ARE u Seriously suprised?!Didn't u school in a Nigerian university...Its a norm in this part of the world bro,If u havnt done it Ur a learner.

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anybody wei no like am mek e go private Uni

Please can any UNN Student (especially a female student) confirm this?

Must we politicize everything? Such decadence must be decades old continuing to this day.

The fees the students pay can be used to maintain some of these facilities annually. Must the Federal Government come and do everything?

I graduated from University of Port Harcourt with the graduating class of 2003/2004. Fees were 3,090 naira with about 30,000-33,000 students as at then. This provides about 90 million naira annually for the school.

So, though poorly funded, the schools can still manage to keep their facilities in some shape while the battle for more funding from the Federal Government continues.

If it is true that ordinary toilets can not be provided or maintained in a Nigerian University such as UNN, then it is another pointer to the fact that there is serious trouble.

And Wike who just left the Education Ministry is insulting his Mentor Ameachi left rigth center. Bblame it on GEJ through Nysome wike the gangstar.

Anasko:
Dr Ugoji Ebujo
Widespread anomie prevalent in Nigeria,
occasioned by a virtual dilapidation of the societal
ethical and moral framework, has literally
squelched any social appetite for comparative
sociological analysis of any segment of the
Nigerian society and a corresponding segment of
any foreign country even if that country is
Somalia .

Any such study invariably ends as an exercise in
rendition of woes, lamentations and pity. Our
country once mighty have fallen and is falling.
The decay is systemic and deep-seated and
widespread .

Our political system is heavily infected by
corruption and the educational system is
strangulated by poor funding. But our education
suffers from much more. Teachers groan and
moan, deride politicians and claim moral
indignation but they are equally culpable for the
rot that has beset us.

The university of Ghana and the University of
Nigeria have so much in common besides being
named after their respective countries. They were
both conceived during the colonial era and they
have main campuses located on hills, Legon and
Nsukka . Both have very large student population
of between 35000 and 38000. They have regional
reputations and have produced high quality
graduates who have played great roles in their
societies.

A brief stay in each university last year afforded
me an opportunity to reflect on the two societies
through those institutions . In Legon, it was an
experience of efficiency, culture and aesthetics. All
buildings were painted and all were white and all
had red roofs and all windows black.
Flowers and hedges were manicured and trees
added beauty to the environment. Order was
evident and everything showed agelessness
because the new and the old abided by a laid
down code. The library was quaint but noiseless,
lacked modern books but had good ambience.
The hostels showed they have not lacked care
and the newer ones were quite modern. But
whether old or new , modern or ancient the colour
codes were maintained and all the roofs were red.

The Guest house was sparsely furnished but
functional and had good landscaping . Order and
serenity were evident. The internet wifi system
was good. Nsukka was a different experience. A
multitude of Uncompleted projects littered
everywhere, grasses had Turned to bushes and hedges were untrammeled, free and wild. Many buildings were pale, washed and battered. Hostels were in shambles .

The Enugu campus that houses faculties of Law and Medicine has no pipe borne water. The state of the toilet facilities in Enugu campus can only be imagined.

A chat with some female students of
that campus revealed that students have buckets
for defecating.

They defecate in the open, along the toilet
corridor, many at a time, facing themselves, into
buckets and hurl the contents afterward into the
toilet Bowls, leaving trails of feces for the
cleaners who come when they wish to effect as
much cleaning as they can. The buckets are
subsequently rinsed with scarce water ,which they have to buy , and kept in the rooms until when again needed. Those who cannot stand the
bucket idea defecate into polythene bags and fling them onto a heap behind the hostels.


That heap has survived generations . Its pathetic.
An Alumni exists but the atrocity has persisted.
The Vice chancellors residence is state of the art,
new. The vice chancellor has managed to
ensconce himself in five star comfort while
students are dehumanized . Dont ask me who is
being groomed there. Perhaps pit toilets , since
they cannot have water, may actually restore
some dignity.

Its that bad. Students learning early how to be
wild. The school’s internet network system
functions so abysmally slowly that I could not
use it . Lecturers and students can hardly do
meaningful online researches in that remote
location. A senior lecturer told me she sends
articles to foreign journals using her blackberry
phone. That is the story of Nigeria .

And ironically the school’s motto reads: To
restore the dignity of man. Ghanas 2015 budget
is 50 percent donor funded, Nigeria is rich and
lives on her own money. Legon is to a great
extent insulated from political and local
administrative changes because Legon has a
tradition.

A tradition that all must follow. That entrenched
tradition is the institution. So while projects in
Legon are completed before others are started,
and buildings are repainted yearly, Nsukka is a
picture of haphazardness and planlessness. An
environment of order and good tradition will
culture , nurture and instill order and virtue in
young minds but if you sow disorder , you will
reap disorder.

Often Nigerian academics sneer at the politicians
claiming they are superficial, flimsy, selfish,
shortsighted and wasteful. But Nsukka indicts Our
academics.

And Its not just about funding. And
Nsukka is not alone ,other public universities are
perhaps worse. Nsukka is a reflection of our
society .University of Ghana indicts all of us. And
we shamelessly now troop there in droves in
search of better tertiary education for our
children.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/shocker-nigerian-university-students-defecate-open/#sthash.aYHRTXCq.dpuf

gross...

I can now confirm that "the mods must be crazy"... They moved this to the front page despite, the fact that they is no picture attached to back the authenticity of the write up... NAIRALAND is becoming something else

It's a notorious fact and one which is not new to Nigerians. So why should anybody be shocked by what we all know?

seanet02:
So this is what you also did when you were in school?
Throughout my four years in UI i never witnessed such. This is scandalous.

Be using big grammar for little issues there...obayagbon second

UNN again? In the news for another bad reason in one week?

The same UNN that sent cleaners to NYSC camp as corpers.

This is one of the best Uni in Nigeria ooo, what is happening in that school?

ninakurtz:
Op is hating on UNN. The picture is not as bad as u've painted it!

Stewpid Nigerians.

Oh, how the so love lying to themselves.

The OP isn't the original writer of the story, dimwit. And if you read with your brains, you'd realize he (I'm assuming the Vanguard writer is a man) was also talking about other sectors and not necessarily education.

Foolish people. When one of your future generations catch typhoid there now, you go blame GEJ. Call a spade what it is; a goddamn fucking SPADE.

Fools!!!

this smear campaign against Ndigbo WILL NOT WORK !!!. we know where they build red mud houses without toilets in this country.
merry xmass.

azimibraun:
It's a notorious fact and one which is not new to Nigerians. So why should anybody be shocked by what we all know?

My brother I wonder. Fp sha

Must everyone defecate in the hostel toilets...UNN d best..ask google they can tell beta

You don't need any pictures my friend. If you ddnt attend a public university, ur cousin or neighbors did. Tell them to paint u a small picture of what they had in school.

Its really pathetic and unfortunate,this rot in our institutional has been generational,and so far their is no help in sight.In as much as GEJ is not to be blamed for this decay,but we have to put pressure on Him,as the Head of this nation to salvage as much as the situation as he can,since their are Numerous sectors in this nation that also have this problem and also in need for revamping.Also less I forget it's not about revamping these sectors but about the Maintenance of them when the are revamped.We as common masses and government need serious Education on Maintenance of facilities,thats were we are found wanting and if all these are don,News like this will be a thing of the history books.

ninakurtz:
Op is hating on UNN. The picture is not as bad as u've painted it!

Not as bad but still its bad ehi

Lol, YORUBA mod push this fake news to fp to counter the ekiti own?

Obiagelli:
It took gej 6 yrs to fix agriculture (we are yet to see results) when will he get to education, health, job, security and so on?

6 years to fix a sector. 6 multiply by 4 other sectors mentioned above equals 24 years. No wonder he doesn't want to leave the office.

Pics or idonbilivit

BrownKnight:
For a moment i thought the Op was analysing Uniben. Lol guess UNN and UNIBEN have similar features.


The filth in Nigerian tertiary institutions is disgusting.
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kindly remove uniben from your post.yes Nigerian tertiary education is woeful, still as regards the toilet system, uniben is fairly okay.some throw shot puts because they're lazy to goto the toilet.there's always water.

there's overcrowding in the rooms nevertheless.

oziegbe2015:
talk like an adult even though you arent one

So you even know what an adult is? And please don't tell me you are one oh.....

hmmmm. Eastern Universities are full of shit.

d33types:


kindly remove uniben from your post.yes Nigerian tertiary education is woeful, still as regards the toilet system, uniben is fairly okay.some throw shot puts because they're lazy to goto the toilet.there's always water.

there's overcrowding in the rooms nevertheless.

I shall do no such thing.

Niggers b bringing PDP nd APC into this
This is just a name,the people there nko?
The student nko?
We are all guilty jare....
If nigerians were to move to USA(everytin will still spoil:moral:we are all blackened in the brain

Obiagelli:
It took gej 6 yrs to fix agriculture (we are yet to see results) when will he get to education, health, job, security and so on?

you are one of the most malicious nairalander of recent times. hw does this concern GEJ. Where u not told in the thread that uncompleted projects litter d campus. Analytically you should have queried the rationale behind starting a new project when one is yet to be completed. On this, almost all vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities are culpable.

SHAME ON YOU!!!

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otokx:
This UNN scenario happens in all public Nigerian universities. We call it the bucket and shot put systems.

SOUTH EASTERN UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA CAN NEVER BE COMPARE WITH UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH WEST AT ALL...

UNN THE UNDERDOG UNIVERSITY

allisonluvsu:
student defecated in d bucket dey will blame GEJ. Iron burn shirt, dey will blame GEJ. If Sahara reporter website goes offline dey will blame GEJ. Just wen will all dis stop. Haba, I fear o.

It will stop when leaders become cultured enough to take responsibility and quit when ovation is the loudest. It will also stop when all of us appreciate that there is more to life than mere primitive accumulation of wealth. It will stop when leadership and citizenship quality improves and we learn to live above sentiments. Also when we are matured to accept constructive criticism and stop to reason like a product of bad schooling. I just hope you are matured enough to digest all these.

una go hear am when you start you Naija/Ghana beef...see material for harsh slaps in the face

na normal in all govt university

temitemi1:
Shut ur mouth n stop blaming GEJ for every unfortunate thing that happens in ur life

den why du we now have a president. Define a leader.
Bro, u are sensless.. On a serious note, how old are u??