Educators From Nigeria

"These B.A English, B.Sc political Science, B.Sc Botany, B.Sc Chemistry and B.Sc Zoology got full accreditation while B.Sc Biotechnology and B.Sc Computer Science got interim accreditation."

"We sympathise with the students, who need a path to walk to the classrooms, library, clinic, everywhere that gets flooded. We see this as a major challenge in the university."

"The clinical trial will commence at the Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital Kano very soon."

"I thanked TETFund for providing the necessary funding to execute noble projects in the school. They have gone a long way in accelerating our development to the level we are today and securing of accreditation of the programmes from the National Universities Commission (NUC)."

"The university has signed an important MoU with Morgan State University, Baltimore USA, the scope of the agreement covers students exchange, Faculty staff exchange programmes for teaching and research, conferences and workshops, exchange of academic programme materials, joint distance learning and research and publication."

"I don’t shy away from responsibilities but for me, it is important to be clear on the sort of responsibility."

"The challenges are many, actually. Let say that my predecessor has done quite well during his stay in the five years of the establishment of the university, because it was during his period that all the structures you have seen were put on ground."

"The universities are mostly run on committee system and this should be encouraged. But when I came, I discovered there were many committees that were redundant and some non-existent."

"Besides, we have accessed a lot of our intervention funds, because during the course of the last interaction we had with TETFund officials, we have seen areas we have not accessed and why, but suffice it to say that most of our normal interventions have been completed."

"My poverty and environmental advocacy here has to do with listening to the soft voice of the silent majority who are peaceful, those who are ready for non-violent solution to crises, especially hapless women whose voice will never be heard because their cries cannot be projected above the slumps in their immediate environment."

"I guess so, because all I knew was studies. From the very beginning, I was focused. I knew what I wanted and I pursued and got what I wanted."

"427 students are graduating with degrees in different discipline‎s. “54 have made first class, 223 obtained second class upper division, 149 obtained second class lower division while one got the third class”."

"I am investing in you, this is where the children of successful and important people shop, this is where my grandchildren will shop as a matter of right because you will be able to bring them here. So, I held on to that. Kingsway, to me was a dream of economic empowerment. It was a dream of handing over a better future to my children."

"The university has finalised arrangement for the establishment of the faculty of management science September this year, the programmes that we shall mount in the faculty include B.Sc. Taxation, Business Management, Accounting, Banking and Finance and Actuarial Science by 2019."

"The university is proposing four new programmes in the Faculty of Management Sciences, apart from the five existing programmes."

"Equally, the students’ population has steadily increased from 202 in 2012 to the current number of 9,491."

"I can only say that I was focused and knew what I wanted. I did not know anything about business; the only I knew is studies, so are my siblings. We were 10 in number and out of all of us, nobody has below a Masters degree and we are all doing well."

"The student who emerged winner to beat other 95 participating countries was a First Class graduate of the Department of Environmental Management and Toxicology."

"No, I don’t feel intimidated at all, because I have been working for several years now and I have been used to being alone in the midst of men and I have always gained the support of the men. They have never looked at me as a woman."

"I live by certain guiding principles, the things I cannot do openly, I will not do in private. I live by the principle of selfless leadership, service and integrity."

"The anti-diabetic drug has gotten ethical approval for the clinical trial by the Kano state hospital management board."

"For example, I rose through the ranks in my teaching career in the university, starting as Assistant Lecturer through to my current professorial position and I headed all the units/departments that were related to my field, inkling being a Dean. Honestly, I enjoyed the support of every other persons and majority of them are men. Besides, I have the support of my family and friends, so I really don ‘t feel threatened at all. I know that God is with me, because wherever I am and whatever I become, it is His doing and I am confident that He will not take me to a palace where I will be abused."

"I thanked TETFund for providing the necessary funding to execute noble projects in the school."

"Saddling our students with worthless cardboard papers in the name of certificates has never been the objective of Federal University Dutse."

"Managing and consolidating on the foundation of a university that is so young owed a great challenges which is commonly traceable to the dearth of resources that typically characterises our economy in the last few years."

"Secondly, we have a challenge of accommodation. The university started on a temporary campus and now, we only have one hostel each for the males and females, and the university is growing rapidly."

"By September, we are going to admit a new set of students and new session would commence, but we don’t have places to accommodate them, because hostels are capital-intensive projects and are yet to be completed.Unless we get the funds to complete the two hostels, there will be a big problem. Inadequate office accommodation and lecture rooms are also major challenges. Because of the increasing population, you have to recruit and increase programmes and offices are not available."

"So, majority of the students live outside the campus. Most parents don’t like their daughters to be outside the campus, but there is nothing we can do about it."

"TETFund does not go into hostel and road construction on campuses. So, these two major challenges are out and have to be the responsibility of the Federal Government to provide."

"But in the other components, which TETFund intervenes, if you go through the campus, you will discover that most of the structures on ground carry the label of TETFund, showing that without TETFund, this university would not have been anywhere or grown as it is now. So, we can attribute the success of the university to TETFund intervention."

"There is moral poverty, there is emotional poverty. Illiteracy is a brand of educational poverty. There is poverty arising from lack of awareness, just as there is poverty occasioned by the non-possession of the material requirements for comfortable living."

"I started in 1965 as astudent and that was nice, it was enjoyable, the facilities were okay and we enjoyed the attention of our lecturers, you know, we had very small classes and we interacted with them, they kept note of us, they knew what we were doing. I mean there was no lecturer who didn’t know who and who were in the groups. And I graduated in 1968 with a BA in English at that time, 2nd Class Upper Division, the only one in the class that year."

"As DVC academic, I chaired over 25 committees and I didn’t have any major issue. So, I think it’s a question of one’s personality, one’s management style and as I said, I have been in university for quite some time. So, I have paid my dues."

"I never wavered for one minute about whether I was in the right position or not, because right from when I was young, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn’t know that I would be a university teacher. The people that inspired me at that time were the young ladies that came from the UCI, University College, Ibadan then on vacation job in my school in Yejide Girls Grammar School. You know, they came to teach us during the long vacation, this was in the 60s. And, I was so impressed with the way they carried themselves, the way they taught us. Some of our teachers were early graduates of UCI, so I just knew that was what I wanted to do and I knew I was going to teach English."

"We would ensure that the university becomes a service to the community and to national development. I would like to say with all sincerity that establishing TETFund was the best thing that had happened to higher education in Nigeria."

"Well, becoming a professor, yes. Because if you joined the academic staff in the university, you’ll be looking forward to becoming a professor but the Deputy Vice-Chancellor thing, it wasn’t on my mind at all."

"I was dealing with the entire community with a wider forum; I think people liked the way I went about things."

"We can start by reviving our traditional cash crops, exploiting our local raw materials and calling for partners, especially in areas where we have competitive advantage."

"Although Professor Emerita Odejide retired in 2011, but she continued supervising students in her department – Communication and Language Arts."

"They just selected and appointed Vice-Chancellor to takeover from professor Fatima Batul mukhtar after the confirmation by President Muhammadu Buhari."

"I didn’t even consider becoming a writer until, I recall, feeling overwhelmed with the prevailing situation at the time I started, having just returned to the country. It is; therefore, let’s call it, accidental good choice at the time of idleness."

"Women are always forced to prove their worth within the stringent boundaries of male-dominated profession like…"

"Discipline was a major thing in our home, especially from my mum; she just didn’t take any nonsense. She was a loving person but liked people to be punctual, do whatever was assigned to them on time and without excuses. I think that must have rubbed off on my siblings and me."

"The main task is to put in place a broad environment that can attract people and in which creativity and entrepreneurship can flourish."

"There is the notion that women are not supposed to be in the public sphere. Basically, they are supposed to be in the private space, looking after their children, being in the kitchen and so on. So, the whole idea is that women are not supposed to be in the limelight; they are to be seen and not to be heard."

"Entrepreneurship culture is an environment, where someone is motivated to innovate, to create and take risks."

"He encouraged me to fly, to spread my wings. I was determined to fly, I was not going to allow anything to kill my dreams and fortunately, he shared that."

"I was the first born of the family and was dearly loved by my grandparents and my mum. It was like a punishment but I knew that was the way out for me."

"I happened to come from grandmothers and a mother who were not apologetic about being women."

"I was born over 58 years ago to an average family, my father was a teacher and my mother worked in the hospital. I was born in Ile Ogbo, Osun State."