FG plans to introduce minimum of N350,000 tuition in varsities –ASUU

The zonal coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities , Ibadan Zone , Dr . Ade Adejumo, on Tuesday alleged that the Federal Government was making attempts to make students of federal universities pay a minimum of N 350 , 000 as tuition fee .
Adejumo said this while addressing members of the Correspondents Chapel in Ibadan .

He said it was vital for ASUU to let the public know that there could be labour crisis in federal universities , adding that the proposal led to the breakdown of the 2017/ 2018 renegotiation of the 2009 FGN /ASUU agreement .

He said, “ The union is again constrained to draw the attention of Nigerian public to an impending labour crisis in the Nigerian universities as a result of the insensitivity of the Nigerian government to issues critical to the survival of the educational system in Nigeria .

“It is no longer news that the renegotiation , which Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, promised was going to last for only six weeks , has broken down .

“The union was confronted with a situation where government is bent on imposing tuition fees , beginning from N 350 , 000 , on students in the Nigerian public owned tertiary institutions .

“As to how the students will raise such money, we were told that the government will establish Education Bank , where students will access credit facilities and pay back on completion of their studies .

“The union , speaking from the background that education is the right and not privilege of every Nigerian child , made frantic efforts to make pragmatic explanations on the negative implications and the non -feasibility of this scheme to representatives of government to no avail. ”

Adejumo said that the leader of the government team was bent on the introduction of the high fee , stating that the union would do everything to resist it .

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