03/02/2025
Somewhere in Nigeria, a University is still graduating Computer Science Students with no knowledge of Python, R, C++ or MATLAB. Visual Basic, COBOL, FORTRAN are still the only programming languages taught. No change to what is in vogue. No following of new Technologies. Just the normal languages of the early 90s.
Mechanical engineering and electrical engineering departments call road side mechanics and street electricians to fix faulty cars and installations. Professors of Business Management, entrepreneurship etc. yet most universities have nothing they're producing, not even toothpick.
Insurance have academic Doctors parading everywhere yet public universities have zero student insurance scheme. Staff insurance kwanu? Zero!
Somewhere in our Exams and Records Unit, the CGPA computing officers are still using market Calculators to compute CGPA. They are still storing up documents in hard copy files. The Computer in that office is not for result computation. No, the Officer doesn't even know how to open Ms Excel.
The email on the university portal is for fancy. Nobody respond to the mails forwarded there. Infact the Officer in charge of responding to the mails doesn't even know how to open the mailbox of the institution portal.
Somewhere in some of our Universities, some Academics know nothing about what is in vogue in their fields of study. The
Questionnaires designed on Google form or Microsoft forms are rejected by Graduate School supervisors (Professors). You must print it on A4 paper, photocopy 1000 copies and share manually to responders. Chai! Nsogbu!
When last did you see a University Vacancy Application with an online portal to apply? They mandate you to submit 10 hard copies of your credentials to the Registrar. In this green economy era!
Zoom Thesis defence is not possible in so many schools. You must be present with 20 copies of your Thesis. Assignment cannot be submitted via mail. You must write it out and submit to the Lecturer on a full-scap sheet.
Payment cannot be automated. You must queue at designated Banks, manually fill the Teller, not the modern Teller oh. That one that has 3 copies. Take the yellow copy to the Bursary. Change to receipt, photocopy 5 copies and... and... and...
The point of this write-up is that...Let us utilize our products. We cannot continue to produce match-sticks and then crack stones in order to light a fire. Public-private partnership is the way to go for our public universities.
