The president/leaders of ASUU is insisting that there may likely be another bill waiting for signature that will introduce tuition fees. He questioned, “If the bill indicated that the loan is to pay tuition fees and there are no tuition fees in Nigerian universities, then what is your next approach?
But are university students not paying tuition fees?
If student loans are to be given to cushion the burden of tuition fees, and other fees, therefore there will be the introduction of tuition fees. I recall at some point in 2018 when the minister of state for education, Ankuwa said: “No federal university should charge tuition fees. That is the law.Read more
If student loans are to be given to cushion the burden of tuition fees, and other fees, therefore there will be the introduction of tuition fees. I recall at some point in 2018 when the minister of state for education, Ankuwa said: “No federal university should charge tuition fees. That is the law. And we understand some universities now charge fees per course unit and we are going to make sure that we investigate that properly and make it stops.
“But students can pay other auxiliary fees but not in excess. Various university councils and management should be able to fix what fees students should pay that are affordable and acceptable to the students. That is the position.
“The federal government does not determine fees for private and state universities. They only take responsibility for fees paid in the federal universities.”
It can be easily said that President Tinubu is also taking from the administration of Buhari by way of creating new social safety nets which were conduits for siphoning funds from Nigeria as funds released new got to Nigerians whom they were meant for.
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