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- Less than 10% of the universities have Video Conferencing facility.
- Less than 20% of the universities use Interactive Boards
3.More than 50% don’t use Public Address System in their lecture OVERCROWDED rooms/theatres.
- Internet Services are non-existent,or epileptic and slow IN 99% of Nigerian Universities
- Nigerian Universities Library resources are outdated and manually operated. Book shelves are homes to rats/cockroaches
6.No university library in Nigeria is fully automated. Less than 35% are partially automated.
- 701 Development projects in Nigerian universities 163 (23.3%) are abandoned 538 (76.7%) are PERPETUALLY on-going projects
- Some of the abandoned projects in Nigerian universities are over 15 years old, some are over 40 years old.
- 76% of Nigerian universities use well as source of water, 45% use pit latrine, 67% of students use bush as toilet
- UNN and UDUS have the highest number of abandoned projects (22 and 16 respectively).
- All NDDC projects across universities in Niger Delta States are abandoned. About 84.6% of them are students’ hostels.
- 77% of Nigerian universities can be classified as “Glorified Primary Schools” Laboratories are non existing.
- There are 8 on-going projects at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi. None of them is funded by the State Government.
- 80% of Nigerian Universities are grossly under-staffed
- 78% of Nigerian Universities rely heavily on part-time and visiting lecturers.
- 88% of Nigerian Universities have under-qualified Academics
- 90% of Nigerian Universities are bottom-heavy (with junior lecturers forming large chunk of the workforce)
- Only 2% of Nigerian Universities attract expatriate lecturers, over 80% of Ghanian Universities attract same
- 89% of Nigerian Universities have ‘closed’ (homogeneous staff – in terms of ethno-cultural background)
- Based on the available data, there are 37,504 Academics in Nigerian Public Universities
- 83% of the lecturers in Nigerian universities are male while 17% are female.
- 23,030 (61.0%) of the lecturers are employed in Federal universities while 14,474 (39.0%) teach in State Universities.
- The teaching staff-students ratio is EMBARRASSINGLY very high in many universities.
- LECTURER STUDENT RATIO: National Open University of Nigeria 1:363 University of Abuja 1:122 Lagos State University 1:111.
- (Compare the above with Harvard 1:4; MIT 1:9; Yale 1:4, Cambridge 1:3; NUS 1:12; KFUPM 1:9; Technion 1:15).
- Nigerian Universities Instead of having 100% Academics having PhDs, only about 43% do so. The remaining 57% have no PhDs
- Nigerian University medical students trained in the most dangerous environment, some only see medical tools in books
- Only 7 Nigerian Universities have up to 60% of their teaching staff with PhD qualifications
- While majority of the universities in the country are grossly understaffed, a few cases present a pathetic picture
- There are universities in Nigeria which the total number of Professors is not more than Five (5)
- Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, established in 2001 (11 years old) only 1 Professor and 25 PhD holders.
- Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, established in 2006 has only 2 Professors and 5 PhDs
- Ondo State University of Sci & Tech Okitipupa, established in 2008, has a total of 29 lecturers.
- MAKE-SHIFT LECTURING SYSTEM: Out of a total of 37,504 lecturers, only 28,128 (75%) are engaged on full-time basis.
- 9,376 (25%) Nigerian Lecturers are recycled as Visiting, Adjunct, Sabbatical and Contract lecturers.
- In Gombe State University, only 4 out of 47 Profs are full-time and all 25 Readers are visiting
- In Plateau State University, Bokkos, 74% of the lecturers are visiting.
- In Kaduna State University, only 24 out of 174 PhD holders are full-time staff.
- 700 EX-MILLITANTS in Nigeria are receiving more funds anualy than 20 Nigerian universities under ‘Amnesty Scam’
- 80% of published journals by Nigerian University lectures have no visibility in the international knowledge community.
- No Nigerian academic is in the league of Nobel Laureates or a nominee of Nobel Prize.
- There are only 2 registered patents owned by Nigerian Academics in the last 3 years.
- Numerically more support staff in the services of Nigerian universities than the teaching staff they are meant to support
- More expenditure is incurred in administration & routine functions than in core academic matters in Nigerian Universities
- There are 77,511 full-time non-teaching staff in Nigeria’s public universities 2 Times number of academic staff
- University of Benin, there are more senior staff in the Registrar cadre (Dep. Registrars, PARs, SARs) than Professors
- Almost all the universities are over-staffed with non- teaching staff
- There are 1,252,913 students in Nigerian Public Universities. 43% Female 57% Male
- There is no relationship between enrolment and the tangible manpower needs of Nigeria.
- Nigerian Uni Horrible hostel facilities, overcrowded, overstretched lavatory and laundry facilities, poor sanitation,etc
- Except Nigerian Defence Acadamy Kaduna, no university in Nigeria is able to accommodate more than 35% of its students.
- Some universities (e.g. MOUAU),female students take their bath in d open because d bathrooms are in very poor condition.
- Laundries and common rooms in many universities have been converted into rooms where students live, in open prison style.
- In most improvised cage called hostels in Nigerian Universities, there is no limit to the number of occupants.
- Most State universities charge commercial rates for unfit and unsuitable hostel accommodation.
- In off-campus hostels, students are susceptible to extraneous influences and violence prostitution, rape, gang violence.
- Nigerian University Students sitting on bare floor or peeping through windows to attend lectures.
- Over 1000 students being packed in lecture halls meant for less than 150 students.
- Over 400 Nigerian University students being packed in laboratory meant for 75 students.
- University administrators Spend millions to erect super-gates when their Libraries are still at foundation level;
Expend millions to purchase exotic vehicles for university officers even though they lack basic classroom furnishings;
Spend hundreds of millions in wall-fencing and in-fencing when students accommodation is inadequate and in tatters;
- Govt interested in spending money on creation of new uni instead of consolidating and expanding access to existing ones; Keen to award new contracts rather than completing the abandoned projects or standardizing existing facilities; Expend hundreds of millions paying visiting and part-time lecturers rather than recruiting full-time staff.
- Govt spending hundreds of millions in mundane administration cost instead of providing boreholes and power supplements; Govt hiring personal staff, including Personal Assistants, Special Advisers, Bodyguards, Personal Consultants, etc.
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