The Nation Newspaper Onaiyekan laments poor state of nation's education sector
Former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has attributed mass failures in public examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council , National Examination Council ,Onaiyekan, who lamented the appalling condition of citizens in Nigeria, particularly urged lawmakers to come up with laws that would better the lot of the Nigerian populace instead of anti-people laws and policies that would further impoverish the citizenry.
The former CAN president spoke at the weekend during the graduation and prize-giving ceremony of Pacesetters’ College, Wuye, Abuja where 320 students and pupils graduated. Onaiyekan said: “The report from WAEC of mass failures calls for concern. If 90% are failing, it is not the children who have failed, it is the system that fails. The system, which includes teaching and teachers, the examination councils and how they run their examinations and so on.
“We voted for you so that you can take care of our needs. When members of the National Assembly are having their children in Pacesetters or big schools abroad and they go home to their villages to see the children of the poor studying under trees, it should bother them.
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