Analysis of Corruption Practices in Teacher Education in Universities in South-South, Nigeria

Corruption has been identified as one of the barriers against Nigeria quest for development. Whereas, the universities were created to source solutions to societal problems, it is obvious that; as things are now, they cannot fulfill such role. This is because they are said to have been infested with corruption. Specifically, the essence of this study was to find out which of the corruption practices if any, are the lecturers in teacher Education in the universities in the South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria involved. To give focus to the study, six research questions were raised and answered, while a hypothesis was formulated and tested. The 408 lecturers in the faculties of Education in 10 out of the 12 government owned universities constituted the population of the study. A sample of 204 lecturers (50%) was chosen with stratified random sampling technique. Questionnaire which was made in two parts was used to collect the data, while weighted mean, and t-test statistics were used to analyze the data and test the hypothesis respectively. Arising from the findings of the study, the lecturers were said to be involved in three out of the four areas of corruption practices covered in the study. In conclusion, four strategies were suggested for the elimination of corruption practices among lecturers in the universities.