The action of the Education Minister clearly illustrates the attitude of the average Nigerian leader, who is always ready to impoverish Nigeria for personal advancement. This is a leader who derives the wealth used to send his children abroad from the Nigerian society he has mismanaged and rendered among other misdeeds the education non-viable. He doesn’t care about the consequences of his poor leadership. He believes has the choice to send his children abroad. If not, if this guy knew he has to educate his children in Nigeria, he will do EVERYTHING to have the schools in the best of form and standard. What a messy kingdom! If God did not create a wider world for us all, where anybody can seek a better life anywhere in the world, it is impossible to imagine what these leaders will do to us all. Do you blame anybody who says Nigeria needs a Rawling before the country can be fixed? Take care. JUI
From: NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of otito koro
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:12 PM
To: NaijaPolitics@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Nigerian Education minister sends daughter to University in Ghana... Irony of irony
...daughter refuses to school in Nigeria over deplorable
condition
Amidst pessimistic views held by Nigerians concerning the
nation’s university system in the last 50 years, Nigeria’s Minister
of State for Education, Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, on Monday
revealed that uncertainties in the education system compelled
him to send his daughter to a university in neighbouring West
Africa country, Ghana for tertiary education.
While trying to provide justifications for his action, he said
despite being a Minister of Education in Nigeria other notable
persons desirous of quality education for their children send
them to Ghana and other foreign universities for schooling due
to their managerial ability.
Gbagi who recently got appointed into President Goodluck
Jonathan’s cabinet as Minister of State for Education had in a
separate forum in Abuja advocated the need for increment in
tuition fees for students to boost graduate output, saying the
Federal Government ought to have no business in controlling
the affairs of university education.
The Minister said Nigeria had not really faired well educationally
after over five decades of the establishment of the first
indigenous Nigerian university.
He stated this in Abuja yesterday at a public presentation of a
biography on Nigeria ’s University system in the last 50 years
written by Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian
Universities.
Gbagi also took a swipe on Nigerian professors over the last
five decades, saying they ought to be pro-active in their
approach to unravel the problems in the system if the sector
must forge ahead.
His words: “I was discussing with a friend recently and I told him
I have a daughter who is studying medicine in Ghana, so when I
was made minister of education I tried to pressure her to come
back and school here, but she said if I come back to the
country what guarantee do I have that I would graduate at the
stipulated time.
As professors what have we done as a people to resolve this
problem of education, what are doing to make sure that the
issue of education is taken out from the realms of government”.
“Education as we are all aware is the bedrock of any nation, its
high time VCs of universities come out to fashion out a long
term plan as to how they want university education to be.
Personally I think we could achieve this by going back to the
drawing board”, he added.
-Francis Nelson, Abuja
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