A lecturer at Yaba College of Technology, Ben Akponine Samuel has said that academic success is interconnected to conducive environment and lecturer welfare.

Samuel said this during the visit of ND 1 and ND 3 students of the school to Rutam House, headquarters of The Guardian.

He said the visit was to get the students familiarised with how the media organisation works.

Speaking on the educational sector in Nigeria, he said: “There is a lot of problems in the educational sector and there is a whole lot the government should do. Lecturers” welfare is still a big issue that needs to be looked into.

The learning environment, needs an upgrade. We need a conducive environment to teach and the students’ need a conducive environment to learn, an environment that is learning friendly; if the environment is not suitable for the students to learn, what a lecturer will do will not yield the needed results.

Speaking also, a student, Emmanuel Aruna, said: “This visit is an eye opener for us, it’s going to bring us more into the field of newspaper publications. Coming to an environment like The Guardian helps us to expand our horizons and also think outside our present state as students, it brings us into real life experience.

“We have been exploring a lot of practical aspects of education in Yaba Tech, taking a lot of measures in making sure that we get a lot practicals and this is a evidence, aside this, we also have different measure to make sure that we get practicals such as putting us in groups, peering us up, doing presentations.

“The Nigerian media landscape in it sense is still in a phase of evolvement and I believe that with this kind of space where people get practical knowledge will help contribute to helping the Nigerian media move forward.

“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come into play and it’s going to affect the media space a lot so, it’s not enough to be media partitional, we must look for ways to impact the nation.