Fruit of free university education in Nigeria

In a pre-election speech in Bankstown in 1972, Whitlam said: “We believe that a student’s merit, rather than a parent’s wealth, should decide who should benefit from the community’s vast financial education.”Provision of food, shelter, and healthcare are all necessary for alleviating poverty in a country, but the most sustainable way to help improve the […]

In a pre-election speech in Bankstown in 1972, Whitlam said: “We believe that a student’s merit, rather than a parent’s wealth, should decide who should benefit from the community’s vast financial education.”
Provision of food, shelter, and healthcare are all necessary for alleviating poverty in a country, but the most sustainable way to help improve the peoples’ standard of lives in the long run is to provide education for its citizens.
Education in its general meaning is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the other through teaching, training, or research.
Education helps in changing the lives of the citizenry; people are knowledgeable on social issues, and it also facilitates development and self-reliant which will help to promote better livelihood of the citizens.
For these reasons, government’s free university education, if introduced will no doubt, make the youths feel concern on issues that will bring about development and social change by paying back for the skills, knowledge they acquired to the development of the country. This, in turn, will bring a critical reduction in poverty, drug abuse and other related criminal tendencies in the country.
“The harvest of tomorrow is what you plant today…”
Abdullahi is a final year student of Mass communication, Bayero University Kano