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I am very much irritated that the discussion on higher education learning in our social media space...

Posted by: Benjamin Onuorah

By: Daniel Okeke

I am very much irritated that the discussion on higher education learning in our social media space has been hijacked by very narrow minded folks, who are good at regurgitating “money making courses”, as though they are the only fabrics of sustaining a modern society.

If you are not studying medicine, Nursing, Law and IT, you are most likely wasting your time in school. And graduates, who earned their degrees from a “reputable university” would go under the comment section to ask:
Sir/ Ma’am, I studied psychology, do you think it’s valuable? Owee gwanu gi n’ obu gi na Odumeje na-azo customers.
We see how US and other European countries are hawking our graduates who studied chemistry, physics, biological sciences, maths and statistics. And we think, oh! they have so much money to throw around.

A society that understands that every scientific breakthrough would most likely come from people who understand these subjects in details, pair intelligence and come up with world class research papers that help progress medicine, aviation, and other spheres of life.
I’m happy at the enormous absorption of our chemical, civil, petrochemical and mechanical engineers by the Dangote refinery. Enough of them doing banking teller jobs. Else we wake up to a miscreant tagging Engineering a useless course, just because we live in a society that has failed to create nor innovate by a quarter, what serious countries achieved in scale hundred years ago.

I will not want to dabble into the bastardisation of Law as a discipline in Nigeria. Globally, Lawyers are amongst the highest earners. And it’s only in Nigeria that over 90-98% of folks who finish their Bachelor’s degree in Law, fight to go to Law school.
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