Students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, protested the slight reduction in their tuition yesterday they disrupted the final day of the second semester examinations for the 2011/2012 academic session by some hours.
All hopes for a significant reduction in the fees in their were dash on Monday when the varsity’s management of the university announced the new tuition regime for next session.
According to the official bulletin by the Centre For Information, Press and Public Relations (CIPPR) of the Vice Chancellor’s Office, dated September 17, fresh students are to pay between N151, 250 and N326, 250 when they get to 200-Level as against the N193, 750 and N308, 750 which they paid in their first year.
Following the announcement, some of the students under the Joint Committee of Class Governors of the fresh students staged a protest, boycotting the second semester compulsory GNS examinations
The placard-bearing students blocked the ever-busy Ojo/Badagry Expressway until policemen were drafted in to restore law and order.
They came in three Hillux vans which were packed outside the university’s main gate.
The revised tuition fees is to be made in two installments when they resume for the 2012/2013 academic session.
The SchoolGist Team.
