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DrFunmi:
Success in life should not be determined by our alma mater. I believe that everybody has a chance to be successful whether they went to a university or polytechnic. Our success is in our hands. This write-up is not meant to degrade HND holders. I am one of those that are strongly against the discrimination against HND holders. However, the reality on ground (due to the discrimination) is that BSc is still more superior to HND and I have given reasons below to state the obvious but bitter truth.

1 Entrance Qualification - The entrance qualification to the university is more stringent than that to the polytechnic. The UTME cut off for universities is higher than that of polytechnics. All universities require a minimum of 5 credits in WASSCE/NECO while most polytechnics accept 4 credits as minimum requirement. It is well accepted that the entrance qualification to any institution says a lot about the prestige attached to such institution.

2 Quality of Lecturers- You cannot compare the quality of lecturers in the university to that of the polytechnic. Most university lecturers are professors and PhD holders with decades of teaching and research experience to show for it. Some of them are universally renowned professors. The head of universities are always renowned and experienced academic professors. Most Master degree holders in universities are mere assistant lecturers. The same cannot be said of polytechnics where most of their 'experienced' lecturers are mere BSc holders. Most rectors of polytechnics are Msc holders, only a few have PhD. Even corps members lecture polytechnic students. Has it ever occurred to you why polytechnics find it hard to employ even their own products (HND holders) to lecture? Instead, they employ mostly university grads to teach.

3 Research Work- University is the bedrock of research work. Research work lays the foundation of advancement and any sane society will rate any higher institution by the quality of their research. Unfortunately, the quality of research work in Nigerian universities is poor but this is still far better than that of polytechnics that do absolutely nothing (or very negligible research work).

4 Funding- Universities are much more funded than polytechnics. One of the metrics for determining the quality of an institution is the level of funding. No wonder, the government and the media pay more attention to the demand of ASUU over ASUP. Thus, you will expect a product of a university to be better trained than that of a polytechnic.

5 Quality of students - The brightest, youngest and most motivated students go to the universities. Go to a polytechnic and what you will see a lot of dejected, not-so-young students who have written UTME many times but have not succeeded. A few in the polytechnics are young and bright, but they are few and far between. The majority of young and bright students, just fresh from secondary school are found within the 4 walls of the university. Thus, most university grads are of higher intellectual quality than their poly counterparts.

6 Size and Beauty of Campus - A lot can be said about the quality of an institution by the architectural structures of the institutions. Let's take the elite universities and polytechnics in Nigeria for instance. One cannot compare the architectural edifices in the prestigious OAU, UI, ABU, UNN, UNILAG, UNIBEN to that of Yabatech, Kadpoly, Auchi, Bida Poly or any polytechnic in Nigeria. No polytechnic in Nigeria can even compete with some 2nd and 3rd generation universities like FUT Minna, UniJos, FUTA, etc in terms of structures.

7 Preference / Demand - The preference for BSc is higher than for OND/HND. All or almost all aspiring students wish to go to the university. Employers generally prefer BSc holders over HND holders. HND holders are seen as middle level manpower (That was the intent when polytechnics were initially created). There are more opportunities for BSc holders not just within the country but outside Nigeria. Jobs and scholarship opportunities abound for BSc holders and undergraduates while it is almost non-existent for HND holders.

8 Self Esteem - Last but not the least, an average BSc holder is more confident than an average HND holder. This is however not the fault of HND holders who unfortunately have to face stiff discrimination in the labour market, thus negatively impacting on their self esteem.

Keep your views to yourself boy. Albert Einstein attained a polytechnic.

True. One just msged me today and said she lost someone's handbag, that the girl is accusing her of stealing the 10k that was in bag. I asked her how she got to be in possession of the said bag, she told me the girl (whom she has never met before until that carnival day) gave her to hold. Imagine! She was begging me to send her 3k to add to the 7k she already has. As eyen Uyo wey I be, I told her to send me airtime to call my brother that's with my ATM so he can forward the money immediately to her, when she did, I blocked and deleted her contact.

Yes

OlamiB:
I didn't say they were admiring it but just staring at it doesn't make me comfortable, I am a shy person and my frnds do talk abt it.

I'm loving this girl already. So well mannered.

Hmmm

Wait

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Wishes sometimes come true.

Who is he? We dont know him here in the United state of Akwa ibom.

harrysterol:
Atiku waiting for Twitter and Nairaland users to vote

epic

Garri wey i buy ten cups for N200 yesterday? Hin own dy cm wit groundnut and beverages?

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Same Damaturu that was under siege 48hours ago? Sure this a fresh incident?

bigtt76:
Is it that Nigeria cannot brace herself to build a power plant that can generate more than a thousand MW? All these small small tiger plant den de build about with huge sums of money .....e de bi for dem o

abi... Na lion plant sure pass o

Seun:
What's a MoU and what does it mean in the practical sense?

Oga seun, even you too, you follow school for France? Them no dey sign Mou for dia?

I can't exactly place which part of her body the injury is on.

No we dont, why do you ask?

Why are you people abusing me? Is it your money i spent? And to the OP that pasted this, i'll make sure i sue you for privacy infringement! You should have asked for my consent.

Smh...Poor people always feel they have an opinion.

E dey happen

Under air condition.

PDP

Victorious1:
Frank Edward Hansome sha!!! :*

i fine pass ahm everyday. Na money just dey fall man pikin hand.

"Hon. Mr Enyeama" as one of the commentators put it.

A Federal High Court in Makurdi on Friday lifted a government ban on the use of HIV vaccines produced by a Nigerian doctor, Jeremiah Abalaka.
The court, presided over by Justice Binta Nyako, also restrained the Federal Government and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, from further interfering with the use of the vaccines. Mr. Abalaka, an Abuja-based medical practitioner, had challenged NAFDAC for banning him from using the vaccines he discovered in 1999 for the treatment and prevention of the deal Human Immuno Deficiency Virus, HIV. The therapy, which generated controversy for years in Nigeria, was banned by the Obasanjo administration. Joined in the suit were the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Attorney General of the Federation. Testifying before the court, Mr. Abalaka, who also called three witnesses, said he discovered a recipe to turn the virus in the infected blood of HIV infected person into both preventive and curative vaccines. He said he applied for the patent of the discovery and was granted on July 22, 1999. “I wrote to health institutions and authorities in Nigeria to draw their attention to the discovery to collaborate with me to test and confirm the breakthrough,” the doctor said. “This was in order to bring succour to sufferers of HIV but the letters were ignored.’’ Mr. Abalaka said the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, took him up on the discovery and confirmed the potency of the drugs. “This was done through a report on Feb 28, 2000, but the Federal Government discontinued further collaboration with me and the institute,” he told the court. He disclosed that various agencies of federal government, including its hospitals, had purchased the vaccines from him and applied them on their own patients who had HIV and many were cured. “When the FG discovered that the vaccines were potent, it sent agents to me with the sum of N10million for the breakthrough to be announced in Atlanta Georgia, USA, but I refused,” Mr. Abalaka said. Mr. Abalaka said his vaccines were then banned from being used for the treatment of HIV epidemic in Nigeria by NAFDAC. His counsel, Mr. Paul Omale, had urged the court to determine whether the defendants had justified their banning the vaccines and “sentence about 3.5 million Nigerians to death’’ while there was effective and safe vaccines to cure them.
Mr. Omale further urged the court to determine whether the defendants had shown any harmful side effect of the vaccines. Counsel to the defendants, Uche Ezekwesili, however, abandoned their plea as he could not call witnesses to justify the ban.
Delivering the landmark judgment, Justice Nyako said since there was no cure yet for HIV, it was only fair for the defendants to have allowed the plaintiff to use the vaccines on infected persons with their consent.
(NAN)
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/171166-court-lifts-ban-abalakas-hiv-vaccines.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

"...all your curves and all your edges" John Legend knows better.

all4naija:
The stadium is good but overrated. I think Abuja stadium is better.

bigger? yes. Better? Dude you are bereft intellectually!

Hmm