UNILORIN: The Bad Things going on In Unilorin and other Nigeria Universities

Our universities are now grappling with exam malpractices, bribery and fraud, reckless sex, etc.

Adekunle Folashade works in a Lagos public relations firm but any time she remembers her office, she feels very miserable. Her sadness is not because she does not enjoy her role in the firm or that she is not happy with the management of the organisation. Far from it, she is happy in those aspects.

At least, the organisation offers opportunities for growth and success. Her contemporaries can testify to this. They have witnessed the large-heartedness of the firm through promotions, among other things.This good fortune, however, has not been the lot of Folashade.

The frown on her face, as she shares her experience, poignantly betrays this disappointment. She has remained in one position without any kind of promotion for some years.
So, why is this beautiful lady not being favoured like others?Is there any of her superiors who does not like her beautiful face? These and many more are posers any curious and discerning observer would want to know with regards to her troubles.

Exam malpractice, poor record-keeping disturbing Interestingly for Folashade, answers to these questions are not difficult to put together. She wears the shoes and so knows where it pinches.

She declares, "Four years after obtaining a degree from the Lagos State University, Ojo, I have yet to submit any certificate to support my claim of a new academic status. In fact, if not for my commitment and understanding of my job, my employers would have thrown me out, especially as I do not have a corresponding certificate to support my position.

"Truly, I do not blame my employers for my ordeal. As far as I am concerned, the blame is on the doorsteps of my alma mater, LASU, which has refused to issue my certificate."Folahade's narrative is just a tip of the iceberg of the decadence that exists in many of the nation's universities. Several years after graduation, many students do not get their certificates.

Again, many do not get to see the results of examinations that they took in their first year until they are about to graduate from such institutions. These and many more, observers say, point to the poor record-keeping approaching the system.
Even the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, one of the bodies charged with the mandate of fighting corruption in the country, through its training arm, the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, affirms that the nation's tertiary institutions are increasingly decadent

. The University System Study and Review conducted by the commission, alongside the National Universities Commission in 2012, identified numerous infractions afflicting the Nigerian university system.
The review, in fact, acknowledges that the system witnesses sale of examination questions and other examination-related information, gratification and inducement to manipulate award of marks/grades, swapping of grades, writing of examination by proxy, direct cheating in examination, delay in the release of results, deliberate victimisation by officials, and the manipulation of internal examination processes.

It also shows that many schools are not respecting the National Universities Commission's directive on carrying capacity, just as inadequate funding encourages them to engage in excessive enrolment of students in order to boost their Internally Generated Revenue to run the institutions.

Other associated corrupt practices identified are delay in take-off of lectures and non-completion of syllabuses by lecturers; non-adherence to students/lecturer ratio results in over-crowded classes and the lack of commitment to work by the lecturers.

Continued defiance by institutions on the ban on satellite programmes/campuses, frequent strikes by staff and students interrupting the academic calendar, sale of lecture notes, handouts and textbooks, stealing and mutilation of library books, as well as corruption in the allocation of official bed spaces to students by the managers are other common transgressions in schools.

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