jelani01:
@DmainMan you are very stupid! what do you mean? You mean in the north they don't have first class students? Illiterate!

Let me tell you that real first class students in Nigeria are those produced by Northern universities because there is no much nepotism and corruption in their academic system. This is contrary to what happens in most southern universities where you can pay for or negotiate grades.

Ask any of your friend who studied in the north the battle behind awarding first class. It seems to me that you such people from south that feel no northerner is educated. You need to widen your horizon!

jelani01:
@DmainMan you are very stupid! what do you mean? You mean in the north they don't have first class students? Illiterate!

Let me tell you that real first class students in Nigeria are those produced by Northern universities because there is no much nepotism and corruption in their academic system. This is contrary to what happens in most southern universities where you can pay for or negotiate grades.

Ask any of your friends who studied in the north the battle behind awarding first class. It seems to me that you such people from south that feel no northerner is educated. You need to widen your horizon!

Mballowa:

I totally agree with you. I really dont know what this thread is turning into. It was just yesterday one baby factory guy came here and started abusing Hausa/Fulani and blaming them for the delay and here is DmainMan dropping rubbish who i thought was not in anyway a Tribal jingoist, but i was wrong. To say 70% of southern graduate are fake is an understatement. DmainMan should confine himself to giving scholarly advice if not he will be dealt with squarely too.

DMainMan:

Nice one. The bad governance had made youths to be brainwashed thinking this is a favour. All countries in the world send their students on scholarship. I had different developed counties as my classmates with sole aim of learning new ideas and developing their countries further. After their studies, all students went home except we Nigerians and Ghanians huzzling to earn more money because no where to be fixed.

Scholarships is very good if there is a good structure. All scholars should b given employment in universities, agencies and research institution to impact Nigerians and the government should be thankful for this. Graduating scholars certificates and transcripts should be sent to the Government who gave scholarship and returned to scholars when they report home. That is d norm. However, the reverse is d case in Nigerians whereby 80% of the scholars are unemployed and have forgotten what they learnt.

The main reason y Nigerian government are giving scholarship is to give back to their godfathers and achieve federal character through this means. This is y Pressid was curbed since only d highest ranking candidates gets it thereby Northern states were not included due to their poor performance therefore scrapped. Our leaders are not ready to make Nigeria better.

Adamsfunakaye:
Yeah, that is a very stupid comment up thr by hm. I work in port Harcourt and always going to Enugu, for over 6yrs now. Academic system thr is disastrous. I hav alot of pple from uni. Enugu, uni port, Rivers state uni, poly nekede, poly bori. Dey pay to pass, dey pay to get class of degree, all dey knw is pidgin English. Worst academic system in Nigeria and ur hr making ignorant comments. U hav bn cool Wit comments hr, I don't know wat u took in ur brain dt wil make u vomit such nonsense. I don't buy into ethnic n religious talk. But it's becoming too much hr. If it's not Hausa Fulani, it is north. Wat d hell is going on. Pple should respect thr shallow thoughts Nd kip talking abt ptdf awaiting list. If u dnt hav any info on that, I advise you shut up

Adamsfunakaye:
Yeah, that is a very stupid comment up thr by hm. I work in port Harcourt and always going to Enugu, for over 6yrs now. Academic system thr is disastrous. I hav alot of pple from uni. Enugu, uni port, Rivers state uni, poly nekede, poly bori. Dey pay to pass, dey pay to get class of degree, all dey knw is pidgin English. Worst academic system in Nigeria and ur hr making ignorant comments. U hav bn cool Wit comments hr, I don't know wat u took in ur brain dt wil make u vomit such nonsense. I don't buy into ethnic n religious talk. But it's becoming too much hr. If it's not Hausa Fulani, it is north. Wat d hell is going on. Pple should respect thr shallow thoughts Nd kip talking abt ptdf awaiting list. If u dnt hav any info on that, I advise you shut up

jelani01:
@DmainMan you are very stupid! what do you mean? You mean in the north they don't have first class students? Illiterate!

DMainMan:

Don't advise me on what to comment on. What is true should be said. I don't care if anyone is hurt or not because I am only human after all. The truth must be said!
I am not a coward

hadigirei:
I used check this thread for update but its turning into something else

From now on. I will just be checking the ptdf site. Shikenan.

DMainMan:

Don't advise me on what to comment on. What is true should be said. I don't care if anyone is hurt or not because I am only human after all. The truth must be said!
I am not a coward

Mballowa:

There is nothing truthful about what you said. Nothing but distortion of facts and misrepresentation. Your hatred will never allow you to see something good in others. You must be stupid to think that no first class from the Entire North that qualifies for the Pressid.

Mballowa:

There is nothing truthful about what you said. Nothing but distortion of facts and misrepresentation. Your hatred will never allow you to see something good in others. You must be stupid to think that no first class from the Entire North that qualifies for the Pressid.

Magicc:
Let me interject here. Everyone seems to have an opinion, even on matters they know nothing.

Did you take the PRESSID qualifying tests? The results are displayed at the end of your test.

The test result is combined with your O level results - 70% and 30% respectively.

You can calculate your score and know if you made the grades or not. The pass mark for the second edition was about 66%.

The PRESSID scholarship was the one of the most transparent exercises ever carried out by the Nigerian government.

Unfortunately, a session of the country consistently outperform another session since no Federal character assurance, only merit.

I had many friends that made the 2015 list and these scholars were never sponsored.

Merit in Nigeria died on the altar of Federal character. It is high time everyone grew at his or her own pace.

stanisbaratheon:
See how some people are aggressive towards DMainMan all because he said the truth.

DreManuel:


DMainMan is one of the most candid, circumspective and disinterested people I see on Nairaland. I wonder why some people who disagree with him (and there is nothing wrong with disagreement) are now coming for him with torrents of invectives. All they needed to do was offer a counterargument if they got one.

Anyway, all I can say to you DMainMain is keep balling...

DMainMan:

Nice one. The bad governance had made youths to be brainwashed thinking this is a favour. All countries in the world send their students on scholarship. I had different developed counties as my classmates with sole aim of learning new ideas and developing their countries further. After their studies, all students went home except we Nigerians and Ghanians huzzling to earn more money because no where to be fixed.

Scholarships is very good if there is a good structure. All scholars should b given employment in universities, agencies and research institution to impact Nigerians and the government should be thankful for this. Graduating scholars certificates and transcripts should be sent to the Government who gave scholarship and returned to scholars when they report home. That is d norm. However, the reverse is d case in Nigerians whereby 80% of the scholars are unemployed and have forgotten what they learnt.

The main reason y Nigerian government are giving scholarship is to give back to their godfathers and achieve federal character through this means. This is y Pressid was curbed since only d highest ranking candidates gets it thereby Northern states were not included due to their poor performance therefore scrapped. Our leaders are not ready to make Nigeria better.

jsleekysleeky:
I am very disappointed in you @Dmainman, I always thought you had the capacity clear, coherent and unbigoted thinking but it appears I am wrong. Many Nigerians from the south erroneously believe that Northerners are uneducated, this is far from reality. If you have travelled around Nigeria and have interacted with graduates from the North and South, you will realize that talent and academic potential is spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Being a northerner does not make one dull and being a southerner does not make one sharp. Yes, there have been northerners who got the PTDF Scholarship without merit but there are also southerners who got the same PTDF scholarship without merit. I don't know why Pressid was cancelled but I believe if there was true merit in the process almost 50% of the 102 recipients would be northerners. If your position is that there was merit in the Pressid process then you should also agree that there was merit in the recent DSS recruitment exercise that yielded 51 recruits for Katsina and 5 for Akwa Ibom. The reality of Nigeria is that every ethnic group in Nigeria tries to outdo the other when someone from their group occupy any office whether in public or private sector. If a Hausa man occupies an office most of the recruits for that office would be Hausa, same thing happens if an Igbo man occupies the office. Every Nigerian is marganilized and no Nigerian is marginalized. This is the reason for over 50 years of Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria no northerner has made director or even manager. It is the reason why for over 50 years the Igbo produced a Chief of Army Staff just once.

If we want to build a new and better Nigeria, we must move away from painting one group as culprit in our collective failure. We must admit how we have wrong one another and collectively resolved to change our ways.

jsleekysleeky:
I am very disappointed in you @Dmainman, I always thought you had the capacity clear, coherent and unbigoted thinking but it appears I am wrong. Many Nigerians from the south erroneously believe that Northerners are uneducated, this is far from reality. If you have travelled around Nigeria and have interacted with graduates from the North and South, you will realize that talent and academic potential is spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Being a northerner does not make one dull and being a southerner does not make one sharp. Yes, there have been northerners who got the PTDF Scholarship without merit but there are also southerners who got the same PTDF scholarship without merit. I don't know why Pressid was cancelled but I believe if there was true merit in the process almost 50% of the 102 recipients would be northerners. If your position is that there was merit in the Pressid process then you should also agree that there was merit in the recent DSS recruitment exercise that yielded 51 recruits for Katsina and 5 for Akwa Ibom. The reality of Nigeria is that every ethnic group in Nigeria tries to outdo the other when someone from their group occupy any office whether in public or private sector. If a Hausa man occupies an office most of the recruits for that office would be Hausa, same thing happens if an Igbo man occupies the office. Every Nigerian is marganilized and no Nigerian is marginalized. This is the reason for over 50 years of Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria no northerner has made director or even manager. It is the reason why for over 50 years the Igbo produced a Chief of Army Staff just once.

If we want to build a new and better Nigeria, we must move away from painting one group as culprit in our collective failure. We must admit how we have wrong one another and collectively resolved to change our ways.

jsleekysleeky:
I am very disappointed in you @Dmainman, I always thought you had the capacity clear, coherent and unbigoted thinking but it appears I am wrong. Many Nigerians from the south erroneously believe that Northerners are uneducated, this is far from reality. If you have travelled around Nigeria and have interacted with graduates from the North and South, you will realize that talent and academic potential is spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Being a northerner does not make one dull and being a southerner does not make one sharp. Yes, there have been northerners who got the PTDF Scholarship without merit but there are also southerners who got the same PTDF scholarship without merit. I don't know why Pressid was cancelled but I believe if there was true merit in the process almost 50% of the 102 recipients would be northerners. If your position is that there was merit in the Pressid process then you should also agree that there was merit in the recent DSS recruitment exercise that yielded 51 recruits for Katsina and 5 for Akwa Ibom. The reality of Nigeria is that every ethnic group in Nigeria tries to outdo the other when someone from their group occupy any office whether in public or private sector. If a Hausa man occupies an office most of the recruits for that office would be Hausa, same thing happens if an Igbo man occupies the office. Every Nigerian is marganilized and no Nigerian is marginalized. This is the reason for over 50 years of Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria no northerner has made director or even manager. It is the reason why for over 50 years the Igbo produced a Chief of Army Staff just once.

If we want to build a new and better Nigeria, we must move away from painting one group as culprit in our collective failure. We must admit how we have wrong one another and collectively resolved to change our ways.