₦airaland Forum

theV0ice:
So when you undertook to advertise for an organisation capable of recruiting 200,000 graduates, it didn't strike you as odd that they had no internet presence apart from a gmail account?

Also it didn't bother you that the FG is yet to release the minutest detail about this job bonanza?

rakish:
MASSIVE EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT
(send to someone to make their lives more fruitful in 2016)
In line with FG's 500,000 employment in the education sector.... Our client, a high profile governmental organisation requires 200,000 teaching & non-teaching staff for immediate employment into Primary and secondary schools in Abuja, Kaduna, Nassarawa and Niger states in January 2016
Eligibility: Bsc, BEd, HND, NCE and OND holders. Salary is attractive, depending on category.
Previous Teaching Experience not necessary as all selected applicants will undergo training.
Interested applicants should send CV to primaryeduboard@gmail.com
Application closes 15th January 2016
Training day is 30th January 2016
Call 08176073759 for more info.
*Announcement also published in Guardian Newspaper of 30th December.
*I'm sharing as I received, pls call the number. for any questions.
God Bless Buhari
God Bless Nigeria.
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Got it on Facebook decided to share it.

Crocz:
This is serious!...you wanna see the true nature of a Nigerian, try messing with his religion.


But to be fair, the man gat quit some strong valid points there...I hate NYSC anyway, only the officials love it cos it enrich them

naijapips02:
damn sure it had something to do with that. Since after the thread i've been receiving calls from numbers on my browsing sim. I refused to pick any. it's scary because i've never received calls on this sim.

naijapips02:
My fellow Nairalanders, be very careful of what you post on this website. But most especially the phone number you post it with.

I think we have a security glitch somewhere.....i think nairaland's database is being trolled by an MOD or even possible the owner is given out vital information to some persons. If they can get your ip address, the can get your ISP provider, and from there your destination port.

Be more careful when you are commenting on Islamic or security threads.

Just today, i got a text from a jihadist. It's really scary when you consider that since after registering this line i am browsing with, i've not called anyone nor given out the number in anyway to anybody.

My friends, if you must comment on sensitive issues, find SIM cards that can't be directly traced to your address....like you didn't put your real address during registration.

Have a Blast.

TIMEISWISDOM:
why do you think so

Xetima:
Those soldiers, throats were slit one by one. Nigeria is a dead country. How can a country survive with these lies.
Please,anyone whose family member is fighting in Bornu should begin to contact them because many would have been killed by Boko Haram

omonnakoda:
Your comment suffers from what it criticizes ,first is there any EVIDENCE that Northerners did not have similar access to this "DATABASE" ? This is your own assumption which lacks evidence or substantiation. We are talking of FIRST CLASS graduates not villagers!! but you want us to believe that northern First class graduates do not have the same access to information as their southern counterparts? Hmm why should we accept this claim. After all some people from the north were successful and some states in the south e.g Bayelsa did particularly badly. Is there any evidence to show that those candidates from the south did not graduate from Northern universities?

Anyway there have been 3 editions of PRESSID and this database claim only emerged the last time. What about the other two?

Finally if this database was that crucial everyone should have scored 100%.

I do not take the position of the argument opposite to yours just to point out that your argument is illogical. It is difficult to believe that First class graduates do not know where to get information that is in the public domain because they are Northern Believing that will stretch credulity to the limit. It is strange that you believe such an absurd hypothesis

The other illogical claim you make is First class graduates are of the same level of intelligence. Really? This is really ridiculous.There is no basis for this and a First class degree is not a measure of intelligence AT ALL. You do not need above average intelligence to get a First class degree

naijapips02:
cc, i actually support that they deleted it. There are somethings that the general public should not be allowed to know about. I am glad that i was able to express my view and i pray someone concerned is taking notes.

Horlhaphemi:
Wailers

fastjett:
How come their uniform did not get burnt. I suspect Bokoboys use chemical weapon on them. Please let there be thorough investigation on their death, these are people husbands and father.

EazyMoh:
Thanks for the understanding, to answer your questions, yes Wike "held sway" the as well.
But you should remember that those other FG scholarships have already established procedure for the selection, so it's much easier to distort this new scholarship than the old ones.
Don't get me wrong am not saying Wike in person has something to do with the 1:99 ratio, but something is definitely wrong with the process, which some of our law makers demanded for the criteria used for the selection, THRICE! but the then ministry of education refused to clarify.

omonnakoda:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/162429-osun-ogun-indigenes-top-nigerias-presidential-scholarship-awardees-wike.html

“There are no beneficiaries from Bayelsa and Kaduna states where the President and Vice President come from.”

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Two states, Ogun and Osun, have topped the list of the annual Presidential Scholarship Scheme for Innovation and Development (PRESSID) with 17 and 15 respectively out of 104 beneficiaries.

The Supervising Minister for Education, Nyesom Wike, disclosed this at the award ceremony on Monday in Abuja.

He noted that the development was a sign of true leadership by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Mr. Wike stressed that the selection process was based purely on merit, adding that the process that produced the beneficiaries was rigorous, transparent and thorough.

He said the successful candidates, who went through the rigorous screening in the second edition of the awards, emerged tops out of about 2,000 candidates.

“I called out the names (of the two states) because they are not from states in the same party as the President.

“In fact, there are no beneficiaries from Bayelsa and Kaduna states where the President and Vice President come from. How many Nigerian leaders can do that?”

Osun and Ogun are controlled by the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

He said if federal character had been followed, as was being clamoured for by some people, many of the country’s top brains would have missed out from developing themselves and the country at large.

The minister urged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria, adding that the government would not hesitate to withdraw the scholarship if they were found culpable of any misconduct in the course of their studies.

Julius Okojie, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), said 90 per cent of beneficiaries from the first edition of PRESSID were currently in schools abroad and were doing very well in their various studies.

“This shows that our first class degrees are truly first class. It also shows that some of our private universities are coming up and do not just award first class degrees anyhow,” Okojie said.

He added that the scheme was introduced following the discovery that less than 40 per cent of lecturers in the university system had doctorate degrees.

It was also to produce a critical mass of individuals to develop Nigeria in the area of innovation and development.

According to him, India, China and Singapore are also practising the same system, adding that Nigeria will start to benefit in the next five years when the beneficiaries start graduating and returning home.

“There was no nomination from anywhere. This is the only scholarship scheme where the names of the awardees are published because they deserve it.’’

He said that the selection process was not influenced by anybody.

The beneficiaries, all first lass graduates, are to study in various fields, including medical sciences, information technology and electrical/electronics, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, economics, physics and petroleum engineering.

The 76 males and 28 females will study for their Masters and Doctorate Degrees in the 25 best universities abroad.

Qelvin:
Close sources to me revealed that the Insurgents are seriously decimating the Nigerian soldiers, the media is only doing a hatchet job of hiding the truth for the sake of those poor soldiers who are been wiped out in their hundreds...guys we ca never crush BH, the moment those guys pledged their allegiance to ISIS is when we lost the war...this isn't even about Buhari or GEJ been incompetent, the best thing now is for the South to band together, arm up and excise themselves from this Northerners, they should be left to their fate cause we are facing something bigger than us right now...I just watched a recent video on liveleaks showing a BH attack just about yesterday, my GOD...you need to see How this guys used superb military tactics to capture a Nigerian military base, with three T52 tanks, one T72, and artillery pieces in their thousands.

EazyMoh:
I never said Wike was the minister during the first batch, I said "held sway" we all know he was more powerful than the Hajiya, no thanks to his rapport with Madam Patience.
I also never mentioned the stats for the first two batches, I only mentioned the last which the Igbos dominated, and which you yourself confirm. Point is no justification could be given why for three consecutive batches not 1% northerners are deemed fit to qualify by using a shoddy process of selection.

EazyMoh:
For all of you blaming the north for this rumored news here is a little clarification.
The first two years the programme was launched in 2012 no single northerner was considered eligible for the scholarship this was the time Wike held sway at the ministry of education. some law makers complained on the floor of the house and demanded that the criteria for eligibility been used made public instead of shrouding it in mystery like NNPC accounts. No any clarification was given concerning the eligibility except that it's for first class graduate. Lo and behold the same thing was repeated in 2013 when Wike was made the substantive education minister, with the list 50% Igbos, 10% Yoruba and the rest SS. That's when the concerned law makers called for the scrap of this outrageous and Insulting jamboree aimed to favor just one part of the country.
Let's be sincere to ourselves even if the south are more active in the pursuit of western education it's impossible to say for three years not a single applicant was qualified.
I support the exercise so long there is going to be some sense of fairness. BTW there are other government sponsored scholarships to apply for.

menxer:
If you read beyond the headline, a place reads:

Pay attention to the highlighted, does it mean cancellation or investing in our education system?

Iamoilprince:
they had better cancel it. Most people that benefitted from the scholarship were graduates from Convenant University and other private universities. Their sponsors can even afford the tuition.

dany2k:
I know when things like this don't favour the northerners, It will never see the light of the day.well I am not surprised when Hausa-Fulani man is our president. What are the hope of the youths in this country if programme like this cannot be sustained. This act will only discourage the undergraduates in working hard to achieve academic excellence

CSTR2:
The only thing done on merit in that country has been cancelled. And some people still foolishly think that country is going anywhere.
My younger sister who won the nuclear physics foreign postgraduate PRESSID scholarship is almost through with her studies.
A pity though, as many bright student would not be that fortunate.

IGBOSON1:
^^^When i say the core muslim north is holding back the South people will say it's a bigoted assertion!

All this rubbish is why i want either a restructured political-economy in Nigeria or we all go our separate ways!

Right from the 70s there's been all sorts of affirmative action in favour of the north, with the excuse that it has to be done this way because the north is poor or because the north is educationally disadvantaged! Nobody is thinking that this is unfair to the south who have had to slow down for more than 4 decades so the north can catch up!

Now, my question is: does this quota-system, nannying and pampering bestowed on the north have a termination date? Or are we going to continue with it ad-infinitum! Because if the latter is the case then i may just as well give up on Nigeria right now!

We can't be carrying on with this primitive way of doing things and expect to catch up with the Asian Tigers! In fact, if care is not taken even little Ghana sef will overtake us on the highway to socio-economic prosperity, leaving us spluttering and coughing in their wake as we forlornly watch them disappear into the distant horizon!

neocortex:
For more than a decade, China and India have sent thousands
of students to the west for higher education, they are
now enjoying the benefits of those projects.

It is wrong for Buhari to scrap PRESSID for political
reasons. The program if sustained has the potential to
place Nigeria into the league of industrial and scientific
powerhouses.

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