NIGERIAN EDUCATION; WHO IS TO BLAME?

With the current state of education in Nigeria; I tend to know who is to be blamed, is it our political leaders or those that are inferior to them? It is quite obvious enough for us to know that, there are various factors affecting the educational sector in Nigeria, which needs to be given a greater concern.

The educational sector has not been functioning well, whether with the past governance of our leader or the incumbent ones. Neither one of them has made it their primary duty to develop or improve the poor state of education in Nigeria.

One can also recall education in Nigeria, as what is called Aristocracy which implies that the best citizen is allowed to be the beneficiary of education in Nigeria, because not everyone can afford private institutions which are exclusively made for the riches not the poor.

In this context, some students are not opportuned to enjoy education in Nigeria, due to not being financially buoyant enough. Private institutions are intensively expensive enough, which has actually shifted students’ interest to be admitted to either the state schools or federal schools.

Prior to this prospect, both the federal and state schools are not well managed and facilitated by the government either at the state level or the federal level.

However, the greatest challenge facing education in Nigeria and making it difficult to be liberated with education, is the capability of bringing about the sustainability development in adequate funding by the federal, state and local government to the extent that funding has been in response to conditionalities in regular strike of institutions and poor management of schools.

The fact is stubborn and indestructible that “Government are to be blamed”, this can also be regarded to as the actual cause of regular strike which has also contributed to the poor growth of educational sector in Nigeria. It has made some schools to be jinxed with constant calendar change of schools and irrelevant impediment for students to receive lectures in their various institute of learning.