Caracta: @aliciakeys, don't you think educational sector is more important than capital-intensive projects? Who will carry out these projects? Illiterates? Don't you think free education at the tertiary level will empower engineers, scientists, etc. to work out plans and projects that would improve our economy?

Aliciakeys:
Bills Gates did not get the all-classy education in a tertiary school, yet he is amongst the world's richest, educating and funding tuition.

Caracta: @Mazi, you seem to feel that the problem of Nigeria lies in her leaders. If we change our leaders to the better ones YOU (Mazi) vote for, would you support free education at the tertiary level?

More like, "Give us good leaders and there will be free education"?

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:

Easy on that. Bill Gates is just one person with his success. How does he begin to replace the number of Nigerians that can be here now due to financially-induced discrimination. It doesn't look like they're turning Bill Gates overnight.

boay: For those against free education in Nigeria, looking at the hike in tution fee in our fedral universities and considering the level of poverty with a mind open to the fact that our dear country cannot develop without qualitative education, then how many Nigerians can avoid tertiary education?

Davo93:
[b]@Aliciakeys; Wonderful write-up i must confess. However, you failed to say something about those that won't be able to afford paid tertiary education. Is ignorance the only option we have like you suggested?

Mazi_Omenuko: more like, give us good leaders that can implement my recommendation of subsidized education with grants and loans.

Mazi_Omenuko:

Yes, ma! The leaders are our undoing! They can't be trusted to implement such schemes and fund it sincerely.

@bolded; more like, give us good leaders that can implement my recommendation of subsidized education with grants and loans. No government, no matter how good should award free tertiary education for other negative factors such as crowd mentality and reduction in quality of education offered.

boay: Also for those against free education in Nigeria, I am a student and my parent dont struggle too hard to pay my tuition fee but that does not mean I am the one bearing the burden of my education. Those against free education look at the word 'free' as if I will only enroll as a student and do nothing. As a student in Nigeria I still spend hours late in the night studying and do my assignments. So free education is not without any input, let us get right the meaning of the word 'free' in this context

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Aliciakeys:
Never say never. With will-power, hard work and focus, there is nothing like CAN NOT, sorry to say, but that is what Nigerians fail to understand. It has being deposited in us to do all things.

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:

Hello.. Doing that landed the US Government in trillions of dollars debt..

Mazi_Omenuko:

This is where my strong recommendation of scholarships, grants and loans comes into play. Bright students from poor background can get scholarships which can help them achieve their dream.

Aliciakeys:

You sit down there and scream about financially-induced discrimination when people who know the value are out there making it.

Davo93: So are you saying that poor Nigerians that have not been able to send their wards to tertiarry institution due to the fees status are not hardworking, focused and will-powered?

Aliciakeys:
Like you claimed, subsidized education landed US Government in trillions of dollars of debt, imagine what will happen to Nigeria Government if they should implement FREE TERTIARY EDUCATION because from my calculations, free tertiary education will cost an estimated sum of ten trillion naira just for a semester, won't that land Nigeria in a much bigger debt?

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:


I'll give you an instance of what happened at Anambra State University two years ago.. The school fees for oldies was hiked from N33,000 to N85,000. As a result, over 1/3 of the students stopped and sought admission elsewhere, of course with varying discouraging degrees of success. If you were one of them, describe your feeling and what action you would love. Are they all financially unwise like you claimed?

boay:

How feasible are your recommendations in a country like this well known for corruption also how many indigent students can benefit from this? The scope is your recommendations is very much limited

Dr.ABCD:
example of free tertiary education here in nigeria....its not like we dnt hv one, one typical example is the residency program for doctors here in nigeria and other parts of the world