Our leaders gorge themselves on the marrow of a nation starving for knowledge, sending their children to foreign schools while leaving Nigerian universities to rot.
None of this makes a foreign degree evidence of a crime on its own. But when the arithmetic of a legitimate public salary cannot explain the cost of the lifestyle, and when the same officials who send their children abroad preside over the collapse of the universities their citizens are left to attend, the question of where the money came from is not an accusation. It is simply the next line of inquiry that a functioning democracy owes its people.
Our leaders gorge themselves on the marrow of a nation starving for knowledge, sending their children to foreign schools while leaving Nigerian universities to rot. Lecture halls crumble, laboratories remain barren, and hostels overflow with despair, yet officials parade abroad as patrons of education. ASUU's cries echo against deaf ears, agreements are signed only to be broken, and the nation's brightest minds flee in droves. This is not mere neglect; it is betrayal, a deliberate strangling of the very institutions meant to secure Nigeria's tomorrow.
Olayinka Tinubu, the son of Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently graduated from an institution abroad, earning a Master of Science (MSc) in International Financial Management from the University of Surrey on April 15, 2026.
