Stop further increase in school fees, Tinubu orders universities…. to flood universities with buses to ease students movements
Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, has ordered federal universities to halt their “arbitrary increase in sundry fees payable” amid the hardship experienced by Nigerians due to fuel subsidy removal.
Dele Alake, special adviser to the president on communication and strategy, confirmed the president’s directive in a statement on Monday.
He said the development was in furtherance of the President’s desire to ease the burden of the fuel subsidy removal on students of higher institutions of learning,
SaharaReporters on Saturday reported that the University of Jos (UNIJOS) became the latest institution to hike fees when it announced the increase of school fees from the current N45,000 to N213,000 an increment of over 300 percent.
According to new school fees chat signed by the Registrar of the university, the N213,000 fee is for 100 and 200 level students while the 300 level students and above will now pay N160,000.
UNIJOS increment is coming a week after the University of Lagos (UNILAG) announced increment prompting parents and Nigerians in general to kick against the astronomical increase of school fees by universities in the country.
Meanwhile in a statement on Monday, the presidency said, “The desire of the President is to see that students can access their campuses without much difficulty as a result of higher transportation costs.
