Between the cause and effect of university crisis in Nigeria
National Universities Commission NUC
Tue Feb 02 2021
In the past couple of days, there have been several back-and-forth arguments about the university crisis in Nigeria.
Nigerian academics at home and the diaspora have been making their points as to where the blames should lie. One of the claims made by some Nigerians at home was that academics in Nigeria are free of blame from the university crisis; and that all culpability should go to the government. There were other sundry issues that have been raised around the general conditions of Nigerian universities. A contributor to the debate noted that it is intellectually futile for the discussion to be limited to highlighting causes rather than effects. The writer, it seems, also absolves academics at home of a certain charge of being ill-equipped. It is important for me to state that I am not fond of the word “ill-equipped”, neither do I seek to justify who is ill-eq