₦airaland Forum

hakeem4:
this is one reason why i prefer private school over government owned school

Yeah, because private schools charge HEFTY fees.

Yes, poor students suffer, but the good thing is, staff get paid on time, and facilites are betterAND GETTING BETTER than public unviersites.

Whereas in public unviersites, we pay fee of less than $1000 and expect $100000 service. How possible is that?

Nollyzonenews:
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has announced the commencement of an indefinite nationwide strike with immediate effect. The decision was announced at the end of an emergency meeting on Sunday night. Briefing newsmen after the closed door meeting, ASUU president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said the strike will be total and commence with immediate effect.

He listed the reasons for their action to include:

1. Failure on the side of the government to honour the memorandum of action signed between the union and the federal government in 2017

2. Renegotiation with ASUU which the government intentionally ignored with impunity. Professor Ogunyemi therefore directed all the state chapters to ensure full compliance until their demands are met.


Source: https://www.dailynaija.com/post/why-we-declare-indefinite-nationwide-strike-ASUU

The elephant in the room is that the government cannot afford to fund universites adequately again....hence the strike.

To be honest, if universites were allowed to charge hefty fees, ASUU won't go on strike because there would be adequate funding for salaries, facilities, etc.

In 2013, the then government told ASUU the truth. And the truth is, if we want five star universites, we have to have five star fees, or pay hefty taxes.

Time for things like loans, scholarships and grants for students. Because I forsee another major fee rise.

contigiency:
Measuring the price of a barrel of crude oil as a yardstick for funding of our universities is being narrow minded. Because, funding of the universities is not the only problem needed to be solved from the proceeds of the crude oil. There are many problems confronting the country and majority of them depend on the crude oil income. I think somebody at Shehu Sani level should be talking about solving the fundamental problem by proposing how these universities could be self sustaining if he truly cares and not playing politics. How long shall we continue to proffer interim measures on this matter? By his submission, it means that when the crude trades for free or small margin, we will have to close the universities.

The only way universites can be self sustaining is by increasing fees, among other measures.

Either that...or we raise taxes, or we take another loan from IMF.

In 2009....ASUU and FG signed an agreement that guaranteed N3 trillion over 2 years in EXTRA funding for universites.

In 2013, ASUU went on strike when the money had not come...and that is when GEJ told them that N3 trillion was not affordable..ie govt could not give them N3 trillion

In 2013...Oil was above $110 per barrel.

Now, oil is at $70.....and Senator Sani somehow expects miracles in funding?

Sorry, but if we want cheap fees, cheap educaiton...either we raise taxes, or wait for oil to reach its breakeven at $140 per barrel......or we just keep on taking loans.

Baselm:
Do the University authorities make Use of thee internally generated funds, cos every structure in a fed uni is either World bank assisted project, tetfund intervention, ptdf etc. They still get paid their salaries by the FG, so what do they actually do with the fund they generate?

That's the problem. The funds aren't enough...and the corruption you allude to makes things worse.

Then the money coming from government is falling,no thanks to the drop in oil prices. (and the thing is, we need oil to be at $140 per barrel to have enough cash for budget WITHOUT BORROWING, hence the $80 it is at isn't enough.).

King44:
if this continue very soon they would have no option than to start selling the schools they have established to fund universities, well I can't blame them no idea to cut excess, generate fund every gvt personnel is concerned abt his or her pocket y that 3 trillion sef no go increase enter 30 trillion in nearest future but for the main time make dem let poor man pikin go school in peace

Problem is, the poor are going to graduate with bad degrees, while the rich kids are going to graduate with good degrees from private or foreign universites'

And guess what, when you guys meet in the job search arena...na the rich guys who win.

University education is expensive. And right now, we need to get our universites back up and running. And raised fees is the only way to get the extra funding.

Meanwhile...scholarships, loans and grants can fill the gap.

King44:
TALKING ABOUT "CORRUPTION" NIGERIANS SHOULD PLEASE SAVE US, WE UNILORIN STUDENTS FROM HIKE OF SCHOOL FEES, INITIALLY WE PAY #25,000 TO #28,000 DEPENDING ON FACULTY NOW THEY ARE FORCING US TO PAY #45,000 + AND HIGHER THAN THAT DEPENDING ON FACULTY AND THE FEE DOES NOT INCLUDE OTHER CHARGES LIKE BANDWIDTH ETC, (FEDERAL UNIVERSITY O) AND ITS SO SADDEN THAT THEY ARE WARNING STUDENTS NOT TO EVEN PROTEST ONLINE WHEN ITS OBVIOUS WE CAN'T DO A PEACEFUL PROTEST WITHIN THE SCHOOL FOR THE FEAR OF RUSTICATION aka FACE TANKE, IF THIS CONTINUE WITHOUT BEING CHECKED UNILORIN WOULD BE THE FIRST FED UNIVERSITY TO COERCE STUDENT TO PAY ABOVE NORMAL FEE COMPARED TO WHAT OTHER FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES PAY eg OAU, UNILAG etc, THEY SHOULD CONSIDER SOME STUDENTS WHO HAS NO PARENTS ETC AND HAVE LOOK FOR THEIR FEE THEMSELVES VIA HARD LABOUR OR CONTRIBUTION FROM FELLOW STUDENTS ALL FINGERS ARE NOT EQUAL
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Back in 2013, Government told ASUU that the 3 trillion naira per annum promised in 2009 as extra funding for Nigerian universites was no longer possible...and asked ASUU to take 200bn every year for 5 years.

As a result, fees increase was inevitable.

Here is the thing. Nigerian universites are lacking facilities, our graduates are not competitive, and the government is even building more universites.

So, either government finds N3 trillion or more (our budget next year is N8trillion)....or we have to pay higher fees.

Better face reality.

teebaxy:
NEWS NUGGET UPDATE- WAEC Emergency Meeting: May Suspend Nigeria Over Buhari's Certificate.

Accra, Ghana: The West African Examination Council Executives may suspend Nigeria from the membership of the council over alleged illegal printing of WAEC Attestation certificate for the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari.

The Council is having an emergency meeting to discuss the unprecedented action on the National office in Nigeria last week, where they printed an attestation certificate President Buhari whom the Ghana headquarters has confirmed on a number of cases that he was never a registered candidate of WAEC in 1961.

Details coming shortly - Hope For Nigeria

Please, stop lying.

And can we move on from this certificate thing.

Google search shows that there is no such news item

Driver left the car.

Should be easy to trace

bedspread:
Post More.......

OP wants you to visit his website.

Deregulation, deregulation

Guaranteed jobs, salary raise

Under deregulation

Hmmm

being:
What pdp is sayin is that the govt says they are subsidising by N60 per litre. So if you are subsidising by N60, then pump price should be about N90 which is landing cost-N60.

Note that a barrel of crude cost N153.4 WITHOUT ANY PROCCESSING.

Processing is what you do to turn that barrel of oil into fuel,kerosene, diesel, etc.

And proccessing adds to the costs.

Jiang:
They should just permanently remove this subsidy & stop dashing billions daily to importers

They should...but it isn't politically popular.

For ordinary people,it means higher fuel prices. For NNPC, it means an end to the corruption...well most of it.

Yet, despite the higher prices, oil subsidy removal makes sense long term for an economic point of view. The problem is, most of us Nigerians have been suffering too much to see this vision.

efilefun:
With crude at $80/bbl and exchange rate at N305/$? (special fx by FG for importers)

A barrel of crude is about 200 liters of crude.

Just dividing the $80 (N24,400) by 200 liters already gives a price of N122/liter without any processing.

So, by the time you factor in refining and transportation costs, THERE IS NO WAY the price will come as low as the 85/90 naira price PDP are claiming to reduce the price to.

But the unfortunate blockhead yoots won't see thru the lies but keep screaming Atikulooting.

Processing costs would even push the price of fuel above N145......

You are right....even IF we refine all our fuel at home...we woould have to pay increased subsides to keep prices at N90.

I don't like GEJ...but when he raised prices to N140 in 2012...it was harsh, but realistic. Same thing when Buhari riased prices to N145.

EasternActivist:
I though this woman is learned.

If we have our refineries up and running won't it crash the fuel price even more to N80 or lower?

Smh for this woman.

It won't.

1.Even at full capacity, our refineries won;t be able to produce enough for all our needs. Keep in mind that the newest of the refineries was opened in the 1980's...when our fuel needs were less than they are now.

2.And Dangote refinery won't save us. Dangote took a loan of $6bn to build his refinery...which means when the refinery comeson stream, either fuel subsidy goes, so that Dangote can make back his money, or he exports all his fuel abroad.

3.We need at least three new refineries to produce enough fuel....which means $30bn needs to be spent. And you won;t want that cash to come fromour foreign reserve.

4.Only way we can reduce fuel prices...remove subsidy, allow prices to be set by marketers. Yes, fuel goes up to N200 and above, but more investment flows in, and eventually we get new refineries, new infrastructure, possible increase in forex from exporting refined priducts, and eventually prices crash. Neither APC or PDP is proposing that solution. NLC does not like that so;lution.

NwanyiAwkaetiti:
Anyone without a master's degree shouldn't lead this country.

These people should make that into law.

Yes, and who is going to pass the law...the same National Assembly that is made up of people who for the most part don't have their masters degrees.

kotv:
1. If you have the actual document, would you go and waste money hiring lawyers to defend what you have or would you go and ask the organization in question to release the document? When Buhari was in Cambridge, why didn't he go and ask for his documentations to be released despite all the public pushing to do so? When GEJ PhD was questioned, did he hire sans to defend him or did he have the school release his diploma?

2. The military denied having Buhari's certificate and maintained throughout the scandal until when Buhari was sworn in and that's when APC informed us that the military found the missing certificate. The more people kept inquiring release of the certificate, it went missing again. You people are only fooling yourselves.

3. Considering how corrupt Nigerian leaders are and considering how much APC have been bribing people, yes I'm not convinced that is a real certificate especially considering he still refused to release the attestation to Inec for confirmation. That letter you all want to dismiss is there since 2015 and have been..

4. You say this when the answer is there for all to see even with the oluwole certificate. According to the oluwole certificate, Buhari failed mathematics in which a person needs to join the military yet he joined the military. According to what the military released years ago, Buhari entered the military by recommendation by his principal. Yes, Nigeria Army have always been corrupt even in 1961

1.As has been said several times, the document issued to Bubu IS NOT A CERTIFICATE, but an attestation...which was introduced in September 2015 by WAEC.

2.The Army eventually admitted that they did not have Buhari's certifcate...BUT their records indicated they had gotten it before, but it was missing. (And I;ll leave it at that).

3.Again, it is not a certificate, it is an attestation...ie proof that he did write their exams.(WAEC has said so ).

4.Since we do not know the entrance requirements for the Army back in 1961...we cannot make a true determination about that. And I'll leave it at that.

Anyway, I think APC is ....well, it does not matter what I think. If you want to hold onto your Bubu did not write the exam theory, fine.

ephemm:
Cut down the luxury of the executive and legislators and use it to fund the subsidy till you find solution to it.

The money saved from not paying subsidy is squandered elsewhere .

1.The amount of money we would spend on subsudusung fuel to N90 is far far in excess of what we would spend on the National Assembly.

2.Subsides in essence amount to government dictating to a petroleum marketer how much profit he or she can make. (That is why many of them engage in subsidy scams.and scarcity scams..to make ends meet.)

3.Even if we fix all the refineries, and add Dangote's own. we would still need to import fuel...so paying subsidy on imported fuel is a waste of time.

4.Better we remove subsidy.

Racoon:
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So, the continous assesment sheets released by the Bubu's old school were faked?

Plus, your proof is conjecture....not factual.

(Mind you, I am no APC supporter...or PDP supporter. I just find it strange that the Nigerian Army was so corrupt back in 1961 that it would admit one Northerner without certificate...while demanding certificates from the likes of Yaradua, IBB and Abubakar).

Racoon:
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Ok WAEC-Nigeria! Now doesn't it beat imagination that for 57years Buhari never applied for same result if truly he claimed he possesses same certificate he hired 22 SANs to defend.What was he about to present then?

The worst stupidity of the 21st.century goes to a Buhari who was so daft that he knew this is a one-step way to retrieved an alleged certificate he never had since 1961 or claimed he lost in 1983 but committed perjury by going repeatedly swearing false affidavits alleging that the same certificate is with the military secretary.

1.So guys who are sued in court...even if they are lying...cannot hire lawyers to defend themselves.?
2.Anyway, the 2015 suit was withdrawn in 2016...meaning the chap who sued Bubu had no evidence to substantiate his claim that Bubu did not write WASC.
3.Attestation of certificates started apparently in October 2015.....

kotv:
You punched what argument? You ended up proving me accurate. I mentioned that Nigerian that manages WAEC in Nigeria was who signed and presented this oluwole certificate. You ended up proving that accurate. No wonder Buhari surrounds himself with people with the same intellect as him. I'm guessing you forgotten supposedly written letter was produced in a Ghana newspaper in 2015 before the real letter was exposed by the organization that asked for it. You people decieves only yourselves.

If you look at the last paragraph of the picture you posted, it states that the only place where MoveOn Nigeria can make enquiries about Bubu's certificate is in the WAEC NIGERIA office.

So, your argument is invalid.

Plus, do you have ANY proof that Buhari did not write the exams back in 1961....?

kotv:
Stop with the explanation of the fraudlent behavior of the man you all try to pass of as having Integrity.

I doubt anyone is surprised they included his current picture in the fraud certificate, they did the same thing in one they released in 2015. When you're a scammer, God finds a way to expose you and God have continuously exposed the fake integrity dullard.

If Buhari had his WAEC he wouldn't have hired multiples SANs to defend his lack of certificate when he was taken to court for it nor would thugs, in which I wouldn't be shocked if APC hired them, wouldn't have been threatening the lawyer that took him to court. If he had his WAEC he wouldn't have been lying that the military had it. You are aware it wasn't just 2015 he kept accusing the military of having his certificate. He's been using that excuse since the first time he started running for presidency yet, WAEC didn't present him this attestation until he became president. Such a coincidence.

Not everyone is as stupid as Buhari so stop selling us shit and calling it food.

All this proved is that there's no organization in Nigeria that's not been severally corrupted since Buhari took over. He destroyed our judiciary system now confirmation that education system is in the all time low. I thought it couldn't get lower but, Buhari proved me wrong.

1.So when a guy is taken to court , he should not hire lawyers?
2.As has been stated several times, people joining the Army during Buhari's time handed their certificates to the Army(See Alani Akinrade, who stated just as much). And as has been stated, Buhari has gone on the record as saying his certificate was misplaced, and the Army recently confirmed it...hence the attestation.
3.For WAEC to issue an attestation shows that they have Bubu's academic records....or at the very least the continous assesment sheet used to determine his final results.
4.So, unless you have proof...and don't bring that letter of yours because it proves nothing...Bubu has a certificate. To assume otherwise means that you have to assume the Army in 1961 was so corrupt, and that the Continous Assesment sheet released by Bubu's old school were faked...when they were not. And if they were so corrupt...why go the extra mile for some kid from the village who had zero connections...

Racoon:
“Whoever sat for WASC exams in whatever year, we have the records in our database, and Mr President, we have the records of the examinations you sat in 1961.
Meanwhile find the same WAEC 4years ago.

Problems with your letter

1.WAEC cannot give Buhari's certificate to Mr Clem Aguyi
2.They could not find Buhari's records in Ghana.....
3.Mr Clem should have applied to the WAEC Nigeria office.
4.Buhari had a genuine certificate. To assume otherwise is to assume that the Nigerian Army, which in 1961 was headed by a British guy was already so corrupt that they were allowing in certificateless people to join up. And it also makes the INEC and FG of 2003, 2007 and 2011 so incompetent that they could not see through the scam

Better give it up. Buhari has a legally obtained certificate. And anyway, he may not win in 2019, so there.

Like I said...I doubt that the letter came from the Buhari Campaign Organisation.

1.First, if Bubu wanted to raise money from the government coffers for his organisaiton, he would do it in a more refined way....(think the 'website' budget of a certian ex governor)
2.The letter strikes me as a letter asking for favours. What we need is proof those favors were granted...which means access to the records FROM the Ministry concerned.
3.I don't doubt that there is some corruption in the government, or that Buharists are using their connections to join in the eating....I doubt the letter in question proves it.

I think Keyamo is telling the truth.

yarimo:
It Is one terrorists IPOB man that introduced this dubious plate number when he was FRSC boss.

Can we leave bigotry out of this please?

emmasege:
It's always amazing the way you reason. It actually depicts your low level of knowledge. Christians are in the majority in Kaduna State and the proportion of Christians in Kaduna State can never be compared with the proportion of muslims in Ekiti or any south eastern state.

Don't sit down in one corner of your village or region to make comments on national issues. You need to go work or live in other regions of Nigeria, perhaps you will become more educated.

Well, since religion has not been on the census questions since 1973....we can't know if Christians OR muslims are in the majority in Kaduna state.

Religion was not asked in the 1991,or 2006 censuses (the two most recent).

Yankee101:
Muslim/Muslim?

No votes from kaduna south be that

These guys are behaving as if they know they'll lose elections. What's going on?

Yeah I agree...but the candidate is from Southern Kaduna.

She is from Sanga LGA...which is in the southeast of Kaduna State...

BeautifulMind2:
She is a Muslim not Christian

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/11/02/el-rufai-dares-southern-kaduna-christians-picks-muslim-woman-as-running-mate/
By John Shiklam in Kaduna

Rumours of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship race in Kaduna State was confirmed on Friday as Governor Nasir el-Rufai announced Dr. Hadiza Abubakar Balarabe as his running mate for the 2019 election.

Balarabe, a Muslim, is Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, from Sanga Local Government Area in the Christian dominated Southern part of Kaduna State.

Passed through that LG in 2006. It is close to the border with Plateau state....deep south of Kaduna.

eyeview:
Would you believe if I tell you that there are more Christians from Kaduna than Muslims.
Its a hidden secret. IBB and his cronnies discovered this fact in the census held during his regime but subdued it

Religion was not on the questions for the census of 1991...sports fan.

(I took part...and I recall clearly that religion was not asked. Thanks to controversies from the 1963 census).

jlinkd78:
Ok. Noted. The issue is that u comprised by not listing all his grades in 8 subjects he entered for. Why stylishly omitting Mathematics and Woodwork which he had F9. The answer is simple cos we all know from d Endorsement letter from d Principal back then he gave a futuristic remark that Buhari will have five credits in English, Mathematics and three others. Yes Bubu might have settled d issue of eligibility but another round of legal fireworks might be in d offing that might make him loose all entitlement in d military as he isn't qualified to be enlisted

F9's are always ommitted from the final WAEC certificate.

(Personal anecdote...I wrote November December WAEC back in the day,and got a F9 in one suject. My reasons for writing the exam was backup for my May June because of a certain subject I was afraid of failing...interestingly I passed that same subject both times. The F9 did not reflect in my final certificate...issued some 4 years later.).