FG To Introduce Student Loans, Breaks-Off ASUU Negotiation

The Nigerian Government has decided to break off negotiation with ASUU following a  'security report' of the infiltration of the opposition after  the committee set up by the Nigerian government to negotiate with the union gave a verdict of non-compromise on the part of the union.

 It was revealed that the committee had reported to the government that the union leaders were arrogant and selfish, putting their interest before that of their students who had been at home for nine weeks and had remained 'rigid and unbending' to suggestions on how to agree on some of the issues it was agitating for so as to end the strike.

The government after the report told the committee members that it had fresh security report that the union's stance on the lingering crisis in the education sector was as a result of the opposition's infiltration into the union as the opposition wants to portray the government as irrational and uncaring to the plight of the lecturers and their students as well as present the government in bad light to Nigerians and the international community.

The government has therefore decided to fund individual student's education as it is done in advanced countries by introducing loans to the students throughout their period in the university so as to cushion the effect of the financial hardship on the students. How will the loan to the students compel the lecturers to call off the strike?

Students are expected to re-pay the loans after graduation provided they get jobs of their choice. How will the loan ever be repaid when there are no jobs in the first not to talk of jobs of their choice?

Does the government know the actual number of students we have in Nigeria and is the total cost of the loans cheaper than honouring the 2009 agreement??

Will the loans ever get to the students?

Questions, questions and more questions!