129 LASU medical students fail to graduate
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Written by Kunle Awosiyan, Lagos
Thursday, 24 June 2010

No fewer than 129 students of Lagos State University College of Medicine could not graduate with their mates for the 2009/2010 academic session.

This was revealed at the induction ceremony for the sixth graduating set of doctors, on Wednesday.

According to the overall best student, Dr. Balogun Adeniyi, the college registered 159 students for medical programme but only 25 of them completed the course successfully, while 129 failed to do so.

Adeniyi, who described the programme as six years of academic imprisonment, advised his mates who could not graduate this year not to be discouraged but put in more efforts to excel in the following year.

However, the state governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has described the low number of medical graduates as academic accident in the institution.

He attributed the low number of graduates to serious adherence of the college to high standard of academic performance, adding that only students who scored high grades during their 200 levels were allowed to proceed for medical programme.

abysmal, woeful, unacceptable.

better than graduating half baked doctors. Life is precious.

abi ooo!!!

Sure say some of those that failed did not becos they probably refused to pay up?

Time to head to Ghana if in need of medical help. Average doctors in Nigeria earn between N70-N120K per month which is less than $1k yet someone who studied history or islamic studies earns 4x that amount in a Nigerian bank.

When I was at the university of  ilorin too. only 1/4 of the class graduated.  In nigeria people dont score 90%. less than 30 nigerian have ever scored 90% in nigeria universities with over 100 universities and nearly over 50 years.

Nigeria system is different from abroad, there is no open quiz. you do not use calculators too.  it is not allowed.
Nigerian do well in maths than people abroad because  calculators are not allowed in universities. So you better know what you are doing or you would fail.

The question is that if Nigerian medical doctors are really medics. I mean anyone can diagnose and inject for Malaria, Typhoid and dysentery/cholera all the time.

It's painful but then remember there's no duplicate for live. Na only one life me n you get.

Is better for those once to go back to the classroom and pick up their books than to come out here to start giving people malaria injection for a minor fever.

Friends, I am talking from experience, a very close friend died as a result of quack in that field, she was treated for malaria and thyphoid instead of a common fever, as her health became worst, she went back for them for them to run the test all over again, that was when they discover she was not sick of malaria or thyphoid but the harm has already been done as she died few weeks later.

It's a very long story which i can't really go in details, so lets be cautious.

So friends which is better to waste lifes or to take more time to study.

Great Laswhite!!!!!great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wao, even in college of medicine?
Nigerian educational system.

OAM4J:

better than graduating half baked doctors. Life is precious.

exactly.another one or two years for them is not a bad idea.

That is the effect of godfatherism in our educational system. Most of the students admitted to read some "special" courses are admitted not on merit but on godfaterism. In this days of lack of employment, some parents do anything and everything to ensure their wards read courses like Law and Medicine. I know a student who did very well in SSCE, JAMB and Post-JAMB and wanted to read medcine in one of our universities. The student was denied admission because he had no godfather and had no money to bribe his way.

Our leaders cry poor academic performance, standard of education is very low and all such nonsense, yet they continue to influence VC and lecturers to give their wards admission even where it is obvious that such wards performance do not meet the pre-requisite condition for admission. Lets bet,  this issue will soon get to the national assembly for investigation. Meanwhile, some of the legislators lobbied for unqualified candidates to be admitted. Who is fooling who?

Naija is a  country in the dark!