₦airaland Forum

vintino:
These people at it again..

Good day vintino, I like to order small electronic modules from aliexpress and recieve via nipost but don't know jack about the process.
I want your opinion and guidance about it if you don't mind.

What has happened to the numerous Fulani group arrested with guns and charms and no explanation of their mission?

That is normal sturvs Na . . .

But who are those who perpetrate this fraud? Budget padding is still very much alive after all the bashing we bashed Jonathan.
We need to restructure this country ASAP.

theoldpretender:
Some experts were putting annual funding per student at N600000 a few ywars ago.(Chief Afe Babalola put it even higher).

Also, I doubt most universites even see that N450000. (Oil prices have been fluctuating since 2014, and have been under $100 since 2015).

In my opinion (and this is my personal opinion mind)...we even need much higher funds than that. 430000 naira is about 1300 us dollars. Some colleges/unis in the US have fees three times that.(sorry to bring in USA...but that is what somepeople have in mind when they talk improved facilties)

This beggarly mentality of oil prices must stop. How do nations with no oil or natural resource to survive fund education? Who is the baboon that will work and pay huge tax then watch as secret society people hijack the admission slots? We must address corruption or restructure economically.

theoldpretender:
Read the ASUU/FG 2009 agreement

Then, it was saying that we need at least N1.5 trillion every year in extra funding to make things work fully.

There is looting yes...but the thing is, we also don't have enough money. Even if we collected all the loot back...we still have a lot of things to fund (like Power which needs N5trillion alone...twenty years ago,railways which need to be expanded, and primary and secondary schools too...and a lot ofother things.).

PLUS we are not earning enough from oil . If we want to earn enough fromoil...our break even price is $140 per barrel...not this $70 we are jumping up and down about (That is when resource control starts making sense...if each and every region decides to becomeproductive. Sadly tribalism has messed up the argument)

As for universites having independent power plants.....those cost millions of dollars to build. Averageuniversity that does not get up to N500million in ayear...most of which goes for salaries. Even big universites like ABU that have overheads of N600millionper annum get only N120million

What does Nigerians uni contribute to the society. Their overall impact morally and labour wise is below the input they get from the society.

ElsonMorali:
Do I need to?

I compare Nigerian graduates with graduates of "foreign schools" and that's enough for me.

The result? Abysmal.

The course schedule are very similar most times so stop saying they teach you rubbish.

theoldpretender:
1. Private university fees range from 500000-1.2million naira annually.

2.ASUU/FG agreement put funding per student at 300000 annually. That was in 2009 and that was supposed to be part of the 3trillion naira over 2 years in extra funding that was promised....
And that never got. Paid

3.I agree with you about the mismanagement. What makes it painful is that it is a tiny fund they are mismanaging

So N300,000 is tiny? The actual figure for UI stands at 430,000. I only summarized that 300k.

writeprof:
And Govt does not have the trillions...not billions...needed to fund universites.


[i]50 per cent of the institutions in Nigeria complained about epileptic power supply. Many of them rely on alternative power supply such as generators.

Either we raise taxes, fees and whatnot...or we just close our eyes and take another LOAN....

Do you have idea the amount being stolen from the nation's coffers every day? NIGERIA HAS MORE THAN ENOUGH TO MAKE ALL UNIVERSITIES WORLD CLASS!

TAXATION IN NIGERIA CANNOT WORK. IT IS ROBBERY. IN DEVELOPED WORLDS, PEOPLE GLADLY PAY TAXES BECAUSE THEY SEE SERVICE DELIVERY.
NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES SHOULD HAVE THEIR INDEPENDENT POWER PLANTS!

Okebukola is not saying there is no money but that education is not seen as priority to be funded maximally.

Oga funding public universities further is like giving the senate and reps more constituency project funds. There is huge leakage in those universities.

Originalsly:
Didn't read much...but he should shut up..... what he has to say now he should've been saying while he held office and was in position to bring about change. Hypocrite.

He has been saying it for ages. google is ur friend.

Hotzone:
A situation were prof. Akindele and co make a choice to frustrate students because they didn't submit to the threat of dashing their kondo for mark, if it's the boys, they will pass with financial 'sorting', what can this situation be called in all our universities?

The graduates of those schools say it is preparing them for the society.

Wasky101:
Jealousy?? I went to a private uni, arguably the best In the country, so no need to be jealous.
You want to know how? Ask your self how private secondary school ruined public schools and if u still don't understand Iet me know and I will take time out to explain to you

Private secondary sch didn't ruin public ones.

theoldpretender:
ASUU/FG agreement in 2009 stated that foruniversites to be adequately funded we need to spent at least N1.5trillion yearly on JUST UNIVERSITES....note...JUST UNIVERSITES.

And the thing is, that money has not been paid since 2009...and the previous admin flat out told ASUU in 2013 that they could not pay the money.

Meanwhile,fees are kept low...because poverty.

The thing is, we need an education budget of at least N5 trillion yearly to make sure we have enough cash to fund universites. Our budget has never passed N10 trillion. Even NationalAssembly, the greedy fellows,spend N1trillion yearly.

The funding is adequate because the FG subsidizes the average ui and unilag graduate with over N300k yearly. thats more than some good private university charge. Mismanagement and leakages are king.

Touchey:
I don't think the problem is funding. There is no good relationship between the lecturers and students. A large number of lecturers are sadists and killjoys for no reason

Correct! Lecturer know what senators get and won't sit down to watch suffering kill them.

theoldpretender:
The problem is MONEY

He said it was pathetic that the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) established by the Federal Government to fund tertiary institutions, could only give financial support to a few universities, while others were made to develop at slow pace.

And there it is....the cash is not there. Meanwhile,we insist on paying N40000 for degrees that should cost N600000 at least yearly. And Govt does not have the trillions...not billions...needed to fund universites.

Also

50 per cent of the institutions in Nigeria complained about epileptic power supply. Many of them rely on alternative power supply such as generators. This has resulted in increased cost of running the institutions.“About 37.5 per cent of the institutions perceived lack of support from the government through TETFund as a major setback in financing the development of infrastructure and they also complained of multiple-taxation.”

And weneed $300bn to fix power. Our reserves are at $40billion. Do the math.

Either we raise taxes, fees and whatnot...or we just close our eyes and take another LOAN....that our grandkids will still be paying.

The average ui and unilag student gets over Ñ300k in yearly subsidy so money isn't the main challenge but mismanagement and leakages. Private schools have opened our eyes.

UncleSnr:
You guys are in stone age. What have you ever contributed? You think writing paper for talk shows abi seminar will make me want to invest in your school, which I even know that the VC and other echelons will siphon.

Thanks. until the so called schools get their acts together and start preferring practical solutions to pressing issues in Nigeria no one will look them in the eye.

NotComplaining:
Stupid question deserving an equally stupid answer.

How can a country begin to appraise its education when every institution but the 'National Assembly' is grossly under funded?

Nigerians are always asking the wrong questions.

A better question would be does Nigeria's FG give any respect to human rights? One of such rights is a right to equal education for all irrespective of social class.

Does Nigeria enforce the values of human rights? If so politicians would not send their children to school abroad in fear of reprisal.

We deserve better.

Before we talk of underfunding let us talk of mismanagement and leakages. The average ui and unilag graduate enjoys more than N300,000 in yearly subsidy from FG. Thanks to private schools we know what Ñ450,000 can negotiate for us.

Wasky101:
No sir, it is because while you were at the helm of affairs there was a deliberate effort to relegate public universities while giving license to glorified secondary school to run as universities.

How does private uni impede the public ones? May jealousy not consume you.

ElsonMorali:
Because you teach us nonsense?

Have u tried comparing the work schedule of Nigerian university to that of foreign schools.

oyetunder:
ANOTHER REASON:-Sex for marks...

Thank you. Sex for mark, Sorting for mark, cheating with mobile phones, intimidation by cultist etc.

Viralkid:
In all modesty, Our Universities are an eye sore the government does not give any attention to education. It's quite pathetic

The govt subsidizes the average ui and unilag grad by over N300k per student yearly. So mismanagement is a huge part of it. Covenant one of the good private schools started charging 170k then 250k for its first 4 years of operation so do the maths yourself.

meeky007:
Argentina can never win d world cup until they rebuild the church they destroyed to build a stadium

why not get the pics from dailymail and make it thread for Argentina's defeat? They can't win this.

Super stat

71min: Messi's first touch in the opposition half this game finally came in the 64th minute. That's right, it has taken him 64 minutes to get on the ball in the Croatia. That is bonkers. His support has been so, so bad tonight. What a mess.




I saw this on dailymail.co.uk commentary and just lost all hope on Argentina.

Pavore9:
Thus the reason many graduates have no idea what's next.

Many comp sci student are afraid to delve into programming. Many Microbiology grads won't near a mb lab.
We like to study accounting forgetting that wealth creation precedes involvement of accountants.

Myrealface:
I came across this piece on facebook and I think it's worth sharing...

Samuel Abatan



https://mbasic.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=886678894849965&id=100005235873075

Those points are true and most are more pronounced in public sch system.
Cc: HigherEd.

Booked.

Ha ha ha . . .
Nigerians now realize the anti corruption war is largely for people threatening 2019 chances. Let them gn and collect pvc.

DrGoodman:
Its very unfortunate.

These Taraba people has been pushed to the wall and are now fighting back on the fulanis.

Theo Danjuma, you see ya life?

One way justice is injustice.

I see these folks as people who can't maintain their religion privately.
By the constitution, who is a muslim or a christian? If i get bursted as a muslim by a state hisbah (sharia police) and then renounce islam for another faith along the line, what happens to my constitutional right of freedom of faith?
Islam is now like a jurisdiction.