Adebola Aremu
22 Awofodu Street
Shomolu Lagos
E-mail adebola@system.la
Phone: - 08026183400
CNN
FACED OUT CURRICULUM USED AND THE EXPLOITATION PERFORMED BY NIIT NIGERIA
I started my course DNIIT at NIIT Gbagada Branch In February 2009, thinking all what I was told by NIIT representative at the Branch was true where she is explaining that if I enroll for the course I will be fully equipped in IT skills and industrially ready. Currently It has been close to two (2) years that I have been student of NIIT Nigeria. I made my research and find out that everything we DNIIT student are been taught here in NIIT Nigeria is outdated. e.g.
1. The windows operation system we are been taught is Windows 2000, whereas after windows 2000 there is Windows XP 2003, Windows XP 2005, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
2. The SQL which we where been taught is Microsoft SQL server 2000, whereas we have Microsoft SQL server 2005, Microsoft SQL server 2008.
3. Microsoft office which we were been taught is Microsoft Office 2002, whereas we have Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010
4. The Microsoft Internet Explorer which our books are featuring is Microsoft Internet explorer 5.0 which is not a tab Browser, so some Java Script codes and other related technologies which we are been taught in the book giving to us, don’t work with today’s version of Internet Explorer which uses tab Browser, whereas we have Microsoft Internet explorer 6.0, Microsoft Internet explorer 7.0, Microsoft Internet explorer 8.0. Etc
I tried several times to resolve the matter with our Center Head, since the beginning of my course when we have just paid a bit of our school fees because most of us pay In Installment. He told us that we are moving from lower version to the higher version. But it so obvious that what he said is a clear lie. We are stuck with the outdated version. After paying almost all the fees, NIIT Nigeria is now telling us the truth which is they will continue to teach us outdated curriculum. The question is why dint they tell us this from the beginning? It so obvious what the reason is: To Exploit We Nigerian.
Now they are advertising to us that we should come and pay extra money so that we can be certified in newer version of parts in our course which we have already paid for before.
We DNIIT Student Gbagada Branch Nigeria went to NIIT Head Quarter here in Nigeria to complain concerning the said issue of we been taught Faced Out Curriculum. The head there at the Head Quarters told us that “here in Nigeria the awareness of IT is low” basing that as the reason why they are still using the Faced Out Curriculum for us. She even said we Nigerians don’t know the value of IT and even if we are been taught the updated curriculum “what are we going to use to evaluate our worth” if that is the case why are they now advertising newer version of some programs which is part of our course for us? Another question is if one of the World’s Leading IT Institution like NIIT is here in Nigeria not to improve the awareness of IT but to Decrease the awareness and then use that opportunity in exploiting we Nigerians, what is their usefulness here in Nigeria?
I recorded the conversation between we DNIIT Student Gbagada Branch and the centre head at NIIT head quarter here in Ikeja Nigeria. I have enough evident to prove that NIIT is here in Nigeria to Exploit Nigerians. We can’t be paying N 550,500 close to $4000 here in Nigeria and yet we are been taught Faced Out Curriculum and there in India paying less than $3000 for same course and been taught updated curriculum. The cheating is very obvious.
We have made several complain and all fell on deaf ears. I even wrote a letter to the management concerning this said issue. I was called the second day alongside with my colleagues. Instead of them addressing the said issue in the right manner, all what the two Asian men which is their head told me was, to start asking me and telling me all sort of provocative words, like “Are you going to a party”, “your just a young Star”, “you came into my office with a stupid goggle”, “record whatever you want to record on your stupid phone”, “your nobody”, all this are the words they say to me and in the end they sent me out of their office.
My dad lawyer even wrote a letter to them with attachment which happen to be the conversations between me and two NIIT student in India which is their headquarter and a E-mail message sent to me from NIIT Ghana all showing that NIIT is using updated curriculum elsewhere in the world including Ghana and yet here in Nigeria they are not just using outdated curriculum for us but a curriculum which is fully Faced Out. All this as evidence to aid my complain. Yet no change is made
Because am the one on the front line leading the campaign against the said issue, I was been persecuted in the school. I told the management to give me a reference letter, so as to include that in my application letter in getting a part time job which will help me in not forgetting and practicing all the previous Skills which we were been taught as am learning another one. They try to force me in signing a document stating that “Am fully satisfied with NIIT I don’t have any issue with NIIT, all my previous issues has been resolved”. Of course I refuse in signing the document, for that I was denied the Reference letter.
Sir/Ma. Please am begging you to please help me. I believe by letting you know about this said issue I will archive my goal which is stated below.
I want the media to be aware especially CNN, I believe if CNN is aware the general public will be notified and when the general public is notified. All the concerned bodies will be summoned not by me alone, but from everywhere in world. Then when the concerned bodies are been summoned they will have to look into the matter with full force, and then the Updated Curriculum which we require will be forcefully implemented.
Sir/Ma I will be so glad if I am called to explain more on this said issue because it is affecting us a lot, I want a change and I am ready to let others know about this, before they also fall a victim. I can also bring the recorded audio conversation between we and the head at the NIIT head quarter here in Nigeria where she is explaining that “we Nigerians don’t know the usefulness of IT” basing that as they reason why they are still using the Faced Out Curriculum for us whereas using updated curriculum elsewhere in the world e.g. India and Ghana, this mentioned Countries are not even paying as much as we are paying yet they are been taught Updated Curriculum. She also explain in the recorded audio conversation that the most thing that they are fully concerned about is the monetary aspect not their student been updated and been useful after finishing at NIIT. Also I will bring printed out copy of my conversation between me and two different students in India and a hard copy of the E-mail sent to me from NIIT Ghana all as a fact to my claims.
Sir/Ma, I am begging you to please save us from this extortion. Our Life, Time and Money is invested in this, most especially our future depends on this, yet we are deprived our right to be taught the right curriculum which we deserve to be taught.
Please help save Nigeria from been rubbished by a Indian Institution.
Thanks
Adebola Aremu