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1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Passport photograph service available at subsidized rate.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

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Registration already initiated. Registered just few people. Majority of PCMs here are yet to see their names on the Senate List. This is unfair to them as those who their names are there are already registering. Hopefully, the entire list will be updated before noon. Fingers crossed. Meanwhile, PCMs are advised to come around and take passport photographs for the registration.

For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Passport photograph service available at subsidized rate.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.


Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]


Registration already initiated. Registered just few people. Majority of PCMs here are yet to see their names on the Senate List. This is unfair to them as those who their names are there are already registering. Hopefully, the entire list will be updated before noon. Fingers crossed. Meanwhile, PCMs are advised to come around and take passport photographs for the registration.

kayusbrown:
For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta. [/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

There is a new standard for the passport photograph. PCMs need not worry as we have facilities to snap and print to the required standard at a subsidized rate for those registering at our centre.

kayusbrown:
For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.[/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

There is a new standard for the passport photograph. PCMs need not worry as we have facilities to snap and print to the required standard at a subsidized rate for those registering at our centre.

kayusbrown:
For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.[/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

There is a new standard for the passport photograph. PCMs need not worry as we have facilities to snap and print to the required standard at a subsidized rate for those registering at our centre.

There is a new standard for the passport photograph. PCMs need not worry as we have facilities to snap and print to the required standard at a subsidized rate for those registering at our centre.

Registration Templates are now available for pick-up at our registration centre.

For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Passport photograph service available at subsidized rate.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.[/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.[/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta.[/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

For PCMs at Abeokuta, come to READYHANDS TECHNOLOGIES for your registration. Our pricing:

1. Regular Registration: N700.

2. Special Registration: N1,500 (Special Registration is the registration of locally-trained graduates requiring document upload e.g. registration of Married PCMs).

3. Foreign-trained PCMs: N1,800 (scanned copies of certificates and travel documents will be uploaded)

Why patronize us?

1. Our registration process is supervised by two graduates with more than 5 years experience of online registration.

2. We have a customized template we give to PCMs to pre-fill to avoid errors.

3. Multiple registration points to ensure PCMs get their most preferred state of deployment. We registered over 100 PCMs on DAY 1 of 2016 BATCH A registration exercise.

4. Colour printing of Green Slip.

5. Free snapshot for those without passport photographs or photographs not on white background.

6. Available ATM card for processing of online payment (a token will be charged).

7. Registration on DAY 1 guaranteed!

[size=20pt]Our Registration Centre: Readyhands Café, Suite 4, A-ONE Memorial plaza, Opposite OLG primary school, Somorin, Obantoko, Abeokuta. [/size]


[size=20pt]Questions?: 08030755190, 08038312501, 09096327569.[/size]

See his head

We can't just ignore the conspiracy theories behind the dramatic arrests. We expect a comprehensive investigation and prosecution of all corrupt judges and not the selective arrest and intimidation of those who have ruled against the interests of the ruling party recently. We shouldn't tolerate crushing of perceived enemies under the pretense of 'fighting' corruption.

Graduating with Distinction or First Class is not really a big deal. All you need is an effective strategy to pass CAs and exams. The following strategies work fine:

1. Get armed with the Curriculum for each course and recommended textbooks.

2. Make your own notes using the curriculum as compass and read ahead.

3. Get past questions from the Exam Office and tackle as much as possible.

4. Attend classes regularly to study the psyche of your lecturer and predict the areas he’ll likely set questions from.

5. Interact with your seniors to discover the pitfalls in every course.

6. Teach your colleagues through organized tutorials. That’s the best way of teaching yourself.

7. Be very humble and willing to swallow all shits… loads of shits from your lecturers.

Following the above steps will earn you the coveted CGPA but will defeat the purpose of Tertiary Education. The purpose of Tertiary Education is not to fill your minds with facts but to teach you how to think. Our tertiary education system as it is today, with its archaic method of teaching and assessment, can only produce homogenous robots capable of thinking only within the confines of facts shoved down their throats. The system discourages independent thinking. You will never graduate with distinction or first class if you think independently and answer questions based on your understanding. You have to be a good basketball player, serve it back the way you are served. That is what our system encourages and that is why graduating with distinction or first class from such a system doesn’t guarantee success in the real world.

To survive in the outside world, you need to be capable of independent thinking, willing to challenge the status quo, ready to find out the WHYs behind the HOWs and always examine facts on their merit before swallowing them. The average Nigerian first class graduate isn’t prepared for that. This is why you find a trend of 3rd class, 2:2 and 2:1 graduates, capable of thinking outside the box, heading most organizations while the first class graduates are usually at the lower ladder of implementation.

To undergraduates reading this, I will be very blunt. You don’t need a distinction or first class if you are not considering lecturing as a career. That distinction or first class degree can constitute an obstacle to getting a job outside the academia. You will be judged by a different standard. A first class graduate (a friend) went for an interview and was grilled for more than one hour just because of his grade. Those who were interviewed before him were done in less than thirty minutes. He was asked to illustrate every technical detail on a marker board. That is the kind of unfair challenge that awaits you out there, as you will be required to justify your grades. Also, striving for a first class, apart from narrowing your thinking pattern and placing you under the illusion that it is all you need to land a good job out there, may also deny you the opportunity of developing yourself personally and discovering your true talents and potentials.

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sammyscholar:
It has always been my wish that I rebut most of the shallow submissions most of you guys make on this issue but I have come to realize that I have more important issues to focus on and the major of which is to proffer workable solutions to myriad of challenges facing our dear country. The day of reckoning is coming soon, anyway.

Save your energy bro. The dichotomy issue graduated recently from being an argument about academic superiority to mundane issues such as which of the two types of institutions have the sexiest babes.

These are the main reasons topics like this will always come up from time to time:

1. Inferiority complex: Majority of graduates on both sides suffer from this.

2. Unemployment: The competition for the few jobs available is fierce. Sidelining some will be an advantage.

3. Survival: Many are presently benefiting unjustifiably from the dichotomy. Ending the dichotomy and leveling the playing field will translate to job loss and demotion for many.

4. Primordial Sentiments against Technical Education: Technical education is perceived, since earliest times and till today, as education designed only for the poor and less privileged in the society. Germany and China are the two powerful countries that are seriously against this sentiment. Today, Germany leads in Europe and China leads the world.

nellybenn:
please someone should come to my rescue Mtn kept deducted my #100 ever since i activated for plan 1 extraspecial

You were warned. Call Customer care to complain or opt out.

VKasparov:
You are right. I contact MTN customer care and after much scrutiny they admitted that the free period is 7 days after which we will be charged N100 every 30days for the subscription.

From my calculation, this is the real cost per month of the MTN XtraPro Tariff:

N5 daily x 30 days = N150

N100 per month for Health and Fitness SMS

Total = 250 per month

By, the way, It seems the XtraPro Tariff has per minute billing instead of the usual per second billing.

Thanks for calling and forcing them to open up. Planned doing so before. I know the initial free subscription will have some strings attached. But it's ok since the 100naira will be deducted on monthly basis. Just that it's uneccessary.

No one is talking about the 7days free health tips and EPL video attached to both plans. What happens after 7days? Won't they start deducting 100naira every week for those needless subscriptions?

Moral of the story; dispose used condoms properly

Moral of the story; dispose used condoms properly

Hope that chiesel won't end up
inside his brain after the first hit.

Cerebrae:
Help a frustruated brother.... I have spent so much money repairing this Tecno N9 of mine, just got the board changed and now its havning network issues. Its detecting the sim but just cant make calls or dial numbers......... Pls what can i do... Ayam fedup....... 07032253679...thnks in anticipation

How much did it cost you to replace the board?

Mine refused to power ON recently. Thought it was the battery only to be told it's the board after buying a new battery. Don't even think I'll spend a kobo on it again based on your experience. It's obvious this Tecno N9 has design flaws; the reason its production was stopped.

Water should be colourless. What's oozing out of that tap is not water so as far as I'm concerned, no tap is supplying water there.

Generals03:
On the 5 point scale, First class is 4.5 out of 5

From simple ratio, for the polytchnic 4 point scale to be on the same level as the university 5 point scale, first class has to be 3.6 out of 4 and not 3.5

Likewise on the 7 point scale first class has to be 6.3 out of 7.
Anything less than this means the bar is below the university scale.

This is simply what OP is explaining. And of course this is assuming all the points scale have same score i.e 70 as their grade A equivalent.

The bold part is what the OP omitted in his supposed 'proof'.
Of course we know that 4.5 is 90% of 5 and 3.5 is 87.5% of 4. Looking at this on the surface, one will conclude easily that the bar is higher in the 5point scale. Concluding so is mathematically correct but logically and statistically wrong. If you evaluate the results of a Distinction Graduate from a polytechnic using a 4-point scale with the 5-point scale of universities, the polytechnic graduate will still emerge 'First Class Graduate' as long as score 70, for example, is equivalent to grade "A" and equivalent to the maximum point obtainable on both scales.

Turning logic on its head. OP obviously doesn't understand the concept of Grade Point. A Distinction graduate from a Polytechnic will still emerge a First Class Graduate so to say if a 5-point scale is used for evaluating his/her results.

UI for example uses a 7-point scale, so going by OP's warped logic we'll conclude that it is more difficult to make First Class in UI than other unis. That's nonsense.

If Grade "A" is equivalent to 5points in UNILAG, it will be equivalent to 7points in UI based on their respective scales. Where there will be discrepancies is the actual score that's equivalent to Grade "A". Some Institutions use 70 while others use 80.

It has been changed. Printing now starts on the 24th of April, 2016.

http://nysc.gov.ng/mob-timetable/2016/2016a.php

Trippledots:
for those having battery problems...I changed mine myself. if the number of persons who need it is ok, I can get the alternative battery for you guys,..(Yes, its imported) and then you look for a repairer to change it for you.

if interested I'll create a whasapp group for it. just mention my monicker here if interested. cheers

I'm interested. Can you share more details?

connkg:
I think an Engineer will be better suited for the Power,Works and Housing Ministry because:
1. There is greater chance of advancement with knowledge, then experience, then administration. Fashola as Governor of Lagos had Commissioners, Advisers and a knowledgeable community. As Commissioner for Works under Tinubu, look and see what was achieved. He has only proven an administrative skill, combined with good advice. I believe that an Engineer's mind on the Nigerian problems on Power,Works and Housing will do better than a skilled administrator's mind, advice and motivation being equal.
2. In a long list of "misfits", correctness will be judged by closeness to fitness. If 6 Engineers, 3 Architects and 2 Lawyers are each to head an Engineering department,more is expected of the Engineers than either of the other two professions. With poor administration, either of the other two stand a better chance in successful implementation. Charting a course, though, must require Engineering input.
3. Technically, cross-over knowledge can be acquired...but this only, in reality, makes the learner an Engineer; skipped trainings might become important and such loss might be costly.

Meet Jim Yong Kim, the President of World Bank nominated by the President of the United States (A President with world-class special advisers):

Jim Yong Kim MD, PhD, also known as Kim Yong (Hangul: 김용; born December 8, 1959), is a South Korean and American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012.

A global health leader, he was formerly the Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution.


It is a valid argument that an Economist is the right professional for this position (our own Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was also one of the contenders for the position) but decisions like this are not exactly straightforward. As at the time of appointing Jim Yong Kim, the world bank needed a break from the norm, someone with a pedigree for achieving set goals against all odds!

I am an Engineer and I also share the sentiment that an Electrical Engineer should man the Power Ministry. However, when you take a closer look at Nigeria's power problem, you'll discover that it is more of an Administrative problem than technical. All the excuses of low generation capacity, inadequate gas supply, faulty transmission lines, inefficient distribution networks etc. are all symptoms of one big problem: deeply entrenched corruption in the power sector. If you have been following Fashola closely, you will discover that he has viable plans to tackle this main problem. One of such plans is to ensure that every household uses a prepaid meter with no fixed monthly charges though tariff will be increased. This strategy if fully implemented will end the corruption in the power sector. What is funding the deeply entrenched corruption is the concept of estimated billing whereby you'll be forced to pay for power not consumed. When that is eliminated and all players in the power sector know that their revenue depends on efficient services, all the aforementioned excuses of inadequate gas etc. will fizzle out. Why do we have a working telecommunication system today? Because telecommunication companies will only earn when they make their services available for use and payment. Imagine if I and every subscribers have to pay a monthly rental for keeping an MTN line, wouldn't such revenue be enough to keep MTN lazy and not bother about efficient services? But as it is today, if something makes all the MTN base stations in Lagos stop working for a minute, MTN will stop at nothing in fixing that problem withing the shortest possible time becuase they know their ability to earn depends on the availability of the services they render. As it is today, our electricity companies 'earn' revenue without providing services and that must stop if any meaningful progress must be made.

Awesome!

tosyne2much:
Egbon, wetin be ur contribution for this matter?

The debate is getting boring jare. Most of those who carry out this comparison don't actually know much about the Nigerian HND programme; its history, what necessitated it, the objective and philosophy of the programme.

To respond directly to the OP, I'll just paste my response to a similar thread opened by a nairalander (DrFunmi) last year:


1. Entrance Qualification: The introduction of UTME ended the era of dichotomy in O'level requirements though some Polytechnics still admit with 4 O'level credits just like some Northern Universities accept D7 in Maths or English for some courses. The discrepancy in UTME scores cut-off is the issue here and most polytechnics have kicked against that. That's why Polytechnics like Yabatech insist on same UTME cut-off mark with the universities. The impression that lower entrance requirements for polytechnics implies inferior or poor academic standard is far from reality. The stakes are higher in polytechnics where you have to prove yourself worthy in both theory and practicals. The superior academic standard of polytechnics has been proved overtime through Direct Entry, External Exams and at Work Place where polytechnic undergraduates/graduates have engaged their university counterparts. So the deliberate lowering of entry requirements of polytechnics by 'the power that be' is an unwarranted discriminatory policy in itself and stakeholders in the polytechnics have always kick against it. Sadly, our society despises technical education therefore most students prefer universities to polytechnics. Therefore the lower entry requirement is an incentive to attract secondary school leavers to polytechnics but it is wrong.

2. Quality of Lecturers: We all know that most of those Professors and Ph.D holders in universities don't do the actual lecturing. It is common practice for them to delegate their duties to graduate assistants and postgraduate students under their supervision while they focus on 'research' and attendance of conferences. That said.

It is only in Nigeria that a tertiary institution can't award a degree unless it carries the nomenclature 'university'. That's one of our retrogressive policies. If not for this myopic policy, the HND programme wouldn't have surfaced in the first instance. Those who know the history of Nigerian Polytechnics, know that the 'middle level manpower' in the polytechnic act refers to the ND (National Diploma). So to produce ND holders, bachelor's degree was adequate as minimum academic qualifications of polytechnic lecturers. When there was a need for polytechnics to award a qualification higher than the ND, the polytechnic Act ought to have been amended to allow polytechnic award degrees. That didn't happen as result of the myopic policy earlier mentioned hence the retention of bachelor's degree as a minimum academic qualification to lecture in a polytechnic. When the HND/B.Sc. debate resurfaced nationally in 2006, NBTE upgraded that requirement to master's degree. Apart from these myopic policies, the unjustified discrepancy in salary/benefits in favour of university counterparts is another factor. It is natural for scholars to be more attracted to where their inputs will be more appreciated. Another factor is that Ph.D holders' career are terminated at Chief Lecturer level in the polytechnics unlike universities where they can rise to become a professor. These hostile policies, as a result of Nigeria's neglect of technical education, are directly responsible for the lesser number of Ph.D holders you'll find in an average polytechnic. But even at that, some Polytechnics like Auchi poly and Yabatech have more Ph.D holders than some universities.

3. Research Work: There is a fundamental difference between the educational philosophy/objectives of polytechnics and universities. While universities focus on development of new ideas, the polytechnics focus on how to fine tune such ideas and make it work. It is however sad that we focus on argument about superiority of roles here in Nigeria instead of appreciating the complementary roles of the two institutions. Also, the research objectives of polytechnics is usually geared towards producing something physical and not just about publishing abstract concepts, that may not have any/immediate useful applications, in international journals. Therefore one can be quick to conclude that polytechnics don't conduct research but a visit to one of the exhibitions of polytechnics will make you conclude otherwise. There are many prototype technologies waiting for adoption in our polytechnics but our government's disregard for technical education and preference for imported technologies (forgetting that producers of such imported technologies started from somewhere) will never make them look inwards.

4. Funding: Underfunding of polytechnics is part of the unjustified discriminatory policies of government against polytechnics. We hope this will end when technical education regains its pride of place. With such low level of funding however, polytechnic students still have better and adequate access to facilities than their university counterparts because most polytechnics do not over-admit students. The mad rush for Nigeria's sub-standard university education, as a result of discriminatory policies against polytechnics and colleges of education, has left us with situations like collapse of students during lectures as a result of overcrowding. When you examine the NEEDS assessment of our universities, you'll focus more on making your degree relevant than trying to pull down HND.

5. Quality of students: Again the discriminatory policies of government make polytechnics unattractive to most bright students.

6. Size and Beauty of Campus: The polytechnics were originally established to offer only technical courses. Unlike universities, the colleges/schools/faculties are few hence the few structures.

7. Preference/Demand: It appears degree holders are preferred presently because Nigeria is largely a consuming economy. We import virtually everything. China recently overtook the United States as the world's leading economy. They were able to achieve that because they placed premium on technical and vocational education. It may interest you to know that most Chinese Engineers in our construction industry are not degree holders yet our government prefer them to local 'Engineers'. Why? They get the job done while our own 'Engineers' are stating theories.

8. Self Esteem: It depends on the personality of the HND holder.

The additional point made by the OP is on scholarships. That's sadly true but it only points to the fact that those awarding those scholarships are myopic. The Federal Government is also culpable especially in their PRESSID scheme (I have an article criticizing that). MTN foundation scholarship is the most visionary. There was a time I sent complaints to major multinational oil companies about their exclusion of HND holders from their postgraduate scholarship scheme. It turned out that most them were ignorant of the fact that HND holders can actually secure admission directly into postgraduate programmes in the US, Canada, Australia, Norway etc. They exclude HND holders because they assume they'll have to spend more if PGD is required as it is in Nigeria.

Here we go again...