EVER WORLD REPORTER!
You may called me a Nigerian teacher or lecturer, most Nigerian teacher are failure 😞 and still proud with it.
IS NIGERIA’S FIRST CLASS SYSTEM FAILING ITS BEST MINDS?
There is a troubling paradox in our educational system. Teachers who themselves struggled to demonstrate brilliance are often the ones who define and award “First Class” status, imposing a narrow mindset on students.
I have witnessed this personally. Many of my colleagues who failed repeatedly, and some who were even rusticated during our school years in Nigeria, are now excelling in top universities in Britain. In contrast, some of those celebrated as First Class graduates in Nigeria are struggling to adapt to learning and employment demands in the UK.
This raises a critical question about our lecturers. A significant number of teachers in the Nigerian system, despite being products of failure themselves, take pride in maintaining a culture of hardship. They celebrate the difficulty of their teaching, using First Class and A+ grades as a noisy camouflage for what is essentially a flawed fundamental educational inventory.
I have lost confidence in Nigerian qualifications and in a system that rusticates and fails students, grading them with the same zero-tolerance, “olodo” gang mentality. It is this same system that has led to the UK and the USA banning some of Nigeria’s most famous professors from entering and lecturing.
We must re-examine what we truly reward in our schools.
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