Give Education Proper Funding; Stop This Embarrassment – Nigerian Students, NANS Tackle Tinubu Government For Claiming Federal Universities Are Tuition-FreeTinubu had announced that federal universities were still tuition amid recent hikes in fees by universities.The National Association of Nigerian Students has described the claim by President Bola Tinubu-led administration that Nigerian federal universities are tuition-free, as deceitful and misleading.
But NANS in a statement signed by its National Public Relations Officer, Giwa Yisa Temitope, stressed that it showed the callousness of the Tinubu-led administration and lack of willingness to ensure the education sector was uplifted. "We consider the claim by President Tinubu that Nigerian Universities are tuition-free, as deceitful and misleading. Making such claim, in a period where university authorities are embarking on obnoxious increment in fees is merely a dubious attempt to conceal the real picture and the extent of the crises the federal government and authorities of tertiary institutions have driven the students into.
"The funding of education remains the sole responsibility of the government and it must remain as such. For no reason should the government, as Dele Alake is trying effortlessly to do, shift the responsibility of funding education to the students or their suffering parents. We maintain that there is no reason whatsoever for the increment in fees payable across our Universities.
"Increasing fees payable will automatically deny thousands of students access to education and we, as an association has resolved to vehemently oppose it. Students loan which Dele Alake is fronting is far from the way-forward but grants , aids and scholarship. This is because the student loan scheme is an attempt to turn students into life-long debtors in exchange for a service which ought to be provided for by the government.
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