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The facilities seem to be better than what is on offered in the UK.

http://www.cislagos.com/

http://www.cislagos.com/facilities-and-resources/

The list of teaching staffs

http://www.cislagos.com/our-school/our-staff/

This should be the academic standard for all schools in Nigeria.

Tweak2k:
Am in a depressed state and am so ashamed of myself. Currently schooling in a federal university studying computer sci. Seriously I feel really bad to have wasted 5 years without achieving nothing or a degree. Even spill over still wouldn't do no good cause I don't want a 3rd class degree or every worst. Can't take the risk again.[ insult is free i deserve it]

instead of graduating with a shitty degree am thinking of starting all over again from 100lvl to study computer science or anything related in a federal university. 4 years Max

Right now i feel like an abomination and a disgrace to my family. Have tried visiting the HOD's in my school unfortunately, I was informed students from the same school can't switch to same school [Different department] i dont know why i think it's best known to them.

Mind you am in my mid 20s with no achievement or any money making skills.

I have interest in mastering programming or becoming a tech savvy guy or a security expert but i can't. aside the coding aspect physiologically am not balance. Secondly, am limited.. Am very ambitious i need help and opportunities. Am tried of fighting alone/ holding back its eating me up silently... I only smile or engage myself in a social gathering to cover up my pain.

Even if am to start all over again I'll prefer a university that offer a 4 years course I don't know which Federal university one can study comp sci within 4 years.

Please I need advice and help The truth is school is frustrating and tiring.. I need a degree my battle can't be in vain.

I know someone would have pass through my line of sorrow or even worst. Your suggestions, opportunities and help will revive me back...


Regards,

Study a Post-Graduate diploma and then a Master degree, which will take the best part of two years or less. You will learn more and your advance
degree will be a testimony of your intelligence.

Ojudu: Why El-Rufai is wrong on North, South comparison

Senator Babafemi Ojudu, the former Special Adviser Political Matters to the President and aide to Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo replies Governor Nasir El-Rufai over his recent comment on North-South development and says the Kaduna governor got his lenses wrong

I love reading my friend Malam Nasir El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. But here is a man who is passionate about Nigeria, and about governance. He fears no foe and he says and do what he believes in. I prefer him to the caterwauling princes who pretend to be concerned about advancing the cause of the people but are always thinking of the next election and the next appointment. These are those a friend of mine refers to as the “kids without the whiz”. They abound in our land, El Rufai is different. Hence, when El Rufai talks we must pay heed.

To this end, I’m worried about the the statement made recently by El Rufai about two Nigerias; one the backward North and second the developing south. I think he got things wrong and he needs to be quickly corrected. It is very important to correct this assertion so that some non-discerning elements from the South will not start jumping up and dancing. They will not as profoundly delusional as the elephant, who was about to be made king of the jungle where the lion has set a trap with his chief adviser the tortoise on a throne set atop massive hole; a o merin jo ba! It is a fallacy to say that the south is developing. Every part of Nigeria is at best yearning for development. At worst we have a profound reality, an uneven pace of development across states around which Nigeria has been divided since 1967. See, it may be high time we stop analysing Nigeria in the spectrum of North and South protectorates, because that regional divide ceased on January 1, 1914. Nigeria since 1967, has been a nation of states. Some states being lucky every now and then to be blessed with great administrators like Baba Jakande in Lagos or Chief Ajasin in Ondo, or Ahmed Tinubu and his golden team in Lagos in a more recent era.

What becomes obvious on deeper analysis, is that discounting for historical advantages secured between 1952 to 1966 with regional governments in place across Nigeria, what emerges is a nation deeply united in bad governance, poverty index and quality of outcomes. We have one large underdeveloped country which calls for the attention of all of us be it North or South. El Rufai assertions may be true some twenty to thirty years ago, with the advantages the South secured in pre-independence governance. I can write a book to put a lie to that assertion now based on the facts known to me. I have travelled around this country North and South . I have seen things for myself . I am therefore not talking from the prism of someone who sits in Washington and the western capitals and come up with some fake indicators . I know and I can assert that the neglect of many years has come to haunt both the North and the South. I am from the South West. That part which I know so well is living on past glory.

I know and I can assert that the neglect of many years has come to haunt both the North and the South. I am from the South West. That part which I know so well is living on past glory.

Today education in the Southwest is growing in quantity and not quality. The products rather than portending hope for the future is largely lethal to the health of society. Just go to Facebook and see the quality of the grammar these products of neo-Southwest education propound daily on the platform. It truly will sadden everyone or anyone. I come from Ekiti which is largely in conventional wisdom regarded as the bastion of education in the Southwest. The myth abroad is that every household can boast of one or two professors. While this may be true in the past, it unfortunately no longer ring true. Here is a state where a governor used to encourage “miracle examination centres” for students, with invigilators bribed to look away so that the students could cheat and top the league table of states. This produces at the end of the day a high percentage of performance and rating for the state, that is subsequently celebrated by the Governor whose perfunctory attempt at caring is a careless head fake to excellence and perpetual ode to mediocrity! Now the products of that appalling situation are out of school and are recruited into “yahoo yahoo” and “yahoo plus” as they are called. Parents are now known to look for money to buy laptop for their wards to engage in this despicable business of scam. What a country!

Contrast this with the thousands of students sent out on scholarship by northern governors to some of the good schools abroad yearly,a policy akin to that of China that has made major leap by learning or stealing from the accomplishments of western nations. So southerners, let no one deceive you that you are developing. You’re living on past glory! Leave education and go into food production. Or do I say agricultural production. Most of the food consumed in the South today are produced by the North. The youths down here are no longer encouraged to farm. Where there is some modicum of farming going on, it is done by the Igbiras of Kogi, the Igedes Of Benue State and the young farmers from Benin republic. Travel through Benue to any surrounding states you will encounter a gang of youths with cutlasses in hand and hoes hanging on their shoulders joyously heading to farm. Now we have Benue yam, oranges, mango, cashew etc. Contrast this with a trip from Kabba and go through Ondo or Ekiti and head towards Lagos you will see villages all the way where young and able bodied men are playing table tennis and other sports at 11.00 am or filling pot holes while begging for money from travellers. This cannot be progress, The beef we consume, the tomatoes, the yam, the beans , the water melon, the goats for our pepper soup are grown or reared by peasant farmers and transported to the South for our dinner table.

Jigawa is going heavily into the red goat rearing with the goal of processing their hides for the consumption of the world animal skin market which has hitherto been dominated by Morocco. Cash trees are being planted by the forward looking governor of Jigawa who has seen that the market for both hard and soft wood in China is limitless

The average southerner wants an office job, and there are not enough to go around! In vast areas of our land, young people roam the streets with half bottle filled up with codeine and hard drugs, when they grow despondent and dangerously educated. In the past four years there has been a near revolution in the agricultural production and processing in the North. The landscape of Kebbi, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto and many other northern states have been turned to huge plantations of wheat , rice, and sugar cane. This is being followed up with huge processing plants put in place by the private sector in collaboration with the Central Bank. These programmes were on willing state, willing partner basis. After all, the CBN Governor is Igbo and we cannot claim discrimination. Over three hundred billion has been disbursed through Anchor Borrower Program and NIRSAL was originally capitalised to the tune of $500 million to work with states that have leadership and capacity to engage.

Jigawa is going heavily into the red goat rearing with the goal of processing their hides for the consumption of the world animal skin market which has hitherto been dominated by Morocco. Cash trees are being planted by the forward looking governor of Jigawa who has seen that the market for both hard and soft wood in China is limitless. He got the idea when he attended a meeting where deforestation and illegal lumbering was discussed. Instead of digging in against loggers, he volunteered to plant more trees for collective prosperity!

In Kaduna where Governor El Rufai governs, the biggest animal feed plant in Africa was commissioned two years ago. Just imagine the spin-off effect on grain farmers across the North. In Healthcare, his state has been the largest recipient of aid from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the Kaduna’s primary healthcare system is being transformed. This is even as only a small glitch which will soon be resolved will ensure Kaduna state get the cheapest ever loan from World Bank to transform her schools. Of course, this is after the Governor bravely reformed the school system by sacking fake teachers and employing more real ones!

Nigeria as a whole cries for development not a part as expostulated by my dear friend Governor El Rufai. The devil is in the details. We must rise up and demand good governance across board.

El Rufai knows the truth. He is too clever not to. I think he may be saying what he said to ginger his brother governors to do more for their people or at best humouring our people for political advantage. Least of course and very unlikely was that he sought to lure the South of the country to a false sense of accomplishment. For four years the Buhari administration advertised her anchor borrower program in agriculture. Let us ask how many southern governors took advantage of this program? The ministry of agriculture under the same government came up with a cocoa farm renewal programme. No enthusiasm was shown to it. Instead we had a fellow, whose best idea was to cultivate marijuana for export. Good luck. A friend of mine visited a government agent in charge of this last week. What he told him was depressing. “Why are your government so disinterested in this programme that would have been of benefit to your people?”, was the question he raised that requires answers from our governors.

Travel around the South and see the army of youths who are unemployed. Yes there are similar armies in the North as well but the values even in their deprivation is different. Northern unemployment numbers are also seasonal according to NBS, rising in the dry season due to lack of irrigable lands. That is not even going to last forever, as various programmes to revive the River Basins are ongoing and the employment number up North will stabilise. I have journeyed around the country with people of power. Wherever we have been we have been mobbed by this youths. While the Northern variants of it shout “Sai Baba”, the South variants shout, “give us the money”. Their eyes are bloodshot , their teeth discoloured and reeking of the smell of drugs, enough to get you high. Their sense of entitlement is legendary. When you try to pacify them by offering them the change in your pocket they throw it back at you saying “ this is not our money “. Before you know it they are throwing rocks at your convoy. This was my experience as we travelled around the Southwest during the last election. I was ashamed.

Yet our governors live in affluence, appointing several assistants with no defined or productive functions. All they are after is making money from government. This for me is not an indicator of development. We have too many gods rather than governors. This may not be pleasant to some of my friends who are governors. My apologies. I am saying this because it is time we must say the truth to ourselves. It is kidnapping and banditry we are seeing now. If we don’t take actions rebellion may knock on the door. Young men and women who should be employed after half baked education are unemployable.

Even after massive cheating schemes, Southwest states still continue to underperform in standardised tests done in Nigeria. At last count, Abia and Anambra led in 2018 while Oyo, Osun and Ogun were below National Average. Add to the fact that the gap in education is inevitably closing. While in 1990, the North had 14 universities, the South had 27. Today that number is 58 and 102 respectively. This is a 414% versus a 370% improvement. Slowly but surely.

In poverty ranking, while the impact of a more diversified economy is felt in lower poverty rates, the Southwest especially continue to house the highest numbers of the urban poor who continue to depend on welfare from remittances to stay afloat. Poverty better measured in the number of people living their best life will reveal a very different measure I suppose.

In the ease of doing business category that measures current governance, Kaduna was the leader, followed by Enugu while Southwestern states lagged behind at last 10 position with Oyo and Osun struggling for last position with Nasarawa. It is horrible. It is bad.

Our Governors are now Demi-gods. They will rather do business with themselves, the Lebanese, than with Nigerians, and have infused the system with frustrated businessmen who rather take their monies elsewhere. Truth is, a fair comparison will reveal that we are jostling for position among laggards.

Let our governors, both in the North and the South, come up and reassess themselves and govern in the true sense of the word. The accoutrements of power are so much than the responsibility. They should begin to do away with the meretricious and opt for the things that will uplift their people. They should not abandon their role to the omnibus Federal Government .

Nigeria as a whole cries for development not a part as expostulated by my dear friend Governor El Rufai. The devil is in the details. We must rise up and demand good governance across board.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/07/09/ojudu-why-el-rufai-is-wrong-on-north-south-comparison/

El-Rufai, however, said that the problems of the region must be addressed collectively as a group of 19 northern states governors

El -Rufai, is trying to link the backward and failing North-East and North-West with the mineral and agricultural rich Middle-Belt( North Central). The Fulani's are the root cause of poverty in the North, their caste and hierarchical policies have rendered the Hausas and Middle-Belt into a subservient society.

duni04:
I'm an old member of NL and haven't posted in a while but this thread has forced me to say something today. I'm disgusted and irritated by the audacity of the OP of this thread to post blatantly false information all over this article. To write that Amaechi awarded the PH rail contract to a firm with a higher bid is a blatant lie. To write that Amaechi abandoned the PH monorail before his administration ended is another blatant lie. To write that he dissolved his cabinet just so he could award an inflated contract is another audacious and daring lie. To write that Ghana awarded a similar project at a lower cost is another blatant lie. The first thing wike said when he became governor in 2015 was that he wouldn't pump any more money into the monorail and he woud abandon it. I remember contributing to the thread on that topic in 2015 and blasting Wike.
Ghanians were even in Nigeria last quarter to monitor progress on the Lagos ibadan link as they're using the same contractor as we are. The part that autojosh saw as a headline for the ghanians was a section of the rail which would obviously be cheaper, not the entire length as in Lagos to Ibadan.
Autojosh should better take this smelling nonsense article full of lies off his blog before someone calls the attention of Amaechi to it. Amaechi doesn't take nonsense from people. He will see this article and sue you to court. Nairaland mods should also beware as you're also liable.

We are waiting for him to sue.

webhostbiz:
He paid $25M for the oil block licence in 1998, meaning he paid for the oil block and not as gift.

Where did he get $25 million?

Only in Nigeria is oil a curse, other countries oil is a blessing.

roladex:
So what's d big deal in this now.

If he cannot dress well, how can he organise his subordinate? This is supposed to be the deputy commissioner Of police in Lagos

Why not build a factory

Nigerian are regressing at all level.

A city with more than 15 million people must have a mass transit system, APC lip service to the abandon light rail project (red and blue line ) is shocking and disappointing

wingmanII:
See the quality of policemen they recruit.
See the quality of teachers they recruit.
See the quality of leaders they elect or rig into office.
See the quality of civil servants they recruit.

Yet you expect this country to be great someday.
Well, miracles do occur.

It's a miracle Nigeria has lasted this long, the country needs a reboot in leadership and civil administration.

Why do we have able body Nigerian men begging in Italy?

A complete waste of time. Nigerian cannot maintain a multi-billion dollar nuclear research centre

INVESTIGATION: The appalling, risky state of Nigeria’s multi-billion Naira Nuclear Technology Centre (1)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/256171-investigation-appalling-risky-state-nigerias-multi-billion-naira-nuclear-technology-centre-1.html

INVESTIGATION: At Nigeria’s abandoned nuclear centre, failed projects, idle staff and ‘fraud’ [Part 2]
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/256828-investigation-nigerias-abandoned-nuclear-centre-failed-projects-idle-staff-fraud-part-2.html

Everything is food. Nigerian eating the goose that laid the golden egg.

Don't they have pilot training schools in Nigeria.

How much does it cost and where link for Abuja Railway .

They will say other Nigerian are jealous of these criminals.

KENESAGA: Let me tell some ppl here, without igbos in lagos, comercial activities wil colaps, just go to major markets in lag and check who controls it. tell igbos 2 leave and see how lagos will be if u'll tell urself truth. one love is d best.

Thanks for the development, now go and develop Aba and Owerri. The igbo have never built any organised society, until the British came to civilise them, you are lucky that Yoruba people are accommodating people.

Bliss4Lyfe: Dey should tell dat to some biggots hear on nairaland. The yoruigbo tribe.

The bigot is that tribalist Achebe (the former Biafra communication minister) , the Igbo's are lucky that Awo and the Nigerian government were magnanimous in victory, because the like of Achebe, Zik and many Igbo's elite should have been tried for treason as would have been case in any civilized country. Instead of accepting that they have made mistakes and are responsible for the carnage in Eastern Nigeria , they continue to follow the same visionless leaders, leaders like Ziks who betrayed the Igbo’s during the war, Achebe that admitted that Ojukwu was flawed and inexperience as a leader yet he continue to support the failed war effort and even got promoted to communication minister in 1969. Or finally the mad fool Ojukwu who should have been tried and hung for the crime he committed against the Nigerian people.

Just look at the tribal crap coming from Achebe, saying that Igbo' are superior and the engine of Nigeria. Come 2015 these same Igbo’s will be asking for Yoruba and other Nigerian political support and will wonder while they will never get it.

Igbos were reintegrated into Nigerian society, but still faced economic discrimination. Achebe offers an excerpt of an interview in which Gowon tries to justify the crippling £20 flat fee given to every Biafran wanting to convert their Biafran currency back to the Nigerian naira. This sense of persecution still persists today: Achebe believes that Igbo people are the engine of Nigeria's advancement, stifled by a corrupt elite that prefers power and mediocrity to meritocracy. Igbo ostracisation, he says, is "one of the main reasons for the country's continued backwardness http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/05/chinua-achebe-there-was-a-country-review?INTCMP=SRCH

By independence in 1960, Igbo people dominated commerce and the public sector in a land where the three biggest ethnic groups (the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo) were jostling for supremacy. Achebe attributes Igbo domination to their self-confidence, inherent democratic values and adaptability, which were suited to Nigeria's modernising economy. But many Nigerians resented it, and Achebe admits that the Igbo could be cocky, brash and materialistic, though he rejects the popular suspicion that there was a pan-Igbo agenda to control Nigeria – his people have too strong an "individualistic ethic"