The universities in Nigeria have been rightly described as a battle ground where you either wield the crude weapons you have been given; inborn grit and acquired (meager) knowledge or you end up littering the arena with your dreams and goals and blood.
But with the jousting with fellow students for better grades and (as social beings) attention, many have neglected another very important foe in the bid to survive school despite starvation scare and cultism related problems and the foe are lecturers.
Academic dictators who run the lives of students how they deem fit, crowning themselves Alpha and Omega of your career. They have now graduated to making open threats, boldly stalking their prey for sexual payments, monetary payments, both or ancestral payments. From these kinds of terror, the Nigerian student in all sincerity has no savior.
You may flatter yourself about the student union government until you realize that they just bunch of people interested in getting money, fame and organizing football competitions.
They are not all bad (the lecturers I mean) but most are.
Recently a Facebook friend told of how he among many others were to have an extra year in school (after staying longer due to several union strikes) because a lecturer made a mistake in compiling his result. A mistake he reported to them but met brick walls in form of ‘it is done already’ attitudes. This is just one of several ways they show that they have the final say on academic endeavors.
More shocking is the realization that there actually exist some of these lecturers who will be happy when students fail.
Of course some students have helped create this academic rot in high institutions but the lecturers dictate the engagements and wield their power in cruel ways.
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