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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?

Lovelive:
Quite childish !


Tinubu and Obi are not the same and do not have the same ora and charisma (positive/holy vibration).
They may all remove it the same day but will never get the same result.
Please stop defending failure !

Na aura or charisma go make fuel price go down after subsidy removal?

Or Obi would have passed a new budget containing palliatives on the 1st day that he would have also removed subsidy?

Stop being a hypocrite and accept that you got what you supported, even if Tinubu is the executor having won the election.

Sergio101:
Mr Man......stick on convincing people around you that your paymaster is trying so much in this his short-lived administration.

Your energy is very important there.

Sing Tinubu's praise song to Papa Tobi your neighbor after he must have bought two litres at 1600

If Papa Tobi voted Tinubu or Atiku or Obi, then he must have known that subsidy would be removed immediately.

Baba Tobi cannot be lamenting now and claiming to be oblivious.

Great2017:
Are you blaming Obi for Tinubu's unplanned actions - subsidy removal and the floating of naira - ? This is really incredible and ridiculous.

Very soon, you will blame Tinubu's failure on Buhari and Jonathan

At least, you have agreed that Tinubu started as a failure. Whether you blame it on Obi, Atiku or Jonathan, that is immaterial to sane Nigerians.

The way out should be your concern and not this blame game. Nigerians are far wiser than this primitive blame strategy of yours.

There is no blame game here, but a call to reality for the hypocrites who claim Nigerians are suffering due to the wicked policy of the Tinubu regime, when in actual fact it was a policy their own failed candidate also espoused.

pquaver:
That means obi should not even enter since we know ahead of time is same trial and error he is bring on board.. Subsidy will go immediately, i wont allow it to stay a day longer.. Go and verify

You have said it all.

No supporter or voter of Tinubu, Atiku, or Obi have the right to complain about the pains,of subsidy removal.

Igwe9:
Did he also promise to devalue the naira

You mean Obi would have continued with the policies of Emefiele that allowed a few access to dollars for round-tripping?

Varunpulyani:
We are saying the same thing


Tell your father and mother to do this daily to keep fit

This is the same thing that would have happened if Obi was President and he removed subsidy from day1 as he promised.

So shame on you.

Varunpulyani:
Did you read the screenshot where he said 50%

That your screenshot was from September 2022.

By January 2023, just 1 month to the presidential election, he said and I quote,

"I can assure you it will go immediately... Subsidy I've said it before is organised crime, and I cannot allow it to stay a day longer"

The video is below for your viewing displeasure, because you hate the truth.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgp1pMZNSw

RecentHistory:
He used Please 2x in 3 paragraphs.
Wonderment!

His entire life flashed before his eyes. He remembered that was how Kanu was held before being imported back into Nigeria. He thought he was next.

As in.

The guy became human again for a few hours of captivity.

HacheNoire:
🤣🤣🤣

Peter is desperately seeking relevance

Before the gubernatorial elections, the Obidients were mocking Sanwo-Olu that he is willing to attend any event to have a good public image and seek votes.

Now Peter Obi is willing to congratulate anyone just to remain in the spotlight and earn public sympathy.

Obi has found his true calling.

He is the President of the Nigerian Congratulations Council, NCC.

Dele Alake has kept quiet after promising and failing on the Ministers' nomination that he claimed a serious government would effect within 1 month.

jmoore:
Agbadorites trying to divert attention.

TINUBULATION

You seem to be uneasy upon realising that Peter Obi also planned to remove subsidy on day1.

Now how do you want to protest something you supported by promoting and voting Peter Obi?

Sergio101:
I'm not understanding this APC morons oh.

Like if you trek come back home....you will channel your anger on Obi? .

Obi is now the president?

You saw a video of him saying he will remove subsidy but didn't see the one he Said he will cut cost of governance,encourage local industrial improvement, boost the agric sector to increase production and possibly export of agricultural product.

Are we the one to be blamed the your cocaine sniffing vagabond refused to grant at least a single interview so as to air his opinion on how best to tackle the subsidy issue?

Is it by shouting......"subsidy has been removed" on inauguration day?

Is it possible to cut cost of governance on the 1st day without a budget, like he would have removed subsidy on the 1st day with the petroleum marketers reacting immediately like they have done?

Just accept that you Obidients, the Atikulators, and we Batist knew what was to come, and it has come as we supported and voted, regardless of who won between Tinubu, Atiku, or Obi.

Sergio101:
Oga go to YouTube.

Search on Obi's interview on how to tackle subsidy issue.

I have it here but won't send to a ronu miscreants. Do the searching yourself

Was it a cloned Peter Obi that was talking in that video from Jan 2023?

Just accept that Tinubu, Obi, and Atiku vowed to remove subsidy.

Obi would have done it immediately as promised.

Except you want to affirm that he never keeps to his promise, just like he betrayed APGA and PDP?

kettykings:
What an excuse for ineptitude and incompetent economic management. If apc can not manage economic policies they should ship out, Nigeria is too delicate for trial and errors

Dude, we are all suffering owing to the removal of subsidy that Obi also promised to remove on his 1st day if voted to power.

Only those who supported or voted candidates that did not have subsidy removal as a major and urgent policy decision on their campaign, have the right to lament.


You being an Obidient and me being a Batist, have no reason to lament.

We got what we supported or voted for.

Did the Obi you trekked for also promise to remove subsidy on his very 1st day as President?