NIGERIA EDUCATION ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE
For several years, education sector in Nigeria has been faced with numerous challenges bordering on low budgetary allocation and under funding. This is undoubtedly having a telling consequence on the sector’s quality of service and our collective development.
The end to the problems seems not to be in sight as the stakeholders in the sector recently expressed dissatisfaction on the amount allocated to the sector in the 2017 budget, saying it was nothing compare to the enormous problems bedeviling the sector.
A friend had once asked me what I intended to become in the nearest future and I didn’t hesitate before telling him I want to be an academic. He looked very confused and disappointed. Thinking aloud! How someone would choose to remain poor throughout his entire life? He boldly asked me, ‘don’t you think being an academic would make you a poor man? Well, I asked him to tell me if money guarantees happiness in life. Then the chapter closed.
The hope is waning. Everything is in a shambles. The government is hell-bent on murdering the sector. In Nigeria of today, what the researchers are experiencing is not under funding but Zero funding. OYO! That awkward moment one has to wait indefinitely to get a scholarship or grant abroad before a research could be done, due to lack of necessary equipment in the country.
To the Colleagues, Senior Colleagues and ‘Ogas’ conducting research abroad, be reminded that status quo still remain here. We are still using two buckets to improvise water pump, filter paper in place of extraction thimble. It may also interest you to know that we are still, in some cases, struggling to get ice to carry out ‘common’ condensation, while mouth pipetting has not gone into extinction in our labs. So, perhaps you may consider buying some apparatus and equipment from your hard-earned foreign stipend when coming to your motherland. If you deem it necessary to come back though.
To think that Nigerians who are supposed to keep the government on their toes as regards educational matters are doing nothing to salvage the sector from total collapse baffles one to the bone. Some lecturers have not been paid their salaries and entitlements for over seven months let alone getting a research grant, yet it has never been the talk of the day on our dallies and or social media.
Unfortunately, the youth who are supposedly the leaders of tomorrow have been engrossed in frivolities. They make news from the things that would not bring us any development. If it’s not ‘Jumoke the bread seller’ it would be ‘Linda vs wizkid’ or Tiwa’s marriage. What’s more appalling is the fact that students who bear the brunt of this unfair treatment the most are also guilty of this misplaced priority. They only rant incessantly when ASUU goes on strike.
Do you know of any great Nation where leaders do not take educational matters seriously? Take it from me, the stark reality is that we can never have any meaningful progress until we get our acts together and give attention to the matters that matter. If we could engage the government to reverse the orchestrated data hike, then we can do better to pull our education back from the brink.

It begins with you.

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It begins with you.

It begins with all of us.

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