NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES ASSUME HOPELESS STATUS
Sonny Akor Sonny Akor writes: Nigeria's political class have failed us, agreed, but it is the fact that they are already putting structures in place to fail our children and future generation that is paining my chest this morning. It is hard these days to look away from mainstream politics for a minute, but while we are at it, Daily Trust reported recently that the National Assembly is at advanced stage with plans to make laws establishing 80 brand new federal universities! If you think this is good news and these legislators who recently cut the budget earmarked for education by half to fund elections have sense , here are some interesting statistics of our existing 'universities', as outlined in an exposing article written by The Guardian's Martins Oloja: 1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility. 2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards 3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture overcr