Index to Nigerian Newspapers

The major challenge in Nigerian universities has to do with salaries, lack of laboratories, teaching environment, shortage of lecturers, infrastructure, and lack of light. This has led to students having no seats to sit down, sharing seats, and no teaching aids or audios. Additionally, lecturers are stressed doing excess of what they should not be doing, and students have to stay 15-20 kilometres away from the school for accommodation at a cheaper rate. These are critical problems that cannot be addressed outside of the system. The union of lecturers is asking the government to increase the budget to education from the present five per cent to six per cent to 15 to 25 per cent and devote N1.3tn to Nigerian universities spread over six years. They also want the government to devote 30% of the Value Added Tax (VAT) to fund education and even 20% of VAT would resolve all these problems.