@Kristofferquincy It's time to contribute to your article made two days ago and I have a lot to say about the issue which I believe most of us here especially Nigerians would testify to it.
Disclaimer: This post isn't about talking bad about the Educational system in Nigeria but to make fun from it. I don't want to be sued thereafter 😁😁
I have attended and graduated from college of education in year 2015 and also furthering my degree in one of the Nigeria Universities and will be graduating soon by God's grace. I have experienced some weird system in school and most times, I feel like having a super power to favor myself and my friends but I don't see how possible it will be. It can never be possible sef because you just have to dance to their tune if you really want to study.
Let's dive into some of these weird things I have encountered so far......
THE ISSUE OF ACCEPTANCE FEE
I want to believe it is only in Nigeria that this fee is being collected. Like, I wonder why would they still ask us to pay for Acceptance fee when they were the one who brought out the admission process and are looking for students to take in. We then would be given admission and instead of collecting only school fees, they will want us to pay for Acceptance fee. Is it money for accepting us or what is it? I think this has to be curbed. Who is with me? 🙄 I know it is part of their "Ajemonu" (I think this is part of what they want to share among themselves)😅😅
ISSUE OF TEXTBOOKS
This one, they are cheating us and I just wish to have super power to fight them and won't implicate me. The fee would have been included in our school fees but we still get to buy course materials with our own money. I thought since we have paid for school textbook, all courses we are doing should be included in it instead of buying course materials with money we supposed to use for our feeding. The worst part is our parents won't even give us this course materials money except we use part of our pocket money.
I think @Olasquare was contesting to be a president someday and even wrote his manifesto in his article, can you just see through this Mr President? 🙄
ISSUE OF PROJECT
When we were allocated to our various supervisors and I and my friends were waiting for our supervisor after the day's lecture. Then we started talking about project. Some supervisors can frustrate the lives of their students all because they are opportuned to guide us through. I was like "Isn't project supposed to be part of our curriculum and since lecturers are being paid their salary, they are the ones to even hasten us to be fast instead of delaying us and even giving us tough time". There are some lecturers that would delay students in school just because of project even after graduating. This is bad though.
USE OF WIFI
I would want us to know that our schools are really cheating us and extorting money from us. How can I pay for Wifi and I still don't have access to it even in school. They have collected money from me and I still pay for subscription. 😬
CERTIFICATE COLLECTION
My friend was telling me that once you graduate and you didn't come to collect your clearance after a year of graduating, they will start topping it up with $2 (1000) per year. So that means if you wait for 4 years before coming to clear your certificate, that means you will be paying 4k ($8). The question is "What will the money be used for?" It will be shared among themselves.
For God's sake, aren't we free to come collect our certificate anytime we want? At least it's our own right and they should attend to us freely whenever we come and not asking us to pay for the years we didn't come for it. It's bad na 😔
AWARDING GRADES
This one is the worst of all of them. Like, how will it be for you to stay up late at night to read and someone who didn't study at all get a good grade than you? There are many lecturers who favors some students than the other. I believe we should be treated equally and according to how we perform and not helping the unserious ones in detriment to the real students who took their time and efforts to read hard for a course. Nigeria schools will not cease to amaze me because the system is controlled to favor some people over the others.
An adage goes thus:
He who knows the way, get it. Yoruba will say "Eni to mo way lo mo way".
We have some lecturers that they only want money. Once you can bribe them, you are free. And these kinds of students, it's so pity that they won't be able to defend themselves outside school because they didn't have time to study but to buy their way through all courses.
The list goes on and on but let me just put a stop here so the post doesn't get long.
Thanks for your time reading my article 🥳🥳🥳
|September 03, 2021|
It's terrible how they charge students. And that the educational system has so many problems. In Venezuela, unfortunately, the situation is not very different.