When someone asks me this question about UNN and mandatory laptop for the freshers, I always take some minutes to think on how this thing will be possible and why they should approve of it. Last two years ago, it was rumoured that every fresher must have a laptop and it didnt come to pass. Last year, same thing was said and it later became rumours.
Please let me say a little thing about this because there is something that when you hear, you apply that sense that makes you a human being into it, reason it and reach a logical conclusion to know if its gona be possible or not. Everybody is saying that UNN said that every fresher must have a laptop and that the money will be added to the tuition fees and I said "heyaa", this one will be laptop pollutions or abuse of laptop because it means in four or five years time, everybody in UNN must have a laptop if majority wont sale their own at auction prices in nsukka market and Enugu when Nsukka market gets filled up if at all its true. It is said that the freshers will pay for this so called laptop instalmentally but which ever way they want to do this,
My questions are:
- Is UNN making laptop compulsory for every fresher, doesnt UNN know that some people are still looking for where to borroww money to pay for their school fees? Some people would not even have paid for their acceptance fee by now if its going because there is no money. Some didnt even apply for supplementary because they couldnt see money.
- What about those who already have laptops, are they going to have 2?
- The people UNN is making laptop compulsory for according to you people, is it all of them that know how to operate a laptop or need a laptop? Is everybody going to indicate the make of laptop you need or they will just give you any make?
- How can UNN make laptop complusory when there are freshers who cant even afford phones? They didnt even say "phones" but laptops.
- How can that be possible when there are people that even if you dash them a laptop for free, they will say thanks and give it back to you because they dont need it? How can UNN ask or force people to use what they dont want or need?
- Some of the people that made first class and some that graduated with good grades, did all of them have laptops? So, what so significant or the contribution of laptop in the live of an average student who is struggling to survive in school?
- If all the freshers should have laptops, are they going to be converging at PAA or in front of PRO or is it big enough to accommodate them for free browsing because these are the only places as far as I know you can browse for free in UNN? Or is UNN going to make her wifi accessible every where inside UNN which they have tried before and it didnt last? If thats the case, will they also be subcribing it for them or will they be using it to watch films and play musics which the battery will soon die off when there wont be light for days in UNN as it happens sometimes?
- If UNN is making laptop compulsory for freshers, do you know how much the school fees will amount to, even if its going to be fairly used laptops? Is UNN becoming a private school or a state university where anybody can do or say whatever he likes?
- Those people that will be making laptop compulsory for the freshers according to you people, how many have they bought for their children? Something they couldnt provide for their own children even as rich as they claim to be, thats what they are asking the poor people to provide for their own children.
- How can you believe UNN will make laptop compulsory when UNN is a federal university and no other federal university in the country has ever done so or is UNN the only federal university in the country? Does UNN want or plan to scare people away from entering or applying for the school. This is because some people who chose UNN because they believe her school fee is not much high and have gotten admission; and also those that will still get admission, after hearing these rumours are now scared and regretting why they chose UNN while those who didnt succeed in getting admission are somehow happy that they didnt get? Even the private schools where people from rich homes attend have never done such let alone UNN where some people whose some of their parents survive by doing petty business, okada business, some parents are low civil servants, etc attend.
Like I said earlier on; last two years ago, it was rumoured that every fresher must have a laptop and it didnt come to pass. Last year, same thing was said and it later became rumours. Any fresher who wants laptop should go and buy one for himself or herself, let those who cant afford it continue browsing with the little phones which they can afford. Those who are making it compulsory "according to you people" should go and buy for their children if they see it necessary, there are those who dont see it or need it or cant afford it and they are ok with the ones their phones can give or do for them.
UNN cannot make laptop compulsory for all the freshers and if they do, it will cause a very serious problem and setback and Government may intervene unless the laptops will be given to the freshers at the rate of N5,000 or less with charger and manuals on how to use and operate it.
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