ROT IN NIGERIA EDUCATION SYSTEM

By Comr. Jimoh Abdulquadir Iyanda

Columnist, National Telescope

Education as it is, can be briefly described as a process by which 

knowledge, skills, idea and as well as expertise is been transfer from one 

generation to the other.

Longman Dictionary defined Education as “teaching and learning”

Education can also be defines as a method of impacting knowledge, skills and ideas to the younger generation.

Government contribution to the Nigeria Education Problem

Government who have power over the control of the system and politics 

regulating all aspect of individual citizen of a given country. The Federal 

Government of Nigeria through her Policy (Nigeria policy in Education) is 

lacking in substance to bring adequate restructuring into ways by which 

Nigerians acquire knowledge from Basics to the Higher Institutions.

Furthermore, the initiative of free Education for all is suicidal to the 

future of young Nigerians bringing about mass number of pupils out of school 

at early stage of their educational career.

Nigeria education system is on the verge of collapse judging from high 

level negligence experienced by the educators on the basis of poor 

management and decaying infrastructural development.

In any developed country of the world, Education must play significance 

contributions to its development, peace, unity, ad prosperity.

Teachers are the Nation builder and molder respectively, teacher most 

especially in our basic education deserve more judging from their contribution 

in importing acceptable knowledge and moral uprightness to the pupils, 

forming the foundation of those pupils greatness in life.

More so, educators at the preliminary stage of our education are try 

hard to survive the challenges confront any education sector most especially 

those at the rural communities across Nigeria. This educators work hard but 

they earn malignly becoming poverty stricken individuals as a result of small 

wages paid to them at the end of every month.

However, Educators is now a career that ordinary passed graduates can 

secure in Nigeria, then creating series of barrier to the quality of school leavers 

we are producing and as well making our sense of judgment in this part of the 

world becoming rusty.

Nigerian Government rendered education sector impotent to the level in 

which our rural communities cannot access quality education any longer 

contributing to the rise in the percentage of illiteracy and vis-à-vis drop out 

right from primary level of our education to the higher institution.

Education in this part of the world is a type that lack required motivation 

for teachers working at our rural communities to show commitments to their 

work in bringing out among pupils those with potential and talent that will be 

useful for the sustenance of this country and rescuing her from calamity and 

greatest peril.

Appeal to our leaders at the helms of affair, the decision maker and the 

law broker in devising better way to bring lasting solution to the malady in Educational sector.

Societal Contributing to the Nigeria Education problem

Education have been facing huge setback from Religious body likewise 

ethnic belief and ideologies.

Acquiring knowledge must be a civic right that must be enjoy 

irrespective of the age, sex, ethnic background or religious beliefs.

Female child have been the principal victim of the child molestation, 

female as a gift early marriage and child abuse respectively creating plague on 

their right and ability to acquire knowledge irrespective of their talents and 

skills. Government must work actively in breaking this barrier so as to allow 

them the same right and access as their male contemporaries.

There’s higher level of rots in our society today, looking at the level of 

social vices confronting this country can easily be linked to poor home 

upbringing in the part of the females. Arguably, females as the bedrock and the 

mother of every family plays major role in shaping the life and modifying their 

child to be more responsible in contributing positively to the progress of our 

society at large.

Furthermore, our society pay little attention to the importance of female 

education in acquiring same knowledge as their male counterpart or even more than the male child because of their contribution in shaping the future of 

our country.

The importance of female education can be easily decoded in popular 

analogue of “In every successful man, is a responsible wife”. Then, in 

responsible wife must be someone of vast knowledge and understanding that 

shows us the importance of female child education to the peaceful co-

existence, unity and prosperity of any given country.

Individual Contribution to the Nigeria Education Problem

Lack of adequate knowledge in child bearing and raising is one of the 

major challenges contributing to education problem in Nigeria.

More so, inadequate knowledge on the usefulness and importance of 

family planning education resulting in an unwanted pregnancy adding to the 

problem of abject poverty facing larger portion of our population. Today more 

than 50% of our population are earning below their responsibility. And this 

problem of inadequate income has makes life more unbearable to many 

breadwinners of the family resulting to frustration & leading to female early 

marriage, which eventually cutting short their vision and as well as bringing 

about mass drop out in both basic education and higher institutions of 

learning.

A wake up call to individual Nigerians, at this level of National 

maladjusted in our economy we cannot expect governments of this nation to 

do everything make life measurable for us. But we must regulate our life 

ourselves by avoiding all hindrances that can limit our capacity in raising our 

children to be best of the best among their mates. We must also endeavor to 

“cut our cakes according to our sizes”.

Elite Contribution to the Nigeria Education Problem

Based on our rascality, we have witnessed a professor coming to the 

examination hall to help his son pass Joint Admission and Matriculation Board exams for years ago “I don’t want my children to suffer like I do” will not do us any good in this country.

The invention of “Miracle centres” for school leavers to pass Senior 

Secondary School Examination (SSCE) was the handwork of the so called elites 

in degrading and devaluing quality of education in Nigeria.

The problem of “sex for grade” was also the handwork of the elite in 

jeopardizing the efforts of ordinary students to be responsible and successful.

Rock rising in Yahoo activities among universities students across the 

country was as a result of unannounced demand of our educators at our 

various institution of learning for considerable amount of money in order to 

pass exam, write project research and soft landing in academic excellence and 

performance respectively.

Finally, in order to create a better atmosphere for quality and effective 

learning activities, all hands must be on deck. Individual Nigerian must, may 

their role in justifying lasting solutions to the problem.

“The future of the world belongs to the educated races”. We mustn’t stop 

learning”

“Our Educators (Teachers) deserves better.