Mass failures in public examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council, WAEC, National Examination Council, NECO, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, have been attributed to neglect of public education in Nigeria.
Former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, who made assertion at an event in Abuja, also decried the appalling condition of Nigerians.
He also advised the National Assembly to come up with laws that would better the lot of the Nigerian populace instead of anti-people laws and policies that would further impoverish the citizenry.
The Christian cleric lamented the Nigerian situation where children of the poor in rural communities are still learning under trees after about 64 years of Independence of Nigeria as a sovereign nation.
Onaiyekan, who compared the school leaving certificate in the past to the first degree now, and urged the government to fix the education sector, while paying adequate attention to the delivery of quality education in rural areas.