The Cartoonist Blogger

There is always a big gap between the rich and the poor and this gap exist almost in every areas of life. Some of this gap are seen in their manner of living, area of residence, the type of food they eat, cloths they put on, how they move around town and in some other ways.

But there is always one thing that has always bothered me which is why this gap also exist in the prison bars. When the poor is caught stealing anything no matter how small it is, He or she ends up in a battered and dilapidated prison, but when the rich steals anything or money even those ending in llions they only end up in a place better than the poor man's house with all the freedom and pleasure they need all reserved for them.

This indeed is the irony of Life.

The management of Lagos State University (LASU), in a special bulletin, has mandated all new and old students to pay the stipulated new regime of fees, which, according to sources, ranges between N193, 750 and N348,750; N25,000 and N33,250 respectively, or forfeit their studentship.

However, mixed feelings have continued to trail the decision of LASU management, as some students have started paying, while others are yet to comply. The majority of students, who are yet to make payments, have expressed fears of the unknown, in the decision of the management to invalidate their hard-earned admission into the institution after the deadline.

According to them, two weeks are too short for them to afford the stipulated fees proposed by the management. President, Lagos State University Student Union (LASUSU), Akeem Durojaiye, condemned the management’s decision, describing it as impromptu and an act of insensitivity on their part.

“How do you expect a student whose parents earn below the N18, 000 minimum wage to pay N250,000 within two weeks? This is outright wickedness,” he said.

This can only be seen in Naija. Calculate that fees for a whole duration of ones studies, its enough to establish a business for anyone oh. I hope after paying this there will be a job security for the student after studying and not that at the end one will still carry portfolio around just to look for job to earn a little percentage of what they spent in gathering the knowledge they have acquired.

The Nigerian Security Agencies has been faced with so many tough security challenges which at this time seem to be mounting a great pressure on this agencies as they now know that they are also not safe with the rising increase in the number of attacks being carried out against the nation by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Several Security centers have been attacked and several police officers killed in the rave of attacks, This rising trends of attacks against security officers has really made them rise to face the growing security challenges in the Country.

But with the Activities of the Boko Haram Terrorist group being felt in the Country one would ask if the Nigerian Security Forces are really on top of the Situation as they claimed they are. Well We can say much about this but so far the Security Forces has really been restoring the people's confidence in them as they have recorded several success in curbing with this security Challenges.

Nigeria's Economy has been struggling to catch up with that of other developing countries and this is as a result of so many negative factors that has been forced on the Economy. A country with 73% of its budget on recurrent expenditure and only 27% on capital expenditure do not encourage progress and development.

So the Task laid into the hands of The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala might seem too herculean for her to handle as the system has already deteriorated so badly that she would need to bend and search for a solution from scratch to the lingering economic problems of the nation.

The Removal of the Fuel Subsidy is one of the methods she thinks we can start fixing the economy as its believed that much money that should have been channeled into other areas of the Budget is being looted all in the name of Fuel Subsidy. If removed will help relieve the Economy of some of these problems.

The System here is quite different from that seen in the World Bank but lets Hope and pray that Her little inputs will help to at least keep the Economy Alive.

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) is a Commission that is in charge of the Road Safety administration and management in Nigeria. and you can find the their main aim and objective here.

Recently a lot of fingers has been pointed at the commission in regards to the New Number Plates and Drivers License it recently introduced to the public. and many individuals and groups including the House of representative have come out to challenge this new introduction and has ordered that it should be on a temporary hold.

The re-validation of the old number plates according to the FRSC is N10,000 for cars and N2,000 for motorcycles. However, for a license to be duly re-validated, according to the FRSC, the old driver's license must be original- the FRSC should be able to trace it in their data base to discover when it was first issued. In case the old document could not be traced, it will be treated as a fresh application. For new registration, the prices are stipulated as follow:

1. Standard N15,000
2. Articulated (Trucks etc) N20,000
3. Out of series N40,000
4. Fancy N80,000
5. Dealer N30,000
6. Government N15,000
7. Government Fancy N40,000

But the Truth remains that though this might seem to be a good gesture but with the issues surrounding this and the price tag placed on the new Number places which many believe to be outrageous one will have nothing to say than that this is like a drift from its main priority. We still have hanging issues about how terrible our roads are, the numerous accidents being witnessed daily, Traffic jams and many other road problems and yet what they have in mind is to generate more revenues for the Government who will channel this funds into other places with our roads still left dilapidated.

All in all I think we need to put priorities first on solving the road problems in the country before talking about introducing other things that are not as weighty as this problems.