In a LinkedIn post last month, a Nigerian lecturer in Cyprus, Ifeanyi Obi, stated that during his undergraduate studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied Architecture and Building Technology, he managed to graduate with a second-class lower degree.
In March this year, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, disclosed that more than 2.1 million students were currently studying in Nigerian universities. According to data from the Migration Policy Institute in 2017, Nigerians in the US make up the most educated of all national groups- at least 61 per cent of Nigerians in the US hold a bachelor’s degree. This figure is striking compared to statistics of other educated groups in the US–31 per cent for the total foreign-born population and 32 per cent for the US-born population. The mobility of Nigerian scholars is driven by the desire for quality education and to maximise their potential.
In 2018, the Regional Director, Cambridge International, Sub-Saharan Africa, Juan Visser, during a programme organised by stakeholders, said students from Nigeria can compete favourably with students from anywhere in the world. Acclaim many Nigerian students in foreign institutions have lived up to – even those who performed abysmally while studying in Nigeria.
honestly FG needs to see the importance of education and end up this strike