Bawss1:

The Nigerian education system for all to see!

So now this is INEC's fault? You'd be amazed about the quality of some of our university graduates if you took a closer look at them. We have
ourselves to blame in this. As someone pointed out earlier; faulty equipment and dull corpers makes for an inefficient registration process.

violent:


For crying out loud, there are cyber cafes littered all around costing just a little over 100 naira an hour, there are independent computer classes that cost less that 3000 naira a month, what you need sir, is initiative!. . . . it's shameful that even my 68 year old neighbor knows how to do common things on the computer, although he never had access to one as a student.  

Face it, Nigerian students are too sluggish and lazy. . .all they think about is how to get rich overnight, no one bothers to actually learn!

Meldrick:


Very myopic and shallow mentality.
The students are only products of their environment. Must you depend on Cyber Cafe to get equipped with the knowledge you desire as a Computer Science student. There certainly would have been no need to write JAMB, gain admission into the University to study Computer Science if you say going to the Cyber Cafe is a better alternative.

The students are products of their environment. The government has failed. Don't expect anything better. After years in the University, most of these students never had a practical example and you say you have a good government. That you can afford 3,000 does not mean everyone can afford it. Who does not desire to be rich overnight including you? It is never bad to dream. Stop claiming Mr. Righteous

Wumine:

Cybercafes and computer classes you said? Well for your info, some Nigerian students cannot boost of money for that. For some, that is a luxury they can only wish for and believe me, i've been there. Some are actually ready to learn if given the resources.

Wumine:

Cybercafes and computer classes you said? Well for your info, some Nigerian students cannot boost of money for that. For some, that is a luxury they can only wish for and believe me, i've been there. Some are actually ready to learn if given the resources. Y not make the computers readily available for them to learn with in school., i mean education in Nigeria should have gone beyond that for the love of God.

I still blame it on the 'agbaya' ^{big for nothing in yoruba} govt, there are millions of corpers out there to choose from and am telling you if they had not been too lazy in their 'search' and looking for cheap labour, they could have gotten more than enough that have been lucky to be computer literate. Then they needed to also have been trained well for the job, abi is govt cutting cost on that too abi is it late minute arrangement?

violent:

The Government failed in its responsibility to provide an enabling environment?   YES!
Have the student gone out of their way to learn the basic things to develop themselves? NO!

As a student, you hold a higher responsibility than the government does in making yourself a better person. A computer science student that waits for the government to deliver computers to his class without necessarily deeming it fit to go out of his way is lazy and shouldn't even be studying the course to begin with.

As an undergraduate, i have cause to deny myself of basic luxury to register for courses in fields were i believe will eventually benefit me in the near future.  It becomes distasteful that an average student will rather spend money buying cloths and other luxury items than invest in his/her development, all they do is wait for the government. . . .bullshyt!

I[b] have friends who studied computer engineering but since the school lacks the basic infrastructures to train them properly, this same people went out of their way to learn software programming and  hardware configuration, if anything it shows you are passionate about your career![/b]
for chrissake, this is an age where even five year olds don't have an excuse for being a computer illiterate, it's outrageous that university graduate are!

Meldrick:

Look at the bolded part and be sincere with yourself. How many people can afford the money to learn those software programmes. I'll enlighten you if you don't know because Iam presently working with an IT company and know the cost of some of these programmes. You can go out of your way to ask programmers what it takes and they will tell you they were fortunate. With the level of poverty in the land, an average Computer Science student can't afford it and stop assuming that all students use all their money to buy clothes. Of course they must wear clothes or don't you buy. I wonder when wearing clothes have become luxury. Think man

Meldrick:

Look at the bolded part and be sincere with yourself. How many people can afford the money to learn those software programmes. I'll enlighten you if you don't know because Iam presently working with an IT company and know the cost of some of these programmes. You can go out of your way to ask programmers what it takes and they will tell you they were fortunate. With the level of poverty in the land, an average Computer Science student can't afford it and stop assuming that all students use all their money to buy clothes. Of course they must wear clothes or don't you buy. I wonder when wearing clothes have become luxury. Think man

Meldrick:

What the hell do you mean? How many Universities have a computer. If not for these private Universities, most federal and state universities have none. Even my friend who read computer science was finding it difficult to put off my laptop because most Computer Science departments can't posses a computer. So what do u expect?

Hodaya:

Not surprised that a Nigerian University graduate can't operate a computer simply because we have Computer Science graduates who never trained with a PC while in school.

This is the reality of the decay in university system and INEC not owning up to their responsibility.

calculusx:

But to worsen the problem, the INEC official furthered her explanation by way of placating the Nigerians in the queue suffering the registration frustration that there are some other factors why the machines refuse fingerprints and would influence what it accepts as correct data.
Among such revelations from her is that a person intending to register may have problems with the machine if he or she has some health problems or inadequacies. She notified that “the machine normally rejects prints from someone whose blood pressure is higher than normal. It also does not easily take prints from somebody whose blood pressure is below normal. Also, diabetic patients intending to register might have problems with DDC recognition and data print acceptance. So if you belong to any of these categories I have mentioned, you have to be really patient and give the registration officials some time. It would do some good you leave the registration point, go back home and come back at a time you feel you are ok.”

With the almost impossible health conditions that disqualify someone, Daily Sun asked the INEC supervisor if there was much wisdom in the programming of the machine with such shortfalls or wide margin of rejections or selections, especially for the fact that many adult Nigerians fall within the health problem range.
Although she was speechless at the question and could not make any attempt at clearing it, but the points she made was instructive in getting a possible answer to why many people had problems getting registered.

I'm a Corp member and INEC is bleeped. How many days training was given to the Corp members and do they care about our welfare? Some Corp members slept in INEC offices or in Primary Schools where they are been posted to with mosquitoes everywhere and you expect them to give out 100%. There is no Security for the Corp members and, INEC lack logistics and they should accept the blame once and for all.

I can't begin to imagine INEC blaming corp members for its own inefficiency.Some of those corpers were not interested in taking part in the registration exercise in the first place & did not even show up for the training yet INEC recruited them.

As a corp member myself, going all the way from Lagos to Epe for 3 days to attend the training exercise, already set to go to Epe for the 2 weeks, only get to INEC office at ikoyi on friday and saw that my name was not on the list & seeing names of some my fellow corp members who didn't even do the training on the list, i now begin to question myself if  this same INEC that cannot conduct fairly an ordinary recruitment exercise that wants to conduct a free and fair election.

I want to believe that operating the machine could be a bit difficult for the untrained corpers in the first few days but i expect that as time goes on, they would catch up.

INEC has played the sound of a poorly planned & disorganized recruitment of its adhoc staff, so it should as well dance to the music.

COMPAQ:

The quality of our education is extremely poor. To be honest I myself could not use a computer when i graduated, but that was in 1999 when computers and internet were fairly new on the scene. With the amount of browsing and facebooking that the youth do, I would have thought that the average graduate would be conversant with computers. After all, I have seen an accounting graduate at WYSE (studying for ICAN) that couldn't seperate a list of transactions into debit and credit. That is how bad our education is.

However, INEC should still take the blame because it should have put them through some basic computer literacy test to identify thopse that could and couldn't operate the computers properly.