Introduction
Nigeria is underdeveloped because her citizens are still mentally and economically colonized. Political
upheavals, economic depression, and unemployment have frustrated development in Nigeria. It is hopeful that a
lasting solution to these problems would be achieved through education. Many people have defined education.
Okeke (2007) defined education as the process individuals undergo through the acquisition of knowledge, skills,
abilities, and attitudes that are necessary for effective living in the society. It then follows that education should
prepare people to be enterprising as they may be employees and entrepreneurs/employers. In Nigeria, today, the
above-named definition of education is farfetched. Graduates find it very difficult and impracticable to get job
or to handle their own business or be self-employed. The SIWES (students’ industrial work experience scheme),
which was introduced by the National Policy on Education, has not helped the graduates to be self-employed or
employable. There is an urgent need to overhaul our educational system. To this end, STM education should be
able to solve the problem of education. It is supposed to provide the basic tools for industrialization and
national development (Maduabum, 1999). It should bring economic and social development by providing
employment and improve the welfare of the recipients (Aguele & Agwagah, 2007). It should foster the students’
habit of scientific attitudes and help them to acquire skills of constructive reasoning, effective mental activity,
and imaginative thinking. It is only STM (science, technology, and mathematics) education that can help
Nigerian youths become confident and disposed to survive the harsh social and economic conditions of our
times. The question is: Has STM education been able to achieve its objectives? The obvious answer is “No”
because according to Ayogu (2007), science education has a lot of problems in Nigeria. Some of the problems