BEING TH E PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS (NAPS) OVER THE CONTINUAL CLOSURE OF ABDUL-GUSAU POLYTECHNIC ZAMFARA ON THE 1st NOVEMBER 2016

Naps leadership have been monitoring activities and events as it unfold at Abdul Gusau Polytechnic Talata Mafarawa Zamfara state, since the closure of the institution gate due the killings of eight students over an alleged blasphemous statement. The school is yet to resume academic activities despite the restoration of peace and orderliness to the region, and students display of willingness to return back to classroom for continuation of their academic programs.

The need to resume academic activities cannot be over stress as the unnecessary further delay of resumption can be more dangerous in exposing the idle students hand to the devils workshop. More harm has been inflicted on the already lagging behind academic calendar which is yet to recover from the thirteen months nationwide strike action bearing in mind the institution is barely two weeks to second semester examination before the occurrence of the ugly incidence.

We call for adequate attention to the state educational condition rather than the junketing around of the governor in the name of northern governors’ forum, the dilapidated infrastructure and obsolete facilities of state own institutions and efforts to rise the collapsing state of education should be paramount to the state government, we argue the northern region of the country can only be stronger the qualitative education.

NAPS won’t hesitate moving the national secretariat down to the state if the state government fails to see reasons why the school should be reopen in seven days from this day, we shall move our structures to demand the resumption in our own styles, several letters, consultation and consolidation have been employed before resorting to this stage. He who make a peaceful negotiation impossible makes a violent negotiation inevitable.

Having case the fox away we must return to the chick, we urge our students to be law abiding citizens, embrace peace and tolerance within and outside the polytechnic community. We should avoid any act capable of elongating our stay on campus or distract our academic activities. Student community all-round the country should be the safest and most peaceful place to stay on earth, an abode of peace, tranquility, unity and tolerance.

Signed
Comr Olugbode Damola
NAPS National PRO

OVER POPULATION IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS: THE BREEDING OF HALF BAKED GRADUATES, A SANDY FOUNDATION FOR NIGERIA FUTURE.

The establishment of Yaba technical institute back then was to ensure the production of young Nigerians who can take up middle level man power job from the whites whose dominant is obviously dangerous for our call for independence. Brilliant performance from dedicated teachings and monitored investment in the institute result the creation of a premier university in Ibadan, our today's pride as virtually all sectors in the country are being managed by our own flesh mostly scholars from our institution and very few who traveled abroad for brushing up.

Negating the essence of education and misunderstanding the needs of education, mitigating it only to be a perquisite of wealth. Nigerians now patronize educational schools with the dream of graduating to make a living from the labour market with little or no recourse to the relative benefits of such knowledge to the nations growth. Pathetically degrees are mare qualifications into job entry as relevant skills trainings follows to make such personalities functional.

The enthusiasm of getting educated at all cost, to surpass humiliation and oppression as make believe in Nigeria of today, that without a minimum of degree or it equivalent life is miserable, the cajole into exploitation and extortion of educational managers increases day in day out. Sympathetically one out of every hundred gets value for their money as institutions are crowded with overload, capital abuse of carrying capacity therefore resulting to the flush out of heated or half baked graduate into the society yearly.

School now turns profit making ventures negating the aim and mission establishing same during the days of our  colonial masters, so many private elementary schools to complement our public ones yet mass failure rocks WAEC and NECO yearly. Proceed to study any course that present itself in the higher institution just to posses the certificate and the will to admit many as possible for profit as successfully given us a crowded business enterprise as polytechnics and universities.

Higher institutions admits thousands of students for a course with a capacity less than two hundred, purchase of public address system is adopted to give fair treatment, while students wake up early and even sleeps in class to secure seats for lecture, the fear of suffocation bring lecturers late to class and ejects early enough out of the cell named classroom. Practical classes are boycotted or to be taking in ratio twenty to one machine minimally. We now have computer science graduates who finds it difficult to operate a system yet graduated with first class from the respected institutions of ours.

The present of Nigeria is bleak, what do the future holds? When what we produces are job seekers and and not entrepreneurs, we roll out engineers yearly and still battles with the production of pencils, countless scientists goes in to the labour market yearly yet Nigerians aren't technology providers. The fear of the future, the fear of the unborn strikes my heart as there exist no linkage between our schools and industries.

Standard departs our education sector on speed, holistic overhauling is required to restructure the nooks and crannies of the system, Nigeria education begs proper and adequate attention, bridging the gap between the industries and the institutions is essential and most importantly sanctions be introduced to over crowding of our institutions. Nigeria education shall be great again.

Comr Olugbode DAMOLA H
ALUTA D-MODE
NAPS National PRO