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DSSnairaland:
Re-Check my screenshot bro, I'm not an Igbo.

He insult then modify it in mins.

Baba u are igbo oo
As long as u dont support their drug Lord
Me i done tire

rippa:
The federal government is set to introduce tuition fees in federal universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions following the signing of the Student Loan Bill by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Daily Trust reports.

The bill, which is now an act of parliament was signed on Monday, a development widely celebrated in many quarters without understanding the implication of the new law for the millions of prospective students who rely on tuition-free higher institutions of learning to acquire knowledge.

Educationists and other stakeholders said this would have wider implications.

In Nigeria, tuition, which runs into hundreds of thousands of naira or even millions of naira in private universities, is free in government schools at both national and state levels.

The situation has been the same since independence, even though some charges for other issues such as accommodation, departmental, and course registration, among others vary from one institution to another.

The waiver of tuition has given millions of students the opportunity to go to school, but observers say the introduction of a student loan scheme by the federal government means an end to tuition-free education.

There was no immediate response from the Federal Ministry of Education.

introduction of a student loan scheme by the federal government means an end to tuition-free education.

There was no immediate response from the Federal Ministry of Education


What the law says

Clause 3 of the Students Loan Act says: “The loans referred to in this Act shall be granted to students only for the payment of tuition fees.”

This clause contravenes the existing provision that says tuition is free in public institutions.

Meanwhile, the question of tuition in Nigerian institutions is a constitutional matter vide Chapter 2 of the amended 1999 Constitution. By the provisions of that chapter, no publicly owned institution is permitted and it is illegal for any one of them to charge tuition fees on any citizen of the country.

According to the Act establishing the law, the Student Loan Bill would provide easy access to higher education for indigent Nigerians through interest-free loans from the Nigerian Education Loan Fund.

As enacted by the National, the Act shall apply to all matters pertaining to the application and grant of loans to Nigerians seeking higher education into institutions of higher learning in Nigeria through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund.

“All students seeking higher education in any public institution of higher learning in Nigeria shall have equal right to access the loans under this Act without any discrimination arising from gender, religion, tribe, position or disability of any kind,” the act reads.

It, however, noted that the grant of the loan to any student under the Act shall be subject to the applicant satisfying the requirements and conditions set out under this Act.

Many students will leave school – ASUU

When Daily Trust contacted the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, he said the bill is not new as it has been on for a long time.

He said: “A country where more than 133 million are living below the poverty line and you want to introduce tuition fees? It will be counterproductive.

“Every Nigerian should know what is going to happen next and there may likely be another bill waiting for signature that will introduce tuition fees. If the bill indicated that the loan is to pay tuition fees and there are no tuition fees in Nigerian universities, then what is your next approach,” he asked.

He, however, noted that the union is yet to have access to the accurate copy and that they needed to get it and study it.

“We have said long ago, in 2017, to President Buhari when they came up with the issue of tuition fees, that every student will pay N1 million and we said you cannot put that in our agreement and you cannot use that to negotiate with us and with the nature of the country we have today, there is no way that will work.

“What will happen is that the majority of students whose parents cannot afford it will pull out of school in anger and you know what that means, they will fight the society back. But let us get the correct information first before knowing the next steps,” he added.

A professor at the University of Abuja, Ben Ugwoke, said going by the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, no public institution pays tuition fees. That is, all public institutions in Nigeria are tuition-free.

“However, due to underfunding, the governing councils or boards of these public institutions are permitted by the laws establishing the institutions to determine appropriate charges and levies that students should pay to cover specific costs.

“The bill signed into law does not abrogate the various acts of the National Assembly establishing the public institutions which enable them to levy students appropriately. The new students’ loan act did not in any way abolish the current or future regime of charges students of public institutions in Nigeria currently pay.

“Let me hazard a guess that the new act has laid a formal basis for the various governing organs of the public institutions in Nigeria to levy higher charges on students,” he said.

According to him, “To the naive, it means relief but to my mind, I think it means higher charges are on the horizon for students.”

For Professor Nasiru Medugu Idris of Nasarawa State University Keffi, “Tuition fees will remain the same or even higher. This is because the students’ loan will strictly be for the purpose of tuition fees. So no abolition of tuition fees in Nigerian universities.”

He said parents might think that it is a kind of relief for them but actually this is not because students’ living expenses per semester are very huge.

“School’s tuition fee maybe 10 to 20 per cent of students’ expenditure per semester. Therefore parents and students should not celebrate the signing of the act for now until they have accessed the loan first,” he said.

Meanwhile, when Daily Trust contacted the Federal Ministry of Education to clarify clause 3 of the act, via a text message to the Permanent Secretary, David Adejo, through the Director of Press, Bem Ben Goong, the director said the ministry will address a press conference on Wednesday to clarify all issues and as such had no comment.


https://dailytrust.com/students-loan-fg-to-introduce-tuition-fees-in-varsities/

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Otilo
Where are the people rejoicing over the student loan🤣
No more education subsidy
NANS must return back to aso rock to thank Tinubu again 😁😁
Education will soon be for the rich and rich only

Omenlon:
una must get something to criticize, dem swear for una?

He is a boy boy now🤣🤣

Okwyjesus:
He can't be fired. Tinubu right hand man

Dey play
Imagine he go go dey answer ma to Tinubu wife
Dey do boy boy dey follow dem

zelnababa:
lolz you no get choice, in as much you are a still a Nigerian.

I will never recognise him as my president

richmond500:
every party had internal crisis and handled it, e teach ona turn, u say na Tinubu sponsor am, you will never take responsibility.

250m is from 2013 when APC was not formed. Why am I even talking to u

U called apapa an internal crisis🤣🤣🤣
Clap for ur dummy self boy

zelnababa:
. Support or not Tinubu is ur president

He can never be

richmond500:
very typical.
Ona no deh read news.

Better go back and find N250m scandal back in 2012/2013

If APC could go as low as using Apapa, using bishop Oyedepo, double identity, religious war etc just to tarnish Obi image
Imagine if they actually have this ur information at their disposal 🤣🤣
Otilor
Use ur sense boy
Never believe anything from APC. Its all lies and propaganda

[quote author= post=123408599]David Hundeyin JSS2 in 2003?
U go come dey make mouth dey abuse people wey senior your fada and all your aunties and uncles in life?!
See wetin social media don cause.
Even the youngest one among us @MANNA,
U can never be close to her in everything in life.
Your disrespectful nature will be your end....if you don't watch it David.

We Rise [/quote]For exposing ur corrupt lords
Just dey play

richmond500:
the N250m cash he transported from Anambra to Lagos.

🤣🤣🤣
Yet He told the whole world that if anyone can prove it that such thing ever happened, he will withdraw from the presidential race.
None of APC keyboard warriors could prove it and u are here displaying ur ignorance.
In this 21st century and in 2023, u are still taking APC lies and propagandas serious😆
I pity u

richmond500:
the N250m cash he transported from Anambra to Lagos.

Lolz
Yet He told the whole world that if anyone can prove it that such thing ever happened, he will withdraw from the presidential race.
None of APC keyboard warriors could prove it and u here displaying ur ignorance

richmond500:
so what are we going to say about Obi's corruption case?
No go get High BP o, Tinubu govt will favour everyone

Which corruption case?

richmond500:
u are inconsequential.

The Obi u regard as president will paste Tinubu picture.

I have Buhari picture in my small office
From monday i will bring it down till Obi is declared winner by the court
If the court decide to still robb Obi, no wahala.
But i will never hang Tinubu there

Anytime i see his picture online self, the first thing that comes to my mind is, this drug pusher and a criminal. The most corrupt politician alive.

richmond500:
he will be ur president.

The Pandora thief already knows he doesn't have a mandate to reclaim.

He will never be my president
Never
A drug pusher can never be my president
I will never recognise a mandate thief and drug pusher as my president
Not in this life

SHINJACRUSADER:
My akwaibom people will chose to be together with yoruba's than to be with igbo's or whatever place u come from...

We yoruba's love akwaibom people

Lolz
Pls goan ask dem🤣🤣🤣
Who want to be a friend to betrayals and ethnic bigots😁

richmond500:
we have move past all these.
Na how we go hang Tinubu picture for office be our concern now

A criminal and a drug pusher
Imagine my kids seeing their president as a drug pusher
What a failure

Tflex01:
Both you and the guy are wrong. No connection between Yorubas and Edo except for the Royal family.
An average Yoruba have absolutely nothing to do with Benin.

It will be better and more comfortable if that connection is between you guys and the Igbos. I once read that you guys migrated from Onitsha.

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Onitsha kwa
Goan read the history of oduduwa
He was once an outcast of Benin kingdom.
He was driven out of the palace when they wrongly accused him of sleeping with his step mother just to deny him the OBAship. He left and settled in present day ife and became their king. When Benin had serious issues, they went to him and begged him to forgive and come back to become OBA but he instead sent his son to rule there

richmond500:
I am not a tribal bigot.
Obidients always make it look like Obi is a saint which is very annoying to most of us.

He doesn't have what it takes to lead the country and was a total failure when he was a governor.

When u criticize Obi, they begin to insult you and threaten you, the BATists doesn't insult over criticism, they only insult when you insult Jagaban.

On no account will people vote PO with all these his headless supporters, elections was rigged, you think because u had the social media to intimidate people, you have the biggest voice?

Can't you see beyond your nose that Obi failed the election?

Bring another story
We done pass this stage since
Its on record obi remain the best gov ever to governed a state in Nigeria

He nor do media propaganda like ur governors nor mean say the records are not there

Bring another story.

Na even BATist dey insult pass
I get many of them as friends.

They know obi is the best but their tribal bigotry won't let them say the truth just like u know

Tflex01:
70% of that 200k votes came from Edo North. Yorubas don't have problem with Edo.
Igbos/Yoruba issues is far beyond politics but most Edolites side with Igbos against Yorubas because of their political leanings.

Lolz
Which Edo North 🤣🤣
Benin city, comprising of Oredo, ikpoba okha and Egor from Edo south gave Buhari 50% of those votes.
Edo North didn't even vote Buhari in 2015 because Raymond Dokpesi from Edo North place oshiomole on house arrest then and make sure PDP won most places there.
Its only in this election and 2019 that they freely voted APC
Dey play

SHINJACRUSADER:
Okay okafor

Everybody telling u d truth is igbo
I'm from SS, Benin precisely
U people should stop the hatred or else it will destroy the country

Its just a mattter of time before the igbos and yoruba war breakouts
And when it happened, The SS will choose side and the North u people thinking are behind u will be neutral

richmond500:
no need to talk to u people.
Go look for ur mandate in Nnwei.

Obi has failed and in may 29, there will be a new govt that will rule over Obi

Lolz
U see ur life
I be Benin boy

Lets see how far u guys can really go in destroying the country just because of ur tribal bigotry

Olukat:
Yet master degree holders want be a caregiver in the UK
Isn't better to work here and grow our nation?

Where are the jobs here?

SHINJACRUSADER:
After Southwest ,the next state I like na akwaibom..

Very beautiful state...

Anyway God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest..

God bless Southsouth and Southwest

Which mumu SW?🤣🤣
Just say after Lagos
The remaining 5 states in SW are rubbish

Lifestone:
You are Yoruba of course, but you don lost to igbos

I'm not a Yoruba
But a Benin
It was a Benin prince that founded yoruba land.
They are our offsprings
But i nor come know where dem see their ethnic bigotry and cowardice character

Tflex01:
The guy is right. Any Yoruba that say Edo (especially Benin) is closer to Yoruba by now should be flogged.
They are Igbos essentially and politically. Freedom of association should be respected.

The same Edo that gave buhari over 200k votes each in 2 separate elections
Lolz
So because they now choose obi over a drug pusher una begin associate us with igbos🤣
Wonders

richmond500:
deep down I know that there is rigging.
LP rigged in Anambra and APC rigged in their stronghold, PDP also rigged.

Now when you talk about stolen mandate, I may have raised a brow if you say Tinubu stole Atiku mandate.
It was very obvious Obi couldn't have won the general election so nobody stole his mandate, you are more interested in social media noise and what is going on in SE without taking consideration that the election is for the entire Nigeria.
If you had spend a minute to reason that this election is across 36states, then you would have known Obi won't win

And yet according to INEC he won same 12 states like Atiku and Tinubu and was even day robbed in Rivers.
Imagine if Rivers was allowed to stand, Obi would have won 13 states, Atiku 12, Tinubu 11 and kwakwanso 1.
I dont even what to mentioned akwa ibom and bayelsa rigging PDP did
Let me not even mentioned how Obi was rigged out in the North with the aids of the governors.

Even in the SE u claimed Obi rigged, how was he able to do it without having a single gov or even an elected officials in LP

Can u help me mention LP stronghold b4 the election🤣🤣
Mumu

Just keep pretending and lying to urself

[quote author=richmond500 post=123400156]deep down I know that there is rigging.
LP rigged in Anambra and APC rigged in their stronghold, PDP also rigged.

Now when you talk about stolen mandate, I may have raised a brow if you say Tinubu stole Atiku mandate.
It was very obvious Obi couldn't have won the general election so nobody stole his mandate, you are more interested in social media noise and what is going on in SE without taking consideration that the election is for the entire Nigeria.
If you had spend a minute to reason that this election is across 36states, then you would have known Obi won't win[/quote
And yet according to INEC he won same 12 states like Atiku and Tinubu and was even day robbed in Rivers.
Imagine if Rivers was allowed to stand, Obi would have won 13 states, Atiku 12, Tinubu 11 and kwakwanso 1.
I dont even what to mentioned akwa ibom and bayelsa rigging PDP did

Just keep pretending and lying to urself

richmond500:
na u epp am steal the mandate?

Deep down
U know
U can continue to pretend

Lifestone:
No difference

Lolz
Eya!!!
I tot u guys said we are closer to yorubas🤣
So because we didn't support ur drug lord and also disgraced him in 2020, we are now igbos🤣🤣

AntiChristian:
I also use this moment to invite all Obidients and articulates to the inauguration Ceremony of BAT (GCFR) as the president of Nigeria!

God Bless all states in Nigeria including South East!

God Bless everyone in Nigeria including the Obidients!

God Bless & Guide the Newest GCFR and GCON awardee in Nigeria!

Nigeria will be great again!

That inauguration will not hold

Lifestone:
So says the igbos

Oga i be Edo boy