Idydarling:
no WiFi, no WhatsApp, no Facebook, no internet...that's not life na

those Internet programme has caused a lot of distraction in our educational system, that is why we hv half baked graduates in our society today.

naijamark:

Those are some people's grand parents o. A little respect would be in order please.

Oh yeah I forgot to call them sires, my bad.

"Tch make dis lectura do fast abeg sleep dey person eye"

When ever I hear stories of "the good old days" I always wonder 'where did we get it wrong, how did we get to this level'?
Those days when you are well respected and treated like a royalty, because you are an undergraduate.
Those days when companies and ministries queue up begging you with tantalizing offers and benfits, immediately you graduate.

>> >> fast forward to the standard of education today in Nigeria.......

Idydarling:
no WiFi, no WhatsApp, no Facebook, no internet...that's not life na

researches and studies led to all you mentioned up there. Which are we doing to help our future generations?

Mopricelezz:
Hmmmm. Now is better abeg

you really think so

mightyfada:
Being an undergraduate in a university is a great feat but it cannot be compared to being an undergraduate in the 1960; then it was considered epochal.

Ask people who went to universities during the period when you’ll be lucky to find 20 students in a class and they will tell you education during those days was worth it. They’ll tell you there were no distractions and it was about work and play and work again.

The University College which later became the University of Ibadan is the first university in the country and being a student in the university was attaining an impressive height.

A lot has changed in the Nigerian academic system especially in the tertiary institution. Gone are the days when school cafeterias provided balanced diet meal to students and the only thing they needed to worry about was getting the food from the plate to the mouth. The days where students could afford to seat anywhere in class because they was enough space to go round; when student hostels were cleaner than 5 star hotels and each student got his own space and there was no need to squat.

Students nowadays will tell you there was no better time to go to school than now. To them, the old universities were too strict as students had to sometimes wear robes like they were at Hogwarts. They say undergraduates in those days were treated like secondary school students with strict everyday rules to guide them.

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Undergraduates holding a student council meeting.

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Students relaxing in new residence hall at University College.

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Students at University college.

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Medical students listening to a lecture.

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Medical students listening to a lecture at University College.

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Medical student studying at her desk in dormitory room.

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Cricket being played by team from University College at Ibadan

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Bored student attending lecture at a university.

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What do you think? Was university better then than now?


http://newsafricanow.com/2016/06/retro-series-see-how-going-to-university-was-like-in-those-days-photos/

MANGAM:
Gone are those days....our leaders ve failed us

No
It's mostly those bastards in the picture that failed us. Are they not the leaders of today?
Obj, ibb, Abdul Salam, GEJ, Saraki, tinubu and even buhari etc.
They are the ones who enjoyed all those privileges and later made things worse for us.
POSTERITY AND KARMA WILL NOT FORGIVE THEM.

MANGAM:
Gone are those days....our leaders ve failed us

Yes they have


They failed us massively.


To say we had the first University, first television station in Africa.

It is very sad.

xtophy:
You can as well move backward if u like.... There is nothing like good old days because i wonder wat u will stil call dis corrupt generation in a century to come. Every era/time has its own bed of roses...its just unfortunate that the present day Nigeria has given room for the stone age to disgrace her. [b]Just imagine, no fb, no nairaland, no wifi...[/b]guy, i no fit live.... Its gone and gone 4 life and i even thank God i didnt witness it because maybe na civil war go don kill me....#rip_shuabobo

@ bolded none was invented, discovered by Nigerians. We are living in a world behind the ones OP put up there. Leave the shores of Nigeria and see what the real present day is.

university of Ibadan still the best

I represent this days ....though I got my first degree 5yrs ago

How it has changed now.

People who love to celebrate the so called good old days will keep you in that illusion. Wake up and activate your 21st century dreams!

Education today is meaningless

Everything Ibadan Ibadan Ibadan. Now they would say civilization didn't start here. Mtcheeew.

Idydarling:
no WiFi, no WhatsApp, no Facebook, no internet...that's not life na

no dstv

scholes0:
My Goodness, education standards have fallen really badly in Nigeria. One Nigeria is hampering the progress of the Yorubas, we are too forward thinking for this contraption called Naija, and all its wahala......
See how far we already were since the pre-independence days, and the days of proper regional governments.

Who/what is holding you back

These are what makes the system now very pollute, incorporated with our corrupt system of government. Education then was far better than education now..

ademasta:
Those that failed us are the ones in those pictures, only a thoughtful mind will understand.

That's very correct!
If we could go back in time, we would eliminate most of em e.g(obj, buhari, gej, tinubu, lie mohd, madueke etc)

Rubbish!
Given the chance anyone would say the same about Nigeria under the military regime of which we all know is not true. These whole perceived golden years are an illusion which never happened or are an exaggeration of realities on ground at the time.
The only good thing about the pictures is the students all looking under 21 than recent times where 24 - 27 is the average age in public institutions.

domopps:
Even tho we are missing the good old days!



But Op can you imagine a college or university without a WIFI or Internet enability







Cheeeeeeers

But they have their ways of doing things then

xtophy:
You can as well move backward if u like.... There is nothing like good old days because i wonder wat u will stil call dis corrupt generation in a century to come. Every era/time has its own bed of roses...its just unfortunate that the present day Nigeria has given room for the stone age to disgrace her. Just imagine, no fb, no nairaland, no wifi...guy, i no fit live.... Its gone and gone 4 life and i even thank God i didnt witness it because maybe na civil war go don kill me....#rip_shuabobo

Your mindset is in part what is still holding the country back. Nigerians forget too quickly and are doomed to make the mistakes of the past. For you to move forward, you need to recognize where you started from and also serve as a measure for where you are going. Nigerians don't do that.

Mopricelezz:
Hmmmm. Now is better abeg

There is something wrong with you.

Now we have cultists, randy lecturers and lose women.

So sad.

the same serious minded individuals of 60's are the same once who are ruling the country since Adam...the same people that told us we are the leaders of tomorrow are the same once climbing the fence of national assembly because of power, they are the same once ruling us at 72...they same once whose head is abroad and anus at home,patriot in reverse order.. please let's here word if they can't change you
you change them!!!

See melamby Hall, why are they all in whites. Am I the only one seing this.

herbie27:
Is dis wat the university is all abt?.

Which Olosho hurt u like dis?.

you

ivyy:


Queens

Wow! Neva knew u r a UIte

How's d break going?

Truly, the present day has better facilities to help one learn better with much less effort. The whole issue about fall in standard of education is a reflection of the fall in the standards of our value system. In those days, students were convinced that if they could learn better and perform better than their peers, the society would recognize and reward them better than their peers; and so it was. That was all the motivation they needed to be serious with their studies.

I need not tell you what has changed in our time, and why students are apparently unserious with their studies.

By and large, believe me, students are more intelligent nowadays, but systemic failure in the nation has made most people to lose hope in education.

I'm really sad 'cos there appears to be no hope for this country in the future, going by the current trend.

mcyemite:
all these started less than 20 years ago,and moverover werent they living before then?

Wassap,facebook,twitter started not more dan 7-8 yrs ago nd a live witout dese and d internet ain't worth living

tonymorris:
you

That word is now a cliche.

I asked to get a measure of you, now i have and i'm so disappointed.