whytediamond:
I don't bother to read statement from people that do not know their left from their right.

Before you depart this world sir, Covenant University will rank amongst the top 15 universities in the world.

free2ryhme:


90% of your professors are in Islamic studies

your opinion is not recognize go and stay one side

victorDanladi:

with this comment,you are disgracing intelligent Christians especially those who are ABU product!

Ezigbonmadu:
This is bullshit.

First, the amount paid as tuition by students doesn't determine the quality of education. Take Germany and all Scandinavia countries for instance where tuition is free yet their education is top-notch. You can't blame Nigeria students who shouldn't even pay at all for paying too little

Lilymax:
"Ask students to pay"
Aren't we paying enough?
From sch fees to handout buying to settling lecturers

Statsocial:


Lol no government is willing to take the kind of heat that Churches are taking today. So of course Govt says "let us give them what they want, free useless education", at least the Govt know it is so useless their own Children would never school here. Yet the pastors are schooling their own kids in their own universities.

But take comfort it is not just Nigeria even South Africa is struggling to fund her 24 heavily subsidized Universities. The son of Uganda president low key just Graduated from AUN, Yola this year quietly while the father is busy deceiving ppl back at home, Strike don nearly finish Makerere University sef.

So it is an African something. And Just imagine o, this is ABU with the highest funding in the country. ABU alone is gulping about 13 billion per year in wage bill which comes directly from FG. Now, if we don't diversify our economy soon so we have more income to patch these free universities up then the situation may become worse.

Ezigbonmadu:
This is bullshit.

First, the amount paid as tuition by students doesn't determine the quality of education. Take Germany and all Scandinavia countries for instance where tuition is free yet their education is top-notch. You can't blame Nigeria students who shouldn't even pay at all for paying too little

Secondly, how have they spent the little money allocated to them? Can they boldly claim that the government get value for the little amount invested so far?

Mirand606:
The Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University ( ABU ), Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba has given reason why Nigerian universities cannot be among the best ranking in the world, saying that, no university can train Oxford counterpart with N20,000 per annum.

The Vice Chancellor stated this at a press conference ahead of the university’s 40th Convocation Ceremony coming up on Saturday.

As part of activities slated for the convocation is a lecture that will be delivered today (Friday) by the Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Kachala Baru, while the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu will chair the session.

However, Professor Garba while speaking on the prospects and challenges of Ahmadu Bello University identified lack of adequate funding as the major challenge of ABU, like its counterparts across the country.


He said, if the Nigerian universities must produce graduates equal to those of Oxford, the government must be ready to fund it or be bold to ask students to pay.

According to him, Our challenge in the university is there is no enough funding. No funding is enough but we are looking for adequacy in funding. For instance, this university spends N50 million monthly on power and government does not give us more than N120 million for over head annually. This money cannot pay my power cost for three months.

“I have 50,000 students with half of them living on campus that I have to provide power and water for. An undergraduate student pays N20,000 as charges for the year and they want to take a degree that is equivalent to that of oxford. Is it realistic? And the government that tells them not to pay does not pay the balance.

“A degree is a product. How much does it take to produce a graduate? How much is the student paying? What is the balance and who pays the balance? If you don’t pay the balance, that person will get a degree that is equivalent to whatever available money is there. There is no miracle about it. That is why the standards are falling.

“Let us not deceive ourselves. There is a cost to everything. If you don’t bear the cost, you take less. We go for Chinese products but the Chinese products will only last for certain number of years. But if you buy a superior product, it last longer. Let us not deceive ourselves. There is no funding in the Nigerian system.

“There are no funds to do research. The lecturers use their small salaries to do research in order to create knowledge to help the society. It is something that is challenging. In ABU, we have 2, 800 academic staff to carter for 50,000 students. If you do a simple arithmetic you will know the student teacher ratio.


“In as much as we want to be seen to be producing quality graduates, the investment is essential and necessary. The Nigerian government certainly is not investing as much as it should in education. We must invest. If you don’t invest, you will never get quality products.

“Investment in education is not a matter of luxury. If you want you must invest. You give universities a pittance to produce the same graduate that you pay 12,000 pounds to train. The more we train, substantial number of them drift away because if you train somebody, it is not even fair on the person to expect that he will come back and not have working tools. That guy will either leave the country or stay and waste. This is a big deal.

“The government must be bold to either fund or ask the students to pay. If you don’t do this, we will continue like this, nobody will come from the USA to intervene by paying the cost of university. And worse of all, you continue to open more universities when you have not funded the existing ones.

“If ABU is challenged with manpower, just imagine what other universities are facing. Even the money that we make we use it augment salaries. And we send our children abroad. We deceive ourselves that our universities are not ranking properly and I ask, if you are to rank the National Assembly against other assemblies in the world, will they rank high? You cannot remove the university from the nation. The same rot we find in the society is also in the universities”, he said.

Speaking on the magic wand of the university’s success story, the Vice Chancellor said, “within our limited resources, we grow more faculties. But we also task the existing faculty more and more. I want people to know that when you see academic staff agitating, this is the problem”.

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/nigerian-varsities-cant-among-world-best-abu-vc/amp/

cochtrane:
Prove to be self-sustaining and you are on your way to being a stellar institution. Your university agriculture students could farm and feed the state as part of their courses. Your university engineering students could fix phones and make money for both themselves and the school, as part of gaining hands-on experience. Your mass communications student could start a local newspaper as part of their course routine, etc. Of course, you not gonna do that. You stuck with a foreign educational curriculum that has little bearing on your societal situation. You don't teach them proper in the first place, after all. How would you even do that, if you are this clueless as a VC?

whytediamond:
I don't bother to read statement from people that do not know their left from their right.

Before you depart this world sir, Covenant University will rank amongst the top 15 universities in the world.

ct2:
what a world,this man enjoyed free education ooooo

motikorede:
I believe this man is a schmuck . This is one among saboteurs we have in our country . How can he open his gutter and say student shd pay more , aint we paying enough ?
Likes of him enjoyed free education bak in those days , but they mount burdens on the younger generations so as to fill their pocket ...
According to him " lecturers are using their small salary to execute project " . This man is a lier , " small salary " indeed .... am very sure that , the least lecturers are payed will be nothing less than 150k per mnth .... Tell me is that a small salary ??

JUSTICE4Nigeria:
after enjoying awol free education he is here talking rubbish, let me catch u

Lilymax:
"Ask students to pay"
Aren't we paying enough?
From sch fees to handout buying to settling lecturers

cochtrane:

I actually didn't miss those bits. I'm sure they stood out quite clearly. What I'm thinking instead is that you missed the bit where I said they should attempt to be self-sustaining. They won't be the first university to try that; neither will they be the last.
Those "same poor Nigerians" can afford phones. I'm pretty sure they can pay a token for the repair of those phones. And a local paper doesn't necessarily appear "on paper". Ever heard of that thing called the internet? Yeah, that thing.

If 2800 instructors are smart enough, I'm sure instructing the school on being self-sustaining will be easy-peasy. Unfortunately that doesn't seem the case with them, just as it isn't with most Nigerians. It's the very thing you just proved with your shi.t post.

maynation:
Just a fresh graduate of ABU and i can't remb ever buying handouts. Abi Barackodam i lie?

maynation:
Just a fresh graduate of ABU and i can't remb ever buying handouts. Abi Barackodam i lie?

free2ryhme:


go on facts finding it is not about religion bros i no get power

cochtrane:

Oh really? 50%? Where's your source? Don't just pull data out of your hat.

That they have a highly diversified economy doesn't answer to the fact that education is cheap there. That point of yours is a red herring.

Resource dependence has nothing to do with bad education in Nigeria; corruption has. In other words, the professor's argument does not hold water. Were Nigeria corruption-free, more money could flow from the government into universities, making quality education cheap; Not more money from the students.

Abuklaw:
You're simply high on weed or any other dangerous substance. We don't need fact-finding mission, we need a psychiatrist for you. Ask for Professor Andrew Nok and let me know what your findings are.

Ezigbonmadu:
This is bullshit.

First, the amount paid as tuition by students doesn't determine the quality of education. Take Germany and all Scandinavia countries for instance where tuition is free yet their education is top-notch. You can't blame Nigeria students who shouldn't even pay at all for paying too little

Secondly, how have they spent the little money allocated to them? Can they boldly claim that the government get value for the little amount invested so far? I know many Nigerian lecturers who failed to graduate in UK universities due to poor grades after the federal government have invested millions of Naira each on their education through TETFund. These lecturers get fully funded scholarship from FG that takes care of tuition and maintenance while their salary still get paid in simultaneously, yet most fail. Now they avoid Europe and North America but now prefer Malaysia and co. I guess it's easier to pass there.

More importantly, private sectors in developed countries finance researches, not the government. How many private sector research funding have they as academia in Nigeria attracted over the years? Your guess is as good as mine, they attract almost zero funding. Who is to blame? Obviously it's the Nigeria academia that fail to appeal to the industries.