Inexplicable Fees Paid By Nigerian Students, Just How Much Is Too Much!

Call it extortion or inexplicable fees paid by Nigerian students either during exams, at the point of processing and securing admissions, or at the clearly unemployed state of serving our mother land. 

This short write up below brings these to fore:

 "The National Youth Service Corps call-up letters will now cost the prospective ‘corper’ N4,000, and this is after buying a scratch card to confirm his name as having been mobilised. 

This to my mind is a sign that the NYSC is broke and if that be the case, why force young people to go for the programme compulsorily?

To think that corps members are not insured despite the dangers they face every year, a corps member who sustains injury or even loses his life in the course of the year is not even given any insured compensation rather, officials of the NYSC only pay the family a condolence visit.

I hereby suggest that the said N4,000 be reversed and in fact, an insurance cover be put in place for corpers since they’re on national duty.

Other scratch card scams include checking of WAEC/NECO and JAMB results as well as the Post-UTME tests. One would have thought that having spent a fortune to buy those forms, their results will be part of the deal.

In such places as hospitals in Lagos, cars are parked at a fee irrespective of whether you came for a visit or you are a patient, while it is agreed that it helps to stem illegal parking, something ought to be done to ensure that patients park their vehicles free since the hospital services are not free anyway.

Let’s see how many other government official scams we can come up with and see what we can do to stop them where necessary".

Source: Punch news