People have been hoodwinked by religion. Covenant University graduated 1,000 plus students and 201 of them had first class, which is over 15 per cent. Is that possible in any university in the world, even in the best university in the world? The answer is no!
And why did it happen in Covenant University? It is a question that every Nigerian needs to discuss as a country. The National Assembly should discuss it; the NUC should discuss it because it is a shame on the Nigerian university system that we are churning out first class from universities with very small populations. The University of Ibadan had convocation with more than 15,000 students and less than a 100 had first class; that is a standard university, which today is one of the best universities in the country. Go to ABU in Zaria, UNN, OAU, Ile-Ife, look at what they bring out as first class.
First Class, like I said, is extraordinary excellence and you cannot have 15 per cent of students in one class being extraordinarily excellent.
In those days when we marked WASSCE, when you finished marking, you had to draw a graph to show the scores, that graph would tell you whether the result is correct or not. But today what do you have? More first class than third class, which is a shame and the whole world is laughing at us.
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