well.. one of my cousins wasnt bothered by the strikes... she used it to get married..... 
so i guess she doesn't need a degree anymore?..well she's lucky, but the men won't get away that easily?
as it is, right now, the educational system in naija is a ridiculous irony. our parents send us to school at an early age, agitate for skipping grades privilege; almost every 'smart' person skips primary 6, by the time they reach jss1 they're 9 or 10 years old; whereas students at the equivalent grade level in western systems are 12-13 years old! Any naija kid moved over to the uk or north america would probably find himself/herself 3 years younger than other classmates. At age 15-16, we're done with education, only be halted by the jamb and then later by the university strikes. what a waste.
as the saying goes, an idle mind is the devil's workshop.as the article reveals, the would-be students plus desperation are potential armed-robbers and prostitutes, in a country where graduates already have a tough time getting a job. The educationaly standards and facilities are already poor because we in nigeria have not yet learned the concept of maintenance.
The solution to all these problems (and a host of infrastructural problems like the infernal NEPA) is simple. over the years, the government has gone great lengths to prove that it should have no business doing business. Privatise the universities, subsidize the student fees, and this sort of thing would not compromise the nations's human resources. Privatise NEPA and people may well stop wrecking the transformer by turnign a room into a freezer.
