allAfrica.com: Nigeria: How to Save Education Sector, by Amuka, Banjo, Ogbeh

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: How to Save Education Sector, by Amuka, Banjo, Ogbeh:

Homework time. (Photo Courtesy Kate Holt/Irin)

SOME leading academics, entrepreneurs and politicians, yesterday, dissected the Nigerian education sector and came away with a heart-rending view: the future of education in the country is bleak unless the government and all stakeholders do the needful to halt the spiraling decay.

Indeed, from the lips of emeritus professor and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Ayo Banjo; Publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Mr Sam Amuka; Second Republic Communications Minister and a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Audu Ogbeh and Chairman of Tanus Communications and former Managing Director of Daily Times, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi, it was lamentations galore as they decried the sorry state of the education sector in the world's largest black nation.