Dear Nigeria(ministry of Education/uniport),please stop increasing the PRICE of our DREAMS!!

That school fees is increased is no news..so this is just a post to pseudo-enlighten us for those of us that don't come for Congress when we call for one
.. We forget that there is strength in numbers and we have rights as individuals and students.. This post isn't meant to incite any groups or to disrespect but to WAKE US UP onto the matter on ground.

I don't know if most of you have heard of 'Ali must go' struggle where all NIGERIAN STUDENTS went on a protest because THE MILK IN THEIR TEA WAS REDUCED..yep!! You heard really right and laugh as hard as you want..as ridiculous as it sounds, that protest happened across the nation..and you cannot compare the standard of education that was enjoyed now to then and now all we see is dilapidated structures, no classrooms to learn ( kudos to the arena learners)

, unfriendly environment, no reagents + equipments to use for practicals and yet every now and then, ASUU goes on strike prolonging time to graduate and only for when you graduate, you are called a half baked graduate by the corporate organizations ( who would blame them though)  and when you try to exercise your basic human rights,you are victimized and intimidated by elements. That is the fate of the average Nigerian student and the Lackadaisical attitude of students to academic work is another full blog all together because a single or several blog posts can't do justice to that matter.. Most students don't want to study again.

Oya back to the school fees matter ( I apologize for the lengthy intro, I just couldn't help it) so we heard school fees was increased by a certain amount and after a protest and meetings and negotiations, the payment was decentralized and then it hit us Gbam!!! Over 200% increment in some quarters and some funny additions..very funny additions..
For the medical student, we were to pay NGN100,000 - NGN145,000 as school fees from against the 39,000 NGN we paid last year so you can imagine the shock...

"This is a federal University for crying out loud" some students retorted frustratingly.
So the process began to do something about it and a congress was called between College of health sciences, Dentistry, Agriculture, Engineering and Pharmacy and strategies were put in place with a communique agreed on to address the issue of centralization and the exorbitant fees and suspension of academic activities until school does something about the fees ..there were speeches from different quarters pumping up the Aluta spirit ( English was murdered by various quarters) ..pple wey I no sabi be orators impressed me..frustration really brings out talents..and then the SUG came and I can almost say that was where the problem came because the President (no disrespect intended..it is talkamasehappen.ng.alutacontinua) said a lot of things and ended up saying nothing and when asked to sign a comminique, he bluntly refused.

  A lot of people were of the impression that he had been bought over and I can't argue with that school of thought because he was clearly not on the side of the students..you no need jabranta to look into cowries see that vision and I must really commend the students because even if nerves were frayed and we were pushed to start a fight, we kept our cool..
  So we agreed to have congresses in our respective departments and have a roundtable  with our departmental heads for negotiation.
... To be continued.
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Regards,
Blogteam.
#bringdownthefees.