The question of quality education in NigeriaThe question of quality education in Nigeria

Nigeria’s educational failure will
continue to subsist unless the
following variable, indices or factors
are challenged by a revolution and
revolution only.
Firstly, the appointment and
promotion of teachers from the
primarily schools through the
secondary schools to the
universities has been drastically
compromised since 1980s. Stake –
holders of education in Nigeria know
very well that people from no
where are lifted out of social or
pecuniary interest and appointed
lecturers whose primary
contribution is to became
professors and head of institutions
the way they were appointed.
Secondly the idea of institutional and
university autonomy is like a blanket
power vested on the heads of
institution to appoint lectures and
professors without merit, which at
any rate justified by the currency of
bourgeois autonomy constructed
where professorship is lacking in
international content in most
universities in Nigeria.
Thirdly that some universities reject
some professors for appointment
for sabbatical or substantive
positions only portrays quality of
Nigeria professors and teachers as
well as that teaching and learning is
questionable in some universities
Fourthly increasing population and
expansion of number of universe
are not being managed to
correspond in geometrical
proportion to the quality of
education instead it has brought a
rapidly alarming rate of educational
corruption; as this phenomenon has
released unmerited unwanted
lecturers and teachers who cannot
afford to sit down for at least one
hour to ponder, cogitate on
“problem predicate” yet our system
appoints and promote lecturers and
professors indiscriminately every
year.
Fifthly, sorting-out, bribery and
favoritism in higher institutions of
learning are a society induced , a
symptom of primitive and barbaric
capitalism.
A streaming population of
unrestrained youths fall into the lap
of ethnic , sectional and sectarian
generated corrupt lecturers in order
to grease the elbow of get certificate
quick syndrome.
The problem of Nigeria education
has passed the level of describing it
as facing challenges but is in a state
of near irreversible chaos which
however can be paradoxically and
mutably re-written in new
education history and constitution
for our country. When a piece of
history gets to its dead end only a
revolution can re-define it.
The jump to education organized
for industrial age without first of all
meeting the demands of education
based on knowledge economy is
fallacy: a blind action without
premise that has set African
educational system, especially
Nigeria on the perpetual teeth of
failure and somersaulting and fifthly
good governance is the bottom line
answer to educational failure in
Nigeria without which democracy
will not be sustained and corruption
triumphs. In a corrupt country even
private initiative in education will be
corrupt
There is a adage that says that
anything worth doing at all is worth
doing well. Democracy and good
governance must go along with
social responsibility and non-
governmental initiative and
participation in education. If the
government continues with its
lackadaisical attitude to education,
the wind of change that started
favouring private primary and
secondary schools in the 1970’s will
begin now to favor private
universities disbanding our primary
and secondary schools as well as
our polytechnic and universities as
republics of the poor and the never
–do- wells.