The Nigerian education system is going down by the day and the Nigerian government is spearheading its fall.

Every day the newspapers, the television and radio stations report that the government is putting billions of naira into education, we even read online that projects running into several millions of naira are being done to improve the quality of education in the country.

But that is where the news starts and ends. We usually don’t see the money or the completion of these projects.

A visit to some of the public schools in the country and you can’t help but wonder if there is hope for the common man.

Some classrooms are so bad that when it gets cloudy, teachers dismiss students for their own safety because it either the roof of the classroom is leaking or the foundation of the building is not solid. Some students even take classes under the shade of trees because of lack of classrooms.

The seats in some classrooms are not even enough to accommodate the numbers of students in the class and this makes them to sit on bare floors just because they want to learn.

The situation has got so bad that if you want to register your wards in some of the public schools you will have to bring items like bag of cement, chair, broom, tissue papers and cartoon of chalks among others.

Is it that our government is so poor that they can’t buy these items for the schools they claim to own? Why would a student buy a bag of cement before he/she can be admitted? Why should I bring a seat to a school owned and controlled by the government? Why is the private school far better in terms of the provision of educational service than the government owned schools?

So many unanswered questions and yet these so called political leaders keep playing on our intelligent and subjecting the common man to hardship and pain.

The recent trend is the increase in the tuition fees of universities; they increase these tuition fees not taking into consideration whether or not the citizens can afford it.

Students are suffering and smiling in campuses, many are losing interest in learning and some are taking to crimes and other social vices just to make hands meet.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Colleges of Education Association Staff Union has being on strike for several months now and the federal government is not bothered.

Private varsities in the country are growing in studentship by the day because the public varsities are no longer good enough for anyone.

The common man now has to work extra hard to be able to see his/her wards through school, the people are suffering and poverty is increasing by the day.

Last I checked the only crime we committed is that we are Nigerians. We are suffering because we are Nigerians. Our students are dropping out of school because they are Nigerians; we can no longer boost of sound education because we are Nigerians. There have been several cases of dehumanization of our students all because we are Nigerians.

Our government is preaching oneness, peace and tranquillity, they want development in all levels, they want more money so that they can steal more but they seems to forget that none of these can come without a solid foundation for education.

According to the famous South African ex-president Nelson Mandela, education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Our government need to look more into education and improving the standard of living of the common man if they actually want change for good.

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