Educational Issues
On the ASUU’s Strike and the Nigeria’s Educational Sector -By Abdulganiyu Kabir Ahmad
Imagine the same JAMB candidate, the same year for applied institutions but quit different period of gaining admissions. 2021 jamb candidate those that applied Gombe State University (GSU) are already being admitted prior to ASUU strike while others are at home busy waiting for admission like university of Maiduguri are yet to go anywhere.
The education in Nigeria has become a dynamic factor that energetically frustrates the Nigerian students. This is strictly said considering how the Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government have been playing a childish game since in the year 2009, where which students wallow in the cauldron of gnawing challenges.
As everyone has his own personal goals to achieve on life, so does the students, hut their lifetime goal of becoming graduates has for long been at the helm of death. The academic calendars have changed to the other way. The students that are ambitiously supposed to graduate in a four year programme would end up graduating in 6 or 7 years, which immensely support the pillar of producing halfbaked graduates.
For the 2022 JAMB candidates, they are but a crowd walking under the air with the aim of reaching the cloud. It is like dancing in the dark or a dancer that dances to the tuneless songs. The candidates wrote the JAMB recently, and are all, fancying to get admitted into the higher institutions. But the truth is that, where would they be taken consideration the slew number if candidates waiting for the resolution of the seems-not-soon-to-be-ending strike?
Unfortunately, how the academic calendars are settled differs from various universities. Imagine the same JAMB candidate, the same year for applied institutions but quit different period of gaining admissions. 2021 jamb candidate those that applied Gombe State University (GSU) are already being admitted prior to ASUU strike while others are at home busy waiting for admission like university of Maiduguri are yet to go anywhere.
This could be said to be the great factor that discourages the young Nigerian students that are on their way to the higher institutions. We need to be considered. We need to see radical changes. We need a better solution over our studies. May the future be better than the present!
Abdulganiyu Kabir Ahmad writes from College of Nursing and Midwifery, Gombe.
