Some students of the University of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Friday stormed the office of the institution's Dean of Students’ Affairs, to protest against the planned closure of the registration by the management. The students, seen in their large numbers in a video obtained by SaharaReporters, were pleading with the school management to be considerate of their plights and extend the registration closure date for thousands of them who had yet to pay their fees due to the sudden increase in tuition fees a few months ago.
A civil rights movement, Students Solidarity Group Against Fee Hike, has called on the University of Lagos (UNILAG) students to brace up for protests even as they noted that the university authorities devised backdoor channels to exploit from students in the name of faculty and departmental fees. The students movement also called on the university authorities to immediately reinstate the Students’ Union that was suspended.
Nigerian students under the aegis of a civil rights movement, Students Solidarity Group Against Fee Hike, have said that it does not believe the purported cancellation of 40 percent Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) from Universities that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration earlier directed universities to remit to the Federation Account.
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Students under the aegis of a civil rights movement, Students Solidarity Group Against Fee Hike, have rejected the purported reduction of school fees hike by the Management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG). An activist, Femi Adeyeye, who spoke for the rights movement, revealed that the university management was unintelligent by announcing some reductions in one area but increased triple in other areas. He noted that this meant that nothing was reduced.