IRONY OF MUSIC EDUCATION IN A RECESSED NIGERIAN ECONOMY

Prince Effiong

Abstract


Nigerian in recent years has been experiencing terrible economic recession. This phenomenon has negatively affected all sectors of Nigerian economy, and has brought untold hardship, unemployment, indebtedness, starvation, salary shortfall among others, to Nigerian citizens. The education sector, which houses the pupils, children, students and youths from nursery schools to universities; and forms the greatest by Nigeria population, is equally affected. The state of education in Nigeria during the present crunch of economic recession is deplorable and pathetic. The impediment is so deep; that it makes one to often ponder and ask whether the educational sector in Nigerian economy would ever experience a “sound renaissance†and grandiose flow of resources for thorough display of academic excellence in all its programmes?  
In Nigerian education system, especially in public schools, professionally trained and excellent teachers without good payment (salary), without funding of schools, without infrastructural development among others, equals constant strike actions and low graded (half baked) production of graduates.

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