I graduated with First-Class Honours (CGPA: 4.76/5.0). I've already paid my enrollment fee using my tutoring savings and loans from friends.
I still need to raise €3,122 (about ₦4.9 million) to complete my journey.
Train a child the right way, and when they grow up, they will not depart from it.
It takes a child who was raised well to raise their own children well.
The cycle of good parenting begins at home.
@TJOlaBode@sowore@JAMBHQ Atleast someone is thinking.
Well done. I love your JAMB perspective and catchment area suggestion.
Meritocracy is the only way a society can proceed at its supposed speed.
Comrade, this sounds like a typical campaign manifesto for a Makama Bida or Jaja Hall chairmanship election. It also sounds like the usual rhetoric of a politician who seeks to keep his followers uninformed.
JAMB, in Nigeria, just like the SAT in the United States and Canada, is a standardized entrance examination for tertiary education. Like the SAT, JAMB does not participate in the admission process of any institution. Its role is simply to assess the readiness of prospective students for higher education through a standardized examination.
From its inception, JAMB's primary responsibility has been to provide candidates' examination scores to tertiary institutions. The institutions, in turn, admit students based on their own admission criteria and subsequently forward the names of successfully admitted candidates to JAMB for matriculation records. At no point in the law or decree establishing JAMB was it given the authority to participate in the selection or admission of students into any institution, whether private, state, or federal.
Mr. Sowore, you went through Nigeria's educational system. You know exactly how it works, so you should also know the implications of what you are putting out. Unless you are suffering from an undiagnosed medical condition, which would be highly unlikely given your age, there is no reasonable excuse for making such a misleading statement.
If there is anything within Nigeria's educational system that deserves to be abolished, it is the catchment area policy. In my view, it is a national tragedy for students from states classified as educationally developed.
Students from these states are often required to score significantly higher marks in JAMB to gain admission into competitive courses, while students from states classified as educationally less developed may gain admission with substantially lower scores. For example, a candidate from an educationally less developed state may score below 200 and still secure admission to study Law at the University of Lagos, whereas an indigene of Lagos or Ogun State who scores just one point below UNILAG's cut off mark for Law may be denied admission and either asked to retake JAMB or redirected to a completely different course such as Philosophy or Anthropology.
This policy effectively punishes students from states whose governments historically invested in education while rewarding the failures of governments in states that neglected educational development. Merit should be the primary basis for admission, not geographical classification.
I was a JAMBITE when you were the ULSU President. I remember the reckless protest you led us into in 1992 against the IBB regime. We were teenagers, naive, and easily influenced. What did we really know? We innocently marched into the path of Mobile Police bullets. To this day, it remains a mystery to me how the bullets missed you, who was at the front, yet killed as many as seven people behind you.
My advice to those who continue to follow you is simple: whenever you call for a protest and they should take your money and remain in the comfort and safety of their home, or watch from a distance as you get tear gassed, arrested, or subjected to whatever treatment law enforcement decides to mete out. There is no reason to risk one's life for someone else's political and financial agenda.
JUST IN: "NIGERIA 🇳🇬 GEO-POLITICAL ZONE BILL 2026
[1] As of October 1 2026, Nigeria’s six geo-political zones will become official and constitutional organs of government. This means that there will be four tiers of administration in Nigeria - Federal, Zonal, State and Local governments
[2] Nigeria will have six geo-political zones, with each being made up of seven states. Our constitution will prohibit the creation of any more states after these 42
[3] As part of this restructure, we will abolish the federal allocation regime and replace it with resource control under which states will remain the federating units. Revenue distribution will be as follows - States: 50%; Federation account: 20%; Geo-political zones: 15%; National trust fund: 15%. We shall gradually migrate towards this to achieve our targeted goal by 2040
[4] Geopolitical zones will be responsible for maintaining regional police forces to augment the activities of the Nigerian Police Force
[5] Each geopolitical zone will be constitutionally obliged to generate, distribute and transmit electricity within its domain
[6] Every year, the chairman of the geopolitical zone will rotate among the six governors within it. A chief executive will be appointed to manage what will be a civil service structure
[7] Ultimate authority for the governing of each geo-political zone rests with the committee of governors. There will also be committees of commissioners to deal with matters such as education, health, housing, transport, security, etc
[8] Each geopolitical zone authority will be responsible for secondary specialist healthcare. They will build specialist hospitals in areas such as oncology, HIV/Aids, renal failure, dementia, reproductive health, dermatology, etc
[9] These will be the 42 states that make up the six geopolitical zones:
South-South
[1] Bayelsa State - Yenagoa
[2] West Izon State - Patani
[3] Rivers State - Port Harcourt
[4] Cross River State - Calabar
[5] Akwa Ibom State - Uyo
[6] Edo State - Benin
[7] Delta State - Warri
Northeast
[1] Mambilla State - Gashaka
[2] Taraba State - Jalingo
[3] Adamawa State - Yola
[4] Borno State - Maiduguri
[5] Yobe State - Damaturu
[6] Bauchi State - Bauchi
[7] Gombe State - Gombe
Southeast
[1] Anioma State - Asaba
[2] Orashi State - Omoku
[3] Anambra State - Awka
[4] Imo State - Owerri
[5] Enugu State - Enugu
[6] Abia State - Umuahia
[7] Ebonyi State - Abakaliki
North-Central
[1] Abuja State - Abuja
[2] Gurara State - Kafanchan
[3] Benue State - Makurdi
[4] Plateau State - Jos
[5] Nasarawa State - Lafia
[6] Kogi State - Lokoja
[7] Niger State - Minna
Southwest
[1] Odo Oya State - Ilorin
[2] Oyo State - Ibadan
[3] Ogun State - Abeokuta
[4] Lagos State - Ikeja
[5] Ondo - Akure
[6] Ekiti - Ado-Ekiti
[7] Osun - Oshogbo
Northwest
[1] Sokoto State - Sokoto
[2] Kebbi State - Birnin Kebbi
[3] Kaduna State - Kaduna
[4] Katsina State - Katsina
[5] Kano State - Kano
[6] Jigawa State - Dutse
[7] Zamfara State - Gusua
[10] If any state is unable to meet its running costs, its geopolitical zone is constitutionally obliged to step in and bail it out. If not, the federal government will declare a state of emergency in that state"
This is Renewed Hope. May Nigeria 🇳🇬 rise again and be a nation of blessing and prosperity to ALL!🙏