₦airaland Forum

Heathrow44:
Why is jamb registrar moving with 3 truck loads of armed police, who is he? An examination officer stressing an already understaffed police force, jamb is just an exam designed to fail students, it was designed to make sure people dat are good to go on a course don't get there, they derive pleasure in making it look like d exam is a tough one at the detriment of people's future, u set 100l exam for ss2-3 and expect them to pass

omo the thing tire me o. Ordinary registrar fa

All I m seeing on the post is children this children that , ward… Are children now writing Jamb ?…In our days before you write jamb must have been independent to some level.. This situation is normal cos when you get to Higher institution, this occurrence will be often and no parent to complain to

Yampotatocarrot:
I think it was a general problem... 7am candidates in some centres in Lagos didn't write till evening. I know of some that got home by 8pm after leaving home around 6am in the morning

Some other centres even asked them to go home that JAMB will reschedule them to another date, only for them to hear that other centres wrote theirs by evening

does that matter?

Jamb had a whole year to prepare for an exam that will last only 1-3 days.

Yet it came up with this useless show of shame.

Just how incompetent can one be? Imagine a whole year to do something and you can barely scale through? Even kids can learn to walk within a year

That's where we have gotten to in Nigeria. Everything been done with a carefree attitude. That's why we need someone with a firm grip on the affairs of this nation. That's why we need Peter OBI.

Luckysbab:
Yet, many were expecting magic - for INEC to have over 170,000 polling units results all uploaded at the same time.

We're funny in this country.

Keep making excuses for mediocrity! The world has left us behind!

Jamb has followed suits with it's senior brother INEC

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

That's why it's mock exam it's a complete mockery or Reno omokri, see a lot of things needs to be scrapped in this country, a lot of standard needs to be set unfortunately the present apc government is a scam that's why we need Peter obi to reclaim his stolen mandate to get things to work properly in this country

Emmastan291:
JAMB is not as tough as it was last 10 years

OMO JAMB then na die

Your experience is not differed from the rubbish our children were subjected to here in Ikorodu in one useless school named Elihans Cbt 5/7 Fatai Tomori Str. Igbo-Olomu, Ikorodu, Lagos State. None of the batch 2 students who are supposed to write the exam was able to do so despite staying till 4pm, only the batch 1 students who started their exams around 2:30pm instead of 7am wrote their papers. My daughter was so disappointed having prepared for the examinations only for JAMB to now let her down.

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in [/b]this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It [b]keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

We are making progress in antclockwise direction.

Northernblood7:
@Mummyfour

I was among Jamb staffs. It's not thumb printing anything. Jamb is no longer using autobot jamb software they used last year. They are now using Custom browser.

Now they didn't inform Jamb centres of this latest development until a day before the mock exam when they came to run dummy test.

There were flaws in the software because the one developed for 32bit operating system was not working. Even the 64 bit system only run on Windows 10 with latest Java installed. All these things where discovered on ground on the mock day. We closed by 10:30pm because we were trying to understand how the software runs. Even on the mock day, any centre that didn't start exactly the stipulated time by jamb will be automatically rescheduled to afternoon which likely played out here.

It was later in the day that we were told to use latest chrome browser to login using our server IP for each candidates system. It was hell. I Blame Jamb HQ for testing new innovation on ground instead of within.

Seun mynd44

Bro it was terrible
I got to our CBT 8am on Wednesday and I couldn't go home that day I took my bath at the CBT yesterday morning. Though we got to know about the IP log in Wednesday by Wednesday evening so we were already set untill the Technical Officer said she is unable to download. Even as a CBT staff I wanted to cry yesterday because it's as if we were not prepared. Parents were hauling insult at us calling names on what's not our fault. One parent even called the Annex Headquarters director and telling them to close our center that we were not serious and all that l.imagine investment of millions.
Yesterday was terrible boss

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

Go to court if it pain you

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

We have been too silent in the country for too long. So Mediocre people are steeped in all our institutions from top to bottom.
Its like hardship and Africa are mutually inclusive.
Hence all these Issues you have raised will just get swept under the rug and unto the next crisis. It will not be featured in any local newspaper or report.
No accountability culture, no feedback. No root cause analysis on what went wrong and how to prevent and fix the Issues from reoccurring. Before computers this was easy breezy , using an HB pencil and eraser, you checked your answer and submitted.
With computers, you are dealing with network - I doubt it was tested prior to make sure it could handle the load.
I am sure they knew all along they were thinking African time, all along

Same sad story here in Lagos. You're lucky, the Registrar came to the candidates rescue, nothing like that here. Nobody was on ground to explain the cause, the solution. Children were tired, angry and depressed. It's very unfortunate.
Mind you, candidates paid for this failed exams.

My prayer is that things should be in order before the main exams.

MartinsD12:
That's why it's mock exam it's a complete mockery or Reno omokri, see a lot of things needs to be scrapped in this country, a lot of standard needs to be set unfortunately the present apc government is a scam that's why we need Peter obi to reclaim his stolen mandate to get things to work properly in this country

We shouldn't need to politicize this. This is common etiquette and about not having standards in place, about not respecting other people's time. Its like we need the white man to put structures in place for us.

OP,

I beg you sincerely on behalf of the JAMB Registrar. Na fasting dey worry Prof., Alhaji, Ustaz, Osama bin Oloyede.

This nonsense will not repeat itself after Ramadan.

Thank you.

HighQue007:
All I m seeing on the post is children this children that , ward… Are children now writing Jamb ?…In our days before you write jamb must have been independent to some level.. This situation is normal cos when you get to Higher institution, this occurrence will be often and no parent to complain to

Things have changed now.
Then, if you never join 2 sittings together you never start.
Then, if you never wear at least 2 different school uniforms for Waec you never know wetin dey.
Then, no parent follows you to Waec or jamb office to obtain form.

Now, to send a 300 level student across the road sef to buy amara go dey fear you.
Now, na parent go wake up by 4 am to sit with a child who has an exam in order to force them to read.

This is real life. By Wake Adenuga production.

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

Hmmmmm

If only you know your powers, a simple notice on placard would sack the registrar yesterday, or even serve him query, to respond to the HOR latest Tuesday. But you don't understand your powers as citizens.

rickleye:
We shouldn't need to politicize this. This is common etiquette and about not having standards in place, about not respecting other people's time. Its like we need the white man to put structures in place for us.

We don't have the right leadership in this country, it's killing us and everything about this country is negative, no standard at all .

Balablu

sanniabiola:
If only you know your powers, a simple notice on placard would sack the registrar yesterday, or even serve him query, to respond to the HOR latest Tuesday. But you don't understand your powers as citizens.

na u sabi, bulalu balabla.

rickleye:
We have been too silent in the country for too long. So Mediocre people are steeped in all our institutions from top to bottom.
Its like hardship and Africa are mutually inclusive.
Hence all these Issues you have raised will just get swept under the rug and unto the next crisis. It will not be featured in any local newspaper or report.
No accountability culture, no feedback. No root cause analysis on what went wrong and how to prevent and fix the Issues from reoccurring. Before computers this was easy breezy , using an HB pencil and eraser, you checked your answer and submitted.
With computers, you are dealing with network - I doubt it was tested prior to make sure it could handle the load.
I am sure they knew all along they were thinking African time, all along

I made my voice to be heard on the issue today on a humanitarian program on radio I co- anchor.

Some parents that were affected especially the ones that were manhandled called into the program today to join voices with me. Infact one suggested we should take our grievances to the ministry of education that jamb is under.

I would never have allowed it go whether my profession as a journalist demanded it or not.

It's really appalling when in a country of over 200 million people we have someone like the Registrar and his cohorts that would treat people like animals.
No apologies, nothing.
Instead they resorted to attacking parents.
We as Nigerians are too docile and I hate this docility like crazy.

I shout out when I have to and I stand up for what is right.
I make my voice heard Even in places where people ordinarily would think a woman should shut up

I looked him in the eyes and told him, we should revert to HB pencil and the man just looked at me like some one would look at a fly that flew into his kunu , because he knows that if they try it,no more huge funds for jamb all in the name of CBT exams

seaenergy:
Go to court if it pain you

wow!! Really.
I just want to take this your comment as the trending joke.
Otherwise.....
Hmmmmm

sanniabiola:
If only you know your powers, a simple notice on placard would sack the registrar yesterday, or even serve him query, to respond to the HOR latest Tuesday. But you don't understand your powers as citizens.

Nigerians are very docile.

I got together some parents yesterday, who not only agreed to call into a radio program today, but also agreed to take it further.

But unfortunately, the people that made the loudest noise decided to turn away when I suggested that we should take it further and farther.

Why are we like this in this country.
What you said is absolutely correct about us having the powers in our hands, but Nigerians too dey fear.

They will tell you to leave everything in the hands of God.

God sef go don tire to dey hold some things for Nigeria and Nigerians

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

Like INEC like JAMB

It was an all round terrible experience yesterday, parents were wailing.

Has JAMB been demystified?

Should they cancel the entire exams?

The man must be the same race with Mr yakubu of Eye neck

Luckysbab:
Yet, many were expecting magic - for INEC to have over 170,000 polling units results all uploaded at the same time.

We're funny in this country.

Don't be stupid my friend!! They spent a whopping 300billion preparing for that exercise!!! They have no excuse to justify the shameful "selection" they carried out

Mummyfour:
you really dodge the bomb o

My daughter refused to go home when I saw that it wasn't going to end well. She said "mummy we have come all these far, we spent money for the mock, you had to queue for fuel before today,so we could get here, and besides since we have waited this long don't worry about me, I will be fine, I will wait"

I just dey look her.

As she later finished and came out, the next thing she was shouting was "mummy food, I am hungry, this is not buns or puff puff hunger o, but food hunger"
Every one around us that heard her burst into laughter.
It was a sort of comic relief.

One man just pointed one "food is ready" canteen to me out of sympathy for her, and another man asked me if I had cash to pay for the food that he would assist us. I told them thanks and gave my daughter the correct beans and bread i went back home to arrange for her, shortly after they began to write the exams and since my house was like 30-40 minutes away from the center

But those people that tried to come to my aid in getting her food,made me know we still have good Nigerians out there

Imagine the stress. Why is everything stressful in Nigeria, seems we have been configured to undergo stress in every facet of our polity....haba!

transient123:
Imagine the stress. Why is everything stressful in Nigeria, seems we have been configured to undergo stress in every facet of our polity....haba!

I dey tell you o