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LifeofClinton:
.. The truth of the matter is , most Christian Nigeria universities are nothing but glorified secondary schools with even more babaric rules ..always research about a school before you go there .ask people who attended the school

pinkpant:
very nice suggestion

baylord101:
And some people will still come here to compare Federal University with Private University.
Space Booker how far?
Do you read the write up, it's State not Sahara

freezyprinzy:
500,000 na my pocket money plus school fees from 100-400 lv I go still get change sef not forgetting project money

SlimBrawnie:
Sad, but come to think of it, they have rules and regulations guiding them which you and others agreed to.

If you cannot take the heat, then get out of the kitchen, or better still, do not enter the kitchen at all.

0b100100111:
School that should have been donated to Fulani Herdsmen for grazing purpose!

All these Christian University re simply Ponzi schemes

TheVictorious:
I know very much about Madonna, and I don't really like to say it cos it's one of the schools that generally gives people a bad impression of private universities in Nigeria. Sometimes I wonder what the NUC standard for accreditation of an institution are and whether they treat every university with the same equal standard. Sorry to say, the case of Madonna make me wonder whether they play double standards!
Or Statsocial what do you think?

TheVictorious:
Stop generalizing many Church owned universities (Covenant uni, Redeemers, etc.) are doing very well and giving their Federal counterparts a run for their money. Madonna university has always been like, ask people who know. Or if you doubt me, search for Madonna University in this forum and check out all the discussions we've had about them since 2006.

monex:
it is not run by the catholic church. It is only owned by a lay (non-religious) catholic priest

Juanthenairague:
Interesting, can't take ds OP serious atleast some of my family and friends finished from there and they are doing well in different areas of their discipline.
First, you created your acct yesterday just for this purpose, meanwhile tagging uniben photo to your petty stories like one forced you to enrol into d school knowing quite well about their rules and regulations ...i guess u did so poor in your jamb and that couldnt make way for your choice (great Uniben) I wonder what u gain from running people down.its true some spill over sudents (lazy ones) there had issues with some GES courses but they caused all ds for themselves, students don't work hard anymore. Our generation/youths are so lazy that we take things for granted. Priority reshuffle is d new motto... We channel our efforts into slaying BS (wannabes') and social media vibes.

Juanthenairague:
Interesting, can't take ds OP serious atleast some of my family and friends finished from there and they are doing well in different areas of their discipline.
First, you created your acct yesterday just for this purpose, meanwhile tagging uniben photo to your petty stories like one forced you to enrol into d school knowing quite well about their rules and regulations ...i guess u did so poor in your jamb and that couldnt make way for your choice (great Uniben) I wonder what u gain from running people down.its true some spill over sudents (lazy ones) there had issues with some GES courses but they caused all ds for themselves, students don't work hard anymore. Our generation/youths are so lazy that we take things for granted. Priority reshuffle is d new motto... We channel our efforts into slaying BS (wannabes') and social media vibes.

LifeofClinton:
I didn't generalise it..I said most

Statsocial:
Honestly the school should be de-registered. I really have a problem with NUC's indiscriminate licencing of private universities. The current private universities being set up currently everywhere can give someone headache. This Madonna is as ridiculous as a typical state university with highly extreme rules. I wouldn't go there even on free tuition.. NUC needs to raise the minimum standard for licencing private universities.

danidee10:
PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME AND READ THIS STORY, THE OP IS TELLING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THANK YOU

Before i start my story, i'll advise any jambite or any parent reading this not to apply to Madonna university and if you're already a student and it's not too late to leave please leave and find a better University to attend. if you can't afford to leave then make sure you keep track of all your results especially if you are a transfer student from another department.

I got admitted to madonna university in october 2011 to the faculty of engineering Elele campus, it should be noted that madonna has three campuses, Elele(Rivers state) for Sciences, Akpugo (Enugu state) for Engineering and Okija (Anambra) for Arts. while i was in my 100 level i started hearing rumours(in Madonna every rumour is 95% true) that my department in Engineering was not accredited by NUC, due to that discovery i decided to transfer and change to another department. i paid the fee of N 10,000 and transferred to computer science department in 200 level, i was told to write a leter to the school's Exams and records to transfer my old result and details to my new department which i did

Fast forward to my final year....when the list came out for those that would do final-clearance(those going for youth service), i was not too surprised when i did not see my name because, transfer students in my department have always had this issue of our 100 level results not being transferred even thought we've been writing letters to the university's exam and records to transfer our results. personally i know i've written this letter more than five times throughout my time in Madonna University, so i quickly rushed down to school to find out why my name was not on the list, i was told it's an issue with my result. so i went to Exams and records and i submitted my name to the security man who acts as the intermediary between students and the offce and i was shocked when he returned about 2 hours later with the piece of paper i submitted to them with 'Next two weeks' boldly written in red. i asked him why, he said the lady incharge did not give him any reason. i quickly scribbled down my name and Registration number on another piece of paper and submitted it again, initially the security man was reluctant to collect the paper, i begged him and he finally agreed. This time i waited and waited but i got no response and before you know it they said they were closed for the day.

The next day i came back and submitted my name and reg number and i got another response saying i should come back the next week (all these responses come at least after 2 hours of waiting). i was very angry and i walked up to the window where i could talk to them, the security man tried to restrain me but before he got there i was already talking to the Brother/Seminarian that i saw there. i explained everything to him and he told me to give him my name and registration number again which i quickly did. he told me to wait that he will attend to me. an hour later when i saw that i was getting no response i went to meet him again and he kept on telling me to wait that they're working on my result, meanwhile when i looked into the office, he was browsing the preview of Liverpool vs Arsenal another staff was on nairaland, one was on facebook and the others were just chatting and laughing, i told him i was tired of waiting that he should tell me exactly what's going on, he finally told me

THAT ALL MY 100 LEVEL RESULTS ARE NOT IN ELELE THAT THEY'VE BEEN MOVED TO AKPUGO IN ENUGU STATE.....WTF!!!!!!

But i've been writing letters since 200 level for you guys to move my results for how many years and it has not been transferred. He was just smiling and he told me that i'm supposed to know that letters don't work in this office. i nearly ran mad, i was like how else do you want me to communicate with you guys if i don't use letters, the Exams and records office is locked down and restricted from students and lecturers. by this time it was around 4 o'clock and they closed for the day

To cut the story short i had to go to my former Faculty and request for old 100 level results before doing this i informed one of my lecturer who called the Reverend Father incharge of Exams and records and told him that both of us are coming with some of the results we found and he said ok (if i didn't do this, they would just dismiss the result as a fake one even if it is stamped and signed by the Hod of that), after i submitted the results i found (i did not find all of them especially GST courses which are not pasted by Exams and Records or released to the various departments), they wrote a list of 16 courses that they could not find (they even wrote some non-existent courses). i went back to them and told them to give me the names of the non-existent courses (they just wrote down the course code). i waited and waited throughout the day but got no answer or response. i started going round from one 100 level lecturer to another to retrieve some of my results (doing their job for them). i was told to write a letter to exams and records again to go and get the result from the respective lecturers i did that and submitted the letter but i got no response and when i tried to find out exactly what's going on the Seminarian there would just tell me that they are working on it that i should just be patient

This Saga went on till the list for the NYSC batch A corpers had been compiled and forwarded to NYSC, i had to go home because i had tried all possible avenues to resolve this problem all to no avail.

The Seminarian was even telling me to go to Akpugo campus and get the results myself, but the annoying thing is even when i get there they wouldn't give me the results i have to beg (which translates to bribe) a staff there to follow me down to Elele with the results, i've told them to contact the office there to scan the results and send it to them. but they said 'they don't work like that' (can you imagine that!!!!), even My lecturer that has been helping me out with this issue (God bless him) can't help me again because they might start accusing him that he has collected bribe from me that's why he is so interested in this case (that's what they do). My mum even called the Reverend Father incharge of Exams and records, he started shouting on her and telling her that i went to bring fake results for them and that he is sure i did not even write those exams in 100 level, i even went to meet the lady incharge of computer sciences results. she just behaved as if she was deaf and dumb and walked out on me.

Most of my mates going for this Batch A youth corps never saw the result of some Exams they wrote in 100 level, and they are some of my colleagues who didn't see the result of an Exam (wasn't released to the department or pasted), it didn't come out in their problem list (list of courses you failed or missing courses, the list is released in your final year) only to be told that they failed the course or their result can't be found after they've graduated. a year before i graduated one of my seniors from another department advised me to go to exams and records and request for my results, i tried that but they plainly told me that they don't have time to attend to my request, i kept on trying but i had to give up because i started missing classes because of the hours i spend waiting for them to respond.

I want the whole world to know what goes on in Madonna University, on the outside it looks like a good catholic school but it's a whole new world when you get inside, they intentionally make students have spill overs so they came come back and pay another new school fees again, even if it's a single GST course, if it's a second semester course you'll pay both first and second semester school fees which is 300k+ or 400k+ depending on your department just to write that single course

As i'm writing this, i don't even know the next action to take i'm just at home now in limbo waiting for them to go and retrieve my remaining results.

TheVictorious:
No sir. I don't believe you on this.

Even though I promote private universities and believe in the potential they hold in redefining the nation's academic sector, Madonna is one university that doesn't really go down well with me.

I think the running administration and overall standard of that school is one that begs a lot of questions.

1. The accreditation of their courses. Many have been questioned over time, without any statement of the school to dismiss that.
2. Their website: who are their principal officers (at least, if not all lecturers) and what is their academic qualification, how about courses
3. Lack of transparency: where are the school's structures, academic works, so many other things (mind you they're one of the first federal institutions).
Many other things I can't continue to itemize
Now, just search the school on google, you hardly find any information about their ongoing academic activities, conferences, etc. Mostly admission advert.

Also here on Nairaland, we've debated about a lot of issues over time that have always made a sizable number of the students want to leave, just conduct a search here with the key word "Madonna University" and read down to 2006 and tell me what you think.

john4reala:
if every one will agree let's end this madness... I also wasted 1.2million In that school...

engrjacuzzi:
Madonna university is one school I know that lacks everything. the funny and annoying thing is that my darling wife went for her certificate despite graduating three years ago, she was told her certificate wasn't ready. I then insisted that she get "to whom it may concern" attestation letter and when she did, she was asked to pay #20,000 for processing. I think Madonna school should be closed down because all the allegation are true.

Madeu:
Instead of your waitng at limbo, get something doing or start all over again. In another school outside Nigeria. At the end of this, you will see error in your CGPA. Your result might turn out bad. I faced similar incidence as narrated by you. Don't waste your TIME.

pinkpant:
This one is your brother's life style. stop twisting it. we know what is going on in that school. there's a difference between having so many people complain about how a school is being run for years and one wayward student life style...
Are some of you really afraid to say the truth or what. Should we all now ignore the outcries of the innocent one's that are being frustrated and just sit and blame them for their predicament.