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Infocitadel:
And I love your posts, you are the person on Nairaland that am consciously following

Thank you jare...

Gerrard59:
Rantings of a foolish idiot!

Covenant is Nigeria's best university, do you classify their first class graduates as 2.2? What logical reasons made you think that private university's first class = 2.2?

So according to your flawed methodology, the lesser the number of first class, the better the pedagogy of the school?

@Topic: Congratulations to her and the husband.

Do we blame him. Just another victim of a failing public education system. Imagine a graduate probably taught with a 1970 curriculum by absentee lecturers, whose school is probably on strike right now coming to brag about the shambles he calls a better university.

If you ask him now he would tell you tales of how stress in public universities made their first class more valuable as though the google founders were stressed by Stanford to acheive a world class innovation.

If we are to go by the rubbish argument ABU first class is more valuable than that of MIT.

SpoiltVirgin:
Pls how far is canaancity from canaanland and is it treakable?

A single street divides both. The only road that links canaancity from canaanland has been closed. So you would have to take a 200 naira bike from canaanland gate to canaancity. It is not trekkable unless that links it with canaanland is opened.

MuttleyLaff:
Why did he get fired?

CCTV captured him while he was having sex with a Married colleague in his office.

CodeTemplar:
There is a farm also? Impressive!

So there are people working hard to maintain these establishment and other want things subsidized?

Yes farm has always been there. My lecturer was in charge of the place before he got fired.

Stadium
Mandate estate for church leaders
Interior of FT
Interior of CU chapel

ishadfurnitures:
Still waiting to hear from you ,contact me 08099212590

Alright sir. Our office space is in Agege, would you be able to make it on monday afternoon.

400 acre farm. Plantain, Pawpaw, Tomato etc - Profit accrues to Covenant uni

University Senate, housing CUSenate and also Education commission of Living Faith church at 4th floor.

Interdisciplinary research center housing 21 research clusters and Network Operating Center(NOC) of the entire Church ministry - at the base of the building. Startup lab sits on 3rd floor(The startup has nurtured about 43 campus startups)

Centre For Learning Resources: Adheres to standard of minimum of 10,000 books addition/year. Current collection at >300,000. It can sit 3000 readers and 500 researching faculty.
Subscribes to EBSCO, JSTOR, AGORA, HINARI, OARE and Science Direct as well as NUC virtual library and 40,000 electric journals.

15MW power plant supplying electricity to about 20,000 resident living there. Constructed with $5M in response to excessive cost on running multiple diesel generators.

70 Bed Hospital with two operating rooms servicing Covenant, Church staff, members and Ota community - interestingly, the hospital is a 30-50 seconds drive from all the 12 student halls. And 3-10 Minutes walk from each of the hostels.

- with 12 doctors, 32 Nurses. Equipment such as CT scan etc.

Campus residence: University students And Shiloh worshippers reside here at different times. Sometimes also used for youth alive

Peter hall
Pg hall
Combination of joseph, Dan halls
Reception of joseph hall

Hebron:

1) Africa's second biggest christian estate

2) Plans currently underway to link it to Canaancity(another 8,000 hectares procured by church) via an Underground train. This as winners begins to pivot to canaancity.

3) It is a 5,000 acre expanse of land consisting of Covenant University (560acres), Farm(400 acres), Faith Tabernacle(70acres) CU sec school, Faith Academy, Dominion Pub House etc.

4) Home to three mega sized church audituriums
- Faith Tabernacle: 51,400
- CU Chapel 3,500
- Youth Chapel

5) Initial 560 acres was procured at 200 million naira.

6) Houses 2,000 church employees

7) Faith Tabernacle once held the Guiness record for biggest auditorium in the world.

November 2016, 1 billion naira was spent to get Samsung Air condition the whole Auditorium.

9) The City and everything about it was constructed by Nigerian indigenous companies. Not a single foreign company nor foreign contractor. Same policy holds sway for canaancity.


10) As Ota continues to witness meteoric growth due to the invasion of industries, Canaanland still competitively remain one of the most significant landmarks there.

*2 of three church auditoriums at canaanland

[quote author= post=72835403]NYSC Shiite member?
If that is true, then too bad.
But with fake news all over the internet, you don't know what to believe anymore, no news, no source, only a pic.

oan,
It's so emotional seeing the little cute baby boy looking at the burial poster that way......
You will be fine son, you will.[/quote]I really feel sorry for many of you in this country. I know you are cunningly trying to discredit the story because you know it indicts the evil man you call a President. I hope the brain of some of you guys would resuscitate before it is too late.

All of you who continue to prop up and support the Buhari's reign of terror also have your hands in blood. All of the deaths in Benue, Taraba, Kaduna that occured due to Buhari's willful negligence is also on your hands.

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Yet we have people accusing churches with universities charging 500 - 900,000 as for profit ventures.
Lalaaticlala

CodeTemplar:
And that is what is propelling them. Thats the highest ranked Nigerian University and it is reasons like these they are always improving. The willingness to sanitize the system at any cost.

Moreove i don't think there is ever any law nor requirements that mandates a Registrar to notify VC on matters relating to residence allocation. Those things are usually within the purview of the registrar.

ottohan:
where is HigherEd ,the defender of CU.....come and confirm this news

i know Ms Rachel, she's a good person and i highly doubt she was having an affair with Oludayo. Oludayo moving her to staff residential qrts is not proof of anything.

Rachel handles all of the University transcript issues and she does it excellently. Such a person cannot reasonably live off campus as Alumni would need to get their transcripts sent across the world almost every day.

Lalasticlala come and hear this

santos247:
One, no university in South Africa, not University of Witwatersrand is 100% funded by industry. that is a lie. a blantant lie. As a PhD candidate myself, I know what DST,NRF, DAFF and many other government departments committee to funding research and professorial chair in South Africa. aside that, Govt funds all undergraduate students,whose parents earn less than 300,000 rand per annum. fully !.
2. Money released to universities is not managed by ASUU. VC, PRO-Chancellors and other governing council members are the greatest beneficiaries. a store keeper, bursar, or chief accountant is 20% more powerful and enriched than any dean of faculty or other lecturer in the system.
3. ASUU demands are about better funding and better accountability for funds spent.
4. in the long term, govt must re organise the entire system, including putting academics on their toes to deliver better quality research. but the issue of university management must be fully addressed if we want to move forward !!!

Let me clarify on Wits. The Times higher education alongside PWC score wits 100% in the area of industry income which reveals an insight as to the gravity of funding that Wits obtains from Companies, NGOs etc. These organizations wouldn't give them such funding if they weren't good enough. Can our public attract such level of funding from the private sector?

CodeTemplar:
@HigherEd, here is the link I talked about:

https://www.nairaland.com/4543636/how-federal-universities-ignore-email

Just imagine... My company had reason to mail a number of universities in Nigeria. Could you believe that neither unilag nor lasu even acknowledged the letter. Only Covenant university acknowledged and even proceeded to set up a meeting. Dissapointingly even Babcock did not respond.

Reference:
ASUU is just part of the problem. The citizen backed government that refuses to withdraw from the business of university education is the problem. Do you hear ASUU in the US or Europe. No two universities there are related in any way thoughtless of having labour bodies that unite them to create a so called level playing field of mediocrity.

Nigerians should sooner than later realise that with a body called ASUU and their modus operandi we can never have IVY keague universities and colleges because it is the mandate of ASUU to unify the quality of honours degrees across Nigeria by demanding socialism styled structures.

If all Nigerian univeristies are equal you can never gain IVY league status. You wiln never have an MIT, a YALE, a PRESTON, OXFORD or CAMBRIDGE. If you donot have IVY league colleges you simply cannot attract alternate funding and investment from international and multinational institutions that all universities need to broaden and deepen their relevance to society and development.

I repeat again. To sustain development of any enterprise quality not quantity is of foremost important and though ASUU may not know this. Its noble fights over the decades have not improved rather has corroded the core values education is all about, that is independence, critical thinking and solution providing.

For all the life of me, are univeristies not supposed to provide solutions to government, to help government, not the other way round. How can an individual or an institution that claims to be the custodian of knowledge be so helpless as to cry out like a baby at evry touch of pain. Growing uo my mum used to say this: that education was the key to liberty of all kind. Hiw come the bastion of knowledge is so stuck in the viscous cycle of everything ignorance stands for.... poverty, helplessness, hopelessness.

The learned men I knew of the world helped nations win wars against mighty adversaties with witty inventions, helped nations out of recessions with wisdom nuggets of prosperity, calmed hunger, pestilence, and environmental carnage. Abeg what are our ivory towers doing to help this country.....nothing of substance for all the angst caused year after year. Such a pity.

It is time the government cuts them loose. The experiment with private(isation) is increasingly a success story. By the time the ratio of private to public schools reaches equity there will no longer be justification for government's presence in the lecture halls and laboratories. Government's interest will then be limited to paying the bills of students having the best brains and temperament to contribute positively to Nigeria's development. Then it will get value for its scarce resources.

Nigerians should realise the big, big, big difference between the social service of basic education and the career bulding serious business which is a college education. Let us team up and put an end to this destructive architecture called ASUU. It is killing education, killing universities and killing the future of the youth through the deception of propriety while it us just a hollow means of self service.

Wow brilliant!

asuustrike1:
Where is the lie coming from about UNESCO 26% mandatory education budget? Are you saying that seasoned academicians lifted that figure from the sky.

Okebukola works with unesco he would tell you more
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/theres-nothing-like-26-unesco-funding-requirement-anywhere-okebukola/

Reference:
ASUU is just part of the problem. The citizen backed government that refuses to withdraw from the business of university education is the problem. Do you hear ASUU in the US or Europe. No two universities there are related in any way thoughtless of having labour bodies that unite them to create a so called level playing field of mediocrity.

Nigerians should sooner than later realise that with a body called ASUU and their modus operandi we can never have IVY keague universities and colleges because it is the mandate of ASUU to unify the quality of honours degrees across Nigeria by demanding socialism styled structures.

If all Nigerian univeristies are equal you can never gain IVY league status. You wiln never have an MIT, a YALE, a PRESTON, OXFORD or CAMBRIDGE. If you donot have IVY league colleges you simply cannot attract alternate funding and investment from international and multinational institutions that all universities need to broaden and deepen their relevance to society and development.

I repeat again. To sustain development of any enterprise quality not quantity is of foremost important and though ASUU may not know this. Its noble fights over the decades have not improved rather has corroded the core values education is all about, that is independence, critical thinking and solution providing.

For all the life of me, are univeristies not supposed to provide solutions to government, to help government, not the other way round. How can an individual or an institution that claims to be the custodian of knowledge be so helpless as to cry out like a baby at evry touch of pain. Growing uo my mum used to say this: that education was the key to liberty of all kind. Hiw come the bastion of knowledge is so stuck in the viscous cycle of everything ignorance stands for.... poverty, helplessness, hopelessness.

The learned men I knew of the world helped nations win wars against mighty adversaties with witty inventions, helped nations out of recessions with wisdom nuggets of prosperity, calmed hunger, pestilence, and environmental carnage. Abeg what are our ivory towers doing to help this country.....nothing of substance for all the angst caused year after year. Such a pity.

It is time the government cuts them loose. The experiment with private(isation) is increasingly a success story. By the time the ratio of private to public schools reaches equity there will no longer be justification for government's presence in the lecture halls and laboratories. Government's interest will then be limited to paying the bills of students having the best brains and temperament to contribute positively to Nigeria's development. Then it will get value for its scarce resources.

Nigerians should realise the big, big, big difference between the social service of basic education and the career bulding serious business which is a college education. Let us team up and put an end to this destructive architecture called ASUU. It is killing education, killing universities and killing the future of the youth through the deception of propriety while it us just a hollow means of self service.

Frenchkiss564:
Bravo!!!

one of the very few nairalanders I always anticipate reading from. More power to your elbow sir. There was a time I heard you mention masters degree in wealth creation and I've been interested in it ever since.

I pray thee to kindly tell me the difference between a MBA and a masters in wealth creation.

Thanks

Yea thanks for your vote of confidence. Masters in Wealth Management is a very innovative programme that is sort of traditional finance with a lot of tax centric courses. It is very good for people who want to work in investment or consultancy firms, insurance companies.

But for me personally, i am going for it because i am very much interested in venture capitalism as an Entrepreneur. So i chose the University of Luxembourg, there i can build on capacity and very vital network. It is kind of expensive so i am holding it off till i am financially ready.

I don't have an MBA but i guess it would be broader than MWM - probably, MWM is even a part of an MBA....

As we speak right now 3 billion is lying fallow at Tetfund hqs as lecturers have refused to assess it. They claim the scrutiny in assessing it is too much. And i ask, if you can't go through the scrutiny for accessing Tetfund grants then how would you do so for Gates foundation, Rockerfellar foun, NIH etc.

Give ordinary ABUAD ordinary access to Tetfund research pool and that money would be used up in one year.

Look what universities have turned Tetfund faculty support program to. Instead of first class graduates getting funded, university administrators are now enlisting family members on foreign scholarships who never merited it. Some of the lecturers who got 10-15 million to study in Europe would take the money and run to an unkown school in Asia and pay less- some even disappear with the grant altogether without studying.

If i was the president i would redirect all Nigerian students to private institutions and pay less. ASUU should go and eat their empty schools.

The professor is right ASUU is a big problem. Only an insane union would request 1.3 trillion naira from a country whose budget hovers around 7-9 trillion. Never mind the 2% statutory Ed tax in Tetfund which ASUU has refused to share with government hospitals.

Should NUT or other Medical associations behave like ASUU then this nation would have been on ground halt. A developing Nation has many needs requiring urgent attention, therefore the govt cannot afford to tilt too much to the side of one sector - more disturbing is ASUU's continued lie about UNESCO's 26% mandatory education budget - who knows where they get that from.

ASUU should take a leaf from NLC, if they must go on strike then it should be once in maybe five years. Stop going on strike every six months as though govt is not paying your salaries.

As it is Uni of Ibadan wage bill(13 billion)fully paid by FG is more than the IGR of Ekiti, Yobe and Ebonyi put together. Multiply that by all the fed unis. Think of the polys and College of Edus.

The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa today has 100% industry funding - south africa today has issues funding universities but the universities are taking initiatives to the private sector and are getting funding. The ASUU officials here only put on the cap of creativity when they want to go on the next strike.

Nigerians do not like the truth; they prefer self-comforting narratives. Since doing a short update on the just-declared ASUU strike yesterday, many who are suckers for ASUU’s propaganda have continued to spew the predictable ASUU talking points without much critical reflection on them. My American hosts say that the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. That is what ASUU has been doing in the last 15 years or thereabouts. The golden age of the ASUU struggle ended about 20 years ago. For the past fifteen years or so, the union has been struggling to redefine itself and find a new identity but has ended up simply reinventing the proverbial wheel even when the challenges of today’s university system call for a different toolkit than periodic strikes that worked in the 1980s and 1990s but that are increasingly less productive and are even counterproductive. Here are the problems with ASUU’s lazy, unimaginative resort to strikes every five years.

The current strike is not about a plan by the federal government to introduce fees and student loans. That is just ASUU propaganda, designed to curry sympathy with parents, students, and the general public. If you believe it, you’ll believe anything. The strike, of which ASUU has been warning for at least a year, is about the government’s non-implementation of the revised 2009 agreement — revised because it was renegotiated in 2013 after a prolonged strike. But as with other recent strikes, ASUU leaders said that they’re on strike because of “poor funding,” a vague, misleading, recurring, and overused propaganda in ASUU’s rhetorical repertoire. Much of what they’re fighting for are actually their own benefits (nothing wrong with that, but why not be honest about it?).

But realizing that a public skeptical of their struggle will not support the strike if it is couched strictly in terms of their earlier agreement with the Federal Government or in terms of earned but unpaid allowances, ASUU leaders recycled, as they’ve always done, the hackneyed narrative of poor funding. For additional emotional appeal, they decided to highlight an old, largely discredited federal government proposal — a mere proposal — about the introduction of tuition fees and the establishment of education banks.

ASUU Strikes have become counterproductive in several ways. The government usually waits it out until ASUU is desperate for a deal — any deal — because of financial hardship occasioned by several months of its members going unpaid, and because of pressure from parents and students, who, in recent years, have turned decisively against ASUU, influencing public opinion that now sees ASUU honchos as selfish, money-grabbing activists who do not have the interest of students at heart. Whether this is fair to ASUU or not is not the point. The point, rather, is that a wise, self-reflective, and self-critical body of activists tries not to overplay its hand or lose the support of its constituency or the public. A wise trade or professional union knows when to fight and when not to, and knows when a particular method of struggle has exhausted its effectiveness, its lifespan, and has begun to yield diminishing returns. ASUU’s laziness prevents it from making this realization. As things stand, the government has mastered the game, playing ASUU leaders like a set of drums.

But ASUU leaders are willing participants in the theatre. ASUU people themselves are complicit in the cyclical ritual of strikes, negotiations, agreements, and more strikes. They always willfully enter into agreements that are dubious. The agreements are fantastical, aspirational promissory notes that the federal government cannot realistically deliver because the only way it can do so is either for political office holders to give up their perks or abandon their own political promises and patronage networks and channel the resources previously dedicated to those endeavors to ASUU. That would be political suicide, which political leaders and appointees will not commit. Federal government negotiators know this, as does ASUU. Thus, these agreements and the negotiations that precede them are choreographed rituals meant largely to save face for both sides and to dignify what essentially is a bribe in the form of paid backlogs of “earned allowances” and an agreement to buy another five or so years before resuming the charade once again.

The agreements have thus become little more than documentary testaments to ASUU’s periodic egotistical efforts to reassert its visibility, importance, and ability to flex its power by shutting down universities. That’s why they produce less and less results. Speaking of diminishing returns, apart from the payment of salary backlogs and earned allowances as well as “agreements” on old and new promises — promises that are at best half-fulfilled — what positive outcome have these recent strikes yielded? I use “recent” advisedly because in the early days of ASUU strikes were an effective and hugely successful mechanism for bringing attention and funding to the many problems of the university system.

ASUU’s initial struggle was successful. The system had collapsed and needed to be resuscitated. ASUU strikes in the 1990s, which I fully supported as an undergraduate, succeeded in raising salaries and allowances and attracting massive funding to universities. Today, TETFUND is awash in billions of naira that it disburses to universities for capital projects — the building of lecture halls, labs, hostels, offices, and other physical structures. These are the fruits of ASUU’s initial struggles. From not earning enough to take them home, lecturers began to earn comfortable middleclass salaries. Much of that early gain and the subsequent increases in salaries and allowances in the 2000s consolidated university lectures in the Nigerian Middle Class. I recall seeing bankers, civil servants, and parastatal workers resign to take up appointments with universities in the 2000s. I personally know a couple of people who did so. Part of the attraction was that university lecturers began to out-earn many workers with equivalent degrees and experiences in the public and private sectors.

Inflation may have eroded some of those gains, but the Nigerian lecturer still earns more than civil servants. The starting pay of a lecturer is significantly higher than that of a civil servant. Some professors earn as much as N500,000 monthly, and some teach at multiple institutions and earn twice or trice that. An undergraduate classmate of mine who has served in one of the paramilitary organs of the Nigerian state and has risen through the ranks is contemplating quitting to go into academia after earning a PhD. Why? He would be better paid and he would be better fulfilled, he said.

The point here is that Nigerian lecturers are not poorly paid, certainly not as poorly paid as they want Nigerians to believe. At any rate, since when is the academy a place to get paid? People get into academia for the love of ideas, to live the life of the mind. They don’t go into it to make money. If money is your motivation, you should go to the private sector, run for office in Nigeria, or become a corrupt bureaucrat. You cannot function in the academy, with all its epistemological benefits, and then envy or use corrupt or non-corrupt people in lucrative sectors as references for your own aspirations. I routinely teach undergraduates whose starting salaries eclipse mine. One of the students went to work for Google and her pay package dwarfed mine. Another went on to law school and thereafter got a job with a law firm in Washington DC that paid him more than I earned. This is normal. It’s not just in Nigeria that academics are paid less than people with equivalent pedigrees in non-academic workplaces. Academia has many non-monetary rewards, including flexibility and fulfilment. That makes up for any monetary deficits.

So many strikes have occurred in the last 15 years or so that no one who attended a public university in this period can say they were not affected by at least one. And yet, the fundamental problems of universities — poor instruction, poor research, poor supervision and mentorship, ethical violations, sexual harassment and exploitation of students, and poor intellectual life — have persisted and worsened, discrediting the wisdom and logic of strikes as effective weapons for improving the quality of higher education. Academic standards have fallen drastically even as more money poured into universities for infrastructure and as lecturers and non-academic staff salaries and allowances increased. Nigerian academics have become less internationally competitive, and their products, the students they teach and graduate, have become more shortchanged and less educated, never mind the fact that the number of first class degrees has risen (story for another update). In some ways, then, it seems as though ASUU and the university system became victims of the union’s early success.

This negative correlation between improved funding and deteriorating standards is worrisome but hardly surprising. This is because as ASUU struggled to get the government to invest more in infrastructure and compensation, the body never asked anything of itself, of its members. All this while, even as TETFUND and other intervention agencies emerged to fund higher education, lecturers remained unaccountable and thus they remained stagnant in their craft and even regressed. They didn’t have to give anything or improve their attitude, mindset, or approach to their jobs in return for all the gains and benefits they reaped from their struggle.

As a result, poor teaching continued; lecturers continued to skip classes even as their personal economies significantly improved and some of them even became caught up in extracurricular pecuniary and career pursuits outside the university; poor or non-existent supervision and mentorship of postgraduate students continued; lecturers continued to teach from outdated, dog-eared lecture notes from the 1970s; lecturers continued to publish poorly researched papers or not to publish at all; lecturers, in fact, began to game the new NUC publications metrics by patronizing pay-to-publish predatory journals in India and Pakistan, and by self-publishing, and by publishing in incestuous venues such as departmental journals, making mockery of the academic research process; sexual harassment of students continued; monetary demands on students continued; and more catastrophically, plagiarism became the unspoken norm among Nigerian academics.

Improved access to online journals and resources, enabled in part by increased funding of universities (the very thing they claimed to desire and which ostensibly their struggle was about), ironically made lecturers lazy, causing them to simply copy or reproduce without attribution, steal and pass off entire works, or unethically appropriate works published by others elsewhere. If plagiarism has surged among undergraduate and graduate students, it is because their lecturers themselves either do not know the ethos of academic citation and plagiarism avoidance or are too lazy to care. In this way, bad habits are transmitted from teachers to students, perpetuating a cycle of poor ethics and academic fraud.

As infrastructure and compensation improved in Nigerian universities, Vice Chancellors transformed into tin-gods requiring adulation, submission, and absolute loyalty rather than acting as catalysts for academic agendas and reform. VCs, with the active connivance of university boards, became contractors and receivers of kickbacks on contracts, hence the obsession with building physical structures, leading to the neglect of academic and research standards. Buoyed by power and the control of ever-growing federal monetary allocations, Vice Chancellors could distribute patronage and largesse as they wished. More distressingly, VCs, like political leaders in the larger governmental system, realized that they could give out jobs and began to recruit incompetent, unqualified people who had no business in the academy, into lecturing positions. Today’s poor graduates are partly attributable to the influx of these incompetent recruits into the academy. You cannot impart what you yourself do not know. To obtain anything based on scholarly productivity and commitment to pedagogy and research became impossible. Only those who sucked up to VCs were rewarded. Merit, hard work, and ethical discipline left the space of the university, replaced by a crass politics of patronage that mirrored the messy, corrupt politics of the larger Nigerian political arena.

I reiterate: all these occurred in the context of much improved conditions — what one might describe as ASUU’s earlier success. The irony is that this success has led to a fixation on the erroneous notion that the problem of university education in Nigeria centers on infrastructure funding and improvement to salaries and allowances, even though universities are not about physical buildings but rather about what goes on in those buildings and in the minds of students and academics.

The corollary of this obsession with building grandiose physical structures is a neglect of the aforementioned problems that have a direct bearing on academic standards. Which is why we’re producing poorer and poorer graduates even as universities are building fancier and fancier structures on their campuses. I should know about the degeneration in standards because I have first class degree holders and even some academics writing to me for one reason or the other or sharing their work with me, and I’ve noticed that their works are poorly conceived, error-ridden, poorly researched, and poorly-written. Some in the humanities and qualitative social sciences cannot even string grammatically correct sentences together and have no basic understanding of research or analysis.

Today, when we say a VC’s tenure was a success or such and such was a successful VC, we’re talking about how many physical structures were built during their time. We’re not talking about how he or she improved the quality and quantity of research output, or how they improved teaching standards, or how they created a vibrant intellectual culture devoid of ethical abuses, or how they helped produce graduates who are internationally competitive, are self-motivated, and are intellectually curious.

Herein lies the problem. ASUU’s initial success ironically killed whatever was left of research culture or spirit of critical inquiry in Nigerian universities. Today, as we speak, TETFUND has N3 billion naira in research funds that have not been accessed. In a story published in Guardian newspaper on February 14, 2018 titled, “TETfund’s N3 Billion Research Funds Yet to be Accessed, Says NUC,” the university regulatory agency lamented that the funds were sitting idle because Nigerian academics had not applied for research funds or because the proposals they submitted were too poor to be funded.

Take some time to digest this irony. At a time when ASUU is ostensibly fighting for “better funding” of universities, TETFUND is complaining that academics are not applying for this pool of research money that was created partly in response to their perennial demand for funding. Is it that the Nigerian academics are not aware of this fund? No. They know about it, but they’re too lazy to craft a compelling research proposal let alone follow through with a rigorous research agenda that such research awards require.

It's not entirely the academics’ fault; the current ASUU-enabled system does not require them to be innovative researchers. They can survive in the system by being mediocre. They’re content with getting by with writing mediocre, derivative papers that do not require actual research but are adequate to get them promoted to the next rank. They can build "successful" academic careers and rise to become professors without winning research grants or conducting serious, original research.

Then when they become professors, they stop performing academic duties, conducting research, teaching, or mentoring altogether and start seeking opportunities for wealth accumulation or status enhancement outside the academy.

Research culture is dead in Nigerian universities, and it is not because of inadequate funding, as the unaccessed N3 billion TETFUND research fund and the existence of other intervention funds demonstrate. Rather, it is ironically because lecturers are not required by ASUU-FG agreements to satisfy a rigorous research or teaching requirement for promotion, and because their salaries and allowances are not tied to their teaching or research efficacy but are instead determined by the periodic strikes of ASUU and the salary structures that result from them.

If lecturer A, who is hard working, fecund, and prolific earns the same ASUU/FG-stipulated salary as the incompetent, lazy, and unproductive lecturer B who is on the same rank as him, what is the incentive for lecturer A to continue to sustain or increase his research and teaching excellence or for lecturer B to try to become like lecturer A? How can a 21st century university system not at least implement a system of merit pay beyond or in addition to set base pay to incentivize and reward research and teaching excellence? Broach this simple, commonsensical idea and face the wrath of ASUU.

From successfully fighting for improvements to university education in the 1980s and 1990s, ASUU has become an underwriter, protector, catalyst, and incubator of mediocrity in the Nigerian university system. ASUU has become part of the problem.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/11/06/ASUU-problem-nigerian-university-system-moses-e-ochonu

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vaxx:
i just said i have been there( meaning all)is that hard for you to understand. So now tell me your problem?

And no where do i say he should forget about ranking? I only gave him clue on how times higher carry out her ranking system.

Guy don't be funny. I know asheshi very well and i can assure you it is not better than covenant university. In fact asheshi is just like American Uni of Nigeria, notjing more. In facilities, research they do not compare with CU.

vaxx:
No one is saying is impossible, wishing good will to yourself is a fundamental human right. what we are attacking here is the space in which he said it will be achievable.

The chance of wining the Nobel Prize in any academic feild at a very short time is unimaginable maybe posssible in peace area ) . The work would have to be of such consequence and quality that it would have been clearly important in a very short period of time. Most Nobel prizes in science are given for work decades before .

The youngest person ever in history to have ever won nobel laurel in academic is lawrence bragg and that was 1915 at the age of 25.

Convenant university is not even leading in west africa talkless of africa. They should work on that first, have you heard of ashesi university? Probably No...

Did you just compare asheshi yo Covenant. Covenant university is rated higher than both asheshi and uni of ghana legon. Check times higher 2019 rankings.

Damolux01:
Good Morning! Seems you know alot about the school. I graduated from OAU, dept of International Relations and would love to have my MSc in Covenant. How many months is their Masters programme and how much is it?

1 year and 6 months. The cost should be about 400-490,000. You can stay on campus or off campus. On campus accomodation cost about 120k.

Yea but this already made fp months ago.