"CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF SOCIAL CONTROVERSIES"

At INEC OFFICES AND OUTPOSTS you do not have to show any documentations (or identifications to at least authenticate your age!). Just grab some kids, hit the centers, whatever age they assert, that's it. No single form of means of identification! I understand this may be intentional by INEC to remove bottlenecks and ease the process, right? So Togolese can get our PVC, Aliens from the moon too...and then, how do you tell a person's age before registration since age is a very important requirement? But these are not even the issues, seriously! Now, if the process is so open to all, how on earth did they NOT allow third party agents(like NIMC did) to ease the process. If you want it free, queue up in INEC outposts and offices, if you are in a hurry, pay N500 at third party points- isn't that how NIMC eased off the panic of NIN? But we must always begin afresh and learn nothing from experience, may God save us from the incompetence that our leadership typifies. I sincerely urge lawyers in the house to take INEC to court again until all those we saw in queues which they created are able to register. You can not put one machine in a center to capture hundreds of thousands of people in one day! It is called disenfranchisement!!

I will now talk about dwindling reading and study culture. It's going to be long! Run!! Lol.

Comparatively, our folks go abroad and excel so easily. So, obviously our IQ as a people seems comparatively one of the best in the world. But our environment, with the endemic widespread cheating culture, has effectively completely deadened the will to read in our children. Once they are outside our clime and find that they cannot cut corners, they study and excel and surpass their mates elsewhere. In Nigeria, only roughly 2.5% of secondary schools are not cheating systematically in external examination by my estimation. This is because I have charted my informal discussion with a wide range of students, younger adults, teachers and parents and made my findings therefrom. In some cases, folks reported that answers were just written on the board! It is well o. I urge the minister of education to immediately partner with WAEC. Body cameras should be worn by the WAEC supervisors. Another camera should be provided daily to all schools with a stand. Each day after exams, all cameras must be returned to custodian points and recharged there. If cameras malfunction(intentionally or unintentionally), then, all such exams must be rescheduled for the schools involved after all the other exams and only senior WAEC staff should supervise rescheduled exams. So, who pays for the cameras? The schools! One camera per 100 candidates for the first year. The cameras may be sold off every year after the examinations since storing them may be cumbersome. Subsequent years, schools may then foot only 50% of the cost of the cameras since the salvage value from sales made should have covered the other 50%. The Minister of education must get fully involved since his Ministry and State Ministries of education must work out modalities to release funds early every year to cover for public schools. Are these measures workable? Yes! The cameras show time up to the sealing of envelopes. And WAEC envelopes once sealed can not be opened without destroying them! I think I deserve some consultancy fee from WAEC o! Lol. Why haven't I mentioned NECO? You do not want to hear my comments on NECO, trust me, you DON'T! Let them just copy what they can from WAEC later.

Education is the string that holds everything else in a society together. I am dwelling on it today. JAMB is my next stop. They messed up in post covid-19 big time. 2021 UTME results were very unreliable. I will like them to take me to court so that I can dryclean them. Lol. But JAMB has PROGRESSIVELY done very well. They are the only reliable examination in Nigeria at that Level now. The only one! If there are malpractices in UTME, they are negligible! Still, they must, going forward, stick to Literature books as harmonized with NECO and WAEC! No surprises in CD's. It is like asking us to read online terms and conditions! Only 1% of us read such stuffs, meanwhile candidates study for three years for these examinations and CD's only come in when they purchase forms a month to the exams! Thoroughness in vetting questions is key too. Because the questions are e-copies doesn't mean they have to be error ridden! Candidates report cases where up to ten questions are poorly stringed, without referred illustration, or just incomplete! Finally, system malfunction and the line of action to be taken by candidates should be boldly printed on their printouts. The center administrators in collaboration with compromised and poorly trained and informed JAMB staff are seriously covering up their lapses. But in all, I grade JAMB a "B". WAEC is an " E" and NECO is a "G" by the way. Do the comparison. Assume A as excellent and F as fail. Lol. Trust me, if you make me Head in any of these places, I may even fail more. I am merely criticising for the sake of improvement.

Finally, let JAMB and the tertiary institutions know that they are our last hope of rescuing education in Nigeria. WAEC and NECO have failed us abysmally! I know private universities must run profitably. I know too that that tertiary institutions need students every year. But to sit and agree to lower our standards to cutoff marks of 100 and 140! That's completely unacceptable. We cannot keep lowering the standards every year. Soon, we will soon say, for Colleges and Polytechnics, once the candidates show evidence of writing the examinations, admit them! For universities, if they can score 40 out of 400, they are exceptional kids, admit them! Oga, if children fail in a particular year and we do not lower our standards(stick to 180 for colleges and polytechnics and 200 for universities), they will all sit up and read from the next year. That's how to solve a problem. Extreme situation, they say, demands extreme solutions!

I do not know too much, I am basically just a writer trying to punch our consciences hard enough to act. You get, huh?

I went to once office more than 3times , even paid money for me to be registered, still It wasn’t possible. It’s really unfortunate

I almost lost my job bro. I was so desperate! Let's engage this post more.