₦airaland Forum

dheaven: This ASUU strike is just nonsense because ASUU is more corrupt than Federal Government. Their big men is just looking for their own share of the National cake.

wesley80: Is that the only thing that should bother them? Do the so called leaders use Nigerian hospitals? Do they vacation in Nigeria? Are they at the mercy of kidnappers and robbers like other Nigerians? Do they rely on smoky and noisy i pass my neighbor gen sets to have power? Why arent labour leaders angry over all these also? Your head isnt there as a design, USE IT, that's why you were given one!

Sincere 9gerian: Nonsense! You'r comparing legacies of someone who is just 3 years in office with one that completed 8 years? You'r confused.

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/