'“Damaged and rusted water pipes are common, such that the water coming out from such pipes is contaminated. Blocked or leaking water closet systems abound such that faeces it’ll pour on the floor as you’re flushing.'
The National President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, explained, “In a typical science-based course, you are to have a one-hour lecture and a two-hour laboratory practical, but we have a situation where there are no laboratories where you can do the practicals. So, lecturers are forced to teach three-hour theories, trying to simulate what a practice should be, which is not supposed to be.
The incessant ASUU strikes have now, in turn, begun to make Nigerian youths consider going abroad to pursue an education, a trend that is commonly called ‘Japa’ .A Nigerian, Bolaji Aluko, who travelled to the United Kingdom for studies, said it was one of the best decisions she would take. “In terms of the learning environment, the classrooms here are not overcrowded. Each student has access to a laptop or desktop system and there is free Wi-Fi once you are on campus.“Here, as a student, our lecturers give us opportunities to meet them one-on-one if we don’t understand what we were taught in class. The emphasis here is not to just pass, but to understand what we are being taught.
“The number of toilets in my university, I cannot even count. These toilets are well maintained as their maintenance is a source of livelihood for some people. It is in the UK that I saw that shifts are taken to ensure that toilets are kept clean as no one has ever stepped in there.
“Learning cannot take place without a conducive environment promoted by those who provide municipal services such as security, health, electricity, and water, amongst other needs that make a university whole.” He, however, warned that “On the flip side, there are also problems of accountability, transparency, and challenges of corruption, which demand that beyond throwing money at the system, effort must be made to ensure these monies are well accounted for.”
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