Topic: Education nah the key..key wey don loss? (Read 197 times)

The Nigeria educational system is something else entirely I won't lie. They focus more on theory than on practicals especially federal and state government owned universities. Strike is also a possible action that could come in and act as a form of delay. The private universities that have better learning environment and do not involve in strikes are very expensive and most people can't even afford it. One will graduate from a university after reading a five year course turned six year course possibly because of strike and then you'll find out what is being done in the real world is totally different from what was being taught in those years of you being school. It will be like you're learning all over again. No diversity in learning and no practical work to put the learning into real world practice.

 These days wetin most of we youths especially the guys they focus on nah on how to make the money and live large. I bin dey discuss with a friend yesterday about the educational sector and the reply I get shock me because the person say these days education just be like wetin person need to use fulfill all righteousness and to please the parents.
Some children wey go the higher education with the mindset to come out and become better for the society dey later deviate and miss out on wrin carry them enter. Some go meet people wey go convince them say school nah scam and wetin sure pass nah to make the money so them fit oppress their mates while others because of lack of funds go gats drop out and later no get the zeal to continue and so on.
 I feel say the country go dey better if most of these things wey dey important like the educational sector go receive better attention from the government so e fit encourage more brilliant minds to go school too.

OP,I get you on this,I understand that education in Nigeria don lose its value,and even if you go school,if you no get better connect,e go even hard you to get reasonable job,and that one no follow weda u been get better certificate from school or not.People wey get who to help them no dey even stress themselves,the moment them finish akada,them don get work.
But at thesame time,I still see education as something very useful because immagine nobody go school again because say paper no too dey important again,you go see say many things go dey upside down,atleast now,people still dey give small regard to people wey don try to go,and big difference dey between people wey go,and people wey no go in terms of reasoning.

Yes, from a good point i deeply understand what you mean, education is not 100% guaranteed as the driving factor to give someone a calm and happy ending, but we still do not have to neglect the importance of having that educational statue raised. Connection is needed, yet the future remains unpredictable, one might get fortunate to get that connection whereas the certificate isn't available then everything ends up in mess (from experience).

Education is no longer the primary key, whereas skills, talents and advancing with the technological age is the preferred way of becoming who we always thought of becoming, all these are then seconded by education. I blame parents who force their children into depending on education alone, as the country is, what brings food to the table currently isn't the benefits of owning a certificate but rather hand jobs or some mini trade. I think parents should be able to do more than just giving formal education to children, any skill learnt can be helpful in the future not just to be appreciated sooner.

No be say person wan mock the efforts of those wey don put sweat and blood and time into higher institution o but the Koko be say we country no dey encourage the students at all. I don talk am before say if person no get connections, e dey hard to get good paying jobs as a graduate sotey when you try see, the economic situation for the country go finish your pay.
 Sometimes or most times, parents wey dey cajole their children to further their education without helping them learn a skill first nah the ones wey dey get highly frustrated when these children no fit get good jobs.

Certificates are great assets to you as an individual, you need it for many reasons due to the face that certificates are papers that open more opportunities to you. No matter how good you are in the skills you have acquired, you need to back it up with paper evidence to solidify your experience. Education can also be referred to as exposure because it widens one's horizon and positions you for now and the future.

When you are educated, you appear differently, you think differently, you interact with people differently and so on. The exposure that education comes with is what gives you the edge to think big and create a path to success even in most times especially during tight competitions.

My brother, na really good question you ask, true true education na the key, but our government and bad politicians for we country nai don make am look like say education no be good thing.
We all know the kind of people wey dy in power, I mean the politicians them, them just dy focus all their energy and our resources on their self and their family without considering the fact say na we wey be the masses nai them surpose serve, and base on say almost all their children dy school  abroad, them no just care in putting our educational sector for we country in other.

And to be honest, na because of lack of good job after graduation dy make most of our youth for we country dy think say school na scam, because if them been invest that money wey them carry train their self in school into something else, e for give them better result than wetin them finally get.

So to me, school no be scam as most people dy normally talk, because education enlightens and individual, and if you are enlightened already, then I believe that if you eye reach ground, you fit engage in a trade or skill that will better your life in the future.

It will be unfair to completely mock the relevance of acquiring education, years back it was more than just for a person to own a good educational background, but at this current time, it is relevant but not mandatorily the absolute center of purpose in other to become financially successful. The economy is bad, even the salaries of highest paid professions are not relevant compared to their living expenditures and it is just unfair considering how expensive it is getting that education and the years spent for it, now people are no longer satisfied and are looking for a more greener pasture which is just fair.

I would advise everyone to get their certificates but not totally dependent on that result to sustain themselves as per working according to their profession, instead we can build up skills and knowledge, handwork and possibly any alternative aside our educational certificate.

You don narrate the entire story finish OP, the statistic of the national budget being lower than 8.8 percent of the entire budget for education shows that, those preparing the national budget don't see education as a major priority. UNESCO is leading educational organisation, if the key indicators they use to measure the educational standards of your country, and your falling below the standard, it then means you're not progressing as a nation educationally wise.

For me the truth is that, we don't need UNESCO to come and tell us what we already know. the average Nigerian is a witness to this decadence that is bedeviling our educational sector, we all can work into the primary and secondary schools within our neighborhood and see the level of decay in infrastructure.

Infact the trust and high hopes that parens had in the past when training their children in the higher institutions have drastically diminished due to the reality on ground that many graduates are currently jobless because of our detoriating economy. Parents will deprive themselves of many personal needs just to meet up with the payments of the high costs of tertiary education, in the end the children will graduate and still depend on them to meet some financial needs, it'll be a very sad and painful experience for such parents. It is back in the days that managerial jobs and other high paying jobs were reserved for graduates, as you are graduating lucrative jobs are already waiting for you but this days we have a lot of graduates pursuing very few jobs. Even when they see this jobs they are not well paid because demand is greater than supply and employees will offer ridiculous renumerations. This is why you will see graduates doing unskilled labor jobs just to make a living, that is why education is no longer a tool to escape poverty in Nigeria. Although this doesn't mean that education is not important but it is no longer a guaranteed key to success.

Baba you no go fit get passion when beta incentive no dey come out nah. If you observe, you go notice say most of these lecturers get other jobs wey them dey do and dis go come make them no too bother to teach well becos all their minds nah for their other hustle. You go see lecturer go tell you to buy him book and when you finish school and your younger siblings wan do the same course like you, them no fit use that book, them go gats buy them own. E just be like the book buying nah business to them and you no get option because nah there your score dey.
 The system dey so corrupt and them no wan bother to do anything because them no dey directly affected.

Honestly speaking talking about the Nigeria schooling first of all I really will disagree to this saying about school na b
 scam!!! thing People just dey use that word lazy around in other to do cyber attacks or scams wic is common now well back to the school matter schooling for Nigerian no really get head na soso suffer people dey pass through, talking about the head incharges in the academic sector most of them do not really care because most of their kids don't even study here, so to them feels it a wast of resources releasing that kind of budget to the UNESO.

In infact the way most lectures do teach students this day it really amazes me alot because I feel their is no more passion for the job and I gust this is the hand work of the government their really turned them into this people their have become because of not be able to pay their hard earned wages to them..

You know say you fit no put too much attention on something you no dey use because to you e no be something worth your time. If say our leaders their children dey attend theses institutions, I no sure say the issue of strike and all these unnecessary hold ups go dey.
E don bad to the point say even the leaders no believe say anything fit come out from the country nah make the small resources we get, them dey sell am off to other countries, they better those places while our own dey be like dumpsite wey other countries fit drop their rejected products or things wey no too get value to them.
 I remember say during the time of our fathers like Nnamdi Azikiwe and the rest, education nah sometin them no carry joke because e be like treasure wey the white man reveal give us and then if your siblings or pikin they go the higher institution, you go see how people they gather dey send am off because to them nah big thing, and when you come back, them fit celebrate your coming like say you be king. How far now? You no go fit even differentiate between a graduate and person wey just finish him secondary school.
 Wetin I believe be say every sector of the nation dey important but these areas; food, health, education, housing and security to me important pass but them come put more attention for the security yet we still dey insecure..

You really don try to touch on somany matters when de play a combined role to determine how good/ bad our educational system be, and to be honest, those subject matter like Proper funding, hope of getting employed after school, the expected salary of graduate in comparison to what they get if they work overseas and alot of other things na him people de consider before choosing a course and na him de  also influence how they take those courses seriously or not.

While poor funding and the ill treatment of lecturers by the government don also cause most of them not to teach with an open mind and resort to collecting sorting money from students and graduating unqualified doctors, engineers and accountant every year, e no still take out the fact that we can't survive well as a nation without getting those set of people in our society.

The system when de produce our educated people is purely scam but education can never be a scam. Say we never fall down totally as a nation na based on say we still de relevant to some extent with this out jaga jaga system of education. Maybe we need to change or corriculem and still equip our school with state of the art learning infrastructure and still ensure say our lecturers and school teachers are well taking care of, this way, e go give them an open mind to fit reach the students well and as long as them don do thier part in teaching them well, even if jobs no too de available like that, some of them got still create jobs and workable systems for themselves and others.

Education no be just about going to school and getting employed to occupy an office. One of the main thing when education they do to a society be say e de expose them to the ability of thinking with their brains and solving the problem of the society. Even if you no de employed and you come sabi how to think for yourself, that's more like the highest form of education when you go ever get.

E no shock you say we the youth carry am for head say school nah scam? Even if them say them wan reason to make the allocation to be more than or equal to wetin UNESCO want, them go still go back go do their thing make e be say them take small. Anything wey go make the contri go front or make the contri better as long as e go favor the poor masses these our politicians go find way make am bad for us.
If them want the educational sector to dey in good shape I see no reason why them go carry their children go outsider the contri make them go study then come back dey rob am for our face while our own schools no make sense, we wey dey here dey suffer am.
Which one we wan talk again nah the health sector? All na the same nothing fit go in the right way as long as these guys dey think of their pocket. Education key no fit open any door for this contri, education is the key suppose dey pain piple for ear, we no suppose talk am since we know say na fat lie. I no fit tell my pikin say "Education is the key" na we hold our destiny for our hand, make we go school just to dey educated then find way arrange our life, this contri no be place to encourage the young ones with all these things wey dey happen.

 I know say we don hear of this saying when we small becos our fathers and mothers go dey tell us in a way to encourage us not to give up on school since e go be the key to our success and greater opportunity but I wan ask now oh, education really be the key or e don loss or we need change am since e no dey fit open doors again. Wetin make me talk so?
 According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organisation ) recommendation, Nigeria sopoz spend between 15-20% of it's annual budget on the educational sector, but after proper review of the proposed budget for the year 2024,  them notice say the amount allocated to education no even reach seven percent, when them come weigh am with overall budget, e no even scratch the surface as e come dey lower than 8.8 percent.
 The more the years dey go, the more the amount allocated to education dey drop and even though e no reach wetin UNESCO want, e still dey amongst the highest allocations with the health and defense sector but e still need to
We know how poor the health sector dey because of two areas; no much funding which come dey make the doctors they comot dey go out to find greener pastures, in turn causing brain drain and two, the educational sector no dey encourage man and as such, nah half baked doctors we dey see and some fit use rush finish their med school.
 Now, with the way our presido dey dey unbothered for where education dey sotey when educational bodies like ASUU go strike, them no dey too pay them attention or when them finally do and students manage graduate but to see beta job go be another wahala, e dey justifiable to say "school nah scam?"
 E get wetin the government sopoz do to increase the allocation but to me e be like say them dey pinch money for that area upon the small one dem they push go that side. So I dey ask; education nah really the key?