Please Note: This piece of writing only highlights the negative aspects from the author’s point of view.


Hand-outs or lecture notes as the case maybe, has been in existence since time immemorial, from the inception of higher institution in Nigeria. They are meant to as serve as teaching aids to the lecturer and reference materials to the students. They are the essential ingredients needed to season a student’s academic life. No student can successful excel without these hand-outs as they enable him/her have a broader view of what was taught by the lecturer and in. most cases gives the student a-head-start on what would be taught. As the saying goes “Readers are Leaders”, but these days reverse is the case; hand-outs are now a means of massive extortions from lecturers to students with total impunity. Its has become a means by which lecturers become instantaneous millionaires at the expense of students who come from low income earning families. These hand-outs come in outrageous amounts, making it difficult for an average student to afford them. This makes one ponder if education is really for all? Funny enough those who can afford these hand-outs rarely read nor go through them whereas those who are eager to have them can not afford them.

Not withstanding the horrific sanctions placed on defaulters by the lecturer; some go as far as banning the defaulting student from attending their lectures or even deducting significant marks from their examination score. Instance of have been cited in universities were lecturers refuse students from writing their test and repeatedly deducted marks from students for not buying their hand-out, these lecturers go as far as making students spill one year for refusing to buy there hand-out. The most ridiculous factor about this handouts is they most time are poorly, hurriedly written, unorganised, do not relate to the course been taught and have little or no significant instantaneous knowledge to add to the reader.

In some Nigerian institution hand-outs are vehemently imposed on students. Educational materials are only necessary to obtain but should not be made compulsory. No doubt some institution have succeeded in totally curbing this menace, while others have countless warned lecturers to desist from making their lecture note compulsory but yet some ill minded lecturers still perpetrate this crimes secretly. Now the question is; education is expensive, yes we all know that but should the masses be deprived quality education as a result of greed What is the essence of the library if students are compelled to buy this books



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i wonder ooo.nd sum wil even sell lik 2-4 per semsester