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‘Education puts Nigerians off hard work’
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“The more educated Nigerians are, the more they believe in the power of ‘connections’ and the less they believe hard work is the critical ingredient for progress in our society,” said Robert Tortora, the chief methodologist behind the new poll.
“Conversely, the least educated Nigerians believe most that hard work is the single most important factor in economic advancement in our society,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
University graduates are an elite minority in Nigeria. Most of the 140 million Nigerians have only basic education. The poll was conducted in November among 2,000 Nigerians aged 15 and above from all over the multi-ethnic, religiously mixed nation.
Asked what was the single most important factor to succeed in Nigeria, 53 percent of people who had only been to primary school placed hard work in first place. The percentage dropped to 43 percent among university graduates.
Tortora did not give detailed figures to back up his comment on how the more educated Nigerians believed more in personal connections.
Opinion polls are almost unheard of in Nigeria. But a former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has launched a polling unit with Gallup to try and ensure that the voice of ordinary Nigerians is heard by government and businesses.
“Conversely, the least educated Nigerians believe most that hard work is the single most important factor in economic advancement in our society,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
University graduates are an elite minority in Nigeria. Most of the 140 million Nigerians have only basic education. The poll was conducted in November among 2,000 Nigerians aged 15 and above from all over the multi-ethnic, religiously mixed nation.
Asked what was the single most important factor to succeed in Nigeria, 53 percent of people who had only been to primary school placed hard work in first place. The percentage dropped to 43 percent among university graduates.
Tortora did not give detailed figures to back up his comment on how the more educated Nigerians believed more in personal connections.
Opinion polls are almost unheard of in Nigeria. But a former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has launched a polling unit with Gallup to try and ensure that the voice of ordinary Nigerians is heard by government and businesses.
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