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Nigerians bring tribal sentiments and emotions to everything rather than focusing on the facts, which cannot lie. That is the major factor against our development as a nation, not corruption.
How can you justify a 400-level medical student taking a school-leaving University Entrance examination like JAMB?
It can be understood if he did this in his first year. But when you are in your fourth year of a medical course, you are obviously at an advanced stage of your education and cannot compete fairly with school leavers in a JAMB subject like Biology. You will definitely have an unfair advantage.
Obviously, this young adult in his mid-twenties will be competing unfairly with teenage school leavers who are mostly under sixteen.
That is why even in sports such as football, basketball, boxing, and athletics, there are age restrictions, because the brain and body of a teenager are not as developed as that of a fully grown young adult.
In Nigeria and other countries, matriculating twice is against the rules. Once you have matriculated at a degree level, you are not typically permitted to repeat that process.
If you already have a degree and want another undergraduate degree, you typically get admitted through a process known as 'Direct Entry'.
The UTME examinations are designed to offer university admissions to school leavers, not university undergraduates. That is why it is called a Matriculation examination. Please research the meaning of the word matriculation. It means to be FRESHLY enrolled into a university.
An undergraduate cannot matriculate. That is an abuse of the system. That is why the term matriculation is not used for anyone who is not a fresher.
Would you want a person who is already an advanced boxer to fight your own child as an amateur boxer? That is an unfair advantage!
But rather than focusing on only the facts, Nigerians are incorporating ethnic sentiments into the discussion.
Oh, it is because he is Igbo. He is being targeted since he is a Christian, and the JAMB Registrar is a Muslim.
Is that not what Peter Obi and Oby Ezekwesili did with Mmesomma Ejikeme?
The two of them almost caused ethnic tensions in Nigeria until it was established that Mmesomma Ejikeme lied about her age and actually cheated on the JAMB examination.
If Chinedu Okeke, a 400-level medical student, wanted to change courses, there were legal routes available to him, including a change of course and a university transfer.
If these options are not to his liking, then he can explore the route of going to a private university. Public universities are subject to these rules because of limited spaces.
Those are the standard procedures in Nigeria and abroad.
In Nigeria, like many other countries, because of our history and peculiar situation, each state has quotas for entrance into publicly funded institutions like the army, police, universities, civil service and the diplomatic corps.
In this situation, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board accuses Chinedu Okeke of gaming the system by claiming Lagos State origin in 2021, for which he got admission into the university, and then claiming Anambra State in 2025.
This is obviously wrong, if it is true, and the JAMB asserts that it is true, and their allegations have not been denied by the candidate or his advocates.
By claiming Lagos in 2021, when he is actually from Anambra, or by claiming Anambra in 2025, when he is actually from Lagos, Mr. Chinedu Okeke is denying someone else who is genuinely from these states their quota.
I fully support JAMB in their investigations of this candidate and call on them to stay the course and investigate this matter to the end, just like in the Mmesomma case, where they were falsely accused of targeting Mmesomma Ejikeme because she is an Igbo Christian and the JAMB Registrar is a Lukumi Yoruba Muslim and then vindicated.
No matter how far falsehood has travelled, it must eventually be overtaken by truth.
@PeterObi Oga, you are busy saying nothing. The man @ Upper Iweka did not advise you well on this. Criminals packaging fake, life threatening products were caught & their domains shut & here you are sermonizing about how they should be opened & back to biz & ur trip to Indonesia!
Na wah o!
@MDNnewss South Africa 🌍 will forever amaze me. There is hard rock evidence of what happened, and people are just typing online and EFF guys are dancing by the entrance!!! 😭😤😤😭
In Nigeria 🇳🇬 such a club house will be pulled down and rubble by now and the white owner on the run!
@robertdkline81 @Currentreport1 Dreams!
Common Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel cannot handle them, talk less of Iran and/or Egypt. Israel is just interested in using the USA as a pawn to attack Egypt/Iran. Israel is only good in the air, bombing. On the ground, they are weak! Hamas beat them up.
@PeterObi Running around like headless chicken🐔 From one looter to a democracy destroyer will change nothing.
Peter Obi, you cannot ever, ever, be Nigeria's president. Try Agulu Town Union Presidency...you go win that one.
Your adviser, the mad man @ Upper Iweka even knows that!
@SaharaReporters Niger
Burkina Faso
Mali
Central African Republic
Chad
Senegal and now
Ivory Coast
Seven countries!
France is a big, fat leech on its ex-colonies.
@Ekwuato@abati1990 Are you better off on any ramifications?
Arrant #non.sense.
A people controlled by a content creator from a Finnish jail. People who cannot go out on Mondays because of some miscreants.
May Ogun kee you dia!
@akerele_s@KamalaHarris@VP I am for Harris too BUT she will continue with what American politics want: total support for Israel.
There's only 1 party in the USA.
The policies must continue, no matter who win...
@ugochukwu_cugo@BashirAhmaad This is just a mock currency, not real, not even is this design to be adopted.
And, by the way, Nigeria is not even a member of BRICS...hasn't even submitted any application to join, yet!