If these eye-witness accounts are true, then our private university
system is in trouble
On 7/21/12, Abdul Salau <salauabdul@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another view from Madonna
>
> brandy July 8, 2012 at 9:20 PM
>
> i dont know about other universities but i'm very certain there are a
> thousand and one reasons why madonna university and all its sister
> universities should be suspended. now i am not being biased because i have
> a sibling there and the suspension would definitely affect my family but
> the truth is, i attended that school and i have nothing good to say about
> it. people spend millions of naira on school fees and other kind of fees
> only to get nonsense in return. have you seen the hostels? even animals
> should not be allowed to live there. a private university that collects as
> much as madonna does on fees should be able to provide one of the best
> facilities for its students. the room i lived in before i graduated had no
> window where you could see the outer part of the building , the two windows
> we had were connected to the corridor of the hostel so you can imagine,
> there was no sunlight coming in, no fresh air and i had to stay that way
> for a year and half. throughout our stay, we used touch lights or our
> phones as light during the day because they turned on the generator mostly
> at night. we were in complete darkness. and how much did we pay as
> accommodation fees? and you know one thing, they never allow parents go
> into these hostels, so innocent parents drop their children in school not
> knowing what they go through coz i bet if parents saw all the things going
> on in the school hostels, they would never let their children stay a day in
> that school. the cafeterias are no better. imagine how it is to eat in a
> pigsty, that was how it was. most times, i held my breath while eating or
> closed my eyes in order not to see something disgusting. then the security
> guards are allowed to beat students, students who are called hall reps who
> are meant to be in charge of taking care of the hostels take the
> opportunity to punish their fellow students and exercise power needlessly.
> Imagine you were in your final year and your younger sister's mate in
> 100level asked you to wash the gutters or cut grasses or do something
> stupid. I was in that position once. They also expel final year students
> whose parents have struggled so hard to put them through school on silly
> accounts such as, the student was caught in a club outside school, or in a
> party or seen in a hotel or the student took a 3day exeat from school and
> extended it to 5 days without the school's permission or a girl was seen
> talking to a boy a minute after 6pm(by 6pm, boys and girls are not meant to
> speak to each other, whether he is your brother or she is your sister) or a
> catholic was found attending the protestant service or the person is
> suspected to be a cultist or an aristo,. Just crazy things like that. As a
> catholic school, they(of all) people should know we are all sinners and
> therefore go wrong sometimes. So other types of punishments could be given
> for minor cases, not expulsion. where do you expect the person and their
> family to begin from? So dear VC, mismanagement doesn't mean "not bringing
> out results early enough" mismanagement is in itself madonna university".
> Even your class room, have you seen your seats? no arm or back rests, even
> roadside primary schools are better. And when chairs aren't enough in a
> classroom, u'll see innocent children carrying very heavy desks and chairs.
> And even the hostels they build are not made with good materials. i just
> hope and pray that no hostel collapses on people's children the way the
> fences of the school always collapse. I could go on but I'ld just stop
> here. And the worst part is our fees are one of the highest in comparison
> to other private schools. So instead of complaining about previous warnings
> or whatever from NUC, the VC should use the money students pay and build
> good hostels, classrooms and basic facilities a good private school should
> have. if you say I have lied about the things i said GOD will judge you.
> BTW all of you saying madonna university students can't speak english or
> write english are crazy in d medulla. forget about the school and its
> facilities, many of the students are still outstanding and smarter than
> those from other private schools not listed here and we would like to see
> you contest ur intelligence with ours. every school has its best and worst
> students so concentrate on the matter at hand not on the coolness of the
> students.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Please click on this article "NUC Suspends Licenses of Madonna
>> University, Lead City University & 5
>> Others<http://www.bellanaija.com/2012/07/05/nuc-suspends-licenses-of-madonna-university-lead-city-university-5-others/>"
>> and follow the comments if you want to understand how bad Nigerian
>> education is today. If you do not have the time, here is one sample by
>> someone named "The truth advocators" an alleged student of Madonna
>> University:
>>
>> The truth advocators July 5, 2012 at 11:19 AM
>>
>> "I am a 300 level student of madonna studying accounting belive me am so
>> happy NUC took this bold step infact they were suposed to have done that
>> long time ago, this skool dose not deserve a licence to operate till they
>> build good hostels, lecture halls, stop security gaurds from harrasing
>> students, employ qualified lecturer not illitrares dat we somtime corrct
>> in
>> the lecture hall, give us proffesors, water, steady light, stop
>> exploiting
>> students, lectures colleclt as much as 3000 to submit assignment apart
>> from
>> the fact that we must buy ther self authord textbooks, they force us to
>> go
>> to catolic church every wednesday and sunday, they fine students lots of
>> money as much as 200, 000 all in the name of disipline and so much more…
>> We
>> the students madonna and its sister college caritas are happy that this
>> bold step was takin the only regreat we have are those finnal yr students
>> who will sit for their degree exam stating on monday cuz efforts and
>> money
>> as much as 1million nira per semester seems wasted, yet we must make such
>> sacrifices so stop other from coming to madonna to waste their money and
>> time becaus after all the mony spent graguation is not even guaranted"
>> Come with me to Facebook and be filled with despair as you read offal
>> like
>> this from a final year student of a state university:
>> "I have to keep moving cos my truck have no brakes... i need an accident
>> with success and to be admitted in prosperity hospital for more surgery
>> on
>> blessing and to be on prosperity drugs for life. Lord, i wan to be a
>> Victim" This moving and evocative statement was "liked" and applauded by
>> dozens of like-minded philosophers. This final year student is obviously
>> bright, but ruined for life by thieving adults.
>>
>> A final year law student befriended me the other day, he aspires to be a
>> writer and maintains a blog. He sent me a blog piece for my feedback. I
>> am
>> not exaggerating; I corrected pretty much every sentence in that post.
>> Yes.
>> He will never write a brief that is intelligible. He attended my alma
>> mater
>> UniBen. His parents should have sent him abroad. That was a huge mistake.
>> He is ruined for life. I do not know of any Nigerian university today
>> that
>> I will allow my own child in, not one. I would be a big hypocrite to
>> insist
>> that other people's children attend them. It is time to stop being nice.
>> We
>> have to shame these criminals into doing something for those who have no
>> voices.
>>
>> - Ikhide
>>
>> Stalk my blog at www.xokigbo.com
>> Follow me on Twitter: @ikhide
>> Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
>>
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