Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State, today staged a protest against the hike in school fees, insisting that the school management is inconsiderate.
The protest follows a previous reduction of school fees by management of the school, after a meeting with the student union but the union argued the fee review was a betrayal of their expectation.
In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Abiodun Olanrewaju, the Students’ Union leaders were adamant, insisting that the fees should be reduced by 50 per cent.
However, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Bamire, stated that the school management is interested in the welfare of the students, has reduced the charges as follows,
For the students in Humanities, from N89, 200 for returning students to N76,000 while for new from N151,200 to N131,000.
For Sciences and Technology, the initial charges of N101,200, for returning students is now N86,000 while the new students in the same Faculties will now pay N141,000 instead of the initial N163,200 among others.
