Education
Councillor Wants Stiffer Penalty For Randy Lecturers
Supervisory Councillor for Youths and Sports, Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area, Hon. Boma Friday Daminabo has called on the National Universities Commission (NUC) in collaboration with the Association of Vice-Chancellors to henceforth expose randy lecturers and subject them to odium for dastardly act. In order to curb the menace with a view to restoring sanity on university and academic environments across the country.
Speaking with The Tide in Opobo Town, Thursday in an interview on the need to curb excesses of lecturers in the abuse of students and youths under their care, Daminabo described sexual harassment in the nation’s universities as inhuman, wicked and ridiculous to humanity and said any lecturer caught in the act should not be spared rather be made to face the consequences.
He, however, expressed disappointment at lecturers who desperately engaged in-sex-for-marks, describing it as unfortunate. “It is unfortunate that the image of our universities are being dented by a few unscupulous lecturers in the Nigerian universities.”
According to him, when the trend is allowed to continue unchecked, the future of the youths as far as education is bleak in Nigeria and Nigeria should be seen as producing graduates that can compete favourably with their colleagues anywhere in the globe.
Hon. Daminabo, who called for revitalisation of Nigeria’s university education system and stressed that, it was a formidable weapon in the world that could be used as instruments of change and transformation.
He said there was the urgent need for the rapid revitalisation of university education in Nigeria, urging experts to come up with a blue-print on adequate funding of education to secure the future of present and future generations of graduates.
The supervisory councilor said: “we therefore desired to encourage ourselves by stating the fact that the Nigerian education system is not beyond redemption. We only need a purposeful leadership, absolute commitment from all key stakeholders and a sense of urgency to turn around the education sector.
Daminabo added, “I am delighted that the current leadership of the National Universities Commission (NUC) is resolutely committed to this. “It’s style of leadership and on-going restructuring is heartwarming.”
Bethel Toby
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
