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How As Head Of State, Buhari Literally Starved University Students In Nigeria by Nobody: 8:57am On Mar 13, 2015
Fellow Nigerians, Buhari’s
campaign portrays him as a
man who is a visionary, a man
who is going to uplift society, a
man who is going to bring light
to darkness, growth to decay
and be a huge ray of sunshine
on a rainy day.
Nothing could be further from
the truth, for Buhari is the
living embodiment of doom
and gloom. As Head of State,
his destructive persona did
not spare a single vibrant
national institution.
One of the hardest hit
segments was the educational
sector, even in areas as
mundane as feeding students,
Buhari brought destruction.
Here is a story from the New
Nigerian, from Friday June 14,
1985, 18 Months into Buhari’s
Tenure.
Titled ‘Meals Now A Luxury’ it
states inter alia:
“Three square meals have
become a luxury in the
nation’s institutions of higher
learning. This followed the
withdrawal of food subsidies
by the Federal Government.
Mr. Godfrey Dale, President of
the University of Port-Harcourt
Students’ Union told the NN
Parley that most students now
make do with one or a fraction
of a meal a day.
Giving details, the student
leader said students had
coined phrases such as 010 or
001.
“010 means breakfast zero, eat
lunch, dinner zero, 001 stands
for breakfast zero, lunch zero
and eat dinner,” Mr Godfrey
Dale explained adding that
011 is for those “buoyant
enough to have two meals.”
“Also as a result of the hard
times, more students are
forgoing the luxury of eating
meat with their meals while
others virtually live on “bread
and ice water.” Mr. Dale said.
He lamented that life on the
campus was very hard and
that students “are now
actually eating crubs.”
He said many students were
compelled to become
vegetarians.
…(He said) things were made
worse for students by the
government’s decision to make
their parents shoulder
responsibility for tuition and
accommodation.
He stressed that in view of the
rising unemployment, it was
difficult for parents to take up
such additional
responsibilities.
“They are now telling our
parents to pay school fees,
they are asking them to cater
for our accommodation, they
are no more subsidizing food.
Where are we going to get all
this money?”
Here is the article in question:
Being a semi illiterate himself,
it is no surprise Buhari had no
problem destroying the
tertiary education sector, with
many of his negative legacies
still a part of it today.
Interestingly enough, as bad
as Buhari claimed the Shagari
government was, by the time
Buhari was booted out,
Shagari’s era was perceived as
having been infinitely better
for the average Nigerian.
Rewarding Buhari, a deacon of
destruction with the
presidency, is like rewarding a
drunkard who pissed on your
carpet with an additional
bottle of whiskey. It’ll make
him happy, but won’t bode
well for you.
Thanks you for reading, God
bless you and God bless
Nigeria.

Source: ad76.com/2015/02/05/how-as-head-of-state-buhari-literally-starved-university-students-in-nigeria/

Re: How As Head Of State, Buhari Literally Starved University Students In Nigeria by francizy(m): 9:19am On Mar 13, 2015
Same man claiming he will feed all the pupils in pry school and pay poor old men (almajiris) 5k monthly..

Who is deceiving who?
Re: How As Head Of State, Buhari Literally Starved University Students In Nigeria by clevvermind(m): 9:25am On Mar 13, 2015
And some people would still come on this thread and be shouting stupid change or sai buhari. What a dead brain they have!
Re: How As Head Of State, Buhari Literally Starved University Students In Nigeria by Nobody: 9:26am On Mar 13, 2015
The headline on the newspaper contradicts what the OP said........why not follow your consciencebut because the posters above me are blinded by their hatred for buhari they seem not to read and comprehend easily or maybe they know the truth but just decided to pretend just for their own selfish reasons,that is what 1000naira glo recharge cards can do to an adult,poverty na disease....those that studied in the universities during the buhari's regime know the truth and know that the op is not well informed or did not go deep into the issue because he does not want to be caught with his lies,so no matter what you say on this thread you are just deceiving yourself....

Kola4uniadgog:


…(He said) things were made
worse for students by the
government’s decision to make
their parents shoulder
responsibility for tuition and
accommodation.
.
“They are now telling our
parents to pay school fees,
they are asking them to cater
for our accommodation, they
are no more subsidizing food.
Where are we going to get all
this money?”
Source: ad76.com/2015/02/05/how-as-head-of-state-buhari-literally-starved-university-students-in-nigeria/
No food for lazy man...Even in america,students who does not have parents or guardian to sponsor their education will have to start doing part time job so that they can continue their studies at the same time and that is why some students are happy overthere because they have the opportunity to work and study...so??are you saying the american government are insensitive too??even in freetown not everything is free

justme002:
I can see how he intends to make the nation better!!,if he cudnt make life easy for the youths in schools who are the leaders of tomoro and even today,then what exactly does he intend to do for us now?,or has he changed his ideologies ova nite?,all I know is that a leopard can neva change his spots no mata how much he tries!!
Any youth that know about "then" and "now"will know that life was very much better during that time,do you know that goods and services were very cheap at that time?? do you know how nice the economy was then?do you know how low the poverty rate was then??do you know how cheap education was during that time??do you know you can feed yourself three times a day with just 100 naira during that time??do you know we had working refineries then??do you know that dollars was equal to the naira then??do you know how cheap fuel was during that time??do you know how some terrorist group were wiped away from our country during that time??do you know corruption was very very low during that time??I guess you know all this but pretended not to know or maybe you were not born by then....
Re: How As Head Of State, Buhari Literally Starved University Students In Nigeria by justme002: 9:40am On Mar 13, 2015
I can see how he intends to make the nation better!!,if he cudnt make life easy for the youths in schools who are the leaders of tomoro and even today,then what exactly does he intend to do for us now?,or has he changed his ideologies ova nite?,all I know is that a leopard can neva change his spots no mata how much he tries!!

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