Sometimes when you hear certain things about Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions, you cannot help but weep for this country. You just keep asking yourself how things got so degenerated and why helps seem far away. That was exactly the anguish I suffered reading the story of the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof Emeka Obe, and his team that had to contribute N300,000 to fund a research project in the university.
But, if a whole University of Nigeria founded in 1955, five years before Nigeria’s independence, is unable to fund a N300,000 research project, what is the fate of an institution like Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, established just seven years ago. Yet, Nigeria has kept establishing universities as if they are going out of fashion.
Interestingly and unashamedly, as a nation, we are quick to buy technological products of other universities across the world even when we don’t know what to do with them. If the Federal Government decides today to deploy robots in all its public tertiary institutions to check the spread of COVID-19, I am very sure that the money to get these high-tech products will surface instantly.
I am aware that some of UNILAG’s robots were gifted the institution, but this hasn’t changed the fact that we enjoy finished products from other climes. The company could have encouraged UNILAG to learn how to fish than merely supply it with fishes. That is what companies in the countries we run to for help do for their tertiary institutions.
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