Nigeria and her challenges

By Uguru Chikaodinaka Dorathy

In addition to the increase in school fees, it involves the increase of students drop out, drug dealers on campus, cultism and bullying in schools, it also involves the increase of poor learning from the lecturers to the students, and most times some lecturers tends to give a particular topic in class to study and then gives a different topic in exams and then expect to be paid at the end of the month which lead to corruption in the university and also in the country.

Nigeria and her challenges started in the year 1960, during the independence which was the British colonial rule, Nigeria as a whole have been facing challenges since the independence till date, which caused increase in school fees, fuel prices, food stuff and value added taxes (VAT) etc.

INCREASE IN SCHOOL FEES: The Nigeria government improved the challenges when president Bola Ahmad Tinubu came on board, which led to the increase in school fees and also in low rate of payment of salaries in the country.

INCREASE IN FUEL PRICE: Due to challenges in Nigeria, fuel prices increased due to the taxes which was increased which made the price of transportation to increase because of the increase in fuel price.

HIGH PRICE IN FOOD STUFF: Because of the increase of value added taxes the price of food stuff increased making families to worry a lot about where their going get daily bread from. These also affected students in school to manage their resources and food stuff which most atimes leading to ulcer and some students stealing from other students or people to rely on. It can also lead to kidnapping, killing of people due to hunger, and doing other illegal jobs to feed themselves and their families. Examples of families that have more than five children who feed on three square meals per day now because of the hardship and challenges in the country they feed on two or one square meals per day. Also families now send their children to hawking on the street and beg for for food ,some children doesn’t go to school because of no money to take care of them, which lead to insecurity in families.

Because of the increase in food stuff market women, provisions sellers, water factories etc, saw the need to increase their products so as to pay taxes, house rents, to pay their children school fees, school books and uniforms, and also to make a little income on their products.

In addition to the increase in school fees, it involves the increase of students drop out, drug dealers on campus, cultism and bullying in schools, it also involves the increase of poor learning from the lecturers to the students, and most times some lecturers tends to give a particular topic in class to study and then gives a different topic in exams and then expect to be paid at the end of the month which lead to corruption in the university and also in the country.

Solution that should be done in the country is that the government should reduce price of goods and also inflation should also be reduced in the country as a whole.

Uguru Chikaodinaka Dorathy is a student of Mass communication, Federal university of Kashere, Gombe state.