Regardless of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu instructing Federal-owned universities to impose no increment on college charges on college students, the College of Lagos (UNILAG) has slammed new expenses on its earlier increments that college students kicked towards and the police prevented them from staging a public protest about.

The college this week imposed N50,000 expenses on charges it earlier elevated to N140,000 and above.

This occurs to be the newest in a collection of payment hikes below the administration of the present Vice-Chancellor Professor Folasade Ogunsola, who occurs to be the varsity’s first feminine head, appointed in October 2020.

As well as, the varsity has elevated lodging charges for undergraduates to about 400 %, from N25,000 to N100,000, whereas medical college students would pay N120,000.

The brand new increments be a part of those of July 20 when the college raised charges by about 900 %,

As a substitute of final session’s N19,000, UNILAG now expenses N190,250 for college students learning drugs, whereas programs requiring laboratory and studio amenities want college students to pay N140,250.

The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) July ending wrote the administration of UNILAG to reverse the preliminary increments.

College students and their mother and father are already groaning, complaining and kicking towards the brand new charges.

“This isn’t solely flawed it’s evil,” stated one guardian, who has a ward within the Arts School. “Even the initially elevated charges have been excruciating sufficient, and now the varsity goes forward to do that.”

One second-year pupil lamented: “My mother and father had not come to phrases with the sooner enhance and have been already complaining about how they have been anticipated to give you the brand new charges. This can be a college the place I entered with college charges as simply N15,000 in 2021.”

Some have expressed doubts in regards to the assurances that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu gave to Nigerians that tuition in universities remained free.

In keeping with the newly launched expenses, the varsity has added for final-year college students within the Arts and Social Sciences colleges:

• · Utility Cost –N20,000
• · Undergraduate Convocation Charge –N30,000
• · Undergraduate Compulsory Charge –N140,250.

One pupil stated:

“This quantities to including insult upon damage. We college students have been already combating towards the sudden imposition of over N100,000 to our college charges that have been not more than N19,000 earlier than. Abruptly, the following factor we hear is that the VC has launched contemporary charges.

“That is very thoughtless of a public establishment the place the federal government says it practises free schooling. Even some state-owned establishments don’t cost a fraction of what they’re telling us to pay now.”

The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students Joint Campus Council (NANS JCC), Lagos State, had declared a protest final week towards the hike in UNILAG college charges, however for the intervention of the Commissioner of Police, Mr Idowu Owohunwa.

The Police Commissioner additionally arrange a Police-Pupil Relations Committee (PSRC) to handle points which may come up from the assembly sooner or later.

Nonetheless, it isn’t clear how NANS JCC would react to the brand new will increase.

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