YourImaginaryBF:
In a country with a minumum wage of 18k

MyGeneration:
ASUU is an enemy of the state. education is not for everybody.

too many people with degrees few jobs.

why don't u make degrees hard so that there will be plenty jobs

CodeTemplar:
Learn to read and understand before attacking people.
They are proposing a loan system where student borrow to pay their fees while in school and pay back after graduation when they start earning. This arrangement will eliminate the situation where govt subsidizes poor students through school and they end up becoming prostitutes and yahoo boys with high taste but no sellable skills to satisfy their wants.

micflo28:
They want to keep the zomboes uneducated amd continually exploited...

mrvitalis:
Lol this is funny

Look at all the best universities in the world and tell me which are cheap

Parents save for their child universities school fees for 20 years in the USA

A typical Nigerian wants Harvard University standarded education but wants to pay less than 50k per year

If America with a revenue of over 4 trillion dollars and a population of 300m can't make education cheap.. Is it Nigeria with 200m people and earns less then 15bn dollars every year that can?

Let's be serious Jor

My idea minimum school fees should be set at 1 million
But 30% of students should be on scholarships ..churches ,Muslim groups, multi national should take care of this if the person can maintain a minimum grade or gp

In that case the poor can also go to school if they are smart enough...

Any other thing we would never achieve world class education

Gten:
This crop of buffons relied on scholarships to study. There is a deliberate attack on education by the Federal Government.

csnc:
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected the hiking of school fees of university students as proposed by Dr Wale Babalakin, the chief government negotiator in the ASUU/Federal Government renegotiation exercise.

Prof. Lawan Abubakar, the Bauchi Zonal Coordinator of the Union made the disclosure at a press conference in Jos, the Plateau State capital.

Abubakar said, “One of the major issues our union wishes to bring to public domain is the wild idea of sharing the cost of education between the government and parents proposed by Dr. Wale Babalakin. This idea of sharing the cost of education since government alone cannot fund education, and that parents need to pay for it too.

“He proposed a minimum of N350, 000 as tuition fee for undergraduate students of Arts and Humanities, and N500, 000, for those in Sciences.

“Our union rejected the proposal based on the fact that the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria clearly states that funding education is the sole responsibility of Governments at various levels and not parents,” he maintained.

He added, “In his response, he proposed the idea of an Education Bank, where students will obtain a loan of N1 million each, every session to pay the tuition fee and sustain themselves.
“However, our union also rejected the idea of Education Bank, because for one, not all the students will have access to loan, and for those who will access the loan, it is the same parents who served as sureties, and subsequently pay back the loan, considering the very high rate of unemployment in the country.

“Supposing that the student is able to secure a job after graduation, he cannot start a life while paying back a loan of 4 to 6 million naira, as the case may be.

“In this kind of situation, the graduate would be subjected to, when will he finish paying the loan and establish himself? He asked.
“Frustration will gradually set in and make them live a life of misery”, he further lamented.

The Zonal Coordinator said Babalakin, who owns a private University, gave all the aforementioned proposals because they are aimed at guaranteeing funding for private Universities.

He also said that the federal government owed the Universities revitalization fund of N1.1 trillion.
According to him, the federal government had in 2013 agreed to disburse the sum of N1.3 trillion for the revitalization of Nigeria universities, between 2013 and 2018, but said out of that amount only N200 billion has been released.

“The Bauchi zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), hereby reiterates its unflinching support to the National Leadership of the Union towards its untiring efforts and commitment to the implementation of the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoA), and by extension the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the 2012 NEEDS Assessment Report, the 2012 Roadmap, the 2011 (MoU), indeed, the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement”.

On the financial situation bedeviling the university system in the country, the Zonal Coordinator lamented that it has continued to remain pathetic.

“The 7% of total budget allocated to the education sector in 2018 budget by the federal government of Nigeria is, to say the least, grossly below the UNESCO recommended minimum of 26%.

“As if this mirage is not bad enough, State Governments across the country are establishing State Universities and abandoning them to TEFUND, the brain child of ASUU as an intervention agency in the funding of education”, he decried.

He denied claims of a report credited to the Acting Minister of Finance, that N20 billion has been release to the Union.
“This is not true as common sense would not take this since ASUU is not an organ of government”, he stressed.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/09/27/ASUU-rejects-proposed-hiking-university-fees-fgs-chief-negotiator/



olawalebabs, Fynestboi come see our Leaders' critical thinking at its finest.

maasoap:


Picking up a job of 40k per month to pay back loan of 2-3 million naira. Now, clap for yourself

nelronaldo:

You tried to make sense but still didn't make sense.
You are talking about America. Why didn't you mention Finland or Germany that are tuition free and still offer world class education.
You are forgetting America have put things in place for their education system to work successfully. Even at that, their citizens still take years to pay back the loan.
Nigeria has to find what will work for her people and do it. We are still begging people to go to primary and secondary schools that are not even expensive and you want to increase tertiary education tuition, tell parents to take loan and you think people will go to Universities?
The America system won't work for us. There are other ways to get quality education. Ask Norway, Finland and co

IBBG:
to think that some people still come out to support this obscene evil is discombobulating. These same people got education for free in the early 1970s and now they are proposing this evil and wicked idea. If not for looting by our politicians, there is enough money to fund education at a really subsidized rate. Their evil plans will fail. May be this will be the tipping point that will awaken the masses into a revolution in this country, cos they are beginning to stretch their luck far. It just a marginal increase in the price of staple food in egypt that kick started the arab spring in egypt. Maybe Nigeria spring is getting closer with this evil plan

maasoap:
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You're as dull as dull rainy day. You don't set tuition fees for the public schools without first looking at the average national minimum wage. Go back to school

CodeTemplar:
The current problem is that those who say they are poor and love studying end up waiting on the govt after graduation and the govt is paying heavily to subsidize them through school already. If anyone is poor and love to study then that person must be studying to contribute to the workforce positively and that implies he should work and earn after graduation.
The logical thing to do for a man who plans to work with his skills is to borrow and fund his education then pay back with the proceed of his acquired skills. That's what government is proposing.

AdedoyinO:


You are definitely not in touch with how things work in Nigeria. Your proposition is really annonying. This is Nigeria bro.

Do you realise that those bastardizing our educational system with dump policies are the same people who enjoyed free education, lived in a 2-man room while in school, and had employment letters handed over to them at graduation? They can't pass those down but want to finish what is left.

Grupo:


You tried to sound smart but you are a total slowpoke. Even though I agree that not everybody should go to study a useless degree. But you saying that university education should be pegged at ₦1m shows how stupid you are. The US you are talking about, what is the minimum wage there? Naija minimum wage for a month is what a worker on minimum wage in the US earns in four hours.
Not to mention that one can take out student loans over there. I ask again, are you sure your brain is functioning?

MyGeneration:
ASUU is an enemy of the state. education is not for everybody.

too many people with degrees few jobs.

why don't u make degrees hard so that there will be plenty jobs

Adekdammy:


You need deliverance, how does this matter concern PDP?

CodeTemplar:
Government has been paying the alleged millions o. behalf of the student and they are picking up 40k jobs so what stops them from picking up these jobs for themselves to repay the loans?

mrvitalis:


Average minimum ways... I bet you Nigeria uses far greater percentage of revenue for salary than any to 20 economy in the world

At 166bn every month that's over 60% -70% of revenue

That's outrageous it shouldn't be more than 70%

mrvitalis:

Minimum wage you are talking about is funny

What percentage of American budget is used for salary

Where we use 70% and you want increase ..sure let's make it 200% of our revenue so we keep borrowings money to pay workers and forget about infastructure

If you increase vat to 15% now and focus on taxing people like you would be the first to complain

People like you think it's easy
At 18k wage bill of federal government is 166bn

You see how much they make every month, take out 166bn... They take out money eyes needed for defence and policing about 20bn -50bn a month.. What's left.. What would that impact for 180 million people

When you quote me state facts

experimentist:
mumu go read the news again. FG under PDP promised the amount 1.3trills from 2013-2018 only 2billi was released. They embezelled the rest. Oponu get ya facts right.

ojoisimi:


You keep saying gov't hanpve been paying this that as if you are one of the beneficiaries of the looks.

we operate a centralised govt system and as such gov't shoukd continue to subsidies it. It's so disheartening that you support this charade in the midst of corruption and oppression on show.

I don't mean to be rude but it's like you are close to this babalakin and he is your benefactor cos I see No reason why a Nigerian (except one that partakes in looting the treasury) will be suppoting this trash

MyGeneration:
ASUU is an enemy of the state. education is not for everybody.

too many people with degrees few jobs.

why don't u make degrees hard so that there will be plenty jobs

Mr sense! How will you create the jobs. Infact let me throw you this question. How will you create jobs if you are president

MyGeneration:
ASUU is an enemy of the state. education is not for everybody.

too many people with degrees few jobs.

why don't u make degrees hard so that there will be plenty jobs