Students feel they’ll pay dearly if they ever challenge their grades– Prof. Na’Allah

 Students feel they’ll pay dearly if they ever challenge their grades– Prof. Na’Allah 

Quadri Yahya 

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah has highlighted some of the issues affecting students in Nigerian universities. 

Prof. Na’Allah said the university system as well as the lecturers have no regard for students rights. 

ACW learnt that the VC, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, Professor Aishat Sanni, made the comment while delivering the 13th convocation lecture of Fountain University in Osogbo, at the weekend.

He said, “The Nigerian university system has installed a dictator and authoritarian lecturer system, where the lecturer is always right! Students are like servants and must accept whatever is dotted out to them. Students do not assess lecturers largely in our system, and the Nigerian university does not dignify the student, and treat him or her as a respected human being.

“From comments I have always received as a Vice-Chancellor and discussions I have shared with colleague Vice-Chancellors over the years in Nigeria, students feel they will pay dearly if they ever challenge their grades, or refuse sexual advances from a lecturer. Nigeria’s University system does not treat students well, from extreme to worst, even the private Universities that claim so much to be of World Class status, force students to a particular creed, force certain ways on them, and decree tastes they must have and when they sleep and “what songs they sing.”