Problem with Nigerian Education

Report By: Jamilu Sani  SMS/10/MAC/00966

The problem with Nigeria remains that of inept political leadership.
This is an avoidable debacle emanating from the greed, lack of vision
and inability of Nigeria’s politicians to administer well the abundant
resources that the nation is endowed with.
 
The human resource drain is aggravated by depreciating level of
tertiary institutions and infrastructure. Nigerian universities were
once comparable with any from developed climes around the world. The
University College (now University of Ibadan) at inception in 1948,
with other first and few second generation universities remained true
tertiary institutions until the mid- eighties when things started
getting bad in the country. Right now, university teachers are on
strike, a trend that has now become a perennial occurrence.
 
At Fifty-one years after independence, it is shameful that the country
still finds management of her educational and other infrastructural
issues difficult to handle. What is happening in the educational
sector underscores the degeneration in other facets of life. It
appears many Nigerians are not happy with the current state of things
in a country; Celebrating Nigeria at 51 would have been a thing of joy
if our Education, health services, agricultural system, regular power
supply, fuel subsidy, roads, and others were fixed.
 
The aim of the study is to identify and provide solutions to the
problems that are mitigating about the success in the education sector
of the country. For meaningful development to take place in the
educational sector; the government need to re-address the issue of
multiple system of education, diversification in the education system,
unstable curriculum, unstable staff, access to good and equipped
library towards achieving the goals of education. Also education must
be made affordable for all and sundry. The current politicization of
education must be changed