President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to convey meeting of Nigerian past heads of governments with a view to proferring solution to the problems bedelving the  country.

The President, Educational Legacy College, Dr Ibraheem Saka Ominiwe while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday, said this became necessary considering the effects of these problems on the country's socio-economic development.

"Jonathan should immediately call his predecessors to a meeting where the problems would be discussed and solution profer before it is too late. "As the adage goes, where there are elders in a town that, such town will never go astray, a stitch in time saves nine," he added.

Speaking on the issue of abducted school girls, he said "if you train a female girl, you had trained a nation. It is in this light that I plead with them, to please release these students safely; for the sake of God and Humanity. Two wrongs can never make a right."

The educationist while noting the abysmal performance of the students in the just concluded UTME, said that it was the reflection of the state of the general wellness of the educational system in Nigeria.

He said one should thank the management of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) for ensuring that the 2014 did not leak.

According to him, if there was leakages, definitely we would not be able to know the true picture of the quality of secondary school graduates who are potential UTME candidates each year.

The educationist who disagreed with the claim that the standard of education was falling, said the standard was improving day-in-day out. "You will agree with me that looking at the subject content, most topics that were taught at 200 level in the university about two decades ago had been incorporated into SSCE syllabus in the secondary school," he said.

While noting that teachers were not adequately renumerated to serve as moral booster, he said most of the Nigerian students were pre-occupied with side attractions like watching foreign league and films which were non-academic and thus counter productive. He warned that the moment the education system collapses, the whole Nigeria would collapse because the industry was the feeder sector to all other sectors.

He stressed the need to revolutionise the sector so as to be on the path of restructuring the country towards growth and development.