--- On Mon, 4/25/11, A Ighedosa <*******@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: A Ighedosa <******@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NaijaBusiness] Fw: Letter to Nigerian Parents
To: NaijaBusiness@yahoogroups.com, "NIGERIA ABUJA" <abujanig@yahoogroups.com>,

Samuel:

You wrote: ", this syndrome- my children will not suffer what I suffered is destroying our tomorrow." You are absolutely right about that. Most Nigerians in prison from the UK to the USA are products of this syndrome. These young men and women have relied on parental support most of their lives. They don't know what it means to work and earn a living. They don't know how to live on a budget on a monthly basis.
They resort to searching for short cuts on how to make money. Even if it entails rubbing a bank, stealing people's credit cards, 419, Identity Theft, etc. Yes. Many of them are languishing in European prisons and American prisons. The number is rising!
The average Nigerian in the homeland believes money buys everything. Therefore, go after money by every means necessary.
You remember the saying: "Garbage in garbage out." Please note the following highlights:
Most Nigerian Universities are poorly equipped.
If you don't buy the lecturers' handouts, you are doomed to fail. Period.
The poor smart male students make a living writing term papers and take-home exams for the beautiful ladies who prostitute to pay their way through school.
What about the "SEX FOR GRADE" syndrome? If you are a beautiful woman and the lecturer wants a piece of you, you will be damned if you don't comply. Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State, featured prominently on this.
The University of Benin medical graduates were described recently as charlatans by their national Governing Board in Abuja. What an embarrassment.
You have (about) 70% of high school seniors failing in Mathematics and English. About the same percentage is often caught cheating in exams.
Most school buildings in Local Governments areas have no doors, windows, desks, and supplies. Teachers' salaries are mostly irregular.
Can you imagine hiring these men and women who bought their certificates or bribed their way through universities as teachers? What do you expect them to deliver? The Directors of Education in both Federal and States Ministries of Education are quick to flash their degrees from prestigious universities world-wide on your face if you dire question their decision-making processes.
Ojukwu, the Biafran warlord had a stroke. He was shipped to London in an Air Ambulance that was financed by two State governors; no hospital in Nigeria was equipped enough to treat a stroke victim! What do you have to say about that?
I can go on and on. It seems to me that the priority of those in position of authority across the board in Nigeria is how to get a piece of the pie - how to loot as much money from the government as possible; rather than dwelling on how to provide quality education for the future leaders of the country. Cheers and peace.

A Ighedosa