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Nigeria has a very poor football culture.

Just look at the quality of footballers we are producing.

Nobody Sabi ball.

All the coaches and administrators in Nigerian football no get level.

Look at the quality of football Nigeria is churning out at all levels.

Over 50 yrs of football culture, and we are not even close to average compared to the average European team.

Is he not aware that Nigeria has banned Ugandan certificates?

They are so funny that they expect you to take a remedial course after tendering wassce in order to gain admission?

In other words, Uganda does not rate wascce.?

Funny people. 😂

Thomasankara:
[/color]the state is doing averagely well with past governors collecting the money[color=#770077]

Averagely well?

Compare Lagos with its peers in Africa, and not the likes of osun and ebonyi.

Thomasankara:
[/color]that state is poor,if ur guy begins to receive pension from the coffee,they might be unable to pay worker's salary[color=#770077]

So because your State is rich, you won't like a governor that's selfless enough to forgo pension?

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ivolt:
How about the cars, houses and furnishings?
I am not aware the LASG has changed the pension law.

Lagos has one of the most heavily paid public office holders in the country.

It's a crying shame that they still receive pensions.

Anyday that state would get a decent governor, he would scrap the pension.

Was he expecting to receive 100 million?

Someone that just served govt for 8yrs.

So what would people that served govt for over 40yrs collect as pension?

Or is it a bad thing if he forgoes his pension like peter obi?

This is a wealthy man o.

luminouz:
Damn ..you are a special kind of dumb,ain't you?

It's obvious you are jealous

Jealous?

I graduated with a 4.44.

I was on a 4.7 for most of my academic life in the university, and later slipped due to a personal life trauma in my final year.

If I had a father as a professor in my department, he would have covered my lapses in the final year, and I would have graduated with a strong first class, and you would be hailing me today as "scholar".

Kokorokomanaoga:
wahala!!!
Una too get wahala for this country abeg.
What has politics got to do with education?
at auchi polytechnic my roomie's dad was a prof in civil engineering dept.

The only advantage my roomie had is, from primary school he already knew he would study civil engineering too due to his dad's influence so he strictly followed that part that as a secondary school student he had already read almost all the materials he needed from ND1 Till HND.
As a secondary school student his dad was already homeschooling him, giving him materials, in fact all the materials are surplus at home, from text books to drawing materials, measurement materials etc.

His dad even bought a desktop computer for him and his elder bro's to learn chart drawing and all those civil engineering drawings.
As a sec schooo student he could map and draw better than most HND students graduates.

Dude got admitted to auchi polytechnic and came out with distinction without breaking a sweat, dude normally tells me every class is just like a revision to him.

Meanwhile, his elder bro was in the same dept few years earlier and dropped out due to low grades.

Your thinking is too shallow, just too shallow and the worse is you are so cock sure of the nonsense you are saying.

You take the matter personal like he thief your woman.
Abeg free the young man, na book he sabi, he no kill person.

I just gave you an example.

Conflict of interest can happen in any sector.

I no blame you Sha.

Nigeria is one of the most highly corrupt countries in the world.
Fantastically corrupt like Cameron said.

Is this not the same country where a sitting governor would be sharing state projects to his own company and setting the price too?

Ofcourse you won't see anything wrong with a professor father teaching in the same university department where his son is a student, setting exams for him and scoring it too.

Una go think say una get sense, but na lie.

Gerrard59:
Was the father also influential in him acing his other courses? Did the father also teach Ayodele Dada who was the first 5.0 grad from the same Unilag? Was the father a lecturer to the Law grad from LASU with the same grade? What about the girl from Cell Biology who had a similar grade?

Children whose parents are/were professors or even teachers tend to pick up traits (nature vs nuture) while growing up. As a result, they perform excellently in school. David is just the norm, not the exception. In fact, most top grads from elite universities in the US had/have academics as parents.

His father is a professor in the same department.
A whole professor.

What do you think that means?

You think any of his lecturers would not be generous with his grades to not offend his Father?

What of the undue advantage he got due to his unnatural proximity to examination questions and AOCs.?

You think all his classmates were that fortunate?

Plenty of professors' children fail woefully in school.

It's not a given.

I am not saying he is not brilliant. There are plenty of brilliant people in engineering.
A Second class upper student is brilliant.


But this guy's CGPA is unnaturally boosted by undue privileges, and unless we want to hide our face in the sand, that is when we would deny it.

Gerrard59:
Go and tell that to Boston Consulting Group.

Bloody retard!

You are an idiot.

How does Boston consulting group, probably another fruit of strong connection, have to do with the fact that his CGPA is heavily tainted with a strong conflict of interest.

I no blame you.

He is lucky that the university is not in America, western Europe or Canada.

Unilag would have been drowning in lawsuits and scandals.

Go and see what the former Harvard university president is going through just because of an offense that's not even as glaring as this.

Gerrard59:
Total nonsense!

He graduated from a top secondary school, did foundation courses in Unilag and aced all his courses brilliantly! I ask again, was the father a lecturer to other 5.0 CGPA grads from the same university? Recently, Deborah from Landmark University graduated with the same 5.0 CGPA in Mechanical Engineering. Did David's father teach her too?

Most of you people talk stoopidly and foolishly. This guy performed excellently across all levels and currently works in an elite firm. Does his father work at Boston Consulting Group?

Bullshitt.

Plenty people had stellar academic background, that does not mean they have to graduate with a FIRST class.

That conflict of interest is too much.

olyrayy:
How does this make sense?

A + B = C.
That's engineering.

Even if you are the dullest in the world, once I have told you that the exam is going to contain A + B = C, then you should be able to pass and pass well.

Having your professor as a father is the kind of advantage that can give you a 5.0 in Engineering.

In the arts, it's not like that.
You would need to be gifted, unless you are going to carry a written and prepared answer into the hall.

Nauttyprof:
So, if his dream is to join Unilag, he shouldn't because of his father? Should also risk his safety because of his father?

Yes.
Or his father should resign.

That's what a conflict of interest is.

That was why the former minister of power had to resign, because his company was bidding for a FG contract.

But ofcourse, that one don too spend time for America, so he is not used to Nigeria.

Na the fellow classmates I even blame.
Dem just dull.

If it was in America, and the students sue his father and the university for undue advantage and sharp practices, Unilag would have done the right thing and learned a lesson.

Shame no go even let them give a student whose father is his own lecturer a first class,let alone as valedictorian.

Nauttyprof:
Please, stop this nonsense. This is education not politics. What has ethics got to do with studying in a University and department where your father works. So, because he dreams of becoming a Civil Engineer and gaining admission to one of the best Universities in Nigeria, he should kill that dream because of his father

No, he should apply to another school.

There is a conflict of interest here, but you are a Nigerian so I am sure you can't see it.

Unilag should have bounced his admission, but I am sure he even got in easier because of his Father.

kay29000:
You guys saying this are very funny. Do you have idea what it takes to get a 5.0 overall GPA? You think it is only that department's curses he did throughout his 4 years at the university?

I can say it with a 100% certainty that he cannot get 5.0 in another school.

easytig:
His dad na prof for engineering dept, definitely he was aided to his first class by his dad's fellow lecturers.they will want to be careful when marking his script .
If his dad was not a professor he won't smell 5.0 gpa.
Those vultures will mark him down ,if you know you know.

He may not even have gotten a first class ina different university.

The advantage that he had was too great.

Good materials, private tutor, counsellor, and someone to defend his result.
Even the mere fact that his father is a professor would prevent other lecturers from marking him down

Anyway, life is not fair and he is lucky.

But if Unilag wants to do the right thing, they better give the next fellow on the CGPA list as the valedictorian of the year.

That's the true valedictorian.

olyrayy:
I thought as much too. But it's engineering. It's like maths, you can't fake it.

Engineering is objective, so yes, you can absolutely fake it, atleast to the point of graduating with a complete 5.0.

If it was in the arts and the humanities, I would agree that it can't be faked.

Omoapena:
You're so shallow, let's even say you can buy grades in most schools, can you buy 5.0?

You think 5.0 is something all professors in that faculty will just throw away cox the student is a son of one of them?


Nigerians and their very low mentality

He had a lot of undue advantage.
That's a fact, that even he himself would not deny if he is honest.

No parent would not want to give their children an advantage, if it is within their power.

It's not even very ethical for him to gain admission in the same department where his father is a professor but that's a question for saner climes.

I would rather congratulate the next person on the list.

That's my own valedictorian.

I am not saying he is not naturally brilliant.

But his father being a professor and his lecturer in the same department would have played a huge part in his CGPA, especially in this corruption ridden Nigeria.

He may not even have gotten a first class in a different university.

His father is a professor in the same department where he got 5.0 and lectured him in four of his Courses.

It's alright.

I laugh in man know man.

That's what many women even want.

To be fair, some parents are toxic.

Even in the midst of the decay and hopelessness, the closer thing we have to a reformer is obi.

But some people have sworn that they don't want him, regardless of how bad things get.

It's okay.

Infact, if Nigeria elect a good and disciplined leader today, and continue like that for the next 30 years, it's our grand children that would taste the semblance of a good nation, just like generation of Mao did for the current generation of Chinese.

The previous generations have spoilt Nigeria so much that the rot is now very great and a lot needs to be done.

And we have not even started.

joorme:
let's change our confession

China is an atheist nation.

They did not go from the poorest nation in the world, to the richest by positive confession.

It took decades of disciplined leadership and hardwork.