HEART BREAKING FACTS ABT NAIJA UNIVERSITIES. Part 1 1. Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility. 2. Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards 3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres. 4. Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities 5. Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches 6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated. 7. 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects 8. Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian univeristies are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old. 9. 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet 10. UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively). 11. All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels 12. 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as “Glorified Primary Schools” Laboratories are non existing 13. There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government 14. 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed 15. 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers 16. 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics 17. 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce) 18. Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same 19. 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background) 20. Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities 21. 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female. 22. 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities. 23. The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities 24. LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:11 25. (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15). 26. Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs 27. Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books 28. Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications 29. Photo of a typical lecture hall of MOST NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES 30. While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture 31. There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5) 32. Kano University of Scienc andTechnology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders. 33. Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs 34. Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers. 35. MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis. 36. 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers. 37. In Gombe State University, only 4 out of 47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers are visiting 38. In Plateau State University, Bokkos, 74% of the lecturers are visiting. 39. In Kaduna State University, only 24 out of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff. 39. 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are receiving more funds anualy than 20 Nigerian universities under ‘Amnesty Scam’ 40. 80% of published journals by Nigerian University lectures have no visibility in the international knowledge community. 41. No Nigerian academic is in the league of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel Prize. 42. There are only 2 registered patents owned by Nigerian Academics in the last 3 years. 43. Numerically more support staff in the services of Nigerian universities than the teaching staff they are meant to support 44. More expenditure is incurred in administration & routine functions than in core academic matters in Nigerian Universities
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