Insurgency fuelling malnutrition in the North East

that when the elite established their own private schools from nursery to university, they left the 99% of the population - the masses - to wallow in the abject illiteracy of a poor, underfunded, dysfunctional government-neglected education system. The would-be English-medium authors emerging today happen to come from elite (or so-called private) schools. The English level of most public schools is, to say the least, nil, void and of no effect.

A glaring manifestation of this apartheid is the current ASUU strike - while the children of the masses are at home being de-educated and disenfranchised, the children of the elite are busy studying in their private universities, both at home and abroad. And, unless ASUU and its compatriots find a way of ALSO blocking access to education by posh children (by picketing major airports in September/ October, for example, and blocking the roads leading to Nile Baze AUN etc.) to coincide with the loss by ours, our children will continue to wallow in their disadvantage, taught by social media in lieu of teachers - and then the posh jobs at CBN and NNPC await those privileged few.

But still beats me - and you, no? - when children of ALMOST ALL officials of Ministries of Education are NOT in the government schools they supervise, but in these private schools too. And you think they will negotiate truthfully with ASUU or ASUP or COESU or similar teachers’ organisations teaching the children of the poor?

How, then, could our poor children read, let alone WRITE?