For those who do not understand "Why ASUU is on strike" - Please read this and share widely..... 1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility. 2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards 3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres. 4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities 5. Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches 6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated. 7. 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects 8. Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian universities are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old. 9. 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet 10. UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively). 11. All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels 12. 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as "Glorified Primary Schools" Laboratories are non existing 13. There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government 14. 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed 15. 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers. 16. 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics 17. 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce) 18. Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same 19. 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background) 20. Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities 21. 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female. 22. 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities. 23. The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities: 24. LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:111 25. (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15). 26. Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs 27. Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books 28. Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications 29. While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture 30. There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5) 31. Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders. 32. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs 33. Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers. 34. MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis. 35. 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:44:13 +0000
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