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  • LAUTECH slashes tuition fees, announces resumption

    The Governing Council of the Ladoke  Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, headed by Professor Dapo Afolabi, has directed that the proposed tuition fees in the institution be brought down to N140, 000 for indigenes of Oyo and Osun States while non indigenes be allowed  to pay N170,000, as against the N200,000 for indigenes of owner states and N250,000, for non indigenes. It also announced resumption for October 29, 2018.

    The management pleaded with “well wishers to come to the realisation that the cost of running qualitative and functional first grade technical institutions like ours are becoming unbearably impossible if N65,000 and 72,000 for indigenes of owner-states and non-indigenes are maintained.” It added that internally generated revenue from students’ fees would only remain supplementary as arrangements have been concluded to enlist parents and students into management of university fund in a manner that entrenches transparency and accountability.

     

  • Govt to probe ‘tuition fees’ in varsities

    THE Federal Executive Council has ordered investigation into charges of tuition fees by some Federal universities.

    Minister of State for Education Anthony Anwuka, who broke the news at the end of FEC meeting, said there were allegations that some Federal universities were making charges per course unit.

    Stressing that it was illegal for Federal universities to charge tuition fees, he said the FEC directed the ministry to ascertain any Federal university at fault.

    He said: “No federal university should charge tuition fees, that is the law. And, we understand some universities now charge fees per course unit and we are going to make sure that we investigate that properly and make it stops.

    “But students can pay other auxiliary fees, but not in excess. Various university councils and management should be able to fix what fees students should pay that is affordable and acceptable to the students.

    “That is the position. The Federal Government does not determine fees for private and state universities. They only take responsibility for fees paid in the federal universities.”

    He said FEC approved new university in Kano, Skyline university.

    Minister of State for Aviation Hadi Sirika said the FEC approved N1.65 billion for completion of control towers in state capitals,  including Maiduguri, Akure and Benin.

  • Sokoto releases N900m for scholarship arrears

    Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has approved the release of N900 million for the payment of tuition fees and upkeep allowances to students of Sokoto origin studying in local and foreign tertiary institutions covering 2015, 2016 and 2017 academic years.

    This followed the submission of the report of the committee on the verification of students entitled for scholarship to the Governor last week Monday.

    The committee, led by Ambassador Shehu Wurno, said 14,532 students were verified and certified to benefit from government scholarship in the state.

    Addressing reporters in his office Tuesday, the Commissioner for Higher Education, Sahabi Isa Gada, said the report had standardized the list of students under government scholarship and only verified students will benefit from the payments.

    He said already, the ministry had set up a contact team that would ensure smooth payment of the students and in record time.

    “From the submission of the committee, the sum of N688,174,579, being registration and upkeep allowance, is being owed for the current 2016/2017 academic session. The balance of the funds released is for the payment of backlog of entitlements of our foreign students.

    “The welfare of our students is a matter of priority to government. We’ve contacted their representatives and their schools and payment will start after necessary procedure is completed.

    “So for this payment, both local and foreign students will benefit. In fact, we are paying backlog of entitlements to foreign students to ensure all of them are up to date in their obligations to their schools,” Gada added.

  • NANS to ‘resist’ hike in tuition fees

    NANS to ‘resist’ hike in tuition fees

    The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) said on Wednesday it would resist any plan by some tertiary institutions to increase tuition fees.

    NANS President, Chinonso Obasi, said this in a statement in Abuja that the association received reports that at least 38 tertiary institutions had concluded plans to hike tuition fees in their institutions with utter pain and disgust.

    He said Nigerian students have been made to bear the brunt of poverty ideas and administrative ineptitude of managers and chief executives of tertiary institutions over the years.

    The statement reads: “NANS wishes to state that plans by some tertiary institutions to increase tuition fees would be met with maximum resistance.

    “In saner climes, education funding includes revenue from researches and consultative collaborations. Implementation of UNESCO strategies, particularly commercializing research findings should be the priority of Nigeria educational institutions rather than constant hike in tuition fees payable by helpless students.”

    NANS also said President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to justify the confidence Nigerian students who voted for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last elections.

    “This oversight becomes very painful despite the positive contributions of Nigerian students to the success of the administration’s key policies and programmes, such as the fight against corruption, maintenance of peace and unity in the country, as well as campaign for local government autonomy.

    “NANS feels that Nigerian students do not merit such harsh punishment as fee increases, which would further limit the capacity of the students to dream of a better future,” the statement added.

  • Ogun slashes fees in tertiary schools

    The Ogun State government has reduced tuition fees in state-owned tertiary institutions by 61 per cent.

    The reduction takes effect from the 2014/2015 academic session.

    The government abolished the payment of different fees by indigenes and non-indigenes.

    Addressing students’ representatives at the Governor’s Office in Abeokuta, Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology Segun Odubela said the reduction was reached after deliberations by the government with students’ leaders and heads of the institutions.

    Some students will now pay as low as N29,700.

    According to Odubela, medical students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), who have been paying N301,610, will now pay N176,596. Arts students in the same institution will pay N81,112 instead of N126,540.

    Other schools affected by the development are the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta; Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun; College of Education, Omu; the four Information Communication Technology (ICT) polytechnics and the College of Health Technology, Ilese-Ijebu.

    The government donated 13 buses to the Student Unions of all tertiary institutions in the state.