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iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
It was efcc after all, they finally cook up stories they have been inviting him for questioning and he didn't show up🤣
You see this country, have money and power you are well sorted

https://www.nairaland.com/8417936/efcc-grants-verydarkman-bail-reveals

Well, according to EFCC they said the petitions against him pertain to grave allegations of financial malfeasance which cannot be ignored by the Commission.

Let’s wait and see what the charges against him will be .

On this one, I am for nobody and I am for everybody. Let’s wait and see where it will all end.

Nehruvia:
Creative courses will demand you to be imaginative, expressive and original. Applied fields will demand you to implement practical problem-solving. Subjects from the humanities place emphasis on interpretive and analytical thinking, rather than rote memorization or regurgitation. Different types of intelligence and/or skills are required, depending on which field you wish to delve into, so your suggestion that one field is inherently superior is fundamentally spurious and factually inaccurate.

And FYI, students flocking to a course or programme is not indicative of the course being easy. It's a common habit among the younguns to look at STEM subjects on surface level and assume that they are mentally tasking, which explains why they quickly flock to social sciences, that is until they actually dive deep into courses in social sciences and discover exactly how much critical thinking, research and ingenuity is actually required. It's like that cute hot teacher in your school who you think doesn't know how to whoop ass, until you become a defaulter on the receiving end.

Thank you telling him.

iamoyindamola:
I don’t like vdm and whatever he stands for but the misuse of power in this country is getting out of hand.
Efcc can’t claim responsibility for his arrest because they know the reason is stupid or they don’t have the right, all these government officials are just doing what they like.

But I thought they said he was arrested by a combined team of EFCC and DSS officials. And I heard they've gotten court order to remand him pending when they will file charges against him.

It looks as if the guy has stepped on a lot of toes and now they want to deal with him. E be like say he Don annoy some powerful people in the course of his crusade online

afrodoc2:
I dey ask because back then if you ask widely enough in different schools and tutorial centers you go find out say their purported JAMB marking schemes no align together. Maybe it changed later sha.

I think overtime some of them got it right, maybe that's one of the reasons why students' performance has improved over time

afrodoc2:
You are not beefing Mass Comm actually. You are beefing your unserious Mass Comm student cousin.
Mass Comm na just collateral damage.

Exactly!

afrodoc2:
In the 90s people were not scoring up to 300. Highest scores were 256, 267, 277.

Does anybody know the marking scheme of JAMB now?

The tutorial I attended back then, they used to have JAMB marking scheme. We would write mock JAMB every month and they will give us our results.

People dey score 150 steady 😂. The director of that tutorial center would tell us that is how brutal JAMB marking scheme can be ; so u are expected to study harder

liveLongNprospa:
You see that human kinetics education, who study am don hammer like this coz Canada dey find am gaaan.
But people go dey laugh courses like am

Canada no be naija baba mi.

If u do Human Kinetics for Naija, the only option u have is to finish with first or 2.1 make u get automatic job from Ur department or make u follow thousands of 2.1 graduates dey drag graduate trainee of KPMG, Access bank, BUA group

User09:
The easiest way to prove Ibime wrong would be to see if any of the 12k students who scored the 300 above put in Mass comm as their potential course of study.

God help him if a large % happen to fall in that bracket.

Is there a breakdown of the intended courses by the Jamb candidates BluerayDick?

There's no such breakdown. JAMB's statistics usually focus majorly on the gender of the students and their state of origin (for reasons best known to them). They usually don't indicate what course those highest pergromong students intend to study

Ibeme:
I like am like that. Before I employ you with art degree I need to see a prestigious uni on your CV so I can differentiate between those who studied arts by choice and those who studied arts because of laziness or lack of aptitude

There was one guy I did both primary and secondary school with. I have known him all my life and he never crossed class C or D to enter class B talkless of A, from primary to secondary. Today he is a high flying lawyer having knuckled down in his SS3 and University years. Another of my nigga who was near the bottom of the class (placed between 20th and 30th but never demoted to class B) is now an Anaesthesiologist in USA collecting good pepper. That shows that belief, determination and ambition are the most vital ingredients even in a "dull" student. There is no excuse for anyone with aptitude to be studying Masscomm except in abroad setting in a prestigious uni, then we will know it's by choice.

Do you know that even in England, the worst, most dull and most unambitious students in my time would scrape together one E at A Levels and go to Uni to study "Media studies" which is our version of MassCom here. We just saw them as time wasters who just want to enjoy student loan for 3 more years before facing the real world.

I agree with u that with determination and hard work, even a below average student can move up to become an above average student over time.

There was this guy we met in class in JSS2 because he repeated JSS2 while his mates were promoted to JSS3 . For U to repeat at the level u are considered a very poor student. Due to football matters, we became friends; he would play on my team most times during lunch break.

We both passed to JSS3, albeit his result wasn't as good as that of my other friends. When we did our JSCE (Junior Waec) and this guy saw my result, he just told me he will go to whatever department I chose and that was exactly what he did. We were in the same class till SS3. Somehow I had a very huge impact on his life and didn't even know.

The guy just imitated me by putting efforts to read as much as he played and discovered he wasn't as dull as he had thought. He just wanted his results to be half as good as mine usually was.

Last I heard from him, he was a full time lecturer in a polytechnic and an adjunct lecturer in another polytechnic. Even me I shock say the guy can ever learn to the extent of imparting knowledge in others.

KingTom:
My brother I say that year you go see Fishery niggas dissing say dem go get oil company work when dem graduate say Shell and Chevron go dey rush them even ExxonMobil

😂

Ibime:
All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

The problem is u are an old man who was trained to believe STEM courses or the age long trio of Accountancy, Economics and Law are the only way to show one is serious with his or her life.

The fact the people whom u know that studied MASSCOM did so out of fear for those aforementioned STEM courses, Law and the likes has made u greatly prejudiced.

You need to be really really open minded in this age ; time has changed! Serous students dey study MASSCOM and dem dey do well for themselves. The world did not start and end with those relatives of urs who didn't cover themselves in glory after studying MASSCOM. People dey wey study Accountancy wey no gree write ICAN or ACCA but joyfully writing CIPM( HR professional exam) because dem no fit kill themselves

raumdeuter:
Most of the secretary jobs don lost to owning a laptop

Exactly. Almost every company expects u to know Ur way around Microsoft office before they will employ u.

No company will pay for secretary that will help u prepare PowerPoint which u need to present to a client. U are expected to prepare slides for presentation to clients, write reports urself and do everything urself.

KingTom:
'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

😂😂😂

Ọmọ! That thing make some egbon study rubbish course that year. U go just see say those egbon finish school dem no see work for years

Ibime:
You no get point, last last there are half a million secretaries/PAs in Naija, whether overqualified or not. The job to student ratio is much healthier than MassCom.

How many jobs dey MassCom for Naija vs how many students?

Some years ago, I spoke to a young man who was having issues getting to uni for many years. He said I should help him to write JAMB. By this time he was already mid twenties, had been at Uni studying accounting but found out his matriculation (which he worked) was fake in the final year and the uni didn't recognise him as a student. So he's spent many years in the wilderness at this stage after that crushing disappointment. He was in such a dark place, I asked him what he wants to do in Uni, he said "las las, lemme just go and get a MassCom degree". He was a very intelligent lad but in a sunken place and saw MassCom as the easy path to say he's doing something. I said no, let's do Accounting Chartership and close off your earlier disappointment in the proper way that is more befitting of your brains. Today he is a chartered accountant earning close to 7 figures, when he could have been the average MassCom failure if I listened to him and allowed him to settle for the path of least resistance.

See u are an old man who is speaking off Ur knowledge of things over 20 years ago. If not u will not be talking about secretariat job that has almost been pahsed off the Nigerian work space.

PA/EA which replaced secretary jobs doesn't even require you to have a degree in secretariat studies for u to excel at it. Anybody going to study such course in this age and time is just wasting his or her time cos he or she will still need to look for daily bread in another field.

There are 720 functional radio stations in nigeria, I don't know the exact number of TV stations in Nigeria but I know it should be in hundreds. There are different career paths in that MASSCOM u despise so much; career paths like Journalist,Reporter,Public,Relations,Specialist,Advertising,Copywriter,MarketingCommunication,Specialist,Broadcast Producer,Videographer, etc

Na u just know the bad dream u Don get about the course.

raumdeuter:
Shey people dey employ Secretaries these days abi na job description wey dem afrodoc TrebleChamp and GloriousGbola dey give their mentees

To put mentees on company payroll instead of paying them from Ogas pocket

Is it that mentees tend to become Secretaries or Ogas just dey mentor Secretaries

Nowadays na executive assistants people employ and na the ogas at the top dey get Executive assistant; not the old practiser of secretary for everybody on senior management.

KingTom:
I don even forget Library science one werey Johnny use him 4 years dey do Egede 🪓 activities say na Library science e dey study

Omo ! Courses Dey

That year if Unilag don release merit list finish , dem go come advertise courses wey Dey available wey people wey get good grades fit change their course to for them to be considered admission .

You will see them Listing courses like Education Admin, Guidance and counseling , Adult Education, Human Kinetics Education, Christian religious study , fisheries , social work , etc.

You go come begin ask people “ where can I work if I study social work “? 😂

raumdeuter:
You know say normal na Art class students dey do Mass communication

Also once you don go Art class, you probably are scared of anything numbers. the number of serious courses available to you are limited. Minus Law, what other courses Art students fit chook head

Na wetin dey carry them go Mass communication be that

MASSCOM is popular because once u don’t get into Law , the next lucrative course that comes to mind is MASSCOM. It’s just like commercial/social science students thinking of Accountancy/ Economics and the first choice and Banking & Finance as next best choice .

Na nowadays when people eyes don open dem Dey see say there are other good courses in those fields they can still thrive if they study them.

Ibime:
Secretary has real life application wey boku

Wetin you want do with MassCom

10m people rushing a handful of OAP roles

U no get point .

Any SSCE holder or OND holder can be trained to be a secretary in no time . The same cannot be said of MASSCOM application . Who told u MASSCOM’s application is only for the role of OAP ?

U should be angry someone is going to school to waste time on “secretariat studies “ , instead na MASSCOM wey broad well and get room for specialization u Dey vex for

iamoyindamola:
Or political science what is the science to study in politics 🤣🤣

There’s even political science education as a course sef

KingTom:
I no even understand Ibime, MassCom wey people dey rush to study back then in school, what will he now say about Guidance & Counseling

No mind him , Na people Dey study Secretariat studies in school for 2025 o

bolu96:
You're right though.
At the bolded, it's the same way we have more first class graduates than in the past. Can we say students are getting smarter or it's due to improvement in technology?

Serious Students are utilizing improvement in technology to study smarter and get good grades .Study materials are easily accessible unlike in the past

Ibime:
I said I don't mind. Las las you fit be all those Shakespeare and Macbeth people wey dey follow passion but get brain like Soyinka dem. But that Masscomm is for the mentally lazy

One day somebody who studied MASSCOM will see this ur post and challenge it

Ibime:
We like Law and Languages. We don't mind English, Literature, History, Classics, Philosophy if that's your interest

But you see that MASSCOMM? Once any relative inform me say him dey go read Masscomm, I done write am off for life. Not somebody worth investing a penny or a Joule of energy in.

U like philosophy and literature but u don’t like MASSCOM? 😂😂😂

Ibime:
E be like you read this MASSCOMM, the way you dey Voltron for them

Wetin concern me and MASSCOM? 🤷‍♂️

I just don’t share ur believe that any course not STEM based is useless ni

bolu96:
It's actually less than 1% of the population.

During the time of Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim , people wey Dey score 300 no Dey pass 2 in the whole Nigeria . The first person may score 320 , second person 307 and third person 297 in the whole of Nigeria .

I know this because I saw two of such brochure where they will have pictures of the best 3 candidates in the previous year’s examinations

I’m shocked over 12k are scoring above 300 nowadays .

Theflint1:
[b]Probably more about the quality of schools they attend and their parents, and less about the students per se. Go shock you say many of those kids within that 250+ band no do any special preparation for their score.

It's a sad state of affairs sha, that almost 80% of the students that sat for the country's national exam can't even get an average grade.

Not always true. You don’t do so well in an exam like that without any special preparations .

It’s not necessarily due to school they attend , anybody that has a smart brain and attended a decent tutorial can do really well in JAMB

Tochex101:
Shocking!.......over 1000 people scoring above 300, I'm very impressed.......bias is making me almost question the standard of the examinations.
These numbers are unheard of...

Now u get .

Having over 12,000 candidates scoring above 300 is actually a big deal. It shows those that were serious actually passed really well . I mean most likely the serious students utilized the various learning resources available to get themselves good grades ; while those that failed did so woefully .

Tochex101:
I'm not sure its even same for them l, the failure rate is just too much.

But those that scored over 300 sef plenty o. Imagine over 12k people scoring 300 and above ; these things no Dey happen in the past .

I think people who passed pass well and people who failed all fail well well .

Imagine having like 10 people in ur class in the university who scored 300 and above .

Greatswimmer:
There are universities accepting below 200, even as low as 160 depending on the course one choose

Na all those private schools and state universities in the north go Dey take 160 as cut off o

Ibime:
So e get who MASSCOM people better pass?

Those wey fall below go enter MASSCOM through clearance

Lolz . This MASSCOM wey u Dey beef na one of the top courses for people wey Dey faculty of arts o. E get rep pass most courses in Faculty of education sef .

In fact, na faculty of education dem Dey later bundle people go after dem don fill management and social sciences finish .

Tochex101:
Its not like the 80s or very early 90's anymore.....180 is the new benchmark.

Education is so much more expensive yet the results are not there...

Oh, is that so ?

But I’m sure the normal top public universities won’t take people below 200 sha due to competition

Ibime:
1.5m enrollments into MASSCOM incoming

Lolz . The 1.5m won’t get into the university cos they scored below 200 .

Na out of the 400k that passed MASSCOM people Dey inside .