UNIOSUN: We receive a report that Students Of the Osun State University [UNIOSUN], today took to the streets to protest N10,000 late registration fee enforced on them by the management of the University of Osun.
The Committee of the Students' Joint Campus [CSJC], appealed with Professor Labode Popoola the Vice Chancellor of the institution, to remove the N10,000 surcharge for late registration by students.
According to the students who said the management of the institution had closed the school portal and reopened it after much persuasive, but added a sum of N10,000 as a penalty for the late registration.
UNIOSUN Students Agitate Against N10,000 Late Registration Fee
The students pleaded with the management to reverse their decision, considering the present economic situation of the country.
They also complained that most of the students are yet to complete their courses registration and the school system is yet to be known by the newly admitted students.
UNIOSUN Senate Approved the Reopening of School Portal
It could be recalled that the University of Osun [UNIOSUN] closes the school portal against the fresh and returning students and was recently reopened by the senate of the institution. The news read;
“Senate has approved that the registration portal be opened for use on Friday 17 February and be closed by Friday 24 February, 2017. You are advised to conclude your registration, including payment of late registration charge within this period. These are simple rules that apply in all civilized climes. For the avoidance of doubts, NO unregistered student will be allowed to write examinations. Such students are advised to stay clear of examination centres”.
The case of late registration charges in all the Federal Universities is alarming in some university like University of Uyo, the late registration charges of #2000 is imposed on every student merely two weeks after resumption. the poor Nigerian students who did not even have the main school fees to pay are now imposed and forced to pay with penalty this has really got me thinking if they really want the poor to be educated. No wonder the former vice chancellor of the University of Uyo once said that Education is expensive hence the poor cannot afford it.It is really pathetic how education is being viewed in this part of the world when United Nation UN agenda is to ensure that every child is educated.
We are also told that the aggrieved students wrote a letter to the Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr Najeem Salawu asking him to come to the plight of Nigerian students. Meanwhile, the VC of the institution had earlier complained that the students were in the habit of not paying school fees at the appropriate time and that some of them were indebted to the university to the tune of N2billion.
Similar protest also took place at Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic some months ago about undue school fees increment which the students also protested and issue was resolved.
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