The Guidelines should include affirmation of the primacy of the merit principle in recruitment into the federal public service and obligation of all recruiting and appointing bodies to be open and transparent in the application of federal character, including explicating whether states or geopolitical zones are used for determining quotas and formal and unequivocal exemption of specific rare skills from the application of the principle – senior technical posts in research and development,...
Finally, it is important to add that the strong case made here for the primacy of the merit principle in the recruitment of staff to public services is also dependent, to a considerable extent, on the restoration of excellence and meritocracy in the education sector. This will be a desirable re-creation of the alignment that helped ensure good development performance in the country up to the 1970s.
I would like to suggest for consideration the introduction of a Degree Foundation Year Programme in the new Christ’s School. Concretely, the DFYP will be a one-year version of the Higher School Certificate programme run successfully in the School for about two decades between 1960 and 1981. Students will be prepared for the General Certificate of Education and qualified to seek direct entry admission into universities , that is, at the 200-level of degree programmes.
For elite educational institutions to impact positively on national development, recruitment into public services must be based on the primacy of the merit principle as is the case in well-performing economies across continents. I have argued that the subordination of the merit principle to a constitutional “federal character” principle interpreted as a crude quota system needs urgent radical amendment.
Although an emphasis on elite educational institutions at the secondary education level is not a worldwide phenomenon, Nigeria inherited the practice under colonial rule and maintained it for a few decades after independence. I wholeheartedly support the on-going efforts to re-invent Christ’s School as a private-owned elite boarding secondary school run co-jointly by the Anglican Communion, Ekiti and Christ’s School Alumni Association.
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