First,no Nigeria university made it into the top 700 universities in the world when countries like South Africa, Egypt and Ghana had at least one.Now, the West African Examination Council said candidates from Ghana had produced best results in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination in the past three years.
WAEC’s Head of National Office in Nigeria, Charles Eguridu, disclosed this during at a dinner with newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
Eguridu said Nigeria, by its population, should be the best in the examination but lamented that stakeholders in the country were not taking education of their wards seriously.He said:
“Over the past three years, candidates from Ghana have remained the best. “It is saddening considering our population.“We have been paying lip service to teachers. “Some schools do not have facilities.“Candidates do not have laboratories, vocational centres, libraries and textbooks.“The outcome of such educational system will be self-evident.“It is high time we got more serious with our value system and adopt excellence as our watchword.“It is not that Nigerians are less intelligent but we do not motivate our children.“The love and quest for material things has taken over the level of responsibility in many homes.”
These younger generation should wake up because in our time,we were the best.Those days every kid wanted to be a doctor, engineer,lawyer etc,but now every kid wants to be like Wizkid.
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