Nigerian Student Wahala No. 7: Inadequate Infrastructure for Learning

To end this series I wanted to point out a major problem Nigerian students face, i.e. lack of suitable infrastructure for learning.

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I think the students who are hardest hit are science students because their field of study requires necessary facilities like laboratories, etc.  Can you imagine learning to dissect a frog without using an actual frog or real instruments? I certainly can't but this is just one example of the shortfalls Nigerian students face everyday.

Now, like I already mentioned in Part 1 of our series, private schools usually have the funding to make up for these inadequacies, but public schools, and government-funded schools in general, are the worst hit.  And unfortunately, most students attend public or government-funded schools.

You get the picture.

I doubt that increasing the number of private schools is the solution to this problem.  Not everyone can afford to send their child to a multi-million naira school at any level.  The obvious solution is to improve the quality of education in public schools, and you can't do that without improving the current infrastructure.

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And that ends our series. Thanks to everyone who participated in one way or another!