The students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on Wednesday took to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the decision of their school authorities.
This marked the second protest by the aggrieved students who were joined by their peers from other universities.
The protesters, who were accompanied by the police and other security personnel, called on the school authorities to lower the fees.
Earlier on Tuesday, the students of the University of Jos, Plateau State, blocked the roads leading to their campus in protest and demanded a reversal of the increase in fees and other levies imposed by the university.
The Secretary General, Great Ife Students Union, Opeyemi Akinboni, said the body had opposed the fee increment at different meetings held with the management.
Akinboni, however, said the leaders of various faculties and departments would meet and decide the next line of action.
He further said, “In my faculty, as of last session, we paid N28,100; students in Faculties of Science and Agric also paid the same amount. The increment is shocking. The students’ union body had several meetings with the management on the issue and we have always made it known to them that OAU is an indigent school.
“Majority of the students on OAU campus are striving to make both ends meet. With this increment now, most returning students will not even return. We have some faculties where students pay N20, 000 and they have now increased it to N89,000.
‘’Currently, we are reaching out to faculty, departmental presidents. We want to reach out to them and then discuss the next line of action.”
