Left: Mandela Hostel, University of Port Harcourt. Photo: Chukwudi Akasike; Right: Adekunle Fajuyi Hall, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. Photo: Bola Bamigbola
At the University of Port Harcourt, its Mandela Hall could be mistaken for a charred prison, while students of the Ahmadu Bello University queue to use the convenience. Bed bugs feed on the blood of students at the OAU. There, two students engaged themselves in a fight withrecently, over who might have infested their beds with the insect.
It is utter irresponsibility for the government to continue to establish universities, which it is incapable of funding adequately. In the twilight of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, it set up nine new universities in the implementation of the irrational policy of having a federal university in each of the 36 states, including Abuja; even when some benefitting states fill their Unity Colleges admission quota with pupils who scored between two and 14 marks out of the 200 obtainable.
The degenerate existence of our universities explains why they are not well-regarded even in Africa, let alone globally. Interventions from the Petroleum Development Trust Fund and Tertiary Education Trust Fund in funding the building of halls of residence, libraries, lecture halls and award of postgraduate scholarships to deserving academics seem to be tokenisms against the background of the degree of the prevailing mess. Quality is critical in university education.
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