Nigeria Attached Too Much Priority To University Degrees – Bishop Kukah

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has observed that too much emphasis on a university degree in a developing country like Nigeria signifies post-colonial mentality and a misplaced priority that the country must do away with if we are to get out of our current worrisome unemployment status.
The clergyman also stated that a good number of the universities in the West have hit gold in Nigeria because of the rising desperation for a university degree in the country.
According to reports from Leadership, the social commentator lamented that a consumer country like Nigeria does not have to accord too much priority to university degrees, stating that Nigerians should take a cue from their fellow countrymen, the Igbo, who have achieved a considerable degree of self-sufficiency as well as comfort arising from their entrepreneurial prowess and not necessarily university degrees.
Bishop Kukah who said that everybody does not necessarily have to go to the university before he or she is considered functional, noted that there was disarray in the educational policy being operated in the country, hence, the polytechnics offering courses such as mass communication and a host of others, straying from their original intent.
"We lost the script somewhere along the line, and the idea of a university degree smacks of post-colonial mentality and it is only in Nigeria that you find a man with seven children who believes that all the seven children must become graduates." Bishop Kukah said.