National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Nigeria has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to intervene in the educational sector and rehabilitate the educational institutes, as 65% of them are substandard thereby creating unemployment and poverty in the country.
The good news, Nigeria have 102 Universities, 125 Polytechnics and 98 College of Education making 325 educational institutes graduating over 30, 000 students yearly. These institutes offer all kinds of courses that enable the institutions to admit many students even more than the school can take.
The bad news, only 7% of the graduated students are employed in Nigeria, while 70% of courses offered in Nigerian institutes have no provision for employment. Courses like engineering, medicine, law, business administration, accounting, banking and finance, mass communication etc are suicide mission that is often said to take more than grade before admission could be granted.
The CEO of National Research Institute for Chemical Technology, Mr. E. M. Okonkwo said that the educational infrastructures in Nigeria are substandard stating with 325 educational institutions in Nigeria yet the country could not produce a sound student.
“I wonder what kind of educational institutions we have in Nigeria as a graduate cannot spell his or her name; the most unfortunate incidence is that these students all have distinction results. That’s make me to wonder what kind of tertiary institute they graduated from.”
It may sound funny that a graduate could not spell his or her name, but in Nigeria, there are great numbers of graduates who not could read or write, funny enough, they all graduated from the top universities of Nigeria.
Speaking further, Mr. Okonkwo said “Nigerian government should get her attention focused on making standard educational institutes that Nigerians can be proud of and not waiting for the 7 Point Agenda by Mr. President which they cannot give account of the budgetary funds.”
In addition, Professor Kubata Kilunga said even plants do have plans for the future, just as the banana tree produced upspring before its no longer productive but in the case of Nigeria, the country has no plan for the future.
“The Nigerian government has plains for their own interest and not for the future of the country. Oil discovery in Nigeria has done more harm than good as the government no longer cares about other issues excerpt for oil related issues.”
To this end, Mr. Okonkwo called on the government of Nigeria to invest more in educational sector to improve the educational standard of the country.
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Even after a long list of novelties introduced by the company Motorola doesn’t stop its rally of innovations. The Motorola phones are getting more and more updated and fitted into the market due to the fact that Motorola tries to cooperate with the best mobile opearators. One of the recent results was the update of Motorola Droid to the newest version of Android- Android 2.1.
Anyways now Motorola is working over a new scheme for the Motorola phones. The thing has to do with the 3D imaging. The actual imaging will be made based on the double-screening. It means that the company figured out a way of aliasing those screens. The thing is that the first screen will be using the 2D imaging and when the phone will be closed the additional screen will add also an additional dimension with the help of which the overall imaging will be 3D.
As to the other features of the device we can say that the full support of the most relevant and necessary features are guaranteed. Some of the most common features area going to be the video, audio and game support and of course the stylish menu.
The design of the future phone is not announced yet but due to the interesting feature of the 3D effect, the latter seems to be promising.
According to the recent news over the internet Motorola introducing new device with 3D image effect plans to overcome the success of the two biggest competitors Apple and HTC.
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