University of Port Harcourt Students and Admission Seekers Protest Tuition Fee Hike

University of Port Harcourt Students
and Admission Seekers Protest
Tuition Fee Hike
I don’t know if it’s now a trend in Nigeria, that every
month, one school or the other must go on protest,
and seriously, why blame the students? When the
schools in question here are only concerned about
hiking the school fees without any thoughts to the
students source of income?
Well, students of the University of Port Harcourt did
not take the news lightly, when they got informed
that the school management team is not planning to
hike the school fee, but have already raise it to a
higher amount.
The students took to the street to start chanting
songs and expressing their displeasure, the students
of the University of Port Harcourt on Monday
described the fees increase as an “unnecessary and
insensitive hike”. “We will not allow this,” they sang,
as they protest.
They took their cries to the streets causing heavy
vehicular traffic, with policemen trying to control the
crowd, but the students are determined to make
their voices heard.
Luckily, our correspondent, who was there, decide to
interview and ask some students what is the amount
the school asked them to pay?
They replied that the current and new fees is 41,400
Naira (about 256 dollars) instead of the 29,500 Naira
paid last year, they claim is uncalled for, insisting
that as a Federal University, the school fees should
be affordable by all.
The students say the intervention fund provided to
federal institutions by the Federal Government, when
the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked
on a strike, had made the hike unacceptable.
The six month strike embarked on by the union was
called off on December 17, 2013 after an agreement
was reached that the Federal Government would
disburse 20 billion Naira every quarter to the
university authorities.
The students insisted that the money provided by
the government was enough to run the institutions
with adequate facilities provided.
After several attempts by Channels Television to
reach the school authorities, the spokesperson of the
school, Williams Wodi, said he would not make any
comment on behalf of the institution at the moment.
The students also went on to say that they will
NEVER rest till the school fee is returned back to it’s
normal price of N29,500.
More details and updates coming soon, and we’ll
update you with full details as to when the school
authorities reply our request.
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