{"id":160467,"date":"2019-10-15T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160467"},"modified":"2019-10-15T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:10:19","slug":"why-soyinka-should-be-blamed-for-poor-state-of-nigerias-education-omokri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160467","title":{"rendered":"Why Soyinka should be blamed for poor state of Nigeria’s education – Omokri"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement by Nobel Laurete, Prof Wole Soyinka that Nigeria\u2019s educational system is nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n

Soyinka on Sunday at the University of Lagos, Akoka, during the presentation of a play, \u2018Folly of Men said education in Nigeria is horrific, adding that the country is in trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in serious trouble, education wise in this country. Let me not kid you; it\u2019s horrifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was why I was happy about the initiative of creating a model school and trying to resurrect this Government College and present it as the ideal. We are really very low, education wise,\u201d Soyinka lamented.<\/p>\n

Omokri, reacting blamed Soyinka for the poor state of education in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

The former presidential spokesman said Soyinka is part of the trouble in education and responsible for the present condition after he asked Nigerians to reject Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n

Omokri on his Twitter page wrote: \u201cWole Soyinka says Nigerian education is in trouble. Soyinka is part of the trouble.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked Nigerians to reject Goodluck Jonathan, who budgeted \u20a6424 billion for education, for General Buhari who budgeted just \u20a648 billion. What did he expect from Affidavit holder?\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-president, Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to a statement by Nobel Laurete, Prof Wole Soyinka that Nigeria\u2019s educational system is nothing to write home about. Soyinka on Sunday at the University of Lagos, Akoka, during the presentation of a play, \u2018Folly of Men said education in Nigeria is horrific, adding that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,1,3,4],"tags":[11480,2054,13440,527],"class_list":["post-160467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-nigeria-2","tag-education","tag-omokire","tag-wole-soyinka"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}