BARELY a week after the Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, reduced the tuition fees of students of the Lagos State University (LASU), the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has equally approved an across-the- board reduction in all state-owned tertiary institutions. Addressing a news conference in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Tuesday, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Segun Odubela, flanked by his counterpart in the Ministry of Information and Strategy, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, said the new fees regime would take effect from the 2014/2015 academic session. Odubela stated that government arrived at the decision after extensive meeting between government, leadership of the various Students’ Unions and heads of the institution. According to the commissioner, the new fees regime had equally abolished the indigene/non- indigene dichotomy, as all students offering the same course and the same level would pay same fees. He stated that medical students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), who had been paying N301,610 would now be pay as low as N176,596, 41.4 per cent reduction. Also, students of the Faculty of Arts in the same university would be paying N81,112 instead of the current fee of N126,540, a 35.9 per cent reduction. Students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, will be paying as low N40,000 for Higher National Diploma (HND), while National Diploma (ND) students will enjoy a reduction of N22,300, a reduction of 31.1 and 9.6 per cent respectively. He also said that students of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) would enjoy a reduction from N103,435 for first year students to N75,000, representing 27.5 per cent reduction, while returning students, who were paying N93,465, would now be paying N65,000, representing 30.4 per cent reduction. Higher National Diploma (HND) students of Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa, currently paying N118,000, would now be paying N46,000, a reduction of 61 per cent. The reduction of fees also applied to the other three institutes of technology owned by the state government. Meanwhile, the state government had also donated 13 buses to the Students’ Unions of all state and federal institutions in the state.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:08:02 +0000
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