumbled upon a writeup few days ago on how the writer says that Mr Dada deserves a national honour/award and his reason was obvious; The 5.0gpa.

And I became so confused because I thought the honour was given to those who have rendered service(s) to the benefit of the nation and after a research, I concluded that the writer alongside many others are ignorant of what the National Honour truly stands for............

Nigerian National Honours are a set of orders and decorations conferred upon Nigerians and friends of Nigeria every year. They were instituted by the National Honors Act No. 5 of 1964, during the First Nigerian Republic , to honour Nigerians who have rendered service to the benefit of the nation. The Nigerian National Honours, in descending order of importance, are:
*Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal
Republic (GCFR)
*Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger
(GCON)
*Commander of the Order of the Federal
Republic (CFR)
*Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON)
*Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic
(OFR)
*Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)
*Member of the Order of the Federal Republic
(MFR)
*Member of the Order of the Niger (MON)

The GCFR and GCON are customarily respectively bestowed on former occupants of the office of President of Nigeria and Vice President of Nigeria including former military heads of state of Nigeria and Chiefs of General Staff. The GCON is also customarily bestowed on the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the President of the Nigerian Senate during their first year in office, while the CON is customarily bestowed on Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (culled from Wikipedia)

Now, what does Mr Dada deserve?
Still the national honour or an applaud from the education lovers
His achievement is a benefit to himself and not the nation.
What did he do for his final year project?
Does it contribute to nation building?
Did he invent any mathematical theory?

There are many 2nd class, 3rd and many that didn't even attempt jamb but are contributing towards building the nation through the creation of job opportunities.

He should go out and prove himself and not become a burden on the nation just because of a degree that is not recognised in developed countries.


He has tried and I commend him but after school, life begins......... I wish him success
Bello Wahab O.

I'm happy that this guy's issue has come up in Nigerian discussion. It gives me the final evidence that I am right and that Nigeria does not understand what national progress means and the role of education in national development. I've spent the last few years trying to bring awareness to the fact that we get things wrong here but they've all ignored me thinking I must be crazy to be diametrically opposed to their path of "progress". Nigeria will never go anywhere because someone scored all the marks in exams. That person only remembered what he was taught of what some other people discovered and thought and proved. Everybody is now going to university to collect a degree and get a high-paying job. There's no co-ordinated national effort to harness our best minds towards improving our lot as a nation. Some of the greatest minds that made the world what it is today either did poorly in school or didn't even attend university at all. The greatest inventor of all time who gave us the light bulb (Edison) didn't go through much schooling, certainly not university. Many people have been scoring 4.0/4.0 in American universities and none ever became the president or even had any breakthrough discovery in their names. Today in Nigeria, if you don't embellish your CV with "university of this and that" with 2/1 minimum, they declare you dumb and will never give you that chance to compete with others in anything at all, including sharing an opinion on the thing you know better than all of them. We're shooting ourselves in the foot in this country, and I can't fully describe the contents of my mind on Nairaland - it's too much. I know this issue very well and my advocacy has been about re-defining education in this country as a means to solve all our problems. Sadly, people like Ezekwesili who are examples of what I'm saying, having little knowledge apart from Harvard economics degrees, would not sit down and listen. These people we look up to don't know nothing. They spent all their time trying to get that high degree from foreign universities and have had little time, or ability, to reflect and think things that can't be found in university syllabuses. I'm tired!

emmanuelkant77:
..bf u educate me on de nid fr learnin,,try n understand d rationale behnd wat i said,,i neva condemned learnin,,as a mata of fact i read evryday jus to increas ma knowledge,, bt u guyz seein bsc or gettin gud grades in d university as an end s wat i can't understnd,,,talkin abt knwin wat it teks to mek moni.lols..bro i wnt talk abt dat,,i'd jus rest ma case hia...

understanding is what you need. No one has said getting good grade is an end. It is only paramount.... a prerequisite if one wants to climb the ladder of success perhaps. There are many business men who are not educated. Their state of not being educated affects their businesses you can't deny that.. Education is paramount, That's my point. In the case of the Unilag grad, there is nothing wrong commending the guy for his effort. It takes commitment, focus and hardwork to be successful be it in academics or in business .I don't know if you are a Christian... the bible says ; seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings and not mean men.

It will soon be turned into tribal clash,I blame the organisers of such honour, none of the awardees worth it, so what is good for Shekua should be good for Buhari.

adwem2003:
Go to school first and have 5.0. Then come back and write this thrash.

what is the thrash in what he has written? don't know why we nigerians always want to twist rules just to favour self.its simple. the feat is a personal one.scholarship awards are for this kind. you should appreciate op for the enlightenment instead.

National honor becos of a degree.

This is just the best point so far. If u went to a university in Nigeria n u made a 5.0 CGPA ,u deserve a national honour ( it aint easy mhen) after being recognised such students should be sponsored for further studies. With this we wont be deprived of standards in all sectors. This should be in the law n constitution of this country. Groom them while they are young.
#myopinion.

Oahray:
You do have a point, but you seem to be subtly arguing that it isn't worth the recognition. Maybe that's not what you meant but that's how it sounds.

I had to do a double take at "he is not the first and he won't be the last."

Pray tell... Who in your family, nuclear or extended, dead or alive, has ever gotten a 5.0 CGPA from a Federal University?

If there isn't, check your neighbour's family.

If there isn't, shut the hell up!

daretodiffer:

It wasn't a bit

I'm certainly not jealous of his feat.... I appreciate excellence

majekdom2:
understanding is what you need. No one has said getting good grade is an end. It is only paramount.... a prerequisite if one wants to climb the ladder of success perhaps. There are many business men who are not educated. Their state of not being educated affects their businesses you can't deny that.. Education is paramount, That's my point. In the case of the Unilag grad, there is nothing wrong commending the guy for his effort. It takes commitment, focus and hardwork to be successful be it in academics or in business .I don't know if you are a Christian... the bible says ; seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings and not mean men.

i understand ya view perfectly well,,,it teks hardwrk,Dedication n mst importantly God's grac to achieve such lvl of excellence,,,bt wia u got it al wrng is dat ur stil seein passin tru de university as d onli means of gettin educated,,n dats fallacy bro,,,u dnt nid to pass tru d 4walls of d univ bf u educate urself,,,al u nid do is surround yaself wt intelligent minds,,follow d footsteps of de wise,,allign yaself wt dose wt desam vision as yrs,,always try to b informed,,,den dwell n feed frm d books of de wise,,bro i bet u not evn dat professor frm dat ya dept who probably hav stpped readin simply becus he has reached d highest hierarchy in education can beat u

Pains of a third class graduate.

Aigbofa:
Aki and Pawpaw got national awards but a fellow with a real achievement shouldn't?

aki and pawpaw contributed to an industry that touched people nationally and internationally. the guys project should be the area of attention if it impacts nigerians. take for example a guy's final year project in my class was freely downloaded by nigerians both home and abroad. it was the first yoruba bible mobile app then. this kind can be considered for that honour not for his grade, infact i don't think he had 3.0 but he impacted nigerians...

Personally, this dude did well and made himself proud but the priority is misplaced. It's not easy to click 5.0 regardless the course u studied from school. Even the easiest courses as one could so term bring so much stress. Having said that, all needed by him are just, Financial support to further his studies as I see him as bookworm which would Excel in classrooms better. He's not done anything that would make him the first, somebody already did it in Ife in 1976, imagine, electrical electronics Engineering at that! Be that as it may, financial support, of course, free employment awaits him and that's most certainly, lecturing job in UNILAG. He's not done anything spectacular to the nation on international level, not one I heard of. As good as he was, he should have made news for some competitions. Some guys from Nigeria represented UNILAG, UNIBEN in shell eco marathon and I'm sure they did well and they tried to have gotten that far to Netherlands, and many more from other universities, yet they were not recognized for taking the country's technological advancement beyond the shores of the country. We value somethings unnecessarily, Dada remarkably did well but others students that are not close to 5.0 that also graduated in other fields have achieved internationally more than him beyond his 5.0 but rather we appreciate academic record breakers over technological record breakers. Moreover, who would use the technology produced by Nigerians, even government doesn't believe in us. God bless Nigeria.

payek:
aki and pawpaw contributed to an industry that touched people nationally and internationally. the guys project should be the area of attention if it impacts nigerians. take for example a guy's final year project in my class was freely downloaded by nigerians both home and abroad. it was the first yoruba bible mobile app then. this kind can be considered for that honour not for his grade, infact i don't think he had 3.0 but he impacted nigerians...

Aki and Pawpaw are not unique in any way except for their sizes. They are just like any other actors in nollywood.

babyfaceafrica:
Wailers and gala sellers will disagree.....if dada is from anoda region naw,we no go hear word...

No mind the., the boy from The East with 4.7 or 4.8 got 1million naira and a Innoson car.

Drchristian:
These bush people envy yoruba people no be small after all the success they've got frm d attache by force union..
From
Nollywood
Afrobeat
Education
Religion
Culture
e.t.c
I wonder what these bush people will be today if in their SE region without the yoruba's culture.

What exactly are you trying to prove?

Adiwana:
Wat is it with make money bs!dude just graduated,and you want him to "make it over night".And you think meeting with personalities in/out of the country will not get him there?Nigerians and jealousy.Thats why we are backward as a nation?GEJ did his job by congratulating Buhari.In sane countries,he did his fundamental duty.But today he is being celebrated.You know wat a 5.0cgp is?you wey dey talk sef,wetin you grad with?

God bless u bro, people r always celebrating what should not be.

emmanuelkant77:
i understand ya view perfectly well,,,it teks hardwrk,Dedication n mst importantly God's grac to achieve such lvl of excellence,,,bt wia u got it al wrng is dat ur stil seein passin tru de university as d onli means of gettin educated,,n dats fallacy bro,,,u dnt nid to pass tru d 4walls of d univ bf u educate urself,,,al u nid do is surround yaself wt intelligent minds,,follow d footsteps of de wise,,allign yaself wt dose wt desam vision as yrs,,always try to b informed,,,den dwell n feed frm d books of de wise,,bro i bet u not evn dat professor frm dat ya dept who probably hav stpped readin simply becus he has reached d highest hierarchy in education can beat u

your opinion anyways. I guess you only seeing it this way because of the current state of our educational system. In other countries, you need to pass through some institutions to be regarded as " educated " Not necessarily the university. I bet you do not know the importance/advantage of passing through educational institutions. You can read the bible, roll with Christians..... but why is it still advisable you go to church.... sorry, I don't know if you are Christian. The point is, these institutions are there for a reason and their existence can't be neglected. Have you bothered to ask yourself why the great companies have research centres in educational institutions? Look beyond the standard in Nigeria. We are where we are today because we neglected the importance. Do you know how much china is investing in its educational institutions today?

don4real18:


First, I wish to congratulate Mr Ayodele Dada for his academic milestone of which many have tried and many have fallen so he should keep his head held high even though he is not to first and certainly won't be the last.

I stumbled upon a writeup few days ago on how the writer says that Mr Dada deserves a national honour/award and his reason was obvious; The 5.0gpa.

And I became so confused because I thought the honour was given to those who have rendered service(s) to the benefit of the nation and after a research, I concluded that the writer alongside many others are ignorant of what the National Honour truly stands for............

Nigerian National Honours are a set of orders and decorations conferred upon Nigerians and friends of Nigeria every year. They were instituted by the National Honors Act No. 5 of 1964, during the First Nigerian Republic , to honour Nigerians who have rendered service to the benefit of the nation. The Nigerian National Honours, in descending order of importance, are:
*Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal
Republic (GCFR)
*Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger
(GCON)
*Commander of the Order of the Federal
Republic (CFR)
*Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON)
*Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic
(OFR)
*Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)
*Member of the Order of the Federal Republic
(MFR)
*Member of the Order of the Niger (MON)

The GCFR and GCON are customarily respectively bestowed on former occupants of the office of President of Nigeria and Vice President of Nigeria including former military heads of state of Nigeria and Chiefs of General Staff. The GCON is also customarily bestowed on the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the President of the Nigerian Senate during their first year in office, while the CON is customarily bestowed on Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria (culled from Wikipedia)

Now, what does Mr Dada deserve?
Still the national honour or an applaud from the education lovers
His achievement is a benefit to himself and not the nation.
What did he do for his final year project?
Does it contribute to nation building?
Did he invent any mathematical theory?

There are many 2nd class, 3rd and many that didn't even attempt jamb but are contributing towards building the nation through the creation of job opportunities.

He should go out and prove himself and not become a burden on the nation just because of a degree that is not recognised in developed countries.


He has tried and I commend him but after school, life begins......... I wish him success
Bello Wahab O.

Although rare , his feat isn't the first in the Nigerian educational sector , a few years back a female accomplished the same feat from the university of Ibadan , department of mathematics , graduating with a 7.0 GPA from a possible 7.0 GPA . If she wasn't honoured with a national award why should he ?. Let him go out to prove his worth then we can recognise him.

Drchristian:

Ode leleyi o..how did u learn Yoruba? u live there abi and u cannot leave there again..u need flogging or Lagoon 4 dis comment.

for ur information, in mile 12 attack, hausa killed more igbos than yoruba but ur people are not courageous enough to talk about it.

Mile 12 has been dealth with...cuz is closed down and not even one hausa dey there now so go and face ur hausa/fulani threat in you red mud cursed region and stop invading Yoruba lands that u love so much.

Ur mumu go last. Can you people, the Yoruba try this thing the Hausa did to you in the north?

majekdom2:
your opinion anyways. I guess you only seeing it this way because of the current state of our educational system. In other countries, you need to pass through some institutions to be regarded as " educated " Not necessarily the university. I bet you do not know the importance/advantage of passing through educational institutions. You can read the bible, roll with Christians..... but why is it still advisable you go to church.... sorry, I don't know if you are Christian. The point is, these institutions are there for a reason and their existence can't be neglected. Have you bothered to ask yourself why the great companies have research centres in educational institutions? Look beyond the standard in Nigeria. We are where we are today because we neglected the importance. Do you know how much china is investing in its educational institutions today?

My friend, Thomas Edison had over 1,000 patents i.e over 1,000 inventions officially recognised. His lab was not a university. He never attended university, let alone coming first or last there. Let me tell you something, if the internet were invented before classrooms, there would be no campuses today that you people call school or universities. Human beings aren't smart; they lack the ability to be constantly aware of the reason for an action but quickly follow the pattern as the rule. When the reasons change, we still follow the pattern, not knowing that pattern no longer applies. Education is not getting a certificate from a brick-and-mortar institution. Education is the acquisition of intellectual skills and knowledge. If you go to that campus and get the paper but don't have skills or knowledge (that's the case in Nigeria), you're worse of because even though still empty, you would now be constituting a nuisance to everyone that you are educated. If full and equal access to the facilities of education were available to everyone in Nigeria, then no problem - let's all go there. Not when there isn't and only the privileged ones get to go to schools properly and you then decree that everyone must be measured according to how well they did in the tests at school. Does that sound fair? Why not assess them based on the desired skill set you need for a job role? Abraham Lincoln died in 1865. Till today Americans consider him their greatest president. There were all these Harvards in his time, comparable to what we have in Nigeria today. He was from a poor home - he didn't go to any. He was a lawyer. How? He studied privately for the tests required to be passed to be a lawyer. Full stop. There was no internet then for easy access to all the information in the world. All his classroom education was a total of ONE YEAR! In his day people could have PhDs from Harvard too. Unlike in Nigeria, they didn't block his life because he didn't go to their list of "recognised places" to prove he was bright. He proved it in the real world against all comers. We don't get it in Nigeria, I keep saying. You will see: this 5.0 GPA guy will never achieve anything for this country. He can't. He would even likely go abroad for " further studies" (wetin una ape country dey study sef) and quietly get a nice job there and quietly enjoy the rest of his days on earth. Or he may become one of the people drafted by our moneybags to enter and continue the bastardisation of the country in the political culture they would teach him. What did he study? He cannot have any direct impact on the country. The political field he has no idea and would only follow the pattern they tell him is "the way". Lastly, I have NO IDEA what secondary school in Nigeria would advise their best students to go and study Psychology at university. Shikena!

Haters will always talk. People fail to understand that education is not only about subject matter, concepts/topics. There is more to it if you come out tops in any field. Skills like determination, persistence, resilience, self-motivation etc are learnt. It simply shows that energy can be channeled to positive outcomes if one is interested. Psychology or any field of study. I wish people can learn.

Aigbofa:
Aki and Pawpaw got national awards but a fellow with a real achievement shouldn't?

The achievement you're talking about is on a personal level. Therefore, he has been given various awards by his school. A national award is for national achievements, of which he has none yet. I understand the OP perfectly. For me, I'm not jealous, I don't even want it. The expectations that come with such cgpa are high.

seunwen2:
Coming from HAWUSA man not surprised

That is not an hausa man but ndi ajeeyan blinded with hate and boiling envy.

Mekurexx:
I agree with the writer!. 5.0 is a personal accomplishment. It doesnt add anthing to the nation. He surely has a bright future and should be supported by the government if he decides to further his studies. But giving him a national honour. LOL

I knew that guy, we graduated together from the same faculty, though he is from PSY, and I am from ECN....

That guy is hot o. His A's were 85+.... Many of them.

Come and see bad belle in his department.

I am happy he made it.

Nigerians and their complaints. Someone can not graduate with 5.0CGPA again

2tees03:
God bless u!

Aki and paw paw were actors,they contributed to the growth of the entertainment industry in nigeria. they deserve the national award.

Oahray:
there's nothing insulting there, almost everyone has a family but only a few include a genius. Take it personal if you wish though... It's your wrap of suya and I don't care to share it with you.

If one thinks something is commonplace, it's cos he's seen so much of it. A 5.0 CGPA isn't as trivial as he's trying to make it seem, at least not in Nigeria.

You can argue against a national award without having to trivialize remarkable excellence. It's the only ish I have with it.

You are an incorrigible fool! Insult or deride anyone all you like but you never ridicule anyone's family! Never!...

Jelousy Jelousy ... in Don Jazzy's Voice

eminent007:


Stupidity is when you quote a post that long only to comment "ok"

ignorance and foolishness is wen u cannot see tru things or just assume u know or understad wat u dont av an idea of.ode is ur uncle at home that is stupid,oloriburuku

redcliff:




come and eat food... you were the one calling me Olodo on the other thread abi? Dolt

No be you or one of your family write this,OLODO?
lol..you know the meaning of dolt?

Oahray:
You do have a point, but you seem to be subtly arguing that it isn't worth the recognition. Maybe that's not what you meant but that's how it sounds.

I had to do a double take at "he is not the first and he won't be the last."

Pray tell... Who in your family, nuclear or extended, dead or alive, has ever gotten a 5.0 CGPA from a Federal University?

If there isn't, check your neighbour's family.

If there isn't, shut the hell up!

Steve jobs(dropped out),Dangote(dropped out)Bill Gates(dropped)Jumoke Orisaguna(I don't think she went) so what's the fuss about 1st class,abeg make that guy go listen to"Life is all about money"

[quote author=somegirl1 post=44074809]

GPAs aren't calculated that way.
He got As in all his courses, perhaps one or two lower grades i.e B or C, in less weighty courses, but most likely never scored 100%[/quote

He never got a "B"..... OK?