DILEMMA OF THE NIGERIAN STUDENT....thinking aloud

Isn’t it odd to want something so badly it hurts only for you to have it and desperately ache to opt out with as much fervor?
That is the exact replica of the plight of students in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.
One may wonder why the state of affairs has culminated to such degradable extent despite the rate of students who jostle for admittance into these schools of learning, at all cost and sweat.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board annually records a record-breaking number of applicants who vie for the seemingly utopian position of studentship in the little sparse rooms offered by Nigeria’s higher institutions of learning.
Some despite being demoralized from the failures recorded from previous attempts, even strive again just to get higher education.
However the answer lies in the questions, “what is the cause? Who is to be blamed? Is it the management of these tertiary institutions, the often ill-prepared students or the government herself? With these in view, who however shares the larger blame?
The students, all starry eyed with novel dreams and ideas of tertiary institution as a life of freedom outside the supposed captive room of their parents clutches, usually get the shock of their existence with the realization that all that glitters truly is not gold.
Their earlier misconceptions, garnered from the frivolous lifestyles of peers who seemingly had got admittance before them, make them ill-prepared for the expectations of campus life and are usually shattered with responsibilities saddled upon them by the academic environment.
You get to wake up earlier than usual, prepare for the day, struggle through classes and try to maintain an equilibrium between solving assignments and living the illusion you have been made to believe. Hence, reality dawns on them that admittance into tertiary institutions is not as arduous as staying in.
Additionally, the school management thickens the plot. The time tables are unrealistic, the school fees are unaffordable and worse, the educational facilities required are either lacking or completely unavailable.
Imagine an institution where the libraries are unequipped, handouts are expensive and imposed, assignments and projects are piling up, learning is done in stress, sexual harassment are mounting, insecurity from cultism is at its peak and the management are unresponsive nor proactive to the educational crisis of the students. What choice is there for such student than to find an alternative in opting out?
Meanwhile, the government also share a chunk in the messy situation.
The polytechnics, colleges of education and universities are business centres where little investments are put in but profits are reaped unjustifiably.
State owned and federal schools are often left by the government to cater for the welfare and payment of their academic and non-academic workers salaries and wages.
Educational facilities are not supplied and education is left to survive on mere trails scavenged by the school management.
Therefore in a situation whereby the academic situation is inimical to the students welfare, where desperation sets in to excel but without success, the students prefer the outside walls to the fiery furnace of academic travails in Nigerian tertiary institutions.