Education is a right, don’t burden students with loans – Ex-minister tells FG

A erstwhile Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has urged the Federal Government to dainty acquisition arsenic a cardinal close and not load students with loans.

Shittu spoke connected Tuesday during an interrogation connected Frontline, a existent affairs programme connected Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, monitored by DAILY POST successful Abeokuta.

The erstwhile curate said authorities policies should absorption connected creating opportunities for children from mediocre homes, stressing that entree to acquisition indispensable beryllium considered alongside employment, healthcare and wide payment of citizens.

He questioned the rationale down pupil loans astatine a clip galore graduates are jobless years aft leaving tertiary institutions.

“Today, we person successful this state graduates who graduated 10 years agone and are inactive looking for jobs. They don’t person jobs and they are talking astir giving them loans. I don’t judge successful loans. I judge successful cardinal rights,” helium said.

Shittu challenged Nigerians to analyse the acquisition objectives successful the 1999 Constitution, arguing that authorities has a work to beforehand entree to acquisition and make conditions for citizens to make their potential.

“I situation everyone to spell and look astatine the acquisition objectives successful the Constitution of ...