Minister of Education Dr Sam Egwu deserves commendation for the roadmap for the Nigerian education sector, which he presented recently to the National Stakeholders' Forum.
No one doubts that the country's education sector is in a sorry state, and deserves urgent fixing. The quality of education has declined so much that many of the graduates produced by the nation's tertiary institutions are simply unemployable. Teachers' morale is also at an all-time low, and like most civil servants, they have to moonlight in order to survive. The sector remains grossly under-funded and basic school necessities like laboratories and well-equipped libraries are simply not there. Lecturers in universities and other tertiary institutions are routinely accused of corruption and such unprofessional conducts like trading sex and money for marks. Dr Egwu's education roadmap is therefore timely.
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