The Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC), Ogun State Branch, has declared that it is undisputably the number one and number 20 by the ratings of West African Examination Council in Ogun State and Nigeria, respectively.
The school, which is one of 25 branches of schools run by some few Turkish nationals but largely by Nigerians in the country, however said its aim is to lead in WAEC as number one in the West African sub-region.
These the submissions of the Principal of the branch of school, Mr. Ercan Yilmaz, and one of the Vice Principals, Mr. Olayinka Aderoju, who spoke to selected members of the Press during the 2017/2018 edition of Science Fair and Cultural Art Exhibition themed “Scientific Discoveries; Human Advancement, held at the Otunba Gbenga Daniel Drive, Isherin Olofin, near Ojodu Berger, on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, on Wednesday.
Speaking on what makes NTIC at all branches unique is in its priority for academic excellence and focus on the morals.
“We draw from Turkish and Nigerian expertise and that is to say we are at all times in for quality and nothing but quality,” Aderoju said.
He continued, “On the moral aspect, we do not concentrate only on academic but we also prepare our students to be uplifted spiritually and to be morally conscious so that with the fear of God in their hearts, they will engage in things which make us great today and in future as producers of quality leaders required to make a better change in the society.”
Adding, Aderoju, who is one of the Vice Principals in the Ogun State branch of NTIC, details that, “We have Muslim students just like we have Christian students. We make our Muslims attend classes for Islamic, Qur’an and Arabic while for the Christian students we have four Sunday school teachers who ensure that they are given adequate knowledge in accordance with their religious dictates. All of these are done to ensure that we do not at the end of the day give out brilliant beast which constitute nuisance to the society but we are confident that, by our efforts, we have contributed to nation building through quality education founded on the consciousness of God,” he said.
Talking on the school’s uniqueness, Aderoju said, “We have examination for not only students but also teachers at Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC). I have written 30 examinations in this school. It makes us improve on ourselves.”
On fight against examination malpractices, he said, “Teachers are separated from examiners. Teachers set the questions, provide the answers and send them to the exams and records but, they don’t partake in the examination and records. That is why we are unique. Till date, we are still the number one by WAEC rating in Ogun State and number 20 in Nigeria and talking about examinations at international level we perform up to 85 percent,” VP Olayinka of the 400-population NTIC Ogun State Branch said.
Meanwhile, the Principal, Mr. Ercan Yilmaz, has appealed to the Nigerian media to assist more in helping publicise the scientific potentials of the Nigerian Tulip International Colleges of any branch in Nigeria with a view to reaching out to industries who would come in to pick from the many scientific discoveries by the schools, improve on them and produce them in commercial quantity for the Nigerian economic and technological development purposes.
Principal Yilmaz, talking on how the society could benefit from the exhibitions, said: “Factories pick some of our exhibited projects, improve on them and produce them in commercial quantity and sell to the public. However, the society benefits more from the togetherness that the event which brings people of all faiths, ethnicities and genders to a mixing point where they do all things together learning from one another and developing new ideas together without fight. See the cultural and drama presentations; see the art designs. It is a way the society benefit because in together, there is community effort at development and there is peace and security,” he said.
Yilmaz continued: “We don’t encourage school to do business but we offer the ideas, the skills for developers such as industries and investors to come in and pick to produce in commercial quantity and sell to the larger society.
“Getting industries to come in to pick the concepts can’t be done by us alone. It is the collaborative effort of you the media and us to share the information about our achievements along the line of scientific and even cultural art discoveries to the rest of the society. Our own part of the information sharing is what we have done by organizing the exhibition. Your own part as media men and women is to publicize it widely so that it goes round.
“One of our students in other branch produced a plane and it is flying. If you share this information to the rest of the society and industries come in to pick it, improve on it and develop the concept and produce it in commercial quantify, it will bring about industrialization to Nigeria, it will create jobs for the unemployed, it will make Nigeria great as a technologically advanced and well industrialized country. It is at that point that we can say, ‘Yes, we have impacted on the Nigerian society where we operate our knowledge industry.’” He said.
On why the school changed name from “Nigerian Turkish” to “Nigerian Tulip” International Colleges (NTIC), both the Mr. Yilmaz and Mr. Aderoju agreed although the acronym “NTIC” remains the same but that the name change became imperative to avoid distractions as they said, “We want to separate academic from politics. That is all. We want to be known as Nigerian schools not as Turkish schools. We Turkish here in the schools are very few, the rest of both the teaching and learning population are Nigerians,” they cleared the issue.
