"STUDENTS LOAN ACT 2023: A BRIDGE OR A BARRIER TO NIGERIAN STUDENTS?"
Olanrewaju Barakat Olabisi FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AGREED ON THE VIEW THAT STUDENT LOAN IS A BRIDGE TO NIGERIAN STUDENTS . The first speaker, in the person of Oluwadara Ifeoluwa said, Nigeria who happens to be the giant of Africa lacks quality education, It lacks access to education itself and it also lacks resources to power this education. However, we should know that Quality is equal to increase in cost meaning it is expensive. To have a quality education we should know that it entails the use of technology, Good teachers and adequate facilities for lectures, that is why the governments have put in place interest free loan for acquiring quality education. Why is the government collecting the fund back? This might seem as a barrier but it is not,in the sense that we have to pay back to keep making improvements in quality education. The second speaker, Ifeoluwa Odeyemi backed these points up by saying the opponents might see this as a barrier because of the cause ...