How ASUU strike is killing Nigeria's future
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Posted by Felix Okoli on Thursday December 5, 2013 at 16:0:35:
The ongoing ASUU strike is one of the worst things that is happening in Nigeria and it's even worse than Boko Haram and corruption. This is because, ASUU strike only mortgages the future of our children and that's is our future too because the more students stay away from school, the more they become less intelligent and hence we'd only reap a foolish future generation.We are getting to a state where today's parents would be more educated than their children and this is because the system is allowing it.I remember those days when I was still an undegraduate and even when my seniors were undergraduates in the university, the common trend then was ASUU strike and when you calculate the time lost outside these institutions of learning, it can run up to a year and in some cases even 2 years. Yes, ASUU strike is only wasting the future of people who have done all they could just to get an education. People need to be encouraged to study but when you find yourself in a system that systematically deprives the people of a sound education, it can be hard building a solid future in that environment.When students are not in the universities, they end up looking for other things to do such as making money even though they have not been properly trained by society on how to run a profitable and legitimate business. Because our students have not been well trained by the university system, they soon find out that activities like prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping, hacking, email scamming are some of the easiest ways to make money in Nigeria.Because, they don't fully know the law and the weight of the law, they feel they are operating in a free environment and hence keep on doing anything they can, whether legal or illegal just to get by in life.The universities are meant to make people into better people but if we live in a society where the universities are no longer working, it would ultimately turn to a barbarian state in which anything goes.Right now, we see that crime and prostitution is increasing and this is because the govt and the cabal called ASUU are killing our universities. You won't even blame some employers who claim that Nigerian graduates are unemployable. This is normal in a situation where the education standard keeps falling thanks to the ASUU strike.What is then the best solution to the ASUU strike? Well, ASUU's condition is basically about money and the govt on its own has claimed they are financially unable to honour the agreement. Well, I think if the govt and ASUU cannot find a comfortable solution to the problem, the best thing they can do is to simply sell the universities to private investors who will run them as private institutions. It may be a bit expensive for new undergraduates to get started but the more private universities we have in our country, the more the competition would ultimately bring down the price of university education.Already, the govt has lashed back as ASUU with a warning of sack to striking lecturers who fail to return to work after a stipulated deadline. Will ASUU back down, at least for the sake of the society? I hope so. If not and govt can't really do anything else, then they should simply take their hands away from those institutions.
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The ongoing ASUU strike is one of the worst things that is happening in Nigeria and it's even worse than Boko Haram and corruption. This is because, ASUU strike only mortgages the future of our children and that's is our future too because the more students stay away from school, the more they become less intelligent and hence we'd only reap a foolish future generation.We are getting to a state where today's parents would be more educated than their children and this is because the system is allowing it.I remember those days when I was still an undegraduate and even when my seniors were undergraduates in the university, the common trend then was ASUU strike and when you calculate the time lost outside these institutions of learning, it can run up to a year and in some cases even 2 years. Yes, ASUU strike is only wasting the future of people who have done all they could just to get an education. People need to be encouraged to study but when you find yourself in a system that systematically deprives the people of a sound education, it can be hard building a solid future in that environment.When students are not in the universities, they end up looking for other things to do such as making money even though they have not been properly trained by society on how to run a profitable and legitimate business. Because our students have not been well trained by the university system, they soon find out that activities like prostitution, armed robbery, kidnapping, hacking, email scamming are some of the easiest ways to make money in Nigeria.Because, they don't fully know the law and the weight of the law, they feel they are operating in a free environment and hence keep on doing anything they can, whether legal or illegal just to get by in life.The universities are meant to make people into better people but if we live in a society where the universities are no longer working, it would ultimately turn to a barbarian state in which anything goes.Right now, we see that crime and prostitution is increasing and this is because the govt and the cabal called ASUU are killing our universities. You won't even blame some employers who claim that Nigerian graduates are unemployable. This is normal in a situation where the education standard keeps falling thanks to the ASUU strike.What is then the best solution to the ASUU strike? Well, ASUU's condition is basically about money and the govt on its own has claimed they are financially unable to honour the agreement. Well, I think if the govt and ASUU cannot find a comfortable solution to the problem, the best thing they can do is to simply sell the universities to private investors who will run them as private institutions. It may be a bit expensive for new undergraduates to get started but the more private universities we have in our country, the more the competition would ultimately bring down the price of university education.Already, the govt has lashed back as ASUU with a warning of sack to striking lecturers who fail to return to work after a stipulated deadline. Will ASUU back down, at least for the sake of the society? I hope so. If not and govt can't really do anything else, then they should simply take their hands away from those institutions.
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