Students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti (EKSU) are set for a showdown with the authorities of the institution, following the over 100 per cent hike in the fees payable by the students of the institution.
Nigerian Tribune gathered from returning students of the institution, at the weekend, that the fees, which peaked at N191,000 per session, were not acceptable to them as, according to them, “it meant that the poor cannot study in the state university any longer.”
Many of the EKSU students enquired from the Nigerian Tribune in Ado Ekiti, at the weekend, if the fees published via a paid advertisement and signed by the Registrar of the university, Dr Omojola Awosusi, was “true and real.”
The new fees regime as advertised by the university showed that it range from N93,000 to N191,500 depending on the course as against the N50,000 it was pegged at by Governor Kayode Fayemi when he took over government in October 2010.
For instance, new fees introduced in the institution’s Faculty of Engineering along with the N50,000 tuition fee, are “Registration, Examination, N2,500; Library N1,500; Sports N5,000; Health Centre N7,500; GST N1,500; ID card N1,500; Caution fees N2,500; Verification N2500; Matriculation N2,000; Convocation N2,000.
Others are IT supervision N10,000; M.I.SN 2,000, Laboratory Workshop N5,000; Professional fee N10,000; Equipment N5,000; Faculty/Departmental due N10,000; and Handbook N1,000, making the total sum payable in the faculty N122,000.
Source: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/36332-crisis-looms-at-eksu-as-students-decry-hike-in-school-fees
