FIRST CLASS; NO BE BEANS

This post was provoked by some dudes who were actually dissing a state university in Nigeria that recently conducted its convocation ceremony.

I would have replied these set of people directly without putting it on my blog. I just ignored them, because I don’t have them to blame they are still seeking admission ‘3^rd year running’ (first class product) so how would they know what it takes to be on first class in a Federal or State university in Nigeria, here we are not talking about Babcock or Covenant.

Am not saying that those who finished with first class in the aforementioned schools in the last paragraph didn’t work for their first class, they earnestly did because we still have those who finish with third class or even second class lower division are still among them. But you need to pick a graduate who finished with second class upper division of the university of Lagos or Obafemi Awolowo University, am very sure in quality they would be better than first class graduates of private universities in Nigeria, am not saying this private universities are not good (infact if you would pay my school fee, I would go ), they are very good, but here am just trying to bring out some points that second class upper division(2,1)  graduates of public universities are actually first class quality if given the same opportunity given to students of private universities (they pay for it sha).

In public higher institutions in Nigeria students study very hard under very harsh conditions (all this ‘very’ sha) , poor library facilities, little or no  access to e-library, these are part of the few things causing decay in Nigerian educational system and after all these professors in your department would scrutinize you and your exam scripts and make you know that you cannot finish with a first class, unless you go the extra-extra-extra mile (please where is that?).

In this post I would be making one of Nigeria’s foremost state universities a case study (is it a project?), Olabisi Onabanjo University (bla bla bla, I rep OOU, mixed reactions? am a God fearing person). Am very sure once you saw Olabisi one of the first things that come to your mind is cultist, ‘runz girl’, thug, corrupt person, et cetera (abeg , who tell una all dis?). The point here is no higher institution of learning that you wouldn’t meet the bad eggs (Judas of our time) even in the so called Christian universities, so what are we saying? Well don’t let us digress from our topic.

They school recently had its combined convocation ‘5 sets’ (17^th – 21^st) and rumour has it that of 40,000 grandaunts only 10 made first class (na who tell you that one? Choi!). the point is this is very wrong, come to think of it even if this is correct those 10 who made first class from OOU are the likes of Wole Soyinka, Ben Carson, Chinua Achebe et c do you know the length of hard work you would have gotten to before making first class in schools like this? (don’t even know if that sentence is correct). In a school that is just seeing the new face of hope, without endless strikes from lecturers and even a cultist and robbery attacks! Special thanks to God and the new VC (acting though) Prof. Saburi Adejimi Adesanya, OAU’s former deputy vice chancellor (DVC), who has within few months changed a lot of things. Just imagine if the school didn’t have its convocation the executive governor of Ogun state wouldn’t have bought brand new school busses (na BRT o). We thank God for this great developments in the school (OSU don change o.)

But come to think of it, how many first class has the university of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University produced from the Faculty of Arts or Science in the past three to five years, when one private university is producing 38-50 first class students year in year out of 350-500 students (dem dhey steal am?) we thank God from UNILAG saving Nigerian higher institutions by producing highest number of first class in Nigerian Public institutions and that’s from the Faculty of Engineering (na wa o)

Dear undergraduates, please study hard to make the best result out of the university, twitter won’t boost your G.P. neither would facebook do, in Nigeria there is no work for third class(3^rd class) or even second class lower division (2,2) (work no dhey o).

Please do the right thing at the right time.

ALEBIOSU OMOBOLADE

(this post was supposed to be published October 2012, sincerely sorry for the delay)