BREAKING: Ogun University students protest hike in tuition fees [PHOTO]

Report reaching has it that over 1000 students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University in Ogun State are currently trooping to Oke Mosan to protest against a hike in its tuition fee to N176,000 by the Ogun State government. DailyPost cannot confirm the initial tuition fee of the school as there appears to be conflicting report on it.

However, in a terse statement made available to this newspaper, the institution’s NANS president alleged that Governor Ibikunle Amosun has, in a bid to neutralize their planned protest, tasked one of his aides to mobilize some students of the state-owned Mashod Abiola Polytechnic who are to be paid the sum of N500.00 each, for a thank you solidarity march regarding the new fee regime in the state.

We recalls that just yesterday, the Ogun State governor approved an across-the-board reduction in the tuition fees of all tertiary institutions owned by the state.
According to the new arrangement, medical students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), who had been paying N301,610 would now pay as low as N176,596, 41.4 per cent reduction, while students of the Faculty of Arts would be paying N81,112 instead of the current fee of N126,540, which is a 35.9 per cent reduction.


The statement which pleaded for assistance of the press, described the likely clash between the two groups as one between the hired and the aggrieved.