ABUAD founder states 4 reasons Nigerian Universities are not world-class

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Speaking at the second founder’s lecture he delivered at the University of Medical Sciences in Ondo state, Babalola said Nigerian Universities are facing some challenges.

While delivering a lecture titled, ‘The Secret of Founding'', the legal icon highlighted poor workers' attitude to work; incessant industrial action by the labour unions; lack of modern curriculum and paucity of good leadership as the major problems stunting the growth of Nigerian Universities.

He said the bad attitude of workers towards their job, according to Babalola is a major challenge facing public institutions in Nigeria. He added that some workers believe that employer’s job is not worthy of being done properly.

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“One of the major problems in this country is the attitude of staff to work, particularly in public institutions. Hardly will you find Nigerian worker who sees works as his business.'' He said

“They all see the employer’s business as the employer’s business that one doesn’t have to stress himself or herself about.

“For me, I see where I work as a personal business; but workers in public institutions and civil service think otherwise. That is why it would be very difficult to for most Nigerian universities — unlike their counterparts overseas — to become world-class universities.” He concluded.

Babalola has spent N78 billion Naira on his university

Afe Babalola in May 2016 said he had spent over N78 billion Naira on the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD.

He said that the figure represented what had been spent on building of structure and provision of modern academic equipment in the last six years of its establishment.

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