Sometimes when I look at the reactions of the government to issues relating to public education and health, particularly with respect to the meagre public expenditure on such social sector in the budgets and strike activities of the labour unions, I would feel an urge to walk to the president to ask for his letter of resignation for playing ludo with the most important sub-sectors of the Nigerian economy. Unfortunately, I don’t have such power since he got there through an election.
On education, how many of our leaders have you seen posing with their children during graduation ceremonies in Nigerian public universities? Their children must study abroad for quality education, and they must show us the pictures to affirm their class. They know and care less that our institutions, from primary to tertiary, are not of the right quality and cannot give quality education to the populace.
By the time we joined academics, some of the decay was already becoming visible. A colleague was invited for a conference on scientific innovation in the medical field but could not present his paper because he found that the methodology he used had been supplanted by a more rigorous and efficient methodology over five years back. That was in the mid-1980s when internet facilities were alien to this part of the world, such that the opportunity to follow the global trend was not available.
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