Nobody can gainsay the fact that education is the bedrock of national development, globally. Any nation-state that is keen on and desirous of achieving sustainable economic growth and technological advancement should place much premium on issues bedeviling its educational system. The superpower countries, which have military might, economic wealth, and technological culture, have great educational institutions.
Back home in Nigeria, our academics and scientists in the citadels of learning do dish out recycled 30-year-old lecture notes to their students, not to talk of their pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in their areas of specialization. But the lecturers’ lack of creativity and lukewarm attitude to their jobs are caused by the government’s utter and criminal neglect of the educational sector, which has become both normative and phenomenal.
In the maiden edition of the Nigerian Breweries Plc Maltina Teacher of the Year competition, a self–effacing petite Chemistry teacher from Federal Government Girls’ College Nkwelle – Ezunaka, who is called Rose Nkem Obi, won the national teaching diadem. Mrs. Obi attributed her victory to a blend of her faith in God and sedulous disposition.
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