No fewer than 38 universities across the country have increased their
tuition fees as a result of poor funding by the Federal and State
governments.
The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr Deji Omole, made
this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
The
statement which assessed the two years of President Muhammadu Buhari in
office, lamented that the current government had made Nigerians poorer.
Omole
said that the public education was not taken seriously because most
children of the rich and those in high offices do not attend school in
Nigeria.
“The latest increment might be attributed to poor
funding by the federal and state governments as ASUU poorly rated the
President Muhammadu Buhari in the area of funding of university
education.
ASUU also noted that it would be difficult for any
Nigeria university to effectively compete globally with the inadequate
allocation of budgetary funding as prescribed by UNESCO to fund
education.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
University
of Lagos (UNILAG) which was paying N14, 500 would now pay N63, 500 as
tuition fees.
Other institutions that increased their fees
include,
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), from N27, 000 to N41, 00;
University of Nigeria (UNN), from N60, 450 to N66, 950;
Obafemi Awolowo
University, from N19, 700 to N55,700.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
University (UNIZIK), from N20, 100 to N65,920;
Bayero University, Kano,
from N26,000 to N40,000; University of Abuja, from N39,300 to N42,300
and
Usman Danfodiyo University, from N32,000 to N41,000.
National
Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), from N36,000 to N41,000;
University
of Benin (UNIBEN), from N12, 000 to N49,500;
University of Ilorin, from
N16, 000 to N75,000
Federal University of Technology, Akura (FUTA),
from N13, 560 to N83,940.
Federal
University, Minna (FUTMINNA), from N20,000 to N37,000;
University of
Calabar, from N30,500 to N42,750
University of Uyo, from N71, 000 to
N84, 250.
Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, from
N16,000 to N40,000
Osun varsity, from N95,000 to N135,500;
Anambra
State University, from N76,000 to N139, 000 and
Lagos State University,
from N96,750 to N158,250.
Ibrahim Badamosi Babangiga University,
Lapai, from N25, 000 to N52, 000;
Imo State University, from N120,000 to
N150,000;
Plateau State University, from N50,000 to N100,000
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, from N57,000 to N75,000.
OTHERS ARE POLYTHENIC :
Ibadan Polytechnics, from N30,000 t0 N50,000
Abia Polytechnics, from
N56,550 to N61,000
Auchi Polytechnic, from N14, 800 to N28,000
Ondo
State University of Science and Technology
Okitipupa, from N70,000 to
N80,000.
Enugu State University of Science and Technology,
N104,900 to N124,900
Kwara Polytechnic, Ilorin, from N28,000 to
N44,000
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), from
N65,000 to N72,500
Tai Solarin University of Education, from N66,500
to N76,500.
Afe Babalola University, from N675,000 to
N1,075,000
Igbinedion, from N540,000 to N820,000
Crawford university,
from N400,000 to N600,000
Redeemers University, from N545,000 to
N605,000.
Also in the list are Covenant University, from N774,
500 to N814, 500
Benson Idahosa University, from N284, 300 to N1,
150,000
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