The Village Headmaster was a popular Nigerian television drama series created by Olusegun Olusola and produced by Dejumo Lewis.
The drama was Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera showed on the Nigeria Television Authority from 1968 to 1988 and starred Justus Esiri and Femi Robinson, The programme was developed by Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation and rated as a major success of television drama in the country.
Here is an old-fashioned school headmaster, intelligent, and always wearing khaki shorts and carrying books while trekking to school. To the villagers, the headmaster was like a ‘black white man,’ being perhaps the only person who could understand English when the white man spoke. It is against this background that the emerging trend in Nigeria whereby university vice-chancellors are selected from the immediate village or community of the institution is an aberration and most offensive as it negates all the norms for which a university is known for. Our universities are being turned into village tertiary institutions that must accept students, teachers and other ancillary staff from the immediate environment.
According to reports, the leaders of the Ibadan socio-cultural group, Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Ibadan descendants as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital when these positions become vacant.
If President Buhari grants the Ibadan elders’ request, then the indigenes of all the other federal universities will make the same request for the university in their domain to have an indigene as VC and government will have no reason not to grant it.
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