El-Rufai declares free education in Kaduna , Kaduna State Government has declared a 13.7 billion naira yearly free education policy for primary and Secondary Schools students in the state.

The State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai made this announcement at the end of a three-day retreat for Commissioners and Special Advisers in the state at the Fifth Chukker Polo Ground, along Kaduna-Saminaka Express Way.

According to him, the policy had taken away the burden of tuition fees, school uniforms, feeding at the state boarding schools and other sundry charges from parents every year.

The governor strongly warned that any principal who collects any form of fees from parents would be dealt with, describing as fraudulent the 3.7 billion naira allegedly spent on school fees by the immediate past PDP government in the state.


The governor explained that about 9 billion naira would be spent for standadized three sets of school uniforms for 1.1 million pupils in primary schools and other materials to make learning easy for them, while about 3.7 billion naira would be spent on fees and feeding for over 3,780 Junior Secondary Schools students across the state.

He added that the state would be paying about 200 million naira per term as school fees for students, while government supplement for feeding in boarding schools would gulp 200 million naira per term as well.

According to the governor, about 5,000 local tailors would be engaged to produce the single type uniforms for all the schools in the state, noting that the idea was to create jobs for local entrepreneurs in Kaduna State. He assured that Kaduna state would follow the path and landmarks of progressive leadership as represented by the All Progressive Congress, APC and President Muhammadu Buhari, stating that transparency, accountability, strict adherence to ethics and values, integrity, openness and high sense of responsibility would be the watchword of his administration.

via http://www.news24extra.com/2015/09/15/el-rufai-declares-free-education-in-kaduna/

Nice decision. But this was exactly the same way Rochas and Oshiomole started but today it is a diff tone. If things are done for the purpose and betterment of the people, Nigeria will be a great nation but rather many of our politician uses the opportunity to score cheap political points thereby not studying and taking proper review of the decision made today will have effect against or sustain tomorrow.

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attym i do secretly wish Elrufai is even the president. pmb isnt a bad choice thou

I love this man. He's my candidate for 2019 presidency. A leader with vision unlike all this business and self centered morons

Done

APC making Nigeria proud since 2011 ,it started with Rochas,now El Rufai

Sai Buhari (2015-2023)
Sai El-Rufai (2023 -2031)
Sai APC (2015 till further notice)

Malam Nasir El-rufai - President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria (2023 - 2031)

We truly missed you in abuja, u turned abuja 2 what it's today, d yeye minister that took over from u couldn't maintain d standard u lay down...kaduna people's I hail ooooo, u have d best governor in Nigeria

Smart, bold, brainy, no nonsense

Superb policy! "El mallam" mu kei so!

loud populism, at this point, tell me that we'll soon be hearing of bankrupt treasuries.
As it's foolish to announce be poor, and announce that you'll be paying the school fees of your entire kindred without increasing your personal wealth or ability to earn, I'm weary of governments that announce free education, free meals, in a time of dwindling revenue and shrinking currency value.


but the masses in the country are feed on noise, not bread, so let me not interrupt the drum festival.

Nice one

Are they up to hundred schools in Kaduna both nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary

2019 things....

Ofodirinwa:
loud populism, at this point, tell me that we'll soon be hearing of bankrupt treasuries.
As it's foolish to announce be poor, and announce that you'll be paying the school fees of your entire kindred without increasing your personal wealth or ability to earn, I'm weary of governments that announce free education, free meals, in a time of dwindling revenue and shrinking currency value.


but the masses in the country are feed on noise, not bread, so let me not interrupt the drum festival.

guy Pompey; this is the best time for good policies like that because you can only see the stars at night. You plan good when there is little or nothing.

Jezz

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Na today? Is El-rufai the first northern governor to offer free education to these religious fanatics? Free education being offered to those almajiris since 1900, yet not up to 5% of their populace are educated, since they prefer only islamic education. Can you force a carmel to drink water after forcing it to the river bank?

redsconsult:
guy Pompey; this is the best time for good policies like that because you can only see the stars at night. You plan good when there is little or nothing.

No, you gain more, then plan good. What good is a free education policy in Kaduna, which has the highest debt profile in the north. It will end within 4 years or less because the state will be too preoccupied paying debt. It's doubtful if anyone can not afford a public school education in Nigeria, so you eliminate the already marginal fees in place means you have a revenue formula that's going to increase spending on schools

This is impossible with debt. Argebsola, Amaechi, Okorocha and others have shown us the pointlessness of implementing populist policies before you have a implemented a solid revenue plan or combated debt. They won't be able to pay for salaries in Kaduna soon, remember I told you so.

Ofodirinwa:
No, you gain more, then plan good. What good is a free education policy in Kaduna, which has the highest debt profile in the north. It will end within 4 years or less because the state will be too preoccupied paying debt. It's doubtful if anyone can not afford a public school education in Nigeria, so you eliminate the already marginal fees in place means you have a revenue formula that's going to increase spending on schools

This is impossible with debt. Argebsola, Amaechi, Okorocha and others have shown us the pointlessness of implementing populist policies before you have a implemented a solid revenue plan or combated debt. They won't be able to pay for salaries in Kaduna soon, remember I told you so.

Well said. It could easily boomerang into deeper economic crisis.

However, Restrictive Fiscal Policies in times of economic slowdown could also easily lead to an "Austerity Trap". In most developed economies, social spending increases during recessions. This helps increase the disposable income for households. This extra income will increase consumption and hence Aggregate Demand.

The problem in less developed countries is corruption and lack of institutional capacity to implement such spending. In these countries, most of the money will find its way into private pockets rather than the citizens.

Bevista:
Well said. It could easily boomerang into deeper economic crisis.

However, Restrictive Fiscal Policies in times of economic slowdown could also easily lead to an "Austerity Trap". In most developed economies, social spending increases during recessions. This helps increase the disposable income for households. This extra income will increase consumption and hence Aggregate Demand.

The problem in less developed countries is corruption and lack of institutional capacity to implement such spending. In these countries, most of the money will find its way into private pockets rather than the citizens.

social spending increased to take more people off the job market leaving the shrinking amount of jobs open for the people that want them the most. In essence the theory is to keep people at home by having the government provide for them to shrink the labor pool to a size the economy can handle until recovery is made. How does free education do this? You can say it increases disposable income but how much is school public tuition and what can that really do to an economy? In states like Kaduna the majority of cities have their economy based on government. The government is the primary economic actor everywhere but Kaduna City. Not collective school fees shrinks that same governments pocket and shrinks it's ability to spend.

if it can't spend it can't pay wages, and most towns in Nigeria are dependent on civil servant wages. Couple that having the most debt in nigeria second only to Lagos and a few SW states who got there using policies like this.

APC Governor Aregbesola started this and today the state of Osun is worse than he met it.

APC Governor Rochas used the same format but he technically added other 'levies' and he's owing civil servants.

APC Governor Adams Oshiomole used same trick in Edo and today they are worse off for it.

APC Governor Hell Rufai is using the same strategy.

I make bold to say that Kaduna will suffer for it like their Osun, Imo and Edo counterparts because Hell Rufai will defraud them.


As for those dreaming Hell Rufai to succeed the failed project called Buhari, I laugh at you. Hell Rufai will NEVER be President whether in 2023 or subsequent time. Someone from North-West cannot succeed fellow North-Westerner. Beside, PDP will sweep out APC and Buhari in 2019.

Let's stop using the word corruption as an excuse to not thing of the bigger problem. It wasn't corruption that crashed education in Rivers State, it was Amaechi trying to build 350 school at once and giving free education without having a plan on how to raise money.

If you earn 100K a month as a person, and you spend 2M on a car, is it corruption that keeps food off your table for the next 10 months? Incompetence is a bigger problem than corruption and what El Rufai has done in implementing such a populist police is show brazen incompetence.

In Anambra state the government privatized the school and handed them back to the churches that built them. Then it uses the money from the sale of the school and the extra money left over from what was budgeted to maintain those schools to give the new owners grants for computers, libraries, laboratories, desks, etc. This is a solid plan and today Anambra is building new schools and lending money to states like Kaduna.

Bevista:
Well said. It could easily boomerang into deeper economic crisis.

However, Restrictive Fiscal Policies in times of economic slowdown could also easily lead to an "Austerity Trap". In most developed economies, social spending increases during recessions. This helps increase the disposable income for households. This extra income will increase consumption and hence Aggregate Demand.

The problem in less developed countries is corruption and lack of institutional capacity to implement such spending. In these countries, most of the money will find its way into private pockets rather than the citizens.

Well said.

Keneking:
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Word!

Ofodirinwa:
Let's stop using the word corruption as an excuse to not thing of the bigger problem. It wasn't corruption that crashed education in Rivers State, it was Amaechi trying to build 350 school at once and giving free education without having a plan on how to raise money.

If you earn 100K a month as a person, and you spend 2M on a car, is it corruption that keeps food off your table for the next 10 months? Incompetence is a bigger problem than corruption and what El Rufai has done in implementing such a populist police is show brazen incompetence.

In Anambra state the government privatized the school and handed them back to the churches that built them. Then it uses the money from the sale of the school and the extra money left over from what was budgeted to maintain those schools to give the new owners grants for computers, libraries, laboratories, desks, etc. This is a solid plan and today Anambra is building new schools and lending money to states like Kaduna.

APC guys should at least learn from Tinubu when it comes to Education. He handed over some missionary schools back to them and introduced FREE payment of WAEC and NECO fees for students. It saved the Lagos state government the huge cost of maintaining the staffs and facilities of these schools at the same time provided opportunity for rich and quality education. This so-called 100% scholarship, feeding, uniform etc cannot be sustenable. That's the truth

Ofodirinwa:
You can say it increases disposable income but how much is school public tuition and what can that really do to an economy?

I wasn't trying to justify El Rufai, but simply to offer some perspective to the debate.

The government budget estimate for the Free Education Program is N13.7b. That amount (if spent judiciously) should stimulate an economy like Kaduna state. We can debate all day about social spending, but to my knowledge it is not intended to keep people at home but merely a response to the fact that people are at home and do need money.

I am not necessarily in support of the policy as it could easily go very wrong, but then the policy has some merits if meticulously planned and judiciously implemented.

Dats kood. The north needs education badly. Dangote and Danjuma and all Northern oil bloc owners shd help sponsor some kids, and not just the government alone.

Bevista:
I wasn't trying to justify El Rufai, but simply to offer some perspective to the debate.

The government budget estimate for the Free Education Program is N13.7b. That amount (if spent judiciously) should stimulate an economy like Kaduna state. We can debate all day about social spending, but to my knowledge it is not intended to keep people at home but merely a response to the fact that people are at home and do need money.

I am not necessarily in support of the policy as it could easily go very wrong, but then the policy has some merits if meticulously planned and judiciously implemented.

I understood your objective and appreciate it.
This about it this way. If you take away school fees, that doesn't 'increase' spending. It simply decreasing income. So if the cost of running a school a money is 1M, and 30% of that is paid by school fees, 100% is now paid by government. With Kaduna's income dwindling is this feasible? Can Kaduna now have the money to improve the schools? Increase building projects? Pay civil servants? It's already struggling to pay teachers, and El Rufai has taken away a source of income. Makes no sense to prudent minds.

There's a danger in the current political system.

Bialegend:
Na today? Is El-rufai the first northern governor to offer free education to these religious fanatics? Free education being offered to those almajiris since 1900, yet not up to 5% of their populace are educated, since they prefer only islamic education. Can you force a carmel to drink water after forcing it to the river bank?

See the bolded? Stop throwing rocks in glass houses. You come across like you need some educating yourself.