Minister of Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, has claimed that school fees abroad are more expensive than what is obtainable in Nigeria.
The Minister said this during a panel session on Channels Television on Thursday while highlighting the impact of some of the policies of the Tinubu administration.
Fielding questions from young Nigerians, the minister urged them to always do their research and not to follow trends.
According to him, by making the students loan possible through the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, President Bola Tinubu has shown that he was focused on the future.
He said, “But I want to put it straight that most of the time…, we’re all young people. I’m also a young person. Maybe we have a millennium. We have a Gen Z, and the Alpha Gen Z, I think we should, most times, make our research than following trend.
“Sometimes trend may not work for us. You would have made your research. This is the first time the President is thinking about the future.
“And if a president comes out and says he, as a President, does not want any student to go out of school because you are not able to pay the school fees, I think it’s a plus for the student.
“And for any president to think like that, you know that the President is looking at the future, how, because the same President is working out, the same government is working out to make sure that after you leave school, you get a job, and when you get a job, you can be able to pay back.
“Most of these countries that you will japa to, that’s the same thing they do, even their school fees is more expensive.”
