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Nigeria Universities
- University of Abuja
- University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
- University of Ado-Ekiti
- University of Benin
- University of Calabar
- University of Ibadan
- University of Ilorin
- University of Jos
- University of Lagos
- University of Maiduguri
- University of Mkar, Mkar
- University of Nigeria
- University of Port-harcourt
- University of Technology, Akwa-Ibom
- University Of Uyo
- ABTI-American University of Nigeria
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
- Adamawa State University, Mubi
- Adekunle Ajasin University
- Ahmadu Bello University
- Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo
- Ambrose Alli University
- Babcock University
- Bayero University, Kano
- Bells University
- Benson Idahosa University
- Bowen University, Iwo
- Cetep City University, Lagos
- Covenant University
- Crawford University,Oye Ekiti
- Cross River University of Technology
- Delta State University, Abraka
- Ebonyi State University
- Federal University of Technology, Akure
- Federal University of Technology, Minna
- Federal University of Technology, Owerri
- Federal University Of Technology, Yola
- Igbinedion University, Okada
- Imo State University
- Joseph Ayo Babalola University
- Ladoke Akintola University of Tech.
- Lagos State University
- Lead City University
- National Open University
- Nigerian Defence Academy
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University
- Obafemi Awolowo University, ile-ife
- Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye
- Osun State University
- Pan African University, Lekki
- Redeemer's University, Ede
- Renaissance University, Enugu
- Rivers State University of Science and Technology
- St. Paul's University College, Awka
- Theological College of Northern Nigeria,Bukuru
- Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode
- Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
- Wesley University, Ondo
Nigeria Polytechnics
- Abia State Polytechnic
- Abuja School of Accountancy and Computer Studies
- Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana
- Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic
- Auchi Polytechnic
- Federal Polytechnic Offa
- Federal Polytechnic Bida
- Federal Polytechnic,Idah
- Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu
- Federal Polytechnic, Nassarawa
- Federal Polytechnic, Mubi
- Federal Polytechnic, Nekede
- Federal Polytechnic, Oko
- Federal Polytechnic, Ede
- Federal Polytechnic, Birnin-Kebbi
- Kaduna polytechnic
- Kwara State Polytechnic
- Lagos City Polytechnic
- Lagos State Polytechnic
- Moshood Abiola Polytechnic
- Osun State College of Technology
- Osun State Polytechnic, Iree
- Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri
- River State Polytechnic, Bori
- The Polytechnic Ibadan
- Yaba College of Tech.
Colleges of Education
- Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education
- College of Education, Agbor
- College of Education, Akwanga
- College of Education, Ekiadolor
- College of Education, Katsina Ala
- College of Education, Zuba
- Federal College of Education, Omoku
- Federal College of Education, Oyo
- Federal College of Education, Zaria
- Kwara State College of Education
- National Teachers Institute, kaduna
- Oyo State College Of Education, Oyo
- Rivers State College of Education
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Soludo’s anatomy
of varsity autonomy
Kunle Awosiyan, Lagos
Chukwuma Soludo, CBN Governor The campaign for university autonomy is gradually spreading
beyond academic environment. For years, the Academic Staff Union of Universities had been calling for university autonomy but all its efforts had been futile.
Successive governments would not listen perhaps because of the fear of losing its control on university education.
The autonomous system, as a matter of fact is one of the key issues within the academic circle and the failure of the government to hearken to the voice of the teachers had made them embark on strike on many occasions.
Though the immediate past administration of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo believed so much in privatization, its thought towards autonomy was different. The regime was bent on using collective bargaining and unionizing arrangement to rule the university education.
At present, Federal universities do not charge tuition fee , a situation many stakeholders see as a wrong policy. To many experts, free tertiary education is a bad policy and cannot provide qualitative education for the nation. They argued that government alone could not fund tertiary education.
But to some poor parents, university autonomy may take tertiary education away from the reach of average Nigerians.
However, in his own argument, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Charles Soludo on Friday threw his weight behind university autonomy.
Soludo who was the Guest Speaker at the Eminent Persons’ Lecture by the Bells University of Technology Ota, Ogun State, solidly recommended autonomous system as one of the ways to solve the gargantuan problems facing tertiary education.
In his presentation tagged, “Market oriented economic reform and the challenges of technological development in Nigeria,” Soludo noted that the system would create rooms for competition among universities and subsequently increase the capacity for innovation and invention.
He stated, “ I recommend the deregulation of federal universities system because it will increase efficiency and productivity, adding, “Liberalization of university is good provided there is a good regulation to back it up.”
To him, a university must be able to generate revenue internally to pay its staff salaries and fund some of its projects, adding, “Issues such as remuneration, standard setting, and staff employment should be the primary assignments of the university but not of the government.
It is an illusion that government could adequately fund university education. University should naturally generate income to finance its concurrent expenditure while its grant is spent on development and researches.”
Soludo decisively disagreed to the collective bargaining and unionizing arrangement being employed in Nigerian universities, saying that the system is detrimental to university growth.
He said, “ There ought to be a set standard for promotion and wages of staff based on the skills and relevance of the teacher to the development of modern economy.”
In other words Soludo said that lecturers could be paid differently depending on their skills and their contribution to national growth within the modern concept.
He explained that dearth of science lecturers and students in Nigeria universities endured because there were no special incentives for them like their counterparts in developed countries.
According to him, the 21st century twenty firsts century belongs to science and technology.
He said those who know would determine modern Nigeria but not those who did not know, adding that the current
economic reform might not succeed without a robust science and technological innovation.
He therefore called on government to give special incentives to students of physical sciences like physics, chemistry and computer while bursary and scholarships should be given to indigent students.
Buttressing his argument, Soludo stated that only 5.4 per cent of the total number of students admitted to Nigerian universities in the last one year were studying courses related to science and technology, adding that the figure is very low compared to universities in developed countries.
He stated that the study of science and technology would facilitate the building of human capital in the country and consequently widen the capacity to innovate and invent.
As he put it, “Technology provides higher level of human capital, which makes economy to grow. The higher the skill of the human capital the higher the economic growth. Universities should attract foreign grants by presenting research proposals based on competency and efficiency of lecturers.”
He noted that Nigeria was one of the countries that did not take the funding of research and development serious, saying that the situation is adversely affecting the country’s growth.
According to him, Nigeria is rated 184 behind poor countries like Chad and Sudan in terms of its spending on research and development. “Nigeria spends 2.4 dollars daily on research and development while Chad spends 2.77 dollars,” he said.
Soludo explains, “There is no way the economic reforms can work without the domestication of facilities, which may come through research and development.”
He said that Nigeria had only involved in the adoption of technology but lacked the capacity to invent and domesticate it.
“Even the adopted technology by Nigerians has not been used to capacity. Domesticating infrastructure is what makes the difference but not the adoption because it will increase productivity. Efficiency is brought about by the level of technology,” he said.
In his speech, the Vice-Chancellor of the Bells University, Professor Isaac Adeyemi said that the dream of Nigeria to becoming an industrialized nation could only be realized through a sound economic and technology base.
He said, “It is pertinent, therefore, for a university of technology to fully understand and appreciate the three nodal points of the triangle. May I state with every sense of responsibility and absolute commitment that Bells University of Technology is poised towards contributing to the industrial development of this country through technology and other innovations.”
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MTN ignites passion for IT in Ekiti students
By Sulaimon Olanrewaju
Teachers and students trying out their hands
on the computers after the inauguration.
Pics: Sulaimon Olanrewaju.
MY boys are so excited about the computer laboratory that MTN
Foundation has donated to Christ School, Ado Ekiti. As a matter
of fact they have contributed for the purchase of internet equipment themselves so that they can maximally benefit from this great opportunity made available by MTNF. Their parents are also full of joy because they believe that with this computer laboratory the lives of their children are going to be better. The teachers too are very elated about the development because of its potentials. We shall forever be grateful to the foundation”.
These words of Elder Matthew Adefolaju Fasanmade, Principal, Christ School (Senior), Ado Ekiti, capture the mood of teachers, students and parents of students of Christ School, Ado Ekiti, Ado Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Ansar-Ud-Deen High School, Ikole Ekiti and Mary Immaculate Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, the latest beneficiaries of the MTN Foundation SchoolsConnect project.
According to the principal, the change the MTNF largesse would precipitate in the lives of the students would be mind-boggling as the students would have a chance to commune with developed minds from different parts of the world. This, he added, would broaden their horizon and transform them from local students to global citizens. “The students are ready to experiment. They are ready to go on the internet. They are also elated about the possibility of getting to know not just about computer operations but also computer engineering. So, they are looking forward to a bright future. Today will mark the turning point in the lives of many of the students”, Fasanmade said.
Speaking in a similar vein, Mr. Kayode Michael Ibikunle, a teacher at Ansar-Ud-Deen High School Ikole Ekiti, said, “Most of the students have not seen any computer before. Now that it is being introduced to them, they will be able to communicate with other people and it will improve their knowledge of education. I foresee that even many of them, who usually run away from school, will be coming to school. So, this will improve their knowledge. Having access to computers, I am sure, will give them the opportunity of doing more than they will ordinarily want to do. I foresee a situation where students will be staying back in school after school hours to work on the computers. This will improve their knowledge and also stop them from getting into evil. So, we are very grateful to MTN Foundation for this wonderful gift. I don’t think there could have been a better gift from a corporate organisation like the MTNF.
Ibikunle added that though the computer laboratory in his school could not take all the students at once, the school had devised a system of grouping the students such that all the students would have access to the laboratory on a daily basis.
According to the teacher, to ensure that the teachers themselves had a grasp of computer operations, they were put through a training session by the Foundation. “The training was about what is going on on the internet which a teacher needs to teach the students. We were also put through the procedure of operating a computer set. We were taught so many other things about computer. The training lasted five days from 8.00am till 5.00pm everyday. The trainers did very well.”
The inauguration of the computer laboratories on Wednesday in Ado Ekiti was the commencement of the fourth phase in the MTN Foundation’s SchoolsConnect project.
Prior to the Wednesday’s event, 37 schools spread across nine states, 85640 students and 3,817 teachers had benefited from the project. The project is a collaboration between MTN Foundation, SchoolsNet and the state government of beneficiary schools. While the foundation provides the fund, Schools Net provides the technical support and the government other logistics.
At the inauguration of the laboratories in Ekiti State, Ambassador Hamzat Ahmadu CON, Chairman, MTN Foundation, said the project, “will definitely empower the beneficiaries for the future as the challenges of globalisation demand that our youth are able to use the power of information technology in order to compete effectively with their counterparts in other parts of the world.”
Ahmadu, who was represented by Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, also said the inauguration demonstrated the power and potential of public/private sector partnerships for the development of the nation.
Giving details of the donation, Mrs. Amina Oyagbola, Executive Director, MTNF, said each school would receive a fully operational computer laboratory, complete with a suite of 21 computers with educational content in secondary school subjects tailored to the Nigerian curriculum, a server, VSAT Internet connectivity and teacher training.
She also said, “These facilities are of paramount importance as teaching aids and also to facilitate access to the same educational information available to their counterparts in the developed world.”
Oyagbola stated further that, “The SchoolConnect project will equip our young people with the tools to be effective and productive in today’s world. We believe that access to these facilities should empower them to compete with the best because we have assisted them in bridging the ‘digital and knowledge divide’ which currently exists between our youth and those in the western world.”
Oyagbola, who doubles as Corporate Services Director of MTN, added that the education portfolio of the Foundation was driven by a fundamental interest in the effective application of information technology in education, “and we are committed to making significant financial investments in this area in order to improve the quality of learning in our school and enhance the quality of teaching in ICT”.
While inaugurating the Christ School’s computer laboratory, the state governor, Engineer Segun Oni, showered encomiums on MTNF for coming up which a progarmme to avail Nigerian students of latest technology in ICT.
Oni, who described MTN as a good corporate citizen, also reeled out plans by his administration to revitalize the vital education sector, especially secondary education in the state.
He assured the Foundation of his government’s preparedness to fulfill its obligation of providing generators to power the laboratories. He said the government was making plans to get solar-powered generators for the laboratory in each of the beneficiary schools to guard against non-operation due to fuel scarcity.
He urged the school authorities to take absolute care of the equipment as they would be held responsible where vandalization or theft occurred.
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