₦airaland Forum

Uyi168:
as at the time I left pharmacy school early this year, my school fees was 15400..
accommodation was around 17k..

and I've always maintained that education in Nigeria, as far I'm concerned Is free..

You can imagine that.

That cannot support our universities to have the funding required to be better managed.

ivandragon:
I can't recall OBJ using smuggling as a primary reason for fuel subsidy removal.

But even then, the APC administration has politicised fuel subsidy removal more than any other government & yet, it is also the one with the least idea of how to handle the matter.

It had 16 years to learn from the mistakes of previous administrations, yet it has been the most opaque & deceptive of all administrations.

O yes Obasanjo used that excuse for his incessant price hikes.

I always wondered then why we had to suffer to pay higher prices because our neighbours who were not oil producing as at then, had higher prices that were justified, being dependent on foreign oil.

seeme2:
Why does he have to, was he the one who hired the price? Petrol, like every other products are determined by market price now. Do you see president's address the hike in a bottle of Coke? Mumu.

Exactly!

The President has no business addressing you when prices go high or go low.

He has already addressed everyone that subsidy has been removed.

It is a free market.

Gucciblog:
Impress Nigerians by trying another candidate's plan?

Kai. Una Mûmu too much.

So are you saying Tinubu has no plan of his own?

Tinubu's plan will begin to unfold over his 4yr tenure.

You guys should give it a rest.

Propaganda in 2023 for mass burial for what happened in 2020.

Obidients, we are not stupid.

Face your Obi and his Awkuzu SARS massacre.

The OP should go back to the WhatsApp group and tell them he has failed with the assignment.

Penguin2:
I should show my face so that you will kill me and bury me with the 103 corpses that you people want to bury?

You are seeing a document written in black and white with signature of the head of the agency in charge yet you are blabbing instead of waiting for them to either own up or discredit the document. Isn’t that what reasonable people do?

And talking about the Army not killing anyone, was the Army supposed to be there in the first place?

But you said Obi was removing touts from Anambra as the reason why Awkuzu SARS massacre was ongoing during Obi's tenure.

Penguin2, please grow a conscience.

You do not care about the deaths of anyone, you only care to paint the Buhari government bad while trying to make a saint of Obi that you know was a useless Governor who did not care about the extrajudicial killings at Awkuzu SARS.

meolaniyi:
Nigeria is finished

Because the verdict is not to the liking of one party in a suit?

LP keep on labouring in vain.

Atiku is just grasping at straws.

Atiku!

This man would have many regrets, especially how he failed to become President.

Tinubu is really blessed.

1 touch, he became President.

Houseontherock1:
Customs should stop heating up the polity. PMS is deregulated; most Nigerians can't afford to buy due to drastically reduced purchasing power, importers will look for alternative market across the border

This was news when our pms was subsidized.

But it is still smuggling if it is contraband goods not allowed for export.

Also if no export duties are paid to the due government agency.

ivandragon:
Hmm...

This is what happens when an administration utilises a scatter gun approach to resolving issues that require discipline, focus & ingenuity.

Rather than tackle one of the hydraheaded monsters of fuel subsidy, the government abdicated its duty & allowed masses bear the brunt. But has smuggling gone away? No. But the masses are suffering the aftermath.

As long as the FG uses smuggling as one if it's key justifications for removing fuel subsidy, the price of fuel will keep rising arbitrarily because the government will want to keep it high to discourage smuggling rather than tackle the smuggling issue head-on.

You are right about the abdication of duty.

The Obasanjo regime always used this smuggling as a major reason why it always adjusted the price of fuel upwards. Other subsequent regimes gave same excuses.

It is very irresponsible of government to pass the burden to the masses.

Apart from this smuggling, Nigeria cannot also afford to pay as the funds is not just available.

If we have the full local refining capacity, the government could provide subsidised crude oil to the refineries so that the finished products would be cheaper than what is available internationally.

That way, we do not spend any funds to subsidise.

Successdude:
So it's only Ghana that has minimum wage ?

Very failing failures .... Looking unto failures the author and conclusion of their belief .....

USA has Per hour ..... Why won't you run away from that one with the kind of idiosyncracy you got ?

He gave you a West African reference for context and also gave you a "saner climes" reference, but you say you want more.

So go and dig up all the other West African countries yourself if you need more comparison to be convinced.

ecolime:
Public universities these days are mostly attended by children of the poor.

The rich send their wards to Private universities or overseas.

Naaaa!

Don't be too sure.

A lot of high income families still have children attending schools like Unilag, UI, UNN, BUK.

As at 2010, session fees in Unilag for returning students was just N10k.

Yabatech that is even a Polytechnic was around N20K.

You can imagine how badly Unilag was underfunding itself, despite its students priding themselves as the richest in the public university system.

Successdude:
Lol..... Why didn't he use the developed countries to measure the minimum wage ?

Using failure to support failure

This man is beginning to make it look like his stewpidity the previous days is only a child's play when compared to that of the subsequent days.

Did he not reference Ghana?

Is their minimum wage Australian or Canadian standard?

The rich should never be allowed to pay for education in Nigeria with money they spend on a sunday family outing to Mega Chicken or Kilimanjaro.

Imagine someone earning over N5m per month, paying N6million annual rent or has a N100m home property, but wants to pay N20k per session for university education of a child.

JAMO84:
Most Nigerian Parents will complain of 100k in a year school fees, but when it's time for their children to get married, they will spend 2m on a one day wedding.


Most Nigerian students will enjoy cheap education, when they finally graduate and get a job outside Nigeria with the certificate, they will curse Nigeria on social media for contributing nothing to their development.


EVERYONE SHOULD PAY FOR THE REAL COST OF THEIR TERTIARY EDUCATION, ONLY BASIC EDUCATION SHOULD BE FREE

Very true.

In fact, the parents are ready to cough out millions for that same child to go for Master's abroad and forgo a juicy job offer in Nigeria.

Let such parents start coughing out the millions now in the Nigerian education system.

Those without rich parents but are brilliant enough, should explore scholarship opportunities that would be available for the brilliant but indigent.

Let the rest take up student loans like their colleagues do in the "saner climes".

OK.

We know things are cheap here.

Truth is we have become used to paying next to nothing for everything.

From house maids and other domestic servants, to fees we pay artisans doing plumbing or carpentary work etc.

We should improve the standard of our education, so that Nigerians who are ready to pay thousands of dollars abroad can come back to pay similar amount within the Nigerian education system.

The only thing I would plead for is that firstly, loans should be available for those who want a university education but cannot afford it. And I believe that has already been signed into law.

Secondly, there should be enough local scholarships to aid very brilliant students who cannot afford it. All the Nigerian entities should stop all foreign scholarships and focus on local scholarships within the soon to be costly tertiary education in Nigeria.

Enough of cheap but worthless education.

Enough of subsidizing education for Nigerians who want to go work abroad with colleagues who themselves are using their salary to repay loans they took to have an education.

We should stop subsidizing the work force of developed countries.

Varunpulyani:
Sharap gaslighter

Renewed shege

E pain am die.

If only you could remove the records of Obi's vow to remove subsidy immediately on day1.

chrisxxx:
Obi is the leader Nigerians missed. My grouse is there are certain you don't say before poor students like Tinubu.

What does Obi know about managing and growing a robust economy?

Between Obi and Tinubu, who is known as the dull student?

richidinho:
He will learn from the job, after all you all applauded Buhari when he gave Bashir AHMED a top job in the NNPC

Where is the job in NNPC?

Did he give him GMD role of NNPC?

Taylor90:
If he didn’t know what to do he shouldn’t have increased the burden of Nigerians

What would he have done but he knows how to increase fees and remove subsidy without planning

He for leave everything pending like Buhari left then till he figured out what to do

Your president is daft and useless

Y’all will come online to defend him but deep down everybody dey feel the heat even the mods that keeps banning me are not spared

Including you people that sings his praises ain’t spared una dey feel am

He knows what to do.

But you expect magic.

ruggedtimi:
To only thing wrong here is nepotism, bt if the op is referring to his appearance then he is good to go. The professors wey Dem they give those post which better thing them do

What the OP is saying is that he should be applying for entry level jobs and not top management jobs.

What experience is he bringing to the table?

Kukutente23:
It can be removed on day 1 by setting modalities in motion to remove it on day 1.
Look, I know you're trying to divert attention from the mess your god created but the truth is, if we're to be sincere to ourselves, there's no way anyone can remove subsidy on 29th May because the subsidy budget covers to 30th June.
So you can say Obi was lying as usual as he can't remove subsidy on day1 given Nigeria's fiscal condition.
What makes Tinubu's own more serious is that he has come out to say it was never in his plan(nor that of his advisers) to remove subsidy on day 1. But he did it on a hunch. If you're being honest to yourself, if Tinubu was not your god, you'll definitely call him names by now for daring to do something as sensitive as removing subsidy on a whim. But instead, you're more concerned about what Obi said or did not say while ignoring the man who is presently destroying lives and livelihood on a whim. Two months now and no palliatives in sight. Are you guys slaves or something?

Given Nigeria's fiscal condition subsidy can be removed on day1 when the country has not even paid petroleum marketers for a lot of subsidy claims accrued in the past.

Truly Tinubu did it on a hunch, but I do not even support any form of subsidy removal until we have fully certified our local refining capacity to meet national demand. Also, our private electrical power needs with an epileptic public power supply, have constrained us to rely on even more petrol supply than should be necessary.

Also, subsidy could have continued without any form of payment, by providing subsidized crude to local refineries so that the end product is cheaper than it would be if crude had been sold to the local refineries at the OPEC price. This could be done for as long as we have enough crude oil to explore.

This way, we meet our international obligations to OPEC by fulfilling our quota at the benchmark price, while still enjoying our own natural resource locally at a price the local economy can afford.

The problem with my plan is that our fuel will be so cheap that smugglers would find a way to siphon nationally subsidised fuel across international boundaries. Then we inadvertently subsidize fuel for all our neighbours as it was happening all this while.

So let it be known that I am not even an advocate of subsidy removal, whether on day1 or during the 2nd term of any government.

No palliative is as distributed and effective as the subsidy itself.

The purpose of this topic is to show that those who are lamenting and those poling fun, all knew that subsidy would go as promised by the top candidates, and some promised day1 or immediately as done by the Tinubu regime.

jmoore:
Tinubu must be an olodo, a dull student that copied an answer from an intelligent student but failed to copy the formula and how he arrived at the answer.

You guys are the ones that need better comprehension to understand Obi. He outlined more in his manifesto but Tinubu failed to read Obi's manifesto.

Obi made a vow just 1 month to the elections, that he will remove subsidy on the very 1st day, but you are talking of manifesto that requires a full term of 4years to implement.

Did Tinubu tell you he will not use his 1st term of 4yrs to implement his own manifesto?

Bobloco:
I know that you Trekked the entire day to post this because you could not afford the exorbitant transport fare

You mean he would not have trekked had Peter Obi won the Presidency and removed subsidy on day1 as he promised?

We are really a criminal bunch as a nation.

Very weak institutions also that have almost zero level patriotism.

Their margin of profit would have dropped terribly.

If indeed it is still happening, it only underscores that our neighbours still sell fuel at a price higher than Nigeria.

However, Nigeria is not losing any money to the smugglers as no subsidy has been paid by the government on the fuel.

Anyone caught smuggling without paying the appropriate Customs duties for such "exportation" should be shot at sight.

Kukutente23:
Did Tinubu ever say he'll remove subsidy on day1? Even he admitted it was not planned in his speech to remove subsidy on May 29th but he suffered a terrible tongue accident. So you're just inferring that tinubu is implementing Obi's idea.
If that's the case, shouldn't he call Obi to find out how exactly he intended to remove the subsidy on day 1 instead of paying propagandists to spread deodorant over his public fart?

How is subsidy removed on day1 besides removing it on day1?

4 + 4 Torgba.

Edo no be Lagos.

Na the end result dem dey enjoy so.

LagosFirstSon:
Seems Buhari is better than Tinubu

The Buhari whose planned subsidy removal was dated to coincide with his own exit?

Was a dollar not already trading for over N750 during the Buhari regime?

What has changed besides the subsidy removal Buhari planned for his successor?