"WHY ASUU IS ON STRIKE
By Nasir El-Rufai
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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are outdated and manually operated.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.
36. In Gombe State University, only 4 out
of
47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers
are visiting
37. In Plateau State University, Bokkos,
74% of the lecturers are visiting.
38. In Kaduna State University, only 24
out
of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff.
39. 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are
receiving more funds anualy than 20
Nigerian universities under 'Amnesty
Scam'
40. 80% of published journals by
Nigerian
University lectures have no visibility in
the
international knowledge community.
41. No Nigerian academic is in the league
of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel
Prize.
42. There are only 2 registered patents
owned by Nigerian Academics in the last
3
years.
43. Numerically more support staff in the
services of Nigerian universities than the
teaching staff they are meant to support
44. More expenditure is incurred in
administration & routine functions than
in
core academic matters in Nigerian
Universities
45. There are 77,511 full-time non-
teaching staff in Nigeria's public
universities 2 Times number of academic
staff
46. University of Benin, there are more
senior staff in the Registrar cadre (Dep.
Registrars, PARs, SARs) than Professors
47. Almost all the universities are over-
staffed with non- teaching staff
48. There are 1,252,913 students in
Nigerian Public Universities. 43% Female
57%Male
49. There is no relationship between
enrolment and the tangible manpower
needs of Nigeria.
50. Nigerian Uni Horrible hostel facilities,
overcrowded, overstretched lavatory and
laundry facilities, poor sanitation,etc
51. Except Nigerian Defence Acadamy
Kaduna, no university in Nigeria is able to
accommodate more than 35% of its
students.
52. Some universities (e.g. MOUAU)
,female
students take their bath in d open
because
d bathrooms are in very poor condition.
53. Laundries and common rooms in
many
universities have been converted into
rooms where students live, in open
prison
style.
54. In most improvised cage called
hostels
in Nigerian Universities, there is no limit
to
the number of occupants.
55. Most State universities charge
commercial rates for unfit and unsuitable
hostel accommodation
56. In off-campus hostels, students are
susceptible to extraneous influences and
violence prostitution, rape, gang violence
57. Nigerian University Students sitting
on
bare floor or peeping through windows to
attend lectures
58. Over 1000 students being packed in
lecture halls meant for less than 150
students
l
59. Over 400 Nigerian University
students
being packed in laboratory meant for 75
students
60. University administrators Spend
millions to erect super-gates when their
Libraries are still at foundation level;
Expend millions to purchase exotic
vehicles
for university officers even though they
lack
basic classroom furnishings; Spend
hundreds of millions in wall-fencing and
in-fencing when students
accommodation
is inadequate and in tatters;
61. Govt interested in spending money
on
creation of new uni instead of
consolidating
and expanding access to existing ones;
Keen to award new contracts rather than
completing the abandoned projects or
standardizing existing facilities; Expend
hundreds of millions paying visiting and
part-time lecturers rather than recruiting
full-time staff
62. Govt spending hundreds of millions
in
mundane administration cost instead of
providing boreholes and power
supplements; Govt hiring personal staff,
including Personal Assistants, Special
Advisers, Bodyguards, Personal
Consultants, etc."
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