There is disquiet at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH) College of Nursing after the management increased its tuition fees from N250,000 to N840,500, amounting to over 200% increment. SaharaReporters gathered that the breakdown for the tuition fees is Remita Fees: N732,500, PTF: N50,000 and Payment to school: N58,000. According to students and parents, the increment is insensitive to them who had even been struggling to pay the previous N250,000 fees.
Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in South-West Nigeria, on Tuesday morning, protested at the school's main gate to demand an immediate reduction of the increased school fees. A students’ leader of the university confirmed this to SaharaReporters, adding that the students shut down the campus gate during the protest. In September, SaharaReporters had reported how the management of the Obafemi Awolowo University announced an increment in its tuition fees.
Godfrey George writes that many indigent parents whose children are students of tertiary institutions where fees have been hiked risk dropping out, as they cannot afford to pay the increased fees
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