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Empowerment and Improvement Process
1,644,110 candidates sat for 2018 unified tertiary matriculation examination – JAMB. In this figure only 10 students scored 300 marks and above.
This is self evident that the education system in Nigeria is totally destroyed. It may interest you to know that those figures encompass candidates from both private and public schools which goes to show that the problem is basic and systematic
The danger ahead is, Nigeria will eventually need to import workforce with adequate and appropriate skill set from overseas given the upward trend in the world development in knowledge based economy to fill the employment gap or the situation may increase the operational cost on investments (training costs), decrease revenue, inefficiency and result to uncompetitiveness
Unemployability is probable
Second, it was revealed that the JAMB board remitted 7.8billion naira as a revenue SURPLUS (the registration monies collected from poor Nigerian students)
To my surprise in less than 2years the JAMB raked in the sum of 15.6billion naira revenue SURPLUSES from poor Nigerians.
The painful part of the issue is that the federal government gladly collected the sum of 5.6 billion from the 2018 UTME’s 7.8 billion revenue surplus and directed the management board to restructure the JAMB Headquarters to meet international standard with the remainder ( 2.2billion) naira (misplaced priority).
This is ridiculous, it may interest you to know that Nigeria is recorded to have the largest percentage of the 23,000 lecturers that moves out of Africa annually due to poor funding.
In the last ten years the highest allocation to education sector is 7.7 percent of the year in year out annual education budget yet we have senators leaving one party for another, to do what exactly?
These are some of our problems and we need to address them.
Below is my recommendations or what I expected from the government regarding the surplus.
I advocate that the surplus from the JAMB revenue should be used to set up a scholarship scheme for Nigerian students based on classification categories e.g. students from poorest income bracket homes, the IDPs, outstanding students etc as the case may be. I believe strongly that this is a way among others to source and fund scholarships in Nigeria.
I also advocate that the JAMB office should partner with hp or a laptop producing company to produce a cheap laptops for Nigerian students free of charge, paid for with the surpluses.
It’s a feasible way to improve on our education system, standard of education and the students.
Respectfully,
– Engr Malik Abdullahi Okino
Senate aspirant from Kogi Central
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