[b]His Excellency the Executive President of Nigeria had fulfilled one of his promises. The Federal Executive Council has released $200m to the Bank of Industry to be accessed by theater, arts and movie practitioners in Nollywood. It a plus to the incumbent government and a boost to that sector of the economy. Above all it is a step in the right direction. In that spirit i make this call of appeal to graduates of Polytechnics across Nigeria; it is time we made a case for ourselves. We can make the President and the national Assembly initiates a process that would lead to an outright abolishment of the HND-B.Sc dichotomy. If we let it be, employers would keep rejecting and causing there to be segregation among holders of such certificates. This would cause series of chain reactions that may include a rise in unemployment percentage, increase in crime rate, higher brain drain syndrome, lower living standards, promotion of corruption and vices, a lost of taste for technical education, congestion in the universities, examination misconduct and malpractices amongst others. Technical and practical education has succeeded where theoretical education has failed. If it has been proved several times without numbers that HND holders are equal to B.Sc holders in terms of productivity and output at both work place and national development level, why is there still a dichotomy? I implore us all to take this bold step and reject the status of second class graduates that is currently being imposed on us by society. If we kept quiet we would have on the long run caused ourselves so much harm and disservice to this great nation. If we pressed the right buttons, we could cause a law to be passed making it criminal offense for prospective employers to reject or cause there to be segregation between graduates based on their certificates. The time is now, the President, our Governors and Representatives in the National Assembly can be accessed through this platform. If we started now, we would surely be better off in the nearest future. LET’S DO THIS, Thank you.

Your Excellency, you have addressed several issues, but none have so far been related to the current HND/B.Sc dichotomy. This scourge has a chain of negative reactions that militate against the growth of our economy like increased unemployment percentage, increased crime rate, congestion of our mostly ill equipped universities and a lost of taste of technical education etc. Your Excellency if this issue is addressed we would be better off, since it is becoming obvious that a larger portion of unemployed graduates are polytechnic products that suddenly do not fit in anywhere including federal ministries and parastatals because of this segregation. Thank you.

This is our message please let’s keep circulating this important message until it gets to the appropriate authorities for due considerations and until we achieve our desire goal in this fight of faith.

i really appreciate this move and believe me i will spread this all over,

but come to think of it we really need to do something about this , this is a clarion call to all polytechnic gradates to contribute their own quota in order to ensure that this issue is properly addressed and solution proffered once and for all.
IF YOU ARE IN SUPPORT OF THIS MOVE,PLEASE ENSURE TO SPREAD THIS WORD ALL OVER THE WEB,MOST ESPECIALLY TO THOSE IN GOVERNMENT, [/b]

You got yourself a cause worth fighting for, take to the streets like the egyptians. Seems it is the only thing that works nowadays. Goodluck.

Questions on few points. (1) Is this a clarion call to polytecnic graduates or to all Nigerian graduates. (2) In your protest call as I may caption it, you pointed out that "Technical and practical education has succeeded where theoritical education has failed". So, why are you still crying? You had already created and agreed on the dichotomy. And your technical education has also succeeded better in Medicine & Economics? You see, the two certifications are important. Do not feel inferior or cheated, you can excel anywhere you are. Just do the right thing right, and pray to discover whom you are from Providence. Needless to protest. Tanx.

t.r.a.s.h