₦airaland Forum

Dsalvo:
It is either all Nigerians have memory problems or we are not anywhere near as intelligent a people as we like to think.

If not, why is any Nigerian still listening to OBj let alone praise his hypocritical utterances?

I think you missed the point. While I'm not a fan of any Nigerian politician, I think you can objectively look at the message with little regard to his character or person. They're all failure all together. But the message is cogent and timely if we want to forge ahead as a nation. Nigeria is fast gravitating towards total collapse.
People I never thought could leave their highly well paying jobs have all deserted the country.
So the message is timely though the messenger may not be perfect.

wpadmin:
Nigerians like you feel that without a University education they will die poor or they won't breath well.

I have seen University graduates that cannot write properly or speak good English. The fault of this category of people is not the Universities they attended, it is the Primary and Secondary schools they attended.

How can someone survive in this era if they can't write or speak well?

We lay too much emphasis on University education in Nigeria.

This has led to so many half baked graduates chasing non-existent jobs.

The cheapness of this Universities has reduced the quality of Education.

For how long will ASUU keep going on strike?

Do you know why on most vacancies you see things like "with 5 years experience"?

It's because a lot of Nigerian graduates are low quality, you cannot employ them straight out of college.

University Education in Nigeria is too cheap.

Nigerians will complain that ₦70,000 is too expensive to pay for University education but go to Ghana or Benin Republic and pay from ₦300,000 and above.

God bless you brother.
You're just on point. I have been privileged to meet Professors outside Nigeria. You can hardly see anyone with more than one car or one house. All the professors I know in Nigeria have more than two cars and two houses.
I don't understand; they keep comparing themselves with politicians and I keep telling them resign and go and contest.

wpadmin:
The best thing any government that wants to end this ASUU strike menace is to allow Universities function without too much input from the Federal Government.

Allow them to set any price they want as school fees.

Obviously, the price of school fee will go up. The government can then offer loans to students that qualify

Quality education is expensive and tertiary education is not for everyone.

What has Nigeria gained with all the thousands of graduates and PHD holders?

Primary and Secondary education is compulsory (could be free sef).

Anybody that wants tertiary education should pay the full price abeg.

This is has always been my position. And this is the only permanent solution to end ASUU strike.
University Lecturers are not the only people suffering in Nigeria. Teachers in primary and secondary schools are suffering. As a matter of fact everyone is affected. The roads are in terrible state, health sector is in commatose. All our emergency services are dead. Yet ASUU keep comparing themselves with politicians.
You can resign and go through the rigour of winning an election in insane society.

Government should have little to do with University education, let each university looks inward and charge any fee they want while as well responsible for payment of salaries.
Government should provide loans to indigent students and financial aid in form of scholarship to bright students.

LordIsaac:
It is very wrong for any parastatal in Nigeria to earn more than the academia, because, it supplies the human capital to run these other parastatals.

That's a very wrong premise and a very spurious conclusion. We could as well say it's very wrong for University Lecturers to earn more than primary school teachers because they laid the foundation for pupils at very difficult ages. Without their foundation, University Lecturers cannot do anything.

Meanwhile, throughout the world, people in industry earn significantly more than lecturers. If you want to earn as much as people in industry, you quit and go to the industry.

Osilama1:
this is why people are old here before becoming Prof meanwhile in America Europe u see folk's in 30 to 40 becoming Prof... Are people saying futo management didn't do due diligence before giving pantemi Prof title... What's it with the hatred for pantemi.. how can assu a union Take it personal when there haven't bear their minds on abuses tendencies of lecturers to students??

Unfortunately and interestingly, you cannot even compare the impacts and the knowledge of a Professor with 5 publications in US with many professors with several publications in Nigeria.
The emphasis in Nigeria is on quantity with zero discoveries and no impact. While the emphasis in sane societies is on impacts and quality.

Gaddafi1:
Please let's have the number of papers, articles, books and research written or carried out by Patami that could deserve being awarded the position of Professor of such a prestigious university.
These academic works are usually published in local and international journals. Without proof of 80 of these research work then the man is not qualified.... Simple.

No university in Nigeria requires more than 25 publications before being appointed a professor.
Most professors I know in first generational universities (OAU,UI Unilag and co) didn't have more than 20 publications before being appointed.
But keep writing and their publications keep increasing even after becoming Profs.
ASUU doesn't have the right to declare professorship of another person illegal. That's insubordination. If they have issues with it, they should sue the Appointment body of the University that appointed him.
It's not within their functions to accept or reject appointment of someone as Prof. If there are issues with it, there's a body that has been saddled with the function of appointment of professor, you sue the body. That's sane thing I expect from the so called intellectuals.
A PhD holder cannot declare the PhD given to another person illegal because the PhD thesis lacks quality.

Do you guys want government to doctor report or lie to gain sympathy or what? The report shows no Nigerian has been killed in recent attacks. The people you guys are clamouring for would not leave South Africa with free flights back to Nigeria.