matoyeh: NA WA O

Opoki:
very well said but do we really need the office of the precisency to issue such directive not to talk of setting up a panel to look into it. Why do the have VC, Den of Deans, Dean of faculties, HOD's, etc? True, there is corruption but not everyone is completely corrupt.
I remembered very well that in Ife there is always a verification process done during and admission process and in 300L anyone caught will not even be called upon to defend his case!

Opoki:
Fact is i like your comments and the way you've channel it but my Big question is will this bring an end to the so-called "Unqualified" student from gaining admission bact into the same school? Why do we address the cause? If the NASU are so under-paid that they turned their office to beggers/runs spot, increase their pay/allowance and if not Sack them and have their names printed, release a memo to all faculties, Colleges even hall of residence stating reasons why the above named staffs are sacked, i bet it with you no one will attempt admitting "Unqualified" student @least for the time being!

noblezone:

There is no indication whatsoever to show that this issue is on the "top" priority list of Mr. President. It might be trivial, yet that issue of University of Abuja is an embarrassment to the Federal Govt which incidentally is also in Abuja. It rather shows that the man is down to earth.

If you believe that this goverment and her security agencies are not doing something about Boko haram, then you definitely believe that since 11th September, 2001 when Osama bombed the US, that the Us governments never did anything about Osama/Alqaeda until he was recently killed.

Also, Boko haram is not trying to seize the country from Mr. President because the country is not his personal property. We all know what has been happening in Nigeria since it was invented by Lord Luggard, blaming Jonathan for the crimes against humanity committed by the Jihardists is pure irresponsibility. The butchery industry of Northern Nigeria did not start with Jonathan and will not stop with him. Mohammed the founder of Islam butchered, Usman Dan Fodio the father of Islam in Nigeria butchered, and the story continues. That is why some of us want us to come together and renegotiate Nigeria.

As for my "ignorant and thoughtless", I sincerely apologize.
Cheers.

Fhemmmy: If they have unqualified students at the university, wont that mean that the system that got them into the school is horrible?

gegee: all this 1 happen only inside ur head yet u go open ur mouth dey talk like say na fact *SMH* nigeria's problem is more than wat we think

Danka7777: Another way to chop money. Kai Nigeria! Set up committees? What you guys don't know is that the presidency has already calculated to make 2billion from this. Ask me how? These unqualified students who presumably bribed their way into college, will now have to bribe these committees members, and the these committees members will then turn around and remit half of the bribes to the presidency. This is Niger for you! Money circulation

ogugua88:

Nigeria is the way it is because of GEJ and his predecessors. As embarrassing as Nigeria's educational system may be, GEJ needs to wake the hell up and realise that he's governing Nigeria, not the United States. Even President Obama faces criticism for educational reform because people want him focusing on the economy. Nigeria's biggest problems are Boko Haram, corruption, and lack of steady electricity. Corruption isn't in government alone. You're right about corruption in the educational sector, but this isn't the way forward. Not yet. Why has GEJ been putting efforts towards education as of late? Wasn't it last week or so that he told professors to produce good students? He went to Germany and asked the western world to help Nigeria fight Boko Haram, then he came home and has been focusing on the educational sector. Maybe he has forgotten that Boko Haram is plotting major destruction in June. GEJ can't produce good governance, he wasn't a qualified student and he isn't a qualified president. Don't let him deceive you. As he's ordering expulsion of unqualified Uni Abuja students, you're still paying high prices for fuel, GEJ is still eating expensive meals, Boko Haram is still plotting against Nigeria, and someone's light may go any minute from now.

ogugua88: ^^^ The answer is simple. No one in Nigerian government knows their roles or job descriptions.

Tropilo:

Kai u sabi think o! No wonder im say make dem flush una comot. because anybody wey dey think like dis, allah d person no fit get pass 2 credits for WAEC.

Danka7777: Another way to chop money. Kai Nigeria! Set up committees? What you guys don't know is that the presidency has already calculated to make 2billion from this. Ask me how? These unqualified students who presumably bribed their way into college, will now have to bribe these committees members, and the these committees members will then turn around and remit half of the bribes to the presidency. This is Niger for you! Money circulation

ogugua88:

I'm very capable of forming my opinion. I'm not siding with anyone. Just as you said, it does not fit me.

Do you know the meaning of democracy? "Rule of the people". Are people ruling? Which Nigerian is happy with the "progress" GEJ is making? There's absolutely no ruling by people in Nigeria as PDP has turned government into a democratic dictatorship. They fool Nigerians with elections but groom who rules next so as to maximize their benefits.

What makes GEJ unqualified? Well, where do I start? He studied zoology and hydrobiology. He has climbed up the political ladder by luck, excluding his initial election as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa. He was promoted to governor after the prior governor was found guilty of corruption charges. Then, he was selected as VP by Yar'Adua. Then he assumed presidency after Yar'Adua's death. Then, he made Nigerians empty promises and won last year's free and fair elections.

As president, what has he done? Look at the airports he bragged about less than two years ago. He called them functional. The last time I was in Murtala Muhammed Airport, the conveyor belt broke, so men were bringing luggage to the arrivals terminal by hand. Our biggest airport is rundown and nothing to be proud of. I don't even think we can land planes at night in Delta and Enugu. If we can, someone tell me.

Shortly, after the Easter bombings, GEJ went to the north where 400 Almajiri schools were being opened. If GEJ had any clue as to what's in the Nigerian constitution, he would have known he was in violation for promoting a religion, and getting into educational affairs. Why should GEJ be using federal funds on Quranic schools? And, this question goes for the Almajiri schools and the expulsion of Uni of Abuja students, why isn't the ministry of education dealing with these issues?
I beg of GEJ or any member in the current government to tell us what's in the constitution to which they are supposed to abide. Hell, I wish for any of them to give us a detailed outline of what they're supposed to be doing in their positions. For a whole president to ordering expulsion of students in a university, it's beyond appalling.

You should go back and read the achievements for 2011 that he posted on his Facebook and tell me if any of the "achievements" he listed are any of your primary concerns. In an insecure and corrupted nation with rising fuel prices/no light, the average Nigerian could careless about the country's credit rating and his launching of Youth Enterprise Innovation giniwa. If that doesn't tell you the man is clueless, then I don't know what does.

Being president does not make him above-human. If that was the case, then he wouldn't be erring as frequently as he does. Such a man is not even worthy of my respect. GEJ has a flimsy excuse for everything. Maybe you've forgotten when he was pushing for tenure elongation because his cabinet members wouldn't have enough time to assimilate to their new posts. Rather than chase Boko Haram, we were told he would catch perpetrators and bring them to book. As BH's attacks intensified, he told Nigerians to pray and everything will pass. Or maybe when he was interviewed by Aisha Ceesay. She asked him about corruption and he said that 90% of the corruption in Nigeria is committed by non-Nigerians.
Are those acts/qualities of a leader? He should take a look at the people around him before he starts making orders of expulsion of unqualified students. VP Sambo has a BH sponsor as a close friend, who assisted Sambo with his own political aspirations. His wife, English butcher, is the former Minister of Education to Bayelsa State and served as a professor. And he's ordering for the expulsion of the unqualified? I guess you don't see the irony.

Now you must give me reasons as to how he's qualified and why he deserves our respect when he and his cronies habitually slap Nigerians in the face and treat us like we're idiots.

Bontee:

And if there is appropriate authority please where were they when unqualified students were entering into the university?. I thing people should go and read the constitution well to check the criteria for qualifying to be the president of Nigeria. If anybody wants to get closer to the government then it starts from the local, state and then the federal. So people should focus more on their local government please and they should tell us how they are checking their local government.

How is goodluck the problem of the whole Nigeria or is he the only leader we have?, Goodluck this and Goodluck that. I am sure people don't know that the local government is responsible for electricity in the western climes and so many other things. We can only just blame our problems mostly on the central process of management we have in Nigeria. Stand up tomorrow to change it and you will see the opposition because of selfish interests. I doubt if some people even know the chairman of their local government or councilor representing their world. Na to blab about the president and PDP, always looking for blame without using this opportunity to suggest or provide solution to the appropriate authority.

GboyegaD:

And where in the post did you get your conclusion from? This is what is destroying Nigeria, a situation where people believe they are better and conclude without any reasonable fact.

Walexz02: [b]
Another unqualified NL member who‘s suppossed to b flaushd out

rabzy01:
This shows that you're as dumb as Jonadumb. Ignorant but yet arrogant. Where did you learn that Dan Fodio is the father of Islam in Nigeria? Tell me when did they butchered your father? Here you are arguing with whom you called children but yet you can't make your point to conviance them. Please defend your incompetent president if you can. If you have anything against islam go to the religion section and post or start a new thread on that. Ignoramus.

noblezone:

The phrase "father of Islam" that I ascribed to Dan Fodio is a figure of speech. He it was that conquered almost the whole of the North with the sword in the name of Allah, except if you want to rewrite history.

As for having anything against Islam, Boko Haram is not just politics: Boko Haram is Islam as well as politics. In Islam, politics is not separated from Religion. I know that in certain quarters, what made Jonathan "dumb" is not his performance but rather who he is. An infidel must be resisted at all cost including bombings.
Else where, I have stated that if Buhari (or any other of "Allah's messengers" like Atiku) had won this election, corpers would not had been butchered either in the North or the South. Boko Haram will not be bombing Nigeria not because they won't have capacity, but because the person in charge is one of their own. And adding to that, Nigeri Delta will still be boiling, the oil war will still be fierce.

Emm, can't you just express yourself without name calling? It is just so funny.

Tropilo: @Ogugua: I have read through your "epistle" and i can feel the heat from your anger at the President.
Firstly, i'd like to clear that i am not in anyway holding brief for GEJ, but like i said in my reply to your post earlier that even if you find it difficult to respect him you should try and show some respect for the seat.
I almost die with so much envy when i hear the British anthem and a line of prayer is said for the Queen, and here we are throwing verbal dirt on ours. Its just not proper! A lot of commentators said even worse things about him but why did i single you out? It's because i feel you should seperate yourself and besides, you referred to the seat (President) and not GEJ. There's a difference! Though i don't know you personally, i referred to you as a "fine lady" which i still believe you are. Remember, i also said even if you dont have any respect for the holder of the office, find some for the seat.
GEJ has offended most of us, but i know that holding an office is not easy let alone a high one as President. I let must let you that GEJ is a man with conscience, cos in climes like the US, Israel etc if the government identifies that a particular set of people are the trouble-makers and sponsors of terror and they may not be easily proven in court or that taking them to court may give them some form of undue popularity. They will just send their secret security to eliminate them anyhow. So please, show him or better still his office some respect.

Claumy2: The most unfortunate thing happening to Nigeria education sector is the rate at which private secondary schools are been approved by the government. Most of them (in Abia State) hardly have qualified teachers, class rooms, laboratories, library just to mention a few, except for carrying out gross exam mal-practice during WAEC and NECO EXAMINATIONS. I pity the future generation. The fact remains that about 80% of the students in our tertiary institutions are 'NOT' qualified.

ogugua88:

His "seat"? There is a difference, but you didn't spot it. I said "unqualified president". How could I have been referring to the seat and not GEJ?

I'm not going to respect an unqualified, looting politician because his title is president. He and his cronies refuse to respect Nigerians, so why are you begging me to respect him? Respect is earned in my books. I don't give it out anyhow.

noblezone: I did my NYSC at ABU Zaria.

It was during Abacha and Mamam Kantangora was appointed as sole administrator of ABU.

some of corper mates who graduated from ABU, was recalled from their locations to be informed that they were never students of ABU let alone Youth Corpers.

Admission racket was going on (and it is still going on). Students who did not get the required minimum credits end up getting admitted. This is part of the problem, our admin officers and lecturers are so corrupt that Unqualified candidates are admitted. Such students are easy recruits to cultism and all manner of junks we find in our schools today.

I think Mr. President wants to get us back on track. I commend him for this and I wish him and his team well. may they succeed in their dream to get Nigeria back on track.

As for most comments, I have concluded that most of nairaland users are just kids. If not in age, then kids in their mind. I have stated it loud and clear that corruption is not only at the seat of governments. Today, parents pay mercenaries to write exam for their children, and if care is not taken, such children are here on Nairaland, discussing "National Politics". It is a shame.