Samuel Ekanem, a professor of philosophy at the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, made history on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, when he became the first Inaugural lecturer of the institution ten years after the university was established. Ekanem, a lawyer and educationist, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard exclusively, after the historic academic exercise, insisted that corruption and bad leadership were never Nigeria’s problems.
So, with the tenure of Kundiri as the Vice-Chancellor almost coming to an end, and with several professors promoted by him, in which I am a worthy and well-deserved beneficiary, I decided to volunteer myself to lay the foundation for this important academic tradition. So, I think those are the things that accounted for the delay.
We have a lot of crisis in Nigeria. Some have said it is leadership while others said it’s corruption. But if you look at it, is our problem that of leadership and corruption? What brings bad leadership? Are our leaders not the product of our education system? We don’t have a philosophy that drives our educational system. So, the lack of philosophy of education in Nigeria was the reason for many maladies as can be seen in terrorism, religious intolerance, cultism, rape, violence, criminality, tribalism, discrimination, political corruption, climate change, environmental degradation and a general decline in humane existential values.Like I submitted in my lecture, the way out of the present social maladies demands a focus on the educational system.
So if you have a philosophy that enhances the training of the human mind, and make the mind to be pure, then, we will have good leaders, good scientists, good technologists, and good Nigerians. So, that is why I said that the problem of Nigeria is not corruption or bad leadership but of lack of philosophy.This is the crux of my lecture. The lecture was entitled: The Value of Philosophy in Education and Technological Development in Nigeria, An Essencist Voyage.
There exists no philosophy of education or policy in the country that is technologically driven or technology-oriented. There is, therefore, an urgent need for the country to evolve and develop a philosophy that will encourage and promote the culture of “do it yourself”. Because to be a professor is no mean fit, it supposed to be strictly on merit and not by favouritism. And when you get to that rank, it is incumbent on you to profess what you know.
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