Samtolly4JESUS: An average Nigerian has barely enough to afford a decent three square meal. Already depraved on standard living, it will be sheer injustice to deprive such of quality education to better himself. School should not be about who has money, it should be about who's smart and motivated enough to attend. Precious brains waste away on the streets on the basis of lack of school fund. Pure injustice!

Mazi_Omenuko: Dechyko; in your essay, you posited that the rise of the cost of tertiary education has risen to over 2000%, using a case study of OAU within the last decade. Did you also put into consideration the inflation rates and value of the naira when making that statistical comparison? It will be shallow to compare just figures without considering that the value of naira in 2003 isn't the same in this 2013 and the difference could result also in the increase of school fees.

Fynestboi: Alicia, deschyko you both are not punturing any point from your opponent's argument

Aliciakeys:
here, you fail to understand the prime factors that hold the keys to a good standard of living. If the government should provide jobs, security, good roads and a conducive environment, won't education be funded by individuals? Why then do you want the government to spend funds just in free tertiary education, leaving the capital-intensive sectors?

Samtolly4JESUS:

A university degree is a professional degree.
Unless such am individual in under-baked, there will always be a way to carve out a good future.

Mazi_Omenuko:

Did you also consider that you are asking this same country with all these faults to offer free education and fund it completely? The faults you highlighted above strengthens the argument that their should not be any free education as the government can't be sincere enough to fund it.

Mazi_Omenuko: Madam Alicia; no recommendation? Your essay just sounds like you were saying; "if you can't afford education, then go to hell".

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:


That David was youngest and ill-experienced didn't stop him from being King over his brothers. Honour to whom it is rightly due

Aliciakeys:
Truth be told, what do you expect from an institution where the government is made to bear all the burden? There will surely be loopholes in such a situation because the government can not carter for all the institutions, hence, poor funding and further derailing of researches, infrastructures and projects, producing half-baked individuals as graduates.

Aliciakeys:
what better recommendation can be provided than for the provision of lucrative jobs, security, roads and electricity, that will arrest the case of low standard of living and hence, better funding.. Kindly go through the last paragraph of my essay for that.

Mazi_Omenuko:

Still don't understand the correlation between the point I raised and this reply!

Samtolly4JESUS:

Let's stop covering up the Government's delinquency! A Good should be able to provide free quality education to deserving students.

Fynestboi: Debaters, pls respond to question(s) posted at you as soon as the question is visible.

Samtolly4JESUS:

How do you expect uneducated citizens to properly maintain these juices?

Let's get the priorities right!

Aliciakeys:
DESERVING STUDENTS are those that know their game academically, that is why there are SCHOLARSHIPS and not making education free for all.

Obinoscopy:
@Mazi_Omenuko: Are you saying anything free is commensurate to low quality? Please expatiate, thanks.

Fynestboi: Puncturing of point canstill go on along with judges questioning.

Obinoscopy:

@Aliciakeys: "Raising taxes in Nigeria during a time of economic meltdown would be damaging and counter-productive." Please can you elaborate more on this Aliciakeys? Thanks

Mazi_Omenuko:

The low quality isn't as a direct result of price: but as a result of general attitude of Nigerians towards free stuffs. It can be likened to one that hangs out friends and his friends pay for his beer. He tends to abuse the drink; not because the beer is of low quality; but because its coming free of charge. This is what I termed "crowd mentality."

Aliciakeys:
According to the result of the Laffer curve, it is pstulated is increasing tax rates beyond a certain point will be counter-productive for raising further tax revenue. A hypothetical Laffer curve for any given economy, hence increasing tax rate at this stage means, individuals have to worker harder and there is an extent one can work, causing breakdown. Breakdown leading to accumulated hospital bills and hence, a toll in the same economy.

♥Dεs•Chγκσ♥:
@Obinoscopy.. We're going to be the first to implementing it. Our African brothers are in the blind. It won't be the first we're making such achievements. We were also the first country to offset their international debt owed to the France aid