The medical Students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State are at logger heads with the management over what they described as extra tuition fee imposed by the management.
According to the students the management is forcing them to pay N150, 000 (for indigenes of Ogun State) and N230, 000 (non-indigenes), as tuition fees for two years extended stay which is unjustifiable.
It was learnt that the university calendar was disrupted as a result of last year’s strike by academic staff of public universities alongside the internal crisis caused by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) OOU chapter and the non – teaching staff.
According to the President of the Students Union Government (SUG), Comrade Ifade Olusegun, “It is unfair to charge the medical students extra fee for the extra years they are to spend for disruption of their academic calendar brought about by lecturers strike, doctors’ strike and crisis between management and non-academic staff.
Information also has it that on February 25, the students has marched to the state’s House of Assembly demanding the lawmakers to intervene and call the university to order.
This led to the meeting involving students and their parents, convened by the school’s management where it was agreed that no student should pay any extra tuition fee apart from the mandatory fees for six sessions and a one-off developmental levy of N40,000 to assist the university.
However, the management later violated the agreement by pasting a two- week notice mandating the students to pay the additional fees.
The university’s management on their part has denied the allegation saying there was nothing of such.
