As President Muhammadu Buhari settles down for the second lap of his opportunity to make his promise of change significant and meaningful, he needs to appreciate first the importance of robust investment and attention to education quality in the nation’s journey to stability, prosperity, and greatness. We cannot state this fact enough at this time and the reasons are evident from our many declarations on this subject – education quality and national development.
What is more, how many of the country’s uneducated or “unemployable” youths are involved today in one form of banditry or another? How many tragic stories have come out to scare the public space, of little boys and girls who, rather than being in school, have executed or attempted to execute a suicide bombing for terrorist organisations?
Yet, what obtains in this country today is continued degradation of education at all levels. Reports the other day revealed the dilapidated state of primary and secondary schools across the country, matched also by a plague of unqualified teachers and mindless administrators who, in the bid to make up for the shortage of teachers, have begun to merge Primary 1 with 2 and 3 with 4.
President Buhari’s party, the All Progressives Congress, also has an interesting policy statement on education, couched right at the heart of its manifesto. It is curious, though, how much the ruling party has deviated from―or even ignored―its own brilliant conception of a properly effective educational policy and practice.
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