by: Busuyi ojo-Jobus

The problem of Nigeria economy, the corruption and all, started on campus, the lecturers, the Professors who put fears in the minds of the students while in school are guilty of all these woes befalling our country, remember, what kills faster is fear.

For most of us who attended Nigerian tertiary institutions will understand that whenever students try to voice out their pains caused by the school managements (Professors) they intimidate us to shut up, put fear of being rusticated in us, therefore when the students are out of schools and have government power in their hands, they shut the mouths of those who try to voice out (even ASUU, the Professors) although that is what was learnt from them in school and this is what the government is doing, putting fears in the minds of the people, adding gags to their mouths, people can't complain, they only can bear hurts till they die in silence.

In other words, Nigerians appreciate good English better than the solutions to our problems, therefore if Nigerians see a grammarian without better ideas, they prefer him to the one with brilliant ideas but unable to speak a borrowed language (English) effectively, these set of people that are not grammarians but brilliant are the preferred and chosen by the English man in their land, the Professors make our dialect a vernacular and not acceptable by us.

Religion is another problem, everyone wanna go to church, mosque, it's good but few only do the right things, majority do the wrongs, they cover up with churches and mosques, shouting illegal Hallelujah or Lailah.

Going to church or mosque is nothing but doing the will of God is all things, the will of God is to hate evil, love your neighbors and help the poors which they are the things you can learn in the word of God, many who do not go to church are even better than some church rats- Joshua 1:8; Quran, 2:2

Solution: Nigeria should go back to the drawing board, to learn about the real education that will help us, not the one in tertiary institutions that put fears in our minds and the ones in some churches and mosques that teach us how to use the name of God to cover up when we do evil.

Does Nigeria even have a drawing board to look at?

What you said is true. Nigerian public schools breed corruption. The good culture students are meant to learn in the universities are not practised in those universities. For a student mandated to use money to submit assignment and buy textbook for marks, it takes special grace to be incorruptible in a public office. Whether you are intelligent or not, you must buy the textbooks and use money to submit your assignment for you to pass. An unintelligent person who scores below a pass mark but pays the money and buys the textbooks gets good grades while an intelligence student who answered questions correctly and deserves a pass mark fails for not buying textbooks. When the lecturers are not organised even for lecture timetables, when they fix impromptu lectures and the conduct impromptu quiz, it takes special grace for those students to graduate and become disciplined and organised. In a country that claims to be democratic, students who are adults and never given voices for self-expression.

SUGs breed criminals. SUG elections are not won by intelligence and good philosophies but by money, violence and all manners of intimidations.

But some private schools do well in the country. I attended a university where the power belongs to the students. A school where students and all (both academic and nonacademic) staff members including the VC use the same toilets, eat the same meals on the same tables in the cafeteria and use the same elevators. Students and staff members do sports together. A university where no lecturer will ever try to give students an impromptu lecture or an impromptu quiz. The timetable for lectures and quizzes is prepared and released before the resumption of the semester. This means that the dates and time for quizzes are known to students before the semester begins. A lecturer that misses a class will fix a makeup one with the consent of the students, meaning that the date and the time for the makeup class must be convenient for the majority of the class. There is nothing like missing script because students sign in when starting a quiz or an exam and sign out when submitting answer scripts. How can you claim a student that signed out for a quiz or an exam has a missing script for the exam or the quiz? Some quizzes are even CBT of which some are instantly graded.

I attended a university where a lecturer who will come late maybe because he or she is stuck in traffic will make a phone call or send a mail apologising and explaining that he or she wouldn't arrive the lecture hall in time. In the school, students do not know anything called handout. In the school, You cannot edit and submit another person's project or assignment as yours. Two or more students cannot submit the same assignment unless the assignment is a group one. The school uses TurnItIn to expose and punish intellectual dishonesty. How many students or lectures in public schools even know what TurnItIn is? This is why graduates copy people's posts on Facebook without giving credit to the owners of those posts. Once your comment or post is very interesting, bloggers steal it and pose as the original author. An average Nigerian graduate sees nothing wrong in intellectual dishonesty.

In the school I attended, students fill feedback forms for each lecturer for at least two times per semester. A lecturer that tries to intimidate the students or fails to be punctual gets exposed by the feedbacks. A lecturer that doesn't answer academic questions from students or a lecturer that ridicules a poor or an unintelligent student gets punished when his or her misconduct is exposed in the feedbacks. A student can even report the lecturer directly to the office of student affairs. And the feedbacks are anonymously given. God bless the management of PAU.

immortalcrown:

In the school I attended, students fill feedback forms for each lecturer for at least two times per semester. A lecturer that tries to intimidate the students or fails to be punctual gets exposed by the feedbacks. A lecturer that doesn't answer academic questions from students or a lecturer that ridicules a poor or an unintelligent student gets punished when his or her conduct is revealed in the feedbacks. And the feedbacks are anonymously given. God bless the management of PAU.

The money chasing ASUU will never push to have this wonderful practice implemented across all schools.

Cc: NUC

The wicked professors abound indeed but not all of them are.
Once you give them absolute power, the end product is a mixture of the disregard by Africans for younger folks and the tendency of the black man to sell out his fellow black man.
They prioritize their relevance above relevant knowledge being imparted on the students. They put ability to draw and label a yam above producing yam.

Get ready to embark on a journey to study in the UK. Find a course to study

RepoMan007:
The money chasing ASUU will never push to have this wonderful practice implemented across all schools.

Cc: NUC

PAU located in ? What is the cost of accommodation and transport for those living outside campus... courses like Criminology and peace studies & international relations, are these courses accredited ?

immortalcrown:
Does Nigeria even have a drawing board to look at?

What you said is true. Nigerian public schools breed corruption. The good culture students are meant to learn in the universities are not practised in those universities. For a student mandated to use money to submit assignment and buy textbook for marks, it takes special grace to be incorruptible in a public office. Whether you are intelligent or not, you must buy the textbooks and use money to submit your assignment for you to pass. An unintelligent person who scores below a pass mark but pays the money and buys the textbooks gets good grades while an intelligence student who answered questions correctly and deserves a pass mark fails for not buying textbooks. When the lecturers are not organised even for lecture timetables, when they fix impromptu lectures and the conduct impromptu quiz, it takes special grace for those students to graduate and become disciplined and organised. In a country that claims to be democratic, students who are adults and never given voices for self-expression.

SUGs breed criminals. SUG elections are not won by intelligence and good philosophies but by money, violence and all manners of intimidations.

But some private schools do well in the country. I attended a university where the power belongs to the students. A school where students and all (both academic and nonacademic) staff members including the VC use the same toilets, eat the meals on the same tables in the cafeteria and use the same elevators. Students and staff members do sports together. A university where no lecturer will ever try to give students an impromptu lecture or an impromptu quiz. The timetable for lectures and quizzes is prepared and released before the resumption of the semester. This means that the dates and time for quizzes are known to students before the semester begins. A lecturer that misses a class will fix a makeup one with the consent of the students, meaning that the date and the time for the makeup class must be convenient for the majority of the class. There is nothing like missing script because students sign in when starting a quiz or an exam and sign out when submitting answer scripts. How can you claim a student that signed out for a quiz or an exam has a missing script for the exam or the quiz? Some quizzes are even CBT of which some are instantly graded.

I attended a university where a lecturer who will come late maybe because he or she is stuck in traffic will make a phone call or send a mail apologising and explaining that he wouldn't arrive the lecture hall in in time. In the school, students do not know anything called handout. In the school, You cannot edit and submit another person's project or assignment as yours. Two or more students cannot submit the same assignment unless the assignment is a group one. The school uses TurnItIn to expose and punish intellectual dishonesty. How many students or lectures in public schools even know what TurnItIn is? This is why graduates copy people's posts on Facebook without giving credit to the owners of those posts. Once your comment or post is very interesting, bloggers steal it and pose as the original author. An average Nigerian graduate sees nothing wrong in intellectual dishonesty.

In the school I attended, students fill feedback forms for each lecturer for at least two times per semester. A lecturer that tries to intimidate the students or fails to be punctual gets exposed by the feedbacks. A lecturer that doesn't answer academic questions from students or a lecturer that ridicules a poor or an unintelligent student gets punished when his or her misconduct is exposed in the feedbacks. A student can even report the lecturer directly to the office of student affairs. And the feedbacks are anonymously given. God bless the management of PAU.

Pan Atlantic for epe?

lyriclekidd:
Pan Atlantic for epe?

Yes. But the location is actually Ibeju Lekki, not Epe.

Imagine wasting money for a degree