₦airaland Forum

ziga:
Did you create the thread because you felt it could make front page or out of genuine interest in the educational institutions in Nigeria
Hypocrisy is indeed the biggest problem in Nigeria.

AjanleKoko:
Well, maybe we should do what Indonesia did.
Appoint a dictator, let him rule for 40 years, and let him make a decree forcing all Nigerians abroad to return to their country.
Dictatorship, not 'democracy' is the fastest way to develop a country in this modern era. Just look and India and China, and you'll see the stark difference.

Mbeki:
Reading is a declining culture in Nigeria, that explains why Indonesia ranks higher than Nigeria in anything including education.
If this post was to be a one sentence silly thread about tribalism, the comments will be running into pages, but a topical issue like this that ought to provoke Nigerian people's intellect are often ignored, once the post is more than one sentence, they'll scroll by and wish they never opened the thread. Nigerians are at a crossroad!

ademiller:
U be male or female. The bashing u gave that gal done pass person hand o. But come to think of it, most of u should b careful what u post on a thread, u could be hurting other people's feelings some how.

Gamine:
I think someone mentioned something about Bill Gates on this thread.


http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/microsofts-gates-joins-superman-school-mission-ap

envee:
Not cool! Not cool at all, !!!
What good does it do to you when you watch such bizarre programs other than frighten you and give you weird thoughts about people What's even more appalling is that they are 100% real! We don't need this, we don't need to inquire about when next they'll be showing an episode of another low class citizen's crude affairs, they never interviewed the upper or middle class citizens.

martinosi:
I have read most of the post on this topic, and i yet to see
anybody mention the fact that since the S.A.P measures were
placed on Nigeria since the late 80.s (1988 to be exact) the Education standards
and funding has "nose dived" in Nigeria and has not receovered
since.

The "IMF Repayment conditionalities" placed on Nigeria placed demands
on Nigeria to Cut back on "Education", "Health", Infrastructure Spending" and
other Public & Social spending in order to pay back the Interest and
Principle on Loans.

This is what gave rise to the ASUU strikes and
all other Educational strikes/Social Choas from 1989 onwards, but the government
would never mention that the lack or inadequate funding was due to "Debt/Restructural Loans repayments" even though the Oil & Gas Sector of the economy made some "Wind-Fall" Profits from 1990 - 1996.

Since then and even now the Federal Govt has been borrowing from the IMF/World Bank/Paris Club to even run its "Fiscal Expenditure"(Yearly Public
Spending) for a while now (The Nigerian Govt Borrowed in 2010 to run its public
expenditure with the Oil & Gas proceeds used as Collateral)

This gives you an indication of where any Economics Surplus is
going to from the Govt Coffers regardless of the Corruption/Graft that is
happenning.

The Shortfall in Education spending in the 90's gave rise to
private Universities, Colleges, Secondary Schools etc as Private Individuals
now saw opportunity to exploit the Loop-holes Financially,

The Education Curriculum for Secondary Schools and even Higer Institutions
are outdated and pre-historic and the Department of Education does not have any clear-cut Policy on the way forward to boost advancement in Education.

Instead of the Govt making full use of Information Technology to
boost learning in the Federal & State Higher Institutions, they are "hamstrung"
due to lack of funding and adequate resource.

Another issues is the "Intellectual Property" issues as most Software in Education requires License & contractual agreements.

Based on what i saw when i was in Lagos, Abuja a few weeks ago the Education Department is not ready at the moment to negotiate to obtain the various Software Licences for the Educational Packages.

The Nigerian Education Dept is not even taking advantage of Open source
software for Learning and how can they when the are not ready to
fund "Pilot Projects" in at least 5 to 10 Federal Higher Institutions
to test run the Open Source software/Training Courses!!!

The Average Nigerian Student at the age of 16 does not know how to sent up his
own email-account, Use Micro-soft word, excel, powerpoint, access etc.

The way forward is Information Technology which can be a Big-leap to
improve the Educational Standard but the Govt is slacking.

From what i have seen in Nigeria on my last Trip the finances exist
to solve the educational problems as the economy is growing more due to the additional high demads being placed on the Oil & Gas sector & Primary resource
sectors ie agriculture etc from East Asia, but the Collective will and lack of
adequate planning by our Legislature in Abuja is hindering the "Way-Forward"

If the situation at the top does not change in the near future, expect
more Private Indivduals to continue to exploit the situation for financial
gain irregardless of the standards they set in the "Private Instituations"

Gamine:
''Two years ago, the education commissioner of Nigeria's Kwara state revealed that nearly 20,000 of the state's teachers had been made to sit tests in English and maths designed for nine- and 10-year-olds, but only seven of the teachers could reach the minimum attainment level."

What role did the Portuguese FA play in helping Maurinho?

semid4lyfe:
_{As if I knew you'd mention Bonfrere Jo} The same Bonfrere who botched our 2002 World Cup qualification by losing to unfancied teams/football minors like Liberia and had to be sacked? Pray, tell. . .what has he achieved since he left Nigeria?

Gamine:
If we go by the question of this topic, Nigerians not Nigeria

andromida:
what really is the benefit of education to Nigerians? good qxn.
I think the basis of this is to analyze how education has been of benefit to Nigeria.arent most of our politicians educated?
There are also lots of naija in the diaspora receiving quality education,how has it impacted on Nigeria?

semid4lyfe:
Since Westerhof, what have all the foreign coaches achieved for us? I'd rather fail with an indigenous Coach than with an Oyinbo who'll hop on the next available flight and jet off to his Country after playing us for FOOLS.

No more falling "Maga" for "Oyinbo" coach.