Nigeria’s Teachers Deserve Better Treatment

[Robot]

Nigeria’s Teachers Deserve Better Treatment By Victor E. Dike Nigeria’s teachers are again on national industrial action because of the refusal of some state governors to honor the agreement they reached on August 6, 2008between the Teachers Union and the Governors Forum on the payment of the enhanced 27.5 per cent salary increase and allowancesfor teachers before the end of January 2009.Any person who has been following the series of teachers’ strikes in Nigeria knows the devastating effects on education. Yet the leaders who are complaining about the nation’s dwindling standards of education are unable to find solutions to the problems. Being a teacher in Nigeria today is increasingly becoming a curse because they are being treated with little or no respect. In fact, some people think that teachers are lesser human beings who don’t deserve anything better than the shabby treatments they receive. ...Read the full article. (http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11762)

[olusiji]

We have enjoyed incalculable benefits from the sweat of some in the past who shared what they knew with us. The rewards are all too obvious from the minds that conceive what we think, say and write today. We must remember that the atmosphere for this reward was mostly founded on the belief and vission of those who colonised us from abroad.
For our current colonialists, those like us with the skin and accents we share, slavery has taken a new dimension. To enslave our minds, it is important that we know nothing. To guarantee this, frustrating those who have knowledge to share and the generousity to surrender to a carreer in nuturing minds was a weapon of their choice. And they have succeeded. To escape slavery, they sent their wards abroad where people like them are not tolerated. But we shall see what their ends will look like.