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When the major cause of falling standard in education is mentioned in Nigeria, we often point to lack of funds and it baffles me that even professors, academicians and teachers always rush to point to under-funding as the major cause. A closer look and experience over the years have made me come to the conclusion that under-funding is CERTAINLY not even the top three causes of falling standards in education.
Putting more money into the system without first of all cleaning it up is like putting more and more fuel into a leaking tank as it will eventually leak out bring u to the same point of emptiness.
Here are my perceived causes of falling education standard:
1. Corruption: this comes in various forms ranging from;
- employment of unqualified teachers
- lecturers lecturing in many and as such not been able to lecture their students very well. How can NUC claim not to know when one lecturer is lecturing in up to 7 universities? How can such a person deliver?
- ghost teachers in the system. If properly investigated we will discover that not up to 75% of the people on government payroll really exist and or are truly working.
2. Poor Supervision: the major difference between public and private schools is in their supervision. While private school owners will insist on having value for their money so as to keep the schools running and attractive to more pEople, most public school teachers and lecturers are not properly checked and as such they miss classes, lectures, and even teach rubbish without anybody bringing them to book. You see NUC accreditation teams visiting schools only to get fat envelopes without doing the check and balances they are meant to do. Even secondary and primary schools are not left out because those who are suppose to supervise and monitor them from the ministry give prior notice before coming and only care about the gifts they will get from the schools.
3. Lack of qualified and passionate teachers: teachers are a key to educational development. Let me be quick to point out here that the lack of good teachers is not entirely due to the poor remuneration of teachers but because in most cases, employment is done based on bases of godfather and not merit.
4. Misplaced priorities: in a bid to embezzle money, many state governors bring in fraudulent programs that weaken the system. For example, how can you explain that a government can feed students and at the same time some of the students in these schools are receiving classes outside and a staying like 70 in a class?

Way forward
To overcome this ugly trend and set our education system on track, we must do the following:
1. Properly supervise and monitor our schools to ensure that teachers and lecturers perform their duties.
2. Get rid of unqualified and in-passionate teachers in the system and bring in those who are qualified and passionate about teaching.
3. Get rid of ghost workers thereby saving money that can be plowed back into the system to make it better.

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EZEIGBO1OFIMO:
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Nothing looks special about the school.

How many public universities have space enough to accommodate their students talk more of spacing them like this? Forget sentiments and face reality bro

Chanchit:
WTF is Kogi and Bayelsa! If inec could conduct election foor the whole of Nigeria, why won't they conduct for those two minor states.

Must you post? He made a valid point that the tenure of the commissioners has expired by law now after conducting the 2015 election and you are busy saying rubbish

prettytasha:
buhari why are u traveling up and down na ... am starting to lose faith in u ...

So you are too lazy to even read the topic of the post? Since when has a president's trip to the UN general Assembly become a nonsense trip?

maryam6:
Haba! Saraki, ur attrocities are too much 4 u 2 remain in that position.


Change is wat we want nd change we must get.

No wonder our academic standard is falling by the day. If we can't read a simply half page post to comment then how can we read our books well? The report just cleared Saraki of the allegations made by Sahara Reporters but many are busy saying all kind of things. Do we read posts before commenting at all?
Oh Nigeria my beloved country!

psucc:
I don't know how good you will try to explain this.
To me, we should always weigh the pros and the con of every policy. The operation cum advantages of the TSA will affect the Nigerian economy negatively than what we are told. From inadequate fund to enhance bank lending to the investing public to staff layoff.
Nigeria cannot afford to cope with TSA.

You are also thinking in only one direction. How many staff are the banks going to lay off? Have you considered how much the nation will save, the infrastructure that will be developed from these funds which will lead to more companies springing up and the number of jobs that will be created thereafter?

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IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Thank goodness, Ekweremadu is now the Senate President.

It's time to rule every APC sponsored motion out of order?

Nairalanders have polluted google with irreconcilable headlines more than carbon emissions from Generator fumes do to the atmosphere.

You are a joker! You think they are dealing with low thinking people? The senate standing rules forgery case is what will sweep Ekweremadu and the petition will sweep Saraki. What remains will be a leadership of the senate that is handpicked by the party(APC). Afterwards all the other senators will be to scared too disobey the party- at the end party supremacy will reign.

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Can't you think before you post? Is it Buhari's regime that instituted the probe against Lamido? Have you forgotten that it was the same problem that made Lamido not to leave PDP? Instead of rushing to post please use your Mb to learn and update yourself.

How much is it?

angieberry:
Lol, this is funny. I can imagine your annoyance. It's very tragic.

Over annoying self. I even intended snapping it only that my battery was flat.

I was traveling through Katsina today and witnessed the shock of my life- on the highway, there was a hold up and other road users also had to come down and stay beside the road waiting for the moment when they will be allowed to use the road again.
That alone wasn't the cause of shock to me but the fact that when we came down from the vehicle to wait beside the road I saw the reason for the holdup- people where praying on the highway. The road that was meant for usage by motorists became the mosque and I wonder why on earth a thing like this will be allowed to happen in a sane society. Worse of all I saw some policemen standing guard over this road abusers.
God help Nigeria!

English language is our major problem in this country. What is sacking about Ambode's action? Every new government is suppose to dissolve boards set up by the previous government to enable it hand pick those it can work with. Let's face our business and stop poke nosing into issues that don't concern us and in the process openly displaying our high level of ignorance.

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I need someone who will either invest or loan me like 2 million Naira to kick start the business.
LOANER
- Gets the money paid back in between 4-6 months depending on the arrangement but in atmost 6 months your money should be ready.

FOR INVESTOR
- you will not pay me but we will negotiate on sharing terms
- you can be sure of getting minimum of 200,000 naira every month. (Note that this is the worse case scenario as I don't want to over hype).

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NOTE: note that meaningful measures will be put in place to ensure trust.

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