Educational Issues
Effects of the ASUU’s Strike on the Nigerian Educational Sector -By Abubakar Muhammad Usman
In another effective medium it also lengthen the calander of the students; that is, it changes the curriculum of the lessons, instead of October plan then will be taken to December or another year. In order to spend the exact time of the degree program according to the duration of the course one offered, due to the menace of the strike it changes to be within the more years as expected; for example, one has to spend four years to study economics, due to the strike, then one will spend five to six years before reaching the line of his graduation.
The byword, in the mouth of any student. The current strike is a perturbing event that causes so many occlusions to the destinies of the awaiting students; for cutting the medium of their learning. In any way or the other, it has been a stymy to the multiple ongoing processes of making the society resistant to the incoming thunderous threats; from being feigned by any mean that is resulted from the dangerous attack of analphabetism. However, it has been a both physical and emotional problematic factor in the country at large.
From the chapter of so called boring strike, it causes the block of income chain of millions of nairas for the government, which are earned through the students; registration fees by the newly admitted students and even the returning once. Behind the effect caused by strike for the reduction of income to the government, there are some who depend on their businesses within the universities; who have computers for printing, photocopying, as well as handouts selling. Also there are restaurants in the same venue, and some shops of traders and POS. Having dropping a thought about them, one will pitifully understand that now they are jobless or underemployed.
Same to the students in the effective vein, it is an undoubtedly agreeable that students forget what they have learned from the school during the strike. While, strike is the accepted factor that makes thousand of students undergo deviance path; they normally have the thought of been involved in drugs addiction, kidnapping, stealing and so many negative deeds in the societies as a result of they have nothing to do but spend their days struggling instead of going to lectures hall and spend their nights watching movies instead of reading their handouts.
In another effective medium it also lengthen the calander of the students; that is, it changes the curriculum of the lessons, instead of October plan then will be taken to December or another year. In order to spend the exact time of the degree program according to the duration of the course one offered, due to the menace of the strike it changes to be within the more years as expected; for example, one has to spend four years to study economics, due to the strike, then one will spend five to six years before reaching the line of his graduation.
With that, how a country will be addressed as the developed one with this kind of saddened educational background? How do you expect to see the very good change of life? How do you expect the continuous flow of illiteracy down to the upcoming generation? and how do you expect to get through the stream of dreams of the citizens for leaving their children with knowledge as an asset of life? How will that shade of difficulties be vanished without knowledge?
Untill government has paid the maximum average of attention to the effects of strike toward the citizens and made a good graspable measure to stop the eroding factor as the strike; to meet the required attention to the educational sector and the lecturers. While, ASUU has to ponder about anything that has to be happen, happening or that is done as a result of their strike and reckon to being of the students as any lecturer’s son or daughter. Meanwhile, government and ASUU should meet in the path of going through rebuilding of a new Nigeria and come across the dream of any patriotic; to withdraw any macrocosm of illiteracy within the country for the betterment of today and tomorrow for the current and the future generation.
Conclusively, I hope that Nigeria will come across the everlasting dreams of her citizens; to be brimmed with any fanatical blessings of educational flow, and be the remain of aeonian peace and unity -I hope.
Abubakar Muhammad Usman is a poet, essayist and a story writer from the great city of Gombe State. He is a member of Gombe Jewel Writers’ Association, Creative Club Gombe State University and a current press secretary at Human Impact Global Initiative (HIGI). His write-ups have been published in Dailytrust newspaper, Blueprint, The Nation News Nigeria, Opinion Nigeria and elsewhere.
