SkinnyDude:
go marry

@20? that's the least of my. problems. you should consider it anyway.

UnimkeAk:

D want to ridicule excellence
Shame on op

i know it is typical for some of you here to say people want to ridicule excellence but that's not the case!

It is true that some people who didn't do well in school and are plain dumb and hate anything book would feel good trying to ridicule excellence. But i get the feeling that that's not what the op wants to do.

I think the op wants to paint the rather sad scenario we now have in Nigeria to show that things have changed, and truely they have changed!

It is true that some of those big brains in class are probably doing very well where ever they are now. But thr truth still remains that alot of them in Nigeria are still on the street struggling alongside everyother person.

Muyiwa Afolabi, the talk-show host on raypower also mentioned this sometime ago. He wasnt lying when he said he went to an end of the year grad ceremony in a school and he saw how some students were being awarded best grad students and that reminded him what has become of the best grad students in recent past. And he said they are still on the street struggling with everyone else.

Like i said, there are some still doing well in their chosen field. But today in Nigeria, alot are still struggling like everyone else, and that's the sad reality!

I personally know a friend who was not just the best student in our time, but was also maths inpersonified. What is he doing now about 7 years after leaving the university? He is teaching in a school and being paid 30k a month. The last time we spoke, he was complaining bitterly. He looks older than his age now and he is just trying to round up his masters. And this is not an isolated case.

There is another guy from the same sec school i finished. He was not just good academically, he was the FCS president and has a good character. We finished at the same time from sec school but like many people, did not get admission on time despite his good result. Now, why is that? The answer is the same problem we are facing in Nigeria.!

The number of people seeking uni education is skyrocketing each year and the admission opportunities remain the same. This means not all brains will be very lucky to get admission at the time they left sec school. Being a born again, he had god on his side, but that didn't make any difference! It is the same with employment and career in today's Nigeria! Not all the brains will get it at the time they should, and not all will get it at all! I have seen real cases!

A colleague of mine who was teaching in the same school i was teaching in when i was a school sat, had a 2:1 in mech engine. He was in his 40s at the time, had 2 kids, and his trousers had a waist not his size. He had to use belt to hold it to his waist such that the front of it looked rumpled (and i am not exaggerating here). When you see him teach in class, he's so vibrant and maths flows naturally through his hands as he scribbles workings on the board. But there was a time i invited him to my house and my mother served us some fufu and egwusi, he was so happy and said to me with a pity look in his face that "he doesn't even know the last time he ate a food like this. I had to wash my hands and leave the food for him so that it would be enough to satisfy him. When he was leaving, i had to give him 500 naira.

These cases are real cases and i am not forming them.

So when i come on here and hear some of you deny some realities and label any attempt like the op has done with this thread as an attempt to ridicule excellence, i just shake my head in disappointment.

There was a thread where a guy said he also had a third class, to show support for Dino melaye when obviously his political opponents were only trying to bring him down. If you see the kind of rubbish i saw on that thread from supposedly highly intellectual people who came after that guy's head, you will be amazed!

Yes, some of the things those guys like you said on that thread were true, but the vast majority of their opinion was just flawed! I came to that thread, was so disappointed and just left.

blank:

30 billion? That's chump change. Nigeria's reserves dey my account.

Can't tell

dude is now an internet fraudster. combined with his brain, he's now a multi-millionaire

Sadly he is a mad man now, roaming around in our local market square. When ever i come back villa and seees him, i always shade tears..

talk4free:


You seem to be mocking him. Hope you realize your being in Uniben and him in laspotech doesn't mean your future is definitely brighter.

Bro leave my future out of this. The one that owns my future gave me admission into Uniben and he has been faithful after graduating 6 years ago.

What happens after school is how you decide to handle your destiny. Drop outs do employ first class graduates. Open your hands and yu will see your destiny in your hands.
i was one back in sec school. now, in my 9th year in medical school (LAUTECH) strikes has sucked out vision in the eyes of many. i see it everyday.

Let me find out.

Na wa o.. Well i was always tops in my class back then...
A lot of people i used to help pass exams are all ghana burgers now and swimming in money.
But God de sha.

sirugos:
Sadly he is a mad man now, roaming around in our local market square. When ever i come back villa and seees him, i always shade tears..

Eh yah,stop 'shading' tears. May God comfort you and also restore your friend's sanity.

I was the worst in class bt right nw am the most successful person among all of us sometimes situation doesn't define the future

LastMumu:
He is currently a manager in one of them big oil companies in PH.
I'm not doing bad either. I'm also the ring leader of 3 different groups on Facebook. Our specialty is in giving out browsing cheats and selling Waec/Neco expo to students at affordable rates.









Lastmumu

He's probably also on naira land with the moniker, firstmumu

Primary school: Bagged a first class in Electrical/electronics engineering. Blasted GRE and just had admission in a US uni. for his MSC.

Secondary school: Finished among top three in his class in Futa...Now on NYSC. I think NNPC job awaits him immediately after service, the last time we talked at length.

Funny enough i am one of the them......
we are 3 in number......
The first person a male is currently in oau studying microbiology..........
The second is still a jambite who did jamb this year and score 270+......
I, been the last of them is a medical student currently.....Glory to God.....
It usually pays off to be a brilliant student

sirugos:
Sadly he is a mad man now, roaming around in our local market square. When ever i come back villa and seees him, i always shade tears..

life !! this is so sad ..

I was the best in secondary school, with the pressure to gain admission, I chose an engineering course which I never really had interest except for the so called prestige it carried. Wanted to change course but was discouraged so I had to change when it a bit late to LIB & information science cos I felt it could give me time to do some computer stuff cos it's what I understood quick then but got Health education.
I love love my current department even though I need something tougher but there's more to life than university so I have to move on.
Always follow your dreams even though you're pressurized to do something else.
Keep pushing on and strive for excellence; don't settle for less(average).

Wizkid was the best student in my class. He is now doing very well as u can see. He put all him brain for music

I was top of my class. Y'all know my story already, excellence pays.
Work hard to be a leader.

frenchwine:
I was top of my class. Y'all know my story already, excellence pays.

No we don't.

mhizv:
@20? that's the least of my. problems. you should consider it anyway.

20?, fuckery.....you look 28, as for me I don't keep up with peoples life, I stay on my lane, work hard and set my eyes fixed on the golden price.

fastgyal:
I like this guy

I love you

He's a medical doctor at UNTH Enugu. A very brilliant chap.

Me still dey look for square root!


Op, you want to rubbish excellence abi? Nothing for you! Book good and e good to know book well, forget the economy!

He is now my gateman......

Check out my Short film TRIBUTE... Shot with a phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akE5EIYfeSo&itct=CA8QpDAYACITCJjvl_fSntQCFYqDVQoda6kAAjIGcmVsbWZ1SOq3i8W23uWWaw%3D%3D&hl=en&gl=NG&client=mv-google

It took me some time to realize that being a Top-scorer in class sometimes limits one to what is written in a book
and given in a class to learn. Unfortunately, not everything is written for one to learn in a class. Some things are deliberately hidden to
make one a robot top-scorer.
Let the world be your classroom (quoting a Nigerian VC).

Some top-scorers were unfortunate to have their education deliberately truncated by their classmates or family members, that is if
they are still alive. Some were told: "Come to my this/that", and they became bottom-scorers.

Those of us who survived should try to give back to a society full of people who have one story or the other to tell about the imperfect
educational system.

ehix89:
20?, fuckery.....you look 28, as for me I don't keep up with peoples life, I stay on my lane, work hard and set my eyes fixed on the golden price.

OK thanks.

PaperLace:
He is looking so old and tired _I don't know what went wrong.

Everybody will look old someday. It doesn't matter who looks it first. Some have died without going to the university

adontcare:
He graduated first class medical doctor, enroll into army. Then killed by boko boys on his way to markurdi. Burnt beyond recognition. I wish I can revenge his death. Second graduated too. Am third. Still finding my bearing as a sit at home house wife. Life can twist ur heart.

This boko boys heh
I wan join army but stories like this dampen my spirit

Anyway I don't have God father in there sef


It is well

PaperLace:
I just thought of this yesterday.
His name is Kelvin, the first and second position belonged to both of us then. We used to take it in turns...

He just graduated from university, I graduated (and got a job)years ago. He is looking so old and tired _I don't know what went wrong.

mental drainage and early burnout will do that to you!

oldfoolnigger:
fortunately/unfortunately I happened to be the one in my class( still a jambite,smh).

second person ( still battling with olevel when I checked last)

third person( fuel attendant).
maybe three of us were cursed.
lmaooooo

fourth to eight person(unn law undergraduates).

nine person (in Canada)

ten person ( unizik MBBS).

eleventh and twelfth ( MBBS and chemical engineering respectively)chem.engin guy with strong first class currently

how did u know all there current status