Otunba Abimbola Mosobalaje Davis, Chairman International Psychometric Centre Governing Council has revealed that the council is ready to expand Psychometrics Study in all Nigeria tertary institutions.
Speaking to newsmen over the weekend, the IPCentre boss said that in their efforts in expanding Psychometrics study in tertiary institutions within the federation, the institute in collaboration with Books and Sports Limited had decided to publish their first news magazine called ‘Genius Magazine.’
Otunba Davis said the purpose of the magazine is to disseminate information about Psychometrics and educational system in general; it is a snapshot of various activities of the International Psychometrics Centre and also serves the purpose of reinforcing and improved interaction between the Centre and its readers.
“The magazine is a specialized journal, we introduced purposely to disseminate information about Psychometrics and education in general. The magazine was initiated when we realised that the Psychometrics is something new to this environment in Nigeria but is a compulsory course all over the world.”
He further stated that the Genius Magazine which used to be an online publication before was first printed in January, 2022.
He added that the free magazine will not be available at newspaper stands because of its production cost but will rather be distributed to schools, ministries, agencies, embassies and the likes.
Speaking further, the Chairman said the entire country have five only Psychometricians, all of them produced by the University of Ibadan and after much enlightenment on the important of the course and the fact that the federal government made it mandatory as a general studies (GS) course in all tertiary institutions, the students started coming in.
“We encountered few problems; one of it is that, the students were yet to understand what Psychometrics is all about. There were lots of kind of disrupting, we have to enlighten them. Moreover, in the entire country today we only have five Psychometricians at the masters’ level, all of them produced by the University of Ibadan”.
Speaking further on expansion of the course, Otuba Abimbola said the Centre is ready to introduce Psychometrics as a subject in all Nigeria secondary schools so that it will be taking as a full course in all Tertiary Institutions.
“We discovered along the line that even among the students some of them were thinking if they had known about this, they would have took this as a full course so we now brought another program because you can’t run a full program when it is not taught from secondary school level so we are getting to introduce it to all secondary schools in Nigeria at all cost.”
The chairman stated that in addition to promoting Psychometrics as full course, by September IPCentre will be introducing a platform which he called The Ripsnorters, He said the platform is expected to boost a minimum of ten million users by the time of launching.
“By September we will be introducing a platform, a full porter which I call The Ripsnorters. It is expected to boost a minimum of ten million users by the time we are launching it, it’s another way of disseminating information about Psychometrics.”
Speaking on the benefits of the platform, Otunba Abimbola said the platform is being introduced so that people can discover their talents and the first thing they will do after subscribing to the Centre is to undertake at least six to eight tests to know if the candidate is lying or speaking the truth.
“We are introducing this platform so that you can discover your talent and first thing you do if you subscribe today, is to undertake at least six or eight tests to know who you are even if you lie we will know you lie.
It was designed by our partner, Cambridge Psychiatric Centre which is a centre under Cambridge University. They designed it for their students, gave us the access to it and modify to suite our own purpose so you may surprised that you actually studied theatre act but when you take the test, it will tell you to take a vocation in fashion designing.”
While speaking on some of the ways to promote the platform, Otunba Davis said the Centre is ready to collaborate with major Newspapers in the country; the newspapers will help the Centre to direct people, most especially advertisers to the platform through their employment page.
“We will be collaborating with all the advertisements on employment page of newspapers and tell the advertisers, that we have a platform that will help you advertise your wares freely without taking money”.
In addition to expanding Psychometrics in Nigeria schools, he added that IPCentre is planning to introduce Campus Psychology Tour in all tertiary institutions within the country to create awareness for the program and to shape the minds of the students.
In his release, he also added that Books and Sports will be launching a portal known as The Ripsnorters in September, 2022, an online community of communities where netizens can get to meet different people at different spheres of life.
His words; “The Ripsnorters an online community of communities where citizens can get to meet different people at different spheres of life. There are sixteen communities on the Ripsnorters platform ranging from Health, Genius magazines, scholars digest and the likes.”
