The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, has mentioned that Nigerian universities are more and more selling ethnic and non secular biases.
Kukah made this assertion in an interview with Come up TV on Thursday monitored by DAILY POST.
The cleric criticized what he described as a worrying pattern of declining variety and meritocracy in Nigerian universities, significantly in Northern Nigeria.
“A mosque was constructed on the College of Nigeria, Nsukka. I delivered a convocation lecture in Calabar three weeks in the past. After my lecture, the Chief Imam of the College got here to congratulate me.
“However as I communicate to you, Usman Dan Fodio, who’s over 40 years previous, Bayero College, and different universities in Northern Nigeria have determined to shut their doorways to the potential for church buildings being constructed within the universities throughout this nation.
“All this fanaticism we’re seeing is expressed in public life. If college students within the college or on the level of their rising up should not allowed to combine and interrelate, and if church buildings or mosques can’t be constructed throughout this nation, then there’s a drawback,” Kukah mentioned.
He additional said that variety and meritocracy in Nigerian universities, have continued to decrease, whereas, ethnic and non secular concerns are gaining prominence.
He mentioned, “There was a time when Ahmadu Bello College had lecturers from completely different components of the world. Now, have a look at what has occurred to our universities throughout Nigeria. Our universities have develop into simply mere incubators of ethnic jingoism.”
