FreeStuffsNG:
So reducing university fees will make people eat? The universities are complaining seriously that they can hardly even afford diesel bill and UCH was thrown into darkness for owing electricity bills yet the university Labour unions have had their concerns as their own priority instead of putting heads together with management on how their universities can increase their funding in creative and innovative ways.

Should they shut the universities? I don't think so. The best option is to raise fees but should make it moderate enough for most of the students still able to afford it. Some of these students use N200k-worth or more mobile devices and can afford this new fees while some from even modest families will get to school and face other things apart from their education and ultimately the taxpayers don't get the real value on subsidizing their education.
I support the call for reducing the hike but the universities can increase fees to give quality services and education to the students. Quality education is not cheap o. Alumni should come in to assist the universities too.

nairalanda1:


Fees have always been going up.

My fees went up under Obasanjo. Was OBJ clueless. Fees also went up under GEJ too. Maybe GEJ was clueless.

This thing is bigger than TInubu and Obi. It is an ongoing discussion that Nigeria has been having for decades...since the great ASUU strike of 1992.

Haaland21:


Supporters of the agulu man would always show their bitterness. What brought emilokan here?

A typical LP supporters lack common sense.

surgical:
it baffles me when his supporters will making noise about business people who are increasing prices despite dollar coming down, when the government they support refuse to lead by example by reducing prices of its own good like university fees and electricity tariff or is dollar not reducing for government also
The truth is thus government is heartless and wicked, it only cares about the elite, worse part of it is that the Downtrodden who are affected are sympathetic to a government who doesn't care about them this wants to burst my brain, because I can't just understand it

Angelfrost:
When I said it on Nairaland, many of you abused me...!

Tertiary education is now officially for the wealthy.

Even student loan can never reach up to 20% of those that need it.

If the loan administrators are as smart as I think or expect them to be, they will have no choice but restrict the loans to those studying lucrative and profitable courses like Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, etc.

The idea being they are the ones with certainty of repaying them with interest few years after graduating.

God1000:
This is too much, many families cannot afford it, people are struggling to eat and our universities are busy increasing school fees

casualobserver:


If you think 450,000 is too much for fees, you don’t deserve university education.

University is not for everybody, it is for those who know the value and won’t waste their time there.

People who know the value of a good degree from a good university know N450,000 is too cheap.

Caspry5:


Went to school and acquired solid digital skills later..wish i didnt waste my money on school

BeardGangJnr1:

U made zero sense.....the loan should be for everyone....everybody must not be a medical student

FreeStuffsNG:

I think we should understand that the university needs the hike to remain in the business that brought the students to the school in the first place. Secondly, it is much more difficult for citizens in other countries too. Biden has been cancelling students loan regularly because most of the students could not pay back after graduation and most UK universities are currently strained financially, so bad that some universities have started folding up in the US. Do you want UI to fold up ni? Hike yes but the hike should be affordable is better than blackmailing the school with people who have economic challenges. The school is challenged financially at the moment and needs help to save itself and then save the students. I believe that the hike is necessary but it should not be too much.

CartelKenneth:




Baba it was never this bad Abeg
Did ur parents buy dollar for 1,700 in their time😡

Villa12:
LoL

Too cheap in a country with 30k minimum wage? Too cheap in a country with high rate of unemployment? Too cheap in a country that top the ladder of poverty? Too cheap in a country whose leaders top the ladder of highest paid in the world? Too cheap in a country whose citizens cannot afford to feed? Too cheap in a country with poor power supply? Too cheap in a country with corrupt leaders? I can always go on and on

Benjamin4388:


.i was asking the digital skills you enrolled in

Akeem79:
T for .....

God1000:


https://fij.ng/article/i-may-have-to-say-goodbye-to-education-ui-students-lament-450-750-fee-hike/

BeardGangJnr1:

U made zero sense.....the loan should be for everyone....everybody must not be a medical student

casualobserver:


Like I said it is too cheap. You are straying off topic making emotional arguments. That’s why we are producing graduates are unemployable. No point going to university to get a degree that has no value.

You may not like what I am saying but I am speaking the truth. Most of the students with degrees from 50k -100k universities will never ever get a job with those degrees because most are worthless.

If your university charges cheap fees, they can’t afford the best or even good lecturers, if they can’t employ the best lecturers, they cannot give the best teaching to the students l. If students are not taught by good lecturers, they can’t get good degrees.

If you want to discuss how someone on 30k can afford university fees in the millions, that is a seperate subject. But if you are playing cheap fees you are getting worthless degrees. Some universities charge N50m a year or more for tuition and you think you are getting the same quality of education for your N100k? You think the people paying N50m a year abroad are fools? You are the same ones that will complain that they get the best jobs. I am not saying fees in public universities should be N50m but ideally no good university in Nigeria private or public should charge less that 2-5m.

Angelfrost:
When I said it on Nairaland, many of you abused me...!

Tertiary education is now officially for the wealthy.

Even student loan can never reach up to 20% of those that need it.

If the loan administrators are as smart as I think or expect them to be, they will have no choice but restrict the loans to those studying lucrative and profitable courses like Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, etc.

The idea being they are the ones with certainty of repaying them with interest few years after graduating.