Tertiary Education in Nigeria has been on the front burner in the past nine months for the wrong reasons – five months of ASUU Strike, court cases between the Federal Government and ASUU, recognition of two new Labour Unions from University Teachers Union, and the latest issue – pro-rated salaries for Nigerian University Lecturers. These issues have made tertiary education in Nigeria descend to its lowest level.
One of such opportunity for discourse along this line was provided on Wednesday 16th November, 2022 in Abuja at the Launch of a book Nigerian Universities: Echoes from the background, authored by Rt. Hon. Dr. Eddie Mbadiwe, a former member of the Imo State House of Assembly and House of Representatives .
In his speech, the author Dr.
The suggests that Nigerian University should reach out aggressively to their prominent Alumni and get them to make financial provision for university departments in their wills. They could endow professorships or long term prizes to be named after them. The author cites the example of Stanford University in the US where Hewitt Packard a company owned by Alumni from the university has made numerous donations, some of which are in excess of 400,000 USD.
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