Dpeacemaker101: he should beg his lecturers to go back to school, cause the amount they are asking for is outrageous my dear. Remember we still have other sectors of the economy that also needs funding.

debbleopto:

I would have said it was good you were not admitted with this uncooked brain and stark ignorance for ur age into university. How many did exam and how many will buy post jamb that scored more than 200. assuming 1 million bought at 3000 naira that is 3 billion naira. so is 3 billion enough to go round more than 100 UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS.

bloggernaija: These guys like the politicians are a bunch of jokers .
Lazy ,unthinking typical Nigerian .
In that organisation ,is there nobody there to do the maths that Nigeria cannot afford that much money ,even if the country was not corrupt?
That is about $7 billion in a country where over 50% are very very poor.

SUBMARINE: @ROSSIK God bless you. Why cant they develop new products, ideas, etc patent and sell them to both foreign and local organizations for profits. Eg Design ear/mouth piece that can interpret one language to another and sell it to religious and diplomatic organizations for profit.

festwiz: To pay 800bn for 4 years isn't outrageous.i read in an interview that unesco told the nigerian federal govt. To alot 25% of its annual budget to education,bt the fg is only alotting 9%.isn't that a joke?

Raggedy_Ann:


Not really....
The USA spends 5.5% GDP on education (2007), the UK also spends 5.5%, by 2009 south Africa was spending 5.4% GDP on education (don't know if that has changed). In fact by 2009, when this survey was done, only Sudan spent the UNESCO-recommended 25% ( the figure was 27.8%). They were ranked first by govt expenditure on education. The second placed Timor Leste spent 16.8%.

So you see, countries are at liberty to place their priorities themselves despite UNESCO's recommendations ( 'E' for educational, i'm sure WHO would not agree with this, health is important too are they going to demand 25% too?). Our guide should be statistics derived from our surveys: prevalent mortality, illiteracy, etc PLUS their effects on national growth, productivity etc. Maternal Mortality in isolation is definitely terrible but if the population is growing at such an astronomic rate that there is a battle keeping up with infrastructure ( not to mention the imbalanced ratio of women to men), then one would be tempted to push down the list of priorities 'improve health care' in favour of provide mass housing. This is just an example, the bottom line is: na pesin wey wear shoe na im sabi where e dey pain am.

If Nigeria now spends 8.43% GDP on education where we spent 0.8% in 1995, then it's evident we have recognized the importance of supporting that sector more. it will not be done overnight at the expense of other sectors ( they have to be weaned gradually).

N3tr might be more or less than what is required to revamp education in this country (personally i think the lack of infrastructure isn't so much the problem as faulty policies and corruption, the additional money could make zero impact on the quality of graduates produced) but we would never know until the Ministry of Education presents its case. This is beyond ASUU, on the matter of the collapse in the educational sector we are equal stakeholders and a bunch of University lecturers are ill-equipped to make reasonable demands. What's the plan? or are we going to decide that when the money comes?. Demands like these should be made out in terms of equipment, infrastructure and other requirements along with forecasts explaining how improvement would be achieved. They really should know better!

awodman:

www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ASUU-unions-demand-is-n3tn-not-n130bn/160469/

berem: There's nothing outrageous about the money.The education sector needs proper funding.If our leaders can send their kids to foreign schools that are well funded,why should they not equally fund our own universities to meet up to international standard? The money required is small compared to the excessive looting going on in the presidency.

berem: Did Ngozi Okonjo Iweala or Sanusi Lamido tell you the FG doesn't have that kind of money to give to ASUU? Sentiments aside,FG should stop telling Nigerians that the strike is being politicized and pay the gaddiem money to ASUU! My younger brother is already tired of staying at home!

GeneralShepherd:

For home students its abt 4000pounds,don't peddle false info

Ekawu: FG pls implement d agreement u entered with ASUU