Gone are the days Nigerian universities used to be the pride of Africa but that is history now. Even more painful is the the realization that the future is bleek if nothing is done to protect the future.
Sometimes last year it was said that 23 million of the 40 million able bodied men/women in the country lack the required/necessary skill and qualifications for employment. This however, is a statement of fact with the chaotic educational system in the country where youths are hardly ever prepared for the challenges of the labour market.

There is hardly ever a smooth academic year without a strike which ends up putting students at home for months while waiting for classes to resume.
More-so, some irrelevant courses that have no correlation with modern economy are still being taught in our universities and some lecturers still use the same lecture notes they 've been using for the past 40+yrs to lecture.

Some of our grey haired university professors are dieing with their wisdom and young graduates hardly ever see the educational environment as an option to take up teaching jobs because there are no incentives to motivate even the few ones that wouldn't mind teaching. One begins to wonder how soon we will run out of professors in our universities as we are not planning for the future.

There are proliferation of private universities everywhere most of which are owned by serving and ex-politicians, primary schools now pay as high as over 100K per student, churches now own schools and universities that majority of the members can not afford to send their wards. If the missionaries of the past years had established schools for profit gains most of the beneficiaries probably would have been illiterates and majority of them are our present elites.