TOPCRUISE:

You don't know what is going on so back off. If you know the cost of tuition abroad, you will applaud ASUU

Let’s hear from FG first, I can’t use one side of the story to make inferences

Nigeria is a funny country
You want good education but you dont want to pay for it and you wonder why so many Nigerian graduates are bus drivers?
You say no removal of fuel subsidy but you spend more than your education budget on fuel subsidy, more on fuel subsidy than the annual budget for roads all so you can drive on bad roads that ruin your cars.

hisgrace090:
So the number of suffering initiated by this careless govt never do?

the meaning of Boko Haram is book is Haram i.e forbidden. They're trying very hard to prove themselves

It will still eventually happen. The continuous subsidy of tertiary education for students nationwide is a time bomb waiting to happen.

First, Nigeria is not that rich to keep up with the scheme.

Second, the students who are the beneficiary are ungrateful likewise their parents so after getting the cheap and subsidized education, prefer to go abroad to contribute to their GDP not ours.

Third, once tertiary education subsidy is stopped, stupid and irrelevant courses such as Linguistics, History, Music, Zoology, Microbiology etc will find it hard to survive since many students and parents will not be willing to break the bank to study these courses.

othermen:
Folks don’t understand that ASUU is perhaps the last champion of the masses.

A manager in many of the parastatals earn more than a professor in Nigeria public universities.

A polytechnic lecturer earns more than their counterparts in Nigeria public universities.
The polytechnic lecturer who is not a PhD holder earns more than some university lecturers with even post PhD qualifications.

College of Education lecturers earn more than lecturers in Nigeria public universities.

A graduate assistant in many universities abroad earn more than Nigeria public universities senior lecturers.

Of coz, in some schools, some of the Nigeria public universities lecturers have resorted to their own exploitation of students by selling course materials or making students buy books directly from them. In Some universities lecturers even abandoned teaching and invested more time in seeking grants for research or trying to become a consultant at the expense of their primary responsibility.

It was ASUU’s mandate to rebuke this, and in several universities especially the ones in the Southwest, they were able to get the university administration to issue a memo that lecturers not sell handouts or books to students. (This is very well enforced in Uni Ibadan)

You can check the lecturers salaries online.

The lecturers in Nigeria public universities have for years yearned for their earned allowances, and many have died without receiving it. If you know a Nigeria public university lecturer, then you would know there is no luxury there. They are unappreciated lots. Those that have remained solely fixed on their call, retire into a basic average livelihood, where the value of their pensions cannot longer afford the necessities they need.

ASUU just wants universities to be funded, so that they can have functional laboratories and equipment to convey practical knowledge.

This, has always been on the forefront of ASUU’s struggle, never members welfare.

Ask those that have apartments, they prefer to rent it out to a banker than to a lecturer in Nigeria public universities. Yet the lecturer is expected to do research in their offices where they don’t even have a functional bathroom with water supply or an office properly fitted. You have seen this, you have been to a lecturers office, was the air conditioning functional? Was there power? Didn’t you wonder how they survived in such heat, surrounded by books… yet they stay awake and give their lives, with many retiring into diseases and illnesses because of the hazards that comes with the profession.

The minds that should be retained in the academics observing the situation, prefer anywhere else than the position. Yet, some others are just only passionate about conveying knowledge and supplying the society with adequate minds and capable hands but they become the victim of your vitriol when they ask that their laboratory be equipped so students can be engaged in quality researches.

The child of the politicians that you grovel at their feet, get an education outside the country at the cost of what will more than equip the laboratory or enhance the learning facilities such as classroom. Your lecturers who cannot afford to send the child to such, have such children in the universities here, paying too with their time for the negligence and irresponsibility of the government.

Yet ASUU must capitulate to the ignorant ones, partial agreements or promises which are often never fulfilled is sufficient to suspend the struggle for the soul of Nigeria public education from those bent on ruining it.

ASUU champion of what?

You want to compare a professor that has not brought in any invention to a manager of some parastatals, on what moral ground ?

You compare salaries of polytechnic and COE lecturers and forget to ask how money is shared among these groups.

You compare a lecturer abroad and one in Nigeria. But forget to ask your self the exchange rate, what both lecturers give to student.. funny enough most lecturers Nigerian will not board a plane manufactured by their own students.

You say ASUU wants Universities to be funded, but what have they done with the funds they get. I tell you, they are fighting for their pockets.

I hate it when people say children of politicians should go to public universities when even the lecturers send their children to private and even foreign universities.

If the universities are run properly 1 million naira school fees is not too big. Do you lots think education is cheap. Do you know how much it costs to buy equipments for laboratories and workshops. Even in the US most people cannot afford to go to the University, some are in the university through scholarships.
If that girl that was dancing half naked paid 1 million naira for school fees will she be dancing naked at the expense of being expelled?
ASUU should just stop all these half truth.

For your information, I am not speaking for the government and I am not an Idealist am a realist.

This government is clueless

othermen:
A manager in many of the parastatals earn more than a professor in Nigeria public universities.

who told you this oga?

You can only create a student loan when there's a greater guarantee that when students graduate there's many jobs opportunity, otherwise the interest will keep increasing in infinity ♾️. Nigeria doesn't have the infrastructure and database to run student loan

What will happen to defaulters... Why not invest the loan in education and student continue with current tuition or lesser...

I think it's a way government want to reduce the number of educated people in Nigeria... They just copy copy!

They should go and enquire the psychological tragedy that befalls graduates in the US there are copying from who are unable to pay the loan where they have more job opportunities!

bigpsalmmy:


https://punchng.com/ASUU-rejected-planned-n1m-undergraduate-school-fees-says-osodeke/

Northern youth will see this and shy away from it because they can’t see anything wrong in this government but at the end of the day each and every one of us will face the reality of hardship and suffering caused by this government regardless of your religion and political affiliation no one is getting special recommendations to buy cheap gas or cheap food stuff, if not for ASUU the government would have indebted the future of fresh graduates.

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https://punchng.com/ASUU-rejected-planned-n1m-undergraduate-school-fees-says-osodeke/[/quote
As north no dey go school Dem wan extend am come south by their wicked counsel. So mallam adamu adamu no get shame at all.

If this is true then this government is truly demonic... So after all they've done they're still trying to mortgage the future of young students

God forbid.

Loverboy3333:
1m naira loan, I will just apply then use the money to japa

Can #1m be enough to japa to a reasonable country?

The same northerners that says bokoharam? wants to enslave graduates?

This is a future plan to control the life of southern youths. Enslave them with debts.

"He said government’s plan was to open an education bank and give each student a loan of N1m annually at five per cent interest rate to sponsor themselves in school and then pay back when they graduate and start working."


This can ONLY happen in a working society, where graduates are guaranteed to secure a job that can enable them repay the loan as soon as possible in a very easy way that won't put pressure on them while taking care of other personal bills.

Nigeria is not ready for something like this...It works at developed countries like USA. Nigeria is far from this

Newton2024:
Can #1m be enough to japa to a reasonable country?

Even Afganistan is now heaven compare to 9ja.

iLoveYouToo:
Lies I smell but go on sir

God bless you.

Loverboy3333:
1m naira loan, I will just apply then use the money to japa

if you read the original post well you'd know that you don't get the 1m cash. 70% would be paid to the school directly from education bank while you get 30%.

That means that the government will be giving student three hundred thousand naira every year and at the same time be paying the students school fees, but the evil idiots called ASSU refused. On a normal circumstance if a nigga. Knows what he’s doing if he is paid 300k every year , it’s means that he can take care of himself after the university education….. ASSU has just made me angry this morning.

Sunnyja:
Even Afganistan is now heaven compare to 9ja.

From frying pan to frying fire. Even fanatical muslims are running away from Afghanistan. Why terr-orists country when we have many sane countries?

Where are those youths/students from the south that support this evil government.
Can there come here and comment

I wish it will only be possible for the foolish students that support this government. If after school no job for like 6 years,when u check how much loan interest u accumulated,you will just shout Jesus is Lord.
Mumu people

I don’t understand why we cannot try other ideas. There are different solutions that we can amend to suit Nigeria.

In the Uk, every student that is a citizen automatically qualifies for student loan if they want one. The loan body pays the school fees directly to the schools and the students also get money for their upkeep each term or year. The upkeep part even gives them more than enough to live on but in Nigeria, parents and families can still handle this.

There are pros and cons. Some students never pay back all or part of the loan because the loan will only start being deducted from their salaries if they get jobs that are above a certain salary amount. Students become indebted for many years. A positive is that universities have funds that they need.

As we are talking Nigeria, we will need laws that will make sure any corrupt person diverting or stealing loan money meant for students should be made to pay it back and go to jail for 50 years.

Coconut heads how would a poor student pay back a loan of 5 million when all the available jobs have been secured for the rich ones

Loverboy3333:
1m naira loan, I will just apply then use the money to japa

Aswear mehn.Too much sense dey ur brain

german01:
That means that the government will be giving student three hundred thousand naira every year and at the same time be paying the students school fees, but the evil idiots called ASSU refused. On a normal circumstance if a nigga. Knows what he’s doing if he is paid 300k every year , it’s means that he can take care of himself after the university education….. ASSU has just made me angry this morning.

It's a ploy & ASUU saw through it. The education bank isn't sustainable. After a year, disbursements will stop & students will be forced to look for the fees elsewhere or drop out.

DontBullshitMe:
It will still eventually happen. The continuous subsidy of tertiary education for students nationwide is a time bomb waiting to happen.

First, Nigeria is not that rich to keep up with the scheme.

Second, the students who are the beneficiary are ungrateful likewise their parents so after getting the cheap and subsidized education, prefer to go abroad to contribute to their GDP not ours.

Third, once tertiary education subsidy is stopped, stupid and irrelevant courses such as Linguistics, History, Music, Zoology, Microbiology etc will find it hard to survive since many students and parents will not be willing to break the bank to study these courses.

Eventually, but history & microbiology are very important, especially for a complex & diverse country as Nigeria

@othermen
You said it all. I'm also aware that some lecturers even sacrifice from their poor pay to run their departments and programs and get things going so students can graduate.

Loverboy3333:
1m naira loan, I will just apply then use the money to japa

Through the desert and sea I suppose

handelex:
If this is true then this government is truly demonic... So after all they've done they're still trying to mortgage the future of young students

God forbid.

Pple would find a reason to complain about everything

I agree with u to some extent but look at it this way, if this news is true at all then ASUU failed woefully by not accepting the offer and anouncing it to look as a saint. Currently students source for money and pay for school fees and years after school still no job. Many graduates don't even work in their life time and no one takes responsibility but if that offer is implemented just like USA and other countries, the government will do more to provide for jobs so they can start working and paying off. If u graduate and don't work then the government loses their investment in u. Imagine if 1million graduates from the program don't work,how much will government lose? Now u get the point

habsydiamond:
That can't be Nigerian govt .....1 million naira on top what Please.. Is it the poor education they are rendering or the theory without practical they are dishing out. No good infrastructure, no good accommodations in school and they want to collect 1m as school fee from these people that their parents are trying to put them through schools even with the present condition of this country... No wonder these fools don't have children in any school in Nigeria.. Maybe exchange rate dey affect our standard of education ni cos I don't know.

If the electorates refuse to use their brain during electioneering campaigns then they should ready to be use as pawns and ladders in this game of life....

Life always present you with a choice, either you choose wisely or stupidly, there is always a consequence.

This plan would have been plausible in a sane society where things really work not in Nigeria where there's no assurance of job after graduation then if you manage to get, they pay you #30000 monthly.

How then does a student get #5million plus interest to pay back?


Are our leaders really serious ?