- Nenye Uzowulu, urges parents to carefully consider school enrollment choices for their children.
- He warns that rising tuition fees are increasingly resembling “ransom” rather than traditional school fees.
- Uzowulu advises parents to resist pressure from private school owners as education costs continue to escalate.
Nigerian Facebook user Nenye Uzowulu has called on parents to think carefully about where they enroll their children, warning that some tuition charges now feel more like “ransom” than school fees.
Posting on Monday, Uzowulu cautioned parents against giving in to pressure from private school proprietors as education costs climb.
“Any school fees you struggle to pay is no longer school fees but ransom. Enroll your kids where you can comfortably afford same applies to house rent,” she wrote.
She recounted knowing a mother who repeatedly borrows money to keep her children in an expensive school. “I know a woman living in debt, constantly taking loans for school fees. What kind of parenting is that?” Uzowulu asked.
Her remarks come amid ongoing debate about rising tuition in Nigeria’s private schools. Enugu-based school owner Gladys Ajaero recently told Arise TV that the hikes are driven by economic pressures, not greed, pointing to the soaring cost of essential materials and services.
Uzowulu’s post has since sparked extensive discussion online, with many parents sharing their own views on the issue.
See screenshot of post below:
See some comments below:
@Usonwa Chinaemerem Miracle: “I totally agree.” Find a comfortable place that won’t place unnecessary strains and pressure on you and yours and settle there. Again, born as you fit train. Una say make we no dey advice married people but make una dey born the number of kids you can comfortably care for. You can’t have 6 kids when you can’t even feed yourself and 2 kids comfortably. Those kids may end up hating you so much.”
@Favorite Cakes n Treats: “@Nenye Uzowulu A mother that wants to give her child best education against all odds. You don’t know her educational background, that made her to go to the length of borrowing loan to pay her kids fee.”
@Mmaduakor Joseph Faith Ifunanya: “How I wan take impress people wey no send me.”
@Njideka Rejoice: “Omo I no fit do pass myself ooo. If I see 10k own self I go put my pikin there.”
@Chinwendu Uzoma Cindy: “Na y I don run go my papa house. My children dey go were I fit afford. Say I be widow,l no also suppose turn to begger.”
@Prince Ikenna Okpata: “Simple! Most Private schools are business entities; they enable students and pupils there by contributing to our academic decadence. Public and government schools are still better because nobody has a personal interest. Teachers are just there to deliver and do their job. I went to a government primary and secondary school, and I am academically sound.”
@Precious Omuekpen: “Most people can’t even meet up again even when u think it’s cheap. Is getting wesssssser!!”
@Niffy collection: “There’s no way you going to see a school in this lagos that’s not paying ransom… Imagine a crèche paying almost 60k per term…”
@Onyinye Loveth: “This is not even a joke!
People should learn and stop living about their earnings.”
@Okechukwu Chiamaka: “True. I think location matters too tho. School aren’t cheap.”
@Ijeoma Ethel: “I concur 00. Huge one.”
@Egejuru Harrison Chibueze: “They won’t hear, most of us went to community schools and today we are better in life. There are schools for every parent, don’t hang your konkoso and coset where your hand no reach.”
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