Education stakeholders and other Nigerians have vehemently rejected the proposed move to increase the tuition fees in public universities to N750,000. Bola Olajuwon, Bisi Olaniyi, Chris Njoku, Owerri, Mike Odiegwu, Port Harcourt, Damola Kola-Dare, Ojoye-Kehinde Funmilayo, Victoria Amadi, Osagie Otabor, Akure, Elo Edremoda, Warri, Rosemary Nwisi, Port Harcourt, Damian Duruiheoma, Enugu, Sunny Nwankwo, Umuahia, BASSEY ANTHONY, Uyo, Segun Showunmi, Ibadan and Okungbowa Aiwerie, Asaba, report.
Education stakeholders across the country have rejected the alleged plan by the Federal Government to hike tuition fees in universities. According to them, any hike in such fees would be suicidal given the situation of things in the country. The stakeholders, who included parents-teachers association, parents, lecturers and undergraduates, spoke in interviews by The Nation correspondents nationwide.
Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Jos chapter, during the nationwide peaceful protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, alleged that government was planning to hike tuition to N750,000 per student.
The NLC embarked on the nationwide protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other affiliate unions, over the unresolved industrial dispute between the Federal Government and the lecturers.
Maigoro insisted that if fees were increased, the children of the common man would invariably be denied access to university education.
