georgeakins, leokid866, I'm sure this hike in school fees is favouring you and your families.

Oh, I forgot that only Igbos are experiencing hike in school fees. It is not affecting Yoruba students at all. . Àwọn Dìndìnrìn méjì.

pandoragirigory:
Check my comment, did I abuse him before he insulted me? I paid him back but he asked for

Even then, you didn't have to bring his mother into it, man.

Calm down. This is a site, not your life's work.

I knew Tinubu was clueless to fix Nigeria from inception. I mean, if it isn't for personal gains and the attractive position of the seat to fill portfolios, why'd anyone want to inherit the burden of hardship, debts, and disunity Buhari left behind without first making Buhari pay for it?

This is just the beginning, you people never see anything. Renewed shege

nairalanda1:


Even then, you didn't have to bring his mother into it, man.

Calm down. This is a site, not your life's work.

I will not calm down on people that their mother failed woefully in training them not to attack people unprovoked

LagosFirstSon:


Source: https://punchng.com/tuition-hike-student-group-threatens-mass-protest/?amp

This is what ASUU has been fighting, but Nigerians sit in thier sitting rooms and write/ talk rubbish. Let me inform you this today. Somethings in government are secret, 70 percent of government operations is top secret. If you are employed you will know what am talking about. Nigerians are Nigeria problems

LagosFirstSon:

I will say it again that anybody that brings tribalism into a serious news as this is a foool with offense intended

I don't care if the mod ban me or not for calling someone that made a tribalistic comment a fool.

This helinues is really constituting nuisances here in nairaland.

He most be very wicked to support wickedness.

nairalanda1:
I went to school for cheap. I paid cheap fees.

In return, I got bad accomodation, bad library, bad lecture theaters, and a host of bad facilites because that was as far as cheap education could go.

Universites are expensive. Even all those people in US and UK take loans to go to school. All them free education countries pay for it in heavy taxes.

So what do they want the government to do? To make fees for university as low as N1000 per session, and we find money from where? With 99% of our revenue going to debt servicing?

I go drop this quote here



Forget politics, forget that stuff...has low fees guaranteed decent universites? Nope.

The rate we are going, the private unis would even surpass the government unis, and employers would take notice.

Please stop the comparison. How can you compare a working system and that which is not working?

Nya ehhhh, nnukwute ikwiikwi ka d onuku bu

taylor88:


Igbos has more properties businesses and lands in Lagos more than the Yoruba

So what are you saying Ikwikwi

egoldman:


Therefore it should be increased? Is it a crime if we have the cheapest education in Nigeria?

No such thing as cheap education.

Even the other countries that have cheap education pay for them via heavy taxes, or loans and grants to students. Not out of pocket.

(As an example, some Nigerian journalists were visiting Denmark for a confrence. While they were waiting at the airport for the car that would to take them to their hotel, they got chatting with a Danish airport worker. The guy told them his children get free education from primary school to university....in return for him paying half his salary in taxes. Would you agree if Nigeria did that? ).

Plus do you have good libraries, good hostel facilities, good lecture theaters, and good labs and so forth? Nope...that's because you are paying for cheap stuff, and cheap stuff is not as good as the expensive stuff.

I went to university for cheap. And my hostel was bad(I eventually rented rooms off campus), my university library had out of date books...I had to spend money buying textbooks because of that, my labs were old fashioned, and so on.

Oga, the private universities meanwhile are growing in strength. Because they have access to money. If care is not taken, in ten years time, employers would be looking at ABUAD graduates before they look at UI, UNN or Unilag graduates.

Benjaniblinks:

Please stop the comparison. How can you compare a working system and that which is not working?

LOL...our system is not working well enough partly...and I MEAN PARTLY... because there isn't enough money in it.

Money pays for a lot of things.

See Covenant university? Is it not working well? Is it not the same Nigeria?

Many of you grew up with stories about how Nigerian unviersites were good back when your parents and grandparents went there. Well, back then there were very few students in the universities, and the money was enough.

pandoragirigory:
I will not calm down on people that their mother failed woefully in training them not to attack people unprovoked

Still , stop bringing in their mothers into it.

If they did the same to you, you won't like it at all.

I don't blame Tinubu. I blame the people who wouldn't even agitate..

nairalanda1:


Still , stop bringing in their mothers into it.

If they did the same to you, you won't like it at all.

They should do the same if I insult them unprovoked

nairalanda1:
I went to school for cheap. I paid cheap fees.

In return, I got bad accomodation, bad library, bad lecture theaters, and a host of bad facilites because that was as far as cheap education could go.

Universites are expensive. Even all those people in US and UK take loans to go to school. All them free education countries pay for it in heavy taxes.

So what do they want the government to do? To make fees for university as low as N1000 per session, and we find money from where? With 99% of our revenue going to debt servicing?

I go drop this quote here



Forget politics, forget that stuff...has low fees guaranteed decent universites? Nope.

The rate we are going, the private unis would even surpass the government unis, and employers would take notice.

The price of a commodity is not the measure of quality. Let me tell you something you don't know, the quality of that ur so called cheap education is better. Why are we like this in this country. The best students usually don't come from the schools that pay more, I rest my case.

nairalanda1:


No such thing as cheap education.

Even the other countries that have cheap education pay for them via heavy taxes, or loans and grants to students. Not out of pocket.

(As an example, some Nigerian journalists were visiting Denmark for a confrence. While they were waiting at the airport for the car that would to take them to their hotel, they got chatting with a Danish airport worker. The guy told them his children get free education from primary school to university....in return for him paying half his salary in taxes. Would you agree if Nigeria did that? ).

Plus do you have good libraries, good hostel facilities, good lecture theaters, and good labs and so forth? Nope...that's because you are paying for cheap stuff, and cheap stuff is not as good as the expensive stuff.

I went to university for cheap. And my hostel was bad(I eventually rented rooms off campus), my university library had out of date books...I had to spend money buying textbooks because of that, my labs were old fashioned, and so on.

Oga, the private universities meanwhile are growing in strength. Because they have access to money. If care is not taken, in ten years time, employers would be looking at ABUAD graduates before they look at UI, UNN or Unilag graduates.

Try again, you should have asked the Danish airport worker how much is his salary and compare it with our own, na this 30k minimum wage them go pay half of it for tax abi?

This is terrible Unilag from 25k to 150k this is too much what does this politicians take the masses for upon the go home with hundreds of millions every month?! They want to still take from the poor masses after leaving us dry!!! May God punish them 🙏 All students must come out to protest against this wickedness!!!

taylor88:


Igbos has more properties businesses and lands in Lagos more than the Yoruba

So what are you saying Ikwikwi

Empty barrel, keep fooling yourself

But if na UK now una go pay..pay the money jare

LagosFirstSon:
Tinubu should allow the students to breath

Stop suffocating Nigerians with wicked hardship

Enough Tinubu, I say enough.

I thought they were shouting 3 gbosa for Tinubu and all of the covid for his enemies...

royalfly:



The price of a commodity is not the measure of quality. Let me tell you something you don't know, the quality of that ur so called cheap education is better. Why are we like this in this country. The best students usually don't come from the schools that pay more, I rest my case.

So, I should have stomached bad quality because ....it was better?

Oga, after you guys will be complaining about how bad things are, while expecting us to get a Ferrari at the price of a bicycle.

My education in the end was not cheap. I still had to buy textbooks, equipment, pay for my final year project, spend money on research, and a host of things. All because cheap education could not buy quality.

Anyway, at the end fees have to go up...or the rich kids would soon be beating the poor kids in the job market...because they can afford better.

nairalanda1:


The harsh truth is our fees are low. Let's not lie.

Also, having low fees hasn't made our universities better. It has made them worse. Years of paying N20000 fees has made everything bad, and given us generations of half baked graduates.

I am not a fan of tinubu, and if it was Obi in charge and he was increasing fees, I would fully understand why. The harsh truth is that years of low fees have given us bad universities, with bad facilities, and academics leaving the country for greener pastures.

And Sudan unis charge fees in the range of 900000 naira and above, probably higher for foreigners like Nigerians.

Oga, forget politics, unless you want to spend 26% of our budget on education, which we should, our universities are underfunded. Or would it take another ASUU strike under this government before you see it (and yes, ASUU is going to go on strike again...no be lie).

UN got 25 billion naira this year. Sounds a lot, until you realize that is just 31 million dollars. Some foreign universites spend up to 100 million if not more as budget, yet we think that with 31 million we can be like 100million university? Okay.

What I drew from your point is, nigerian universities are underfunded. The federal government should scale up the funding and not by pushing the funding burden on Nigerians. Go and check the budget on education and health, then compare it with that of national assembly with less than 1,000 population. Its really sad.

Government spends hugely on education in many countries, except Nigeria. Education should be heavily subsidised and not made expensive. No government should expect revenues from education sector by making it expensive. It shapes the future of every nation

My parents were beneficiaries of awolowo's free education. Maybe They'd not have had the opportunities of going to school in their time. Awolowo spent a lot in subsidising education in his time. He didn't use oil money but cocoa proceeds. That's what he used to also build OAU. How many universities in Nigeria can stand the strength of OAU today? How much was the average salary of the few civil servants in those days? Their take home can't pay their children fees but awolowo made it free.

South west isn't just developed today. Those who had the opportunity of going to school due to free education made it happen. They became successful and the property got spread everywhere. Many non yorubas had to change their names to yoruba to benefit from free education. That's what education can do. Let them upgrade our universities first, increase budget for it too to cober staff salaries, then it wouid be logical when the govt says they're reviewing fees and not in the way that it will hurt parents.

nairalanda1:


No such thing as cheap education.

Even the other countries that have cheap education pay for them via heavy taxes, or loans and grants to students. Not out of pocket.

(As an example, some Nigerian journalists were visiting Denmark for a confrence. While they were waiting at the airport for the car that would to take them to their hotel, they got chatting with a Danish airport worker. The guy told them his children get free education from primary school to university....in return for him paying half his salary in taxes. Would you agree if Nigeria did that? ).

Plus do you have good libraries, good hostel facilities, good lecture theaters, and good labs and so forth? Nope...that's because you are paying for cheap stuff, and cheap stuff is not as good as the expensive stuff.

I went to university for cheap. And my hostel was bad(I eventually rented rooms off campus), my university library had out of date books...I had to spend money buying textbooks because of that, my labs were old fashioned, and so on.

Oga, the private universities meanwhile are growing in strength. Because they have access to money. If care is not taken, in ten years time, employers would be looking at ABUAD graduates before they look at UI, UNN or Unilag graduates.

Please which school did you attend, you trying to sound woke but same time showing off so much ignorance. Cab would pay half of his salary as tax but would survive very well and afford his needs. How much is the worth of your salary that you can afford half as tax in nigeria. This system that works in Denmark, is it also used in the USA or China. Education is a reflection of so many things about a country. Abeg rest sir. Am over fed this evening to even have the time to truly school u on this

egoldman:


Try again, you should have asked the Danish airport worker how much is his salary and compare it with our own, na this 30k minimum wage them go pay half of it for tax abi?

LOL...the danish worker did imply he did not like spending half his salary on taxes.

At the end, 80% of our funding for everything...education included, comes from oil which is 1) not enough for a nation our size...unless we were less than 10 million people 2) oil prices fluctuate which affects the revenue coming in.

Most people cannot afford university education...so it is paid for by taxing everyone...and not everyone goes to unviersity....or by loans and grants...which loans have to be paid back. At least that is how it is in sane countries.

In Nigeria, that is broke most of the time?

You want a Toyota car at the price of N20000. That;s impossible, and you know it.

LagosFirstSon:

I will say it again that anybody that brings tribalism into a serious news as this is a foool with offense intended

I don't care if the mod ban me or not for calling someone that made a tribalistic comment a fool.

seconded

nairalanda1:


So, I should have stomached bad quality because ....it was better?

Oga, after you guys will be complaining about how bad things are, while expecting us to get a Ferrari at the price of a bicycle.

My education in the end was not cheap. I still had to buy textbooks, equipment, pay for my final year project, spend money on research, and a host of things. All because cheap education could not buy quality.

Anyway, at the end fees have to go up...or the rich kids would soon be beating the poor kids in the job market...because they can afford better.

Your parameters to ur argument is wrong. Harvard don't always produce the best student in UK. Research requires money, we sensible people know that, nevertheless every research/ education should people base. Nigeria education may not need the kind of money American education would need. There are schools, secondary schools that pay in millions, they don't produce the best students in jamb? Motivation is a key factor in education not the provision of all usables

royalfly:


Please which school did you attend, you trying to sound woke but same time showing off so much ignorance. Cab would pay half of his salary as tax but would survive very well and afford his needs.

Most Europeans and other developed countries meet their needs by credit...which is a nice name for...loans.

(We don't do that here in Nigeria largely because we don;t have a reliable address system. Zenith does offer credit cards..but for foreign purchases only)

How much is the worth of your salary that you can afford half as tax in nigeria. This system that works in Denmark, is it also used in the USA or China. Education is a reflection of so many things about a country. Abeg rest sir. Am over fed this evening to even have the time to truly school u on this

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Our revenue is 80% dependent on a source that is not enough for a nation our size...which is part of why we take loans.

Our income from tax is lower than even Ghana and South Africa...and Ghana is on life support from IMF right now.

At the end of the day, more money has to come from fees.

But it does not matter...in a few years, our private universities would take over.

Kukutente23:

Bros comot the battery
Nor let am start o

😂 Wan kill me

royalfly:



Your parameters to ur argument is wrong. Harvard don't always produce the best student in UK. Research requires money, we sensible people know that, nevertheless every research/ education should people base. Nigeria education may not need the kind of money American education would need. There are schools, secondary schools that pay in millions, they don't produce the best students in jamb? Motivation is a key factor in education not the provision of all usables

Okay, don't complain about the bad facilities and lecturers in Nigerian universities then. It's what we can afford.

You guys really don't want change.

A bad harvard grad would get employed in the global sweepstakes of jobs before a Nigerian graduate. Money talks...

tonytony208:
georgeakins, leokid866, I'm sure this hike in school fees is favouring you and your families.

Oh, I forgot that only Igbos are experiencing hike in school fees. It is not affecting Yoruba students at all. . Àwọn Dìndìnrìn méjì.

lol not everyone I'd in the same struggle as you.....face yours.....