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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by expert234: 10:54pm On May 20, 2019
Ajoboss:
op get ur facts right pls..he was a 300l medical student who failed his first MBBS exams,and not 100l as u assumed
Any ways uzakah kun' rest in peace

For crying out loud, there is something called resit

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Nobody: 11:01pm On May 20, 2019
tamonokare:
You don observe say na only Christians dey kill themselves like dis.
Once he is not a Muslim, he is a Christian! :
Once he doesn't worship in the Mosque, he is a Christian!
Once his name is Seun and not Mohammed, he is a Christian! shocked shocked shocked

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Nobody: 11:05pm On May 20, 2019
capitalzero:
*STARTING TOO EARLY HAS ITS SERIOUS RISKS TOO!*

An article credited to John Ogunlela


The boy with the highest JAMB score this year won't be going straight to the university after all; at least not to Unilag, his preferred school - he is below 16.

Some are boiling over and cursing JAMB, citing the contrast of 'saner climes' and how Unilag and schools with similar admission restrictions are backward and awkward.
Let me say that I support Unilag's policy. Five years ago, before I had a child in a university, I probably would have seen the policy as anachronistic too, like others. People generally don't get informed easily in Nigeria, especially in expert issues. Most expert knowledge is encased and inaccessible to the public. Child education is an expert knowledge.

Education is far more natural and expansive than most people think and it can put your child at a disadvantage and even risk if you ship them off into certain academic environments before they are naturally ready. In my days, you couldn't be admitted into Primary 1 unless you were six, a standard still used in Germany. It obtained in Nigeria until the Middle Class grew into parenthood and mothers became collared workers who were no longer available for their children until 5pm. That was when Kindergarten schools took off, pretty more as Crèches or Day-Care. They were generally derisively called, 'Jelesimi', which means, 'Spare the home some peace', because they were designed just to keep the kids out of the home for a while and get them engaged. The intent was not to key them into mural education.

However, things grew out of hands and kids began yo get drilled with arithmetics at the age of four. This happened mostly because the minders of those children were not professional teachers; they overburdened and over-educated the poor children. And of course this seemed quite in order to our rabidly egoistic and competitive society: 'My child is only six and he is in Primary 4, his age mates are in Primary 1'. Thats how we are all tempted to be. What the parent does not know is that a deficit is building up in the child.

Education is essentially polishing the flow of a child with society even as he recognises his individuality. In that process, the child is equipped with tools of thoughts, chief among which is mathematics - the pure language of rationality and science, English; the language of business, politics and of the international. As a child's word is shaped immersed in that expanding pool, he is expected to be able to solve problems with increasing skills. At a point, he is expected to he able to identity and tackle problems common to the society at large. This process has humanity itself at the centre and in understanding humanity, age is important - experience comes with age. That is not something you hurry a child through or he will be good in the classroom but socially ill-adjusted. If your child is maladjusted socially, his education is almost meaningless - and there are many brilliant kids in that category today.

When your child gets into the university, he is absolutely in an adult environment. He will be confronted with all the isms at once. He will be up against atheists, drug addicts, revolutionaries, pacifists, extremists, sex addicts, homosexuals and a full assortment of characters and belief systems. He will meet with people who hate their parents, girls who have vowed never to marry, boys who think women are playthings. He will share intimate spaces with them. The university is a battle ground, not an environment you want to plunge a child into, is it? He may come out with a First Class, mind you, but he could be useless to himself and end up bitter with everybody especially those who sent him into that school too early. Some can cope of course, but they are few and I think education planners who have a duty to the public have a right to play it safe in this area and assume that those few kids are negligible in number.

If your child ends up finishing from school very early, let them go into a day school to learn programming, carpentry, piano or even 'mechanic'. A fresh vista on life will be open to them and they will appreciate life in a way no money or 'school' can buy. They call it Gap Year and it makes sense. If will help make your child a lot more well-rounded. If you push them hard and ahead too fast, you may have to carry them virtually all their lives. That's why you see so many of these students get pressed into dangerous lifestyles as soon as they get into school. One I know about, a girl, fell into a group smoking weed and all that. An unusual number are checking in for psychiatric treatment. When they get married, they report their spouse to their parents or pastors on weekly basis because their minds are cooked too rapidly. It is raw within, but done on the outside. There is a report out there that the most brilliant students are usually not very successful in life generally.

So, parents, life is not just about good classroom grades and a total-racall intellect. Go for full-blown success, not just academic records. Doesn't that make sense?

John Ogunlela
Age is not maturity tho!! !
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Angrymode: 11:10pm On May 20, 2019
This guy na idiot.

Why is this mugu killing himself before a champions league and Europa league final angry
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Chiemeka1: 11:15pm On May 20, 2019
Waiting for Freezer and his so called fans who will drag church leaders into every matter. Lest I forget, my sincere condolence goes to the bereaved family,
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by loomer: 11:22pm On May 20, 2019
Useless country, wey dey always make exam be like world war
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by megaxart(m): 11:36pm On May 20, 2019
I feel really dissapointed, the decision he made wasn't the right one. Suicide doesn't end pain it transfers it to the people you love. Failure isn't always "failure" sometimes we need to fail to teach us lessons and give us experience. I feel that this may have also been due to the pressure placed on him by either of his guardians or anyone close to him. Who am I to assume anyway. Hope his family finds closure and hope he left a note.
Anyone reading this. If you see anyone with signs of depression or someone that has suicidal tendencies don't insult them, don't tell them oh look at others that have a worse life than you they aren't thinking of doing what you are thinking of doing you are being ungrateful. Trust me it goes deeper than that. There is a warm and peaceful feeling you get when you know someone cares about what you are going through. Give them something to look forward, ask them what they look forward to. Make sure they hold on to that, don't give them an empty it gets better, show them it does.
Remember through the darkness like breaks through. Be that light in their darkness ♥

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by NwaEzefuNaMba(m): 11:37pm On May 20, 2019
noni14:
rip atleast u die for a reason .

Died for what?
A kid of 19yrs taking his life and you giving him thumb up that he died for something.
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by mikaelzX(m): 11:39pm On May 20, 2019
Godisreal:
Am coming
I'm not Am
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Amanda4life: 11:59pm On May 20, 2019
Impatient is killing so many people
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by mkorle: 12:00am On May 21, 2019
Spirit of suicide everywhere, lord we ask for ur comfort.
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Legendguru: 12:24am On May 21, 2019
oh
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by George2164(m): 12:31am On May 21, 2019
Ajoboss:
sorry sir..
Which one is first?

First mbbs examination is just normal 100level results in which some schools have a rule of not less than 50 in cumulative of the core science courses. While some schools choose a high CGPA 4.5 minimum.
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Umorosky17(m): 12:39am On May 21, 2019
Why kill yourself, when the chances of the 119 that passed becoming doctors are still narrowed,a repeat would have save the situation. RIP
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Bbbwings: 1:11am On May 21, 2019
I know how it feels.
I only had a resit and I nearly lost it cos it happened in my final year.
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by Bbbwings: 1:12am On May 21, 2019
capitalzero:
*STARTING TOO EARLY HAS ITS SERIOUS RISKS TOO!*

An article credited to John Ogunlela


The boy with the highest JAMB score this year won't be going straight to the university after all; at least not to Unilag, his preferred school - he is below 16.

Some are boiling over and cursing JAMB, citing the contrast of 'saner climes' and how Unilag and schools with similar admission restrictions are backward and awkward.
Let me say that I support Unilag's policy. Five years ago, before I had a child in a university, I probably would have seen the policy as anachronistic too, like others. People generally don't get informed easily in Nigeria, especially in expert issues. Most expert knowledge is encased and inaccessible to the public. Child education is an expert knowledge.

Education is far more natural and expansive than most people think and it can put your child at a disadvantage and even risk if you ship them off into certain academic environments before they are naturally ready. In my days, you couldn't be admitted into Primary 1 unless you were six, a standard still used in Germany. It obtained in Nigeria until the Middle Class grew into parenthood and mothers became collared workers who were no longer available for their children until 5pm. That was when Kindergarten schools took off, pretty more as Crèches or Day-Care. They were generally derisively called, 'Jelesimi', which means, 'Spare the home some peace', because they were designed just to keep the kids out of the home for a while and get them engaged. The intent was not to key them into mural education.

However, things grew out of hands and kids began yo get drilled with arithmetics at the age of four. This happened mostly because the minders of those children were not professional teachers; they overburdened and over-educated the poor children. And of course this seemed quite in order to our rabidly egoistic and competitive society: 'My child is only six and he is in Primary 4, his age mates are in Primary 1'. Thats how we are all tempted to be. What the parent does not know is that a deficit is building up in the child.

Education is essentially polishing the flow of a child with society even as he recognises his individuality. In that process, the child is equipped with tools of thoughts, chief among which is mathematics - the pure language of rationality and science, English; the language of business, politics and of the international. As a child's word is shaped immersed in that expanding pool, he is expected to be able to solve problems with increasing skills. At a point, he is expected to he able to identity and tackle problems common to the society at large. This process has humanity itself at the centre and in understanding humanity, age is important - experience comes with age. That is not something you hurry a child through or he will be good in the classroom but socially ill-adjusted. If your child is maladjusted socially, his education is almost meaningless - and there are many brilliant kids in that category today.

When your child gets into the university, he is absolutely in an adult environment. He will be confronted with all the isms at once. He will be up against atheists, drug addicts, revolutionaries, pacifists, extremists, sex addicts, homosexuals and a full assortment of characters and belief systems. He will meet with people who hate their parents, girls who have vowed never to marry, boys who think women are playthings. He will share intimate spaces with them. The university is a battle ground, not an environment you want to plunge a child into, is it? He may come out with a First Class, mind you, but he could be useless to himself and end up bitter with everybody especially those who sent him into that school too early. Some can cope of course, but they are few and I think education planners who have a duty to the public have a right to play it safe in this area and assume that those few kids are negligible in number.

If your child ends up finishing from school very early, let them go into a day school to learn programming, carpentry, piano or even 'mechanic'. A fresh vista on life will be open to them and they will appreciate life in a way no money or 'school' can buy. They call it Gap Year and it makes sense. If will help make your child a lot more well-rounded. If you push them hard and ahead too fast, you may have to carry them virtually all their lives. That's why you see so many of these students get pressed into dangerous lifestyles as soon as they get into school. One I know about, a girl, fell into a group smoking weed and all that. An unusual number are checking in for psychiatric treatment. When they get married, they report their spouse to their parents or pastors on weekly basis because their minds are cooked too rapidly. It is raw within, but done on the outside. There is a report out there that the most brilliant students are usually not very successful in life generally.

So, parents, life is not just about good classroom grades and a total-racall intellect. Go for full-blown success, not just academic records. Doesn't that make sense?

John Ogunlela
Wonders shall never end.
So atheists are bad people..
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by paraltero: 2:23am On May 21, 2019
xynerise:
Dafaq is wrong with these lily-livered youths that can't accept failures? angry

People like you
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by tomdon(m): 2:44am On May 21, 2019
cosmatika:
Medicine is not for the feeble hearted. Someone must have pushed him into doing medicine. More than 70-80% of the people that pass through medical school fail at one point or the other, yet we persevere. Paediatrics nearly gave me a nightmare, but I knew it was a matter of time

70% is gross exaggeration, speak for yourself.
And this incidence has nothing to do with studying medicine.
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 2:59am On May 21, 2019
KingLennon:
The children of this Generation are so soft, is it because they are called indomie generation? Only 100 Level o? We dat we drop out during 300 Level and still went back to school and started from scratch nah? Wetin we for do?





RIP bro....



Bro you should be happy you are strong hearted,he actually failed MB meaning he is a 300L student...
RIP Timi

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 3:01am On May 21, 2019
BruncleZuma:
100 level meaning say him never even comot from main campus...

grin grin grin grin



Bros na 300L student him b..
OP get your facts right dont assume

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 3:12am On May 21, 2019
Osagyefo98:
He doesn't even look like a medical student

He over enjoyed, partied in hiss year one.



Bros, this guy never missed going to night class to read, we shouldn't judge from afar..that might even be his year1 pix, he is a 300L med. student of NDU Bayelsa
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by BLUEJAYY: 3:12am On May 21, 2019
KingLennon:
The children of this Generation are so soft, is it because they are called indomie generation? Only 100 Level o? We dat we drop out during 300 Level and still went back to school and started from scratch nah? Wetin we for do?





RIP bro....
You're lucky to have supportive people who didn't give up on you.

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 3:23am On May 21, 2019
12345baba:
Idiot. Indomie generation




Wonderful...do you know what depression is? Have you ever lost someone close to you coz of depression..? You calling them idiot..
I pray depression stays far away from your household it's not funny at all..please do well not to call them idiot ..I know what am saying

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 3:25am On May 21, 2019
victons:
2nd MB;BS rather


Na d first MB bros
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by prazole: 3:27am On May 21, 2019
expert234:


For crying out loud, there is something called resit



Not for people who failed the 3 courses

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by XXCASH: 3:57am On May 21, 2019
izzou:


Which is?


Abeg help me ask am
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by KingLennon(m): 5:08am On May 21, 2019
BLUEJAYY:
You're lucky to have supportive people who didn't give up on you. Some of us weren't so lucky.

I got to 500l and was really stressed out it affected my health. Plus, I got to experience the clinical scenario and I was forced to admit to myself it wasn't for me.

Anyway I would have scrapped through just to get the degree and go into something else, but I was overwhelmed by my health issues.

I fought to keep going but I knew I'd fail the MB, for the first time. I had to drop out, sadly. I didn't even consider repeating as I knew it'd have been worse. I needed help.

I didn't get help though, rather backlash from family which was so detrimental to my psychological health, I went into chronic depression.

I can never be the same again. I'd have moved on to something else like you did if I had the needed support. I had to start from scratch, all by myself. I've always been a fighter so, though I had suicidal thoughts, I couldn't imagine myself going through with it.

It'd have been easy to get these pills and OD on them, then sleep and never wake up again but that'd be painful to the one person that actually showed concern and empathy. Also, I'm a survivor, I wouldn't do that. smiley
I didn't have anybody to support me only God. Everything i did, I did it on my own. You must believe in yourself, it's a story to tell. Life is full of ups and downs like an elevator grin

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Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by KingLennon(m): 5:10am On May 21, 2019
prazole:




Bro you should be happy you are strong hearted,he actually failed MB meaning he is a 300L student...
RIP Timi
No matter what happens, I can't kill myself bro. As in Life is too sweet to die
Re: NDU Medical Student Plunges Into A River After Failing An Exam by expert234: 5:32am On May 21, 2019
prazole:




Not for people who failed the 3 courses
True. But an extra year has never done any harm since inception

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