EDITORIAL

What really is from what is

The bug called corruption is one that has eaten too deep into the loins of the country. Not only does it add to the definition of the nation as a whole, it has also eaten deep into every sector and facet of the nation.

Last week, I wrote about corruption of the police force and the exploitation of the citizens they’ve sworn to protect. The present hub is the viral effect of the ‘bug’ on education system. I live up to the story of how education was once free in the country. A golden time of Awolowo as was so described. A time when not only was the standard of education of great worth but also came cheap.

It is so unfortunate that the so called people that enjoyed such a great opportunity bestowed upon them by providence are the same set of people that has vandalised the system just because they succumbed to their voracious feature of human existence. The most ill-fated dawn of veracity is the fact that not only is the cost of obtaining formal education beyond the reach of ordinary citizens but the standard is fast deteriorating.

The most hilarious but ridiculous current practice in the educational sector is the conjuring of technical terms all in the vibe of exploiting students. Imagine a school where your turition is something around N18,000 and you were made to pay N20,000 for acceptance fee. I could remember in my entry year I made an attempt to calculate my total spending on registration and tuition even though I couldn’t make a fix amount, it was getting close to the fees some private institution pay per session and if you ask, the tuition of federal institutions is “cheap”.

The symptoms of this viral infection cannot be fully exhausted. We live in a world where our inherent sense of adaptability is most active…