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The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election took to Twitter to lament the poor performance of candidates in UTME.

The recent revelation regarding the JAMB UTME 2024 results and percentages has sparked deep concern about the state of education in our country. These statistics paint a troubling picture that demands urgent national attention and discussion.

The distribution of scores is alarming, with only 0.5% of candidates reportedly scoring 300 (75%) and above, while a staggering 76% scored below 200 (below 50%). This highlights a systemic issue within our education sector indicating a significant lack of attention to this
very critical contributor to national development. This brings to limelight an obvious gap in the quality of education provided nationwide. Education remains a critical determinant of a nation's progress on the Human Development Index (HDI).

Unfortunately, Nigeria has continued to lag behind in education, reflected by its low HDI ranking of 164 out of the 191 countries measured. This places Nigeria far below other comparable nations like Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines which are within medium and high HDI. Though we claim as a nation that our literacy rate is above 50 percent, which is far below the global average of about 80% and continues to lag behind other comparable countries like Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines with literacy rates of above 70%. This again, underscores the systemic challenge in access to quality education, particularly in rural areas.

One of the consequences of the reported general poor performance in UTME is that with our population of over 200 million, Nigeria can only boast of about 2 million full-time students in different universities, while Iran with a population of over 89 million has over 8.2 million students in one University alone, Islamic Azad University, Bangladesh with a population of about 173 million boasts of over 2 million enrolled undergraduates in the National University of Bangladesh.

This underscores the urgency of the attention needed in our education sector. In solving this challenge, we must prioritise education as a key driver of development by aggressively investing in education, enhancing teacher training programs, and implementing inclusive policies.

A new Nigeria is indeed POssible! -PO

Source: Peter Obi

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Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

Obi the reactor

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

That's the job of opposition parties all over the world?

You expected Obi to travel UK while your god and his administration burn that the nation?

If you're already tired of Obi's reaction, I wonder what the remaining 3 years will be for you Bateria

Yourprick:
Obi the reactor

How is that your prick's concern

Yourprick:
Obi the reactor

Reactor or not, the man has highlited serious problems that need adressing.

But when governors try to adress such problems, you Nigerians protest. El rufai of kaduna came in with a mandate to improve Kaduna's education sector. He started by trying to remove deadwood teachers and replacing them with good teachers. Nigerians in Kaduna and nationwide joined the local NUT to stop the move.

And today, Kaduna continues to have poor education outcomes...because we were far more interested in keeping bad teachers in a job instead of bringing in good teachers.

As for funding...the same Kaduna is supposed to spend 120 billion on education...when that money is shared among the schools and the big state university , it ends up being tiny chicken feed. Yet when things like fighting corruption, improving tax intake, removing subsides on power to ensure that there is enough electricity to attract money and investments, and tax revenue to improve the budget...we go protest, so we rely on oyel money which cannot feed one state, talkless of 36 of them.

Obi you are calling reactor at least tried to improve schools by handing them back to misisonaries...but for some of you , he is basically doing nothing.

Anyway, we can always shout agbado and obident, and blame Hausas , Ibos and Yorubas ...forgetting that nothing has changed in decades.

There is no other nigerian politician alive today who takes education as seriously as his excellency, Peter Obi

His antecedents speak for him

A new Nigeria is POssible

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

You are afflicted by idleness

Amumaigwe:
You are afflicted by idleness

Indolence.

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

The fraud is copying Atiku his boss who signs off with AA. Bitter Obi lacks leadership traits, he's a follower at best.

SeeWahala:
There is no other nigerian politician alive today who takes education as seriously as his excellency, Peter Obi

His antecedents speak for him

For the very first time JAMB introduced computer based and eliminated miracle center, Anambra was nowhere to be found.

Bitter OBI react kill you there

Peter Obi is my own president.
The criminal in Aso Rock is not my president.
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COMRADES, you can see that the labour party presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi knows the importance of education that is why he lamented the poor performance in the just concluded UTME
Unlike the drug lord at Aso Rock, what he knows is forging certificate and also making lives difficult for Nigerians

Mr reactor.
According to Reno Omokri:

Dear Peter,

Get a mirror, and you will see the problem. The challenge we have in our education sector are irresponsible Governors, such as yourself, who promoted exam 'miracle centres' in their states.

Do you deny that under you, Anambra was officially branded the 'World Headquarters for Examination Malpractice' and that under severe pressure from the Federal Government and UNESCO, your successor, Governor Willie Obiano, was forced to close down 486 Exam Miracle Centres just two months after you handed over to him?

And since those centres were closed, Anambra reduced in WAEC and JAMB rankings. They were the secret to your success. Peter, you are Mmesoma Ejikeme's mentor!

And here you are, complaining about a problem you caused.

#TableShaker

Putindbutt:
For the very first time JAMB introduced computer based and eliminated miracle center, Anambra was nowhere to be found.

😂😂😂

Putindbutt:
For the very first time JAMB introduced computer based and eliminated miracle center, Anambra was nowhere to be found.

So where was Anambra finally found?

Or did someone PUT IT IN YOUR BUTT?

SeeWahala:
There is no other nigerian politician alive today who takes education as seriously as his excellency, Peter Obi

His antecedents speak for him

True, he spent 8 years in office without building a single school.
For the Obidients up is down and down is up.

ElSudani:
True, he spent 8 years in office without building a single school.
For the Obidients up is down and down is up.

We already had enough schools in all provinces in Anambra.

All he had to do was renovate them

SeeWahala:
We already had enough schools in all provinces in Anambra.

All he had to do was renovate them

Absolute nonsense.

ElSudani:
Absolute nonsense.

Sounds like the exact words someone's father said when he walked into the delivery room to look at the new born baby his wife delivered

Guess who was the father and who was the baby

SeeWahala:
Sounds like the exact words someone's father said when he walked into the delivery room to look at the new born baby his wife delivered

Guess who was the father and who was the baby

Your father said that on seeing you for the first time, I'm sure.

A new Nigeria is POssible

Hold Tinubu accountable!

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

APC go be like: which kind wahala be dis?

Obi abeg make we go halftime. Rest small. Let APC breathe small afterall you didn’t build any new school in 8 years!

Every former and present governor guilty nobody dey innocent.... How many of them sent their children to public schs... When you ask them they'll tell you it's it's against their fundamental human rights to tell them where to send their children to....they don't send their kids there because d standard is low and they can't guarantee the safety of their kids... Other people kids can die and have access to poor education, they don't care...

If the former governor of Kogi State can take his children to faraway Abuja for primary sch education in an American private sch, then most of dis governors don't care about the development of primary education, not to talk of secondary or tertiary....

Dis one wey dey talk now, how many of your pikin you carry go government Secondary sch when u be governor?

Inukwa ooooo

He always have a reaction to everything. Eversince the muntulla came 3rd, he has been disturbing our cyberspace with jargons. Mumu man

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

Have you failed to take your Bitter Obi medication this morning again?

Everything collapsed since APC took over from 2015, and I keep blaming Goodluck Jonathan for all these nonsense we are facing today.