Nigerians have identified social media addiction, hunger, and laziness as contributing factors to the poor performance of students in the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
This is in response to a post made by Tribune Online on all social media platforms where Nigerians were asked to mention the possible reasons for students’ poor performance in the just concluded examination.
Tribune Online reports that The Joint Admission Matriculation Board disclosed that out of 1,989,668 candidates who registered for the exam, 1,402,470 scored below 200.
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Reacting to this, Nigerians have pointed to issues such as excessive social media use, lack of motivation, and even food insecurity as significant factors influencing students’ poor performance.
A Facebook user, @Amb Olasile Sheriff commented, “The first thing is that people no longer have interest in education again as their aim is to just get any score get one course and get away with it,while the second one is that youth of nowadays are no more active again when it comes to educational stuff but but get more active in facing social media activities”
@Jacob Akuha said “Hunger or food cost and fuel scarcity can caused poor performance of students in just concluded JAMB exam.”
“When the country is hard and they just have to survive by any means how will they study enough to pass?”, @Takpe Doris added.
Adeboye Abiodun opined, “ If you get close to secondary school students of nowadays, what most of them discuss is how to make quick money through Yahoo. They don’t care about their studies. The generation believe school ‘na scam’. It will get worse if they are not reoriented”
Still reacting on Facebook, @Borokini Okunrin said, “Phone addiction…tiktok, Instagram, Twitter etc… laziness to read.”
“The children interest were more in Social media, yahoo,quick money than education even some parents are encouraging this”, @Mathew Oluwole Akinbode added.
Here is what Instagram users have to say:
