ABSU: Running a university as a local village contraption, by Owei Lakemfa

Professor Nnamdi Chinwendu Nwaeze holds three degrees in economics, all with distinction. When, on August 11, 2026, lecturers of the Abia State University, ABSU, where he professes, went on strike, he applied his economics profession by comparing the N400,000 some of the lecturers are paid with the income of the commercial tricyclist who makes an average N15,000 daily. His simple calculation was that the tricyclist, who requires no educational qualification for his work beyond riding skill, earns more than a lecturer with multiple degrees. Yet the lecturer is entrusted with developing the intellectual, educational, social and moral future of Abia youths and, by extension, that of Nigerian...