''The Nigerian University System Is Killing Our Parents!''

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By Kingsley Okoye

The decay in our education system is causing us too much, as we can't have a complete session of academic activity without different forms of labour actions from the unions of lecturers or non academic staff, which always aims at the government for its failures.


ASUU the body which regulates university lecturers is the champion of This constant action that yield no fruit. They are currently the one demanding implementation of the agreement reached  two sessions ago and which brings us to the table of the government.

 The government has void to underdevelop our dear country by making sure our public education system is killed so that some government billionaires will capitalize on it to sell it off to themselves and to there god fathers. This people who also have intrest in most if not all of our private institutions are killing the institutions that our founding fathers Zik, Awolowo, Amadu Bello and their mates struggled to build hoping that they will help project us into leadership in the world .

Now the struggle to kill the university education which is ongoing after they have killed our primary and secondary school system and left it to us that for our children to have good education we have to pay amount that sound like what one uses to process visa and even pay for flight, just for a term.
We remember that Chinua Achebe, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu( whose father was a Multi millionaire ) went through our public school system and even Wolw Soyinka and many more too.

Now that primary education and it senior brother secondary have been killed, they now have sworn to take over universities. And now leaving us at the mercy of private, their privately owned universities. That is why they have failed to regulate them, both in standard and in the amount of money they collect from parents who struggle to give our dear country a future by training there children in this universities.


Today we have universities that kill parents with high blood pressure, by incresing the fees paid as the feel after all they know that the only alternative you have is public schools that are on strike.  We all as Nigerians need to come together and in one voice say no to this crime against humanity. Because if education us a fundamental issue to us, to deprive us of it is a crime that needs to be stopped now. ''


*I understand you perfectly well Kingsley.It is a pity tht the Nigerian government has not made education its citizens a priority!
So painful...how  we can change this trend is what we should concentrate on.