Dammit. Covenant is supposed to be a christian school. Why is the school acting this way

sage:

Nigerians are pathetic

Eating all kinds of garbage thrown at the masses.

Let them try this kind of nonsense in the States



A persons personal beliefs cannot be used to stop others from getting an education.

Whats next

Igbos have a tendency towards criminality and should not be allowed on campus

What difference does it make whether someone gets HIV thru sex or not? It is still a chronic disease. HIV gotten thru sex does not kill faster than HIV from any other means.
If a student is found to be HIV positive, do they get expelled or what?

sage:

Nigerians are pathetic

Eating all kinds of garbage thrown at the masses.

Let them try this kind of nonsense in the States



A persons personal beliefs cannot be used to stop others from getting an education.

Whats next

Igbos have a tendency towards criminality and should not be allowed on campus

abiooooooo
or that Yoruba girls are too dirty and should be rusticated

_{next time mind the examples you use to make your valid points}

Nawa for u people

Whut is wrong in taking a Frickn Test!!!!!!!!!!!


did they say donate ya head!!!

After working for 5 years, they are to be terminated for being HIV positive or pregnant? Abominable.

i need a link where the school said smone will be terminated for being HIV +

As for Pregnancy, na ur own wahala

The school told u before u entered, u still go carry calabash

U shld know better since its your school.


Aside dt d rule is sad.

Gamine:

i need a link where the school said smone will be terminated for being HIV +

As for Pregnancy, na your own wahala

[b]The school told u before u entered, u still go carry calabash[/b]

I guess another alternative is abortion?
what a yeye school

_{all these mushroom universities springing up everywhere for people who can't pass good old JAMB and then making up silly rules that make no sense,I don't blame them.}

Covenant indeed!!
people who went to Unilag,Ibadan,Ife,UNIBEN and UNN will talk and covenanters will talk too
backyard school

_{this my mouth sef}

I tire oh.

well there are two things involved here they are trying to protects their PR and as well i see it as very absurd and naive to hear that i christian school for tyhat matter being so discriminatve about such issues.
well, despite the advocacy and sensitisation, people dont seem to adhere or hacken to the voice of warning. i am blaming the youngsters who indulge in such practices, they do know that in such part of the country the level of stimatization is very high. so young man and women , you had better check yourself, before you leap

Thks naijaking 4 enlightning le govo, can u imagine that max security prison called c.u,u dont use phones wear jeans,u watch hallmark ch. Like crazy,u cant express urself d way u want.d bloody hipocrite chancellor sent his kids 2d u.s2 study.

Judge not so ye shall not be judged,

What Manner of Covenant?

The parents of intending graduates of Covenant University, must be wondering what manner of contract they entered into with the University’s management when they sent their wards to the University. It is only to be hoped that they read the small prints. The small prints will soon be the subject of litigation. We can see that the government headed by Mrs. Margeret Thatcher was absolutely right to have passed legislation ensuring that the smallest of prints on a contract was 10 points.

The issue at stake at Covenant University centres mainly around the decision to stop final year students of the institution who have either tested positive to HIV or are pregnant from graduating. At the heart of the tussle and the disputations entailed are the very concept of and the idea of the University. In their evolution over the centuries, the concept of the University has at its core, the notion of Universality. This has ensured a focus on the University of the nature of its Composition, of ideas and thought and of lifestyles. It is not for nothing that the Universities over the centuries have become a comfort zone for the persecuted, the initiators of new ideas far ahead of their time, the seemingly deviant and the Bohemian. The cross-fertilization of ideas, thoughts and processes have led to a positive regeneration of the human race.

The emergence of institutions such as Covenant can in part be attributed to the destruction of the University system by successive totalitarian dictatorships through under funding and benign neglect. The emergence of and sustenance of barbaric warrior like ‘cult’ groups mirrored the increasing dysfunction of the larger society and its social fabric.

Entrepreneuraly, it didn’t need the mercurial genius of a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs for an array of savvy business promoters to step into the void. A commercial opening emerged for several reasons. For quite sensible reasons many parents who could afford it were quite rightly apprehensive about sending their hitherto protected adolescents into a cult infested battleground, which quite frankly many of the older publicly owned Universities had degenerated to. In addition there was the bugbear of purported widespread sexual harassment of female students. Overriding it all was the increasing absence of a fixed University calendar. With frequent strikes, disruptions and closures most sensible parents who had the financial wherewithal wanted out. It’s difficult to blame them, no one in their right minds would want their wards to spend anything up to six or seven years to pick up an increasingly devalued degree, which need not take more than three or four years. Herein arose an opportunity.

With swashbuckling Zeal, the National Universities Commission has been dishing out the licences for the establishment of the private Universities. How much rigour goes into the assessment of staffing quality, aims and objectives, quality of infrastructure and so forth is a matter of conjecture. All this small print issues are gradually coming up. Supposedly regulatory agencies in Nigeria have never been particularly circumspect about dishing out licenses at times like confetti. Those who had their wallets burnt from the banking extravaganza of a decade and more ago still have painful scars to show for their misplaced faith in certain seemingly secure financial institutions.

The issue arising at Covenant brings up the issue what exactly has the NUC been licensing? Are we now departing from the centuries old idea of the University by licensing degree mills, where diplomas are rolled off a conveyor belt? For how does the demand for HIV and pregnancy tests possibly be in consonance with the accepted norm of the Universality of the University. Not surprisingly, a coalition of non-government organizations have given the management of the University a 14-day ultimatum to rescind its decision or face mass protest, some of which will take place at the University’s campus at Ota. They have also petitioned the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Michael Aondoka.

Petitioning the nation’s Minister of Justice is quite apt. For what kind of Justice of any conceivable type is entailed in collecting fees from parents for four years and then proposing a caveat at the last minute. What we are seeing is a breach of trust, sexual discrimination as well as a flagrant violation of human rights. The students whose rights and privacy are being violated are of the age of consent. They can vote in national elections and in many countries can even be voted for. Any testing should be strictly voluntary and in this case there is no rational reason for a test at all. Throughout the world there are hardly any countries left where you can be deprived of employment for being HIV positive or pregnant and the employer will be able to get away with it. In most sane societies punitive damages are the usual response from the courts and industrial tribunals to such ridiculous actions.

We are being told here that Nigeria should be led back to the dark ages. The presumption here is that the absence of rationality which led to inquisitions and persecution should be revived. It is exactly this sort of irrationality that Universities have fought against with great honour throughout the ages. Since the University is dealing with Nigerian citizens whose fundamental rights are protected by the Nigerian Constitution, the state and its agencies must step into protect the rights of Nigerian citizens. For what is happening represents a clear disgrace to a country that has been producing University graduates in the Western sense since the 1860s.

How long it will take the Universities Commission to wade into the matter is another issue. Being the sectoral regulator the flagrant assault on human rights and privacy should never have occurred in the first place. It would be for example, clearly absurd if the Broadcasting Commission allowed a radio or Television station to make inciting religious or tribal broadcasts without cracking the whip. No one expects the Central Bank of Nigeria to fold its arms akimbo while the financial institutions rip-off their customers or make ridiculous demands on them. If the NUC cannot get its act together to perform its regulatory function, the government of the Federation has many options open to it, one of which is to establish a more effective and pro-active regulatory. The situation unfolding at Covenant University beggars’ belief, it goes against the grain of everything a University is supposed to stand for and touches on the violation of the rights of the citizens of our country. The sooner the riot act is read by the appropriate authorities and an end put to the arrant nonsense the better. What is painful is that it ever got to this stage in the first place.

WEB

this isnt fair is it because we r black, negriods plz, watz all this. the skewl refusing boys and girls from relating wit each but they r da same ones allowing homosexuals to stay comfortable in skewl.everyone beware homosexuality is legalize in CU.retain a graduate because of HIV.pray for them so they ll all bcom hiv negative, datz wat xtains do rite.start praying for healing n stop da discrimination.am a student of covenant but seriously dey r falling ma hands.this common sense. plz dnt use the bible to say nonsense heck even the devil use the bible too.
'bout dose pregnant, da skewl actually told u dt, so, u know, shit happens sha.

@ 9ja4eva, na wa 4 u?

gears26:

I am a proud student of covenant university, no one is perfect, to me this is the best they think education should be,

How high is the standard of education?Aside propaganda CU gat no high standard in terms of education

chriswely:

[color=#006600][/color][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]this isnt fair is it because we r black, negriods plz, watz all this. the skewl refusing boys and girls from relating wit each but they r da same ones allowing homosexuals to stay comfortable in skewl.everyone beware homosexuality is legalize in CU.retain a graduate because of HIV.pray for then so they ll they r mission rite.start praying n stop da nonsense.am a student of covenant but seriously dey r falling ma hands.this common sense. plz dnt use the bible to say nonsense heck even the devil use the bible too.

Yu right

The decision lies with the university authority provided they do not breach the law on human rights.

well, im very happy replyin this mail.
this school is producin bunch of pretenders and im not suprised about a gist of homo association found in the school.
no fredom so it shoulnt be called a tertiary inst.

solababa:

well, im very happy replyin this mail.
this school is producin bunch of pretenders and im not suprised about a gist of homo association found in the school.
no fredom so it shoulnt be called a tertiary inst.

ROTFLMAO

Na wa oh.All in d name of God

You shld know better since its your school.

i know better Sir.

i will take any TEST

HIV TEST OH

VIH TEST

FBI TEST

CIA TEST

BLOOD TEST OH

PREGNANCY TEST OH

MOSQUITO TEST

TYPHOID TEST

YELLOW FEVER TEST

RED FEVER TEST

BLACK FEVER TEST

Hi,

West Coast University is offering admission for prospective students into professional courses.
You can check for more information on the school’s website at: www.westcoastuniversitynigeria-edu.org

All the best.

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Gamine:

i know better Sir.

i will take any TEST

HIV TEST OH

VIH TEST

FBI TEST

CIA TEST

BLOOD TEST OH

PREGNANCY TEST OH

MOSQUITO TEST

TYPHOID TEST

YELLOW FEVER TEST

RED FEVER TEST

BLACK FEVER TEST

Probably one of their spies or say one sister holier than God.

This is no way an ocassion for anyone to bash Christianity.
A lot of Christians condemn this action of Covenant university.

Christ preached to and mingled with sinners that he came to save
He prevented the stoning of a prostitute
He definitely would not have founded a university with such inhumane rules as covenant.

I want to promote christian values

I am excluding all those practising idolatry from attending my school

AND YES THAT INCLUDES MOSLEMS


I bet some people who support convenants stance would be stunned by this

But that is proving the point i made earlier


When providing PUBLIC EDUCATION, you do not use your personal beliefs as policy

HIV TEST : NUC FAULTS COVENANT VARSITY

The National Universities Commission on Tuesday criticised the decision of the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, to compel its graduating students to undergo HIV and pregnancy tests.

The apex university regulatory body said there was no justification whatsoever for the university to subject its graduating students to compulsory HIV and pregnancy tests.

The NUC Deputy Executive Secretary (University Education), Prof. Ignatius Uvah, stated the commission‘s position in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja.

He added that the university was bound to respect national and international policies on HIV test.

Uvah, however, added that the commission had not received any report on the issue from the university or students ”and we do not know what the university is doing.”

He said, “Institutions have the right to make rules and regulations for moral and attitudinal development of students. But whatever rules must be within the bounds of national and international norms and conventions to which Nigeria is signatory.

”HIV test is voluntary worldwide. NUC cannot allow any directive contrary to that. But one can understand the situation where universities require medical test of in-coming students to know if they are fit for the rigours of academic work.

”But there is no justification at all for testing when students are leaving. Certainly, NUC will not subscribe to that especially when HIV testing is voluntary and the result of such test made known only to the person tested.”

He insisted that universities, as centres of learning and knowledge, should at all times endeavour to comply with public policies and international conventions.



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Covenant University is NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL

IT IS A PRIVATE MISSION SCHOOL

READ ALL THE RULES BEFORE U ENTER OH!

IT HAS THE RIGHT TO INSTITUTE ITS OWN RULES AS FAR AS THEY ARENT LIFE THREATENING U HEAR!

Yup.

100% correct.

Cov U isnt a public school people. They dont owe you squat until u pay em, and the have the right to refuse ya money

while we live in this world anything is possible.
Supposing (God forbid) the person that made this rule contracts HIV.there are various ways to get infected besides sexual promiscuity,what will he do?
resign? or expect people to rally around and uphold him.
People should not make rules that have a chance of affecting them or their loved ones.

The only person immuned from HIV is one already HIV positive.

Gamine:

Covenant University is NOT A PUBLIC SCHOOL

IT IS A PRIVATE MISSION SCHOOL

READ ALL THE RULES BEFORE You ENTER OH!

IT HAS THE RIGHT TO INSTITUTE ITS OWN RULES AS FAR AS THEY ARENT LIFE THREATENING You HEAR!

Yes it does but not when its not included in the handbook.

Well, this is what you get when you allow any tom dick and pascal to open his own backyard university with kangaroo regulation.

Simple fact: if the big boy decides tomorrow that all yellow girls must score 0.0 GPA's, you all can't do squat.

Its a priv ate university. The ownership can do whatever the hell he wants. If you want a say in the matter, dont send your kids to such a place. simple.