Thank you for your feedback. I do not know if you have been to Germany. I have. Germany is able to afford free tuition at her Federal public universities, because Germany has a 42% income tax.
What this means is that if you earn €100,000, you pay a tax of €42,000 to the government. It is from that tax money that the government pays for the tuition. The tuition is free to the student, but not to German citizens.
Besides that, German university students have to pay other fees. Only tuition is free. They pay an average of €750 in other fees per semester.
Obi, would you agree for the Nigerian government to take 42% of any money that comes into your account and the account of every Nigerian above eighteen in exchange for free university tuition for those wishing to study at tertiary level!
Please fact check me.
Average tuition fees at Nigerian public universities = ₦50,000 or $65.
Average tuition fees at Ghanaian public universities = GHS17,145 or $1503.
Average tuition fees at British public universities = £9,250 or $11,900.
Average tuition fees at European public universities = €10,000 or $11,128.
Average tuition fees at American public universities = $10,400.
Yet, you are here saying ‘Nigeria is finished’, ‘Nigeria is useless’ because of an increase of tuition fees from ₦19,000 to ₦190,250 at one university?
Ghana has a minimum wage of GHS446, or $40 per month. Yet, Ghanaians pay twenty five times what we pay in tuition. Do Ghanaians earn twenty five times what Nigerians earn in minimum wage? Is fuel cheaper in Ghana than in Nigeria? I was in Ghana two months ago. Believe me when I say that you would fare better economically in Nigeria than in Ghana. Is Nigeria as wealthy as the UK, US, and the EU? Nigeria is not such a bad country. If you think the cost of education is too high, then try the cost of illiteracy!
I eagerly anticipate your response.
Thanks again, and may God bless you.
