Leoejiofor: What of employment, he have nt done anything in area. Is only to construct road, nd graduating people every year. Without minding that , ther are some people that do not have job. The schools we have in nigeria today is ok, for us.

afam4eva:
What does a university have that a secondary school does not have little of. It's not like he's building a Harvard.

afam4eva:
The school we have today is OK for you because you can pay. There are people that don't have the resources to pay for schooling. Those are the people that the Rochas foundation is targeting.

PapaBrowne: SUSTAINABILITY.

How do you sustain a university without any grants or tuition fees. Wouldn't quality be affected seriously.

Except he is going to use tax payers money to run it. Seriously,a university is totally different from a secondary school.

slimming:

Guy, that is Nigeria for you o.

kinguwem: University administrators and lecturers in Nigeria are lazy. The main source of funding in universities abroad is research grants. Students also benefit from scholarships. If governments, corporate bodies and NGOs are committed, the project is possible.

ekwah:

I don't understand what your problem is. Rochas has been on this project for a long time now. what's bad if such good deeds are posted on nairaland for people to see. This same man gives a yearly sum of #50,000 naira cash to students who graduate from his free high school and are now in Universities. I know this because I benefited from it too. Stop hating.

Another Okija:

1. More detailed laboratories than your average secondary school..

2. More buildings and other infrastructures...

3. Costs more money to run a University than a secondary school..

4. Tuition may be free, but who will pay the PhD. Lecturers and Professors their salaries (and retirement benefits).


Afam, you attended a University (and I'm sure a good one too).. Now imagine your University... Now half of it... and think of how easy it would be to build half of it, fund it (tuition free and government grant free) and still run a half-decent University

Another Okija:


What does Rochas Okorocha do for a living...


How does he make his money?!

Businesstools: Let's wait and see.

doctokwus: Tuition free university is neither practical nor sustainable.Its either d report is wrong in d sense dat it won't b absolutely free or d funding will come frm somewhere dat wudnt benefit d state

doctokwus: Tuition free university is neither practical nor sustainable.Its either d report is wrong in d sense dat it won't b absolutely free or d funding will come frm somewhere dat wudnt benefit d state

doctokwus: Tuition free university is neither practical nor sustainable.Its either d report is wrong in d sense dat it won't b absolutely free or d funding will come frm somewhere dat wudnt benefit d state

Opoki: I LovE THIS MAN!

miteolu: The Rochas Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to the educational development of the less-privileged, is developing facilities to open Nigeria’s first free university.

The Foundation currently owns and runs five secondary schools around the country offering free education to indigent students. The schools are located in Ogboko (in Imo State); Owerri, Kano, Ibadan, and Jos.

The Principal of the Rochas Foundation College in Jos, Mr Ugbobor Daniel, spoke of the ongoing preparation to establish the free university while receiving a bus donated to the Jos College yesterday.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/education/169992-okorocha-rochas-imo-state-governor-to-build-first-free-university-in-nigeria.html

afam4eva: For those that are saying it's not practicable, do you know that the Rochas foundation already runs several schools free of charge in the six geo-political zones of the country.

miteolu: The Rochas Foundation, a charity organization dedicated to the educational development of the less-privileged, is developing facilities to open Nigeria’s first free university.

The Foundation currently owns and runs five secondary schools around the country offering free education to indigent students. The schools are located in Ogboko (in Imo State); Owerri, Kano, Ibadan, and Jos.

The Principal of the Rochas Foundation College in Jos, Mr Ugbobor Daniel, spoke of the ongoing preparation to establish the free university while receiving a bus donated to the Jos College yesterday.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/education/169992-okorocha-rochas-imo-state-governor-to-build-first-free-university-in-nigeria.html

afam4eva: For those that are saying it's not practicable, do you know that the Rochas foundation already runs several schools free of charge in the six geo-political zones of the country.