The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the hiking of school fees of university students as proposed by Dr Wale Babalakin, the chief government negotiator in the ASUU/Federal Government renegotiation exercise.

Prof. Lawan Abubakar, the Bauchi Zonal Coordinator of the Union made the disclosure at a press conference in Jos, the Plateau State capital.

Abubakar said, “One of the major issues our union wishes to bring to public domain is the wild idea of sharing the cost of education between the government and parents proposed by Dr. Wale Babalakin. This idea of sharing the cost of education since government alone cannot fund education, and that parents need to pay for it too.

“He proposed a minimum of N350, 000 as tuition fee for undergraduate students of Arts and Humanities, and N500, 000, for those in Sciences.

“Our union rejected the proposal based on the fact that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria clearly states that funding education is the sole responsibility of Governments at various levels and not parents,” he maintained.

He added, “In his response, he proposed the idea of an Education Bank, where students will obtain a loan of N1 million each, every session to pay the tuition fee and sustain themselves.
“However, our union also rejected the idea of Education Bank, because for one, not all the students will have access to loan, and for those who will access the loan, it is the same parents who served as sureties, and subsequently pay back the loan, considering the very high rate of unemployment in the country.

“Supposing that the student is able to secure a job after graduation, he cannot start a life while paying back a loan of 4 to 6 million naira, as the case may be.

“In this kind of situation, the graduate would be subjected to, when will he finish paying the loan and establish himself? He asked.
“Frustration will gradually set in and make them live a life of misery”, he further lamented.

The Zonal Coordinator said Babalakin, who owns a private University, gave all the aforementioned proposals because they are aimed at guaranteeing funding for private Universities.

He also said that the federal government owed the Universities revitalization fund of N1.1 trillion.
According to him, the federal government had in 2013 agreed to disburse the sum of N1.3 trillion for the revitalization of Nigeria universities, between 2013 and 2018, but said out of that amount only N200 billion has been released.

“The Bauchi zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), hereby reiterates its unflinching support to the National Leadership of the Union towards its untiring efforts and commitment to the implementation of the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoA), and by extension the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the 2012 NEEDS Assessment Report, the 2012 Roadmap, the 2011 (MoU), indeed, the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement”.

On the financial situation bedeviling the university system in the country, the Zonal Coordinator lamented that it has continued to remain pathetic.

“The 7% of total budget allocated to the education sector in 2018 budget by the federal government of Nigeria is, to say the least, grossly below the UNESCO recommended minimum of 26%.

“As if this mirage is not bad enough, State Governments across the country are establishing State Universities and abandoning them to TEFUND, the brain child of ASUU as an intervention agency in the funding of education”, he decried.

He denied claims of a report credited to the Acting Minister of Finance, that N20 billion has been release to the Union.
“This is not true as common sense would not take this since ASUU is not an organ of government”, he stressed.

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These people are wicked.....Kai

Wale Babalakin is that true?

Evil government

In a country with a minumum wage of 18k

This one get hrt so? Jesus!!

The fools that govern and make decisions for this country are busy buying Torment slots in that lake of fire meant for devil and his demons....


How can this fellow just wake up and suggest this evil and and and demonic idea for a cripple called Nigeria?

Wale Babalakin is evil

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Liberia will be Dubai when all this pushing causes the shít to hit the fan...

Nigeria why... why are our leaders like this... why. they've succeeded in killing our education, now they want to bury it finally
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These dudes don't really care about the situations at hand with the masses at all.

Thank you ASUU for rejecting

“He proposed a minimum of N350, 000 as tuition fee for undergraduate students of Arts and Humanities, and N500, 000, for those in Sciences.


Where is this coming from again?!
We will hear from the horse's mouth before concluding.
This sounds crazy!

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How can this fellow just wake up and suggest this evil and and and demonic idea for a cripple called Nigeria?

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Even with minimum wage at 18k? Na wa o. The same Babalakin attended a public university when our educational system was very much solid yet affordable. Now, he wants to cut off majority’s access to education with this anti-people policy. I hope they are ready to build more prisons though? There are so many leakages in this porous system yet to be blocked, yet you want to create another opportunity for rent seeking. Make the most of the “little” you have first. Some many leaders bereft of ideas.

This crop of buffons relied on scholarships to study. There is a deliberate attack on education by the Federal Government.

Chai..

No probs about d 500k. Let our GDP increase first and our legislators reduce their emoluments then we r good to go

Very foolish people

Dr Wale Babalakin and his cohorts are very foolish people.

They do this because their children school abroad with the money they stole.

Oh Nigerians Youths Arise and take back your future

ASUU is an enemy of the state. education is not for everybody.
too many people with degrees few jobs.
why don't u make degrees hard so that there will be plenty jobs

I will voluntarily lead a protest on this if it happens

Wale Babalakin abi what is ur name, if some people tries to assassinate you and your entire family now people will be saying rubbish... You all sha don't want an average man son/daughter to compete with your kids. May thunder from above fire you and your unborn generation.

It shall not be well with those proposing the idea of 350k and 500k.

Stup*d people.

Lol this is funny

Look at all the best universities in the world and tell me which are cheap

Parents save for their child universities school fees for 20 years in the USA

A typical Nigerian wants Harvard University standarded education but wants to pay less than 50k per year

If America with a revenue of over 4 trillion dollars and a population of 300m can't make education cheap.. Is it Nigeria with 200m people and earns less then 15bn dollars every year that can?

Let's be serious Jor

My idea minimum school fees should be set at 1 million
But 30% of students should be on scholarships ..churches ,Muslim groups, multi national should take care of this if the person can maintain a minimum grade or gp

In that case the poor can also go to school if they are smart enough...

Any other thing we would never achieve world class education

e be like say thunder wan fire these people? I swear it won't be well with those who introduced the idea? the federal schools are safe havens for hardworking students of the masses who could not afford a high paying private school! And they want to rob us of education again! I swear they haven't seen strikes! never should this plan be made effective else Boko harams own would be child splay, students will start their own guerilla activities

Pay N500k say wetin happen? use that money and attend Madonna university.

JESUS!
Whoever proposed that is devil himself!

Where are we heading to.....