A Town is right in his post but not the Federal government.

The reason why I said that is because the idea of making people pay well for education is not flawed however the decision to make people pay dearly when no other thing is working in the society is very wrong.

It is just like purchasing a set of new tyres for your car when your brakes are in a very bad condition.

Its true that in US, college education is for the rich and privileged but almost every other thing works fine. Those people who are not rich enough or privileged enough to go to college still get the kind of job that will make them happy in life.

But here in naija, if you have not been to the university and you dont have enough cash to set up yourself with something, then you are already condemned.

So my brethren of nairaland, do not crucify A town, what he said is not so bad if it were to be in an ideal society.

A-Town (AJEGUNLE TOWN GUY) unlike someone saying u should be stoned death @ village sqr, I suggest u'd be just handed over to MEND. U av a heart of stone, JEEESUS. Infact frm ur analysis I don't think u eva saw de 4walls of the University urself. Abegi Nairaland should upgrade their system in such a way it'll not be accessible 2pple in PSYCHIATRIC HOMES. 'We r d LEADERS of 2morrow', I can't imagine wat it'll b like if u r to be one someday.

I think we must have a saboteur in this Nairaland! He gives feedback to the government on comments we make about their folly.
Am I the only one that has noticed the trend?

The more we complain about these government officials and their prepostrous policies, the more they dish out worst ones.
Maybe we should just ignore them and any new comedy they decide to act for some time, then they will be forced to put a stop to these outrageous inovations they create every day.

[color=#990000][/color] nigerian universities is on fire, they dont want us to read again ooooooooooo!!!! pls let me ask president yaradua where did he study (*shey he even go school, if he go common chicken pox no go last for im body now for the past *God knows* years) and how much did he pay

this is just like universities in UK and rest of west world where most people can not afford the fees too high and over half of young people don't attend however the locals have so many alternative to success, but naija no uni no life, i know students that graduated nigeria and became somebody without much money as long as they know how to manage and the fees are very cheap but if it rises now how will people attend and graduate

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whiteroses:

why did benemolu upload him picture

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philip0906:

him babe tell am say hi b fine boy.

lmao

Which way Nigeria? Just 4 network news, Min. Of Education, MASTER Sam Egwu denies the allegation.

180,000 ain,t that huge, if the Government gonna create side jobs for the students,but with what i,m witnessing that ain,t gonna happen, i,m joking or is it? Here the goverment tax the rich and the working class to sponsor others without help.  ain,t nigerians  paying tax?, is our oil dough no more runing? why most they make the student pay? i got my Education for free here.

@ oge4real, I suggest u provide us wit de names of those alleged SABOTEURS on Nairaland so we can take them to OKIJA shrine or rather to Otunba Gbenga Daniel house and make them pledge their ALLIGIENCE 2us.

@ oge4real, I suggest u provide us wit de names of those alleged SABOTEURS on Nairaland so we can take them to OKIJA shrine or rather to Otunba Gbenga Daniel house and make them pledge their ALLIGIENCE 2us.

A-town has a little point but please hear me out.

technical and entrepreneurship skills should be provided free for those who need it but university tuition fees should not be increase.
If entrepreneurship skills are taught to people for free then alot of people wouldn't need to go to universities cos there will still be opportunities for them with or without education.

So instead of increasing college tuition to scare the unserious and poor ones away, entrepreneurship and technical skill acquisition and traing should be free for those interested,

for this to work there has to be,

1- constant power supply
2- banks that are willing and able to give loans to people with good plans.
3- Government subsidy.

IF these 3 things are available, then we are on our way to economic prosperity.

the government is just a liability. they don't provide anything, life is harsh just coz of their ineffiency, you have to provide virtually everything and to think they want us to pay tax and now this,

I hear from the "grapevine" that Uncle Sam Egwus's "KITE" no ey fly again o!

What bothers me most is that those that try most hard to price education out of the reach of the average man are those who never paid a dime, for their own education.

They went to good schools (when schools were good) and then proceeded abroad, all on GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP!

So, would God forgive them that they try to take away from others, what they enjoyed in their own days? NOoooooo.

SHEER WICKEDNESS UNDER THE GUISE OF "QUALITY IMPROVEMENT"! wey de quality sef?

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What do u xpect when their ultimate goal is to c a complete colapse of the university system for the common masses. over 80% of political appointees have their children schooling abroad. and over 50% of them are co-owners of one private university or another. They should be ashamed of themselves when our heros made education free at all level with with free good meals and almost all of them as beneficiaries. today, they can't sustain what our heros built. SHAME ON THEM. This is the case of chop break pot.

Can somebody get me out of this? Which kind country be this? All these our leaders they mad? I have never supported the militants for any reason before. But if this could be another reason why they should start kidnapping the children of these foolish leaders, militants make una carry go. And before you release their children, get your own share of the money they have stolen, and please force them to give scholarship to just 100 people in their communities. By the times they calculate the cost of paying N180,000 for 100 students, I'm sure they would feel it, even if its just a little.

Im sorry, if it seems I am not making sense here. But for sure, these people don't care about the poor in Nigeria. If they have their way, they could eradicate the poor by death. Wetin now?

So it's the students who have to suffer because the ones in charge can't seem to keep their hands out of the cookie jar?

anyone who has that amount of money should be attending a private school and not some strike stricken institution.

this is just like universities in UK and rest of west world where most people can not afford the fees too high and over half of young people don't attend however the locals have so many alternative to success, but naija no uni no life, i know students that graduated nigeria and became somebody without much money as long as they know how to manage and the fees are very cheap but if it rises now how will people attend and graduate

there is something called student loans in the west. some european countries are pretty socialist when it comes to education.   

hiking fees without financing is horror.

The only person that has made rel sense here is A-town. Do you people even know the reasons and basis for free tuition in Nigeria? Is it for ou to graduate, marry and sit in your husban's house or travel abroad and use our government funded education to serve another country. Tuition is expensive anywhere in the world. iu see no reason why Nigeria should 'do' father christmas with education and get nothing in return.

we can't sponsor cultists and prostitutes to college just to tuck a certificate somewhere, using our university system as a medium to just grow up. It should all end. Scholarships are there for those that have that much intelligence but cannot afford 180K per session. There are millions of candidates applying for university admission everyday of which only a couple hundred thousands can be admitted. Price will sift the wheat from the shaft and the others will seek and acquire scholaships. What happened to y'all sense of a free economy? So when it favours you it's aye and when it doesn't it's nay? Please be real.

and for those of y'all who want to rant and curse, God ounish you even before you reply. I'm here for you.

I support this 100%, but on just one thing.
Before government starts this:
Social Security CARD, this will guarantee every Nigerian citizen undeniable right to attend college on loans and pay back years after graduation. This is how they do it everywhere around the world.

Then, we need to take Taxes serious. The money generated from taxes is enough for state government to provide social welfares "roads, housing projects, bridges, flyovers, modern state schools, e.t.c." This idea is so great (if there is additional oversight on it to prevent the looters or embezzlers) it will improve our standard of living by 40% within just 5 years. Before tax, I think SSC come first, which will be given to every citizen of Nigeria.

nex:

The only person that has made rel sense here is A-town. Do you people even know the reasons and basis for free tuition in Nigeria? Is it for ou to graduate, marry and sit in your husban's house or travel abroad and use our government funded education to serve another country. Tuition is expensive anywhere in the world. iu see no reason why Nigeria should 'do' father christmas with education and get nothing in return.

we can't sponsor cultists and prostitutes to college just to tuck a certificate somewhere, using our university system as a medium to just grow up. It should all end. Scholarships are there for those that have that much intelligence but cannot afford 180K per session. There are millions of candidates applying for university admission everyday of which only a couple hundred thousands can be admitted. Price will sift the wheat from the shaft and the others will seek and acquire scholaships. What happened to y'all sense of a free economy? So when it favours you it's aye and when it doesn't it's nay? Please be real.

and for those of y'all who want to rant and curse, God ounish you even before you reply. I'm here for you.

You are right, but government needs to create avenue before imposing that. Remember, majority of our parents could not save that amount at the end of diligently working year!
Let government creates a students' loan scheme, where every rightful citizen of Nigeria can get funds to attend college and pay back on installment plans after graduation. Then, the excellent students can have total package free college rides.
This is not the issues of sponsoring cultists and prostitutes to college just to tuck a certificate somewhere, using our university system as a medium to just grow up.
If government did not provide that means, I bet you, cultists and prostitutes will get admitted first, because of their affluent backgrounds!

ibelab:

180,000 ain,t that huge, if the Government gonna create side jobs for the students,but with what i,m witnessing that ain,t gonna happen, i,m joking or is it? Here the goverment tax the rich and the working class to sponsor others without help. ain,t nigerians paying tax?, is our oil dough no more runing? why most they make the student pay? i got my Education for free here.

Bro, everybody needs to pay tax. It will be 5% on all consumer products (food, clothes, shoes, e.t.c.) and 8% of luxury (like cars, houses e.t.c.).
This helps government to collect money back from greedy Nigerians who hoard money and never pay nothing back to society.

okokomeji:

Bro, everybody needs to pay tax. It will be 5% on all consumer products (food, clothes, shoes, e.t.c.) and 8% of luxury (like cars, houses e.t.c.).
This helps government to collect money back from greedy Nigerians who hoard money and never pay nothing back to society.

who told you we dont pay taxes? i pay mine. That a man is successful doesnt make him greedy.
You should be more concerned on what the government does with our oil funds.
Nigeria losses 20% of its daily oil income to bunkering.
Our government officials steal through over priced contracts, travel expences and other means (25million for toilets!!!)
Ok, Yar'adull is dashing money out to militants. He has placed them on monthly salaries indefinitely while our graduates roam about doing nothing. Now he wants to increase tuition fees. That man MUST be high on drugs.

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Sometimes, l am forced to think Nairaland is made-up of mostly "Juveniles", 'mental Juveniles' (as opposed to age), judging by the caliber of comments you get on serious matters like these!

Forgive me if that comes across as "arrogant of sort" but you will agree with me that some of these comments show a complete lack of "grasp and historical perspective" to what the actual problems are.

For example, now that we are into "hiking of tuition fees", some are taking the elitist position that education is not supposed to be free!, criminal tuition-hike is a necessary means to force some people not to achieve University education!!
Some even suggested that by charging less, Nigeria is turning to a father Christmas!!!

Well, l dont want to descend low to the level of using foul language otherwise, l will directly engage some people here.

Having said that, let us look at the matter from various angles and ask pertinent questions:

1.) What are some of the social responsibilities of a state? Does it include provision of education to its citizens?
2.) Even in Capitalist societies like the U.S, do they have schools (colleges) that are tuition-free, for its citizens? What is the situation in other western climes like Europe (Spain, Ireland, France, U.K, e.t.c), Scandinavian countries like Sweden, e.t.c.

3. Based on our natural resources endowment, compared to countries like say Ireland that does not have a single endowment, or say Sweden, do these countries still offer free tuition to their citizens and if so, "Why do they do so? Why should this be impossible in a much more endowed Nigeria ?

4. What is the "cost-ratio" of a completely tuition-free education, for all qualified Nigerian students vis-a-vis our GDP, bearing in mind that on the average, a Nigerian Politician (Senator) takes home about #50Million naira annually, as constituency allowance (for doing what?) and the country did not go broke! Even wives of Counselors (Ward Counselors, Ward first lady!) are entitled to and cashing no less than a million naira in "Egunje loan" and money is routinely shared at all levels of Government (We can all attest to these, going by the way people run into sudden wealth, once they take official portfolio). Is it better to save the money so that it can be embezzled or to use it to train our Human Capital?

5. If a country like Sweden can offer Nigerian students, FREE TUITION, not knowing them from Adam, but seeing it as a "Social responsibility" (the real father X-mas!), what is the problem with Nigerians that they can not even bother to take care of their own?, much less be socially responsible to others!

6) If most of our current leaders went through University education, tuition free, even when Nigeria was yet to discover or start harnessing oil wealth, how come they want to "remove the ladder" by which they climbed-up, so that others may not follow through?

7. While attending "Choice Schools" is costly and not mandatory for everyone except your parents are very rich, is it not criminal that we consign those whose parents are average in wealth (the primary school teachers, the Artisans, the office Typists, the Bus Drivers, the Cleaners and all those whose YEARLY WAGE is just about #200,000) to illiteracy or half education (very dangerous), not because the country can not afford the cost but because we want to create an "elitist society" of "have excess" and "have nothings"?

8. In a country that "Leaders" loot Billions of naira (enough to pay for everyone's University tuition! ) like it was going out of fashion, what the heck are the constraints against free education? If the Government think its an acceptable solution, to pay a "militant" about #65,000 monthly (#20,000 plus #1,500 chop-money daily ), are they encouraging all of us to become "Millitants" or what, since it seems "banditry" is the only language this government understands? What percentage of #180,000 is #65,000? Would it not have been better if such money has been invested in the life of the "Militant" a few years back so that today, he would be productive instead of carrying weapons? What kind of "culture and mentality" are we encouraging?

So many more questions, I weep for this country, seriously!

I know that when trauma lasts too long, there is a tendency to think it is "a normal way of life"!
Nigerians have been sooo abused that they seem to have just dissolved into their shells, very fearful and intimidated!

Okay, lets take it from another angle:
Obasanjo and Atiku ruled this country for Eight years and both went out of office to build Universities! Ask yourselves: Why Universities? Ask yourself, where are the children of your Ministers? How come, since they can afford the 180K proposed tuition, why are they all schooling abroad? Or did Obasanjo' son not graduate from an American University while he was Nigeria's President? Why not from Uni-Ife or Unilag? Is something fishy here?

How about the current Ministers? The Minister for Information whose daughter got married last weekend did not tertiary-school in Nigeria, Why? with all the re-branding of Nigeria!
And l can assure you today, if a poll is taken, nothing less than 98% of the children of Nigeria's rulers are schooling abroad! WHY?

Loans or not, for a country with serious manpower issues like Nigeria, education is a right (Awolowo was the one who towed this line in the 50's and 60's and that was one of the reasons the Westerners were generally the more educated, among older generations of people in their 50's today!with its consequent advantages, that "Quota System" tried to redress ).

What has this country done for its citizens? No good roads, No electricity, No portable water, Hospitals are death centres, Food is now "0-1-0", Security of life and property is a joke even when they build 1km high fences around their mansions! House rent has hit the roof since Govt can not stabilize it?
What is governance and what is it purpose?
Hardworking and ingenious as Nigerian youths are, this country's leaders have changed their destiny (at least for most of them) into Yahoozy-youths?

I hate it when l read the way "people lambast our head of state" but then l quickly come back to reality and ask myself "What have l done for this country", that it should treat me this way?

Why cant Americans or British treat their children (their Youths, their future) the way we oppress ours?
Does anyone still wonder if in about twenty years time, Nigerians become so wicked to themselves that you would wonder whether they are still human?

What is the problem with our rulers? Are they plain Evil?, MAD?, just devilishly wicked? Please, somebody help me with an answer, Please, Please. It cant just be lack of ideas?

My own Mother graduated from Unilag when, not just tuition was free but FOOD (the greatest problem of most poor Nigerians) was FREE! With 90 pieces of Monthly "food-tickets" @25Kobo each, you're assured of a well-balanced 3-square meals, with Ice-Cream, Coffee or Cocoa to choose from , and Saturday afternoon was wicked, "solid Jollof Rice with Chicken"! You can bet l was purposely eating at the Cafeteria long before l became a student there

If you're an Undergraduate, imagine what it means if you dont have to cook or bother parents or even worry about your next meal? Would you not have more time for your studies, good health and focus, to assimilate what you read and most likely come out of the University a better student than the current ones that are "desperate for money", for everything from tuition, to food, to "hand-outs", to Accommodation fees, e.t.c, C'mmon, this wickedness MUST STOP.

You can not steal the nations wealth, use it to send your own children abroad for "quality education" and then turn around to ruin the future of those ones whose parents are hardworking and paying their taxes.
If MAN can not hold you responsible, there is a higher being, an infinite power that would lay in-wait for you, at your old age, and those offsprings that you think you are propping-up, !
Ask Obasanjo, when his son alleges that he is a bloody incest! Just one of those things!!

While "our oppressors" are wicked and seek to perpetuate a "class division" amongst the citizen, it is even more heart-wrenching that some people from humble backgrounds, simply because they think they are above the poverty-line (like leaving abroad, having a good job or just with a few wads of money in the bank) open their foul mouth to say its right to raise fees astronomically, justifying "Orange with Apples"; (they pay in the U.S!), maybe out of ignorance or just mere mischief, since we all know that the same U.S is the land of Milk and Honey (Go and see the Queue at the Embassy, no arguments there!) and it (U.S) takes absolute care of its own children (Obama is even trying to revolutionize Education and Health care with Billions of Dollars while "our own rulers" are doing same for their various foreign bank accounts!).

I can go on till tomorrow but l wont. Enough is Enough!

If America predicted that Nigeria will "implode" in a few years time, my patriotic sense would not allow me to take them seriously but if care is not taken, the way things are going, it will be a tragedy that despite that "embarrassing warning", WE DID NOTHING TO CHANGE COURSE!

Lastage.

BTW: Even if University tuition became One Million Naira today, some will be able to afford it and to God be the glory, l can, for my own children BUT it will still not stop me from saying it is Sheer Wickedness and Evil with respect to those who cant afford it, after-all, fingers are not equal!

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Sometimes, l am forced to think Nairaland is made-up of mostly "Juveniles", 'mental Juveniles' (as opposed to age), judging by the caliber of comments you get on serious matters like these!

Forgive me if that comes across as "arrogant of sort" but you will agree with me that some of these comments show a complete lack of "grasp and historical perspective" to what the actual problems are.

For example, now that we are into "hiking of tuition fees", some are taking the elitist position that education is not supposed to be free!, criminal tuition-hike is a necessary means to force some people not to achieve University education!!
Some even suggested that by charging less, Nigeria is turning to a father Christmas!!!

Well, l dont want to descend low to the level of using foul language otherwise, l will directly engage some people here.

Having said that, let us look at the matter from various angles and ask pertinent questions:

1.) What are some of the social responsibilities of a state? Does it include provision of education to its citizens?
2.) Even in Capitalist societies like the U.S, do they have schools (colleges) that are tuition-free, for its citizens? What is the situation in other western climes like Europe (Spain, Ireland, France, U.K, e.t.c), Scandinavian countries like Sweden, e.t.c.

3. Based on our natural resources endowment, compared to countries like say Ireland that does not have a single endowment, or say Sweden, do these countries still offer free tuition to their citizens and if so, "Why do they do so? Why should this be impossible in a much more endowed Nigeria ?

4. What is the "cost-ratio" of a completely tuition-free education, for all qualified Nigerian students vis-a-vis our GDP, bearing in mind that on the average, a Nigerian Politician (Senator) takes home about #50Million naira annually, as constituency allowance (for doing what?) and the country did not go broke! Even wives of Counselors (Ward Counselors, Ward first lady!) are entitled to and cashing no less than a million naira in "Egunje loan" and money is routinely shared at all levels of Government (We can all attest to these, going by the way people run into sudden wealth, once they take official portfolio). Is it better to save the money so that it can be embezzled or to use it to train our Human Capital?

5. If a country like Sweden can offer Nigerian students, FREE TUITION, not knowing them from Adam, but seeing it as a "Social responsibility" (the real father X-mas!), what is the problem with Nigerians that they can not even bother to take care of their own?, much less be socially responsible to others!

6) If most of our current leaders went through University education, tuition free, even when Nigeria was yet to discover or start harnessing oil wealth, how come they want to "remove the ladder" by which they climbed-up, so that others may not follow through?

7. While attending "Choice Schools" is costly and not mandatory for everyone except your parents are very rich, is it not criminal that we consign those whose parents are average in wealth (the primary school teachers, the Artisans, the office Typists, the Bus Drivers, the Cleaners and all those whose YEARLY WAGE is just about #200,000) to illiteracy or half education (very dangerous), not because the country can not afford the cost but because we want to create an "elitist society" of "have excess" and "have nothings"?

8. In a country that "Leaders" loot Billions of naira (enough to pay for everyone's University tuition! ) like it was going out of fashion, what the heck are the constraints against free education? If the Government think its an acceptable solution, to pay a "militant" about #65,000 monthly (#20,000 plus #1,500 chop-money daily ), are they encouraging all of us to become "Millitants" or what, since it seems "banditry" is the only language this government understands? What percentage of #180,000 is #65,000? Would it not have been better if such money has been invested in the life of the "Militant" a few years back so that today, he would be productive instead of carrying weapons? What kind of "culture and mentality" are we encouraging?

So many more questions, I weep for this country, seriously!

I know that when trauma lasts too long, there is a tendency to think it is "a normal way of life"!
Nigerians have been sooo abused that they seem to have just dissolved into their shells, very fearful and intimidated!

Okay, lets take it from another angle:
Obasanjo and Atiku ruled this country for Eight years and both went out of office to build Universities! Ask yourselves: Why Universities? Ask yourself, where are the children of your Ministers? How come, since they can afford the 180K proposed tuition, why are they all schooling abroad? Or did Obasanjo' son not graduate from an American University while he was Nigeria's President? Why not from Uni-Ife or Unilag? Is something fishy here?

How about the current Ministers? The Minister for Information whose daughter got married last weekend did not tertiary-school in Nigeria, Why? with all the re-branding of Nigeria!
And l can assure you today, if a poll is taken, nothing less than 98% of the children of Nigeria's rulers are schooling abroad! WHY?

Loans or not, for a country with serious manpower issues like Nigeria, education is a right (Awolowo was the one who towed this line in the 50's and 60's and that was one of the reasons the Westerners were generally the more educated, among older generations of people in their 50's today!with its consequent advantages, that "Quota System" tried to redress ).

What has this country done for its citizens? No good roads, No electricity, No portable water, Hospitals are death centres, Food is now "0-1-0", Security of life and property is a joke even when they build 1km high fences around their mansions! House rent has hit the roof since Govt can not stabilize it?
What is governance and what is it purpose?
Hardworking and ingenious as Nigerian youths are, this country's leaders have changed their destiny (at least for most of them) into Yahoozy-youths?

I hate it when l read the way "people lambast our head of state" but then l quickly come back to reality and ask myself "What have l done for this country", that it should treat me this way?

Why cant Americans or British treat their children (their Youths, their future) the way we oppress ours?
Does anyone still wonder if in about twenty years time, Nigerians become so wicked to themselves that you would wonder whether they are still human?

What is the problem with our rulers? Are they plain Evil?, MAD?, just devilishly wicked? Please, somebody help me with an answer, Please, Please. It cant just be lack of ideas?

My own Mother graduated from Unilag when, not just tuition was free but FOOD (the greatest problem of most poor Nigerians) was FREE! With 90 pieces of Monthly "food-tickets" @25Kobo each, you're assured of a well-balanced 3-square meals, with Ice-Cream, Coffee or Cocoa to choose from , and Saturday afternoon was wicked, "solid Jollof Rice with Chicken"! You can bet l was purposely eating at the Cafeteria long before l became a student there

If you're an Undergraduate, imagine what it means if you dont have to cook or bother parents or even worry about your next meal? Would you not have more time for your studies, good health and focus, to assimilate what you read and most likely come out of the University a better student than the current ones that are "desperate for money", for everything from tuition, to food, to "hand-outs", to Accommodation fees, e.t.c, C'mmon, this wickedness MUST STOP.

You can not steal the nations wealth, use it to send your own children abroad for "quality education" and then turn around to ruin the future of those ones whose parents are hardworking and paying their taxes.
If MAN can not hold you responsible, there is a higher being, an infinite power that would lay in-wait for you, at your old age, and those offsprings that you think you are propping-up, !
Ask Obasanjo, when his son alleges that he is a bloody incest! Just one of those things!!

While "our oppressors" are wicked and seek to perpetuate a "class division" amongst the citizen, it is even more heart-wrenching that some people from humble backgrounds, simply because they think they are above the poverty-line (like leaving abroad, having a good job or just with a few wads of money in the bank) open their foul mouth to say its right to raise fees astronomically, justifying "Orange with Apples"; (they pay in the U.S!), maybe out of ignorance or just mere mischief, since we all know that the same U.S is the land of Milk and Honey (Go and see the Queue at the Embassy, no arguments there!) and it (U.S) takes absolute care of its own children (Obama is even trying to revolutionize Education and Health care with Billions of Dollars while "our own rulers" are doing same for their various foreign bank accounts!).

I can go on till tomorrow but l wont. Enough is Enough!

If America predicted that Nigeria will "implode" in a few years time, my patriotic sense would not allow me to take them seriously but if care is not taken, the way things are going, it will be a tragedy that despite that "embarrassing warning", WE DID NOTHING TO CHANGE COURSE!

Lastage.

BTW: Even if University tuition became One Million Naira today, some will be able to afford it and to God be the glory, l can, for my own children BUT it will still not stop me from saying it is Sheer Wickedness and Evil with respect to those who cant afford it, after-all, fingers are not equal!

In summary, the hike is not justifiable, instead of this long grammer

i don't get it are this guys blind or deaf or what. This is extremely annoying

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I say it's good riddance to bad rubbish, you can't hike things when the economy/average standard of living of the people doesnt support it. I agree in totality with the people against it.
The case of Osun State owned university is a classic example,the university is the most expensive state owned university in nigeria with nothing to show for it in terms of quality education or environmental ambience and the average people of the state can't even afford to send their children there.

First thing first, contrary to popular opinion, A-town is quite sane, the borrowed idea was just the problem, my guy was probably relaxing at a joint when he overheard all he reproduced here and I guess the owner of the original idea is not his acquaintance either otherwise he would have gone to them for answers to the reasonable questions asked so NLs please forgive him for the idea was not originally his  

@topic:
Government has no business in education. In the beginning education was in the hands of the private sector, mostly the missionaries. Likes of Queens and Kings college, remains the best school today and there were no interference from government. Everything changed when we struck oil and govt was overwhelmed with oil wealth, so all private schools were taken over by the govt because they taught there was money to run them. United Nations wants 25% for education but our govt as usual put less than 5% hence the crises. Instead, more money than in education is used to fight the militants. So govt should return all the primary and secondary schools back to the missionaries, let the private fund it, at first it may seem expensive but will adjust with time, then govt can concentrate on conducting secured examinations that will measure the standard for all schools. Before some NLs start throwing e-tomatoes at me, don't get me wrong, education problems cannot be solved alone without solving the social economic problems like light, water,security, infrastructure etc. As any progress made in education will be drowned by the overwhelming problem from other sectors.
The bottom line is all these people dont know how to govern, we are already no 15 on "failed state" list and i can see our "2015" coming fast.
But all these are civilized suggestions and solutions, the most rational thing to do will be to get guns from these naija delta guys and kill these old cargos, plus the yeye Gambari's, they dont value education and will ruin whatever we have during their term in office, we may need to contact General Rollins tho on the revolution stuff