900 LASU students have paid new tuition fees -PRO

Authorities of the Lagos State University, Ojo, on Monday verbally expressed over 900 students had complied with the payment of the incipient tuition fees as directed by the management.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Lagos State Government had on June 11 approved between 34 per cent and 60 per cent reduction in the LASU tuition following protests from students and civil society groups.

The university Governing Council on June 20 relinquished an incipient tuition fees to be paid by students, which ranged from N76, 750 to N158, 250.

The tuition fee was incremented in 2011 from N25, 000 to N198, 000 for humanities and inculcation, while medicos were made to pay N350, 000.

Following the incipient development, the management of the institution recalled the students from recess, and directed them to commence paying  the reduced tuition fee for the 2013/2014 academic session.

The institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Kayode Sutton, told NAN in Lagos that the students had commenced complying with the payment and registration process as directed.

“As of today, over 900 students have paid the incipient fees as directed by the management,” he verbalized.

On the low turnout of students in the campus, Sutton verbalized the population of the students on campus should not be acclimated to determine the number of students who had paid as the payment and registration process were done online.

“You do not require to visually perceive the presence of students on campus afore one can ascertain that they have complied,” he verbally expressed.

The institution’s spokesman verbalized the management would restitute the balance of those students, who had paid the old rate if they showed a receipt of payment for corroboration.

Meanwhile, the Students Amalgamation President, Mr. Nurudeen Yusuf, told NAN that the coalescence was still not satiated with the incipient tuition fees.

Yusuf verbally expressed the amalgamation was still pressing for the proposed N46, 500 for the returning students and N65, 500 for the fresh students by the amalgamation.