may god save the poor :-(

I hope a time will not come when the president of Nigeria will make the same statement that the country is not for the poor.

U have already heard from the man-fee increment and other riot-related charges to line his pocket.Poor VC! They steal from the poor to live on.In Nigeria, who is poor and who is rich?? Big question.Come on, no Senate?

50 cent had said it 'Get Rich or Die Trying'

only God can change our stories for the better

isale_gan2:

If he said that, he is a cruel and venal man.

say that again

UNN waz not established for the rich only.
the VC will happen to a NIGERIAN that benefited from free education in those days.
Now dem wan force us pay tru the nose.

My take is, maybe the V.C put it rather bluntly, the fact is quality education comes with a price. Citizens of advanced countries know that you have to plan for the education of your kids, that is why they are not interested in having many children they cannot cater for. But over here a man can marry as much as 10 wives and expect goverment to cater for the education of their legion of children

Know it now, good education is quite expensive. Ask people schooling abroad or CFA students

so wat will the poor get then?

was his own father rich when he

was attending schools?

fingers are not equal lets know that

SHALOM

so this man is so insensitive to make such a statement, imagine what ppl nurse in there heart, well may God repay him 4 his action of trying to deprive ppl of Education because i dont think he had it so difficult during his time

The V.C is one of those that enjoyed scholarship and ate free chicken and free meal during his undergraduate days and now he sudenly realized that education is not for the poor,too bad prof

The VC Claimed he never increased the fees of students, but it was posted in the website of unn that the school fees has increased, the post was subsequently removed after the protest. I bet if we look at the cached site of the website of unn before the protest, you will see the school fees that was posted on the site.

Also if the VC had the opportunity of denying the 25K charged as Acceptance fee (over 300% increase), he would have done it! Its just that students have already started paying thus he can't deny that.

AjanleKoko « #31 on: Today at 08:04:40 AM »
Education is not for the poor.
Communications is not for the poor.
Healthcare is not for the poor.
Infrastructure (power, roads, water, etc) is not for the poor.
Food is not for the poor. . .

. . . etc, etc is not for the poor. So what are the poor left with? The opportunity to die like dogs?

Internet. lol

Anyway, I dont think d VC could have that. I don't think so.

AjanleKoko:

Education is not for the poor.
Communications is not for the poor.
Healthcare is not for the poor.
Infrastructure (power, roads, water, etc) is not for the poor.
Food is not for the poor. . .

. . . etc, etc is not for the poor. So what are the poor left with? The opportunity to die like dogs?

My brother, let us not forget to add Nairaland in the list, Nairaland is not for the poor, Total Foolish in high places.

Who is a fool, nairaland or the poster?

Nosa-Henry:

My take is, maybe the V.C put it rather bluntly, the fact is quality education comes with a price. Citizens of advanced countries know that you have to plan for the education of your kids, that is why they are not interested in having many children they cannot cater for. But over here a man can marry as much as 10 wives and expect goverment to cater for the education of their legion of children

Know it now, good education is quite expensive. Ask people schooling abroad or CFA students

makes sense,

Nosa-Henry:

Citizens of advanced countries know that you have to plan for the education of your kids, that is why they are not interested in having many children they cannot cater for. But over here a man can marry as much as 10 wives and expect goverment to cater for the education of their legion of children

And when children are ill and dying, or when their appendix is about to burst, do you also feel that if the parents cannot pay for the surgery, the child does not  deserve treatment? 

This is a very American Capitalist dog-eat-dog-world way of thinking.  No offense to you personally.  But your statement and your viewpoint is quite shocking and disturbing, to say the least.  Maybe I misunderstood.  I hope I did.

u guys r forgetting so soon that the senate PRESIDENT also said at one point in time that GSM is not for the poor. Yet he was brought up to help the people of this nation in deliberating ways to move where forward. this KIND OF PEOPLE SUD NOT BE IN GOVERNMENT

Education is supposed to be for everyone,rich or poor.After all we can not all be rich at the same time.
Vc,withdraw your statement.

lezuya:

Education is supposed to be for everyone,rich or poor.After all we can not all be rich at the same time.
Vc,withdraw your statement.

That is, IF THE VC ACTUALLY MADE THE STATEMENT. We know how naughty & cruel students can b too; we were all students.

David Mark said that about communication years back. UNN VC will equally swallow his words dead or alive. We'll live to tell his children the story of their stupid dad.

Fellow Nairalanders. Kindly enjoy this piece from Kola Akomolade. The same fate will befall the UNN VC by God's grace.


Housing, not for the poor!
By Kola Akomolede

SOME years back a minister of communication told Nigerians that telephone was not for the poor!. And he was right. Then, to get an analogue telephone line, you had to pay through your nose both officially and unofficially. If you were unfortunate that your line did not work due to a fault on the poles or underground, then you had to pay more to get it to work. To obtain a mobile line then (not GSM O), the 090, you needed as much as N150,000 in addition to some connection in high places. Such was life then!

Those are now history, thanks to the GSM revolution. I wonder what that minister, who today occupies the third position in the political hierarchy of this nation will say today. What he made impossible for the poor, God Almighty, through the instrument of GSM has made it possible!

Today almost everybody, the plantain seller at the road side, the student, your "Maiguard", the cart pusher and what have you all have one or two phones. It doesn't matter if they only use it to flash you or send text! At least communication with telephone has been removed from the exclusive list of the rich. In other countries, where people's vote count, such a minister will never taste public office. But this is Nigeria where anything is possible.

My concern here today is however not about communication but about housing which we are now being told is not for the poor. Save your breadth, no minister has said that, at least directly. But action speaks louder than voice is a popular saying. Or what do you make of the recent hike in land charges in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja? For premium in Maitama, Asokoro & Wuse II, it was increased from N2,000 to 18,000 per square metres. Jabi, Utako, Katampe, Mabuchi, Gudu, Durumi, Dakibu & Kado, it was increased from N2,000 to N15,000 per square metre. For Jahi, Duboyi, Dapi, Gwarinpa, from N2,000 to 12,000 per square metre.

This is an increase of 800 per cent, 650 per cent and 500 per cent! respectively. For once, members of the National Assembly have raised their voice against this wicked increase at a time of global economic melt down. It is not that they love me and you however, but they are all owners or prospective allottees of plots in these areas and so it will affect them.

If a landlord should increase rent by that percentage now, everybody including government will cry FOUL! What is happening in Abuja is not new to residents of Lagos. Several charges are slammed on landed properties whenever government needs increased revenue. The furore generated by the introduction of a land use tax in the recent past cannot be easily forgotten. Similarly, the rigours and cost of obtaining governor's consent to assignment is not one that can be forgotten easily. You need to pay as much as 15 per cent of the value of the house to obtain consent for assignment if the lease is over ten years or 30 per cent for lease lower than ten years. For mortgages, you pay two per centof the amount of loan applied for.

If you were unlucky to have bought one of the Federal government properties sold under the monetisation schemes, then you will have to pay what is called "regularisation" fees of between N5,000/m2 and N20,000/m2 to Lagos State before you can start the process of building approval. On top of that, you will pay infrastructural development levy and approval fees. This will run into millions of naira!

Now, tell me with these payments, how can the poor own a house either in Abuja or Lagos? But the poor must definitely live in these cities. Without them, life cannot be complete. Imagine a city without drivers, cooks, stewards, clerks, office attendants, gardeners, artisans etc. Life will definitely not be comfortable for the rich there. We need the services of all these people. The rich cannot exist without them. I can hear you say "do they have to own a house in these areas? The answer is No, they do not necessarily have to own a house in such areas. But they will have to rent. But you don't expect the rents to be low in the face of high charges on land, high cost of building materials and lack of mortgage facility at low interest rates as it is elsewhere.

Hence, when a house owner is able to wade through all these bottlenecks, he/she must recoup the expenses as fast as possible. The only way to do this is to charge high rents and ask for 2 or 3 years advance. Unfortunately, the same government that is responsible for the high rents through all these high charges will then come out with rent control laws! There is no law that can control rent unless the causes of high rent is tackled. In the face of high demand compared with available supply, people will do anything to secure accommodation including breaking any law to that effect. They will pay one rent and collect receipt for a different amount. If you don't agree, you will not get a house.

Our governments should stop making it impossible for people to have their own houses. This they can do :

* Remove all barriers that prevent people from acquiring land everywhere in the country including reduction in the different charges like premiums, ground rent, development charges, land use charge, infrastructural development charges, approval fees, ratification fees etc.

* Reduce duty on imported building materials. If government could waive import duties on GSM equipments, why not for building materials?

* Assist local manufacturers of building materials with grants and low interest loans to enable them produce at profitable capacity.

* Set in motion a pragmatic and workable mortgage system with annual interest of not more than six per cent to eight per cent as it is done in other countries where they take housing serious.

* Government at all levels (Federal, State and Local) should engage in massive construction of houses for the low and middle income only with automatic mortgages at low interest rates and repayable for between 15 to 30 years.

Unless all the above are done among others, our governments will indeed be saying "Housing Not For The Poor"!

* Akomolede is a company executive in Lagos

Too the darkman, who said private school are better than public universities. i want to advice you to do thorough research next time before jumping to conclusion. Despite all the shortcomings in public universities today, their products are far better than those of private universities. find out

To darkman, wt r u blabin. U r givin a wrong meanin 2 dt sayin. Wt it mean is dt u jst ve 2 work hard&nt dt u ve 2 pay thru ur nose 2 gt educatd.do u even fink rite.gush.

@nosa henry,u r comparin nig 2 odr country,&2 u does it make sense.odrs countries pay dir youths,though dir edu's high bt lukin closely@it u'll find out dt its cheapin afta al d money&work dy ve access 2. If edu ws more xpensive than ur fadr cud afford,wud u ve being educatd dt's if u r.

People shouldn't just compare the education in Naija to that of abroad. The VC should not make such statements like he did no matter how blunt he wants to be. It's not every country abroad that pays heavily for education, Sweden for example. I think the major problem is that these schools don't get or don't know how to get funds, ( infact we can also say the poor are not worthy to live )

I'm VERY sure that most of you commenting on this posts are not students of UNN. You people have no idea what has been going on in that place! I've taken time to read everyone's comments and i realised, some people think with their anus! I got admission into UNN in '08. Then, i paid 6k for acceptance fee. School fees was 38,700 naira{excluding other fees like hostel fee, department and faculty dues and hostel dues}. New students are now paying 25k for acceptance fee!{calculate the percentage increase here and tell me how much these students will pay when they resume!} we're currently paying 11,500 for hostel fee and we're 4 in a room. Now he said we'll start paying 40k and we'll be SEVEN in a room! That fool told the media that he didn't make any increament. THEN WHY IS ACCEPTANCE FEE 25K INSTEAD OF 6K?

Queenzy:

I'm VERY sure that most of you commenting on this posts are not students of UNN. You people have no idea what has been going on in that place! I've taken time to read everyone's comments and i realised, some people think with their anus! I got admission into UNN in '08. Then, i paid 6k for acceptance fee. School fees was 38,700 naira{excluding other fees like hostel fee, department and faculty dues and hostel dues}. New students are now paying 25k for acceptance fee!{calculate the percentage increase here and tell me how much these students will pay when they resume!} we're currently paying 11,500 for hostel fee and we're 4 in a room. Now he said we'll start paying 40k and we'll be SEVEN in a room! That fool told the media that he didn't make any increament. THEN WHY IS ACCEPTANCE FEE 25K INSTEAD OF 6K?

My brother dont worry about his denial cos is the trademark of those fools who found themselves in position of authority.
Even those in presidency speaks from their nose, they are criminals in disguise.

if Education is the rich then he must be *********
all men are born,and must have equal.whether rich or poor we r 1.
So as far i can tell education is for all.
afterall he was once poor,if nt 4 education will he b the v/c