University Admission Is a Major Problem for Students

  Education which is based on the 6-3-3-4 system entails 6 years in primary school, Three years in junior secondary and another three years in senior secondary and then finally four years in the university/tertiary education for a higher education degree was implemented in 1982 and was intended to help produce graduates who would be able to make use of their hands as well as their heads, but lately the major problem acting faced by youths who wish to further their education by attaining the 4 years higher degree is the admission process.


Nigerian Education system is so poor that only 40% of candidates who sat for the entrance examination are admitted into universities leaving the remaining 60% to wallow in pains and agony for losing out in the university admission system which is marked with by corruption and impunity.

How Parents Affect Career Plans of the Youth in Nigeria

The Best Future for the Youth in Nigeria
Children are the greatest assets of any nation.

They are the future and need the utmost care and attention. If they are carefully guided and educated and given opportunities to grow in their chosen fields, they will be the greatest source of strength, resourcefulness and creativity for the country. If left unattended with no opportunity for a good education and employment, they will be left to themselves and easily misguided, they can become a threat to the nation. The modular home project has helped give the Nigerian family the security and comfort it needs to bring up happy and secure children.

Parents are the first ones to teach and train a child from his or her infant-hood and continue to be one of the most important influences for the rest of their lives.

Although mostly positive, this influence can be negative. The mother more or less plays the vital role in molding the character of the child while the father is often away at work or absent completely.The majority of the youth in Nigeria face problems of inadequate parental care, poor education, and lack of appropriate role models. Parents have a strong impact in the upbringing of their children by what attitudes and behaviour they reward putting unnecessarily high expectations on them the example they set by their own behaviour encouraging constructive activities being attentive that their child is not moving and mingling with friends that may practise unwanted behaviour.

Illiteracy among Nigerian Adults

I’ve been fixating mainly on the challenges faced by the youths in education that I haven’t considered the adults, so after a little stake out research I was able to gather some of the education related challenges facing adults. The Adults are no doubt the leaders of today but there seems to be one general challenge when it comes to adults and that is illiteracy.

    Illiteracy, simply defined as a situation where a person can’t read or write, well this is one of the factors greatly posing an adverse effect on the development of a country’s educational standards. According to 2009 data from UNESCO, statistics showed that over 34.8 million adults in Nigeria are illiterates thereby ranking the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Though this issue is treated with levity, it actually poses a major set-back to the educational development, after all we youths dwell on our elders for their wisdom an advice but what help can they be when they have so limited or no knowledge on

Provision of Basic Infrastructure towards Education Is the Key to Development of Nigeria

A School Abandoned by The Government, How Can They Learn!

The availability of infrastructure is one of the great aids to the growth in educational standards of a country, but the statistics has shown that 4 out of 5 schools are without the needed equipments to promote the quality of education in schools. The Federal Government claims to allocate a lot of fund towards the provision of infrastructures to schools yearly yet there hasn’t been any visible action taken to equip these schools especially the public which are mostly just empty buildings with no roofs or chairs, most of the students just play all day because since there aren't any thing to teach with who will bother to wasting time fighting a lost cause.

Education Is the Target of Terrorism in Nigeria

If you’ve being listening to the news lately, you may have heard about the never ending plight of Nigerians in the hands of the Islamic extremist sect known as Boko Haram.

     As part of their beliefs it seems as though they consider formal education as an abomination brought upon us by foreigners and therefore should be purged from existence, and they’ve gone to extreme measures to jeopardize any development towards Education.

    In the northern parts of Nigeria Schools are being set ablaze almost every day with over 15 public and private schools already burnt to the ground thereby forcing over 10,000 children out of schools and into the streets. Although there hasn’t being any major fatalities, dreams as well as the future of these pupils are being killed with every arson. Though this group was seen as anti-western education since their armed insurgences in 2009 the group never attacked schools until recently, with each of their unabated attacks being even greater than the latter.

The Death of Students May Have Caused the Death of Education in a School

Will normalcy ever be an option in Nigeria, this is a question asked by many, and it was also a question I asked myself upon the discovery of this event which transpired in the eastern part of the country as the traditional practices of a community resulted in the death of two students of Federal Polytechnic Oko after being allegedly attacked by masquerades in their hostel outside the campus. The students in retaliation took siege of the community looting and destroying over millions of naira worth of valuables and properties.
The situation was even uncontainable by the police and other law enforcers who were drafted in as the students blocked all entrances into the town, setting bonfires on roads and chasing indigenes, traders, and non students who took refuge into the bushes.