Abstract
Frequent cases of students’ unrest,
is now an ‘albatross’ in tertiary education in Nigeria. The ‘open and close
syndrome’, which characterizes tertiary education is making people to worry and
feel uncomfortable about the future of tertiary education when all hopes are centred on it as the panacea to the nation’s problems. This
paper highlights some of the past cases of students’ unrest in Nigeria
and examines the factors influencing it in the campuses. The paper further
discusses its negative effects and suggests measures towards its control and
the redeeming of the lost glory of tertiary education in the 21st
century.
