Stories Cultured For Curious Minds

Pauperising Professors: Pay Them!

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 20, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis
Post comments:0 Comments
Reading time:6 mins read

Pauperising Professors: Pay Them!

What is the Adamu Adamu Syndrome? National disgrace is something the Buhari government neither understands nor cares about. The world is looking with laughter, though. A nation that claims to have the brainiest people on the planet. The latest national disgrace is Nigeria’s professors, lecturers, and researchers working in Nigerian universities now live like paupers and work like slaves. ASUU Strike 2022 is showing the world that professors in Nigeria suffer. In fact, starvation, pennilessness, and resorting to begging or handouts to survive are professors lots. Well, those who are academics full-time at universities. And many with doctorates from the world’s best universities. Five years at the University of Lagos. Two years at Stanford University. Four and a half years at the University of Benin. All with great final grades, then poverty and slavery. If Nigerian universities die, Nigeria will die too. Nigeria will die too. (more…)

Does National Security Expire?

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 14, 2022
Post category:Corruption Culture as Institution Governance Institutions
Post comments:2 Comments
Reading time:6 mins read

Does National Security Expire?

The Anarchy

The anarchy brewing in Nigeria is near complete. Noting the security problem in Nigeria is dire is not news. It has become a daily and worsening fact. Wear is Nigeria’s national security? No one is safe from violence in the country any longer. Not even the military academies and barracks, high security prisons, nor police stations. And not the Presidential Guard or the President himself. What does the President, Buhari care? Moreover, the Government of Nigeria (GON) has no effective response to the failing state of security in the country. None. None from above and none from below. Video clips of bandits, terrorists, and criminals hold one key reason for this sorry state in plain sight.

Accordingly, the fabric of Nigerian society and culture is today determined by the insecurity. Both rural and urban areas are just as unsafe as each other. The roads are now highways to hell. It is that bad. (more…)

Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 12, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis
Post comments:3 Comments
Reading time:7 mins read

Nigeria Youth Storm Rebellion Abuja 8 a.m. The Assistant Inspector General of Police assures six senators in confidence, “It won’t happen, it won’t happen, Wallahi!” The doubt with which he…

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Are Vice Chancellors to Blame?

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:August 6, 2022
Post category:Culture as Institution Governance Special Interest Groups
Post comments:1 Comment
Reading time:5 mins read

The ASUU Strike of 2022 is raising important questions and responses we must not dodge. Market reforms now demand Vice Chancellors should raise tens of billions of naira annually to fund their universities. Otherwise they are not fit for purpose. Really? Are Vice Chancellors to blame for the government’s ancient failures in education policy and practice? Thus, it is a question worth examining.
(more…)

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 29, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis Special Interest Groups
Post comments:3 Comments
Reading time:5 mins read

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 6

The Final Target

“Nigeria needs its public research universities and teaching hospitals despite the plans of the government. It’s a non-negotiable necessity.”

How true is it that the private sector can run universities better than the public sector? A classic globalisation policy, only the World Bank and the IMF could successfully impose such a policy on Nigeria. The Government of Nigeria (GON) seeks to abolish public university education in Nigeria completely. That is the tacit intention of the GON, not make-believe reform. Free-markets for education are profit driven and with consequences. Must education be expensive in a country that cannot adequately employ its educated people? Or pay them living wages? It is neither value for money nor does it make economic sense. (more…)

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 29, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Social Crisis Special Interest Groups
Post comments:1 Comment
Reading time:4 mins read

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 5

The Second Target

“The neglect of a child is abuse; a nation’s neglect of its youth is wilful filicide.”

The other target of the Government of Nigeria that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is striking over is the fate and future of students in tertiary education. ASUU with vehemence detests and protests a few things. (1) The gross over-population classes they teach in dated small lecture theatres. Venues where students sit in windows, on steps, on the floor or even listen to from outside. (more…)

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4

Post author:Grimot Nane Zine
Post published:July 27, 2022
Post category:Governance Institutions Special Interest Groups
Post comments:0 Comments
Reading time:5 mins read

The ASUU Strike and the Crapious Revolution 4

The First Target

The continuing romance of the Government of Nigeria (GON) with globalisation is ever demanding of the immiseration of the country. Globalisation has done nothing good for Nigeria and Nigerians, other than in strange abstract terms. One-size-fits-all globalisation policies always end up favouring the few and failing everyone else. The Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) is a one-size-fits-all policy instrument and does not fit with university systems. Rather, it targets university staff. (more…)