Aspects off the Instrumentalization of the University in Nigeria: Students' experience and the current significance of the certificate

Introduction In the period between the two world wars, the acquisition of academic qualifications quickly became institutionalized within the Nigerian society as a favoured means of climbing the social ladder. An "inflation of graduates" was already being talked about at a time when most students were yet to complete their studies outside the country. From independence in 1960, up until the beginning of the eighties, the university system experienced an extraordinary expansion. It was respons..