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Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by blackprowler: 8:39pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
don4real18: 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! 4 Likes |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 8:40pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
emmanuelkant77: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. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by domnwan(m): 8:44pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
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. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 8:47pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
adwem2003: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. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by akigbemaru: 8:51pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
National honor becos of a degree. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Laraberry: 9:00pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
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: |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by don4real18(m): 9:04pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
daretodiffer:I'm certainly not jealous of his feat.... I appreciate excellence |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by emmanuelkant77(m): 9:07pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
majekdom2: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 |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by ladycomfort(f): 9:12pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Pains of a third class graduate. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 9:14pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Aigbofa: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... |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by abimic(m): 9:21pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
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. 1 Like |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 9:22pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
payek: Aki and Pawpaw are not unique in any way except for their sizes. They are just like any other actors in nollywood. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by dapsonlou(m): 9:24pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
babyfaceafrica: No mind the., the boy from The East with 4.7 or 4.8 got 1million naira and a Innoson car. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by oyalunasamuel(m): 9:29pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Drchristian: What exactly are you trying to prove? |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Misternas89(m): 9:54pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Adiwana:God bless u bro, people r always celebrating what should not be. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 10:03pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
emmanuelkant77: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? |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 10:17pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
don4real18: 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. 1 Like |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by jameschibuike(m): 10:19pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Drchristian: Ur mumu go last. Can you people, the Yoruba try this thing the Hausa did to you in the north? |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by blackprowler: 10:47pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
majekdom2: 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! 1 Like |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Naikkie(f): 11:45pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
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. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by bankybobo11: 11:53pm On Mar 24, 2016 |
Aigbofa: 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. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by mercyville: 12:05am On Mar 25, 2016 |
seunwen2:That is not an hausa man but ndi ajeeyan blinded with hate and boiling envy. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Ugosample(m): 12:22am On Mar 25, 2016 |
Mekurexx: 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. 1 Like |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Vectormike(m): 1:18am On Mar 25, 2016 |
Nigerians and their complaints. Someone can not graduate with 5.0CGPA again |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Nobody: 6:14am On Mar 25, 2016 |
2tees03:Aki and paw paw were actors,they contributed to the growth of the entertainment industry in nigeria. they deserve the national award. |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by ADBOK: 6:19am On Mar 25, 2016 |
Oahray:You are an incorrigible fool! Insult or deride anyone all you like but you never ridicule anyone's family! Never!... |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by EricSmallz(m): 6:27am On Mar 25, 2016 |
Jelousy Jelousy ... in Don Jazzy's Voice |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by gbens2000(m): 6:38am On Mar 25, 2016 |
eminent007: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 |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by mercyville: 8:08am On Mar 25, 2016 |
redcliff:No be you or one of your family write this,OLODO? lol..you know the meaning of dolt? |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by Titilayooni(f): 8:12am On Mar 25, 2016 |
Oahray: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" |
Re: Why Mr Ayodele Dada Shouldn't Be Given A National Honour by son4century(m): 8:51am On Mar 25, 2016 |
[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? |
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