ladi02:

Are the ones we have well equpped first? Do you know how much building a university talkless of 6 will cost the Government

This is nothing but a selfish project!, i will be surprised if the university in Bayelsa is not named Goodluck Jonathan University!

Open your eyes than taking everything a government does as right!
We have half-baked graduates roaming the streets looking for job. None of the Federal Universities in Nigeria can stand and boast of significant international rating.

Yet you come and say what is wrong with that. . .RUBBISH!, absolutely RUBBISH!

rebranded:

I am interested in knowing where the money to build the universities will come from, hope its not going to be another foreign loan. Because at the least this will gulp N100b. So we dont become a family that can barely eat twice a day and thinking about having more children.

na_so:

Just shut up or say hi to nairaland if you have nothing to say. You ask people to open their eyes and not see every govt action to be right. The problem is you have opened your eyes too wide that you now see everything wrong in any action by govt.

Yes the standards have flagged, but that does not diminish the problem of limited spaces for prospective applicants in our universities. Do you know that part of the measures to address the gaps in the university system will be for the universities to prune their intakes to the actual capacities they were designed for? UI is already doing a lot along this line. If/when universities do this, the gap will be partially addressed by the new ones.

You need to close your eyes a bit, i think there are now too wide for your health. rubbish.

dappssee:

Guy, its not having more children. Its building more rooms for the children you already have. You need to see the number of students that seek admissions yearly and with the liberalization of the power sector in the offing, the sky is the limit for graduates of Nigerian universities

ladi02:

Are the ones we have well equpped first? Do you know how much building a university talkless of 6 will cost the Government

This is nothing but a selfish project!, i will be surprised if the university in Bayelsa is not named Goodluck Jonathan University!

Open your eyes than taking everything a government does as right!

We have half-baked graduates roaming the streets looking for job. None of the Federal Universities in Nigeria can stand and boast of significant international rating.

Yet you come and say what is wrong with that. . .RUBBISH!, absolutely RUBBISH!

igbobuigbo:

Is Otuoke not part of Nigeria? Is Otuoke inferior to other villages/towns with federal universities? Does Bayelsa have a federal university before now? Will the federal university in Otuoke be attended by only Bayelsans?

youngmonie:

This is what annoys me reallyy, ppl see the real issues and comment with centiment all because it has to do with jonathan. Rubbish, in as much as hes a good leader but im sorry this is not the solution, the universitites on ground are they functionning well, most employers are complanning that Nigerian graduates are not employable yet all we can do is establish more universities. Make the present institutions work, sort the issue of stikes out, fund theses univeritites. Wer are they even going to get the human capital to teach in those unis?, most of them have left the country for better career oppurtunites outside the country. In my uni here alone there are bout 6 nigerian lecturers. Its easy to establish uni but how do u maintain them wen the present ones are not functionning properly. Another issue is that most Nigerians dont even believe in the issue of government university, dey are going private. Its meant to be about making the present institutions funtion properly.

youngmonie:

This is what annoys me reallyy, ppl see the real issues and comment with centiment all because it has to do with jonathan. Rubbish, in as much as hes a good leader but im sorry this is not the solution, the universitites on ground are they functionning well, institutions work, sort the issue of stikes out, fund theses univeritites. Wer are they even going to get the human capital to teach in those unis?,most employers are complanning that Nigerian graduates are not employable yet all we can do is establish more universities. Make the present most of them have left the country for better career oppurtunites outside the country. In my uni here alone there are bout 6 nigerian lecturers. Its easy to establish uni but how do u maintain them wen the present ones are not functionning properly. Another issue is that most Nigerians dont even believe in the issue of government university, dey are going private. Its meant to be about making the present institutions funtion properly.

Kobojunkie:

What has location to do with the main problem with our whole education system? I am not certain if it is just me but I suggest you all try to familiarize yourselves with the true state of our education system to better understand why this move is not what we need NOW for our kids, no matter the problem we have with quantity of people trying to get in each year. The same ministry of Education is still working on finding companies and individuals to adopt schools and help refurb and revamp most all of them through it's adopt-a-school program, an exercise that has been going on for about 7 years now with little or no real results recorded considering the sheer number of schools that are in dire need of help.

igbobuigbo:

Read my lips. The problem of education in Nigeria is not merely quantity and quantity (number of universities). It is the will to get everything going okay, including the universities. I believe we can have both quality and quantity at the same time, like USA. We cannot lose out in both.

~Bluetooth:

All these opportunist presidents now use this rare opportunity to establish university in their backyards .yardua university and now jonathan university even when the NDU is nothing to write home about.rubbish.

krendo:

Within 6 months this man has sited a University in his home town, increased the Federal Allocation of Bayelsa State and elevated Bayelsa Militants into Statesmen deserving of being romanced in Aso Rock.


This man should be sent back to run Bayelsa if that is what he wants.

The rest of Nigeria wants an impartial President.