By Sanusi Umar Faruk
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Our elders have spoken the truth when they said experience is the best teacher,indeed,over the few past years of my transformation from boyhood to adulthood,nature and time has thought me many things school and google on an ordinary day would not. By practical example and experience,there is no doubt that the country which I live in called Nigeria is a developing country,not because of its continental shelf which resides in Africa,but because of its directionate directionlessness when it comes to implementing policies that will uplift our nation for the benefit of all.
Nigeria possess of one of the major attributes or characteristics of a developing nation which is doing the right thing at the wrong time.
Coming down to our immediate and grassroot environment, We the students of the one time prestigious university, Ahmadu Bello University have been for so long agitating for the renovation of our delapitated infrastructure and the environment we live in, which includes our hostel, our classes,our libraries, our toilets, etc. We live in an atmosphere that is totally not conducive for learning, people live in hostels like chickens; you find 18 people in a room,with poor ventilation,exposed to all kinds of communicable disease, the state of art of our toilets is disgusting and embarrassing which talking about it only makes me more angry, the epileptic power supply is so poor,that Nigerians as a whole are already used to it, and it has become a normal thing in our DNA, water supply is so bad that students buy water to bath, our classes are so over crowded to the extent that students sit on the floor and on the windows to receive lectures.
For years,students and concerned citizens have been agitating for the improvement in facilities and state of art of the infrastructure for a better living condition of the productive youths and future leaders of tomorrow, Alas, God has answered our prayers. The recent bulletin released by ABU authorities about the recent renovation of Amina Hostel that they will soon embark on is a good and welcome development, but the short notice given to students to quickly evacuate to other rooms is like adding salt to injury or moving from frying pan to fire.
It is a typical example of doing the right thing at the wrong time, the renovation can wait till the semester is over so that students will have enough time to pack their belongings and have rest of mind, but to tell them to move to other rooms which are already over crowded is ridiculous and an act of heartlessness, we are talking about human beings here, not chickens that we rare in a cage, how can more than 20 people stay in a single room for crying out loud, if the university management wants to make renovation during academic semester,then they should provide students with alternative solutions of where they are going to stay, they should make adequate arrangements, in essence, what am simply saying is that the idea of renovation is a welcome development, but the time of the renovation is wrong...
A word is simply enough for the wise..
U13MM1193
Our elders have spoken the truth when they said experience is the best teacher,indeed,over the few past years of my transformation from boyhood to adulthood,nature and time has thought me many things school and google on an ordinary day would not. By practical example and experience,there is no doubt that the country which I live in called Nigeria is a developing country,not because of its continental shelf which resides in Africa,but because of its directionate directionlessness when it comes to implementing policies that will uplift our nation for the benefit of all.
Nigeria possess of one of the major attributes or characteristics of a developing nation which is doing the right thing at the wrong time.
Coming down to our immediate and grassroot environment, We the students of the one time prestigious university, Ahmadu Bello University have been for so long agitating for the renovation of our delapitated infrastructure and the environment we live in, which includes our hostel, our classes,our libraries, our toilets, etc. We live in an atmosphere that is totally not conducive for learning, people live in hostels like chickens; you find 18 people in a room,with poor ventilation,exposed to all kinds of communicable disease, the state of art of our toilets is disgusting and embarrassing which talking about it only makes me more angry, the epileptic power supply is so poor,that Nigerians as a whole are already used to it, and it has become a normal thing in our DNA, water supply is so bad that students buy water to bath, our classes are so over crowded to the extent that students sit on the floor and on the windows to receive lectures.
For years,students and concerned citizens have been agitating for the improvement in facilities and state of art of the infrastructure for a better living condition of the productive youths and future leaders of tomorrow, Alas, God has answered our prayers. The recent bulletin released by ABU authorities about the recent renovation of Amina Hostel that they will soon embark on is a good and welcome development, but the short notice given to students to quickly evacuate to other rooms is like adding salt to injury or moving from frying pan to fire.
It is a typical example of doing the right thing at the wrong time, the renovation can wait till the semester is over so that students will have enough time to pack their belongings and have rest of mind, but to tell them to move to other rooms which are already over crowded is ridiculous and an act of heartlessness, we are talking about human beings here, not chickens that we rare in a cage, how can more than 20 people stay in a single room for crying out loud, if the university management wants to make renovation during academic semester,then they should provide students with alternative solutions of where they are going to stay, they should make adequate arrangements, in essence, what am simply saying is that the idea of renovation is a welcome development, but the time of the renovation is wrong...
A word is simply enough for the wise..
Same thoughts Presido. The right thing at the wrong time. Well delivered. You begin to wonder whether those in the helm of affairs have any day thought to wear our shoes before any making decisions concerning the students.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is the right thing at the wrong time, the decision was made in a rush without considering how students are affected, our Nigerian system of education needs to be wheeled to a different better destination. If not hell will be let lose soon...
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