ADDRESSING THE HIGH SPATE OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES AND MISCONDUCTS IN NIGERIA HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM THROUGH ETHICAL RE-ENGINEERING

Chukwudi A. Amunnadi

Abstract


The global South to which Nigeria is a micro-cosm has one thing in come which is the ravaging plague of poverty driven by negative attitudes and misconducts.  This phenomenon has continued to cripple the ability of its people to transform themselves and their environment in order to create a continuous improvement in human and physical conditions of life.  Generally vices negate progress in life, institution or society but it becomes worrisome when its spate keeps rising to an alarming proportion as is common in contemporary Nigerian higher institutions.  The implication of this ugly trend becomes very pertinent when one considers that the youth of any nation constitute the driving force of both the political and economic leadership of the future.  This is because no nation can develop or join the committee of developed nations when the majority of her youthful generations are overrun by erroneous, erratic, vanitous and corruption driven life-style. This work  therefore calls for ethical re-engineering as a tool for bridging the gap of social vices eroding the foundation of quality educational system in Nigeria higher institutions.


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