Lecturers in Nigeria need orientation.

With Katie Rose

(No school in particular)

Sometimes I sit and wonder if we are truly in a tertiary institution or a secondary school. I guess it is only in secondary schools that students tend to fear their teachers cos' their parents have given there canes to their teachers. One can hardly say
which kind of setting he is cos' the affairs of our school is been directed as though we are in the days of our pinafore and long ironed school trousers. 

  "Go and kneel down at the department"

   "I will fail everyone of you and you will come back and offer this course in the next three years"

    "Stand on the table, you are disturbing my class"

    "Give me your lanyard, you must be a fool"

     "I will slap your face if you try to struggle with me"

This and many more are the voices of our so called learned lecturers in Nigeria. Are we to say these guys are not literate enough or they need another orientation on what it means to be a lecturer. I think someone needs to tell them that we are not in 70s neither are we in 80s. 

   I have gone to many schools outside and within the country, I have watched many films displaying a true academic setting and recognising the lecturers have never for once been a mountain of problem but reverse is the case here at our prestigious country.  I could remember when we were in part one (name of school withheld) then and we are to offer a-1 unit course,we did not actually recognize the lecturer when he came in cos' truth be told, he looked rough like an unkempt village watchman and not until he introduced himself as a lecturer, we never knew he was to lecture us. It is only in our country here that you mistook lecturers for 

operators or library attendants. Yet they will come to class to wrought havoc on innocent students. I guess these guys watched 3 idiots.

   I think majority of the lecturers in our beloved nation need to be oriented again on what the job lecturing truly mean. You get to class only to meet lecturers exchanging words with students over lanyard, pulling student's lanyard and arguing over foolscap sheets. It is only in our nation that lecturers dress as though they are going for a village meeting. It is only in our nation that lecturers gain inspiration only from beautiful ladies and organize tutorials for them at their closets. 

    I think these guys don't really know what it means to be

 a lecturer. I need someone to please tell them to take a tour to other tertiary institutions in other country,  so as to learn from other cooperate lecturers ranging from the way they dress, the way they relate and  talk to students, the way they compose themselves in class and many more so as to stop disgracing our school when our friends come visiting from other school and so as to stop embarrassing students all around the campus. They are also human beings, it is only the hair and lanyard that is different.