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By Lukman Olabiyi
The Old Students Association of Anwar-Ul Islam Model College, Agege, formerly Ahmadiya College, Agege, ACAOSA, has harped on the urgent need for restructuring the education sector.
At a symposium/endowment fundraising event organised in honour of 95-year-old former principal of the school, Alhaji Jimoh Gbadamosi, speakers unanimously agreed on the imperative of restructuring as a way of addressing the challenges fronting the education sector.
The Guest Speaker, Professor Murtala Bidmus, who spoke on the theme: “Education and Nation Building” blamed Nigeria’s underdevelopment on the education sector.
He said: “Those who brought education to Nigeria were missionaries and it was only to serve their own purpose and not for the development of Nigeria.
“The Nigeria 1969 conference failed to address the education and the development of the country. The education mindset today is not for development, but to go to school, get qualified, get a job, car, good salary, and you are okay, but not developed. Let us restructure our education and things will be better for all of us”.
The President General of ACAOSA, Mr Lawal Pedro (SAN), also corroborating the same argument said: “Education without purpose is just self-actualisation and that will not lead to development. Go to China, in a single room, they will be manufacturing something from inside and they will be exporting it to us. What have we done with our own education? Nothing. The problem with our education is that it needs to be restructured to make it purposeful for development.”
Pedro called for a compromise between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on the protracted crisis in the university system.
