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  • ‘Walk tall as a LASU student’ – VC to new excos

    ‘Walk tall as a LASU student’ – VC to new excos

    Lagos State University (LASU) Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olarewaju Fagbohun has encouraged the newly elected student Union executives never to underrate themselves in the school and in their community because they are great leaders with enormous potentials.

    Fagbohun, in his address at the swearing-in-ceremony of the newly elected executives of the Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) noted that the essence of serving as a leader in the school is an opportunity to greater heights to serve the country.

    He confirmed to the excos that if they sought a job after school and if their letter of position is attached to it, the job would be given immediately.

    He also advised them to be at the front burner of their careers and not waste their time.

    “If you have come to study for a five year course, don’ t waste your time to use five and a half. At a certain age, you must be out there pushing the frontiers of your career. And as a leader, you must be able to confront and solve matters. There is nothing that dialogue will not resolve”.

    Speaking to the excos, Dr. Oluwafemi Obayori, Dean, Student Affairs said that politics is just beginning and it is about getting the best for the people.

    He added: “You must not major in minor, let us know you can independently run your Union. You must be ready to participate to national issues from your superior point of view”.

    The 2015/16 President of the Appeal court of LASU, Kadri Nofisat swore in the newly elected executives as they all repeated an oath statement after her, to faithfully discharge their duties and promote the LASUSU constitution.

    The current President of LASUSU, 2016/17, in his acceptance speech, said “our tenure is ready to capitalise and consolidate the full constitution of LASU, to seek an end to indecent dressing, to give educational and social awareness, to guarantee discipline in all dealings of the union”.

  • LASU reverses increased acceptance fee

    LASU reverses increased acceptance fee

    ‎The Lagos State University (LASU) has reversed the increased acceptance fee for the newly admitted students from N20, 000 to N10, 000.

    Mr Adeyemi Onikoro, President, Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU)‎, confirmed development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.

    Onikoro‎ said that the university’s authority had updated the website for the new students to pay N10, 000 as against N20, 000.

    “From our investigation, the new students’ ‎have started paying the N10, 000 as revised,’’ he said.

    NAN reports that LASU ‎authorities had in November increased the acceptance fee for the newly admitted students from N10, 000 to N20, 000 and indigeneship fee from N1, 000 to N5, 000.

    However, LASUSU had demanded a ‎reversal of the fee with immediate effect to prevent students’ unrest. ‎

    Onikoro said while the acceptance fee was reverted, the indigeneship fee had yet to be reversed from N5, 000, to N1, 000.

    He said the students union was still negotiating with the university management on the reversal of the indigeneship fee to prevent uprising from the Lagos State ‎indigenes.

    “The implication of a refusal by the management ‎not to reverse the indigeneship fee, is that the Lagos State indigenes will be paying more than the non-indigenes in their state owned university,’’ he said.

    According to Onikoro, the indigeneship fee‎ must also be reversed so that it will not escalate into community rancour.

    “This is not an issue affecting only the students union alone but the National Association of Lagos Indigenes Students (NALIS) and ‎the Lagos State traditional rulers will also seek redress,’’ he said.
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    Onikoro lauded the management’s effort to reverse the acceptance fee, and urged it to do the needful by reversing the indigeneship fee also.

  • LASU students want portal shut

    LASU students want portal shut

    The Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) yesterday took their hard-line stance against hike in their tuition fee to another level, urging the state governor, Babatunde Fashola, to shut down the institution’s payment and registration portal.

    Its president, Mr Nurudeen Yusuf, the union’s President, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the closure of the portal was necessary until the government reduced the tuition fees.

    “We hereby appeal that the payment and registration portal be closed till the government makes pronouncement on LASU fees as proposed by the students’ union. This is to ward off unforeseen eventualities that may arise in the nearest future,” he said.

    Yusuf said the deadline by the management for students to pay their fees and register courses for the 2013/2014 academic session before May 30 had elapsed.

    He said students were bent on their “no reduction, no resumption” policy and that discussions on how much the students would pay were still ongoing.

    According to NAN, Fashola had, at a meeting with LASUSU on March 31, directed the students to come up with a proposal on how much they could afford.

    The students decided that the fee should be reduced to N46, 500 for returning students and N65, 500 for fresh students.

    The students’ proposal was submitted on April 24, while several reminders were later sent to the governor on the issue.

    Commissioner for Education, Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye, at a media briefing on May 8, said the government would soon make a pronouncement on fees.

    Yusuf said the students were not satisfied with the government’s statement since the word “soon does not indicate a definite time.” “If a 50-year old can die and we say gone too soon, hence, anytime can be soon,” he said.

    The students’ leader said that sequel to several peaceful protests by the students, the Exco Ad-hoc Committee set up by the state met with the union on the review of the tuition on May 27.

    The Committee, chaired by Mr Kayode Opeifa, Commissioner for Transport, he said, had decided that quality education could not be achieved based on the students’ proposal.

    Opeifa said the tuition of N46, 500 would make LASU a university for the poor and all comers.

    “The committee said the state government is subsidising education in LASU by 90 per cent and government is only responsible for free education up to secondary level,” he said.

  • LASU students, JAF protest fee hike

    LASU students, JAF protest fee hike

    The Lagos State University Students’ Union (LASUSU) and the Joint Action Front (JAF) on Thursday staged a peaceful march in Lagos to protest the fee hike.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that scores of LASU students protested at Onipanu through LASU, Anthony campus to the Gani Fawehinmi freedom park, Ojota, Lagos.

    They carried placards with inscriptions: “Fee hike, the root cause of crisis in LASU,” “We demand immediate reversal of increased fees,’’ and “LASU is for all and not for the rich only.’’

    LASUSU President, Nurudeen Yusuf, said the protest was staged as a result of a directive received from the university authorities that all students should pay their fees before May 30.

    “The Management released a memo on May 21, directing all students to pay the outrageous fee for the 2013/2014 academic session, on or before May 30,” he said.

    Yusuf said the authorities’ decision was against the position of the union to the state government for a reduction of the increased fee.

    According to Yusuf, the students in its congress had unanimously agreed not to pay the increased fee for the session until government approved and implemented the reduction, as proposed by the union.

    “We proposed N46,500 for returning students and N65, 500 for fresh students as the new tuition fee, as against N198,000 and N350,000 for medical students,

    “As directed by Governor Babatunde Fashola in a meeting on April 3, the union had submitted the proposal for the new tuition fee on April 24.

    The student leader said since the union was still on the discussion table with the government, the students had agreed not to pay the fees until the reduction was made.

    He said the protest was to sensitise the public to the plight of LASU students and why the reduction must be implemented immediately.

    “We will not pay the outrageous fee until the reduction is made.

    “For a state that generates N77 billion a year and all LASU needs to sustain itself in a year is N10 billion, free tuition is even possible,’’ he said.