rayralph:

I can relate....... Fine babe with 4.75 CGPA
GOT married less than 8months after school

oldfoolnigger:
fortunately/unfortunately I happened to be the one in my class( still a jambite,smh).

second person ( still battling with olevel when I checked last)

third person( fuel attendant).
maybe three of us were cursed.
lmaooooo

fourth to eight person(unn law undergraduates).

nine person (in Canada)

ten person ( unizik MBBS).

eleventh and twelfth ( MBBS and chemical engineering respectively)chem.engin guy with strong first class currently

Lifehack:
What happen to the top scoring kid in your class?
That boy/girl that always come first in class.

Midgut:
All the best students in every school want to study medicine and surgery, why?

DEIFIED:

Are you the öne on your dp?.

sharpwriter:

Bros, you fit help me contact that your friend for Shell? I dey find job o...nd Shell isn't a bad place to work either.

Flow23:
But Op, why this question? I hate to think you need so badly a justification for being ....Let everyone work hard and smart too. It pays.

MiddleDimension:


i know it is typical for some of you here to say people want to ridicule excellence but that's not the case!

It is true that some people who didn't do well in school and are plain dumb and hate anything book would feel good trying to ridicule excellence. But i get the feeling that that's not what the op wants to do.

I think the op wants to paint the rather sad scenario we now have in Nigeria to show that things have changed, and truely they have changed!

It is true that some of those big brains in class are probably doing very well where ever they are now. But thr truth still remains that alot of them in Nigeria are still on the street struggling alongside everyother person.

Muyiwa Afolabi, the talk-show host on raypower also mentioned this sometime ago. He wasnt lying when he said he went to an end of the year grad ceremony in a school and he saw how some students were being awarded best grad students and that reminded him what has become of the best grad students in recent past. And he said they are still on the street struggling with everyone else.

Like i said, there are some still doing well in their chosen field. But today in Nigeria, alot are still struggling like everyone else, and that's the sad reality!

I personally know a friend who was not just the best student in our time, but was also maths inpersonified. What is he doing now about 7 years after leaving the university? He is teaching in a school and being paid 30k a month. The last time we spoke, he was complaining bitterly. He looks older than his age now and he is just trying to round up his masters. And this is not an isolated case.

There is another guy from the same sec school i finished. He was not just good academically, he was the FCS president and has a good character. We finished at the same time from sec school but like many people, did not get admission on time despite his good result. Now, why is that? The answer is the same problem we are facing in Nigeria.!

The number of people seeking uni education is skyrocketing each year and the admission opportunities remain the same. This means not all brains will be very lucky to get admission at the time they left sec school. Being a born again, he had god on his side, but that didn't make any difference! It is the same with employment and career in today's Nigeria! Not all the brains will get it at the time they should, and not all will get it at all! I have seen real cases!

A colleague of mine who was teaching in the same school i was teaching in when i was a school sat, had a 2:1 in mech engine. He was in his 40s at the time, had 2 kids, and his trousers had a waist not his size. He had to use belt to hold it to his waist such that the front of it looked rumpled (and i am not exaggerating here). When you see him teach in class, he's so vibrant and maths flows naturally through his hands as he scribbles workings on the board. But there was a time i invited him to my house and my mother served us some fufu and egwusi, he was so happy and said to me with a pity look in his face that "he doesn't even know the last time he ate a food like this. I had to wash my hands and leave the food for him so that it would be enough to satisfy him. When he was leaving, i had to give him 500 naira.

These cases are real cases and i am not forming them.

So when i come on here and hear some of you deny some realities and label any attempt like the op has done with this thread as an attempt to ridicule excellence, i just shake my head in disappointment.

There was a thread where a guy said he also had a third class, to show support for Dino melaye when obviously his political opponents were only trying to bring him down. If you see the kind of rubbish i saw on that thread from supposedly highly intellectual people who came after that guy's head, you will be amazed!

Yes, some of the things those guys like you said on that thread were true, but the vast majority of their opinion was just flawed! I came to that thread, was so disappointed and just left.

olayinka63:
I happend to be one, graduated with First Class honors at University of Ilorin 2016. Now serving at Federal University of Technology, Minna.

kuchikau1:
Life is indeed a mystery! I graduated in 2016, will complete service by october 2017. Got a scholarship for my msc. Will b leaving nigeria late october 2017.

Bashnigga:
Pls which scholarship is that

Jarus:


Shell is not a one-man business where anyone can hand you job.

Bashnigga:
Pls which scholarship is that