A Non-Governmental Organization, Reading Attitudes and Development Foundation has examined that education has problem because reading has problem. “ The various reason for the present low of education standard in Nigeria is poor disposition of student to reading.” Speaking at the seminar entitled “Toward Building Reading Attitude in students” organized by Reading Attitude and Development Foundation on Tuesday at Odi-Olowo, Ojuwoye LCDA Hall, Lagos, the Chairman of the Foundation Mr. Sulayman Akinlawon said “it is a known fact that reading attitude is fast becoming a thing of the past in the emerging world particularly among student who prefer to spend most of their time on the internet. Internet is very veritable ground for learning and studying, it has been observed that children use it mainly for other reasons like Facebooking and the likes.” Furthermore, he said reading culture is practically depreciating because students rely more on expos, microchips and the like to pass their exams instead of reading and studying which has produce great men of past years like Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka among others. Mr. Fola Alimi a guest Lecturer University of Lagos urged the student to pay attention to lectures and create the habit and have the passion for reading even after school hours. He said to bring back the value of reading depend on the parent, teachers, government and all stakeholder in the educational sector by killing the habit of parents paying for their children to pass. Alimi advised that parents, teachers and government should consciously change the attitude towards education.

By Adeniyi Adunola and Tolulope Okunlola