Mismanagement of Nigeria’s Resources - Military (Education) Spending
The topmost world ranked university in Nigeria today is the University of Ibadan ranked at a distant 1074 followed by UNN at 2181, OAU at 2224, Covenant University at 2245 and ABU at 2641 according to ranking web of universities website currently and a recent slide from the gate crashing of UI into the top 1000 in 2016. It was not always this way, Nigerian Universities especially of the first generation were previously world ranked and affiliated to Universities in London and attracted expatriate and foreign students across the globe especially from neighboring African countries like Ghana. That was until the military seized power in 1966 ushering in the next decades of a steady deterioration of funding and management of civilian institutions particularly the civilian education sector. It did not particularly help that as the country restructured over the years each successive administration felt compelled to establish new Universities both at the federal and state level along with col...