Corruption in Kogi State, Nigeria, has been a longstanding issue that has hindered the state's development and progress. Like many other states in Nigeria, Kogi has grappled with corruption at various levels of government and society, impacting sectors such as infrastructure, education, healthcare, and public services.
Solarin had asked that we bring functionality into our education. He said that "There is, I think, only one significant thing we want in our education for tomorrow-FUNCTION. That we arm our children with functional education" In my words, today the education is not functional, we have unemployable graduates, and my apologies, totally useless school leavers.
You too go school ooo but how can we jacinta the real issues in that Delta state story, what could have really happened in Delta to warrant the kind of killings, i hear the organs of the personnel were ripped out. Like those kidnapped and released school children, did the government pay ransom or not, our security agencies will tell us they were rescued, victims families will say they paid. Who is Jacinta for this matter?
It was only expected that when a nation barely commits one percent of its GDP on education, we would have a collapsed Unity school set up, a crazy university system. We all weep at the situation but no one really thinks how we can have national competitiveness when the level of investment in human capital is abysmally low.
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