I still don't know why Nigerians always settle for less. We don't need prophets to tell us that Nigeria’s education system is in life support. Ask yourself why our leaders like the President, Vice President, Governors, Lawmakers, and others send their children abroad to study. You may not be far from the answer, our system has collapsed.

Infrastructure wise, public universities are nothing to write home about. I remembered a popular Senator saying that public universities especially the new ones are glorified secondary schools. He may be right. Some secondary schools in other African countries have better basic infrastructure, such as laboratory, library, electricity and learning environment than some public universities in Nigeria. With this, do you expect our leaders to allow their children to school in Nigeria? They know that the education system in Nigeria has collapsed.

Public primary and secondary schools especially the state-owned schools are in deplorable conditions and do not receive sufficient attention from the government. Most buildings are dilapidated and in dire need of renovation. it will take a strong union like ASUU to revive them. Our Universities would have been in that condition if not for ASUU.

ASUU demand of 1 trillion naira to revitalize the 48 Federal Universities in Nigeria is too small when compared to what other universities in Africa get as Budget.

The Federal university with the highest budgetary allocation in 2022 is the University of Nigeria (UNN) and it is less than 25 billion naira and its 2021 Internal generated revenue (IGR) gotten from fees paid by students, money from alumni and donations to the university is less than 3 billion naira. The University of Cape Town and University of Ghana budgetary allocation from government and IGR is over 100 billion naira and 60 billion naira respectively. This clearly shows that Nigeria universities are grossly underfunded. The average budget allocation for Federal Universities is less than 13 billion naira and 90% goes to recurrent expenditure and 10% to Capital.

We all need to support ASUU in this fight for the sake of our children's future and to also put an end to education tourism estimated to be 1 trillion naira annually.

If Nigeria want to compete globally, then she must do what others are doing.

Mayor Amodu Okoh
mramoduokoh@gmail.com

It is terrible my guy...

You mean the ASUU that support APC.

They deserve what they get.

Nukilia:
You mean the ASUU that support APC.

They deserve what they get.

At the detriment of our education system?