A good number of public varsities in Nigeria have restored to increase school fees and other Charges as a means to generate more revenues to run varsities in Nigeria. See the list of affected school below.
Sequel to the end of the unyielded industrial action of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) , a number of public universities are have now restored to hiking their school fees and other Charges to generate more revenue.
You would recall, that one of the suggestion the Federal government give ASUU to ending the Strike action, during the ' unending' deliberations, was to increase tuition fees, and find other means to finance public institutions in the country, but the union rejected the offer. This is one of the reasons that made their incessant meeting between the government and the union always ended in a deadlock, before the government dragged the union to court, and we are where we are today.
It will seem, left with no option, the individual public institutions have decided to source more funds by increasing their fees. A list of some affected Institutions are as follows.
1. University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID)
2. University of Oyo (UNIUYO)
3. University of port-harcourt (UNIPORT)
4. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU)
5. Federal University of Health Sciences Azare ( FUHSA)
6. Federal University of Lafia, (FULAFIA)
7. Federal University Dutse, (FUD)
8. Federal University Kashere (FUKASHERE)
9. University of Ilorin (UNILORIN)
10. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNILORIN)
11. Federal University of technology Owerri (FUTO)
The upwards review of the registration fees and charges in university of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) comes as a Shocker to most, especially for students studying MBBS, as the fee was hiked to a whopping sum of N252,500 for new students, and N233,000 for returning students. New students in the Faculty of Law will now pay N124,500, while returning students will pay N105,000. The breakdown of the upward review of UNIMAID is as follows;
Students in the Faculty of Engineering of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU) will now pay around N99,000 From N55,000.
The Federal University Lafia (FULAFIA) reportedly increase tuition fees for only medical student.
The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) and the University of Nigeria (UNN) all went full-fledged by increasing their fees by 100%.
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University of Oyo (UNIUYO) is not left out as it reportedly raised it's charges from N48,000 to N105,000 (new students).
From indications, many Institution may tend to follow suit as this seems to be the only feasible for public Universities to generate more funds. The question now is, How are the Nigerian parents going to adjust to this increase, despite the stagnant salary income admits the economy hardship?
How is the Nigerian students going to cope with this new increase, and how does this increase compensate the wasted 8-month industrial action?
And lastly, would this be a lasting solution to the incessant strike action in the educational sector of country?
Questions upon questions.
If your varsity has hike school fees or other charges and was not mentioned in this article, kindly bring it to our notice via the comments section to notify other readers.
Thank you.
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