THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS: EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN NIGERIA

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he issue I am about to bring forward to you at this point in time is not a new one, as you might have stumbled upon it in any way, manner or time, either by way of discussion, debate or argument. Examination malpractice has become pervasive in Nigeria, the information that there is examination issue of examination malpractices is generally a stale news in Nigeria as the “syndrome” as eaten deep into the educational sector of Nigeria. This syndrome of examination malpractice has no other effect on the country’s educational sector than making it epileptic and crippled, the development of our intellectual capacity are derail. A number of factors are responsible for this taste and hunger for examination. These agents include; parents, teachers, student and government (they are primarily focusing on the end result of our education which is certificate)
The parents in Nigeria have been a major stakeholder in promoting the sin of environmental malpractice; one might wonder what do parents stand to gain in promoting exam malpractice to their child or children? Parent who finds out that a child is not as brilliant as to be able to pass an exam will in all way and manner want the child to pass that exam without preparation. In a bid to make sure a child does not repeat a class and in a bid to save them from paying school fees twice for the same class a parent might go all the way to bribe out the way of a child into being promoted to the next class and in a bid to make sure a child end up collecting the certificate that other child collect. This act can be tagged an act of selfishness and mistrust.
Other agents responsible for examination malpractices in our country are the teachers, the teacher play numerous and major roles in leading the students into the act of examination malpractice, this is done by not teaching the student what they should know. Most times teachers fail to complete the syllabus which student are meant to cover to move to the next class. In most cases also, teachers or lectures find it real hard to give a student follow up, for instance in the university, the lecturers don’t care if the students in his or her class understands a course or not. The issue at hand as lead to student creating options for themselves to pass an examination, diligent students take the attitude of the lecturer as a challenge and read so wide so as to be able to tackle any question the lecturer might want to ask in the exam, but some student will still be left with the option of exam malpractice as the last option of resort.
The government as contributed little or nothing to improve academic excellence in the educational sector as the education system of 6-3-3-4 adopted by Nigeria as not being maintained well, The management of the system is low compare to other country who adopt this system. For instance country like the US which Nigeria borrow the system from have been doing well in their education sector. Aside this, the government has failed to provide funds to the educational sector and even if they did all have ran into corrupt hands.
Our plea as student is that various agents responsible for this eccentric menace to in all way recoil from the act as it as lead to the detrimental of the image of those of us student who willing to travel abroad to show what we are made of. Also examination malpractice as left the good ones who are brilliant to fighting against the wall, as the bad ones have been seen to excel excellently well in an exam than those who sat to do the exam with their hard labour of studying. I will end my article with a story about a friend of mine who was so brilliant while we were in secondary school, he got no admission into the university despite is hard work. He was made a laughing stock for not getting admission into the university while his mates were. He remained diligent in his work and got admission into the university after many tries. But now he is doing well irrespective of any odds.

CAN WE BUILD A NATION ON GOOD LUCK

The present tension generated in the country, over the general election that is coming up on April is something worthwhile to write about, Different issues have to be made clear and addressed, one of such issue that needs attention, is the way some frantic and ravenous politician, are going about politicking. The idea of politics in Nigeria has been defaced, in the sense that we no longer see politics in its intrinsic self, which is politics as a way of governing effectively, efficiently and elusively, for the people. Politics here (I mean Nigeria precisely) as now been turned into a do or die affair, quoting the words of a major stakeholder in the country, Olusegun Obasanjo, he said and I quote, politics in Nigeria is a do or die affair”.
Our so-called politicians have been brain washed with this crazy idea of politics; this is responsible for their untamed attitude. Lies now seem to be the order of the day in political propaganda, they promise you something before they get their, they get their and do the otherwise. One stroking thing however, is that, do we need to be promised anything before we as a legalized and legitimate citizen get our rights. One of such annoying promise is saying; “when elected in I will provide light, provide water, provide jobs and all sorts of…” These promises are our rights and we do not need to bargain before we get them, the only bargain we needs do is promising to give or play our responsibilities back to the state. Nevertheless, it is pathetic how citizens of this country Nigeria do not consider things, we are so engross to solutions without identifying problems.
Even in the university, we do not need to demand for something before what is needed is provided. The mentality developed in this claimed good universities has passed on to the larger society. I will like to say in a broader note that the university or academic institutions in the country have played major roles in destroying the country. With less digression, most Nigerians are of the mindset of voting for a candidate based on sentiment. Some of them claim that, they will vote for a candidate just because he or she hails form a certain community or such candidate is related to one person or the other. The criteria for voting for a person based on credibility have been exchanged for sentiment.
Some aspirants or political candidates even go further to give baseless reason why we should vote for him/her. For example the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan,is said to have good luck right from his childhood days, i advice he do not incucate such into our political sysytem. Some of his campaign representative even went far, to claim that from his stay as a deputy governor in Bayelsa he has always meet Goodluck and has become successful on good luck even to his present position of being a president. Nevertheless, the big question is; can Nigeria be built on good luck instead of hard work?
However, we will like to employ all citizen of the country Nigeria to be well convinced of the candidate they are voting in. as their decisions might make or mare them for the next four years. Because, good governance is not about individual it is about a system. We should avoid voting for voracious leaders who loot in times of famine instead of saving in times of harvest. LET US BE WISE, THINK WISELY AND VOTE WISELY AS WE GO OUT TO VOTE.