That board, like all good things in Nigeria, died due to corruption and the injection of politics into what is, essentially, a social welfare policy designed
to grant indigent students access to funding they desperately need to pursue their tertiary education aspirations. Another contributory factor to the eclipse of that scheme was unemployment as students who accessed the facility were not in a position to satisfy their own side of the deal due to no fault of theirs.
It is pertinent to observe that indigency is a phenomenon that has no religious, ethnic or tribal affiliation. It rarely understands politics. For those inflicted by this malaise, the only language that makes sense to them is the type Tinubu has just spoken.
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