₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
The truth is that university education is not meant for everyone. I have always said this here. One of our problems is jobs for certificate holders have extremely low salaries.

If not, everyone doesn't have to further their education because it's only meant for a select few who can afford it.

jeff1993:
Are they not paid??

Why are they crying?? Are they the only civil servants working??

seunmsg:
There is nothing wrong with education. The problem is the funding model for our universities. We have over 140 public universities in Nigeria where students don’t pay tuition fees and you guys expect lecturers to be paid salaries. Just this weekend, a post by a student complaining of N125k fees for school logistics went viral on social media.

We want the best of everything and we don’t want to pay for it. A standard private secondary school in Abuja charges nothing less than N1.5m in a year but somehow, we want to pay N20,000 per year for university education and we don’t want lecturers to sleep in offices. Okay now, make all of us dey play.

SmartPolician:
The truth is that university education is not meant for everyone. I have always said this here. One of our problems is jobs for certificate holders have extremely low salaries.

If not, everyone doesn't have to further their education because it's only meant for a select few who can afford it.

lawani:
Anybody that qualifies should be able to attend university. If they can't then the society is not on the right path. To qualify should be hard but if you qualify you should be able to attend. In our days to have five credits including Maths and English in olevels uses to be a herculean task. I don't know about now

PlasmaTV:
That's sad.
Nobody should say "education is the key to success" o. Politics is obvious the fastest way to unending wealth.

SmartPolician:
Your idea is not feasible. Quality education is not cheap anywhere in the world. In countries where education is subsided like Germany, the government is paying heavily for it from people's taxes.

BeginsAtHome:
You points would have been valid in a poor country like Rwanda.

Nigeria's wealth if well managed will fund a comfortable lifestyle for everyone.

Before the fall of Ghaddafi in Lybia, their citizens led better lives than most Americans and Europeans.

The truth is, we have the money but it is been frittered away by thieving politicians with the help of civil servants and most western countries.

If government Schools were well funded, no private school will bill you 1.5m per session.

That alone is an indictment of how bad things have become here.

Iré o.

lawani:
It does not need to be cheap but if you are brilliant but can't attend university because of funds then the society has failed

DiamondsAreFore:
About 40 percent of university lecturers now sleep in their offices due to the country’s worsening housing crisis, Timothy Nubi, professor of estate management and sustainable housing advocate, has said.

Nubi disclosed this on Wednesday at the Film Screening and Conversation on Solidarity and Movement Building to Advocate for Inclusive Housing for the Urban Poor, held at the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

The event was organised by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, in collaboration with the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD), the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) and Rethinking Cities.

Speaking during the session, Nubi said the rising cost of accommodation around major urban centres, particularly Lagos, has pushed many academics into desperate living conditions.

“I stand here to tell you today that almost 40 per cent of lecturers in universities sleep in their offices,” he said.

“They sleep in their offices. You see them taking baths around the faculty every morning. That is the state of the country.”

The professor explained that the situation reflects the growing pressure the housing crisis is placing on Nigerians who traditionally belonged to the middle class.

According to him, the cost of renting even modest accommodation around the University of Lagos has risen beyond what many academics can reasonably afford.

Nubi cited a recent case in which a two-bedroom apartment around the Akoka area was rented for N3.5 million per year, noting that such prices are far beyond the reach of many professors.

“No professor will conveniently afford to pay N3.5 million for accommodation. That is about seven months of salary,” he said.

The don added that the challenge is not limited to lecturers but reflects a broader national housing crisis affecting millions of Nigerians.

Nigeria’s housing deficit, he noted, has grown dramatically over the decades. While the shortfall was estimated at about five million housing units years ago, it is now believed to be between 17 million and 22 million units.

“Instead of the problem reducing, the problem keeps increasing,” he said.

He explained that the Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development, was created partly to address this gap by producing empirical research to guide housing policy and build capacity among policymakers.

Beyond Nigeria, Nubi said history shows that societies that fail to address housing inequality risk social instability. He cited the Great Fire of London in the early 17th century, which led to the Poor Relief Act, a system where property owners contributed funds to support housing for low-income residents.

He said the policy later evolved into public housing schemes and mixed-income communities designed to ensure that the poor were not segregated from the rest of society.

“In some countries today, when developers build housing estates, they are required to allocate a percentage of the units for teachers, drivers and other workers who cannot afford market rents,” he said. “That is how mixed communities are built.”

Nubi stressed that inclusive housing policies remain essential for social stability, warning that neglecting the housing needs of low-income residents could have far-reaching consequences.

He called for stronger collaboration among researchers, policymakers and civil society groups to develop practical solutions to Nigeria’s housing crisis.

Civil society organisations and housing rights activists at the event also criticised the forceful evictions and demolition of homes in several Nigerian cities, citing recent incidents in the Makoko and Oworonshoki communities in Lagos State as examples of actions that have worsened housing insecurity for low-income residents.

Buhle Booi, a South African housing activist, highlighted the creative advocacy strategies adopted by the “Reclaim the City” movement in Cape Town. He explained that the campaigns were designed to push for the recovery of public land for the development of affordable housing.

According to Booi, sustainable solutions to housing displacement require legislative backing and strategic engagement with government institutions, rather than reactive measures alone.

He also stressed the importance of transitional housing schemes to reduce the immediate impact of evictions, while underscoring the responsibility of the state to provide alternative accommodation for displaced residents.

Temilade Sesan of the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) examined Lagos’ housing challenges within a broader African context.

Sesan compared the Lagos situation with experiences from Cairo in Egypt and Nairobi in Kenya, outlining policies and approaches that have produced varying results.

She noted that Nairobi has made notable progress in recent years, particularly through the enactment of an Affordable Housing Act, which defines housing affordability using the minimum wage of domestic workers as a benchmark.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/40-of-lecturers-now-sleep-in-their-offices-over-housing-crisis-unilag-don/

DiamondsAreFore:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/40-of-lecturers-now-sleep-in-their-offices-over-housing-crisis-unilag-don/

DiamondsAreFore:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/40-of-lecturers-now-sleep-in-their-offices-over-housing-crisis-unilag-don/

Omowale2023:
Me that am earning over 300k as a marketer, I never clock 40 ooo. Educational career na scam.

DiamondsAreFore:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/40-of-lecturers-now-sleep-in-their-offices-over-housing-crisis-unilag-don/

SmartPolician:
Your idea is not feasible. Quality education is not cheap anywhere in the world. In countries where education is subsided like Germany, the government is paying heavily for it from people's taxes.

Damseldammie:
Oh my gosh 🙆‍♀️ Education sector is suffering in 9ja, you can imagine a prof earning 700k/month….
As how nau

Too bad, to the extent they can not afford a standard house rent🤔 then government has to do something about this information.

yemmit90:
Some Nigerians are just too unapologetic greedy. Since the start of this unfortunate trend, every Landlord in the country want to get rich quick irrespective of the conditions of their houses.

Government at various leves need to invest heavily in real estate through private partnership and give out low cost houses and apartments to the poor masses.

dequir:
Yet you are ready to pay N15m for a 2 years Master course in the UK.

RepoMan007:
A certain guy called nairalanda1 will diasgree. He will say foreigners pay more. In Nigeria, govt has cornered natural resources and land for one tribe.

seunmsg:
There is nothing wrong with education. The problem is the funding model for our universities. We have over 140 public universities in Nigeria where students don’t pay tuition fees and you guys expect lecturers to be paid salaries. Just this weekend, a post by a student complaining of N125k fees for school logistics went viral on social media.

We want the best of everything and we don’t want to pay for it. A standard private secondary school in Abuja charges nothing less than N1.5m in a year but somehow, we want to pay N20,000 per year for university education and we don’t want lecturers to sleep in
offices. Okay now, make all of us dey play.

seunmsg:
There is nothing wrong with education. The problem is the funding model for our universities. We have over 140 public universities in Nigeria where students don’t pay tuition fees and you guys expect lecturers to be paid salaries. Just this weekend, a post by a student complaining of N125k fees for school logistics went viral on social media.

We want the best of everything and we don’t want to pay for it. A standard private secondary school in Abuja charges nothing less than N1.5m in a year but somehow, we want to pay N20,000 per year for university education and we don’t want lecturers to sleep in offices. Okay now, make all of us dey play.

Gerrard59:
For a state city like Lagos, building up is literally the major solution it has. Lagos is Nigeria's smallest state with the biggest economy, yet it is also the most poplous. Linking metro lines to Ogun/Oyo is another one.

People can work in Lagos, but they don't have to live in Lagos.

There are countless examples across the world.

Rocktation:
How about we start the explanation with the numerous indirect taxes embedded in Nigerians' everyday transactions. Who is accounting for those?

The frustration that many Nigerians express, as I suspect you already know, is not about paying high taxes, but about trust and accountability. People naturally, must want to know how their monies are functioning.

We see a country with significant oil revenue, large budgets, and numerous public funds, even without the taxes you say we don’t pay, yet our universities are underfunded, hospitals struggle, and infrastructure remains poor.

So are we being punished by the people in authority? Why are they hiding behind the lie that development must come only out of the pockets of citizens?

nairalanda1:
I hate to agree with you since you are defending Tinubu and let's be honest, if Tinubu and apc had done what they should have done in 2015, by now things might have been better

But even then, the era when universities could build housing for their lecturers and staff ended decades before 1999

seunmsg:
There is nothing wrong with education. The problem is the funding model for our universities. We have over 140 public universities in Nigeria where students don’t pay tuition fees and you guys expect lecturers to be paid salaries. Just this weekend, a post by a student complaining of N125k fees for school logistics went viral on social media.

We want the best of everything and we don’t want to pay for it. A standard private secondary school in Abuja charges nothing less than N1.5m in a year but somehow, we want to pay N20,000 per year for university education and we don’t want lecturers to sleep in offices. Okay now, make all of us dey play.