[Akin Alao]

http://www.naij.com/282913-gen-danjuma-lost-n2bn.html

[Ibukunolu A Babajide]

Akin,

O ku eyin Valentine Ojo. Please do your best to get Seyi my cousin in the Law Faculty.

Love to Ireti and my daughters.

Take care.

IBK

On 30 Aug 2014 16:41, "Akin Alao" <akin...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.naij.com/282913-gen-danjuma-lost-n2bn.html

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[Segun Ogungbemi]

OA,

I agree with you that our students from all the states in the federation including Abuja need to do much more than what they have done. But all boils down to funding of the educational sector of the economy. Some states did better than others. One would have thought Southwest and other Yoruba in Kogi and Kwara where education is an 'industry' must braze up and live up to expectation. The governors of these states need to have a self-reflection and go back to correct where things have gone wrong and be more proactive. 

You can offer ideas of better standards of education if you have gone through it.

Pa Awolowo muted the idea of a universal free primary education in Nigeria but most leaders of his time did not see any need for it.  Chief. Olusegun Obasanjo insisted during his eight years as president of this country that a compulsory universal education should be enforced but it was not given the seriousness it deserved. It was given an epileptic application and it died naturally.  Now, it is time to call on the Yoruba to champion the call having seen how woefully their children have performed in the recent WAEC result. The Yoruba have an adage that says, if fire is burning someone and his child, the first thing to do is to put off the one on his body before helping the child. 

All hands must be put on deck to eradicate the so called miracle centers and more importantly to have honest principals who will not leak question papers to students. All candidates should be given a level playing field. Sound education instills confidence in the students but a student who cheated all through and through will probable have no confidence to deliver on the day reckoning. 

May someone like OA not read more negative meanings to my views here expressed. 

Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D

Professor of Philosophy

Adekunle Ajasin University

Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State

Nigeria

Cellphone: 08033041371

                   08024670952

Segun Ogungbemi Ph.D

Professor of Philosophy

Adekunle Ajasin University

Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State

Nigeria

Cellphone: 08033041371

                   08024670952

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

Is the suggestion that education is an industry in the “Southwest and other Yoruba in Kogi and Kwara” parts of Nigeria only? I hope not. It is good advice for anyone in a hole to stop digging if they do not want to sink deeper. If Nigeria had more constructive thinkers and fewer ethnic champions, she would be in a better shape than she is presently.

Is it not evidently clear that the strangeness of Nigeria’s politics, underdevelopment, and underperformance as a richly endowed country has to do with the grossly uneven levels of educational development across the country. Uneven educational development has become a weighty bane on, and an enduring threat to Nigeria’s wholeness. I say respectfully that it is mind boggling to me, that a philosopher is struggling to see beyond the tip of his nose. The W.A.E.C results over many years, have been stridently instructive. They help to make clear why the Boko Haram states are the states that they are. The states it seems to me, are in dire need of help. They are clearly not yet playing catch-up. It is my considered suggestion that all hands be on deck to help the educationally lagging states to not only buckle up but catch up. I would argue therefore that the states’ leaders should be called out well before the Governors of the Yoruba states are.

A blatant concentration of interest in the educational development of one’s ethnic region and not in others does not bode well for both short-term and long-term peace, progress, and stability in Nigeria. Like every chain, Nigeria is as strong as its weakest links.

 

oa

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