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  • 80% job seekers failed NNPC aptitude test

    The Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Austen Oniwon on Monday lamented the dwindling standard of education in Nigeria just as he said 80 percent job seekers failed the corporation’s current recruitment test.
    Oniwon, who was represented by the corporation’s Group General Manager (GGM), Group Public Affairs Unit, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, at the grand finale of the 2011 NNPC annual quiz competition in Abuja called for the review of the nation’s education curriculum in order to halt the rot in the sector.
    The GMD said: “The recent mass failure of candidates in WAEC and NECO exams nationwide makes the call for an urgent surgical review of our schools system more urgent than envisaged.
    “Also our current experience in the ongoing recruitment exercise where candidates with the so-called 2:1 certificates post less than 20 percent score line in some cases has heightened our apprehension about the lack of functionality in our education format. Over dependent on certificates is not the best. Over 80% of the candidates that wrote the NNPC recruitment exams failed,” he added.
    He advised students to tailor their careers towards valuable courses.
    Oniwon told the competitors to embrace hardwork if they want to work in places like NNPC.
    He, however, said “I want to use this opportunity to call for an educational system that is functional and skill-based that can fill the skill gap that Nigeria has recorded.”
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      Mexnefo -
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    1. Enie's Avatar
      Enie -
      1. This is indeed embarrassing, so much has been said about this (failure, poor performance) yet the academic community are going on strike for an age of memory lost/ weakness (70). The nation has not reacted to this. The students spent more time on campus wasting away when they are suppose to be reading and learning. Government cannot be spared from the blame but the students are more quilty. The 20% that made it may had worked harder during their learning days. This is a hard lesson for all stakeholders in the fold.
    1. Aigbehis's Avatar
      Aigbehis -
      Youths who have left sch 4 a long time and engaged in so many struggles in life are called to write exams under stress and confusion. What do the management expect. Give people jobs and see whether they will not perform excellently.
    1. Djebah's Avatar
      Djebah -
      Exams that was written in darkness... the only light available was from handsets.
    1. pris's Avatar
      pris -
      If 80% passed, could they have absorbed them?
    1. Georgejob's Avatar
      Georgejob -
      Till eternity come, I know I passed the test but was never called for interview. I challenge NNPC to publish d result of every candidate that took the test and the criteria that was used for the selection. Having done a predetermined selection, NNPC now has d temerity,effrontery and foolish boldness to tell me I failed their test. As far as I am concerned, that's a fallacy of hasty generalization. With due respect to the personality of those shortlisted for the interview, I say to hell with NNPC and her list!
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    1. stansola's Avatar
      stansola -
      I was part of the test and the shortlisting but Oniwon and his spokesman should use a better language of condemning people with 2:1.imagine graduate writing ap.test late in the evening when it was already dark.Imagine the pandemonium and the anarchy such enviroment would be.Let Oniwon try and write this type of test under the aforementioned conditions.
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      I was nt part of the test nor the shortlisting but Oniwon and his spokesman should use a better language of condemning people with 2:1.imagine graduate writing ap.test late in the evening when it was already dark.Imagine the pandemonium and the anarchy such enviroment would be.Let Oniwon try and write this type of test under the aforementioned conditions.
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      oghenevictoria -
      I refuse to believe that NIgerian youth are actually this dull. I do not believe this information Oniwon is giving.
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