Exploring Fuel Subsidy Removal: An Advantage, In The Funding Of The Public Education Sector

Most importantly are the effects of fuel subsidy removal on the tertiary public education sector of the polity which has been in comatose for quite some time now. Before the removal of fuel subsidy, some public Universities mooted the idea to charge tuition fees ranging from N120, 000 to N150, 000 (One hundred and twenty thousand naira to one hundred and fifty thousand naira). Obviously, accommodation fees and other sundry charges will as well increase. There are bound to be multiplier effects on students and parents as well. Similar situations would be replicated at the primary and secondary levels of the public education sector.

Exploring fuel subsidy removal and the accompanying inflation to advantage for the proper repositioning of the public education sector all depend on the will power of stakeholders to demonstrate the transcendence required for surmounting difficulties. Will power portrays human beings as entities endowed with all the virtues needed for remaining committed and focused to identified goals. Transcendence portrays human beings as teleological entities who are incurably and inadvertently futuristic and optimistic. It is the inherent intellectual and spiritual powers to deliberately project into the future. The future can be likened to the void. Void is a latent formless state or simply a complete state of chaos that throws up boundless possibilities. Possibilities challenge human beings to vigorously demonstrate their powers of transcendence by altering adversities into advantages. By this act, we project from the known realm into the unknown realm. Each time we do this, we open up new vistas of hope, we recreate and reinvent. Pointedly, whether the seemingly comatose public education sector would further sink or vibrantly resurrect at this point of fuel subsidy removal, depends on the capacity and sincerity of the stakeholders.