₦airaland Forum

wirinet:
You people are too obsessed with cut off marks of Unity Schools. It is called UNITY Schools. Its purpose is not to produce excellent students, its purpose is to Unify the Federation by giving a chance to student from for every state in the country to attend. It is meant to be a platform where student from every part of this country come together and relate to each other in a conducive learning environment. It was designed to be a social integration mechanism. So Igbo people needs to stop making a mountain out of a molehill by always screaming injustice at the different cut off marks in Unity Schools. If you disagree with the policy of Unity schools, then do not apply to have your wards admitted into unity schools. After all what is the percentage of unity schools to the total secondary schools in Nigeria? I am sure it is not up to 0.001%. Unity schools does not stop state governments or even private citizens from setting up schools. Me for one do not intend sending my children to Unity schools.

Why is it only the Igbos that complain of Unity schools? Bayelsa (Ijaws) with a cut off mark of 79 is not complaining. Do you want unity schools consisting only of Igbo students? The irony is that the same people complaining of Buhari not Adhering to federal character in appointing office holders are the same people complaining when federal character is applied to unity schools. Does the fact that student are admitted into unity schools with different cut off mark mean that they would be promoted and pass out using different grades? Will WAEC and NECO use different marking schemes to mark their exams?

CSTR2:
You don't see anything wrong with a cut-off mark of 2 and 3, when others have as high as 139 in the same country?

wirinet:
Is it by force to send your children to UNITY Schools? In fact how many UNITY schools are in Nigeria and what is the total student population in Nigeria. How many students from Yobe or even Bayelsa apply to be admitted into unity schools. If you are so obsessed with unity schools, then pressurize your state government to set up disunity schools.

StOla:
Very possible.

It is a government subsidized unity school system, not a merit based system.

Let Anambra fill up its allotted quota with 139, while Yobe fills up its own allotted quota too with 2. No state will deprive the other of its own quota.

Very fair and just where merit is not the primary consideration but the intended unity for which such schools were established.

CSTR2:
There is something wrong with you just like most Nigerians.
Why not reduce the cut-offs to 0 in the name of unity schools?
And some nitwits will start boring us on how Nigeria is the phantom giant of africa.
yeye.

wirinet:
[s]You people are too obsessed with cut off marks of Unity Schools. It is called UNITY Schools. Its purpose is not to produce excellent students, its purpose is to Unify the Federation by giving a chance to student from for every state in the country to attend. It is meant to be a platform where student from every part of this country come together and relate to each other in a conducive learning environment. It was designed to be a social integration mechanism. So Igbo people needs to stop making a mountain out of a molehill by always screaming injustice at the different cut off marks in Unity Schools. If you disagree with the policy of Unity schools, then do not apply to have your wards admitted into unity schools. After all what is the percentage of unity schools to the total secondary schools in Nigeria? I am sure it is not up to 0.001%. Unity schools does not stop state governments or even private citizens from setting up schools. Me for one do not intend sending my children to Unity schools.

Why is it only the Igbos that complain of Unity schools? Bayelsa (Ijaws) with a cut off mark of 79 is not complaining. Do you want unity schools consisting only of Igbo students? The irony is that the same people complaining of Buhari not Adhering to federal character in appointing office holders are the same people complaining when federal character is applied to unity schools. Does the fact that student are admitted into unity schools with different cut off mark mean that they would be promoted and pass out using different grades? Will WAEC and NECO use different marking schemes to mark their exams?[/s]shut your stinking mouth

meccuno:
I think you are very dum.b for this statement.......and that's me being polite.....why don't you make your child become an indegene of yobe state to make it easy for u? And you claim to be educated but you make statements that show how low your I.Q is and your ways of reasoning must you justify stvpidity because you are an idio.tic bigot?

CSTR2:
There is something wrong with you just like most Nigerians.
Why not reduce the cut-offs to 0 in the name of unity schools?
And some nitwits will start boring us on how Nigeria is the phantom giant of africa.
yeye.

melzabull:
Typical yolobaa slave who never sees anything wrong with what his slave masters awusa/Fulani does.


Big FOOOOL!

StOla:
[s]Keep on crying about Hausa/Fulani. Secondly, I don't know of a yolobaa tribe. I'm Yoruba.

Judging by your spelling, you certainly are a disgrace to any school that chose to give you an admission.

Fill up your guaranteed quota with good high scores and let the disadvantaged states fill up their own quota with poor low scores.

Nobody is cheating the other, you are entitled to only your quota as long as it is operated by the federal government who set it up for the goal of unity, and who also heavily subsidise it.

If you want merit only, apply to private schools where you actually pay the true worth of the value you get to receive[/s].

StOla:
Do you understand that it is set up for the sole purpose of unifying nigerian teenage students and it is heavily subsidised for that purpose?

Do you understand that no state is cheated by ensuring each state fills up its quota only?

Do you understand that the scores from the individual state's candidates determine what score is set as the cut off to fill only that state's quota?

Why the cry about how the Yobe or Zamfara state fill up its quota? What is your business with their state quota and how it is filled up, which is already guaranteed?

Are there no non-subsidised private schools to apply to, who have no business with quota, but only rely on best scores?

meccuno:
its not better in any way. Nigeria's educational system is not up there and the best thing to do is worsen it? This country is in a mess because of the leadership of the North and the country won't get better when you throw merit through the window just to appease a group of people who do not value education? One reason the North made Noise from the beginning of GEJs tenure was because if things were done right, it won't favour them.........okay let's check the history of leadership........Nnamdi azikiwe had a PHD while tafawa balewa was an ordinary school teacher......when Awolowo who was extremely qualified contested, another school teacher was brought to head the government with someone who was more qualified than he was Dr alex ekwueme.......fast forward to 1994, even if am not a fan of abiola,he was killed because of what he had to offer and we had better candidates too.......1999, alex ekwueme was there with plenty qualifications and he was substituted for obj just to pacify the west.........we are going around in circles.....if after 40 years of rulling and the North cannot be educated, then we are in serious trouble.......I am a firm believer in education and its impact on the society, giving them a cut off mark that low is bvlshit.....

CSTR2:
You don't see anything wrong with a cut-off mark of 2 and 3, when others have as high as 139 in the same country?

melzabull:
^Well said Bialegend.


Yelloba slave, keep ranting senselessly

adconline:
Only willfully ignorant would believe that a student with 2 points and another with 139 points are at par intellectually.. Student with 2 points turns out to be a banker, lawyer, doctor and engineer- she/he is going to screw things up while the student with 139 pts is going to likely be an exceptional student/worker with less supervision.. Maybe that's why Naija is a jungle.

StOla:
You are the one ranting since you do not even understand the system you are criticising, and it is of no effect to the reality of what is an established system in a federal government institution.

I hope I have managed to enlighten your dark path, and set you on the road to objective analysis.

adconline:
Your analysis is the opposite of objectivity. You are saying that someone with 20-pt score can perform at the same level as someone with 90-pt?
"If winning isn't everything, then why do they keep score?" Vince Lombardi

StOla:
You are the one ranting since you do not even understand the system you are criticising, and it is of no effect to the reality of what is an established system in a federal government institution.

I hope I have managed to enlighten your dark path, and set you on the road to objective analysis.

Bialegend:
Mugu, there is nothing for any sane human to understand in a mediocre system of education that can't get our Igbo children anywhere in the ever increasing competitive world of science and technology. We do not want children whom our children are better than educationally and are not eager to seek for any improvement in one class room with our children cause there is nothing our children can learn from those imbeciles. We need high rigorous and hign demanding system of education for our children like it's obtained in the developed world and be able to open the future doors of success for our children to be able to compete with others from the developed world. Nama get this simple facts into your thick skull.

StOla:
Please refer to my quote of your previous remark.

Your mistake is to even think the admission policy is tilted towards merit as opposed to heterogeneity.

DONMAYOR19:
ehen? but later they will still be the one to hold key position in the country and you people will start saying as far them work. the way some people reason just because of sentiment sometimes fit make person vex kill person. but is all allowed, is a faceless forum so anyone is entitle to his or her opinion.

okuya:
Shocking: Cut-off point into Federal Unity Colleges for Yobe is 2, Taraba, 3, Anambra, 139 (See full list)
Posted By TheScoop on June 8, 2013
Ruqqayatu

by Dare Lawal

The trend which is a permanent fixture in Nigeria, in which Northern states are allotted very low cut-off marks for entrance into Federal Unity Colleges, while those in the South are allotted higher cut-off marks is still in place and continues
This is a 2013 report as the Federal Ministry of Education’s documents on the cut-off marks for the various states reveals.

Whereas, a pupil from Anambra irrespective of gender is expected to score at least 139 to gain admission into the schools, a male pupil from Yobe and a female from Zamfara is required to score only 2.

Students who score above the cut-off are automatically eligible for admission on merit.

The Education ministry advised parents to check the results of their wards which have been posted on notice board of all Unity Colleges throughout the Federation.

Below is the full list of the cut-off marks for all 36 states of the federation, as well as the FCT.



Abia – Male(130) Female(130)
Adamawa – Male(62) Female(62)
Akwa-Ibom – Male(123) Female(123)
Anambra – Male(139) Female(139)
Bauchi – Male(35) Female(35)
Bayelsa – Male(72) Female(72)
Benue – Male(111) Female(111)
Borno – Male(45) Female(45)
Cross-Rivers – Male(97) Female(97)
Delta – Male(131) Female(131)
Ebonyi – Male(112) Female(112)
Edo – Male(127) Female(127)
Ekiti – Male(119) Female(119)
Enugu – Male(134) Female(134)
Gombe – Male(58) Female(58)
Imo – Male(138) Female(138)
Jigawa – Male(44) Female(44)
Kaduna – Male(91) Female (91)
Kano – Male(67) Female(67)
Kastina – Male(60) Female(60)
Kebbi – Male(9) Female(20)
Kogi – Male(119) Female(119)
Kwara – Male(123) Female(123)
Lagos – Male(133) Female(133)
Nassarawa – Male(58) Female(58)
Niger – Male(93) Female(93)
Ogun – Male(131) Female(131)
Ondo – Male(126) Female(126)
Osun – Male(127) Female(127)
Oyo – Male(127) Female(127)
Plateau – Male(97) Female(97)
Rivers – Male(118) Female(118)
Sokoto – Male(9) Female(13)
Taraba – Male(3) Female(11)
Yobe – Male(2) Female(27)
Zamfara – Male(4) Female(2)
FCT Abuja – Male(90) Female(90)

adconline:
Pls using words that you can't intellectually and contextually apply in this case. If 2 points equal 130 points why take the exam in first place?? In your text, u are of the opinion that heterogeneity should take precedence over meritocracy?? We use exam to determine eligibility based on intellectual performance and ability..

Utchgirl:
Who u want kill ?


If they like let dem hold all d key positions in dis country ,who cares? If nt 4 tribalism ,they can't be compared 2 southerners whn it comes 2 giving key positions.

FYI ;U dnt hv 2 malign wit my person b4 u state ur points. After all,u hv said it all ; dt everybody is entittled 2 his/her opinion.

Be civil 4 once !

DONMAYOR19:
your brain don turn.

StOla:
Very possible.

It is a government subsidized unity school system, not a merit based system.

Let Anambra fill up its allotted quota with 139, while Yobe fills up its own allotted quota too with 2. No state will deprive the other of its own quota.

Very fair and just where merit is not the primary consideration but the intended unity for which such schools were established.