By Steve Osuji
Nigerian professors are giving a bad name to the academia. We
grew up to revere people who wear the tag 'professor' as very special kinds.
And as we went through the university, the power and aura of
professors on our campuses didn't wane. Indeed, we cherished being under their
tutelage.
I encountered a few in my journey through those rarefied corridors of learning. Who would forget in a hurry, Professors Alfred Opubor, Ebun Clark, Alaba Ogunsanwo, Onuora Nwuneli, among others, in the University of Lagos of the 1980s and early 90s.
But today in Nigeria, everything seems upside down; including
the university system and the professors therein.
If a professor is not being goaled for sexually harassing his students - in a most idiotic tango - he's being jailed for helping a rogue politician rig election.
One cannot understand how our university system crashed so low to the point that professors, even vice chancellors, are co-opted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), into a tacky and highly malleable electoral system.
