THE BEDROCK OF THE NATION, LEFT UNATTENDED TO
And
filometer95@gmail.com*THE PRESIDENCY*
*NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS
*Office of the SSA, Welfare and Logistics*
*PART 1: THE BEDROCK OF THE NATION HAS BEEN LEFT UNATTENDED TO: NOW WE ARE PAYING FOR IT.*
13th of May, 2020
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Education is the bedrock, out of the pillar that holds a Nation: A Nation that fails to Understands that is no doubt a failed Nation.__Filometer 2020
Education they said is the best legacy, as we've grown up to believe in that, and still, we believe in it.
Out of the pillars that hold a Nation, Education is most fundamental and it can't he overlooked by anyone or any Government.
Education is the process of acquiring new values and skills for the purpose of effective functioning in the society. It involves a pedagogical process, which if properly carried out should lead to the maturing of the person who has received it, to the extent that he is in a position to think and act meaningfully and in relevant interaction with members of society to their mutual benefit (Dickson1985).
In this part of the world we find ourself (Nigeria) it is no doubt, Education is no longer valued by our so called Leaders. Maybe they never want us to have the best, Maybe they think giving us the best, we will rise against them one day. But which ever way they think it, A-DAY, that is very near, we would rise up against them, and fight for what is right for ours. In my Journey of Life, I have learnt from Scholars and Educationist, that Education is not a gift from anybody, but our birth right.
A son who is not Educated about his father's deity, would surely sell off that deity one day, because he wasn't taught the importance of the deity.
Nationalists like the late Chief Anthony Enahoro, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, who fought for our independence did so not through arms and ammunition, but through the power of the pen which they derived through education.
The aforementioned nationalists had were brave enough to challenge the colonial masters due to their access to quality education.
Anthony Enahoro, who moved the motion for our independence was educated at Government School, Uromi, Government School Owo and King’s College, Lagos. He was not educated in any private school, all the schools he attended were government schools. With quality education, Chief Enahoro became the editor of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s newspaper, in 1944 at the age of 21. Thus, becoming Nigeria’s youngest editor ever. His education, coupled with being a member of House of Representatives, he successfully moved the motion for self governance in 1958 which led to Nigeria’s independence in 1960. He was also a delegate to most of the constitutional conferences leading to the independence.
For Obafemi Awolowo, his father who was a farmer and a sawyer died when Obafemi was about seven years old. Nevertheless, because access to education was not as difficult as it is today, he was able to attend various schools and became a teacher at Abeokuta, after which he studied and qualified as a shorthand typist. He later gave them Free Education, and those that were given the free Education then, as turned Education to a money making venture. With that knowledge, he served as a clerk at Wesley College and later became a correspondent for the Nigerian Times. It was after this that he embarked on various business ventures to help raise funds to travel to the United Kingdom for further studies. In the UK, he studied law at the University of London. With this academic feat, he was able to play a key role in Nigeria’s independence movement.
On his part, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe attended the Holy Trinity School, a Roman Catholic Mission school and Christ Church School, an Anglican primary school at Onitsha, Anambra State in 1914. He finished his elementary education at CMS Central School where he served as a pupils-teacher.
Azikiwe later had his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1930 at Lincoln University, 30 years before Nigeria gained independence in 1960. He also had a master’s degree in Religion and Philosophy two years later in the same university. Besides, Azikiwe did conclude two Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Political Science in 1933 at the University of Pennsylvania. He had a Doctor of Philosophy degree also. With these academic achievements, little wonder he was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism. He was first a journalist and later a political leader. He served as the second and last Governor-General of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first President of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and 1963 to 1966, holding the presidency throughout the Nigerian First Republic.
In the same vein, Sir Ahmadu Bello who was a major figure in Northern Nigeria’s pre-independence politics, played a major role in the independence of Nigeria. Born in 1909, he attended Sokoto Provincial School and the Katsina Training College. He finished school in 1931 and subsequently became the English teacher in Sokoto Middle School. In 1948, he got a government scholarship to study Local Government Administration in England which broadened his understanding and knowledge in governance. After returning from Britain, he was nominated to represent the province of Sokoto in the regional House of Assembly. He was selected among others as a member of a committee that redrafted the Richards Constitution.
The vision and power of education that our foremost nationalists had which brought them to the limelight, influenced the early government of the 60s to invest in qualitative education. At that time, primary education to university level were well funded by the government. No first generation university in Nigeria at that time lacked quality and basic infrastructure, as students were motivated by the government to study.
And here we are, Education budget keeps decresing every year, slashing of Education Budget every now and then. School fees keep gravitating every year. ACCEPTANCE FEE in some institutions throughout my own country alone, can establish a Head of the Family and his Family won't have to clamour they're hungry again.
Any Government who fails to Invest Tremendously in Education is nothing but a Failed Government.
Awolowo, made Education so free for them with Cocoa money.
There are no visible plans to expand the already overstretched facilities in all the levels of education well. Instead, much emphasis is now laid on the development of roads, rural electrification, polio eradication and so on. This does not posit that developments in these sectors are worthless. Rather, they should be considered secondary to the development of education, which is primarily concerned with the development of all the faculties of man, his attitudes and skills. Of what significance is life when illiteracy, hunger, disease and general under development are the ugly faces of our lives? Where will Nigeria be tomorrow if its educational system remains enshambles, incoherent, uncoordinated and unfounded today? Another major setback to the realization of the goals of the national policy is the corrupt tendencies of some officials, who will divert or make useless the allocations made to the sector. In the end, the money appropriated for education will not be spent for the purpose it was budgeted. Nigerians must change if the country is to move forward. We must change our country for our own good. It is an irony that education is the vehicle through which the most needed change in our attitudes and value system can achieved.
I so Submit Tentatively
*E SIGNED:*
*Comrade Olalere Benedict Olatunji*
*NAPS, GLOBAL PRESIDENT*
*Comrade Amoo Sulaimon Akinkunmi (FILOMETER)*
*SSA, WELFARE AND LOGISTICS*
*08106054094*
*NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS
*Office of the SSA, Welfare and Logistics*
*PART 1: THE BEDROCK OF THE NATION HAS BEEN LEFT UNATTENDED TO: NOW WE ARE PAYING FOR IT.*
13th of May, 2020
-----------------------------------
Education is the bedrock, out of the pillar that holds a Nation: A Nation that fails to Understands that is no doubt a failed Nation.__Filometer 2020
Education they said is the best legacy, as we've grown up to believe in that, and still, we believe in it.
Out of the pillars that hold a Nation, Education is most fundamental and it can't he overlooked by anyone or any Government.
Education is the process of acquiring new values and skills for the purpose of effective functioning in the society. It involves a pedagogical process, which if properly carried out should lead to the maturing of the person who has received it, to the extent that he is in a position to think and act meaningfully and in relevant interaction with members of society to their mutual benefit (Dickson1985).
In this part of the world we find ourself (Nigeria) it is no doubt, Education is no longer valued by our so called Leaders. Maybe they never want us to have the best, Maybe they think giving us the best, we will rise against them one day. But which ever way they think it, A-DAY, that is very near, we would rise up against them, and fight for what is right for ours. In my Journey of Life, I have learnt from Scholars and Educationist, that Education is not a gift from anybody, but our birth right.
A son who is not Educated about his father's deity, would surely sell off that deity one day, because he wasn't taught the importance of the deity.
Nationalists like the late Chief Anthony Enahoro, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, who fought for our independence did so not through arms and ammunition, but through the power of the pen which they derived through education.
The aforementioned nationalists had were brave enough to challenge the colonial masters due to their access to quality education.
Anthony Enahoro, who moved the motion for our independence was educated at Government School, Uromi, Government School Owo and King’s College, Lagos. He was not educated in any private school, all the schools he attended were government schools. With quality education, Chief Enahoro became the editor of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s newspaper, in 1944 at the age of 21. Thus, becoming Nigeria’s youngest editor ever. His education, coupled with being a member of House of Representatives, he successfully moved the motion for self governance in 1958 which led to Nigeria’s independence in 1960. He was also a delegate to most of the constitutional conferences leading to the independence.
For Obafemi Awolowo, his father who was a farmer and a sawyer died when Obafemi was about seven years old. Nevertheless, because access to education was not as difficult as it is today, he was able to attend various schools and became a teacher at Abeokuta, after which he studied and qualified as a shorthand typist. He later gave them Free Education, and those that were given the free Education then, as turned Education to a money making venture. With that knowledge, he served as a clerk at Wesley College and later became a correspondent for the Nigerian Times. It was after this that he embarked on various business ventures to help raise funds to travel to the United Kingdom for further studies. In the UK, he studied law at the University of London. With this academic feat, he was able to play a key role in Nigeria’s independence movement.
On his part, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe attended the Holy Trinity School, a Roman Catholic Mission school and Christ Church School, an Anglican primary school at Onitsha, Anambra State in 1914. He finished his elementary education at CMS Central School where he served as a pupils-teacher.
Azikiwe later had his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1930 at Lincoln University, 30 years before Nigeria gained independence in 1960. He also had a master’s degree in Religion and Philosophy two years later in the same university. Besides, Azikiwe did conclude two Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Political Science in 1933 at the University of Pennsylvania. He had a Doctor of Philosophy degree also. With these academic achievements, little wonder he was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism. He was first a journalist and later a political leader. He served as the second and last Governor-General of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first President of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and 1963 to 1966, holding the presidency throughout the Nigerian First Republic.
In the same vein, Sir Ahmadu Bello who was a major figure in Northern Nigeria’s pre-independence politics, played a major role in the independence of Nigeria. Born in 1909, he attended Sokoto Provincial School and the Katsina Training College. He finished school in 1931 and subsequently became the English teacher in Sokoto Middle School. In 1948, he got a government scholarship to study Local Government Administration in England which broadened his understanding and knowledge in governance. After returning from Britain, he was nominated to represent the province of Sokoto in the regional House of Assembly. He was selected among others as a member of a committee that redrafted the Richards Constitution.
The vision and power of education that our foremost nationalists had which brought them to the limelight, influenced the early government of the 60s to invest in qualitative education. At that time, primary education to university level were well funded by the government. No first generation university in Nigeria at that time lacked quality and basic infrastructure, as students were motivated by the government to study.
And here we are, Education budget keeps decresing every year, slashing of Education Budget every now and then. School fees keep gravitating every year. ACCEPTANCE FEE in some institutions throughout my own country alone, can establish a Head of the Family and his Family won't have to clamour they're hungry again.
Any Government who fails to Invest Tremendously in Education is nothing but a Failed Government.
Awolowo, made Education so free for them with Cocoa money.
There are no visible plans to expand the already overstretched facilities in all the levels of education well. Instead, much emphasis is now laid on the development of roads, rural electrification, polio eradication and so on. This does not posit that developments in these sectors are worthless. Rather, they should be considered secondary to the development of education, which is primarily concerned with the development of all the faculties of man, his attitudes and skills. Of what significance is life when illiteracy, hunger, disease and general under development are the ugly faces of our lives? Where will Nigeria be tomorrow if its educational system remains enshambles, incoherent, uncoordinated and unfounded today? Another major setback to the realization of the goals of the national policy is the corrupt tendencies of some officials, who will divert or make useless the allocations made to the sector. In the end, the money appropriated for education will not be spent for the purpose it was budgeted. Nigerians must change if the country is to move forward. We must change our country for our own good. It is an irony that education is the vehicle through which the most needed change in our attitudes and value system can achieved.
I so Submit Tentatively
*E SIGNED:*
*Comrade Olalere Benedict Olatunji*
*NAPS, GLOBAL PRESIDENT*
*Comrade Amoo Sulaimon Akinkunmi (FILOMETER)*
*SSA, WELFARE AND LOGISTICS*
*08106054094*
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