Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Damning report. Damned University ?

"official corruption, administrative incompetence, maladministration, arbitrariness, complete academic decay, immoral dealings, sexual harassment, admission and examination racketeering, extortion and other vices" were rampant in the institution.

There goes a quote from the recommendations of a panel that apparently looked into the state of things at Adekunle Ajasin University, (OSUA) as reported here

The underlined emphasis (mine) sums it up for me. It not terribly hard to see that the state of Nigerian Universities are dire.

Still, for a ‘new-generation’ university that AAU is supposed to be, the weight of those words, in terms of describing  a university is simply scary.

AAU, was always known as a glorious secondary school;

Apparently not much changed…

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