by Moses Adeyemi
Fashola refunds lasu fee
Lagos State University has announced the refund of
excess fee paid by students after the fee was slashed back to twenty five thousand
naira. The school announced the refund for students that paid the previous
amount of fee from 60% to 30% reduction as the Lagos State governor Babatunde
Raji Fashola reduces the fees back to twenty five thousand naira on the 10th
convocation ceremony.
The school tution which was increased at the onset of the 20011/2012 session generated a lot of
controversies as the students protested the fee increment and the school went
on strike for months, but despite the
efforts of the students union, the government declined to reduce the fees from
two hundred and fifty thousand naira. However, before the governor announced
the fees reduction, the government initially reduced the fee to a perentage of
60 t0 30%, but despite this reduction the students union declined and refused
to accept the 60% t0 30% reduction and demand that the fee should be reduced to
forty five thousand naira. This generated a whole lot of protest as the SUG
governor Nurudeen Teniola Aka (optimist) urged the students not to pay the 60%
to 30% reduction as it was still too much and many students could still not
afford to pay it. But nonetheless, some students still went ahead to pay the
fees as the school management gave a two week ultimatuim for the payment.
However, after the reduction of the fees which was said to
commence immediately the 300 level students who were to pay 60% of two hundred
and fifity thousand naira would now pay twenty five thousand naira, this new
development casued the students that paid 60% to 30% to demand for a refund of
the excessive fees they paid. The issue generated a whole lot of mixed
reactions form the students.
However, in reaction to the students demands, the schools
administration announced that the school would refund the excess fee paid by
the students affectd and =N= 840
millions was calculated to be the total
amount of the excess fee paid by the studnets and the refunding of the would
commence on September 8. In an interview with a 300 level Mass Communication
students Odunayo Foluke she said ”this is a very good development and a good inititative from the
government , it would be unfair for the
students affected if the fee is not refunded” also speaking with Samuel Temitope a 300 level Business
Administration student, he said “the refund of the excess fee is a very brave move by the school
administration, as it makes life easy for the students and the money would be
spent on other things like collection of hostels".
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