WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE...

When all hope is gone All hope can be considered gone, when a look into the future is nothing but vague, such situations can be best described as hopeless. In a country like Nigeria where change has become the order of the day and the hope of the hopeful, now, hopeless, used to reside in the acedemia to speak and lead by examples. Because University dons have overtime been critics of the society especially the political class, keeping them on their toes. This is because the academia is known to be informed and objective in all their ways. However, since change has come, it seem the university system is not immune to the change syndrome and the academia have soon borrowed the behaviour of politicians to have double standard, practicing not what they preach but only that which is convenient. No wonder the Federal University Lokoja would in the student's handbook have a rule on school fees payment but practice the convenient by threatening students who have not paid theeir fees just six weeks into the semester. One would ask have the university become the same with politicians, who defect from one party to another for selfish reasons? Or has the change mantra of this administration caught up with the university? We had hopes in the universities to save this country but when they cannot keep to their words. I wonder if it is not yet hopeless to have such hopes.