With the decline of education standards in our government and state owned tertiary institutions came the advent of Private Universities. The Private Universities claim to produce better graduates who are well grounded in their chosen courses. I dont know how true this is because recently we took a youth corp member in the company where i work. She is a Mass Communication graduate from one of the private universities in the country but I was surprised to learn from her that in her four years of study, she never studied Advertising as a course. I went to a state university in my time(Oh my, I sound old!) and i remember that we studied each of the four major aspects of Mass Communication-Journalism, Advertising, Public Relations and Broadcasting. We studied each one of them as a course and in final year, our research project was on either one of these four aspects of Mass Communication.
So you see why i was surprised when she (the youth corp member)-a graduate of mass communication said she didn’t study advertising in school. I began to wonder if these Private Universities are really worth all the plenty money they demand from hapless parents/students. Their fees are so exorbitant that it’s only a few that can afford it. I don’t even mind if at the end of the day, they deliver on what they promise and give the students a well-rounded education but a situation whereby they charge crazy fees and yet churn out half-baked students is not good at all. Not for our students, not for our country! There is a saying that ‘half education is worse than ignorance’. I think i agree with that saying very much.
Anyway, something else that has come to my knowledge recently is the rate at which students are expelled/suspended from some of these Private Universities. One of these Private Universities-a christian University located in Ota, Ogun State(I wont call names) seems to be leading the pack in the suspension/expulsion craze. I hear you can even get suspended for not brushing your teeth to lectures(lol!I kid!) but seriously now, people get suspended and not one week, two weeks suspension o, am talking a whole year suspension for the craziest things! Don’t even mention school fees refund, you forfeit a whole session’s fees which is not ‘small money’ o!
Last week, i was talking a friend whose girlfriend was recently suspended from that Private University located at Ota. He was telling me why she was suspended from school for a year. So it turns out that his girlfriend was returning to school after spending the weekend at home and before she was let into the school premises, her stuff was searched by the security guys and they discovered that she had a mobile phone in her bag. Now, mobile phones are prohibited in that school but students will be students, some of them still find a way to sneak in their phones into the school and our dear young lady was one of those. Unfortunately for her she was caught and while going through the phone, some pictures of her roommates in school were discovered. These girls were also implicated because it meant that they too were in the know about the phone. At the end of the day, the girl who was caught with the phone in her bag and her roommates whose own share of the crime was having their photos in the phone were all suspended from school for one year. Their parents had just managed to cough out the almost half a million Naira they pay as session fees only to have their children sent home for compulsory one year holiday,lol!
Okay so yesterday, my brother was also gisting me about his boss’s son who also attends this Private University located at Ota. According to him, the boy was recently suspended from school for a year too. What did he do? He didn’t bring his bible to church! Unfortunately for him, the G.O(General Overseer) came visiting that day and decided to find out how many of them come with their bible to church. Those that didn’t come with theirs were given automatic one year suspension! His boss’s son was one of the unlucky ones. His daughter who attends the same university would have joined the suspended crew too but she was sharp enough to raise her purse which looked like a bible and thereby escaped being sent home for a year.
Now the man(my brother’s boss) is sad. He had only just stretched his pocket thin to pay this session’s fees for his kids and now one of them has been sent home for a year without refund of the fees he paid(I know the refund is not the man’s problem but the thing dey vex me jare, if you have to send them home, send them home with their money abeg! lol!). He has gone to plead for his son but was told by the best they can do for him is to let him appeal for a reduction in the time the boy would spend at home from 1 year to 6months.
I do not support that people should not be punished when they do something wrong but i believe there are levels of punishment for different offences. I just feel that suspending a student for one year because he failed to bring his bible to church is rather too harsh or what do you think?
Abi e break convenant?
Abi e break convenant?
On a lighter note. Some jokes to make you laugh.
THE RUNNING BOY
One day there were two boys playing by a stream when they stumbled upon a naked woman frolicking in the water. After a few moments one of the boys turned and ran away.
The first boy couldn't understand why he ran away so he took off after his friend.
Finally, he caught up to him and asked,"It was interesting man, why did you run away?"
The other boy replied, "My Mom told me if I ever saw a naked lady I would turn to stone, and I felt something turning to stone, so I ran."
A husband and wife were celebrating their 50th anniversary. That night the wife approached her husband wearing the exact same sexy negligee she had worn on their wedding night. She looked at her husband and said, "Honey, do you remember this?"
He looked up at her and said, "Yes dear, I do. You wore that same negligee the night we were married."
She said, "That's right. Do you remember what you said to me that night?"
He nodded and said, "Yes dear, I still remember."
"Well, what was it?" she asked.
He responded, "As I remember, I said, 'Oh baby, I'm going to suck the life out of those big breasts and screw your brains out.'"
She giggled and said, "Yes honey, that's exactly what you said. So, now its 50 years later, and I'm in the same negligee I wore that night. What do you have to say tonight?"
Again he looked up at her, and he replied, "Well, mission accomplished."
He looked up at her and said, "Yes dear, I do. You wore that same negligee the night we were married."
She said, "That's right. Do you remember what you said to me that night?"
He nodded and said, "Yes dear, I still remember."
"Well, what was it?" she asked.
He responded, "As I remember, I said, 'Oh baby, I'm going to suck the life out of those big breasts and screw your brains out.'"
She giggled and said, "Yes honey, that's exactly what you said. So, now its 50 years later, and I'm in the same negligee I wore that night. What do you have to say tonight?"
Again he looked up at her, and he replied, "Well, mission accomplished."
LMAO!!!
