Muhammad Bashir Abdulrazaq writes:

I have a solution to this ASUU vs Government/Public problem. A solution which will make everybody happy and make Nigerian universities like those of UK.

Let us stop asking government to fund Universities by injecting N220 billion per year which acrued to N1.1 trillion because government refused to honour its promise. That is greediness. Let us adopt the UK model and collect registration fees of at least N2,000,000 (around £4,000) from citizens who want to have a degree and about N5,000,000 (around £10,000) from non-citizens.

By doing this, the government will be happy we will not be asking them to fund Universities which every Dick and Harry can afford. They will have more billions to renovate their offices and buy exotic cars.

The Universities will have more fund to pay lecturers so as to slow down the brain drain in Nigerian Universities, where the good lecturing materials are taken away by oil companies and foreign institutions.

The Universities can equip their laboratories and fund more advanced researches to be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Universities of International standard. This will even attract private institutions to give research funding to the Universities.

Anybody who can not afford that can go and work as a restaurant waiter, taxi driver, etc. There are a lot of alternatives to life.

If you still insist, you can take bank loan of about N10,000,000 for a four year degree which after interest you will pay at least N12,000,000. This means after the degree if you get a job of N100,000 per month, you can be paying the bank N50,000 per month. With this plan, you can pay the loan in just 20 years of your working life. After that, you will have a whole ten or so years to buy house, car, invest and plan for retirement.

With this solution, ASUU will not have to ask government for better funding or University autonomy which comes with this IPPIS issue. Universities will be declared a revenue generating institutions and therefore needs not join IPPIS just like customs, NNPC etc. By the way, at the end of each year we can declare losses just like NNPC.

The system can also be tweaked such that part of the benefits of being a lecturer is that your kids can study for free in the Universities.

The public that is so much concerned about ASUU's greediness will be automatically satisfied. The elite will also be happy that their children will be able to study in high standard University without having to mix with commoners. Lecturers will get their wish of better funding. Problem solved everybody is happy.

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To some extend he is right. It is a bitter pill many can not swallow. If you want quality education be ready for the sacrifice

edoairways:
To some extend he is right. It is a bitter pill many can not swallow. If you want quality education be ready for the sacrifice

Yeah he si right. Since some Nigerians choose to be deceived by government.