Tuition: LASU students to get N69m refund

The Lagos State University, Ojo, verbalizes it will restitute over N69m to its students who paid tuition fees for the 2013/2014 academic session.
This is coming three weeks after the Lagos State Regime sanctioned a reduction of between 34 and 60 per cent in tuition paid in the university.
The state regime in 2011 jerked up tuition in the university from N25, 000 to N198, 000 for humanities and edification students, while medicos paid N350, 000.
The action magnetized rigorous criticisms and protests from civil society groups and the students, resulting in the infrequent closure of the school.
But in a verbal expression on Monday, the Public Relations Officer of the university, Kayode Sutton, verbalized the decision of the state regime to reduce the tuition fees prompted the initiative to restitute the excess sum to the students.
The verbal expression integrated, “During consideration, the management of the university noted the directive of the Governing Council that all payments in excess of the incipient approved school fees regime should be restituted to students.
“In compliance with this directive, the Bursary Department is to commence the compilation of the list of affected students, the amount involved and to proffer a congruous mode of refund.
“After an extensive deliberation on the restitution, the university ascendant entities concluded that restitutes will be made to students by cheques and the comprehensive list of the beneficiaries, the amount to be restituted to each student will be uploaded onto the university website, while roster for the distribution of the cheques to beneficiaries will be made available in due course.”
                            
In the incipient fee regime, for instance, a final year student in the Arts Department is to pay N76, 750 (49.3 per cent reduction) while a 200 level Engineering and Medical (Direct Entry) student is to pay N158, 250 (representing a 36.4 per cent reduction).