NOT many critics of the education sector who believe that some things are definitely wrong with the sector can proffer solutions to the decadence bedeviling the sector. Dr. Adebayo Oyeyemi who lectured Mathematics in the tertiary institution for years and also an administrator of Good Shepherd Group of Schools, Lagos, is not one of them.

Then when I come, I weigh everything and pay like N20 (for bottles, metals) and N50 (for plastics) per kilogram and I take the waste to the recyclers. If you go to the Lagos toll gate every weekend, you will see men bringing in waste from different parts of the South-West into Lagos. For instance, someone may be collecting cans in Oyo State, and with hydraulic jerk, he presses the cans and someone else buys them and takes them to Lagos for recycling.

Back in September of 1964, I found myself in the United States of America, as one of the fortunate fifty Nigerian boys and girls who bagged a scholarship from the African American Institute. The programme was titled African Scholarship Program for American Universities, ASPAU. It was originated by the President Kennedy, 19-1963, administration.

ORDINARILY, one would have commended the NUC for identifying and publishing the names of the illegal tertiary institutions. But, this is an extra-ordinary development and it might have been inspired by the fear that President Buhari would not condone the acts of corruption which had made it possible for so many illegal institutions to get established and flourish in the first instance.

It was observed during this period that the threat to qualitative university education was so real that its subsequent devastating effect in Nigeria would be irreparable hence the promulgation of Decree No. 19 of 1984 and 16 of 1985 to sanitise the system. The growing increase in the number of prospective candidates for admission into universities and increasing inability of existing public universities to cope with the increase in demand for university placement, necessitated a review of the 1984 ban.