I have watched and observed kinly the Nigerian state and I feel uncomfortable and perplex on the manner and percentage of illiteracy exhumed by the young, old, leaders, followers, students and educators, and I wonder what really is education!
There are lots to talk about but for the purpose of clarity, I would like to channel this write up to obviously growing needs of education whether through orientations or informations. By education I do not mean getting a certificate because most persons with certificates are just certified fools.
In Nigeria today we have had leaders who travel round the world only to come back home to display high level of naivety or how would you describe a situation where a President made welcoming to the Villa of a child that supported his election with 5000 naira a priority amid the hardship and recession witnessed by citizens.
Or how would you describe a governor who spends money to erect a statue in respect of another country's president while he has a president who has not been immortalized In his state and pensioners who are still being owed for months and some for years.
Not to mention the feeble hearted citizens which really do not get educated despite their academic qualifications and can practically run without anyone or thing chasing them.
This article is not to get at any government official but it is to lay before us the lingering fact that Nigerians need a thorough and unique educational system that the citizens can identify with...
I felt embarrassed today when the rumour of Nigerian military injecting pupils with monkey pox at schools made the airways in Rivers state and parents both literates and illiterates alike surged into schools to get their children and more amazing too was the fact that principals of schools shutdown schools because of the rumour.
Doesn't this buttress the need for a proper orientation and capacity building?
As a Nigerian I sincerely think we as a people should clamor more for capacity building personally than we do for resource control, political positions and money. Because obviously, we are being taken for a ride by those In power and worst of all by mischief makers...
It is said that "the development of a region is not characterized by the high rise buildings or by the eustatics of it surroundings but by the mental capacity of its citizens".
All Nigerians need now is education and all Nigerians want now is capacity development.
Let all Nigerians develop their mental capital and watch how developed Nigeria would be...
By Asitogha Joel Tolofari
There are lots to talk about but for the purpose of clarity, I would like to channel this write up to obviously growing needs of education whether through orientations or informations. By education I do not mean getting a certificate because most persons with certificates are just certified fools.
In Nigeria today we have had leaders who travel round the world only to come back home to display high level of naivety or how would you describe a situation where a President made welcoming to the Villa of a child that supported his election with 5000 naira a priority amid the hardship and recession witnessed by citizens.
Or how would you describe a governor who spends money to erect a statue in respect of another country's president while he has a president who has not been immortalized In his state and pensioners who are still being owed for months and some for years.
Not to mention the feeble hearted citizens which really do not get educated despite their academic qualifications and can practically run without anyone or thing chasing them.
This article is not to get at any government official but it is to lay before us the lingering fact that Nigerians need a thorough and unique educational system that the citizens can identify with...
I felt embarrassed today when the rumour of Nigerian military injecting pupils with monkey pox at schools made the airways in Rivers state and parents both literates and illiterates alike surged into schools to get their children and more amazing too was the fact that principals of schools shutdown schools because of the rumour.
Doesn't this buttress the need for a proper orientation and capacity building?
As a Nigerian I sincerely think we as a people should clamor more for capacity building personally than we do for resource control, political positions and money. Because obviously, we are being taken for a ride by those In power and worst of all by mischief makers...
It is said that "the development of a region is not characterized by the high rise buildings or by the eustatics of it surroundings but by the mental capacity of its citizens".
All Nigerians need now is education and all Nigerians want now is capacity development.
Let all Nigerians develop their mental capital and watch how developed Nigeria would be...
By Asitogha Joel Tolofari
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