Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore has cast light on the stark inequalities in the country’s education system. He revealed that private schools boast top-notch facilities, ample resources, and excellent teaching, while public schools are often left to fend for themselves with inadequate funding, dilapidated infrastructure, and a lack of quality education.
In his latest posts on the social media platform X, Sowore pulled back the curtain on the disparities in educational resources across the country. While elite private schools like @Charterhouselag enjoy state-of-the-art facilities and are well-funded, public schools in Nigeria are in a sorry state.
Sowore’s post read, “These are the classrooms and campus of the @Charterhouselag School, a primary school in Lagos’s Lekki area, charging N42 million per annum.
“The people paying for their kids to attend this school are some of the same people building substandard school classrooms across Nigeria.
“What should not be lost on Nigerians is that these classrooms ought to be donning our public schools as the sixth largest oil-producing country in the world.
“The outrage should actually be against the Nigerian political class that ruined public education institutions and diverted the funds from there to send their own kids to expensive private schools and also build themselves mansions that are swankier than the classrooms you see here.”
Nestled in Lagos’s upscale Lekki area, Charterhouse Lagos School is a stunning institution with its elegant classrooms and sprawling campus. The tuition fee for this elite private school is a jaw-dropping N42 million, raising serious questions about the inequality in the quality of education in the country. While privileged students attending Charterhouse Lagos have access to top-notch resources and facilities, many public school students struggle in poorly maintained classrooms, a stark contrast that highlights the divide between the haves and the have-nots in the Nigerian education system.
