60% varsity lecturers without doctorate degrees –Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday lamented that 60 per cent of lecturers in various Nigerian universities have no doctorate degree.

The President who spoke in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, while interacting with 100 beneficiaries of the state’s scholarship programme, also commended the initiatives of Governor Seriake Dickson in the educational sector.

Our correspondent learnt that the 100 beneficiaries of the scholarship scheme were selected from rural communities and poor families in the state and sent to the top secondary schools in the country during Jonathan’s administration as the governor of the state.

They were said to have graduated from Dowen College, Lagos; Bell’s Comprehensive Secondary School, Ota; Nigerian Turkish International College, Abuja and Vale College, Ibadan.

Jonathan said he got the statistics from the National University Commission.

He, however, said the Federal Government had provided respite for the lecturers and that his administration had worked out a scholarship programme to encourage lecturers to get their doctorate degrees in any part of the world.